WEBVTT - Mission Mostly Accomplished? 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 --> 0:00:24.480 up purposeful. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.040 College is a scam, everybody. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:27.880 You got to stop sending your kids to college. You 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:29.960 should get married as young as possible and have as 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.199 many kids as possible. Go start at turning point, you 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.680 would say college chapter. 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Welcome Blake, Howdy, it's that 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:18.720 time again. Lots to get to you. We got a 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.640 jam packed show for you. Senator John Kennedy is going 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.200 to be joining us. And then we've got a crazy 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:30.280 story about leftist training juries to let the criminals off 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.000 the hook. Yeah, it's bad, it's real bad, so we 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.720 want to make sure we get to that. Then we've 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.560 got Secretary of Energy Chris Wright joining us. Lots of 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.040 news about the straighth Horn moves oil prices. We're going 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.160 to get into it actually with Senator Kennedy as well. 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:44.759 It comes from Oyl State Louisiana. 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:46.800 And then we. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:50.720 Have Professor Ray from Hillsdale College gonna give us a 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:55.160 whole history of Iran in that region, what this conflict 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.560 really means for that. So lots of educating today, lots 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:03.240 of explaining what's actually going on behind the headlines, because listen, 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.120 there's a lot of short term push and pool you're 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.080 gonna feel. There's a lot of Twitter chatter, there's gonna 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:12.760 be a lot of social media chatter. There's gonna be 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.520 a lot of headlines what's really going on, and there 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:18.000 are some long term impacts that are gonna be felt. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.440 I mean, I kind of liken this too. You know, 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.799 we live in historic times, Blake, where you could make 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.760 the argument that Reagan in the eighties gave rise to 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:30.079 Clinton's booming economy in the nineties, right, And so we 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.040 are in that kind of an era where President Trump 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.679 is doing a lot of hard things. You don't have 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.080 to agree with everything. I'm not asking you to beat 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.840 the drums of war. I certainly am not. But when 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:43.560 you think about the foundations in the Middle East from 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:47.120 an energy security standpoint, from a geopolitical standpoint, we are 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:51.000 living in historic times and we have to understand where 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.480 these pieces will lead, where they are going to take 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.240 us in the years ahead. So we're gonna educate us, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.919 all of you ourselves as well. But first we got 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.519 to get to what happened. There was another shooting and 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.440 an American consul at this time in Toronto. Let's get 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.400 the press clipping. We're gonna explain what's really going on here, clipbait. 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.120 At this stage, I can confirm that the RCMP is 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.840 working closely with the Toronto Police Service and our international 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:22.320 partners who will assist us in a fulsome investigation into 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:26.240 the shooting that took place overnight early this morning at 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.520 the American consulate behind us. At this time, the INSET 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.840 team has been engaged as this is a national security 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.520 incident and we're working with Toronto police and others to 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.880 understand the motivations of those involved. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.920 All right, use picture of the Canadian Mounty is like 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.040 slamming the table. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.960 What could the motive be? So? Yeah, so this is 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.440 what's so funny about Canada. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.440 Right, they won't say that it was a Muslim guy 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.560 who's upset about the Iran conflicts so he went and 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.760 shot up a US consulate in Toronto. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.080 Have this guy locked in a room and he'll be 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.560 like I did it for IS. They'll punch him in 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.120 the face. Stop speaking in reddles. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.360 Yeah, what is your motive? We all know what this is. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.680 Obviously, over the weekend we saw those two young men 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.720 that were inspired by ISIS propaganda to go throw IDs 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.600 and a bunch of protesters in New York. And now 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.680 we have a shooting at a US consulate. There was 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:25.479 obviously the Austin bar nightclub shooting where a number of 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.159 people were shot. If you were killed, we know what 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.839 the motivation is. So this is essentially the bargain that 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.119 your leaders have made with you in the West. They've said, 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:38.200 don't be racist. You've got to import the Third World, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.960 or you're racist and you're gonna like it. Invade you, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.239 you know, your your communities, invade me harder, daddy, that's 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.000 the bargain. Now, what did you get out of that? 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:53.840 You got approximately nothing, except now every time the Muslim 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:57.320 community feels offended, you have to watch fellow Americans get 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:03.080 shot up and bombs thrown at them. So, congratulations, Western man, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:04.960 this is the world that you've created, and for no 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.440 particular reason. But this is a sad truth of this 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.440 new reality that we live in. We have a bunch 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.520 of Muslims all over the country now, all over the West, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:18.839 including Canada, England, France, Germany, And when they get offended 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.520 there might drive their car into your parade or your 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.360 Christmas festival. They might shoot up your consulate or throw 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.000 IDs at you when you're protesting on the street, or 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.640 they might just be your mayor in New York. So 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.480 that's the breaking news. It's not good news, but it's 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.240 unfortunately the reality that we live in. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:35.520 Now. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.760 There is another angle that is also happening, and we're 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.080 gonna get into this with Senator Kennedy when he joins. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:48.360 But President Trump told some reporters last night that the 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.560 military mission is nearly complete. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.240 Now. The markets loved this. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.400 The Dow Jones was down all day yesterday when shooting 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.320 back up ended the day up almost two hundred and 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.719 forty points. Oil, which had spiked almost as high as 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.080 one hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty dollars a barrel, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.960 is down around ninety now. So the war is very 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.680 nearly complete, is the interesting. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.560 Way that he put this. So let's make sure. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.520 He said it's very complete, but also just beginning, which 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.760 I think, And then a reporter asked him about it, 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:21.800 and he said, in the way only Trump can it 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.200 could be both. Yeah, well both, We're very complete so 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.960 far and we're just beginning. How complete are. 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.719 The words of Charlie? The unpredictability is the point. But 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.800 it's interesting to see the markets react to this. Let's 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.040 see here cut seven on Iran. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.400 You called it an excursion. You said it would be 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.040 over soon. Are you thinking this week it will be over? 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.240 To days? 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:47.240 I think so okay, very soon. Look, everything they have 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.960 is goun including their leadership. In fact, they are two 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.719 levels of leadership and even actually, as it turns out, 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.200 more than that, but two levels of leadership are gone. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.039 Most people have never even heard about the leaders that 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:04.000 they're talking about. So it's obviously been very very powerful, 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:04.720 very effective. 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.400 So yeah, to Blake's point, I think, you know, we 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.720 had Robert Barnes on yesterday and he was basically suggesting 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.000 the president could declare victory at any point he wanted 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.680 at this at this time and use that as an 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:19.240 off ramp. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:22.440 It seems he could possibly even declare victory while still 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.400 waging the conflict. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.600 I actually think there is a strategic brilliance to this though. Actually, 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.120 I think the President understands that the Navy has been 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.120 essentially degraded to the point that it's going to take 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:40.560 them years, if not decades, to recreate the military infrastructure. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.720 I think they've got about twenty percent of the rocket 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.760 launchers missile launchers remaining. I'm assuming those are going to 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.480 be some of the cleanup work that's going on right now. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.280 The real question, though, is at what point, from a 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.800 regime standpoint, is victory real. You know, you gotta understand, 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.560 the regime tried to assassinate President Trump a couple of 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.000 times at least they are. And by the way, the 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.640 new leader, the son of Kamanee or whatever, his wife 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:08.119 was killed. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.160 His son was killed. He must ain't killilled. 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.040 No one has seen him yet. He might be a 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:18.520 figurehead the president. Look, the President said he it's not 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.840 going to be a long drawn out conflict. We have 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.520 to hope that's true. I think it will be politically 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.680 harmful if it is not true. So of course we 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.600 want to have this end quickly. I think everyone wants 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:33.360 it to end quickly. But the question is is how 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.480 much will they be able to achieve before they can 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.880 just say, all right, we're done and go home. But 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.000 the thing that is inevitably true is it's a lot 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.040 easier to start a conflict than to end it. And 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.480 to some extent, as you said, all that all the 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.240 new Supreme leaders family members got killed. But if he 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:49.959 doesn't want it to end, what if he says, I'm 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.240 going to send suicide bombers everywhere that we can one. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.160 There's a larger question about what it's going to take 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.599 to get the population to take back their country or 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:57.360 do we even want that? 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:58.040 Do we even care? 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.840 And it seems that in recent days, last two days specifically, 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:06.160 the admin has been signaling that that's not as that's 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.480 not as huge of a concern as maybe we anticipated 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.960 at the beginning. Remember, they've lost about fifty of their 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.560 you know, sort of political leaders, their top brass, so 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:16.800 it'll be interesting to. 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:22.480 See Howdy Blake here. 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If the Aliens landed tomorrow and 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.760 said take me to your leader, it would be embarrassed. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:34.480 All right. 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.280 We have Senator John Kennedy on his first time on 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.000 the show, so we wanted to make it special and 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.800 do a brief montage of some of his greatest hits. Senator, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.640 Welcome to the Charlie kirkshawtz an honor to have you. 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.240 I hope you didn't mind our celebration of some of 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.600 your quips and whimsies. We love them here and so 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.480 does the country. Welcome to the show. 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.839 Well, thank you. I would deny everything, guys, but you 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:08.520 have the video. Yeah, there's no thanks for having me Andrew. 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:13.000 Yeah, absolutely, it's honored to have you here, sir. We're 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.800 you know, there's so much to talk about. You are 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.679 the senator of a of an oil state, a state 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:22.559 that's a lot of its economy is revolves around refineries 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.320 and shipping, and there's a lot of news right now. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.720 So I wanted to get into that as a first step, 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.040 and then we'll get into some of the DHS stuff. 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.400 What's going on in Iran, How are you feeling about it? 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.360 How is Louisiana feeling about it? And give us your perspective. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:45.000 I don't want America to be the worlds policeman, but 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:51.280 on occasion we have to intervene because one of the 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:56.319 bad guys is trying to be the world's policeman. Here's 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:02.360 what our intelligence showed. You would think after the curb 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:07.040 stomping that America and Israel gave Iran back in June, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.480 that they would have learned their lesson. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:10.080 They didn't. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:20.400 Our intelligence showed that Iran had restarted its nuclear weapons program. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:26.840 It was producing between two hundred and six hundred missiles 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:35.640 a month. Its goal was to stockpile so many drums 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:41.679 and so many ballistic and cruise missiles that it could 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:47.920 threaten to destroy the entire Middle East if anybody interfered 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:53.600 with their renewed efforts to get a nuclear weapon. That's 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:59.160 not a world that's safe for America. The President, in 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:04.880 my opinion, did not start a war. He's trying to 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:11.880 prevent a war. It will be a limited excursion. So far, 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:16.400 we've destroyed seventy five percent of their missile launchers. We're 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:23.120 destroying their missile manufacturing facilities, their drone manufacturing facilities, their 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.520 new efforts to get a nuclear warhead. We're destroying all 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.920 of the infrastructure for the Revolutionary Guard. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:30.920 I think that. 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:36.200 Will be complete, gentlemen, in the next few weeks, and 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.320 then I expect the President to withdraw. I do not 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:46.600 believe he will send troops. If he sends troops, the 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:51.720 thud you hear will be me face planning from surprise. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:54.320 Please don't do that. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.720 But I think that's a really good assessment. And I 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.680 think that you know, when conflict started, I felt that 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.000 the it had not been sold properly to the American public. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.440 I trust the President and his instincts, and we have 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.960 his back, but I did not feel that it had 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:15.360 been sold properly. I do feel that comments from Senator 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:20.160 Secretary of Rubio, from JD. Vance, from Secretary of Hegseth 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.400 have completed the picture. And I think you've done a 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:25.800 beautiful job there. Senator the question Andrew. 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.280 If I could say, if I can say this, I 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:29.040 think you're I think. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.120 You're you're, you're you're dead on there. 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:35.360 Look, we both know the president UH as long as 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.080 I've known him. He one of his character traits is 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:43.080 that he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:48.680 He has no filter, and sometimes that prevents him from 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.960 articulating a message that is as tight or coherent as 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:54.640 we would like. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:55.720 UH. 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:00.800 Rubio is there to help. UH headset there to help. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.200 And what I just told you is what we have 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:11.200 been told by the administration in classified and unclassified briefing. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.120 Yeah, I think you are a great messenger. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.520 It's one of your hallmarks, and I think you've done 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.360 a very good job of that right now. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:20.240 Now. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.200 The question, though, is there's also a political calculus. And 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.200 one of the things that I've been aware of is 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:30.560 that this could be the absolute spot on right decision 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.640 from a national security perspective, but it could have political ramifications. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.840 I can tell you, Senator that you know, the gen 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.080 zers that we're talking to on campus are students. They're 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:45.120 telling us that young people they don't want this conflict, 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.920 even those that voted for President Trump do not want 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.680 this conflict. What would your message be to gen zers 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.280 watching and listening that are skeptical of any war. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.360 Well, look, those are fair questions that are being asked. 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:10.280 People remember well Afghanistan, people remember well Libya, people remember 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.720 well a Raq. Those are very fair questions. 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.639 What I would tell them is the truth. What I 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:18.320 just said. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:23.359 I'm not going to repeat it. This is a limited intervention. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:31.720 It's not something we wanted. We negotiated with the late Ayatola, 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:37.679 who's now who's now as dead as Woodrow Wilson, and 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.400 I don't wan't shed a tear for him. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.160 We negotiated with him for weeks. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.119 He said no to everything except once, and it became 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:50.280 clear that we were going to get nowhere. I would 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.240 like to see the president. He hasn't asked me for advice, 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:58.240 so you know, I'm gonna offer it anyway. I would 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.720 like to see the president address the nation and say 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:06.720 here's why I went in and here's when I'm coming out. Uh, 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.639 here's what we've accomplished. Here's my objective. 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:10.320 Uh. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:10.880 Senator. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.920 So we've been told, we played the clip before you joined, 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.359 that you know this could be nearly complete and that 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.359 it's going to be short. So now we're hearing the 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.000 messaging kind of pivot. There's a little bit of a 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:25.439 pivot in the messaging. What what does success look like 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.679 in this conflict? If Comani's son is still, you know, 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:31.240 the the new supreme leader. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.919 Well, here here's what success looks like to me. 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.040 And I don't speak for him, but I think it 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.880 a President Trump would would agree. Successful to me is 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:48.840 Iran or the political theological leadership in Iran having four 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:57.080 wheels down and they're actual dragging drone manufacturing facilities gone 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:03.199 missile manufacturing facilities gone, new steps to obtain a nuclear 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:08.760 warhead gone, Ranian Navy gone, I Ranian Air Force gone. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.600 As much infrastructure as we can find for the Revolutionary 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:14.880 Guard gone. 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.680 And then the good people, and they. 0:19:17.600 --> 0:19:22.520 Are good people of Iran who don't want these uh, 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:26.600 these these knob heads running their country any more than 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.720 anybody else in the world does, will have an opportunity, 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:38.080 perhaps maybe to to choose their own government. Success to 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:40.959 me looks like a few more weeks. I don't want 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:45.919 to leave too soon, just because of my democratic colleagues 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.960 are screaming like they're part of a prison right. They're 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.480 not going to support anything that President Trump does. But 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.480 but that's what success looks like to me. 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.919 I guess rational consider a lot of people have is 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:02.080 if we if we even if we do all that destruction, 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.520 if we come out and the regimes is still in 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:10.000 place and still despises us, would we be able to 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.919 go back? I guess I would just be worried. Is 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.800 this just a giant, a bigger version of what happened 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:17.560 last summer? Where we go in and we break a 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.920 lot of stuff, but the fundamental problem is still there 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:22.480 and might even hate us a lot more. 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:22.920 Well. 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.600 I supported what we did last summer, and I support 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.399 what we what we're doing now. I'm not gonna repeat 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.720 everything I just said. The question I think most fair 0:20:32.800 --> 0:20:37.760 minded people have to ask themselves is is the world 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:43.680 better off after we leave around this time? Having done 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:45.760 what I just said we were going to do, and 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.840 we're doing it, We're almost done. Is the world better off? 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:49.679 And? 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.120 I think the answer and are the Iranian people better off? 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.000 Have we completely solved the problem? No, it's going to 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.520 take regime change, but the people of Iran are going 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:04.280 to have to determine that they want resume change. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:05.560 Look, the. 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:12.240 New Supreme Leader just like the old Supreme Leader. They 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:16.920 believe that their God tells them to kill everybody who 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:21.680 doesn't agree with them, not just Americans, not just Israelis, 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:27.800 even their fellow Muslims. I don't think any fair minded 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.240 person believes that they are not trying to obtain. 0:21:30.960 --> 0:21:31.959 A nuclear weapon. 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:34.920 I don't think any fair minded person believes that if 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.480 they obtain a nuclear warhead and the missile technology to 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:43.120 deliver it, they will use it and once they get it, 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.600 I don't think any fair minded person believes that that 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.560 will not lead to nuclear proliferation. 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:49.880 Every country in. 0:21:49.840 --> 0:21:53.680 The Middle East will obtain a nuclear weapon, so will Japan, 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.240 so will South Korea, so will Australia, and then it's 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.320 off to the races. We have a chance to stop it. 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.320 Does it necessarily mean regime change? I don't know, guys. 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:09.840 I hope so, but you know I have to I 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:11.880 can't predict the future. I have to wait for it 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:13.040 like everybody else. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:14.160 Let me say it again. 0:22:14.200 --> 0:22:17.040 I don't want America to be the world's policeman, but 0:22:17.080 --> 0:22:20.800 there are times that we have to intervene to keep 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.439 the bad guys from being the world's policeman. And this 0:22:23.600 --> 0:22:26.960 is one of those times. Yeah, and let me just 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.160 say I talked about this in my book. 0:22:31.200 --> 0:22:31.919 I don't know why this. 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:34.280 I don't know why this is, guys, but there's some 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:38.440 people in this world. They're not mixed up, they're not confused, 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.800 they're not sick. It's not that their mama and daddy 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:43.960