1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:04,439 Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: with you. It's so nice to have you with us 3 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: around the country wherever you are listening. And we have 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about tonight, especially with Iran, 5 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: the effectiveness to the attack and the media trying to 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 1: act like this was some sort of a failure. 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 2: Center. 8 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: It's been a very fun week to watch the spin 9 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: games take place. 10 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 3: Well, it's been an extraordinary week. Last Saturday night, President 11 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 3: Trump acted decisively as. 12 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: The commander in chief. 13 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 3: He launched an attack on Iran that was brutally effective, 14 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 3: incredibly efficient, defended America, kept us safe, and ever since then, 15 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 3: it did several things. Number one, it produced a ceasefire. 16 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 3: It caused Iran to come to the table and say 17 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 3: we want peace, we want to end this war. That 18 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 3: was powerful. But number two, it really has been striking. 19 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 3: We've seen the media and Democrats go on full time 20 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 3: spin patrol, go in lean in hard, say this was 21 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:01,959 Speaker 3: an effective, this was a failure. I got to say 22 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 3: it is astonishing that the reaction of CNN and the 23 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 3: Democrats when the President has a crushing military attack taking 24 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 3: out Iran's nuclear weapon capability, is to say we stand 25 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 3: with Iran and we think the American military is not effective. 26 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 2: We're gonna break all that down. We're gonna break down. 27 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 3: I had a classified briefing today for an hour and 28 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 3: a half with our senior military leaders. I'm gonna walk 29 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 3: through what happened, where things stand now in Iran, where 30 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:32,080 Speaker 3: they stand in Israel, and what's coming next, because what's 31 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 3: coming next matters intensely. 32 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, it really does. Also want to take a moment 33 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: and tell you about our good friends over at Krocket Coffee. 34 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:40,199 Speaker 2: There is an. 35 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 4: Amazing cup of coffee that's sitting in front of me 36 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 4: right now. 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On Thursday, you attended a briefing 72 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: on the Iran strike, And what did you learn compared 73 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 1: to the propaganda that's being put out there by the 74 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: mainstream media saying this was unsuccessful, that Donald Trump's overstating 75 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 1: what actually happened here, and then everybody in our government, 76 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: especially the DoD is just getting it wrong. 77 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 3: Well, I spent an hour and a half at a 78 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 3: classified brief presenting that briefing was the Secretary of State, 79 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 3: Mark Rubio, the Secretary of Defense, the Director of the CIA, 80 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And 81 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,360 Speaker 3: in the course of that briefing, I will say what 82 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 3: they laid out is what I believed already, what I 83 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 3: knew already, which was the incredible effectiveness number one of 84 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 3: the Israeli attack, the twelve day war that Israel waged 85 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 3: against Iran, that took out their senior military leadership, took 86 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 3: out just about every general they were relying on to 87 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,080 Speaker 3: wage war against America against Israel. And I got to say, 88 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 3: in terms of how Israel carried it out, it really 89 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 3: was stunning. They took out one head of the IRGC, 90 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 3: so I ran named somebody else. The next day, Israel 91 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 3: takes out the next head. 92 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 2: Of the IRGC. So I Ran named somebody else. 93 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 3: The next day, Israel takes out the next head of 94 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,719 Speaker 3: the IRGC. I got to say, Ben, if they came 95 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 3: to you and said, hey, Ben, you want to lead 96 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 3: the RGC, I bet you at the end, but are like, no, 97 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 3: thank you, because the instant you get named to that job, 98 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:09,200 Speaker 3: Israel takes you out. It did show the exquisite intelligence 99 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 3: that the Massad has in Iran that as soon as 100 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 3: someone got named to the head of that they were 101 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 3: taken out within hours. They also took out virtually every 102 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 3: one of the senior nuclear scientists in Iran, the scientists 103 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 3: that were developing nuclear weapons. Israel took them out systematically. 104 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 3: They bombed military installations across the country. They bombed just 105 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 3: about all of their nuclear research facilities. Now the biggest 106 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 3: challenge Israel faced is the most important nuclear weapons facility 107 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 3: in Iran is called Fordo. Fido is built underneath a mountain, 108 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 3: and it was built underneath the mountain for the explicit 109 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 3: purpose of making it very difficult to bomb. And Israel 110 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 3: lacked bombs that were sufficiently large to take out Florida. 111 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 3: That's why the Iranians built it under the under mountain. 112 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 3: The United States we have bombs that are designed to 113 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 3: take out underground bunkers, and they're called bunker busters. They 114 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 3: are thirty thousand pound bombs. They're massive bombs. They are 115 00:06:13,279 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 3: the largest ordinance we have short of a nuclear weapon. 116 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 3: And what happened Saturday night, So President Trump gave the 117 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 3: order and seven b two stealth bombers left Missouri. They 118 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 3: flew halfway around the world and then they delivered fourteen 119 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 3: bunker busters. Twelve of them were delivered to Fordoh and 120 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 3: the other two were delivered at a Tons and other 121 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 3: nuclear weapons facility. Now at Ford Oh, you had the 122 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,239 Speaker 3: Iranians had tried to protect Florida, had tried to seal 123 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 3: it up, and the bunker busters were designed to penetrate. 124 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,479 Speaker 3: So the way these bombs work, when they're dropped, they 125 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 3: hit and they penetrate and they go deep underground and 126 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,400 Speaker 3: then they detonate underground, and there were two vents that 127 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 3: these bombs were going through. And it is amazing the 128 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 3: precision of the US Air Force that they dropped bunker 129 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 3: buster after bunker buster after bunker buster down these vents 130 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 3: that went all the way down and detonated every one 131 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 3: of those bombs detonated on their targets. In addition to 132 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,240 Speaker 3: the fourteen bunker busters that were dropped, we had a 133 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 3: submarine that fired thirty Tomahawk missiles at another nuclear weapons facility, 134 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 3: pounding the living daylights out of it. And I will 135 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 3: tell you, look, the assessment that we received is that 136 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 3: it was devastating what President Trump said that night as 137 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:44,679 Speaker 3: we utterly obliterated their facilities. And one of the best 138 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 3: indications of just how successful it was is how much 139 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 3: the Democrats and the media went into spin mode almost immediately, 140 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,240 Speaker 3: trying to say this incredible success against our enemies. 141 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 2: It didn't happen. 142 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 3: It was not an incredible success, and it was based 143 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 3: on an initial preliminary report from the DIA, the Defense 144 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 3: Intelligence Agency, that assessed that the damage was moderate to severe, 145 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 3: and the press went into massive spin mode to say, oh, 146 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,440 Speaker 3: it's only moderate, it's only moderate was not effective. That assessment, 147 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 3: I believe is false. We're going to talk about that 148 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 3: considerably more. I think the military attack launched against the 149 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 3: Iranian nuclear weapons capability was devastatingly effective. And our troops 150 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 3: are to be commended, and the commander in chief is 151 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 3: to be commended. 152 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: And Senator you said in this classified briefing that you 153 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: received this week on Thursday, that what you got compared 154 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: to what the media is trying to push drastically different. 155 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: And that's exactly, by the way, with the DoD secretary 156 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: had to say, Pete Headseth, take a listen. 157 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 5: Sports are almost always wrong, They're almost always incomplete right anything, 158 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 5: whether it's a squad level operation or strategic level operation. 159 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 5: The initial reflections you get are coming at you at 160 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 5: a high rate of speed from. 161 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 6: A lot of different sources. So your job is to 162 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 6: step back and assess them. 163 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 5: And that's why we're urging caution about putting it premising 164 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 5: entire stories on biased leaks to biased publications trying to 165 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 5: make something look bad. 166 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 6: How about we take a beat, recognize. 167 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 5: First the success of our warriors, hold them up, tell 168 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,559 Speaker 5: their stories, celebrate that wave an American flag, be proud 169 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,319 Speaker 5: of what we accomplished. And in the meantime, I can 170 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 5: assure you the chairman of his staff, the intelligence community, 171 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 5: our staff and others are doing all the assessments necessary 172 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:41,679 Speaker 5: to make sure that mission was indeed successful. 173 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,959 Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like a very crazy idea, right, Let's take 174 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: a moment and let's just go through the process. But 175 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:51,559 Speaker 1: the media ontce Donald Trump to be a failure so bad, 176 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: even if that means putting our national security at risk. 177 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right. 178 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 3: And this was a defense intelligence assessment that was done 179 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 3: in the immediate aftermath. 180 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 2: Of the bombing. 181 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,959 Speaker 3: In these preliminary reports, they're trying to assess, they're trying 182 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 3: to assess, do we need to bomb some more? 183 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 2: Do we need to unload more ordinance? 184 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 3: And this preliminary assessment concluded that the damage was moderate 185 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,440 Speaker 3: to severe. And mind you that, on the face of it, 186 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 3: the analysis also said this was not based on any intelligence, 187 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 3: not based on any intelligence from the data. It was 188 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 3: just a preliminary assessment. Somebody, and we don't know who, 189 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 3: We may never know who. Somebody leaked this to the press. 190 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 3: Somebody who did not support what the president was doing. 191 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 3: This was the deep state fighting back. This was the 192 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 3: deep state trying to spread a narrative. It may have been. 193 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 3: It is possible this was a Democrat congressman who somehow 194 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 3: got this report. It's possible it was someone within the 195 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 3: deep state that wanted to weaken the president, but they 196 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 3: wanted to tell the story in the outset this was 197 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 3: a failure. I think the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that this 198 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 3: was not just a success, it was an incredible success. 199 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 3: And by the way, in the wake of this report, 200 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:07,240 Speaker 3: the Secretary of State absolutely disputed at the Secretary of 201 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 3: Defense absolutely disputed it. The President absolutely disputed it. And 202 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 3: I will say, if you look at our bunker buster 203 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 3: bombs are designed to take out underground bunkers. That is 204 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 3: what their purpose is. We didn't just drop one bunker buster, 205 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 3: we dropped fourteen. Each of them weighs thirty thousand pounds 206 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 3: thirty thousand pounds of destructive blast force. That is over 207 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 3: three hundred thousand pounds of explosives that were delivered on target. 208 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 3: Every one of those bombs hit their target. And by 209 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 3: the way, to the credit of our incredible servicemen and women, 210 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 3: they turned around and flew all the way back to 211 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 3: Missouri with zero American casualties. No plane was shot down, 212 00:11:57,559 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 3: no American was injured or hurt. It was an incredible success. 213 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 3: As we know, two other b two stealth bombers went 214 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 3: west went over the Pacific Ocean. This group of seven 215 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 3: went east over the Atlantic Ocean. Those who went west 216 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 3: were a decoy, and it was designed to confuse the 217 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 3: Iranians think that an attack was going to come come 218 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 3: from the west rather than come from the east. And 219 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 3: I will say the effect of that was that the 220 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,559 Speaker 3: Iranian air defenses, much of which the Iranian air defenses 221 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,559 Speaker 3: have been massively degraded by the Israelis to begin with, 222 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 3: so their air defenses were incredibly weakened. But there was 223 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 3: no Iranian plane that fired at our planes. There were 224 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,760 Speaker 3: not missiles that were fired at our planes. Look, this 225 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 3: could have gone very differently, and in fact, I will 226 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:51,480 Speaker 3: make a contrast. Look, I was a young kid in 227 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 3: nineteen seventy nine. In nineteen seventy nine is when the 228 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 3: Iranian Revolution occurred and the Iyahtola then took over the 229 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 3: American hostage Erican embassy and took took Americans hostage. And 230 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,640 Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter was the president there, and he was the 231 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 3: weakest and most feckless American president we had ever seen 232 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 3: until Joe Biden came into the White House and Jimmy Carter, 233 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:15,440 Speaker 3: in the midst of that hostage crisis, sent in a 234 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 3: military force to try to rescue the hostages, and that 235 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 3: military force crashed in the desert. Helicopters crashed with no 236 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:26,440 Speaker 3: opposing fire, nobody was shooting at them. 237 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 2: They just crashed. And I got to say it, just 238 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 2: it It. 239 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 3: Emblemized just how incredibly weak Jimmy Carter's defense of our 240 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:37,440 Speaker 3: national security was. 241 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 2: I was a little kid. 242 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 3: I was ten when Reagan became president, and so I 243 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 3: remember this as a child, and and it's I mean, 244 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 3: you were you were barely a sparkle in your daddy's 245 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 3: eye at the time, Ben, But but it was a 246 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 3: powerful moment. And the contrast Jimmy Carter's helicopters crashing in 247 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 3: the desert versus under Donald Trump, our bombers taking out 248 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 3: the enemy with crushing effectiveness. That's a contrast that's night 249 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 3: and day. And you know what, it's demonstrated by just 250 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 3: how desperately the Democrats and the corporate media want to 251 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 3: spen and say no, no, no, it was not nearly 252 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 3: as successful as your lying eyes tell you. 253 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:16,840 Speaker 2: It was. 254 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:19,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to play for everybody in a moment. 255 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: What headset had to say about the intelligent assessment and 256 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: the new information that they have will do that in 257 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:29,720 Speaker 1: a moment. But finally, at least we're getting some decent headlines. 258 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: Granted it's the Washington Free Beacon, but their headline was 259 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: classified report that suggests Iranian nuclear programs still intact, likely 260 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: relied on faulty info from Iranian sources. Former Intel officers say, so, 261 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 1: let me get this straight. The media is getting their 262 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,320 Speaker 1: propaganda now directly from the Iranians. You can't make this up. 263 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: Well, it's where the media is. CNN wants America to lose. 264 00:14:55,920 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 3: They want a Ran to win, ABCNBCCBS, Washington Host, New 265 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 3: York Times. They are cheering for our enemies and against 266 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 3: the President of the United States, and sadly the Democrats. Look, 267 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:11,360 Speaker 3: the Democrats were sitting in the same classified briefing I 268 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 3: was they heard about the incredible success of this military attack. 269 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,560 Speaker 3: I got to say, if the Democrats gave a damn 270 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 3: about our country, they would come out and say, you 271 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,320 Speaker 3: know what, our servicemen and women are heroes, and they 272 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 3: executed an incredible attack. And by the way, every president 273 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 3: for the last thirty years has said Iran will not 274 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 3: get a nuclear weapon. In this instance, President Trump acted 275 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 3: decisively to take away their nuclear weapons capability, and the 276 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 3: Democrats all ran to the TV cameras and said, this 277 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 3: was terrible, this was terrible. We oppose our nation. 278 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: Senator, I want to play for everybody. Pete Headseth at 279 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: the Pentagon briefing about how effective this attack actually was 280 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: and saying it directly to the media's phase. 281 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 5: Take a listen peed some of the assessments that had 282 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 5: been because whether it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC or the 283 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 5: New York Times, there's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment. 284 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 6: I've had a chance to read it. 285 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 5: Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from 286 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 5: DA I'm looking at it right now again. It was 287 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 5: preliminary a day and a half after the actual strike. 288 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 5: When it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks 289 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 5: to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment, 290 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 5: it's preliminary, it points out that it's not been coordinated 291 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,880 Speaker 5: with the intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in 292 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 5: this particular report, it says in the report. 293 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 6: There are gaps in the information. 294 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 5: It says in the report multiple lynchpin assumptions are what 295 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 5: this assessment a lynchpin assumption. 296 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 6: You know what that is. 297 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 5: It means your entire premis is predicated on a lynch pin. 298 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,240 Speaker 6: If you're wrong, everything else is wrong. 299 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 5: And yet still this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage. Again, 300 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 5: this is preliminary, but leaked because someone had an agenda 301 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 5: to try to muddy the waters and make it look 302 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,840 Speaker 5: like this historic strike I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get 303 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 5: to the chairman in a moment, because he's going to 304 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 5: lay out the particulars for you. 305 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 6: Based on his professional military experience. But here's what other 306 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 6: folks are saying. 307 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 5: THEDIA that put that report out says that this is 308 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 5: a preliminary, low confidence report and will continue to be 309 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 5: refined as additional intelligence becomes available. How about the Israeli 310 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,800 Speaker 5: Atomic Energy Commission? The devastating US strikes on Fourdeaux destroyed 311 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 5: the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. 312 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,040 Speaker 5: Have any of these quotes made their way into the 313 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 5: new York Times or The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, any 314 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 5: of these quotes. 315 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 6: How about this one. This is a new one from 316 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 6: the UN, the United Nations. No friend in the United 317 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 6: States or certainly Israel. Often. 318 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 5: Here's the head of the UN Atomic Energy Agency this morning, 319 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 5: Rafael Grossi and Israeli strikes caused enormous damage to Iran's 320 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:05,479 Speaker 5: nuclear sites. 321 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 6: Don't take my word for it. How about the IDF's 322 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 6: chief of staff. 323 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,439 Speaker 5: I can say here that the assessment is that we 324 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 5: significantly damage the nuclear program, setting. 325 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 6: It back by years. I repeat years. 326 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,760 Speaker 5: The Iranian foreign minister, the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have 327 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:23,800 Speaker 5: been badly damaged. 328 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 6: That's for sure. I'm sure that's an understatement. 329 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 5: John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, putting out a 330 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 5: statement just last night. CIA can confirm that a body 331 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 5: of credible intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely 332 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 5: damaged by recent targeted strikes. 333 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 6: This includes new intelligence from. 334 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:49,200 Speaker 5: A historically reliable, very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence. 335 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:53,400 Speaker 5: He's saying, historically reliable and accurate source of method that 336 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 5: several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have 337 00:18:59,040 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 5: to be rebuilt. 338 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 6: Over the course of years. 339 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: You listen to all of that data, and I love 340 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: how he laid it out. He's not just saying this 341 00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: is from our administration, this is from people that hate us, 342 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,680 Speaker 1: this from the UN, this is from Iran. Like, how 343 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: the hell did you guys go with this report when 344 00:19:15,760 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 1: it's so off from reality. 345 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 3: Look, I think the evidence is indisputable and it's worth noting, 346 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:28,399 Speaker 3: he said. The Secretary of Defense said in that press 347 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:33,120 Speaker 3: conference that the Iranian nuclear weapons program has been set 348 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 3: back years. I can tell you I spent an hour 349 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 3: and a half in a classified briefing. I can't tell 350 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,640 Speaker 3: you what was in that briefing, but we heard nothing 351 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 3: that was inconsistent with what the Secretary of Defense said 352 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 3: in that press conference, which is that this military attack 353 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,639 Speaker 3: set Iran's nuclear program back years. It was incredibly effective, 354 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 3: and so that has caused for celebration, which is why 355 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,720 Speaker 3: the Democrats don't want people to know about it. The 356 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 3: media don't want people to know about it. But I 357 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 3: have to say I mentioned at the outside of this 358 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 3: program where we're going to discuss what happened, but every 359 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 3: bit is importantly. We're going to discuss what's going to 360 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 3: happen next and listen. It's one thing to talk about 361 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 3: where the puck is today, but you've got to look 362 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,560 Speaker 3: at where the puck is going to be tomorrow, and 363 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,639 Speaker 3: where the puck is going to be tomorrow. There was 364 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 3: a CNN report that came out this week that said, quote, 365 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 3: the Trump admin Is considering offering i Ran a series 366 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 3: of major benefits to bring it back to the negotiating table. 367 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:41,959 Speaker 3: According to the report, Washington is considering helping Iran establish 368 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 3: a nuclear program for the purpose of producing civilian energy 369 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 3: at a cost of about thirty billion dollars, easing sanctions 370 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 3: and unfreezing billions of frozen Iranian dollars. And I will 371 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 3: tell you within the Trump administration right now, there is 372 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,880 Speaker 3: a battle. There were voices within the Trump administration. These 373 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,720 Speaker 3: are the voices that opposed the strike on Iran, that 374 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,880 Speaker 3: wanted to have weakness and appeasement towards Iran, who are 375 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:16,479 Speaker 3: now saying, well, after the strike, after victory, we should 376 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 3: flow billions of dollars to Iran. We should let them 377 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 3: sell oil, let them sell oil to China. We should 378 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 3: let them make billions. And I got to tell you 379 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 3: this is the same failed approach of Barack Obama and 380 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:35,800 Speaker 3: Joe Biden. We should, under no circumstances allow the Ayatola, 381 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 3: who chance death to America, who has been actively trying 382 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 3: to murder President Trump. We should not let him win 383 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 3: a windfall and get billions of dollars to use to 384 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 3: wage war against America. 385 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 1: How did we even get to this point where this 386 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: was a real possibility. Where is this coming from? Because 387 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,159 Speaker 1: it is shocking. Like you said, you don't want to 388 00:21:57,200 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: do the same thing. There was a failure with the 389 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 1: last administrations where they're like, hey, here's billions of dollars, 390 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: we'll put it on a plane, and here's a bunch 391 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 1: of American money. You have a great day. 392 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 3: Listen their voices in the Republican Party who have decided 393 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 3: to embrace isolationism, who has decided to say we should 394 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 3: withdraw from the world. You and I talked previously on 395 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 3: this podcast about the interview I did with Tucker Carlson. 396 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:23,399 Speaker 3: I knew what that was going to be. I knew 397 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 3: when I accepted that interview that Tucker was coming after me, 398 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 3: that he was going to do everything he can to 399 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,399 Speaker 3: blast me, and he and I spent two hours. It 400 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 3: was a It was a bloodbath. We were pounding the 401 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 3: hell out of each other. But every single thing Tucker 402 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 3: said about Iran and Israel proved wrong. Tucker said publicly, 403 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 3: if America strikes Iran, we would be dragged into World 404 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 3: War three. Thousands of Americans would be killed, and in 405 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,879 Speaker 3: World War three we would lose. Now, Ben, that wasn't 406 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 3: slightly wrong, it wasn't a little bit wrong. It was 407 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:02,159 Speaker 3: totally catastrophically utterly false. Tucker also argued with me at 408 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:06,040 Speaker 3: great length, it's not true that Iran is trying to 409 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 3: murder Donald J. 410 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:07,959 Speaker 2: Trump. 411 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's one thing if you're a talk 412 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 3: show host and you can just kind of yell into 413 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 3: the microphone and ignore facts. But facts matter. The truth matters. 414 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,960 Speaker 3: It is an objective fact that Iran has been trying 415 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 3: to murder Donald J. Trump has been trying to murder 416 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 3: him for several years. And I pointed this out in 417 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 3: the interview. I put it out afterwards. I put out 418 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 3: the sealed indictment from the Department of Justice indicting Iranian 419 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 3: hitmen who were here in the United States trying to 420 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 3: murder Donald J. 421 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 2: Trump. 422 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 3: I put out video of President Trump talking about the 423 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 3: Iranians trying to murder him. I put out video of 424 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 3: senior Iranian leaders talking about their intention to murder Donald Trump. 425 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 3: I put out a video that the IRGC put out 426 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:59,400 Speaker 3: an animated video of an Iranian drone murdering Donald Trump 427 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 3: on the golf course at mar A Lago. And it 428 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 3: is an objective fact. And this is where again the 429 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,959 Speaker 3: sort of isolationist rhetoric is weird, because when I said 430 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 3: that Iran was trying to murder President Trump, and Tucker said, 431 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:16,520 Speaker 3: I've never heard that, and then he did his kind 432 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:21,280 Speaker 3: of weird, high pitched cackle. He then came back with 433 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 3: this bizarre statement, Well, if that were true, that Iran 434 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 3: were trying to murder Donald J. Trump, well then we 435 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,199 Speaker 3: should attack them immediately. We should nuke them. And I 436 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,199 Speaker 3: got to say, I kind of wondered if if like 437 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson's old neokon. To be clear, Tucker carl said 438 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 3: was someone who during the Iraq War, was a cheerleader 439 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,879 Speaker 3: for the Iraq War. He basically put on a short 440 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 3: skirt and pom poms. I think the Iraq War was 441 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,159 Speaker 3: a mistake. I've been vocal about that for years. Tucker 442 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,160 Speaker 3: cheered it on. It is loopy. It is fruit loops 443 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,879 Speaker 3: to say you should nuke Iran because they're doing that. No, 444 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 3: the right thing to do is what President Trump did, 445 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 3: which is take out their nuclear weapons capability. And I 446 00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:10,479 Speaker 3: got to say Tucker's voice and their allies of Tucker 447 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 3: in the administration who were desperately trying to convince the President, 448 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 3: do not attack Iran, do not take out their nuclear 449 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:23,360 Speaker 3: weapons capability, do not support it Israel, abandon Israel. They 450 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 3: were wrong and they lost this battle. But the second iteration, 451 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:32,320 Speaker 3: and this is coming, is they're now saying, Okay, now 452 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 3: that you've won, give the Iotola billions of dollars, because 453 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 3: it works out really well. When you give billions of 454 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 3: dollars to a theocratic lunatic who says they want to 455 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,040 Speaker 3: murder you and is still actively trying to murder you, 456 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,640 Speaker 3: that is incredibly foolish. And so I'm merging the president, 457 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 3: don't listen to those voices. They were wrong before and 458 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 3: they're wrong now. Do not send billions of dollars to 459 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 3: the Iotola. 460 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,800 Speaker 1: Consider you had this to say on hit his show 461 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: about as well. 462 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 2: The El Sean. 463 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,360 Speaker 7: There are voices in the administration now that the president 464 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,120 Speaker 7: has scored an historic victory. Who are urging, Let's cut 465 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 7: a deal. Let's let Iran sell oils, Let's lift all 466 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,240 Speaker 7: the sanction. Let's make this a victory for the Iyatola. 467 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 7: Understand this, Iatola still hates America, a chance death to America, 468 00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 7: and he's been trying to murder Donald Trump, and so 469 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 7: it would be a catastrophic mistake to flood billions of 470 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 7: dollars into Iran. 471 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 8: I agree with you. What if they use a proxy 472 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 8: to attack Israel? Does that end the ceasefire? Because I 473 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 8: would imagine that's plant that's the next plan. 474 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,600 Speaker 7: Real quick, you know, I will tell you one of 475 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 7: the best indications of how successful this attack was. Within hours, 476 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 7: Iran was rushing to have a ceasefire. That's because they 477 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 7: are utterly decimated and weakened, and that's why they wanted 478 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 7: to cease fire. But don't think for a minute they 479 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 7: suddenly love America. 480 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,639 Speaker 2: Or love Israel. They still hate us. 481 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 7: They are still our enemy, but we use taking away 482 00:26:57,520 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 7: their ability to murder Americans. 483 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 8: If they use a proxy to attack Israel, are they 484 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 8: to blame? 485 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 7: Of course they are the proxies. Hesbela and Hamas work 486 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 7: for Iran. They pay for them and they control them. 487 00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 8: All right, Senator Ted Cruz, we always appreciate your time. 488 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: Centator think hey, strong clothes their center and that's It's 489 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: the truth. This is what people are trying to do now. 490 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 2: It absolutely is. 491 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,560 Speaker 3: And I'll tell you one point that I made on 492 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 3: Hannity that I think is powerful. We started this show 493 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,479 Speaker 3: by talking about how the Democrats in the media are 494 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 3: trying to claim the attack was not effective. If that 495 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 3: were true, why did Iran immediately want a cease fire. Look, 496 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 3: Iran has been at war with Israel for years. They 497 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 3: had been lobbing missiles, They had been funding Hamas and Hesbela. 498 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 3: Understand Hamas more than ninety percent of Hamas's budget comes 499 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 3: from Iran. Hesbela more than ninety percent of Hesbela's budget 500 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 3: comes from Iran. 501 00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 2: Iran. 502 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 3: When the Iatola chance death to American death to Israel, 503 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 3: he means it. They have spent millions of millions of dollars, 504 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 3: They have killed thousands of American servicemen and women. They 505 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 3: have been the leading state sponsor of terrorism for decades. 506 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 3: And after this, Look, Iran has had a really rough year. 507 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,320 Speaker 3: October seventh they funded October seventh and since October seventh. 508 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 3: Hamas has been utterly decimated, Hesbela has been utterly decimated. 509 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 3: But Sharrasad, who was their puppet leader in Syria, he 510 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,479 Speaker 3: has fallen. The Huthis who they were funding, who were 511 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 3: attacking American ships and shipping through the Suez Canal, they 512 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 3: are badly degraded. And now Iran when they were on 513 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 3: the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. Look, if you're the 514 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 3: Ayatola and you're weak and you're collapsing, getting a nuclear 515 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,479 Speaker 3: weapon is your hail Mary. It's the one chance to say, Okay, 516 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 3: we're relevant, we're strong. And then Israel devastatingly takes out 517 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:59,120 Speaker 3: their military capability, their air defenses. The entire course of 518 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,480 Speaker 3: this war, Iran had no control over their air defenses. 519 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 3: Israel had total superiority. And then the United States when 520 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 3: we went in and did our bombing run, Iran could 521 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 3: not defend themselves. And then America comes in. I think 522 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 3: Iran believed they could talk talk, talk and avoid any 523 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 3: real consequences. I think they felt that Fida was deep 524 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 3: enough under a mountain there was nothing they could do 525 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 3: about it, and that America would never use bunker buster 526 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 3: bombs against him. And by the way, Joe Biden never 527 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 3: would have. The Democrats never would have. But Donald J. Trump, 528 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 3: he's not an isolationist, he's not weak. He's not interested 529 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,560 Speaker 3: in a prolonged war. Note, we did not invade Iran, 530 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 3: we did not send boots on the ground. We're not 531 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 3: going there trying to turn them into a democratic utopia. 532 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 3: We're not trying to turn them into Switzerland. The objective 533 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 3: of the mission was very, very focused. It was to 534 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,320 Speaker 3: stop Iran from having nuclear weapons capability. And by the way, Ben, 535 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 3: the reason I went on Tucker Carlson just a week 536 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:01,360 Speaker 3: ago was to make clear that Present Trump is right 537 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 3: and Tucker Carlson was wrong. And I think I was 538 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 3: unhappy with Tucker because he's been attacking President Trump. He 539 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:14,360 Speaker 3: said that President Trump was complicit in the attack on Iran. 540 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:20,280 Speaker 3: He claimed amazingly enough, that Donald Trump was not America first, 541 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 3: that if you attack Iran, you're not America first. And 542 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,040 Speaker 3: President Trump quite rightly came back and said, look, I 543 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 3: invented the damn term, and what I say is what 544 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 3: America first is. And he said to Tucker, he said, look, 545 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 3: if you want I ran to have a nuclear weapon, 546 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 3: that ain't America first, because these lunatics want to kill us. 547 00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 3: President Trump is exactly right, and this has been I'll 548 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 3: tell you. I texted him this week and I told him, 549 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:54,640 Speaker 3: mister President, this past week has been the single finest 550 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 3: leadership you have. 551 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 2: Had the entire time. 552 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 3: And I'm incredibly proud the job you're doing as commander 553 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 3: in chief. 554 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: You know, one of the comparing contrasts that you talk 555 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: about with these this administration in the past was brought 556 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: up at the White House Press briefing room. Carolyn Levitt, 557 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: I think did a great job of explaining the difference 558 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: very much like you just described it. And here's what 559 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,600 Speaker 1: she said to the press about the real story here. 560 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 9: Fani and regime was weeks away from being able to 561 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 9: produce a nuclear weapon that would threaten the entire world. 562 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 9: Before President Trump took this decisive action on Saturday night 563 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 9: to obliterate their nuclear capabilities. The contrast and leadership could 564 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,080 Speaker 9: not be more clear. Barack Obama and Joe Biden sent 565 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 9: palettes of cash American taxpayer dollars in a failed attempt 566 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 9: to buy the Iranian regime's compliance with a weak and 567 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 9: ineffective deal. President Trump sent a fleet of American warplanes 568 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 9: to destroy Ouran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon. The 569 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 9: United States and the entire world are safer because of 570 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 9: this President's decisiveness. Fite agenda driven leaks by the fake 571 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 9: news media aimed at undermining this incredible accomplishment achieved by 572 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,800 Speaker 9: President Trump and our brave fighter pilots. There is broad 573 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:15,440 Speaker 9: consensus emerging already that Iran's nuclear capabilities were indeed destroyed. 574 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 9: The United States, Israel, the United Nations, and even Iran 575 00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 9: all agree they can no longer build a nuclear weapon. 576 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 9: So what did the president? Why did the President immediately 577 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:31,520 Speaker 9: turn to obliterating after the Iranian nuclear threat? Securing peace? 578 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 9: Within forty eight hours of the devastating strike, President Trump 579 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 9: and his team broke her to historic ceasefire between Israel 580 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 9: and Iran and officially ended the twelve day war. The 581 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 9: Middle East is now shifting away from chaos in bloodshed 582 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,040 Speaker 9: and moving toward the beginning stages of a new era 583 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 9: of peace, instability that President Trump has long called on 584 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,000 Speaker 9: them to achieve. This was unthinkable at this time last week. 585 00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,400 Speaker 9: And this is what peace through strength looks like. 586 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just laying it out right to their faces. Right, 587 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 1: this is what the president said, this is what he believed, 588 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:08,760 Speaker 1: this is what he was going to do. We're not 589 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: back down. And she also said something else that also 590 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:16,080 Speaker 1: the d D said several different ways, how dare you 591 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: not just give some accolades the men and women that 592 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: risk their lives to pull this off and did it flawlessly. 593 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 3: Look, peace through strength is exactly what this is. And 594 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 3: the left that they have a bizarre view that weakness 595 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 3: and appeasement somehow avoids war. Listen, if you look through history, 596 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 3: the opposite is true. Weakness and appeasement encourages our enemies. 597 00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,479 Speaker 3: They engage in more hostilities, you get more war. I 598 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 3: have joked, but there is a reason nobody goes and 599 00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:52,400 Speaker 3: studies at the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs. Appeasement 600 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,800 Speaker 3: doesn't work. Donald J. Trump is a strong commander in 601 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,760 Speaker 3: chief just like Ronald Reagan was. And I'll tell you 602 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 3: your family and my family, all of our families are 603 00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,800 Speaker 3: safer because President Trump acted decisively to take out Iran's 604 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,320 Speaker 3: nuclear weapons capability. 605 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,800 Speaker 1: Don't forget We do this show Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 606 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 1: and make sure that subscribe or auto download button wherever 607 00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: you get your podcast so you do not miss an episode, 608 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 1: and also tomorrow on Saturday, we'll have the Week in Review, 609 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:23,520 Speaker 1: some of the top things we talked about this past 610 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: week that you may have missed, so make sure you 611 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: listen to that as well, and the Senate I will 612 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: see you back here Saturday morning.