Speaker 1: All of you for being one of us. Right down
Speaker 1: our toll free telephone number if you want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the program. It's eight hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: four one Sean if you want to join us. Did
Speaker 1: Liam have a good take your your children to work
Speaker 1: day yesterday? Linda had it?
Speaker 2: Yeah. I hope you're looking for another child so you
Speaker 2: can adopt him and you can take him next year
Speaker 2: because you're the fan favorite.
Speaker 1: I'd love to you gotta be would love. I hate
Speaker 1: to tell you he shows up in the Free State
Speaker 1: of Florida where I live. He ain't going home. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's not going back. He's not gonna want.
Speaker 2: To Let me tell you something in this school drop.
Speaker 1: Off spot in the middle of winter.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you right now. We were in the school
Speaker 2: drop offline this morning. True story. Looks at me, he goes,
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, mom, I'm not on board with this.
Speaker 1: I look.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you not on board with? He goes.
Speaker 2: I thought we were a good team yesterday. I think
Speaker 2: you should just take me to work again today. Let's
Speaker 2: just take me with you. I'm like, are you for real?
Speaker 2: This kid? I'm get out of the car, go to school.
Speaker 2: Learn something.
Speaker 1: All right, what is the real fallout? Because I got
Speaker 1: some intel that you had a very difficult time all
Speaker 1: throughout the night last night because of the discussion that
Speaker 1: I had with your son on this program yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yes, suddenly he's deprived.
Speaker 1: He's very form the audience. What Liam was saying to you.
Speaker 2: He was hysterical because we got done. He goes, you know,
Speaker 2: I should get more pizza. Schwan's right, I should get
Speaker 2: more pizza.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, Sean got him pizza yesterday, real pizza.
Speaker 2: Yes, and he had chicken fingers he had now he
Speaker 2: did not have Chick fil A waffle fries yesterday, although
Speaker 2: he did want them, and then he thought, well, maybe
Speaker 2: we'll get some on our way home. And since we
Speaker 2: were in traffic for eight hundred hours, I probably should have.
Speaker 2: But it was a sterical He was like, I should
Speaker 2: get more of this, and he's right, I should do
Speaker 2: more of that. I'm like, no, he is not right.
Speaker 2: We are doing air fry fries and we are making
Speaker 2: homemade pizza because it is a bonding experience. But clearly
Speaker 2: the bonding is not as.
Speaker 1: Uh So, obviously, if Liam was free and didn't live
Speaker 1: in your prison of radicalism when it comes to food,
Speaker 1: and if he had his choice, I was more right
Speaker 1: than you were. While I mentioned McDonald's fries versus your
Speaker 1: air fried French fries, he turns out he would prefer
Speaker 1: French fries that were cooked in oil because he wanted
Speaker 1: waffle fries. It just so happens it's from Chick fil A,
Speaker 1: which he prefers over McDonald's, which, by the way, everyone
Speaker 1: is entitled to their preference. I didn't even know that
Speaker 1: you ever gave him a waffle fry. I'm sure he's
Speaker 1: only had it once or twice in his life.
Speaker 2: I will tell you you're a little bit twenty dude
Speaker 2: in your analysis here. You're a little bit off the mark,
Speaker 2: just a little bit off.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't give it the choice. Given the choice he wants, No,
Speaker 1: the French fries that are cooked in oil.
Speaker 2: No, what he said was now, I was been here
Speaker 2: for the interrogation.
Speaker 1: And waffle fries, he said.
Speaker 2: He said, if you had to do takeout, that he
Speaker 2: would want waffle fries.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, there was no caveat about takeout.
Speaker 1: You are depriving this kid. And if it wasn't for
Speaker 1: Uncle Sean, he would not have had the pizza that
Speaker 1: he had yesterday that he really loved and was so
Speaker 1: grateful for, and he said, why don't we get more pizza? Mom?
Speaker 1: Did he or did he not say that?
Speaker 2: Yes? I mean, I tell you he's just the homemade meals,
Speaker 2: you know, with a protein and a vegetable on a start.
Speaker 1: Mom, I want more. I want more oil cooked fries.
Speaker 1: Momm did you not say that to you?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know that he used exactly that, but
Speaker 2: I will tell you.
Speaker 1: And Uncle Sean is right about everything and you're wrong. Mom.
Speaker 2: This is fake news obviously a little bit. But yes,
Speaker 2: I was wrong about a lot last night, There's no question.
Speaker 1: And how long did this little discussion go on after.
Speaker 2: The job, Well, we were in traffic for three hours
Speaker 2: getting home, so it was quite a while. Then he
Speaker 2: fell asleep. He was like, all right, I'm done. It's
Speaker 2: pretty funny.
Speaker 1: All right, Happy Friday. I have a different perspective that
Speaker 1: I want to share with a lot of you today
Speaker 1: regarding I think I really have figured something out that
Speaker 1: maybe the President really telegraphed yesterday and I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: And this goes back to my conversation that I had
Speaker 1: with him earlier this week when he said to me,
Speaker 1: I can bomb him any time I want. That's not
Speaker 1: going to be a problem. And I can knock all
Speaker 1: of this out anytime that I want. And of course
Speaker 1: you have number one, you have a problem with the
Speaker 1: Uranians can't even communicate with the other because none of
Speaker 1: them dare pick up a cell phone. Number one, number two,
Speaker 1: who is actually in charge? That is a real problem.
Speaker 1: But however, the President's giving every indication that the blockade
Speaker 1: has been so effective. Not a single ship has gotten
Speaker 1: through in spite of there was a report by the
Speaker 1: fake news media. This is the one where Chris Murphy
Speaker 1: from Connecticut said, oh awesome, twenty six ships have slipped
Speaker 1: through the blockade. That was fake news. It wasn't true.
Speaker 1: As we come on the air twelve Pacific, three Eastern today,
Speaker 1: the US Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff Jared Kushner.
Speaker 1: They are traveling to Pakistan for negotiations with the Iranian
Speaker 1: Foreign Minister, are a Gachi two US official telling Axios,
Speaker 1: I would assume by this point that the Iranians got
Speaker 1: the message they need a unified response to what the
Speaker 1: President has proposed to them. In the end, it's going
Speaker 1: to have to be no nukes, give up the dust,
Speaker 1: open the strait, join the free world, or get obliterated.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be pretty much their choice. They
Speaker 1: have no cards to play, and that's why the President
Speaker 1: extended the ceasefire. But anyway, they're expected to arrive in
Speaker 1: Islamabad late tonight for these talks, and also the Foreign
Speaker 1: Minister will be there, the Field Marshall will be there.
Speaker 1: In Pakistan, the Prime Minister will also be there, and
Speaker 1: Pakistani official telling Axios the meeting with Aragachi will focus
Speaker 1: on relaunching negotiations and a trilateral meeting will take place.
Speaker 1: Vice President Vans, who led the US negotiating team previous rounds,
Speaker 1: did not make the trip because his counterpart, the Speaker
Speaker 1: of the Parliament, won't travel in this particular case. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you should read the tea leaves into
Speaker 1: that or not. The Pentagon now considering suspending Spain from
Speaker 1: NATO for trying to block America's initial attack on Iran.
Speaker 1: I think this is the beginning of NATO decline, which
Speaker 1: we have spent a lot of time talking about. Most
Speaker 1: of Europe, most of NATO. They have allowed their individual countries.
Speaker 1: They have allowed the continent of Europe to disintegrate right
Speaker 1: before our very eyes. They have not at all kept
Speaker 1: up with their national security needs, the national defense nor
Speaker 1: the defense of NATO in general. We pay two thirds
Speaker 1: of the bill, and they could didn't have the moral
Speaker 1: clarity to stand up against radical Islamic terrorism. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Before I get to my theory where the president is
Speaker 1: on this, I just want to just give a little more,
Speaker 1: you know, information on where he is standing. By the way,
Speaker 1: the President's funny the Southern Poverty Loss Center paid that
Speaker 1: seventy grand to the leader of the American Nazi Party.
Speaker 1: Did you read that, Linda, Oh my gosh, they were
Speaker 1: paying money to all of this. I mean, you can't
Speaker 1: even make this stuff up. Former KKK member Arian Nations director,
Speaker 1: the same man they have listed as an extremist on
Speaker 1: their own website.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. They are the problem and the solution all
Speaker 2: at the same time.
Speaker 1: Problem. Well, I think they did it to create a
Speaker 1: false notion. It's what It's crazy what they're doing anyway,
Speaker 1: But I digress for a second here. So here's where
Speaker 1: we stand at this moment, and I think that this
Speaker 1: may be more deep and more profound than people have
Speaker 1: actually given the President credit for. And I think this
Speaker 1: is why the President was saying in detail yesterday that
Speaker 1: time is on his side. The President's not in a rush.
Speaker 1: Why are you going in this? What are you which,
Speaker 1: by the way, is a fair question. I understand what
Speaker 1: people are saying, and he definitely is going to stick
Speaker 1: by his This is not going to be a forever war.
Speaker 1: What he told me specifically was I could make that
Speaker 1: decision and it'll be over in fifteen minutes. But apparently
Speaker 1: this blockade has been way more impactful in the Iranian
Speaker 1: economy than anybody knew. US economic pressure on Iran now
Speaker 1: has reached one of its most powerful points in decades.
Speaker 1: And now the enforcement by the naval blockade that we
Speaker 1: put in place, they're losing serious money, four to five
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars a day. And as Scott Besson pointed out,
Speaker 1: and I read his tweet on the air as his
Speaker 1: ex post on the air the other day saying that
Speaker 1: they're not going to have any storage. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much most people know about oil production, but when
Speaker 1: you strike a well and you're producing oil, you have
Speaker 1: to keep producing if you want to get the maximum
Speaker 1: amount of oil if you have to shut that down,
Speaker 1: meaning the Iranians don't have any more storage capability at
Speaker 1: that point. The odds of you ever getting back to
Speaker 1: the same level of production where you were are negligible.
Speaker 1: At best. You're hoping for maybe fifty to sixty percent
Speaker 1: of what you otherwise were producing on a daily base.
Speaker 1: I'm not a landman. I don't know enough about it.
Speaker 1: If somebody wants to call it in, tell me and
Speaker 1: educate me. I'm really interested in hearing more about it.
Speaker 1: I have researched it. But anyway, so what the President
Speaker 1: has done here is we've never had the level of
Speaker 1: leverage that we now have just because of the economic
Speaker 1: pressures that the President has put on a ran and
Speaker 1: how effective. Far more effective than I think anybody knew
Speaker 1: this blockade would ultimately be. I mean, all the media
Speaker 1: wants to focus in on is they've got a little
Speaker 1: a gunboat and they're dropping mines. Whether they are or aren't,
Speaker 1: I don't know, because I don't trust the fake news industry.
Speaker 1: But the President by escalating this pressure and saying that
Speaker 1: we have total control over the straight or horn moves
Speaker 1: and that it's healed up tight, and that the Iranians
Speaker 1: can't sell any oil and nobody can get their tankers
Speaker 1: filled and get out of there. That means that there's
Speaker 1: no place to put the oil, which means that probably
Speaker 1: within the next week that those oil wells are all
Speaker 1: going to be backed up and have to be shut down.
Speaker 1: There's no place to put it. In other words, they're
Speaker 1: running out of oil storage in what we think will
Speaker 1: be a maximum of three weeks, but probably likely next week,
Speaker 1: which then forces production cuts, while gasoline shortages then hit
Speaker 1: on a similar timeline because of now they're going to
Speaker 1: be relying on imports, but they can't even get it
Speaker 1: into their country, combined with the amount of money they're
Speaker 1: losing on a daily basis, and it's ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the economy. And at the core of this pressure is
Speaker 1: this is it. This is their economy right now. Their
Speaker 1: currency is worth zero right now, their inflation rate is
Speaker 1: two hundred percent right now, they are bringing in no money,
Speaker 1: and half their workforce is now out of work, and
Speaker 1: pretty soon they're not even going to be able to
Speaker 1: pay the IRGC forces either reigning Revolutionary Guard forces and
Speaker 1: not going to be able to pay them, which means
Speaker 1: that this may be so effective that Irans with a
Speaker 1: RAN's economy can drive them back to the negotiating table. Now,
Speaker 1: why is the president sensitive? Why was it? Because I've
Speaker 1: gotten the question from a lot of people. Why doesn't
Speaker 1: the president just wipe out carguideland why doesn't the president
Speaker 1: just follow up and wipe out their bridges, their infrastructure,
Speaker 1: their power plants. As he told me this week he
Speaker 1: could do that. I said, I said, I know, an
Speaker 1: under an hour, two hours, he goes, No, probably under
Speaker 1: five minutes. That's how quickly he can do it. But
Speaker 1: a RAN's economy relies on the straight of horror moves
Speaker 1: more than any other economy. And yeah, there are other
Speaker 1: countries and continents, Asia, Japan, South Korea, India, China are
Speaker 1: most exposed to the disruption, and many have built up reserves.
Speaker 1: In Japan's oil reserve is pretty significant, the same with China.
Speaker 1: But still the region remains heavily dependent on the water
Speaker 1: waterway of the street of hormones. Now, if in fact
Speaker 1: this does, if this does bankrupt them, now, they have
Speaker 1: no capacity to even even get whatever remaining tier of
Speaker 1: leadership exists. I mean, we're kind of like we're the
Speaker 1: walls are closing in on them, and the pressure is
Speaker 1: all on them, which is what the President was trying
Speaker 1: to communicate to the stupid media yesterday that had just asked,
Speaker 1: are you thinking of nuking them? Did you hear that
Speaker 1: dumb question? They're so stupid. But anyway, the imports between
Speaker 1: thirty to sixty million leaders of gasoline a day to
Speaker 1: cover domestic shortfall of thirty five million leaders. They run
Speaker 1: out of gasoline, they're going to have a major crisis domestically.
Speaker 1: If their workforce has no work, those people then will
Speaker 1: become desperate. They'll have nothing to lose. The economic pressure,
Speaker 1: the idea that one country is so reliant on one
Speaker 1: industry but their entire economy this economic choke hold. I mean,
Speaker 1: we put them, if to use an mma analogy, we
Speaker 1: put them in a submission hold at this point. Now,
Speaker 1: either they're gonna tap out or they're gonna pass out.
Speaker 1: See if you get somebody in a choke hold, uh,
Speaker 1: and you are in the right spot and you lock
Speaker 1: it down, they're either gonna tap or they're gonna they're
Speaker 1: gonna pass out. It seems to be the most fitting
Speaker 1: analogy here. You know, the guy that played the central
Speaker 1: role in the Treasury department sanctioned campaigns against Iran and
Speaker 1: its network set in an on camera interview that the
Speaker 1: current moment reflects a rare convergence of economic, political, and
Speaker 1: diplomatic leverage. He says, we've never had this level of
Speaker 1: leverage that we have today with the Ran and the
Speaker 1: history of our conflict since nineteen nine. And when the
Speaker 1: President said the blockade scares them even more than the bombing,
Speaker 1: that's what the President is saying. And when the President
Speaker 1: orders the US Navy to triple their mind sweeping operations
Speaker 1: in the straightah Hor moves, he's also thinking about the
Speaker 1: impact of the ninety plus million people in Iran so
Speaker 1: he can achieve all of his goals. And what he's
Speaker 1: doing by waiting is hoping that he doesn't have to
Speaker 1: disrupt life in such a dramatic fashion for all the
Speaker 1: people that have been frankly oppressed for forty seven years.
Speaker 1: You might not like that goal, but to give that
Speaker 1: a little bit of time makes a lot of sense
Speaker 1: to me, especially in light of how effective the blockade
Speaker 1: has been. Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn is our number.
Speaker 1: If you want to be a part of the program.
Speaker 1: The economic side of this is pretty amazing. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the Iranians are going to do. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they know what they're going to do. I
Speaker 1: will tell you this, if we break them economically, I
Speaker 1: don't think the regimes, you know, radicals can survive if
Speaker 1: you can't pay your Let me tell you one thing
Speaker 1: that will break down radicalism very very quickly, very quickly,
Speaker 1: is when you stop paying your military. The people that
Speaker 1: get paid the most inside of Iran, they're not sharing
Speaker 1: the four hundred five hundred million dollars a day in
Speaker 1: oil revenues. Nobody is not being shared with the people
Speaker 1: in Iran. They have been impressed. They have been beaten down.
Speaker 1: They have been If they don't dress a certain way,
Speaker 1: they get beaten. If they really dress outrageously, they get killed.
Speaker 1: If you gay, lesbian, you get killed. If you say
Speaker 1: anything against the regime, you get killed. They have they've
Speaker 1: been impressed. And this is ninety plus million people. And
Speaker 1: the Persian people have a great, rich history that is incredible.
Speaker 1: It would be great to be able to restore that
Speaker 1: be great if they had an economy to begin with.
Speaker 1: That's why the military option is on the table. And
Speaker 1: the President has been very clear, even said it again yesterday.
Speaker 1: If they don't want to make a deal, I will
Speaker 1: finish this up militarily. He says. They've accomplished seventy five
Speaker 1: percent of what they set out to do within the
Speaker 1: first four weeks, and now the next part is going
Speaker 1: to be the part that destroys them completely. They've destroyed
Speaker 1: the military targets and most of them. Now they can
Speaker 1: destroy the economic targets and the infrastructure targets and when
Speaker 1: they have no money, and again we're already seeing signs
Speaker 1: that this blockade was far more effective than I think
Speaker 1: anybody had imagined. Well, Hannity, we need to get the
Speaker 1: free flow of oil at market prices. I understand that,
Speaker 1: But I understand that stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons,
Speaker 1: knowing they have ballistic missiles that can reach Paris and London,
Speaker 1: that's that's a little bit more important and more of
Speaker 1: a clear and present danger. And the President is right
Speaker 1: about the power struggle. And we'll see what happens as
Speaker 1: Steve Witkoff, We'll see what happens as Jared Kushner. Now
Speaker 1: go back to Islamabad and they'll have another meeting, hopefully
Speaker 1: with the more united Iranian message. The Iranian president delivered
Speaker 1: a speech during an inspection visit to the Ministry of
Speaker 1: Sports and Youth in Tehran, and he responded to President
Speaker 1: Trump and said that their country's hardline and moderate has
Speaker 1: hardline and moderate leaders, and that they're fighting with each other.
Speaker 1: And he said, in Iran, there are no radicals, there
Speaker 1: are no moderates. This was written on x we are
Speaker 1: all Iranian and revolutionary and with the iron unity of
Speaker 1: the nation and government, complete obedience to the Supreme Leader
Speaker 1: of the revolution will make the aggressor criminal regret his actions.
Speaker 1: By the way, that same message was put out simultaneously,
Speaker 1: within sixty seconds, exact same message by the head of
Speaker 1: the Iranian Parliament. What does that mean? That the leaders
Speaker 1: are not in control of the social media, That's what
Speaker 1: that means. So the you know, that's pretty much the
Speaker 1: news from Lake Wobegon as it relates to Iran. The
Speaker 1: Supreme Leader, we have an update on him. This is
Speaker 1: how Many's son, how many. His face is so disfigured
Speaker 1: he will need plastic surgery. Just talk about him needing prosthetics.
Speaker 1: He's never been seen. You know. They put out remarks
Speaker 1: in his name. Nobody nobody believes that it's from him. Uh.
Speaker 1: The critical missile stockpiles and are are pretty much wiped out.
Speaker 1: US forces fired more than eight hundred and fifty Tomahawks.
Speaker 1: I mean, this campaign has been devastating. USS carrier strike
Speaker 1: group in the Middle East. Linda, how many are these?
Speaker 1: But these sailors and marines, how many eggs do you
Speaker 1: think they eat a day?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: My god, I ate a lot of it.
Speaker 2: I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1: Take a guess.
Speaker 2: Oh god, three hundred eggs.
Speaker 1: Three hundred eggs a day? Right, No, you're not right.
Speaker 1: We're talking about we have three aircraft carriers there. How
Speaker 1: many eggs to feed all those guys?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll take our guess.
Speaker 2: I just did you liughed at me. You're embarrassing me.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid to answer now.
Speaker 1: All right, they eat more than twelve the thousand eggs
Speaker 1: a day.
Speaker 2: Oh dang, I was way off. Okay, you can embarrass
Speaker 2: me for them. That's pretty bad.
Speaker 1: All right, that's pretty bad. Hey, I don't think you
Speaker 1: were thinking about it the way I was asking the question.
Speaker 1: I'll definitely give you a lifeline, thank you.
Speaker 2: Can I call a friend.
Speaker 1: Call a friend, call, give a call. I'll give a
Speaker 1: shout out to a friend. The Israeli Defense Minister Israel
Speaker 1: cats I said during a security assessment that Israel is
Speaker 1: waiting for the green light to resume the fighting, and
Speaker 1: they're prepared to renew their war immediately. Israel is awaiting
Speaker 1: the green light. One interesting side note, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what to make of it or profession make anything out
Speaker 1: of it, but apparently the Trump led Israel Lebanon ceasefire
Speaker 1: has been extended by three weeks after those initial meetings
Speaker 1: took place. The problem that I have with the Lebanon
Speaker 1: question is kind of the same problem I have with
Speaker 1: the Hamas question, is that the Lebanese army has never
Speaker 1: been capable of controlling Hazballah, and they've not been able to.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can defeat them militarily. There
Speaker 1: was one surprise, and I saw BB. I had met
Speaker 1: with him when he was in Florida for a meeting
Speaker 1: with President Trump, and I didn't have time with him
Speaker 1: alone and met with him. I've known him over thirty years,
Speaker 1: and he didn't. He looked great to me. Apparently he
Speaker 1: had picked up that he had early stage prostay can answer,
Speaker 1: and during this whole conflict he was treated successfully, but
Speaker 1: he never told anybody. Unbelievable. The Israelis are so tough.
Speaker 1: What this little country of nine million people can do
Speaker 1: is unbelievable. They just wipe everybody out. I mean, just
Speaker 1: think of the military intelligence that goes into all of this.
Speaker 1: Pretty impressive. The Pentagon now considering suspending Spain from NATO
Speaker 1: for trying to block America's initial attack on Iran. I
Speaker 1: told you, and I've been telling you, it's only a
Speaker 1: matter of time that it's going to be reconfigured. The
Speaker 1: NATO Alliance Europe is in a state of deterioration. They're
Speaker 1: disintegrating and have been for decades, right before our eyes.
Speaker 1: They have ignored and neglected national security issues, defense issues
Speaker 1: they as individual countries collectively as a continent, they've not
Speaker 1: met there were responsibilities in an ever growing dangerous world,
Speaker 1: and it's the we're now paying the price. This is
Speaker 1: a one sided alliance. If they don't have the moral clarity,
Speaker 1: if they learned nothing from the last century in their
Speaker 1: own continent in terms of emerging threats of evil, especially
Speaker 1: now knowing that ballistic missile capability of the Iranian regime.
Speaker 1: They had a greater distance than anybody had known. They
Speaker 1: could reach Paris and London, and if they had nuclear
Speaker 1: capability that would be an imminent threat to the continent
Speaker 1: of Europe. London. They have had unfettered assimilation, I mean
Speaker 1: immigration without assimilation that is now caused sharia courts, no
Speaker 1: go zones, and radical socialism, radical you know, climate alarmism.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Let me read one more
Speaker 1: article in the Iranian economy to you the oil rich nation,
Speaker 1: this was a report on box News may actually run
Speaker 1: out of gasoline very quickly. Can you imagine with all
Speaker 1: the oil reserves they have and the ability of carg
Speaker 1: Island to produce all of that energy, and the amount
Speaker 1: of money they're losing daily, and the success of this blockade,
Speaker 1: I think with the president's basically counting on you know,
Speaker 1: it's the old guns and butter argument that they can't
Speaker 1: produce both they and if they have no economy, they're
Speaker 1: not going to be able to pay anybody. I think
Speaker 1: that's why there's a hesitancy for the president to just
Speaker 1: wipe it out permanently when it probably is now going
Speaker 1: to fall of its own weight. You know, rather quickly.
Speaker 1: You know, in addition to food shortages, rampant inflation, you know,
Speaker 1: they have their currency has no value whatsoever. But they
Speaker 1: may be running out of gas, which is what triggered
Speaker 1: protests in the streets in January. And anyway, the guy
Speaker 1: that played the central role the Treasury Department and their
Speaker 1: sanctions campaign against the rands, that we've never had this
Speaker 1: level of leverage that we've had since nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1: And the leverage is the Iranian economy. He describes as
Speaker 1: on the verge of quote collapse. He pointed to triple
Speaker 1: digit food inflation, sharply devalued currency, it's basically worth nothing,
Speaker 1: roughly ninety percent collapse in purchasing power, Potential long term
Speaker 1: oil revenue losses up to fourteen billion dollars annually. They'll
Speaker 1: have no money to pay their revolutionary guard forces. They'll
Speaker 1: have no money to pay their cuts forces. They actually
Speaker 1: import in Iran thirty million to sixty million leaders of
Speaker 1: gas per day to cover a domestic shortfall. This is
Speaker 1: before the blockade. If they run out of gasoline, they're
Speaker 1: going to have a major crisis domestically, he said. A
Speaker 1: Ran may run out of oil storage and his little
Speaker 1: two weeks well. Gasoline shortages could hit on a similar
Speaker 1: timeline due to a heavy reliance on imports. Combine that
Speaker 1: with the amount of money they're not taking in. At
Speaker 1: some point, he says, you know, they're going to face
Speaker 1: not just gasoline shortages and oil production disruptions, but also
Speaker 1: a massive banking problem, the ability to pay salaries of
Speaker 1: government employees and the IRGC. And if they run you know,
Speaker 1: if Iranians run out of patients this time, they may
Speaker 1: get the IRGC to switch sides and support them. I
Speaker 1: think that's something they ought to be thinking about. We
Speaker 1: will talk more about this later, but Axios had an
Speaker 1: interesting article. We have not spent enough time yet because
Speaker 1: we've been so busy with other news on this being
Speaker 1: a midterm election year. Now, conventional wisdom among many is
Speaker 1: that this midterm has already been decided. I'm here to
Speaker 1: tell you that is not true. I'm here to tell
Speaker 1: you that most of the polls, they're just a bunch
Speaker 1: of sheep, and they copy each other. The people that
Speaker 1: poll Trump and have historically polled Trump well have very
Speaker 1: different numbers for him. Then you know, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the mclachlin's the Matt Towrey's, the Rasmussens, the Robert Kahales,
Speaker 1: you know those people that get him right. But here's
Speaker 1: what you get. We highlighted what James Carvel said, Democrats
Speaker 1: get the House, the Senate, and the presidency, one day
Speaker 1: DC statehood, Puerto Rico statehood, packed the Supreme Court, get
Speaker 1: rid of the filibuster. He's saying. The quiet part out
Speaker 1: loud Axios today printing that resistant, resistance minded House Democrats
Speaker 1: they are now pushing their colleagues now in the hopes
Speaker 1: that if they win back the House, they want a
Speaker 1: day one impeachment vote. Now they haven't declared what it's about,
Speaker 1: but they want a day one impeachment vote. And if
Speaker 1: you don't think this midterm is that important, and if
Speaker 1: you don't, if you don't understand that the stakes are
Speaker 1: that high, you don't understand politics. There's many people that
Speaker 1: don't understand politics. You know. I've listened to some people
Speaker 1: that have, you know, effective, powerful platforms and voices, and
Speaker 1: they never seem to be able to get to what
Speaker 1: the bottom line of what the president is doing in
Speaker 1: Iran is all about. Either they don't believe him or
Speaker 1: they don't listen or they don't read. It has always
Speaker 1: been about preventing Iran from ever becoming a nuclear power. Now,
Speaker 1: I also have sources all over this government that I
Speaker 1: talk to on a regular basis without getting anything classified,
Speaker 1: and the people that know have in one voice shared
Speaker 1: the same sentiment with me. The President had no choice.
Speaker 1: What does that mean. That means that if the President
Speaker 1: didn't act, the odds were that high that the Uranians
Speaker 1: would be able to enrich uranium to weapons grade uranium
Speaker 1: in a period of twelve days, and they were reconstituting
Speaker 1: their program after midnight hammer and fourteen bunker buster bombs. Now,
Speaker 1: that would have been Donald Trump's legacy for the rest
Speaker 1: of his life. If the entire presidency would be defined
Speaker 1: by this. Some people don't want to hear it. Some
Speaker 1: people don't really understand what that means. I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear cut. I think it's pretty straightforward. But as
Speaker 1: we begin to start talking more about the midterms, I
Speaker 1: only have one request from all of you, and that
Speaker 1: is that, in your heart, your mind, and your soul,
Speaker 1: you commit to one thing. I'm not asking much at all,
Speaker 1: not asking you to donate, not asking you to volunteer,
Speaker 1: although if you'd like to, that'll be helpful. Democrats are
Speaker 1: going to have plenty of money. There's going to be
Speaker 1: plenty of demonization. The old playbook's going to be pulled out.
Speaker 1: The same lies are going to be told. Nazi fascist racists,
Speaker 1: on and on and on. Texast homophobe, is xenophob islamophobe,
Speaker 1: thirty ayear water kill Grandma, Grandpa. Just make one commitment
Speaker 1: in your heart, mind and soul, just that you're going
Speaker 1: to vote, and you're not voting for these lunatics. They
Speaker 1: are crazy. This is not your old Democratic party.