1 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer and this is Josh Hammer Show. The 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: Academy Wars aka The Oscars were on Sunday evening out 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 1: in Tinseltown, and it's an occasion to think about some 4 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:18,640 Speaker 1: of the greatest products that Hollywood has produced for us 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: over the decades. Something of a film buff myself, my 6 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: personal top two films of all time are The Godfather 7 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: Part One and The Godfather Part two, and over this weekend, 8 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: especially on Sunday, watching as things start to escalate when 9 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: it came to certain swaths of the internet sine podcast 10 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: wars as they refer to within the broader right of center. 11 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: In that context, I couldn't help but think with the 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: Oscars coming on Sunday evening about one of the great 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,720 Speaker 1: lines towards the end of The Godfather Part One, where 14 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 1: Michael Corleoni played by alp Pacino, famously says that he 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: intends to settle all family business. And in the context 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: of The Godfather know how that plays out. But I 17 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: couldn't help a think about that when it came to 18 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and some of what he has done, not 19 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,039 Speaker 1: just on Sunday evening, but also over the course of 20 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: this month, increasingly in voluable fashion as well. So in 21 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 1: order to make sense of what I just said, there 22 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: are things important to step back a little bit. You 23 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 1: likely know, if you are a listener or a viewer 24 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: of this program, you likely know that the Right is 25 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: not actually as divided as people say it is. When 26 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: it comes to certain substance issues. The Right would have 27 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: you believe that there is some massive maga divide when 28 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,200 Speaker 1: it comes to things like Operation Epic Fury, the war 29 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: against the water retiement. 30 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 2: In reality, there's actually not. 31 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: In reality, the Republican Party, Republicans, especially so called Macropublicans, 32 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: are actually largely unified. And to this extent this is 33 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: very much just a bit of media manufactured nonsense trying 34 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: to create faue faux fractioning divides when none actually exists. 35 00:01:53,160 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 1: But in some ways, in some ways, there are definitely 36 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: some real divides seeping at least if not the people 37 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: out there are in the broader movement at a bare minimum, 38 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: the podcaster circuit. 39 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: There. 40 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,280 Speaker 1: We've been very outspoken, very outspoken on this show when 41 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: it comes to some of not just the the inane 42 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: silly things that certain individuals like Tucker Carlson and Megan 43 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,399 Speaker 1: Kelly have been saying in recent months, but it oftentimes 44 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: actually the outrights evil things as well. And on one 45 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: of our shows from a few months ago, is this 46 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: is really starting to reach a bit of a fever pitch. 47 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: What we said here very clearly is that the buck 48 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 1: ultimately does stop with the President of the United States. 49 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: Not the President of the United States really is the 50 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 1: one ultimately who decides what is Maga and what is 51 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: not Macca. He is the one, much like Michael Corleoni 52 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: aka Al Pacino in The Godfather, who is capable of 53 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: settling all family business. Why, well, the question answersself, because 54 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: Maga is his family America first, is Donald Trump's family. 55 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: He started this movement. He defines the contours of it. 56 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,639 Speaker 1: When you start in movement, folks, is important to set parameters, 57 00:02:56,880 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: is important to define what that movement is for, and 58 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 1: just important what that movement is not for. There are 59 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 1: countless individuals throughout history who immediately found initial success when 60 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: it came to starting movement, then failed to properly define 61 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 1: what that movement is, and then it got out of 62 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:13,680 Speaker 1: hand and expanded, expanded, expanded, and led in a lot 63 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: of kooks and cranks and crazies. And this and that, 64 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: and the whole thing implodes. It is a tail quite 65 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,640 Speaker 1: literally as old as time. Well, fortunately, President Trump is 66 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: now starting to define the contours of what is and 67 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: what is not Maga, perhaps above all when it comes 68 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: to the aforementioned clowns of Tucker Carlson and man Kelly 69 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 1: aka Grandma Greiper. So earlier this month, in the month 70 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: of March, Jonathan carl of ABS News got quite a scoop. 71 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: He seems to get some of these scoops when it 72 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: comes to Trump and his inner circle, so kudos to 73 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: him for getting another one there. And this came actually 74 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: on March fifth, so just about a week and a half, 75 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: not even two weeks ago now. So in a lengthy 76 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: conversation just now, tweeted Jonathan carl Davis News on in 77 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: March fifth, President Trump hit back at Tucker Carlson. Tucker 78 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: had called the Iran war absolutely disgusting and evil. Tucker 79 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: has lost his way. Trump told me, I knew that 80 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: a long time ago. And he's not Maga. Maga is 81 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: saving our country, MAGA is making our country great again. 82 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: MAGA is America first, and Tucker is none of those things. 83 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that. Now, 84 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:20,119 Speaker 1: in reality, Tucker Carlson has been vociferously criticizing Donald Trump 85 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 1: for the better part of a year and a half 86 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: two years now. More on that in just moment there. 87 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,679 Speaker 1: But finally, finally, finally, Donald Trump pushed back in earnest 88 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: earlier this month. It was not necessarily the face down 89 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: sitting at the resolute desk, looking solemnly into the camera. 90 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily that, with all the accouterments of the 91 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 1: Oval Office and the prestige and the glitz and the glamour, 92 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 1: that us perhaps a mission. But it was a very 93 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: very powerful statement. Not the first time, incidentally, that Trump 94 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: has condemned Tucker Carlson as he continues his descent into 95 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: utter lunacy following his unceremonial firing from Fox News in 96 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: April of twenty twenty three. Trump referred to Tug Carlson 97 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: as Kookie Tucker Carlson, for instance, in the context of 98 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: the Lester Run operation last June. So that was the 99 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: context for the big Tucker related event of this weekend. 100 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 1: So Tucker releases a video on Saturday where he essentially 101 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 1: announces that he found out that allegedly. Allegedly, he announces 102 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: that the CIA has been spying on him and surveilling 103 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: him and reading his messages, and that they are allegedly 104 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: preparing to recommend charges be filed to the DOJ for prosecution. 105 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 1: Here is Tucker Carlson announcing, allegedly a ken what has 106 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 1: happened to him? 107 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,120 Speaker 3: So the other day I found out that the CIA 108 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 3: is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a 109 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 3: crime report to the Department of Justice on the basis 110 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,719 Speaker 3: of a supposed crime I committed. What's that crime? Well, 111 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 3: talking to people in Iran before the war. They read 112 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:54,919 Speaker 3: my texts. So the crime under consideration apparently would be 113 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,320 Speaker 3: the Foreign Agent Act or something like that, acting as 114 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 3: an agent of a foreign power. And I don't expect 115 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 3: this to go anywhere. I'm not too worried about an 116 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 3: actual criminal case against me for a bunch of reasons. One, 117 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: I'm not an agent of a foreign power. Unlike a 118 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 3: lot of people commenting on US politics and global affairs, 119 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 3: I have only one loyalty, and that's the United States, 120 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 3: and have never acted against it. It's interesting for the 121 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 3: only interests I care about because I'm from here and 122 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:25,719 Speaker 3: I have a lot of kids, so that's not a concern. 123 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,240 Speaker 3: I've also never taken money from anybody, don't need it, 124 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 3: don't want it, and that's provable. And moreover, it's my 125 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 3: job to talk to everybody all the time and try 126 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 3: and figure out what's happening around the world. That's literally 127 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 3: what I do for a living, and I'm not going 128 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 3: to stop doing that. 129 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 1: Okay, So there is a lot to say on this 130 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 1: spice to say, I'm not sure if I'm willing to 131 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: take Tuck Carlson at his orb. But before we go 132 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,039 Speaker 1: ahead and anpack what we just heard, they're just a 133 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 1: quick word from our sponsors. So a sponsor for today's 134 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: show is a balance of nature. What if the reason 135 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: then you feel a little off someome days has more 136 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: to do with what's missing than what you're adding. 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So there's a 153 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: lot to say about this Tucker Carlson video that has 154 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: really taken the Internet by storm over the past forty 155 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: eight hours give or tape. The very first thing to 156 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: know is that I find it hilaius. The Tucker seems 157 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: so confused and bemoosed be used about what is the 158 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,760 Speaker 1: Foreign Agent Registration Act. He seems like he's not familiar 159 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: with the statute, which, incas you're not familiar, is the 160 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: basic Statutes part of the US Code on the books 161 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: that prohibits you from unlawfully serving as an agent for 162 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: a foreign power aka country that is not the United 163 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: States unless you are properly registered and there is a 164 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 1: proper way to register, you have the public disclosure etc. 165 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: Et cetera, et cetera. 166 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,320 Speaker 1: So the first thing is that I find it hilarious 167 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 1: at Tucker is pretending, Yes, he is pretending, he is 168 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 1: lying to you that he is not familiar with the statute. 169 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: How do I know because as a user on x 170 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: by the handle of at May's More helpfully reminded us 171 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:38,079 Speaker 1: on Sunday evening, Tucker, back when he was hosting his 172 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: Fox Newshouar to Talk Across the Night, talked a lot 173 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: about Farah. In fact, he actually openly said people like 174 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: Adam Schiff, Michael AVENAUGHTI, Eric Swallall are these people but 175 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: possibly violating FARA. He mentioned John Kerry and Iran Actually 176 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:55,040 Speaker 1: as ironically he brought up John Erry and Iran as 177 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:57,599 Speaker 1: I am possible far violation. Back then he actually the 178 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,559 Speaker 1: clip I watched from this account at Maysmore and actually 179 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: early this morning was Tucker doing Simmons on his show 180 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: on Fox News back in twenty eighteen of talking about 181 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: how the former head of CNN Acorny Tucker might have 182 00:09:09,559 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: been unregistered for an agent because of CNN's slanted pro 183 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 1: Turkey news coverage. Utterly hilarious stuff. So there's a lot 184 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: to unpack here. The very first thing to say is 185 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: that the CIA does not generally get involved when it 186 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: comes to surveilling one's text message correspondence. The agency that 187 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: we know that is more involved with that. And you 188 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: can disagree or agree when it comes to section seven 189 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 1: oh two of the authorizing statute there. 190 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 2: We know this from Edward Stowe. 191 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,560 Speaker 1: There is this agency is typically the NSSAY, the NSA, 192 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 1: the National Security Agency is the agency of the intelligent 193 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: community that is typically involved when it comes to trying 194 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: to have these wide drag nets and collecting metadata and 195 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: incoming calls outcoming calls there, and then if they find 196 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: something suspicious, they can go file a warrant to a 197 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: FIZI court. It's a whole intricate labyrin team process where 198 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,600 Speaker 1: you ultimately then try to get a warrant and try 199 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 1: to actually then get from the meta day to the 200 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 1: actual data there if you have the relevant legal standing 201 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: before the judge. So I'm not sure that I believe 202 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: that the CIA itself is actually getting involved here. Let's say, 203 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: for the sake of argument, let's say, for the sake 204 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: of arguments, that whether it's the NSA or the CIA, 205 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: that one of them actually are getting involved here. And 206 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: as Tucker did imply there in that video, that's because 207 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson has been in touch with people likely very 208 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,560 Speaker 1: close to or near the top, perhaps even of the 209 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 1: Iranian regime. 210 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:30,440 Speaker 2: Now. 211 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,360 Speaker 1: In the lead up to Operation Epic Fury, Donald Trump 212 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: met at the White House with Tucker Carlson not once actually, 213 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: but twice. The first time, which came in early January. 214 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 1: On January eleventh, just just about a week and a 215 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: half or so after the operation to extract Nicholas Maduro 216 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: from Venezuela, was actually a meeting of the big oil executives, 217 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: the Oil, Natural Gas, CEOs, Chevron, Ximobile, etc. They went 218 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,600 Speaker 1: to the White House to basically talk about how Venezuela 219 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: was going to play when it came to this new 220 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: massive oil field there, and whether or not the new 221 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: incoming president Rodriguez is going to play ball with American 222 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: petroleum refiners and exporters. Hintint she actually is so good 223 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 1: for her as post to kind of use another godfather 224 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: and no knowledge. By the way, del Rodriguez knows that 225 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: there is an offer here frankly that she can't refuse. 226 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:15,599 Speaker 1: We know then, at that January Love of meeting that 227 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: Donald Trump said to Tucker Carlson that you have a problem. 228 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: And people think, whether they're right or wrong, and they're 229 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,160 Speaker 1: right about this, that you are not just viciously anti Israel, 230 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: but you are really anti Semitic, and that you were 231 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: frankly destroying her coalition. So he gave Tucker some time 232 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: to try to quote unquote fix this problem, which he 233 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: didn't do there. Then Tucker ends up claiming back to 234 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: the White House, it's the one that thought was a 235 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 1: little odd, a little more confusing in hints, and Tucker 236 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: comes back to the White House than in February prior 237 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: to the commenced of operation of picc Fury. This one, 238 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: in hindsight, was perhaps less of a head scratcher. Was 239 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: perhaps less of a head scratcher. Then maybe we actually 240 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: thought it was there. Why is that, Well, perhaps Tucker 241 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: Carlson was actually getting used by Donald Trump. I will 242 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: actually explain exactly what I mean. That they're on the 243 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: other side of a very short comuscial break, folks, to stay 244 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:03,599 Speaker 1: with us. Will be right back with more of the 245 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: Josh Hammer Show right after this welcome back. So in hindsights, 246 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: as I said, many of us perhaps should have been 247 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: less confused bout Tucker Carlton making this second trip to 248 00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: the White House in February prior to the commencement of 249 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:27,800 Speaker 1: this joint binational American Israeli military operation against Ron. At 250 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: the time, it seemed like a major WTF moment. What 251 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: the heck is going on here? Why is this guy 252 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: of all people getting a face to face sit down 253 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: with the United States and specifically with the President of 254 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 1: the United States there. Now, if Tucker is correct, which 255 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: again major caveat here, but if his allegation is correcked, 256 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:49,080 Speaker 1: that the CIA or mean he's embellishing units just the NSA, 257 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 1: if they were actually surveilling him, and if they actually 258 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: knew that he was in touch with Iranian assets there, 259 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 1: and if they actually were thinking that he was a 260 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: possible FARA Act violator and possibly recommend charge. If all 261 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 1: this is true, which I don't personally believe, but if 262 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,959 Speaker 1: all of it is true, there they considered the possibility 263 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: that the CIA then got wind of Tucker essentially conducting 264 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,560 Speaker 1: his own shadow foreign policy. Perhaps they informed President Trump 265 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 1: and the may President Trump actually brought in Tucker Carlston 266 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: to use as essentially an unwitting counter intelligence asset to 267 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:28,840 Speaker 1: feed faulty information on purpose to Iran. That's potentially what 268 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: happened here. If Tucker is actually speaking the truth, which 269 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 1: again I don't necessarily believe there, that's possible. What happened 270 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: there is from essentially brings in Tucker knows that he's 271 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: in touch with the Iranians there. Basically they have the 272 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:41,079 Speaker 1: big smiles. The Iranians are like, ah, no problem at all, 273 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: We're all good. There's ought to be a war than 274 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: the idiots like they are. They all go to meet 275 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: in that big building, including Kamene, the thirty seven year 276 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: old ruling Supreme leader Iatol, and then the whole building 277 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: goes boom and they're all dead. So this is one 278 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: theory of the case is that Donald Trump actually was 279 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: playing four D chess all along and really actually did 280 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: use Tucker Carlson like this. And by the way, there 281 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: are other pieces of this that are starting to add up. 282 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 1: So after the war began, Tucker Carlson at one point 283 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: on his show said something utterly just astonishing, which is 284 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: he made up a claim out of whole cloth. He 285 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: just made it up in completely preposterous fashion. He said 286 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: that that's Massad that at Israel's spiancy, Massad actually sent 287 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 1: individuals to Saudi Arabia and Katar, to our countries that 288 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 1: were getting incoming fire from Iran. Tucker said, the Massad 289 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: sent people to Saudi Arabia and Katar to try to 290 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 1: carry out attacks there. In reality, this stain was so 291 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: wildly false that the foreign ministries, the governments of both 292 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,040 Speaker 1: Saraia and Qatar, said this is not true. These were 293 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: actually irgc is on for revolutionary gark or Iranian assets, 294 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,240 Speaker 1: trying to commit terror attacks on our soil. Tucker has 295 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: demonstrable very high profile, very public ties to Katar, So 296 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: to get the Katar hard government to condemn him, you 297 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: really have to be saying a whole lot of lies. 298 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: Any event, this is one theory of the case is 299 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: that Tucker is telling the truth there. Donald Trump actually 300 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: was really playing forty chess. Donald Trump really did use 301 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: Tucker and then Tucker inevirtually in this theory of the 302 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: case actually really did get his Rannie and friends kind 303 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: of like COMMENTI himself killed. Now, how does that leak 304 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: in that case get from the CIA or the NSA 305 00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: over to Tucker Carlson there. 306 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:29,480 Speaker 2: Well, my own personal view of this, as. 307 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: I said on X on Sunday, my own personal view 308 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: is that this has a lot to do with twenty 309 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: twenty eight politics. The head of the Office of d 310 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 1: and I of the Office of the Director of National 311 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: Intelligence is Toulci Gabbert, a former Democrat congressman from Hawaii 312 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,359 Speaker 1: turns now into this cabinet member in the Trump administration. 313 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: Tolsy Gabbert is known for having very traditionally pro Russia, 314 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: more isolationist leaning view. She is much closer to the 315 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 1: it's called the Jdvan Swinging the Party. You might even 316 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: call it, frankly, the Tucker Carlson Wing the broader movement. 317 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: If you think back to Operation Epic Fury when it 318 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,320 Speaker 1: began there, Mark Rubio was with Donald Trump there at 319 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: mar A Lago in Palm Beach, and then we had 320 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: kind of looked for not being charitable and be kind 321 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,400 Speaker 1: of blunt, looked like a kiddie table back in a 322 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,680 Speaker 1: situation room in the White House where there was jd Vance, 323 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 1: Tulsa Gabbard, et cetera. 324 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 2: So I have it on. 325 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: Fairly good authority, and I don't name sources obviously, but 326 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,560 Speaker 1: I have it on good authority from people who would know. 327 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: And Tulti gabberd harbors her own outside shot ambitions to 328 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: be president United States and run in twenty twenty eight. 329 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,440 Speaker 1: She apparently views jd Vance as her leading arrival for 330 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: that lane in the primary when it comes to trying 331 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 1: to pick up the hard line isolationist let's call it 332 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: the grouper or the greyper adjacent to vote. So if 333 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: this is all krat then Tulta Gabbert has a reason 334 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: to try to knife jd Vance to clear that lane 335 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: for herself. Well, what better way to try to knife 336 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: JD Evans and then to come after his comically compromised 337 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: friend Tucker Carlson. So if this theory of the case 338 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 1: is correct, then what Tucker is actually doing there is 339 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: he's essentially getting played by by Tulca Gabbard in an 340 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 1: anti jd Vance operation. 341 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 2: That's my reading of the case. The alternative scenario. 342 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: And this this is possibility to as I put it 343 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: on X on Sunday The evening there is that is 344 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: that Tucker is a psychopathic liar who just made the 345 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,879 Speaker 1: whole darned thing up, much as he did about his incident. 346 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:23,760 Speaker 2: He's a legend instant. 347 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: When he was interviewing my Cuckabee at the airport in 348 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: Israel few weeks ago, there Tucker said that they detained 349 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: him and seized his passports. 350 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 2: It didn't happen. It was literally a lie. 351 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 1: The dude just makes things up because there's something actually 352 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: wrong with him, because he is his claim. He's been, 353 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: he's been, he's been tapped by demons. He's obsessed with 354 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: these stupid nicotine pouches, nicotine punches which from mister quote 355 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,719 Speaker 1: unquote America First aren't even made here there made in India. 356 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 1: He's dude's just office freaking rocker. So and this second 357 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:53,720 Speaker 1: scenario about the CIA v O, Tucker makes the whole 358 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: darned thing up, and he's actually just doing but personally 359 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: I've been saying he's doing for two years now, which 360 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,320 Speaker 1: is that he waging a shadow war against Donald Trump 361 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: and against MAGA, accusing Donald Trump of selling out his 362 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: America First mission and laying the groundwork even further for 363 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: his own twenty twenty eight presidential run. It's really this 364 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 1: is all about twenty twenty eight. That is my reading 365 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,479 Speaker 1: of a very thing that actually has transpired here. I've 366 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: been saying this about Tucker for a very long time. 367 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,239 Speaker 1: By the way, again, when it comes to a Rang, 368 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: when it comes to Ukraine, when it comes to Epstein, 369 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: all this stuff, Tucker has been increasingly wildly opposed to 370 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: the Trump minstration. Heck, even Nicholas Maduro, even those narco terrorists, 371 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: boat strikes last fall, the Nicholas Madua extraction, these folks, 372 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: and Tucker's just to tip the spear of a lot 373 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 1: of them, Megan Kelly, we'll get turned to the second here. 374 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: Tucker has been the number one opponent of a veritable 375 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: suite of Trump Minstration priorities when it comes to Trump's 376 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:49,399 Speaker 1: both domestic and foreign policy agenda, perhaps even more so 377 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: his foreign policy agenda. So as I wrote an essay 378 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 1: for the Free Press as Barry Wei's publication, I wrote 379 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: an essay last July talking about why Tuck Carlson is 380 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: so obsessed with Jeffrey Epstein. And here was the conclusion 381 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,320 Speaker 1: to my essay. I wrote, quote the Goal, which seems 382 00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 1: increasingly obvious, is to fracture the political rights into pro 383 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,719 Speaker 1: Trump MAGA and Trump's skeptical or anti Trump quote unquote 384 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: ultra mega in order to allow a new presidential lane 385 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,160 Speaker 1: to emerge in twenty twenty eight, perhaps within the folds 386 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,680 Speaker 1: of the Republican Party, or perhaps it's Elon Musk's New 387 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:24,200 Speaker 1: America Party or some other partiesan vehicle, and who might 388 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: be the standard bearer for that new anti Trump, anti American, 389 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: anti Western civilization movement. Well, one man seems far likelier 390 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: than anyone else. It's Tucker Carlson himself. As Sucker Carlson's 391 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: criticism of President Trump grows louder, the probability of Tucker 392 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 1: running for president to supplant MAGA approaches one. In order 393 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 1: to get there, they must first discredit Trump as much 394 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: as possible. So, folks, that is why Tucker has picked 395 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,879 Speaker 1: this war, has picked this war against Donald Trump. That 396 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: is my ultimate blunt assessment of the situation. One of 397 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: the more cure situations, or the mere curious questions that 398 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: we might confront is why have some other people joined 399 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,199 Speaker 1: him on what seems to be a suicidal crusade. If 400 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: you see the guy who's the president United States, who 401 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: is beloved by his party. Donald Trump has some of 402 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: the highest proved ratings from within his own party. Harry 403 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: Enton CNN has Crunch numbers. Trump's approve rating within Republicans 404 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:22,920 Speaker 1: is astoundingly high. He is at this point, I believe 405 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:26,399 Speaker 1: it's the single highest rated within your own political party 406 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,440 Speaker 1: president in a second term in the modern history of 407 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 1: American political polling. So, who in the right mind sees 408 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: this and sees Donald Trump just at this point shooting 409 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:42,000 Speaker 1: down at Tucker calling him not maga, he's lost his mind, kooky, etcetera, etc. 410 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,159 Speaker 1: Who sees this and says, Aha, that's the ship that 411 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 1: I want to attach myself and to ultimately link my 412 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: fate to. And unfortunately that brings us to Megan Kelly, 413 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 1: or Grandma Grouper as I've been calling her. A lady 414 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,479 Speaker 1: who has been in the news suffice to say for 415 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: a few months now as well, someone who has just 416 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 1: completely and utterly sold out in just really tragic fashion, 417 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: and woman who I once held in pretty pretty high regard. 418 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: I was a fairly freaking guess action and the Megon 419 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 1: Kelly Show for a little while there. So I wrote 420 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 1: this essay back in January for a front page magazine 421 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 1: Front Page mag dot com and go ahead and check 422 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: it out. Why did Grandma White bursell out? You can 423 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,280 Speaker 1: go ahead and get get the full picture. Now, Among 424 00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 1: the people that Megan Kelly has been lashing out at, 425 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: She's been lashing out a lot of people like me, 426 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:31,120 Speaker 1: Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Barry Weiss, Mark Vinn. 427 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 2: Hmm. 428 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: What do me, Dave Ruben, Ben Shapiro, Barry Wives and 429 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: Marklevin all have in common? I will not answer that question. 430 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,480 Speaker 1: You can answer that question for yourself. So among the 431 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: folks that men Kelly has been just really just ripping at, 432 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: ripping at. Of those individuals I just named the most 433 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: over the past couple of weeks is Mark Levin aka 434 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: the Great One, as Sean Hanny calls him, and frankly 435 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: now as Donald Trump himself calls him as well. We'll 436 00:21:58,080 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: get to that action just a minute there. But the question, 437 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: folks is why is Magan Kelly trying to make her 438 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:02,479 Speaker 1: bed with this? 439 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 2: What is the goal? 440 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: What do these people actually want to achieve? The tantalizing question. Again, 441 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 1: I have my theory. You might not like it, but 442 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: I'll I'll tell you what it is. But after a 443 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: very short munch of breaksday, let we will be right back. 444 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,959 Speaker 1: Welcome back. So we're talking still about Megan Kelly, for 445 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 1: better or for worse. So Magan Kelly, especially on Sunday, 446 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,199 Speaker 1: maybe it's not on Saturday, I can't remember, decide to 447 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,359 Speaker 1: go down a rather peculiar hole on social media where 448 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: she had a certain anatomical fascination you might call an 449 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 1: obsession with a certain part of male genitalia about Mark 450 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,720 Speaker 1: Levin and about the size of that. I will not 451 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,119 Speaker 1: elaborate further because this is a family friendly show, but 452 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: this is I mean, it makes you just want to 453 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 1: just throw you your hands up and say, what are 454 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:57,199 Speaker 1: you doing? 455 00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:58,439 Speaker 2: Well? 456 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: I mean, you were a serious broad canister or a 457 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: serious journalist, someone used to ask serious questions across the 458 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: political spectrum. There, you were a hard hitting interrogator, used 459 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: that legal prosecutoral backgrounds. 460 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 2: What are you doing? So Mee and Kelly just goes on. 461 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: This unhinged TI rate in the aftermath of Tucker announcing 462 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,719 Speaker 1: this alleged CIA thing, which again I don't know if 463 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: I believe. I think it's I think it's entirely possible 464 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: that NSA picked up some text or phone calls with 465 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: Tucker and the rotting things. It's like, it's also entirely 466 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,440 Speaker 1: possible Tucker just made the whole darn thing up, but 467 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,640 Speaker 1: he's using this to run for twenty twenty eight, et cetera. 468 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 1: So Megan sees this, she has a bit of a meltdown. 469 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,200 Speaker 1: She's like retweeting all the all this pro Tucker stuff, 470 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 1: protect Tucker at all costs, et cetera, et cetera. And 471 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: then she starts going after Mark Levan for having a 472 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 1: micro you know what, and does this repeatedly on Sunday. 473 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 1: And it was very very very very weird, to put 474 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:55,160 Speaker 1: it mildly, and then it ends up calmbing on Sunday 475 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: evening with Donald Trump putting out a very very lengthy 476 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: post on truth Social defending Defending my friend Mark Levin. 477 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,359 Speaker 1: Donald Trump writings on the Evening on Truth Social Mark Levin, 478 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: a truly great American patriot, is somewhat under sieged by 479 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 1: other people with far less intellect, capability and love for 480 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:17,159 Speaker 1: our country. Mark is tough, strong, and brilliant, hence the 481 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,439 Speaker 1: nickname The Great One, conceived by our maga friend, the 482 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: Wonderful Sean Hannity, etc. 483 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 2: Et cetera. 484 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 1: When you hear others unfairly attack Mark, remember that they 485 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,800 Speaker 1: are jealous and angry human beings whose sway is much 486 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 1: less than the public understands and will now that they 487 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:38,199 Speaker 1: know where I stand rapidly diminish. So he didn't actually 488 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,480 Speaker 1: say Megan Kelly's name, But this is a lengthy post 489 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:46,680 Speaker 1: on Donald Trump's truth social on Sunday Evening about Megan Kelly. 490 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, folks, as we've said at this point, is 491 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:54,359 Speaker 1: settling family business. He much like Michael Corleone, is reasserting 492 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: himself as the leader of the family, as the leader 493 00:24:58,040 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 1: of the tribe, as the pots are familiars who might 494 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: say to kind of use some Latin eat. And he 495 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: is going after some of these disgraced, discredited ex cable 496 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: news stars, people who really probably miss frankly, when they 497 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: had those prime cable news slots. Magan Kelly probably wishers 498 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 1: once you had a prime time slot of Fox News. 499 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure Tarck Carlson misses the same thing. 500 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 2: There. They no longer have, that'saw. 501 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,600 Speaker 1: They no longer have the editorial guardrails that come with 502 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 1: with with their all star editorial teams there. In fact, 503 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:28,639 Speaker 1: Miranda Devine, the New York Post columnist, among others, who 504 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,879 Speaker 1: did an amazing work with the Hunter Biden and Laptop story, 505 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: had this theory that she presented to Dave Ruben, I believe, 506 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 1: was on Dave Show about Tucker and she said something 507 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:38,439 Speaker 1: that I've been thinking about for a year as well. 508 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 1: It's one of her theories as to Tucker's is sent 509 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 1: into lunacy is that he doesn't have these editorial guardrails 510 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,119 Speaker 1: in place there, that he's surrounded by a lot of 511 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: yes men who does not a long and don't push back. 512 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,920 Speaker 1: It's pro probably the same thing for Megan Kelly as 513 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 1: as as well. So it's a combination of that. It's 514 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: a combination of sour grapes. But ultimately, in the in 515 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: the final conclusion, why are they doing this? Roald Trump 516 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: could not make it clear that he sides with the 517 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,720 Speaker 1: forces of sanity within this internestcine podcast war fighting there 518 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 1: he's on Mark Levin's side, He's on the side of 519 00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: a bench of here. He hasn't personally said he's on 520 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: my side. Guess what I could read the tea leaves. 521 00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Donald Trump supports what we say here 522 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: on this program on essentially on a day and day 523 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,119 Speaker 1: up basis, certainly when it comes to a lot of 524 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: the topics that the podcasts are debating. There. So the 525 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: folks that are going all in that are going all 526 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: in here for this tiny, tiny slice of the demographic. 527 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: I what exactly are you guys doing? Like, really, what 528 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: exactly are you doing? And by the way, the evidence 529 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: for this just continues to accumulate before we go any 530 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: furd there. So there was a brand new Paul from 531 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 1: NBC News that came out I believe it was just 532 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: this morning actually, and they essentially are talking specifically here 533 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: about the Israel question. Americans views of Israel, how it 534 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: changed over the past thirteen years. I'm not sure why 535 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 1: they chose that, but they chose twenty thirteen. Until now, 536 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:10,679 Speaker 1: Republicans have not changed at all. In twenty thirteen, sixty 537 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: seven percent of Republicans cided more with Israel over the Palestinians, 538 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,320 Speaker 1: only eight percent side of the Palestinians. Now in twenty 539 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: twenty six the ratio is sixty nine percent to thirteen percent. 540 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,880 Speaker 1: It's essentially statistically unchanged. There has been a shift within 541 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: the Independence and Democrats. That's a story for another day. 542 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: But the point is, when it comes to all these 543 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: various topics, when it comes to Iran polling, when it 544 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,959 Speaker 1: comes to israelations there, when it comes to all this stuff, 545 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:37,920 Speaker 1: these people, Tucker Megan and their acolytes and followers, that 546 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: idiot so called comedian Dave Smith who had debated twice 547 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: last year. All these people are are chasing a negligible 548 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: fraction of the audience market share. So it's a bizarre 549 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: calculation that after Donald Trump is out of the picture 550 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: because he is term limited, after he's out of the picture, 551 00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: it's a calculation that what comes now is gonna look 552 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: absolutely freaking nothing like Donald Trump. That's a bold wager. 553 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,760 Speaker 1: That is a very very bold strategy. And ironically, I 554 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,960 Speaker 1: think a lot of these folks think, or at least thought, 555 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 1: that the likeliest guy to kind of move the White 556 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: House in that direction would be Donald Trump's vice president jd. 557 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 2: Vance. 558 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,439 Speaker 1: But we've already seen that when a vice president runs 559 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: for president, he or she cannot distance himself or herself 560 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 1: from that president's policies. This is Kamala Harris's great struggle 561 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four election. She had an infamous 562 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: interview on the View where they said, Madame Vice President, 563 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: can you name a single policy where you disagree with 564 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,240 Speaker 1: the Biden administration where you wish we had done or 565 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: you had done something differently? And she couldn't identify a 566 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: single thing, because do so we need to throw her 567 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: own boss at the time, Joe Biden under the bus. 568 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 2: So Jade Vance. 569 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: Has that issue too, in addition to the fairly glaring 570 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson problem. There again, if I'm right potentially told 571 00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: to Gabbert trying to exploit that highly vulnerable JD. Tucker friendship, 572 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: that's just my speculation. I've known some information there, but 573 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 1: certainly my reading of the tea leaves there but is 574 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: a very very bold wager that whatever comes next is 575 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: going to look absolutely freaking nothing like what it currently is. 576 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: And I don't know if they're going to be proven 577 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: rights I have based the susmision that they are not 578 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 1: going to be proven right there. But for now, for now, 579 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,840 Speaker 1: I am just loving, loving watching Donald Trump go scortch 580 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: earth on some of these truly scummy, disgrace discredited former 581 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: cable news scars who stars who are now just just 582 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:44,040 Speaker 1: shrinking violence just sitting there in their post cable news 583 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,840 Speaker 1: podcasters fears probably having some sort of midlife crisis. Maybe 584 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: they've overdone it when it comes to the ozempic or 585 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: the botox and Grandma Roiper's case. I don't know down 586 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 1: th who it is, but whatever it is, Donald Trump 587 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,600 Speaker 1: is finally settling all famly. 588 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 2: Business and it is really a glorious thing. 589 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: Speaking of glorious things, the operational success against the Irani 590 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 1: regime in Operation at bic Fury as the United States 591 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: calls it, or Operation Roaring Lion as our Israeli allies 592 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: called the operation continues to go apace. So the most 593 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 1: recent major event was that there was an overnight strike 594 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: this weekend at an airport in Iran where the IAF, 595 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: the Israeli Air Force, has destroyed the aircraft used by 596 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 1: Mushaba Kameny, who is the young successor to Ali Kamene, 597 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: a guy who we don't even know fully if he's alive. Actually, 598 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 1: there were some rumors over the weekend that Mushaba Kamene 599 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: actually was dead. At a bare minimum, we believe that 600 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: he has had a leg amputated and that he is 601 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: possibly in a coma. They did this very kind of 602 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: third world d thing where they released a written statement 603 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 1: without any visual and any photo any video of the guy. 604 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: Last week, the most recent thing and I could not 605 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: would just get a laugh out of this was that 606 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 1: the New York Posts reporting that Trump was brief that 607 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: Mushaba Kamene is probably gay and okay, I mean that's interesting. 608 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: I guess I think back to makumud Awa Jinnajod, the 609 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 1: foreign President of Iran, back when he spoke at Columbia University, 610 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: made about twenty years ago. So I remember Apa Jenjohn 611 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 1: somewhat infamously said when he was asked about the homosexuality question. 612 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: He said, Ah, there are none of those people in Iran. Well, dude, 613 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 1: your new supreme leader is apparently homosexual. Okay, Well there's that. 614 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 1: I guess Donald Trump had a hilarious reaction. He apparently 615 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,720 Speaker 1: just couldn't contain his surprise, just burst out laughing. According 616 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 1: to New York Post, others in the room found it hilarious. 617 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: Joined the president's reaction, One senior intelligence official has not 618 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,640 Speaker 1: stopped laughing about it for days. This actually comes also 619 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: on top of separate reporting from the Daily Mail that 620 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: Michaba Khamene sought treatment in the United Kingdom in the 621 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 1: UK for impotence. 622 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 2: Impotence. 623 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 1: Okay, so it's a somewhat fallic news cycle, I guess 624 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 1: you might say, between Michaba Kamene's various issues and Macan 625 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 1: Kelly choosing a rather peculiar line of attack to go 626 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 1: after the great one Mark Leven. But things are not 627 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: going well for the long Republic of Iran, which I 628 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 1: guess means things is not going well for Tark Carlston 629 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 1: and Megan Kelly either. Things could potentially get a heck 630 00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: of a lot worse for Tark Carlson if these far 631 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: charges end up being brought there. I guess we'll see 632 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,360 Speaker 1: if that transpires, Folks. 633 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 2: Much more to come. We have a lot more analysis 634 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,680 Speaker 2: on this and other topics on this out of a 635 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 2: short much break. Josh Hammer here to stay with us, 636 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 2: will be right back. Welcome back. The straight up. 637 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: Four Moose is the number one choke points when it 638 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: comes to the flow of oil in the Middle East 639 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: and the Alona public Goverran has something of a monopoly 640 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 1: on the use of force, or at least they did 641 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: when it comes to the Strait of four Moose. This 642 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: strait is twenty one miles wide at its narrowest points 643 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: from this tiny tip of the Arabian Peninsula where the UAE, 644 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: the United Arab Emirates is twenty one miles from that 645 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: tip to Iran, and Donald Trump is now trying to 646 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: get together a coalition of countries to essentially bring in 647 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: maritime naval power to actually secure the straight of form 648 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 1: moves to potentially try to offer safe passage for oil 649 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,800 Speaker 1: tankers and various other ships, both commercial and private, when 650 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: it comes through that particularly crucial chow point through which 651 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,440 Speaker 1: roughly twenty percent of the world's oil supplies ends up flowing. 652 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: So Don Trump has talked to various European countries. He's 653 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,760 Speaker 1: talked to France, the UK, He's talked through China, Japan, 654 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: South Korea, essentially just trying to get them to send 655 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: an international coalition of countries to send maritime vessels to. 656 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 2: The Gulf to try to secure the straight of hom moves. 657 00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: I have not seen necessarily any kind of confirmations that 658 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 1: that is actually happening yet there, but it certainly is 659 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 1: a very good idea at this time. The reality is 660 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:42,920 Speaker 1: that the energy markets, which last I checked, we're still 661 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: in the triple digits. 662 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 2: Not tell you sure as athlete where it will. It 663 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,360 Speaker 2: will go over the week or two. 664 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,120 Speaker 1: But if you really want to try to get the 665 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 1: numbered down to a more sustainable level, something along the 666 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: lines what don Trump's opposing here. I heard people referred 667 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 1: to it as Operation Epic Escorts, Operation Epic Escort to 668 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 1: escore all these tankers through the straight off hor moves. 669 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: Something along those lines would be a very very good 670 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: idea when it comes to trying to settle the still 671 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 1: roiling global energy markets. Meanwhile, the war across the region 672 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,600 Speaker 1: is still going on. So Dubai International Airport, which is 673 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,919 Speaker 1: the largest airport in the world, was either partially shut 674 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,319 Speaker 1: down or fully shut down for a brief period over 675 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,920 Speaker 1: the past twenty four to thirty six hours. It is 676 00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 1: now reopening there, but there were some INCOME Missilan and 677 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 1: drones from Iran Saudi air Airspace recently reporting some Incai 678 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 1: Missilan drone fire as well. Meanwhile, the war on Israel's 679 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,680 Speaker 1: northern border between Israel and Hezbola Hesboala, which is a 680 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,040 Speaker 1: shell of what it was two years ago because Israel 681 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: took out really most of the organization in twenty twenty 682 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: four culminating in the death of the leader of the 683 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: organization the arch terrorists, Hassan Israla, but Hesbela still exists 684 00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:54,720 Speaker 1: in some lesser chastened form. They've been raining down missulin 685 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,560 Speaker 1: rockets into northern Israel. The IDF has commenced where they're 686 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:02,280 Speaker 1: referring to as a targeted round operation into South Lebanon. 687 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 1: The IDEF also using air power to strike terror infrastructure 688 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: around Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. And speaking of Lebon, 689 00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,600 Speaker 1: it wasn't that long ago that we were talking here. 690 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: In fact, it was just on Friday Show they were 691 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: talking about the horrific two terrorist tacks that took place 692 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: the United States. 693 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 2: On Thursday this past week. There So there was this. 694 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,240 Speaker 1: Former Army National Guard guy who was convicted of providing 695 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,800 Speaker 1: material support to Isis, who went up and tried to 696 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,680 Speaker 1: we actually tragically did kill one person, a a wonderful, 697 00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,920 Speaker 1: wonderful Rottine structure, structure and veteran he killed in tragically 698 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: at Odu Alderman University in Virginia. And then on the 699 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,920 Speaker 1: other hand, there was this lone wolf jihattist who decided 700 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: to try to kill a bunch of Jewish preschoolers and 701 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,560 Speaker 1: in West Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. And at the time I 702 00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:52,520 Speaker 1: explained to you, we played this clip from the rabbi 703 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 1: of this reform congregation, and I explained to you that 704 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 1: while the general point that she was making about not 705 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,560 Speaker 1: trying to bring the Middle East problem here to the 706 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,200 Speaker 1: Jewish community home, well, the general point makes sense. I 707 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,160 Speaker 1: objected to what she said at the time about how 708 00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 1: we bemoaned the fact that he had family who lost 709 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,279 Speaker 1: their lives in Lebanon, because at the time, I said, 710 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: are we sure, are we sure that they're not hezbolah jihatis. 711 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,200 Speaker 1: That's probably why they were killed by is right, And 712 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,680 Speaker 1: sure enough we now know. So the Ideaf these Isral 713 00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 1: Defense War is confirmed on Sunday they they really confirmed 714 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 1: that the brother of the Lone Wolf jihadis from Temple 715 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,080 Speaker 1: Israel in Michigan this past Thursday. The brother was indeed 716 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: an anti tank operator in one of the militias or 717 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,200 Speaker 1: brigades for Hezbola. So he was taken out early this month, 718 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:42,239 Speaker 1: in the month of March by the Idea because he 719 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:47,680 Speaker 1: was a Hezbollah militant. So the real question, the actual question, 720 00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 1: if the media cared to actually ask the real questions here. 721 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 1: The real question about the jihadas trying to murder one 722 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: hundred or more Jewish preschoolers Michigan. The real question is 723 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 1: why the heck do the United States ring in on 724 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,640 Speaker 1: a visa and then grant citizenship too and naturalise as 725 00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 1: citizen a Hezbollah family. Why are we naturalizing Hesbos as citizens? 726 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,560 Speaker 1: I hear all of these these lefties people from Al 727 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:21,480 Speaker 1: Jazeera and all these various idiotic pro Qatar promos and 728 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,399 Speaker 1: motherhood pro Iran outlets what we say, and they're trying 729 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: to kind of get at Israel, try to get at 730 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,320 Speaker 1: supports Viagel today say, why should we bring in the 731 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,760 Speaker 1: Middle East conflicts here? It's the United States. There these 732 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: blood rivalries there. You know what, guess what I agree 733 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,840 Speaker 1: with that. Let's not bring the tribal politics of the 734 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,759 Speaker 1: Middle East here in the United States. The way to 735 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,439 Speaker 1: do that, though, is not what the al Jazeeras say 736 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,720 Speaker 1: WA had to do. That is to stop granting freaking 737 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:54,040 Speaker 1: citizenship and stop granting visas to people like Hezbullah family operatives. 738 00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,720 Speaker 1: This has to be a ninety eight to two issue. 739 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,719 Speaker 1: Maybe it's ninety nine point nine to zero point one 740 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:04,360 Speaker 1: who the heck wants to bring in Hesbos. It's absolutely ludicrous. 741 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: It's just totally totally insane. By the way, while this 742 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,760 Speaker 1: is all going on, while we're getting domestic terror threats, 743 00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 1: there's there are numb four radical Islamic terrorist attacks here 744 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,400 Speaker 1: on American soil just since the commencement of Operation of 745 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 1: Epic Fury. There was the Austin, Texas shooter, the guy 746 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: who was born in Senegal, were on the property of 747 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: a La Shirts. There was the attempted donation of the 748 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 1: was known as the Mother of Satan I e ed 749 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,799 Speaker 1: bomb outside Gracie Mansion in New York City, and then 750 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,319 Speaker 1: they were the two attacks last Thursday that I mentioned there. 751 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:36,920 Speaker 1: So by the time that all this is, at the 752 00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 1: time that all this is going on there, DHS remains 753 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:44,479 Speaker 1: shut down. Lest you have forgotten, DHS is currently still 754 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 1: in a state of partial shutdown. So I'm hearing a 755 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,160 Speaker 1: lot of Democrats who are criticizing President Trump when it 756 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 1: comes to the Iran war. They're saying, oh, this could 757 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,600 Speaker 1: be an interminable conflict, it could could be a forever war. 758 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,280 Speaker 1: Does this president actually care about homeland securities? He actually 759 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: care about national securities? Is he actually about foreign policy, 760 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 1: because he actually care about this? 761 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:02,560 Speaker 2: About that? 762 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,799 Speaker 1: There? Who were you guys to take a moral high 763 00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: ground when you can't even fund the Department of Homeland 764 00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: Security to do Oh, I don't know. To try to 765 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,960 Speaker 1: do homeland security at a time when lone wolf ge 766 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,400 Speaker 1: hobbies are on the march and America is at war 767 00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,720 Speaker 1: with the world's number one state sponsored jihat overseas strikes 768 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 1: me as a mighty darn good time to fully fund 769 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:31,080 Speaker 1: the United States Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile, airport lines 770 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:35,880 Speaker 1: are increasingly out of control, so TSA employees are now 771 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 1: considered essential employees there and they must continue working without 772 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 1: without a paycheck. But they have now missed their first 773 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,920 Speaker 1: official paycheck since the partial DHS shut down again, all 774 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,480 Speaker 1: sorts of data coming in about the average way times 775 00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,720 Speaker 1: and major airports all across the country, places like Hobby 776 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 1: Air Prun in Houston, Texas have been hit just extraordinarily hard. 777 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,239 Speaker 1: I will be flying out myself in just over week 778 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:58,360 Speaker 1: to go to Texas to speak at Sea Pack. I 779 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:03,120 Speaker 1: hope that my trial experience is not completely destroyed by this. 780 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,439 Speaker 1: I guess we've got how to get the airport early 781 00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: like countless Americans all throughout the country. There's a Democrats 782 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,680 Speaker 1: just playing politics, not just when it comes to your 783 00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:13,320 Speaker 1: airport convenience, also when it comes to your security. But 784 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 1: on the airport front, the CEOs of a bunch of 785 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,600 Speaker 1: the nation's top airline companies American, Delta, Southwest, Jet Blue 786 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:22,040 Speaker 1: are now signed they've to sign a joint letter to Congress, 787 00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,720 Speaker 1: essentially imploring Congress to restore full funding to the Department 788 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: of Homeland Security. The big major domestic issue that the 789 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,320 Speaker 1: Congress will face this week. Condition to DJs funding is 790 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 1: whether or not whether or not John Thune the majority 791 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:38,640 Speaker 1: of Leader of Senate as he decides to try to 792 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,000 Speaker 1: force Democrats to do this talking filibuster when it comes 793 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,960 Speaker 1: to the Save America Act, which which we discussed at 794 00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,279 Speaker 1: great length on the show last week. This is the 795 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,440 Speaker 1: pro voter ID pro proof reciszenship really a no brainer 796 00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:52,799 Speaker 1: peace legislation that Donald Trump is trying to get past. 797 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:54,800 Speaker 1: He's saying that it is the number one priority. He 798 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,600 Speaker 1: will not consider any other legislation unless until is the 799 00:40:57,640 --> 00:41:01,040 Speaker 1: pass there. The ball is at this time in John 800 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,160 Speaker 1: Thune's court, and he has run out of excuses. There 801 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,400 Speaker 1: are two ways. Two ways to end, or the two 802 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,960 Speaker 1: ways to get a bill ultimately to a state of 803 00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,359 Speaker 1: final vote to invoke culture. The first is to get 804 00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,480 Speaker 1: sixty votes and therefore bypass the procedural fillbuster. The other way, 805 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,719 Speaker 1: which as we splained on the show, goes back to 806 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,759 Speaker 1: the origins the United States Senate internal procedure rules. The 807 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,000 Speaker 1: second way is to simply make the opposite party just 808 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,439 Speaker 1: talk and just talk and talk and talk their butt 809 00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,319 Speaker 1: off until they can't talk anymore and at some point 810 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,319 Speaker 1: they give up. That's the other legitimate way and has 811 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,800 Speaker 1: been for decades to actually get a bill passed. So 812 00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,960 Speaker 1: John Thune has run out of excuses and hopefully this 813 00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,279 Speaker 1: ends up getting passed a sap final thing, and we'll 814 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:46,920 Speaker 1: have to continue this on the show this week. They're 815 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,840 Speaker 1: big stuff happening in Cuba, right across the Strait of Florida, 816 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:53,200 Speaker 1: frankly from where I live in South Florida. The Cuban 817 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:57,040 Speaker 1: government confirming that they are in very very beginning talks 818 00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,560 Speaker 1: when it comes to attempts to possibly normalize relations with 819 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,600 Speaker 1: the United States. They are Cuban President Miguel Diaz Carnell, 820 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:04,719 Speaker 1: as well as Roald Castro, the ninety four year old 821 00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:08,719 Speaker 1: brother of the late horrific Tyran Fidel Castro, have said 822 00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,080 Speaker 1: that they were in early talks with the Trump mestration. 823 00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:14,560 Speaker 1: Really really really really exciting stuff there. We'll see what 824 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,680 Speaker 1: Dontron does not there. He's got a lots going on 825 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:19,520 Speaker 1: for now on the world stage elsewhere, ships continuing to 826 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:21,040 Speaker 1: go to the Middle East. There, how will he address 827 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,520 Speaker 1: the Cube situation? Well, that is one of many questions 828 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,759 Speaker 1: we'll spend the rest of our week addressing right here 829 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,000 Speaker 1: on the Josh Hammer Show. Folks, have a great rest 830 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:29,799 Speaker 1: of the evening. Josh Hammer signing off. We'll be right 831 00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:30,520 Speaker 1: back tomorrow.