WEBVTT - Countdown to Confrontation 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.520 Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.680 down our toll free telephone number this Friday. It's eight 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:06.880 hundred and nine to four one Sean if you want 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:10.399 to be a part of the program. Headline New York 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.960 Post today nuclear talks strike out goes on to say 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:19.880 Ran left talks with the US. This is Switzerland in 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:25.119 Geneva without a deal to end their nuclear program. State 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.080 Run TV actually confirmed that they'll never give up their 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.800 right to enrich uranium. And with President Trump's self imposed 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:37.800 deadline to reach an agreement now coming to an end 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.479 as soon as this weekend. I think Donald Trump is 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.280 pretty predictable, and we now know what is likely to 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.360 happen next. We're going to full report throughout the show. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.400 We're going to be monitoring the situation on the ground. 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:54.400 I can tell you both the State Department and that 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:59.120 Secretary of State Mark or Rubio, and also the US 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.000 Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee said, if you want to 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.880 get out, get out now. There was a picture in 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.480 this New York Post a stark, huge anti American message 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.959 displayed in the Iranian capital of Tehran. As these tensions mount, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.440 the President did say help is on the way, and 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.800 the President said he prefers peace, but he said that 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.080 the last time too, before Operation Midnight Hammer knocked out 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.600 and obliterated their nuclear facilities. Now we do know that 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:32.680 the uranium that the Iranians had, uranium that had been enriched, 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.240 that they had moved to other locations. We don't know 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:41.000 how much they have, although Steve Witkoff, the Middle Eastern envoy, 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:44.200 has said that, you know, he believes that they might 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.000 have much more than we knew, and that makes it 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.560 an even you know, greater pressure cooker, if you will. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.320 But as this deadline, pressure mounts, and you know, yesterday's 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.640 meeting took place one week after President Trump told the 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.640 Bar to Peace that he would decide whether to hit 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:09.119 this radicals, you know, Islamic fascist regime. By the way, 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:14.040 we're talking about radical Islamis. I'm not talking about anything 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.880 other than that. We know what Iran is, the number 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.840 one state sponsor of terror. They have been fomenting nothing 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.960 but death and terror in the region for a long time, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.679 serving as the proxies. You know, they have their proxies 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.440 all out throughout the region, Amasa and Gaza has Balah 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:36.760 in Lebanon, the Huti rebels. This is if I had 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.400 to guess this will be the end of this regime, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:42.640 I don't think they will be able to survive. We 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:48.000 have the largest military presence build up in the region 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:49.400 that we've had. 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:50.760 Since the Gulf War. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.360 And if you remember shock and Awe, I think Donald 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.120 Trump has already proven he's a shock and all guy, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.840 and in keeping with the Trump doctrite. Now, I know 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:06.040 there are some that claim that the Trump doctrine and 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.760 they clearly don't understand it because they clearly don't comprehend 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.040 how Donald Trump is rolling. Whatever he does do, I 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.400 believe will be consistent with the Trump doctrine of no 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:24.360 forever war and no forever wars period and no boots 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:27.640 on the ground period. And I've been telling people for 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.880 the longest time the future wars and conflicts are likely 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.280 not going to be fought conventionally on battlefields, especially with 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:41.080 emerging technology, the next generation of weaponry. And you can 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:45.280 already see this unfold. I mean, you know, in the 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.400 Twelve Day War, when Iran was firing all these two 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.200 thousand pound ballistic missiles, now they have four thousand pound 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.200 ballistic missiles. According to intelligence and reports that have been 0:03:55.200 --> 0:04:01.000 made public that this is a regime held on death. 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.640 And you would think after fourteen bunker buster bombs were 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:09.880 dropped on their nuclear facilities, and the fact that the 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:14.720 Israelis were so sophisticated they even took out the scientists 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:18.640 responsible for the nuclear program, just like they took out 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.479 like the top ten leaders of Hamas, and they took 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.920 out an Isralla in Lebanon, and they had the whole 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.080 Pager incident. You think that some of these people might 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:32.040 wise up and learn their lesson, because this is an 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.679 almost certain death sentence to the Iadtolas and the Mullos 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.640 in Iran. And it's certainly a different course than say 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.640 Obama or Biden took, which is, oh, just pretty please. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:45.320 With sugar on top. 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.960 You know, promise us that you're never gonna, you know, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.440 pursue a nuclear weapons program. And then they, you know, 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.120 send in cargo planes full of cash and other currencies 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.039 to the tune of billions and billions of dollars. 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.560 That is madness, and there was a deadline on it. 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.320 In other words, they can reconstitute the nuclear program after 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.479 they got the billions. How stupid, how weak? I doan't talk 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:16.160 about the very definition of appeasement. That's it now there is. 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.120 This is a different day, a different time, and a 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.960 very different tune and a very different president. And let 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.360 me remind some of you that don't understand the Trump doctrine, 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.800 no forever wars, no American boots on the ground, that 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:33.680 does not mean isolation ism. Can anyone dispute that Donald 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:39.599 Trump obliterating Iran's nuclear weapons program does not make the 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.040 world a safer place. You can't intelligently make that argument. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.719 I'm not a warmonger. I hate the fact that I 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.120 ask everybody to pray for our brave men and women 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.039 that are in the military, because you know their lives 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.680 will always be in jeopardy if there's a conflict, and 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.520 I don't want that. I wish evil didn't exist in 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.120 the world, but it does. And if we didn't learn 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:07.080 anything from the last hundred years between Mao and China 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:11.120 and Stalin and Russia, and Hitler in Germany and Mussolini 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.440 in Italy and Tojo in Japan and Paul pot in 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.200 the killing Fields and one hundred million human souls dead 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:24.560 because of one evil ism after another, I don't know 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.920 how you're ever gonna learn that lesson again. I mean, 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.040 you have idiots out there. Well, if you think that 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.960 you know, radical Islamic terrorism is a threat to us, 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:33.719 you're stupid. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.120 Okay, go back to nine to eleven. Oh one. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.680 Maybe it's a while ago. It's twenty five years since that. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.800 This is the twenty fifty year anniversary of nine to eleven. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.440 I remember it as vividly as a day it happened. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.680 I've not forgotten one bit. And for the families that 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.440 lost love with they haven't forgotten either. This is what 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:56.520 infuriates me about these anti Semitic bigots in the halls 0:06:56.520 --> 0:07:00.920 of Congress college campuses. It's now growing world wide, growing 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.520 in the punditry class, and these morons that don't have 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.400 a clue Israel, the only democracy in the region, and 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.960 what happened to them, and what they've been living through 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.440 for decades and decades and decades. And I've been to 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:17.120 Israel many times. I've been in this network of terror tunnels. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.960 You know, Linda, you were on one of those trips. 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.160 I think you actually were there when that one rocket 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.000 landed what one hundred yards from us. Yeah, And this 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.119 is what the people of Israel lived, you know, every 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.920 single day they live with. And you went down on 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.560 the terror tunnel. Don't you think you did? 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.960 No, they only took you. They only took you, you 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.040 and a cameraman. Well, they don't trust you. I mean, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:41.840 I get it. No, I'm kidding. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:45.360 I'm only kidding. But you saw the images of it. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.960 I mean, and think about there are hundreds of them. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:54.680 This was humanitarian aid given to the people in Gaza, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.400 so they can build hospitals and schools and get them 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.080 food and nutrition, medicines and so on and so forth. No, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.520 they instead they build out a sophisticated network of terror 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.400 tunnels so they can foment terror and try and kill 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.680 as many Jews as they want. And what happened on 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:15.240 October seventh, this is what I cannot comprehend from you 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:18.280 anti Semites out there, and I want no part of 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.000 any of you. I will have nothing to do with 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.800 those people. And we know who they are. And I'm 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.480 just telling you it is disgusting because what happened on 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.920 October seven, twenty twenty three in the IDF they did 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.400 share with members of the media for those that had 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.960 the stomach to watch it. I know that some of 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.600 my colleagues at Fox that were being shown by Israel 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.400 these videos. Now Hamas terrorists were taking the images of this. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.000 We have phone calls recorded that were, you know, through 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.360 surveillance of these Hamas killers, you know, calling home to 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.679 mom and dad, I just killed six Jews. I just 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.960 killed six of them. Lost over it thousand people. Here's 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.400 the difference. We lost twenty nine hundred and seventy seven 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.040 Americans on nine to elevenh one. By the way, Prime 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.320 Minister net and Yahoo he stood with us and in 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.760 solidarity with the United States on October seven, twenty twenty three. 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.440 They have less than ten million people that live in Israel. 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.480 That's it. That's the population size. And what they are 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:29.600 able to do militarily being surrounded by enemies is beyond 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.160 the human imagination. You want to know why they're so 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.720 innovative because they have to be to survive. They've been 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.679 surrounded by enemies that want to destroy them forever. And 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.160 it's the size of New Jersey, the entire country of Israel. 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:48.640 It's unbelievably inspiring what they're capable of doing. You know, 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.800 watching the Patriot missile system. Now they have new the 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.200 next generations of missile defense systems that have been set up, 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.160 and they're building out the next next generation of missile 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.120 defense systems. They weren't even during the Twelve Day War 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.200 able to stop every missile, but they you know, and 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.600 then you know what happened. If you extrapolate out the 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.600 population of Israel under ten million, and you compare it 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.640 to our population, what is it about three hundred and 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:18.560 sixty million that you know more than me? And that 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.839 would be the equivalent of losing about forty thousand Americans 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.680 in a single day. And then you look at these videos, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.120 and some of my colleagues did they they had to 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:32.080 walk out, and some people were just crying because you 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:36.600 saw on video murder and murder of young children, and 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.480 rape and torture and kidnapping and parents, you know, losing 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.560 their children to these kidnapper terrorists. You know, if you 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:47.520 do want to understand the Trump doctrine, look what he 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.600 did in his first term. He took out the isis 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:53.560 Caliphate that grew under Obama and Biden. He just wiped 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.160 them out because he understood the existential threat that is 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.760 radical islamis to believe in, convert or die. He took 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:06.040 out Solomani, the world's number one worst terrorists responsible for 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.000 killing Americans. He took him out on that tarmac. As 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.240 soon as that plane landed, and as soon as the 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.320 he was id on the ground, boom. They took him out. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.280 They were ready for him. They followed him for two weeks. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.960 I got the backstory. They did the same with Bagdaddy 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.440 and associates. During his first term, he dropped the mother 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.320 of all bombs on Afghanistan. He took out the Iranian 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.120 nuclear sites with Operation Midnight Hammer. Now if you look 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.679 at a map and where we are with this, and 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:41.360 this matters right now, in the Arabian Sea, we have 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.160 the USS Abraham Lincoln. Now this is you know, to 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.520 the south kind of as I'm looking at the map 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.320 that I'm in front of me, we have the USS 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:56.319 Abraham Lincoln and we have three destroyers there. And then 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.000 if you look, you know, off the coast of Kuwai 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.000 and off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Persian 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:08.880 Gulf where Cutter and we have our largest military base 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:14.800 and UAE, we have in that area five destroyers, three 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.640 combat ships. So we're covering three huge sides of Iran. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.680 Now off the coast of Israel and Lebanon and you know, 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.920 just outside the Mediterranean Sea, we've got the US S 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:35.120 Gerald R. Ford and three destroyers there. Never mind fighter jets, drones, helicopters, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.880 you name it. All of this is is up ready 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.800 to go. You know, we have airborne radar aircraft, and 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.280 we're gonna We're gonna have plenty of firepower, the most 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:51.280 firepower we've ever assembled since the Gulf War. Now are 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.959 we going to have our national treasure, our brave men 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:56.920 and women going door to door, stepping over IDs. Now 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.320 that those days are gone and the presidents were to 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:04.440 not have forever wars, the president's right also to not 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.200 put boots on the ground. Now, after publicly giving Iran 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.400 ten to fifteen days to reach this agreement, I don't 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.160 think you can make an agreement. I said it from 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.760 the beginning. You can't trust the Iranians. They've proven themselves untrustworthy, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.800 you know. But he said, I will never allow the 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.400 world's number one state sponsor of terror to have a 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.200 nuclear weapon. He said it again Tuesday night in the 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:33.120 State of the Union address, and the President first outlined 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.000 the short timeline, saying that the world would know within 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.880 probably ten days whether Tehran was prepared to strike what 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.320 he called a meaningful deal. So they met in Geneva 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:46.320 yesterday and then they go on State TV. It's like 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.200 they've been saber rattling all over State TV about you know, 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:55.520 showing images of taking out American ships and you know, 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:59.360 making proclamations that Donald Trump will be you know, in 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.360 his cough in a number of days. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.280 Okay, I'm not. 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.000 Sure what part of fourteen Bunker Busters they didn't learn 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.320 a lesson from, but it is what it is. Prince 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:13.800 Reza Pallavi, who's been on this program before, he said 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.600 he thinks the regime is about to collapse as the 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:22.760 economic crisis deepens. They've also had a major water shortage 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.080 and they've had to like move out the entire city 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:29.600 of Tehran. Anyway, we watch, We'll pray for our troops. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.160 Please everybody listening, you know, pray for those brave men 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.120 and women. Pray for Israel, Pray for you know, that 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.440 innocent life gets protected, and pray for a safer world. 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.920 We are watching what's going on in Iran as we 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:48.560 have been discussing, and we have joining us now Ambassador 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.920 Nathan Seals. He served in the first Trump administration as 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.880 Ambassador at Large for counter Terrorism. Acting under Secretary of State, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:00.520 played a key role in the maximum pressure CAMPAIG against 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:04.880 the Iranian regime their terror proxies. In twenty twenty two, 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:09.200 he was sanctioned by Iran. Knows the country well. He 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.680 joins US today. As the Iranians have rejected the list 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.880 of agenda items that Donald Trump was insisting on if 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.200 they wanted to make a deal with the US, the 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.240 President put a timeline on it. That timeline is ending 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:27.000 very quickly. And as I just laid out for you, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:33.080 we have the largest military presence in the region since 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.400 the Gulf War and the build up in the Gulf War. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.000 I mean, if you look off, for example, in the 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:43.160 Arabian Sea, off the coast of Pakistan and Iran, you've got, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:46.920 you know, in that case, the USS Abraham Lincoln and 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.760 three destroyers. If you look in the Persian Golf off 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.200 the coast of Kuwait, Cutter and the UAE, you got 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:55.960 five destroyers, three combat ships. If you look off the 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.440 coast of Lebanon, Israel and the Mediterranean, you know you 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.600 got let's see the USS Gerald R. Ford and three 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.560 destroyers there. And you got a ton of air bases 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.720 in the region and fighter jets and drones and helicopters. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:15.760 I don't know what part of Donald Trump they don't 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:16.560 take seriously. 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.200 He gave him on deadline. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:22.640 Fifty days the last time Dave fifty one, Israel you know, 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:27.360 started wiping him out. That's pretty remarkable to me. Seventy 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:32.200 to nine percent of Americans do fear a nuclear armed 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.520 Iran and that opposes a direct threat to our country. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:40.360 Eighty nine percent view Iran as an enemy and not friendly. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.840 Those are smart people, and you know so, I don't 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.000 think the president has any choice, just like he didn't 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:52.080 have any choice with Operation Midnight Hammer. The Israelis did 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:56.520 not have the military capability of dropping fourteen bunker buster 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.600 bombs to take out and obliterate those nuclear facilities. Now, 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.080 whatever uranium they had stored elsewhere in the country, I 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.520 don't know. Steve Witkoff seems to think that they're on 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.320 the verge of potentially building out a weapon. He's the 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.440 Middle Eastern envoy. Is nothing that they seems they won't 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.719 do to get nuclear weapons, and they just hell bent 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.600 on it anyway, Ambassador Sales, great to have you, Baxtar, 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.159 Thank you for being with us. Our prayers are with 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.080 our US men and women in the region. Of course, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.720 the President has said he'd prefer peace. I prefer peace. 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.560 But the President has shown that the Trump doctrine is 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.800 not isolationism. Yeah, means no boots on the ground, no 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.480 forever wars. But he did take out around, he did 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.200 take out Isis, He took out the Iranian nuclear sites, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.520 he took out Solomani Bagdaddy and all his pals, and 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.960 dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan. Sall, they 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:54.000 shouldn't be surprised when this deadline comes that Donald Trump's 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:54.440 gonna act. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.560 Well, Shan, thanks for having me on. I think you're 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.600 exactly right. The Iranians are exceptionally bad at reading the room. 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.280 The President isn't exactly being ambiguous here, He's being very clear. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.800 We want a diplomatic resolution. That's plan A, but we've 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.359 got a Plan B. And that Plan B is floating 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:16.080 off your coast with the ability to deliver overwhelming firepower 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.120 like you. I hope the Iranians come to their senses 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.240 and negotiate an end to the nuclear program. But what 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.960 does it say about their priorities that they're prepared to 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.879 take their country and the entire region to the brink 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.400 of a war. They're not doing that because they want 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.080 nuclear energy. They're not doing it because they want to 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.720 lower energy prices for Iranian consumers. They're doing it because 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.479 they want to preserve a pathway to a bomb. And 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:45.199 that's why the administrations demand no domestic uranium enrichment of 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.439 any kind. That's why that's so important. The only reason 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.280 the Iranians could have for wanting to enrich uranium is 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.280 because they want to preserve a pathway to a bomb. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.520 And that's the one thing the administration has said is 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:57.960 completely out of bounds. 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:02.600 All right, as you look at the firepower we have 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.480 in the region, and I can add to that high 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:10.160 end F twenty two fighter jets at an Israeli air 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:14.560 base prepared for combat. On top of it, then you 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:19.160 have the Ambassador to Israel, friend of this program, Mike Hackabee, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:23.560 sent an email to embassy staff telling them today that 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:26.040 there's no need to panic, but if they want to 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:31.199 leave Israel, they quote should do so today. According to 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:35.080 a US official, it follows orders of a partial evacuation 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.240 of the embassy and embassy personnel in Lebanon on February 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.840 twenty third, The timing of any military action against Iran 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:47.639 will always remain unknown. According to reports, Secretary of State 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.960 Mark or Rubio plans to visit Israel on Monday to 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:55.199 brief Israeli leaders on Iranian talks. We already know that 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.840 they kind of, you know, failed, yo. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.159 All this is consistent, by the. 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:04.960 Way, and we didn't fail. They just are stubbornness and stupid. 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:07.960 But we didn't fail on our m We did our part. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.560 Well, that's right. It takes two to tango. We're extending 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.679 an olive branch, but we also have an eagle's claw 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.200 full of arrows that are ready to go, and it's 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.120 the Iranian's choice which one they're going to deal with. 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.800 All this is consistent with the administration's approach that you know, 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.879 we're serious about diplomacy, but we're not bluffing. We're not 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:32.280 moving people out of the region because we're trying to 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.679 send a message. We're moving people out of the region 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:38.000 because this could get real very quickly. And it's ultimately 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:40.439 up to the Iranians whether they want to pursue a 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:42.480 path of peace or whether they dig in their heels 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.920 and risk their regime and risk their lives because they're 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:50.520 so committed to an apocalyptic vision of a nuclear armed Iran. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:52.639 You know, they always say they don't want a nuclear weapon, 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.680 but I don't think they've earned the right to be trusted. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.160 Nobody should take that claim to the bank, because their 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.400 actions speak loud other than their words, and the fact 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:06.240 that they are prepared to risk war again over uranium 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.280 tells you that that is not a peaceful nuclear program. 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.080 It's only useful to them to the extent that it 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:13.720 enables them to seek a bomb. 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:16.280 Did you hear about this story? 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:21.720 An alleged Iranian backed terrorist bizarrely thought he could put 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.680 a bargain priced hit out on Donald Trump, paying two 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:30.879 men amasingly five thousand dollars up front and coming up 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:34.560 with this insane plot that you know, by placing a 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:39.560 vape on a napkin to denote his target, meaning President Trump. 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:45.240 According to details that were just released yesterday, this is 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.280 the target. How will it die? And this idiot said, 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.280 you know, as he gestured, you know, to a creamsicle 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:57.719 colored smoking device inside a hotel room filled with FBI 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:03.400 secret cameras and footage played for a Brooklyn jury. Apparently, 0:22:03.680 --> 0:22:07.040 I mean, I mean, we have to understand among the 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.800 many people unvetted that Biden and Harris led in this 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:12.760 country are known terrorists from over two hundred countries, over 0:22:12.800 --> 0:22:18.040 twelve million people, murderers, rapists, known terrorists, you know, child molesters, 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.199 cartel members, gang members, other violent criminals, drug dealers. 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:22.000 This is insane. 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.720 And the Iranian regime is very, very capable at the 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.840 dark arts of assassination and terrorism. It's one of their 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:36.960 preferred foreign policy tools is using terrorist proxies to carry 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.040 out violent reprisals all around the world. And so, you know, 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:43.719 we can sit here and laugh at the incompetence on 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:44.800 display in. 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.760 This oh this is a real, clear present danger to 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:49.840 our country and the people in this country. 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:51.439 I once had a flat wall on my head. I 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:52.600 know I've lived it. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:56.520 Exactly exactly, and we should never take our eyes off 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:59.480 the fact that as we speak, there are Iranian plots 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:03.199 actively targeting a number of Americans just for doing their 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:06.520 jobs as government officials. President Trump, former Secretary of State 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:10.560 Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor John Bolden. All of 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:13.320 these people live with a death sentence because they had 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.200 the nerve to defend America from Iran and I Ran 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:19.240 will do what they have to to try and execute 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:21.199 these plots. We have to remain vigilized. I'm glad to 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:23.919 see this case proceeding because it's just the tip of 0:23:23.920 --> 0:23:26.399 the iceberg. The Iranians are playing for keeps when it 0:23:26.440 --> 0:23:28.200 comes to assassinations and terrorism. 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:34.960 Do you think there's any scenario under which the Iranians 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.200 can survive what is likely to come their way assuming 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:41.160 they don't agree to what President Trump is demanding. 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.240 It's a great question, and I think it really depends 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:49.080 on how ambitious a strike the president orders. If he 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:52.000 does order a strike, you know, one option is to 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:56.000 go for a decapitation strike and take out regime leadership figures. 0:23:56.359 --> 0:24:00.440 A more modest approach would be directed specifically the nuclear 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:04.080