1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,160 Speaker 1: These were the images when the war in Iraq ended 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: and the war in Afghanistan. After the war in Iraq ended, 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 1: American forces returned to Iraq to fight ISIS. And here 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 1: we are on the verge of another war in the 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: Middle East. And yes, American boots will be on the ground. 6 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 1: It's a euphemism, of course, boots on the ground, an 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,560 Speaker 1: easy jargon, a turn of phrase for the armchair generals 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 1: like Mark Levan on television. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: will very soon be in harm's way in an escalation 10 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 1: for a war that America can't win. Once again. It 11 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: is Monday, March thirtieth. I'm Steve Schmidt. On Thursday, April 12 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: twond at noon, we'll be having our first members only 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 1: event on YouTube. Become a member so you can join. 14 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: This is the warning. What's happening in Iran should concern 15 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:14,880 Speaker 1: every American because soon the caskets with American flags will 16 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,319 Speaker 1: be coming home, and Trump, no doubt, will be standing 17 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: there with his campaign merchandise on his head, selling it 18 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: on his website for seventy five dollars, raising money off 19 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: of America's fallen war dead. No doubt, the Defense Secretary. 20 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 1: Pete Hagsath, who preposterously calls himself the Secretary of War, 21 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: will be inventing tales of how the father of a 22 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: fallen soldier asked him to complete the mission in Jesus' name, 23 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: no doubt. 24 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 2: So I'll close with scripture, drawing strength from Psalm One. 25 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,559 Speaker 2: Blessed be the Lord, my Rock, who trains my hands 26 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 2: for war and my fingers for battle. He is my 27 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 2: loving God, and my fortune, my stronghold, and my deliverer, 28 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 2: my shield in whom I take refuge. 29 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: What Donald Trump said at the beginning of the war 30 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: was stupid, it was reckless, and it has committed America 31 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: to a catastrophic path. What Donald Trump said at the beginning, 32 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: regardless of whether it's remembered by the American media, it 33 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: is certainly remembered in Tehran. It's remembered in the capitals 34 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,519 Speaker 1: around the world. What Donald Trump said a month ago 35 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:43,640 Speaker 1: was the bombing which quickly killed the Ayatola Kamane, would 36 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:47,160 Speaker 1: decapitate the Iranian regime and. 37 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 3: Topple it Irenz formerly Supreme leader. Ayatola Hamine is dead. 38 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 3: This wretched and vile man had the blood of hundreds 39 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 3: and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was 40 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,960 Speaker 3: responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people 41 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 3: all across many countries. 42 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,440 Speaker 1: The bombing has not toppled the Iranian regime, and this 43 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: is important to understand. The Iranian regime is not seeking 44 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 1: to sustain the Iranian Navy, It's not seeking to hold 45 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: on to the Iranian Air Force. It's seeking to hold 46 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: on to political power. And a month into taking some 47 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: of America's hardest shots, the Iranian Mullahs are entrenched and 48 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: holding on to power. Here was Donald Trump at the 49 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: beginning calling on Iranians to rise up. 50 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 3: No president was willing to do what I am willing 51 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 3: to do tonight. Now you have a president who is 52 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 3: giving you what you want. So let's see how you respond. 53 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 3: America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. 54 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 3: Now is the time to seize control of your destiny 55 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is 56 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,479 Speaker 3: close within your reach. This is the moment for action. 57 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 3: Do not let it pass. 58 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 1: There has been no rising up. The Iranian jackboot is 59 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:29,280 Speaker 1: solidly on the throats of the Iranian people, whom Trump 60 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 1: ignored when they were in the streets, when he could 61 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 1: have made a difference before they were killed, thirty thousand 62 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: of them by the brutality of the regime that now 63 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: mocks Trump with these lego cartoons winning the information war. 64 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: As the Iranian propaganda spreads across Western media, the whole 65 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:00,839 Speaker 1: world laughing at Trump, the naked Emperor, the American nero. 66 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: And so now Donald Trump, unable through bombing to topple 67 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: the Iranian regime, is ready to escalate, and he's playing 68 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: a game with other people's lives, with American lives in particular. 69 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: It's detestable. What Donald Trump has locked himself into is 70 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 1: a contest over territory against the nation of ninety three 71 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: million people in their country. Pete Hexath and Donald Trump 72 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: have said that the United States controls the skies over Tehran, 73 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: and that may be, but it doesn't control an inch 74 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 1: of Iranian territory on the land, and nor does it 75 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: have freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, the 76 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:04,279 Speaker 1: vital waterway that is the transport route, the vital artery 77 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: through which so much of the world's oil and natural 78 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: gas and fertilizer flows. The Iranian strategy to survive was 79 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 1: to make the war started by the United States and 80 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: Israel bigger, to make it a world war, to attack 81 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 1: the global economy. The Iranians, through the accident of history 82 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: and geography, control the Strait. The United States is long 83 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: said it has the ability at a whim to open 84 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: the strait should it ever be shut down. But in fact, 85 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 1: as has been demonstrated by Trump's events, that's not so. 86 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 3: The issue of the Strait of Hormuz and it ran 87 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 3: control of it charging tolls. 88 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 4: What do you think about, Well, I have to find out. 89 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 4: If it's shown, you know, they're going to do whatever 90 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 4: they have to do. We could close that up in 91 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 4: two minutes. We could close that up so fast your head, witsman. 92 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: Not in the era of the drone, not in the 93 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: era of the ballistic missile. And so here are images 94 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: from American bases across the Middle East in a war 95 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: where hundreds of Americans are wounded, and where there are 96 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: no American journalists embedded with American forces in the fight 97 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: which is expanding. Donald Trump is dancing at more a Lago, 98 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: playing golf by day, opining on tiger woods. His cabinet 99 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:51,119 Speaker 1: of misfits is planning what according to Mark Levin, held 100 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: as a genius by Trump, it's the invasion of Iran 101 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: to capture the uranium so a weapon can't be used 102 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: against us. And according to this guy, the cheerleader for 103 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: the Iraq war, it's because of the USS coal from 104 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: the late nineteen nineties. This is a disaster and the 105 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: escalation is going to bring this war home. I'm Steve Schmidt, 106 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,520 Speaker 1: and this is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is 107 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: the warning. I invite you to join this community, where 108 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: I promise to be honest, blunt and direct about what 109 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: is happening in this country. America is in crisis. Follow 110 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: and subscribe to this channel and on Substack. 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