1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with center. Ted Cruz ben Ferguson 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: with you, and it's nice to have you with us 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: around the country. We've got a lot to talk about, 4 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:12,159 Speaker 1: including the latest on Operation Epic Fury. This regime is 5 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: being really just decapitated in Iran center, and this is 6 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: good news when it comes to national security. 7 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. We're seeing extraordinary results in terms 8 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 2: of the military conflict with Iran and the efficacy with 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: which this attack is removing the regime's ability to launch 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 2: missiles to launch drones. Let me give you the numbers, 11 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,080 Speaker 2: because the numbers are really striking. So on day one 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,120 Speaker 2: of this conflict, Iran launched three hundred and fifty missiles 13 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,479 Speaker 2: ballistic missiles. On day two, it dropped to one hundred and 14 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 2: seventy five. On day three, it dropped one hundred and twenty. 15 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 2: On day four, it dropped to fifty. On day five, 16 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: it dropped to forty. On day six, it dropped to 17 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 2: thirty two. On day seven it dropped to twenty eight, 18 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 2: and on day eight it dropped all the way down 19 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 2: to fifteen. So they went from three hundred and fifty 20 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 2: ballistic missile launched a day to just fifteen launched today. 21 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: How about drone swarms, same pattern, Day one, two hundred 22 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 2: and ninety four, Day two, five hundred and forty one, 23 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 2: So they surged on day two, Day three two hundred, 24 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 2: Day four eighty five, Day five forty five, Day six 25 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: thirty eight, day seven thirty, and day eight twelve. So 26 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,119 Speaker 2: what that means is that our forces have systematically taken 27 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 2: out number one, their air defenses. Number two, we've taken 28 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 2: out their missile launch sites and their drone launch sites. 29 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 2: Most of their missile launch sites are mobile, so what 30 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: happens is when they launch from a mobile missile launcher, 31 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:44,960 Speaker 2: we lock onto it and take that launcher out. And 32 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: we've done that systemically. Now, early on we were using 33 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 2: smart bombs and guided missiles. That's very expensive munitions, and 34 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 2: you saw in the first few days of this conflict 35 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,200 Speaker 2: a lot written saying that the rate at which we're 36 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 2: using munitions is not sustainable. Plan was never to use 37 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 2: sharp smart munitions for the entire duration of the conflict. Rather, 38 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,559 Speaker 2: the plan was to use it to take out both 39 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,360 Speaker 2: their defensive capacity and their offensive capacity. We've done that. 40 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:17,560 Speaker 2: Now now having achieved air superiority, we're able to use 41 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:21,079 Speaker 2: gravity bombs. We're able to use munitions, which we have 42 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: vast quantities of and which are much much less expensive. 43 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 2: In other words, President Trump and the military has achieved 44 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 2: total air dominance, has all but eliminated their ability to 45 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,639 Speaker 2: launch ballistic missiles and drones, and meanwhile has achieved naval 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: dominance as well, taking out most of the ships in 47 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 2: their navy. That level of control has put us in 48 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 2: a position where we're we're seeing extraordinary success. 49 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: Love, generosity, and compassion. We say those words all the time, 50 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: and they sound good, they feel good. 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You look 66 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: at gas prices, for example, let's talk about that for 67 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: a moment. The President has said, and many that are 68 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: analyst's military and say, look, if this is a short 69 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,400 Speaker 1: term thing, this is going to be a short term pain, 70 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: and what you gain is massive compared to that in 71 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: the future, because this is how much Iran could hold 72 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: the world hostage. Look at this what has happened here recently, 73 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: and these prices have obviously jumped significantly. The President has 74 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,640 Speaker 1: made it clear he thinks this is going to be 75 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: short term event and we're not invading. We are going 76 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 1: after regime change and then things will go back to normal. 77 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,119 Speaker 1: Twenty percent of the world supply goes through the strati 78 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: war moves. That's another part of this and the calculation here, 79 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: So break that down a little bit so people understand. 80 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's right. We have seen an energy spike, 81 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 2: and anytime there's a conflict in the Middle East, you 82 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: typically see oil prices spike, and gasoline prices spike. My 83 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 2: expectation is that will be a short term spike. I 84 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 2: don't expect this conflict to last more than a couple 85 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 2: of weeks, and I think you'll see gasoline prices drop 86 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 2: back down out And I will note President Trump has 87 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 2: a lot of credibility on this when when he came in, 88 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: we were seeing gasoline prices across the country in some 89 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:10,599 Speaker 2: places six seven dollars a gallon, and those prices have 90 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 2: dropped all but in half. In Texas, you could routinely 91 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 2: buy a gallon of gas for between two and three 92 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: bucks a gallon, and so that that has been very effective. 93 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 2: I also want to make a broader point about analyzing 94 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 2: the energy component of what's going on. And there was 95 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: a Twitter thread by this analyst named Guy larn who 96 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 2: who is not a fan of Trump's, but I think 97 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 2: actually his analysis of the energy policy in the Middle 98 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:40,919 Speaker 2: East was very insightful, so I want to share it 99 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 2: with you. So he asks, is Trump planning to venezuelas Iran? 100 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: This analysis analysis deviates from the mainstream media portrayal of 101 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 2: a fickle, senile or beab lead president. It assumes Trump 102 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: is evil but rational a thread. Now, I don't agree 103 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: with the evil characterization there, but the rest of this 104 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: analysis is quite insightful. So he continues, What is carg 105 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 2: Island and why does it matter? A tiny strip of 106 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:13,520 Speaker 2: land half the size of Manhattan, nestled in the Northern 107 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 2: Persian Gulf one hour by boat from the Iranian shore. 108 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 2: Gazelle's roam next to oil terminals through which Iran exports 109 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: ninety percent of its crude. Iran's pre war signal. Before 110 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 2: the war, as American forces massed across the region, Iran 111 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: did something revealing. It ramped up carg exports from one 112 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 2: point five million barrels of oil a day to four million, 113 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 2: near record levels. That means that the Iranians read Trump 114 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 2: differently than the Western media does. They don't think he's 115 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:51,279 Speaker 2: after regime change or democracy. They think he's after oil. 116 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 2: They might be right. NBC reported that Trump outlined to 117 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 2: his aids his vision for a post war Iran quote, 118 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 2: a new Iranian regime cooperates on oil productions, similar to 119 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 2: how the US and Venezuela are. The Venezuela template out 120 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: of Trump's own mouth. AI's Michael Rubin, a former advisor 121 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 2: to the George W. Bush administration, who is in direct 122 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 2: contact with the Trump advisors, is pushing the same logic. 123 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 2: Referring to the Revolutionary Guards, he says, quote if they 124 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 2: can't sell their own oil, they can't make payroll, meaning 125 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 2: that if the US seizes carg it doesn't need regime change. 126 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 2: It directly controls Iran's most important source of income. Everything 127 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 2: the US in Israel has done so far fits this strategy. First, quote, 128 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: decapitate and delegate. That was Israel's role commeny killed. The 129 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 2: Iranian leadership is in disarray. Now to whom do you delegate? 130 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 2: The answer isn't clear yet. So the US is reportedly 131 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 2: encouraging Kurdish rebellion in the north of the country, forcing 132 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 2: RAND to set send forces upwards and thin out their 133 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: defenses in the south where car goes. Meanwhile, the US 134 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 2: has systematically destroyed the Iranian navy operations, reaching as far 135 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 2: as Sri Lanka, where an Iranian warship was intercepted. Southern 136 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 2: RAND is being pummeled. These aren't random, They are clearing 137 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 2: the operational space for a naval seizure of kark Ian 138 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 2: bremer Kap captures the military logic precisely. The KRG island 139 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:33,280 Speaker 2: isn't extensively fortified, and sits isolated enough that the US 140 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 2: destroyers could establish a credible defensive perimeter well offshore. The 141 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 2: US is also preparing to escort tanker convoys through the 142 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 2: Strait of Hormus and seeking financial mechanisms to ensure ships 143 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: after Lloyd's pulled out. These services aren't free. In practice, 144 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 2: the US would control the Straits, the jugular of global 145 00:08:55,760 --> 00:09:01,040 Speaker 2: energy trade. China can't respond militarily. It prepared its navy 146 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 2: to defend the Strait of Malacca, its other vulnerability. Approximately 147 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 2: eighty percent of China's imported crude oil and nearly two 148 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 2: thirds of its total maritime trade pass through the Strait 149 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 2: of Malacca. Having the US control the Persian Gulf, from 150 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,360 Speaker 2: which China imports roughly half its crude and a third 151 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 2: of its gas, is a strategic catastrophe for Beijing. The 152 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 2: alternative deeper dependence on Russian energy practically natural gas from Siberia, 153 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 2: which is exactly what Beijing loathes. It does not want 154 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:45,439 Speaker 2: to be dependent on the transactional putin step back Greenland, Panama, Venezuela, 155 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 2: now the Persian Gulf. Trump isn't leading the world through 156 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,040 Speaker 2: alliances and institutions. He's seizing nodes, the choke points and 157 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 2: resource pools that make the world ANAI run. Whether it 158 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 2: works or not, this is is a coherent imperial strategy. Now, 159 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 2: I gotta say I don't agree with every word of that, 160 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 2: but that is very insightful analysis and helps you understand 161 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 2: why the American success in Iran. It's it's critically important 162 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:16,440 Speaker 2: to our safety and the principal reason for going in 163 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 2: is to keep Americans safe from Iranian terrorism and aggression. 164 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 2: But it is also a very very powerful China pit play, 165 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 2: enhancing US economic security and national security. 166 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: You know, one of the things you mentioned there is 167 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: what Americans worry about it. And you go back to 168 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,680 Speaker 1: just some of the headlines that we're seeing right now. 169 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: One of them out of New York there was an 170 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: arrest made after a home made explosive caused terror scare 171 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 1: in New York City. This device that was hurled at Gracie. 172 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: I mean, it's some protests determined to be highly dangerous 173 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: ID cable of serious injury or death. People see this like, 174 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: well maybe, and again I think it's important to we 175 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: deal with this. They say, well, this is why maybe 176 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:01,079 Speaker 1: we shouldn't have gone after Ran. And I think that's 177 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: flawed logic to think that way. These threats are threats, 178 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:06,240 Speaker 1: whether we got there or not. And and and they're like, 179 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: I don't think there's a direct cause and effect. I 180 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: think there are bad people in the world that want 181 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: to commit Hanus crimes, and their timing may change because 182 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 1: of what we did Aran. But if you're a terrorist 183 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: in this country, the guy in this country through the 184 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: open borders or however you got in here and and 185 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: you're planning something or trying to do something, I think 186 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 1: it's in your DNA based on your beliefs you were 187 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: going to do it no matter what. 188 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 2: Well, and look, this vulnerability is here because for four years, 189 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 2: Joe Biden, the Democrats opened up our borders and basically 190 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 2: invited radical Islamic terrorists to come to this country. If 191 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,560 Speaker 2: you if you look what happened in New York, New York, 192 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 2: you had islabists throwing dangerous IEDs capable of serious injury 193 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:50,600 Speaker 2: or death. And and you know, ask yourself in the 194 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,720 Speaker 2: reporting on this, have you seen a single news report 195 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 2: mentioned that the jihadists who threw the nail bomb into 196 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 2: a crowd New York City repeatedly shouted Allahu Akbar. I 197 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 2: haven't seen that. I haven't seen that on CNN. I 198 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 2: haven't seen that on MSNBC or the New York Times. 199 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 2: They don't want to cover that. And to be clear, 200 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 2: we saw the same thing in Austin a week ago 201 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:19,560 Speaker 2: when the terrorists there wearing a sweatshirt that said property 202 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 2: of Allah, wearing a T shirt with an Iranian flag, 203 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 2: attacked a bar on Sixth Street in Austin. And again, 204 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 2: this is the terrorism, the vulnerability that President Trump is 205 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 2: acting to protect against. But I got to tell you 206 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 2: in the midst of this, look, we have an enhanced 207 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 2: risk for terrorism right now. It is obvious. Jihadis clerics 208 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 2: have put out a fat walk calling on terrorists to 209 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 2: try to kill Americans. And in the middle of this, 210 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 2: do you know what we did this week? We voted 211 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 2: again to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and every 212 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 2: Democrat except John Fetterman said no, we will not fund DHS, 213 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,560 Speaker 2: the department literally created to defend us against terrorist attacks. 214 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: You mentioned that, and let's go into that a little 215 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,320 Speaker 1: bit more. This is all about politics, and it shouldn't be, 216 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,599 Speaker 1: because this is about a national security issue, and I 217 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: think it's important to we take a moment explain exactly 218 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: why Democrats have wanted to keep this shut down going. 219 00:13:17,679 --> 00:13:20,600 Speaker 1: This is a partial government shutdown. It's something they're obsessed 220 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: with DHS. They don't like it, they don't like law 221 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,920 Speaker 1: and order, they don't like ICE agents, and they're putting 222 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: our lives at risk. And they don't really seem to 223 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: care that that's what they're doing. 224 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: They don't and understand it's all empty politics appealing to 225 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 2: their radical base. So the Democrats have decided they hate ICE. 226 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 2: They are the party of illegal immigrants, and they are 227 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 2: opposed to ICE. They are posed to law enforcement, they 228 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 2: are opposed to police. Now their DHS shutdown. Do you 229 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 2: know how many ICE agents are not being paid because 230 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 2: of it? 231 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: How many? 232 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,719 Speaker 2: Zero? They are not defunding ICE. They are failing miserably 233 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:58,040 Speaker 2: in any effort to defund ICE. Why because last year 234 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:00,320 Speaker 2: when we passed the Working Families tax cut, the big 235 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 2: reconciliation bill, we funded ICE. We knew the Democrats would 236 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 2: play stupid games with it, so we said, fine, we'll 237 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 2: provide the funding for ICE. So ICE agents are being paid. 238 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 2: The DHS shutdown is not cutting off even a penny 239 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 2: for ice. The people they are cutting off, they're cutting 240 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 2: off the Coastguard, they're cutting off FEMA, they're cutting off TSA. Look, 241 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 2: if you're flying a plane, you could expect delays to 242 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 2: begin getting longer and longer and longer because those TSA 243 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,920 Speaker 2: agents that have to check you in right now, they're 244 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 2: showing up at work and they are not being paid. 245 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 2: I just got off a plane yesterday thank the TSA 246 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 2: agents who were there, and they appreciated that. But they said, 247 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 2: you know, boy, would be nice to get paid, and 248 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 2: I agreed. I said, it is utter bs. I'm sorry 249 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 2: about that. You should be paid, and I just apologized 250 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 2: to them. Although to be clear, I'm voting to fund them. 251 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 2: But the Democrats are trying to ratchet up and inflict pain, 252 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 2: and they believe the media won't blame them when your 253 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 2: flight are delayed. They believe the media won't blame them 254 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 2: when coastguardsmen, you know, young men and women serving in 255 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 2: the Coast Guard, don't have the money to pay their rent, 256 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 2: don't have the money to pay their mortgage. They believe 257 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 2: the media won't won't blame them when FEMA, the people 258 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 2: in charge of responding to disasters are not being paid 259 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 2: and it slows down federal disaster response. The Democrats believe 260 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 2: the media will not blame them, so this is entirely 261 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 2: an effort to say screw you to ICE by not 262 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,680 Speaker 2: cutting out ICE funding because they can't do that because 263 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 2: Republicans already paid for ICE, but instead cutting off the 264 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 2: funding for the rest of DHS that exists principally to 265 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:42,120 Speaker 2: stop terrorist attacks. So they're telling you, I, Chuck Schumer, 266 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 2: I Democrat, hate ICE and hate law enforcements so much 267 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,640 Speaker 2: that I'm going to increase the chance of a terrorist 268 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,440 Speaker 2: attack in your community, just to tell the crazies in 269 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,160 Speaker 2: my party how much I hate ICE. 270 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: I want to go back to something else that we 271 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: also are seeing, and it's not just these these domestic 272 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: terrorist attacks here that may be inspired by what's happening, 273 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: but we're also now seeing this happen around the country. 274 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: Police are with the world, I should say, police are 275 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,040 Speaker 1: investigating an explosion outside the US embassy for example in Norway. 276 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that? And the concern 277 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 1: that people have all over the world now for what 278 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: this with the reactions happening from these Muslim extremists. 279 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 2: Well, Islamists are taking this time to engage in acts 280 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 2: of violence, acts of terrorism, and we could expect to 281 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 2: see more of this now. Understand, many of these Islamists 282 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 2: have been funded by Iran for years and so they 283 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 2: see their money stream, their money spigot, being cut off. 284 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 2: But we need, we need full capacity to protect ourselves 285 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 2: at a time that is dangerous. I believe what the 286 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: Democrats are doing is reckless and I pray that it 287 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 2: does not lead to it. But the Democrats action cutting 288 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 2: off the funding for DHS could very well cause more 289 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 2: terrorist attack, including potentially a catastrophicar Arist attack. And I'm 290 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 2: not aware of any of the Democrats who is expressing 291 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: any concern about this or is willing to do anything 292 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 2: about it. Look, they might leave DHS shut down, lead 293 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 2: these people not paid for the rest of the year. 294 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:17,400 Speaker 2: They are radical enough to do this, and the media 295 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 2: is complicit in it, and it's the reason President Trump 296 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 2: is trying to resolve this conflict with Iran quickly. And 297 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,679 Speaker 2: what President Trump has called for is unconditional surrender. That 298 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 2: he wants Iran to surrender, and he is systematically taking 299 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,360 Speaker 2: out first their air defenses, then their missile launch capacity, 300 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,800 Speaker 2: then their drone launch capacity, than their missile manufacturing capacity, 301 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 2: than their drone manufacturing capacity, than their military infrastructure, their leadership, 302 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 2: and at this point he is systematically degrading their ability 303 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 2: to fight back day after day after day. He is 304 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 2: exactly right to say this ends when the Iranian regime 305 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 2: says we surrender, and when they surrender, the result is 306 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,680 Speaker 2: going to be that the theocratic despots who chant death 307 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 2: to America, who pay for terrorists to murder Americans, who 308 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,520 Speaker 2: pay for hit men to try to murder President Trump, 309 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 2: they are out of power. We are not going to 310 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 2: allow that country to be led by lunatics who are 311 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 2: spending millions of dollars trying to murder Americans. That's what 312 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,000 Speaker 2: victory looks like. I believe that's where we will end up. 313 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 2: But I will say at the same time, we are 314 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,560 Speaker 2: seeing people spread propaganda and and and we're seeing two 315 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 2: groups that are spreading the same propaganda. Let's start with 316 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 2: with democrats. Let let's start, in particular with with Chris Murphy. 317 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:44,760 Speaker 2: I want you to listen to what Chris Murphy has said. 318 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:47,200 Speaker 2: Give a listen. 319 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 3: Malla's in Iran. This is again Rubio's characterization, are mad men, 320 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 3: and they believe in holy war, and they believe in 321 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 3: killing the crusaders of the United States and the Jews 322 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 3: of Israel, and there is a special degree of unacceptability 323 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 3: for them having a nuclear So. 324 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't disagree, But what I disagree with is 325 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 4: that an aerial military campaign or even the insertion of 326 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 4: ground forces can permanently dislodge Iran from having a nuclear weapon. Again, 327 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 4: you were talking about knowledge that can't be bombed out 328 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 4: of existence. So how do you stop a diplomatic agreement. 329 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,199 Speaker 4: We had a diplomatic agreement. Barack Obama negotiated agreement in 330 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 4: which Iran was more than a year away from getting 331 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:33,439 Speaker 4: a weapon. We had daily inspections scouring the country. It 332 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,479 Speaker 4: was working. Donald Trump's advisors told him it was working. 333 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 4: He threw that agreement into the trash, which precipitated the 334 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,359 Speaker 4: crisis that we are in today. This is a place 335 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 4: where diplomacy probably is the only true path to make 336 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 4: sure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon. 337 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: All right, let me ask you this sanator. He says 338 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,239 Speaker 1: it was working. That is a flat out lie. And 339 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,159 Speaker 1: I think most people have been following this would know 340 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,920 Speaker 1: that he's acting like they just decided to go rogue, 341 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:03,439 Speaker 1: referring to the Trump ministration just get into a war for 342 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: no reason at all. 343 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 2: So what you just heard from Senator Chris Murphy is 344 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 2: utterly fact free propaganda. He's just repeating left wing talking points. Now, look, 345 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,879 Speaker 2: Chris Murphy wants to run for president as a left 346 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 2: wing Democrat, as a successor to Bernie Sanders in terms 347 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:23,479 Speaker 2: of a rabid socialist isolationist, and so facts are not 348 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 2: going to get in the way. One of the things 349 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:28,159 Speaker 2: he said there we were having daily nuclear weapons inspections. 350 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,360 Speaker 2: That is a lie. Under the terms of the Obama 351 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 2: Nuclear Deal Number one, there were multiple areas that were 352 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 2: off limits from inspection. What areas were off limit from inspection? Well, 353 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 2: one of them was Fordah, the military site under a 354 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 2: mountain where they were doing their nuclear weapons development. By 355 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 2: the way, Donald Trump dropped bunker buster bombs on Foidah 356 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,399 Speaker 2: and took it out and destroyed it. But under the 357 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,360 Speaker 2: Obama Nuclear Deal, nobody could inspect forida. And even when 358 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 2: we wanted to expect other areas of research, we had 359 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,040 Speaker 2: to call the Iranians and get their permission and they 360 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,199 Speaker 2: would inspect it for us. You know, I've sort of 361 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 2: joked that that's like calling up a drug dealer. Can 362 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 2: you can you imagine like the classic movie Scarface. The 363 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 2: scenario that Obama negotiated is basically that the DEA would 364 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,439 Speaker 2: call Tony Montana, the drug dealer in Scarface, and go, hey, Tony, 365 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:19,919 Speaker 2: would you check your warehouse and tell us if there 366 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 2: are any drugs there? And Tony would go yeah, man, yeah, man, 367 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 2: hold on, hold on, let me look, let me no, no, 368 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 2: no drugs there, We're clean. That is the Obama nuclear deal. 369 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 2: It was literally Obama calling calling up the Ayahtola, Hey 370 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 2: you got any nukes? No, man, we're good. We don't 371 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 2: have any nukes, no nukes here at all. All right, thanks. 372 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:42,239 Speaker 2: That's the idiocy of the Democrats. They knew. And by 373 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 2: the way, the Obama ran nuclear deal sunset in fifteen years. 374 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 2: So after fifteen years Obama said, I We're fine with 375 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 2: your having nukes. Chris Murphy and the Democrats know that. 376 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: They don't care. That deal was designed to allow Iran 377 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,479 Speaker 2: to get a nuclear weapon. I'll tell you when President 378 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,439 Speaker 2: Trump and the first term pulled out of the Obama 379 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 2: Iran nuclear deal, it was exactly the right decision. I 380 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 2: had urged him to do so, and it set the 381 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 2: stage Iran is now, particularly after President Trump last year 382 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:17,120 Speaker 2: bombed the nuclear weapons facility, Iran's nuclear program is way way, 383 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 2: way back, and yet they remain dangerous and they remain 384 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 2: absolutely committed to developing nuclear weapons. Now, the Democrats and 385 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 2: the press are trying to undermine President Trump. They're trying 386 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 2: to undermine the US military, and they're trying to bolster 387 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,800 Speaker 2: Iran and the iatolas. Do you know who else is 388 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 2: doing that? 389 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: Who else? 390 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson and the rest of the so called woke right. 391 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 2: There's a group of isolationists folks on the right. It 392 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,479 Speaker 2: is a small group, but they are loud and vocal. 393 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 2: And Tucker Carlson has now all but declared war on 394 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,359 Speaker 2: President Trump's foreign policy. I want you to listen to 395 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,720 Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson in his latest show, so I'm going to 396 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 2: warn you what he says here is shocking and it 397 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 2: is to the left of Chris Murphy. So it is 398 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 2: more anti Donald Trump than Chris Murphy and the Democrats. 399 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 2: Listen to Tucker Carlson. 400 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,200 Speaker 5: Unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife 401 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 5: and daughter if they want. And everyone knows that, and 402 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 5: that has been If there's one consistent lesson of history, 403 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 5: it means unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape 404 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 5: your wife and daughter. Everyone can feel that. That's like 405 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 5: the most atavistic instinct there is. And so to avoid that, 406 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 5: people will do anything. And so that's why it requires 407 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 5: that level of force to get a population subdued to 408 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 5: the point of unconditional surrender. That's why. And so in 409 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,200 Speaker 5: this case, of course, we don't have the ground force necessary. 410 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,399 Speaker 5: I don't think Americans would voluntarily participate in it. I 411 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 5: just don't think we can do that. It would require 412 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,360 Speaker 5: weapons of mass destruction. It would require presumably nuclear weapons 413 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 5: in order to do that. And let's stop, let's not 414 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 5: lie to ourselves. We're moving toward that. 415 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: You hear Tucker there, and I mean you want to 416 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: talk about on hinge. That is like some of the 417 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: most anti American propaganda I've ever seen spewed by someone 418 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: like Tucker Carlson. It is a new low even for him, 419 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: and and the bar keeps dropping day after day. 420 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 2: Look the phrase, the words someone like Tucker Carlson, you 421 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 2: don't even have to put that constraint. That is more 422 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 2: anti American rhetoric than anything I've ever heard Bernie Sanders say, 423 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,439 Speaker 2: or even Chris Murphy what he said there. Listen, Tucker 424 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 2: continues to go to new Low's and new Low's and 425 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 2: part of it is President Trump this week said that 426 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 2: that Tucker Carlson is quote, not maga and not smart. 427 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 2: The more Tucker Carlson attacks Donald Trump, the more fringe 428 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,359 Speaker 2: he gets. And so I think this was Tucker acting 429 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 2: out when when Trump said what was obviously true, but 430 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,720 Speaker 2: Tucker just said, go back, rewind and listen to what 431 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,920 Speaker 2: he just said. He said, number one, if Iran surrenders, 432 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 2: that American soldiers are going to rape their wives and daughters, 433 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,600 Speaker 2: and in fact he said it twice. What utter and 434 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 2: complete garbage, you America hating Islamist fluffer. I gotta say 435 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 2: that makes me mad. I think of the servicemen and 436 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,239 Speaker 2: men who in women, but the men in particular who 437 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 2: are risking their lives. And Tucker Carlson's standing there saying 438 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:23,560 Speaker 2: if you surrender to America, American soldiers are gonna rape 439 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,679 Speaker 2: your women. We have never done that. That is not 440 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,680 Speaker 2: something America does. No, Tucker, American soldiers are not gonna 441 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:34,439 Speaker 2: rape Iranian women. You know who rapes the people they 442 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 2: conquer Iranians do Islamists do? That is, in fact part 443 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 2: of what they do. Part of what they do is 444 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 2: is is that they rape women as a means of subjugation. 445 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 2: But Tucker's not gonna tell you that because Tucker is 446 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,199 Speaker 2: now one of the leading proponents of sharia law in 447 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 2: the United States. He's literally an apologist for Islamist And 448 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 2: so now you might say, wow, that statement seems incredible, 449 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,280 Speaker 2: it seems extreme. Here are a couple of data points. Number One, 450 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 2: during this war, the Iranian National Television is playing Tucker 451 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 2: Carlson's show in Iran. They view that as such valuable 452 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 2: propaganda they want the Iranian people to hear Tucker. Number Two, 453 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,680 Speaker 2: the Muslim Brotherhood, by the way, Hamas is the Muslim 454 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 2: brotherhood in Palestine, and they are terrorists are tweeting out 455 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:24,240 Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson's show. The Muslim Brotherhood is saying, this is 456 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 2: our spokesman. Man, this guy is good. I cannot recall 457 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,360 Speaker 2: another major political figure on left or right who has said, 458 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 2: if you surrender to America, American soldiers will rape your women. 459 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,239 Speaker 2: That's what Tucker Carlson just said that is grotesque. And 460 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,680 Speaker 2: by the way, any soldier who sees Tucker Carlson, I 461 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:45,360 Speaker 2: want to say, how dare you say that? American soldiers 462 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 2: know we would not and impugning our troops is disgusting. 463 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 2: And the second thing that Tucker said in that clip 464 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:57,040 Speaker 2: is that Donald Trump is moving towards using a nuclear 465 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 2: weapon in Iran. No, he's not, Tucker as a complete 466 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 2: utter lie, that is false. We are not going to 467 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 2: nuw kran. It is only deranged. That's the sort of 468 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 2: thing the Ayatola would say. And you've got to ask yourself. Look, 469 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 2: some of you may think back to when Tucker was 470 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 2: on Fox News and he was actually said a lot 471 00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 2: of things you and I loved that made a lot 472 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 2: of sense. This guy today is just a kook. And 473 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 2: even worse than that, he is the most prominent purveyor 474 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:30,159 Speaker 2: of Islamist lies about America and about Donald Trump. Tucker 475 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,440 Speaker 2: Carlson has gone full out to war with Donald Trump's 476 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 2: national security and foreign policy. And it is he and 477 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:42,160 Speaker 2: Chris Murphy are now that they are comrades in arms. 478 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 2: He and Tucker Carlson and Chris Murphy and Bernie Sanders 479 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 2: and Elizabeth Warren and ilhan Omar and AOC, they all 480 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,400 Speaker 2: have the exact same foreign policy, and it is anti 481 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 2: American and it is pro Islamist and it's dangerous as hell. 482 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: Having just come back from Israel, I want to paint 483 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:03,600 Speaker 1: you a picture. It's midnight, sirens are blearing, and you 484 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: have only seconds to grab your child and run. Now 485 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,479 Speaker 1: imagine your elderly. Your legs don't work like they used to, 486 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: Getting downstairs feels impossible, and after all of that, you 487 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days, 488 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 1: because you can't make the trek again. This is what's 489 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are 490 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 1: being traumatized, families are just exhausted, and homes have been destroyed. 491 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 1: And that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews 492 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 1: is there on the ground, bringing food, emergency equipment, care 493 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:45,240 Speaker 1: for those children, and help for the elderly, and supplying 494 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: the bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed essentials. 495 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: If you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand 496 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 1: for Israel and stand for good against evil, this is it. 497 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: And that's why I'm asking to now please Act give 498 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: forty five dollars right now to rush life saving essentials 499 00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 1: to the vulnerables under fire. You can also call eight 500 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: eight eight for eight eight IFCJ. That's eight eight eight 501 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: for eight eight IFCJ. Join me and give and make 502 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: a real difference online at IFCJ dot org. That's IFCJ 503 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 1: dot org. We've got some breaking news as we are 504 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: recording this on Sunday. They have now named a new 505 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: leader in Iran and is the son of the former 506 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: leader there. That is someone that the presidents said is unacceptable. 507 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: Your reaction to that as well. 508 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 2: Well, look, it's not surprising. The Malas are going to 509 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 2: get together and they're going to want another Mala to 510 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,720 Speaker 2: be the Ayatola, and they want the country to continue 511 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 2: to be run by Islamist clerics who embrace a death cult. 512 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 2: And it's interesting. One of the things I'm going back 513 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 2: to Chris Murphy and what he said a minute ago. 514 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,760 Speaker 2: You know, we rely on determ to stop the most 515 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 2: egregious acts of harm. Deterrence works with many countries because 516 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 2: you have rational actors. Let's take for example, North Korea. 517 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,600 Speaker 2: So North Korea is an exceptionally dangerous part of the world. 518 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 2: Why does North Korea have nukes? Well, it goes back 519 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:25,240 Speaker 2: to a previous Democrat president, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton sent 520 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 2: a State Department employee named Wendy Sherman to negotiate a 521 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:36,040 Speaker 2: nuclear agreement with Kim Jong Il, who was the father 522 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 2: of the current dictator Kim jongng. And the deal they 523 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 2: cut is that Bill Clinton agreed to send billions of 524 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,400 Speaker 2: dollars to North Korea and in exchange for that money, 525 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 2: North Korea would promise not to develop nuclear weapons. Well 526 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,120 Speaker 2: what happened, We now know what happened. They took the 527 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 2: billions of dollars, they used it to develop nuclear weapons, 528 00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 2: and today North Korea has nuclear weapons. So it was 529 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 2: a spectacular failure. Fast forward to Barack Obama. Barack Obama 530 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 2: comes into office and he decides his signature foreign policy moves. 531 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 2: He wants to negotiate an agreement with Iran on nuclear weapons. 532 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 2: So what does he do. He actually goes and recruits 533 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 2: the same damn person, Wendy Sherman, to negotiate his Iran deal. Literally, 534 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 2: there are eight billion people on planet Earth, been there 535 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 2: is one out of eight billion who has screwed this 536 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,600 Speaker 2: up previously as negotiated a deal to send billions of 537 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 2: dollars to a foreign dictator, and it's resulted in that 538 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 2: dictator using the billions of dollars to develop nuclear weapons. 539 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 2: That would be Wendy Sherman. That's who Obama brought in 540 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 2: and said, hey, can you do the same for us? 541 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 2: Now we live with the failures of the Clinton administration 542 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 2: in Wendy Sherman with North Korea, and Kim Jong un 543 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 2: is a dictator, He's meglomaniacal, He's dangerous as hell. He 544 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,160 Speaker 2: is testing ICBMs, he is targeted explicitly target US citizens, 545 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 2: including Austin, Texas. He is a city that he has 546 00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 2: said he's targeted before. However, our best protection is Kim 547 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 2: jongun knows if he ever used a nuclear weapon, the 548 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 2: result would be massive, overwhelming retaliation and his regime would 549 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 2: lose power that day. It would be the end of 550 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:14,200 Speaker 2: his life if. 551 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 3: He did that. 552 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 2: As dangerous as Kim Jong un is, at least there's 553 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 2: some possibility of rational self deterrence. Here's what makes Iran 554 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,040 Speaker 2: orders a magnitude more dangerous. When you're dealing with religious extremism, 555 00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 2: when you're dealing with theocratic zealots who are in a 556 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 2: death cult who glorify death and suicide, rational deterrence doesn't 557 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 2: work the same way. So, for example, if the Iotola 558 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 2: detonated and nuclear weapons, say in Tel Aviv, or in 559 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,520 Speaker 2: New York or Los Angeles, and let me be clear, 560 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 2: I believe if the Iotola could do so, he would 561 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:56,440 Speaker 2: have done so already. The response would be overwhelming and devastating. 562 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,880 Speaker 2: But the problem is when you celebrate death and suicide, 563 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 2: that normal cost benefit analysis does not apply. And so yes, 564 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 2: they've named a new Iotola. The Iotola is what the 565 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 2: son of the old Iatola. Okay, great, that is not 566 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:16,520 Speaker 2: acceptable because President Trump has rightly made the decision We're 567 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,160 Speaker 2: not going to allow US national security to be vulnerable 568 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 2: to religious zealots who are funding terrorism, who are funding 569 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 2: who are the number one funders of terrorisms worldwide and 570 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,160 Speaker 2: have been for forty seven years. 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You had 603 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,120 Speaker 1: a midair panic as Southwest flight was diverted to Atlanta 604 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: due to a security threat amid Iranian terror feel fears air. 605 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: You also had a Fort Lauderdale bound flight diverts with 606 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: security scare. The pastors removed like these are real stories 607 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,759 Speaker 1: that are happening, people are concerned about. And so my 608 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,000 Speaker 1: question is how quickly can we get the Democrats to 609 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 1: understand that this funding is important. We've seen even at 610 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,920 Speaker 1: Hobby Airport, where you and I fly out of allow 611 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,680 Speaker 1: three and a half hour security lines, that is unacceptable 612 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: for the American people. 613 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,600 Speaker 2: Well, the only reason they will flip is if the 614 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,279 Speaker 2: political pain becomes real to them. I think the Democrats 615 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,879 Speaker 2: are listening to their zealots, to the people who want 616 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,799 Speaker 2: open borders, who want ice abolished, who want the police abolished. 617 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 2: Who are cheering on when the Democrats defend criminals and 618 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,439 Speaker 2: illegal aliens and gangbangers. Look go back to the State 619 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,319 Speaker 2: of the Union address. It was powerful when President Trump 620 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 2: turned to the Democrats and said, I'll give you an 621 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 2: opportunity to decide right now, where do you stand stand 622 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 2: with me? Now? If you agree our principal responsibility is 623 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:49,000 Speaker 2: to defend American citizens and not illegal aliens. Zero Democrats 624 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:55,040 Speaker 2: zero stood and applauded. They all remain seated. That is 625 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,680 Speaker 2: where their base is, and right now the media is 626 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,200 Speaker 2: not holding them to a count. During the Schumer shutdown 627 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,880 Speaker 2: last year that Chuck Schumer, the Democrats forced the longest 628 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 2: shut down in American history. Right before the elections last year, 629 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,080 Speaker 2: one Democrat aide told a reporter said, We're going to 630 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 2: keep this shut down quote until airplanes start falling from 631 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:21,839 Speaker 2: the sky. They feel immune from political consequences. That will 632 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,839 Speaker 2: only change when they start to feel meaningful political heat. 633 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 2: That means the folks listening to this podcast, use your voice, 634 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:31,719 Speaker 2: speak out, make phone calls, call centered offices, post on 635 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,400 Speaker 2: social media, get other people right up ed speak about it, 636 00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:41,200 Speaker 2: and hold Democrats to account. They are endangering all of 637 00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,919 Speaker 2: our families by cutting off the funding needed to fight 638 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 2: terrorism at a time when the risks of terrorism are 639 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,560 Speaker 2: unacceptably high. We need to do a better job protecting 640 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,120 Speaker 2: the homeland, and the Democrats are being reckless at a 641 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,040 Speaker 2: level I've never seen. 642 00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is incredible. Don't forget where we keep 643 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 1: updated on all these issues. 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