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Speaker 1: There is now as we head into what is a
Speaker 1: difficult and all our prayers and hopes are with American troops.
Speaker 1: The President the Secretary of State have both indicated in
Speaker 1: great detail. And I know that there are people that
Speaker 1: don't want to believe a thing that Donald Trump says.
Speaker 1: You have, you have various factions out there. They're they're loud,
Speaker 1: but they're not the majority of President Trump's supporters. You know,
Speaker 1: some eighty five percent on average MAGA voters support the
Speaker 1: president his actions in Iran. I think people that are
Speaker 1: educated as to the real circumstances as to why the
Speaker 1: President made this decision, uh and and that being more
Speaker 1: importantly that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, are more
Speaker 1: acutely aware than your average bird out there. And you know,
Speaker 1: you have people that don't really care that the Iranians
Speaker 1: were far closer to having nuclear weapons than we originally knew.
Speaker 1: I mean this, this historically has been the case that
Speaker 1: globalist international organizations have grossly underestimated the Iranian regimes power.
Speaker 1: And it's just unfortunate across the board because you know,
Speaker 1: here they have you know, sixty percent enriched uranium, as
Speaker 1: we've been describing, that can be you know, enriched to
Speaker 1: ninety percent weapons grade in seven to eleven days. And
Speaker 1: then we also learned in this conflict that they had
Speaker 1: underestimated the range of their longer ballistic missile capability, and
Speaker 1: that now tells us that it could go to parts
Speaker 1: of Europe like Paris and London, for example. And there
Speaker 1: is a schism, and I'm not sure how this is
Speaker 1: going to play out, but I have a pretty good
Speaker 1: idea how it's going to play out, and it's not
Speaker 1: going to be good for Europe. I have been making
Speaker 1: the case that individually countries in Europe they are in
Speaker 1: a precipitous decline and they have been four decades, even
Speaker 1: some of our closest allies, and they have bought into
Speaker 1: radical socialism, they have brought in bought into radical environmentalism.
Speaker 1: I'll give you an example. You know, Europe's decision to
Speaker 1: switch to green energy instead of relying on fossil fuels
Speaker 1: is now driving their motorists straight to the poorhouse. And
Speaker 1: I know that we're not near five dollars a gallon
Speaker 1: like we were under Joe Biden. In America, it's about
Speaker 1: four bucks a gallon. And this is going to be temporary.
Speaker 1: That is my prediction. I'm more than confident that I'm
Speaker 1: going to be proven correct. But the average driver in Europe,
Speaker 1: they're now paying ten dollars a gallon, nine or ten
Speaker 1: dollars a gallon for gasoline. And the reason is North
Speaker 1: America produces almost all of its oil. In other words,
Speaker 1: we are energy independent. You know, the whole issue of
Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz has very little actually to do
Speaker 1: with the US. It does have to do with the
Speaker 1: free flow of oil at market prices, which is impactful
Speaker 1: to the world. But over you know, for a decade,
Speaker 1: fifteen or so years, nearly two decades, Europe doesn't produce
Speaker 1: anywhere near close to what their energy needs are. And
Speaker 1: the energy is the lifeblood of the world's economy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: European drivers were paying nine to ten dollars a gallon
Speaker 1: of gasoline. You go to Europe, you wonder why these
Speaker 1: people driving around in these tiny little box cars and
Speaker 1: that's one of the reasons they're doing it because of
Speaker 1: the high price of energy. Now, what is the whole
Speaker 1: purpose of the NATO alliance? What is the whole of it?
Speaker 1: Post World War Two? You know, here here we had
Speaker 1: you know, America standing, and it took a while for
Speaker 1: us to get involved in that conflict. There actually were
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, loud isolationist voices FDR. You know,
Speaker 1: after Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill became the guests that wouldn't
Speaker 1: leave the White House. And we decided to enter the
Speaker 1: theater in in Europe at a great, great toll and
Speaker 1: a great great cost to this country and our national
Speaker 1: treasure to fight evil in its time. As we fought back,
Speaker 1: you know, the forces of and we were fighting, you know,
Speaker 1: simultaneously we had the theater in the Pacific, we had
Speaker 1: the theater in Europe. You know, look how many brave
Speaker 1: men and women, our national treasure died slamming the beaches
Speaker 1: of Normandy. Look at how many people died in the Pacific.
Speaker 1: My dad served four years in the Pacific. And the
Speaker 1: cost of freedom has been anything but free. And if
Speaker 1: we you know, when you look at NATO, you know,
Speaker 1: the broader US national defense spending in NATO in context,
Speaker 1: you know, it is an organization that was designed to
Speaker 1: prevent whatever what happened in World War Two and the
Speaker 1: emergence of evil on the continent of Europe i e. Hitler,
Speaker 1: Nazi Germany, i e. Mussolini fascism, the threat that was
Speaker 1: Stalin in Russia, that started off on one side of
Speaker 1: that conflict, ending up on our side of that conflict.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is a kind of amazing history if
Speaker 1: you go through it without rehashing all of the conflict
Speaker 1: in the theater in Europe. But you know, so as
Speaker 1: a result of that, an attack against one is an
Speaker 1: attack against all. That's what the NATO Alliance is supposed
Speaker 1: to be. And Okay, you could argue, well, the Iranians
Speaker 1: didn't attack us, although they have killed many Americans over
Speaker 1: the years, and we have talked about that at length.
Speaker 1: But so we spend twenty twenty five NATO total defense
Speaker 1: spending about one point six trillion dollars. Of that money
Speaker 1: one point six trillion, we pay about sixty two percent
Speaker 1: of it around nine hundred and eighty billion dollars depending
Speaker 1: on the source and pricing basis. In other words, US
Speaker 1: defense spending as a share of its own GDP was
Speaker 1: three point two percent in twenty twenty five numbers. Remember,
Speaker 1: Europe wasn't even paying its share fair share of two percent.
Speaker 1: But Europe is a continent and individual countries have been
Speaker 1: in a precipitous decline. They've been in a decline for
Speaker 1: a lot of different reasons, and one has to wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, if it's just all combined contributing factors altogether.
Speaker 1: But Europe as a continent has been in a decline.
Speaker 1: We've talked about unfettered illegal immigration without assimilation. I don't
Speaker 1: think most Americans are keenly aware or acutely aware of
Speaker 1: the fact that Great Britain has nearly one hundred Sharia
Speaker 1: courts that are separate and apart from Great Britain's judicial system.
Speaker 1: I don't think most people understand what a no go
Speaker 1: zone is in parts of France and other parts of Europe,
Speaker 1: but they exist. These are people that have immigrated from countries,
Speaker 1: usually Islamic countries, that have no interest in assimilating to
Speaker 1: the country that they're going to, and they isolate themselves,
Speaker 1: separate themselves from the rest of the country while also
Speaker 1: simultaneously having the ability to vote. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: domestic politics plays a part in it or not, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me. When Spain and Italy close
Speaker 1: their airspace to US warplanes and declare the Iranian conflict
Speaker 1: to prevent the Iranians from getting nuclear weapons, which now
Speaker 1: we know they had ballistic missiles with a range capability
Speaker 1: of of of hitting countries on the continent of Europe,
Speaker 1: it is not only disappointing, it is such a strategic
Speaker 1: error on their part. It is naivete on a level
Speaker 1: that I frankly don't understand. Now President Trump has spoken
Speaker 1: out about all this, and now even by the way,
Speaker 1: you know, with with the you know, Spain closing their
Speaker 1: airspace to US warplanes while we're in a conflict with
Speaker 1: a radical Islamic regime like Iran, the number one state
Speaker 1: sponsor of terror that's shutting off the source not of
Speaker 1: America's energy oil supply, but Europe's energy and oil supply.
Speaker 1: And then the point you know, I'm going to get
Speaker 1: to here is why would we ever be a part
Speaker 1: of a of an organization that is that would not
Speaker 1: stand up against radical Islamic terrorism and stand with us
Speaker 1: and preventing a nuclear Duran, whether you agree or disagree
Speaker 1: with the conflict, keeping open the Straight or Hormuz is
Speaker 1: in their best interest way more than our national interest.
Speaker 1: So the presidents and all these countries that can't get
Speaker 1: jet fuel because of this skirmish, which is short live.
Speaker 1: We're talking about a month now, and you know, two
Speaker 1: three weeks from now, I think we'll be pretty close
Speaker 1: to wrapping this whole thing up. And there are a
Speaker 1: couple of important parts of this that need to be
Speaker 1: handled before that happens. And anyway, the United Kingdom refused
Speaker 1: to get involved at all in this conflict. They weren't
Speaker 1: there by our side. And so the President had some
Speaker 1: advice for Keir Starmer and Great Britain. By your energy
Speaker 1: from the US, because we have plenty or number two
Speaker 1: build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait and
Speaker 1: just take it. In other words, protect the free flow
Speaker 1: of oil at mark prices. And he added that the
Speaker 1: UK had to learn how to fight for yourself because
Speaker 1: the US will not be there to help you anymore,
Speaker 1: just like you were not there for US. Iran has
Speaker 1: been essentially decimated. The hard part is done. Go get
Speaker 1: your own oil. Now, why should the US be spending
Speaker 1: a whopping nine hundred and eighty billion dollars when France
Speaker 1: and Great Britain and Spain and Italy and other European
Speaker 1: countries won't even stand with us. When there's such moral clarity.
Speaker 1: What has happened to the continent of Europe that you
Speaker 1: think would have memories of World War Two and the
Speaker 1: Holocaust and Hitler and fascism and Mussolini, you know, and
Speaker 1: of course the never ending threat that is, you know
Speaker 1: now the former Soviet Union, Russia and Putin and that
Speaker 1: did they not realize that if they come calling after
Speaker 1: the way they're acting here, that Donald Trump is not
Speaker 1: going to be that interested in helping them. And I
Speaker 1: can't blame them, and I don't think moving forward we
Speaker 1: could really depend on the NATO alliance at all to
Speaker 1: have our back now, the President had said, and so
Speaker 1: far I think ten of the twenty ships oil tankers
Speaker 1: have been given. The concession came from the Terranian leaders,
Speaker 1: whoever it is that they're talking to, the Secretary of State,
Speaker 1: Mark or Rubio says, the straight of hoorn moves will
Speaker 1: open one way or the other, and this whole conflict
Speaker 1: will come to a conclusion. One way or the other,
Speaker 1: and Europe's climate policies offered no relief for gas prices there.
Speaker 1: But you know, this is going to be a moment
Speaker 1: in time where a Maria, because now after this is
Speaker 1: all said and done, we're going to have to evaluate,
Speaker 1: you know, what this alliance really stands for and whether
Speaker 1: or not we want to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: And I don't see why we're paying the bulk of
Speaker 1: moneys for what the US. There are two main issues
Speaker 1: that remain all these targets, has now been eleven thousand
Speaker 1: military targets that have been hit. We have severe we
Speaker 1: have destroyed their navy, We've destroyed their air defense systems,
Speaker 1: We've destroyed much of their ballistic missile systems, not completely.
Speaker 1: We've taken out as many drones as we can possibly find.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they still have some. But those are not
Speaker 1: the two big remaining issues that have to be dealt
Speaker 1: with as we now look to wrap this up, maybe
Speaker 1: even ahead of schedule, which would be nice. And I
Speaker 1: know there have been people this is going to be
Speaker 1: a forever war. It's going to be like Iraq in Afghanistan,
Speaker 1: not under President Trumpet's not and those people making those proclamations.
Speaker 1: Don't know what the hell they're talking about. Never I've
Speaker 1: known what the hell they're talking about. Donald Trump did
Speaker 1: this because he's doing BB's bidding, in Israel's bidding. That's
Speaker 1: never been true, and it's not true today. He's listening
Speaker 1: to talk show hosts like Mark Levin and Sean Hannity.
Speaker 1: That's not true either. The president is somebody that will
Speaker 1: listen to everybody and then make up his own mind.
Speaker 1: And I can promise you you can't talk him into
Speaker 1: anything unless he sees the wisdom of it. And the
Speaker 1: pivotal key moment was when the Iranians claim they had
Speaker 1: an inherent right to nuclear weapons, that they were not
Speaker 1: going to give it up, and acknowledged the sixty percent
Speaker 1: enriched uranium which could be weapons graded ninety days. And
Speaker 1: we learned during this conflict that we underestimated once again
Speaker 1: their ballistic missile capability and the range of their ballistic missiles,
Speaker 1: which means, with the help of the North Koreans, which
Speaker 1: is a problem and of itself, that they could have
Speaker 1: had a nuclear warhead enough for eleven nuclear weapons and
Speaker 1: building towards an intercontinental ballistic missile. That's why Donald Trump acted, though.
Speaker 1: The two things that remain is making sure and I
Speaker 1: don't know the process of this now. The Israelis believe
Speaker 1: that they can actually degrade or bury literally underground forever
Speaker 1: the sixty percent enriched uranium. I don't know if it's that,
Speaker 1: if it's removal, I don't know what it's gonna take.
Speaker 1: It's way beyond my level of expertise. But you can't.
Speaker 1: You have to ensure it never gets in the wrong hands.
Speaker 1: That you have to make sure of. And the strata
Speaker 1: horror moves more complicated, less impactful to us. And I'm
Speaker 1: not sure whether or not Europe will wake up to
Speaker 1: that factor or not. And I don't really care. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna have a long discussion about our relationship
Speaker 1: with Europe post this conflict. I knew he should pull
Speaker 1: up Winston Churchill and blood and tile, tears and sweat
Speaker 1: and remind our friends across the pond of what Winston
Speaker 1: Churchill once admonished their their continent about and mobilized not
Speaker 1: only a nation, but a continent against the monstrous tyranny,
Speaker 1: because clearly they've forgotten the lessons. Here's Starmer's to me,
Speaker 1: He's nothing but Neville Chamberlain in our time, sad pathetic.
Speaker 1: Macrona is even worse. Spain is even worse.
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Speaker 4: I did it in front of you, and you know it.
Speaker 1: You take that pretty good in front of me, no doubt. No,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at Europe. I'm looking at the NATO Alliance
Speaker 1: and when this is all said and done, and we're
Speaker 1: looking at sooner rather than later, and the ceasefire ABCS
Speaker 1: are very very straightforward. Has The New York posted a
Speaker 1: good editorial about this today And it's simple. Now, this
Speaker 1: will either happen the Iranians that are in power that
Speaker 1: have given the president permission to have twenty oil tankers
Speaker 1: passed through the straight or hor moves as evidence. It's
Speaker 1: sort of like, you know, I kidnapped ransom and you
Speaker 1: need proof of life. I guess they had to have
Speaker 1: proof that they're actually in charge and have the ability
Speaker 1: to show that they're in charge. So they're allowing these
Speaker 1: twenty tankers to pass through. The first ten already went
Speaker 1: through it. I think we might have had all twenty
Speaker 1: to go through. I'm not sure, but if you look
Speaker 1: at it, there's really two major objectives that are left.
Speaker 1: I know that the world would like us to keep
Speaker 1: the straight o Horn moves open. I don't think that
Speaker 1: should be an America only effort. I just don't, considering
Speaker 1: we don't get our energy from there, and frankly, after
Speaker 1: the way Europe has acted, I'd like to put that
Speaker 1: on them. You know, Taran also will have to surrender,
Speaker 1: with serious verification and monitoring of their compliance. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to either voluntarily or somehow we will degrade,
Speaker 1: diminish or make it completely unaccessible, inaccessible, sorry, excuse me,
Speaker 1: any of the sixty percent of riched uranium. That's it now.
Speaker 1: The Iranian whoever the Iranian leadership is now, imagine we
Speaker 1: know where they are. I would imagine we could probably
Speaker 1: take them out, just like we took out Ali Hamani
Speaker 1: and his top leadership, and then the next level of leadership,
Speaker 1: then the third tier of leadership, and all the other
Speaker 1: leaders of the Revolutionary Guard and cuts forces and everybody
Speaker 1: else in between. And I would imagine we could do
Speaker 1: it again.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to fathom that there are people
Speaker 1: that didn't learn anything from Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury
Speaker 1: and Roaring Lion. But I'm sure that if you're indoctrinated
Speaker 1: into this sick, twisted, ugly mindset, that believes in convert
Speaker 1: or die and things that you're doing God's will or
Speaker 1: Allah's will and you'll be rewarded in heaven with seventy
Speaker 1: two virgins. Maybe you think it's a righteous thing to die.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But the sad reality is everything we
Speaker 1: have been telling you about well first globalist organizations, that
Speaker 1: they are meaningless and they are useless, and there's no
Speaker 1: reason for the US to ever be a part even
Speaker 1: of the UN. And why do we fund the majority
Speaker 1: of it and spend billions of dollars every year? Why
Speaker 1: do we Why are we a part of the the
Speaker 1: WEF World Economic Form and all these other the iae
Speaker 1: F from the UN, you know, looking into or a
Speaker 1: IAEA rather looking into the Iranian capabilities as it relates
Speaker 1: to nuclear weapons. They have been wrong again and again
Speaker 1: and again, and they always favor I ran side, and
Speaker 1: they always underestimate their true capability. And now that Europe
Speaker 1: has turned their back on us and won't even let
Speaker 1: us land our airplanes on our air basis as part
Speaker 1: of a NATO alliance, then why are we going to
Speaker 1: pay nearly you know, a trillion dollars a year in
Speaker 1: NATO defense? And I think this is going to be reevaluated.
Speaker 1: And the saddest part is when you listen to the
Speaker 1: likes of Macrone and even now the Prime Minister of
Speaker 1: Italy and the lead in Spain, and Kiir Starmer, the
Speaker 1: Prime Minister of Great Britain. I'm like, how did this
Speaker 1: continent deteriorate, diminished to such a large extent in such
Speaker 1: a short period of time. How did they not remember
Speaker 1: the lessons of Winston Churchill versus Neville Chamberlain. How did
Speaker 1: they not see the emergence of evil back in that
Speaker 1: time and then make a steadfast commitment never again? Because
Speaker 1: how did how did Great Britain ever get to know Gozones?
Speaker 1: How is that possible? Here's the reminder of the Great
Speaker 1: Winston Churchill.
Speaker 5: I would say to the House, as I said to
Speaker 5: those who have joined the government, I have nothing you
Speaker 5: offer for blood, toil, tears and strict you are spreading
Speaker 5: up on the day, I will say it, the wage
Speaker 5: war by sea lander there with all our might, with
Speaker 5: all the strength that John can give us to wage
Speaker 5: war against a monstrous turanny never surpassed in the dark
Speaker 5: and lamentable catalog of human grid.
Speaker 2: You are quite in our aim. Take an onstrain one word,
Speaker 2: victory vic cred all costs vic cray in spite of
Speaker 2: old kera victory, however long and hard the road may be.
Speaker 5: But without victory, there has no survival.
Speaker 1: He's correct, and I think that the more that we
Speaker 1: will learn and what we already know shows that this
Speaker 1: was a far greater, more existential threat not only to
Speaker 1: the region but to the world that anybody knew. And
Speaker 1: that's that's why Donald Trump undertook this action, and that's
Speaker 1: why there were two There are two parts of this
Speaker 1: mission that are left, and I think there will be
Speaker 1: accomplished one way or the other, and fairly short order.
Speaker 1: If the Iranians were smart, they would just negotiate their
Speaker 1: way out of it, hand over their enriched uranium, open
Speaker 1: up the straight o Hormuz and they can survive. That
Speaker 1: would be their benefit. An Israeli new source reporting today
Speaker 1: that recent bombing raids on Iranian nuclear sites indicate the
Speaker 1: Pentagon has decided not to mount a risky ground force
Speaker 1: operation to extract this enriched uranium. The alternative approach is
Speaker 1: to neutralize the material by effectively burying it, making it
Speaker 1: completely inaccessible, requiring at least a year for Iran to
Speaker 1: even locate and or retrieve it, giving the US and
Speaker 1: Israel the time needed to detect and disrupt any such
Speaker 1: effort that would take another trip back, which would not
Speaker 1: be the ideal situation, but certainly would take away the
Speaker 1: imminent threat of them having access to this and rich
Speaker 1: uranium now. They went on to explain the enriched uranium
Speaker 1: stored in these lead containers holding about ten to twenty
Speaker 1: kilograms each can be rendered inaccessible by bombing the complete
Speaker 1: surrounding area, blocking any and all access points, any and
Speaker 1: all tunnels, and we know the three locations where they
Speaker 1: are believed to be held. You know, for example, at Nance,
Speaker 1: US forces struck the area surrounding the uranium storage site.
Speaker 1: Earlier this month. Similar strikes were likely carried out Issavon,
Speaker 1: which is described as a large ammunition depot that was targeted.
Speaker 1: It appears the US took care not to disperse or
Speaker 1: directly hit the enriched uranium itself, in part to avoid
Speaker 1: creating radioactive contamination in nearby areas. Instead, the strikes targeted
Speaker 1: surrounding infrastructure, sealing off tunnels and access routes, leaving the
Speaker 1: uranium buried beneath the rock more than one hundred meters
Speaker 1: of rock, and as with the earlier strike at some
Speaker 1: of these facilities, Iran's claimed that there was no radioactive contamination,
Speaker 1: suggest that the goal was not to destroy the uranium,
Speaker 1: but to entomb it under layers and layers of rock
Speaker 1: and soil and concrete, and of course with satellite ability,
Speaker 1: communications observations, INTEL, you know, US operational activity indicates a
Speaker 1: decision to bury it. So we'll see. Now we do
Speaker 1: have the Marines there. Ideally we would not put any
Speaker 1: boots on the ground unless they feel like the only
Speaker 1: option solution would be to grab it if they won't
Speaker 1: hand it over. But only time's gonna tell, and we
Speaker 1: just don't know. None of this is easy, you know, Donald,
Speaker 1: You know, on the other side of this, you never
Speaker 1: can calculate how many lives likely could have been saved
Speaker 1: if one day they did become a nuclear power and
Speaker 1: they did use it. You just can't. You can't calculate
Speaker 1: that we've we've now destroyed eleven thousand enemy targets in Iran.
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth did reveal that he made a secret trip
Speaker 1: to the Middle East over the weekend. He said on
Speaker 1: Tuesday he made a secret wartime trip to the Middle
Speaker 1: East to meet with American troops fighting Operation Epic Fury.
Speaker 1: He said this speaking during a press conference the press
Speaker 1: briefing at the Pentagon, asserting that Morales high service members
Speaker 1: are determined to finish the mission. He didn't disclose the
Speaker 1: precise location. Trump says that we will the US will
Speaker 1: learn in about a week if Iran's parliament speaker wants
Speaker 1: a deal, or about a week away. Probably less than
Speaker 1: a week at this point, but the Trump administration has
Speaker 1: identified the Iranian official negotiating it is in fact a
Speaker 1: parliamentary speaker. Obviously he's got some Jews because he's been
Speaker 1: able to show proof of power by allowing specific tankers
Speaker 1: that we have identified to go through the Straight of Hormuz.
Speaker 1: The President reiterated the threat to target Iranian energy sites
Speaker 1: if that deal is not reached. He said, great progress
Speaker 1: has been made, but if for any reason a deal
Speaker 1: is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and
Speaker 1: if the Hormuz Straight is not immediately open for business,
Speaker 1: we will conclude our lovely stay in Iran by blowing
Speaker 1: up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants.
Speaker 1: OIO Wels and carg Island, and possibly all desalinization plants
Speaker 1: which we have purposely not yet touched. This will be
Speaker 1: in retribution for our many soldiers and others that Iran
Speaker 1: has butchered and killed over the old regime's forty seven
Speaker 1: year old reign of terror, he said. And this is
Speaker 1: where so many people misunderstand Donald Trump, because if they
Speaker 1: would listen to what he says and look at his
Speaker 1: past actions, he's about as transparent as any president that
Speaker 1: we've ever had in our lifetime. There's no surprises here,
Speaker 1: very good talks with Iran, and I think the Iranians
Speaker 1: know beyond any doubt what the consequences will be if
Speaker 1: they don't comply. Don't have to see, and I'm hoping
Speaker 1: they make the right decision. I don't know what we
Speaker 1: do with Europe at the end of this conflict. I
Speaker 1: just don't know. I don't know how you resolve that.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're an unreliable ally that is far too
Speaker 1: dependent on our money and our military might for their
Speaker 1: own survival. And they are a continent that is in decline,
Speaker 1: not exactly a reliable ally. Steve Hilton, apparently gubernatorial hopeful,
Speaker 1: mister Fang Fang Eric Swolwell took at least six strips
Speaker 1: to Doha back by Qatar Links sponsors from twenty twenty
Speaker 1: through twenty twenty four, extending a pattern of foreign funded
Speaker 1: travel that previously drew criticism. Did disclosures show that mister
Speaker 1: fang Fang returned to Qatar repeated over multiple years. Slam
Speaker 1: for taking an eighty four thousand dollars trip with a
Speaker 1: few other lawmakers to the Golf Emirate in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: sponsored by the US Katari Business Council. And how many
Speaker 1: of these countries that I tell you about have reached
Speaker 1: out to me wanting to talk to me? And I
Speaker 1: refuse to talk to them? All of them, all of
Speaker 1: them pretty much. Why do you think I refuse to
Speaker 1: talk to them? And they don't get they don't have
Speaker 1: my number directly, But why do you think I refuse
Speaker 1: any outreach from these countries?
Speaker 4: It's very hot there. I don't think you'd be very comfortable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just look, I've been to Riodd and Doha and
Speaker 1: the UA, been to all of them. No, thank you,
Speaker 1: I'm not looking for out.
Speaker 4: Nothing is for free. I mean, let's be honest. They
Speaker 4: all want something. I mean, the ultimate quid pro quote.
Speaker 1: Joe, Why do I suspect that you meet with people?
Speaker 1: You say you know I have a business. Are you
Speaker 1: interested in investing? Why do I think I'd be pretty
Speaker 1: successful in that endeavor. I have no interest none.
Speaker 4: Well, you're a little busy anyway. You gotta tell them,
Speaker 4: you know, I have thirty nine shows. I'm not able
Speaker 4: to do it at this time, but thank you.
Speaker 1: For thirty nine. You're overestimating how many shows I I have?
Speaker 1: Three mm, you think I have thirty nine?
Speaker 4: Maybe I think with all of the projects that you're
Speaker 4: working on, all the things you got going on, the
Speaker 4: last thing you got time for is going anywhere to Qatar.
Speaker 1: Okay, with all due respect, pot Kettle, you know, I
Speaker 1: hear you.
Speaker 4: I but nobody's calling me from Qatar. I don't have
Speaker 4: the same problems. I'm just saying, well.
Speaker 1: They didn't try that hard because but I have no
Speaker 1: interest in meeting with these countries. I just I've always
Speaker 1: felt that countries in the Mid East, a lot of
Speaker 1: countries in the Mid East, I won't speak that generally unfortunately,
Speaker 1: very transactional, and I want to be free from any
Speaker 1: transactional anything that's every country there, and I suspect that
Speaker 1: people want to influence other people. I don't know. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong. I'm guessing. I don't know for sure, just
Speaker 1: my gut. My gut is you know, not steered me
Speaker 1: wrong so far in my life? Why can the NATO's
Speaker 1: alliance survive after the actions of Eurob'll check in with
Speaker 1: James Robbins, former special assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and
Speaker 1: with the Institute of World Politics and Matt Towry on
Speaker 1: the polls straight Ahead