1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: The Jesse Kelly Shoe, another hour of the Jesse Kelly 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: Show on a magnificent, fantastic Tuesday, two hours away from 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: a State of the Union. 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 2: We're a half hour away from Brandon Wikert. He's gonna 5 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 2: talk to us about Iran. What are we doing over there? 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 2: What are Iran's capabilities? Should we be worried about something? 7 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:23,319 Speaker 2: All that, and so much more still to come. We 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 2: have Selena Zito in the fire final hour. So much 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 2: to it to come on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: Now Trump and you never know really why he's saying 11 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 2: what he's saying, but well, here's the headline from town Hall. 12 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 2: Trump predicts the Supreme Court could rule against his birthright 13 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:47,279 Speaker 2: citizenship case after the tariff ruling. So let's break all 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: this down in a very simple way. Supreme Court just 15 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 2: ruled hard against Donald Trump and his tariffs. That's a 16 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 2: signature policy of Donald Trump. He did not take it well, 17 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: as you can am. No president would. And so that 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 2: leads us to another thing. I have told you before. 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,679 Speaker 2: I believe the case of birthright citizenship. I believe it 20 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 2: is the most important thing that has ever come before 21 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court in the United States of America. We 22 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 2: have a fourteenth Amendment. That fourteenth Amendment was for freed slaves, 23 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 2: ensuring that freed slaves were given what they are one 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 2: hundred percent obligated to one hundred percent citizenship in citizenship rights. 25 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 2: And everyone knew that's what the fourteenth Amendment was about. 26 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 2: The entire thing was about freed slaves. But because of 27 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 2: our insanely broken legal system, broken judges, broken lawyers, broken everything, 28 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: somehow along the way they twisted the Fourteenth Amendment to 29 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 2: meaning anyone who has a baby in America, regardless of 30 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: citizenship status of the mother. If the baby is born 31 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 2: in America, that baby is automatically given citizenship a Social 32 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 2: Security number. Essentially, that baby gets a share of your 33 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:20,480 Speaker 2: birthright as an American citizen. If you're an American. I 34 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 2: realize people are listening to me from all over the world. 35 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:29,960 Speaker 2: That is bonkers, and everybody knows it's bonkers. But it 36 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 2: has been exploited by foreigners for ages. You've probably heard 37 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 2: terms in the past like chain migration, But why is 38 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 2: that even a thing? Well, I'm here, but let me 39 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,239 Speaker 2: let me see if I can sponsor my third cousin's 40 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 2: mother's brother and that Why it's a thing is people 41 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:54,320 Speaker 2: come over here in droves, they bring their relatives here, 42 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: they start crapping out kids, and they're all American citizens. 43 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:04,919 Speaker 2: So if mom and dad are both illegal, it doesn't matter. 44 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 2: Little baby one is an American citizen. That's crazy. You 45 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:13,839 Speaker 2: cannot have a country this way. And the reason it's 46 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 2: such a huge deal is the problem of foreigners invading 47 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 2: the country gets exponentially worse every single year. We are 48 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:27,640 Speaker 2: in a race against the clock that we may not 49 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: be able to defeat if we can't get enough people 50 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 2: deported because they're having babies. Even if you told me 51 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: right now, the Trump administration was going to hit let's 52 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 2: call it ten million deportations if we include self deportations. 53 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 2: That's probably a realistic number. Hopefully it's more than that. 54 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 2: But by the end of Trump's four years, let's say 55 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: they hit ten million self deport well, deportations in general, 56 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,960 Speaker 2: self people we deport. Sounds good, right, and it is good. However, 57 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 2: how many of those ten million over the course of 58 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: the next four years have managed to have or make 59 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: babies here in the United States of America. Well, deport 60 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 2: mom and dad all you want back to Nigeria. That 61 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 2: baby is an American citizen now, and then that baby, 62 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 2: as an American citizen, grows up to have other babies 63 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: American citizens who have other babies American citizens. Soon you 64 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 2: have a country of foreigners. You could argue, certainly in 65 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 2: certain places like the Blue Areas were already there where 66 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 2: armies of foreigners decide elections. Do I need to remind 67 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 2: you why Zooran Mandani is the mayor of New York City. Remember, 68 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: American born New Yorkers rejected him outright. They wanted nothing 69 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:54,400 Speaker 2: to do with Zooran Mandani. Yet he comfortably waltzed into 70 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 2: the mayor's chair because foreigners, an army of them, marched 71 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 2: to the polls in put Kim there. We've already lost 72 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 2: parts of the country to foreigners. This is not a 73 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: small deal. It won't be treated like a big deal 74 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 2: by enough people just because people don't understand what is 75 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 2: happening and why the Communists have brought in these foreigners. 76 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 2: People don't want to understand and accept it. But if 77 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 2: the Supreme Court actually is going to rule on this, 78 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 2: it's a huge deal. And you know me, I don't 79 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 2: oversell the importance little of any political win or lost. 80 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,000 Speaker 2: Do I have ever done that to you? I don't 81 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: do that. Ah, this is everything. The midterms are everything. 82 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 2: Without it, all is lost. The presidential election has everything. 83 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 2: Without it, all is lost. I've never said that, and 84 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 2: it's not true. There are a thousand battles to fight 85 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 2: in this war of ours. We will win some and 86 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 2: we will lose some. You want to win more than 87 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,119 Speaker 2: you lose. But some battles are of a much greater 88 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 2: importance than others. And how the Supreme Court decides on 89 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 2: this case is not everything either. I wouldn't say that 90 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 2: to you, but it's going to be on the top 91 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 2: five list for most important battles we have to fight 92 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 2: because you're facing an enemy that is multiplying every single year, 93 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 2: and they're legal. We have to start to tackle legal immigration. 94 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:40,359 Speaker 2: What Chris Chris said, Do I trust the justices on 95 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:44,719 Speaker 2: our side? Of course not? Of course not. We've got 96 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 2: what three reliable justices on our side. Now. Look, Communists 97 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,119 Speaker 2: view their position on the Supreme Court, really any court 98 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,720 Speaker 2: there in. They view their position there as an opportunity 99 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 2: to move the revolution forward. You never ever, ever, ever, ever, 100 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 2: ever ever have to worry about which way Katanji Brown 101 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 2: Jackson is going to vote. It'll have nothing to do 102 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 2: with the law or the Constitution or anything else. She 103 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:16,559 Speaker 2: will vote to move the communist revolution forward every single time, 104 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 2: and twice on Sunday. That's why she was put there. However, 105 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: whenever you get someone on the right on the Supreme Court, 106 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 2: someone the Republican President nominates, you have to sit and 107 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 2: stress about how they're going to interpret this. They put 108 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 2: warriors on the court and we put originalists. They just 109 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 2: care us about the Constitution. And look, I love originalism, 110 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 2: I love the Constitution. But if you interpret it in 111 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 2: a way that it screws us every time from stopping 112 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: the communists, that's a big deal. John Roberts, the Chief Justice, 113 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 2: coming up with some kakamemi convoluted excuse to not overturn Obamacare, 114 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 2: which was so insanely unconstitutional, just beyond belief. But of 115 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 2: course he had to twist himself and the knots to 116 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 2: screw us over so he didn't have to repeal Obama, well, 117 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 2: not repeal but basically strike down Obamacare. No, I'm not 118 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 2: confident at all and not trying to stress you out, 119 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 2: but this will be one that your Norman neighbors don't 120 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 2: pay attention to or care about. It's a big, big, 121 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 2: big deal, A big deal. I mean, these people are multiplying. 122 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 3: And unfortunately these days we don't repeat this enough, or 123 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:38,679 Speaker 3: we don't we don't have this APPI the concept firm 124 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:47,319 Speaker 3: in our minds that Islam did not come to coexist Islam, Islam, 125 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:49,520 Speaker 3: your Lam and Islam. 126 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, and Islam is raised high and nothing is raised 127 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 4: above Islam. We can't think of Islam that it came 128 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,760 Speaker 4: to live with these other religions in the sense that 129 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 4: Islam is a religion amongst those religions, and they have 130 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 4: a share with the truth, and they have a share 131 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 4: of justice, and they have a share of you. 132 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 3: Know, this worship of the correct, worship. 133 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: Of a lost title time. 134 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:13,719 Speaker 3: Islam came to correct all of that. 135 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 4: Islam came to remove the oppression of all those religions. 136 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 4: And it is the only truth and it is the 137 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 4: only way to justice. 138 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,439 Speaker 2: Muslim called a prayer every day in dearborn Michigan. That 139 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 2: was in Chicago. By the way, he wasn't giving that 140 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 2: speech in Iran. You hear this. David Hawk did this 141 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 2: with Nick Shirley. I want to make sure they get 142 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 2: the credit for all this whole thing. But talking about 143 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 2: Somali's listen to this twenty million in four years. 144 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 5: What happened was this fraud framework is they brought the 145 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 5: Somalis in because they had a guaranteed voting block for 146 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 5: all eternity, and they all vote Democrat. And they'll say 147 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:55,719 Speaker 5: they have nine people living in an apartment and guess what, 148 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 5: the state sends them nine ballots. There's no verification. This 149 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 5: is like the Wild West, and it's destroying Minnesota's destroying country. 150 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 2: Democrats didn't bring in twenty million foreigners by accident. They 151 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 2: did it on purpose. They created an app for their 152 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 2: phones so they could schedule their invasion of the country. 153 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: This Supreme Court case is one of the most important 154 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 2: battles we will ever have. You could argue easily it's 155 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 2: more important than the next presidential election and the midterms combined. 156 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 2: And I don't know which way it's going to go. 157 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 2: I do know this. We have a bunch of very dirty, 158 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:36,080 Speaker 2: violent people in our society, and you better have a 159 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 2: plan to stop one if you run into them. Nice. 160 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Show On a fantastic, wonderful Tuesday, 161 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: Jesse at. 162 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:50,800 Speaker 2: Jesse kellyshow dot com. That is the email address. Send 163 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 2: your love, send your hate, send your death threats. Speaking 164 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 2: of thief in the night, Speaking of foreigners, did you 165 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 2: hear this? Somali? We have suffering stat for Ice. We 166 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 2: want to whoever bring over here. We want to davey only. 167 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. 168 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 2: I'm asking our governor and I want to see. I 169 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,400 Speaker 2: swear my life. This is English. 170 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 3: They say, yeah, Text, we need biing back whatever they 171 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 3: committed Ice. 172 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 4: Thank you, m. 173 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, we definitely need more of those people in the 174 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: country for sure. I feel enriched. Hey, Jesse, as a 175 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 2: fellow men, you whisper, I feel obliged to slide this 176 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 2: suggestion your way if you weren't already aware. Popeyes recently 177 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 2: brought back their Cajun flounder sandwich, so I swung by 178 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,839 Speaker 2: since it's been a few years since they carried it. 179 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 2: It puts Mick D's filet of fish to shame. If 180 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: you get it, substitute the fried pickles for fries. Listen, 181 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 2: but I love me some Popeye's chicken I do. I 182 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 2: like the spicy chicken. I like the Cajun fries. I've 183 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 2: explained to you before that Popeye's blackened ranch is one 184 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 2: of the underrated condiments. Well, you know you can buy 185 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 2: it by the bottle, buy it by the bottle. How 186 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,439 Speaker 2: do I know this? Because I do buy it by 187 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: the bottle. Anyway, I'm a Popeyes fan. Don't take this 188 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 2: any other way. And I don't know that I would 189 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 2: get fish from Popeyes. And have you been into Popeyes? 190 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 2: Have you? Have you had personal interactions with with the 191 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:43,200 Speaker 2: people who work in Popeyes? Have you when you're standing 192 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 2: in line at Popeye's, have you taken a moment to 193 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 2: look around at the other clientele? Now do you think 194 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 2: this is the kind of place where you should pick 195 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 2: up some fish? What? Chris? What? All right? Chris brought 196 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:05,200 Speaker 2: up a good point. You don't achieve greatness without some risk. 197 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 2: That's a very fair point. But look, I'm not a 198 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,280 Speaker 2: fish man. As you know. I will eat a McDonald's 199 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 2: filet of fish because I'm an American, But I'm not 200 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 2: a fish fish man. I don't think I would get 201 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 2: the fish in Popeyes. I just I don't think I would. 202 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 2: I would you would you buy sushi from Taco Bell? 203 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 2: You know I'm a t Bell guy. I'm mister t Bell. 204 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 2: Still a shame they took away the Mexi melt, but 205 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 2: that's another story. Would you get sushi from there? Have 206 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,440 Speaker 2: you been in t Bell? I wouldn't, Dear menu Master, 207 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 2: thanks to you for clarifying you've been on a male 208 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,679 Speaker 2: vitality stack for a while. We'd only think you were 209 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 2: on a female stack if you did something gay like 210 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 2: order ice cream from a bar. Anyway, he said, regarding 211 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 2: your discussion the other day, which one would you rather 212 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 2: see raising the voting age or repeal the Nineteenth Amendment? 213 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 2: Your thoughts. Here's my thing on voting. It should be 214 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,840 Speaker 2: greatly restricted. How you restrict it, I don't care. Look, 215 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: it's fun to joke about the Nineteenth Amendment. It really is, 216 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,280 Speaker 2: and obviously it would save the country, but let's set 217 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 2: that aside. I just want strict restrictions. That's probably not 218 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 2: the right way to put that, but I want restrictions 219 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: on who can vote. It's insane to think you can 220 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:36,080 Speaker 2: preserve a free country, a constitutional republic by allowing everyone 221 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,680 Speaker 2: to vote who happens to live to the age of eighteen. 222 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 2: That's nuts, and the founders knew that to be nuts. 223 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:46,800 Speaker 2: Did it ever occur to all these nice people today 224 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 2: who don't want to tell no anybody no that the 225 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 2: men who created this wonderful, free country in which we live, 226 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 2: the men who wrote the Constitution, the men who wrote 227 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 2: the Bill of Rights, they didn't want to to vote, 228 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 2: and they didn't allow everyone to vote. That's not a 229 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 2: thing that was ever even considered. I couldn't imagine sitting 230 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 2: down with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and explaining to them, Hey, 231 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 2: this wonderful country, I want you to know that one 232 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 2: day everyone who lives to see eighteen will get to 233 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:25,360 Speaker 2: vote for who runs it. They would they wouldn't even 234 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 2: think it was possible. They would laugh at you. They 235 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 2: would laugh in your face at the very idea of that. 236 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 2: And what those restrictions should be, I'm not sure because 237 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 2: I just want some Is it going to be only 238 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 2: property owners? I don't know what that's that's been thrown around? 239 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 2: Fine with that, if that's the way you want to go. 240 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 2: Should we greatly restrict the age limit on it? Meaning ay, no, no, 241 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 2: not eighteen, how about thirty thirty five? Then you can 242 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 2: vote to see who runs the Look, there's an argument 243 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 2: to be made there. I don't know which way you 244 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 2: want to go. But I know there's a reason Democrats 245 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,360 Speaker 2: they never try to push it seriously because there's always 246 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,640 Speaker 2: pushback on it. But there's a reason Democrats are always 247 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 2: trying to lower the voting age. I think you should 248 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 2: vote at sixteen. Why do you think they want that? 249 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 2: Because sixteen year olds know so much about how the 250 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 2: government should be run. There's a reason Democrats want more 251 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 2: people voting no ID every sixteen year old because they 252 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 2: know the people who are dumb will vote for Democrats 253 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 2: every single time. All right, Brandon Wiker is going to 254 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 2: join us next. I have many questions about Iran. What 255 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 2: are we doing, why are we doing it? What can 256 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 2: Iran do to us? They can they actually hurt us? 257 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 2: Did they have that ability? We'll do a breakdown of 258 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 2: this next. 259 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Tuesday, 260 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: an hour and a half from the State of the Union. 261 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 2: But we should probably discuss the gigantic armada we have 262 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 2: parked outside of Iran right now. What is happening, Why 263 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,679 Speaker 2: is it happening? What are the potential dangers? Anyway? You know, 264 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 2: we always rely on Brandon Wiker to break so much 265 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 2: of this stuff down for us. He's so good at that. 266 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 2: Brandon Wikert authors so many books. One of his books 267 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 2: is The Shadow War about Iran, and Brandon of course 268 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 2: joins us. Now, okay, Brandon, first, we have a little 269 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 2: bit here. What kind of hardware do we have over there? 270 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 6: So we've got the largest build up since two thousand 271 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:42,680 Speaker 6: and three, which of course was the invasion of Iraq. 272 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 6: We've got a massive number of US Air Force assets, 273 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 6: not just the warplanes like the F thirty five, but 274 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 6: we've got lots of logistics planes flying in and they 275 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 6: keep flying in, which you know, for your experience in 276 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 6: the military, I'm sure you know that that usually means 277 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 6: something's getting ready to pop off. And then we have 278 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:11,560 Speaker 6: the Navy, and the Navy has the USS Abraham Lincoln, 279 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 6: which is sort of the prime was the primary carrier 280 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 6: for this mission. They've ducked behind the Mountains of Oman 281 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 6: in the Arabian Sea, which, in the case to me, 282 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,359 Speaker 6: they are in a strike position and they're going to 283 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 6: try to use those mountains as cover against any Iranian 284 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 6: anti ship ballistic missiles or drones or hypersonic weapons that 285 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 6: might be fired at the Abraham Lincoln in retaliation for 286 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 6: any air strike. And then recently we have the thirteen 287 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 6: billion dollar world's largest, most advanced, supposedly USS gerald R Ford, 288 00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 6: which is the namesake of its class. It's the newest 289 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 6: class of aircraft carrier that has entered into the Mediterranean 290 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,159 Speaker 6: and is supposed to be basically on station off the 291 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 6: coast of Israel, where it was supposed to be serving 292 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:12,199 Speaker 6: as sort of an air defense platform against any Iranian 293 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:15,919 Speaker 6: missiles that might be fired toward Israel. But the problem is, 294 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,359 Speaker 6: as I'm sure you've heard, it's backed up full of poop, 295 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 6: and so I don't know, maybe the Ford is planning 296 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,640 Speaker 6: to fling some of that excess sewage at Iran at 297 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 6: this point. But there's a bit of a complication there 298 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 6: because the Ford was brought in specifically because the administration 299 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 6: is worried that the Arabs will either be unwilling or 300 00:19:40,119 --> 00:19:44,920 Speaker 6: unable to assist in shooting down any potential Iranian retaliation 301 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 6: in the form of those missiles, hypersonic weapons and drone swarms. 302 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 6: So the Ford was being brought in to kind of 303 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 6: replace or augment what the Arabs might not be able 304 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 6: to do. But it's a massive amount of firepower, lots 305 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:01,240 Speaker 6: of air power, which indicates to me that as early 306 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 6: as the State of the Union tonight, Trump might start 307 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 6: dropping bombs. 308 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 2: Okay, but just I have so much I want to 309 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 2: get to here with Brandon Wiker, Let's let me ask 310 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 2: this one before we move on to other things. Ground 311 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 2: assets for us. You know exactly what I'm talking about. 312 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 2: I understand we have a lot of air power, a 313 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,000 Speaker 2: lot of naval power. We have a lot of missiles 314 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,879 Speaker 2: and planes. Okay, do we have ground units. I'm trying 315 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 2: to gauge what exactly we might be doing in Iran 316 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 2: or to Iran. 317 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 6: Well, I know for a fact that Israel has assets 318 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 6: on the ground in Iran. In fact, they've pretty much 319 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 6: been there continuously since last summer of the Twelve Day War. 320 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 6: I am. I can't confirm, and I don't know if 321 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 6: i'd want to, but I'm pretty sure we probably have 322 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 6: small groups on the ground and key areas in Iran. 323 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 6: But even if we didn't, the Israelis are on site 324 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,959 Speaker 6: and they've been embedded for a lot long time. So 325 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 6: I'm sure that any assisting of air strikes and whatnot, 326 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 6: if we don't have anybody there on the ground, I'm 327 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 6: sure the Israelis could facilitate that, but I'm sure we do. 328 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,520 Speaker 6: And in terms of the troops, I don't know if 329 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 6: you've been seeing this, but Trump has been for the 330 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 6: last six weeks or so drastically withdrawing and repositioning forces 331 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,200 Speaker 6: that were already in the Middle East, moving them out 332 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 6: of bases in Syria and other parts of Iraq and 333 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 6: moving them either out of the region entirely or moving 334 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,880 Speaker 6: them to more hardened positions in places like your Bill, 335 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 6: which is the sort of unofficial capital in northern Iraq 336 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 6: of the Kurdish Iraqi group that has long been aligned 337 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 6: with US. So clearly he is preparing. Trump is for 338 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:59,200 Speaker 6: not only striking Iran, but for the inevitable fusillade of missiles, 339 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 6: hypersonic weapons, and drones which will number in the thousands 340 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:08,199 Speaker 6: in a worst case scenario, fired at US military facilities 341 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 6: in the region, at Arab partners, their oil industry, at Israel, 342 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 6: and at US carriers. 343 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 2: Okay, that leads me perfectly into my next question. All 344 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 2: these missiles you just mentioned, the Abraham Lincoln is hiding 345 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 2: behind some mountains, what do we believe? I mean, you 346 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 2: always get these stupid threats from all these Arab leaders 347 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 2: we're going to strike the Great suitin blah blah blah 348 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 2: blah blah. But what do we believe they're actually capable 349 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 2: of realistically? What can Iran do to us? 350 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 6: Well, the Iranians are being assisted by both the Russians 351 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 6: and the Chinese. Now, in the case of those anti 352 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 6: ship ballistic missiles, they're very advanced, and the Iranians have 353 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:58,479 Speaker 6: large numbers of them, and they are being helped along 354 00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 6: by China's Yalgon satellite constellation and other Chinese satellites that 355 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 6: are basically in real time keeping an eye at all 356 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 6: times on the carriers, notably the USS Abraham Lincoln, and 357 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 6: that information is being relayed to the missile operators in Iran. 358 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,560 Speaker 6: For those anti ship ballistic missiles, which means that they 359 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:28,199 Speaker 6: have a very significant chance of at least damaging the 360 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 6: flight deck of the carrier in question. There's also the 361 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 6: added threat of a swarming attack. So my Navy friends 362 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 6: have been kind of getting on me for some of 363 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,680 Speaker 6: my reportings, saying you don't understand the carriers not alone, 364 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,120 Speaker 6: blah blah blah. But what I keep saying is, look, 365 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 6: they've got so many missiles and so many anti ship 366 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,520 Speaker 6: systems that and so many drones that what they could 367 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:55,120 Speaker 6: possibly do is fire basically a large, you know, swarm 368 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 6: at once that will force the carrier and its attendant 369 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 6: battlegroup to focus on deflecting that. Meanwhile, Iran's AIP diesel 370 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 6: submarine basically quietly nudges itself into torpedo range, and as 371 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 6: the carrier is focused on deflecting those missiles and hypersonics 372 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 6: and drones, the god Air class or the Photagh class 373 00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 6: rather submarine that Iran has could quietly pop off a 374 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 6: couple of torpedoes at the carrier. And the problem is 375 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:33,560 Speaker 6: that the carriers throughout history, now we've done war games 376 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 6: with diesel against diesel electric submarines, and these older submarines 377 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 6: actually pose a very real threat to the carrier because 378 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 6: we can't detect them. They're too quiet and they're too small, 379 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,120 Speaker 6: and they sometimes managed to break through our electromagnetic scanning 380 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 6: that we do with aircraft that's part of the carriers defenses. 381 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 6: So it's a real threat, especially if they're preoccupied defending 382 00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 6: against those missile and drone swarms, and submarine pops up 383 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 6: and tries to pop off some of these torpedoes at 384 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,400 Speaker 6: the carrier. 385 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,360 Speaker 2: Speaking with Brandon Wiker. Brandon, do you have ten more 386 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 2: minutes for us? I just I have more questions. Okay, 387 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 2: we are going to take a break a little bit 388 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,119 Speaker 2: early because I want to come back and give him 389 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 2: all the time he needs. We are going to be 390 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,320 Speaker 2: back with Brandon Whikert breaking all this stuff down. Hang 391 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 2: on is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Tuesday. Member, 392 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,160 Speaker 2: You can email us Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com 393 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 2: your love, your hate, your death threats. Back to our 394 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 2: national security guy, Brandon Wikert talking about Iran's capabilities. Okay, 395 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 2: so you just mentioned they're old, small, crappy subs that 396 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 2: apparently we're going to have a difficult time detecting navy wise. 397 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,400 Speaker 2: What can they do? What can't they do? Because our 398 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,960 Speaker 2: navy is so big and so advanced. Surely we can 399 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 2: just sweep them off the seas. 400 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 6: Right, Well, certainly we can. And ultimately, if it's a 401 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 6: straight up conventional fight, yeah, we're we're gonna be able 402 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 6: to knock them out. We also have to bear in 403 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,280 Speaker 6: mind that this weekend the Israelis were supposed to initiate 404 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 6: strikes and they held off at the last minute, because 405 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 6: they were very worried about what Huckabe's comments to Tucker 406 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,320 Speaker 6: Carlson were going to do to the Arabs, and of 407 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 6: course the Arabs were apoplectic over those comments, and so 408 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,439 Speaker 6: now this is why they held off. But part of 409 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 6: any I think any early strike package, either for the 410 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,639 Speaker 6: Israelis or the US, would be to target Iranian naval 411 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 6: bases in order to degrade their naval capacities, such as 412 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 6: it is. Ultimately, of course, I believe most of Iran's 413 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 6: nable assets are already at sea, and I suspect they 414 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:48,439 Speaker 6: are already lined up, not for engaging directly in conflict 415 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,119 Speaker 6: with our navy, because that would be insane, but to 416 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 6: blockade the Straight of Hormouse. Now, I spoke with the 417 00:26:55,840 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 6: retired navy captain who commanded one of our submarine for 418 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 6: many years. He tells me that this is not to 419 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,479 Speaker 6: be worried about, because he's sure the skippers of the 420 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,639 Speaker 6: submarines that are already in the region for US have 421 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 6: been training and practicing to break up any Iranian potential 422 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,119 Speaker 6: blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which is one of 423 00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 6: the world's seven most important oil choke points. But as 424 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 6: I said to him, even if it is a temporary closure, 425 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,959 Speaker 6: that could potentially destabilize the price of oil, spike it 426 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 6: rather and destabilize the world economy, with real political implications 427 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 6: here in the US as we enter the midterms. But 428 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 6: the Navy could probably, yes, eventually overcome any blockade. But 429 00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:44,919 Speaker 6: the Iranians aren't going to engage US conventionally. They're not 430 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 6: going to do a direct line of attack on us. 431 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 6: They're going to try to do things like what I 432 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 6: mentioned before the break, trying to distract the carrier with 433 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 6: these missile swarms while there diesel electric submarine maybe gets 434 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 6: in for a lucky shot to at least damage the 435 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,280 Speaker 6: America and carry. They don't have to sink it. In fact, 436 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 6: it would be crazy for them to try to sink it, 437 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 6: because then that would prompt us to escalate even more. 438 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 6: But if they damaged it to the point that it 439 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,879 Speaker 6: was no longer usable in terms of being able to 440 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,679 Speaker 6: deploy aircraft, that would send a big enough signal to 441 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 6: the Americans to back off. At least that's the thinking 442 00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 6: in Tehran. And then the rest of the Iranian Navy 443 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 6: would try to blockade the Strait of Hormuz and potentially 444 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 6: blockade the Strait of babel Man Dead, which is another 445 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,639 Speaker 6: oak choke point nearby. They could do things to complicate 446 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 6: the price of oil. I spoke to a commodities trader 447 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 6: in Chicago last week. I said, yeah, this could spike 448 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 6: the price of oil eighty to ninety dollars a barrels 449 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 6: that around sixty six dollars a barrel. Now, the guy 450 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 6: in Chicago who trades oil, he said, Brandon, he goes, 451 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 6: if they really do this in Iran, he goes, it 452 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 6: could spike the price of oil to one hundred and 453 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,239 Speaker 6: thirty to one hundred and fifty dollars a barrel. So 454 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 6: we're talking massive recession territory here in the United States 455 00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 6: if the Iranians go through with that threat. 456 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:05,000 Speaker 2: Again, we're speaking with Brandon Wikert. Okay, well you just 457 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 2: answered my next question. At least partially, that's our capabilities 458 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 2: and their capabilities, and we know that Israelis are extremely capable. Brandon, 459 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,080 Speaker 2: what are your concerns? I know you have them. You 460 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,880 Speaker 2: never hold back for us. What are you worried about? 461 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 6: My worried about? 462 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:22,680 Speaker 1: Why? 463 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 6: What I'm worried about is I mean, we can all 464 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 6: agree that the Iranian regime is bad. We don't want 465 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,240 Speaker 6: it to continue. It'd be wonderful if they knew better, 466 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,720 Speaker 6: group took over or whatever. But ultimately, right now, the 467 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,760 Speaker 6: US military is not in a good state. And you're 468 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 6: seeing this play out with the sewage crisis on the 469 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 6: new carrier. You're seeing this play out with the fact 470 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 6: that even General Kane, the Joint Chief of Staff, the Chairman, 471 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 6: he's now coming on and admitting that he's very much 472 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 6: opposed to strikes because he thinks he's going to go 473 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 6: pear shaped real fast, and he thinks he's going to 474 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 6: get blamed for it. So our military is not as 475 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 6: dominant as we like to think it is, and that's 476 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,840 Speaker 6: because we've had bad presidents the last thirty years who 477 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,560 Speaker 6: have wasted our military power, stretched it too thin, and 478 00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 6: now it's at its breaking point, which you're seeing it 479 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:11,800 Speaker 6: start to break. And my concern is we're going to 480 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 6: pick a fight with Iran, and Iran is going to 481 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 6: get some lucky blows in because this is what they've 482 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,200 Speaker 6: been training for, and in so doing, they're going to 483 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 6: basically break the back of the US military in such 484 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 6: a spectacular way that, yeah, we might still be able 485 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 6: to defeat them in the long run, but it's going 486 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 6: to do so much damage to our image as a 487 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 6: great military power that basically it would set the stage 488 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 6: for a total collapse of the US as the world's 489 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 6: dominant power, that nobody would want to look at US 490 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 6: anymore as anything other than a nuisance. And it will 491 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 6: set the stage for China's inevitable rise, which at this 492 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 6: point I believe is a FATA complete unless we completely 493 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 6: reverse course, come back to the western hemisphere, focus on 494 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 6: building America backup. We can't do that if we're picking 495 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 6: a fight with the Middle East and getting China to involved. 496 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 6: This thing could easily become the flashpoint of World War three. 497 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 2: Okay, So let's talk about that hemisphere thing, Donald Trump, 498 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 2: He even flat out says it the Monroe doctrine. Worry 499 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 2: about your own hemisphere. That's why we locked down in Venezuela. Okay, 500 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 2: So why are we here? Why are we over in Iran? 501 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 2: What is driving this? 502 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,480 Speaker 6: I suspect it is I suspect it is largely Trump's 503 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 6: proximity with net Nyahu. I think that Trump genuinely and 504 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 6: I agree with him on this. We do not want 505 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 6: Iran to get the bomb. But at the same time, 506 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 6: as I say, we are not in a position militarily, 507 00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 6: I don't believe to really change the situation on the 508 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:47,120 Speaker 6: ground enough to prevent them from becoming an Iran at 509 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:51,520 Speaker 6: least some semblance of a powerful country. And I think that, 510 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 6: really though it is it is Trump's alliance with Israel 511 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 6: that's driving this, because really Iran is the bigger threat 512 00:31:57,880 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 6: to Israel than it is to us. I mean, let's 513 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,120 Speaker 6: just get real and understandably, if you're in Israeli, you're thinking, 514 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 6: how do I get rid of this regime? Because they're 515 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 6: sponsored terror, they're hurting our people. Ten seven was at 516 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,720 Speaker 6: least indirectly part of the Iranian Grand Plan. So obviously 517 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 6: the Israelis do not want to see this regime continue, 518 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,800 Speaker 6: and they feel that right now is the window of opportunity. 519 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 6: But I think that's a mirage. Furthermore, I do believe 520 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 6: nets in Yahoo. I think he is allowing his personal 521 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 6: political ambition to ignore ten seven and to downplay it 522 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 6: by saying to the Israeli people, yeah, that happened, but 523 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 6: guess what, I got rid of the great bugaboo Iran. 524 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 6: But that, unfortunately, I don't think is a real potentiality. 525 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 6: I think it's more likely that if we really bomb 526 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 6: Iran and really go to town on them, they will 527 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 6: do those missile attacks and they will potentially destroy Tel Aviv. 528 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 6: Hesbula could get involved and destroy Haifa, and that's basically 529 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,120 Speaker 6: the end of the Israeli economy at that point. Those 530 00:32:56,120 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 6: two cities alone are hugely important for israel'scy So I 531 00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,720 Speaker 6: think that the Israelis are miscalculating, but I think that 532 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 6: they're the ones really driving this because of their relationship 533 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 6: with Trump, and Trump, as an ally to them, wants 534 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 6: to help them because he thinks in the long run, 535 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 6: it'll pay off for the US to get rid of 536 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 6: this terror supporting state in Iran. But unfortunately, again, I 537 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 6: don't believe our capabilities are matched well with what needs 538 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 6: to happen in Iran for that threat to go away. 539 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 2: He is Brandon Wiker. Go read his stuff. I do, 540 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,440 Speaker 2: and now you know why. Thank you, my brother. I 541 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 2: appreciate you very much.