1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:01,720 Speaker 1: Hey, Mike Dragon. 2 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard the UK offered send troops, but they 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 2: couldn't spare any because they had them all tracking down 4 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: the little ladies posting offensive posts about transgender issues and 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: everything else. So good to see we got some analyzed 6 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 2: on the golf coasts that are willing to fight. 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 3: The British and the French are just they're they're conjoined twins, 8 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 3: that's what they've become. I'm not going to quote the 9 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:32,600 Speaker 3: text get I don't want to give him any credit, 10 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 3: but I am utterly amazed at the wilful ignorance that 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 3: people have about the role of international relations and our 12 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,959 Speaker 3: ability to survive on this planet as a constitutional republic. 13 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 3: I guess people live in such a bubble that they. 14 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: Don't realize that there are and. 15 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 3: Getting that there are really evil people out there, because 16 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 3: they're so convinced regardless of whether you think Donald Trump 17 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: is a pedophile or a liar, or just a son 18 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 3: of a bitch, or just a scumbag or a cheat 19 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:38,399 Speaker 3: or whatever, compared to the truly evil people in the 20 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 3: world that would slaughter you, and I mean literally slaughter 21 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 3: you in a heartbeat. You can count them in the billions, 22 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 3: because we are at the top of the heap. And 23 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 3: all these little dictatorships and all these little communists and Marxists, 24 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 3: you know, Neanderthal idiots, useful idiots both in our country 25 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 3: and abroad, want to bring us down. And the primary 26 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 3: players in that group I would put as number one China, 27 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 3: And I only put China as number one because of 28 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 3: its thighs and its long history of totalitarianism, and they 29 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 3: have while they're still not as large as US in 30 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: terms of GDP and economic output, they're on our tail. 31 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 3: They're right behind us. So China number one. And then 32 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 3: I would put in no particular order, North Korea, Russia, 33 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 3: and Iran. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of others all 34 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 3: over the place, little countries here and there, Yemen, you know, 35 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 3: you got little countries on the continent of Africa. You've 36 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 3: got countries in these days. You got countries all over 37 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 3: the world that hate America and America guns. And the 38 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 3: only way that we can survive is to keep one 39 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 3: of our enemies at Bay project, you know, peace through 40 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 3: strength and show the world that we're not going to 41 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 3: be screwed with. Don't don't don't mess with us. You know, 42 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 3: the Texas model. Don't mess with Texas, don't mess with 43 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 3: the USA. That's the ugly reality of the world that 44 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 3: you live in. And if you're not willing to accept 45 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 3: that reality, you really are some kind of stupid. Because 46 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 3: I'm telling you from personal experience, having been in most 47 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 3: of those crab whole countries, they don't like they only 48 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 3: they not only dislike us personally, like on an individual basis. 49 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 3: They hate a marriage. If you're an American, I hate you. 50 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 3: They hate what we stand for, they have what, They 51 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 3: hate what we believe. They hate our standard of living, 52 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: they hate our form of government, they hate everything because 53 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 3: tyranny is the predominant history of the world until we 54 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 3: came along and showed that other than ancient history of 55 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 3: the Roman Empire, which eventually did fail, we have shown 56 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 3: that self governance can actually work. 57 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: Now. 58 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 3: We're not very good at it right now, we're really 59 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,800 Speaker 3: screwing the pooch right now, but nonetheless it's still better 60 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 3: than everything else out there. And if you don't believe me, 61 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 3: get off your ass and go to some crab whole 62 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 3: country and live there for two weeks I'd say thirty 63 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 3: days to get the full effect. But most of you 64 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 3: probably well, maybe some of you are that think that 65 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,479 Speaker 3: I'm overstating this. You probably could spend thirty days or 66 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 3: sixty sixty days or whatever because you're not working or 67 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 3: doing anything. But it just infuriates me about how utterly 68 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 3: ignorant people are about how da just the world is. 69 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,440 Speaker 3: And when you text me and you say China, China, China, 70 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 3: now the book playbook. 71 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 1: One oh one. 72 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 3: You know what that tells me? You know what that 73 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 3: shows me. You're one of those useful idiots. You're truly dumb. 74 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 3: You're truly out of touch with what the real world 75 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 3: is like. You've probably never been outside your grandmother's house. 76 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 3: You've never you know, have you? 77 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: Have you? Have you been to a crap whole country 78 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: and spent any time? Have you? 79 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 3: And has it been you know, in the past, say 80 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 3: decade or was it you know, back in You want 81 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 3: to counter time in Vietnam, say where you want to tell? 82 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 3: You want to count your time and during the Korean 83 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:47,640 Speaker 3: War that doesn't count for me. Oh, the service counts, 84 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 3: don't get me wrong, But telling me that you understand 85 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 3: what a crap whole country is like, that doesn't count. 86 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,359 Speaker 3: I'm talking about living under the tyranny of a crap 87 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 3: hole Communist Marxist anxiety. And I don't know how to 88 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 3: break through because you're so absorbed with the oh my gosh, 89 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 3: the War Powers Act, or he's violating the Constitution, or 90 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 3: he's putting American lives at risk, or he's doing this, 91 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 3: or that you are so confined to this tiny, little 92 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 3: viewpoint of view that you don't get the big picture whatsoever. 93 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 3: And I find that truly frightening. But I'm afraid it's 94 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,799 Speaker 3: too many American citizens today, this audience being that exception. 95 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 3: So here's how I would explain everything I've talked about 96 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 3: since Saturday through the past two hours. Trump's foreign policy 97 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,720 Speaker 3: from Venezuela to Iran is not some random macho posturing. 98 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 3: It is a deliberate strategic campaign to degrade China's ability 99 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 3: to sustain a conflict over Taiwan. And he's doing that 100 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 3: by eliminating China's energy alternatives, reversing China's diplomatic gains in 101 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 3: the Gulf, and demonstrating to every other country on the 102 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 3: face of this planet that the United States still has 103 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 3: the will, the intelligence, and the military capability to project 104 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 3: decisive power. We didn't choose us to do so at 105 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 3: a time and a place of our choosing. The type 106 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 3: of Chinese statement and the Russian silence are not coincidences. 107 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 3: Those are the sounds of two nations that just watched 108 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 3: the board get rearranged and are now calculating their next move, 109 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 3: if anything. Now, China's official position essentially is we condemn this. 110 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 3: The ghost States deserve protection too. And by the way, 111 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 3: cause when you're ready to talk about Taiwan and trade, 112 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 3: that is not the posture of a nation that believes 113 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 3: they can protect its interests through Iran. That is the 114 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 3: posture of a nation that is doing its recalibration. If 115 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,559 Speaker 3: it's foreign policy in real time. 116 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 2: Hey, Mike, how do you think this action over the 117 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 2: weekend is going to affect the midterms that are coming up? 118 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: Because they're around the corner, and I just I'm curious. 119 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 3: It depends on which way the wind blows. Decided to 120 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 3: old Bob Dylan's song, it goes well, you can help. 121 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 3: If it goes bad, it's gonna hurt. And I don't 122 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 3: know which way it's going to go. I hope it 123 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 3: goes good, and not do I hope it goes good. 124 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 3: So that will help the midterms, of course, but I 125 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 3: hope it goes well because we're finally taking care of 126 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 3: a of a pimple on our butt that's existed for 127 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 3: decades that everybody, including my old boss, has refused to 128 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,920 Speaker 3: deal with, and now there's a president dealing with it 129 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:56,839 Speaker 3: and everybody's hairs on fire. It fascinates me. I heard 130 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:02,240 Speaker 3: it's either Mark Warner or him Kane, but one of 131 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 3: those two stupid US senators say today that you know, yes, 132 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 3: he needs to come to it and we'll get the 133 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 3: War Powers Act in just a minute. But you know, 134 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 3: Trump needs to come to Congress and he needs to 135 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 3: get our approval for this, because there's no evidence that 136 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 3: Iran was a threat to Konus, to the Cottonell United States. 137 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 3: I thought, well, that's a stupid reading of the War 138 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 3: Powers Act and or the Constitution, because do you realize 139 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 3: that we have American interests all over the world. We 140 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:46,000 Speaker 3: have embassies which, by the way, in Tehran, which in 141 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 3: nineteen seventy nine was overrun by the revolutionaries, took fifty 142 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,640 Speaker 3: two hostage, just held them for four hundred and forty days, 143 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 3: took Bill Buckley not at Bill Buckley from National Review 144 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 3: but took ambassador of Bill Buckley and scanned him alive, 145 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 3: tortured him, brutally, brutally beat him, then scanned him alive 146 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 3: and took all the torture photos and said him, Ronald Reagan, 147 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: these are the animals that we're dealing with. American embassy 148 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 3: is sovereign US soil. American air bases not necessarily sovereign 149 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 3: US soil, But under our agreements with our host nations, 150 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 3: is essentially our interests and we have allies, which whether 151 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,400 Speaker 3: you like it or not, and I'm not asking you 152 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 3: to like it, but when you are the pack leader, 153 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,720 Speaker 3: if you understand dogs, we're the pack leader, and the 154 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 3: pack leader has responsibilities, and we are the pack leader 155 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 3: in the world. We are the pack leader for freedom, 156 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 3: for liberty, for constitutional republic, for free markets. We are 157 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 3: the pack leader for all of those things. And without us, 158 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 3: the world would be covered in darkness. 159 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: And in tyranny. 160 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:10,400 Speaker 3: And when you have a rogue nation like Iran, who 161 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 3: for the past forty seven years, if they wanted to, 162 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 3: could strike at the heart of Europe, could hit our 163 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 3: interests in embassies and or bases almost anywhere. 164 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: In the Middle East or throughout Europe. 165 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,720 Speaker 3: Or through stupid open borders that other presidents have allowed 166 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 3: to occur, bring in terror cells into this country. They 167 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 3: are a threat to this nation. And finally someone stepped 168 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:42,520 Speaker 3: up and did something, and everybody's wringing their hands. And 169 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 3: when I asked somebody, or I asked generally, if if 170 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 3: you've ever lived in a third world tyrannical country, someone 171 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 3: responded and said, I have right now under Trump. You 172 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 3: really are some kind of stupid. You really do need 173 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 3: to get some sort of vaccine for your TDS. You 174 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 3: can tate all sorts of things about Trump. There are 175 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 3: a lot of things I don't like about Donald Trump, 176 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:18,319 Speaker 3: lots of things, but I recognize the kind of world 177 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:23,200 Speaker 3: that we live in. You're living under a rock. The 178 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 3: question for the next thirty days as the operation continues, 179 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 3: or maybe less, but I'm just gonna I'm putting down 180 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 3: a thirty day marker as a the Uranians choose a 181 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,440 Speaker 3: new supreme leader. As Trump prepares to walk into Beijing, 182 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 3: is whether the United States can convert the military success 183 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 3: so far into a durable diplomatic and strategic architecture. The 184 00:12:52,040 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 3: pieces are on the board, The moves are being made 185 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 3: in China for the very first time in a long 186 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:05,680 Speaker 3: time is watching and not acting, and that is probably 187 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 3: one of the greatest. I mean, there's a lot of 188 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 3: great outcomes that we can see from this. I mean, 189 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 3: just the death of the dirt bag Diotota makes me happy. 190 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:18,599 Speaker 3: The death of the leaders of the IRGC makes me happy. 191 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 3: The opportunity I think we're creating for the Iranians to 192 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,079 Speaker 3: get their country back makes me happy. But I recognize 193 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 3: the risks, and the risks are real. So we could 194 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:36,120 Speaker 3: have continued to let this infection get worse and spread 195 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 3: throughout not just the Middle East, but throughout Europe through 196 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 3: and let China and Russia, using Iran as their proxy, 197 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 3: spread their disease throughout South America, Central America, Southeast Asia, 198 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 3: Europe everywhere. Or we could just say, you know what, 199 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:52,760 Speaker 3: we're tired of this. We're not going to do anymore. 200 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:55,880 Speaker 3: This is and clearly part of the America First policy. 201 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 3: Got it so quickly. When we get back, I'll try 202 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 3: to squeeze in as much as I can about the 203 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 3: Warpowers Act. 204 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 4: Greg and I hear y'all have fiction to send girl 205 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 4: Dad girl on iPhone. Please don't let Michael t get 206 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,800 Speaker 4: anywhere near that girl's iPhone with a hammer. You know 207 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 4: how he gets after watching Chris Himsworth all weekend. 208 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: T Michael T. Brown. 209 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 3: Gee, uh give Renmber thirty eighty sixty two, Mike. Until 210 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 3: you state that Islam is an evil cult bent on 211 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,000 Speaker 3: world domination, Iran will never be totally defeated. 212 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: Are you new here? Have you ever? 213 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 3: Have you heard me talk about the Ayahtola as an Islamist, 214 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 3: as a butcherer, and that it is a theocracy, a suppressive, repressive, horrible, 215 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 3: as you say, a cult bent on world domination. I 216 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 3: think that goes without saying. And no, I'm not afraid 217 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 3: to say it whatsoever. I've said it the bazillion times 218 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 3: on air. So open your ears, take a listen. Let's 219 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 3: go to the constitution. So when Trump ordered targeted military 220 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 3: strikes against that is longest nation, a bunch of critics 221 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 3: and immediately declared it was unconstitutional. Thomas Massey, who she 222 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 3: really resign as Republican and reregister as a libertarian. They 223 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:33,080 Speaker 3: allmann argue that absence some sort of formal declaration of war, 224 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 3: the president has exceeded his authority. Well that's a serious objection, 225 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 3: so it deserves I think a serious reply. It is 226 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,040 Speaker 3: lawful under Article two, and it is consistent with the 227 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 3: War Powers resolution. Start with the Constitution itself. Article one 228 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 3: grants Congress the power to declare war. Article two names 229 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:56,920 Speaker 3: the president's commander and chief of the armed forces. These 230 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 3: clauses are not redundant, and they nor are they mutually exclusive. 231 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 3: They allocate different forms of authority. Congress decides whether to 232 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,520 Speaker 3: initiate a state of general war. The Congress has the 233 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 3: right to declare war. Yeah, they do. They don't have 234 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 3: to either. And the President can direct the use of 235 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 3: military force in defense of our national interests, and he 236 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 3: can direct the use of US military forces. So the 237 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 3: question is not whether Congress has war powers, because it does. 238 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 3: The question is whether every use of force constitutes a 239 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 3: war in the constitutional sense, and history answers with the 240 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:39,200 Speaker 3: resounding no, going all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. 241 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 3: Imagine a naval commander ship is threatened by hostile missiles. 242 00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:49,359 Speaker 3: Must he first convene a legislative body before responding? 243 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: Of course not, that's absurd. The commander in. 244 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 3: Chief clause would be meaningless if it denied the executive 245 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 3: the power to repel threats or to conduct limited operations 246 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 3: necessary to protect American lives and American interests. Thomas Jefferson 247 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:12,400 Speaker 3: ordered those naval actions against the Barbary pirates. James Madison 248 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 3: approved engagements before formal declarations. The practice is longstanding, and 249 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 3: after World War II the pattern became even clear. Presidents 250 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:27,840 Speaker 3: of both parties have conducted military operations without a formal 251 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 3: declaration of war Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Coast of O, Libya, Syria. 252 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:40,199 Speaker 3: In every single case, the president the executive relied on 253 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:45,400 Speaker 3: Article two, sometimes supplemented by statutory authorization, but never were 254 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 3: rarely dependent on a formal declaration. Now you can debate 255 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,199 Speaker 3: the wisdom of each action, I don't care. That's a 256 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 3: political issue, that's not a constitutional issue. But the legality 257 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 3: has rested on a shared understanding that the president Article 258 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 3: II possesses independent constitutional authority to use limited force. Consider 259 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,600 Speaker 3: how modern presidents have treated the War Powers Resolution of 260 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three. That resolution requires the President report to 261 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,920 Speaker 3: Congress within forty eight hours of introducing US forces into 262 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 3: hostilities and limits those engagements to sixty days abs and 263 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 3: congressional authorization. Every modern president has complied with the forty 264 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 3: eight hour reporting requirement, yet each has done so while 265 00:18:33,920 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 3: maintaining that the resolution does not diminish at all his 266 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 3: Article to authority. Ronald Reagan reported to Congress after initiating 267 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 3: the nineteen eighty three invasion of Grenada. 268 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:46,440 Speaker 1: He did not. 269 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 3: Concede that that Congressional permission was required to begin. George H. W. 270 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 3: Bush notified Congress following the Panama operation in nineteen eighty nine. 271 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 3: Bill Clinton transmitted notice through the nineteen ninety nine coast 272 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 3: of campaign. 273 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:01,639 Speaker 1: George W. 274 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 3: Bush filed notice after launching a three Iraqi invasion. Obama 275 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 3: reported within forty eight hours of commissioning this twenty eleven 276 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 3: Libya strikes. Joe Biden notified Congress following his twenty twenty 277 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 3: three Syria air strikes. In every case, the president acted 278 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 3: absent a direct attack on the US homeland. In every case, 279 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 3: a formal war powers report was transmitted. In each case, 280 00:19:28,359 --> 00:19:32,639 Speaker 3: the executive branch described its submission as consistent with the resolution, 281 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,439 Speaker 3: not as a concession that Article to Authority was subordinate 282 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 3: to it. That pattern matters law is not only text. 283 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 3: It is also practiced when all branches repeatedly, going back 284 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 3: to the beginning of this Republic operate under a shared framework. 285 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 3: That framework acquires constitutional significance, and the Iranian strike fits 286 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 3: squarely within that settled pattern. A limited operation justified by 287 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 3: threats to US forces and our allies reported to Congress, 288 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 3: within the statutory window undertaken by the Commander in Chief, 289 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:16,360 Speaker 3: and the exercise of independent authority. Now, the critics respond, 290 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 3: oh Article one gives Congress the sole power to initiate hostilities. 291 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 3: That overrides the declare war clause. The framers distinguished between 292 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:34,200 Speaker 3: declaring war and conducting military operations. Because a declaration changes 293 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 3: the legal state between nations, it triggers domestic consequences, it 294 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:46,719 Speaker 3: authorizes the full mobilization of national resources. A targeted strike 295 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,879 Speaker 3: doesn't necessarily do those things. The constitutional category of war 296 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 3: is narrower than the category of military force, and then 297 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 3: Congress itself has already enacted legislation in that particular domain. 298 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:05,720 Speaker 1: The two thousand and one and. 299 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 3: Two thousand and two Authorizations for Use of Military Force 300 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 3: aumfs still remain on the books. Presidents have cited both 301 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 3: of those aumfs to justify actions against terrorist threats or 302 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 3: and destabilizing regimes in the region. So even if you 303 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,320 Speaker 3: want to argue that the Irans strike rests primarily an 304 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 3: article to authority the broader statutory landscape that Congress has 305 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,359 Speaker 3: long authorized force in context that overlap with the Iranian 306 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 3: conduct and regional threats. The executive does not act in 307 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 3: a statutory vacuum. What about the sixty day clock that 308 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:54,439 Speaker 3: answers straightforward? The clock limits sustained hostilities, It does not 309 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 3: forbid the initial action. Now, if the operation remains limited scope, 310 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 3: limited in duration, it falls comfortably within the historical practice 311 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:10,560 Speaker 3: of short term engagements. Now, if the conflict expands, Congress 312 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 3: still has the power of the purse, and they have 313 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 3: the authority to enact binding restrictions. So the constitutional system 314 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 3: sees that we would have dialogue, not paralysis. Some object 315 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 3: that absent an attack on American soil, the president lacks 316 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 3: defensive authority. That mistakes the doctrine entirely. Presidents have repeatedly 317 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,400 Speaker 3: acted to defend US personnel abroad, to protect our allies, 318 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,440 Speaker 3: to deter escalation, to enforce red lines concerning weapons proliferation 319 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 3: or terrorism. Obama's Libya strikes were not triggered by an 320 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 3: invasion of the homeland. Biden, Syria and Yemen actions, I 321 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 3: think they were justified by regional threats and attack on 322 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 3: our partners, are than you that the mere absence of 323 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 3: a domestic invasion script the president of constitutional authority. The 324 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:10,560 Speaker 3: relevant inquiry is whether the use of force serves national 325 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:16,199 Speaker 3: defense and foreign policy interests that are entrusted to the executive. 326 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: Footnot view. 327 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 3: Just a little thought experiment for a moment, if every 328 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 3: time we wanted to take action, how many of you 329 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 3: in this audience, after all of the planning, everything that 330 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 3: went on, whether it's Venezuela or Tehran, how many of 331 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 3: you trust Congress to keep advanced notice confidential? 332 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: Because if you do, you're. 333 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,359 Speaker 3: Smoking some kind of path that you really have to 334 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 3: set down, or you're using the psychedelics that maybe you're 335 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:03,200 Speaker 3: overdosing a little bit. I wouldn't trust Congress an inch 336 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:09,840 Speaker 3: on any of that, So you would essentially paralyze the 337 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 3: president from ever taking immediate action. 338 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 1: Just go back to World War Two. 339 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 3: Did we wait for a declaration of war before we 340 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 3: responded to. 341 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 1: The attack on Pearl Harbor? 342 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 3: No, we took immediate action to defend the base and 343 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 3: extended beyond the base, and then a few days later 344 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 3: Congress declared war against the Imperial The Imperial Company of Japan. 345 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 3: So you can debate intelligence assessments, you can question strategic prudence, 346 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 3: But constitutional constitutionality turns on authority, not on any sort 347 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,040 Speaker 3: of unanimous agreement about a policy. The commander in chief 348 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 3: sometimes has to act on incomplete information, and so the 349 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:09,840 Speaker 3: constitution entrusts that judgment to a single executive. Why because 350 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 3: even the founders knew that speed and secrecy are often indispensable. 351 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 3: Now Here a familiar confusion comes about. Some believe that 352 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 3: recognizing an executive authority implies endorsing unchecked power, and I. 353 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: Don't think it does that. 354 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 3: The War Powers Framework creates a structured interaction. The president 355 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,119 Speaker 3: acts reports within forty eight hours, continues engagement only if 356 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 3: Congress does not object within sixty days. Remember this is 357 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 3: now I worded that the president continues, continues, the engagement, 358 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 3: continues the action if Congress does not object within sixty days. 359 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 3: Now Congress could authorize, restrict or defund. That's an equilibrium, 360 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 3: and that equilibrium has governed American military practice for fifty 361 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:09,520 Speaker 3: year more. And the Iranian strikes sit comfortably within that equilibrium. 362 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 3: Consider a sculpture, a sculptor holding finished work aloft. If 363 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,320 Speaker 3: we reject the possibility of two objects occupying the same space. 364 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 3: We must choose what she holds. Is she holding clay 365 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,080 Speaker 3: or a statue? The choice depends on our theory of identity. Likewise, here, 366 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 3: if we define every use of force as war, then 367 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 3: the declare war clause swallows the commander in chief clause. 368 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 3: But if we distinguish general war from limited hostilities, as 369 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 3: history does, then the constitutional structure becomes coherent. The president 370 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 3: may initiate force, Congress can then afterwards escalate, authorize, terminate, 371 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 3: or not do anything and allow it to continue. The 372 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:05,880 Speaker 3: strongest argument from the critics is not textual. It's crudential. 373 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 3: You know why, because they fear executive overreach. Now that fear, 374 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 3: I don't think that fears irrational. Yet prudence concerns do 375 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 3: not rewrite constitutional allocations. The historical record shows bipartisan reliance 376 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:29,679 Speaker 3: on the same theory of executive power Clinton, Kosovo, Obama, Libya, Biden, Syria. 377 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 3: If one now denies it categorically, then explain why decades 378 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 3: of consistent practice by both parties were unconstitutional. That's a 379 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 3: heavy burden. I don't think you can that you can meet, 380 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 3: and I think it bears emphasis that compliance with the 381 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 3: War Powers resolution does not imply surrender of constitutional prerogative. 382 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: Presidents have uniformly. 383 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 3: Described their reports as some admitted consistent with the resolution. 384 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 3: The phrasing is deliberate. It reflects the executive branch view 385 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 3: that Article two authority exists independently, even as Congress may 386 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:21,040 Speaker 3: impose some procedural requirements such as notification. So the Iran strike, 387 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 3: followed by timely reporting, continues that long. 388 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: Settled tradition. 389 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:33,879 Speaker 3: In constitutional law, president is not confined to just Supreme 390 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 3: Court opinions or any judicial opinion. It includes the durable 391 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 3: practices of the political branches. For more than half a century, 392 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 3: presidents have initiated limited military actions without prior declarations of war. 393 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,120 Speaker 3: They've notified Congress within forty eight hours, and they have 394 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 3: still maintained that their authority derives from Article II, not 395 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 3: the war power under Article I, and the strike on 396 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 3: Iran stands right in the center that lineage. Now, you 397 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 3: can oppose the policy, and you can demand debate. Congress 398 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 3: remains free to exercise its powers, but the claim that 399 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,440 Speaker 3: the initial action is per se unconstitutional cannot be sustained 400 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:21,800 Speaker 3: in light of text, structure or consistent modern practice, I 401 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 3: would argue even historical practice, the Constitution creates this energetic executive. 402 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 3: The president is not a ceremonial position. When national security 403 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 3: demands swift action, that's why he's called the commander in chief, 404 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 3: and the commander in chief can act. The commander in 405 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,280 Speaker 3: chief can report and then engage Congress in a constitutional 406 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 3: dialogue that would follow afterwards. There's nothing unusual about that. 407 00:29:55,800 --> 00:30:00,240 Speaker 3: There's nothing strange about that. But you're going to here 408 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,920 Speaker 3: an awful lot over the next well, I don't know 409 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 3: when Congress is Congress coming back into inter session today 410 00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 3: or tomorrow. Whenever they do, you're gonna hear a lot 411 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,000 Speaker 3: of people clear about, oh my gosh, we need a 412 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 3: declaration of war. Why do we need a declaration of war? 413 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,200 Speaker 3: We're taking the action that's needed now. 414 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:22,600 Speaker 1: Now. 415 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:28,040 Speaker 3: I'm not going to object if Congress wants to pass 416 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 3: a war resolution under Article one and declare war against Iran, 417 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 3: I'm okay with that too, because that will unleash even 418 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 3: more power and that would send an even stronger message 419 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 3: to both our allies and our foes alike. Oh, they're 420 00:30:53,560 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 3: going to defeat Teyran. They're going to defeat Iran, which 421 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 3: quite frankly, is what I think we need to do now. 422 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 3: Whether what happens in Iran turns out to be something 423 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:10,240 Speaker 3: like what we've done in Venezuela, I'm okay with that. 424 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 3: My judgment still is sitting over here on a shelf 425 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 3: somewhere about Venezuela, not about the initial activities, not taking 426 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 3: out Maduro. But I still have a wait and see 427 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 3: attitude about whatever the CIA did with in human intelligence 428 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 3: to pull off that operation and to let the existing 429 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,120 Speaker 3: vice president take over as the president. I'm sure at 430 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 3: some point some covert agents said to her, here's how 431 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,320 Speaker 3: it's going to play out, and here's what you are 432 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 3: going to do. And if you don't do the way 433 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 3: we want you to do this, you saw what we 434 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 3: did earlier. We still have our contacts. You still ought 435 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,520 Speaker 3: to be sleeping with one eye open. So you really 436 00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 3: ought to do what we ask you to do, or 437 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,920 Speaker 3: tell you what we or do what we tell you 438 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 3: to do. And if not, you're going to end up 439 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 3: in American jail somewhere, or you're going to end up somewhere. 440 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 3: You're going to be gone, and we'll put somebody else 441 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:17,800 Speaker 3: in there. If that plays out in Tehran, I'm okay 442 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 3: with that too. I just think that the IRGC, the 443 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 3: Bajie security forces, the Ayatola, all of his leadership, all 444 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 3: of his team around him, they all need to be gone. 445 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 3: And then if we can establish some sort of neutral period, 446 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,720 Speaker 3: just a period where and I don't care whether it's 447 00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,400 Speaker 3: the Crown Prince, I don't care whether somebody had already 448 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 3: got in place over there. I don't care who it is. 449 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 3: And then one final thing about everything that's happened since Saturday, 450 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,480 Speaker 3: if you thought about why the Second Amendment is important 451 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 3: to Americans, Oh, my glad never happened here, really, huh? 452 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 3: And if it did, do you want an armed citizenry 453 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 3: or do you want only the security forces to have arms? 454 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 3: You see, if the Iranians had access to weapons like 455 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 3: we do, it is precisely the kind of situation that 456 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:32,040 Speaker 3: the Founders one the Founders found themselves in with King George, 457 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:35,600 Speaker 3: and that they envisioned that you know, we need to 458 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,480 Speaker 3: protect that right. So if this country ever finds itself 459 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 3: fighting off tyranny and someone comes to help us, or 460 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 3: if they don't come to help us, we have millions 461 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:51,240 Speaker 3: of arms in this country. Oh but Michael, we can't 462 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 3: fight off you know, we can't fight off the drones. 463 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 3: We can't fight off the warship. We can't attack the 464 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,040 Speaker 3: Gerald R. Ford, we can't attack the USS Abrahamley. No, 465 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 3: you know what we can do. We can turn some 466 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 3: of the commanders, we can turn some of the military officers. 467 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:12,319 Speaker 3: We might even obsconbe with some of the tanks. That's 468 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 3: why the Second Amendment exists. So as you watch everything 469 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 3: play out in Tehran and all the provinces and all 470 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 3: the cities in Iran, think about those people and what 471 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 3: they would be doing now if they had rifles and 472 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 3: shotguns and handguns and AMMO sitting in their basements. 473 00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:37,560 Speaker 1: It'd be an entirely different world for them, wouldn't it. 474 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,279 Speaker 3: Instead, they're gonna have to wait for us to get 475 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 3: rid of the security services. Where they're gonna have to 476 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 3: wait for us, but in our treasure to give them 477 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:53,080 Speaker 3: the opportunity that they would otherwise have themselves if they 478 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 3: were armed. So don't forget the Second Amendment and how 479 00:34:58,320 --> 00:34:59,600 Speaker 3: important that is.