1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:05,359 Speaker 1: Good Monday morning, Michael and Dragon. I'm gonna call shenanigans 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: and software upgrade fallout for the weekend. Yes, I went 3 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: to try to listen to the last two hours of 4 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: Michael's weekend show and noticed that they didn't load. So 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,439 Speaker 1: thanks for being prepared for all of this and giving 6 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: us the tools to go find somewhere I could listen 7 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: to it. Sunday afternoon, Bie and Dragon, I think you 8 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: know what shenanigans I'm talking about. 9 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, we had. 10 00:00:34,880 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 3: We have two shenanigans going on, and both of which 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 3: I mean. I can't address the Dragon shenanigans, so I'll 12 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 3: let him address that in a minute, But I do 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 3: want to express publicly my incredible frustration with my employer 14 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 3: and the switchover from one platform to another. 15 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,560 Speaker 2: So I worked my ass. 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 4: Off for the. 17 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 5: Podcast clarification. 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 3: Yes, so I worked my butt off on Saturday to constantly. 19 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 3: I spent three hours bringing to a national audience updates, constantly, 20 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: an analysis, constantly about everything. 21 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 5: Going on and Iran. 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 3: And in the middle of it we realized that, oh 23 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 3: I mentioned something my producer in La By the way, 24 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:33,479 Speaker 3: did you get the email about we're moving everything over 25 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 3: to another platform? What so I immediately email my Los Angeles, 26 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 3: my Premiere Networks program director and said, listen, we got 27 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 3: to get these podcasts up. I get a response back, 28 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 3: I put the request in. I don't know if it's 29 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: going to happen today. I don't know when it's going 30 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 3: to happen. 31 00:01:58,440 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 2: I don't know. 32 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,200 Speaker 3: And of course now for because it's like you're the boss, 33 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 3: make it happen. Make it happen. So then Mike Michael 34 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 3: in LA decides, well, he'll put it up on the 35 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 3: old platform because that at least get a syndicated ass 36 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: so people can upload it. And I get a text 37 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,200 Speaker 3: later on Saturday that's been blocked and he cannot do that. 38 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 3: So then I go on because I had requested access 39 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 3: to this new platform and i'd gotten it, but I 40 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 3: hadn't set it up yet. So I go in Saturday 41 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 3: to set it up, get the MP three files, and 42 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:34,799 Speaker 3: I get it set up and there's no way. 43 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 2: For me to upload the files. 44 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 3: So I apologize on behalf of this company for the 45 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 3: incompetence in the inability to upload three hours of a 46 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 3: nationally syndicated program. And yes, it pisses me off, and 47 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 3: I'm I'm you know, if there's ramifications or repercussions of 48 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 3: me saying it, well, then so be it. But I 49 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 3: work my a us off to produce a quality product, 50 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,360 Speaker 3: and then I expect to be able for you to 51 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,399 Speaker 3: be able to access that product. 52 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 2: And I'm irritated about it. 53 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:09,600 Speaker 4: Now. 54 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 3: I don't know about shenanigans, about ten eleven nine, whatever 55 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 3: it was. 56 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 2: Was that on purpose or what? 57 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 5: First and foremost? Do you have the m P three files? 58 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 2: No? 59 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 5: I do not, Okay, I was gonna say, send them 60 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 5: to me and I'll upload that. 61 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 3: I can ask Michael to say, unless he probably gets 62 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 3: access this morning, I'll do. 63 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 5: That, gotcha, And just also going to ask if if 64 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 5: he doesn't have access to that and don't have those 65 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 5: files anymore, what a I can I can maybe see 66 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 5: the two fingers. Ye, yes, I'm just saying that, you know, 67 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 5: I can maybe help you out here. Yeah, just say. 68 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 5: But for the the other quote shenanigans, they weren't shenanigans. 69 00:03:56,440 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 5: I published them in order, or I clicked publish eleven 70 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 5: ten nine as we were supposed to do, so that 71 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 5: it would show up in the proper play order in 72 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 5: the iheartland, the Apple land, the that it should have 73 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 5: been nine, ten, eleven, but somehow or another something went scory. 74 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 5: My best guess is that once I hit publisheh, it 75 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 5: goes over to a processing screen, and I just went 76 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:37,039 Speaker 5: click click click on eleven ten nine versus eleven wait ten, 77 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, wait. So I'm thinking it was just some 78 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 5: kind of processing error. So I just need to slow 79 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 5: down and see, you know, a triple pology. I apologize 80 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:53,159 Speaker 5: because and then so then Saturday when when Michael can't 81 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 5: get it uploaded, and then I go in and open 82 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 5: my account and then there is nothing. It just says here' 83 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 5: your settings and my settings are my password and my 84 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 5: email address, and I can put in I don't know, 85 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 5: some other trivial inconsequential information. But there's no access to 86 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 5: the situation with Michael Brown, any podcasts, from any of 87 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 5: our from anything. 88 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 3: And so I reach out to the person who has 89 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 3: sent me the invite, and of course I have yet 90 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: to hear from him. 91 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:24,719 Speaker 5: Well, it's the weekend, no, I mean, there's well, some 92 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 5: of us work on the freaking weekend. That guy doesn't well. 93 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: Apparently he doesn't, and apparently we don't. We don't go 94 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 3: to any sort of effort to make certain that, you know, 95 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 3: if we're going to make a switch over to a 96 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 3: new platform that we've that we've tested it, we've stress tested, 97 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 3: We've done everything we can to make sure that the 98 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 3: quality programming that we try to provide is going to 99 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,159 Speaker 3: be available to the people that we say, hey, listen. 100 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 3: If you can't listen to a slide, be sure and 101 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 3: stream or go the podcast. Apparently you can't do that. 102 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,160 Speaker 3: And yes, I'm irritated. I'm incredibly irritaated. 103 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 2: Certainly. 104 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:56,680 Speaker 5: One of the reasons why we're all a little bit 105 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 5: irritated about this because we were told on Monday last 106 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 5: week that the changeover would happen on Wednesday, Yes, last week, 107 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:07,479 Speaker 5: so we were given two days notice to make sure 108 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:08,720 Speaker 5: that the changeover happened. 109 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 3: And I think, what, and I'll just be very personal 110 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 3: about this. I think what he takes me about. The 111 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 3: whole thing about the Saturday program is the number of 112 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,520 Speaker 3: text messages that I got this said, Wow, that was 113 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 3: it was an amazing analysis in real time about what 114 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 3: was going on. I really want to share that with 115 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 3: some friends. And of course, you know what am I 116 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 3: telling everybody replying to the text line, go the podcast, 117 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 3: Go the podcast, And of course we find out, well, 118 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 3: you can't have it, and here we are Monday morning 119 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,920 Speaker 3: and you still don't have it. So anybody out there 120 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 3: in management who thinks I'm a little irritated, you don't 121 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 3: know how irritated I am right now. Worked my butt 122 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 3: off on Saturday and then boom. Now, let me give 123 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:54,359 Speaker 3: you a roadmap of where we're going to go today 124 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 3: because we are going to get interrupted. We're going to 125 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 3: do something that you almost never hear on radio. I'm 126 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 3: going to grade myself because the story moves so fast 127 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,960 Speaker 3: on Saturday and since then it has moved so far 128 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 3: that I think it deserves an honest accounting about what 129 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 3: I said on Saturday and how it's held up, which 130 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 3: it has held up generally speaking, I'd say if you 131 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 3: had to give it a grade, I'd say it's a 132 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 3: B plus anus. And there are some things that we 133 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 3: didn't know that we now know, which I don't think 134 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 3: you can give me a, you know, a failing or 135 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 3: a passing grade on that because we didn't know what 136 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 3: I said. 137 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 2: We didn't know. 138 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:30,360 Speaker 3: And there are a few things that I thought might 139 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: happen that did not happen, which will go through those also. 140 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: Then the other thing. So we're going to go through that, 141 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 3: and then we're going to take it one step further. 142 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 3: And the further step that we're going to take it 143 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 3: is there is I made some statements on Saturday about 144 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 3: how this is all about China. Well, talking to some 145 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 3: friends in DC and doing some additional digging, I am 146 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 3: more convinced about that than ever. And when I find 147 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 3: fascinating are some people on x now claiming that I'm 148 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 3: a globalist. Really, I'm a globalist simply because I'm explaining 149 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 3: to you what's happening in real time. Okay, well fine, 150 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 3: maybe you ought to just listen and think about what 151 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,840 Speaker 3: I say instead of trying to slap some label on 152 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 3: it that makes you feel good. And then the third 153 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 3: thing that is going to happen today is the President 154 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 3: is going to ostensibly fifteen minutes ago, is going to 155 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 3: award the Medal of Honor to three individuals, one of 156 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 3: whom they're all fascinating stories, but one story in particular 157 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,840 Speaker 3: sticks out from me from World War Two. And he's 158 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 3: also either going to address take questions or all of 159 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 3: the above about what's happening in the Middle East. We 160 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:51,679 Speaker 3: will break in and take that live as soon as 161 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 3: it starts. We don't know which will come first, the 162 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:01,440 Speaker 3: awarding of the Medals of honor or the discussion about 163 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 3: the military operation in the Middle East. My guess is 164 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 3: he will award the medals first and do the discussion second. 165 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 3: I think maybe all three are being awarded posthumously. But 166 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:19,719 Speaker 3: you still don't want the family sitting there while you're 167 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 3: going through something about an ongoing military operation today. So 168 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 3: let's let's let's go through the Saturday program and maybe 169 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:33,000 Speaker 3: sometime today you can get Saturday's program. I don't know, 170 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 3: Maybe somebody heard me and somebody will get out their 171 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 3: butts and try to fix it. Yeah, right, well, but 172 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 3: what I'm willing to I'm willing to give you whatever. 173 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 3: But what can you do right now without MP three files? 174 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 5: I can go get them. Oh you can't. It will 175 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 5: take me some time, maybe about a half an hour 176 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 5: or forty five minutes to get it and cut. 177 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,720 Speaker 3: It and upload it. Oh but you could do that 178 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 3: during this program. 179 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 5: Yeah, oh okay, I don't listen to the show anyway, 180 00:09:59,240 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 5: so long. 181 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 2: What's it going to cost me to get you to 182 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 2: do that? 183 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 5: How much you got on you twenty dollars to take 184 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 5: you twenty five dollars. 185 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 3: Oh, Kathy, Katy's working today. Cathy, will give me an 186 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 3: extra five ringo SCRAMs through Tepper's desk. We might be 187 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,200 Speaker 3: able to find, you know, enough change in his desk 188 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:20,199 Speaker 3: somewhere that we we can come up with the extra 189 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 3: five bucks. So I said that that Commona was the 190 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 3: target and that his fate was the central unknown as 191 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 3: of Saturday. Will that proved to be the pivotal, pivotal 192 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 3: call I think of the entire three hours. I flagged 193 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 3: that his compound was being destroyed and noted the net 194 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 3: Nyahu's language was hardening. And I told you that, I said, quote, 195 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 3: every hour he does not appear publicly is a data point? 196 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 3: Excuse me? And I was, and I was right to 197 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 3: be skeptical of Iran's insistence that he was alive. On 198 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 3: March first, Iranian state media confirmed what is Raly intelligence 199 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 3: had assessed. Almost immediately. The Commonade was killed at his 200 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 3: office within his residence during the opening strikes. His daughter's 201 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,079 Speaker 3: son in law, grandchild, and daughter in law were also killed. 202 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 3: So the man who led the country for thirty seven years, 203 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 3: the second Iatola, who chanted death to America as a 204 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,320 Speaker 3: matter of state policy, who funded Hamas and has the 205 00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 3: law and who knows what else? And even in this country, 206 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 3: who knows what terrorist cells who massacred tens of thousands 207 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 3: of his own people is gone. Now that's not a 208 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 3: minor development. That is a civilizational turning point in my opinion. Now, 209 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 3: I said that this was not a limited strike. I 210 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 3: called it a campaign. I described it as a campaign 211 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 3: of total military destruction. When the second wave launched on Saturday, 212 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,880 Speaker 3: as we run air, that assessment has proven obviously to 213 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 3: be correct. Operation Epic Fury is now structured as a 214 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 3: decapitation and a suppression campaign that's intended to disrupt Iranian 215 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 3: command networks while at the same time degrading their missile 216 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 3: and their naval capabilities. And Trump confirmed yesterday the operation 217 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 3: will take four weeks or less. So this is not 218 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:17,479 Speaker 3: a hit and run. This is a sustained military campaign. 219 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 3: It has a defined timeline which may be compressed a 220 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 3: little bit. I also told you that the straight of 221 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 3: her moves was the economic wildcard that we needed to watch. 222 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,680 Speaker 3: I think that's dead on still is. As a result 223 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 3: of the closure, one hundred and fifty freight ships, including 224 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,080 Speaker 3: a lot of oil tankers are now stalled behind the strait. 225 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,199 Speaker 3: The tankers are being attacked. One is confirmed sinking. Iran 226 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 3: attack Saudi Arabia's Ros Tena refinery, one of the world's 227 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,120 Speaker 3: most important oil processing facilities. That was not just a 228 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 3: strategic target, that was a direct attack on the global 229 00:12:57,559 --> 00:13:02,760 Speaker 3: oil supply. And then Monday morning, as I told you, 230 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 3: Monday morning at the gas pump is going to be 231 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 3: a little bit. Different markets have opened, so you know, 232 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 3: and let's see, I got the Nasdaq in front of me. 233 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 3: I don't see report shit on oil futures or prices yet. 234 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 3: But I suggested on Saturday that everybody filled their tank up. 235 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 3: When you think about dollar cost averaging, even if you're 236 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 3: down only an eighth of a tank and only costume like, 237 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 3: you know, twenty bucks to fill up, promise you that 238 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 3: one eighth of a tank is going to be less 239 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 3: on Saturday than is going to be on Monday, Tuesday, 240 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:35,719 Speaker 3: or come Friday. So again I would just encourage you 241 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 3: to brace yourself. I also pointed out that I thought 242 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 3: that Iran's military command would be systematically decapitated. Well, the 243 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:49,320 Speaker 3: IDEAF confirmed yesterday after the program on Saturday that forty 244 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 3: senior Iranian commanders had been killed since the launch of 245 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 3: Operation Epic Fury, including the chief of staff of the 246 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 3: Iranian Armed Forces, and the opening strikes Loan eliminated the 247 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,559 Speaker 3: top military hierarchy. Now, that was all the Saturday morning, 248 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,679 Speaker 3: and it proved to be the most consequential single military 249 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 3: achievement of the opening phase. And I said that the 250 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 3: Venezuelan playbook exposed both Russian and Chinese inability to protect 251 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 3: their allies. Now make a footnote of that, because we're 252 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 3: going to get back to that. In fact, I don't 253 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 3: know whether I doubt Trump will address that today, but 254 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 3: I want to emphasize that because that's the elephant in 255 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 3: the room that nobody is talking about. 256 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 2: And I do believe. 257 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 3: I just tell you, I'm telling you what I believe, 258 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 3: based on my experience and based upon talking to people 259 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 3: in DC, that this strategic framing is proving to be 260 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 3: exactly correct. Over the past seventy two hours since Saturday's program, 261 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: neither Russia nor China has done anything other than issue 262 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 3: some statements. There's some tepid statements at that a Russia's 263 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 3: pattern of inaction replicated exactly what happened during the last 264 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 3: June strikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities, rhetorical outrage but 265 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 3: zero intervention. And I said that the FBI would go 266 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 3: to an elevated alert and that we as US citizens 267 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 3: needed to be aware of some domestic threats. Well, we 268 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:24,400 Speaker 3: saw the shooting in Austin, which may or may not 269 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 3: be connected. 270 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: I happen to think it's the shooting in Austin. 271 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 3: In the Texas bar wearing a T shirt property of 272 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 3: a law carrying a Quran in his book, and having 273 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 3: all sorts of news articles back in his house about 274 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 3: our attack on Iran. I think that is a classic 275 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 3: example of what we call in homeland security a lone wolf. 276 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 3: You don't have to activate them, you don't have to 277 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 3: send them a bat signal, you don't have to do anything. 278 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:58,440 Speaker 3: They are already radicalized and they are just looking for 279 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,840 Speaker 3: an excuse to go kill and I think we need 280 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 3: to continue to watch for that. I said that Congress 281 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: would be loud, and they have been loud. And I 282 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 3: find it fascinating how Trump has once again moved the 283 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,880 Speaker 3: chess pieces such that he now has Democrats essentially supporting 284 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 3: the nation the world's largest supporter of terror in the 285 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 3: entire world, the Iranians. Oh my gosh, we we vitolated 286 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 3: the constitution. If if if Tonald if Donald Trump has 287 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 3: violated the United States constitutions, which says just simply says, 288 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 3: this Congress shall have the power to declare war. Well 289 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,280 Speaker 3: if if that, if, and that's true, they can they 290 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 3: can declare war. But that doesn't do anything about Article 291 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:50,360 Speaker 3: two powers that the president has to protect the national security. 292 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 3: And if and if the Democrats are really going to 293 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 3: play this game, then the outgo after Thomas Jefferson, of 294 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,840 Speaker 3: all places, Thomas Jefferson goes to and without congressional authority, 295 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 3: sends the US Navy to the shores of Triple E 296 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 3: to get the Barbary pirates without a declaration of war. 297 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,439 Speaker 3: So we got vote scheduled this week. They'll fail that 298 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 3: dumb buttson majority of Leader Thoon and other Republicans will 299 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,479 Speaker 3: at least at this point close ranks around the President 300 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 3: over this, Hue. I think the vote will be loud, 301 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 3: it will be covered. It will not change the military 302 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 3: operations period. It just won't change them. Now, what did 303 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 3: I get wrong? Yes, for all of you who always 304 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 3: think that I you are waiting for me to get 305 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:38,880 Speaker 3: something wrong. Well, you don't have to wait. I will 306 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 3: tell you exactly what I got wrong, coming up next morning. 307 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 3: Ding Dong, morning, parrot face. 308 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 6: So I was listening to radio on Saturday weekend with 309 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 6: Michael Brown and I switched over to one of three 310 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 6: point five of the Fox, and I heard someone I 311 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 6: hadn't heard in a long time, man dragging Redbeard. He 312 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 6: was the ratings king for radio over the weekend. 313 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 3: Have a good day. I can't believe that you flipped 314 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 3: from me to listen to him. 315 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,840 Speaker 5: Seriously, I'm sure it was a pleasant surprise for him. 316 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 5: It was fun filling in the Fox. I love it. 317 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 5: What a good chance to do that. I'm I'm glad 318 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 5: you get to do it too, because well, one of 319 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 5: these days I'll get paid for it. 320 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 4: Yeah. 321 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 3: So you say, all right, so here we go. What 322 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 3: did I get wrong? Or at least what was I 323 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 3: you know, maybe a little premature about I said that 324 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 3: so far there were no US casualties at the end 325 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 3: of the broadcast, and that was accurate at that time. 326 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 3: Stom's own statement had said no casualties. It didn't hold 327 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 3: three and I think now four have been killed, five 328 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 3: seriously wounded. They were Army soldiers deployed to Quait. They 329 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:58,800 Speaker 3: were part of the logistics and supply unit. Now Trump 330 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 3: addressed their death in a Sunday video, calling them true 331 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,679 Speaker 3: American patriots and warning that quote sadly, there will be 332 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 3: likely be more before it ends. And I told you 333 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 3: Saturday morning that zero casualties was the most time sensitive 334 00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:21,399 Speaker 3: fact in the entire discussion, and we were right to 335 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,679 Speaker 3: flag it because it had changed by yesterday. And we 336 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 3: indeed honor those fallen soldiers. And I think too, we 337 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 3: were probably a little over simplistic, or not simply, we 338 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 3: were a little optimistic. We were a little overly optimistic 339 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,800 Speaker 3: about the uranium people rising up immediately. Now, I did 340 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 3: report the jubilation in the streets and the exiled Crown 341 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 3: Prince Resident Plabbi's call for final action. But what actually 342 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 3: happened is a lot more complicated, because as news is 343 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 3: Kamene's death broke the Uranians. They did pour into the 344 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 3: streets and celebration. But security force, this is the IRGC 345 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,040 Speaker 3: and probably the Baji paramilitary force, they were deployed immediately 346 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 3: and they actually opened fire on the celebrans. So since then, 347 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 3: the streets of Tehran have been largely deserted, with people 348 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 3: sheltering during the air strikes. The paramilitary force has now 349 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 3: set up checkpoints across the entire city, and the uprising 350 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 3: that Trump is and is still counting on has not 351 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 3: yet materialized. Now, the IRGC still has guns and they're 352 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 3: using them. And this is exactly the scenario that I 353 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 3: told you that the Atlantic Council analysts warned about on 354 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,760 Speaker 3: Saturday morning, and they were right to be cautious. The 355 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,560 Speaker 3: Uranian people want regime change now, whether they can achieve 356 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 3: it under fire and under an internet blackout remains the 357 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 3: open question. Now that's another point. I want you to 358 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 3: highlight an internet blackout, because just as a little tea, 359 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:10,360 Speaker 3: I think both I have reason to believe that both 360 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 3: the Agency and Masad have I don't want to say 361 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 3: boots on the ground because that's got too emotional of 362 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 3: a meaning, but we have operatives in place, and well 363 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 3: we'll get to that in a minute. 364 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 2: Just hold that one in your hat too. 365 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,120 Speaker 3: I think I totally underestimated Hesbelah's decision to enter the war. 366 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,879 Speaker 3: I told you that Hesbalah was watching, but they had 367 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 3: stopped short of announcing that they were going to join 368 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 3: all of that changed. Hes Ball fired rockets at northern 369 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 3: Israel on the first Yesterday, the first time since the 370 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 3: November twenty twenty four ceasefire, and the Northern Front is 371 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:59,680 Speaker 3: now active and Israel has masked thousands of reservests there, 372 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 3: which was prescient planning, but has Belaw's entry significantly complicates 373 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:09,080 Speaker 3: the military picture. I said that Iran had announced a 374 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:13,239 Speaker 3: hormone straight of Horm Moves closure, but the tankers were 375 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 3: still moving. Well, that was accurate on Saturday, but that 376 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 3: also has dramatically worsened. Three vessels have been struck, One 377 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 3: Iranian reported tanker is sinking. One hundred and fifty ships 378 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 3: were outstalled a pag Lloyd, one of the world's largest 379 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:32,199 Speaker 3: shipping companies. They've suspended all vessel transit through the Strait 380 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 3: until further notice. This is no longer a threat or 381 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 3: partial closure. The straight Horm Moves has now become an 382 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 3: active maritime war zone. Now here's where I think everything 383 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:50,320 Speaker 3: new and significant that has happened since Saturdays, since Saturday's broadcast, 384 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 3: which you can't get. 385 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:54,640 Speaker 5: I'm shut up. 386 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 3: Are some developments that changed that changed this whole picture 387 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 3: in material ways, and the big one obviously is the 388 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 3: Kammene is confirmed dead. Iran has no Supreme leader. Now 389 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:10,399 Speaker 3: we hear reports about there's a line of succession. Just 390 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 3: hang on a second. Let's talk about what it means structurally, 391 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,080 Speaker 3: because I think this is probably the most important legal 392 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 3: and political development in country. For the past thirty seven years, 393 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 3: Iran has only replaced the Supreme leader once. Since nineteen 394 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 3: seventy nine, Kamene had no officially declared air. Now a 395 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 3: three person transition council is ostensibly holding power. 396 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 2: Right now. 397 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 3: You got the President who's a moderate Masad Peskashin or 398 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 3: how do you pronounce it. You have the Chief Justice 399 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 3: which who's a hardliner, and you have a senior cleric, 400 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 3: Alriza Arathi, something of that effect. And Iran's Foreign minister 401 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 3: says that a new Supreme Leader could be chosen with 402 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,119 Speaker 3: one or two days. So they have what's called an 403 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 3: assembly of experts, either eighty eight senior clerics. They'll make 404 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,679 Speaker 3: that selection. Now, as I said that, this assembly of 405 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 3: experts that will make the selection is a group of 406 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 3: senior clerics. Ran remains as of this moment, it's still 407 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 3: a theocracy. It's still a theocratic dictatorship. But here's what 408 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:28,399 Speaker 3: makes it a truly wild card that for those interested 409 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 3: in foreign affairs, makes this truly fascinating to watch. 410 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:32,640 Speaker 2: The top contenders. 411 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,520 Speaker 3: Kamina's son Majaba something like that, that would be the 412 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 3: first dynastic succession, and he is deeply unpopular. A Rafi 413 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 3: who's on the Transition Council and potentially a hardliner from 414 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:54,879 Speaker 3: within the IRGC could actually be more aggressive, not less. 415 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 3: Now over at the Council on Foreign Relations, they're noting 416 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,639 Speaker 3: that one taking out Iranian Supreme Leader Iatola al Kamana 417 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 3: is not the same as regime change. The Islamic Revolutionary 418 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 3: Guard Court is the regime. As much as I hate 419 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 3: to say site the CFR, I think they're precisely correct 420 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,679 Speaker 3: there right now. If you ask me, like I've always said, 421 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 3: anytime you're looking at a disaster or a military operation, 422 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,240 Speaker 3: or a company that's floundering, or anything else, what's the 423 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:27,959 Speaker 3: one question I always tell you to ask, who's in charge? 424 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 3: If I ask you to answer the question right now, 425 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 3: based on everything that you know, who's in charge? My 426 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 3: answer would be it's the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. That 427 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 3: is probably the most important point to make right now. 428 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 3: The head has been cut off, but yeah, the body's 429 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:53,639 Speaker 3: still clapping around. Another thing that we didn't know. B 430 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,040 Speaker 3: two stealth bombers have entered the fight, and I think 431 00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,639 Speaker 3: this is enormous. It had not been confirmed on the SUDE. 432 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 3: The Pentagon has confirmed that B two stealth bombers struck 433 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 3: Around's ballistic missile facilities with those two thousand pound bombs. 434 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,479 Speaker 3: The B two is our most advanced, long range strategic bomber, 435 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,360 Speaker 3: virtually invisible to radar, capable of delivering bunker busting munitions 436 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 3: to deeply buried targets. Their deployment tells you that we 437 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:30,200 Speaker 3: are not done and that there are targets that are 438 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 3: hardened and are underground. Remember this is the same aircraft 439 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 3: destruck the nuke facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer last June. 440 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 3: So their return means that the Uranian nuclear program is 441 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 3: being targeted once again, this time even more aggressively. 442 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 2: Now. 443 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 3: Trump said yesterday that nine Iranian warships have been sunk, 444 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 3: and if the Uranian Navy's headquarters had been largely destroyed. 445 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 3: Now Sencon confirmed at least one Jammering class corvette destroyed 446 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 3: at Chabahar Pork. 447 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 2: If I'm pronouncing that one right. 448 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 3: If nine worships, if that number nine is accurate, then 449 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,800 Speaker 3: the Iranians' ability to enforce the hermu's closure or threaten 450 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 3: our naval vessels is now severely degraded, not completely gone, 451 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 3: but severely degraded. And that speaks directly for all those 452 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 3: Democrats out there screening about what's our objective? What objective 453 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 3: is We're going to annihilate the navy, and Trump appears 454 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 3: to be executing on that promise. Two new weapons. This 455 00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:49,320 Speaker 3: is probably the kind of story that matters way beyond 456 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 3: this story, what matters way beyond today's headlines. Two new 457 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 3: weapons made their combat debut. The military used one way 458 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:03,440 Speaker 3: attack drones in combat for the first time as part 459 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 3: of the strikes on Iran and separately, America is new now. 460 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:13,479 Speaker 3: The acronym is capital P small lowercase r SM person 461 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 3: ballistic missiles. Those can fly hundreds of miles further than 462 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:24,760 Speaker 3: the attackers, which are their predecessors. They made their combat 463 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:31,880 Speaker 3: debut in these strikes. Here's why that's important. Every one 464 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 3: of our adversaries on this planet, Russia, China, North Korea, 465 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 3: and every little two bit ten horned dictator around the 466 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 3: country around the world is watching what those new weapons 467 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:53,640 Speaker 3: can do in actual combat. That is a significant deterrence message, 468 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:58,520 Speaker 3: and that's a message being sent globally, not just regionally. 469 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 2: Go back to Hesbala for a moment. After the break, 470 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 2: we'll go back to Hesblo. 471 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 5: Good morning, Michael and Dragon. 472 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 7: Just want to add as a side note, in addition 473 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 7: to Kameni being gone, kamene Kameni, I really care if 474 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 7: I pronounce any of these correctly at this point, I 475 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 7: really don't. But very happy that mak Mood Akmadinajad, the 476 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 7: former president, probably one of the most evil people on 477 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 7: the face of this earth, is also in front of 478 00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,800 Speaker 7: his maker, or I should say, well below. 479 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 5: It is very happy about that. That's a win. 480 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 2: Let's go straight to the president. 481 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,239 Speaker 8: So before we begin this important ceremony, and there's no 482 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 8: ceremony that can be much more important than this, so 483 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:50,320 Speaker 8: let me provide a brief update on Operation Epic Fury. Today, 484 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 8: the United States military continues to carry out large scale 485 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 8: combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed 486 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 8: to America by this terrible terrorist regime. Following our obliteration 487 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 8: of Orend's nuclear program and Operation Midnight Hammer. 488 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 4: A short while ago, we. 489 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 8: Warned an not to make any attempt to rebuild at 490 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 8: a different location because they weren't able to use the 491 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,920 Speaker 8: ones we so powerfully blew up. 492 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 4: But they ignored those warnings. 493 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 8: And refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, 494 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,760 Speaker 8: the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, 495 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 8: and this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America 496 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,960 Speaker 8: and our forces stationed overseas. The regime already had missiles 497 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:48,280 Speaker 8: capable of hitting Europe and our bases, both local and overseas, 498 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,880 Speaker 8: and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our 499 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,640 Speaker 8: beautiful America. The purpose of this fast growing missile program 500 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,080 Speaker 8: was to shield their nuclear weapon development. Didn't make it 501 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,760 Speaker 8: extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these 502 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 8: highly forbidden by. 503 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 4: US nuclear weapons. 504 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,960 Speaker 8: We were the ones that were complaining, We were the 505 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 8: ones that. 506 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 4: Wanted it stop, but everybody was behind us. They just 507 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 4: didn't have the courage to say so. 508 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 8: An Iranian regime armed with long range missiles and nuclear 509 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 8: weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, 510 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 8: but also to the American people. Our country itself would 511 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 8: be under threat, and it was very nearly under threat. 512 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 8: I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran 513 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 8: nuclear deal by President Baracusan Obama. That was a horrible, horrible, 514 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 8: dangerous document. They would have had nuclear weapons three years ago, 515 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 8: and they would have used them. But I'll not let 516 00:31:54,040 --> 00:32:00,160 Speaker 8: that happen. For almost forty seven years, this regime an 517 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,360 Speaker 8: attacking the United States and killing Americans. Every time you 518 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,880 Speaker 8: see someone with missing arms and legs or a face 519 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,760 Speaker 8: that's been absolutely shattered violently, it was almost certainly caused 520 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:12,840 Speaker 8: by an Iran. 521 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 4: Roadside bomb. 522 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 8: They were put thereby General Solomony, who was the father 523 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 8: of the roadside bomb. Very proudly he thought, but I 524 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 8: terminated him and my first term, this was our last 525 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 8: best chance to strike what we're doing right now and 526 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 8: eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime, 527 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,240 Speaker 8: and they are indeed. 528 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 4: Sick and sinister. Our objectives are clear. 529 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 8: First, were destroying Orens missile capabilities, and you see that 530 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 8: happening on an hourly basis. 531 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 4: And their capacity to. 532 00:32:56,320 --> 00:33:00,800 Speaker 8: Produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, 533 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 8: we're annihilating their navy we've knocked out already ten ships. 534 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 4: There at the bottom of the sea. 535 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:12,360 Speaker 8: Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of 536 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 8: terra can never obtain a nuclear weapon. 537 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 4: Never going to have a nuclear weapon. 538 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 8: I said that from the beginning, they're never going to 539 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,880 Speaker 8: have a nuclear weapon. 540 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:21,400 Speaker 4: They were in the. 541 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 8: Road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was 542 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,560 Speaker 8: signed foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring that 543 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:36,640 Speaker 8: the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm fund and directorist 544 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,880 Speaker 8: armies outside. 545 00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 4: Of their borders. 546 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 8: And we thought we had a deal, but then they 547 00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,600 Speaker 8: backed out, and they came back, and we thought we 548 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 8: had a deal. 549 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 4: And they backed out. I said, you can't deal with 550 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 4: these people. Got to do it the right way. 551 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 8: Today, we agree for the four heroic American service members 552 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 8: who have been killed in action and sent our love 553 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 8: and support to the families in their memory. We continue 554 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 8: this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the threat 555 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 8: this terrorist regime poses to the American people, and. 556 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:13,480 Speaker 4: A threat indeed it is. 557 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 8: We have the strongest and most powerful by far military 558 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:24,840 Speaker 8: in the world, and we will easily prevail. We're already 559 00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 8: substantially ahead of our time projections. But whatever the time is, 560 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 8: it's okay. Whatever it takes. We will always and we 561 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,800 Speaker 8: have right from the beginning. We projected four to five weeks, 562 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,640 Speaker 8: but we have capability to go far longer than that. 563 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:44,239 Speaker 4: We'll do it. 564 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,480 Speaker 8: Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president 565 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,879 Speaker 8: wants to do it really quickly. After that, he'll get bored. 566 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,360 Speaker 8: I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do 567 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,680 Speaker 8: you agree with that page. I don't think there's anything 568 00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 8: mister General. I think there's nothing boring about it. Somebody 569 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 8: actually said from the media, I think you'll get bored 570 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 8: after about a week or two. No, we don't get bored. 571 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 8: I never get bored. If I got bored, I wouldn't 572 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,560 Speaker 8: be standing here right now. I guarantee you that to 573 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,000 Speaker 8: go through what I had to go through. We also 574 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 8: projected four weeks to terminate the military leadership, and as 575 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,440 Speaker 8: you know, that was done in about an hour. So 576 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:26,800 Speaker 8: we're at a schedule there by a lot. But please 577 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,880 Speaker 8: join me in thank you every American service member who 578 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,840 Speaker 8: bravely is standing in harm's way. They really are incredible 579 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,160 Speaker 8: and I just want to thank you. We have a 580 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 8: lot of them right here. 581 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 9: Thank you very much, thank you, Thank you everybody. 582 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 8: We have a lot of great service members here with 583 00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:58,480 Speaker 8: us too. In this beautiful building, is it beautiful? We're 584 00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:02,160 Speaker 8: adding onto the building a little bit, we're improving the building. 585 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,000 Speaker 4: See that nice drape. 586 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,719 Speaker 8: When that comes down right now, you see a very 587 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,759 Speaker 8: very deep hole. But in about a year and a 588 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:11,359 Speaker 8: half from now, you're going to see a very very 589 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:14,839 Speaker 8: beautiful building. And there's your entrance to it right there. 590 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 8: In fact, it looks so nice, I don't think i'll 591 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 8: even it. I think I'll save money in the doors, 592 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,920 Speaker 8: because it can't get more beautiful than that. I picked 593 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 8: those drapes in my first term. I always like gold. 594 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,279 Speaker 8: But I think we can save a lot of money. 595 00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 8: I just saved I just saved curtains. But it will 596 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:36,360 Speaker 8: be it'll be spectacular, be the most beautiful ballroom. I 597 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,879 Speaker 8: believe it's because I built many a ballroom. I believe 598 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,759 Speaker 8: it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in 599 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 8: the world. And when you hear all that hammering out there, you. 600 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,280 Speaker 4: Know why the first lady is not thrilled exactly. 601 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 8: She said, Well, the pile drivers ever stop. 602 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 4: You know, they go from six in the morning till 603 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:57,920 Speaker 4: eleven thirty in the evening. Can you imagine here you 604 00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 4: know what? To me, that's a beautiful sense. I like it. 605 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 4: I love it. You know what will. 606 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 2: Continue a role in this. 607 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 3: But I think he's now rambling on about the ballroom, 608 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,239 Speaker 3: so I think he said everything he's going to say. 609 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,360 Speaker 3: So we'll take our break here for the news, and 610 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 3: then we'll come back on the other side.