WEBVTT - Operation Epic Fury 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.360 My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.960 American student organization in the country, fighting for the future 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.360 of our republic. My call is to fight evil and 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.520 to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.919 is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:23.200 if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:26.400 up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.600 stop sending your kids to college. You should get married 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.160 as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.280 Go start at turning point, you would say, college chapter. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.599 Go start attning point, you say, high school chapter. 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We had 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.319 an eventful weekend, to say the least, Yes, an eventful weekend. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.840 We came in. We did an emergency special live stream 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.320 on Saturday. Tens and tens of thousands of people saw that. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.200 So thank you guys for supporting the show. We did 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.640 our best to honor Charlie. What Charlie would say in 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.560 these situations. We obviously don't know exactly because he's not 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.479 with us, but we have some good indications because we 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:51.760 walked alongside Charlie in the summer strikes, Operation Midnight Hammer. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.880 We saw how he deliberated through those very tough decisions, 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.720 those very tough back room calls, those private conversations, and 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.160 then what he would say publicly. And so I think 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.480 we did a good job of that, got a lot 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.680 of great feedback. And you know, here's the bottom line is, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.840 we don't know how this is going to turn out. 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.000 We don't know what's going to happen in the coming days, weeks, 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.400 months ahead. We don't know if this is going to 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:16.919 ultimately be a success or if history will judge this 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.880 to be a failure. But I will say that again. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:28.720 The US military's incredible. I just would say precision. Their 0:02:28.800 --> 0:02:32.359 lethality has been on full display. President Trump is saying 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.800 they are ahead of schedule, especially when it comes to 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.720 targeting the leadership of the IRGC. The Ayatola is dead. 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.120 Of course, that was something we were not aware of 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.440 when we concluded our stream on Saturday. But Kamani has 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.760 been killed, along with forty nine at the time, Yeah, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:55.440 along with forty nine other members of the leadership structure 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.639 within run. 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.240 President Trump even said where this is misinterpreted by some 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:03.680 people were he was saying, they had a list of 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:07.880 likely candidates to succeed come in a and it appears 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:09.880 that their strikes have been so successful they don't know 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.880 who an obvious successor is at this point, I say 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.600 misinterpreted because some people thought we killed our own candidates 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.120 to replace him. Now it appears that we're just talking 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:19.600 about the hostile leadership. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.799 We knew there was suspicion of who would be selected 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.240 if the Supreme Leader was killed. By the way, there 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:29.520 was another Supreme leader briefly installed for twenty two hours. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.799 He too is dead. Don't even know his name. I 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.360 don't think we need to but the point is the 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.640 ultimate secession plan remains pretty unclear at this point. It 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.360 seems to be there was an indication from President Trump 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.720 where he was saying, we'll see who they choose, meaning 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.520 it does seem that this is not a regime change war. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.640 I understand that can feel like, you know, a distinction 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.800 without a difference, right, because yeah, the regime is going 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.880 to change. These are targeted air strikes to take out 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.520 leadership and allow the people of Iran to choose the 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.280 next leader. So we don't know how that's going to 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:09.840 play out. We were very reticent around here about regime 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.640 change wars. We're very reticent about going in to a 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.800 country as large and as strong as Iran, and the 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.479 unintended consequences are sure to be extreme. We don't know 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.520 how this is going to ultimately play out, and they 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.320 can't say that enough. Charlie was very concerned about regime 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.240 change wars, was very reticent about using kinetic force in 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:35.200 this region. But at the end of the day, Charlie 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.120 over and over and over again said this is why 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.279 I elected President Trump, this is why I fought so 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:39.960 hard for that. 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.640 That's really what it is is. There would be two 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.520 competing impulses with Charlie, and the reason we cite him 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.640 a big reason we continue this show, a big reason 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.279 it still has his name on there. As people looked 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.400 to Charlie as a leader, as a leader in the movement, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.400 as a person who had wise perspectives, as a person 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.599 who wasn't under the control of anyone else, and so 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.559 he could be frank, he could be honest about things, 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.200 and so we're trying to maintain that voice to the 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.840 best we can so that because that's what people are 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.360 looking towards. And what I can say, and I think 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:16.320 you agree, is Charlie would have two competing impulses. One 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.039 is he was a millennial. He was a part of 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:23.799 that generation very shaped by Iraq and Afghanistan, two wars 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:28.039 that looked very easy at the start, but went on 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.800 a lot longer than people thought, were more expensive than 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:36.080 people thought they would be, and ended in ultimately either 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.280 failure or at best mixed results in the case of Iraq. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.640 And that would have shaped his attitude towards this. You 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.360 can say, we agree. He repeatedly said he thought regime 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.520 change in Iran was a bad idea. The competing impulse 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.719 there is he was a supporter of President Trump and 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:58.080 President Trump's judgment in international affairs, and he was also 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.680 an American patriot, and so this war having started. His 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:05.280 take would similarly be I was very hesitant for this, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.960 but I also do trust the president's judgment that he 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.880 must have good reasons for this, and that he would 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:15.479 have a plan to keep this from extending endlessly and 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.039 escalating out of control. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.120 Well, and to your point you mentioned a rock. Secretary 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.120 of War, Pete heg Seth addressed this very dynamic in 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:26.799 his press conference this morning with General Kine three oh one. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:31.440 To the media outlets and political left streaming endless wars, stop, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.040 this is not a rack. This is not endless. I 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.719 was there for both. Our generation knows better, and so 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:43.440 does this president. He called the last twenty years of 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:50.120 nation building wars dumb, and he's right, this is the opposite. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:55.279 This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission, destroy the 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.880 missile threat, destroy the navy, no nukes. 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.839 So he's getting to the opera strategic missional objectives here. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.680 He continues on three oh two, he said, this is 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:07.080 our why three o two. 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.640 Iran's stubborn and self evident nuclear pursuits their targeting of 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.560 global shipping lanes and their swelling arsenal of ballistic missiles 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:20.040 and killer drones were no longer are no longer tolerable risks. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:25.520 Iran was building powerful missiles and drones to create a 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:30.080 conventional shield for their nuclear black male ambitions. Our bases, 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.120 our people, our allies all in their crosshairs. Iran had 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.640 a conventional gun to our head as. 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:38.160 They tried to lie their way. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:43.040 To a nuclear bomb. It almost worked under Obama and 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:47.880 his terrible deal, but not under this president. Turns out 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.680 the regime who chanted death to America and death to 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:58.040 Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.400 A lot of a headlines about that final line, basically, 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.160 you know, and it's right. It was a bit of 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.640 a mic drop moment because you know, they've been chanting 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:09.920 death to America, death Israel for a long time. Turns 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:13.680 out that the Supreme Leader met his end, his demise 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:19.360 at the hands of CIA intelligence and an Israeli strike. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:24.440 So the full circle moment for the iatola, certainly. But 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.560 let's just wrap up this segment. We've got so much 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.120 more to get to by saying that President Trump is 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.840 now on the record saying that the big wave has 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:36.080 not even commenced yet, which is something else. This is 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.680 Jake Tapper, who he talked to three point thirty four. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.280 I asked the President if US was doing more than 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.480 these military strikes to help the Iranian people regain control 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.400 of Iran against the regime, to seize the country from 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.720 the Iranian regime, and he said yes. The President said, yes, 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:56.480 we are, indeed, but what right now? We want everyone 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.360 staying inside. It's not safe out there. And then Resident 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.679 said it's about to get even less day. He said, quote, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.840 we haven't even started hitting them hard. The big wave 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.920 hasn't even happened. The big one is coming soon. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:15.640 Ominous warning from the President. The big one has not 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.160 even happened yet. It's coming soon. So take that as 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.520 you will. There is a lot of speculation. I do 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.480 want to just get to one of these. I'll never 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.240 forget this clip, Blake. It was at the height of 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:34.280 the base kind of having this public conflict about Operation 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:38.400 Midnight Hammer. It was about to commence, I believe, and 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.560 Charlie went on Jesse Waters in sort of an impossible situation, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.360 and I just felt like he just nailed this moment 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.120 and I want to play it because I remember it 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:49.280 well three or nine. 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.920 President Trump understands his base extraordinarily well. He knows that 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.160 his base does not want another Iraq, he does not 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.560 want Libya, does not want a civil war or bedroom 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.160 where the The States is left carrying the bag. But 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:05.120 also President Trump has been morally clear for a decade 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.200 Iran should not have a nuclear weapon. And President Trump 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.200 has the talent the expertise to be able to thread 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.920 that needle. The generation that I represent, Jesse, the under 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.600 thirty crowd, they absolutely are very war weary. Many of 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.800 them voted for President Trump on college campuses because they 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.160 did not want to see a Joe Biden or George 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.360 Bush philosophy where we get into this endless conflict where 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.200 we're sending hundreds of billions of dollars. I think President 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.240 Trump will be able to balance those two things while defending 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.800 our allies, saying that Iran will not have a nuclear 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.920 weapon without having to deploy a single American troop or 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:42.240 even having America involved from the sky. President Trump can 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.880 get that deal done while fulfilling the mandate that the 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:45.880 voters gave him. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.640 Pretty impossible interview. I remember that night going. You know, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.439 Charlie Wine goes, well, say prayer, wish you luck. And 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.480 I thought he did a tremendous job. But you know, 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.800 he made a point about how consistent President Trump has 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.320 been when it comes to Iran. And we found this 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.920 clip from nineteen eighty a President Trump just talking about 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:07.960 his posture about Iran in nineteen eighty and remember you 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.240 go back to nineteen seventy nine, it's the hostage, the 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.480 Iran hostage crisis. I think Trump was just sort of 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.600 offended that we let this happen three twenty eight. 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.480 When you get the respect of the other countries, then 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.440 the other countries tend to do a little bit as 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:26.079 you do, and you can create the right attitudes. The 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.240 Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:37.040 our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.480 country sits back and allows a country such as Iran 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:44.240 to hold out hostages, to my way of thinking, is 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:44.880 a horror. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.120 You're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, etc. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.000 And brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.120 Yes, I don't think there's any question, and there's no 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.959 question in my mind I think right now would be 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:59.040 an oil rich nation, and I believe that we should 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.880 have done it, and I'm very disappointed that we didn't 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.560 do it. And I don't think anybody would have held 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.080 us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.920 angry with us, And we had every right to do 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:10.400 it at. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.599 The time, held us in abeyance. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.120 Yeah, he's got the best. He's got the best where 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.360 its don't ever forget. Yeah, I mean, listen, So this 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.560 is a very young Trump basically sound in the exact 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.200 same way, and he has been consistent. And I think, 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.120 you know, Charlie made this point that you know, you've 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:31.000 got the hyper interventional or anti interventionists, and you've got 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.280 the warhawks, and these are our sort of two extremes. Well, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:38.920 President Trump tends to defy both. And that's tends to 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.480 be the truth with President Trump. He he does find 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.760 a third way. And again, anybody that tells you that 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.599 they know how this is going to work out is 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:48.520 completely full of it. 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:50.959 A lot of people are We'll be frank, a lot 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.240 of people are smug at this point. They've acted like 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.560 the war is already over because THEO is dead. It's 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.840 not period. There are Iran has responded to this by 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:04.360 basically lobbying missiles at seven different Arab countries almost at random. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:08.079 It seems their goal is to demoralize break apart. You know, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.560 could create a lot of pressure for peace because people 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:11.440 start dying, well. 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.720 That their hope is that they'll just blame the uses 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.720 of that or Israel for all of that. And actually, 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.600 so far we've seen a little bit of the opposite effect. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.560 Right where you saw Saudi Arabia is now going to 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.600 participate in some of these actions because they got missiles 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.560 dropped on them. And you know, listen, we've lost four 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.520 US troops. We have to pray that our US troops 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.800 would remain safe and that we have a minimal, minimal 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.360 loss of casualty. But President Trump is already indicated that 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.719 we'll probably lose more. That's horrifying as it's unfortunate and 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.880 it's horrifying, but he is also right in saying that 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:49.320 this is what happens in when there is armed conflict 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:53.920 between militaries, and so yeah, listen, I think all these 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.280 things are are important to hold all at the same time. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.120 You know, we pray for success, but we also understand 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:05.040 that we don't know all the details. I warned repeatedly 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.280 on Saturday, for those of you who saw our Saturday stream, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.120 I warned repeatedly that I made numerous calls ahead of 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.720 our stream, trying to gather as much intel as I could. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:16.400 And there was this repeat theme for multiple people that 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:21.120 there was a very real concern that Iran was like 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.920 a dog backed into a corner, a rabid dog, and 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.720 that you could hold two things in the same at 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.440 to be true at the same time that yes, the 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:34.400 strikes against Foidah were successful, Yes the regime was weaker 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.040 than ever, but yes they could be more dangerous than ever. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:40.640 Why because they were pursuing hypersonics from China. Those are 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.119 carrier sinkers, right, Those will sink one of our carriers 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.720 in the region, five thousand people on board of those. 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.360 And they were working on dirty bombs, right, whether they 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:54.520 were collecting materials from the Foidah sites or whatever that 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.520 had been struck, or if they were just getting it 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.720 on the black market, and they were working on their 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:05.200 belove missile stockpiles really really quickly. They were escalating really 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.240 really quickly. And so the reported numbers that you saw 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.320 how many ballistic missiles they had were probably an underestimation. 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.240 I think they had far more, and I think we're 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.040 sort of seeing that indication now. They were a dog 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.480 backed into a corner and they were going to bite, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.120 and so President Trump made the decision to hit them 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:25.120 before they were ready to hit us. I understand that calculus. Again, 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:26.520 we don't have to agree with that. You don't even 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.040 have to think that Iran was an imminent threat to 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.080 us to understand that reasonable people would come out on 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.760 a different end of that discussion. So we're not a 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.520 drums of war people. We're not excited, getdy. There's no 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:44.720 sort of fervor here. There's no excitement at this. It's humility, terror, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:49.240 and prayer for our troops and wishing and praying for success. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.480 That this would ultimately be a good thing for the world, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.440 and it would be a good thing for the region. 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.600 And by the way, if this does end in a 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:01.800 positive way, it's undeniable that this this could have massive upside. Okay, 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.080 you're you're talking about choking off the energy flow to 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.040 the CCP, we see any other down downstream effects. 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.680 Well, we said this over the weekend, but I think 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.360 it's worth repeating. I think the best possible outcome for 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.800 this is that instead of being another Middle East war, 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.080 it is the last Middle East war that would be 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.080 the United States has to be involved in. We've been 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.800 in here multiple times, but at this point, Iran you 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.120 can say, is the last entity that is a serious, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:32.480 you know, a serious danger to anyone. Yeah, there's Kuthis 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.720 who shoot missiles at ships in the Red Sea, but 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.560 the Huthis are not in any way a strategic danger 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:43.080 to any entire country. That matters, And so ideally, once 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.320 the Iranian regime is either removed or it is curtailed, 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.600 which the President has said, he seems to be saying, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.400 if we can destroy all their military capabilities and if 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.640 they never try to rebuild them, we don't care what 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.920 they do after that. They can be in Islamic Republic 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:57.600 as long as they want, as long as they're not 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.960 a threat to anyone else. If we can create that reality, 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.720 then we can leave the Middle East. You know, leave 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.720 a few bases here and there, but most of the 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.160 troops come home, most of the ships come home, most 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:09.720 of the planes go elsewhere. 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.679 Worry about that. 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It was good to 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.159 see you in touch base really quick. You are a 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.320 former Navy seal, you're also a Congressman. Just lay out 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:09.600 the situation as you would see it in Iran, what 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.720 our troops are facing. Obviously, whether you're for this intervention 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.479 or not, the one thing is very clear. Our troops 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.520 are second to none, Our military is second to none. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.919 Tell us from your perspective, Congressman, what you're what you're thinking, 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:24.480 what you're seeing. 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.960 Hey, guys, thanks for having me on. Yeah, last week 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:31.480 before this invasion took place. You know, I was kind 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:35.040 of banging the drum of caution when it comes to 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:40.679 regime change, primarily because of my own personal experiences and 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:45.240 playing a small role in the regime change efforts in 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.280 Iraq and just seeing all the complexities that come with that. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:51.760 You know, I know a lot of gold star moms. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.240 I have a lot of friends that did not come home. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.200 I know, we spent trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:02.720 We lost you know, know, thousands and thousands of American lives, 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.600 and when you look at those places now, it's it's 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.080 very tough to make the argument that those places are 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.960 better off now than when we went in there. And 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:15.000 so I know, if you look up research and you 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.760 know analysis, only about twenty to thirty percent of regime 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.119 changes are actually successful. And there's a whole list that 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:25.080 you know of places that you know, this has been 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:26.840 tried and it has not worked. 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.960 And one of the biggest problems with regime. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:35.119 Change operations is the power vacuum that unfolds immediately. And 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:38.080 so you've got you've got tribes, you've got clans, you've 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.280 got militias, you've got political parties that are all jockeying 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.720 for political power and positioning. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.439 And that's just within the interior of the country. And 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:50.920 then you have the exterior, you know forces. 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.720 You've got countries like China and Russia and the United 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.439 States and Israel and so many others who are also 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:02.560 trying to assert influence. And you know, as Americans, often 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.280 in Westerners, because you know, we live in the countries 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:08.680 that we do, we we often have this slip and 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.560 attitude that, well, you know, we've done our part. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.359 We've taken out the iatola. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.040 You know we've damaged you know, the military infrastructure there. 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.680 So Iranians just go do your thing now, right, That's 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.680 kind of the attitude. The problem is is that most 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:27.880 of these people have lived under brutal authoritarian regime for 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.119 so long that there there's a there's got to be 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.400 a certain calculus and a fear in many of them 0:21:34.640 --> 0:21:37.359 to you know, almost to the point of if I 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.120 step up and I back the wrong horse, or if 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:43.320 I back the wrong political party and the party that 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.480 I back or the person that I back doesn't win, 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:47.760 am I going to be you know, thrown into a 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.199 prison or a goo lag or beheaded or hanged in 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:53.720 the street, and so it's very dynamic. 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:55.200 It's very hard to pull off. 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:59.240 That being said, now that you know, you know, this 0:21:59.280 --> 0:22:02.840