WEBVTT - Iran Talks Collapse 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.280 Thanks to all of you for being with us. 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:04.800 Right down are toll free telephone number if you want 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:06.120 to be a part of the program at say eight 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:12.200 hundred nine, if you want to join us. My first 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:18.360 observation is, I'm not really sure why a US delegation 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:23.639 would give twenty one hours to lunatic Iranians that had 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:27.000 their list of demands that were so far off base 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.960 that it was never ever gonna happen. And it was 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:37.280 interesting watching as the Vice President and midd East Envoy 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.880 Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner went into this in Pakistan 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.720 over the weekend, the presidents saying, it doesn't really matter 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:49.760 how these talks go, we win, and the President's not wrong. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:52.120 Now it may take a little maybe a little bit 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.680 more complicated than where we were before because of the 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.640 straight of hormones, but I know that the President's blockade 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.880 is a first step the Iranians. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:03.920 You know, it's very interesting. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:08.000 There was a seventy one person delegation that they brought 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.400 with them, and they brought with them what they considered 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.760 four non negotiable conditions before the session began. Full Iranian 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:21.679 sovereignty over the straight of Horn moves that was never 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:26.399 gonna happen. That is non negotiable. And then they want 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:31.640 complete war reparations, never gonna happen. They have no power 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:38.200 to negotiate anyway. They absolutely have been decimated militarily. And 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.840 then they wanted the unconditional release of frozen assets. That's 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.600 never gonna happen under Donald Trump. And they wanted a 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:53.560 ceasefire across the entire West Asia area. Those demands were 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:58.520 non starters. And honestly, you know, why this went on 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:01.200 for twenty one hours. That's the only I can't figure out. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.640 We haven't gotten an answer to that question. Hopefully we'll 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.040 get one in the days to come. But you know, 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.880 and meanwhile, the President had red lines. They've got to 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.840 end all uranium enrichment, dismantle all major nuclear enrichment facilities 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:18.560 any that they may have left, retrieve any highly enriched uranium, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.560 or there's a lot of talk of entombing it. At first, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.720 I was told that that was not a likely scenario. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.240 Now I'm told that, you know, once the President said 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:29.440 that they've had eyes on it ever since Operation Midnight Hammer. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.080 That that kind of made me. It gave me a 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:32.920 sense of relief. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:35.120 Is they're not going to get it anywhere near the 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.320 sixty percent enriched uranium. Whether we go get it or not, 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.640 that our lines are. They have to accept a broader peace, 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:48.640 the escalation that includes regional allies, ending funding for terror 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:53.320 proxies Amas has Bala, the Huti rebels and simply open 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.079 the straight of hor moves and know they don't get 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.840 to charge any tolls. Now, I don't know why that 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.840 took twenty one hours. I have no earth the idea, 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.880 but the Iranians, you know, came with this ridiculous set 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.000 of demand, so it was never going to work. And 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.200 I truly, knowing the president as well as I do, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.480 know that he doesn't care. And they left Islamabad without 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.640 anything really done. Now, General Jack Keem was skeptical of 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:23.720 this diplomacy idea from the very beginning, and he's he's 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.000 just he was on with Maria Bartromo over the weekend 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.160 discussing he'll be on with us tonight whether diplomacy can 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.600 achieve these objectives. He was very, very skeptical of of 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.320 all of it because of the forty seven you know, 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:40.640 years of NonStop terror and madness, and this is a 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:46.720 radicalized theocracy. I mean, these are Aslamo fascist. And this 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.040 is why I don't really want to get into any 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.280 discussion or argument with people that don't understand the need 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.720 to take out this regime's ability to one day be 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.680 able to reach an American city with a nuclear weapon, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:04.200 because I believe their radicalism will cause them at some 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.680 point to think they're doing the will of God. Because 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.040 they strap bombs on kids and tell them to go 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:13.040 killing as men, women and children, why wouldn't they want 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.400 a even more spectacular event. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:16.360 I mean, what happened. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.760 What happened twenty five years ago, nine to eleven one 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.640 is twenty nine hundred and seventy seven Americans were killed, 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.640 and the people that were flying those planes into the 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.680 trade center were screaming a lahu Akbar and doing this 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.240 in the name of quote religion and God and Allah, 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.919 and with a full belief that they were about to 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.560 enter paradise and be rewarded with seventy two virgins. I 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.200 don't think you can negotiate with insanity, because that's what 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:47.719 it is. There are some updates as it relates to 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:52.480 the Supreme Leader's son, who the Supreme Leader never wanted 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:57.200 to replace him. But anyway, according to what is coming 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:03.279 out about this particular guy. Is he severe disfigured after 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.279 the sustaining leg and face injuries. This was in the 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.320 opening moments of this conflict and the beginning of epic fury. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:16.000 And how many son Hominy himself is recovering from these 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:20.400 injuries that were incurred on February twenty eighth that killed 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.200 his father and his top lieutenants despite the injuries, how 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:28.440 many allegedly they claim, according to Reuter's reporting remains mentally sharp. 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.160 But you know, at the end of the day, I 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:36.600 think the one missing component that hopefully can be achieved 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.120 in all of this, and I know there have been 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.080 attempts to get there. It has been the notion of 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:49.200 regime of the ability of the people to win their 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:54.160 country back. And you can't win a revolution with a slingshot, 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:58.200 and I've said that many many times. According to the President, 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.760 there have been attempts to arm the people in Iran 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:07.320 so that they can fight back against Iranian Revolutionary Guard 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:12.160 forces and cud's forces those that remain and police that 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.320 might be loyal to the former regime or the new regime. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.080 We don't really even know who's in charge at this point. 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.680 I think you also have a conflict and a power 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:26.880 struggle within Iran that we're probably not fully acutely aware of, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.960 but we know there have been reports of it. I 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.480 have some good news on the oil front. Although oil 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.920 was below one hundred dollars a barrel for a while, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.919 today it was above one hundred bucks a barrel. But 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.960 Rory Johnston and we'll have oil experts coming up at 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.320 the top of the next hour. But according to Johnston, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.240 he reported over the weekend that dozens of empty, very 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.040 large crude carriers now have just kind of given up 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.080 on the Straight of Horn Moves and are moving towards 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.520 the US Gulf Coast. And each of these tankers now 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.680 carry around two million barrels of crude oil. And according 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.080 to him, this unusual movement of empty tankers is suggesting 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:10.120 that global buyers are now preparing to purchase large quantities 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.600 of American crude. And the trend has emerged as oil 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.119 supply disruptions continue as the tensions have gone on there. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.840 Now there is one other myth that has come out, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.600 and that is that, Okay, so if you go with 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.080 the figure that about twenty percent of the world's oil 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.600 supply on a daily basis will go through the Straight 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:35.960 or Hormoz. Most of that supply has already been replaced, 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.080 or it has been rerouted, or they're getting safe passage, 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.320 like for example, two million barrels of oil per day 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.200 are going to China. They're not being disrupted the same 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.560 thing with India. Apparently they've been given safe passage. Other 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:53.239 countries if they've made individual deals and want to pay 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:58.760 the tariff that the Iranians have been charging on the 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.920 passage through the strait, I mean that's fine too. But 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.400 Central Command US Central Command forces now are implementing this 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.720 blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.920 as of ten am this morning, in accordance with the 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:19.120 President's proclamation. The blockade now will be enforcing impartially against 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.480 vessels of all nations entering or departing the Iranian ports 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:23.640 or coastal areas. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:24.960 What does that mean? 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.960 That means that the Iranians now going to be starved 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:34.800 of any financial benefit from carg Island. Now, Remember they 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.640 don't produce gas, they produce oil, and the oil is 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.280 then sent abroad and then it is refined and then 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.000 it has turned into gasoline. Petro diesel whatever it's turned into, 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.360 so additional information. But this now means this is the 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:54.800 sole source of revenue for the Iranians, which will you know, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.840 this will now bankrupt them if it is successful. The 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.959 danger to me, in my mind is when you think 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:08.079 of a traditional blockade, or if you think of American 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.840 I don't want to be in a situation where American 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:15.720 ships are actually escorting these tankers through the strait of hormones. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.480 That's not what the blockade is. The blockade means block 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.960 and what are they looking to block? The Iranian's ability 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.559 to export oil? Now, there are other countries that will 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:29.439 find alternative roots to get their oil to market short 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.200 of making a deal with whatever remaining third, fourth, fiftier 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.680 leadership that exists in Iran. But what that really means 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:42.080 is that they're going to have to the world's going 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.640 to now look for other sources of oil. That's all 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.840 there is to it, and they're going to find them 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.960 because we don't have a shortage of oil. And now 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:55.280 that America has has gotten rid of Maduro, and you 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.959 look at Venezuela as the number one producer of oil 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:02.640 on the planet is number two and way behind would 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.840 be Saudi Arabia number three. Uh, there's going to be 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.319 It's not that we're going to have an oil shortage. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.920 It's just a short term distribution problem that will easily, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.080 you know, in meaning in the next couple of months, 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:20.080 be be able to sort itself out, and the world, 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.200 the world market for Iranian oil will disintegrate next to 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.319 nothing because they won't be able to they won't be 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:27.120 able to get it out. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:27.480 Now. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.320 The one thing I would like a buffer zone the 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.559 problem with the Strait itself, which has been mined by 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:38.959 the Iranians, although America did ensure that there are specific 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.400 passing lanes that they can get these tankers through, which 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.199 is critical because like you don't know it when you 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.720 fly in an airplane and you're at thirty eight thousand feet, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:53.520 you're you're flying on what is and how do I 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.400 best describe this? It's it's the It's as similar to 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.120 a highway, except it does have a name to it. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:06.920 In other words, planes will fly specific highways in the 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:11.000 sky and get reports. By the way, there might be turbulence, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.800 there might be choppiness, there might be air pockets, there 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.640 might be all sorts of things that pilots will communicate 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.760 to other pilots that are along that same route, but 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.120 there are It's not like they just fly anywhere in 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:28.160 the sky. There are specific rout specific routing flight patterns 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.400 that are given to aircraft both commercial and private, and 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.760 those lanes exist well. Similarly, through the Strait of Hormuz, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.319 there are specific now lanes that have been cleared so 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.800 that tankers, should we allow them at any given point 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.280 in time, will be able to move through and move 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.960 through safely without fear of any mining incidents. The US 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:59.679 Navy began this critical mind hunt amid these Iranian tensions 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.920 and have already been able to identify specific areas where 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.200 tankers can get through. And US officials confirm that yeah, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.880 Ran did in fact mind the Straight of hor Moves, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.000 which was by the way, that was not something they 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.560 did not anticipate. That was discussed in great detail ahead 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.880 of this entire operation. So they they have deployed mine 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.080 sweepers in the straight of Hormones and we're very good 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:27.960 at detecting them. It just takes time. At its narrowest point, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.000 the Straight of hor Moves is I guess about twenty 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:37.600 twenty four miles wide, which is not very wide. Which 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.120 means we don't want to get in a situation where 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:47.240 our navy destroyers, our navy fleet is anywhere near that 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:51.079 close to land, which would make it a little bit 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.959 more vulnerable to attack by the Iranians. And even though 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:59.120 it would for them it would be a I don't know, 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:03.640 it would be a win on paper, and the consequences 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.320 would be so brutal I can't even begin to imagine it. 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.560 But we'll see, because every Iranian port is about to 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.520 be closed by the US Navy, and that's going to 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.600 shut off the Spickett in terms of their own finances. 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:19.320 So what the Iranians we're trying to achieve here doesn't 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.679 make sense. But does anything that they do make sense? 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.240 Does the fact that they strap bombs on young kids 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.520 and tell them that they're going to get seventy two 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.040 virgins if they kill innocent men, women and children, does 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.360 that make sense? Does it make sense? After Midnight Hammer? 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:39.880 They wouldn't. They wouldn't negotiate with some level of sincerity, 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.680 knowing what the inevitable outcome would be after Operation Epic 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:47.160 Fury and taking out three tiers of leadership. For these 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.640 people to show up in Islamabad with their own set 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.840 of conditions that were never going to be met, and 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:59.319 not negotiate what they knew was America's demands. What was 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:00.760 the point of it? I don't really know. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:02.360 I just don't. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.920 So I think that the world is now going to 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:12.240 navigate the oil issue in a way that we've got 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.600 to keep America's navy safe and secure. And I think 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:22.560 that's all going to happen. A factor in one other 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:28.560 thing as well. And Fortune put this out today that 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.760 you know, all the relentless bombing by the US and 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.720 Israel has pushed the ranium regime to the bring financially, 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.880 so if this blockade is successful, they can't sell their oil. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.600 That's that is their main source of income. And their 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.239 central bank last month issued the highest largest ever currency 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:51.720 denomination and they're now facing you know, fifty sixty inflation 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:55.000 on top of everything else. Official data downplaying it, but 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.400 they're in trouble financially. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.239 Solid as a rock, honest, truthful. 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:27.960 This is the Sean Hannity Show. I find it hilarious 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:32.360 that Iran nominated to head the UN Terrorism Prevention Group, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:36.360 the number one state sponsor of terror. UN's fifty four 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:42.120 Nation Economic Social Council nominated Iran, which meets next month 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:48.240 to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament, and 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:53.880 terrorism prevention, and the General Assembly. They usually rubber stamp 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:58.120 these nominations without even having a vote. And in addition 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.920 to this, they've nominated China, Cuba, nic Ad, Agua, Saudi 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:09.640 Arabia and Sudan to the influential committee that is going 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.680 to I guess make this decision. I mean you talk about, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.440 you know, the Henhouse, meet the Fox here, as somebody 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:20.680 put it in some column, the UN can't you know 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.440 counter terrorism, you know, when they're the number one state 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.440 sponsor of terror. Why do we pay seven billion dollars 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.440 a year for this globalist organization? Why why do we 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.680 spend all this money? Why are we a part of 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.600 the World Economic Forum? Why were we ever a part 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:39.800 of the Paris Accords? 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:40.520 You know? 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:44.400 Why do we look to international organizations when we should 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.160 be the masters of our own destiny. 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:46.880 You know. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.120 The reason the President is involved with Iran is because 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.960 it was an existential threat to America. The President saw 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.240 that they were twelve days away from enriching they're sixty 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.520 percent uranium to ninety percent weapons grade, and he made 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.480 a decision that they can't have nuclear weapons. It's that simple, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.920 it's basic fundamental math. Then we learned that their ballistic 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:13.440 missile range was far further than we thought. That's another problem. 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:19.840 And then we have these these absolutely useless organizations, globalist organizations. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.280 And I'll tell you one other thing. You know, I 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.080 was listening to the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defending 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:32.840 his countries NATO commitments after being pressed over the alliances 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.320 spending by President Trump, insisting that Ottawa meets the benchmark 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.760 even though Canada has only reached two percent of their 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.040 defense target in twenty twenty five. They're not paying their 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:45.320 fair share. And for those countries that don't pay their 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.840 fair share, like Spain, why are we and won't allow 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.919 us to even use the air bases we built in 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:58.399 their countries as part of Alliance strategic planning? Why are 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.720 we aligned with people that are reliable partners to begin with? 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.960 You know, we have to face the reality the continent 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:10.760 of Europe is in disintegrating before our very eyes. They 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.000 are in a steep, steep decline. And I don't think 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:19.120 there's any reversal of this decline. It's everything from embracing 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:25.240 radical socialism, climate alarmism, the fact that they have neglected 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.800 their own national defense and national security. They've been weak 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.320 partners with NATO, They've never wanted to contribute their fair share. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:37.440 And then the worst thing they've done is unfettered illegal 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:41.400 immigration without assimilation. Now you have no go zones in France, 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.320 no go zones in other parts of Europe. They have 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.480 nearly one hundred sharia courts in Great Britain. They're all 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:51.520 countries in decline. They are a continent in decline. And 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:55.720 why should we spend eight hundred plus billion dollars a 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:01.400 year securing the defenses of U Europe when they won't 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.760 even defend themselves and their unreliable partners even as something 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.840 you should have such easy moral clarity in standing with 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.000 us against the number one state sponsor of terror. And 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.040 by the way, we've got to now keep our eye 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:19.200 on China because US intelligence is indicating that China's preparing 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:23.640 weapons shipments to Iran amid this fragile ceasefire. The ceasefire 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:25.520 is over, by the way, nobody's saying it yet. The 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:31.439 ceasefire is over. There's a bit of a battle going 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:38.400 on between the Pope, Hope Leo and President Trump. Pope 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:44.520 Leo on Saturday denounced quote, the the delusion of omnipotence 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:48.040 that is fueling the US Israel war in Iran and 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.320 demanded political leaders stop and negotiate peace. Well, we try 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.159 to negotiate peace. I've never heard the Pope once comment 0:19:56.040 --> 0:20:00.240 on the need for, you know, to prevent Iran from 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:03.920 ever having nuclear weapons, and if we're going to get 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.760 lectures from the Catholic Church. And I was raised Catholic, 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.920 and I went to Catholic school for twelve years, and 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.200 I think the Catholic Mass is beautiful and in every 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.360 way imaginable. I have not liked past popes. I think 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.000 the last pope that I really liked and respected the 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:23.840 most was probably Hope John Paul the second. Anyway, he's 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:27.639 the first US born pope. And while he didn't mention 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:31.920 the US or President Trump in his prayer over the weekend, 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.960 which he which was planned before the talks were announced, 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.359 but Leo's tone and message appeared to be directed at 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:44.960 President Trump and US officials that boasted of US military 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:49.280 superiority and how this war is justified, and he spoke 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:52.359 about it in religious terms, and he said enough with 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:56.359 the of the idolatry and self and money, enough of 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:00.800 the display of power, enough of war, and in the 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:07.200 Basilica pews, the Archbishop of Tehran, Belgian Cardinal Dominic Joseph Matthieu, 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.400 said the US was represented in the diplomatic corps by 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.159 its chief mission, et cetera, et cetera, and then it 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:18.760 got a little more, a little bit more heated, and anyway, 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:21.800 the Pope said that the president's threat to annihilate Iranian 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:27.119 civilization is truly unacceptable. How come no pope that I 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:29.760 know of, and especially Pope Leo, if he wants to 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:34.240 engage in a public discourse on issues, maybe we should 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.879 look at the Catholic Church's position during World War II 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:43.320 in Nazi Germany and talk specifically about what the Vatican 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.320 knew and when they knew it. Just saying, you know, 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.280 if you want my real reasons for leaving the Catholic Churches, 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:51.520 in many ways, I could not get over the fact 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:56.360 that they institutionalized corruption. I'm just being blunt. I think 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:00.439 the Mass is beautiful, I believe in many of the 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.560 tenets of the Catholic faith. I've not abandoned my faith 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:05.920 in any way. If anything, my faith has gotten stronger 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.400 in my older years. We've been talking a lot about 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:10.159 it lately, not that I want to discuss it at 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:14.399 all today, especially the Lord's Prayer and Linda's interpretation of 0:22:14.440 --> 0:22:17.560 the Bible and her planed negotiation when she gets to 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.960 the pearly Gates and she's going to justify her hate 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:26.520 list and just justify ignoring the very clear statement in 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:28.879 the Lord's Prayer which is a direct message to all 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.359 of us to forgive others as we forgive. That's a 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:36.400 different issue for another month, another year. But I find 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.040 this fascinating that I did not hear the Pope one time, 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.439 or any pope for that matter, weigh in about the 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:48.760 terrorism that has been waged in the entire region, in 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:53.879 the Middle East or worldwide, or those that have been 0:22:54.600 --> 0:22:58.800 so willing to strap bombs on young children and promise 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:02.960 them seventy two urgins in heaven. I've never heard the 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:06.760 Pope way in on October seventh. I haven't heard the 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:09.720 and the horrors of that day, and the murder and 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:11.879 the rape, and the torture, and the kidnapping and the 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:15.919 beheading that took place that day. I've never heard the 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.879 Pope way in about the massacre of tens and tens 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:22.960 of thousands of Iranians, not one single word, And it 0:23:23.080 --> 0:23:27.320 just seems to be a very one sided argument. And anyway, 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:30.960 I don't blame the President for fighting back, and I 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:35.240 don't blame him at all. I think that the President, 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:41.439 you know, is right in challenging what this pope is 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:44.879 suggesting here, as the President went out there and said, 0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:49.240 Pope Leo's week on crime terrible. On foreign policy, he 0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.000 talks about fear of the Trump administration, but he didn't 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:55.400 mention fear that the Catholic Church and other Christian organizations 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.240 had during COVID when they were arresting priests and ministers 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:02.080 and everybody else for holding church services, even going outside 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:05.640 and being ten or twenty feet apart. And I don't 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:07.720 really want a pope who thinks that it's terrible that 0:24:07.760 --> 0:24:11.160 America attacked Venezuela, a country that was sending massive amounts 0:24:11.160 --> 0:24:15.000 of drugs to the United States or worse, emptying their prisons, 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.360 including murderers and drug dealers and killers. And I don't 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:22.000 want a pope criticizing the president of the United States 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.440 because I'm doing exactly what I was elected to do. 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.000 And that is lowering the crime rate in this country, 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:29.240 creating the greatest you know. 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:29.960 And then he went on to. 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:33.159 List of successes, and he said the Pope should be 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:37.600 thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. 0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.520 He doesn't think the Pope would have been elected. But 0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:44.199 if we're going to have selective outrage and we're going 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:48.280 to get political commentary from the pope now the pope, Linda, 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:50.560 correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't the Pope talk about 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:54.240 the need for peace, and didn't the Pope talk about 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:56.919 the need for a cease fire and how war is 0:24:57.000 --> 0:24:59.400 horrible and evil. I don't think all war is horrible 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:02.800 and evil at all. Oh and by the way, biblically speaking, 0:25:03.520 --> 0:25:05.880 I don't think God viewed it that way. And when 0:25:05.880 --> 0:25:07.920 I brought this up the other day, some people got 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:11.480 upset when I said this, But that was Are we 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:15.480 to believe the Bible story about David and Goliath and 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:19.960 that David was was given the strength by God to 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:23.960 take on the giant Goliath and slay him, that would 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:27.800