WEBVTT - Trump Hammers Iran 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:16.760 You are entering the freedom hunt. The French are here 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.680 from pasad his first state visit with Emmanuel mccron. Plus, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:27.520 will the Iran nuclear deal survive? Will North Korea de nuclearize? 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:31.639 And is Ronnie Jackson gonna stay in the running for 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.479 v A Secretary? That and a whole lot more coming up. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.640 This is the buck Sexton Show, where the mission or 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.839 mission is to decode what really matters with actionable intelligence. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.400 Make no mistake American great, You're a great American Again 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:59.320 the buck Sexton Show begins. No people know my views 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:01.520 on the Randy. It was a terrible deal. Should have 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:03.480 never ever been made. We could have made a good 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.959 deal or a reasonable deal, and the Randall was a 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.680 terrible deal. We paid a hundred and fifty billion dollars. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.759 We gave one point eight billion in cash. That's actual cash, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.600 barrels of cash. It's insane, it's ridiculous. It should have 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.600 never been made. But we will be talking about it. 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.800 Welcome to the buck sex and Show. Everyone, Thank you 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.759 so much for being here. Honor, privilege and pleasure as always. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.759 Uh so you have the big visit today. A lot 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.760 of pomp and circumstance. I mean there was there was 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.399 fife playing. I think there were fives. Perhaps they were piccolos. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.680 They look like fifes to me though the guy who 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.560 knows his woodwinds uh and they or not as the 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.560 case maybe uh. You know. The French were here a 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.240 lot of people talking about the debt of on Earth 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.840 to a General Lafayette, which is a real thing, Marquis 0:01:55.840 --> 0:02:01.040 de Lafayette. So the French are our buddies. Sometimes we 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.520 have a little disagreements with them, but for the most 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.280 part they were really our first major ally, so there's 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.959 that gave us the Statue of Liberty, which was nice 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.640 of them, and a whole bunch of other stuff. French 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.920 fries among my favorite things, among my favorite things on 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.359 planet Earth. I never called them freedom fries, you know. 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.560 I didn't turn my back on France even during that period. 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.720 Like the French fries. Guys, we all need to get 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:26.160 a grip. So he had some important policy discussions going 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:31.840 on today with Trump and Macron or should we should 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.280 we do we americanize it? Do we go Macron? You 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.560 know what I mean? You know, because there's also different 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.520 ways you can americanize it, right, you can do Southern 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:43.360 like you know, Macron or you could do more like 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:48.080 Midwestern like mccron, you know, or New Yorker McCrone, Hey McCrone, 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.520 Hey McCrone, or that's New Yorker Philly A. Mccron. What 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.720 are you talking about? The the Iran nuke deal? Nuke 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:59.000 nuke for who? For what? Uh? So, there there's a 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.000 lot of stuff going on here. You got the Trump 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.680 administration going to de certify or not on the Iran 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:07.720 nuke deal. Let's start with Iran and then I'll get 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:10.320 to North Korea. Both of these today, a lot of headlines, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.040 a lot of talk, and I sometimes feel like we 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.800 get drawn into these conversations about foreign policy, and I'm 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.280 I feel like anyone who refers themselves as a such 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.720 and such nerd is really engaged in a humble brag. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.480 But so I won't say I'm a foreign policy nerd. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.080 I'll just say I like foreign policy, I worked in it, 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.359 and I find it very interesting that all said, unless 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.960 we're talking about a war or a major trade issue, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.440 most foreign policy is an intellectual exercise. And the people 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.360 you're listening to see, I'm just telling you the truth 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.200 here because I am bucket. I cannot I cannot tell 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.920 a lie. Most foreign policy analysis is interesting. Maybe you 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.880 learn some stuff, but does it end up being correct 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.320 or not? People don't really pay attention. A lot of 0:03:55.320 --> 0:04:00.560 people go on TV that have been wrong on foreign policy, wrong, wrong, 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.680 all along, that's really their calling card. There are some 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.680 folks that even have had the ear of previous administrations 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.360 on foreign policy, and I I'm just like, you don't 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.040 want to listen to that guy or gal always wrong. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.960 I think you can put John Kerry in that category. 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:20.000 But it's actually useful though, because once you established someone 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.400 so consistently wrong on foreign policy, you're like, well, I 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.599 just know that whatever he's saying is what I don't 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.840 want to do. And on your on Iran and North Korea, 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.839 we're gonna get into some of this. So it is interesting. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.719 It does affect us if we had a take military action. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.880 It's North Korea that's obviously very scary and could have 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.640 big ramifications beyond that could spook the markets a whole lot. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.200 Who knows. I don't think we're heading in that direction 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:47.320 right now, that's possible. The Iran deal is well when 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.240 you look at it beyond just the nuclear issue with 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:56.520 Iran and see it as trying to constrain Iranian aggression. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:03.440 Now we're talking about an expansionism and really the revival 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.480 of a or you could say, the creation of a 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.440 Shia crescent of power. One of the things that's happening 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:10.960 right now in the Middle East is you have a 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.640 Sunni Shia civil war that's playing out in a whole 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.520 bunch of different countries, and it's not thought of in 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:22.839 that way because usually it's within the context of a 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.520 national of a national struggle. Right, So in Syria we 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.159 think of the Syrian Civil War. In Yemen we think 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.159 of the you know, Yumani civil war or whatever we're 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.839 calling some of these struggles. Now, you know, in Iraq 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.239 we've got the insurgency, and but when you really peel 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.520 back the layers and look at what's going on, guess 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.040 what one of the primary dividing lines is between Assad 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.480 and his side and the insurgents and jihadists and all 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.280 the rest on the other side. Sad is Shia is 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:59.080 Shia alla white, but and the rest of the country 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.680 that is opposed to him are Sunni Muslims. When you 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.839 look at what's going on in Iraq Sunni Shia civil wars, 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.280 there's one of the very scary things that we're trying 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.200 to prevent from happening. But the Al qaeda Ji hottest 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:18.960 or the iss Gi hottests are are Sunnies, and the 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:23.240 militias that fight against them are Shia. So that's always 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.159 bubbling beneath the surface, same thing. And yeah, you're getting 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:27.840 my point right, you're catching my drift. Plus there's a 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.839 Sunni Shia problem in Saudi Arabia. And then on top 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.240 of all that you have the Major Saudi States which 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.240 is really South I'm sorry, Major Sunni States, which is 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:42.039 Saudi Arabia, and it's UH and its Gulf allies against Iran. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:48.560 That's now the great Mideast power struggle that's going on, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.760 and we have interests in this primarily for security reasons. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:56.119 Twenty or thirty years ago, we would have been like, whoa, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.039 we we gotta worry about this because of the Straits 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.320 of Horror moves something like UH. I think even ten 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.960 years ago you might have had or thirty pc of 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.919 the world's oil supply moving through the Straits of Horror moves. 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.840 One of the concerns was that the Iranians, with pretty 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:15.080 straight with with easy UH missile capacity, they just start 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.120 shutting it down and blowing up oil tankers. These these 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.800 are the theories and the threats that people have had 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:26.080 for a long time. Well thanks to domestic American energy production, 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:29.120 the shale oil revolution, which has been probably the single 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.000 greatest foreign policy windfall that we've had in this country. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.880 In the post nine eleven era, we're a whole lot 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.560 less on edge about what goes on in the Middle 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.840 East from an energy perspective, because we're like, you know what, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.000 We're actually an energy superpower, so we're trending in the 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:46.360 right direction on that. One's price of gas is very low. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.160 It also means those countries like Iran have a whole 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.880 lot less cash to throw around for fancy planes and 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.600 very big missiles that go boom. Uh. So these are 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.040 all the problems that we have to look at right 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.120 now in the Mid East. But it's the it's a 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.040 lens that is shifting over time. It's not quite what 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.560 it was in the early days, say of the first 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.040 Bush are the second president Bush, but its first administration. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.120 Trump's looking at the Iran deal, and he's looking at 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:20.400 in that context. He sees this as a series of 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:25.960 interrelated problems going on in the Middle East. It just 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.840 seems that no matter where you go, especially in the 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.440 Middle East, Iran is behind it. The Iran Deal is 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.839 a disaster. They're testing missiles and what is that all about? 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.200 You look at the ballistic missiles that they're going and testing. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:40.560 What kind of a deal is it where you're allowed 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.760 to test missiles all over the place. What kind of 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.480 a deal is it when you don't talk about Yemen 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.079 and you don't talk about all of the other problems 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:53.080 that we have with respect to Irana, especially look at 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:55.920 what they're doing in Iraq. And I know John Kerry 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.080 made the statement that he didn't want to discuss other 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.559 things while he was making the deal, to spite all 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.920 of the money that we gave them, he didn't want 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.000 to discuss it because it was too complicated. That's not 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.479 the way to do it, because it was too complicated. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.400 So we made this terrible deal, but we'll be discussing it. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.520 Big problems that not just Trump but all those of 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.960 us who have been, including myself, opposed to the Iran 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:23.040 deal are It doesn't touch conventional missiles, which are quite 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.960 a big problem. If their missile program gets to a 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.920 very advanced level, it means that were they to get 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:33.160 breakout nuclear capability, they can marry those two programs together 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.480 and all of a sudden, now you got big issues. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:40.959 Plus the Iranians can export they're increasingly advanced conventional missile 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.640 technology to a whole bunch of bad actors, including it's 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.920 proxies that could come after us in Iraq, but also 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:54.240 it's proxies that have currently encircled the state of Israel. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:56.240 Right If you look at a map right now in 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:57.960 the Middle East, if you look at Israel, you have 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.120 Hezbollah in a Ani in proxy to the north of 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.560 Israel and Lebanon with missiles pointed at Israel. Assad a 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.640 client regime of the Iranians with I don't know if 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.400 they're pointing their missiles at Israel right now, if they 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.280 know what's good for them, but you know they are 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.000 obviously a hostile towards the Israeli state. And then in 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:24.760 Gaza Hamas, which despite being a Sunni Muslim entity, is 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.040 also a client. Although there's been some bad blood. I mean, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.600 you know they're fighting about the Shia Iranians and the 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:36.280 Sunni members of Hamas in Gaza. They've got some problems, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.000 but the one thing that unites them, and I don't 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.800 say this in in a glib fashion, it's really true. 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.400 Is their hatred of Jews and Israel, right, That's what 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.280 keeps Hamas and Iran, the state of Iran, willing to 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.920 work together because they hate his Room more than anything else. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.599 So that's why we have to worry about their conventional 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:59.160 nuclear I'm sorry, conventional missile technologies. There's also a lack 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.920 of inspection into some of their military facilities, which the 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:04.920 iranience have said that's a no go. But guess what 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.600 if they have military facilities that we can't see, well, 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.400 how do we know what they're doing? It's pretty straightforward. 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.760 And then finally the sun setting of this at the 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:18.960 end of the current deal framework, Iran can basically say, okay, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.600 we're out. You know now we can do what we 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:24.040 want and they will be richer and better place and 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.560 have an economy that is much more enmeshed with the 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.160 regional and global economy at that point, which means that 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.200 there are more ways they can hurt us, and also 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.880 hurting them will have greater ramifications if there was a need, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.680 let's say, to go in there and strike, which is 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.680 still something that we could see happening at some point 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.559 still something that could be going on. I'm I'm hoping 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.280 that it doesn't. I don't want there to be. I 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.079 think it would be a mistake unless we were in 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:58.920 an absolutely last resort, extreme situation. I think a regime 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.520 change in Iran is a nightmare in the making if 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:08.240 that became US policy. But I can't say it's not possible. 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.959 We know it is so. But those are the big 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.280 problems that they have with the deal. And Trump obviously 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.319 also has a certain hostility to the Iranian regime, which 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:25.240 is is understandable. We've really had some substantive talks on Iran, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.480 maybe more than anything else, and we're looking forward to 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.120 doing something. But it has to be done, and it 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:38.120 has to be done strongly, and they've very much been 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.000 butchers and we can't allow that to happen. And I 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.679 think our meeting are our one on one went very 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.959 very well. I hope you feel the same way. He's 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.679 speaking of m Krans there mentioned him the beginning. I 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.240 feel like we should give the the President of France 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.920 a little bit more attention here in this open a segment. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:13:00.080 He is the reason for this fancy state visit, that 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.600 is going on with all the pomp and circumstance, and 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.760 he he had some interesting comments actually on the Middle East. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.600 You know, he's it's interesting the way it's talked about 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:14.280 is is mccron is respected by Trump macrons. He's got 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.040 a business packer. I think he was an eye banker, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:20.800 investment banker. Whereas Merkele is like, Donald, why don't you 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:24.000 return my phone calls? I thought we had something special. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.640 I thought we'd be allies since he you know the 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.040 things that we're working on, and he's like Angela, sorry, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.520 they haven't got no time for you. He's not a 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:37.800 fan of Merkel. We all know this, and she's supposed 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.000 to be the one really leading the EU block of nations. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.520 Whereas mccron he speaks Trump's language a little bit more, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.520 not French, but he speaks he speaks in a way 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.720 that Trump I think and can can get behind some 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.800 of it. And and here's what he said about the middies, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.600 because I want to get his perspective on this too. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.920 And Randall is an important Huma will discuss about that. 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.120 But we have to take it as a part of 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:06.199 the broader picture, which is security in the over origin. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.520 And we have a certain situation. We have upcoming lasition 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.520 in in Iraq. We have the stability to preserve for 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.840 our allies since the origin and what we want to 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.760 do is to contain the Iranian resident since the origin 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:25.080 and dac Pure is part of this broader picture, part 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.040 of a broader picture. They want to negotiate. If we 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:30.480 don't negotiate through this, if we don't get some kind 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.080 of an agreement with our allies, notably France and Germany, 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.560 on how to deal with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.800 That's what the j c p o A is, which 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.520 is the fancy foreign policy speak for the Iran deal, 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:45.760 and it uh doesn't go forward. The Iranians are talking 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:47.480 a lot of trash and what they're gonna do if 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:51.960 we don't keep the deal as is in its totality, Well, 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.120 what does that mean? I got a hint from Trump 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.600 on that come back. And then also North Korea, Trump 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:59.560 said that Kim Jong had been honorable, and I know 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.880 the we're all they're all over that in the media, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.680 but let's put that in context. Let's look at what 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.680 he actually said and what he meant him, what the 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.840 purpose of the statement was. We will do all that 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:23.520 and more coming right up start their nuclear program. We'll 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.160 find out. You'll find out about that. It won't be 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.960 so easy for them to restart. They're not gonna be 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.480 restarting anything they restarted. They can have big problems, bigger 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.200 than they've ever had before. And you can mark it down. 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.360 They restart their nuclear program, they will have bigger problems 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.240 than they have ever had before, Thank you very much. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.720 Trump not messing around there saying, look, if the Iranians 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.400 decided to get cute and try to play games with 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.160 the nuclear program, there's gonna be uh, it's gonna be 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.280 hell to pay. It's gonna be a big, as you're saying, 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.600 a big problem. And he's trying to be as clear 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:02.560 as he can on that. Um. I I wonder here 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.720 how this is gonna go because I think that there's 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:09.760 enough of it. There's an understanding among those of us 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.120 who see what Trump's options are here that he's going 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.240 to get a ton of heat from the left if 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:22.680 he actually does anything to this deal. And it's not 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.440 it's not really about Iran. That's what's so frustrating about it. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.240 Why you won't know the answer to this, Why will 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:35.400 the left screen, bloody murder if Trump and the Democrats 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:36.760 and the media and all the rest of the Trump 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:42.440 does anything that throws the as they called the j 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:48.120 c p o A, the Iran Deal. Of course, oh, 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.920 I know, you know the answer, because it was Obama's 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:57.080 only foreign policy legacy item. Not only is it Obama's 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:01.000 only legacy item, he mortgaged the best of our Mid 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.920 East policy in order to get the deal. In fact, 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.040 there's a lot of evidence and reason to suggest that 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:16.240 the Obama administration took a particularly delicate approach in Syria 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.760 because and this is crazy, but get ready for it, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:25.280 they didn't want to upset our Iranian counterparts in the 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.960 nuclear deal negotiations. Think about that. I mean, this is 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.399 the Iranian state that for many of you listening I 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.199 know who served in Iraq, you know exactly where I'm 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.760 gonna go with This is the Iranian government that has 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.280 the i r g C and the Coodes Force of 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.119 the I r g C and Kasam Solomani running it 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.879 and making sure that there are e f p s 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.679 flown across Iran into Iraq to blow up our armored 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:55.119 vehicles and kill our guys in Iraq as they're trying 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.760 to stabilize that country. And this is an Iranian regime 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:03.359 that has blood of American soldiers on its hands in 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:08.520 recent years, and Obama didn't want to upset them because 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:12.720 he wanted to get a nuclear deal. Didn't want to 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.320 upset them in Syria as Syrias has got five hundres 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.200 thousand people that die and then over the course of 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:22.240 that conflict, most of them while Obama was president here 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.119 and they just didn't want to touch it. So that's 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.360 you have to remember that. A lot of the opposition, Sure, 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.960 it's out of blind hatred of Trump. Right, anything Trump 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:33.920 does is terrible. Right, Trump could find Trump could show 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:35.679 up tomorrow will be like, hey, my secret program to 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.800 cure cancer is work. That's the ah, look at him, 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.359 waste money. He's terrible. But on the Iran deal, they're 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.320 going to see this. The left, the Democrat media will 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:49.760 see this as erasing Obama's foreign policy legacy. He's holding 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:55.280 the line for America, buck sex in his back. We're 0:18:55.280 --> 0:19:01.159 having very good discussions con Gun on was He really 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:07.960 has been very open and I think very honorable. From 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.520 everything we're seeing now, a lot of promises have been 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.480 made by North Korea over the years, but they've never 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:16.880 been in this position. We have been very very tough 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.800 for maximum pressure, which we have been very tough on 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:24.240 uh as you know, trade, We've been very very tough 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.280 at the border. Sanctions have been the toughest we've ever 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:29.840 imposed on any country. It's not going to be fair 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:35.119 and reasonable and good. I will unlike past administrations, I 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.520 will leave the table. But I think we have a 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:41.679 chance of doing something very special with respect to North Korea. 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:46.359 You know what the media took from all that I 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.240 saw it today. There there was a lot of attention 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:53.520 to this. Trump says, Kim Jong un is honorable? How 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:57.840 could he how could he be so thoughtless, so cruel, 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.639 so one feeling looked? No one things. I mean, I 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.280 mean literally, no one in this country thinks that Kim 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.639 Jong un is an honorable guy in terms of the 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.360 totality of what he's doing and done as the leader 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.840 of North Korea. Yeah, it's it's gonna be tough to 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:15.800 make the case someone's honorable when they have their half 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:20.920 brother assassinated in an airport in Malaysia using v X. Yes, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.280 that's gonna be a tough one, right, Or if you're 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:28.080 gonna have rivals at the upper reaches of the North 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.800 Korean military executed by tying them to anti aircraft guns. 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:36.200 That that's also you know, people are aware of these things. Yes, 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.040 North Korea is a massive concentration camp where some are 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.760 treated slightly better than others, but everyone's everyone's in the 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.080 camp in one way or another. Trump wasn't saying Kim 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.159 jong n is a great guy. Okay, he's not pulling 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:51.720 a Dennis Rodman here. I remember when that happened. What 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:59.680 he's saying is, so far Kim jong un has kept 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.560 to what he said he would do. The big news here, 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:07.960 after all this was that the North Koreans have agreed 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:12.160 in at least in theory to de nuclearization or Trump 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:18.440 spoke about this on North Korea. You said you believe 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:21.960 in complete denuclearization. What does that mean exactly? It means 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.920 they get rid of their nukes. Very simple. They get 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.880 rid of their nukes, and nobody else would say it 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:28.879 would be very easy for me to make a simple 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:30.640 deal in claim victory. I don't want to do that. 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.600 I want them to get rid of their nukes pretty straightforward. 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.879 They get rid of their nukes, right, That's that's what 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:41.160 d nuclearized means they got to give up the program. 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.160 I don't think North Korea is ever going to do that. Well, 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:48.960 we gotta try, because we have set up a to 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:56.600 track future for ourselves here, whereby you have either impending 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.080 military action at some point the future from the U. S. 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:02.680 Maybe some ally is against North Korea to destroy their program. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:08.800 Who knows where that's gonna go, or this an aggressive 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:13.240 diplomatic approach, which is what's going on here. On the 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.560 point about Trump saying he's been honorable, and I think 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.359 that it didn't last longer. They pushed this, Oh my gosh, 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.199 Trump said he's honorable, so terrible. I saw it. It It 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.120 was I was somewhere today. I'm like, I'll just come 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:25.520 I'll just come clean and tell you. I was getting 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:27.320 my hair cut and they had MSNBC on, so I 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:31.320 was seeing this. Oh my gosh, Trump said, the dictator 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:36.720 of North Korea's being honorable. Go to heavens. Yeah, he 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:38.760 didn't mean like he's a good guy. What he's saying 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:40.720 is so far he's keeping his word in this whole thing. 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.399 It reminds me also of how the media responds whatever 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:48.199 Trump meets with Putin or there's anything relating to Russia. 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:51.160 They're like, why didn't he tell Putin what an big, 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.760 ugly meme bully he is, because he's the head of 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:59.439 state with a lot of nuclear weapons and it's an 0:22:59.440 --> 0:23:01.960 important country, and we don't get to just pretend like 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:05.200 Russia is not there and doesn't matter at all, and 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:10.199 spitting in the face of a Russian premier is just 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:12.560 first of all, it's not what an American presidents to do. 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.400 And also it's it's not helpful, and first and foremost, 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.959 the president is trying to get good outcomes. See, that's 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:20.600 where there's a big disconnect with a lot of what 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:24.240 the media thinks about all this stuff. You and I 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.320 sit here and we're like, look, what's Trump accomplishing? What's 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:29.479 he doing? Yeah, there's a part of this is narrative, 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:32.400 the narrative fight, but also he accomplishes a lot there. 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:37.560 He accomplishes a lot within the the the narrative struggle 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:40.040 with the media. But I mean, on the policy side 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:42.160 of things, what's he given us, what is he doing? 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:44.760