Speaker 1: Welcome.
Speaker 2: It is verdict with Senator Ted Kruz Ben Ferguson with
Speaker 2: you and Senator Israel under attack yet again. Unfortunately, this
Speaker 2: was predictable, especially since the United States of America i'd
Speaker 2: taken its hand off of Israel with the Biden administration
Speaker 2: leading the way on that.
Speaker 3: Well, we are right now talking a couple of minutes
Speaker 3: before eleven pm on Sunday, and the eyes of the
Speaker 3: world are on Israel and Iran. As in the last
Speaker 3: twenty four hours, over three hundred drones and cruise missiles
Speaker 3: from Iran went into Israel. Now, to Israel's credit, the
Speaker 3: Iron Dome and its missile defense systems intercepted virtually all
Speaker 3: of them. But it was the first direct attack on
Speaker 3: Israel from Iran in history, and it is an extraordinary
Speaker 3: escalation of what has been going on. This tragically is
Speaker 3: the result of the Biden foreign policy of appeasement and
Speaker 3: the entire Democrat Party backing away from Israel and sending
Speaker 3: billions of dollars to Iran. In a very real sense,
Speaker 3: the missiles that Iran fired at Israel were paid for
Speaker 3: by the Biden administration. At this point, the safety and
Speaker 3: security of the men and women in Israel, the men
Speaker 3: and women in the Middle East, and potentially more broadly,
Speaker 3: are all in jeopardy as the world waits with bated
Speaker 3: breath to see what happens next.
Speaker 1: It is shocking.
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Speaker 2: comes to the money. There are two things the Biden
Speaker 2: administration has done that has helped the Iranian economy and
Speaker 2: the Iranian ilatola commit these atrocites against Israel, and also
Speaker 2: work with any terrorist organizations they want to support, whether
Speaker 2: it's Amas or HESBLA, it doesn't really matter. Those two
Speaker 2: things one or We do technically have sanctions on Iranian oil,
Speaker 2: but we're not enforcing those. And we've also allowed direct
Speaker 2: access to cash that Iran and can now grab that
Speaker 2: we had basically seized and locked up. How much money
Speaker 2: do they have now because of Biden's policies.
Speaker 3: It is well one hundred billion dollars, but sadly been
Speaker 3: there are a lot more than two things that they
Speaker 3: have done. From the beginning, the Biden administration has simultaneously
Speaker 3: flooded our enemies with cash. Their approach to every enemy
Speaker 3: of America from day one has been appeasement and usually
Speaker 3: in the form of billions of dollars. And simultaneously they
Speaker 3: have undermined our friends and allies and especially Israel again
Speaker 3: from day one. Let's break them down, piece by piece.
Speaker 3: To Iran itself, you have number one, sixteen billion dollars
Speaker 3: in direct fund, six billion dollars that everyone talked about.
Speaker 3: That was ransom for five Americans that was widely denounced
Speaker 3: by me and many others. On top of that, there
Speaker 3: was another ten billion dollars of money that was frozen
Speaker 3: in Iraq that the Biden administration unfroze to allow to
Speaker 3: flow back to Iran. That takes you up to sixteen
Speaker 3: billion dollars. The biggest component is refusing to enforce oil
Speaker 3: sanctions that has caused Iran in oil exports to skyrocket.
Speaker 3: That is an excess of eighty billion dollars. We're going
Speaker 3: to come back back to that one in a minute,
Speaker 3: but not just that. You have to understand the Biden
Speaker 3: administration has lifted sanctions on Iran's proxies on the Huthis
Speaker 3: in Yemen who were funded by Iran. If you look
Speaker 3: at Gaza and Hamas that carried out the October seventh
Speaker 3: terror attack, Hamas over ninety percent of its funding comes
Speaker 3: from Iran. And what did Biden do. He sent hundreds
Speaker 3: of millions of dollars into Gaza that went directly into
Speaker 3: the hands of Hamas that in all likelihood was used
Speaker 3: to finance Summer all of the October seventh terror attack.
Speaker 3: The same thing is true with flooding money into Lebanon,
Speaker 3: much of which ends up in the hands of Hesbela.
Speaker 3: Hesbela again over ninety percent of its budget comes from Iran.
Speaker 3: On top of that, even more amazingly, the Biden administration
Speaker 3: allowed the UN sanctions, the international sanctions on missiles in Iran,
Speaker 3: to expire. They did this in the midst of Iran
Speaker 3: funding Hamas funding has Bela funding October seventh and launching
Speaker 3: over one hundred attacks on US service men and women.
Speaker 3: On October seventh, more than twelve hundred Israelis were murdered.
Speaker 3: That included roughly thirty Americans who were murdered. We still
Speaker 3: have American hostages, We still have Israeli hostages. Not only that,
Speaker 3: we have three service men and women the Iranians have
Speaker 3: murdered in their more than one hundred attacks. And what
Speaker 3: does the Biden administration keep doing shoveling cash to this
Speaker 3: theocratic lunatic Ayatola.
Speaker 2: Senatri the Zionoa also chanced death to America. There's also
Speaker 2: another problem, and that is that the weapons inspectors that
Speaker 2: deal with nuclear weapons, they've been kicked out of Iran,
Speaker 2: and yet we still have this Iranian nuclear deal. And
Speaker 2: I can't believe for a second that Iran wouldn't use
Speaker 2: a nuclear weapon if they have one or if they
Speaker 2: get one, based on what they just did with this indiscriminate,
Speaker 2: massive attack on Israel.
Speaker 3: Well, we don't know if they have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3: If they don't have one, they are very very close.
Speaker 3: And they are very very close because Joe Biden has
Speaker 3: flooded so much cash into them to put them in
Speaker 3: a position to have this kind of money. Let's look
Speaker 3: at oil exports, and I said, I wanted to come
Speaker 3: back to this. So during the Trump administration, when President
Speaker 3: Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, which was
Speaker 3: absolutely the right thing to do. At the time, Iran
Speaker 3: was exporting roughly a million barrels of oil a day.
Speaker 3: When Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal, he
Speaker 3: kept in place an oil waiver. That waiver allowed Iran
Speaker 3: to continue selling a million barrels a day of oil.
Speaker 3: I thought that was an enormous mistake. So once we
Speaker 3: pulled out of the Obama Nuclear deal, I I pressed
Speaker 3: President Trump repeatedly to end the oil waiver. There was
Speaker 3: a fight between the State Department and the Energy Department.
Speaker 3: The State Department under Trump wanted to keep the oil
Speaker 3: waiver in place. They said that if we ended the
Speaker 3: oil waiver, the price of oil and the price of
Speaker 3: gasoline with skyrocket. The Department of Energy under Trump, which
Speaker 3: presumably our experts and energy said, that's ridiculous. There's plenty
Speaker 3: of global oil. This won't affect the price. As I said,
Speaker 3: I leaned in repeatedly with Trump on Air Force one
Speaker 3: in the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: He agreed with me.
Speaker 3: He overruled as Secretary of State Mike Mike Pompeo. He
Speaker 3: ended the oil waivers. And it turns out we now
Speaker 3: know that the Department of Energy was right in state
Speaker 3: was wrong. That the Iranian oil exports cratered. They felled
Speaker 3: roughly three hundred thousand barrels a day, but the price
Speaker 3: of oil had barely a blip. It had a negligible effect. Well,
Speaker 3: fast forward to Joe Biden coming into office. Joe Biden
Speaker 3: came in office and almost immediately he stopped in forcing
Speaker 3: those oil sanctions, and again almost immediately, as a direct result,
Speaker 3: Iran's oil sanctions skyrocketed. Now at the time of October seventh,
Speaker 3: do you know what Iran's oil exports were, or production.
Speaker 1: Rather was what was it?
Speaker 3: Two million barrels a day? Yeah, more than double what
Speaker 3: it had been before the oil waivers were ended, nearly
Speaker 3: eight times seven times what they were when Biden came
Speaker 3: into office. Do do you know what their oil exports?
Speaker 3: Their production is right now in April of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 3: what is it? Three point four million barrels a day?
Speaker 2: So let's talk cash. What type of cash are we
Speaker 2: now dealing with it? They have their hands on because
Speaker 2: we are not enforcing our embargo on their oil right now.
Speaker 3: So we're looking at easily in excess of one hundred
Speaker 3: billion dollars. Depends on the prices they're getting. They're selling
Speaker 3: it primarily to the Chinese communists. You have to assume
Speaker 3: they're selling it it's something of a discount. But even so,
Speaker 3: this is easily one hundred billion dollars that Joe Biden
Speaker 3: just handed to the Iatola. And mind you didn't just
Speaker 3: hand before October seventh. After October seventh, he continues handing. Today.
Speaker 3: Iran just launched all these missiles. You know what, Joe
Speaker 3: Biden hadn't done anything to enforce the oil sanctions. The
Speaker 3: number of three point four million barrels a day is
Speaker 3: from right now, that's April of twenty twenty four. The
Speaker 3: Iatola is rolling in cash, which is why he can
Speaker 3: afford to send three hundred roans and three hundred cruise missiles.
Speaker 3: And I will tell you it is not just Biden.
Speaker 3: This is one of the most important points. A lot
Speaker 3: of folks focus on the squad. They focus on AOC
Speaker 3: and Omar and to Leeb and the radicals in the House.
Speaker 3: Those guys are a problem. Yes, they're rabidly anti Israel,
Speaker 3: they make anti Semitic tropes constantly. But the problem is
Speaker 3: not the fringe. The problem is the so called mainstream Democrats.
Speaker 3: Is Joe Biden, The problem is Chuck Schumer. The problem
Speaker 3: is Nancy Pelosi. After October seventh, just recently, just a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, I forced a vote on the
Speaker 3: Senate floor to bar the Biden administration from sending billions
Speaker 3: of dollars to Iran. Now, this should be easy. Iran
Speaker 3: funded October seventh. Iran is still actively trying to kill
Speaker 3: US servicemen and women. Iran is still trying to actively
Speaker 3: murder former US senior officials, including Mike Pompeo, the former
Speaker 3: Secretary of State, including John Bolton, the former National Security Advisor,
Speaker 3: including Brian Hook, the former Assistant Secretary of State. I
Speaker 3: forced to vote on the Senate floor every single Democrat,
Speaker 3: all of them except Bob Benendez. Every Democrat but one
Speaker 3: voted no. They voted to continue sending Iran billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: That was just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: So you look at the cash and then let's move
Speaker 2: to the second part here, and that is is all right?
Speaker 2: So their UNS and the Security Council emergency meeting right now,
Speaker 2: they're demanding that Israel show restraint. We're also getting reporting
Speaker 2: now from Axios that Biden told apparently Netanyahu the US
Speaker 2: won't support an Israeli counterattack on his Iran, which is
Speaker 2: unfortunately not shocking.
Speaker 1: I actually you talked about this.
Speaker 2: It's very clear now actions speak louder than words in
Speaker 2: this present and the Biden administration and their foreign policy
Speaker 2: is Israel bad. Everybody else can do what they want
Speaker 2: to do. What is a response now going to be
Speaker 2: when you go back to Washington this week and you
Speaker 2: can't say, hey, we need to put sanctions on Ranio. Oh,
Speaker 2: We've already done that, So do you say we want
Speaker 2: to enforce it? And what about the White House?
Speaker 3: Well, the Biden Administration's message and the message of every
Speaker 3: Democrat in Congress is there is no military solution for
Speaker 3: our allies. But our enemies are allowed to win. Our
Speaker 3: enemies are allowed to attack, an attack, and attack, and
Speaker 3: our allies have to do nothing about it. Understand the
Speaker 3: money that they fled to Iran, you know who, They're
Speaker 3: not flooding money to Israel.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Remember, there's a fourteen billion dollar Israel aid package came
Speaker 3: out of the House of Representatives. And what did Chuck
Speaker 3: Schumer do. He refused to allow a vote on it.
Speaker 1: He blocked it.
Speaker 3: He said, we will not vote on this unless it's
Speaker 3: tied to Ukraine and the rest of the Democrat priorities. Now,
Speaker 3: if you'll recall, several months ago, I and several other
Speaker 3: Republicans forced a vote on emergency military aid Israel on
Speaker 3: the Senate floor. We released yesterday on Sunday that podcast
Speaker 3: that we did several months ago describing exactly what happened.
Speaker 3: We put that out as a bonus pod because it
Speaker 3: is incredibly relevant. Now, if you didn't listen to yesterday's podcast,
Speaker 3: you got to go back and listen to it. The
Speaker 3: day of that vote was the day of the March
Speaker 3: for Israel. There were worth three hundred thousand people that
Speaker 3: came to the mall that were out there marching in
Speaker 3: support of Israel.
Speaker 1: I was there.
Speaker 3: I was on the mall, marching in support for Israel.
Speaker 3: A number of Democrat senators were there, including Democrat senators.
Speaker 3: Jackie Rosen, Democrat from Nevada, was on the stage speaking
Speaker 3: in support of Israel. Immediately after that march, I and
Speaker 3: several other Republican senators, we forced a vote on emergency
Speaker 3: military aid to Israel. Chuck Schumer was furious. We used
Speaker 3: a parliamentary technique that's called a rogue cloture petition, which
Speaker 3: is a method that the minority can seize control of
Speaker 3: the floor.
Speaker 1: It's rare to use, and frankly.
Speaker 3: Schumer was sloppy as majority leader to let us use it,
Speaker 3: but we succeeded in using it, and we forced that vote.
Speaker 3: Every single Democrat, all of them, with no exceptions, voted
Speaker 3: against emergency military aid to Israel. They literally left a
Speaker 3: march for Israel, came back and said no money for Israel.
Speaker 1: None.
Speaker 3: And by the way, their stated justification was because the
Speaker 3: House had paid for it by removing that money from
Speaker 3: the eighty billion dollars the Democrats had given to hire
Speaker 3: eighty seven thousand new IRS agents. So because instead the
Speaker 3: IRS was only getting sixty sixty six billion instead of
Speaker 3: eighty billion. The Democrats said, no, we care more about
Speaker 3: adding IRS agents than we do about supporting Israel against
Speaker 3: our terrorist enemies. Now, I will say, in the last
Speaker 3: twenty four hours, Chuck Schumer sent out a tweet saying,
Speaker 3: we stand strongly with Israel. We will have your backs,
Speaker 3: to which I immediately responded, well, I'm glad you're saying
Speaker 3: that because you're the one who blocked emergency military aid
Speaker 3: to Israel, and every single Democrat senator voted with you.
Speaker 3: So you know what we ought to do today Monday.
Speaker 3: We ought to come back and we ought to take
Speaker 3: that bill up and we ought to pass emergency military
Speaker 3: aid to Israel. I'm confident the House is going to
Speaker 3: do that again. The House is going to send it
Speaker 3: to us, and we'll see what the Democrats do. My
Speaker 3: suspicion is the Democrats will line up as they did before,
Speaker 3: to say no, no, no, no, no. We only give money to
Speaker 3: the enemies of America. We only give money to Iran,
Speaker 3: we only give money to Hamas, we only give money
Speaker 3: to people who want to kill us, our actual friends
Speaker 3: we won't give money to. But you know what, every
Speaker 3: Democrat will have a chance to put action to their words.
Speaker 3: A bunch of Democrats have been tweeting out right now
Speaker 3: we stand with Israel, Well, talk's cheap. Are you willing
Speaker 3: to fund the response? And we know that Biden's answer
Speaker 3: is lee at least as is being widely reported, as
Speaker 3: he told Dan Yahoo, do not attack, do not strike back,
Speaker 3: take the win. He said, what a bizarre can you
Speaker 3: imagine if America, if somebody fired three hundred missiles in
Speaker 3: America and some foreign leader called up the US president said, hey,
Speaker 3: take the win the missiles. You guys were able to
Speaker 3: intercept them, so people didn't die. Just say well, we're
Speaker 3: fine and do nothing. I mean, that's that's what Biden
Speaker 3: is saying, the Israel do nothing.
Speaker 2: Believe you even saw this on TV today. There was
Speaker 2: many of the commentators on TV that we're saying exactly that, Well,
Speaker 2: if this's a big success and a big test for
Speaker 2: the Iron Dome, and it's clear that Israel can defend itself,
Speaker 2: and there's no reason to escalate this because now, and
Speaker 2: this was set on TV today, I think it was
Speaker 2: on CBS. They literally said so because now you got
Speaker 2: to assume this is their words that Iran is probably
Speaker 2: out of them, out of missiles, and couldn't do the
Speaker 2: same type of attack today even if they wanted to,
Speaker 2: So therefore Israel should do nothing, just celebrate the win.
Speaker 3: At every stage, Biden and Schumer and the Democrats have
Speaker 3: had the same message. Number one, no matter what Iran does,
Speaker 3: no matter what our enemies do, they want to keep
Speaker 3: sending the money. I generally, I genuinely do not understand it.
Speaker 3: It's pathological when someone chance death to America and death
Speaker 3: to Israel. My reaction is not I'm going to send
Speaker 3: you money. That apparently is Joe Biden, Dan's reaction, Chuck
Speaker 3: Schuber's reaction, that apparently is Nancy Pelosi's reaction, and that's
Speaker 3: every other Democrat's reaction. I don't get that. But secondly,
Speaker 3: at every stage, their position has been to Israel, don't
Speaker 3: defend yourself, don't do anything. Remember when October seventh was happening,
Speaker 3: Literally at three in the morning on the day of
Speaker 3: October seventh, when the bodies of the twelve hundred Israelis
Speaker 3: who had been murdered were still warm, the Biden State
Speaker 3: Department tweeted out urging Israel not to retaliate. This is
Speaker 3: after the murder of twelve hundred civilians, This is after
Speaker 3: the rape of women and children, this is after infants
Speaker 3: were slaughtered. The position of the Biden State Department was
Speaker 3: do not retaliate. I blasted that at three in the morning,
Speaker 3: and thankfully they deleted it. They realized, oh, we can't
Speaker 3: say this quite yet, but to be clear. The next day,
Speaker 3: that would be October eighth, Tony Blinken, with his own
Speaker 3: Twitter account, sent out another tweet saying he had just
Speaker 3: talked with a Turkish foreign minister and Israel should not retaliate.
Speaker 3: That was their message. The day after, again I blasted
Speaker 3: the Biden State Department. Again they deleted that tweet. There
Speaker 3: were two tweets within twenty four hours of the October
Speaker 3: seventh massacre, and the immediate knee jerk reaction of Biden
Speaker 3: was do not retaliate. Do not retaliate now. What have
Speaker 3: they said every day since then? Their position has been stop,
Speaker 3: we need a ceasefire, We need a pause. Stop killing hamas,
Speaker 3: stop killing terrorist, stop going after the bad guy. Now,
Speaker 3: their position after Iran launches three hundred missiles and drones
Speaker 3: into Israel, do not retaliate we will not support you.
Speaker 3: It is asinine. And you asked what Congress is doing, Well,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you one thing. This coming week, We've got
Speaker 3: a mark up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and
Speaker 3: I've got a number of Iran related amendments that I've
Speaker 3: already filed. I have one that I'm looking to get
Speaker 3: a vote on to sanction all Hamas members. I have
Speaker 3: another to sanction the Huthis for using Iranian missiles. I
Speaker 3: have another amendment to sanction the IRGC in Iran for
Speaker 3: using Iranian missiles against the United States. I have another
Speaker 3: one to tag Iran's vessels to shut down their oil money.
Speaker 3: And I have another one that says no suspending sanctions
Speaker 3: to send money to Gaza. I got to tell you,
Speaker 3: I think I know what's going to happen. We're going
Speaker 3: to see the Democrats vote against those amendments because their
Speaker 3: position is, no matter how much you hate America, no
Speaker 3: matter how many Jews you kill, no matter how many
Speaker 3: Americans you kill, we the Democrats will keep sending him money.
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Speaker 2: the United Nations is hanging Israel out to drive Israel
Speaker 2: calls for new sanctions on Iran, and the UN Security
Speaker 2: Council apparently said, you guys better be careful what your
Speaker 2: response is. Not really worried about Israel, but worried about
Speaker 2: what they may do in response protecting Iran.
Speaker 1: Well, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: As we're sitting here today, it is a few minutes
Speaker 3: before midnight, Sunday night, and there's an Emergency Security Council
Speaker 3: meeting going on as we speak, and Israel called it.
Speaker 3: Israel called it seeking to discuss to force a vote
Speaker 3: to urge the United Nations to impose sanctions on Iran
Speaker 3: in response to the attack. And the response to that
Speaker 3: is the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres,
Speaker 3: told the Council that it was quote time to step
Speaker 3: back from the brink, and that its members had the
Speaker 3: collective responsibility quote to actively engage all parties concerned to
Speaker 3: prevent further escalation. You notice they never say this about Hamas,
Speaker 3: They never say this about Iran. It's always Israel. Just
Speaker 3: don't retaliate. Just take people mass murdering your citizens, Just
Speaker 3: take missiles being fired into your cities if you look
Speaker 3: at it. So on Sunday, both Israel's and Iran's ambassadors
Speaker 3: gave fiery comments that Israel's ambassador said that Iran's attack
Speaker 3: had quote crossed every red line and that Israel reserved
Speaker 3: the right to retaliate, and he urged the UN to
Speaker 3: take severe actions, including crippling sanctions. And here's one thing
Speaker 3: he said, quote the fact that Israel's air defense proved
Speaker 3: to be superior does not change the brutality of Iran's attack.
Speaker 3: Iran's ambassador, on the other hand, argued that Iran had
Speaker 3: a quote inherent right to self defense after Israel's attack
Speaker 3: on its diplomatic compound, and understand Iran is very upset
Speaker 3: that Israel, in fighting back, took out a senior general
Speaker 3: in several Iran military officials. But understand, Iran is who
Speaker 3: funded October seventh, Iran is who funds Hamas, Iran is
Speaker 3: who trained the Hamas terrorists, and so Iran has this
Speaker 3: very strange view that it can pay people to attack
Speaker 3: and murder other countries and not have them strike back.
Speaker 3: The Iranian ambassador said, Iran quote does not seek escalation
Speaker 3: or war in the region, but that if his interest
Speaker 3: came under attack, it would quote respond to any such
Speaker 3: aggressions vigorously and an accordance with international law. Nothing Iran
Speaker 3: does is in accordance with international law. Now, Robert Wood,
Speaker 3: who is a US representative of the United Nations, told
Speaker 3: the Security Council that the Biden administration said quot vote,
Speaker 3: the US is not seeking escalation. Our actions have been
Speaker 3: defensive in nature. The US goal is to de escalate
Speaker 3: and then get back to securing an end to the
Speaker 3: to the war and the Gaza strip. This is now.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, you know who argued in favor
Speaker 3: of Iran.
Speaker 2: Who is that?
Speaker 3: Russia and China. And let's be clear when I said
Speaker 3: that Joe Biden. The Democrats have a policy of giving
Speaker 3: billions of dollars to our enemies. That's not just Iran,
Speaker 3: it's not just Hamas, it's not just Hesbela. They also
Speaker 3: give billions of dollars to Venezuela. They also give billions
Speaker 3: of dollars to China, and they've also given billions of
Speaker 3: dollars to Russia. You know, the Democrats love to talk
Speaker 3: about Russia, but we've talked a lot on this podcast
Speaker 3: about the nord Stream two pipeline, which I authored, the
Speaker 3: bipartisan sanctions that shut the nord Stream two pipeline down.
Speaker 3: Donald Trump signed those sanctions into law, and Joe Biden,
Speaker 3: when he came into office, waived those sanctions, gave Vladimir
Speaker 3: Putin billions and billions of dollars that effectively caused the
Speaker 3: war in Ukraine. And when I forced to vote in
Speaker 3: January of twenty twenty two to reimpose those sanctions on Russia,
Speaker 3: forty four Democrats flipped their votes. They had voted with
Speaker 3: me previously and voted in favor of Russia and Putin In,
Speaker 3: giving them billions of dollars, and within a month Russia
Speaker 3: invaded Ukraine. So this is a pattern over and over again.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Russia is actively in Iran helping
Speaker 3: them with nuclear technology.
Speaker 1: One of another area that I battled.
Speaker 2: Oh, say that again, that's big news.
Speaker 3: It is big news. So Russia and Iran have a
Speaker 3: very close relationship. I mentioned when Trump pulled out of
Speaker 3: the Obama nuclear deal, there was an oil waiver. There
Speaker 3: were also what were called civilian nuclear waivers, and there
Speaker 3: were seven civilian nuclear waivers that remained in place. I
Speaker 3: argued vociferously, we should end the civilian nuclear waivers.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Once again, the State Department, and I will say the
Speaker 3: State Department has a long history of being wrong, especially
Speaker 3: under Biden, but sadly with some frequency under Trump. The
Speaker 3: State Department argued, no, no, no, no, don't end the civilian
Speaker 3: nuclear waivers. Well, Trump agreed with me. He overruled his
Speaker 3: own State Department.
Speaker 1: He ended them.
Speaker 3: Among those civilian nuclear waivers, they were allowing Russia to
Speaker 3: work with Iranian nuclear scientists to develop nuclear technology in
Speaker 3: an underground bunker called Fordoh which is underneath a mountain,
Speaker 3: and it's built under a mountain precisely to be able
Speaker 3: to develop nuclear weapons, so that it would be harder
Speaker 3: to take out in a military conflict. Now, what happened
Speaker 3: when Joe Biden came into office. He immediately reimposed the
Speaker 3: civilian nuclear waivers. So we've literally got Russia that is
Speaker 3: providing nuclear technology to Iran. By the way, this is
Speaker 3: a quid pro quo. Iran may drones is a critical
Speaker 3: weapons supplier to Russia. So understand when Biden is flowing
Speaker 3: one hundred billion dollars now more than one hundred billion
Speaker 3: dollars to Iran. They're using them to make drones and
Speaker 3: to make cruise missiles to attack Israel. They're using them
Speaker 3: to make weapons to attack US servicemen and women. They're
Speaker 3: using them to fund Hamas and Hesbela to murder Israelis
Speaker 3: and murder Americans. But on top of that, they're manufacturing
Speaker 3: enormous numbers of drones that are going to the Russians,
Speaker 3: and the Russians are using to fight the Ukrainians. This
Speaker 3: is a pattern. If you are an enemy of America,
Speaker 3: lucky you because Joe Biden the Democrats will give you
Speaker 3: billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: There's some new reporting that's just come out as well
Speaker 2: from Politico, and it says the US to Israel don't
Speaker 2: do something you'll regret it, says quote. The Biden administration's
Speaker 2: main message for Israel following an attack that is massive
Speaker 2: their quote aerial assault, comes down to this stop and think.
Speaker 2: Officials expect Israel to respond in some fashion to Saturday's
Speaker 2: massive strike, but in both public and private ways, they
Speaker 2: are taking steps they hope will convince Israel to choose
Speaker 2: a limited response as opposed to an all out armed
Speaker 2: counter attack, the latter they feel will plunge the region
Speaker 2: into a major war. In President Joe Biden, in particular,
Speaker 2: quote wants to avoid any battle that could drag in
Speaker 2: US troops, and he made that clear to Israeli's Prime
Speaker 2: Minster net Netnyahu's saying quote, this is again we're advising
Speaker 2: him to take a breath before responding. A US official
Speaker 2: familiar with the Middle East one of ten people granted
Speaker 2: aminity to freely discuss closed door diplomacy. If Israel does respond, quote,
Speaker 2: it needs to be proportional and bring this cycle to
Speaker 2: an In Senator, this may be the biggest pipe dream
Speaker 2: I've ever heard of. Bring this cycle to an end.
Speaker 2: What makes you think that Iran would just stop now?
Speaker 2: Knowing that they can basically get away with literally murder.
Speaker 3: The only way to bring the cycle to an end
Speaker 3: is number one, to take away the resources from the
Speaker 3: Iranian regime that are funding these terror attacks. It's why look,
Speaker 3: during the whole Trump administration, I was deeply involved in
Speaker 3: pressing the administration to enforce what was called the maximum
Speaker 3: Pressure strategy, to put the maximum pressure to defund the
Speaker 3: Iranian regime, and it succeeded. Understand, when Joe Biden came
Speaker 3: into office, the Iranian economy was in shambles. They were
Speaker 3: facing rampant inflation, rampant unemployment, they were facing unrest in
Speaker 3: the streets. The regime was in danger of being toppled,
Speaker 3: and very few things would be better for the safety
Speaker 3: of America and the safety of the world than for
Speaker 3: these theocratic lunatics to be out of power. Part of
Speaker 3: the problem is if God forbid, the Iyatola had a
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. It's one thing when you have tyrants who
Speaker 3: are secular who have weapons of mass destructions. It's another
Speaker 3: thing when you have people who are motivated by religion
Speaker 3: that glorifies death and suicide. That means the ordinary cost
Speaker 3: benefit analysis doesn't necessarily work. And I want to share
Speaker 3: something that was put out recently by the Institute for
Speaker 3: the Study of War, and it's an analysis of the attack,
Speaker 3: and I want to read. It's a nine part tweet
Speaker 3: thread that I think is actually worth worth reading in full.
Speaker 3: The Iranian April thirteenth missile drone attack on Israel was
Speaker 3: very likely intended to cause significant damage below the threshold
Speaker 3: that would trigger a massive Israeli response. The attack was
Speaker 3: designed to succeed, not to fail.
Speaker 1: And that's in bold. Here's the second tweet.
Speaker 3: The strike package was modeled on those the Russians have
Speaker 3: used repeatedly against Ukraine to great effect. The strike consisted
Speaker 3: of approximately one hundred and seventy drones, thirty cruise missiles,
Speaker 3: and one hundred and twenty ballistic missiles. The drones were
Speaker 3: launched well before the ballistic missiles were fired, very likely
Speaker 3: in the expectation that they would arrive in Israel's air
Speaker 3: defense window at about the same time as the cruise
Speaker 3: missiles and drones. The Russians have used such an approach
Speaker 3: against Ukraine repeatedly. Only a few ballistic missiles penetrated Israeli
Speaker 3: air defenses and struck near Israeli military bases. Out of
Speaker 3: the one hundred and twenty or so the Iranians fired.
Speaker 3: Ukrainian air defenses have averaged interception rates of only about
Speaker 3: forty six percent of Russian ballistic missiles during recent large strikes.
Speaker 3: The Iranians likely expected that Israeli rates would be higher
Speaker 3: than the Ukrainian rates, but not above ninety percent against
Speaker 3: such a large but ballistic missile salvo. The Russians, after all,
Speaker 3: have never fired close to that many large ballistic missiles
Speaker 3: in a single strike against Ukraine. Israel's air defense system
Speaker 3: has several obvious advantages over Ukrainian air defense, but the
Speaker 3: full implications of some of those advantages might well have
Speaker 3: been unclear to Iranian strike planners. Ukraine has in particular,
Speaker 3: been unable to use combat aircraft to shoot down Russian
Speaker 3: drones and cruise missiles at scale, and Ukrainian President Zelenski
Speaker 3: recently observed that Kiev will likely use the F sixteens
Speaker 3: Ukraine will receive this summer. In those roles. Iran will
Speaker 3: learn additional lessons from the failed attack that it can
Speaker 3: leverage to launch more successful attacks in the future.
Speaker 2: So you look at all of that and then you
Speaker 2: see this that just came out from the National Security
Speaker 2: Council statement on Iranian attacks on Israel, and I'm quoting
Speaker 2: it says President Biden has been clear. Our support for
Speaker 2: is iss security is ironclad. The US will stand with
Speaker 2: the people of Israel and support their defense against these
Speaker 2: threats from Iran.
Speaker 1: Okay, senter.
Speaker 2: If that's true, then they have to give them what
Speaker 2: they need this week.
Speaker 1: Am I wrong?
Speaker 3: Well, if there was anything like coherence and logic, then yes.
Speaker 3: And Number one, I'm going to predict right now, Chuck
Speaker 3: Schumer is going to do everything he can to block
Speaker 3: a vote on emergency military aid to Israel. I've called
Speaker 3: on it, I forced her already once. My guess is
Speaker 3: that he will put in place parliamentary tools to prevent
Speaker 3: us from using the same technique again.
Speaker 1: And I think the.
Speaker 3: House, we've seen the Speaker of the House and the
Speaker 3: Majority leader both say that they're going to vote out
Speaker 3: an emergency military aid bill this week, So we'll get
Speaker 3: another one that comes over to us, and my prediction
Speaker 3: is the Democrats won't back it. They don't want to
Speaker 3: send military aid to Israel. And part of the problem
Speaker 3: is they've got a crisis in their caucus, and their
Speaker 3: crisis is that the radicals, the teleibs and omars, they
Speaker 3: more and more represent the mainstream of the Democrat Party,
Speaker 3: and so Schumer is terrified of Michigan. Biden is terrified
Speaker 3: of Michigan. They're terrified of the radicals, and so they
Speaker 3: may put out statements. But remember this is the same
Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer that not long ago stood on the Senate
Speaker 3: floor and demanded that Israel's elected prime minister be thrown
Speaker 3: out of office. He decided that Israel, alone, among all
Speaker 3: our allies, was not allowed to elect their leaders. Every
Speaker 3: other country. You know, Schumer hasn't called for the leader
Speaker 3: of Iran to step down. He hasn't called for the
Speaker 3: leader of Hamas or China, or Rushier of Venezuela or
Speaker 3: North Korea. If you're an enemy of America, nope, Chuck
Speaker 3: Schumer and the Democrats they're giving you money. But if
Speaker 3: you're our ally, what will Schumer say? How dare you
Speaker 3: be in office? We need an appeaser just like us.
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Speaker 1: Center Lastly, I.
Speaker 2: Want to ask you about bb You just mentioned I
Speaker 2: was going to go there that the Senate majority leader
Speaker 2: said he should step down. There's been a lot of
Speaker 2: people in the media that have been really attacking him,
Speaker 2: saying that he is a warmonger, that he's that he's
Speaker 2: a killer, that he should not be the president, he
Speaker 2: should not be in charge. I don't believe we're going
Speaker 2: to see any of that stop, but at least in
Speaker 2: the Middle East right now and specifically in Israel. How
Speaker 2: important is his leadership.
Speaker 3: It's extraordinarily important. I will say I'm blessed to know
Speaker 3: Prime Minister Netanyah, who very well. I think he is
Speaker 3: a remarkable man. When he came and addressed a joint
Speaker 3: session of Congress, and that this was during the Obama administration,
Speaker 3: it was on the verge of Obama pushing through the
Speaker 3: Iran nuclear deal at the time, and this was a
Speaker 3: decade ago. Multiple Democrats boycotted the speech. They refused to
Speaker 3: listen to him speak. The Democrats hatred for Benjamin Netanyah,
Speaker 3: who is nothing new, and understand that when he was
Speaker 3: re elected Prime Minister Joe Biden made clear he was
Speaker 3: not welcome in the White House, that he would not
Speaker 3: be invited in the White House. He could not come
Speaker 3: to the White House. This is long before October seventh,
Speaker 3: This is long before the war in Gaza. They hate
Speaker 3: Natan Yahoo, but understand they undermine every Israeli government. They
Speaker 3: have done so from the very first days of this administration.
Speaker 3: But net Yahoo, they have a particular loathing too, because
Speaker 3: he actually understands the gravity of the threat he is facing.
Speaker 3: He understands that when the Ayahtola says death to Israel,
Speaker 3: he's not playing around. He actually means it. When he
Speaker 3: says death to America, he's not playing around. He actually
Speaker 3: means it. And listen, I've been blessed. In twelve years
Speaker 3: in the Senate, I've met many world leaders. That's one
Speaker 3: of the most incredible parts of the jobs. You get
Speaker 3: to sit down with people that are leading our friends,
Speaker 3: leading other countries, leading our competitors. There is no world
Speaker 3: leader who has impressed me more. There's no world leader
Speaker 3: who frankly has taken my breath away more than Benjamin
Speaker 3: Netanyaho because he has a seriousness of purpose. He is
Speaker 3: the only world leader reader for whom I have used
Speaker 3: the adjective Churchillian. In my office in DC, I have
Speaker 3: three busts. I have a bust of Ronald Reagan, I
Speaker 3: have a bust of Churchill, and I have a bust
Speaker 3: of doctor Martin Luther King Jr. And I have those
Speaker 3: three busts because they are all men who had extraordinary vision.
Speaker 3: They faced remarkable challenges. They saw a world that was
Speaker 3: better than the world they were living in, and their
Speaker 3: vision helped bring the world to a better place. With
Speaker 3: extraordinary courage, and clarity, And I have to tell you,
Speaker 3: I think net Nyah who has that same courage and clarity. Now,
Speaker 3: it is not my role to tell the people of
Speaker 3: Israel who their prime minister should be. So when Netanyahu
Speaker 3: was prime minister, when I started in the Senate, I
Speaker 3: dealt with him because he was the leader, the elected
Speaker 3: leader of Israel. When the people of Israel elected, enough
Speaker 3: tolly about it, I dealt with him. Whomever the people
Speaker 3: of Israel elect, I will deal with the elected leader.
Speaker 3: But the people of Israel re elected Benjamin Netnaho, and
Speaker 3: I respect the choice of the people of Israel. There
Speaker 3: is an arrogance in Democrat foreign policy but also in
Speaker 3: some Republican foreign policy that they think they can meddle
Speaker 3: in the internal politics of foreign nations and especially our
Speaker 3: friends and allies, that they can do what Chuck Schumer did,
Speaker 3: which is tell the people of Israel, tis tisk, you
Speaker 3: have no business electing net Yah who throw them out now?
Speaker 3: And they treat them like the voters, the people of
Speaker 3: Israel like the red haired step children. It is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: It's much like. Look, there have been long debates in
Speaker 3: Washington about a two state solution, and that they're Every
Speaker 3: Democrat says we must have a two state solution. Many
Speaker 3: Republicans say we must have a two state solution.
Speaker 1: My view on that.
Speaker 3: Is that's a decision for the people of Israel to make.
Speaker 3: They care acutely about their security. If the people of
Speaker 3: Israel decide that a two state solution is workable, I
Speaker 3: respect that decision. If they decide it's not because the
Speaker 3: terrorists with whom they are dealing, the Hamas and Hesbela,
Speaker 3: will not accept Israel's right to exist and will wage
Speaker 3: war on them, I respect that decision as well, And
Speaker 3: so I will say when it comes to Prime Minister
Speaker 3: net and Yahoo, it's the choice of the people of
Speaker 3: Israel that he should be their leader. I respect their choice.
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I think he is a
Speaker 3: leader who understands the seriousness of these threats and is
Speaker 3: not cowed by the aggression of Hamas or Hesbela, or
Speaker 3: Iran or anyone else. He is bound and determined to
Speaker 3: protect the people of Israel.
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