1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:00,720 Speaker 1: Welcome. 2 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 2: It is Verdict with center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you. 3 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: It's so nice for you to join us today. And 4 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 2: we've got a lot to talk about. The world's talking 5 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 2: about Iran right now, Senator, and we've got updates from 6 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,600 Speaker 2: where we are in this war with Iran. 7 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 3: Well, we're in week two of the war with Iran, 8 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 3: and I will say the success is continue to build up. 9 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 3: If you look at the first day of this conflict, 10 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 3: Iran launched three hundred and fifty ballistic missiles. By day 11 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 3: eight that had dropped to fifteen. The second day of 12 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:38,559 Speaker 3: this conflict, Iran launched five hundred and forty one drone attacks. 13 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,720 Speaker 3: By day eight that had dropped to twelve. What we 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 3: have done in less than two weeks now, we have 15 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 3: taken out Iran's air defenses. We've taken out their missile 16 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: launching capacity. We have taken out their missiles, we have 17 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 3: taken out their missile manufacturing. We've taken out their drone 18 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 3: launch capacity. We have taken out their drones. We have 19 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,839 Speaker 3: taken out their drone manufacturing. If you look at their navy, 20 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 3: virtually every ship in their navy has been sunk to 21 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,119 Speaker 3: the bottom of the ocean. That effect in less than 22 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:23,040 Speaker 3: two weeks is profound. And I want you to listen 23 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,479 Speaker 3: to the Secretary of War Pete Hesith talking about what's 24 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:28,600 Speaker 3: been accomplished and what to expect next. 25 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:29,320 Speaker 4: Give a listen. 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 2: Before we get to that, though, I want to tell 27 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: you about our friends at bitcoin IRA. Can you buy 28 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 2: real bitcoin in your retirement account? If not, it's time 29 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 2: to upgrade to bitcoin IRA. 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I am that's true. 38 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's true. 39 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 3: And I just want to thank you on behalf of 40 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 3: every Verdict listener, but especially the Verdict viewers. So there 41 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 3: are a lot of vertict viewers who watch on on 42 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 3: on YouTube, who watch on Facebook, and I just want 43 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 3: to say, I'm really glad that you are not in 44 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 3: Aspito right now. 45 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: I am not I am in a suit, a jacket. 46 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 4: Or even worse, a borat. 47 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 3: A borat, Yes, that like covers the equipment and goes 48 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 3: over your shoulders. I'm just gonna say, to be honest, 49 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: we don't know if you're in aspeito a borat because 50 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,919 Speaker 3: the camera shot is is only chest up. 51 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is what you call hazing. When 52 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 2: when when when crazy? 53 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 3: One of us is at work, Like I've spent the 54 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 3: whole day in the Senate, I'm working. By the way, 55 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:09,239 Speaker 3: it's your spring break, it's my spring break. My girls 56 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 3: were skiing on spring break. I went for a day 57 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 3: and a half and then got on a plane and 58 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 3: I flew back to Washington, d C. 59 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,680 Speaker 4: Because some of us have a job. 60 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:18,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. 61 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 2: And I'm proud. I want you to know that I'm 62 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 2: proud of you. As I was clear on the beach today. 63 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 3: Benjamin has had nineteen dakeries today, and and and if 64 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,040 Speaker 3: I asked him to walk in a straight line and 65 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 3: spell the alphabet backwards, he couldn't do. 66 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 4: So. 67 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: I did have two Miami vices today, just an interview. 68 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: I knew you would. 69 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,480 Speaker 4: I don't even know what a Miami vice is. 70 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 2: You that's that's just said, I'll introduce you the next 71 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 2: time we're hanging. 72 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: Out in Kabba. 73 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 4: What what is a Miami Vice. 74 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 2: It's it's a pinnaclouda strawberry dodacri together. They called him 75 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 2: Miami Vice. You never had a Miami Vice in your 76 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 2: entire life. As I'm sitting here in Caba, I mean 77 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: this sincerely, I just don't care. That's how happy I am. 78 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 2: All Right, So here we go. Here's peteread Seth. We're 79 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 2: gonna start with Peter head Seth giving an update on 80 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 2: the war. I want you to take a listen to 81 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 2: what he had to say about where we are now 82 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 2: and what is happening. 83 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. 84 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,200 Speaker 5: On day ten of Operation Epic Fury, we are winning 85 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 5: with an overwhelming and unrelenting focus on our objectives, which 86 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 5: are the same as the day I gave my first 87 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 5: briefing here on Operation Epic Fury. They're straightforward, and we 88 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 5: are executing them with ruthless precision. One destroy their missile stockpiles, 89 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 5: their missile launchers, and their defense industrial base missiles and 90 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 5: their ability to make them. Two destroy their navy, and 91 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 5: three permanently deny Iran nuclear weapons forever. It's a laser 92 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 5: focused maximum authority mission delivered with overwhelming and unrelenting precision, 93 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 5: no hesitation, no half measures. 94 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you this sinator as you hear 95 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 2: him lay that out, I want to know what the 96 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 2: pulsees in DC as you guys are there talking about this. 97 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 2: I'm still trying to figure out what exactly the Democrat 98 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 2: talking point is. I've seen like four or five of 99 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 2: them that they've been kind of throwing jello at a 100 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 2: wall to. 101 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: See if anything will stick. 102 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,720 Speaker 2: They're obviously wanting to hurt Donald Trump and this or 103 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 2: trying to say he's gonna get into forever or it's 104 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 2: not really working. 105 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 1: So what are your colleagues saying in the Senate about this? 106 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 2: And also among Republicans as well, there's even been there 107 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 2: was an interesting moment by the way, where like they 108 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 2: were trying to bait you into trashing Lindsey Graham and 109 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 2: others are trying to turn Republicans against Republicans. And as 110 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 2: I was sitting here on the beach drinking my Miami Vice, 111 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 2: I enjoyed watching You have to deal with that on 112 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 2: TV because I just got to be a spectator. 113 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: It was great. 114 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, look, last night. 115 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 3: I was on Laura Ingram, and Laura's a friend and 116 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,279 Speaker 3: she's supporting President Trump in this military com But she 117 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,799 Speaker 3: asked a whole series of questions about aren't you upset 118 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 3: that it's been reported that Lindsey Graham was talking to 119 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 3: Prime Minister net Yahoo? And she basically said, isn't Lindsay 120 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 3: acting as a lobbyist for Israel? And I said, Laura, 121 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:24,239 Speaker 3: with all due respect, now, and that's really a silly question. Listen, Lindsey. 122 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 3: I agree with Lindsay on some issues. I disagree with 123 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:30,039 Speaker 3: Lindsay on other issues. You look at the Iraq War. 124 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 4: Lindsay was a big. 125 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 3: Proposent of the Iraq War. I think the Iraq War 126 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 3: was a serious mistake. I think it did harm to 127 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 3: the United States. And I've said that for a long 128 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 3: long time. So Lindsay and are on totally different pages 129 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 3: when it comes to Iraq. When it comes to Iran, 130 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 3: Lindsey and I agree. I think when the Ayatola says 131 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,240 Speaker 3: death to America, he means it. I think President Trump 132 00:06:52,279 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 3: is right to act to take out the leadership in 133 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 3: Iran because having radical islamistle readership that wants to murder 134 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 3: Americans is bad for America. The regime in Iran has 135 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 3: been the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism for forty 136 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 3: seven years. They provide ninety percent of the funding for Hamas, 137 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:17,640 Speaker 3: for Hesbaala and for the houthies. They've killed nearly one 138 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 3: thousand Americans in the last five decades. The Ayahtola he 139 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 3: leads mobs channing death to America, and he hires two 140 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 3: different crews of hit men to try to murder Donald J. 141 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: Trump. Yeah, by the way, two and can you pause on. 142 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 4: That, for one was just convicted the last week of 143 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 4: doing so. 144 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: Yeah. 145 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, let's spend a moment on this 146 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 2: because this is part of the Democrats talking point and 147 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 2: I've been fighting this pretty hard on TV as well, 148 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 2: and they're like, well, they weren't. There was not a 149 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 2: direct threat here. This was not a direct threat to America. 150 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,239 Speaker 2: This is you're now putting people in harm's way. Let's 151 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,920 Speaker 2: make it very clear on this show as you described it, 152 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 2: not one but two that we know about were sent 153 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 2: to try to take out and kill the President of America. 154 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 1: That came directly from Iran. 155 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 3: And by the way, the hitman told the Department of Justice, 156 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 3: I was hired by Iran. I was trained by Iran, 157 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 3: and my purpose was to murder President Trump. There's no 158 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 3: dispute that it was Iran that was paying for this. 159 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 3: And I will note if you remember last year when 160 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 3: I was interviewed by Tucker Carlson, it was an unhinged interview. 161 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 4: But he disputed me. 162 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 3: He said, no, no, no, I've never heard that Iran's 163 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 3: trying to murder Donald Trump, which was insane and totally counterfactual. 164 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 3: And it's hard to actually argue with someone for whom 165 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 3: facts don't matter and they just make up facts. But 166 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 3: then Tucker said, bizarrely, well, and if Iran was trying 167 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 3: to murder Trump, we should attack them now, we should 168 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 3: nuke them, Yeah, which was insane. And by the way, 169 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 3: I will say, in Monday's podcast, we pointed out Tucker 170 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 3: has become such an Islamist shill, such an Israel hating zealot, 171 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 3: such an advocate for every Islamist enemy of America that 172 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 3: he has argued this week that President Trump's demand for 173 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 3: unconditional surrender of Iran means that Iran should expect American 174 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 3: soldiers to rape their wives and daughters. Yes, that is 175 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 3: an absolute slander of our American servicemen and women. It 176 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 3: is totally false, it is ahistorical. We don't do that. 177 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 3: Other armies do that. America does not. And he also 178 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 3: argued that he thinks America is going to nuke Iran. 179 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 3: To be clear, that's what Jahadis Tucker said in his 180 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,959 Speaker 3: interview we should do if Iran was trying to murder 181 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 3: President Trump. We now have one of the hit men 182 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 3: convicted in a federal jury for trying to murder Trump. 183 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 3: So Tucker's bad faith, disingenuous position is we should nuke them. 184 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 3: Of course we should nuke them. We're not gonna nuke Iran. 185 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 3: That is bizarre, that is wrong. We're also not There 186 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,679 Speaker 3: is no circumstance in which American soldiers are going to 187 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 3: rape the women of Iran. But do you know who 188 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 3: is broadcasting Tucker's broadcast right now? 189 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 2: Literally, Iran state sponsored media is broadcasting it to their people. 190 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 3: The government of Iran is broadcasting Tucker to their people. 191 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:46,079 Speaker 3: The Muslim Brotherhood has retweeted and put out Tucker's broadcast 192 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 3: to the world r T the press organization Russia. Russia 193 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 3: today is pushing out Tucker. So you want to talk 194 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 3: about a damn effective propagandist for people who hate America. 195 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 3: And this is the slippery slope of Jew hate and 196 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,840 Speaker 3: Israel hate. You start with just hating Israel and Jews 197 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 3: blaming everything bad in the world, it's the Jews, and 198 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 3: you very quickly get into. 199 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 4: The problem is capitalism. 200 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 3: By the way, Tucker is now attacking capitalism on a 201 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 3: daily basis and embracing He's embraced Comrade Mondami as the 202 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 3: mayor of New York. 203 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 4: He's defended him repeatedly. 204 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 3: He's embraced Nicholas Maduro, the Marxist America hating dictator of Venezuela, 205 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 3: who Donald Trump went and rightly apprehended for being one 206 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 3: of the biggest drug dealers in the world, killing Americans. 207 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 3: Tucker is defending him, and that pattern is incredibly dangerous. 208 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 3: We're seeing it play out every day. 209 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: By the way, side note, this is going to be interesting. 210 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 2: I want you to guess in two thousand, this would 211 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 2: probably be two thousand and nine, eight or nine, my 212 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: big today today to date, right now, the biggest contract 213 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 2: I've ever been offered in mind higher life to do 214 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 2: radio TV. 215 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: Do you know who it was from? 216 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 3: I'm guessing Tucker, And what I want to ask is, 217 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:08,679 Speaker 3: did you have to buy a home and cut her? 218 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: Like he has no. 219 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 2: No, that's a good guess, but no, it was not. 220 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 2: My biggest offer in the history of my career was RT. 221 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 2: They tried to hire. They were trying to hire conservatives, 222 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,840 Speaker 2: and so in two thousand whatever year they like, they 223 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 2: came into America in the marketplace. 224 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 4: How much did they offer you? 225 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 1: Oh dude, it was seven figures. 226 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 2: I mean it was I don't remember, Like seriously, I 227 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,080 Speaker 2: get rich, like instant, get rich money. 228 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 4: So like they offered you over a million dollars. 229 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: Yes, over a million dollars. 230 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 3: So the likes to say Vladimir Putin is wise and 231 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:41,120 Speaker 3: a damn good looking man. 232 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 2: So this is how they entrap people. As I describe it, 233 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 2: I was in the bush years. I get a phone 234 00:12:47,679 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 2: call from a former worker slash, you know, TV executive 235 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: from Fox News Channel, and they said, Hey, I've moved 236 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 2: on to something else. I'd love to meet with you. 237 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 2: I'm like, sure, more than happy to me. I'd worked 238 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 2: with them before at Fox News Channel. Like, okay, big deal. 239 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,719 Speaker 2: I go to lunch in DC, that's where I was 240 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 2: living the time, and she hands me her card and 241 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:10,679 Speaker 2: she's working for RT and I'm like RT like Russia today, 242 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 2: like and she's like yes, and she's like, we would 243 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 2: love to have you come on and just give your viewpoint. 244 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 2: We would never tell you what to say. We would 245 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,160 Speaker 2: never tell you what to like. You know, we want 246 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 2: you to just be exactly who you are. We want 247 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 2: a fair and balanced conversation about the world. We think 248 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 2: you would be great. I was like, I was like, 249 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 2: I'm still in shock. I'm like, this is I'm like 250 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:31,760 Speaker 2: looking for cameras. I'm waiting for, like you know, somebody 251 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,559 Speaker 2: to come out like from the side room like we 252 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:34,040 Speaker 2: got him. 253 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: And I'm like I literally looked. 254 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 2: I was like, there's no amount of money that is 255 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: gonna make me work for the Russia and for BLA. 256 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: I think, I said Vladimir put and they were like, well, 257 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,160 Speaker 2: here's the offer, and they slid across the table. 258 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: It was like a scene ow of the movie. And 259 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: I opened it. 260 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 2: It was I mean it was seven figures and I 261 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: literally I literally number. 262 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:50,880 Speaker 4: Tell me what seven figures means? 263 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 2: Do you remember that it was well over a million 264 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 2: per year but it was a multi year deal, so 265 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:55,319 Speaker 2: it was like. 266 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 3: It was like a million one, a million nine, like 267 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,200 Speaker 3: I can't remember if. 268 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 2: It was like I want to say again a long time. 269 00:14:01,280 --> 00:14:02,920 Speaker 2: I want to say, it's like a million two or three. 270 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 2: And that was their first offer per year. And so 271 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,440 Speaker 2: I leave the meeting and I'm like, look, I'm not 272 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 2: gonna do it, but things, I just think about it, 273 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm not gonna do it, but things 274 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 2: They're like, well, if you ever want to come as 275 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 2: a guess or if you ever change your mind. So 276 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 2: I leave and I called John Ashcroft at the time, 277 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 2: he was the former Turity General. I was like, John, 278 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 2: I just got offered money from Vladimir Putin. He was 279 00:14:22,040 --> 00:14:24,760 Speaker 2: like started chuckling, like Santa. He was like Russia today. 280 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 2: I was like, yay. He's like, you're like the eighth 281 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,320 Speaker 2: person's called me today to tell me the last week 282 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 2: they're getting an offer from russiaday because they're trying to 283 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 2: legitimize themselves in America for their propaganda, and then they 284 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:39,240 Speaker 2: were on TV until they invaded Ukraine and then Artie 285 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,360 Speaker 2: like fired everybody in America. But I knew people that 286 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,840 Speaker 2: took the money and got rich, Like I knew like legitiularly, 287 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 2: like yeah, take the Russian cash like, no problem. That 288 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 2: is by the way, the reason why I bring it 289 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: up is because with Tucker Carlson, when everybody's like, well, 290 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 2: there is there really money to be made to be 291 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,280 Speaker 2: like anti America, anti Israel? Yes, there is lots of 292 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 2: money that people are getting paid. I don't know who's 293 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 2: getting paid, but a lot of people are getting so 294 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 2: just know that much. 295 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 3: So, by the way, we know that a foreign funders 296 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 3: for US universities. 297 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, the number one country in the world. You know 298 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 4: what it is? 299 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:10,880 Speaker 1: Is it China? 300 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 4: Nope? 301 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: Really, Russia? 302 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 4: Nope? Iran nope? 303 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: All right, who is it? 304 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 4: Cutter? 305 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: Oh that okay, there you go. 306 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 3: Six point six billion dollars with a b. 307 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: Six point six billion comes from cut to our universities. 308 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 4: To our universities. 309 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 3: You want to know why our universities are so rabidly 310 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 3: anti American, so rabidly anti Semitics, so rabidly anti Israel, 311 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 3: so rabidly anti capitalism, so rabidly. Look you look at 312 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 3: the anti Semitic protests that we had on college campuses 313 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 3: all across the country. Yeah, did any of you notice 314 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:49,880 Speaker 3: that the tents all matched? 315 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: Yeah? There you go. 316 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 4: And to be clear, cutter. 317 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 3: By the way, it's been publicly reported they hired spies 318 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 3: to spy on me. They view me as their biggest 319 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 3: opponent in Washington, and listen, it's very simple. I don't 320 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 3: have anything against the Kutaris other than they welcome and host. 321 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 4: Hold. 322 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 3: Let me finish this, Let me finish this. I don't 323 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 3: have anything against the Kataris other than that they welcome 324 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:23,560 Speaker 3: and host the senior leadership of Hamas. They live like billionaires, 325 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 3: They live in lavish luxury. They support Hamas, they encourage Hamas. 326 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 3: They fund Israel haters, America haters, communists, people tearing America down. 327 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,560 Speaker 3: They propagandize our kids. I'm perfectly happy to welcome the 328 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 3: Qataris into the society of civilized nation if they will 329 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 3: stop funding people trying to destroy America. And I don't 330 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 3: take it kindly when you write lots of checks to 331 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 3: people who hate American or trying to destroy our nation. 332 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,560 Speaker 3: I view that as less than friendly conduct. 333 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 2: Having just come back from Israel, I want to paint 334 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,080 Speaker 2: you a picture. It's midnight, sirens are blaring and and 335 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 2: you have only seconds to grab your child and run. 336 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:07,639 Speaker 2: Now imagine your elderly your legs don't work like they 337 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 2: used to. Getting downstairs feels impossible, and after all of that, 338 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 2: you end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days, 339 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 2: because you can't make the trek again. This is what's 340 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 2: happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are 341 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:29,280 Speaker 2: being traumatized, families are just exhausted, and homes have been destroyed. 342 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,959 Speaker 2: And that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews 343 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 2: is there on the ground, bringing food, emergency equipment, care 344 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 2: for those children, and help for the elderly, and supplying 345 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 2: the bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed essentials. 346 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 2: If you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand 347 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 2: for Israel and stand for good against evil, this is it. 348 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 2: And that's why I'm asking to now please act, give 349 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: forty five dollars right now to rush life saving essentials 350 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 2: to the vulnerable under fire. You can also call eight 351 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 2: eight eight for eight eight I f c J. That's 352 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 2: eight eight eight for eight eight I f c J. 353 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 2: Join me and give and make a real difference online 354 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 2: at IFCJ dot org. 355 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: That's if c J dot org. 356 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 2: By the way, to everyone in guitar, that's a spy 357 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:23,959 Speaker 2: listening right now. I just want you to know. And 358 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,440 Speaker 2: this is the comment Ted's life is very boring. Sometimes 359 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 2: he really is sathnical. It's not there's nothing exciting happening there. 360 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 3: I just want to be cool, right, can I can 361 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 3: I tell a story And it's a story some of 362 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 3: our podcast listeners will will will remember. So back in 363 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, when I'm running for president and it's it's 364 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 3: getting down to to the end of the race, and 365 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 3: it's me and Donald Trump and we're neck and neck. 366 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 3: And in that race, I won twelve states, Trump won 367 00:18:56,960 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 3: twenty four and no other Republican one more than a 368 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 3: single state Kaseikuan, Ohio, Rubio one Minnesota, and trumpet I 369 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:08,199 Speaker 3: won every other state in the country. And in the 370 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 3: course of that campaign, there was a story that broke 371 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 3: in the National Inquirer that said I was having five 372 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 3: simultaneous affairs and. 373 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 4: This is front page, big story. 374 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 3: Cruise caught yes, and look, Ben, you know my wife, 375 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 3: Heidi da. 376 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:30,439 Speaker 4: I had to call Heidi. 377 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 3: And for anyone married, let me say to everyone listening 378 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 3: and watching this spot, if you're married, I got to 379 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 3: tell you it sucks to pick up the phone and 380 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,960 Speaker 3: call your spouse and say a sweetheart. So there is 381 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,639 Speaker 3: a front page story that is in every checkout aisle 382 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:55,600 Speaker 3: of every supermarket in America that said I'm having five 383 00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 3: simultaneous affairs and I ad dore Heidi. 384 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,200 Speaker 4: She's my best friend the world. But I was nervous 385 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 4: about this call. 386 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,880 Speaker 3: That is not a fun If you had a call 387 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 3: on and say that, that would be a call that sucked. 388 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 4: So I make the call. Do you know Heidi's reaction, Well. 389 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 2: I I know this story and I know exactly the reaction, 390 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 2: which is the best part about the whole story. 391 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 3: Heidi burst into a uporious laughter. 392 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 4: She's like doubled over laughing, and I actually got offended. 393 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 4: I'm like, sweetheart, it's not true, but damn it, I could. 394 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 4: I mean, like, what are you saying? Like? I like, 395 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 4: I didn't, but but. 396 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 2: You're that undesirable. That's what she's saying right there. There's 397 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 2: no way. 398 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,160 Speaker 3: And I gotta say for the Qatari spies, I think 399 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 3: they were frustrated because look, I have dinner many nights 400 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 3: in DC at Capitol Garrell. 401 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,600 Speaker 4: You and I have had dinner many times there. Yes, 402 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 4: we had my black fact. 403 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:55,920 Speaker 1: To be clear, I don't think you and I have 404 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 1: ever had dinner anywhere else in d C. But there. 405 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:06,440 Speaker 1: That's how mondand Okay even exist in DC. In the world. Look, 406 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: I'm if you're cheating on anybody, it's capital grill. That 407 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: would be the story. 408 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 4: I'm a homebody. Listen. 409 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 3: When I was in law school, I lived in the 410 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 3: dorms Hemingway. I lived in Hastings Hall, which is a dorm. 411 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 3: I lived there three years. Right next to it was 412 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 3: Hemingway Gym, and then right next to it was Gannett 413 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 3: House was the Law Review. 414 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 4: That triangle was maybe three hundred yards. 415 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 3: I spent almost every waking moment of three years of 416 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 3: law school in that triangle between my dorm, the gym, 417 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 3: and the lar Review. That was basically I would go 418 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 3: to class occasionally, but it was essentially that triangle DC. 419 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 3: I rarely, like, like cap Girl is six blocks away 420 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 3: from the Capitol. 421 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 4: I rarely go beyond that that that radius. 422 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 3: But I will tell you in twenty sixteen, my opponents, 423 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 3: and more than one of my opponents, was like flashing 424 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 3: major chunks of cash, trying to get waiters and waitresses 425 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 3: to like rat on me, like running around and getting 426 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 3: busy with some Washington Line. 427 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 2: They were looking for an Easter and Peo don't realize this. 428 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 2: This is real in politics, like they. 429 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 4: Go to they're dragging through trying to get. 430 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 1: Me hand out cash to anybody. 431 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 2: They'll give them a story so they can report it 432 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,560 Speaker 2: as someone who says in this world, and I. 433 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:23,400 Speaker 3: Got to say, like, my life is just pretty damn 434 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 3: boring on that. And I will tell you I actually 435 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 3: I want to take a minute. I want to speak 436 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 3: to the men listening to this podcast. I want to 437 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 3: share some wisdom. So our pastor is Greg Mott, and 438 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 3: actually you now go to our church. You used to 439 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:37,479 Speaker 3: go to Second Baptist, you now go to First Baptist. 440 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 3: Greg Mott is a wonderful, dear friend. He's a man 441 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 3: of God. Before you moved First Pastor, Greg did a 442 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,159 Speaker 3: sermon series. It was like I think six weeks and 443 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,000 Speaker 3: it was on King David. And I really enjoyed that 444 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 3: sermon series. King David was remarkable person in the Bible. 445 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 3: And I remember he was covering the chapter on Bathsheba. 446 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 3: And if you remember, King David is standing on the 447 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 3: roof of his palace and he looks down and he 448 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 3: sees Bestsheba, the most beautiful woman in the land, and 449 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 3: he gazes upon her, and he ultimately ends up bringing 450 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 3: her in and sending her husband your riot to the 451 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 3: front lines and killing him and sleeping with her and 452 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 3: then marrying her. And God extracts the price of killing 453 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 3: her firstborn son, although her next son was King Solomon. 454 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 3: So he did continue the line. But Pastor Gregg is 455 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,160 Speaker 3: talking about and he just stops. He says, all right, 456 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,719 Speaker 3: I want to talk to all the men in the congregation, 457 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 3: and he says, you may be by. 458 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:37,879 Speaker 2: The way if you're this podcast and you want to 459 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 2: hear greg Mont's voice, like, go listen to one of 460 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 2: his sermons and you'll understand how good he is at 461 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 2: delivering these types of lines. 462 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:49,639 Speaker 3: Continue it's and by the way, Pastor Gregg started his ministry. 463 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,560 Speaker 4: He was a student at Texas A and M. 464 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 3: And he started a little Bible study in his dorm 465 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,640 Speaker 3: room or his apartment, and it started with a few students. 466 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:00,960 Speaker 3: It grew into what's called away and he would have 467 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 3: ten thousand students a week meeting in the basketball gymnasium. 468 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 3: So where we go to church. First Baptist Church is 469 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 3: an institution in Houston. I went there as a little kid. 470 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 3: Doctor John Bassania was the pastor forty years ago and 471 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 3: he was a Houston institution. By the way, the church 472 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 3: was founded, do you know the story? Do you know 473 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 3: when the church was founded? No, so the church was founded. 474 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,840 Speaker 3: I don't know the exact year, but Texas was an 475 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 3: independent nation between eighteen thirty six and eighteen forty five, 476 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 3: and First Baptist Church of Houston was founded somewhere in 477 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 3: that nine year period. 478 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 4: I don't remember the year. 479 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 3: And Pastor Greg said one time, he said, look, this 480 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 3: church was actually founded by American missionaries who were coming 481 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 3: to a foreign nation. And the foreign nation was the 482 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 3: Republic of Texas. So American nations went from America to 483 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 3: the Republic of Texas and they founded the church. Anyway, 484 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 3: what he said to the men in the church, and 485 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,560 Speaker 3: by the way, so so Pastor Greg built up Breakaway 486 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 3: and it was getting ten thousand students a week to 487 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,439 Speaker 3: come to this Bible study at A and M. And 488 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 3: then when doctor Bassanio retired, First Baptist did a search, 489 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 3: who's our new pastor and they actually found Pastor Greg. 490 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,280 Speaker 3: He was thirty three years old and they brought him in. 491 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 3: He'd never pastor to church. He just like led this 492 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 3: Bible study at A and M. They brought him in 493 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 3: and he's led. 494 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 4: Pastor. 495 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,320 Speaker 3: Greg and I are exactly the same age, we're both 496 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 3: fifty five, and they brought him in like and he's 497 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 3: become our pastor, and he is. 498 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 4: He's a great pastor. 499 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,240 Speaker 3: But what I admire most about him is he's incredibly humble. 500 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,840 Speaker 4: Yes, like Heidi doesn't like megachurches. 501 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 3: She grew up in a very small church in the 502 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 3: central coast California. She likes small, intimate churches where you 503 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,160 Speaker 3: have forty people there on Sunday morning, like like where 504 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,879 Speaker 3: everyone knows everyone. And First Baptist is a huge church. 505 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 3: The only reason we go there is because she likes 506 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,080 Speaker 3: Pastor grew so much that she's just like, all right, 507 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,720 Speaker 3: I will endure the larger. 508 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,640 Speaker 1: The larger crowds. Yeah. 509 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,199 Speaker 3: But part of the reason she likes him and I 510 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,919 Speaker 3: like him is he is genuinely humble and he's a 511 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 3: godly man. Like he's a lot of pastors of megachurches 512 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 3: are are are frankly arrogant. I mean, hubris, look hubris is. 513 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 1: They become rock stars in a bubble. 514 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 3: Pride is a temptation in the ministry. It's a temptation 515 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,959 Speaker 3: in politics, it's a temptation in the media. Like you 516 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:35,920 Speaker 3: like it's it's easy when you're surrounded by adulation to 517 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 3: believe it, and it's hard to resist it. And I 518 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 3: will say Pastor Greg does an amazing job. He and 519 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,960 Speaker 3: I spend every month. Actually something we've started this year 520 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 3: which I'm really grateful for. He's begun coming over to 521 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 3: my house once a month Sunday afternoons or evenings, just 522 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 3: to have a Bible study and prayer session together, which 523 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 3: I'm grateful for. But anyway, his David sermon, when he 524 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,520 Speaker 3: talks about Bethshiv, he says, I want to talk to 525 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,720 Speaker 3: the men in the congregation, and he said, you may 526 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 3: think you are strong, you may think you have an integrity, 527 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 3: you have resolved, and he said, I want to tell 528 00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 3: you when temptation presents. 529 00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 4: Itself, run run, just get away. 530 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 3: He said, the mistake David made is he's on the 531 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,880 Speaker 3: roof of his palacies looking down and he kept watching. 532 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 3: What David should have done is turn around. And by 533 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:34,320 Speaker 3: the way, the Bible describes David as a man after 534 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 3: God's own heart. And he said David should have turned 535 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 3: around and just gotten himself out of that. 536 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,119 Speaker 2: So before we wrap, I want to get back to 537 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 2: something else political world that I do think is important 538 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 2: for us to cover real quick, and that is the 539 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,920 Speaker 2: one thing that the Democrats seem to be being able 540 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 2: to grab on. And thing tangible here is gas prices. 541 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,880 Speaker 2: I know you've been around the president. See the President's 542 00:27:57,880 --> 00:27:59,359 Speaker 2: been pretty queer about this. This is going to be 543 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 2: short terming increase. Democrats do seem to be latching onto this. 544 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 2: Like remember when egg prices is like a big thing 545 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 2: and the put a world. Yep, this is the new 546 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 2: egg price thing, right. Oh my gosh, Donald Trump say's 547 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,439 Speaker 2: a lower price to the pump for you. Look at 548 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 2: it now, Look how bad it is. Now it's gonna 549 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 2: be you know, ten hours a gallon in California, it's 550 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: gonna be five six hours gallon everywhere else. 551 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 1: The presents come out and says it's gonna be short term. 552 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: I believe him. 553 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,679 Speaker 2: I think also seeing how hard we're hitting a ran 554 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 2: right now, is also showing the timeline here that they 555 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 2: are wanting to do everything as fast asy can. Why 556 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 2: drag this out, go all in, do it quickly, get 557 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,960 Speaker 2: the pain over with and let those people hopefully rise 558 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 2: up and take over a ran and actually move forward. 559 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: Are you that worried about about the gas prices? I'm 560 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 1: I'm not yet. 561 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 2: Like if it's three months from now or two months 562 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 2: from now, I'm going to be more worried. But right 563 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:51,360 Speaker 2: now I feel like this is exactly on schedule or 564 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 2: ahead of schedule, as the White House has described it. 565 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 4: Yeah. 566 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,200 Speaker 3: So, look, there's been a short term increase in gas prices, 567 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 3: and anytime there's a military conflict in the Middle gas 568 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 3: prices go up because a lot of oil comes from 569 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 3: the Middle East, and so military conflict has an effect 570 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:10,960 Speaker 3: on supply demand. I think this will be short term. 571 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:15,320 Speaker 3: One of the things to remember is, so six months ago, 572 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,480 Speaker 3: gas prices were about I don't have the exact number 573 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 3: off the top of my head, but about two dollars 574 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 3: and fifty cents a gallon. 575 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 4: They've risen about a dollar. They're about three dollars and 576 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 4: fifty cents a gallon. 577 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 3: This is national averages, and so it is true that 578 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 3: over the last six months gasoline prices have risen. Where 579 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 3: were they eighteen months ago? Under Joe Biden there were 580 00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:42,360 Speaker 3: nearly six dollars a gallon, So by any measure, they're 581 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,920 Speaker 3: massively cheaper than Joe Biden. Yes, they've gone up from 582 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 3: about two fifty to about three fifty, But I think 583 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 3: this is a short term increase. And I got to say, 584 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 3: if and when the Iranian regime collapses, and by the way, 585 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 3: we've utterly degraded their military and we've taken out the Ittolin, 586 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,000 Speaker 3: the senior military leadership, if and when we have a 587 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 3: government in Iran that is not a radical theocratic Islamist 588 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,560 Speaker 3: government who wants to murder America, who is funding terrorists 589 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,720 Speaker 3: all across the world, who is actively trying to murder 590 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 3: Americans every single day, if we have just a normal government, 591 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 3: I don't really care who we have, just as long 592 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 3: as it's not a crazy person killing Americans. The effect 593 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 3: on global gas prices will be to lower them significantly. 594 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 3: So I actually think this conflict in the long term 595 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 3: or even the medium term, will have a substantial downward 596 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 3: pressure on gasoline prices. There's a short period where prices 597 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 3: have spiked somewhat, although to be clear, they're much much 598 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 3: lower than under Biden, but they are higher than they 599 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 3: were six months ago under Trump. Look, I think the 600 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,200 Speaker 3: Democrats are attacking gas prices because they hate Trump and 601 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:55,760 Speaker 3: they're just everything Trump does is wrong. This is an 602 00:30:55,800 --> 00:31:01,800 Speaker 3: incredibly important decision that Trump has made for advancing US 603 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 3: national security. And I will say part of the reason why, 604 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 3: when like I was being questioned on Lindsay Graham, I 605 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 3: like Lindsay as I said, I agree with him sometimes, 606 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 3: I disagree with them sometimes. But what the questioning really 607 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 3: was about, isn't the Iran war about Israel? Isn't this 608 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 3: all about Israel? And the suggestion was Israel or is 609 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:25,920 Speaker 3: a puppet master controlling Donald Trump? That's just a blatant lie. 610 00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,800 Speaker 3: This military conflict has very little to do with Israel. 611 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,560 Speaker 3: The reason President Trump decided to attack Iran is because 612 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 3: Iran has been waging war with America for forty seven 613 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,960 Speaker 3: years and they've killed nearly a thousand Americans and they're 614 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 3: the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world. And 615 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 3: so the people trying to say I don't want another 616 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 3: war for Israel, I don't want my children to die 617 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:57,080 Speaker 3: for the Jews, that is that is not honest, Because 618 00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 3: we're doing this because the regime in Iran is killing Americans. 619 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,200 Speaker 3: And to be clear, if they had the capacity, if 620 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,480 Speaker 3: they had nuclear weapons, they would kill many, many more 621 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 3: Americans if they could. They would kill you and me 622 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 3: right now, Ben, if they could, every listener of this podcast, 623 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 3: they would kill If they had a nuclear weapon, I 624 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,280 Speaker 3: believe there is a real possibility they would detonate it 625 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 3: in the skies of Tel Aviv or New. 626 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 4: York or Los Angeles. 627 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 3: And I'm not interested in seeing a day where hundreds 628 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 3: of thousands of Americans are murdered by an iatola channing 629 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 3: death to America. That's why President Trump acted. But it 630 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 3: was not about Israel. It was about America, and I 631 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 3: think we need to be very very clear about that. 632 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 2: I want you to pause what you're doing for just 633 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 2: one minute, and I want you to hear about Alejandra. 634 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 2: She lives in a remote community with very few resources 635 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 2: and little to no healthcare. So when Alejandra gets sick, 636 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,600 Speaker 2: her parents have no re options, no doctors in their community, 637 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 2: and no money for real medical care. By the third day, 638 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,360 Speaker 2: her body was shutting down. She woke up and just 639 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 2: long enough to tell her mom, I can't take the 640 00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 2: pain anymore. I can't keep going. Her parents drove hours 641 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,880 Speaker 2: to find a doctor who tried everything, but she needed 642 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 2: a private hospital and that was impossible for her family 643 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 2: to afford, and that is when Compassion International stepped in. Now, 644 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:33,920 Speaker 2: through Compassion, Alejandra was treated and against all odds, she survived. 645 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:39,480 Speaker 2: She lived because someone just like you took action. Right now, Unfortunately, 646 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 2: there are children just like Alejandra who won't survive unless 647 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 2: someone like you steps in. 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That's Compassion dot com. 652 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:11,719 Speaker 2: I also think one of the other things that I 653 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 2: think is really frustrating is just seeing how many people 654 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,320 Speaker 2: act as if somehow Donald Trump was hoodwinked by Israel 655 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:18,759 Speaker 2: for us to get involved in this war. 656 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 1: And you were asked about that. 657 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,959 Speaker 2: I was asked about as well on TV, and I said, 658 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 2: that is the biggest load of crap I've heard in 659 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 2: a long time. President Trump isn't hoodwink by anybody. President 660 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,359 Speaker 2: Trump isn't walked around by anyone, And if you've ever 661 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 2: been around them, you know that. I think it goes 662 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,360 Speaker 2: back to what you just said, the President understood the 663 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 2: national security risks not to Israel. All right, there is 664 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,800 Speaker 2: America first, correct, it's America and the national security threat 665 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,360 Speaker 2: to America. And clear the fact that they're trying to 666 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 2: kill and have sent people and train people and pay 667 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,799 Speaker 2: people to try to kill the president of the United 668 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,840 Speaker 2: States of America. Also people in the last administration. John Bolton, 669 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,400 Speaker 2: for example, was one of those. There's several others on 670 00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,319 Speaker 2: this list that have actually have been they've had. 671 00:34:59,280 --> 00:34:59,879 Speaker 4: Hits at all. 672 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,879 Speaker 1: Brian Hook, Yes, exactly, So you go with the list here. 673 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:08,600 Speaker 2: The President was clear about this that this is about America. 674 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 2: And I think that's another example when I said there's 675 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 2: like four or five working theories Democrats throw on Joe 676 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:15,759 Speaker 2: at to wall saying does any of this fit with Americans? 677 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,759 Speaker 2: I also think it's very interesting and final thing to you, 678 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 2: I don't think the American people are buying this. And 679 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 2: part of it's because I think Democrats have just said 680 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,080 Speaker 2: some of those orlandis and crazy things on every issue, 681 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,560 Speaker 2: tried to hurt Donald Trump. Now it's becoming a little 682 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 2: bit more of white noise, and that's that I'm thankful 683 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:33,319 Speaker 2: for that. 684 00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:36,000 Speaker 4: To be honest with you, Yeah, no, I think that's right. 685 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,879 Speaker 3: And look, some of the reaction of the voters will 686 00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:43,759 Speaker 3: depend on how this plays out. If this military conflict 687 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 3: lasts many months or years, if we're sitting here a 688 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,239 Speaker 3: year from now and still mired to military conflict, if 689 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:53,320 Speaker 3: we've got a massive troop presence on the Great Ground, 690 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,839 Speaker 3: if we have hundreds or thousands of American soldiers being killed. 691 00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 4: This war will be very unpopular. 692 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the chances of that happening are very 693 00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:04,920 Speaker 3: very close to zero percent. 694 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:07,439 Speaker 4: Iran is not a raq. 695 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 3: We're not going to see a massive troop presence on 696 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 3: the ground. We're not going to see an extended military occupation. Actually, 697 00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 3: I want you to listen to Pete haig Seth making 698 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 3: this point, and we're going to wrap up on this. Listen, 699 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,879 Speaker 3: listen to the Secretary of War, Pete hegg Seth. 700 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,719 Speaker 5: You see, this is not two thousand and three. This 701 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,799 Speaker 5: is not endless nation building under those types of quagmires 702 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,560 Speaker 5: we saw under Bush or Obama. It's not even close. 703 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,600 Speaker 5: Our generation of soldier will not let that happen again, 704 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 5: and nor will this president, who very clearly ran against 705 00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 5: those kinds of never ending nebulously scoped missions. Those days 706 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 5: are dead. Instead, we're winning decisively with brutal efficiency, total 707 00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 5: air dominance, and an unbreakable will to accomo pumplish the 708 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:05,520 Speaker 5: President's objectives on our timeline. We stay locked on the 709 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 5: target because here at the Department of War, that's our job. 710 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: You listen to Pete there. 711 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,560 Speaker 2: This is one of the reasons why I actually think 712 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 2: it was a blessing that he was named and made 713 00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:15,400 Speaker 2: it through confirmation. 714 00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,960 Speaker 3: He's a guy, he's a combat veteran who's been in 715 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 3: harm's way. 716 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a guy that I think is genuinely 717 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 2: in the room advocating to make sure that what happened 718 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,680 Speaker 2: to a lot of his colleagues when he was serving 719 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:32,000 Speaker 2: in uniform and deployed, that doesn't happen to this group 720 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:33,040 Speaker 2: of soldiers now. 721 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,080 Speaker 1: And it's clear that this is personal for him. 722 00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 2: That's why I'm so thankful that he's there in this position, 723 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 2: because he lived the other side of it that he 724 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 2: was just describing. 725 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:49,240 Speaker 3: Right, Look, avoiding endless wars does not mean embracing isolationism. Yeah, 726 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 3: peace through strength is what Reagan called it. Donald Trump 727 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,800 Speaker 3: just understands it as being a strong commander in chief 728 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 3: that when people are killing Americans, he is going to 729 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,200 Speaker 3: respond vigorously to take them out. And by the way, 730 00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,879 Speaker 3: our enemies are terrified. As I've said before, at three 731 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 3: am on January third, there was not a Latin American 732 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,000 Speaker 3: dictator who didn't have to change his shorts because that's 733 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 3: when President Trump sees Nicholas Maduro, what is happening in Iran. 734 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,399 Speaker 3: The top leadership has been taken out. Every bad guy, 735 00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,680 Speaker 3: every person who hates America is really really worried right 736 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,719 Speaker 3: now because this is a nation that defends itself. And 737 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,319 Speaker 3: by the way, that makes clear if you kill Americans, 738 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 3: there are going to be massive consequences to it. Barack 739 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,920 Speaker 3: Obama and Joe Biden's weakness and appeasement that if you 740 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 3: kill Americans, oh well, we're not going to do anything 741 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,120 Speaker 3: about it, that invites more people to target and kill Americans. 742 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,759 Speaker 3: This is about avoiding war by being strong enough to 743 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,879 Speaker 3: take out the people that are killing Americans, and that 744 00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:57,520 Speaker 3: avoids protracted military conflict. I think that's what we're seeing 745 00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,000 Speaker 3: right now, and it makes America a whole lot safer. 746 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:01,319 Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. 747 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,480 Speaker 2: For everybody listening, thank you for joining us as we 748 00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 2: do a dual pod with the Ben Ferguson podcast and 749 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 2: Vertic with tech Cruise. Don't forget hit that subscriber auto 750 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,120 Speaker 2: download button wherever you're listening right now, and if you 751 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,200 Speaker 2: want to watch the show, it's also on YouTube Vertic 752 00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,400 Speaker 2: with teg Cruise. There you can watch it on Facebook 753 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,719 Speaker 2: as well, and we'll see you back here in a 754 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:20,400 Speaker 2: couple of days.