Speaker 1: Hello everybody. Unfortunately we're having to join you this Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump has launched a major regime change war with Iran.
Speaker 1: This appears to be the full Monty Crystal. We have
Speaker 1: the video that the President released at some two am
Speaker 1: Eastern time where he declared this war. Let's take a
Speaker 1: listen to some of the justification.
Speaker 2: A short time ago, the United States military began major
Speaker 2: combat operations in Iran. Our objective is to defend the
Speaker 2: American people by eliminating eminent threats from the Iranian regime,
Speaker 2: a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. It's menacing
Speaker 2: activities directly in danger the United States, our troops, our
Speaker 2: bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world. For forty
Speaker 2: seven years, the Iranian regime has chanted death to America
Speaker 2: and waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder,
Speaker 2: targeting the United States, our troops, and the innocent people
Speaker 2: in many, many countries. Among the regime's very first acts
Speaker 2: was to back a violent takeover of the US embassy
Speaker 2: in Tehran, holding dozens of American hostages for four hundred
Speaker 2: and forty four days. In nineteen eighty three, Irans proxies
Speaker 2: carried out the Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut that killed
Speaker 2: two hundred and forty one American military personnel in two thousand.
Speaker 2: They knew and were probably involved with the attack on
Speaker 2: the USS coal many died. Iranian forces killed and maimed
Speaker 2: hundreds of American service members in Iraq. The regime's proxies
Speaker 2: have continued to launch countless attacks against American forces in
Speaker 2: recent So I was going.
Speaker 3: To say a little bit of using the embassy to yeah,
Speaker 3: to justify this insane right.
Speaker 1: So I think the most significant part of that statement
Speaker 1: was obviously, even though they're calling this a preemptive strike,
Speaker 1: it is a you know, not actually a preemptive strike.
Speaker 1: They're using a long historical justification thing. This is a
Speaker 1: forty seven year war. This is a war explicitly now
Speaker 1: declared as regime change. But I think that the most
Speaker 1: significant part of the President's statement was the open acknowledgment
Speaker 1: that American lives are at risk and they may be
Speaker 1: lost as a result of this. I know that we
Speaker 1: have a clip is a little bit later on in
Speaker 1: that speech. It's a full eight minutes, so we're not
Speaker 1: going to play at all for you.
Speaker 2: She seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes
Speaker 2: may be lost, and we may have casualties that often
Speaker 2: happens in war, but we're doing this not for now.
Speaker 2: We're doing this for the future, and it is a
Speaker 2: noble mission. We pray for every service member as they
Speaker 2: selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans are our
Speaker 2: children will never be threatened by a nuclear armed Iran.
Speaker 1: Right, and so this is an open declaration of a
Speaker 1: regime changed war. Crystal, do we have that statement? From
Speaker 1: this morning? Around four am, a Washington Post reporter was
Speaker 1: able to reach President Trump by phone, where he didn't
Speaker 1: even make any pretense about the nuclear program, about the
Speaker 1: missile program, even about regional proxies. He said in a
Speaker 1: brief phone call, his main concern is freedom for the
Speaker 1: Iranian people, and the US is working with Iran to
Speaker 1: make a place that is safe. All I want is
Speaker 1: freedom for the people. This is two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: George W. Bush inaugural. Obviously, you know you and I
Speaker 1: are still absorbing the news. But it's catastrophic already. We
Speaker 1: see massive retaliatory strikes across the entire region. It's a
Speaker 1: full blown regional war and the war is only blasted
Speaker 1: for six hours now or so, and it's a catastrophe
Speaker 1: I think, strategically for the United States, for the Iranian people,
Speaker 1: and for the American people, for everybody really who lives
Speaker 1: in the region.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and a direct you know, I mean, in direct
Speaker 3: contravention of Trump's positioning on the campaign is so I'm
Speaker 3: going to be the peace candidate. And there was all
Speaker 3: kinds of don't vote for kamalast you'll send your sons
Speaker 3: to war, And now you literally have him out here
Speaker 3: basically saying, yeah, your sons and daughters may die for Israel,
Speaker 3: because let's be real about who really wants this war,
Speaker 3: and it's Israel. And they've been pushing for decades at
Speaker 3: this point and found an easy mark here with Trump,
Speaker 3: in spite of the fact that his own top military
Speaker 3: advisors were saying this could go very poorly for the US.
Speaker 3: We think that this is a bad idea, that there
Speaker 3: is not some limited strike option here that Iran because they,
Speaker 3: you know, of course, obviously see this as existential. They're
Speaker 3: when to throw everything that they have to be able
Speaker 3: to preserve their own lives and their own government. So
Speaker 3: this is not a Venezuela, you know, quick in, quick count,
Speaker 3: grab a leader and done. Not that I think that
Speaker 3: that's really that end of the story with Venezuela, but
Speaker 3: that's how they perceive it. At this point. This does
Speaker 3: not look like it's going to be another twelve day
Speaker 3: war where again relatively limited in terms of, hey, we're
Speaker 3: going to take count these specific nuclear sites and move on. No,
Speaker 3: this is a far reaching, already regional war where the
Speaker 3: justifications offered in that you know, eight minute speech and
Speaker 3: then talking to reporters afterwards, have ranged from everything to
Speaker 3: the nuclear program, the missiles, the revolution itself, the nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy nine you know, embassy kidnapping of Americans in the embassy,
Speaker 3: the long litany of things that he listed out there
Speaker 3: to hey, we just want human rights and freedom for
Speaker 3: the Iranian people, and we have a new justification, which
Speaker 3: is he's claiming that the Iranians interfered in the election,
Speaker 3: so we can throw you know a little bit of
Speaker 3: like pertectual election interference and use that be able to
Speaker 3: use that claim later on to mess with the twenty
Speaker 3: twenty six elections here as well, which appears to be
Speaker 3: part of the plot. I mean, it's there's so many
Speaker 3: layers of dystopia here that it's hard to wrap your
Speaker 3: head around. I do want to just set a little
Speaker 3: bit more of the context here for people who, you know,
Speaker 3: thinking about how we got to this place, because once
Speaker 3: again you had Trump posturing like we're going through this
Speaker 3: diplomatic process. We had these meetings in Geneva. This week,
Speaker 3: the Omani's came out and said, the Iranians offered a
Speaker 3: deal that went far beyond the JCPOA that was the
Speaker 3: Obama era nuclear deal. They offered, you know, these concessions
Speaker 3: that went way beyond what Obama was able to achieve,
Speaker 3: thinking that could potentially give Trump and ount to say,
Speaker 3: you know what, I did so much better than Barack
Speaker 3: Obama could never look at me the art of the
Speaker 3: deal and give himself an out. But what we're hearing
Speaker 3: from Israeli officials is that once again this diplomacy was
Speaker 3: just a ruse, that this was planned months ago, the
Speaker 3: date was set weeks ago, and in in fact, all
Speaker 3: of this was just a dodge to wait until the
Speaker 3: time of their choosing. So a war of choice. Anyone
Speaker 3: you hear out there saying preemptive strike, blah blah, blah.
Speaker 3: You should kindly disregard everything they have to say after this,
Speaker 3: because this is an aggressive, illegal war of choice from
Speaker 3: this president An the Israelis, and there will be massive
Speaker 3: like recaer cussions that we cannot even imagine right now,
Speaker 3: that plan out for years and decades to come.
Speaker 1: Yes, the strikes are now planned for many, many days
Speaker 1: to continue. It appears initially this morning we're hearing from
Speaker 1: the US military there will be some rolling types of
Speaker 1: strikes one to two days of strikes, reassessment for battle damage,
Speaker 1: one to two days of strikes. Obviously, the enemy also
Speaker 1: gets a vote, and they are having their vote right now.
Speaker 1: Do we want to go ahead and put the list
Speaker 1: of countries that Iran has bombed already after the initial
Speaker 1: strikes that happened on Tehran early two am our time,
Speaker 1: so middle of the day, for all of them, the list,
Speaker 1: I believe, Yep, Here we have it. We have a
Speaker 1: number in Bahrain, we have a number in Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Jordan.
Speaker 1: Their videos coming out are unbelievable already to anybody who
Speaker 1: has visited or lived in the region. The most striking
Speaker 1: is exactly the one that you can see there on
Speaker 1: the screen that was where the fifth fleet actually is Crystal.
Speaker 1: Can we put the US soldier reacting? I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: these are not scenes that you really ever would want
Speaker 1: to see. The next one that we're about to show
Speaker 1: you is an American presumably an American service member, some
Speaker 1: American who is stationed in Bahrain, and you can actually
Speaker 1: hear him react live as a Iranian suicide shah head
Speaker 1: drone makes direct contact with a radar installation in Manama.
Speaker 1: Can why don't we make that video us? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then we can see oh shit, oh.
Speaker 4: Shit, oh oh shit, oh fuck, oh my god, oh
Speaker 4: do fuck me? A fucking missile actually got through others more.
Speaker 4: I gotta get the fuck out of.
Speaker 1: Here, so you could see that was from an Iranian
Speaker 1: suicide drone. He mistook that as a missile. There's other
Speaker 1: videos actually showing the direct impact. These are scenes that
Speaker 1: anybody familiar with the battlefield in Ukraine will see. So
Speaker 1: they have an asymmetric capability already. Many of their missiles
Speaker 1: have been intercepted in the Gulf. We don't have any
Speaker 1: confirmed American casualties right now, but to zoom out a
Speaker 1: little bit more, I can confirm the Iranians delivered a
Speaker 1: message on letter, specifically to Jared Kushner and to Steve
Speaker 1: wick Coop, saying that they will not pursue a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: The Omani foreign minister was actually on television yesterday confirming
Speaker 1: exactly what you said, that they offered to give up
Speaker 1: their entire enriched uranium stockpile, provide IAEA inspectors into the country,
Speaker 1: and basically to end this entire charade. But if you've
Speaker 1: been watching our program, I do think it's important that
Speaker 1: you all know the goalposts have all moved on behalf
Speaker 1: of the Israelis. Originally it was supposed to be about
Speaker 1: the nuclear weapon. I also, I finally have some more
Speaker 1: context for Trump saying that the Iranians won't say the
Speaker 1: magic words about how they won't pursue a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 1: He believes that any enrichment whatsoever, even for like medical isotopes,
Speaker 1: is itself a declaration of a nuclear weapon. So just
Speaker 1: so you all understand where that term came from. I
Speaker 1: also do think it's important now to see that diplomacy
Speaker 1: under this administration can never be trusted. I mean, we
Speaker 1: all knew that it was kind of a joke. Of course,
Speaker 1: the Jared Kushner and Steve Wikoff negotiations. The JCPOA came
Speaker 1: across the finish line. After two and a half years
Speaker 1: of the most sophisticated experts in the US government on
Speaker 1: nuclear issues, it was just two real estate guys, one
Speaker 1: of whom is the son in law of the president.
Speaker 1: They didn't even really know what they were doing. It's
Speaker 1: all pretextual, right exactly. It was all pretextual for a
Speaker 1: planned operation that is now here. I also think it's
Speaker 1: very important to underscore that what the administration has done
Speaker 1: by doing the full Monty of regime change, there's no
Speaker 1: off ram from here. The Iranians are fighting for their survival.
Speaker 1: There has been no offer. They are saying freedom overthrow.
Speaker 1: We have reports already this morning that Ayatola Hamani was
Speaker 1: actually targeted by the United States and Israel in a
Speaker 1: targeted assassination. We don't yet know what the result of
Speaker 1: that is, whether he is alive or dead. Many senior
Speaker 1: members of the IRGC, the Runian defense minister, and others.
Speaker 1: Iranian state media saying that they have been killed. And
Speaker 1: you know, if you've been watching our coverage, they are
Speaker 1: prepared for this. They knew that some ninety percent of
Speaker 1: their command and control was going to get decimated, and
Speaker 1: they also clearly had pre approved strike packages across the
Speaker 1: entire region. The reason that they're doing that is they
Speaker 1: know that this is now a war of this is
Speaker 1: an existential thing for the regime. You have to go
Speaker 1: all out try to turn it into a real war
Speaker 1: as much of a nightmare for the United States. I
Speaker 1: also think it's important, you know, to even take it back,
Speaker 1: as you said, you know, it's not exactly political times
Speaker 1: right now when so many lives are at stake, but
Speaker 1: this is the most profound betrayal I think of any president,
Speaker 1: from the campaign to the actions in his administration, and
Speaker 1: in particular the vice president and many of the other
Speaker 1: people the so called anti war movement. These are people
Speaker 1: who directly looked Americans in the face. Tulci Gabbard, I
Speaker 1: think we should add to that list. Who said Stephen Miller,
Speaker 1: they said, Kamala will send your sons to war. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is a candidate of peace. That was always a
Speaker 1: little bit ridiculous because we knew that he was going
Speaker 1: to be pro Iran but or sorry, pro Israel. But
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody anybody thought a full blown war
Speaker 1: of choice on the Iranian on the Iranian regime was
Speaker 1: ever in the cards, and you know, I look, we'll
Speaker 1: ruminate on that, I think for many years to come
Speaker 1: and exactly how that happened, And I guess now is
Speaker 1: not exactly the time. But I'm so disgusted with this administration,
Speaker 1: with so many of the people who I knew personally,
Speaker 1: who looked me in the face over many years told
Speaker 1: us that this was things they believed. Jokes on me
Speaker 1: for believing them. And I also I'm really terrified about
Speaker 1: where this brings us, not just in terms of the region,
Speaker 1: think about where we are. This country is now at
Speaker 1: war with Iran, embroiled in a full blown regional conflict,
Speaker 1: with no congressional authorization, no debate. How many times did
Speaker 1: we say over the last preceding years, ninety percent of
Speaker 1: Americans had no idea any of this was happening. Carricer
Speaker 1: strike groups that were on there where there. Many of
Speaker 1: them are waking up and all they have is a
Speaker 1: Twitter video released by the president at two AM. As
Speaker 1: of right now, the President is not scheduled to make
Speaker 1: any public remarks. That is how much contempt that they
Speaker 1: have for all of us is that they don't have
Speaker 1: to explain their actions. They can launch this war completely
Speaker 1: of choice. Our Congress is a joke absent for ro Kana.
Speaker 1: Everybody in the Democrat and the Republican Party who you
Speaker 1: know even remotely is upset about this, is like, but
Speaker 1: what about the process? Will anybody think of the process
Speaker 1: and of the strategic end there's no strategic endgame Trump
Speaker 1: said it. It's about regime change. How we avoid getting
Speaker 1: into a broader conflict? I have no idea, I truly
Speaker 1: have no idea how it is.
Speaker 3: Because from the beginning, if you declare that the goal
Speaker 3: of the mission is for the government to collapse, and
Speaker 3: by the way, Voice of America Persia is up on
Speaker 3: air telling people to rise up against the regime and
Speaker 3: you know, throw off the yoke of their oppression blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. So if you don't achieve that, then you've failed.
Speaker 3: And do you think that this president is just going
Speaker 3: to walk away and take that ol? Of course he's
Speaker 3: not so. Look, I mean, I am always nervous when
Speaker 3: I bring up the Israeli equation here, simply because I
Speaker 3: do not want to deny this president any agency. Right,
Speaker 3: these are his decisions. He is fully and completely responsible
Speaker 3: for them. Ntan Yahoo has successfully achieved and ensnared this
Speaker 3: president in the trap that he has been trying to
Speaker 3: ensnare the you know, American people and the United States
Speaker 3: of America in for decades. It's happened, It's done. The
Speaker 3: trap is now closed because Trump has said the end
Speaker 3: goal is for this government to fall. So what is
Speaker 3: that going to mean going forward? How are we going
Speaker 3: to achieve that? Because it is highly unlikely that you're
Speaker 3: going to be able to achieve it simply with airstrikes
Speaker 3: where we can you know, fly over, drop some bombs
Speaker 3: and get out and you know, and not actually be
Speaker 3: on the ground. That is the sort of thing that
Speaker 3: would require an actual ground invasion. Because think about it,
Speaker 3: this government. Yes they've been weakened by our economic sanctions
Speaker 3: of economic warfare. Yes, they've been weakened by the Twelve
Speaker 3: Day War. Yes, they're weakened by the fact that there
Speaker 3: is a significant amount of the population that is very
Speaker 3: unhappy with them. But they have also survived for damn
Speaker 3: near fifty years with the US wanting them gone and
Speaker 3: wanting them dead the entire time. So do not think
Speaker 3: that this is just going to be some quick and
Speaker 3: easy thing where we can drop a few bombs and
Speaker 3: they're going to say, oh, you're right, we're going to go,
Speaker 3: and you know, glorious freedom will ultimately rain. Let me
Speaker 3: put you know this statement from the Iranians up here,
Speaker 3: just to get a sense of you know what they're saying.
Speaker 3: This is Sardar Jabbari, advisor of the Comander in Chief
Speaker 3: of the IRGC. He says Trump should understand this clearly,
Speaker 3: what we launched today were our last stock missiles. What
Speaker 3: comes next our systems and weapons He has never seen before.
Speaker 3: Now this may be bluster, we don't know, but clearly
Speaker 3: already and this was something we talked about and we anticipated.
Speaker 3: They are hitting back much harder than we have ever
Speaker 3: seen before, with the range of targets that they are striking,
Speaker 3: with the threats to close down these strait of horm moves,
Speaker 3: which would have huge, huge economic reverberations. You already have
Speaker 3: a number of shipping companies suspending any sort of travel
Speaker 3: in the region. Of course, air travel is shut down
Speaker 3: in the region as well, So we are already at
Speaker 3: full scale regional war with and very hard to see
Speaker 3: what the off ramp is what that would look like,
Speaker 3: because again, you know, this president is not going to
Speaker 3: walk away with this tail between his legs and say, oops,
Speaker 3: you know we didn't accomplish the goal, but you know
Speaker 3: we'll live to fight another.
Speaker 1: Day even if we wanted to. How can we do
Speaker 1: so when we have the Israelis who are on our
Speaker 1: right shoulder, who are always willing to up the ante.
Speaker 1: They will never allow us out of this. That's why
Speaker 1: they tried to target the Iranian Ayatola on day one.
Speaker 1: This is now a war of absolute declaration on the regime.
Speaker 1: They will now have to fight to the death if
Speaker 1: they ever want to live to see another day. And
Speaker 1: many of the top leadership, it appears, has already been
Speaker 1: wiped out again. As we noted at the beginning, I
Speaker 1: believe that many plan for this. I think that the
Speaker 1: IRGC and others were fully aware that this was going
Speaker 1: to happen and that there are go now going to collapse.
Speaker 1: As we all found out in Iraq, taking out the
Speaker 1: very top echelon the bathists the people who run the
Speaker 1: country can often result in a much more strategically bad situation.
Speaker 1: It unleashes chaos lower level IRGC folks anybody with a
Speaker 1: monopoly on the use of force, access to weapons. You
Speaker 1: are now in charge of your own fiefdom, of your
Speaker 1: own survival. There will be a full blown conflict, I
Speaker 1: think inside of the country, regardless of whether the United
Speaker 1: States is even able to come in or not. Again, actually,
Speaker 1: looking just learning this morning, the President doesn't appear to
Speaker 1: be speaking again to the American people. I cannot actually
Speaker 1: believe it that this is happening. We also, by the way,
Speaker 1: have our fail son who is ready and able. Can
Speaker 1: we put raise Apolovi's statement up here on the screen?
Speaker 1: Raise us Polave, the son of the deposed Shah of Iran,
Speaker 1: is now openly calling not only just for regime change,
Speaker 1: but for people rising up. His statements are being broadcast
Speaker 1: by Voice of America and others into the country in Farsi.
Speaker 1: So this is a direct US authorized coup to try
Speaker 1: and restore some sort of the monarchy. Will see if
Speaker 1: it does ever get there. But that is you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is disastrous. This is Iraq two point
Speaker 1: zero in many ways, except without the US or boots
Speaker 1: that are on the ground. We don't obviously want to
Speaker 1: see that and avoid it. However, even if we do
Speaker 1: avoid it, then the country is very likely on a
Speaker 1: Libya trajectory right now, and in particular to turn itself
Speaker 1: into an Israeli rump state, which will long be targeted.
Speaker 1: Their goal is a full blown civil war inside the country.
Speaker 1: They don't care about the refugee crisis because none of
Speaker 1: them will come to them. They'll stick it on the Arabs,
Speaker 1: and they'll stick it on Europe. Europeans, by the way,
Speaker 1: appear broadly supportive so far of a lot of these
Speaker 1: our Carney, mister new global Order, mister new Global Order,
Speaker 1: is supportive of this. Just to show you all how
Speaker 1: full of shit so many of these people are, I'll
Speaker 1: give you what Crone his credit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well, I just wanted to point out this
Speaker 3: statement that I have up from Jade Vance because I
Speaker 3: think this may turn out to be a rather infamous
Speaker 3: statement that he made yesterday. I think we have to
Speaker 3: avoid over learning the lessons of the past. Just because
Speaker 3: one president screwed up a military conflict doesn't mean we
Speaker 3: can never engauge in military conflict again.
Speaker 1: And I knew we were there, and yeah.
Speaker 3: And this is you know, this is mister positioned himself
Speaker 3: like he was mister anti war, and now he's saying
Speaker 3: out of the Iraq war that was just a blip.
Speaker 3: We shouldn't have we shouldn't overlearn the mistakes from that.
Speaker 3: And to your point about Tulcy Gabbard, you know she
Speaker 3: had previously what she would say is going to war
Speaker 3: with Iran will make a rock look like a cake walk.
Speaker 3: That was her previous positioning. And now here we are
Speaker 3: going to say about launching an a major war with
Speaker 3: the run and not even some pretext of like it's
Speaker 3: limited strikes. No, we are going for the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you? I mean, what is there to
Speaker 1: even say about people like this? It's it's the post
Speaker 1: profound lie to the American people. Man. I can't even
Speaker 1: think of a similar example. And look, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: we'll we'll help them pay for it a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But in the interim, as we all know, we are
Speaker 1: at their mercy. And what we are now watching is
Speaker 1: a full blown regime change. John Bolton, Mark Levin, many
Speaker 1: others who are doing backflips. Kroke, Lindsey Graham, I mean,
Speaker 1: my god, I mean it is it is really noteworthy
Speaker 1: in so far as the war has gone. Now, is
Speaker 1: that all not only was diplomacy a ruse, but even
Speaker 1: the limited strike package was was a ruse because it
Speaker 1: presumed negotiation. This is fully the it Israeli wet dream
Speaker 1: of what's happened. And just to prove it to you,
Speaker 1: can we put that CNN article up there about I
Speaker 1: couldn't even believe that this is real. I checked. It's real.
Speaker 1: This is a real article that ran on CNN dot
Speaker 1: com from Jerusalem, and they are talking about the significance
Speaker 1: of this day launching this attack from the book of
Speaker 1: Deuteram Deuteronomy and amelek uh, so like this is the reality.
Speaker 3: This is remember and this is the about to be
Speaker 3: Ellison owned CNN by the way, So they're just, you know,
Speaker 3: pre complying with not that CNN was over that great
Speaker 3: to start with, but pre complying with the new extreme
Speaker 3: Zionist regime that's about to be. Let me read this
Speaker 3: this led by Barry Wise. These are the people.
Speaker 1: Who are we are at the mercy of the timing
Speaker 1: of the US is really attacked. Bear symbolic meaning in Judaism.
Speaker 1: Ahead of the upcoming holiday of Purum, worshippers read the
Speaker 1: specific portion of the Old Testament known as Zacre. The
Speaker 1: passage from the Book of Deuteronomy commands the ancient Israelites
Speaker 1: to remember an unprovoked attack by the nation of Amelek
Speaker 1: and to eradicate the memory of Amelik. Once the Israelites
Speaker 1: are settled in their land, the passage is read publicly
Speaker 1: before Pium to fulfill the mitzvah of remembering Amelik as
Speaker 1: Israel's archetypal enemy. This and because if you combine this
Speaker 1: with the fact that the date was already pre planned
Speaker 1: some year like months ago, well, I mean you think
Speaker 1: American war planners picked the date to coincide with the
Speaker 1: Book of Deuteronomy and Amelek. I mean, this is insanity.
Speaker 1: This also combined.
Speaker 3: We talk about the theocracy of Iran posing such a
Speaker 3: risk and making them so irrational, and then this is
Speaker 3: literally the justification that is given for the launch of
Speaker 3: this war. I mean, that's insane. That is insane.
Speaker 1: How can we even trying to explain this to normal
Speaker 1: people is going to be one of the more difficult
Speaker 1: projects of this war. And I'm going to ask everybody
Speaker 1: who's watching this, you know, not don't be annoying, but
Speaker 1: when people bring it up, try to get into it.
Speaker 1: And really get it because the propaganda is going to
Speaker 1: be unbelievable. Already this morning, turning on Fox News and
Speaker 1: see it. By the way, CNN, not only the Amelek thing,
Speaker 1: they've got Brett McGirk and all of these officials who
Speaker 1: have all been advocating for regime.
Speaker 3: Change, preemptive strike, preemptive strike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, preemptive strike, who are just doing the bidding and
Speaker 1: printing Pentagon war Pentagon press statements. By the way, the
Speaker 1: Pentagon pet Hegseth. He's calling this operation epic Fury. This
Speaker 1: is like cosplaying war, except this real life. And there
Speaker 1: are already dozens of people who have been killed. Why
Speaker 1: don't we put up the statement from the Iranian state
Speaker 1: media of a.
Speaker 3: School let me stroke Yeah, let me put this one up.
Speaker 3: This is horrible. This school, a girls' school it appears
Speaker 3: was elementary school, was struck by either the US or Israel.
Speaker 3: Here they're reporting at least forty killed, forty eight students
Speaker 3: injured following this strike on a girls school in monob As.
Speaker 3: Rescue and recovery efforts continue. So, yeah, you know nation
Speaker 3: that strikes girls' school, and do you think they're going
Speaker 3: to be sad about Do you think they're going to
Speaker 3: apologize for it? Do you think they're going to accept
Speaker 3: any blame or accountability? Of course not, of course, it's
Speaker 3: probably it's real. We look at what the Israelis and
Speaker 3: the US got away with the genocide in Gaza. Now
Speaker 3: literally every level of horror and brutalities on the table.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was probably the Israelis from what I've seen
Speaker 1: now so far, you know, sticking to their long tried
Speaker 1: and true you know war targeted strikes that we all
Speaker 1: know well from what happened in Gaza, and it is
Speaker 1: just so unbelievable already to watch how this has gone
Speaker 1: out and what we are watching now so far. I mean,
Speaker 1: I really think again, you know, despite all of the
Speaker 1: talk about peace and diplomacy, to launch the war in
Speaker 1: this fashion, we have no off ramp. It's over. I mean,
Speaker 1: unless there's a literal about face by Donald Trump, which
Speaker 1: I think is very unlikely. The other problem, as we saw,
Speaker 1: is that it's very easy to start a war. It's
Speaker 1: much harder to end a war. And that's when you're
Speaker 1: in control of your own government. Now you have a
Speaker 1: foreign rogue state which will bomb any country which is
Speaker 1: in the immediate vicinity and can kick things off into
Speaker 1: higher gear whenever they want.
Speaker 3: To, and our ambassador to that country saying that there,
Speaker 3: you know, we're down with the Greater Israel project of
Speaker 3: you know, Israel wants to just fully fulfill their biblical
Speaker 3: prophecy and take over whatever portions of their neighboring states
Speaker 3: that they want to. I mean that, you know, apparently
Speaker 3: is US official policy at this point, given that it
Speaker 3: was stated by the US ambassador that it appears to
Speaker 3: reflect facts on the ground in terms of Israeli behavior,
Speaker 3: and was never walked back by any element of our regime.
Speaker 3: And I just want to throw the Epstein angle of
Speaker 3: this into the mix, because you have to look at
Speaker 3: this and in some senses go it doesn't really add up.
Speaker 3: The military didn't want this war. The political people knew
Speaker 3: that this could be a big problem. I mean, you
Speaker 3: just look at the polling and you know that it
Speaker 3: is catastrophic. Now will Republicans who are Trump supporters, will
Speaker 3: they come around and suddenly flip and they'll support sure
Speaker 3: but independence any sort of swing voter, they are draumatically
Speaker 3: opposed to this, especially when from the jump you're saying, hey,
Speaker 3: Americans are probably gonna die here.
Speaker 1: Sorry.
Speaker 3: So the political piece, the military piece, our allies in
Speaker 3: the region they did not want this war, Our broader
Speaker 3: allies in Europe and Canada, they were not pushing for this.
Speaker 3: This was just Israel and the Israeli you know, pro
Speaker 3: Israel donors in the US, and then Donald Trump, who
Speaker 3: decided that this is the direction that we should go in.
Speaker 3: And so you have to factor into this. Okay, you know,
Speaker 3: they are not so stupid in this government that they
Speaker 3: can't see what we do, that this is potentially disastrous,
Speaker 3: that there's no off ramp that we could get dragged in,
Speaker 3: that it's this massive regional conflagration at a time when
Speaker 3: Trump is already incredibly politically weak. And then so you
Speaker 3: have to couple that with Okay, well, maybe it really
Speaker 3: is something that Israel knows about him. In the Epstein files.
Speaker 3: You know, we have this ongoing mass cover. Clearly there
Speaker 3: are things in there he does not want to come out,
Speaker 3: as evidenced by the fact that they are hiding the files,
Speaker 3: that they are giving Glayanne Maxwell this cushy treatment. And
Speaker 3: now I think you have to add another piece of
Speaker 3: evidence that he has decided to do the thing that
Speaker 3: is the one line he has always Trump has always
Speaker 3: been very belligerent, right, very hawkish. He's not afraid to
Speaker 3: use the military. But the one thing he seemed to
Speaker 3: be genuinely concerned about is getting embroiled in a long term,
Speaker 3: forever war, especially in the Middle East. And now, yeah,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 1: Well I'll add another layer crystal. And I you know,
Speaker 1: it's been a bit difficult to try and navigate this,
Speaker 1: but I'm just going to come out and tell everybody.
Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump believes that the Israelis would use
Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. I think he believes that they would
Speaker 1: use a nuclear weapon against Iran, or at the very least,
Speaker 1: that they would launch the preemptive war no matter what,
Speaker 1: and they would basically dare America to not defend them.
Speaker 1: So it could be it's also I genuinely think either
Speaker 1: some sort of you know, either black or strategic blackmail,
Speaker 1: very at the very least, and considering how the Israelis
Speaker 1: have operated in Gaza, I think we should believe if
Speaker 1: they're going to make those types of threats, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's something I've been hearing a little bit behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. It's been a bit you know, difficult to actually, well,
Speaker 1: it's been difficult to assess because we talked about it,
Speaker 1: like do we really think that, Like it just seems
Speaker 1: so crazy, I think, as evidenced by what has happened,
Speaker 1: as you just said, who launches a preemptive war, Who
Speaker 1: launches a war of choice nine months before the midterm
Speaker 1: elections of which eighty percent of Americans are against? That's
Speaker 1: not normal, Not when you have the entire administration full
Speaker 1: of people who are on the record who are against
Speaker 1: what regime change, war with Iran. Something is going on.
Speaker 1: Something is going on. I personally think there was a
Speaker 1: nuclear blackmail angle effectively that and some behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: If you don't believe me, this is a precedent, by
Speaker 1: the way, from the Yamkapor War, and you can go
Speaker 1: and read a little bit about that in nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's very important for us to
Speaker 1: try and assess now how we are as a democracy.
Speaker 1: We had literally no checks and have no ability to
Speaker 1: check inside this now because and I really mean this
Speaker 1: now with Congress, the Congress is surrendering aside from Rocana,
Speaker 1: and if we want, we can put his video on
Speaker 1: because I want to give this guy as much credit
Speaker 1: as humanly possible him and Thomas Massey, who at the
Speaker 1: very least foresaw this, who are at least calling get
Speaker 1: these guys on the record. Because John Thune and Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer and Mark Warner and all of these other guys.
Speaker 1: They may talk about how they're against it, they're not.
Speaker 1: They're against the you know, they're against the process of
Speaker 1: which it all went down. But these are the only
Speaker 1: people who are at least demanding, let's say, if this
Speaker 1: is a disaster sometime in the future, that we can
Speaker 1: have out and hold these people accountable for actually doing this.
Speaker 1: All right, So let's let's play Rocanna.
Speaker 5: Donald Kirk has launched a more on Iran. The Congress
Speaker 5: supposed Rea can be on Monday to vote on Thomas
Speaker 5: Nancy and My Warpiver's resolution to stop this war. Comb
Speaker 5: says his goal is to topple the Iranian regime.
Speaker 4: But the American people are.
Speaker 5: Tired of regime change wars that cost us billions of
Speaker 5: dollars and risk for lives. We don't want to be
Speaker 5: at more with a country of ninety million people in
Speaker 5: the Middle East. Every member of Congress must go on
Speaker 5: a record today on how they won't vote on Thomas
Speaker 5: Fancy and my Warpiver's resolution.
Speaker 3: And you know, they really the Democratic leadership, like the
Speaker 3: Capitulation Caucus on the Democratic side, they really pulled some
Speaker 3: fuckery here because this vote was supposed to happen last
Speaker 3: week and they came to Row and they said, oh, well,
Speaker 3: some people are wavering, it'll go better if we wait
Speaker 3: till next week. And just happened that that Trump enough
Speaker 3: time to you know, launch this war alongside Israel on
Speaker 3: their chosen day, you know, to honor their commitments to
Speaker 3: destroying Amelek before this war Powers resolution could could come down.
Speaker 3: Now it's been so Mark Warner, you mentioned Mark Warner.
Speaker 3: He put out like a really extremely lame statement that
Speaker 3: I can put up on the screen to give you
Speaker 3: a sense of you know, these are some of the
Speaker 3: things that we're hearing, like from him and from Schumer
Speaker 3: ahead of time, which was hand ringing and concern trolling
Speaker 3: over the process here. So he says, in part by
Speaker 3: the president's owned words, American heroes may be lost. That
Speaker 3: alone should demand at the highest level of scrutiny, deliberation,
Speaker 3: and accountability. So not don't do it, just we need
Speaker 3: some more scrutiny, Yet the President moved forward without seeking
Speaker 3: congressional authorization. The Constitution has cleared the decision to take
Speaker 3: this nation of war rest with Congress launching large scale
Speaker 3: military operations, particularly in the absence of an imminent threat
Speaker 3: to the US raiss series legal and constitutional concerns. Congress
Speaker 3: must be fully briefed, and the administration must come forward
Speaker 3: with a clear legal justification and defined end state and
Speaker 3: a plan that avoids dragging the US into yet another
Speaker 3: costly and unnecessary war. So, you know, extremely lame statement there.
Speaker 3: I will say there are others who have come out
Speaker 3: who have been much more forceful, including people you wouldn't
Speaker 3: necessarily expect. This is Tim Kaine, he said, you know,
Speaker 3: he's a major proponent of calling back warpowers from the
Speaker 3: executive branch. Has President Trump learned nothing from decades of
Speaker 3: US meddling in Iran and forever wars in the Middle East?
Speaker 3: Is he too mentally incapacitated to realize we had a
Speaker 3: diplomatic agreement with Ron that was keeping its nuclear program
Speaker 3: in check until he ripped it up during the first term.
Speaker 3: For months, I've raised hell about the fact that American
Speaker 3: people want lower prices, not more war, especially wars that
Speaker 3: aren't authorized by Congress as required by the Constitution and
Speaker 3: don't have a clear objective. These strikes are a colossal mistake,
Speaker 3: and I pray they do not cost our sons and
Speaker 3: daughters in uniform and an embassy throughout the region their lives.
Speaker 3: The Senate should immediately return to session vote on my
Speaker 3: War Powers resolution to block the use of US forces
Speaker 3: in hostilities against Irun. Every single Senator needs to go
Speaker 3: on the record about this dangerous, unnecessary, and idiotic action.
Speaker 3: So you know, you're going to have a real divide
Speaker 3: in the Democrats. No one is going to well except
Speaker 3: for John Foterman has already come out and said he
Speaker 3: thinks this is great and wonderful and whatever. So you've
Speaker 3: got that. But outside of him, you're gonna have two camps.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have the camps like row and like Tim
Speaker 3: Kaine here who are clearly opposed, and then you're gonna
Speaker 3: have the process handbringers like Mark Warner, and so take
Speaker 3: careful note of who is who, and then also take
Speaker 3: careful note of how everybody Democrat or Republican votes on
Speaker 3: these war powers resolution, because at this point Obviously it's
Speaker 3: too late to stop anything. And let's be honest, even
Speaker 3: if they voted on this last week, this administration was
Speaker 3: going to do whatever the fuck they wanted to do anyway.
Speaker 3: But at the very least, at the very least, we
Speaker 3: can get some sort of record of who was where,
Speaker 3: who supported what, because they us be political hell to
Speaker 3: pay for everyone who was okay with this, who enabled it,
Speaker 3: and especially for those who actively cheerleaded it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I think you're absolutely right, and I
Speaker 1: think it's unbelievable watching already, you know some of the scenes. Also,
Speaker 1: there's some chatter from Radio Israel and multiple other Israeli
Speaker 1: news outlets that the Ayatola Komane was you know, targeted directly.
Speaker 1: They're saying that he was likely injured and they would
Speaker 1: be shocked if he was not dead. So you already
Speaker 1: have major figures in the Iranian regime who are either
Speaker 1: confirmed dead or who are very likely dead, who are
Speaker 1: all right now. But you can see, you know, currently,
Speaker 1: as we're all watching right now, one of the most
Speaker 1: extraordinary wars of choice now in years from the United States.
Speaker 1: I mean, I never thought I would sit here and
Speaker 1: give flowers to George W. Bush, for manufactory evidence, for
Speaker 1: taking it to the UN Security Council, for taking it
Speaker 1: to Congress, and getting Hillary Clinton and all of the
Speaker 1: other Democrats on record, and truly, I mean ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the American people, we're supporting the war with Iraq.
Speaker 1: We had the cable new there was no debate, none,
Speaker 1: zero on this entire thing. Most people are probably just
Speaker 1: waking up this morning and they had no idea that
Speaker 1: this was even really on the table. And now, you know,
Speaker 1: you may know somebody, I certainly do. People who are
Speaker 1: deployed now in the Gulf, people who are deployed on
Speaker 1: these carrier strike groups, people who are served in the
Speaker 1: United States military. Their lives are at risk. Not my words,
Speaker 1: the President's words. Their lives are at risk. They may
Speaker 1: be lost. But it is what it is, is basically
Speaker 1: what he is saying now currently. Look, there's going to
Speaker 1: be a lot of propaganda over the years, or over
Speaker 1: the it is going to be years most likely now
Speaker 1: in this there's going to be a lot of propaganda
Speaker 1: over the years, I think on this conflict. Don't just
Speaker 1: you know, let's remember Iraq mission accomplished only took three weeks.
Speaker 1: There will be many claims from this administration. They will
Speaker 1: deride those of us who spoke out of against it
Speaker 1: as pannikins. They will manufacture victories, They will try to
Speaker 1: portray it as something that worked in the immediate term.
Speaker 1: Let us all remember Iraq, Syria, Libya. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't even think on the off the top of my
Speaker 1: head all of the interventions that we have had where
Speaker 1: it plays out that way. Every single time Afghanistan, we
Speaker 1: brought democracy to Afghanistan, it all worked out with they
Speaker 1: even had elections crystal. It was unbelievable, it was beautiful,
Speaker 1: people were voting. How mad Karzai was in power for years.
Speaker 1: We thought it was a settled matter, and then what happened.
Speaker 1: What happened. So do not let these people just gaslight
Speaker 1: you with immediate declarations of victory or that it's all
Speaker 1: going to work out. We don't know yet the consequences.
Speaker 1: It will take many, many years to really grapple. All
Speaker 1: we can really hope for, you know, in the immediate
Speaker 1: term is like less loss of life. I don't see
Speaker 1: how it's possible. I really don't not. Whenever you're going
Speaker 1: to declare from the immediate term that this is it
Speaker 1: and when you have the Israelis who are there, who
Speaker 1: are to bomb literally, you know, anything in sight in
Speaker 1: order to keep the war as brutal as possible, because
Speaker 1: they don't want, you know, any element of the Iranian
Speaker 1: regime to come to power their nightmare. You know, this
Speaker 1: is another thing I think we should explain. The best
Speaker 1: case scenario, let's say, for how this would all work out,
Speaker 1: would be some sort of IRGC commander who says, fine,
Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you. I've seized control. Trump
Speaker 1: declares victory. Do you think Israel is going to let
Speaker 1: that happen? No, right, They're gonna want the like they
Speaker 1: want the full Manti, they want the full on Pallavi
Speaker 1: restoring of the monarchy, which many of the country is
Speaker 1: not going to accept. That get basically guarantees civil war
Speaker 1: from the point that we are. Point we're at, regardless
Speaker 1: of whether we come in or not with boots on
Speaker 1: the ground or who even knows, with loss of life
Speaker 1: in other spheares well.
Speaker 3: And let's talk about a little bit why the Israelis
Speaker 3: feel that it's this is now or never for their
Speaker 3: moment to permanently establish their regional hegemony. And you know,
Speaker 3: take out their longtime nemesis Iran and make sure they
Speaker 3: can ever achieve the nuclear weapons or any sort of
Speaker 3: balance in the region. Well, Israel has They've got a
Speaker 3: lot of issues. You know, there's a poll that just
Speaker 3: came out that showed, for the first time ever on
Speaker 3: net the American people have more sympathy for the Palestinians
Speaker 3: than the Israelis. If you told me that five years ago,
Speaker 3: I would have told you to get your head examined.
Speaker 3: It is over for them in terms of a blank check.
Speaker 3: The American people are done. There was some movement with Republicans,
Speaker 3: but predominantly with Independence and Democrats. Overwhelmingly they are disgusted
Speaker 3: by our enabling of this rogue, genocidal regime. And it
Speaker 3: is highly likely in twenty twenty eight you are going
Speaker 3: to get a president who has a very different view
Speaker 3: of things and is going to take a very different approach.
Speaker 3: At the same time, they are staring down a very
Speaker 3: difficult demographic future. They've experienced significant brain drain of the
Speaker 3: more secular and highly educated of their citizens who have
Speaker 3: left the country. I'm sure this. You know, New War
Speaker 3: is probably not going to help them mount on that front.
Speaker 3: And you have increasingly the population made up of hard
Speaker 3: right and more orthodox families who have large numbers of children,
Speaker 3: but don't want to work, don't want to fight in
Speaker 3: the military, and want to just benefit from Israel's generous
Speaker 3: social safety net. So the math doesn't math over a
Speaker 3: long period of time. That's why, both from a demographic
Speaker 3: perspective and also a political perspective in the US most importantly,
Speaker 3: but around the world globally. You know, their reputation is
Speaker 3: in the toilet. That's why they feel like now is
Speaker 3: the time we have to go for broke because this
Speaker 3: is very risky for them too. I mean they're going
Speaker 3: to take damage, right, this is going to be this
Speaker 3: requires yeah, they already have. This requires a significant amount
Speaker 3: of risk taking. So you might ask yourself, well, why
Speaker 3: does Israel want this right now at this time? As well?
Speaker 3: That is the reason, because they can see the writing
Speaker 3: on the wall that they are at the peak of
Speaker 3: their strength right now and things are only going to
Speaker 3: be down hill from here, and that the very existence
Speaker 3: of the state and like their strength is also very
Speaker 3: much on the line. So you know, you've got that,
Speaker 3: and then you've got whatever is going on with Trump.
Speaker 3: You know, whether it's the nuclear blackmail, the Epstein thing.
Speaker 3: You know, people you said it's called that's being called
Speaker 3: Operation epic Fury. They see people saying, let's call it
Speaker 3: Operation Epstein Fury, which I absolutely think we should all
Speaker 3: be doing, because I do think that those two things
Speaker 3: are directly connected. And all of the hundreds of millions
Speaker 3: of dollars that flowed into his campaign from pro zionist sources.
Speaker 3: Then you've got the media array. You know, we just
Speaker 3: got the news about the you know, the paramount deal.
Speaker 3: So now you have the Ellison's have not only CBS, CNN, HBO, TikTok,
Speaker 3: just this mass media empire that is not only pro Trump,
Speaker 3: but pro Zionists to do their best to manufacture consent.
Speaker 3: Not that I think that's entirely going to work on
Speaker 3: the American people, but those are all the chips that
Speaker 3: they've kind of got in play to make this you know, final, final, disastrous,
Speaker 3: insane move on the chess board.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, I mean, just summarizing now. Obviously we will
Speaker 1: be covering this now for years to come. I hope
Speaker 1: we were able to add a little bit of some
Speaker 1: context to the things that you're all watching play out.
Speaker 1: This is unfortunately going to be very long. This will
Speaker 1: be a week's long campaign just in the immediate future.
Speaker 1: Then we will have to see where things shake out.
Speaker 1: There's untold amounts of death and destruction for the people
Speaker 1: of Iran. They are now fully going to be at
Speaker 1: the mercy of the western and the regional powers. There
Speaker 1: will also probably be at the mercy of a regime
Speaker 1: which is fighting for its life. The Iranian Foreign Minister
Speaker 1: is on television right now, Crystal, as you and I
Speaker 1: are speaking. He has said, as far as he knows,
Speaker 1: the Ayahtola is alive. He is also saying that he
Speaker 1: doesn't know why the United States insists on diplomacy and
Speaker 1: then tax the other party in the middle of their negotiations.
Speaker 1: He says, we lost a few commanders, but that's fine.
Speaker 1: We know how to fight from here, echoing some of
Speaker 1: the things I was saying earlier. They planned basically to
Speaker 1: be for a lot of decapitation, and effectively it's built in,
Speaker 1: and now they have no choice but to go all out.
Speaker 1: What all out means and their capabilities, obviously we don't know.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of lives at risk on American
Speaker 1: service members too. I really do I think I would
Speaker 1: live to see it.
Speaker 3: A lot of lives, a lot of chaos, you know,
Speaker 3: I mean kind of everything is really on the line
Speaker 3: right now. You've opened up an extraordinary, you know, an
Speaker 3: extraordinarily dangerous Pandora's box, and now we all just have
Speaker 3: to sit back and see where the hell this this
Speaker 3: takes us. I'm going to be interviewing doctor Tree to
Speaker 3: Parsi in a little while, so pay attention for you know,
Speaker 3: look out for that interview later today. And we're going
Speaker 3: to continue to stay on top of this as things develop. Also,
Speaker 3: just you know, caveat on everything that all the elements
Speaker 3: that we put up. Obviously, this is a very fast
Speaker 3: moving situation, and you know, it can be difficult to
Speaker 3: ascertain the veracity of all the things that are unfolding
Speaker 3: in your timeline on a moment basis, which is also
Speaker 3: you know reality check for you guys out there while
Speaker 3: you're monitoring the situations. Just remember that there's always things
Speaker 3: that come out that turn out to be untrue later on,
Speaker 3: So just keep that in mind as you're processing all
Speaker 3: of this information.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind propaganda AI social media, disinformation from the
Speaker 1: ir audience, from the Israelis, from the United States. Keep
Speaker 1: in mind, try to fact check some of these things.
Speaker 1: It's going to mean immensely difficult time ahead for all
Speaker 1: of us. I'm grateful to be doing the show with you.
Speaker 1: I hope we can try and help people understand the world.
Speaker 1: It's a bad time, but we'll see you all as
Speaker 1: soon as probably very soon, unfortunately,