1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 1: Michael, I don't know if you mentioned this. 2 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 2: I apologize if you've covered it and I dismissed it. 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 2: But I am really glad to see that Trump spoke 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 2: out about what was going on with Spain and them 5 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 2: refusing to let our air tankers fly through their use 6 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,920 Speaker 2: their bases to help refuel our bombers. 7 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 3: I actually listened to these I know you don't you 8 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 3: just you know, you just randomly picked something in you 9 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 3: You heard something about Spain reigns mainly on the plane 10 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 3: in Spain or whatever. But that's not what I got 11 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 3: out of that. And no, I have not discussed Spain today. 12 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 3: But what I really loved about that talk back was 13 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 3: I don't know whether you've discussed this or not, or 14 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 3: maybe you have, and I just dismissed it. Really, you're 15 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 3: listening to me and you just dismiss what I say. 16 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 3: I'm crushed. 17 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 4: I listened to you every day and I dismiss everything 18 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 4: you say. 19 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 3: They just they just told me that. I'm just I'm just. 20 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 2: Is this on Hello, your background noise, that's it, that's it, right, Yeah, 21 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 2: people have fans on to go to sleep or sleep machines. 22 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:34,199 Speaker 3: My white noise or black noise Brown, that was too easy, 23 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 3: too easy, and not not not all that good either, 24 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: Brown Noise. Here's a question nobody on the left wants 25 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 3: to answer this morning. There's probably a lot of questions 26 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,279 Speaker 3: people on the left no want to answer this morning. 27 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 3: Let's see, you spent the past two years marching for 28 00:01:54,680 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 3: Palestinian women, or you were screaming about civilian casualties, you 29 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 3: were demanding that we center the voices of the oppressed. 30 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 3: Then why are you silent right now? Why were you 31 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 3: silent when the Iranian women were in the streets hoping 32 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 3: that American and Israeli bombs would end forty seven years 33 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:26,200 Speaker 3: of theocratic torture by Islamis. Where are the signs, where's 34 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 3: the righteous rage? Where are the people who told us 35 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 3: that you cared about women's rights? They're not there? And 36 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 3: the silence tells you everything you need to know. 37 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 4: Now. 38 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 3: You could chalk off this to hypocrisy, because if there's 39 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 3: plenty of hypocrisy on the left, But I think it's 40 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 3: actually something more revealing, something that explains not just the 41 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 3: left relationship to Iran, but their relationship the entire shape 42 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 3: of global politics. 43 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:58,840 Speaker 1: Right now. 44 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 3: We've been trained to think about politics, I think I 45 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 3: casually mentioned this earlier in the program. We've been trained 46 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,679 Speaker 3: to think about politics in terms of left and right, 47 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 3: liberal versus conservative, progressive versus reactionary. But that framework breaks 48 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 3: down the moment you try to explain why Western progressives 49 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 3: have any sympathy, even passing embarrassed tapid sympathy for a 50 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 3: regime that stones women, executes gay men, and has not 51 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 3: held a free election since Disco was popular. The left 52 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 3: right map does that does not work here, But I 53 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 3: think there's a different map than might think about this way. 54 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 3: What do the Uranian mullas actually want, other than their 55 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 3: lives back? But those that are still in existence, what 56 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 3: do they want? They want as Islamist they want a homogeneous, 57 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 3: centrally control, ideologically uniform, global Islamic state. They want one 58 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 3: set of rules in first enforced by one elite, the 59 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:20,799 Speaker 3: Iatolas the Molahs, with no meaningful dissent permitted. That train 60 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 3: has one destination and it's called tyranny, and unfortunately that 61 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 3: train is never laid. Now ask yourself this, What does 62 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 3: the European Union bureaucracy and Brussels want? What does the 63 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 3: administrative state that we talked about in the last hour 64 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:44,160 Speaker 3: what do they want? What does the woke cultural movement 65 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 3: in this country want. It's the same destination, it's just 66 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 3: different branding. All of them want something to be summed 67 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 3: up in one not quite so emotionally laiden term as tyranny. 68 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 3: They want centralization, and all of them demand ideological conformity. 69 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 3: All of them treat descent as not just wrong, but 70 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 3: descent is dangerous. Descent is something that you need to suppress. 71 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,239 Speaker 3: You need to censor it, you need to punish descent. 72 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: And all of. 73 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 3: Them, whether it's the progressive left here, it's the Mola's 74 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 3: and the Iatolas and all of the Islamists in or 75 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 3: does that matter, not just in Iran, but all across 76 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 3: the world, even the even the Iatolas and the Islamist 77 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 3: in this country, all of them require a depressed, dependent 78 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 3: population that needs to be managed by a self appointed 79 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,600 Speaker 3: elite who are absolutely certain they know better than you 80 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 3: do how to live your life. The Mola's enforce that 81 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 3: with the Revolutionary Guards, the IRGC are IRGC, the Brussels 82 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 3: Bureau of for see the European Union. They enforce it 83 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 3: with regulations and financial penalties. What does the American left 84 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 3: do they enforce it with cancelations, debanking, and if you 85 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:14,359 Speaker 3: listen to people like Susan Rice, they enforce it with 86 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 3: what's coming if they get power back, and that's prosecutions. 87 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 3: It's all different tactics, but it's all exactly the same logic. 88 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 3: And here's why that matters. For what's happening in Iran 89 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 3: right now. The Uranian people aren't just fighting the Mullas. 90 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 3: They're actually fighting globalism that happens to be wearing a turban. 91 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 3: They want their country back, they want their culture back. 92 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 3: They want their women to be able to walk down 93 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 3: the street without a government mandated dress code. They want 94 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 3: to be Iranian again. They don't want to be subjects 95 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 3: of a revolutionary project that's been using Iran as a 96 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: base camp for a forty seven year bid at regional 97 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:04,559 Speaker 3: and eventually global domination. And the Western left instinct, even 98 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 3: if they're too smart to say it out loud, is 99 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:11,240 Speaker 3: that the Moullas area on their team, not because they 100 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 3: share the same theology, but because they share the same 101 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 3: operating system centralized control, elite authority, mandatory conformity, and punishment 102 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:29,400 Speaker 3: for any deviation. That's the neurological handshake that the left 103 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 3: and the Islam must exchange across a cultural divine. 104 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 1: Boy, boy, you can't do this, you can't do that. It. Yeah, 105 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: I'm getting fed up. 106 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 4: Instead of banning guns, speech means and all that, why 107 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 4: don't we just ban democrats. 108 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 5: My goodness, they're taking the fun out of everything. 109 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: My goodness. 110 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 3: I you know, that's a great point that I need 111 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 3: to do a little research on because I think I 112 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 3: have somewhere in my you know, my night cooke adult 113 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 3: brain and tequila adult brain. I think there's some studies 114 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 3: that show that psychologically, those on the left are generally 115 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 3: generally unhappier than we are. I think, so I got 116 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 3: to I'll dig into that that might become a segment somewhere, 117 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 3: Thank you. So I talked about how there's this neurological 118 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 3: handshake that the left in the islamis exchange across our 119 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 3: cultural divide. But meanwhile, what's actually happening in Iran right 120 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 3: now is the same thing that's happening. 121 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: In Hungary, or in Germany, or in the. 122 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 3: Netherlands or frankly, in the United States. People are waking 123 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 3: up to the fact that they're on the globalist menu. 124 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 3: They're not at the table and they're pushing back because 125 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,559 Speaker 3: you know, if you're not on the table, if you're 126 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 3: not at the table, you're on the menu. You can 127 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 3: call it nationalism, you can call it populism, you can 128 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 3: call it the Great decentralization. But what it really is, 129 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 3: it's people are saying this, we want agency over our 130 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 3: own lives, our own culture, our own communities, and we're 131 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,640 Speaker 3: not going to get that from an elite that's decided 132 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 3: that somehow they know better. Here's the economic argument that 133 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 3: makes this more than just an abstract idea. 134 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: Modern economies, all of them run on trust. 135 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:29,200 Speaker 3: Yes, there are contracts, and there are regulations, and there's 136 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 3: enforcement mechanisms, but that's not what they actually run on. 137 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 3: They run on trust. Trust gets personified, if you will, 138 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 3: by a contract or a regulation or enforcement mechanism, but 139 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 3: it's still trust, the basic assumption that your neighbors playing 140 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 3: by the same rules that you're playing by, that there's 141 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 3: a shot there's a shared or common framework of expectations, 142 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 3: and that our neighbors all have some stake in the 143 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 3: same community that you and I do. When you systematically 144 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:10,320 Speaker 3: important millions of people from a low trust culture, people 145 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 3: that don't share your language, don't share your legal traditions, 146 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 3: don't share your social norms. You don't just change the demographics. 147 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:27,320 Speaker 3: You erode the very foundation that makes prosperity possible. And 148 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 3: then when that foundation erodes, you don't get a diverse, 149 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 3: multicultural paradise. You get, say, for example, what Minneapolis looks 150 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 3: like today. You get what the specific palisades look like today, 151 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 3: still rubble months after the fire because the institutional capacity 152 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 3: to rebuild simply is not there anymore, because the left 153 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 3: has destroyed it. I don't think that's a I don't 154 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,719 Speaker 3: think that's even a racist observation or even a political observation. 155 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 3: It's basic social science. Robert Putnam is a liberal Harvard 156 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 3: professor who did not want his own findings to be true. 157 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 3: He spent years documenting that increased diversity without assimilation reduces 158 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,800 Speaker 3: social trusts across the board. He sat on his own 159 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,120 Speaker 3: research because he didn't like what it said. The data 160 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 3: doesn't care about your feelings. So here's the bottom line, 161 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 3: and here's what I want you to take away. What 162 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 3: we're watching in Iran is a freedom movement. Now, yes, 163 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 3: it got pushed down, that's still boiling below the surface. 164 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 3: It's a renationalization movement. It's people demanding the right to 165 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 3: be themselves in their own country, under their own cultural 166 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 3: inheritance without And when I say what I've written down here, 167 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: I want you to think about our country, or the 168 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:15,120 Speaker 3: European Union, or for that matter, Communists China, North Korea, 169 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,240 Speaker 3: what they want in their own country, under their own 170 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 3: cultural inheritance, without a theocratic globalist elite deciding every aspect 171 00:12:24,679 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 3: of their lives. Now the shaw Sun showing up as 172 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 3: the symbolic figurehead, I don't think that's nostalgia. 173 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: It's a marker. 174 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 3: It says we want to go back, at least to 175 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 3: the point before this nightmare started. And the and the 176 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 3: Western left's failure to embrace that, their silence, their look away, 177 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:51,559 Speaker 3: their quiet sympathy for the regime tells you exactly who 178 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,320 Speaker 3: they are and what they want for you. When you 179 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 3: see people out, you know, protesting what we're doing in 180 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 3: Iran and they've got posters of the now dead Iahtola, culmine. 181 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:07,160 Speaker 1: What does that really tell you? 182 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 3: Or as someone said yesterday, the Washington Post described the 183 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 3: dead Iahtola as this avuncular, you know, white bearded, soft 184 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 3: spoken man. 185 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: What's the Washington post telling. 186 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 5: You, Michael, I was born in the seventies. You mean 187 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 5: to tell me that disco quit being popular? Oh man, 188 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,079 Speaker 5: Oh well, I'm gonna tune out of your show here 189 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 5: and go listen to some ABBA and some dgs. 190 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,200 Speaker 3: We want you to send us a photo of you 191 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 3: in your leisure suit. That's what we want. I asked 192 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 3: David Cale in our newsroom to come back in because 193 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 3: tamer and I occasionally shop at Trader Joe's and apparently 194 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 3: there's a recall, David, of some stuff from Trader Joe's. 195 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 4: There has been a recall for a while, Michael, and 196 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 4: this is an expanded recall. 197 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,839 Speaker 3: Well apparently so because you took up almost all your newscasts, 198 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 3: is it, then, tell it's expanded by the number of 199 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 3: ingredients that are included with this fascinating me was it 200 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 3: wasn't just like some sort of like you know, terayati chicken. 201 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:12,480 Speaker 3: It was teraochti chicken that has very specific ingredients. 202 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: That's correct. 203 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 4: Well, the first thing was the Ajinamoto yakatory chicken. Oh, 204 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 4: one of my favorites, Japanese style fried rice, and then 205 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 4: the Trader Joe's chicken fried rice with stir fried rice vegetables, 206 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 4: seasoned dark chicken meat, and eggs. I think what I have. 207 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 3: In my I think it's the recall because I don't 208 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 3: want people to get sick. But holy cow, how are 209 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 3: we keep track of Maybe you should just take everything 210 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 3: from Trader Chos and just take it back to the store. 211 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think mine has chicken fried rice, stir fried rice, vegetables, 212 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 4: seasoned dark chicken meat, but I'm not sure mine has 213 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 4: the eggs in it. 214 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I might be. 215 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 3: Why don't you just go ahead and eat it tonight 216 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 3: and then if you're here tomorrow, we'll know it was okay, 217 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 3: And if you're not, we'll know that should put If. 218 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 4: I have glass shards in my tongue, I'll know that. 219 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:01,720 Speaker 3: You know. 220 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 4: I just try to Joe's right down the block from 221 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 4: me in the Governor's Park area as well. 222 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: So yeah, you might want to check that now. Hopefully 223 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 1: you know this. 224 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:12,680 Speaker 4: Stuff was shipped to stores back in the fall, so 225 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 4: you would think that it's not on the shelves. But 226 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 4: if you have, I would hope you have stuff at 227 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 4: Homie a freezer. Yeah, you might want to just be careful. 228 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 3: But I just appreciated your very thorough description. 229 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 4: And the item and you know, a National Wire story 230 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 4: and a little bit of cut and paste there, And 231 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 4: as I'm reading it live, I'm thinking, oh my god, 232 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 4: why didn't I why didn't I cut this down a 233 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 4: little bit? 234 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: Well, you know, quite honestly, I don't usually pay attention. 235 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 3: Just being honest here, I don't usually pay attention to 236 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 3: the news that you guys are doing because I'm getting 237 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 3: ready for the next segment. Sure, but I started hearing 238 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 3: because I'm like ready for lunch, and I started hearing 239 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 3: all these ingredients, and I'm thinking, holy cow, then you 240 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:51,440 Speaker 3: just recall everything in the store. 241 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 4: I guess we should put this up on the website 242 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 4: and transmit it. 243 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 1: Out on X. 244 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, it might be a good idea to get right 245 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 3: on that. Thanks for sticking around hi with me. I 246 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 3: appreciate that. That was I kept listening to that listen, 247 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 3: I'm thinking, holy cow, I just need to throw everything 248 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 3: from Trader Joe's out the window. 249 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: Holy molly. All right, I want you to think about it. 250 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 3: Here's where I want to bring you back to my 251 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 3: philosophical argument, because I think it's the one that will 252 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 3: outlast any news cycle, and it's the one that your neighbors, 253 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 3: maybe your friends, maybe even your family, didn't need to 254 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 3: understand when they ask you, why does the American left 255 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 3: seem to be on the wrong side of this? Because 256 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 3: the answer is not complicated. And honestly, I don't think 257 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:38,720 Speaker 3: it's about Iran. It's about who runs the world, the uranium, Mullahs, 258 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 3: the theocracy, the Islamis they want to run through a 259 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 3: global Islamis state. They weren't just interested in Iran, they 260 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 3: were interested in the whole project. A single centralized ideological, 261 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 3: uniform order is going to be enforced by a self 262 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 3: selected elite with no meaningful dissent permitted. That's not a 263 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 3: regional aspiration. That is a civilizational project. And then, as 264 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 3: I said, look at the EU, the European Union, Look 265 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 3: at what the administrative class in Washington wonder for the 266 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 3: last decade. Look at what the cultural movement demands. Not 267 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:18,160 Speaker 3: the same theology, obviously, but the same architecture, centralized authority, 268 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:24,360 Speaker 3: ideological conformity is a conditional participation, and then of course punishment, social, economic, 269 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 3: and eventual legal for anybody that steps outside the approved framework. 270 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: Now, all three of. 271 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: These projects require the same thing at the base. That's 272 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 3: that depressed, dependent population that doesn't trust itself enough to 273 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 3: govern itself, and therefore we need managers. Every tyranny ends 274 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 3: up with managers. Now, the most created that through theocratic 275 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:57,119 Speaker 3: repression and economic miseration. The EU does it through a 276 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:01,239 Speaker 3: regulatory capture and financial penalties. The American left does it 277 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 3: through cancelation, ideological gatekeeping. And as I said in the 278 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 3: last hour or the last segment, that if Susan Rice 279 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 3: and the Democrats get back into power, and what she 280 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 3: says is any guide prosecutions against the people, they don't 281 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 3: like different tactics, but you're going to the same place. 282 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 3: And that is why the last Western left has passing sympathy. Embarrassed, 283 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 3: carefully worded, try not to get too much of the 284 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,440 Speaker 3: stinsion themselves for a regime that stones women and hangs 285 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 3: gay guys from construction cranes. Not because they share the theology. 286 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:41,680 Speaker 3: As I said, it's the operating system. 287 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: Now. 288 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 3: One Iranian American professor in Portland put it better than 289 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 3: any pundit I've heard this week. She said to the 290 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 3: anti war protesters across from her quote, we know you're 291 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 3: tired of the United States getting involved in other countries, 292 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 3: but there is. It's nothing like the lived experience of 293 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,200 Speaker 3: a people. I hope you never know the sheer desperation 294 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:12,840 Speaker 3: of people praying to be bombed only to be free. 295 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 3: Read that back, praying to be bombed only to be free. 296 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 3: That's not a slogan, certainly not a talking point. That 297 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 3: is a forty seven year old verdict on what happens 298 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 3: when a globalist, centralized, theocratic elite decides it knows better 299 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 3: than the people that they control. And the reason this 300 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 3: matters to you, sitting wherever you're sitting listening to me, 301 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,159 Speaker 3: in a country that the Left is spent more than 302 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:46,479 Speaker 3: fifteen years now trying to reorganize exactly along those lines, 303 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 3: is that the Uranium people are not a different species. 304 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 3: They didn't have some defect in their national character that 305 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 3: made them susceptible to tyranny. They had a revolution to 306 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 3: God hijacked by an ideological elite who are absolutely certain 307 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 3: they knew the right way to organize human life. And 308 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 3: we have no tolerance whatsoever for any disagreement. Does that 309 00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:15,960 Speaker 3: sounds familiar to you as to me? Information control, restricted mobility, 310 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 3: economic dependency engineered by the state. Listen to that again, 311 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:26,480 Speaker 3: information control, the cabal restricted mobility, oh, fifteen minute cities 312 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 3: or anything like that, or you know, only evs economic 313 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 3: dependency engineered by the state. The social safety net sounds 314 00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:44,280 Speaker 3: really nice, doesn't it. Taxes, regulatory control, endless mandatory rituals 315 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 3: designed to signal your submission to the now approved worldview. 316 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:56,720 Speaker 3: The Mullas call it islam. Our left calls it diversity, 317 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 3: equity and inclusion. The iraning people inside Iran, dancing on 318 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 3: the rooftops in the dark, risking arrest for honking a horn, 319 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 3: or showing the world what happens at the end of 320 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 3: that road and what it feels like. When somebody finally 321 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 3: tears the door off, watch them, because they are us, 322 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,439 Speaker 3: that is, if we let it get that far. And 323 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 3: the next time somebody asks you what you think about 324 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 3: the bombing of Iran, ask them this first, where were 325 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 3: you in January when the Molus killed thirty six thousand 326 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 3: of their own people for simply asking to be free. 327 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,000 Speaker 3: If they didn't have an answer, then they're not going 328 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 3: to have an answer. 329 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:40,920 Speaker 1: Now. 330 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 3: This is the true overall arching global activity that is 331 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 3: taking place in the Middle East right now. 332 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: So where does this go? I don't know. 333 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 3: I don't know where it's going to go. But think 334 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 3: about what happened in January of this year, just two 335 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 3: months ago. The Iranian economy was in free fall, the 336 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 3: real had collapsed, merchants and shopkeepers. That's when they took 337 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 3: to the streets in Tehran, and then it spread within 338 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 3: two weeks to have become a full scale uprising. It 339 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 3: was in every thirty one provinces in Iran, millions in 340 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 3: the streets. So that's when they decided, oh, first thing 341 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,000 Speaker 3: we got to do, we got to control the population. 342 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 3: Thirty six thousand killed in that crackdown, the bloodiest suppression 343 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 3: of descent in the history of the Islamic Republic. They 344 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:44,080 Speaker 3: called it the Lion and Sun Revolution. The Mollahs called 345 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:48,439 Speaker 3: it a foreign conspiracy and then just shot it dead. 346 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 3: So when people ask whether this military operation was justified, 347 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 3: I want you to remember that number, thirty six thousand 348 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 3: of their own citizens killed for wanting to live like 349 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 3: human beings, and it was just two months ago. On 350 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,240 Speaker 3: February twenty seven, just a few days ago, Oman's foreign 351 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 3: minister said a breakthrough had been reached that Iran had 352 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 3: agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium to full iaa verification 353 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:21,639 Speaker 3: and irreversibly downgrade its current nuclear material The next day 354 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 3: the bombs fell. Was that the right call? I think 355 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,359 Speaker 3: that is a legitimate debate. But here's what nobody who's 356 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 3: criticizing the timing will tell you. Secretary of State Rubio 357 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 3: explained that Israel was already planning its own strike on Iran, 358 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 3: and if the United States had not gone in preemptively, 359 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 3: American forces would have faced higher casualties when Iran retaliated 360 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 3: against the Israeli action. You can argue about that decision, 361 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,239 Speaker 3: you can argue about what he meant, but you can 362 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:54,480 Speaker 3: pretend that the threat wasn't already there. Donald Trump two 363 00:23:54,560 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 3: thy eleven, sitting in his office in New York Trump Tower, 364 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 3: doing an interview with somebody talking about Iran, and he 365 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,600 Speaker 3: keeps talking about they can never have nukes because it 366 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 3: will be the destruction of Western civilization. 367 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: So this isn't something new. 368 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:24,440 Speaker 3: He tried diplomacy, he went through the diplomatic channels. And 369 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 3: now what's happened is they have, actually, the Iranians have 370 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 3: now expanded that to a full blown situation where, oh huh, 371 00:24:38,119 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 3: almost the entirely the Middle East has now coalesced as 372 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:53,240 Speaker 3: one against a common enemy. Day five. We have only 373 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 3: just begun. That quote belongs to Pete Hags and he 374 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 3: delivered it without without apology. This morning, he said in 375 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 3: a press conference, I stand before you today with one 376 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:12,919 Speaker 3: unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury. Americ is winning decisively, devastatingly, 377 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:20,159 Speaker 3: and without mercy. Cain, said Raging Cajun, chairman of the 378 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 3: Joint Chiefs, said Sentcom Central Command is making steady progress 379 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:31,000 Speaker 3: and outline the three military objectives, target and eliminate Iran's 380 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 3: ballistic missile systems, destroy the Iranian Navy, and ensure that 381 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 3: Iran cannot rapidly rebuild or reconstitute its combat capability. He 382 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,760 Speaker 3: announced that the operation has destroyed more than twenty Iranian 383 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 3: Navy vessels, one submarine, and is effectively neutralized at this 384 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 3: point in time Iran's major naval presence in the theater. Now, 385 00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 3: as you probably heard in the news earlier, the submarine 386 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 3: kill is the headline that knew. What I don't think 387 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,840 Speaker 3: is getting enough attention. Jigs has said that an American 388 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 3: submarine sank an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. Quote 389 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 3: that thought it that thought it was safe in international waters. 390 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 1: Caine didn't dress it up. 391 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 3: This was the first sinking of an enemy warship by 392 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,439 Speaker 3: an American torpedo since World War II. 393 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,400 Speaker 1: Just let that sink in pun intended. 394 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 3: We just did something that hasn't happened since nineteen forty five. 395 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 3: The United States Navy used a torpedo in combat for 396 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 3: the first time in eighty one years. We have now 397 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 3: hit more than two thousand targets in Iran, including command 398 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 3: and control centers, ballistic missile sites, Iranian Navy ships and submarines, 399 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 3: and the IRGC headquarters. And then Kane revealed the full 400 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,600 Speaker 3: operational sequence. Trump gave the final go ahead Friday afternoon, 401 00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 3: three thirty eight. Operation epic theory is approved. Nolla Bord's 402 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 3: good luck closed close before the first bomb fell. US 403 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 3: Cyber Command and the Based Force conducted cyber operations to 404 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 3: disrupt and blind Iran's ability to see, communicate, and respond. 405 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 3: And then at nine forty five in the morning Tehran time, 406 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 3: more than one hundred aircraft launched from land and sea 407 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 3: as electronic attack bombers and unmanned platforms formed a single 408 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 3: synchronized wave. And that sequence matters, and I think It's 409 00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 3: important to understand our capabilities because to the extent that 410 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,320 Speaker 3: we have these capabilities. Go back to my story about 411 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 3: China in the last hour. These are our capabilities. This 412 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 3: is what the Chinese Communist Party wants. The cyber attack 413 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 3: that we imposed preceded the kinetic attack. Iran's early warning 414 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 3: systems were scrambled before the first missile hit. That's why 415 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:54,040 Speaker 3: the initial leadership kills were so catastrophically effective. Iran literally 416 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 3: could not see it coming. And then Hegzath delivered several 417 00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 3: lines this morning that are worth quoting at length because 418 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 3: they signal intent, not just status. Iran will be able 419 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 3: to do nothing about it. Death and destruction from the 420 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 3: sky all day law. We're playing for keeps, he says. 421 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 3: Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to 422 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 3: unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant 423 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 3: to be a fair fight, and it is not a 424 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 3: fair fight. But we are punching them while they are down, 425 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 3: which is exactly how it should be. More and larger 426 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 3: waves are coming. We are just getting started. We are accelerating, 427 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 3: not decelerating, so on timetable, and I think this is important. 428 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 3: Hagsath explicitly extended the potential timeline. The only limits we 429 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 3: have in this is President Trump's to desire, his desire 430 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 3: to achieve specific effects on behalf of the American people. 431 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 3: You can say four weeks, but it could be six, 432 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 3: it could be eight, it could be three. Ultimately, we 433 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 3: the United States sets the pace and the tempo. The 434 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 3: enemy is off balance and we're going to keep them 435 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 3: off balance. I would say that four weeks is no 436 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 3: longer a governing estimate. It could be eight. The phrase 437 00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:20,560 Speaker 3: that we set the pace is a deliberate message not 438 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 3: just to Tehran or to the Gulf States, but also 439 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 3: to Congress and to the markets. This ends on our terms, 440 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 3: It doesn't end on a calendar. He said that the 441 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 3: US and Israel will control the Iranian skies in less 442 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:43,959 Speaker 3: than a week. That's a specific, falsifiable claim. Either they 443 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 3: control the Iranian airspace by next Tuesday, or they don't 444 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 3: write it down, because if they do, it is the 445 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 3: most complete air superiority achievement over a country of almost 446 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 3: ninety million people in the history of modern warfare. I 447 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,480 Speaker 3: got to mention ground troops. Hages has held the door 448 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 3: open without walking through it. No, but we're not going 449 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 3: to go into the exercise of what will or of 450 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:16,080 Speaker 3: what we will or will not do, and then ask 451 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 3: directly about boots on the ground. It's one of those 452 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:23,560 Speaker 3: fallacies that this Department, or this president or any president 453 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 3: should tell our enemies exactly what we're willing. 454 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: To do and not to do. 455 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 3: It's foolishness, and that is the correct answer. Strategic ambiguity 456 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:38,320 Speaker 3: is a feature, not a bug. And then he delivered 457 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,440 Speaker 3: what I think is probably the cleanest summary of the 458 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 3: entire legal and moral justification for this operation. Iran had 459 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 3: a conventional gun to our head as they tried to 460 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 3: lie their way to a nuclear bomb. Twelve words. Put 461 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 3: that on a bumper sticker. That is the argument to 462 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,480 Speaker 3: the American people in a single sentence. 463 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:04,720 Speaker 1: Now, he went on to. 464 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 3: Describe it in greater detail that they were building up 465 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,440 Speaker 3: all of the ballistic missiles and the short range of 466 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 3: the long range missiles, the drones and everything else to 467 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,720 Speaker 3: do what to build up an impenetrable wall. So while 468 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 3: they're not an Oman talking to us about, well, we 469 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 3: might agree to this or that. No, we're going to 470 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 3: continue to build our nuclear capability at the time that 471 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 3: they're telling us and trying to drag out the negotiations. 472 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 3: They continued to build that wall, and build that wall 473 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 3: with money and equipment from the Chinese Communist Party. Trump 474 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,320 Speaker 3: knew that that's what was going on, and Trump knew 475 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 3: that he had to bring it to a halt. And 476 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 3: when the intelligence said, hey, we know for a fact 477 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,760 Speaker 3: they're all getting together for a breakfast buffet in the morning, 478 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 3: boom lower the boom. I think this has been the 479 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 3: most strategically from a strategic point of view and an 480 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:13,200 Speaker 3: operational point of view, one of the most amazing acts 481 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 3: of combat operations and combat strategy as. 482 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,560 Speaker 1: We've seen in our lifetimes. 483 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 3: So for all the Democrats on the hill arguing about, 484 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 3: you know, the More Powers Act of nineteen seventy three, 485 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 3: or the powers of the Presidency under Article two, you 486 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 3: know what, just shut up and sit down. America is 487 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 3: at war and our allies are beginning to expose themselves, 488 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 3: some for the good in the Middle East and some 489 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 3: the weak sisters we always knew them to be in Europe.