WEBVTT - 21 Days In, Who's Winning? 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.480 Welcome to the program. No victocrats allowed because we've got 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.080 a country to say, so let's get. 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:05.560 Her teed up. 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:17.680 That Subdigg triple eight ninety seven one Sage triple eight 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.439 nine seven one seven two four to three. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:19.840 I M. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.120 Larry Elder. We are Salem News Channel. The Iran wars 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.599 now at day twenty one, So who's winning. The partial 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:29.920 government shut down continues, even as lines and way times 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.720 at airports to get longer and longer. Even Obama's DHS 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.040 secretary says it is urgent to fund DHS given the 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.360 recent terror attacks here in America. More and more exposure 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.440 of California fraud against taxpayers. Director of National Intelligence Tolcy 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:50.360 Gabbert testifies about worldwide terror threats against our country. Bernie 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:53.880 Sanders accuses Israel of genocide. The governor of New York 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.720 is asking rich New Yorkers, in the name of patriotism, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:02.200 not to leave the state. Republican leader Thune still refuses 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.440 to kill the filibuster, despite pressure from Trump and despite 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.200 the fact that Texas Senator John Cornyon has reversed his 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.119 previous opposition to ending the filibuster. All of this and more, 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.480 the number is triple eight nine seven one seven two 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:18.480 four to three triple eight nine seven to one. Sage descent, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.600 of course is welcome. Having heard from our friend Mark 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:28.520 for a while, I hope he's okay. According to the 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:34.440 Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard, they have struck an American Fighter jet. 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.080 This will be the first time a jet has been 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:43.600 struck by enemy fire. The IRGC claims to strike quote 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.520 severely damaged in F thirty five, which was reportedly flying 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:53.840 a combat mission over Iran. The Sentcom commander says that 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:56.800 the plane landed safely and the pilot is in stable condition, 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.400 but Symcom has yet to confirm whether the air was 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:06.440 struck by Iranian fire. There is a guy named John Spencer. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:15.560 He is a VET author, national security, military expert, chair 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:20.560 of the Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.560 at West Point, and a bunch of other accolades. Does 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:29.040 not appear to be a partisan. I checked his registration. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:34.200 He's not registered as a Democrat. I suspect he's an independent, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:40.640 but not sure. But he did an assessment yesterday of 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.399 the state of the war, and I want to read 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:50.680 some of it to you. He says. Too many analysts 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:56.840 claim tactical gains are being offset by strategic failure. Strategy 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.600 in war is not a checklist. It's not a fixed plan. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:06.160 Strategy evolves. It adapts to enemy actions, battlefield realities, and 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:11.880 emerging opportunities. Is a continuous process of aligning military action 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:18.640 with political purpose. Military campaigns have phases. Operation Epic Fury 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.800 clearly did. Initial strikes targeted command and control and air 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:28.040 defense systems. That was followed by systematic attacks on missile 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:32.359 and drone capabilities. These actions created the conditions to expand 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:38.040 air operations, including the use of gravity bombs against hardened targets. 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:43.720 These are operational phases. They matter, but they are not strategy. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.600 Strategy is the logic connecting those actions to political objectives 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:56.240 and adapting that logic as the war unfolds. When pundits 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:00.000 argue that the US is winning tactically but losing strategic, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.560 they are revealing a lack of understanding of what that 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:11.520 strategy actually is. So we must ask ourselves what are 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:16.400 the political goals for the US. The objectives have been clear. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.800 Deny Iran a nuclear weapon, destroy its missile and drone programs, 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:27.760 neutralize its ability to threaten maritime commerce, especially in the 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:33.480 strait of hormuse reduce its capacity to project power externally. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.520 This is not a war, he writes, of regime change. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.640 It is a war for regime behavior change. The US 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.360 is not seeking to replace the Iranian system of governance. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.240 It is seeking to force that system to abandon the 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:51.520 behaviors that threaten core u s national interests, including preventing 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:56.839 nuclear proliferation, protecting global commerce, and insuring stability in the region. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.719 Iran's goals are equally clear through so its actions. The 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:06.039 regime seeks to survive. It seeks to retain its nuclear potential, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.640 preserve its missile and drone arsenals, and maintain its ability 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.560 to use a strait of hormouse as a tool of 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:19.600 global economic coationion. It seeks to continue projecting power while 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:25.719 maintaining internal control through repression. So, he says, who is 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:33.280 achieving their goals? On Day nineteen, he wrote this yesterday, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:40.839 Operation Epic Fury. The US and Israel are winning. The 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.040 scale of what has been accomplished is not abstract. It's 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:50.520 measurable in both capacity and leadership. US air and naval 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.080 strikes have damaged or destroyed more than one hundred and 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:58.680 twenty Iranian naval vessels eliminated ballistic missile and drone launch sites. 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.400 American forces have flown more than six thousand, five hundred 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:07.520 combat flights and struck over seven thousand targets across Iran, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:14.000 focusing heavily on military infrastructure tied to missile forces, coastal defense, 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:20.760 and power projection. Israel's contributions have been equally significant. These 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.479 rarely military reports, dropping more than ten thousand munitions in 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.840 over its seven thousand, six hundred strikes against more than 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:32.520 two thousand, two hundred regime targets conducted across roughly five 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:38.520 thousand sorties, which are flights. These numbers reflects sustained, large 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:43.640 scale combat operation designed to dismantle the regime's military architecture. 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:48.760 The results are clear. Iran's ballistic missile launch capability has 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:53.159 been reduced by ninety percent, its one way attack drone 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:57.680 capability have been reduced by ninety five percent. Its ability 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:05.680 to impose cost has been fundamentally degraded. Iranian naval assets 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:12.040 have been hit in the opening phase alone, Approximately forty 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.960 senior Iranian leaders were killed in coordinated attacks, among the 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:21.920 most senior figures across Iran's political military and internal security 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:26.400 eliminated so far include but not limited to, the Supreme 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:32.760 Allied leader Ali Larijani, the de facto national leader during 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.400 the conflict, and the former head of the Supreme National 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:40.640 Security Council. The Minister of Intelligence, senior national security and 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.440 nuclear policy strategist has been eliminated. Chief of Staff of 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:49.280 the Armed Forces eliminated, Defense Minister eliminated, Commander of the 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:56.520 IRGC Ground Forces, eliminated, Commander of the besiege Military Force eliminated. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:03.120 Beyond these, several brigadier generals, intel chiefs, nuclear program leaders, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:11.560 operational planners have been eliminated. This is the systematic removal 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:16.560 of entire echelons of leadership across political, military, intelligence, and 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:22.080 internal repression structures. It is not accurate to assume replacements 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.280 will simply step up, think and act perform exactly like 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:29.160 those who are removed. What's happening in Iran is without 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:35.280 modern precedent. Entire layers, layers of leadership, networks, institutional knowledge, 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:40.480 personal authority have been eliminated simultaneously. This is not the 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.240 loss of a single leader. It is the destruction of 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:49.200 interconnected systems of control, decision making, and coercion. Leadership and 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:55.360 authoritarian regimes is not interchangeable. It is built on relationships, trust, networks, 0:08:55.760 --> 0:09:00.240 ideological alignment, and personal loyalty over decades. When those those 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.760 are removed in waves, what follows is not continuity. It 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:13.560 is disruption, fragmentation, competition, and uncertainty. We are in uncharted territory. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.160 The effects go beyond command and control. They strike at 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.800 the regime cohesion, morale and will. They will alter how 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:25.480 decisions are made, how risk is calculated, and how the 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:33.600 regime perceives its own survival. Israeli operations have targeted not 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:38.120 only external military capabilities, but also the internal mechanisms of 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:44.560 regime control. The siege, leadership checkpoints, internal security knows, cyber 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:50.319 control centers, and the regime's repression infrastructure have been systematically dismantled. 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:54.600 These are the tools the regime users to control its population. 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.440 By targeting them, Israel is shaping the internal conditions that 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.160 could make regime change possible, even if that is not 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:07.480 the declared objective of the United States. The US pursuing 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.200 behavioral changes, Israel is creating the conditions for that, and 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.840 possibly for something more. None of this suggests. He says, 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:20.640 the war is over strategy is dynamic, ARAM retains agency 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:29.360 and can adapt. But so far, so good. Triple eight 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.679 ninety seven one sage Triple eight nine seven one seven 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.840 two four to three. I Am Larry Elder. Do not 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:42.960 leave town parents. The biggest question in education today is 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.040 how artificial intelligence is shaping the way your student learns. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.120 Artificial intelligence is changing education faster than most schools are 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.800 willing to admit, and many families are rightly concerned. 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Bush has not gone on TV or radio 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.480 to my knowledge and said anything, but he has issued 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:51.760 statements via the George W. Bush Center in support of 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:56.720 the war. Here's what the Center said. This is on 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:03.320 March six. Our thoughts, prayers, and tremendous gratitude are with 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.960 the brave men and women of the U. S. Armed 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.760 Forces who are facing continued Iranian assaults as they seek 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:16.240 through the ongoing operation to advance American national security. We 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:19.840 also think US diplomats who working tirelessly to help evacuate 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.960 and support American citizens in the region while they themselves 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:27.280 are in harm's way. For forty seven years, the extremists 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.600 theocratic regime in Iran has meant serious harm to the 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.760 United States and translated the chant death to America into action, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.360 from the seizure of the US embassy compound on November fourth, 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.440 nineteen seventy nine, to the many terrorist attacks against US 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.080 and Allied targets. No one should share shed any tears 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:52.640 that Supreme Leader Ayatola Ali Hamani no longer rules the country. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.200 It is in the U. S. Interests to support efforts 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.520 distance though they may be seen, distant, though they may 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.320 seem now to trans position, I ran away from its 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:06.879 brutal extremists authoritarian current state and toward a more democratic 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.360 form of government. People around the world, if given the opportunity, 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:15.920 prefer to live in freedom, and the Iranians are no exception. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.240 Such transformation would reduce Iran as a threat to the 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.240 United States and the allies in the region and around 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:30.240 the world. The statement continues, but there was full throat 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:35.199 of support for what Trump is doing, even as George W. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:39.199 Bush publicly has not said anything, and from what I 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:43.080 can tell, Donald Trump's name is not in this statement, 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.480 but that will answer the question about whether at least 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.359 one former president is supporting what the president is doing, 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.040 and that former president is George W. 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:53.399 Bush. 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.240 Now, according to Bernie Sanders, who of course couldn't be wrong, 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:04.200 the Trump people are panicking. There's massive discontent his words 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:06.840 against the Iranian war Number twenty seven. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:08.960 Look, this is Chris. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:13.520 On top of a one trillion dollar appropriation, they want 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.119 another two hundred billion. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.720 You got people all over. 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.600 This country twenty percent of households spending fifty percent of 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:24.120 their income on housing. People can't afford healthcare, people can't 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.720 afford childcare, and this guy, in addition to giving tax 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.879 breaks the billionaires now wants to spend another two hundred 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.359 billion dollars on a war that should never have been fought. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.080 So I think, you know, clearly, I think the Trump 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:40.479 people are in a bit of paddic. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:41.719 They're losing ground. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:47.080 Gas prices are soaring, there is massive discontent against this war. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.760 It's got to end, and we've got to make sure 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:55.040 that Trump is neoted. In twenty twenty six, the Democrats 0:18:56.680 --> 0:19:00.640 were full throatedly behind giving money to Ukraine. How much 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:01.960 would we get to recrane? Was it one hundred and 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:04.960 seventy five billion so far? The New York Posts. 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:09.760 Oney hand reminded the Democrats of this fake outrage over 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.760 the cost of the Iranian war number twenty six. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.720 It's interesting that now Democrats are outraged about spending money 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:17.840 on war. We spent one hundred and seventy five billion 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:22.120 on Ukraine, where we weren't even in Nancy Pelosi rallied 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.159 for it, said that it was a victory for democracy. 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:29.320 But everyone that was to spend that again, that was 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.800 why not in Iran? 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.320 A war that will not support in one year. 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.560 Oh so not in one year in a war that 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.640 were not even involved in. But that wasn't a problem. 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.400 Now this is a problem. Eliminating the nuclear threat, eliminating 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.000 a regime, the chance death to America, death to Israel. 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:53.680 That's a problem. Bretty Sanders also said that there's massive, 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:59.240 massive discontent against the Iran war. Is there not? According 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:02.240 to CNN's Harry Inton, all of this in more Triple 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.520 eight nine seventy one s a g E. I M 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:05.200 Larry Elder. 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:19.720 Do not leave town. 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.240 Every society is judged by how it treats the most vulnerable. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.399 I'm Larry Elder. Right now, families across Latin America and 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:28.879 in the Caribbean are living without something we take for 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:33.000 granted every day, clean water. 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John, you're and the Larry Older Show. 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:45.680 Thank you for calling. 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:48.560 Well, thank you for taking my call. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:49.520 Larry, my pleasure. 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.440 Hey, I just got just got a question for you man. 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.119 Uh, you know everybody keeps restoring to this as a war, 0:21:56.560 --> 0:22:00.520 you do and everybody else, I mean, is what a war? 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:01.119 Isn't it? 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:02.879 What do you think it is? 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:06.040 Sounds like a war to me. 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.360 I mean, you know, it sounds like one to me too. 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:15.600 Involving something like fifty thousand troops, aircraft, planes, trains, automobiles, 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:17.680 soldiers being shot at, We're killing a bunch of people. 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:18.679 Sounds like a war to me. 0:22:20.520 --> 0:22:25.640 Yeah. So doesn't that require like congressional approval. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:29.280 For that or some kind of un to Article five? 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:30.040 I think it is. 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:34.000 Well, it's not a declared war. We haven't declared war 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:37.280 since World War Two. Vietnam was not a declared war, 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:39.640 The Korean War was not a declared war. 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:42.440 Let me point something out. Can I point something out 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:43.080 to you, Larry? 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:46.919 But the war resolution that the Democrats are claiming that 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.760 it's being violated has never been affirmed as legal. I 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.720 don't believe it's legal. It's never been tried in court. 0:22:52.720 --> 0:22:55.080 But I don't believe it's legal. I believe that it's 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:58.320 a violation of Article two that gives the president the 0:22:58.320 --> 0:22:58.960 power to do this. 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.080 Well, Larry, I'm not a Democrat. 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:04.800 I didn't say you were. I didn't say you were. 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:06.840 I didn't say you were. I'm just saying the Democrats 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:09.760 are you argue that Donald Trump is violating the war powers? 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:14.600 Take a point to you here, Okay, So, as far 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:17.119 as I'm concerned, I have watched this for the past 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:17.919 fifty years. 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:18.320 Okay. 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:23.160 None of America's wars have ever intended to be won. 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:27.120 They're only intended to be sustained. And the reason they're 0:23:27.119 --> 0:23:31.200 intended to be sustained is the value in the conflict 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:35.040 is in the debt that it produces. We are going 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:38.240 into debt, Larry, at a rate of a trillion dollars 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:41.760 every hundred days. Now, here's a question for you. 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:42.840 See if you can answer it. 0:23:43.760 --> 0:23:46.320 How long ago was a trillion seconds ago? 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:48.600 Tell me. 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:54.240 For thirty one thousand, six hundred and eighty eight years ago, 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:56.359 that is how large that number? 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:58.479 John? I have a question for you, Ken, I've got 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:01.040 a question. He Repaid, have a question for you. How 0:24:01.080 --> 0:24:02.359 much did World War two cost? 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:07.040 We're still paying interest on that. 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:09.680 You didn't aswer my question. You didn't You didn't answer 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:13.320 the question, John, You didn't answer the question how much 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:14.679 did World War two cost? 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:17.720 I don't know the exactly, and you know. 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:19.840 You're telling And I'll tell you why you don't know, John, John, 0:24:19.840 --> 0:24:22.880 I'll tell you why you don't know, because the mission 0:24:24.040 --> 0:24:28.520 was warranted irrespective of the cost. Germany had to be defeated. 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:32.080 Imperial Japan had to be defeated. Fascist Italy had to 0:24:32.080 --> 0:24:34.680 be defeated, irrespective of the cost. That's how I feel 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:37.280 about this. How much would it cost if Iran got 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:40.160 a hold of a nuclear bomb and dropped it somewhere 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:43.400 in the civilized world, let alone America. How much would 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:46.080 that cost? So, so, as far as I'm concerned, you could, 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:46.800 you could talk about it. 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:47.680 I spoke to you. 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:51.000 I spoke to you some time ago, and you made 0:24:51.040 --> 0:24:54.520 it very clear to me that Israel has nuclear weapon. 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:56.920 It does, so it does. 0:24:57.040 --> 0:25:01.600 Okay, So it is against US law to finance a 0:25:01.720 --> 0:25:05.479 country who has secret new nuclear weapons that is not 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:08.600 a member to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Agreement. 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:12.360 It is against the law for US to finance. Say 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:14.760 that again, it. 0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:19.800 Is against the federal law to finance a nation that 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:23.920 is not a member of the Nuclear non Proliferation Agreement. 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:28.800 They have secret nuclear weapons, they do not admit to them. 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:33.199 As a matter of fact, John Kennedy wanted them to 0:25:33.880 --> 0:25:37.199 abandon the Demona nuclear facility on. 0:25:37.359 --> 0:25:41.919 By the way, who gave Iran nuclear technology? Who was 0:25:41.960 --> 0:25:42.600 it that did that? 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:46.560 I'll tell you it was Eisenhauser. Administration. 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:50.280 We get it, all right, John, John, I get it. 0:25:50.320 --> 0:25:50.720 What was it? 0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:51.080 Ran? 0:25:51.320 --> 0:25:58.000 Or Ran? Not a threat to America, not that I know. Okay, Okay, 0:25:58.359 --> 0:26:00.800 well then we then we just I'm sorry, We're just 0:26:00.840 --> 0:26:03.520 gonna have to respectfully disagree and leave it there. I 0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:05.280 believe that they were a threat. I believe they were 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:07.760 an imminent threat, and I believe that we had an 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:10.720 obligation to do something about it. And I think that 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:13.359 something should have been done a long time ago. And 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:15.640 as president and Trump said he's heard from at least 0:26:15.640 --> 0:26:17.800