1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:05,239 Speaker 1: So Tucker Carlson's a pretty interesting person to say the least. 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 2: He's a guy that has been brilliant in his past. 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:12,559 Speaker 1: But now you have to ask yourself this question, what 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: the hell is wrong and what's going on with Tucker Carlson. 5 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: Now you may say, Ben, why are you saying this? Right? 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: We shouldn't be saying this out loud about her own. 7 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson had two really shocking things to say on 8 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:29,320 Speaker 1: his show this past week. Tucker said this, and I'm quoting, 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 1: let me just say, I would be totally comfortable sharing 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: condolences with the Osama Bin Lauden family. This is the 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: man that attacked America and killed Americans on nine to eleven. 12 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 1: And Tucker Carlson is now saying, I'd be totally comfortable 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 1: sharing condolences with zamb Bin Lawden's family. And I'm going 14 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 1: to play the clip for you in a moment. But 15 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: that wasn't all that he said. There was another even 16 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: more shocking moment where you have to say, what is 17 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: happening here? Tucker Carlson said, and I quote, I'm not 18 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 1: even sure Hamas is actually a radical jeehatis organization. It 19 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: seems more like a political organization. By the way, Hamas 20 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: disagrees with Tucker Carlson. Hamas is a radical Jihadis organization. 21 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: They prove it over and over and over again. Now, 22 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: this conversation I'm having with you now is also a 23 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: conversation that I sit down with Center Ted Cruz in 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: head and I want you to hear what Senata Cruz 25 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 1: and I had to say, especially in light of that 26 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 1: really nasty interview that Tuger Carlson did with Cinta Cruz 27 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: in his office. 28 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:45,120 Speaker 2: It was a snarky interview. 29 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:46,960 Speaker 1: It was one that a lot of people were scratching 30 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 1: their heads about afterwards, going what's going on? 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,480 Speaker 2: What is this about? Why is this happening? 32 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 1: Why is he going after Ted Cruz with more intensity 33 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: somebody that we're on the same team than he did 34 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: with Vladimir Putin for example. Yes, that actually happened. Vladimir 35 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: Putin he went easy on but conservatives, now he's attacking. 36 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: That's not normal. I want you to listen to our 37 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: conversation that we had about these two comments, and I'm 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: going to play them for you here. 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,800 Speaker 2: They are all right, Senatra. 40 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: I want to move to another issue, and this one 41 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: deals with Tucker Carlson. I was actually genuinely shocked by 42 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 1: the audio when this broke. I really couldn't believe what 43 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: I was witnessing when this audio broke. Tucker Carlson is 44 00:02:33,919 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 1: now coming out and he's like saying he wants to 45 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: give condolences to Asamin Lauden's family, and he says he's 46 00:02:41,080 --> 00:02:44,559 Speaker 1: not even sure the Hamas is actually a radical Jihadis organization. 47 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,839 Speaker 2: Those are his words. What in the hell is going 48 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:48,320 Speaker 2: on here? 49 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben, you and I both know Tucker Carlson well, 50 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 3: and something is wrong with Tucker Carlson. I don't know 51 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 3: what the hell is wrong with him, But look, Tucker 52 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 3: is someone He's very smart, He's very talented. During the 53 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:08,959 Speaker 3: COVID lockdowns, Tucker's monologue every night was destination TV. He 54 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 3: was unloading on idiotic practices that were shutting our country down. 55 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: I called him the midst of COVID. I said, Tucker, 56 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 3: you're the single best thing on television every single night. 57 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 3: Thank you for doing what you're doing. I look at 58 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: the Tucker today, he is unrecognizable. As listeners of this 59 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 3: podcast know. I went on Tucker's show, I knew Tucker 60 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,959 Speaker 3: was going to come after me. I knew he was 61 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 3: going to come after me and sadly do so dishonestly. 62 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: In the course of that two hour back and forth, 63 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,559 Speaker 3: it was a lot of firefight. It was a bloodbath. 64 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 3: I think on both sides. You saw Tucker engage in 65 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 3: bizarre counterfactual assertions. He said, for example, Iran's not trying 66 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 3: to kill the president. What do you mean, no, no, no, no, no, Iran, 67 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: There's no evidence Iran's trying to kill the president. That is, 68 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 3: of course absurd. Multiple people have been indicted for being 69 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 3: Iranian agents, trying to kill the president, trying to kill 70 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 3: former US senior officials. But but and and Tucker bizarrely said, 71 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 3: you know, if Iran was trying to kill the president, 72 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 3: well then we should nuke them, which which was a 73 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 3: really bizarre proposition. No, we should not be nuking Iran 74 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 3: or anyone else. But I got to say, the week 75 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 3: that that I did the Tucker interview was the week 76 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 3: right before the President launched the bombing attack on Iran's 77 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 3: nuclear facilities. And and Tucker was was spiraling at the 78 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 3: time because he was attacking Donald Trump and saying, if 79 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 3: the United States bombs Iran, he said it will be 80 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: World War three. Number one. Yeah, he said thousands of 81 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:48,200 Speaker 3: Americans will die. Number two, and he said America will lose. 82 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 3: Number three, that Iran will beat us in World War three. Yes, 83 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 3: every one of. 84 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: Those actually said. At the time, it was shocking when 85 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,840 Speaker 1: he said. Everybody was like, what are you talking about? 86 00:04:57,839 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 1: America is going to lose to Iran? Are you kidding me? 87 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,679 Speaker 3: Every one of those predictions we now know the truth. 88 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 3: They were laughingly, entirely totally false. And I got to say, 89 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 3: for some reason, when Tucker tried desperately to convince President 90 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 3: Trump not to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities and Donald Trump 91 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,840 Speaker 3: disagreed with Tucker Carlson, and Tucker put out his newsletter 92 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 3: and said, well, you're not America first if you bomb Iran, 93 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 3: and Trump responded, no, I'm the one that decides what 94 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 3: America First is, and I'm telling you right now, defending 95 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 3: America is America first. I gotta say it just started 96 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 3: Tucker on this downward spiral. So in the weeks and 97 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 3: months since then, he had some loon professor on talking 98 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 3: about Hitler and saying, you know, there's a very good 99 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 3: argument the United States should have intervened in World War 100 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 3: II on the side of Hitler and the Nazis, and 101 00:05:53,360 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 3: Tucker kind of nods, No, there is not a good 102 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 3: argument America should have forwarded the Nazis. The Nazis were evil, 103 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 3: period the end. I gotta say, any commentator, if you're 104 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 3: sitting around thinking, you know what I need to do. 105 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 3: I need to go out and embrace Adolf Hitler, defend Hitler. 106 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 3: Just pause right there. 107 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 2: Think about what you're doing. 108 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 4: Right. 109 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:21,119 Speaker 3: There are very few ironclad rules in politics, or history 110 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 3: or life, but I'll give you one. Eight off Hitler always, always, 111 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 3: always bad. Just trust me. This is a safe ground 112 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 3: to be on. Hitler bad. 113 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: Can we add number two to the list real quick? 114 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 2: Because if you. 115 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 1: Go Hitler first, let's throw in there next for especially 116 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: for people that are I don't know, forty five and under. 117 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 1: The most evil guy that we probably saw in our 118 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 1: lifetime in real life, and that was a guy by 119 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 1: the name of Osama bin Lauden, right, I guess throw 120 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: him out there in nine to eleven if you were alive, 121 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: if you remember it, Osama bin lades another one, don't 122 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: don't side with adof Hitler. And if you were my age, 123 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: I'm forty four now, don't whatever you do, don't side 124 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,840 Speaker 1: with a Sama bin Laden, which brings us to this 125 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: unhinged Tucker point number two. 126 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I just want you to listen to what 127 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 3: Tucker had to say about Osama bin Laden. Give a listen. 128 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 5: Let me just say I would be totally comfortable sharing 129 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,559 Speaker 5: condolences with Isama bin Laden's family. I hate Asama bin Laden. 130 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 5: On the other hand, if somebody dies, it's okay to 131 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 5: say I'm sorry to his family that he has murder. 132 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that's immaterial. I would say 133 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 5: that to the family of an executed murderer in a prison. 134 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 5: It doesn't mean I support the murder or the murderer, 135 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 5: but this is family, Like, that's okay. That's called like 136 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 5: human decency. And anyone who's against that. Yeah, and even 137 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 5: were set up this. 138 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: Let me just be clear, if I meet any of 139 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: the Osama bin Laden family members center, I'm not going 140 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: to walk up back. Let me give you American hug, 141 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,200 Speaker 1: real quick thoughts and prayers like, No, that's not gonna happen. 142 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,160 Speaker 3: Look, this is a bizarre position that Tucker says he's 143 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 3: okay with giving condolences to Osama bin Ladden's family. By 144 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 3: the way, on his same reasoning, he'd be just fine 145 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 3: giving condolences to Adolf Hitler's family. Let me tell you 146 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 3: right now, I am not remotely sorry that Osama bin 147 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 3: Lauden is dead. I'm not remotely sorry that Adolf Hitler 148 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 3: is dead. By the way, I'm not remotely sorry that 149 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 3: Jeffrey Dahmer is dead. I'm not remotely sorry that Ted 150 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 3: Bundy is dead. I'm not remotely sorry that Charles Manson 151 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 3: is dead. If people are evil, psychotic mass murderers, then 152 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 3: society celebrates that they are no longer with us. There 153 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 3: is justice. I believe in the principle of justice and understand. 154 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 3: Osama bin Laden led out Kaita. He planned nine to eleven. 155 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 3: He executed nine to eleven, in which case nearly three 156 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 3: thousand people, most of whom were Americans, were murdered. On 157 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 3: September eleventh, You and I were both alive. I was 158 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. Heidi was in the White House 159 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 3: at the US Trade Representative's office. On nine to eleven. 160 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 3: She evacuated the White House because those terrorists were murdering people. 161 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 3: I lost a friend of mine, Barbara Olsen in the 162 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,479 Speaker 3: plane that crashed into the Pentagon when the two towers 163 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 3: collapsed to New York City, that was a grotesque act 164 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 3: of war. By the way, I'm also not sorry that 165 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 3: the kamikaze pilots in Pearl Harbor who murdered American sailors, 166 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 3: I'm not sorry that they're dead. There is something bizarre. 167 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 3: There is a moral relativism to saying, well, we should 168 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 3: number one carry out an incredible military act that takes 169 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 3: out Wasama bin Laden, But then number two express condolences 170 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 3: to the family, to the toddlers, We're so sorry we 171 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 3: took out your psychotic daddy who murdered near the three 172 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:51,199 Speaker 3: thousand Americans know we're not sorry. And this moral relativism, 173 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 3: I gotta say it is a weird thing. Yeah, when 174 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 3: someone who considers himself calls himself a conservative sounds exactly 175 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 3: like Ilhan Omar. It is a weird thing when a 176 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 3: supposed conservative sounds like Rashida Talib, sounds like the AOC 177 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 3: and says, gosh, we ought to be saying I'm sorry 178 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 3: to Osama bin Laden's family. No, we should not. 179 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 1: It's also weird that he goes in this way like 180 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: attacking America in our foreign policy in essence, and anybody 181 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:27,479 Speaker 1: that doesn't feel sorry for Terras, while also giving propaganda 182 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,599 Speaker 1: out there on behalf of Vladimir Putin and Russia with 183 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: the interview that he did with him, and then going 184 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: shopping at the grocery store saying how great life is 185 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: in Russia, which if you go twenty miles outside of 186 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: Russia in any direction of Moscow, it's very different than 187 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: what it looks like for the elite that are in Moscow. 188 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,079 Speaker 1: And everything in his trip was, by the way, also controlled. 189 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: They only let you see what they want you to see. 190 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: It's not like he can roam freely and decide, hey, 191 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:50,079 Speaker 1: I don't want to go to the groth shore. 192 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 2: You send me too. 193 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: I want to go to another one that ain't gonna happen. 194 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: And then you go from this to what he had 195 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: to say about a terrorist organization that is killed countless Jews, 196 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: and it said from the river to the sea, they 197 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: want to take out and annihilate all all Jews in Israel. 198 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: They want Israel to cease to exist. And he's like, well, 199 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: hold on a second, maybe they're not a terrorist organization. 200 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: Maybe they're just a political organization. We should think about that. 201 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: It's like, what the hell's going on? 202 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, give a listen to what he said about hamasbus 203 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 3: because this is utterly bizarre. This is where Tucker has 204 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 3: gone full on woke leftist and don't take my word 205 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: for it. Listen to Tucker. 206 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 5: No one can plausibly claim that a Christian family are 207 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 5: in Hamas. Okay, so like, what tell me you can't 208 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,240 Speaker 5: claim it there in Hamas? Will simultaneously claiming that Hamas 209 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 5: is a you know, grubugie hattis their Islamic extremists, which 210 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 5: they also claim constantly, which I don't know if that's true, 211 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 5: by the way, it seems more like a political organization. 212 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,680 Speaker 5: But whatever it is, they're telling us constantly they're al Qaida, 213 00:11:56,440 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 5: So it can't also be true that Christians are a member. 214 00:11:58,920 --> 00:11:59,400 Speaker 2: Of al Qaida. 215 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 5: Sorry, yeah, yeah, So then we know they're not a Hamas. 216 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 5: So why did they get killed? Why was their church book? 217 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: I go back to this, and I again, it's like 218 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 1: he's become an apologist for a terrorist organization and he's saying, well, 219 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: they're not really a terrorist organization, and then the Christian 220 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: aspect of this intertwarting that they're going, well, then why 221 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: do we kill them? We kill people that are terrorist centered, 222 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: that's what we do. 223 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,439 Speaker 3: Well, what he's saying there is bizarre. I don't know 224 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 3: that Hamas is a terrorist organization. Let me be very clear, 225 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 3: Hamas is a terrorist organizations. 226 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,319 Speaker 1: Tell you that, am I wrong? Like they'll actually tell 227 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: you they're a terrorist organization. They're happy to tell you 228 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 1: this and show you how good they are at it. 229 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 3: Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization. ISIS is a terrorist organization. 230 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,760 Speaker 3: This is not just a question of opinion. This is 231 00:12:43,800 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 3: a question of facts. So let's give some fact. Article 232 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 3: eight of the nineteen eighty eight Hamas Covenant states quote 233 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 3: Jahad is its path, and death for the sake of 234 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 3: Allah is the loftiest of his wishes. This is who 235 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 3: Tucker Pearlson is defending. Globally, HAMAS is designated a terrorist 236 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,000 Speaker 3: organization by the United States of America, that as a 237 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 3: matter of federal law, by Australia, by Canada, by Paraguay, 238 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 3: by Israel, by Japan, by New Zealand, by the United Kingdom. 239 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:18,040 Speaker 3: In the European Union. Now, HAMAS is not formally designated 240 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 3: by Arab countries, but HAMAS is a branch of the 241 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 3: Muslim Brotherhood. By the way, I have legislation in the 242 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,679 Speaker 3: Senate right now to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a 243 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 3: terrorist organization because they unquestionably are. Article two of Hamasa's 244 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 3: charter describes them as quote one of the wings of 245 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 3: the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Umbrella 246 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 3: organization is designated as a terrorist organization in Bahrain, in 247 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 3: Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and in the UAE. They have 248 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 3: always been a terrorist organization if you just look at Wikipedia. 249 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 3: No no friend of Israel, no enemy of Hamas. Here's 250 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 3: what Wikipedia says. Quote from two thousand and two thousand 251 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 3: and four, Hamas was responsible for killing nearly four hundred 252 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 3: Israelis and wounding more than two thousand and four hundred 253 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,720 Speaker 3: and twenty five attacks. According to the Israeli Ministry of 254 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 3: Foreign Affairs, from two thousand and one through May of 255 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 3: two thousand and eight, Hamas launched more than three thousand 256 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 3: cassam rockets and two five hundred mortar attacks into Israel. 257 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 3: And of course, Hamas is who carried out the October 258 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 3: seventh attacks, who sent death squads into Israel, where they 259 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 3: systematically went house to house, murdering every person in the house, 260 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 3: targeting them because they are Jews. They murdered elderly people, 261 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 3: they murdered women, they murdered children, they murdered infants, they 262 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: murdered toddlers, They raped women and little girls, and they 263 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 3: murdered over twelve hundred Israelis, many of whom were Americans. 264 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 3: It's one of the worst terror attacks in history against 265 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 3: American citizens. And Tucker says, well, I think they're a 266 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 3: political organization. He bases this on the weird fact. Yes, 267 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 3: it is true that in the Gaza Strip when they 268 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 3: had elections, Hamas won. The fact that the voters elected 269 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,000 Speaker 3: a Torque terrorist organization does not make them a political organization. 270 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 3: They were in elected office when they carried out the 271 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 3: October seventh terror attacks. And so I got to say, look, 272 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 3: this bizarre statement wasn't in the course of an episode 273 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 3: where Tucker was interviewing this disgruntled State Department employee who 274 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:40,160 Speaker 3: was fired fired by the Trump administration, and he was 275 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 3: giving him an opportunity. And by the way, he was 276 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 3: also slandering a young man who works for the State Department, 277 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 3: works for Mike Huckabee, the president Trump's ambassador to Israel 278 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 3: works for Marco Rubio, and Tucker did an entire segment 279 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 3: attacking this young man because he's Mark Levin's step son. 280 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 3: I gotta say it is grotesque for Tucker to go 281 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: after again. He hates Mark Levin. 282 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: He does, and let's explain why real quick, because I'm look, 283 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: Mark's a dear friend of mine in yours as well. 284 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: This is a relative, Mark Levin. Mark Levin is clearly 285 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: an advocate for Israel. 286 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 2: He has stood and for America, let's be clear, and 287 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 2: for America America. 288 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 1: And so now since Tucker Carlson, I guess is like, 289 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: all right, well, anybody under that I don't like, right, 290 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: Mark Levin a family member, Let's just hammer that person 291 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 1: to somehow make it hurt. I wish you had this 292 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: much animosity towards Vladimir Putin when he was interviewing him. 293 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 3: No, and by the way, not just Flatimir Putin, heyet 294 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 3: the president of Iran. And I mean it was a 295 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 3: love fest. I mean he practically spooned with the President 296 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 3: of Iran. I don't know if he was big spoon 297 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,560 Speaker 3: or little spoon, but but there was no skeptism. And 298 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,479 Speaker 3: by the way, He's literally interviewing someone who is actively 299 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,400 Speaker 3: trying to murder Donald Trump. And this is a weird game. 300 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 3: So listen. Tucker recognizes that the folks that listen to 301 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 3: him will get very mad at him if he explicitly 302 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 3: criticizes Donald Trump. So what does he do? 303 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 2: Instead? 304 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 3: He just criticizes everything Trump does. He blasts. He has 305 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 3: a whole segment on how Mike Huckabee is terrible. Well, 306 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 3: who is it that appointed Mike Huckabee the ambassador to Israel? 307 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 3: That would be Donald J. Trump. And everything he attacks 308 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 3: about Ambassador Huckabee he is doing on behalf of Trump. 309 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 3: But Tucker is unwilling. He doesn't have the courage, he 310 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 3: doesn't have the backbone to actually attack Trump, so he 311 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:39,680 Speaker 3: just attacks everything Trump does. He attacks bombing Iran, well, 312 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 3: who was the commander in chief who made the order 313 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 3: and by the way, that was an incredibly successful military 314 00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 3: operation that made America safer. I gotta say, listen, if 315 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 3: you say something publicly and the words you said are 316 00:17:55,680 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 3: indistinguishable from something said by Ilhan Omar Rashida to that 317 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 3: ought to be a sign you've got a problem. And 318 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on with Tucker, I don't 319 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:11,800 Speaker 3: know what is driving. It's one thing to feel kind 320 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 3: of isolationist and to say, gosh, you know, I don't 321 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:17,399 Speaker 3: like wars. Okay, fine, that is a view. And to 322 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 3: be clear, Donald Trump doesn't like wars either. Joe Biden 323 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 3: and the Democrats get us in war. President Trump has 324 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 3: gotten us out of war. But getting us out of 325 00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 3: war you do it through strength. And getting us out 326 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,439 Speaker 3: of war does not mean that you refuse to defend America. Fine, 327 00:18:31,760 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 3: if Tucker wants to be isolationist, knock yourself out. But 328 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 3: this bizarre apology and defense of Osama bin Laden, the 329 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 3: defense of Hamas, and defense of the president of Iran, 330 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:50,200 Speaker 3: that is there is something unhinged. And I hope people 331 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 3: around Tucker go in and say, come on, man, come 332 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 3: come on, let's all say we love America and we're 333 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 3: not going to lie to the American people. 334 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 2: Let me also just say this, look. 335 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: I hope that Tucker comes back around, But the trend 336 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,760 Speaker 1: that we're witnessing right now, it's not a good one. 337 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 1: I hope that he will understand just how extreme he 338 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: is right now on some of these issues. Again, I 339 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 1: don't know if he'll ever come around. 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He 386 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 1: has arrived in Puerto Rico amid the US Venezuela tensions 387 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: that are continuing to rise. This is an important visit 388 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,880 Speaker 1: because it was unannounced and not only was the US 389 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: Defense Secretary there, but the Joint Chiefs Chairman, General Kine 390 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: also was on the trip. It was an unannounced visit, 391 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: an unplanned visit for the public to Puerto Rico, as 392 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: the US has ramped up military activities in the Caribbean 393 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: aimed at drug trafficking networks. They met officials at the 394 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty six Wing Air National Guard Base head. 395 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: Seth addressed roughly three hundred service members while he was there. 396 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: And the question you may be asking yourself is this 397 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: why now? Well, it's pretty simple. The trip follows a 398 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: September the second US military strike in the Southern Caribbean 399 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 1: that sank a vessel departing Venezuela, with US offishal saying 400 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: eleven suspected members of the Trend de Ragua cartel. 401 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 2: They are also a terrorist organization. We're all killed. 402 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: Some regional leaders backed the action, others urged more transparency. 403 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 1: Venezuela also deny the US allegations and criticize the operation, 404 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: and that's exactly what should be expected. So now the 405 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:24,959 Speaker 1: question is why is the Pentagon weighing Puerto Rico as 406 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 1: a hub or is this more about expanding COUNTERNARCOTIS operations 407 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: all together? Now we also know that plans include deploying 408 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 1: ten F thirty five fighter jets of the island and 409 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: conducting military flights out of Puerto Rico. An unusually large 410 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: cluster of US warships, about eight is already operating in 411 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,040 Speaker 1: the region as well. 412 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,920 Speaker 2: Marines are also on the island. 413 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: Elements of the twenty second Marine Unit are in Puerto 414 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,879 Speaker 1: Rico for amphibious and flight training. We've been told Puerto 415 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:00,439 Speaker 1: Rico's governor estimated at one thousand marines on the island, 416 00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: and the Guard says the training was pre planned and 417 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 1: quote not tied to the new maritime force. CBS News 418 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: had it this way on the unplanned visit and what 419 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: it can mean. 420 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 6: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth and Chairman of the Joint 421 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 6: Chiefs Dan Kane arrived in Puerto Rico this morning as 422 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 6: tension continues to build between the United States and Venezuela. 423 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 6: They were welcome there by Puerto Rico Governor Jennifer Gonzalez, 424 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,159 Speaker 6: who said on in part on X we thank President 425 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 6: Trump and his administration for recognizing the strategic value Puerto 426 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 6: Rico has to the national security of the United States 427 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,160 Speaker 6: and the fight against drug cartels in our hemisphere perpetuated 428 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 6: by Narco dictator Nicholas Maduro. For more on this, I 429 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 6: want to bring in John Burns. He is the strategic 430 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 6: director for Concerned Veterans for America after serving more than 431 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 6: twenty two years in the Marine Corps and the Army 432 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 6: National Guard. Thank you very much for joining us. What 433 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 6: does this arrival here of Hegseth and Kane to Puerto 434 00:24:59,000 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 6: Rico's signal to. 435 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 4: Well, thank you Nancy for having me on. I think 436 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,919 Speaker 4: there's a lot of signals there. One of the key 437 00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 4: takeaways for me, aside from just the situation with Venezuela 438 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 4: and the drug situation in the Caribbean, is the National 439 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,399 Speaker 4: Defense Strategy, which a little overdue, is said to be 440 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 4: released within the next seven to ten days, and early 441 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 4: reporting indicates that there's a large pivot towards defense of 442 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 4: the American hemisphere and away from heavily being heavily engaged 443 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 4: in other parts of the world Europe. I think there's 444 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 4: probably still going to be an emphasis to a degree 445 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 4: on the Indo Pacific, maybe not as much as we thought, 446 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 4: but this is the key role that our Department of Defense, 447 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 4: Department of War should be playing. Our primary interest is 448 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 4: securing our hemisphere and our homeland. 449 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:42,439 Speaker 6: John. Of course, this arrival, this trip comes with the 450 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 6: backdrop of the United States to point eight warships and 451 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 6: fighter jets into that area, in addition to a massing 452 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,200 Speaker 6: troops off Puerto Rico. 453 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 2: If this is a. 454 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 6: War on drugs, what kind of guardrails, if any, exists 455 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 6: for the President to send troops into Venezuela. 456 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 4: Well, the President has said that he doesn't want to. 457 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 4: He's not considering this a regime change mission, which I 458 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:04,280 Speaker 4: think was very very encouraging now. 459 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: Right, as much as the media tries to lie to 460 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,439 Speaker 1: you and tell you that the President's going for regime change, 461 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: that is not what this is about at all. This 462 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 1: is all about fighting narco terrorism. And yes they are 463 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 1: terrorists that are killing Americans. So you may ask yourself 464 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: this question, why Puerto Rico, Why would you choose this 465 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 1: for this counter cartel operation. Well, it's pretty simple geography. 466 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 1: Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Island sit inside the 467 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 1: Caribbean transit Zone, historically a gateway for cocaine, fetnol and 468 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: other drugs headed to the mainland USA. That strategic position 469 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: plus US sovereignty eases the basing, the logistics, and also 470 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: the prosecutions of those that are caught alive. And then 471 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:54,520 Speaker 1: you just have access and response times from a military standpoint. 472 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: From Puerto Rico, aircraft and ships can quickly reach the 473 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,040 Speaker 1: Mona Passage, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico Corridor, and the 474 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: sea lanes north of Venezuela, improving time to intercept for 475 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,359 Speaker 1: go fast boats and motherships. 476 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 2: This builds on the. 477 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: Intricacies and the model that has been used by the 478 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: Coast Guard there for years as well. 479 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,639 Speaker 2: What is this all really about. 480 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: It's about setting a clear message at the present is 481 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,160 Speaker 1: going on offense that the literal war on cartels has 482 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: just begun. And this is part of where Puerto Rico 483 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: also comes in. You have additional air and maritime assets 484 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico. This will help with surveillance and interaction 485 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 1: coverage over the choke points where traffckers are most vulnerable 486 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 1: at sea. The Coastguards layered approach, as it was described 487 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 1: by the White House, will have large cutters, aircraft and 488 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: partner forces and all the benefits of the DoD platforms 489 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: and their increase presence combined. So it's pretty simple. The 490 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: President United States of America is saying, we are going 491 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: all in and we're going to do this with all 492 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: of the technology and the forces that America has. Now, 493 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: the other question is what's going to happen next? What 494 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,200 Speaker 1: should you be looking for? Well, let me go through 495 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: that for you, because there's one big aspect of this 496 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: it's going to matter a lot, and that is whether 497 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,399 Speaker 1: the F thirty five deployment is confirmed and then where 498 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 1: are they based. This is going to have a huge 499 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: impact on the assets that are tied to whatever the 500 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: mission is has been declared or set by the administration. Yes, 501 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: there are questions that are being asked by the left 502 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: about congressional oversight of legal authorities and targeting rules for 503 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,479 Speaker 1: future strikes, but the President United States of America feels 504 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: like he is on strong legal footing because he has 505 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: declared them terrorists organizations. And then there's the integration with 506 00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: the Coast Guard and also the Navy ships. The regional 507 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:07,560 Speaker 1: cooperation levels between these two organizations will clearly be noticeable overall. Now, 508 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 1: if you look at what the President has said, the 509 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: President has said it is very possible that we will 510 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: be hitting terras wherever they are. Does that mean we 511 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: can be hitting terras in Venezuela, Yes, there is a 512 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,320 Speaker 1: chance of that. Is this about regime change? No, The 513 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: same thing can go for Mexico. As the President made 514 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 1: it clear last week, that we have an obligation and 515 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,040 Speaker 1: a moral duty to make sure that Americans are not 516 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 1: being killed with the fetnyl and other drugs coming across 517 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: our southern border. So this is the present paying off 518 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:46,360 Speaker 1: on a campaign promise. It's also clearly the beginning of 519 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: the war, not the end of the war for the 520 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,200 Speaker 1: President of the United States of America. When it comes 521 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: to the cartels, the presidents said that they are a 522 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,800 Speaker 1: very very dangerous organization and we us stop them, and 523 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: that is exactly where we are right now. 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