1 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Monday, April sixth, and on 2 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:17,200 Speaker 1: this Monday, there is a talk of a possible ceasefire. 3 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:20,799 Speaker 1: That follows a lot of Easter weekend talk from the President, 4 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:22,960 Speaker 1: a lot of tough talk in which President Trump said 5 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: he is ready to blow up everything over there his words, 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: and those words some say amount to war crimes. Meanwhile, 7 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 1: a prominent Democrat is now calling on the President to 8 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: be removed from office. Iran's response to all this was 9 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: kind of snarky, and with that, everybody, welcome to this 10 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: episode of Amy and TJ, minus the Amy. He just 11 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 1: got me the TJ on this one. We did want 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: to hop on and give you some pretty significant updates 13 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: from over the weekend and why the next twenty four 14 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: forty eight hours are going to be critical in this war. 15 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: We'll start first with there is talk of a possible 16 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: forty five day cease fire. Will give you details about that, 17 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: but that word just coming in the last few hours. Also, 18 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,759 Speaker 1: Trump threatened on Sunday a very significant tweet. He put 19 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: out excuse me, a truth social post that included some 20 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 1: profanity that got a lot of attention and now has 21 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 1: some saying he is he is almost signaling that he's 22 00:01:20,360 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 1: about to commit a war crime. We'll explain that. Meanwhile, yes, 23 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: we had a prominent senator, Democrat Chris Murphy, saying that 24 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: it is time for Trump's cabinet to invoke the twenty 25 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: fifth Amendment, in which he would be removed from office. 26 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: We'll let you hear what he had to say, and 27 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: we'll also let you hear what Iran had to say. 28 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: But they've been pretty cute on social media, and quite frankly, 29 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 1: if we weren't talking about war, their response would have 30 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: been clever and quite funny. But because it's war, it's 31 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: not so funny. But we'll let you hear what they 32 00:01:51,320 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 1: have to say. Let's go back to yesterday, though, Sunday, 33 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: Easter Sunday. The President was up and he was putting 34 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: out messages on truth social and this is the one 35 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: that got everybody's tension. And I quote, Tuesday will be 36 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: power plant Day and bridge Day all wrapped up in one. 37 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: In Iran. There will be nothing like it. Three exclamation points, 38 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: followed that, by the way, he continues, open the fucking straight, 39 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just 40 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: watch praise be t'a la President Donald J. Trump. Obviously, 41 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: that got a lot of attention, and at a time 42 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:31,840 Speaker 1: when the President says there's still negotiation going on behind 43 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: the scenes, he put that out and that really set 44 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: not really things in motion with stock markets just yet, 45 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: and we didn't have a huge fluctuation in oil prices. 46 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: But now everybody is on standby wondering what the President's 47 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: going to do next. Now he followed that one up. 48 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: That post was followed up by one a little afternoon, 49 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 1: close to one o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday that 50 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,919 Speaker 1: said simply this Tuesday, eight pm Eastern time. So he 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: has now set it seems a new deadline for Iran 52 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:05,919 Speaker 1: to comply with his demand that they opened the Straight 53 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: or four moves. The Straight orfour Move's been talked about 54 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: quite a bit over the past few weeks. All important waterway. 55 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 1: Twenty percent of the world's oil goes through there. Iran 56 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: is turning it on and off, and for the most 57 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: part it has been off. That has been the fluctuation 58 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: in oil prices in the country. The President threatened, this 59 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: is the third deadline. I do believe it's hard to 60 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: keep up. He gave a forty eight hour deadline and 61 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: he moved that to a ten day deadline, and the 62 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: ten days would have been up today, but now that's 63 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: moved to some time eight o'clock tomorrow. Anyway, there is 64 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: a deadline of some kind now that the president has 65 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,120 Speaker 1: by eight o'clock eastern time tomorrow. Now what is he 66 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: threatening by eight o'clock eastern time tomorrow? Now? He has 67 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: threatened that he would go after carg Island. That's a 68 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: particular hub, the center piece, if you will, of most 69 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:54,360 Speaker 1: of the energy infrastructure for Iran. He has threatened to 70 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: go after energy sites, to blow up bridges. Now, there 71 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: are plenty who are legal scholars who are looking at 72 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: this and said that would amount to a war crime. 73 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: You cannot blow up civilian infrastructure and essentially take away 74 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: water or power from a civilian population. That is the 75 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 1: argument being made. So what is the president threatening to do. 76 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: He's been doing a round of interviews with reporters over 77 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,000 Speaker 1: the weekend, including with ABC News Rachel Scott over there, 78 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:25,799 Speaker 1: and this is what he told her. Quote if it happens, 79 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 1: it happens, and if it doesn't, we're blowing up the 80 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: whole country. In quotes, that's him talking about the deadline. 81 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: And whether or not they do open the straight of 82 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: horror moves. If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, 83 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: we're blowing up the whole country. He followed up with 84 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: another interview Axios with this quote, there is a good chance, 85 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:49,679 Speaker 1: but if they don't make a deal, I am blowing 86 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: up everything over there in quote. Now, these threats come 87 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: with that deadline of eight o'clock tomorrow eight o'clock pm 88 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: tomorrow on t Tuesday, East Coast time. What happens after that, 89 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,280 Speaker 1: we do not know. Now all this is going on, 90 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: It's a pretty tough and scary talk around the world, 91 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: and two places at least right now, Axios and Reuters 92 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: both are reporting that there is a ceasefire proposal that 93 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: is floating around both of these organizations. News organizations outlets 94 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 1: are reporting that there is a forty five day ceasefire 95 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: plan that has been sent out to both Iran and 96 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 1: the US. Where did it come from. It wasn't from 97 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: the Iran Iranians or the US. It wasn't because of 98 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,800 Speaker 1: the two sides getting together and coming up with this plan. No, 99 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: it's from Middle East mediators have come up with this 100 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 1: that we'd call for an immediate ceasefire and give forty 101 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: five days to at least try to come to some 102 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:50,359 Speaker 1: kind of conclusion or excuse me, some better conclusion than 103 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: we're going to possibly see yesterday. If the presidency or 104 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:56,280 Speaker 1: follows through on a threat. We don't have order this 105 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,720 Speaker 1: morning of whether no reaction from the Iranians, no reaction 106 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: from the United States, about that forty five day ceasefire, 107 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: what is in it and if any discussions are going 108 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: on about it, but it at least is hopeful something 109 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: after a very tough weekend of rhetoric that in fact 110 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: this could happen. There's possibly one on the table. We'll 111 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,520 Speaker 1: take it. So what was Iran's response? Some of their 112 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: responses have been, I don't know, surprisingly snarky and and 113 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: cute and very modern, to be frank, given so much 114 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: that the regime is known for, you don't expect smiley 115 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: phase emojis and things like that. But they have been responding. Now, 116 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 1: this was the response from one official Twitter account x 117 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: account for the IRRA audience, and again this was in 118 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: response to the president's threat that they need to reopen 119 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:55,120 Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz. The response was quote, we've lost 120 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: the keys again. If we were not talking about war, 121 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: somebody might look at that and say, oh that's funny, 122 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: Oh that's clever. But that was the response in the 123 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: back and forth. It happens all the time. Now as 124 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: I sit here, here we are on this Monday morning, 125 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 1: April six, oil prices have not necessarily they didn't do 126 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: a whole lot in terms of movement after the president's 127 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 1: threat this weekend, still sitting a little high. But again 128 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: there wasn't a huge spike or anything, or a drop. 129 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of a wait and see mode. 130 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: But we did have another day that we saw gas 131 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: prices in this country go up now up to four 132 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: dollars and twelve cents a gallon, So since the war started, 133 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: now certainly up a dollar, about a dollar we are 134 00:07:38,280 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 1: paying more, and folks in California are almost at six 135 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. Five dollars and ninety three cents is 136 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: the average out in California. Now, I mentioned a moment 137 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: ago this talk is floating around here and there now 138 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: and then about invoking the twenty fifth Amendment. But we 139 00:07:55,800 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: heard it over the weekend from a prominent dimocrat telling 140 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:05,120 Speaker 1: the president's cabinet it is time now to get involved here, 141 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: all right, folks, we continue on this Monday, April sixth 142 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 1: and Amy and TJ minus the Amy today just me, 143 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: you got me. But we're going to wrap this up 144 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 1: in just a sec Where I wanted to let you 145 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: know about what's happening. The twenty fifth Amendment. We hear 146 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,040 Speaker 1: it all the time. We learned about it in school. 147 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: You get the idea twenty fifth Amendment can be invoked 148 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: when the president is in some way capacitated and the 149 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: vice president needs to step up and have the powers 150 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: of the president. We hear about it, learn about it, 151 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: we get it now. It's been invoked several times in 152 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: our nation's history. It was in place or put in 153 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: place after the assassination of John F. Kennedy several years lady, 154 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: it was added, ratified by enough states, becomes a part 155 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 1: of the constitution. Now. It has several sections in it. 156 00:08:57,400 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: The section that has been invoked in the past, I 157 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: think is Section one, if not Section two. But it's 158 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: when the president is incapacitated. What I'm saying is it's 159 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 1: happened a few times when a couple of presidents had 160 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: surgery and colonoscopy in particular. I think that might have 161 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: been Biden, but it's not only a couple of times. 162 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 1: Happened of course after Reagan was shot as well. But 163 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: the part that's never been evoked is Section four. That 164 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:27,760 Speaker 1: is the one where the president can be removed involuntarily. 165 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: It's when the vice president enough cabinet members, a majority 166 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: of them, decide that the president no longer has the 167 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: ability to discharge the duties of his office. That's what 168 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,240 Speaker 1: it's called. Quote unable to discharge the powers and duties 169 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: of his office is what it says. That has never 170 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: been invoked. We've never had a time in this country 171 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,680 Speaker 1: that the cabinet said, Nope, this guy can't do his 172 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: job and he needs to be removed. That has never happened. 173 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,439 Speaker 1: But that is the suggestion this weekend that Senator Chris 174 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:59,960 Speaker 1: Murphy of Connecticut did make. This is a prominent Democrat. 175 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: He wrote and put this out on X quote. If 176 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,320 Speaker 1: I were in Trump's cabinet, I would spend easter calling 177 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: constitutional lawyers about the twenty fifth Amendment. This is completely 178 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands, He's going to kill 179 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: thousands more. End quote. That is the way a lot 180 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 1: of people read the president's through social post as something 181 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: from somebody who was unhinged. It sounded. And again, this 182 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: was after I didn't make this point. This was after 183 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: we had gotten word that the airman who had crashed 184 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: in Iran had been recovered, so that rescue mission was successful. 185 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: And this is what the president posted on Sunday afterwards. 186 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: There will be nothing like it. Open the effing straight, 187 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just 188 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,079 Speaker 1: watch Praise be to Allah. I mean tough talk. And 189 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: maybe some of the President's supporters appreciate that kind of 190 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: talk or think that this is how you should do 191 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: business with a regime like that. I don't know, but 192 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,640 Speaker 1: a lot of people took that as that does not 193 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: sound like a sane person. It does not sound like 194 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 1: a person who's got it together, and that's not a 195 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 1: person we want in charge of saying yes or no 196 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: we go to war and how we go to war. 197 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: That message from Chris Murphy was when Murphy was went 198 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 1: out to millions folks, it was viewed by millions and 199 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: millions of folks, and that conversation, Look how much that 200 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: rises to the level. Oh yeah, I should say this 201 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: no matter how much it's talked about, there is no 202 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 1: indication that anybody in the President's cabinet, anywhere in his 203 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,800 Speaker 1: circle that's crossed their mind or this would be have 204 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: any chance in hell that this would ever actually happen. 205 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: But after the President's message on Sunday, at least it's 206 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,240 Speaker 1: part of the conversation once again. So folks, has always 207 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: appreciates you spending some time here with us. Just wanted 208 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,560 Speaker 1: to get gets you going on this Monday, let you 209 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 1: know all those developments. You might not have been paying 210 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 1: attention since a lot of people were spending time with 211 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: family on Easter. So I hope you had a good one. 212 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: But for my dear Amy Robot, I am T. J. 213 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 1: Holmes be talking to you allso