WEBVTT - She Is A Gibbering Idiot 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:10.320 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:24.320 Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.800 They don't necessarily fear in Israeli strike that many belief 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:29.720 could still happen. What they do fears that all this 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:33.120 could continue to balloon into some sort of wider crisis 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.280 or armed conflict here in the Middle East that could 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.760 in the end pit Iran directly against the United States. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:40.320 And one of the things that we've actually been able 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.519 to do is we've actually been able to travel through 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.840 a substantial part of the northern part of the country. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:46.960 When you go into the cities there, you do see 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.880 a lot of billboards and posters hanging around professing loyalty 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.000 to Hezbolah. One of the big things that you see 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.920 there is flag saying his Bola is alive, obviously playing 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.280 on the fact that so many of the Hisbolah leaders 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:00.000 have been killed. 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:05.040 That's interesting. That was from CNNA lead yesterday. Iran not 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.520 so worried about an Israel strike, They're worried about war 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.480 with the United States. Well, good, that's what deterrence is. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.520 And there hasn't been enough. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.839 Goal, don't escalate. 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.600 Yeah, there hasn't been enough people worried about us escalating. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.200 So it sounds like maybe Iran is Benjamin Nett and 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.360 Yahoo with a message to the people of Lebanon. Yesterday, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.280 any who in Bremmer tweeted out a dramatic shift in 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.560 war goals from the Israeli Prime Minister. It went from 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:37.240 pushing back Hesbela from the border and returning the Israelis 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.480 to their homes. Sixty thousand Israelis that have had to 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.880 leave their homes and have been away for a year. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.600 That's crazy, can you imagine. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:50.600 No, the goal is now removing Hesbla from power, the 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.559 most serious escalation from Israel since the war in Gaza began. 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.480 This is the biggest escalation announced escalation since the whole 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.640 thing began. Our goal is now to eliminate Hesbela. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.600 So you have to keep in mind they're a political 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:11.400 party with an army, which is crazy by American standards, certainly, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.800 but Hesbela is enormously influential in Lebanese politics. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.880 So going through some of the information that came out yesterday, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.600 Iran warned a whole bunch of golf country countries that 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.640 any use of their airspace by Israel or the United 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.760 States against Iran, they will face retaliation. 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.280 Okay, fine, they're either scared or they're not. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.760 The US State Department said yesterday that they support Israeli 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.200 ground operations in southern Lebanon and do not support any 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.919 kind of ceasefire between Israel and Hesbela, with statements earlier 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.919 by Hisbel officials calling for a ceasefire. So I thought 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.040 that was interesting. Hesbola came out yesterday if you weren't 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.680 paying attention and said, okay, we want to cease fire now, 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.160 and our State Department actually said nat no ceasefires. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.239 I was surprised by that. It's a head spinnerbout this. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:02.080 I don't know if you know good. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.000 I don't know if you know Amos Yadlin, former major 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:08.840 general in the Israeli Air Force as well as the 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.239 former head of the Israeli military intelligence. So like that, 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.800 you know they're d And I set on CNN yesterday 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.400 the Israeli attack on Iran will be something that has 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:23.680 never been seen since seen in the Middle East. Okay, 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:28.919 so that sounds big. This also from os I in 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.239 t that's open source intelligence According to US officials, the 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:37.000 United States has discussed options for joining Israel's retaliation against Iran, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.280 including very limited strikes against targets inside of Iran, targets 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.840 against Iranian naval assets, as well as targeting of the 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:52.960 Revolutionary Guard core sites in Syria and Yemen. These though 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.680 these are seen as less likely as a just intelligence sharing, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.080 Like we would help them with the important intelligence you 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.240 would need to pull that Off's opposed to like actual 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.600 US planes or anything like that. But we're going to 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.280 help them out, but not with well, I'll read this. 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.880 According to two US officials who spoke to NBC, Israel 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.480 is still not yet brief the United States on their 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.640 response to the ballistic missile attack, Despite officials telling Israel 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.320 that they would possibly support them with intelligence and additional strikes, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.520 US officials do not believe that Israel has made the 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.160 final decision. So the big New York Times story yesterday 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.640 that we referenced but I hadn't read yet, which has 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.560 got like ten different writers on it, including David Sanger, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.640 who is probably the best writer on this sort of stuff, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.520 says that Israel doesn't have the capability to take out 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:47.719 those nuclear sites. The United States does. Israel doesn't. So 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:53.080 that's why France and Great Britain made the announcement yesterday 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:59.679 they will not aid the United States in any trying 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.240 to or Israel in any trying to take out those sites. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.599 So it's basically telling the United States, you do this, 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.279 you're completely on your own. We realize if this happens, 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:11.640 it's going to be you United States, not Israel, and 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:12.120 we're not. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.480 Okay with it. That's basically what that announcement was. 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.400 Yeh, or even we want the world to know it 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.680 wasn't us could be yeah, because they have, you know, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.680 similar capabilities, maybe not as good, but similar. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.280 While much of the public discussion is focused on the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.839 fact that Iran could almost certainly ramp up enrichment to 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:32.800 produce bomb grade uranium in a matter of weeks, the 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.039 more relevant fact is that it would take Iranian engineers 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.200 months or maybe a year to actually fashion that fuel 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:40.800 into a deliverable weapon. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.000 I thought that was good to know. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.200 Meanwhile, Iran has stepped up production of Iranian and rich 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.800 to sixty percent purity, just shy of bomb grade, and 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:51.880 it now has enough of that fuel for three or 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:55.080 four bombs, experts believe, and getting it to bomb grade 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.080 at ninety percent would just take days. So I guess 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.919 getting the uranium the bomb grade is something that they 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.040 can do in a couple of days. Actually fashioning it 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:07.120 into a weapon they could deliver anywhere is months or 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:07.560 a year. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.320 Yeah. I was reading about the the mechanics of the 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:16.240 triggering mechanism for nuclear arms, and it's much more complicated 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.360 than I'd imagined. It's very, very sophisticated. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:24.839 Technically, We're the only ones that have these thirty thousand 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:31.560 pound bombs that are necessary to reach these Iranian facilities 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.159 that are way underground. Israel doesn't have that we do, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.919 and the planes necessary to actually drop them. But I 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.520 thought this was interesting if you, just like me, have 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.880 a tendency to call Joe Biden a do nothing chicken. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:46.320 President George W. 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.920 Bush turned aside Israel's demands to give its air force 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.719 the United States biggest bunker busting bombs and the B 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.159 two bombers that are needed to deliver them. Those weapons 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.040 would be essential in any effort to take out four 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:02.560 Toho and some of the other facilities. Bush said no. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:06.039 That decision touched off an argument inside the White House. 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:06.719 Back in the day. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.480 Vice President Dick Cheney embraced the idea of a strike 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:13.480 no shock, but Bush held fast, arguing that the United 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.800 States could not risk another war in the Middle East, 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.040 probably thinking this whole Iraq thing has gone, so well, 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.560 how about let's not fight Iraq and Iran at the 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:22.120 same time. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.880 Yeah, I was just going to say that the circumstances 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.480 were very different, but there you go. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:31.480 Ahud Barak, who was Prime minister and Israel's highest ranking 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:35.040 uniformed officer at one point, gave an interview back in 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.520 twenty nineteen that said Bush's warning did not really make 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.240 any difference for US as of the end of two 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.360 thousand and eight. He said Israel did not have a 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.320 plan for attacking Iran. They didn't have the capability, but 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:49.200 so Bush turned down giving them the stuff to do it. 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.800 So it's not the first time we've said, nah, we're 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.920 not all in on taking out those facilities. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.320 I'm not exactly sure why. Oh, and then I wanted 0:07:58.320 --> 0:07:58.720 to play this. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.840 So this is oppositeosition to what's the prime minister up 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.360 in Canada, the pretty boy what's his name? 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:06.200 Trudeau? 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.160 So yeah, justin Trudeau. This is the opposition to Trudeau. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:11.920 He was asked if. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.400 He garf model Justin Trudeau. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.680 This guy was asked if he would support a strike 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:22.160 on Iran's nuclear bomb facilities and if Israel were. 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:30.240 To stop that genocidal, theocratic, unstable government from acquiring nuclear weapons, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.880 it would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity. 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.160 That's a pretty tough talk out of a Canadian, but 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.360 I would agree. You've got that that great pier pula Vera. 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:42.600 Is that how you pronounce his name? The opposition guy? 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.360 He kicks ass? I love him. 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.960 You got one of the worst regimes on planet Earth 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.280 screaming toward a nuclear weapon. This is the best time 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.000 there's ever going to be with more world support than 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.800 there ever will ever be to try to take it out. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.520 And I can't believe we're not taking this moment. This 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.040 is a major world decision. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:02.880 All right. 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.320 This is the opposite of the whole when's the best 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.400 time to plant an oak tree forty years ago? 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:08.840 When's the second best time today? 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.160 When's the best time to cut down an oak tree 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.160 forty years ago? What's the second best time before it 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.000 falls on your house today? 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.439 So yeah, I get that. This is a major decision. Though. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.400 If Iran ends up having the bomb a year from now, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.200 and then they use it in some horrifying way that 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:29.720 could touch off who knows what on the planet. It 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.520 will be remembered that there was a chance. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:31.760 To stop it. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.959 But because remember, they don't need a sophisticated missile and 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.439 triggering mechanism to deliver it. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.920 They could deliver it on a boat. Right. I only 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:42.679 know what I know. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.319 I don't know all the stuff that they know in 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.400 the intelligence department about Iran's capabilities or other hotspots in 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.280 the world, or whatever else is going on. One thing, 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.760 from reading David Sanger's book, there are so many things 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.640 you don't know while these stories are unfolding. Like one 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.640 thing I came across the other day because I'm almost 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:02.920 done with the book. Remember when Biden went to Kiev. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.480 He actually went to Kiev and walked through the streets 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:13.720 with Zelensky in quite a show of support. We called 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:19.160 Blinkeln called Putin and said Biden's coming to Kiev, heads up, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:20.920 and Putin said, got it. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.640 We actually told him ahead of time, with you better not. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.720 And I guess it was trusting that Putin would realize 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.720 that's a no go. Oh yeah, clearly I thought that 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.880 was very interesting because there was all this secrecy and 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.760 lead up on all the reporting around it was they 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:39.160 put him on a train in the middle of the 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.839 night and snuck him into all this stuff. True because 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:45.840 you never know about rogue bad guys. But the biggest 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:47.760 threat of would Russia tried to take him out. No, 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.360 we told him head up, heads up, ahead of time. Yeah, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.440 I'd stay away from Kiev. Biden's going to be there. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.079 So that's interesting that we have that. We don't think 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:56.680 he's a complete mad man obviously. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:59.520 Oh right, yeah, yeah, that makes perfect sense to me. 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.520 It's the same reason we have a phone line to 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.120 you know, Russian or Chinese general is to say, hey, 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:05.360 we're going to do some maneuvers. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.319 It is strictly training maneuvers. Nobody freak out. 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.960 But my point avoid the horrific mistake. My point making 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.760 there's always stuff going on that you don't know about 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.439 at the time. But I gotta believe if I was 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.320 president of the United States, I'd be all about attacking 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.120 rand taking out those nuclear facilities while we got the chance. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.000 And the world can moan and bitch about it all 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.439 they want, they'll forget about it in a month. But 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.520 Irani get no damn bomb, you're neo khon. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.320 I just thought i'd throw that out there. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.880 Two very quick headlines, US frustrated by Israel's reluctance to 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.440 share Iran retaliation plans. I'm not surprised they're not sharing 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.120 it because Biden can't be counted on. And then this 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:47.840 one report Biden offering Israel compensation to not hit Iranian targets, arms, money, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:51.120 and diplomatic guarantees. If you just hold back, We'll really 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:51.800 take care of you. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:52.439 Wow. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:57.640 Interesting CBS News torn asunder by actually doing journalism. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.720 This is delicious, really enjoying it. Got more on that 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.480 to come. I'm just gonna say, I remember back in 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.560 the day. It's the advantage of being old. I guess 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:11.440 I remember Bill Clinton. North Korea will not be allowed 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.120 to get a nuclear weapon. Been through those a couple 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.760 of times in my lifetime, and then they do. And 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.360 that's what president after president has been saying about Iran. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:26.280 We've got more on the waist to hear merk Adams 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.160 announce he's running for reelection. Awesome, Eh, go get America 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:31.280 more on that way. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.480 You know what we haven't gotten to is that. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:42.000 Awfulness of the Chicago School System and the Teachers' Union 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.280 and Brandon Johnson. It's one of the most egregious things 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.400 I've ever seen. It's shocking, anyway. Speaking of shocking, CBS 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.440 News torn asunder by the fact that some of their 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.320 journalists actually did journalism and their woke staffers have freaked 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.480 out over it. The behind the scenes tape is just 0:12:57.520 --> 0:12:59.360 too good to be true. We'll play that for you 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:02.600 next segment. But the irony of it is that the 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:07.240 self righteous lefties are saying that interview showed bias. We 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.200 can't have bias at CBS News, which is just truly 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:17.720 hilarious anyway. For example, you have the Bill Whitaker Kamala 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.439 Harris interview on sixty Minutes, and we played Monday before 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.319 it aired some of the preview, the excerpts that had 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:30.400 aired Unface the Nation on Sunday, and her long rambling 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.400 answer about whether Netnyao, who was listening to us or 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:34.880 not clipped forty Michael. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.080 This is from the preview, remember, but it seems that 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.440 Prime Minister Netanya who is not listening. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:47.200 Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:52.880 in a number of movements in that region by Israel 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:58.640 that were very much prompted by or a result of 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.520 many things in including our advocacy for what needs to 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:03.440 happen in the region. 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.720 Great Scott diagram that sentence if you dare anyway. So 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.800 that's the preview. Then by the time it actually aired, 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:15.040 because nobody watches the damn Sunday shows, but poor Jack 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:20.840 I do. I refuse, although they are occasionally interesting. So 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:26.960 when it actually aired sixty minutes Monday night, this is 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:27.960 what it sounded like. 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.400 But it seems that Prime Minister Netanya who is not listening, 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:33.200 We're not. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.800 Going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:38.880 States to be clear about where we stand on the 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.480 need for this war to end. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.240 Well, so let me get this straight. So the cleaned 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.280 up version is what aired on sixty minutes. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.720 That's correct, the shorter, coherent version. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:57.320 See, I don't like it either way, but you edited 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.920 it that way for the promo piece on Facinination. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:01.600 Okay, I get it. 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.360 You're promoing your big show where the like a million 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.480 people watch face the nation, tens of millions of people 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.880 probably watched sixty minutes. I haven't seen the numbers yet, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.080 so I could see, you know, the little teaser, but 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.760 you edited it to make her sound better for the 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:21.680 big show. Yes, that ain't so cool at all. 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.400 I wonder if they got some sort of pushback from 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.520 the Face the Nation preview. Somebody freaked out, whether it 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.920 was internally or from the Harris campaign or something, and 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:33.880 they removed They took. 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.840 The world the word salad out. And I would like 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.920 to know if Bill Whitaker had any knowledge of that. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:39.760 He might not have. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:41.640 He may have, he may have been in charge of it, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.560 or he might have had zero knowledge. I don't know, 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.640 but that'd be a good question. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:50.520 When the and this is not a trivial question. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.480 I don't think the big knock against Kamala Harris, right, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.640 is that she's got an empty head, right, Yes, that 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.640 is her I think is that bit she is a 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.160 underpaint in Jacksworth. 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.200 The biggest knock is she will not do confrontational interviews 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:09.000 because she can't handle it. If you edited it in 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:10.760 such a way to make it look like she can 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.880 handle it better, that's really really. 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:19.000 Bad, right, Right, And again, this is the same CBS 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.720 you're about to hear, who are aghast that there could 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:26.240 be any bias when somebody makes a conservative point. The 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:33.800 Tiffany Network, Tiffany the pop singer from the eighties. Man 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.400 even with the editing, she like super whift on several questions. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.520 So huh oh, yeah, well she's incompetent. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.440 Is she going to get elected president without doing a 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.840 single press conference like where she stands there and takes 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:51.000 question after question after question like Trump has done multiple times? 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:52.960 She will attempt to do that. Yeah. 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.320 Whether the American people choose to grant her that high 0:16:56.360 --> 0:17:01.160 office or not as yet to be decided. There are 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.080 times I can't believe what I'm seeing. 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:03.760 I know it. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.600 It doesn't seem like it's real. It does seem like 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.359 it's a TV show and not real. 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.919 And done a good one either entertaining but utterly unrealistic. Anyway, 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:16.160 the CBS behind the scenes audio, Oh I can't wait. 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.359 Stay with us, Armstrong and Geddy. 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.560 We will get to it again. Kamala did a couple 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.520 of interviews yesterday. She did the view she did Colbert, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:30.480 She's doing Stern today. I think anyway, a couple of 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.639 answers that are quite amazing. We'll get to that maybe 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:33.320 hour four. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:35.280 She is a. 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.879 Gibbering idiot in short. Anyway, I'll tell you who's not 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.800 a gibbering idiot Tony Decopple of CBS News, nor is 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:52.040 Tanaheazy Coats, the widely worshiped anti racism author, saint of 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:58.119 the left. Unquestionably incredibly bright and creative guy. He's just 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:00.400 wrong about a lot of things in my mind. So 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.159 he's got a new book out and he went on 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.520 CBS this morning to promote it. And instead of the 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.359 soft ballish interview that I think everybody, including some of 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.919 the staff expected, Tony Dcoppel, who's one of their folks 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:19.040 generalist staffers, asked him some really challenging questions about the 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:24.479 book and particularly how it is starkly, staunchly anti Israel. 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:31.479 And to skip to the next part. This is so 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:37.280 torn apart CBS News that there are teeth gnashing, tear stained, yelling, 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.439 arguments going on behind the scenes, meetings, soul searching, the 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:45.119 rest of it. Because Jacoppel was so out of line, 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.240 it was so abandoning. 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.760 CBS is principe it was biased. 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:54.040 Can you imagine CBS being biased anyway, here's a chunk 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:55.159 of that interview. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:56.640 Judge for yourself. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.119 Tanajaja, I want to dive into the Israel Palace one 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.600 section of the books, section of the book, And I 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.840 have to say, when I read the book, I imagine if 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.159 I took your name out of it, took away the 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.800 awards and the acclaim, took the cover off the book, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:10.760 the publishing. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:11.000 House goes away. 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:14.920 The content of that section would not be out of place. 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:16.760 In the backpack of an extremist. 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.119 And so then I found myself wondering, why do is 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.680 Tanahashi Coates, who I've known for a long time, read 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:25.200 his work for a long time, very talented, smart guy, 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:28.800 leave out so much? Why leave out that Israel is 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.080 surrounded by countries that. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.480 Want to eliminate it. Why leave out that. 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.000 Israel deals with terror groups that want to eliminate it? 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.600 Why not detail anything of the first and the second Intifat, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:41.400 of the cafe bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:45.040 blown to bits? And is it because you just don't 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:49.080 believe that Israel in any condition has a right to exist? 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:52.840 Well, I would say the perspective that you just outlined, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.480 there is no shortage of that perspective in American media. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:58.400 That's the first thing I would say. 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.000 I am most concerned always with those who don't have 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:03.520 a voice with those who don't have. 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:04.440 The ability to talk. 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.320 I have asked repeatedly in my interviews whether there is 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:14.359 a single network, mainstream organization in America with a Palestinian 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:17.640 American bureau chief or correspondent who actually has a voice 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:21.000 to articulate their part of the world. I've been a 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:25.040 reporter for twenty years. The reporters of those who believe 0:20:25.080 --> 0:20:29.560 more sympathetically about Israel and it's right to exist don't 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.119 have a problem getting their voice out. But what I 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:34.840 saw in Palestine, what I saw on the West Bank, 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.200 what I saw in Haifa in Israel, what I saw 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.399 in the South Hebln Hills, those were the stories that 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:42.359 I have not heard, and those were the stories that 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.760 I was most occupied with. I wrote a two hundred 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:48.280 and sixty page book. It is not a treatise on 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.440 the entirety of the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis. 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:57.720 That was a frank exchange of views in an intelligent 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:02.680 and gentlemanly way. The idea that that would Royal CBS 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.359 News is hilarious. 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.840 There was a Tierry staff meeting, is what it was 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:12.439 described at in New York Post. Tierry staff meeting people 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:19.640 nearly crying, as Tony Dekoppel told staffers he regretted putting 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.680 them in a difficult situation. 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:24.879 Hmm, that's an interesting way to phrase it. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:30.040 So we have through means that would make Dick Cheney blush, 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:36.679 obtained the behind the scenes meeting audio. We have violated 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.440 the laws of God and man adio. 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:41.840 Oh he needs a car battery and in a pan of water. 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:48.160 Oh boy, you can. Let's just leave it there. One 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:52.720