WEBVTT - The Non-Existent Hooker 0:00:01.870 --> 0:00:05.710 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.750 --> 0:00:07.750 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:09.980 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.180 --> 0:00:11.520 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:11.700 --> 0:00:17.300 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:18.620 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.010 --> 0:00:25.550 Darlene Graham is the real deal. 0:00:26.020 --> 0:00:30.020 I said earlier this year, 2026 is a year of affordability. 0:00:30.260 --> 0:00:33.470 And President Trump nailed it when he said that Darlene 0:00:33.550 --> 0:00:38.670 Graham understands the issues facing Americans today and South Carolinians 0:00:38.729 --> 0:00:42.520 today the issues of affordability. She goes to the grocery store. 0:00:42.740 --> 0:00:45.760 She understands the prices of eggs and meat and some 0:00:45.780 --> 0:00:48.920 of the challenges facing the American people. She focuses on 0:00:49.020 --> 0:00:52.260 helping people with disabilities for the last 30 years as 0:00:52.280 --> 0:00:58.110 their career. She is ready, highly qualified, incredibly competent, ready 0:00:58.290 --> 0:00:59.010 for prime time. 0:00:59.490 --> 0:01:00.870 I hate politics. 0:01:02.450 --> 0:01:03.730 So dumb. That's the.. 0:01:05.750 --> 0:01:08.610 Senator from South Carolina whose heart didn't explode on him, 0:01:08.990 --> 0:01:11.369 Senator Tim Scott. The other one, Lindsey Graham, his heart 0:01:11.410 --> 0:01:11.930 gave out on him. 0:01:12.430 --> 0:01:13.530 And I like Tim Scott. 0:01:13.569 --> 0:01:14.610 I like Tim Scott, too. 0:01:15.090 --> 0:01:16.150 That's why I. 0:01:16.209 --> 0:01:18.330 Say I hate politics. When you get to silly season, 0:01:18.970 --> 0:01:22.690 when you get to the final days of elections, even 0:01:22.770 --> 0:01:29.459 your favorite smart people who are otherwise, you know, not 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.869 phony liars will say crap about Because when it gets 0:01:33.910 --> 0:01:37.250 down to the crunch time and close elections, that Senator 0:01:37.290 --> 0:01:41.929 Tim Scott trying to pretend that Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham, 0:01:42.390 --> 0:01:48.550 didn't have a disqualifying moment in a debate last week. 0:01:48.570 --> 0:01:50.610 We played that over and over. You've heard it where 0:01:50.660 --> 0:01:53.300 she was asked about the United States and Taiwan. And 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.960 she clearly had never thought about the issue in her life. 0:01:57.730 --> 0:01:59.430 She didn't even make up an answer. She said, I 0:01:59.450 --> 0:02:02.360 just don't care much about foreign policy. That was your 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.680 brother's entire thing, by the way. He was the number 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:12.190 one foreign policy arguer in the Republican Party for like 0:02:12.310 --> 0:02:15.769 most of my lifetime. And you have never even heard 0:02:15.810 --> 0:02:19.430 of like the number one foreign policy issue ever. that 0:02:19.450 --> 0:02:20.690 we're going to have to deal with in the future. 0:02:20.710 --> 0:02:26.020 Fairly deft political maneuvering, though, to call that a strength, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.940 because she is so focused on dinner table issues. 0:02:30.260 --> 0:02:33.109 She doesn't have time for foreign wars. She's about America. 0:02:33.150 --> 0:02:34.470 She's about South Carolina. 0:02:35.260 --> 0:02:37.820 I don't buy it, but it's a decent effort. It 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.220 was that part he said at the end. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.590 I don't know how you... I could never be a politician. 0:02:42.150 --> 0:02:44.310 That part he said at the end. She is qualified. 0:02:44.410 --> 0:02:47.910 She is 100% ready to go. She's... No, she's not qualified. 0:02:48.350 --> 0:02:50.410 She also sounds dumb. I don't know if she is dumb, 0:02:50.430 --> 0:02:53.450 but she sounds like Luann from King of the Hill. 0:02:53.470 --> 0:02:56.850 She sounds like Luann from... Major babies, Uncle Hank. I 0:02:56.870 --> 0:02:59.400 want to be your senator, Uncle Hank. That's what she 0:02:59.460 --> 0:02:59.940 sounds like. 0:02:59.960 --> 0:03:03.650 This is unfair. I can't believe I'm witnessing this. This 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:04.530 is slanderous. 0:03:04.610 --> 0:03:10.910 It's sexism, certainly, and probably Yankee belligerence against her for. 0:03:10.790 --> 0:03:12.210 Having a Southern accent. 0:03:12.250 --> 0:03:13.290 But this is not a.. 0:03:13.770 --> 0:03:14.730 I'm sickened, y'all. 0:03:14.950 --> 0:03:17.150 This is not her running against the Democrat and I'm 0:03:17.190 --> 0:03:19.859 tearing her down. She's running against a different Republican. Now, 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.080 I don't know this guy. Who's the other guy? 0:03:21.100 --> 0:03:24.940 Which makes your misogyny all the more horrifying. Who's the 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:26.720 guy she's running against today? 0:03:26.780 --> 0:03:28.040 Ralph Norman, I think. 0:03:28.060 --> 0:03:30.919 And it's today. And so you pick a different Republican, 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:36.140 and that guy, who I assume is not completely unqualified 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.500 to be a U.S. senator, could be the U.S. senator 0:03:38.540 --> 0:03:39.440 in the Republican Party. 0:03:39.820 --> 0:03:47.700 Yeah, Ralph Norman's a longtime politician, a congressperson. He's also 73. 0:03:47.710 --> 0:03:52.150 So we get a choice between Luann and a guy who's, 0:03:52.210 --> 0:03:53.970 you know, he's going to be pushing 80 by the 0:03:54.010 --> 0:03:55.750 time term. 0:03:55.010 --> 0:03:55.790 Number one is done. 0:03:57.420 --> 0:04:00.940 Wow. I want to be a senator, Uncle Hank. 0:04:01.900 --> 0:04:03.320 See, that's not fair. 0:04:03.380 --> 0:04:08.380 Here's Luann Darlene Graham yesterday explaining why it's not a 0:04:08.420 --> 0:04:10.480 big deal that she had never even thought in her 0:04:10.540 --> 0:04:11.940 life about Taiwan and China. 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.680 You know what I've done in the last week? I've 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.029 gone around this entire state talking to as many people 0:04:18.089 --> 0:04:20.810 as I possibly can. And you know how many of 0:04:20.850 --> 0:04:23.310 them brought up Taiwan or national security? 0:04:23.710 --> 0:04:24.510 Not one. 0:04:24.810 --> 0:04:28.630 They're talking about the rising cost of health care and affordability. 0:04:28.670 --> 0:04:30.260 So that's what's important to me. 0:04:30.700 --> 0:04:33.760 Okay, yeah, I'm doubling down on my criticism of you. 0:04:33.860 --> 0:04:36.940 It's the timbre of her voice and her southern accent, 0:04:36.980 --> 0:04:41.300 and you're comparing her. hilariously, to Luan from the King 0:04:41.339 --> 0:04:44.900 of the Hill. That was a perfectly intelligent statement of 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:45.839 some good politics. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:46.860 Yeah. 0:04:47.580 --> 0:04:50.380 Well, that wasn't a perfectly into not, as I said 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.120 last week, and I guess we should have played the clip. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.779 Not only has, so it's a difference between the, if 0:04:55.820 --> 0:04:57.560 she wants to be a house member and you haven't 0:04:57.610 --> 0:05:01.530 thought about Taiwan and, uh, China, I hate that. I 0:05:01.570 --> 0:05:04.450 wish you were more into the news flow and like 0:05:04.490 --> 0:05:07.250 had at least like ran in a circle where you'd 0:05:07.270 --> 0:05:09.450 have that conversation with your friends about it or something 0:05:09.500 --> 0:05:10.760 like I do, for instance. 0:05:10.779 --> 0:05:11.500 Um, yeah. 0:05:12.339 --> 0:05:13.820 But fine, you want to be a House member, you're 0:05:13.860 --> 0:05:18.419 one of 435. To be a U.S. freaking senator, you've 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.020 got to be the kind of person that thinks about 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.120 this sort of stuff. And not only has she never 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.089 thought about it, her answer of, well, I just, I'm 0:05:25.110 --> 0:05:28.530 not somebody who knows anything about foreign policy. You couldn't 0:05:28.570 --> 0:05:32.350 even make up a BS answer. You can't be a U.S. senator. 0:05:32.510 --> 0:05:36.450 You don't have the brainpower, Luann. You live with your aunts. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:46.430 So is Hank, is Peggy Luann's aunt? Aunt and uncle, right? 0:05:47.260 --> 0:05:47.730 Yes. 0:05:48.529 --> 0:05:48.830 Yeah. 0:05:49.650 --> 0:05:51.370 What does that have to do with the voters of 0:05:51.390 --> 0:05:51.670 South Carolina? 0:05:51.690 --> 0:05:54.230 She sounds like Luann from King of the Hill. 0:05:54.450 --> 0:05:58.990 The great state of South Carolina. Now, this is ugliness here. 0:05:59.490 --> 0:06:02.170 On the other hand, again, to not even be able 0:06:02.290 --> 0:06:06.230 to fake up an answer of, I'm still getting up 0:06:06.270 --> 0:06:10.620 to speed on our options on Taiwan. 0:06:10.700 --> 0:06:13.239 I haven't been briefed, obviously. I don't have a security clearance. 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.390 But I know they are a critical partner and ally 0:06:16.430 --> 0:06:19.070 and have been for many, many years. And we stand 0:06:19.089 --> 0:06:21.969 with the people of Taiwan against the threat of the 0:06:22.190 --> 0:06:23.550 communist Chinese. 0:06:24.270 --> 0:06:26.470 In a number of different ways. I mean, you can't 0:06:26.510 --> 0:06:27.250 come up with that. 0:06:27.270 --> 0:06:29.950 I don't really know much about that. It's a very 0:06:30.029 --> 0:06:33.010 touchy issue and nuance. And what I plan to release 0:06:33.089 --> 0:06:36.610 within the next 72 hours is my foreign policy proposal 0:06:36.970 --> 0:06:40.190 for a global way for the United States to look 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.919 to the future. Something. But if you can't make up that, 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.040 if you can't say that sort of thing, you can't 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.520 be a U.S. senator. It's all about Ora Taiton there 0:06:50.620 --> 0:06:53.460 in the chamber, you and your 99 other people. Here's 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:54.479 how it went down. 0:06:54.779 --> 0:06:58.860 Senator, are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.080 issues for the United States? 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:01.280 If so, why? 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.099 I'm sorry, could you repeat the question? 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.979 Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.870 for the United States? And if so, why or how? 0:07:13.530 --> 0:07:15.830 I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on 0:07:16.010 --> 0:07:22.880 national security. I'm not that informed on national security. But 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:24.520 I do support the military. 0:07:24.700 --> 0:07:27.000 Those were gasps and at least a boo. 0:07:27.340 --> 0:07:30.180 Like, what? It was several boos and oohs. 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:36.910 My boyfriend left me, Uncle Hank. Oh, no. No, this 0:07:37.010 --> 0:07:37.730 is not right. 0:07:40.750 --> 0:07:44.140 Then she held a Bible study in the pool wearing 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.080 a tiny bikini. 0:07:45.940 --> 0:07:46.180 Oh, no. 0:07:46.260 --> 0:07:50.960 Again, that was King of the Bible. Darlene Graham. That's right, sir. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:51.760 Yeah. 0:07:51.860 --> 0:07:56.160 Trump's supporting her and claiming she's all she's unbelievably qualified 0:07:56.220 --> 0:08:00.900 and the best. And I can't believe Tim Scott said that, dude. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.820 She's Trump's choice. He's a Trump loyalist. 0:08:06.340 --> 0:08:07.600 Politics is stupid. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:08.540 Yeah. 0:08:08.900 --> 0:08:09.120 Yeah. 0:08:09.700 --> 0:08:09.900 True. 0:08:11.750 --> 0:08:14.180 Unbelievable. Well, we'll see how it turns out today. How 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.120 do you think the South Carolinians are going to look 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:16.320 at it? 0:08:18.820 --> 0:08:21.230 I suspect it'll be quite close. South Carolina is a 0:08:21.290 --> 0:08:26.080 very Trumpy state. Ralph Norman is a known quantity and 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:33.300 is pretty respected. He also, Darlene Graham comes off as 0:08:33.350 --> 0:08:36.030 a rubber stamp of Trump. I'm not sure she will be, 0:08:36.350 --> 0:08:38.790 but that is her entire campaign is I'm Trump's gal. 0:08:38.830 --> 0:08:40.550 Part of it will be because she's never thought about 0:08:40.570 --> 0:08:42.010 the issue before, so I might as well do what 0:08:42.030 --> 0:08:42.829 the president tells me. 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:43.660 Right. 0:08:43.700 --> 0:08:44.440 Yeah, exactly. 0:08:44.540 --> 0:08:49.880 Whereas Norman has cut a more independent, you know, image saying, look, 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.690 Trump's right about a lot of stuff and I'm with him. 0:08:51.730 --> 0:08:55.050 But no, if I think he's wrong, I'll say he's wrong. Again, 0:08:55.170 --> 0:08:59.650 politics is stupid. And, you know, you can't say it enough. 0:08:59.690 --> 0:09:02.550 The Winston Churchill quote, it's a worst form of government 0:09:02.630 --> 0:09:05.030 ever invented, except for all the others. 0:09:05.070 --> 0:09:05.490 Democracy. 0:09:05.530 --> 0:09:12.809 But the whole carry on the legacy thing. of the name. 0:09:13.110 --> 0:09:16.209 You're not carrying on the legacy of a foreign policy 0:09:16.350 --> 0:09:20.070 heavyweight who cared more and thought more about these issues 0:09:20.110 --> 0:09:21.729 than practically anybody I've ever known. 0:09:22.390 --> 0:09:23.530 Right, right, right. 0:09:23.610 --> 0:09:27.080 And his expertise in the Judiciary Committee. I mean, seriously, 0:09:27.500 --> 0:09:29.540 I adore my wife, but it's like if I passed 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.679 and she took over the talk show, it would be utterly. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.840 Inappropriate to continue the legacy. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.640 Or if, God forbid, the Lord takes her, and I'm 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.040 hired to balance the books at a bank. 0:09:41.490 --> 0:09:44.110 That would be bizarre. Don't you care about the legacy? 0:09:44.270 --> 0:09:46.849 You don't care about the legacy? Yeah, it's just ridiculous. 0:09:49.970 --> 0:09:53.200 Yeah, well, we'll see how they vote. Democrats have done 0:09:53.220 --> 0:09:55.100 this over the years, too. I'm not complaining. This is 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.360 a one-off or a one-party or anything like that. I 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.400 hate the legacy stuff where you go with the wife 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.380 or the brother or the son. 0:10:04.260 --> 0:10:07.160 And they'll get her staffers who are experts in all 0:10:07.220 --> 0:10:09.240 this stuff, and they'll advise her how to vote, and 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.340 she'll go along probably with what the party tells her 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:11.480 to do. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.800 Which might be half the senators the way it works anyway. 0:10:15.429 --> 0:10:20.380 Yeah, honestly, yeah. That's disappointing. I wonder if she'll... eat 0:10:20.429 --> 0:10:25.200 the white man's white meat. Another one of our favorite 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:26.640 quotes from King of the Hill. 0:10:26.740 --> 0:10:28.840 God, my son's on a King of the Hill binge again, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.359 and so I keep seeing it on in the living 0:10:30.380 --> 0:10:32.920 room when I walk by, and that show is flippin' funny. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.209 It's got such a great heart, too. 0:10:36.090 --> 0:10:36.450 Yeah. 0:10:37.150 --> 0:10:37.890 John Redcorn. 0:10:38.110 --> 0:10:40.710 Yes, I was just about to bring that up. The 0:10:40.770 --> 0:10:44.890 fact that Dale was willing to overlook the obvious affair, 0:10:44.929 --> 0:10:46.100 he was being cuckolded. 0:10:47.610 --> 0:10:49.569 Yes, yes. And everyone knew it. 0:10:49.750 --> 0:10:54.130 And his son is clearly of Native American heritage. 0:10:54.650 --> 0:10:55.630 But he has no idea. 0:10:55.650 --> 0:11:03.719 And his wife's massage therapist, John Redcorn, is constantly squirming. 0:11:03.740 --> 0:11:05.940 I need to treat her migraines. I will need some time. 0:11:07.929 --> 0:11:10.450 I'll go away then. Yeah, so they walk. 0:11:10.250 --> 0:11:12.910 Into a bedroom the other day, and he says, I 0:11:12.950 --> 0:11:14.740 need to treat her migraines. I will need some time. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.480 And a bottle of Asti Spavanti. 0:11:16.820 --> 0:11:20.860 Oh, my God. 0:11:20.940 --> 0:11:21.860 Okay, we got more on the way. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:22.200 Stay here. 0:11:22.220 --> 0:11:27.590 Armstrong and Getty. 0:11:27.610 --> 0:11:28.630 Well, some entertainment news. 0:11:28.670 --> 0:11:31.030 Vin Diesel said that this December they will start shooting 0:11:31.070 --> 0:11:38.820 the 11th Fast and Furious movie. The squad is getting 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.000 a little older. Half the movie is just them trying 0:11:41.020 --> 0:11:41.800 to get into the car. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.760 I don't doubt that. As I mentioned, when I was 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.820 down in Vegas, we were trying out. I was going 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.819 to rent a car, and I ended up renting this 0:11:52.820 --> 0:11:57.000 66 Mustang GT. It was just amazing. But I was 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:58.660 looking at it. They had a Lamborghini to rent and 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:00.760 all this. I couldn't get in and out of that thing. 0:12:00.780 --> 0:12:05.490 It's just painful. I would have had to roll out 0:12:05.530 --> 0:12:07.470 onto the pavement, then get onto my hands and knees 0:12:07.530 --> 0:12:08.290 and stand up. 0:12:09.390 --> 0:12:10.090 Which isn't a good look. 0:12:10.110 --> 0:12:12.390 I had a performance car for like a year and 0:12:12.429 --> 0:12:15.610 a half that was not crazy low, like that kind 0:12:15.630 --> 0:12:17.469 of car, but it was low enough that I realized, 0:12:17.490 --> 0:12:19.090 all right, every time you get in and out of this, 0:12:19.110 --> 0:12:20.910 you're thinking, oh, okay, that went okay. 0:12:24.910 --> 0:12:26.010 No, no, get a grown-up car. 0:12:27.170 --> 0:12:28.930 So this is a heck of a, this is the 0:12:28.990 --> 0:12:32.790 front page story, which is meaningless now. now but it's 0:12:32.870 --> 0:12:35.460 the big story today in the wall street journal and 0:12:35.500 --> 0:12:38.020 if it's true it's damned interesting the warnings that came 0:12:38.059 --> 0:12:43.040 before a war now reaching the six-month mark and it's 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.360 different than when the way i had been looking at 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.439 it all along days before going to war with iran 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.310 in february president trump summoned his intelligence chief to the 0:12:51.390 --> 0:12:53.550 oval office to ask whether a full-on assault was a 0:12:53.590 --> 0:12:57.770 good idea So there was some debate going on behind 0:12:57.809 --> 0:12:59.630 the scenes, and in this whole, he thought it would 0:12:59.670 --> 0:13:02.270 be another Venezuela. Well, clearly, plenty of people told him 0:13:02.309 --> 0:13:04.530 it wasn't going to be another Venezuela. I'll get back 0:13:04.550 --> 0:13:07.650 to the story. Iran was at its weakest point in decades. 0:13:07.730 --> 0:13:10.820 Senior aides and Benjamin Netanyahu told him, providing Trump the 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.320 rare opportunity to dismantle Iran's nuclear program, the question was 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.840 whether a large-scale attack would work and possibly topple the regime. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:24.440 Then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined assessments from America's 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:28.179 intelligence apparatus. According to people familiar with the meeting, she 0:13:28.220 --> 0:13:31.820 told Trump that killing Iran's supreme leader would likely usher 0:13:31.860 --> 0:13:35.650 in a more hardline regime, ding, open to acquiring nuclear weapons. 0:13:36.070 --> 0:13:38.650 Tehran would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, ding, 0:13:39.090 --> 0:13:42.790 destabilizing the global energy market, ding, and would strike U.S. 0:13:42.850 --> 0:13:45.710 forces and partners in the Middle East, ding, ding, prompting 0:13:45.770 --> 0:13:48.570 questions about American resolve and reliability with allies. 0:13:49.370 --> 0:13:49.630 Ding. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.819 All of that has happened, of course. The notes of 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:59.190 caution echoed warnings Trump was receiving from all corners. Top 0:13:59.210 --> 0:14:02.070 military leaders told the president their war would lead to casualties, 0:14:02.130 --> 0:14:06.470 concerns about the weapons stockpile, ding, and readiness problems for 0:14:06.490 --> 0:14:13.190 an overstretched force, the Wall Street Journal reported. So that 0:14:13.270 --> 0:14:19.310 is pretty damned interesting, obviously. Then you got this. Not 0:14:19.370 --> 0:14:22.250 everyone agreed on the case for war. Vice President J.D. 0:14:22.390 --> 0:14:25.820 Vance promoted a more cautious approach, officials said. Iran might 0:14:25.860 --> 0:14:28.700 dissolve its nuclear program in negotiations, he told the president. 0:14:29.020 --> 0:14:31.460 Getting a deal was a risk but less costly than 0:14:31.500 --> 0:14:35.320 a war with unwieldy consequences. Plus, Iran's economy was collapsing 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:39.090 under heavy U.S. sanctions. If that path proved fruitless, Trump 0:14:39.110 --> 0:14:41.570 would have more legitimacy to attack Iran in a swift 0:14:41.590 --> 0:14:45.170 and overwhelming operation. But let's do this first. Trump listened, 0:14:45.210 --> 0:14:48.970 but was ultimately swayed by Pentagon presentations of decisive options. 0:14:49.630 --> 0:14:51.850 The point the Wall Street Journal is making is that 0:14:51.930 --> 0:14:58.320 Pete Hegzeth and Dan Cain, the Joint Chiefs Chairman, convinced 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:02.440 him of the military option. But he was definitely told 0:15:02.540 --> 0:15:06.600 by all the intelligence agencies of what could happen and 0:15:06.660 --> 0:15:07.800 ultimately did happen. 0:15:07.860 --> 0:15:08.920 So it's not like it was.. 0:15:09.730 --> 0:15:13.860 Completely a surprise, the idea of closing the Strait of Hormuz, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:19.340 firing on our bases, ending up with hardliners in charge 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.000 when you kill the Supreme Leader that are more committed to. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:23.420 The cause, blah, blah, blah. 0:15:24.150 --> 0:15:27.830 Yeah, yeah. You have to take all these insider accounts 0:15:27.850 --> 0:15:30.510 with a grain of salt because you could rephrase it 0:15:31.990 --> 0:15:34.510 or just add on a little more, saying the intelligence 0:15:34.550 --> 0:15:37.060 assessment also said that those effects would be temporary. 0:15:37.540 --> 0:15:40.620 And given the risks of Iran, blah, blah, having a bomb, etc. 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.450 As I have learned from smart people through the years, 0:15:45.170 --> 0:15:47.790 this comes out of the Bob Woodward world, his books. 0:15:48.730 --> 0:15:51.140 You read a story like that, whoever ends up looking 0:15:51.180 --> 0:15:52.900 the best is often your source. 0:15:54.340 --> 0:15:54.560 J.D. 0:15:54.660 --> 0:15:56.080 Vance looks really good. 0:15:55.900 --> 0:15:58.600 In that story. Ah, yes. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.900 Especially when he was tasked with the fruitless and idiotic 0:16:01.980 --> 0:16:05.710 negotiations and was embarrassed by their failure. 0:16:06.390 --> 0:16:08.310 Yeah, that all rings true. Speaking of ding. 0:16:08.770 --> 0:16:10.910 He would have been in all those meetings and him 0:16:10.990 --> 0:16:13.490 going to the Wall Street Journal off the record and 0:16:13.550 --> 0:16:16.370 telling them, hey, they laid all this out for him. 0:16:16.490 --> 0:16:22.790 Exactly what happened. Step by step. Like they were like 0:16:22.830 --> 0:16:26.140 they had a crystal ball. I, however. stood up for 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:30.070 the good people of America, and suggested this. 0:16:30.810 --> 0:16:34.250 Right, and especially because, you know, to some extent, the 0:16:34.290 --> 0:16:37.710 goat's horns were being put on him for those negotiations, 0:16:37.770 --> 0:16:39.910 although I think everybody's moved on. That was another one 0:16:39.930 --> 0:16:42.570 of those political stories that was super hot for a minute. 0:16:43.490 --> 0:16:46.010 Yeah, I love that. I love that insight. Yeah, I'll 0:16:46.050 --> 0:16:46.610 bet it was Vance. 0:16:47.190 --> 0:16:48.730 I'll bet it was, too. And, you know, and he's 0:16:48.750 --> 0:16:50.990 going to run for president, or he's certainly considering running 0:16:51.030 --> 0:16:55.450 for president, and he wants to try to massage this 0:16:55.510 --> 0:16:58.670 story before he does sure yeah and how it ends 0:16:58.730 --> 0:17:01.610 nobody knows at this point it's definitely uh fraught with 0:17:01.670 --> 0:17:05.850 uncertainty but could be the outcome is pretty positive if 0:17:05.890 --> 0:17:10.500 that's accurate though that's something that uh the intelligence people 0:17:10.540 --> 0:17:13.940 were saying almost exactly what did happen on day. 0:17:13.940 --> 0:17:18.879 One armstrong and getty. 0:17:20.570 --> 0:17:21.350 How you doing? 0:17:21.650 --> 0:17:23.030 How things going, huh? 0:17:23.050 --> 0:17:23.930 We don't ask you enough. 0:17:23.970 --> 0:17:25.929 How are you? It's always talking about us. 0:17:25.950 --> 0:17:28.850 That's a good point. I feel bad now. 0:17:31.690 --> 0:17:37.220 Earlier this month, a couple of transgender women who used 0:17:37.260 --> 0:17:40.119 to play in the NBA announced that they wanted to 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:45.940 play in the WNBA to make the point that just 0:17:45.980 --> 0:17:47.480 because you say you're a woman. 0:17:47.260 --> 0:17:48.780 Doesn't make you a woman at all. 0:17:49.430 --> 0:17:52.150 And the idea of men playing in women's sports just 0:17:52.210 --> 0:17:56.530 because they claim they are women is absolutely absurd. Good 0:17:56.690 --> 0:17:59.129 illustration of what I'm talking about, which is you can't 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.280 reason with a lot of leftists when they made those 0:18:04.340 --> 0:18:07.540 declarations and said they wanted to play in the league. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.660 And indeed, you're probably familiar with the story at this point. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.229 Sophie Cunningham, a player in the WNBA, said, no, there 0:18:14.250 --> 0:18:16.709 shouldn't be boys and girls sports. There shouldn't be men 0:18:16.750 --> 0:18:20.600 and women's sports. Which is a perfectly sound and very, 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.720 very plain speaking argument. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:25.699 This was the response from one of the WNBA coaches. 0:18:25.980 --> 0:18:29.740 The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.629 trying to hijack our league will not win. 0:18:35.609 --> 0:18:36.150 It won't win. 0:18:38.430 --> 0:18:43.210 We are united. We are connected. We will not be divided. 0:18:45.210 --> 0:18:50.550 Every day these women put their on the line. Every day. 0:18:52.890 --> 0:18:54.300 When they go low, we go high. 0:18:54.380 --> 0:18:56.840 Love will win. Grace will win. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:02.900 Humility will win. And kindness will win. I stand by them. 0:19:03.290 --> 0:19:05.989 I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go 0:19:06.010 --> 0:19:06.290 to hell. 0:19:06.450 --> 0:19:07.990 Do you remember what the question was? 0:19:08.750 --> 0:19:10.990 I must have spaced off when she addressed the thing 0:19:11.050 --> 0:19:12.550 about dudes playing in her league. 0:19:12.570 --> 0:19:12.950 Well, right. 0:19:13.190 --> 0:19:14.610 Do you remember what the question was? 0:19:14.630 --> 0:19:20.450 She was being asked about the eligibility and the Enos 0:19:20.490 --> 0:19:22.690 Cantor freedom and that sort of thing. 0:19:22.930 --> 0:19:25.300 But how is that going to destroy your league? 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.280 Well, they will not be divided. Love will win. 0:19:29.859 --> 0:19:31.840 I'm going to have to ask you to pay more attention. 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:35.300 So my point is that. 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:39.790 It would destroy your league if the NBA players came 0:19:39.830 --> 0:19:40.440 in and played. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:42.159 Or it'd make it worth watching. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.209 Is that what she was responding to? Or it was 0:19:44.260 --> 0:19:46.960 just the conversation that Sophie... It was just the conversation 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:48.380 Sophie Cunningham introduced, right? 0:19:48.820 --> 0:19:49.740 Right. Michael? Michael? 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.340 I remember she wasn't supporting the players on her team. 0:19:52.540 --> 0:19:54.890 They were at a press conference and the players... No, that's... 0:19:55.070 --> 0:19:57.290 But it's all... It has all to do with the 0:19:58.420 --> 0:20:01.540 the transgender thing. That's the topic. And you can't get 0:20:01.619 --> 0:20:05.080 them to address their own cognitive dissonance. Here's another example. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.460 Because all of these champagne socialists in New York City, 0:20:08.500 --> 0:20:15.439 it turns out like Mamdani's entire cabal is like rich kids. And, 0:20:15.790 --> 0:20:17.950 you know, those of us on the right and center 0:20:17.990 --> 0:20:20.870 think that's ironic and odd that they're constantly shouting about, 0:20:21.010 --> 0:20:23.490 I stand up for the working classmen. The rich kids 0:20:23.530 --> 0:20:27.490 who have no idea how wealth is accumulated or how business. 0:20:27.210 --> 0:20:30.130 Is run because they were handed it. But I thought 0:20:30.150 --> 0:20:31.130