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Speaker 1: situation in Iran. Iranian insiders now fear that the economic destruction.
Speaker 1: I'm calling it a preview of coming attractions if the
Speaker 1: Iranians don't sign on to the deal and it's getting
Speaker 1: you know, this is their time of choosing. And I
Speaker 1: think the President is showing great restraint because the President
Speaker 1: is giving him giving them the preview of coming attractions.
Speaker 1: They will have no economy if the President blows up
Speaker 1: their oil infrastructure. And right now with the blockade, which
Speaker 1: is tremendously effective, even China turning around a big tanker
Speaker 1: that they had filled up yesterday, everybody now abiding by
Speaker 1: the blockade. And now the blockade has even expanded out.
Speaker 1: They've expanded beyond the street or horror mood horror moods,
Speaker 1: and they now it's now encompassing the entire Iranian coast.
Speaker 1: And Ranian insiders feared the economic destruction being caused by
Speaker 1: the US Israeli bombing and the blockade could now topple
Speaker 1: the entire regime. As many as twelve million jobs, nearly
Speaker 1: half of Iran's workforce are now at risk of being
Speaker 1: furloughed or laid off. What does that mean when people
Speaker 1: don't have a paycheck coming in and then the food
Speaker 1: supply starts to run short.
Speaker 2: What at that point?
Speaker 1: What are people going to have to lose nothing? And
Speaker 1: this is where the president's showing restraint. He does not
Speaker 1: want to destroy life for the Iranian people, the Persian culture,
Speaker 1: the Persian people. They have an amazing, inspiring history, really amazing,
Speaker 1: and that can be recaptured and that is the hope
Speaker 1: that will happen here. This can be over very very
Speaker 1: quickly for those of you that are impatient. But the President,
Speaker 1: I think very wisely, is trying to give this fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth tier level of leadership because everyone else has been
Speaker 1: wiped out, an opportunity to feel the pain of what's
Speaker 1: coming and what will then be permanent. And there's no
Speaker 1: way the US is leaving the sixty percent enriched uranium.
Speaker 1: It's not going to happen, and we'll see how this unfolds.
Speaker 1: But before we do that, I want to get to
Speaker 1: this issue. I'm getting really annoyed Linda at the Catholic Church,
Speaker 1: and I want to backtrack a second. I went to
Speaker 1: Catholic schools. I said this the last two days on
Speaker 1: this program. I want to remind people if you're just
Speaker 1: listening and you didn't hear it. I went for twelve years.
Speaker 1: I was raised Catholic and I went to Mass every Sunday,
Speaker 1: and my mom and dad were both pretty devout people
Speaker 1: in their life, and I admired their faith. It gave
Speaker 1: me a great foundation for my life. I'm grateful to
Speaker 1: the church because what happened is being immersed in it
Speaker 1: throughout my life. You know, even though I probably was
Speaker 1: not paying attention to ninety percent of the time or
Speaker 1: really that interested in it at that point in my life,
Speaker 1: it got through and it definitely awakened my conscience. I
Speaker 1: know right from wrong. I know what I'm right, I
Speaker 1: know what I'm wrong, and it's been nothing but a
Speaker 1: positive in my life and so many respects. However, you
Speaker 1: know the reason that I say I'm a non denominational
Speaker 1: Christian is I really am am pretty I just can't
Speaker 1: reconcile with the fact that they never dealt with institutionalized
Speaker 1: corruption and the one position, because if you've ever been
Speaker 1: to a Mass, the Holy Eucharist comes directly from Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ himself, and I think it's a beautiful service. And
Speaker 1: unfortunately the church made a terrible decision. You know, eleven
Speaker 1: of the twelve Apostles were married. For the first twelve
Speaker 1: hundred years of the church, priests were allowed to marry.
Speaker 1: Then they came up, and I think it was all
Speaker 1: for financial reasons and fear that divorce may cost the
Speaker 1: church a lot of money. If priests got married, they
Speaker 1: got divorced, it would cost the church a lot of money.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: So there were many, many financial considerations, not exactly the
Speaker 1: best reason in my view. But if Jesus wanted people
Speaker 1: not to be married, why did he pick eleven of
Speaker 1: the twelve apostles that were married? And it didn't make sense.
Speaker 1: Then now somebody's going to call in some smarty alec
Speaker 1: and say, well, Hannity, he didn't pick any women to
Speaker 1: be part of his apostles, No, but women played a
Speaker 1: very very important role, starting with his own mother and
Speaker 1: Mary Magdalene and many other women that followed Jesus and
Speaker 1: served him. But that's a different that's a different discussion
Speaker 1: for a different day. So well, the Pope keeps upping
Speaker 1: the ante. I think he's enjoying the attention. And what's
Speaker 1: frustrating to me, And it's hard to say, because I'd
Speaker 1: rather not criticize the church.
Speaker 2: I'd rather.
Speaker 1: I wish they would fix their institutional corruption. You know,
Speaker 1: this child's abuse scandal was real, and the parishes knew
Speaker 1: about it, and the bishops knew about it. The cardinals
Speaker 1: knew about it, and they systemically covered a lot of
Speaker 1: it up. Rome knew about it, and nobody ever dealt
Speaker 1: with it head on, owned it and compensated victims of corruption,
Speaker 1: and horrible things were done to people that were victims.
Speaker 1: It was terrible, and to this day I don't feel
Speaker 1: that they adequately have addressed what had happened during the
Speaker 1: scandal and then putting that aside. Then you have all
Speaker 1: these different popes, and many of them have radical left
Speaker 1: political points of view. I was very frustrated with Pope Francis,
Speaker 1: less frustrated with Pope Benedict. The best pope in my
Speaker 1: lifetime was Pope John Paul the Second. As far as
Speaker 1: I'm concerned. Now we've got Pope Leo the fourteenth who
Speaker 1: keeps amplifying his condemnation of the president and the US
Speaker 1: Israeli war with Iran, saying God does not bless any conflict,
Speaker 1: That's what he's saying. And he certainly doesn't side with
Speaker 1: those who drop bombs, that's what he said. The only
Speaker 1: problem is, and I would think that the Pope would
Speaker 1: be well versed in the Bible, both the Old and
Speaker 1: New Testament, because contrary to the Pope's statement condemning this
Speaker 1: conflict with Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror
Speaker 1: that has been moomenting terror around the world and in
Speaker 1: the region, going on for forty seven straight years and
Speaker 1: killing how many tens and tens of thousands of innocent people.
Speaker 1: If you look at the Bible, it contains over four
Speaker 1: hundred references to war for over four hundred, you know,
Speaker 1: depicting God, even in the Old Testament, is authorizing, commanding,
Speaker 1: intervening in battles for Israel.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned David and Goliath.
Speaker 1: That's maybe the one example that everybody knows about. Are
Speaker 1: King Saul or you know, the Walls of Jericho and
Speaker 1: all these other instances. I can go on and on
Speaker 1: and on. So it is frustrating to me. And then
Speaker 1: I look at the Pope. You know, forty five thousand
Speaker 1: protesters that's estimated, was slaughtered in Iran by this evil regime,
Speaker 1: and he's not condemned the mass killings of these Iranians.
Speaker 1: Why not Iran's attempt to build the nuclear weapon as
Speaker 1: they believe in this ridiculousness of strapping bombs on innocent men, women,
Speaker 1: young men, and young especially young men, and telling them
Speaker 1: to go killing men, women and children, and a promise
Speaker 1: of a reward in heaven of seventy two virgins. Why
Speaker 1: won't he address that controversial issue? Is he afraid? He
Speaker 1: doesn't want to comment, he's not aware of it. You know,
Speaker 1: you just get a vague, longstanding position against all countries
Speaker 1: developing nukes that that is not the issue at hand.
Speaker 1: Are they are steadfast in their commitment to getting a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon coupled with their radical ideology it is a
Speaker 1: death cult? And not a peep out of the Pope
Speaker 1: about the death cult and about the mulls in Iran.
Speaker 1: You're not a peep out of the Pope. After residential
Speaker 1: neighborhoods in this conflict have been hit densely populated areas.
Speaker 1: Tel Aviv has been targeted heavily in this conflict. You know,
Speaker 1: you just get vague statements against all war. Why hasn't
Speaker 1: he spoken out against the Uranian regime? Why is any
Speaker 1: fighting with them? Or's bombing of holy sites in Jerusalem?
Speaker 2: Not a peep.
Speaker 1: Or a RAN's oppression and rape and murder of innocent women,
Speaker 1: especially if they don't dress a certain way. Or a
Speaker 1: RAN's execution of people that are gay and lesbian. Not
Speaker 1: a peep out of the Pope Iran's involvement in killing
Speaker 1: American troops in Iraq and bey Root.
Speaker 2: Not a peep.
Speaker 1: First, American Pope Iran's funding of terrorism, the terror proxies
Speaker 1: that they fund and they are. I did condemn the
Speaker 1: October seventh attack, you know, and condemned terrorism, but he
Speaker 1: never specifically mentioned Iran.
Speaker 2: He only wants to go after Donald Trump now.
Speaker 1: He also recently met with David Axelrod and far left
Speaker 1: Illinois Governor JB.
Speaker 2: Pritzgro.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he talked all about abortion, which the Church
Speaker 1: takes a very strong stance on.
Speaker 2: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: And if you go to his old Twitter account, he
Speaker 1: retweeted a message asking if Donald Trump can see the
Speaker 1: stuff cause by wrongfully deporting migrants. So he's a radical leftist,
Speaker 1: He's a radical democrat. It's obvious, you know. He retweeted
Speaker 1: a post referring to Trump's immigration policies as nothing remotely
Speaker 1: Christian really, you know, and retweeted a post criticizing Trump's
Speaker 1: bad ombres line as fueling racism and nativism. You know,
Speaker 1: and they wonder why the church has seen in decline
Speaker 1: of people, And I can go through common and verse.
Speaker 1: I'm just sick and tired of it. Iran just sentenced
Speaker 1: four protesters to death, including a woman. Where's Pope Leo
Speaker 1: speaking out in defense of that woman and preventing this
Speaker 1: woman from getting murdered because she dared to oppose the crackdown?
Speaker 1: Tom Homan fired back at the Pope, explaining what Vatican
Speaker 1: leaders don't know about immigration? Pope Leo's warning the tyrants
Speaker 1: or ravaging the world. Oh question for the Pope, will
Speaker 1: this world that you seem to care so much about
Speaker 1: commenting on be better off with or without a nuclear
Speaker 1: armed Iran? And when will you speak out against radical
Speaker 1: Islamic terrorism? And when will you speak out? Was it
Speaker 1: a good thing? Because you're the one that commented that
Speaker 1: God doesn't bless any conflict. Is it a good or
Speaker 1: a bad thing that Donald Trump wiped out the Isis Caliphate?
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen Isis soldiers beheading people on a
Speaker 1: beach the way I have? And do you have any
Speaker 1: comment about that? The converter Dye Philosophy haven't heard the
Speaker 1: Pope comment on that at all either. Haven't heard a
Speaker 1: peep out of the Pope on that, you know dispatch
Speaker 1: from inside the Vatican bubble during a remarkable exchange between
Speaker 1: you know, the Pope and the present. Why won't where
Speaker 1: is this pope's moral cla That's what I'm asking? Well,
Speaker 1: at what point was it okay for David to kill
Speaker 1: Goliath and for God himself to mention war? Did God
Speaker 1: do a horrible thing when he parted the Red Sea
Speaker 1: and then drown the Pharaoh's soldiers so the Israelis can
Speaker 1: make it to the other side to the Promised Land?
Speaker 1: Was that a bad thing? Are you going to now
Speaker 1: judge God and question God? In the four hundred references?
Speaker 1: I mean they're very specific. I mean I went there.
Speaker 1: I could spend the next two hours of this program
Speaker 1: and give you a chapter and verse on it. I
Speaker 1: won't bore you with that, but I could four hundred
Speaker 1: references to war in the Bible, God authorizing, commanding, intervening
Speaker 1: in battles for Israel, which by the way, directly contradicts
Speaker 1: what the Pope said. God does not bless any conflict.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to pick on the Catholic Church here,
Speaker 1: but this is a fight that he's picking. And if
Speaker 1: he's going to have this selective moral outrage that he's
Speaker 1: feigning and seemingly enjoying this public fight with Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: I think it's time that he starts to get questioned.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump takes questions all the time.
Speaker 1: Nobody gets to answer ask the Pope a single thing,
Speaker 1: and I think it's time, and I would like to
Speaker 1: offer myself as the person to go interview the Pope.
Speaker 1: I think I'm uniquely qualified. I studied Latin theology, went
Speaker 1: to Catholic Church for twelve years. I'd love to interview
Speaker 1: the Pope and I would ask him these tough questions
Speaker 1: and why doesn't he why is he only speaking out
Speaker 1: in this instance, and maybe he can explain God's references
Speaker 1: to war in the Bible and why he says that
Speaker 1: God doesn't bless any conflict because that contradicts exactly what's
Speaker 1: said in the Bible. Or talk about the history of
Speaker 1: the Church and corruption and why the Church has never
Speaker 1: dealt with its corruption. Now it may sound a little harsh,
Speaker 1: but I was raised Catholic, care about the church. I
Speaker 1: got a lot out of the church. I get a
Speaker 1: lot out of the Mass, because that's that is the Mass,
Speaker 1: the last Supper with Jesus and his apostles, when he
Speaker 1: told them exactly what would be happening and then ordered them,
Speaker 1: you know, to love one another as I have loved you.
Speaker 1: Church is beauty, could be beautiful. The Mass is beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's just sad that unfortunately, like a lot of big institutions,
Speaker 1: a lot of corruption takes over. I know that I
Speaker 1: got that out of the way. I have a lot
Speaker 1: of people pissed off. This is not one thing I
Speaker 1: said that's not true. That is really frustrating to me.
Speaker 1: You know that the Pope wants to keep this battle
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump going, and then you look at his
Speaker 1: former Twitter feed. He was he was a radical leftist.
Speaker 1: He's met with JB. Pritzker, and that's axel Rod. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: The overwhelming majority of the Senate Democrats voted to block
Speaker 1: US arm sales to Israel.
Speaker 2: That is your new Democratic Party.
Speaker 3: Next, didn't the I R S scandal and the NSA
Speaker 3: atrocities convince you you need a watchdog on Washington with
Speaker 3: insiders sources. You need Hannity every day.
Speaker 2: So what's going on in Washington today? Oh? Let me see.
Speaker 1: Overwhelming majority of Senate Democrats just voted to block US
Speaker 1: arm cells to Israel. This is the rise of anti
Speaker 1: Semitism in the halls of Congress, especially the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: college campuses. Notice those same you know college kids that
Speaker 1: are out there road testing. You know, Israel loses the
Speaker 1: equivalent of forty thousand Americans in a day on October seventh.
Speaker 1: When you extrapolate their population compared to ours, what do
Speaker 1: you expect? What would you want America to do if
Speaker 1: we lost forty thousand Americans in a day and we
Speaker 1: knew who did it, What would you want us to do?
Speaker 1: Would you want us to fight back?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 1: I would say obliterate You know the country, the people
Speaker 1: responsible for this happening and those that aid in a
Speaker 1: bet them or elect them anyway. They voted a block
Speaker 1: arm sales to Israel a reflection of where the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is today. I mean, this is a party they
Speaker 1: didn't They don't want to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to fund the police. They want to defund, dismantled,
Speaker 1: no bail reimagine police departments. They want open borders. They
Speaker 1: created the most preventable national security disaster in history. Now
Speaker 1: they have sanctuary cities and states. They take taxpayer dollars
Speaker 1: to provide benefits that people that don't respect are laws, borders,
Speaker 1: and sovereignty. Then they want to give them, you know,
Speaker 1: they want to reward illegal activity with citizenship and free benefits.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 1: Rember Kamala wanted taxpayer funded sex change operations for illegals,
Speaker 1: and Tim Wallas wanted taxpayer funded college for illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1: It's madness. We can't afford it. Democratic votes on a
Speaker 1: pair of resolutions from Bernie Sanders not enough to overcome
Speaker 1: universal opposition from Republicans. The votes represent a watershed moment
Speaker 1: in the party's relationship with Israel, and some of the
Speaker 1: most notable names to vote in favor of blocking military
Speaker 1: transfers to Israel. Let's see Cory Booker, a Senate both
Speaker 1: Arizona senators among the Democrats to vote for both resolutions.
Speaker 1: Did you pick up Linda Anna Paula Luna yesterday said
Speaker 1: that there's somebody from Arizona and the US Senate only
Speaker 1: two people from Arizona that are in the United States Senate.
Speaker 1: One of them, he's predicting going to have a major
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's quite swallwell like, but it's
Speaker 1: going to have a major problem surviving.
Speaker 2: That's what it sounded like to me. Is that what
Speaker 2: you heard?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Annapolina Luna has definitely been standing firm
Speaker 4: on if you are consorting with people that are work
Speaker 4: in your office, then you're going to have a problem.
Speaker 2: Where's your office? If you have a home aufice, I have.
Speaker 4: A home office. I have a work office. You know
Speaker 4: my office is. It's lovely and I do not canodle
Speaker 4: left with the stand.
Speaker 1: But you left U York. You don't live in New
Speaker 1: York anymore, right, Amen? And when people ask you what
Speaker 1: you do for a living and you tell them you've working.
Speaker 4: I'm a garden radio. I like gardening.
Speaker 2: I don't want to admit it.
Speaker 1: Iranian insiders rightly fearing the economic destruction caused by the
Speaker 1: US and Israel bombing.
Speaker 2: This blockade is crushing them. Now.
Speaker 1: That's why I am more optimistic than ever. And there
Speaker 1: are people pushing for an extension give them more time.
Speaker 1: I'm not on that list of given more time. I'm
Speaker 1: sick of giving them time. US military expanding the president
Speaker 1: straight o Hormuz blockade. The blockade now encompasses the entirety
Speaker 1: of the Iranian coast. US military forces now widening their
Speaker 1: shipping blockade on a Ran to include cargoes deemed contraband
Speaker 1: any vessels suspected of trying to reach Iranian territory will
Speaker 1: be subject to belligerent right to visit and search. US
Speaker 1: Navy said, these vessels regardless of location or subject to visit, boards,
Speaker 1: urch and seizure.
Speaker 2: That's moving along just perfectly.
Speaker 1: Here's the interesting part too, because the President, you know,
Speaker 1: put out these tweets yesterday. If we didn't fully understand
Speaker 1: the context of it all, but the President said yesterday
Speaker 1: that China agreed not to send weapons to Iran, and
Speaker 1: then he predicted, by the way, you know, I'm scheduled
Speaker 1: to go to China with the President on air force
Speaker 1: one and you are aware of that one?
Speaker 2: They're correct?
Speaker 4: Or no, I was not aware of it. Should I
Speaker 4: hit the breaking new sounder? Nobody told me?
Speaker 2: Well, I just told you, because I just uh.
Speaker 4: Thirty million other people.
Speaker 1: I figure that this is like the only chance of
Speaker 1: my life that I'll ever get to go to China.
Speaker 1: I don't think China likes me. I don't think I
Speaker 1: want them to particularly like me.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Trump keeps telling us how much you
Speaker 4: likes him, so I'm sure he's gonna.
Speaker 2: Like you well.
Speaker 1: In Helsinki and Vietnam and Singapore and all these other
Speaker 1: trips that I've been on. Even when I go to
Speaker 1: Israel and I've been to Iraq and all these other places,
Speaker 1: it always becomes challenging because you can't use your phone.
Speaker 1: If you even turn your phone on for one second,
Speaker 1: these very sophisticated spy agencies will download the content of
Speaker 1: your phone. Can you believe that I got a call
Speaker 1: from the FBI. Your phone has been hacked by the Iranians?
Speaker 1: And what does that mean? There's nothing on there that
Speaker 1: I really give a rip about. I'm not Eric Swaalwall,
Speaker 1: I'm not mister Feng Feang, but.
Speaker 4: Just tell the Mother Jones already tried. It didn't work.
Speaker 4: We're fine, move along.
Speaker 2: What did Mother Jones try?
Speaker 4: They printed all fifty seven pages that came out when
Speaker 4: they did that whole thing where they were releasing people's
Speaker 4: text messages. Remember that's when they were like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: he believes everything he says.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that happened to me. That was the first time.
Speaker 1: Then there was the second and third time. Then there
Speaker 1: was the January sixth committee. I don't have privacy, it
Speaker 1: doesn't exist.
Speaker 2: It's over. I got. I got.
Speaker 1: Well, really, they went to my lawyer and told that
Speaker 1: the Chinese, the Iranians, the Russians have all hacked into
Speaker 1: my phone at different times. That's very that's that's a
Speaker 1: little weird. It is not a normal life, definitely. And
Speaker 1: then if you ask them what you're supposed to do
Speaker 1: and they give you a list of things I do,
Speaker 1: I don't think any of it works, to be honest,
Speaker 1: I think if anyone wants it. But anyway, the interesting
Speaker 1: thing is China is very happy, and I'm permanently opening
Speaker 1: the Straight of Horn Moose. Now, a sanctioned Chinese oil
Speaker 1: tanker crossed the Straight of Horn moves uh, and they
Speaker 1: were had to return back to Iran after the blockade,
Speaker 1: you know, stop them from moving forward. The boarded voyage
Speaker 1: of this of this Chinese owned tanker blacklisted by the
Speaker 1: US and twenty twenty three shows how the US Navy
Speaker 1: successfully blocked the flow of ships carrying Iranian oil. It
Speaker 1: is now you got China on our side because they
Speaker 1: want this crap to stop, and.
Speaker 2: I don't blame them.
Speaker 1: It's kind of sad. Maybe the Pope can weigh in
Speaker 1: on this. Iran's barbaric regime is now set to execute
Speaker 1: their first female protester over these recent protests, one of
Speaker 1: the estimated sixteen hundred that are now sentenced to death
Speaker 1: the latest killings. Pete Haik Saith warning Iranian leaders choose wisely.
Speaker 1: I would tell them that you should probably listen to
Speaker 1: the president, that is my advice. But didn't I tell
Speaker 1: the leaders of Iran? Remember there were reports they had
Speaker 1: their planes on the run on the tarmac and they
Speaker 1: were ready to head to Russia and they were probably
Speaker 1: going to pillage the country and they were going to
Speaker 1: take off with tons of money. That's the way all
Speaker 1: these people do when they when they seek asylum and
Speaker 1: I'm like, here, here's my advice. And I said it
Speaker 1: on radio and I said it on TV. If I
Speaker 1: was you, I would get on that plane as soon
Speaker 1: as possible. Don't don't pass go, don't collect two hundred,
Speaker 1: take your money with you. You can get out safely.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: If you wait, you're probably going to be dead. And
Speaker 1: when Operation Epic Fury happened, what happened, Linda? They missed
Speaker 1: their window of opportunity. They think they were going.
Speaker 4: To They don't think that. I mean, here's the problem, right,
Speaker 4: you think that he's kidding. He's not kidding. He's telling you.
Speaker 4: He's giving you the playbook. You can either get in
Speaker 4: the game or you can get hurt.
Speaker 1: Well, the president is showing great restraint and some people
Speaker 1: say that is how could you say that, hannedy, he's
Speaker 1: not showing restraint. Well, you know, he can ruin their
Speaker 1: whole economy right now, permanently, and he's not done it.
Speaker 2: And the President's also straightforward.
Speaker 1: He's going to take their uranium one way or the other,
Speaker 1: and there is an operational way that they will be
Speaker 1: able to do it. Iran is crumbling, you know, Victor
Speaker 1: Davis Hans So I really like Victor Davis Hanson a lot.
Speaker 1: Here's the headline. Iran crumbles, critics scramble. Trump's long game
Speaker 1: leaves the media exposed. And he said, if you look
Speaker 1: at the uranium war, I'd call it the longer view,
Speaker 1: not the short term, twenty four hour news cycle. And
Speaker 1: he said, what's happening right now is the left wing
Speaker 1: of the United States political spectrum, the Democratic Party, and
Speaker 1: they are in nexus now. And I'd add to that
Speaker 1: the weirdo conspiracy theorist, isolationist nut jobs out there. So
Speaker 1: anything that looks unfortunate from the point of American success
Speaker 1: in a ran they cling to. Last Monday, it looked
Speaker 1: like President Trump after his tweet on Easter that he
Speaker 1: was gonna go after them and destroy civilization as they
Speaker 1: know it. They say he's a warmonger, and they put
Speaker 1: him in this box. If he doesn't strike, he's Taco Trump.
Speaker 2: There's anything.
Speaker 1: Trumps followed through on pretty much everything he promised he
Speaker 1: would do, and if he did follow through, then he
Speaker 1: was a war criminal.
Speaker 2: He couldn't win.
Speaker 1: He announced his negotiations the next day and it's Taco Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: now we have the blockade that outmaneuvered them, you know,
Speaker 1: we have.
Speaker 2: And Victor Davis.
Speaker 1: Hanson is saying, if you take the long view, the
Speaker 1: only way you can do this is look at history,
Speaker 1: and history says it's very unusual one side has been
Speaker 1: this victorious in what is an asymmetrical war, especially against
Speaker 1: the strongest power by all accounts, ninety three million people,
Speaker 1: a massive territory, and people were terrified of it, not
Speaker 1: just the Gulf monarchies, but obviously Europe.
Speaker 2: I think NATO's done at the end of this, I
Speaker 2: really do.
Speaker 1: I think we'll see I think we'll see bilateral deals
Speaker 1: with countries, especially Eastern Bloc Western European countries, the former
Speaker 1: Eastern Bloc, you know, like Poland, etc. I think we're
Speaker 1: going to have individual you know, security agreements with them.
Speaker 1: I think NATO is in its current configuration, is done anyway.
Speaker 1: So Victor Davis Hansen goes on, we say the strait
Speaker 1: was open before the war. Yeah, open, but it was
Speaker 1: opened on the condition that Iran would close it in
Speaker 1: any minute.
Speaker 2: I know for a fact.
Speaker 1: Pay attention, I said, I know for a fact that
Speaker 1: they anticipated what would happen with the Strait of Hormuz,
Speaker 1: and I know for a fact that they anticipated the
Speaker 1: Iranians would mine it, which is why they had mind
Speaker 1: sweepers right there available at a moment's notice. If you
Speaker 1: look realistically, they don't have a military. They have lost
Speaker 1: probably hundreds of billions of not a trillion dollars or
Speaker 1: half a trillion dollars, you know, in a half century
Speaker 1: investment in missiles and now in drones and sophisticated aircraft,
Speaker 1: and i'd add nuclear capability. Their command and control is
Speaker 1: down to their you know, fourth and fifthier. We don't
Speaker 1: know if the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, we don't know
Speaker 1: who exists. We don't know if they if it's a
Speaker 1: political class, we don't know if it's the theocracy. We
Speaker 1: know that they have benefited from the money that the
Speaker 1: regime takes in, but that money now is going to
Speaker 1: dry up very quickly and may dry up permanently, which
Speaker 1: might then motivate them to switch sides. And this is
Speaker 1: where the regime could totally collapse, which would be great
Speaker 1: for the people. The Persian people would have another a
Speaker 1: new lease on life, which I would love for them.
Speaker 1: It's very fluid, but militarily it's very clear. This has
Speaker 1: been an overwhelming devastating war for Iran and who are
Speaker 1: you know, who are the winners and losers? Russia's has
Speaker 1: no presidence in Venezuela, it is no presence in Latin America,
Speaker 1: no presence in the Middle East. It's you know, the
Speaker 1: Assad regime is God and Donald Trump is winning and
Speaker 1: there are people that don't like it. Democrats Haakim Jeffreys
Speaker 1: predicting that the president's going to fail. Oh he didn't fail.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is going to go down in the
Speaker 1: history books is one of the greatest ever. If the
Speaker 1: president gets this dust reopens the streets, then it's just
Speaker 1: game changing. And on the other side of that, you're
Speaker 1: going to see all of these Gulf state countries, they're
Speaker 1: all going to want to recognize Israel to move on.
Speaker 1: By the way, the Israelis the strike that they had
Speaker 1: on Hezbalah in Lebanon saw its command structure across Lemanond
Speaker 1: come under what Israeli officials described as the most devastating blows.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they described it as more
Speaker 1: devastating than the twenty twenty four Pager attack. Simultaneous explosions
Speaker 1: fifty Israeli aircraft struck more than one hundred his balla
Speaker 1: targets in one shot. Now they're going to begin I
Speaker 1: guess negotiations is going to be a ceasefire. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a ten day ceasefire, the President announced, and
Speaker 1: apparently it's going to be at the White House. That
Speaker 1: should be very interesting. Now the President says, Israel Lebanon
Speaker 1: agree to a ten day seasfire. So we'll see what happens. Anyway,
Speaker 1: A lot of good things happening, but this could all
Speaker 1: end tomorrow.
Speaker 2: This is the thing.
Speaker 1: The President just has to make the decision that he
Speaker 1: wants it. But I don't think. I do not think.
Speaker 1: And by the way, God bless them. The Nigel Farage,
Speaker 1: he took aim at you know, Neville Chamberlain Starmer and
Speaker 1: said that this is a terrible disaster. Not to support
Speaker 1: America when it asked for support is extraordinary, an extraordinary
Speaker 1: thing to have been done. And he's now gonna Callen Starmer.
Speaker 1: And I think he has a very good shot to
Speaker 1: being the next Prime minister. And I think it'd be great.
Speaker 1: All right when we come back, we got a lot
Speaker 1: to get to. We'll check in with a Navy admiral
Speaker 1: straight ahead