WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: SPLC Indictment, Denaturalization, Iran 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.880 Alz Media. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:11.480 This is it could happen here. Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.440 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling world, 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:17.040 and what it means for you. I'm Garrison Davis today, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.440 joined by Mia Wong, James Stout, and Robert Evans. This 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.960 episode recovering the week of April sixteenth to April twenty second. James, 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:28.520 some small news items. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.200 At the start, Yeah, a few things I want to 0:00:31.200 --> 0:00:34.320 discuss op top. The United States government appears to be 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.879 running multiple propaganda sites with associated X accounts that are 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.640 opposing as Iranian media. One of the accounts is located 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.400 in Florida. This is not like massively uncommon in a 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.840 conflict of this right now, the information war is part 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:51.200 of the war. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:53.840 This is what like US actual psyop is like. This 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.640 is what the United States syop operations are. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.440 Yeah, the syop is not like the woman sold you 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:00.560 that you follow on Instagram. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.520 This isn't new for the US to be doing. It 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.800 is new for it to be like this sloppy. I 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.080 think that's probably fair to say this is like a 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:09.240 sloppier than normal. 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.400 Yes, that's what's remarkable here. It said it's shoddy and 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:15.200 that is not a good sign for their for like 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.080 the whole US sort of capacity in this regard. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.640 But it depends on how you think about it. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:24.080 But yeah, yeah, yeah sure. Secondly, a number of former 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:28.680 DHS Department pronoun Security and iOS Immigration and Naturalization Services 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.600 officials have filed an amicus brief with a Supreme Court 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.760 explaining why the cancelation of the hat TPS Temporary Protected 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:40.400 Status is illegal. They do include Janet Napolitano, which is nice, 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.280 but a ton of people from Obama Bush, even Clinton 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:49.279 admin pre DHS I ins were part of this amakus brief. 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.400 An IDF soldier has been photographed destroying a statue of 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.960 the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in Lebanon, showing it with 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:00.960 a splitting more the reporting called it a sledge hammer. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.680 That's not what a sledgehammer looks like. I know, I 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.960 get really picky about this, but like, maybe if you 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:07.760 haven't worked with your hands, you should write things that 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.360 can be read by someone who has scan and not 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:15.200 be completely ridiculous. The IDF has launched an investigation and 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.360 so far subjected two soldiers to thirty days in military detention, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.680 which is more than they would get if they had 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:24.720 killed actual Christian children in Palestine, says a Lot. I 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.520 think that this image is like, we spoke about this 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.680 in our group chat, but this is the it's one 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.160 image at Comic Book Evil. There are many reasons why 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.880 this is the thing that's blowing up for them. Ken 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:38.800 Paxton is investigating Act Blue. Act Blue is a major 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:42.800 donation website for Democratic candidates, is claiming that they have 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:48.680 continued to accept gift card donations, which could hide donations 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:52.680 from foreign individuals or corporations or even states. I suppose 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:57.240 the United States government's plans to send Afghans who are 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.800 stuck in Limbo and Kata to the democractic Republic of 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.760 Congo being reported on by the New York Times. Just 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.400 for some context here, I saw people sharing this and 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.280 thinking that they that this referred to Afghan SIV recipients 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.680 who are resident in the United States. That is not 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.960 what it's referring to. It's referring to people who the 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:21.080 Biden administration removed from Afghanistan or wherever they worked in 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.919 Pakistan right and then took them to katter As like 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.600 a temporary stopping off point where they would continue to 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.160 do their vetting and background checks. This is normal for 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.880 refugee admissions as opposed to asylum admissions. And then the 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.760 twenty twenty four election happened, Democrats lost, and that's people 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.720 have been in limbo ever since, and it appears to 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.960 Trump administration has been trying to get them various states 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.720 in Africa to accept them, and it's now proposing the 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.720 Democratic Republic of Congo, a country which already has a 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.440 significant refugee crisis. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.720 Ron Desentis, who is term limited as governor, has been 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.960 jockeying for a position inside the Trump administration. Axios reports 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:02.280 Dessentis has expressed interest in being Secretary of War, attorney general, 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.720 or even a Supreme Court justice. Trump is expected to 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:12.560 reclassify marijuana as soon as maybe today. We're recording this 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.119 on Wednesday, April twenty. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:15.400 Seconds fingers crossed. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.039 Earlier this week, Trump signed an executive order to advance 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.919 its psychedelic treatment for mental illness and possibly reschedule certain 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.960 substances which have completed phase three clinical trials. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.080 Yeah, this is the real sign that their internal polling 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.279 is showing Trump really closing on getting blow thirty percent approval. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:37.919 That's that's the most whatever, it's actual legal marijuana. Fuck it. Yeah, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.160 Like at this point. 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.320 It's such an easy win, and it's been an easy 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.920 win for the last three presidents. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.520 And anyone could have done it. It's a gun that's 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.240 been left on the ground and fucking Trump finally just 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.560 picked the damn thing up after it got covered in 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:54.839 an inch and a half at dust. 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:56.640 Like unbelievable. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.920 They're desperate, keep pushing. We can get like completely legal LSD. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:00.760 I believe in us. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.400 On Fox News's Sunday Morning Show, Cash Brittel announced that 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.000 the FBI will soon make arrests related to Trump's claims 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.240 that the twenty twenty election was stolen, with Patel saying, quote, 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.279 they tried to thwart our elections and rig the entire system. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:20.800 I can announce on your show that we've got all 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.440 the information we need. We're working with our prosecutors, a 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:26.279 Department of Justice and their Attorney General Todd Blanche and 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.279 we are going to be making arrest and it's coming, 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.280 and I promise you it's coming soon. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:36.120 Patel later said it's a conspiracy case and that quote, 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.600 we have the information to back President Trump's claims. On Tuesday, 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.720 voters in Virginia approved a redistrating measure which would likely 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:50.000 move four Republican seats to Democrat seats in the midterms. 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.080 This measure passed was fifty one point five percent of 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.440 the vote, totaling over three million votes. Virginia joins California 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.960 in approving new congressional maps to combat the recent gerrymandering 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.520 in red states like Texas. At the behest of Trump, 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.240 but now with Virginia, Dems are actually up one seat nationally. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.360 Ronda Santis has called for Florida lawmakers to meet next 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:16.520 week to consider redistricting in their state. Trump has called 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.680 the Virginia election quote unquote rigged, saying that Republicans were 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:25.640 winning until a quote massive mail in ballot drop un quote, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.719 which is just how elections work. That's just how voting works. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.680 Yeah, we were winning until more people voted for the 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:34.640 other until. 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.040 We counted more votes that showed that we did not win. 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.520 We just live in the twenty sixteen election forever. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:40.880 Now. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:41.880 Yeah, it's great. 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.840 I was doing pretty well in that boxing match until 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.039 it started. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.039 Until the other guy punched me into face. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.760 The margin of victory closely matches the result of the 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:57.279 twenty twenty four presidential election in Virginia. Republicans have challenged 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:01.240 the Virginia redistricting in court since before today's election, and 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.400 the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled that the measure could 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.919 go to a vote while legal challenges continue. This is 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.040 the second most important election this week, the most important 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.200 one obviously being the Webbys, in which I think can 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:19.120 announce we have won in the unrigged election matters, the 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.880 only fair election that this country is seen possibly in 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.360 like over twenty five years. 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.320 That's why they selected Claude as Person of the Year. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.080 Clearly, the Webbys in twenty twenty six are the only 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.240 election that's going to affect anybody's lives. 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:35.680 I think we can all agree on that anyway. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.760 So as you probably are aware because the President shouts 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.760 about it every ten minutes, there's a ceasefire currently in 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.600 effect in the conflict with Iran, the war of choice 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.840 that we started with Iran. James is going to talk 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:50.520 a little bit more about that in a second. But 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.040 because of the stand down, there's been kind of time 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:59.240 for both forces to you know, reassess things, and time 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.000 for outside people to reassess, like kind of what we 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.720 can tell about what's going on. Obviously in the immediate 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.440 wake of Operation Epic Fury, and is recently as last Tuesday, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.560 President Trump said quote, we've taken out their navy, We've 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.600 taken out their air force, We've taken out their leaders. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:20.200 On April eighth, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Operation Epic 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:24.280 Fury a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield. By 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.800 any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iron's military and rendered it 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.560 combat and effective for years to come. Now that last sentence, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.200 the first part is technically accurate, but not in the 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.559 way that Hegseth means. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:38.800 No one knows what decimate means anymore. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.160 Decimate literally means to destroy like a tenth of a group. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:46.240 Yeah right, yea, And yeah, that's pretty accurate, right, But 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.839 the second part of that sentence, rendered it combat and 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.880 effective for years to come is not accurate. Neither is 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.960 Trump's statement that we've taken out their navy and their 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:59.800 air force. CBS published an article today reporting that roughly 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.280 sixty percent of the naval arm of the Islamic Revolutionary 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.040 Guard CORES is still in existence, including fast tag speedboats 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:11.480 and Iranian air power. While it's been degraded, is still 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:15.360 significantly more functional than actually I had assumed. About two 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.800 thirds of the Iranian Air force is still believed to 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.160 be operational despite the massive US and Israeli air strikes 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:27.800 largely targeting air production and storage facilities. The fact that 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.040 you're looking at two thirds of Iran's navy and air 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:36.520 force still functional and at least about half their ballistic 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.319 missile stockpile and their launch system stockpile intact. That's a 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.560 significant difference from what the administration has claimed and evidence 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.480 that where we to continue to press with the open 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:54.320 fighting part of this conflict, it would be years probably 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:58.079 before you're talking about like a complete degradation of Iranian 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:01.960 fighting capability if that was ever achieved, Like when you 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.320 factor in the United States would continue to suffer casualties, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.319 and we've already been losing more of you know, particularly 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.240 our interceptor missile capability and a number of advanced systems 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.079 like a wax then we can avoid to replace James. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.560 Yeah, so I want to talk a little bit about 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:22.440 the ceasefire itself, right, and then like what's been happening there. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.840 Let's start with, like I guess straight off, hor mows 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.200 updates and then get into the ceasefire. The Navy intercepted 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:33.600 an Iranian vessel in the in the Arabian Sea this week, 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.679 close to the Iran Pakistan border. The Tuska was warned. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:41.440 Imagine they use an l rad to warn it. People 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.560 see l rads on ships sometimes that think they're coming 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.560 to like make you deaf. That's one of the reasons 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.439 of ships have lrads. But they could have also used 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.199 a radio that if they can talk to them on 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.559 the radio of they're receiving communications with the radio. They 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.480 then ordered it to evacuate its engine room. They then 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.880 shut out its engine with the five inch gun. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.440 First time they've gotten to do that in forty years. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.000 Yeah, I was looking at I guess it was. It 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.560 was since what nineteen eighty eight the last time that 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.280 I was thinking it's it's been a lot. It's been 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.439 a minute since its ship engaged in the ship with 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.839 its main gun. It was a USS Spruance, a guided 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.160 missile destroyer that did that. Subsequently, US marines on the 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:23.560 Tripoli we were reported on when the Tripoli first moved 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.400 towards that region. Right, We specifically said that this is 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.120 one of the capacities that it had they boarded the ship, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.439 so they transferred to by helicopter and then boarded the ship. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.960 The US has since inspected other ships, including outside of 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.840 the Saint Comeo. So the US perceives its blockade to 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:47.280 be global right of Iranian assets, of Iranian vessels and 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.000 the quote unquote shadow fleet, which we've already explained on 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.040 D so I'm not going to go into depth on 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.959 what that means. The IOGC also fired at several vessels 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.600 in the street. There is some reporting that one of them, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.760 an Indian tanker, had paid a fee in cryptocurrency to 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.800 what turned out to be a scammer. I am certain 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.199 that these scams exist because there have been multiple warnings 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:16.160 of them. I haven't seen any evidence that is satisfactory 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:19.840 enough for me to be confident that that particular ship 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.280 had been scammed. But perhaps the most compelling piece of 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.040 evidence a ship is called the San mar Herald. Is 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:30.000 this audio that we're going to play right here, if my. 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.400 Baby sef my naby, is this modeling a San Marda. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.240 You give me Clarence to go, my name second. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:37.520 On your list. 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:39.440 You get me Clarence to go. 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:40.280 You are fighting. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.320 Now let me turn back. Just to guess I wasn't 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.640 clear you gave me clearance to go. You're firing now, 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.120 let me turn back. So it does seem that that 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.959 vessel believed that it had clearance to go and was 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:57.280 sent fired upon This morning, there was some ocynth pictures 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.720 of IIGC and they looked like kind of fast attack 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.040 boat kind of things. Throughout what was talking about in 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.959 the Strait of Hornmuz Yeah, something of a flex Yay, 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:10.360 we still have a navy like yeah, yeah, yeah, I 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.200 think that's important in the context of the ceasefire. I 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.280 want to explain very briefly, there's been a lot of 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.640 contradictory reporting on when, where, and how negotiations are going 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.040 to happen. The ceasefire was set to expire the day 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.120 we're recording Wednesday. On Tuesday, we saw Donald Trump laterally 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.520 extend the ceasefire by truthing quote based on the fact 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.880 that the government of Iran it's seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:35.480 and upon the request of Field Marshal Simonia and Prime 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:38.880 Minister Shabbad Sharif of Pakistan, we have been asked to 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.160 hold our attack on the country of Iran until such 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.360 time as their leaders and representatives can come up with 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.640 a unified proposal. I have therefore directed our military to 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.559 continue the blockade and in all other respects remained ready 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.079 and able, and will therefore extend the cease fire until 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.320 such time as their proposalists submitted and discussions are concluded 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.360 one way or the other. President Donald J. Trump, the 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.400 consensus seems to me that this is not like an 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:05.760 infinite extension. This is like maybe less than a week 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:10.760 for Iran to either comply with US terms or submit proposals. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.800 In the US consider it's acceptable. A lot of that 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.000 reporting does seem to come from Baraque Revied, who's not 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:18.520 really good at journalism, so take it with the pinch 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:23.320 of salt. Trump, though, is correct that the state of 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:27.040 Iran is on a unified entity, and I covered this 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.480 in the piece I did last week on an update 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.400 on the Iron War, Right, Like, I think there's a 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.360 tendency from people in the global North to look at 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.360 a state and see it as like a pyramid. Right, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.600 you have the head of state, and then you have government, 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.800 and then you have legislature, and then you have the 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:46.080 people they commanded, right, military and all the civil bureaucracy. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.120 That's not quite how Iran works, and I went into 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.720 more detail in that episode that I made, so I'm 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.560 not going to go into it here. But there are 0:14:55.600 --> 0:15:00.080 a series of overlapping but not entirely aligned power centers 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.560 within Iran and within its military capacity, both within its 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.880 military and traditional sense and within the IIGC. Why this 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:11.200 is relevant to the negotiations is it's not possible for 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:14.000 politicians to negotiate if they do not believe that they 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:18.080 can agree to terms and that their military will then 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:23.000 comply with those terms. Right. If the Iranian Foreign ministry 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.400 agrees with the US to do something, the IGC doesn't 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:28.400 do it, that then immediately undermines any further negotiations. 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:28.640 Right. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.880 So when we see, for instance, this morning, a large 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.120 number of boats going into straight upform news, that looks 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.920 a little bit like a flex right, in the context 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.760 of this power struggle, In the context of Trump acknowledging 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:46.280 that Trump has once again been truthing this week about 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.800 Iranian nuclear weapons, I'm just going to read one of 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:53.280 his truths because I think it contains it shows that 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:57.280 the administration feels that it is weak on this particular accusation. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.680 Israel never talked me into the war with Iran. The 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.520 results of October seventh added to my lifelong opinion that 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.720 Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. Did Yeah, I 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.160 don't know what's going on with that sentence. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.560 That's just that's that's Iran can never have a nuclear 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.840 weapon in karmadd did the word did? 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.760 Yeah? Yeah, I'm not reading that wrong. Yes, it's a 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:21.160 hang out. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.360 Just what he says. Yeah, he's simply senile. 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.160 I can't help you. I'm just saying the words. I 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.600 watch it and read the fake news pundits and polls 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:33.280 in total disbelief of what they say are lies and 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.200 made up stories, and the polls are rigged, much as 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.040 the twenty twenty presidential election was rigged, Just like the 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:42.040 results in Venezuela, which the media doesn't like talking about. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:43.000 The results in. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.240 Iran will be amazing and if it RAN's new leaders 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:51.200 regime changed, exclamation mark clothes, parentheses are smart, Iran can 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:55.880 have a great and prosperous future. President DJT. That's one 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.440 of the more challenging passages of English language texts that 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:03.280 I've ever approached. I speak four or five languages, and 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.520 that's that's why I set me back. But I've tried 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:09.440 to give you a good faith reading of it. He's 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:14.760 clearly sensitive to the allegation that Israel pushed the US 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:21.160 into this conflict. Right, He's clearly sensitive. The last thing 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.920 that I want to add is that strikes on Kurdish 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:29.480 groups have continued despite the ceasefire, right despite the renewed 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:33.840 cease fire the PAK. Just two hours after Trump announced 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.119 the extension of the ceasefire, Tehran sent four drones to 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:42.360 attack a PAK base. There have been more injuries in Kurdistan. 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.439 It doesn't seem that Iran considers any ceasefire to apply 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.840 to its ongoing attack against Detroit Gilati groups who are 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.199 currently in southern Kurdistan inside the borders of Iraq. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.439 Next up, we will discuss the charges against the SPLC, 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:12.840 But first listen to these airs. Okay, we are back. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:18.240 On Tuesday, April twenty first, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.639 and FBI Director Cash Battel announced that a grand jury 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:26.080 indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on eleven counts, including 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.080 wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:33.720 conspiracy to commit to concealment money laundering. The indictment argues 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:37.200 that the SPLC defrauded their donors by using donation money 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:42.560 to pay confidential informants within white premacist or neo Nazi organizations. 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.840 Here is a short clip of the press conference of 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.960 a reporter asking Todd Blanche a question. 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.359 I just want to make sure I understand you're alleging 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:56.200 that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.879 of KKK and other groups to continue. 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:01.760 Their operations. 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.119 Is that I'm not alleging it the grandeurary return and 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:06.960 indictment that says that, and so what what the what 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.000 the investigation found, according to the indictment that was returned today, 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.560 is that they were paying So so, the Southern Poverty 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.080 Law Center is raising money, asking folks to give them 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.359 money to dismount racism, and over a very long period 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.760 of time, they were using some of the money they 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.680 raised from donors to pay to they call them feel 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:32.840 you know, basically, to informants too, for information, for access, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.359 to just pay them for for certain to do certain things. 0:19:37.400 --> 0:19:39.800 And and so yes, that's exactly what the indictment charges. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:44.720 The SPLC is a nonprofit advocacy organization aimed at quote 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:49.520 unquote dismantling white supremacy and exposing hate. They operate a 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.119 blog called hate Watch and run a public database of 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.240 hate groups and far right extremists. This indictment claims that 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.920 the SPLC is utilized informants to gained information on far 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:04.159 right activity since the eighties, but between twenty fourteen and 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:08.520 twenty twenty three, the SPLC secretly paid over three million 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:12.760 dollars to individuals associated with various violent extruist groups quote 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.359 unquote in a clandestine manner. 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:16.879 Yeah. 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.520 No, one, if you kind of have been in the 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:24.960 world of CVE countering violent extremism like research, or like 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:29.520 involved in NGOs in that sphere at all, or a 0:20:29.640 --> 0:20:32.440 been a researcher there, you're probably aware of the fact 0:20:32.480 --> 0:20:35.520 that the SPLC, like has been paying informants. A lot 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.920 of their scoops are because some Nazi tells on another Nazi, 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:45.280 essentially right, So that part isn't surprising. The weirdness is 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.080 how the SPLC was going about it and how much 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:49.760 fucking money they were giving. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.680 Some of these The amounts of some of these. 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:55.040 Is, yeah, it was legitimately shocking. 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:56.439 And I do want to get into some more details 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:58.520 about those amounts in the groups and the sort of 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:03.720 nest of fake businesses the SPLC used to distribute this money, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.439 according to the indictment. The indictment reads that this was 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:11.720 domnination money quote received under the auspice that the funds 0:21:11.720 --> 0:21:14.679 would be used to qu unquote dismantle violent extremist groups. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.359 This money was instead being used in part by the 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.720 SBLC to pay leaders and others within these same violent 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.440 extremist groups. That money was then used for the benefit 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.919 of the individuals as well as the violent extremist groups. 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:28.639 Unquote. 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:32.359 Money was funneled to individuals associated with violent extreamist groups 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.760 including the klu Klux Klan, the United Clans of America, 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:40.720 Unite the Right, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations, 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:45.480 and the affiliated Sadistic Soul's Motorcycle Club, National Socialist Party 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:50.919 of America, American Nazi Party, and American Front. One informant, 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.040 according to the indictment, was quote a member of the 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:59.080 online leadership chat group that planned the twenty seventeen Unite 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:02.480 the Right event in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended the event 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:06.879 at the direction of the SPLC. This informant made racist 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.400 postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.639 transportation to the event for several attendees. Between twenty fifteen 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:17.600 and twenty twenty three, the SPLC secretly paid this informant 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:22.560 more than two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. From twenty 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:25.479 fourteen to twenty twenty three, more than one million dollars 0:22:25.560 --> 0:22:28.600 was allegedly paid to someone affiliated with the National Alliance 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:31.800 who served as an informant for over twenty years while 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:36.240 fundraising for this Nazi group. The Imperial Wizard of the 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:40.679 Rebooted Imperial Clans of America was a paid informant, according 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:45.120 to the indictment. This is likely a guy named Bradley Jenkins, 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.160 an officer in the National Socialist Movement and the Aryan 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:52.719