1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: To night. Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: director talk show host Michael Brown. Brownie, no Brownie, You're 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: doing a heck of a jumb The Weekend with Michael Brown. 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: Broadcasting live from Denver, Colorado. It's The Weekend with Michael Brown. 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,480 Speaker 2: Glad to have you joining the program today. Text line, 6 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,599 Speaker 2: as usual, is always open. It's open twenty four hours 7 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 2: a day, seven days a week, so whether you're listening 8 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,279 Speaker 2: podcasts or delayed, you can always send me a text message, 9 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 2: tell me anything, ask me anything. 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Set that as a preset and 20 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 2: you can stream and listen to me live Monday through Friday. 21 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,000 Speaker 2: From nine to noon mountain time nine to noon mountain time. 22 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,880 Speaker 2: So I want to break this hour up into two segments. 23 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: The last half I want to go back up. I 24 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 2: want to go do an update on one day I'm 25 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 2: able to find out. I've texted a few friends in 26 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,039 Speaker 2: DC to find out what they know, and I'll wait 27 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: for them to reply. We'll come back and talk about 28 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 2: that in the last half hour. But in the first 29 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 2: half hour, I want to talk about propaganda for a moment, 30 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 2: because the propaganda is going to start flying everywhere, and 31 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 2: I guess this is a friendly reminder that everything happening 32 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: is kind of interrelated because the rancid propaganda that's flying 33 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: all across the media, the legacy media of the cabal, 34 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 2: the new media, social media, the podcast media, all amid 35 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 2: this mounting war in the Middle East. The goal is 36 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: the same, to confuse everybody, to inflame our motions and 37 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,919 Speaker 2: inflame our fears. Tucker Carlson, Glenn Greenwald. They're blaming everything 38 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 2: on Israel, because of course they are. That's what they 39 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 2: always do it. As I said last hour, normally cool 40 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 2: headed Mike bins over on X and an X intelligence 41 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: officer is screaming that this is the start of World 42 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 2: War three, and the Iranian regime is promising to teach 43 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 2: the Great Satan a lesson that it's never gonna forget, 44 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:34,119 Speaker 2: even as the video emerges that the Iyahtola's compound, its offices, 45 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,960 Speaker 2: and all the other known hideouts have already been obliterated, 46 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 2: and rumors are flying to these dead even while Baghdad Bob, 47 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 2: the Iranian foreign minister denies, or I'm sorry, the oldman 48 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 2: foreign minister denies that no, we will. We really don't 49 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 2: where he is right now. And Trump's own eight many 50 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 2: eight minute video is itself a masterpiece of propaganda, but 51 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 2: it details Iran's forty seven year long history as the 52 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: world's major funder and instigator of Islamic terrorism. It's important 53 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:16,919 Speaker 2: to remember that effective propaganda is not necessarily false. In fact, 54 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 2: I think whoever, or in whatever agency, they probably all 55 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 2: had a hand in this, But some of the lines 56 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 2: are pretty brilliant. 57 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 1: Finally, to the great, proud people of Iran, I say 58 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. 59 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: Stay sheltered, don't leave your home. It's very dangerous outside. 60 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished. Take 61 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: over your government. It will be yours to take. This 62 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: will be probably your only chance for generations. For many 63 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,560 Speaker 1: years you have asked for America's help, but you never 64 00:03:56,640 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: got it. No president was willing to do what I 65 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: am I'm willing to do tonight. Now you have a 66 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: president who is giving you what you want. So let's 67 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: see how you respond. Is backing you with overwhelming strength 68 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 1: and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control 69 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 1: of your destiny and to unleash the prosperous and glorious 70 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:21,919 Speaker 1: future that is close within your reach. 71 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 3: This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass. 72 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 1: May God bless the brave men and women of America's 73 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,159 Speaker 1: Armed Forces. May God bless the United States of America. 74 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 3: May God bless you all. 75 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 2: Very well done, very well done. But it wasn't just 76 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 2: to the Uranian people that he spoke. He also spoke 77 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 2: to the Uranian Revolutionary Guard. 78 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces, 79 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: and all of the police. I say tonight that you 80 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or, 81 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: in the alternative, face certain death. 82 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 3: So lay down your arms. 83 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you 84 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 1: will face certain death. 85 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: Wow, well, that's kind of drawing the line in the sand, 86 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: isn't it. It's actually kind of nice to hear a 87 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 2: president speak like this, But he spoke to us. 88 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: Also, my administration has taken every possible step to minimize 89 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,360 Speaker 1: the risks to US personnel. 90 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 3: In the region. 91 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:36,360 Speaker 1: Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, 92 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: the Iranian regime seeks to kill the lives of courageous 93 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:43,160 Speaker 1: American heroes. 94 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 3: May be lost, and. 95 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:49,000 Speaker 1: We may have casualties that often happens in war. But 96 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,919 Speaker 1: we're doing this not for now. We're doing this for 97 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: the future, and it is a noble mission. We pray 98 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives 99 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: to ensure that Americans and our children will never be 100 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: threatened by a nuclear armed Iran. 101 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 3: We ask God to protect. 102 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,680 Speaker 1: All of our heroes in harm's way, and we trust 103 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: that with his help, the men and women of the 104 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: Armed Forces will prevail. 105 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 3: We have the greatest in the world, and they will prevail. 106 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 2: Very well, spoke he addresses everyone. 107 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 1: Then this regime will soon learn that no one should 108 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces. 109 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration, 110 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: and there is no military on earth even close to 111 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: its power, strength or sophistication. 112 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: You look now, and you look back on Venezuela. You 113 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 2: look at the Abraham Accord started in the first administration 114 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: and their continued effort. Now you look at the other 115 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,279 Speaker 2: wars that he has settled. Although Russia Ukraine still remains 116 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:13,520 Speaker 2: a problem intracicable, I think, but he's pointing out that, hmm, 117 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 2: you really should not challenge us peace through strength, and 118 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 2: of course announcing that we're undertaking one of the largest 119 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 2: efforts in modern history. 120 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they 121 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: ever had and actually were armed with nuclear weapons as 122 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: a means to deliver their message. For these reasons, the 123 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: United States military has undertaking a massive and ongoing operation 124 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: to prevent this a very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening 125 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: America and our core national security interests. We are going 126 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to 127 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: the ground. It will be totally again obliterated. We're going 128 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: to annihilate their navy. We are going to ensure that 129 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: the region's terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region 130 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: or the world and attack our forces and no longer 131 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: use their IEDs or roadside bombs as they are sometimes 132 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 1: called to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands 133 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: of people, including many Americans. And we will ensure that 134 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 1: RAND does not obtained a nuclear weapon period period. 135 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 2: This is probably a good time to remind you. While 136 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 2: I've kind of talked about over the past few months, 137 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: everything we see Trump doing on the global stage right now, 138 00:08:54,280 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 2: it's all interrelated, and it all has to do with China. 139 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 2: From Venezuela to the Panama Canal, to Cuba of the Canada, 140 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 2: to Mexico, to Greenland, to the EU, to the UK 141 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 2: tariff policy to energy policy. Every action this administration takes 142 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 2: on behalf of you and me is being taken with 143 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:19,600 Speaker 2: a single goal in mind, and that is to stop 144 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 2: Chinese hegemony in its tracks. Now, think about it. In 145 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 2: the wakes of the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 146 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,719 Speaker 2: Russia's decline into a mid level power, China has emerged 147 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: as the lone rising global power, rivaling the United States 148 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 2: on the global stage. And we have remained restrained and 149 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 2: even encouraged China's growth so long as it voluntarily limited 150 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:48,079 Speaker 2: its influence to Asia, not far beyond, but that changed. 151 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: I'll explain why next. Welcome back to the Weekend with 152 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 2: Michael Brown. Glad to have you with me. I was 153 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 2: just thinking about, how, you know, as I go through 154 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 2: these one of the things I do for my producer 155 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 2: out in LA that I do do for Michael is 156 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 2: I put together you know what, what are we going 157 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 2: to call this segment on the podcast? And I decided 158 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 2: I'm going I'm going to title it this Beware of 159 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 2: the Propaganda. As Operation Epic Fury unfolds. A few of 160 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 2: you on the text line have noted let me let 161 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 2: me pull it up real quickly, President Trump, don't squander 162 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 2: this opportunity, says seventeen thirteen. I agree, but let's see 163 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 2: seventy one sixty eight, Mike, I had nothing to do 164 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 2: with the Iran BS. My thoughts at this point, with 165 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 2: all the corruption and BS, my fing own communist, globalist, 166 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 2: evil fing full of you know what, blah blah blah. 167 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 2: Well then you kidnap my see, I don't know, get 168 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 2: some help, get some help, and I'm not the one 169 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,199 Speaker 2: to do it seventeen thirteen. Geopolitically, this could be as 170 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 2: consequential as defeating the third Reich exactly. I like this 171 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 2: ninety eight twenty three. You know what they need to 172 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,720 Speaker 2: change the name of your show to Surprise Saturday. Yeah, 173 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 2: it's beginning to feel like this. Three zero four seven, Michael, 174 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 2: I just saw a report that debris from an Iranian 175 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 2: missile struck a hotel in Dubai. It's on fire. How 176 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: involved will the UAEB? Well, I saw the same video, 177 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 2: but guess what they said to me. It said that 178 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: an Iranian missile had struck, not debris, but they had 179 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: targeted that hotel in Dubai. And then four four six 180 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 2: seven says well, Hey, Michael, the weekday host or in 181 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 2: the studio at Fox, Dana and Bill for example. Yeah, 182 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 2: when I left, Brett Berba was on. That's how serious 183 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 2: this is. This can go really well and it can 184 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 2: go really bad. And that's what I'm actually trying to 185 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 2: prepare you for. But I hope I'm helping you understand 186 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 2: why and why now? As I said before the break, Venezuela, Panama, Canal, Cuba, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, 187 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 2: the EU tariff policies, everything has a single goal in 188 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 2: this administration's mind. Halt Chinese hegemony in its tracks, stop 189 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 2: China from becoming the world's superpower. We want to remain 190 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 2: the world's superpower, have the world's reserve currency. We want 191 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 2: to be the center of Western civilization. It's the only 192 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 2: way the world's going to survive and not fall into darkness, 193 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 2: into the darkness of tyranny. So think about this. In 194 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 2: the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and 195 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 2: Russia's decline into a mid level power, China alone emerged 196 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: as a rising global power that could rival us on 197 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 2: a global stage. Yet we have remained restrained, and at 198 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 2: times we have even encouraged China's growth. We just you know, hey, 199 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 2: be careful, don't step out of line, don't do anything 200 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 2: with Taiwan. Now you can fly around, do your military exercises. 201 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 2: But we ignore because most Americans are unaware of what 202 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 2: China is doing in the South China Sea or the 203 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 2: influence that it has in South Korea. No, I didn't 204 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 2: say North Korea. I said South Korea. If you understood 205 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 2: what was going on in South Korea right now, it's 206 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 2: scared the but Jesus out of you. And the one 207 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 2: place that post World War two said it would never 208 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 2: turn into a defensive nation or an offensive nation. I 209 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:53,360 Speaker 2: should say Japan. Their new prime minister has finally said 210 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: it's time for us to enter global Western civilization, and 211 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 2: we have to build up our military because they too 212 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,320 Speaker 2: see China as a threat to their culture, their way 213 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,760 Speaker 2: of life, their economy, everything. So both Obama and Biden, 214 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 2: they both allowed Eugene pen to expand his Communist Party's 215 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 2: influence throughout the Western hemisphere unimpeded since two thousand and nine. 216 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 2: And then Trump inherited this perilous situation when he took 217 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 2: the oath of office in January of this past year. 218 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 2: Think about this, Iran's chief sponsor, China, Venezuela's chief sponsor, China, 219 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 2: Cuba's chief sponsor. China, the supplier of fentanyl poison to 220 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 2: cartels in Mexico, Central America, South America. China owner of 221 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:52,240 Speaker 2: the major ports at either end of the Panama Canal. China, 222 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 2: China's major suppliers are discounted crude oil, cheap oil that 223 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 2: fuels their economy, Venezuela and Iran. And then even more recently, 224 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 2: China made known its designs on Greenland and worked with 225 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,040 Speaker 2: that stooge, Mark Carney on a major economic deal with Canada. 226 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 2: China has also made major inroads into the economies of 227 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,800 Speaker 2: the EU and the UK in recent years because those 228 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:21,800 Speaker 2: governments had themselves slid into a hybrid form of authoritarian 229 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 2: communist government structures. So I think it's been transparently obvious 230 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 2: since at least August that Trump made the decision with 231 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 2: his senior advisors to move quickly to do everything he 232 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 2: can during his limited time to force China out of 233 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:47,119 Speaker 2: the Western hemisphere to the maximum extent possible, to hamstring 234 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 2: China's economy by denying it the cheap crude oil it 235 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:55,680 Speaker 2: needs from its two major sources to end Iran's nuclear ambitions, 236 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 2: and the hundreds of millions of dollars it has spent 237 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 2: annually sponsoring Islamic terrorism all around the world has a 238 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:06,800 Speaker 2: side benefit. So you see, it's all interrelated and it's 239 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:11,040 Speaker 2: focused on a single overarching go So as you witness 240 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 2: every Democrat figure, with the exception of John Fetterman who 241 00:16:13,760 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 2: came out today and said I heard him talking on 242 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 2: the radio driving in the studio about here, he totally 243 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 2: supports the president. Doesn't understand why anybody wouldn't support this. 244 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 2: So you got every other major Democrat figure, every media 245 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 2: talking head, all the dummy influencers like Tucker Carlson and 246 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 2: Glenn Greenwald lashing out Trump in Israel today. Remember this, 247 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 2: Every truly great president in American history was broadly controversial 248 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 2: and hated during his time in office. Why because great 249 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: presidents are the men who do not shy away from 250 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 2: making the hard decisions that you must make to protect 251 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 2: America's interest. And that's what Trump is doing right now, 252 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 2: making the hard decisions needed to clean up the ann 253 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 2: almost mess of the world made by all the weak 254 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 2: need mediocrits, mediocrit mediocracies who held the office after Ronald Reagan. 255 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 2: That's it. That's what's going on right now, and we 256 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 2: need to pay close attention to that, because what we've 257 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 2: got to recognize is that all of this is part 258 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:27,399 Speaker 2: of a plan. All of this are strategic moves on 259 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:31,800 Speaker 2: a global chess board, and our enemies and our allies 260 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,720 Speaker 2: are watching. And this is how America reasserts itself. We 261 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:42,200 Speaker 2: closed our borders, we're deporting the criminals, We've said no more. 262 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 2: We're trying to slow down government spending. But Trump and 263 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,720 Speaker 2: Congress seem incapable of doing that. We're trying to turn 264 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:53,960 Speaker 2: the economy around, and we're trying to reclaim foreign policy. 265 00:17:55,359 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 2: Hang on to your belts. Here we go. 266 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:08,199 Speaker 3: Good night. 267 00:18:08,280 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 2: Michael Brown joins me here, the former FEMA director talk show. 268 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 3: Host Michael Brown. 269 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: Brownie, no, Brownie, You're doing a heck of a job 270 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: The Weekend with Michael Brown. 271 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:18,639 Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Weekend with Michael Brown. Glad to 272 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 2: have you with me. I appreciate you tuning in. 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All right, So things have most significantly 283 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 2: in the last hour and a half or so. Here's 284 00:18:56,480 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 2: what's new. So a second wave has been confirmed. Israel 285 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 2: has launched a second wave of strikes. This time they 286 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 2: targeted missile launchers and aerial defense systems in the central 287 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 2: part of the country. Now this is critical because the 288 00:19:10,600 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 2: first wave ostensibly went after leadership and the nuclear infrastructure. 289 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 2: The second wave seems to be methodically dismantling the Iranian 290 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 2: ability to shoot back. So that's no longer a punitive ray, 291 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 2: that's actually a campaign. And before and after imagery shows 292 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 2: that the compound, Kammene's compound, the Supreme Leader, including his residents, 293 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 2: and all of the administrative buildings near Tehran University have 294 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,880 Speaker 2: been reduced to smoke and rubble. Yet we still don't 295 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 2: have confirmation of whether Kamene was there when the missiles hit. Now, 296 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 2: one Reuter source says that Kamene is not in Tehran 297 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 2: and has been transferred to a secure location. Now, I 298 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,960 Speaker 2: found the Reuter's report kind of interesting because he's not 299 00:19:56,119 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 2: in Tehran, but they don't say that he's even still 300 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 2: in the country. Could he have already escaped as he 301 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 2: gone into exile. Now the Foreign Minister, of course says 302 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,119 Speaker 2: he's alive as far as I know. Well, that's not 303 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 2: exactly a reing endorsement of certainty from somebody sitting in 304 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 2: the middle of a war. Yeah, the Ayatola is still 305 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:26,240 Speaker 2: alive as far as I know. That says that one 306 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 2: you don't know, and that you're the foreign minister and 307 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 2: you probably should know, or you're just b Essien's Now 308 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 2: here's what the Israeli military has confirmed. Israel targeted three 309 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 2: sites where senior or reigning officials were gathering, and several 310 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 2: senior figures essential to the management of the campaign and 311 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 2: the regime's governments governance were eliminated. They won't say who 312 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 2: because the battle damage assessments as of last hour and 313 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 2: on this hour are still ongoing. And now let's get 314 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,399 Speaker 2: to the retaliation. It was wider than I I first 315 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,560 Speaker 2: read about in the first hour. The scope of the 316 00:21:03,560 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 2: Iranian counter attack keeps expanding. Now hold on because I'm 317 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 2: gonna tell you something in a minute that is both 318 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 2: fascinating shows how things have changed and can be downright 319 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 2: scary too. But I'll get to that in just one second. 320 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 2: The scope of the Iranian counter attack. They fired roughly 321 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 2: forty ballistic missiles toward Israel by mid afternoon local time, 322 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 2: some slight injuries. We reported A fire broke out in 323 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 2: the upscale palm Jamira area of Dubai. It's unclear whether 324 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 2: that was a direct impact or if somebody sill on 325 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 2: the text line debris and Abi Dabi. One person described 326 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 2: as an Asian national was killed by shrapnel from an 327 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 2: intercepted Iranian missile that obviously was targeting Dubai. Now it's 328 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 2: not just the missiles. Kuwait International Airport was hit by 329 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 2: a drone, injuries to airport employees, some damages to terminal one. 330 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: International air travel throughout the regions for all practical purposes 331 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 2: is shut down right now. Now, there's been a reported 332 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 2: strike on a girls school of monob in southern Iran. 333 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 2: That's going to be a major story. Casualty figures are changing, 334 00:22:18,119 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 2: they have been changing ever since I came on air. 335 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:24,160 Speaker 2: Iranian state media is now reporting at least fifty seven 336 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 2: people killed there in dozens wounded, and CN has geolocated 337 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 2: the site reported it sits about two hundred feet from 338 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:40,560 Speaker 2: an Iranian military base. Two hundred feet that's like next door. Now, 339 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 2: Sympcom says it's going to look into it. Now. That's 340 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 2: the kind of incident that, regardless of military justification, is 341 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,879 Speaker 2: going to be a propaganda gift for the Uranian regime 342 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,879 Speaker 2: and a pressure point for European allies who are already 343 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 2: no rain her hands about this operation, and so far, 344 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 2: as of this hour, Noah reported American casualties. Now officials 345 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 2: confirm there is damage to infrastructure near a Navy base 346 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 2: in the center of Bairain. It's not yet clear whether 347 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,480 Speaker 2: the damage is on the base itself. The President acknowledged 348 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 2: this morning that American lives could be lost that often 349 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 2: happened in the war. He said, so keep an eye 350 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,879 Speaker 2: on that, because the moment we take our first casualty, 351 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 2: the political Catholics in Washington changes instantly. That's how I look. 352 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,920 Speaker 2: I don't want any Americans to die in this I 353 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 2: don't wantny civilians to die in this Iranian or otherwise. 354 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 2: Do I want the molas and the eye told it terminated, exterminated? 355 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 2: Damn right, I do, I really do. But let's go 356 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 2: to that first American casualty. Trump's right that, I'll casualties 357 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 2: often happen in war, and it doesn't necessarily even haven't 358 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:07,880 Speaker 2: happened in But have we become so weak, so risk 359 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:14,919 Speaker 2: averse that that first casualty will change the calculus. We 360 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 2: can't let that happen, because once you jump in, once 361 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 2: you jump into the deep end of the diving pool. 362 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 2: You gotta go, you got to go, which brings me 363 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 2: to Congress. I would describe Congress as supportive, dividing, and 364 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,679 Speaker 2: already rattling their sabers. Here's the domestic wild card that 365 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 2: nobody's fully focused on. You, Congress. The Gang of Eight 366 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 2: Congress was notified before the strikes, as required by law, 367 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 2: but the notifications mentioned ballistic missiles. It did not indicate 368 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 2: the strikes would be this expensive or the goals this broad, 369 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 2: at least according to one person familiar with them notification. 370 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 2: In other words, they got the minimum legal heads up. 371 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 2: I don't think they got a full briefing on regime 372 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 2: change as an objective. So the White House appears to 373 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 2: right now be scrambling to arrange full Senate and House 374 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,439 Speaker 2: member briefings. The Gang of ag, as I said, was 375 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 2: briefed the Secretary of State Marco Rubill, reached seven of 376 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 2: the eight members before the strikes began. So the political 377 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 2: split's going to be fascinating. It's gonna be worth watching. 378 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 2: Thomas Massey already called this an active war that was 379 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:35,439 Speaker 2: unauthorized by Congress. Democrat Senator John Fetterman not exactly. A 380 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:38,440 Speaker 2: hawk said Trump was quote willing to do what's right 381 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 2: and necessary to produce real peace in the region. Lindsey Graham, 382 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 2: as you might expect, called it his story, urging God 383 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 2: to bless the operation. Okay, Lindsey whatever. That's the rare 384 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:56,639 Speaker 2: case where Fetterman and Lindsey Graham agree and Massey is 385 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 2: the odd man out. So Congress is now preparing to 386 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,200 Speaker 2: vote on a war powers resolution to block further strikes. 387 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 2: Funny how they can't vote on the Save Act. They 388 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 2: can't do this or that, but by gully, they're getting 389 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 2: you ready to vote on a war powers resolution to 390 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 2: block further strikes to stop the president in the middle 391 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 2: of a major military operation. These people are freaking nuts. 392 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,960 Speaker 2: They're nuts. There's one item that deserves probably more attention 393 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,919 Speaker 2: than it's getting. The International Atomic Energy Agency has urged 394 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,679 Speaker 2: restraint specifically to avoid nuclear safety risks. While reporting that 395 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 2: no radiological impacts so far, they say they'll continue to monitor. 396 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 2: Now when the IAEA starts issuing nuclear safety warnings during 397 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 2: active combat operations. That's not boilerplate language. That's a real 398 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 2: concern that the strikes near or on Iranian nuclear related 399 00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 2: facilities could cause some radiological contamination. There's no evidence of that, 400 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 2: but it's something that we ought to watch. So the 401 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 2: bottom line is where we stand right now. The operations expanding. 402 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 2: There's a second wave underway. Iran is retaliating broadly, but 403 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 2: its missiles are being largely intercepted the Arab states in 404 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 2: the Gulf. All US allies are absorbing iranium missile fire 405 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 2: and calling it what it is, aggression. No Americans died yet, 406 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 2: Comminades palaces in rubble, but his fate's unknown. Congress is 407 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 2: about to have a very loud week and somewhere in 408 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 2: a bunk or a mountain redoubt, or maybe in a 409 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 2: foreign country, the supreme leader of Iran's watching his forty 410 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 2: seven regime get dismantled from the air. Stay tuned because 411 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 2: the thing I want to talk about next we have 412 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 2: an announcement from one of the Arab states. I find 413 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 2: it fascinating. That's next. Don't go away, hey, welcome back 414 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 2: to the Weekend with Michael Brown. So I want to 415 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:04,679 Speaker 2: read for you quickly. As I said, the Iranians are 416 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 2: starting to hit some of their neighbors in the Middle East. 417 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 2: This is a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 418 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 2: for Cutter, Doha, February twenty eight, twenty twenty six. The 419 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 2: State of Cutter expresses its strong condemnation of the targeting 420 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 2: of Katari territory with Iranian ballistic missiles, considering that a 421 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 2: flagrant violation of our national sovereignty, a direct infringement on 422 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 2: our security and territorial integrity, and an unacceptable escalation that 423 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,920 Speaker 2: threatens the security and stability of the region. The Ministry 424 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,719 Speaker 2: of Foreign Affairs affirms that the State of Cutter reserves 425 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,880 Speaker 2: its full right to respond to this attack in accordance 426 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 2: with the provisions of international law and in a manner 427 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 2: proportioned to the nature of the aggression, in defense of 428 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 2: its sovereignty and in protection of its security and national interests. 429 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,680 Speaker 2: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stresses that the State of 430 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 2: Cutter has been and can tinues to be among the 431 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:05,959 Speaker 2: foremost advocates of dialogue with the Islamic Republic of Iran, 432 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 2: consistently calling for this approach as the optimal foundation for 433 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 2: addressing differences and resolving disputes through peaceful means, and for 434 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 2: sparing the region the risks of escalation. The Ministry of 435 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 2: Foreign Affairs of Firms that the targeting of Katari territory 436 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 2: is inconsistent with the principles of good neighborliness and cannot 437 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 2: be accepted under any pretext or any justification. However, the 438 00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 2: renewed targeting of our territory does not reflect good faith 439 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: and threatens the foundations of understandings upon which bilateral relations 440 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 2: between the two countries were based. Wow, it's a very large, 441 00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 2: very dangerous iceberg. Well, that's not just a diplomatic statement. 442 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 2: We've begun major combat operations. Trump called on truth socials. 443 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,280 Speaker 2: Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating 444 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 2: the imminent threats from the Iranian regime, and Iran's response 445 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 2: light up the entire Gulf. What the statement says on 446 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:24,880 Speaker 2: its face Cutter's pissed off, reserves the right to respond, 447 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 2: claims to advocate for dialogue. It's diplomatically measured, but the 448 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: language reserves its full right to respond. Is the diplomatic 449 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:40,840 Speaker 2: equivalent of loading your weapon. What it doesn't say is 450 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 2: that is the tell. Cutter conspicuously does not call for 451 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,200 Speaker 2: the withdrawal of US forces. It does not blame the 452 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 2: United States for triggering this. That is significant. Cutter hosts 453 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 2: a Idyde Airbase, the single most article US air operations 454 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 2: hub in the entire Middle East. Cutter can't afford to 455 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: bite the hand that protects it even while getting hit. 456 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 2: Now reports indicate that Iranian ballistic missile strikes successfully targeted 457 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 2: and destroyed air defense radars in both by Rain and Cutter. 458 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 2: Alu Dyed Airbase had previously been struck in June of 459 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 2: last year, during which it was conceded that Patriot systems 460 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 2: were not fully successful. One iranium missile impacted the base, 461 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 2: destroying a radarm value at approximately fifteen million dollars. That 462 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 2: was the warning shot. Today is the real thing. Now 463 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 2: our Army has heavily depleted its stockpiles of service to 464 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 2: air missiles for the Patriot system, which as of July 465 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 2: of last year had fallen to just twenty five percent 466 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 2: of the volume DAN necessary by the Pentagon. Why because 467 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 2: of the Biden era donations to the Ukraine. Now this 468 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 2: is further limited the abilities to sustain shootdowns of Iranian 469 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:07,400 Speaker 2: ballistic missiles against forward positioned facilities like this base in Cutter. 470 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 2: Now let that sink in twenty five percent of the 471 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:15,120 Speaker 2: required missile defense inventory. That's not a hypothetical vulnerability. Iram's 472 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 2: already mapped that out, tested it in June to twenty five, 473 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 2: and now it's exploding up. The radar problem, that's catastrophe. 474 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,760 Speaker 2: A long range early radar in northern Cutter was targeted 475 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 2: by Iranian missile. If that radar is degraded or destroyed, 476 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 2: the entire early warning chain for US and Katari air 477 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 2: defense could be compromised because you can't intercept what you 478 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 2: can't see incoming. By Rain, Kuwait, Cutter, Jordan, and the UAE, 479 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,240 Speaker 2: each home to a US base, have all confirmed that 480 00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 2: they have intercepted missiles from Iran. Bahrain confirmed the missile 481 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 2: attack targeted the headquarters of our Navy's fifth Fleet in Manama. 482 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 2: The fifth Fleet is what controls the Persian Gulf, the 483 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,040 Speaker 2: Red Sea and approaches to the Strait off Moon. If 484 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 2: it gets degraded, US naval power, projection and maritime security 485 00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 2: and the entire region becomes in question. Cutter Airways has 486 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 2: confirmed suspension of all flights from Doha and Muradis has 487 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,280 Speaker 2: suspended all flights indefinitely. The State departments warned American citizens 488 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:23,960 Speaker 2: to shelter in place. What this means command and control 489 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 2: the allud eyed air base is not just an air base, 490 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,880 Speaker 2: it's the forward headquarters of Air Forces Central Command. Strike 491 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 2: packages for RAN originate and are coordinated from there. Iran 492 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,040 Speaker 2: knows this, which is why it's a priority target air superiority. 493 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,920 Speaker 2: With Cutters, airspace closed radar systems potentially degraded, we lose 494 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 2: some of our forward ISR intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. We 495 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 2: lose some of that capability at precisely the moment we 496 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,080 Speaker 2: needed the most naval power. So a degraded fifth Fleet 497 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 2: headquarters in bayh Rain that if they the ability to 498 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 2: keep the straight to Homers open, twenty percent of global 499 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 2: oil passes through that straight markets are gonna notice. Like 500 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 2: I said, I go fill your car up. But here's 501 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,760 Speaker 2: the subtle but important diplomatic angle in the Cutter statement. 502 00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:20,280 Speaker 2: Cutter expressed solidarity with Kuwait, the United Arab Immirates, Jordan 503 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:27,839 Speaker 2: and Bahrain and condemned violations of their communal total sovereignty. 504 00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,480 Speaker 2: What's Cutter doing. Cutter is rallying the Gulf states around 505 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:41,880 Speaker 2: their shared grievances against Iran, not against US. That's incredibly 506 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:51,839 Speaker 2: good news for DC. So the global Gulf cohesion, it's 507 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:57,280 Speaker 2: not fracturing toward the Iranians. Iran just attacked every single 508 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:01,080 Speaker 2: one of them. They just made a streetrategic blunder of 509 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 2: historic proportions by firing on Cutter, by rain the UAE, Kuwait, 510 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,720 Speaker 2: and Jordan simultaneously. Iran has now turned every Gulf Arab 511 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 2: state into a motivated partner for our operations. And these 512 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,239 Speaker 2: states have historically tried to stay neutral. Cutter, which has 513 00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,719 Speaker 2: been around's most vocal golf advocate for at least having 514 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 2: a conversation, just got blistic missiles fired at it. You 515 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,760 Speaker 2: don't come back from that diplomatically. So the operational challenge 516 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 2: for the United States is real degraded radar, depleted, patriot interceptors, 517 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,840 Speaker 2: closed airspace. All that creates friction. But the political situation 518 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:44,720 Speaker 2: that just shifted decisively in our favor across the entire Gulf. 519 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 2: So if the Iranians thought they could deter US action 520 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:54,760 Speaker 2: by threatening those states, it just unified them. The picture 521 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 2: is going to change like that. It's going to bounce 522 00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:03,439 Speaker 2: back and forth back, and meanwhile, all the Hawks will 523 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,840 Speaker 2: scream a Hallelujah chorus. All the Dovenicks and all the 524 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,040 Speaker 2: piece knicks are gonna scream Oh my gosh, they're wringing 525 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 2: their hands. They're going to go crazy. And the Democrats 526 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,440 Speaker 2: in particular, do you really think they care about American 527 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:20,279 Speaker 2: interests or the global strategy going on here? Are they 528 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,759 Speaker 2: only going to care about their domestic political advantage that 529 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 2: they can take. Watch and listen to the Democrats, because 530 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,880 Speaker 2: what they will do. Listen, I'm not making this partisan, 531 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,280 Speaker 2: but I'll guarandemn to you, they will make it partisan. 532 00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,160 Speaker 2: Rather than rallying around our allies in the Gulf and 533 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:46,280 Speaker 2: rallying around our military, they're going to go after Donald Trump. 534 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,960 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, he started World War three when actually 535 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,760 Speaker 2: what he's done, he's brought the entire Middle East together 536 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 2: against a unified enemy. Put that in your pipe and 537 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 2: smoke it. I'll be right back sea way and will 538 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:03,760 Speaker 2: live along