1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: I want to get you an update on where we are. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: It has been almost two weeks now of the war 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 2: from the United States and Israel on Iran, and according 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:13,239 Speaker 2: to officials inside the Trump administration, the battlefield momentum is 5 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: clearly moving in America's favor. The military campaign, known as 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury, it was launched with a clear mission 7 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,320 Speaker 2: destroy RAN's ability to threaten the United States, stop its 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:29,319 Speaker 2: nuclear ambitions, and dismantle the infrastructure it uses to fund 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 2: terrorism across the Middle East. President Trump has said repeatedly 10 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:39,480 Speaker 2: that the operation is designed to neutralize Iranian regime's missile forces, 11 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 2: as well as their naval capabilities and their drone production, 12 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 2: while ensuring the regime can never obtain a nuclear weapon. 13 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 2: We also know Iran has made it clear what their 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,959 Speaker 2: goal is. If they get a nuclear weapon, they want 15 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: to use it on Israel and on America now. In short, 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 2: the White House this week says this war is about 17 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 2: removing the biggest state sponsor of terrorism from the global stage. 18 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 2: According to US officials, the military campaign has already delivered 19 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 2: significant blows to Iran's military capabilities. One of the most 20 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 2: dramatic operations occurred just days ago, when US forces launched 21 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 2: a massive air strike, and Iran's primary military hub connected 22 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 2: to its oil export network was hit hard. Military officials 23 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: say the strike targeted more than ninety Iranian military sites, 24 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 2: including missile storage facilities, naval mine depots, and weapons bunkers. 25 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 2: President Trump described the attack as one of the most 26 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 2: powerful bombing raids in modern Middle Eastern history, saying the 27 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 2: United States obliterated every military target quote unquote on the 28 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: island while deliberately avoiding civilian oil infrastructure. The Pentagon Is 29 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 2: also reported that Iran's ability to launch missiles and drones 30 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 2: has dramatically declined during the conflict, with a tax dropping 31 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: sharply after early strikes crippled major military facilities. The Defense Secretary, 32 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 2: the man who's in charge of this war, summed up 33 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 2: the administration's view of the conflict this way, we didn't 34 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 2: start this war, but under President Trump, we're finishing it. 35 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 2: That coming from Pete Heagseth. Now the White House says 36 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 2: the war could actually end soon. That was another message 37 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: coming from the administration over the weekend, because they made 38 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 2: it clear this was a short conflict and not a 39 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 2: long conflict, that the American people would have to worry about. 40 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:45,120 Speaker 2: Senior Trump economic advisor Kevin Hassett said Pentagon estimate suggests 41 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 2: the war could last between four and six weeks total, 42 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 2: meaning the campaign could be approaching its final phase. President 43 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 2: Trump has echoed that view publicly, saying the United States 44 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 2: is quote way ahead of schedule militarily and that there 45 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 2: is practically nothing left to target in many parts of 46 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 2: Iran's military network. 47 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 1: Now. 48 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 2: Trump is also predicted the war could end very soon, 49 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 2: suggesting over the weekend the regime's ability to continue the 50 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,359 Speaker 2: fight is rapidly deteriorating. 51 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: Now. 52 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 2: The Strait of Hormuz is what everyone is now really 53 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:25,520 Speaker 2: talking about, and that is a strategic fight. They could 54 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 2: have major economic impacts around the world because of the 55 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 2: energy prices. Twenty percent of the world's oil goes to 56 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: the Straight of Hormus each and every day, and one 57 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 2: of the biggest strategic flashpoints right now is that Straight 58 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 2: of Hormuz, the shipping channel which Iran says that they 59 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 2: are going to shut down with mines for those boats. 60 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 2: Twenty percent of the world's oil supply is significant. Iran 61 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 2: knows it, and they're trying to use it as leverage. 62 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:53,119 Speaker 1: Now. 63 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: Ran is also attempted to threaten or block the shipping 64 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 2: in the region altogether. The President Trump is called for 65 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 2: a global naval coalition to keep the waterway open. Trump 66 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 2: recently said multiple countries should send warships to protect the 67 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: shipping lanes, arguing that nations dependent on Middle Eastern oil 68 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 2: should send help to defend it right away. The administration 69 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: says securing the Strait is critical to preventing Iran from 70 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: using energy markets as a weapon against the world economy. 71 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 2: Having just come back from Israel, I want to paint 72 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 2: you a picture. It's midnight, sirens are blearing, and you 73 00:04:30,279 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 2: have only seconds to grab your child and run. 74 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 3: Now, imagine your elderly. Your legs don't work like they 75 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 3: used to. 76 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,240 Speaker 2: Getting downstairs feels impossible, And after all of that, you 77 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 2: end up in a bomb shelter for hours, even days, 78 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,919 Speaker 2: because you can't make the trek again. This is what's 79 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 2: happening across Israel as Operation Epic Fury continues. Children are 80 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 2: being traumatized, families are just exhausted, and homes have been destroyed. 81 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 2: And that's why the International fell Ship of Christians and 82 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,799 Speaker 2: Jews is there on the ground bringing food, emergency equipment, 83 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 2: care for those children, and help for the elderly, and 84 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 2: supplying the bomb shelters and medical centers for critically needed essentials. 85 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 2: If you've ever wondered what it looks like to stand 86 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 2: for Israel and stand for good against evil, this is it. 87 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 2: And that's why I'm asking to now, please act, give 88 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,599 Speaker 2: forty five dollars right now to rush life saving essentials 89 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 2: to the vulnerables under fire. You can also call eight 90 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: eight eight for eight eight IFCJ. That's eight eight eight 91 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,680 Speaker 2: for eight eight IFCJ. Join me and give and make 92 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 2: a real difference online at IFCJ dot org. 93 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,040 Speaker 3: That's IFCJ dot org. 94 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 2: Let's talk about the administration's position moving forward. There is 95 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: one aspect of this entire debate and the insanity from 96 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 2: Adam Schiff that you just heard that does affect Americans, 97 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,040 Speaker 2: and that is energy prices, the energy markets, and the 98 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 2: economic outlook are real. Many Americans are concerned about where 99 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 2: gas prices are going, and the conflict has caused oil 100 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 2: prices to spike temporarily. As the White House has described it, 101 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: the Trump administration says the impact on you will be limited. 102 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 2: The Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently told reporters that gas 103 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 2: prices could drop below three dollars per gallon by summer 104 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 2: once the conflict ends, part of the reason why they're 105 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 2: doing so much to protect the Strait of Hormuz as well. 106 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 2: The administration is also releasing hundreds of millions of barrels 107 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 2: from the US and international strategic reserves to stabilize markets 108 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 2: and offset disruptions caused by this war. The Trump administration 109 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 2: sets these actions are designed to ensure that Iran cannot 110 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: destabilize the global economy during the conflict, which is in 111 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: essence their only upper hand here. You look at what 112 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 2: Iran has done, and you look at a democratic party, 113 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 2: and what the Democratic Party has done has been truly incredible. 114 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 2: No matter what Donald Trump has said, they are against it. 115 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,400 Speaker 2: No matter what Donald Trump is advocated for, there against it. 116 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: Adam Schiff is an individual who said that there was 117 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 2: an Iran nuclear deal, and that Iran nuclear deal was 118 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 2: such a good deal, such a good deal that they 119 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: couldn't believe that Donald Trump tore it up. Now, what 120 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,720 Speaker 2: was the Iran nuclear deal? They were not supposed to 121 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: work towards a nuclear weapon. We know that Iran broke 122 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 2: multiple points in that deal. We also bribed them to 123 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 2: stay on track with billions and billions of dollars that 124 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: came in pallets of cash United States America. That was 125 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 2: also a disaster. I want to go back and I 126 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 2: want to play for you what Adam Shift, what he said. 127 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 2: I want you to again pay attention to the very 128 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 2: beginning of this interview and what Adam Schiff said. I'll 129 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 2: meet the press, and then I want to again at 130 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 2: the end, I'm gonna explain to you where the Administration's 131 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 2: going next. 132 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,120 Speaker 4: Simply unsustainable. 133 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 5: Well, let me ask you. David Boyce, who's of course 134 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 5: a Democratic attorney who argued Bush v. Gore before the 135 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 5: Supreme Court, argues that President Trump ultimately had no choice 136 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 5: but to act on Iran, and he writes this quote. 137 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 5: If he hadn't acted, his successor would have been left 138 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 5: with an even more dangerous choice than his predecessors left him. 139 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 5: Three or four years from now, the Iranian missiles now 140 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 5: hitting Iran's neighbors could be hitting Berlin or London, perhaps 141 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,480 Speaker 5: even New York or Washington, perhaps with a nuclear device 142 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 5: or at least a dirty bomb. Do you agree with 143 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 5: Boyce's assessment that the threat from Iran needed to be 144 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 5: dealt with now. 145 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 6: I certainly co occur that Iran is a terrible actor, 146 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 6: that it engages in state sponsored terrorism. But let's remember 147 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 6: we had a nuclear agreement with Iran that puts serious 148 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 6: constraints on the Irani nuclear program, and Donald Trump tore 149 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 6: up that agreement. And when you do that, when you 150 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 6: essentially say that diplomacy is not the way to resolve this, 151 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,840 Speaker 6: then that leaves war. And that's what we are countering now. 152 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 6: But the President promised to see wouldn't engage in this, 153 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 6: and there was nothing imminent about the threat from Iran. 154 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 6: The nuclear program supposedly was obliterated just. 155 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 4: About nine months ago. 156 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 6: The missile program is incapable of reaching the United States 157 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 6: for years and years. 158 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 4: According to the. 159 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 6: Defense Intelligence agencies own estimate, it be nine years before 160 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 6: that is true. And unless the United States is prepared 161 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,959 Speaker 6: to continue to bomb Iran year after year after year, 162 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,080 Speaker 6: how do we respond when Iran starts to rebuild their 163 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 6: missile program as they will. Are we going to be 164 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 6: in an endless state of war with Iran? And the 165 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 6: administrations has no answers for this, and I don't think 166 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:02,240 Speaker 6: that leaves them. Could people better off or safer. 167 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 2: Let's be clear over what Adam Schiff just said. Adam 168 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 2: Schiff just said that we should just a let Iran 169 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 2: get their nuclear program in their missiles because we don't 170 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: want to be at a endless war with them in 171 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 2: constantly war and bombing them all the time. So he 172 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 2: is clearly saying the Democrats position is to go back 173 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: to what it was before. You give billions of dollars 174 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 2: to Iran, and then when you give billions of dollars 175 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 2: to Iran, then you hope that they don't nuke you 176 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 2: or get the nuclear weapon, and you just cross your 177 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,720 Speaker 2: fingers because you can't bomb them when they're getting close 178 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 2: every time. That is the Democratic Party's position. Now, the 179 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: bigger strategic argument, as I mentioned a moment ago, is 180 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 2: this the White House is framing this is a clear doctrine, 181 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: and the doctrine is described as peace through strength. Trump 182 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:04,959 Speaker 2: is arguing that the Iranian regime has spent decades attacking Americans. 183 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 2: They are the number one state sponsor of terrorism in 184 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 2: the world and the number one threat to Israel and 185 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 2: helping the terrorist organizations from Austin HESBLA attack Israel. Now, 186 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 2: in his most recent address, Trump said the objective of 187 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 2: the campaign is simple. Number one, destroy Iran's missile and 188 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 2: drone programs. Number two, eliminated its naval capabilities in the 189 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 2: Persian Gulf. Number three prevent ran from obtaining nuclear weapons. 190 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 2: Number four stop Tehran from funding terrorist networks across the region. 191 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 2: The White House has not flinched on those being the 192 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 2: goals and objectives even before this war started. Trump has 193 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:53,320 Speaker 2: also said the war is about protecting American lives, American soldiers' lives, 194 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 2: and restoring the as he described it, with the deterrents 195 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:58,559 Speaker 2: to make sure it doesn't happen again. 196 00:11:59,400 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 4: Now. 197 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:01,800 Speaker 1: As of the war is entering. 198 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 2: Its third week, US officials believe Iran's military capabilities have 199 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:09,839 Speaker 2: been severely degraded. We should all celebrate that American and 200 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 2: Allied forces are continuing to target strikes where they find, 201 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 2: as President Trump likes to say, the bad guys. And 202 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:24,079 Speaker 2: there's also multi national naval efforts to forming right now 203 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 2: to secure the Strait of horror moves. 204 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: That is good news. 205 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 2: The White House believes the conflict will end within weeks, 206 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 2: not months from today, and at the same time, Iran 207 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 2: is doing everything he can to launch missiles and drone attacks. 208 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:41,920 Speaker 2: Across the region. They're doing everything they can to try 209 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: to stay alive. Now, inside the Trump administration, the message 210 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 2: is clear. Number one, we should be celebrating because America 211 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 2: is winning and the Trump administration believes the Iranian regime 212 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: is running out of options. That is also good for us. 213 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 2: So look at the Democrat Party right now and just 214 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 2: listen to their message. When they talk about Iran, they 215 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 2: admit Adam Shift said it Iran engaged in terrorism, but 216 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 2: we had a nuclear agreement and Trump tore it up. 217 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 3: That's a lie. 218 00:13:12,679 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 2: Adam Shift said, Iran is a country that well, we 219 00:13:15,600 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 2: just can't keep bombing forever. 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Patriotmobile dot com slash ferguson or nine seven 247 00:14:59,640 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 2: two p. 248 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 3: Madrid switched today. 249 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 2: CBS uh talk to the Iranian Foreign Minister and I 250 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 2: want you to hear what CBS had to say on 251 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:14,120 Speaker 2: face the nation to Iran's foreign minister. 252 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 5: Listen, I just do want to point out you're speaking 253 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,720 Speaker 5: to us via zoom. The Iranian people don't have open 254 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 5: Internet access but you do. 255 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 3: Why. 256 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 7: Well, I'm the because I'm the voice of Iranians and 257 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 7: I have to defend a day, right, So this is 258 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:37,680 Speaker 7: why I have access to to internet to to just 259 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 7: uh you know, have have our voice being held by 260 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:44,080 Speaker 7: the international community. 261 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 8: But the Internet is closed because of the security. 262 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 7: Is because we are under the under attack. 263 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 8: We are under. 264 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 7: Aggression, and we have to do everything to protect our people. 265 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 7: In any country, there are you know, edgent measures taken 266 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 7: for the fort the sacred law. 267 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 2: This is who Adam Shift is defending a regime that 268 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 2: shuts down the Internet from their people. This is the 269 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 2: same Adam Shift that admits that it is engaged in 270 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 2: states monitor terrorism but says, well, we had an Ranian 271 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 2: deal nuclear dewim was fine. 272 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:17,400 Speaker 1: It was fine. 273 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 2: This is the same guy Adam Schiff on Iran that 274 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 2: says we still don't know what the real cost of 275 00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: this will be, implying that somehow America is the bad guys. 276 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,600 Speaker 1: Listen to this from Meet the Press. 277 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 5: Welcome back and joining me now is Democratic Senator Adam 278 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 5: Schiff of California. Senator Shift, welcome back to meet the press. 279 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:38,880 Speaker 4: Good to be with you. 280 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 3: It's good to have you back. 281 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,160 Speaker 5: Let me ask you about the big picture argument that 282 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 5: we are hearing from the Trump administration with top officials. 283 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 5: You just heard Secretary of Chris Wright argue that the 284 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 5: threat from Iran is so significant not just to the world, 285 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 5: but that to the United States that invading now will 286 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,480 Speaker 5: ultimately make the world more secure. 287 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 6: No, I don't think they do, and I don't think 288 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:08,760 Speaker 6: the President has really leveled with the American people, first 289 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 6: by promising the American people he wouldn't bring us into 290 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,159 Speaker 6: another foreign war, then being unwilling to tell us what 291 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 6: the real cost of this. 292 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 4: War are going to be. 293 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 6: And we still don't hear from the Secretary, don't hear 294 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 6: from the President what the real costs of this will be, 295 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 6: how long it will go on. Already we've spent billions 296 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 6: and billions of dollars, and more significant, we've lost thirteen 297 00:17:29,119 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 6: service members. 298 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,639 Speaker 4: As a result of the war, and we still. 299 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 6: Haven't heard a clear articulation of why we're at war, 300 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,400 Speaker 6: what was the imminent threat we were facing. They've said 301 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 6: it was a nuclear threat, but the intelligence doesn't back 302 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:43,360 Speaker 6: that up. They said it was a threat of being 303 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 6: hit in the United States by ballistic missiles that is 304 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,439 Speaker 6: years and years away. They want regime change, but then 305 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 6: they say they don't want regime change. And when you 306 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:55,159 Speaker 6: ask how long this war's going to go on, the 307 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:56,479 Speaker 6: Secretary can't tell you. 308 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 4: The President won't tell you. 309 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 6: And it's because not having a clear object in mind 310 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,720 Speaker 6: when we began this war, it makes it very difficult 311 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 6: to tell when its objectives have been accomplished. This is 312 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 6: why I think the President was so vague with you 313 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 6: when he wouldn't describe to you what kind of a 314 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 6: deal is he looking for with Iran, because it just 315 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 6: isn't clear. And now there's the prospect with the thirty 316 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 6: first Marine Expeditionary Force going to the region, that we 317 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 6: have boots on the ground, and I don't think they've 318 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 6: leveled with us about that either. 319 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 4: So I don't think the war is worth the costs. 320 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 6: And it has already unleashed a lot of things that 321 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 6: should have been foreseen, like the closing of this strait, 322 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 6: like Iran's attack on its neighbors. But it's not clear 323 00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 6: that the President had a plan for. 324 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 4: Any of this. 325 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 5: Well, you did hear Secretary Wright say he anticipates the 326 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 5: conflict will be over in the next few weeks. 327 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 2: You notice they are rooting for the success of Iran. 328 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:59,040 Speaker 2: Adam Shift is making it clear he would rather Iran 329 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 2: succeed so that they can then just look at Donald 330 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 2: Trump and say you lost, You're a loser. They would 331 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 2: rather hurt Donald Trump politically than protect the United States 332 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 2: of America from a nuclear Iran. One of the other 333 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:26,320 Speaker 2: big lies that was also told by Adam Shift on 334 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 2: TV was that he said that, and this one really 335 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 2: was a head scratcher, that Dems want to fund the 336 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:41,159 Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security. They just don't want to fund ICE, 337 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 2: even though ICE has already been funded through the end 338 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,680 Speaker 2: of the year. They're not defunding ICE right now. They're 339 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 2: just trying to hold up again America from being secure 340 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,680 Speaker 2: with the DHS shut down. 341 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 1: He was asked about it, and listen to this lie. 342 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,920 Speaker 5: Center as you have to ask you just finally about 343 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 5: partial government shut down, DHS not being funded for a 344 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 5: month now. Just this week we saw terror attacks in 345 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:12,639 Speaker 5: West Bloomfield, Michigan, in Norfolk Virginia. This morning, the CEOs 346 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 5: of the nation's major airlines and cargo carriers have written 347 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 5: a letter to Congress calling for them to end the shutdown, 348 00:20:19,520 --> 00:20:24,080 Speaker 5: talking about the importance of American security in the airways. 349 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,560 Speaker 5: Is it responsible for Democrats to hold up DHS funding 350 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 5: with the threat of terror attacks looming during this conflict, No, Kristin. 351 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 6: As you know, we offered vote after vote, resolution now 352 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 6: for resolution, even as recently as this week, to reopen 353 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,880 Speaker 6: those agencies, to fund them, and the Republicans voted it down. 354 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:49,200 Speaker 6: We said, let's walk off ICE funding, let's fund these 355 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,800 Speaker 6: other agencies that protect the country, and the Republicans one 356 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,520 Speaker 6: after another voted them down, voted down funding TSA voted 357 00:20:56,520 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 6: down funding the Coastguard, voted down funding FEMA. Republicans are 358 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 6: controlling both houses in the presidency, they can't very well 359 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 6: blame the minority party for their own inability to govern, 360 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:12,439 Speaker 6: particularly when they're voting down Democratic motions to reopen these agencies. 361 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 3: They are liars. 362 00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 2: The Department of Homeland Security is not funded right now 363 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 2: solely because Democrats voted yet again. Adam Schiff was one 364 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 2: of those on Thursday night to not fund the Department 365 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 2: of Homeland Security. 366 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: That is a fact. There is no way that you 367 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: can change those facts. 368 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 2: There is a record, a voting record, and that record 369 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 2: is extremely clear. They know they are putting American lives 370 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 2: at risk. They understand, as she described it, that there 371 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,679 Speaker 2: are terariors attacks and they're still not funding the Department 372 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 2: of Homeland Security. 373 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: That's clear. You look at the Iranian Foreign minister. 374 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: Talking even about their terrorism, and you look at them 375 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 2: Adam Shift, like, how on earth could you guys not say, hey, 376 00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,399 Speaker 2: we clearly need to like, we really got to do 377 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 2: a better job. Guys, we got to make sure America 378 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,479 Speaker 2: is safe. We got to have the Department hound Security. 379 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,720 Speaker 2: This is too big of a liability. We'll get Jim Kleiburn, Democrat, 380 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 2: blaming Republicans for shutting down DHS as Democrats wanted to 381 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 2: fund ICE. In the same sentence, again another liar on MS. 382 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 9: Now, this is an issue about Ice, not anything to 383 00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:39,399 Speaker 9: do for TSA, not anything to do with FEMA, nothing 384 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 9: to do with the Coast Guard. All of these are 385 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,920 Speaker 9: wrapped up in this bill that the Republicans are refusing 386 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 9: to put on the floor. We will vote for them, 387 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:57,359 Speaker 9: but we are not going to fund ICE to continue 388 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 9: chilling people, to continue massed in themselves so no one 389 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 9: can identify them. 390 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 2: So let's just be clear. At least Jim Cliburn was 391 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 2: a little more honest here. They believe that ICE agents 392 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: are the enemy, and they believe that the people they 393 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:18,000 Speaker 2: are going after the rapists and child predators and sex abusers, 394 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 2: and the list goes on and on. Of these guys 395 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: that are drug dealers killing Americans with fetnel, he believes 396 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 2: they're the good guys. He says that the murderers are 397 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 2: not the actual murderers in the streets that ICE are 398 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,440 Speaker 2: going to get. 399 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:34,639 Speaker 1: He says, it's ICE. 400 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 2: So he's willing to make sure that you have no 401 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,400 Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security. He will hold you hostage and 402 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,280 Speaker 2: the safety of the United States of America until they 403 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 2: defund ICE, even though funding for ICE has already been 404 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,320 Speaker 2: extended through the end of the year. Why are they 405 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,920 Speaker 2: doing this Because of their radical base, they don't care. 406 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 2: And part of the is the media. The media is 407 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,439 Speaker 2: not holding Democrats accountable. If the media was being an 408 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 2: actually honest they would have done all the sunny morning 409 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 2: shows of the breaking news story. There have been four 410 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 2: terrorist attacks in the last couple weeks in the United 411 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 2: States of America and Democrats are shutting down the exact department 412 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,199 Speaker 2: that is needed for homeland security. And they would have 413 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 2: led with the story, and they would have owned them 414 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 2: and they would have destroyed them on the facts. But 415 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:28,159 Speaker 2: they didn't because all of these networks are propagandists for 416 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 2: the Democratic machine. They're no different than state sponsored media. 417 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 2: The same media that told you that Joe Biden was 418 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 2: not in a cognitive decline, the same media that told 419 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 2: you it was AI and deep fake videos of him 420 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,919 Speaker 2: losing his mind or losing his train of thought, or 421 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: walking out into the wilderness. Right, none of that, None 422 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 2: of that is they would describe it would be any 423 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 2: other way. 424 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,359 Speaker 1: This is all the Democratic. 425 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 2: Party's saying this. It's incredibly sad. So we have no 426 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 2: Department of Home and Security. 427 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 3: At this point. 428 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 2: I'll say it again, we have no Department of Homeland 429 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:10,439 Speaker 2: Security right now. It is shut down because Democrats are 430 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 2: willing to play politics on this issue. I want to 431 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 2: get into the straight of horror moves for a second 432 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 2: and dive back into that because I do think it's 433 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 2: important for many people to understand this. 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All right, Donald 443 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,600 Speaker 2: Trump has come out with a new statement saying many 444 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 2: countries will send warships to patrol the Strait of Horror moves. Now, 445 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 2: this is just now breaking, President Trump announcing that many 446 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 2: countries will be dispatching their warships to patrol the Strait 447 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,800 Speaker 2: of Horror moves among the ongoing conflict with i Ran, 448 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 2: suggesting that it is quote still easy for its military 449 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 2: to inflict damage on vessels there, no matter how badly 450 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 2: defeated they are riding on true social The President said, 451 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 2: many countries, especially those who are affected by Iran's attempted 452 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 2: closure of the Strait of Hormuz, will be sending warships 453 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 2: in conjunction with the United States of America to keep 454 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,439 Speaker 2: the straight open and safe. We have already destroyed one 455 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 2: hundred percent of Iran's military capability. But it's easy for 456 00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, 457 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: or deliver a close range missile somewhere along or in 458 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 2: the waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. And 459 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 2: this is basically what terrorists do, right. You take one 460 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,159 Speaker 2: bomb and you do something like this. It's not that 461 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 2: you're winning a war, but it's a way of being 462 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 2: a terrorist, and that's what the present's worried about. The 463 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 2: present can continue by saying this. Hopefully China, France, Japan, 464 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,560 Speaker 2: South Korea, the UK and others that are affected by 465 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 2: this artificial constraint will send ships the area so that 466 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,320 Speaker 2: the Straight of Hormuz will no longer be a threat 467 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 2: by a nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, 468 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 2: he added, the United States will be bombing the hell 469 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 2: out of the shoreline and continually shooting iranium. 470 00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: Boats and ships out of the water. 471 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,359 Speaker 2: One way or another, we will soon get the Strait 472 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 2: of Hormus open, safe and free. 473 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:29,199 Speaker 9: Now. 474 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 2: In the statement purportedly to be from the leader in Iran, 475 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 2: the new Supreme Leader ordered on Thursday that the Straight 476 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,439 Speaker 2: remain closed as long as the war continues, because this 477 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,720 Speaker 2: is the only leverage literally that they have. Like this 478 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:46,879 Speaker 2: is the whole ballgame. I want you to understand this, 479 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,679 Speaker 2: Like this is all the levers they've got. They have 480 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 2: nothing else but this, And so part of that is 481 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 2: the reason why you're hearing this now in this way 482 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 2: where they're just they're like, hey, like what can we do? 483 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 3: What do we have? 484 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:01,240 Speaker 1: Right? 485 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 2: What is there that we can really do? Is there 486 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 2: anything that we can do? What is our leverage? It 487 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 2: is shutting down the street. That is what they have. 488 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:12,560 Speaker 1: Now. 489 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 2: The new leader hasn't been seen in public, by the way, 490 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 2: since the joint US Israeli operation began, and reports have 491 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,520 Speaker 2: also serviced that he may have been either seriously injured 492 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 2: or even disfigured and in a coma and actually may 493 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 2: not be in charge of the country at all. There's 494 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 2: even reports that the new leader is dead and they're 495 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 2: acting like you still alive so that they don't have 496 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 2: to name another leader who will then be taken out 497 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 2: by America or Israel. 498 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:41,960 Speaker 9: Now. 499 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 2: The Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen propose on Thursday that an 500 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:53,959 Speaker 2: international coalition could escort oil tankers through the Strait something 501 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 2: he said, would have a big effect. The President's announcement 502 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 2: comes in the wake of surging asoline prices. Many Americans 503 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: are concerned about this, as well as the impact on 504 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 2: prices of other patroleum based goods. That would include things, 505 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 2: for example, like fertilizer that's important in the eg industry, 506 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 2: et cetera. All these things affect what you pay at 507 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 2: the pump and really in the grocery stores in life 508 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 2: in general. About twenty percent of the world's old surpri 509 00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 2: around twenty million barrels per day normally travel in tankers 510 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:33,760 Speaker 2: through the Narrow Corridor between Iran in the north and 511 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 2: Oma and Oman and the United Air of Emirates in 512 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 2: the south. Those transits have all but stopped as a 513 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 2: result of a number of ships being attacked in the 514 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,640 Speaker 2: region since Operation Epic Flurry began on February the twenty eight. Now, 515 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 2: if you can get a deal done, and this is 516 00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,480 Speaker 2: part of what I think people really need to understand. Okay, 517 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 2: Iran desperately needs to get their oil out because they 518 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 2: desperately need the money. That's part of what you need 519 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 2: to do, understand. And so I do think that this 520 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 2: is just another example of where we are Ambassador Mike Waltz, 521 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 2: for example, in the Strait of Horror moves. He had 522 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 2: this to say on Say the Union on CNN Woul 523 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 2: Jake Tapper listen. 524 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 10: Consistent about for ten years, if not longer. 525 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 11: President Trump said that the Navy, the US Navy is 526 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 11: going to begin escorting tankers through the Straight of Horror 527 00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 11: moves and that will begin very soon. And he said, quote, 528 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 11: many countries will be sending warships to keep the straight 529 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 11: open and safe. 530 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 4: Unquote. 531 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,080 Speaker 11: The administration's been talking about potential navy escorts for more 532 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 11: than a week now. Shipping executives tell CNN that all 533 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 11: their requests for escorts have as have now been rebuffed. 534 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 11: President Trump said, quote hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, 535 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 11: the UK and others will send ships to the area unquote. 536 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 11: Is he hoping that those countries are going to send 537 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 11: ships or have they committed to sending ships? And how 538 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 11: soon will those naval escorts be ready? 539 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 10: Well, I'll leave those, you know, those conversations to him. 540 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 10: The conversations are ongoing. I think there's an important point 541 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 10: that's getting you know, kind of missed in the conversation, 542 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 10: and that eighty percent of the oil coming out of 543 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:17,200 Speaker 10: the Gulf heads to Asia, only about seven eight percent 544 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,520 Speaker 10: heads to the Western Hemisphere. And thank God for President 545 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 10: Trump's energy dominance agenda, everything from opening up and war, 546 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 10: a new pipeline in Alaska, incentivizing fracking, what we're going 547 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 10: to see come out of Venezuela and Guyana in the 548 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 10: coming months and years. This is why we. 549 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 4: Have to be energy independent. 550 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 10: And I have to just say it's a little rich 551 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 10: coming from the progressive left who has literally been at 552 00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 10: war against oil. Literally we're putting policies in place to 553 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,360 Speaker 10: drive up the price of oil in order to force 554 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 10: Americans to buy evs and go to wind and solar. 555 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 10: Are now suddenly celebrating it or to crossing the lack 556 00:31:59,040 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 10: of it. 557 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 4: I said, it's a little bit rich. 558 00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 10: We have the energy dominance in place. But to your 559 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:09,360 Speaker 10: point on escorts, look back in the eighties under the 560 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 10: tanker wars. Then the last time Iran tried to constrain 561 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 10: global energy supplies, you had French, United Kingdom, even Soviet 562 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,400 Speaker 10: Union forces in their escorting their tankers out that were 563 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:25,959 Speaker 10: heading to their markets. And I think that's what President 564 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 10: Trump is calling upon the world, saying the entire world 565 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 10: is affected. Iran can't hold your economies hostage, and we 566 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 10: certainly welcome, encourage, and even demand their participation to help 567 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 10: their own economies. And meanwhile, the US military will continue 568 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:48,520 Speaker 10: to pound the Iranian military their missile, boat and drone 569 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,200 Speaker 10: forces to keep the straits open. 570 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 11: Sources LCNN that Russia has been providing Iran with intelligence 571 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 11: to help Iran better target. 572 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,040 Speaker 2: You notice their ambassador Mike Waltz explaining it perfectly and 573 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,000 Speaker 2: letting people understand exactly the fact that the Strait of Hormus. 574 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,080 Speaker 2: Any percent that will coming out of the Gulf heads 575 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,640 Speaker 2: to Asia, it's not coming to America now. Can It 576 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,240 Speaker 2: will certainly traine the prices in general. But the way 577 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 2: that you described is what they're doing to the global 578 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 2: energy supplies is constraining the world's economy. 579 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 1: That's the other reason why you need other. 580 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,400 Speaker 2: Countries to come in here and do what the present 581 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,720 Speaker 2: said in his comments right like this is very clear. 582 00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 1: Now. 583 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:39,360 Speaker 2: The Iranian Foreign minister went on the Communists ms NOW 584 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 2: network and here's what he had to say about the 585 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz. 586 00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 12: Is there any sign that Iran is prepared to allow 587 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 12: passage of the Straits of Hormuz. Will the straits of 588 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 12: Hormuz remain closed so long as this war continues? 589 00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,920 Speaker 13: Well, as a matter of fact, this straight off Hormos's open. 590 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 13: It is only closed to the tankers and ships belong 591 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,239 Speaker 13: to the to our enemies, to those who are attacking 592 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 13: us and their allies. 593 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 8: Others are free to pass. Of course, many of them 594 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 8: prefer not because of their you know, security concerns. This 595 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:21,160 Speaker 8: this has nothing to do with us. 596 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,800 Speaker 14: And at the same time, there are many tankers and 597 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,319 Speaker 14: ships who are passing through the Strait of Hormos. And 598 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:32,240 Speaker 14: and and I can say that the strait is not closed, 599 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 14: but it is only closed to American and Israeli uh, 600 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,720 Speaker 14: you know, ships and tankers, and not to others. 601 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 3: I love the lies there. 602 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: Now, notice that MSNBC doesn't. 603 00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 2: Like pushback at all on any of that, Like, hey, 604 00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 2: we're not really sure that's true. Hey, you guys have 605 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,600 Speaker 2: been doing X, Y and Z. Hey we don't think 606 00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,759 Speaker 2: what you're saying is accurate at all. None of that. 607 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:57,919 Speaker 1: Like none of it. They don't. They don't like none 608 00:34:57,960 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 1: of it. 609 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 2: They're just like, yeah, okay, we'll go with that. Sounds good, 610 00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 2: Like let's please come on. Put out your propaganda at 611 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 2: full speed. What could possibly go wrong here? This is 612 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 2: and again, this is American TV that hates Donald Trump 613 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 2: more than they care about our national security. This is 614 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 2: American TV that is willing to give cover to the 615 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,280 Speaker 2: Democratic parties. They shut down the Department of Home Security 616 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,280 Speaker 2: while there are terroist attacks happening on the United States 617 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:36,880 Speaker 2: of America. Think about that. It's incredible. 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