1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,280 Speaker 1: So President Trump had a lot to say about the 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: military effort in the Middle East against Iran. Yesterday he 3 00:00:07,880 --> 00:00:10,159 Speaker 1: gave an assessment. It sounded like he was about to 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: do a mission accomplished, declare victory thing. But there's still 5 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: a lot of work to be done. Where does he 6 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: stand on it, where does the military engagement stand, where 7 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 1: to pundit stand? And where does the media stand? And 8 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: we will get to that story in just sixty seconds. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: But first some important information from our sponsor. Because we 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: talk about big government programs a lot here. 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That's five 29 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: A do oh three o eight zero nine seven five. Honestly, 30 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: aside from watching this show, I can't think of a 31 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: better use of twenty minutes. Okay, now back to the video. 32 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: Let's start with this. On his way to Ohio to 33 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: give a speech and a rally, the President's heading now 34 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: on the south lawn there to Marine one was asked 35 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: a very bizarre question from a foreign language reporter, I 36 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 1: believe from the Middle East. See if you can make 37 00:01:56,480 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 1: it out, it sounds like he's asking for him to 38 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: comment on something that was said by a politician in 39 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: the Iraqi parliament. 40 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 3: Here listening in Iraqi parliament Jugen Limba slugan jank to 41 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 3: America tank to his right, What did you respond to him? 42 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 3: What is your Iraqi government? What did he say? In 43 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 3: Iraqi parliament slugan de America member of the Parliament to America. 44 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 3: That's not a nice question. 45 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: Apparently somebody over there said death to America, death to Israel. 46 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: But the way this guy said it had sounded like 47 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: he was saying to America, death to Israel. So it's like, 48 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: Caroline turns to Caroline, what do you say, that's America. Well, 49 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: that's not very nice. I love it when Trump is 50 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 1: understated like that. 51 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 4: That's not a nice question. 52 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 1: That's not a nice question. No, no, it's not. I 53 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 1: believe that that moment put him in the mood as 54 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: he ended up in Ohio giving the speech, and he 55 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: said this, and it's got a lot of people's attention 56 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: about our military effort. 57 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 2: Is that a great name? 58 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 5: Well, it's only good if you win, you know, you 59 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 5: can only do And we've won. 60 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,399 Speaker 2: Let me tell it, we've won. You know, you never 61 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:16,799 Speaker 2: like to say too early you won. 62 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 5: We won. 63 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 2: We won the best in the. 64 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 5: First hour, it was over. We want But but they 65 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 5: gave me a list of names that general, sir, you 66 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 5: could pick the name of luck, Sir, I said, the 67 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 5: name of what the name of the attack on a answer, 68 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 5: and they gave me like twenty names, and I'm like 69 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 5: falling asleep. 70 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 2: I didn't like any of them. 71 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,960 Speaker 5: Then I see epic fury, I said, I like that name. 72 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 2: I like that name, all. 73 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: Right, So that's how we picked the name. But you 74 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: caught it the very beginning there when he said we 75 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:50,440 Speaker 1: basically won. 76 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 2: We won the for days. 77 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 5: So it's only good if you win, you know, you 78 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 5: can only do and we've won. 79 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 2: Let me tell it, We've won, all right. 80 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: And so because of that, oh, it was now as 81 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 1: the president sort of changing the definition of victory here, 82 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: what were the objectives? What were the goals? I thought 83 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: we wanted regime change. Well, no, that was never a 84 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,640 Speaker 1: stated goal for regime change? Does it mean we want 85 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: to open the straight up hom moves which is really 86 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: the only hot spot left right now that everyone trying 87 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 1: to figure it out? Oh my gosh, it's a quagmire. 88 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 1: After all, it's been ten days. I mean, when is 89 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: this ever going to end? Ten days? Aron's been a 90 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: thorn in our butt for nearly five decades, and it's 91 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: like ten days in that's it. It's over. It's it's 92 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,800 Speaker 1: a disaster. Trump's got to pull out, all right. So 93 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 1: when he stands up at a rally and he says 94 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 1: we basically won here. What does that mean he's looking 95 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: for an off ramp. Well, that question was posed to 96 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: our friend and colleague, Scott Jennings. Wow ooh, that's Kaitlyn Collins. 97 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,040 Speaker 1: Not a good screenshot, Kaitlin, Sorry about that. Not our fault. 98 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,039 Speaker 1: And here's what Scott Jennings had to say. 99 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 6: You think he's looking for an off ramp to end 100 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 6: this war. 101 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 7: Well, sure, I mean you're looking for the moment where 102 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,600 Speaker 7: you can tell the American people we met our objectives. 103 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 7: No nukes, no missiles, no aggressive name, no exporting of terrorism. 104 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 7: And if you can tell the American people that that 105 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 7: we've achieved those objectives, we've taken out all the targets, 106 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 7: we've degraded these people and their ability to continue to 107 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 7: wage war on Western civilization. You want that moment to 108 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 7: come as soon as possible. But my advice would be 109 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 7: do not stop short. Do not stop short, because you 110 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 7: don't want in three months these people popping up again, 111 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 7: you know, continuing to do the things that we didn't 112 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 7: like that calls us to go in there in the 113 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 7: first place. 114 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: All right, So that's a good observation, And yes, I 115 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: think good advice, but of course the president's looking for 116 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: an out off ramp. Is this so ridiculous? Do you 117 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 1: think the president is looking for a way to end well, 118 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 1: the president at the moment after he committed our troops 119 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: to a military effort against a foreign enemy, A president 120 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: is always looking for Okay, so when are we done? 121 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: When are we done? 122 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: Every president, I would hope, would be looking for that, 123 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 1: and certainly this president, who is fully aware that his 124 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,840 Speaker 1: base is not interested in any sort of long term 125 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: engagement or god forbid, an occupation. So duh. But what's 126 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 1: lost in all of the coverage from the media right now? 127 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: Who want to focus on the alleged misfire of a 128 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: rocket that ended up devastating tragically in elementary school that 129 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: was located in the middle of a military base, right 130 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: Or they want to focus on the Straight of Hormuz 131 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: where oil tankers are still getting menaced by drones from 132 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,920 Speaker 1: the Iranian military, but that's really the only effective military 133 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: effort that they've got left, or they're interested in sort 134 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: of how is this going to affect Trump in the midterms? Like, 135 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: I don't really think any president should engage in a 136 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: military effort overseas against an existential threat to our nation 137 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: and our allies with an eye on Oh but what 138 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: will it mean for the election? 139 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:49,159 Speaker 2: Right? 140 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: We don't want our presidents doing that or our commanders 141 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: in chief doing that. But the is if all of 142 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: the focus and all the discussion in corporate legacy cable 143 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: media is about those three items, seeing a really really 144 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: big part of the picture. Thankfully, accidentally, on CNN's Abby 145 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 1: Phillips Show last night, former Congressman Peter Meyer actually did 146 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: just that. He refocused the conversation on something that nobody 147 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: is talking about, certainly not the teleprompter readers at CNN. 148 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: Take a watch, take a listen. 149 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 6: I think where we are, it's appropriate for him to 150 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,720 Speaker 6: recognize that significant military victory that's been achieved so far. 151 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 6: I mean, the overwhelming success of the US military's effort 152 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,880 Speaker 6: to date is incredible and deserves laudits, It deserves kudos. 153 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 6: I spent time doing some of the planning on what 154 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 6: this would look like about a decade ago, and this 155 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,560 Speaker 6: is outstripped by every measure what our expectations were in 156 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 6: terms of what the first days and week and a half. 157 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 2: Would look like. 158 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 6: The political question is a different one. 159 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 7: Entirely. 160 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 6: That will be informed by the situation on the ground. 161 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 6: It will be informed by our military actions. But that 162 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 6: is something where the enemy has a vote and where 163 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 6: the president is going to have to be nimble and 164 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 6: have to respond to a changing situation on the ground. 165 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: That is so wise and so brilliant. And did you 166 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: catch look at the faces of the people who just 167 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear that. 168 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: This has been more successful than any of the planners 169 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: involved in this kind of mission over the course of 170 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: the last yes forty years could have ever imagined it going. 171 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,119 Speaker 1: Why don't we hear more reporting like that? Why because 172 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: the people who are in charge of reporting news to 173 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: you have faces like hers when you hear that kind 174 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: of news, or faces like his. And I don't mean 175 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 1: the actual appearance of their face, I mean the expression 176 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: on their face. They don't like hearing that. They don't 177 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: want to hear that. And the last thing former Congressman 178 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,160 Speaker 1: Myers said, there is the most important part, and it's 179 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: true of every single military engagement, whether it's a battle 180 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: or an all out war. You have your plan, you 181 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: execute your plan, It goes according to your plan. But 182 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: then the enemy gets a vote, because you can never 183 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 1: guess exactly what the enemy is going to do. I 184 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: assure you that our war planners, when they put together 185 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 1: Epic Fury, they did not have as part of the 186 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,439 Speaker 1: response from Iran them sending drones to hotels in Dubai 187 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: and pissing off Saudi Arabia within the first twelve hours. 188 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 2: That was bad. 189 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: It ended up being very good for the alliance, though, 190 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:37,280 Speaker 1: because now all these Arab nations are on our side 191 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: do because Iran immediately pissed them all off. There has 192 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,079 Speaker 1: been incredible, unprecedented success and what just occurred for the 193 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,679 Speaker 1: last nine ten days from the US military and the 194 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: joint operation with the Israeli military will be studied in 195 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: military academies for decades. But it's not over, and there's 196 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: still a lot to do. Now is where it starts 197 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: to get dicey, because now the Iranian military is regrouped, 198 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: they put together some level of command structure, and they're 199 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: starting to lash out and they've decided to focus all 200 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: of their efforts on the Strait of horm Moves and 201 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:13,599 Speaker 1: go after innocent private tankers. 202 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 2: Because that's what they do. 203 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: They're terrorists, they're not going after military targets, they're going 204 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,800 Speaker 1: after hotels, they're going after civilians in Israel, and they're 205 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: going after private oil tankers. But what's interesting is do 206 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: you know what country is suffering the most by not 207 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 1: getting oil out of the Strait of Hormves. I mean, yes, 208 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: we're all suffering because the price of oil is now 209 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 1: upwards to one hundred dollars of barrel, and that means 210 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: it's going to translate to us paying maybe a dollar 211 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: more per gallon and gas here in America. 212 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 2: But that ain't nothing. You know who's hurt the most. 213 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 2: You know who's hurt the most China? 214 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: China, China, like a quarter of their oil is coming 215 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: from the Strait of Hormves, or we're appropriately not coming 216 00:10:55,600 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 1: through the Strait of Hormons. Tactical decision there, Iran, because 217 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 1: China could have been your last friend on the planet. 218 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: But there's also the political aspect of what's going on 219 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 1: in Iran that America has to be very concerned about, 220 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 1: not least of which they have elected their new Supreme leader, 221 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 1: and as I'm sure you've heard, it's the son of 222 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: the Ayatola. Now this is an interesting political quagmire for 223 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: the iatolas there in Iran because the theocracy part of 224 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: their government. They have a theocracy. They have all the 225 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: iatolas that choose their supreme leader and they're the ones 226 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 1: who have the religious dictates and ultimately decide what's going 227 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:39,960 Speaker 1: to happen in the country. But then you've got your 228 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 1: little parliament with a president, and they're supposed to be 229 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,559 Speaker 1: sort of like, you know, just keeping the buses running 230 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: on time, right and filling podtholes and acting as head 231 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:50,720 Speaker 1: of stay because the iatola is not going to go 232 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: speak to the UN but their president will. But they 233 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:54,960 Speaker 1: really are just sort of puppets and they do what 234 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: the iatola supreme leader tells them to do, right, Okay. 235 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: So they got their little theocracy over there and all 236 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: the iatolas who decided to you know, overthrow the Shah 237 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: and got the Revolutionary Guard out there that Jimmy Carter 238 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: was celebrating to take over. Back in the late seventies. 239 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: One of the arguments against the Shah was that it 240 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: was a monarchy, that power was handed down through the 241 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: hereditary line of succession. It's like, why should we be 242 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 1: ruled by the son of a son of a son 243 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: of a son. 244 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 2: That's ridiculous. 245 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: And so now what did the Iatolas do when they 246 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: had to pick their new supreme leader. They elected the 247 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: son of the last Diatola. And so these iatolas are 248 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: sort of like the clerics or whatever they call themselves. 249 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: I keep calling them all iatolas, because if they had 250 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: a turbine, you're an iatola, you know. 251 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 2: But basically, what. 252 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: They're all saying to themselves is that they've got two 253 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: things that they say to each other. When they say, oh, 254 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: my god, we just elected the son, we don't like that. 255 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: So half of them say, oh, this is not good. 256 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: I don't like we shouldn't have sons. That's what we 257 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: were always against. It shouldn't be an hereditary thing, right, 258 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: we don't like that. But then the other half of 259 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: what they say is I don't want the job. 260 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 2: You want the job? A job, we're going to get 261 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:04,320 Speaker 2: a missile on our head. Who wants the job? 262 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 1: So they decided to give it to the Sun And 263 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 1: they had a big celebration honoring him, and it was televised, 264 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: and they went to arena and they said, we got 265 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,839 Speaker 1: our new supreme leader. Everybody, let's enjoy. And he made 266 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: his first public appearance. Here he is is he. 267 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:25,559 Speaker 2: On no zembic? 268 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: Is he's definitely lost weight. I don't remember him being 269 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,600 Speaker 1: quite that. Oh look at him kiss. So this is 270 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 1: a basically, they unfolded a refrigerator box and they and 271 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: they did a little cutout, not a very good one, 272 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: but let's face it, you know, I guess DIY Arts 273 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: and Crafts is not the forte over there. They got 274 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: other things to worry about. They cut out the little 275 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: cardboard refrigerator box and then stuck a picture of their 276 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: brand new Supreme Leader there on the top. 277 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 2: And I guess. 278 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: I don't know what that's supposed to be exactly. Let 279 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: me just tell you when they propped up Joe Biden 280 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: as the president, when he had mashed potato for brains 281 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,840 Speaker 1: and he could barely stand still without crapping his pants, 282 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: it was a little more effective than this, but just 283 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: a little just a little bit more effective. 284 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 2: Crazy. So this guy who. 285 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: Were told it's the son of the eye tool and 286 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: he's even worse than his dad, which you keep hearing 287 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: repeated over and over again just because people like saying it. 288 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: But there is literally no evidence to suggest that the 289 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: son is worse than the dad, because the son's never 290 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: had the dad's power. But you're just gonna hear it 291 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: because people think that they sound really smart when they 292 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: sit on a panel show and they say, well, you know, 293 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: they say the son's worse than the dad. 294 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:47,400 Speaker 2: Who's they? 295 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: Who exactly is they that say that there is no 296 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 1: evidence to it? But that's fine. So here's the son 297 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: who they say is worse than the dad. And he 298 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 1: literally has not been seen in public since the moment 299 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:05,040 Speaker 1: they elected him. There's some speculation that he might not 300 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: even be alive, and so they have the big rally, 301 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: and what do they do. They got the refrigerator box 302 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,680 Speaker 1: with his head on top. By the way, I don't 303 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: know if you saw this, but this is a Laura 304 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: Ingram was interviewing the President in the White House and 305 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: he revealed a brand new portrait that they've put up 306 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 1: in the Oval Office. I don't know if you saw this. 307 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 5: It's very cool. Oh my Godnik, Greg, just what up yesterday? 308 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:36,400 Speaker 1: Really terrific. That's beautiful. I love that that and the 309 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 1: frame is perfect for it. I love that Trump is 310 00:15:39,920 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 1: honoring the new supreme leader there all right. So number one, 311 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: his big reveal to the people of Iran. He was 312 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: literally a unfolded refrigerator box number two. No one has 313 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,000 Speaker 1: seen the guy. But here's the thing. This morning he 314 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: gave his first public statement, and there's two things you 315 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: need to know about it. 316 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 2: First of all, here it is. 317 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 1: It's it's not him, it's a This is by the way, 318 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 1: this woman in Iran. I think that's the the Iranian 319 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: version of Caitlyn Collins. You can see the similarity this 320 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: woman in the full burka here, although she is allowed 321 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: to show her face, so they're really getting loose with 322 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,760 Speaker 1: the rules there in Iran. She is the evening newsreader. 323 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: And when the new Supreme Leader put out his first 324 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: official statement as Supreme Leader, it was a written statement. 325 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: They couldn't even sneak a video camera into wherever it 326 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: is he's hiding right now to record him. They had 327 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: this woman read the statement. Are you smelling a rat? 328 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 2: Okay? 329 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: So that's the first thing you need to know about 330 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: his first public statement. The other thing you need to 331 00:16:55,560 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: know is that CNN ran the entire statement in its 332 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: entirety uninterrupted. 333 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 4: The Leader of the Islamic Republic in their first public 334 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 4: the speech addressing the Great Nation of Iran and the 335 00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 4: Brave Fighters of Iran the fatilities, those who were injured, 336 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:29,480 Speaker 4: and also the addressed the leaders of some neighboring countries. 337 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 4: The Islamic leader said that it was it has been 338 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 4: very difficult to be the successor of. 339 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 2: All right. 340 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 1: So this goes for like over four minutes, just like 341 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: that Supreme Leader's first public statement to the people of 342 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,560 Speaker 1: the world, and he emailed it to the woman in 343 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: the burka to read. CNN then plays it uninterrupted without 344 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: jumping in, without it with a translator, so that all 345 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 1: of the CNN viewers can hear every word of the 346 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: Supreme Leader of Iran's propaganda that he wants to spew 347 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 1: to everyone, literally aiding and abetting our enemy in the 348 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: middle of an armed conflict. CNN sits back and makes 349 00:18:30,280 --> 00:18:34,399 Speaker 1: the journalistic decision just let it play, not let's listen 350 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 1: to it, and then we can tell our viewers, you know, 351 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: what was newsworthy about it or this or that? Nope, nope, nope, 352 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: We're just going to let it play uninterrupted, which is 353 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: certainly an editorial choice that they made. I mean, that's 354 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: how they're doing their journalism. I suppose it's weird though, 355 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: because there was a time in the not too distant 356 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,639 Speaker 1: past when they were more than happy to interrupt world 357 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:07,680 Speaker 1: leaders in the middle of their remarks. In fact, here's 358 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,120 Speaker 1: a golden oldie from not too long ago. 359 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 6: Wid and appointed her as out of Donald Trump's remarks. 360 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 8: There he is, he is making a number of false claims, 361 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 8: So we want to interrupt what he is saying for 362 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 8: a few moments and go straight to Daniel Dale, our 363 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:25,920 Speaker 8: fact checker. Daniel, I mean one of the things that 364 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,240 Speaker 8: Trump did just at the start of all of this, 365 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 8: falsely claiming that the twenty twenty election was stolen from him. 366 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,280 Speaker 8: We have debunked that so many times. That is just 367 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 8: an outright lot. 368 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so funny. 369 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: Something tells me that embedded within the speech that the 370 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 1: Supreme Leader of Iran just delivered to the world that 371 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: was broadcast an interrupt on CNN, there may have been 372 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: a moment or two where some lies were told and 373 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 1: some propaganda was distributed, and it was something worthy of 374 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,119 Speaker 1: a fact check. But CNN, my friends, they didn't do 375 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: what Jim Acosta did there to Donald Trump. Nope, they 376 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: just let it go, no fact check needed. And it 377 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: really does bring it home, doesn't it. When you make 378 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:19,440 Speaker 1: your choices in media and News and Analysis, because no offense. 379 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: All my buddies over there at CNN, But when you 380 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: do crap like that, you really shouldn't wonder why we 381 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 1: all sit here in question whose side you're on.