WEBVTT - A Line Is Drawn 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:01.440 Thanks to all of you for being with us. Right 0:00:01.520 --> 0:00:04.280 down our toll free telephone number if you want to 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.720 be a part of the program, it is eight hundred 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:09.319 and ninety four one Sean if you want to join us. Linda, 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:11.399 how many years have you worked for me? How many 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:13.880 total years have you been on the show? 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:15.360 Twenty one? 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.480 How many times can you think of in the course 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:22.439 of me being on the air between all of the 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:27.000 travel we do, all of the shows that we do radio, TV, 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:32.680 extra broadcasts, speeches, book signings, events, all that. How many 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.800 times freedom concerts back in the day? How many times 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.920 have I lost my voice that you can recall or 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:40.960 the best guesstimate you can give. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.320 Me, Oh my god, so many? 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:44.480 Right? 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.760 Many a lot and twenty five fifty? 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.519 And how often when I'm losing my voice or lost it? 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.040 Have you told me don't go on the air? 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:56.720 Well, no, that's not true. I don't tell you not 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:57.319 to go on the air. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.320 I tell you to take you try to persuade me 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:00.320 to take a day off. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.520 I tell I tell you you could use a little rest, 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:05.520 just a. 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.600 Little By the way, that is so fake news in 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.880 terms of the spirit and attitude. No, I still I 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.440 will I will push her. I mean, so I have 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.880 I've had laryngitis. It's diagnosed laryngitis, and you know, at 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.680 times sometimes the vocal cords kind of shut down a 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.480 little bit. He's having a stroke. I'm like, I've had 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.080 this my whole career, and I appreciate the kind words 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.319 people have been sending my way, except for he's strogging out. 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.959 But it's happened so often. It's like, why, all of 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.400 a sudden does this take on a life of its own. 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.039 Well, I have to tell you. I have to tell you. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:44.600 I don't want to take a minute. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:46.800 What are you talking about? The whole story. I'm gonna 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:48.200 give you something nice. You're gonna like this. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:49.440 Okay, wait a minute. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.400 There was a woman that emailed me, a very nice woman. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.400 She didn't want anything, shouldn't ask for anything. All she 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:58.080 said was, I have a five hundred person prayer group. 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.800 We're doing a prayer chain for Sean. We hope he's okay. 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:02.600 It was very nice. That's the kind of people you 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.800 have in your audience. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.400 You know what. I just think it's beautiful. But you know, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.760 at different times, like for me to come on the 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.480 air just now right here to start this show. Before 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.400 I came on the air, I opened up my voice. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.200 And the other night when I was with JD we 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.080 did a podcast. We finished about five minutes until the 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.880 live show at nine, and then in the process the interim, 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.280 my throat closes up, which is kind of normal based 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:33.160 on my history how this thing works with me. I 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.200 didn't open my voice up, and it took me until 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.080 I got to the conversation part to be able to talk, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.120 and so it is not unusual. But I mean, I 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.320 guess I should be happy that people are so kind 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.760 and nice and loving and concerned. Then of course you 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.440 have the people that wish me dead. But I can't 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.560 really help that too much. Good thing, I don't read 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.600 all these social media coming so I think sweet Baby 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.560 James said, Neah, I don't think i'd read that. I 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.760 don't think that's a good idea anyway, Thank you for 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.320 your kind words, everybody. Yeah, I'm you know, I'm still 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.480 struggling with it. I don't really want to go on 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:07.320 all the medicines that are available to reduce the inflemmation 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.440 in the vocal cords, because it's like the worst medicine 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.680 in the world. So, you know, just kind of powering 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.720 through and try and get through day by day. And 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.760 I appreciate people tolerating if it's not you know, at 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.640 times if it's a little rough, But no, I'm in 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.119 perfect health. I'm in actually the best health I've ever 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.720 been in my life, with doctor's approval and check up 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.799 and everything in between. I want to get to this 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:34.760 whole issue, and I'm going to give you a different perspective. 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.120 I think, and having spoken with all of the people 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:44.440 involved in this as it relates to this Iranian deal 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.400 and where I cut to the chase and other people 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.480 don't cut to the chase. And I have, for example, 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.160 had a long conversation with Steve Woodcoff and a long 0:03:56.240 --> 0:04:03.080 conversation and it went into great specificity and detail, way 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:08.760 beyond this memorandum of understanding. If you've done a business 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.920 deal in your life, they put together usually what is 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.320 called the term sheet. Some people might call it a 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.080 memorandum of understanding. It's all pretty much the same thing, 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.640 and all it is is like the basis that I 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:23.760 was starting on these points, and you sign it, and 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.719 it just means you agree to begin discussions. What the 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:31.039 discussions are about. They actually I learned and I don't 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.760 think he'd mind me sharing this with you, so I will. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.320 He didn't tell me it was off the record, that 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.640 it is so much deeper than that term sheet. It is, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:47.120 it is so so different. And then there's other pressure. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:47.360 JD. 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.800 Vance was on some show saying that you know that 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.240 there was a lot of pressure just to get something 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.320 on paper, so that all these discussions, they didn't want 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.039 to have it out in public because there still are 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:04.960 factions that are competing for power within the Iranian regime. 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.479 Meaning you have the more the hardliners, the IRGC some 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.320 of these people, and then the more political side, and 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.240 there is a group of people that desperately want out 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.000 of this situation because they see what's happening to their country. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:24.520 The most effective move besides the bombing obviously Midnight Hammer 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.480 epic fury were historic in so many different ways, and 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.719 obviously that has had a massive impact on Iran. The 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.320 blockade is the single most other effective thing that the 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.359 president put in place. Their entire economy, ninety percent of 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:46.960 it is an energy, oil based economy. After the president 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.200 resumed those two big bombings last week, it got the 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.400 Iranian's attention and when he said the next night is 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.400 going to be harder than the previous two nights, and 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.760 he's probably taken carg Island then all by behind the scenes. 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:04.479 I am told that all held brokelues and that all 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:07.640 the Iranians and JD confirmed this to me. I have 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.000 no reason to doubt them that for the first time 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:14.560 in forty seven years, there is direct communication with the 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:19.360 Iranian leadership and that had apparently never happened before. And 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.200 they were begging to sign a sheet and get their 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.400 signature on a piece of paper, and that was that 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.840 quote was the memorandum of understanding. I don't even think 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.800 they're going to have a ceremony and signing this stupid 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.039 thing because it's meaningless anyway, because that's not what the 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.760 deal is going to be. And that's what Wikoff went into, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.120 That's what JD was saying on the TV show two 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.000 nights ago, et cetera, et cetera. Now let me let 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:49.320 me predicate all of this by saying, I will never 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:54.599 trust the Iranians. I do believe that these hardliners are hardcore. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:58.679 We cannot forget that a little over a week ago 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:04.960 they fired a missile a drone shot at an Apache helicopter, 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.799 and I would even argue if those pilots had died 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.040 in that incident, we'd be having a very very different 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.240 discussion on the air today. Thank god they're alive. Thank 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:22.120 God god they're recovered. But it really doesn't matter, because 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.680 at the end of the day, if you know, as 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.040 somebody knows Donald Trump and has known him for thirty years, 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.440 and the guy that wrote the art of the deal, 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.600 maybe it's me, and you can say that I have 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:40.240 a bias, I don't care, but I tend to listen 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:43.800 to what he says, because it really doesn't matter what 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:48.240 other people say. It matters what Donald Trump says. And 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.520 for example, the President said, now at least I think 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:57.240 we counted ten twelve times, set it again today that 0:07:57.320 --> 0:08:01.920 the Memorandum of Understanding is said, not the deal, and 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:05.520 warned that the US would revert to dropping bombs if 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:07.920 he doesn't like the deal. Now I'll take it a 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.440 step further. I spoke to the President while he's at 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:14.120 the G seven, and the President said to me, I 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.240 have no problem going right back and taking carg Island 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.560 in two seconds. This is more their opportunity than ours, 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.960 and I figured I would give it a shot. And 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:31.320 he said, if if I don't like the deal, we'll 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.240 go back to shooting all of them, dropping bombs on 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.200 their heads. If they don't behave, we'll go right back 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.560 to dropping bombs right in the middle of their head. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.960 And you know, here's one cut of the many times 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.920 he said it. If it is the actually the agreement 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.560 now final or are you still no? It's not final. 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.360 It's a memorandum of understanding. And if I don't like it, 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:57.040 we'll go back to shooting at him, dropping bombs on 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.240 the head the word. If I don't like it, if 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.760 they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.880 right smack in the middle of their head. Okay, because 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.480 they misbehaved for forty seven years, all right, But nobody 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.240 could have made this deal. I mean the JCPOA done 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:19.080 by Obama. He handed him a billion seven in cash, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.600 gave him hundreds of millions of dollars, hundreds of gave 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.280 him billions and billions of dollars. But he gave them 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.000 one point seven billion dollars in cash, green cash from 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:34.080 banks into a Boeing seven fifty seven and flew it 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.480 into Iran and they. 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:37.240 Stood at the plane. 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:39.800 I have pictures of it, like Oh my, look at 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.320 this money he's giving us. He tried to bribe his 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.640 way out in and do that. Nobody mentions that one 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.839 point seven billion and hundreds of millions of dollars. They 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.360 tried to bribe their way out of it. And you 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.160 know what the Iranians did. They laughed at Obama and 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.040 they said he's a stupid son of a b. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.520 And that's the president in his own words. So listen. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:09.840 I have always been and Reagan coined the term trust 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:16.360 but verify, and I am very untrusting of a regime 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.040 that has been responsible the number one state sponsor of terror, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.480 run by people that chant death to Israel, death to America, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:30.840 that have expressed in a desire for worldwide caliphate. That 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.800 is a death cult that kills its own people, that 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.559 funds all of these proxies. Yes, they have been degraded. 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:43.000 The Navy's gone, their ships are gone, missile defenses are 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:48.320 mostly dead, their air defense systems are nonexistent. We could 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:50.880 fly and bomb any part of Iran we want, any 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:55.360 second of any day that we want. So do I 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.760 have and does the president? Did I get a sense 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.719 from the President that he has a healthy dose of 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.240 skis epticism. Yes he does. But he has a resolve 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.320 that I know to be true, and that is that 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.199 at the end of the day, if if this is 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.880 not going to shape up into what they are saying 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.360 and we're saying that they want, I don't think it's 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.600 going to last very long, and I think we'll be 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.280 back where we are, and probably I would say he'll 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:27.080 hit him even harder. Now. That is so I'm not 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.320 wringing my hands like everybody else. And maybe it's because 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.840 of what we have seen of President Trump and his 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.680 actions leading up to this point and what the Trump 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:42.680 doctrine really is. Some people say, well, why don't we 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.559 just finish off this leadership. That's never been a stated 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.880 goal of President Trump. The President has said the Trump 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.600 doctrine is he doesn't believe in forever wars. He doesn't 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:59.360 want boots on the ground. The President is very clear, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:03.840 we are not giving one taxpayer dollar to them. I 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.679 think he does understand the need for a carrot and 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.120 a stick meaning of golf countries for the sake of 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:19.080 helping them transform their ideology into economy, into prospering for 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.320 themselves and the people in their country. I mean, right now, 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:26.439 the value of their currency zero half the adult workforces 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.400 out of work. Their economy is energy based. They have 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.720 no economy so to speak of. Right now. We've been sneaking. 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.360 Even yesterday I heard we got you know, eight million 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:42.079 barrels of oil out of that southern open lane in 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.600 the straight o horn moves. We've been taking out oil left, 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.400 right and sideways. You know, oil has been trading at 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.200 seventy six dollars a barrel. It was as high as 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.880 one hundred and twenty six dollars a barrel. And is 0:12:55.920 --> 0:13:00.320 this just an opportunity, Yes, it's an opportunity. Do I 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.560 treat what would I say? The odds are high that 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.160 the Iranians blow it up and are incapable of getting 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.160 their act together. Probably yeah. Do I think the President 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.520 means what he says, that he'll go back to bombing them, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.760 I absolutely believe it. So anyway, report out that this 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.079 deal may be signed remotely without any signing ceremony, I 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.800 don't really see the need for it anyway, because I 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.440 think it's fairly meaningless. I think what's in Donald Trump's 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.520 head is what matters. The White House says, by the way, 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:31.520 that there's been all these false reports out there circulating 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.880 in multiple mainstream media outlets about a text or a 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.720 series of texts and some of the drafts of the 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.800 memorandum of understanding, and the White House is saying these 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.920 lead texts of the Iran agreement published by CNN and 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:52.400 others are not accurate. The President is pushing back hard 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.280 on reports that the US or Gulf allies or bank 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.840 rolling Tehran. They don't get a penny, only based on 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:05.800 specific things actions that they take that shows good faith 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:11.120 on their part. So the Reconstruction Fund language is they're 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.120 not we're not investing ten cents and other countries can't 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:18.760 invest until such time as the Iranians take concrete actions. 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.760 I think that's a big part of this as well. 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.520 And so with all of that said, I think you 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:29.000 should be a trust but verify audience. I think we 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.480 have to watch it with clear eyes. I think that 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.680 we have to know what we're dealing with. We're dealing 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:39.480 with an Islamo fascist death cult regime. With that said, 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.320 they have been defeated on every level militarily, and you 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.320 have a president that is saying publicly that he's very 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.920 committed to going back militarily in two seconds, and I 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.320 think that the president's actions, he's kind of earned our 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.480 trust in the sense that he's proven with Solomani beating 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.680 the Caliphate bag Daddy Midnight Hammer at BIC Fury that 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.920 he really doesn't have any compunctions doing it. So I 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.160 guess I have a little bit more comfort knowing that 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.280 he'll flip on a dime if he has to. That's 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.040 my take, and as not spin, I think that could happen. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.280 This could happen by the weekend. For crying out loud, 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:21.160 it's crazy. I understand everybody wants to take the memorandum 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:25.120 of understanding and turn it into the deal. I have 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.360 been assured and reassured and reassured and reassured. So either 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.680 I'm being pollyannish and naive and this is what it's 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.720 going to come into. Or the guy that I've known 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.880 for thirty years that keeps saying this has nothing to 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.280 do with any final deal, they don't even care about it, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.280 and it was just to get the process started. I 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.520 think it's all going to play out in the end. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.920 What I've been told was discussed behind the scenes, and 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:55.840 what they're agreeing to behind the scenes is very different 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:00.280 than what is being reported. However, do I trust them? 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:04.240 Of course not. Why would you trust the Iranians number 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:08.320 one state sponsor a terror Look at the havoc that 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:13.040 they have caused worldwide, look at the danger. Let me 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.040 go back, Let me step back here for a second, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.680 because and I have told this audience over and over 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.920 again that every source I had leading up to Epic Fury, 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.520 after the devastation of fourteen bunk or buster bombs and 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:33.800 Midnight Hammer, a president that's not an isolationist, even though 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.480 some people the new woke right claim that he is 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.800 or should be. That was not Donald Trump in the 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:44.440 first term, taking out the Caliphate of Isis and Solomani 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:47.600 and Bagdaddy and dropping the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan. 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:52.800 Donald Trump Midnight Hammer is basically Donald Trump two point 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:58.480 zero and very consistent with the Trump doctrine. I don't 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.320 think his doctrine has changed, and I guess maybe it's 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:06.880 the intimate knowledge of knowing him, watching him, observing him. 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.119 He will listen to everybody, and at the end of 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.440 the day, there's going to be one person that will 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:18.240 make the ultimate decision on whether any deal goes forward 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.840 with Iran or any other country for that matter, and 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.840 that is going to be Donald Trump. And when Donald 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.960 Trump says over and over and over and over again, 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.720 like he says here, all hell will rain down on 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:37.760 Iran if they pursue a nuclear weapon, do you believe 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.800 that he means it. That's a very important component to me. Listen, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.240 Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.760 And it says it loud and clear. They're not going 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.920 to develop it, they're not going to buy it, they're 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.080 not going to do anything with it, and if they do, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:59.640 they suffer unbelievable consequences, not just a little bit like. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:02.720 I won't even tell. 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.879 You the consequences, but the consequences are the ultimate consequences. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.560 And with that being said, we have a very good relationship. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.520 But the biggest thing is they will not have a 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.200 nuclear weapon, so we have they will not develop, a 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.040 purchase by or any other thing. They're not going to 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:24.160 acquire a nuclear weapon. If they do, all hell will 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.760 rain down on them. And they're not going to do that. 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.359 You know, he doesn't think they're going to do it, 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.760 but if they do, the message has been sent clear. 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:38.200 You know what's frustrating is the people that did not 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:43.359 want epic fury and feel like Donald Trump betrayed them 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.280 by doing exactly what he did in his first term 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.680 and exactly what he said he would do since even 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.119 before he ran for president that Donald Trump said Iran 0:18:54.200 --> 0:19:00.080 can never have a nuclear weapon. He's been consistent now. Well, 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.640 when Steve Whitkoff, I think that the definitive interviews, they 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:07.520 acknowledge they have this sixty percent enriched uranium in twelve 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.480 days that can be enriched up to weapons grade uranium 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.520 ninety percent, which would have given them four hundred and 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.280 sixty kilograms about one thousand pounds as many as eleven 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:23.280 or twelve nuclear weapons. They could do that if they 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.080 could get back up any enrichment capability, that could be 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.520 less than twelve days, and they would have enough weapons 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:34.480 grade material for that amount of bombs. We learned in 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.800 this process their ballistic missile range was much further than 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.800 we had once thought. We now know their ballistic missiles 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:46.119 can hit Europe cities like Paris and cities like London. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:50.080 The President in many ways will never get credit for it, 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:55.000 but he's making the world a safer place. If if 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.760 you don't trust him, then don't I mean, let's verify it, 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.640 because I I think We're going to know very quickly 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:05.080 whether or not this has any teeth to it or not, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.240 and if they start to balk or back up what 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:13.480 they've been telling our negotiators privately and what has been 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:16.479 communicated to me. Member Steve Wikoff told us about the 0:20:16.720 --> 0:20:20.879 enriched uranium which made this a necessity. And then every 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.480 other source that I had spoken to, in other words, 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:27.400 people that would really know. There are people it's called 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:32.879 being read into the presidential daily briefing. Usually there's maybe 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:37.199 five six seven people daily that get to see that 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:42.760 threat assessment, and that was what the intelligence was showing. Now. 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.320 Dan Bongino at the time, was the deputy FBI director 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.400 under Cash Betel, and I had him on the podcast 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:54.680 We went deep part in the paint, and he gave 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:59.080 an explanation, and I said to him, every person, every 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:03.200 source that know, every one of them said to me 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:08.560 the same thing is the president had no choice. That's 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:12.240 what they were telling me, meaning that we had to 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.960 act with epic fury. Let's play. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:17.439 Dan Bongino, I'm limited in what I can say, but 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:20.080 I'll tell you this, it's not just the nuclear threat 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:24.480 that was exigent. It's the cyber threat. The Iranians were 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.679 engaged in. It's the lethal plotting, the assassination attempts. And 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.720 I want you to remember this, everyone in the listening audience, 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:35.840 they don't have they don't subscribe to this mutually assured destruction. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:38.840 They don't act in any way with any logic or 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:43.480 reason whatsoever, Like say, even the Russians don't even however, 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:46.320 crazy Putin is he does not want a nuclear weapon 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:47.120 hitting Moscow. 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:47.480 He does it. 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.800 He's crazy, but he's not on The Iranians don't care. 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:54.800 It is a bloodthirsty theocracy. You give them the ability 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.040 to kill us, you give them the gun, They're gonna 0:21:57.080 --> 0:22:00.800 shoot it. It's not a matter of if forget. And 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.560 the question was only the when. And I think President 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:05.840 Trump said, I'm tired of dealing with this kicking down 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:08.280 the kicking the can down the road, the when question, 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.080 and we're just gonna do it. The politics be dan, 0:22:11.359 --> 0:22:13.240 I mean, you think the politics are helping him. If 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:14.800 he cared about the politics, he wouldn't have done. You 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:16.840 know what he cares about. He doesn't want a freaking 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:20.639 mushroom cloud over Washington, DC or New York. That's called leadership, 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.760 making really hard decisions that are really difficult to explain 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:26.320 to people who may not understand them because they don't 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:29.239 have the information set you have. That's okay, you know, 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:31.679 we're free to question it here. It's a republic, and 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:33.880 I'm telling you I will go to the grave telling 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:36.280 you he made one hundred percent the right call. I'm 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:37.439 absolutely sure of it. 0:22:38.640 --> 0:22:41.240 Now. Dan is one of the people, the few people 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.800 like Cash Ptel and other top national secret I'm sure 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:49.160 the CIA director Ratcliffe and on, and of course our 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:53.000 top generals were read into that information that I would 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:56.080 never have access to. And Dan is just giving us 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:58.520 a glimpse of what every other person that is read 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.680 in tells me. It's my job to pass that information 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:06.680 on to you. Here's a question, based on the history 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:11.400 of Donald Trump a national security and national defense and 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.399 his deal making acumen, how many of you have a 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:20.679 pretty relatively on the without getting into specific have a 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:24.040 high degree of confidence that he won't sign a bad deal. 0:23:24.600 --> 0:23:26.640 That's kind of where my head's at. And the fact 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:28.720 that he's so casual in saying, wow, I'll just take 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:31.240