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Speaker 2: Indeed, we do State of the Union tonight. We will

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Speaker 2: be live streaming starting around eight o'clock. We're going to

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Speaker 2: preview all of that this morning. Take a look at terms,

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Speaker 2: approval ratings, how it compares to previous years, look back

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Speaker 2: that live stream. Lots else going on right now, though

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Speaker 2: we've got extraordinary leaks coming out of the White House

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Speaker 2: to a wide varie of news outlets warning against war

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Speaker 2: with Iran. So we'll break that down for you as

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Speaker 2: we continue to try to read the tea leaves. There

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Speaker 2: also big news out of the UK. Lord Mandelson has

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Speaker 2: been arrested due to revelations from the Epstein files. In addition,

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Speaker 2: we have some new shocking revelations from those files we

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Speaker 2: us to talk to us about a whole variety of subjects.

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Speaker 2: We have this secret DNC GAZA memo. We want him

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Speaker 2: to react to that State of the Union preview. He

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Speaker 2: is co sponsoring a war Powers resolution on Iran with

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Speaker 2: Thomas Massey and also gave a very significant speech on AI,

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Speaker 2: so we want to get into all those topics with

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Speaker 2: him today. The market crash speaking of AI yesterday based

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Speaker 2: AI looking at some of the potentially more existential risks.

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Speaker 2: And Trump is promising a UFO reveal. What can we

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Speaker 2: expect from that? Soger will answer it all.

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Speaker 3: I wish perhaps they will answer it all, although not

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Speaker 3: holding my breath for that one.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, likein relief.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, if I've been telling my brothers UFO community, I

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Speaker 3: like somebody like me. Let's go ahead and start then

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Speaker 3: with the state of the Union, Bristol.

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Speaker 1: Where are we? What is the state?

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Speaker 4: Are not right? In my opinion?

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Speaker 2: In any case, CNN did some polling and Harry Anton

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Speaker 4: This is a two. Let's go ahead and roll that.

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Speaker 5: The lowest that any president has been this century going

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Speaker 5: It is also the weakest that Donald Trump has ever

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Speaker 6: Look at this drop. We've been talking about it the

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Speaker 2: So minus forty seven with independence, according to that polling.

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Speaker 2: But it does seem like the numbers have dipped pretty close,

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Speaker 1: I mean it actually is dead.

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Speaker 3: Like there is no hope from I mean, let's think

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Speaker 3: it's been a year, so we know there was MAHA.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how'd that work out?

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Speaker 3: Trump literally just gave an exactive orders giving immunity to

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Speaker 1: Just to be able to walk into the Oval office.

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Speaker 3: Ye, you've got people like Cash Ptel and Pete Hegseth

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Speaker 3: Now we see how it works out. It works out

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Speaker 3: I really do like the past is a different.

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Speaker 3: He could have had a seventy percent approval rating. You know,

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Speaker 3: Biden's approval went negative, just like with Trump, but that's

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Speaker 1: I feel like that way with Trump.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's honestly, really pretty hard for me to remember

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Speaker 2: only going to have merit based selection in the government. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we see how meritorious these various clowns and fools are

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Speaker 2: in terms of this government. Obviously, you had Doge, you

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Speaker 3: but it does feel like an eternity. I think since

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump, and I do think this speech will be

437
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Speaker 3: much more of a salesman's speech about trying to bring

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Speaker 3: people back into the fold. We saw Obama give many

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Speaker 3: of these state of the unions. When I remember at

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Speaker 3: twenty eleven, right after Obamacare, where his approval rating was

441
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Speaker 3: very low and he kept trying to like trying to

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Speaker 3: sell people a dream to keep it going. Trump is

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Speaker 3: not running for reelection. It's also a very different moment.

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Speaker 3: But Trump has not been in this type of position

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Speaker 3: for a long time. And you know, he also famously

446
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Speaker 3: likes to go off prompter, So we'll see how that

447
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Speaker 3: works out there. Potentially could be some interruptions from Epstein,

448
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Speaker 3: you know, of related stuff in the gallery, So who

449
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Speaker 3: knows how that will be. So there's you know, look

450
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Speaker 3: all the norms around politics, like when Joe Wilson shouted

451
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Speaker 3: at Obama like this stuff is gone right, you know.

452
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Speaker 3: So we're living in a different universe, very eighteen nineties

453
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Speaker 3: in here.

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Speaker 2: Even though the Supreme Court justices, like Trump has pissed

455
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Speaker 2: at them right now, even some of the ones that

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Speaker 2: he put on the bench.

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Speaker 1: So what are you saying?

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Speaker 3: He was like, He's like they're barely invited. Yeah, yeah,

459
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Speaker 3: and only nerds like me are like, sir, actually the

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Speaker 3: House of Representatives invites the.

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Speaker 4: Guests, So yeah, not really your DESI it's actually not

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Speaker 4: your decision.

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Speaker 3: You're technically invited by the State of the Union, by

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Speaker 3: Congress because we have coegual branches of government.

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Speaker 1: But again, only idiots like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, coegual branches of government. Lol.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: One o their on the sort of like broken promises list.

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Speaker 2: Remember in the campaign and then even after the campaign,

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Speaker 2: he claimed he wanted to cap credit card interest rates,

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Speaker 2: and this was one of the populist promises. And there

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Speaker 2: are a few Democrats, like on the progressive side, Bernie

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Speaker 2: and Elizabeth Warren in particular, who are like, okay.

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Speaker 4: But let's do it.

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Speaker 2: Trump even called Elizabeth Warren at one point because she

476
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Speaker 2: was like, listen, I'll work with you on this. She

477
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Speaker 2: just came out and said, you know, after that, nothing

478
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Speaker 2: totally ghosted. You know, any efforts to put together some

479
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Speaker 2: sort of bipartisan proposal all day and gone. So, you know,

480
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Speaker 2: some of those like sort of sexy populist promises, and

481
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Speaker 2: that would be a significant one. I've just completely fallen

482
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Speaker 2: by the wayside as one example of how things have.

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Speaker 4: Shifted over the year.

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Speaker 2: But it'll be interesting to see what he tries to

485
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Speaker 2: persuade people of tonight. And I know he's going to

486
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Speaker 2: brag about all of this supposed investment in the US,

487
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Speaker 2: which is just like the number is just completely invented.

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Speaker 2: I think there'll be a lot of gaslighting about a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of tariff talk.

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Speaker 2: If I had to guess, there'll be a lot of

491
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Speaker 2: gaslighting about how great you know, America is back and

492
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Speaker 2: how great the economy is.

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Speaker 4: And people are not going to believe.

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Speaker 2: That because, as we've said many times in the past,

495
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Speaker 2: like you have your own personal experience of the economy,

496
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Speaker 2: so you know whether it's going well for you and

497
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Speaker 2: your family and the prospects.

498
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Speaker 4: For your kids or not.

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Speaker 2: And the last thing I'll mention, and we've got a

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Speaker 2: lot more talk about this later in the show, is

501
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Speaker 2: the AI concerns, which I think it last year at

502
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Speaker 2: this point were pretty you know, they were pretty niche.

503
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Speaker 2: It was, you know, we started talking, we were talking

504
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Speaker 2: about it some, there was some but now this has

505
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Speaker 2: become a really mainstream concern. There has been significant local activism.

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Speaker 2: You know, we talked to one of those local activists yesterday.

507
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Speaker 2: There has been a ground swell pushback against the location

508
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Speaker 2: of these data centers, and the politics of that keep

509
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Speaker 2: turning more and more toxic, even as the Trump administration

510
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Speaker 2: has made this truly a central push.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this really is.

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Speaker 2: The center of their economic policy and their idea for

513
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Speaker 2: the future of the country. So I think that's another

514
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Speaker 2: thing that is very different in terms of the sensibility

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Speaker 2: and awareness of the American people now versus last year

516
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Speaker 2: at this time.

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Speaker 1: Well, it'll be interesting speech.

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Speaker 3: If you're joining us, you can come torture yourselves by

519
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Speaker 3: being awake at eleven PM. Our reactionly no. But if

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Speaker 3: you're in California you can join us. I guess it'll

521
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Speaker 3: be eight o'clock for all of you. Let's go ahead

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Speaker 3: and get to Iran. Turning now to the situation with Iran.

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Speaker 3: Huge leaks coming out of the Pentagon yesterday this time,

524
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Speaker 3: if you want to believe this, the Pentagon is leaking

525
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Speaker 3: about how desperately they don't want to go to war

526
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Speaker 3: with Iran. That is how bad the current situation is.

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Speaker 3: But Donald Trump is trying to head off all of

528
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Speaker 3: these leaks. Let's go and put this up here on

529
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Speaker 3: the screen. Here is Trump's truth yesterday. Numerous stories from

530
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Speaker 3: the fake news media have been circulating that General Daniel Kane,

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Speaker 3: sometimes referred to as Raisin Kin, is against us going

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Speaker 3: to war with Iran. The story does not attribute his

533
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Speaker 3: vast wealth of knowledge to anyone and is one hundred

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Speaker 3: percent incorrect.

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Speaker 1: General Kin, like all of.

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Speaker 3: Us, would like not to see war, but if a

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Speaker 3: decision is made on going against Iran at a military level,

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Speaker 3: it is opinion that everything will be easily won. Bookmark

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Speaker 3: that for history he knows Iran well, and that he

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Speaker 3: was in charge of Midnight Hammer, the attacks on Iranian

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Speaker 3: nuclear development. It is a development no longer but rather

542
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Speaker 3: was smown blown to smithereens by our great be too bombers.

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Speaker 3: So if that's the case, then why do we even

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Speaker 3: have to go to war?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 3: This is why everybody should actually read these things carefully.

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Speaker 3: Raisin Kain is a great fighter. He represents most powerful

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Speaker 3: military in the world. He has not spoken to not

549
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Speaker 3: doing Iran or even the fake limited strikes that I

550
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Speaker 3: have been reading about. He only knows one thing, how

551
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Speaker 3: to win, and if he is told to do so,

552
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Speaker 3: he will be leading the pack.

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Speaker 1: Quote. I would rather have a deal than not.

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Speaker 3: But if we don't make a deal, it is a

555
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Speaker 3: very bad day for that country, and very sadly it's people,

556
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Speaker 3: because they are great and wonderful and something like this

557
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Speaker 3: should never have happened to them. So this followed an

558
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Speaker 3: extraordinary amount of leaks that came out of the Pentagon.

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Speaker 3: Let's go and put these up here on the screen.

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Speaker 3: I want to kind of Washington explain you hear one story.

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Speaker 3: That's one thing when you have Axios, the Washington Post,

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Speaker 3: and the Wall Street Journal. Alright, this headline, Trump's top

563
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Speaker 3: general warns of Iran strike. Trump's top general foresees acute

564
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Speaker 3: risk and attack on Iran. Pentagon flags risk of a

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Speaker 3: major operation against Iran.

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Speaker 1: Here is what is happening.

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Speaker 3: These are authorized leaks from the very very top of

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Speaker 3: the Pentagon. What they want is to get on the

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Speaker 3: record as close as they can without going outside the

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Speaker 3: chain of command, to say this is a really, really

571
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Speaker 3: bad idea. And if you actually read all of their warnings,

572
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Speaker 3: it's if you've been watching this show, or if you've

573
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Speaker 3: been paying attention to the news, none of this will

574
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Speaker 3: be a shocker to you. They say, we have a

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Speaker 3: limited amount of air interceptors. We use twenty five percent

576
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Speaker 3: in the Twelve Day war. The hoo thies, we're a

577
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Speaker 3: huge problem because of our four year support now of Israel.

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Speaker 3: And of Ukraine. We are dramatically low on munitions. They

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Speaker 3: point to a CSIS war game from twenty twenty three

580
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Speaker 3: which said that the United States would last one week

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Speaker 3: in terms of munitions if we were ever to get

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Speaker 3: into a war with China against Taiwan. Yeah, you think

583
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Speaker 3: I'm joking. This is twenty twenty three. The situation's gotten worse.

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Speaker 3: We've actually given more to Israel in Ukraine since that

585
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Speaker 3: time period, and the amount of spun spin up in

586
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Speaker 3: our defense industrial base has actually gone down, So you

587
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 3: can see that for them. They know, Look, we can

588
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Speaker 3: kidnap Maduro all day long, we can midnight hammer six

589
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Speaker 3: B two's the place with no real aerial defense or

590
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Speaker 3: any of that whatever, but a real war like ballistic

591
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Speaker 3: missiles flying around, which we saw in the Twelve Day

592
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Speaker 3: War that alone drained twenty five percent of our THAD interceptors.

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Speaker 3: The Pentagon is doing everything they can to try and

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Speaker 3: have their eeriction Seki moment, and look, you know, bear

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Speaker 3: with me. It's a little bit of a trip down

596
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Speaker 3: memory lane. But back in two thousand and three, February

597
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Speaker 3: two thousand and three, the Army Chief of Staff Eeric

598
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Speaker 3: Szechi was forced to testify before Congress before the invasion

599
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Speaker 3: of Iraq, and the Army Chief of Staff stunned America

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Speaker 3: and the world when he said it would take several

601
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Speaker 3: hundred thousand troops to invade Iraq successfully. The neocons like

602
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 3: Mark Levin and you know Bill Crystal and the Bush

603
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 3: administration said he's a raving lunatic. It's an absolute lie,

604
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Speaker 3: and they fired him. They forced him out of office.

605
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Speaker 3: He was the Army Chief of Staff, but he was

606
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Speaker 3: trying to warn all of us. And there were multiple

607
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Speaker 3: other top generals internally, some even who resigned, people who

608
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Speaker 3: told the President to his face, this is a bad idea.

609
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Speaker 3: They leaked as much as they could, but our media

610
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Speaker 3: was very propagandistic, just as it is right now. They

611
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Speaker 3: were trying their best to do something like this. The professionals,

612
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Speaker 3: and remember these are not bleeding heart liberals, they're not

613
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Speaker 3: anti war like me. Dan Caine was one of the

614
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Speaker 3: foremost proponents of the Maduro raid. He knows the capabilities

615
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Speaker 3: of the US military. When you have these guys going

616
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Speaker 3: like please get us off, like do not make us

617
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Speaker 3: do this, it is a blaring like a flashing red light. Yeah,

618
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 3: for the whole because nobody knows our capabilities more than them.

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Speaker 3: So when they're warning like this, they're doing their best.

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Speaker 3: First of all, they want to survive. They want to

621
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Speaker 3: be able to have the headline there in the future,

622
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Speaker 3: so that when a Democrat comes into the power, they're like, listen, man,

623
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Speaker 3: we tried to tell him.

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Speaker 1: He ordered us to do it.

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Speaker 3: But more importantly, they're trying to signal for those of

626
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Speaker 3: you who are close watchers and observers to say, this

627
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 3: is not going to go like the propaganda is. And

628
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Speaker 3: it's already happening. Mark Levin, it's been twenty something years,

629
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Speaker 3: he's doing the same thing. These are Democrat deep state

630
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Speaker 3: isolationists trying to destroy. You have Trump now trying to

631
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Speaker 3: box the general in. He's going to try and force

632
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Speaker 3: him to go on the podium and say, actually, it's

633
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Speaker 3: going to be a cake. I hope he says the

634
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 3: word kakewalk I really do, just so we can have

635
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Speaker 3: all the Iraq stuff happen.

636
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 1: Again.

637
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 3: I'm not claiming it's going to be the same as Iraq,

638
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 3: but it's the same type of playbook. These are very

639
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 3: sophisticated actors. This is the biggest warning. And when again,

640
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 3: when the professional warriors tell you this is a big,

641
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 3: big problem. You should listen because what they're talking about

642
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 3: this isn't ideology. This is about logistics, This is about munitions,

643
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 3: This is about defense industrial base. Nobody knows this better

644
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 3: than them. This is the most worrying thing that I've

645
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 3: seen yet. Yeah, because this means it's happening, in my.

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Speaker 2: Opinion, Yeah, this is like a desperate cry for help,

647
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 2: a last ditch hail Mary pass to try to persuade

648
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 2: Trump and whoever that this is going to be a

649
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: terrible idea. This is a warning to the American public.

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Speaker 2: It's all of those things. And you know, I think

651
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Speaker 2: what the why the neocons are pushing so hard right

652
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 2: now is a few reasons. I mean, the Iranian government

653
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Speaker 2: is genuinely weakened at this point from the Twelve Day War,

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Speaker 2: also from the the protests and the you know, the

655
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Speaker 2: opposition movement, from the the economic warfare that we've waged

656
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Speaker 2: against against them has been quite successful. So they are

657
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Speaker 2: weakened in this moment. But are they weak enough where

658
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Speaker 2: you know, an airstrike will take out take down the government,

659
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Speaker 2: because that's their fantasy is let's put aside all oh,

660
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Speaker 2: nuclear ballistic blah blah blah. What they really are after

661
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 2: is regime change. And at the same time, the Israelis,

662
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Speaker 2: who are obviously, you know, constantly pushing for war with Iran,

663
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Speaker 2: and Netah has been pushing for war with Iran like

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Speaker 2: before you were literally born. Literally you can go back

665
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Speaker 2: and watch the Qui from the eighties and but anyway,

666
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Speaker 2: you know, they have their own sort of looming crises internally.

667
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Speaker 2: You know, even though there was a lot of unity

668
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Speaker 2: around the Gaza genocide, the reality is they have major

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Speaker 2: demographic and major economic issues, and they've had a lot

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Speaker 2: of brain drain from their country. You know, the fastest

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Speaker 2: growing part of the Jewish population in Israel are you know,

672
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Speaker 2: the type that don't want to serve in the military

673
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 2: and don't want to work and just rely on the

674
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Speaker 2: social safety net. So they have their own timeline here

675
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 2: of like we've got to act now or else we're

676
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Speaker 2: not going to be able to cement our you know,

677
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 2: grander ambitions of the Greater Israel project and having total

678
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Speaker 2: regional hegemony, which is their ultimate goal. So they're pushing

679
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 2: very hard right now as well. And that's why you

680
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Speaker 2: see the Mark Levins of the world, the Lindsay Gram's

681
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 2: the world, et cetera, sort of freaking out aggressively pushing

682
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 2: in this direction. But I think the reason there's been

683
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Speaker 2: hesitation at this point is because there's no I mean,

684
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Speaker 2: the whole thing is insane and it's going to be bad.

685
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Speaker 2: But even from their perspective, like there's no Delsi Rodriguez

686
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 2: type option that's available in run the thing we covered previously,

687
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Speaker 2: This idea of oh, we'll do a limited strike and

688
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 2: then that's going to force them to buckle to our demands.

689
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Speaker 2: What even our fucking demands, right, I mean, they're constantly changing.

690
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 2: The American people has not been bought into any sort of,

691
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Speaker 2: you know, ration for why we need this war with

692
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Speaker 2: Iran right now? So you know, and the reality is

693
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Speaker 2: a limited strike is likely to have the exact opposite impact.

694
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Speaker 2: It's going to harden the Iranian government against any sort

695
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: of deal. What you're going to bomb somebody, and you

696
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 2: think that's going to make them come to you, that's

697
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Speaker 2: going to you know, open them up to further talks,

698
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Speaker 2: I don't think so. So yeah, I don't know. It's

699
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Speaker 2: looking pretty it's looking pretty grim. It seems very unlikely

700
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Speaker 2: that you amass this level of military power in the

701
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Speaker 2: region to just to have fun, to spend money as

702
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Speaker 2: a threat, and any of it.

703
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Speaker 1: Venezuela is the playbook. Oh we're negotiating.

704
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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not Listen, all right, you don't just bring

705
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Speaker 3: carrier strike groups and all of this naval armada for

706
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Speaker 3: the biggest build up of force in the Caribbean since

707
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Speaker 3: the Cuban missile crisis, just not to use it.

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Speaker 1: Same with Iran.

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Speaker 3: You've got two carrier strike groups, You've got all the bases,

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Speaker 3: you had the evacuation just yesterday of non essential personnel

711
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Speaker 3: from Lebanon. You've got all this diplomacy, diplomacy, theater that's

712
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Speaker 3: going on.

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Speaker 1: I mean, basically what they're trying to do. It's very

714
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Speaker 1: Iraq like.

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Speaker 3: We give Saddam ninety days to resign, to let in

716
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Speaker 3: the inspectors, or hell will reign. It's not gonna happen,

717
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: right Like you know eventually how the story is going

718
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 3: to end. This diplomacy is fake. This entire thing was

719
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Speaker 3: allegedly about the nuclear deal. The Iranians are said, fine,

720
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Speaker 3: we'll do a nuclear deal. They're like, well, it also

721
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 3: has to deal with ballistic missiles in your regional terror threat,

722
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Speaker 3: and they're like, no, we're not giving up our ballistic

723
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Speaker 3: missiles so that Israel can attack US at will at

724
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Speaker 3: any time that they want and regime change US at

725
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 3: will sometime in the future. It's why would they do.

726
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Speaker 3: That's effectively surrendered. We might as well fight and actually

727
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Speaker 3: try to convince the Americans that we have some sort

728
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Speaker 3: of credible deterrent. I mean, this is where to highlight

729
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 3: the Israeli problem here. It is immense because if it

730
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Speaker 3: was just up to the United States, I do believe

731
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Speaker 3: that we could probably reach some sort of nuclear deal.

732
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Speaker 3: But the Israel angle here is that you have this

733
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Speaker 3: rogue state which has now built up ye where they

734
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 3: have been bombing every seven different countries with total impunity,

735
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Speaker 3: with diplomatic cover by the United States, with a population

736
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 3: with its blood you know, boiling ready and believing that

737
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 3: they can do anything, not only not to mention Gaza.

738
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Speaker 3: And they're like, look, we're gonna do it no matter what.

739
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Speaker 3: And so if they go in and attack Iran kind

740
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Speaker 3: of like in the Twelve Day War, what happens, We're

741
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 3: gonna get sucked in. And this is an argument, by

742
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 3: the way, from the neocons because they're like, oh, well,

743
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 3: that's why we should just go ahead and do it

744
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 3: and defend Israel in the process. But the point around

745
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 3: it is, if we actually dealt with the Israel problem,

746
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 3: we wondn't even have as much of an Iranian problem.

747
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 3: But we can't get away from it. And it's I

748
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 3: was telling you this morning, it's like World War One.

749
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Speaker 3: Does anybody just sit for a second and just be like,

750
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Speaker 3: do we have to defend Belgium?

751
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: Do we have to you know, decimate our.

752
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 3: Youth and kill millions of people just because of a

753
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 3: piece of paper, because we've always done things that way.

754
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: But that's this is how it happens.

755
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Speaker 3: You really, you know, you read about it, but this

756
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,399
Speaker 3: is no nobody sits for a second and says, maybe

757
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 3: we just tell the Israelis you're done. If you do this,

758
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 3: they will actually cut you off. Nobody in the White

759
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 3: House can even think this way. Nobody in the previous

760
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 3: White House could think this way either. Nobody in Congress

761
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: is even doing anything I talked about the Aaron Erik

762
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,280
Speaker 3: Shinzeki at least testified before Congress. Raisin Kin is leaking

763
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 3: the shit to the Wall Street Journal and to axios.

764
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 3: We have no opposition, We have nothing like, if anything,

765
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 3: this is ten times worse. We're sleepwalking, just like the

766
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 3: book the Sleepwalkers, right into this disaster. And you know,

767
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 3: even though it's all out in the open, ninety nine

768
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,759
Speaker 3: percent of Americans have no idea that this is going on.

769
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,760
Speaker 3: They're living their lives. You know, they're vaguely iran something.

770
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Speaker 3: You know, it didn't bomb them before, but they have

771
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 3: no idea. They're going to wake up though, you know,

772
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 3: when something like this happens, Yeah, it could all go

773
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Speaker 3: south like this.

774
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Speaker 2: And you have to layer on that the mentality of

775
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 2: they just did this Venezuela thing that they see as

776
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,720
Speaker 2: this grand success. They see the Twelve Day War last

777
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 2: year as this grand success. There's nothing Trump loves more

778
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 2: than you know, his glorious soldiers going into battle and

779
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 2: him being able to like feel like a real man

780
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: based on what other people actions that other people.

781
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 4: Took, and you know he's itching for that.

782
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 2: I think that's you know, an important part of this

783
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 2: mentality is they feel like, oh, the naysayers like us previously,

784
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 2: who were warning about all these dire consequences, they're just

785
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 2: a bunch of Panicans. You know they were wrong. Everything

786
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 2: turn out fine, This was all great, and you know,

787
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 2: this will be another glorious success for us to be

788
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 2: able to talk about and you know, take the focus

789
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 2: off of Epstein and the poor economic numbers and everything

790
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 2: else that's going on the you know, the ice killings,

791
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: all of that stuff, and be able to have this

792
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 2: win and you know, assert our dominance heading into the

793
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: midterm elections. Kyle always brings up, and I think it's

794
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 2: worth pointing out. Trump during the Obama era used to

795
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 2: talk constantly about how Obama was going to start a

796
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: war with a run to save his political prospects, and

797
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 2: I think it's I think that's worth like pausing on

798
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: because it does give you a window into how he

799
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 2: thinks about these things. He thinks it will be a benefit.

800
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 2: He thinks there will be that rally around the flag

801
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: effect and it will help to bolster him and bolster

802
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: his party. I think that's insane, but based on his

803
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 2: past comments, I genuinely think he views it that way,

804
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 2: especially when you pile on top of that the Venezuela

805
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: thing and the previous eroun war.

806
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: Bad science coming out of the White House.

807
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 3: Trump is truthing out Mark Levin videos while while we

808
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:21,320
Speaker 3: got attackerro on, take a listen.

809
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,959
Speaker 9: The problem is it negotiations. The problem isn't they won't

810
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 9: agree to this or that, or we can get the

811
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 9: best deal in world history.

812
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,720
Speaker 1: The problem is them.

813
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 9: The West needs to understand what we're dealing with for

814
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 9: forty seven years. I don't know what it's gonna take,

815
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 9: but we need to comprehend what we're dealing with. That

816
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 9: regime needs to be eliminated.

817
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,320
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Yeah, that's what we're dealing with. Meanwhile,

818
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 3: P four, let's put this up here on the screen.

819
00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson was spotted at the White House yesterday after

820
00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 3: his explosive interview with the Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. Way,

821
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 3: very funny from that one, Mike huckabees interview. Full blown

822
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 3: diplomatic crisis and even a problem for the Iran situation because,

823
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,800
Speaker 3: as you pointed out yesterday, if you want to attack

824
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 3: you Ron, you got to use all these bases and

825
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 3: you've got to make sure that all the Gulf Arab

826
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 3: allies are on your side. Well, guess what the US

827
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 3: ambassador at Israel just said, Actually, all of that land

828
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 3: and all of your countries that belongs to Israel if

829
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,439
Speaker 3: they want it. And they have been calling the White

830
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,480
Speaker 3: House and they're like, is this a statement of official

831
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: government policy?

832
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Speaker 1: Are you going to repudiate this?

833
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 2: Yeah?

834
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 3: What's happening here? Oh and you think you're going to

835
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 3: use my basis?

836
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: No?

837
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's not going to be happening here.

838
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 3: So that's, you know, been some of the fallout. But look,

839
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Speaker 3: I mean, we have to be honest here. The Tucker

840
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 3: faction thought and all of that, it's not ascendant right now,

841
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 3: at least from what I can tell from the outside.

842
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: Put the next one up here, Laura Lumer immediately attacking

843
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,919
Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson. Everybody needs to be pressuring the White House

844
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,840
Speaker 3: to condemn Tucker his efforts to derail the GOP and

845
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 3: sabotage mus End. He thinks he can just walk into

846
00:38:58,200 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 3: the White House and he owns the place because his

847
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 3: son works there.

848
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: Everyone with moral clarity needs.

849
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Speaker 3: To pressure the White House to end this insanity once

850
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 3: and for all. President Trump must condemn Tucker Flson, not

851
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: my Kuckabee, by the way, not the guy who literally,

852
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 3: you know, started a full blown diplomatic crisis because of

853
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 3: his insane Christian feel because of his insane like dispensationalists,

854
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 3: you know, psychotic beliefs. It's the guy who revealed those

855
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 3: beliefs that is a problem. I want to continue on

856
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 3: the munition side. I'll just point in to some experts.

857
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 3: Here's Tyler Rogaway. He runs a great outlet by the way,

858
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 3: twz dot com. They do amazing like in depth, real

859
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 3: logistical nerd stuff.

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Speaker 1: And here's what he says.

861
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Speaker 3: If this Iran thing really pops off, our stocks of

862
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,360
Speaker 3: critical interceptors, which take years and huge sums of money

863
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 3: to build, will be really depleted. The stockpile is already

864
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Speaker 3: an emergency. If Iran goes full send SM three, that

865
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Speaker 3: interceptors pack threes will ran through once again.

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Speaker 1: It takes years to restock. He says.

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Speaker 3: It is a dangerous game with the state of China's

868
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Speaker 3: military activity, and then there's Russia that is beyond North Korea.

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Speaker 3: We have never built a lot enough lots of smoke

870
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:07,000
Speaker 3: and mirrors, and now it is critical. This will send

871
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 3: it into another realm of crisis.

872
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: Just watch.

873
00:40:10,719 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 3: You know. One of the dangers with open source is

874
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 3: that you actually start to learn, you know, how scared

875
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 3: like you start to learn if you read enough, you're like, wait,

876
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 3: oh my god, we're really not prepared for this. You

877
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 3: have the CSIS war game from a couple of years ago,

878
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 3: you have multiple generals on the record, you have the

879
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 3: fat stockpiled numbers, and you're.

880
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:30,840
Speaker 1: Like, what a disaster.

881
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 3: Twenty five percent just spent on a twelve day war

882
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 3: which didn't even you know, involve US, and then not

883
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 3: to mention all the short range stuff which the Iranians

884
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 3: could use.

885
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: Look, the US military is good, but is it that good?

886
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those where would you really

887
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: risk it?

888
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 3: And originally I thought, okay, well we're pretty good at

889
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 3: taking these things out and the CIA and you know

890
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 3: from all of that. But once the top general starts

891
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,479
Speaker 3: to speak out, I'm like, oh, this is bad.

892
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: Clearly they see some.

893
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 3: You know, I don't have all the information they do,

894
00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 3: and for them to come out and to leak this,

895
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 3: I really I urge everyone to take this Sparrige very seriously.

896
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 3: Like these people, like I said, the guy who literally

897
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 3: supported the kidnapp operation against Maduro, he says it's a

898
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 3: bad idea.

899
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: You should listen.

900
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 3: These are not liberals or you know some they're not

901
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 3: like bleeding heart liberal code pink activists or intervention an

902
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 3: Yeah exactly.

903
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And listen, I think the Iranian government is weak.

904
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 2: I don't know what the capabilities they have, but we

905
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 2: also shouldn't underestimate their will to fight, because for us,

906
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 2: this isn't existential.

907
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 4: This is like a.

908
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 2: Stupid luxury war of choice for the president's ego that

909
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 2: almost no one wants. Okay, it's eighty percent of the

910
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 2: US population.

911
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 4: It's like, no, we don't.

912
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 2: Want this at all, in spite of you know whatever

913
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,799
Speaker 2: war propaganda's constantly fed to us about, you know, how

914
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 2: terrible Iran is, what a threat it is. Like Mark

915
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 2: Levin said to our children and a grandchildren, blah blah blah,

916
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 2: like we don't have the will to fight this thing.

917
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 2: And Iran, you know, it's in a very strategic position.

918
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 2: They know the cards that they have, and they also

919
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 2: we'll be looking and understanding this information about the drawdown

920
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 2: of our stockpiles and understanding where some of our vulnerabilities

921
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 2: are and where some of Israel's vulnerabilities are as well.

922
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 2: So and you know, things are not going to too great.

923
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 2: I guess in terms of mechanics in the build up

924
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 2: to this potential work of B seven up on the screen.

925
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 2: We are already taxing our sailors incredibly. You have people

926
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 2: who are potentially going to be deployed for eleven months,

927
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: it would be the longest deployment for you know, sailors

928
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:41,040
Speaker 2: on this US S gerald Ford for in years. And

929
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 2: you also have issues on the ship apparently that some

930
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 2: of the toilets are clogged and there's like raw sewage.

931
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 2: Apparently they've gotten some of this under control, but it's

932
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 2: been a mess, and a bunch of people who are

933
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 2: quoted in this piece in the Wall Street Journal are like,

934
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 2: after this, I'm done. Like I have kids, and this

935
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: is I don't don't want to be away from them

936
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 2: for years at a time. This is not my understanding

937
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 2: of what we were going to be up to. So

938
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 2: even putting aside, you know, the stock piles, like, there's

939
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 2: been a human cost already for all the various adventurism

940
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 2: from the Trump admistry.

941
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I mean, you know, oh it's so funny.

942
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 3: Ha ha ha, Oh you signed up for this. It's

943
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 3: not funny you put these guys on it. But car

944
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 3: you know, look, it's not fun you've ever been on

945
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:25,359
Speaker 3: a carrier, like I've only been.

946
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: On the decommissioned ones.

947
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 3: It's small, and you got to sleep in these barracks

948
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 3: and if the toilet breaks, that's life or death.

949
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: Man, that sounds like a disaster.

950
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 3: And you're gone for eleven months shuttling yourself across the

951
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 3: globe for a bunch of nonsense. Now you've been there,

952
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 3: and you might be getting into a war for NonStop operations.

953
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 3: I mean, and these are what like nineteen twenty year

954
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 3: olds and all that who signed up had no idea

955
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 3: potentially they were getting into. This is why it's not

956
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 3: a game, right to play around with their lives and

957
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 3: just shuttle them back and forth all to put pressure

958
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 3: or potentially just put them into war for Israel.

959
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: It's crazy.

960
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 3: I mean everyone is always like, oh, you know, it's

961
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 3: almost a low IQ conspiracy, Like oh, America is always

962
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 3: getting into a war on Israel's behalf, Like, guys, this

963
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 3: one actually is it? Like this is the big one.

964
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 1: This is the big one.

965
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 3: And unfortunately, like I said, Washington, everybody's going along the Democrats,

966
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,160
Speaker 3: there's nobody out there silence war powers act. Shout out

967
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 3: to Massy and Rocana, but like that's going to be

968
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 3: like a Barbelee situation in terms of we can look

969
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 3: back on in history, but at the time they're complete,

970
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 3: you know, they're jokes.

971
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:26,920
Speaker 1: That's how people look at them.

972
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, bipartisan elite is they're either silent because they wanted

973
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 3: to go wrong or they support it.

974
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 1: So there you go.

975
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just one note on the impact of that

976
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 2: morale and fatigue.

977
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:41,879
Speaker 4: Remember one of those like fighter.

978
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 2: Jets slid into the sea when the HUFY operation. Yes,

979
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 2: the after action report, the analysis there was that you know,

980
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: fatigue basically played into that. That's the reason why they

981
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 2: were you know, like making whatever errors were causing these

982
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 2: fire jets to be lost at sea. So you know,

983
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 2: can have real operational impacts as we head into whatever

984
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 2: we're heading into.

985
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: Yep, there you go.

986
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 3: All right, let's get to Epstein. Turning now to the

987
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 3: fallout from the Epstein files. Lord Mandelsson in the UK

988
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 3: has been arrested. Let's go and put this video up

989
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 3: here on the screen. You can see the purp walk

990
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 3: of him being led from his brick mansion, you know,

991
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 3: in his stately outfit there of what befits a British

992
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 3: lord being led by the Metropolitan police into a waiting car. Now,

993
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 3: Remember the British system is weird, and for some reason

994
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,280
Speaker 3: they don't just say so and so has been arrested.

995
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: But we do know.

996
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,640
Speaker 3: See one, let's put that up here on the screen.

997
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 3: You can see right here. Lord Mandlsson was arrested on

998
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 3: suspicion of conduct in public office a short while ago,

999
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: the former minister being led from his London home to

1000
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 3: an unmarked car by police officers. The x US ambassadors

1001
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 3: under investigation over allegations he shared market sensitive government information

1002
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 3: with Jeffrey Epstein while a government minister. He has not

1003
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 3: yet publicly commented on the matter. But you know, to

1004
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 3: say allegedly shared is not even true like he shared it.

1005
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 3: It's in the fine So the only thing the email, right,

1006
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 3: the only defense is is it where you hacked?

1007
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 7: And do that?

1008
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 3: Can you pull a joy read and say Russian hackers

1009
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 3: in twenty ten actually sent the email on behalf of

1010
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 3: privileged non public information? Or did you send it, bro,

1011
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,439
Speaker 3: because I'm pretty sure you sent it. Now what's even

1012
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 3: crazier is that's only the tip of the iceberg. Gordon

1013
00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 3: Brown has said he's already shared more information with the

1014
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 3: with the current authorities. There could be all kinds that

1015
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 3: we're thinking about. Epstein files is just Epstein and his emails.

1016
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 3: They have access to his real email. So if they

1017
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 3: could subpoena and look at all of their stuff and

1018
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 3: shared over with the authorities, could be the tip of

1019
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 3: the iceberg. If a person's willing to share non public

1020
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 3: market information with one person, you really think they've never

1021
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,919
Speaker 3: done it before? Or is this maybe a ring where

1022
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 3: this happened one time and we just so happened to

1023
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 3: get the email in this one point again, you know,

1024
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 3: for the British authorities, I don't have any proof of that.

1025
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 3: I'm only speculating, not even necessarily impugning the character of

1026
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 3: the Great Lord. But you know, for when you think

1027
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 3: about how this has exploded across the world and comparing

1028
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,880
Speaker 3: it here, it's unbelievable. You have now Lord Mandleson and

1029
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 3: Prince Andrew. Prince Andrew is going to literally lose his

1030
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 3: line in the British succession, which but that's the prince

1031
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 3: ship that I'm talking about. That's what I want to

1032
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 3: see is if we're going to have the institution, then

1033
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 3: we got to be like, declare his blood unworthy of

1034
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 3: sitting on the throne. But now you have Lord A Manersson,

1035
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 3: he might get getting his title stripped. He's going to jail,

1036
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 3: potentially getting arrested. You have the former Norwegian prime minister.

1037
00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,440
Speaker 3: He just tried to commit suicide. Apparently there was just

1038
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 3: a report out this morning. I mean, you've got multiple

1039
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 3: of these of Slovakia, you've had that official here in

1040
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 3: the US. Former governor is just got some professional consequence.

1041
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 1: Peter Atia. By the way, we can give an update

1042
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: and see six. Let's put that on the screen.

1043
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 3: He has he either resigned or he's no law At

1044
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:04,759
Speaker 3: CBS News over this correspondence, we have the leaders of

1045
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 3: Apollo Group, of that major law firm here in Washington.

1046
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 3: All of these people have stepped down. But all of

1047
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 3: the accountability in America is in the private sector. Yeah,

1048
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 3: and over there it's the official governments who are the

1049
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:22,719
Speaker 3: French authorities. They're reopening the investigation into the suicide of

1050
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 3: Jean Luc Brunel and his suspicious debt. In addition to

1051
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 3: raiding the offices of file of people named in the files,

1052
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 3: the Macron government being mentioned in the Epstein files actually

1053
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,799
Speaker 3: caused like kind of a political earthquake over here over there,

1054
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 3: but here it's like business as usual, and I think

1055
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:41,240
Speaker 3: that's just what I want to highlight.

1056
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's two points to make about this. Number One,

1057
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,280
Speaker 2: all these various investigations that now have been launched around

1058
00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:48,359
Speaker 2: the world are going to be really important, because not

1059
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 2: just in the case of Mandelssohn, but in France and

1060
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 2: other countries around the world where they've actually taken this seriously,

1061
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 2: you are going to have some sort of discovery process

1062
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 2: where you're going to see war, where you're going to

1063
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 2: learn war. So in effect, you'll have more or Epstein

1064
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 2: files that are released as a result of the actions

1065
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 2: in these various countries. The other thing that I was

1066
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 2: thinking about is like it makes me a little bit

1067
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 2: more sympathetic towards Cancel culture because that's literally the only

1068
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 2: elite accountability that we apparently have in this country, and

1069
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 2: that's the only mechanism we have. That's the only reason

1070
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 2: Kathy Rumbler, the Pritzker guy, or Peter Attilla or any

1071
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 2: of these people are having to face anything, because there's

1072
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 2: not We've already been told from the government we're not

1073
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 2: going to do any criminal investigation.

1074
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 4: This is done.

1075
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 2: We're you know, closed we're not releasing and we have

1076
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:32,880
Speaker 2: any more files. We don't want to talk about it anymore.

1077
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 2: We don't think there's anything to investigate here. We don't

1078
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 2: think there's anything prosecuted here, you know, within our own government,

1079
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 2: let alone, you know, among any other business leaders.

1080
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 4: We are moving on. Nothing to see here.

1081
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 2: So essentially our only real recourse is through shame and

1082
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,919
Speaker 2: pressure of various corporate entities to try to make people

1083
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 2: who are implicated loose their jobs. That's all this public has.

1084
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 2: So you can see why there has been in the past,

1085
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Speaker 2: you know, and I think currently with this in the

1086
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 2: context of Epstein files, why there has been such a

1087
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 2: frenzy around these type of pressure campaigns because there's no

1088
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Speaker 2: hope that there's going to be any sort of like

1089
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Speaker 2: criminal justice account.

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Speaker 3: That's the problem though, right is yeah, and this was

1091
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 3: always the criticism of cancel culture is like, look, you're

1092
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 3: literally going after like a podcast host or a comedian

1093
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 3: while people who are in power are facing nothing. It's

1094
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 3: like literally an inversion of the way that democracy is

1095
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 3: supposed to work.

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Speaker 1: Well, here you go, this is the same problem.

1097
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 3: You've got Peter Tia, Who's look, I mean, yeah, it's

1098
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,840
Speaker 3: creepy emails, all right, And like I said, I'm sketched

1099
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 3: out by it. Going to take everything he says from

1100
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 3: now on with the grain of salt. It's really disgusting.

1101
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:37,359
Speaker 3: But it's not the same as former governors and presidents.

1102
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,480
Speaker 3: And right now, the Commerce Secretary.

1103
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 4: For the President of the United States, the guy.

1104
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,239
Speaker 3: Who's talking to me about Mett Foreman, you know, sent

1105
00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 3: a really discussing, creepy email to Epstein faces some professional

1106
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 3: consequences like okay, but the guy who sets the tariff

1107
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 3: policy of the United States of America lied about his relationship.

1108
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:57,760
Speaker 3: That's kind of a whole other story, you know, and

1109
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 3: for him and then not just that, he said, oh well,

1110
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:02,320
Speaker 3: I never what do you say. I visited the island

1111
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 3: and I had lunch with him years after I said

1112
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,320
Speaker 3: I was never going to see him again. That's pretty

1113
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 3: different in terms of accountability. But for some reason, because

1114
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 3: we know that we can't have any accountability at the top,

1115
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 3: that we try to search for it with all of

1116
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,919
Speaker 3: the former governors. I'm like, sorry, I don't care about

1117
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 3: the former I mean I do, but not in the

1118
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 3: same way as what's happening or.

1119
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: It's a head of a law firm or righting like that.

1120
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 3: Sure, it's good, fine, but it's not the same as

1121
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 3: actually looking at the top.

1122
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: And that's that's the problem I have.

1123
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, cancel culture is a form of like digital

1124
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 2: vigilante justice basically. And you can understand why in a

1125
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 2: time when you feel like the justice system, why there's

1126
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 2: clearly different rules for different people depending on you know,

1127
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 2: whether you're part of the Epstein class or whether you're not.

1128
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 2: And you know, and that's that's how you end up

1129
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 2: with a mass system of vigilante justice. And I continue

1130
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 2: to maintain that one of the one of the major

1131
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 2: problems in this country has to be dealt with going

1132
00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 2: forward is the total elite impunity that had been enjoyed

1133
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:03,879
Speaker 2: over decades. You know, if you go back to the

1134
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,880
Speaker 2: Iraq War lies, if you go back to the financial

1135
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,719
Speaker 2: crisis and the fact that you know, these bankers destroyed

1136
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 2: the entire conomy, ruined millions of people's lives, people who

1137
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 2: still haven't recovered from what happened to them in that crisis,

1138
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 2: and there's no accountability there. And then you get this

1139
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:25,279
Speaker 2: little window into a completely depraved network that operated, you know,

1140
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,439
Speaker 2: above the reach of any sort of nation state, any

1141
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 2: sort of system of laws. If you don't grapple with that,

1142
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:33,399
Speaker 2: you are going to continue to.

1143
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,280
Speaker 4: Have societal breakdown.

1144
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 2: There has to be some sense that even elites are

1145
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 2: subject to some sort of accountability for their malfeasance. And

1146
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 2: so I think Americans are looking at the Brits with

1147
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 2: jealousy right now. You know, you've got literal royals facing

1148
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 2: more accountability than our supposed you know, democratic administration here,

1149
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,439
Speaker 2: Like we're supposed to be the no kings people, right,

1150
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:01,240
Speaker 2: and yet the actual royals facing more accountability and justice

1151
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:02,839
Speaker 2: than you know, are representative.

1152
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 3: See, I've been defending the monarchy for a long time, Crystal,

1153
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:05,760
Speaker 3: this is wine.

1154
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm coming around on that one.

1155
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 3: You have hundreds of years and a culture of accountability.

1156
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:11,280
Speaker 1: This is what happened.

1157
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 3: All the Brits are going to be furious and the

1158
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 3: Indians are going to be mad at me about that

1159
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 3: one too. But look, fundamentally, I love separation, you know,

1160
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 3: of the head of state and the head of government.

1161
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 3: I just think it's an amazing system works out well

1162
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 3: for a lot of people.

1163
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 4: I just want the free healthcare.

1164
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 1: Well, you know that.

1165
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 3: One's the more complicated for there. Let's go to the

1166
00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:33,359
Speaker 3: next one. Shall we just to show you fall from

1167
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 3: grace from the great Lord of Lord Mandelsson.

1168
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: This one is C two.

1169
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 3: Here he is just nine months ago in the Oval

1170
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 3: Office presenting his credentials to Donald Trump. He was a lord,

1171
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 3: he was the ambassador. If you've never seen it, the

1172
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 3: British residence ambassador here in Washington is like a country

1173
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 3: estate with a little garden lawn, and it's a palatial mansion.

1174
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 3: They whine and dine, the Washington elite. And that's where

1175
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,239
Speaker 3: he was not that long time ago. And here he

1176
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:08,600
Speaker 3: is now being led away, literally into a waiting police card.

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Speaker 3: We also did want to update a few emails which

1178
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 3: have come across our desk. Let's put this one up

1179
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 3: here on the screen. This is a pretty crazy one.

1180
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 3: Perhaps a slip of the tongue. Twenty twenty one, year

1181
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 3: after Epstein died, an assistant US Attorney for the Eastern

1182
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 3: District discussed as a confidentiality agreement quote in connection with

1183
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 3: the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein, Perhaps.

1184
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: A slip of the tongue.

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00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 3: He says into the death of an inmate at Brooklyn, MDC,

1186
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 3: the OCME, I'm assuming that's a medical examiner told me

1187
00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 3: it's signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with the investigations

1188
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 3: and the murder of Jeffrey Epstein. We were hoping to

1189
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 3: extend a similar agreement, and I wanted to see if

1190
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 3: you could share the agreement or boilerplate version of it.

1191
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,840
Speaker 3: I'm happy to speak over the phone if that's easier.

1192
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: My cell is X.

1193
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 3: So basically, he says, we're going to give this deal

1194
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 3: to another inmate, but this is about the investigation into

1195
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 3: the murder of Jeffrey Epstein, hoping if there's similar agreement

1196
00:55:01,200 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 3: it's in place. Here's why it's a little bit suspicious,

1197
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,919
Speaker 3: not just the word murder. Clearly, this is an investigation

1198
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 3: into the death which they think is a murder. And

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Speaker 3: he's referring to the other to the death of Epstein

1200
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 3: as a murder, which it maybe it was considered that

1201
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 3: at some time. Now, remember the official conclusion is suicide.

1202
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 3: But they never even claimed that they investigated a murder.

1203
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 3: They ruled suicide from day one, basically from the from

1204
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,320
Speaker 3: the very first you know, announcement.

1205
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 4: From the press release that ro drafted.

1206
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: So they're like, okay, man, I mean, this is pretty crasty.

1207
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 2: I mean, could be that when they drafted that press

1208
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 2: release announcing his death, they just messed up on the.

1209
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 3: Date, and which is actually believable, just.

1210
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 2: Happened to mess up here as well and call it

1211
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 2: a murder even though it was totally definitely a suicide.

1212
00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,640
Speaker 4: And it just happened. The cameras didn't work, and it

1213
00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:53,919
Speaker 4: just happen when they.

1214
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 2: Put out the video that supposedly proved that there was

1215
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,399
Speaker 2: nothing to see there, there was, you know, not one

1216
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 2: a person in the video that they claimed that they

1217
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 2: pretended wasn't there, and there were minutes missing, and the

1218
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 2: guards happened to be asleep and etcetera, etcetera.

1219
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 4: And you know, people who look at the body say

1220
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:11,280
Speaker 4: this cook the cameras.

1221
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we never found the news. But yeah, that

1222
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 2: all makes a lot of sense. That all just really

1223
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:17,400
Speaker 2: just a comedy of errors.

1224
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,800
Speaker 4: That's all it is. It's just nothing to see here. Soder.

1225
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. Let's go to C four. This is

1226
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:25,399
Speaker 3: another interesting story. This one came out yesterday from Ryan

1227
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 3: Goodman over at Just Security.

1228
00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 1: They're like a legal blog, and they looked into some

1229
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: of this.

1230
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 3: They say the FBI issued a stand down directive to

1231
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:38,120
Speaker 3: the NYPD on Jeffrey Epstein investigation. More five days after

1232
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 3: Epstein's arrests in summer of twenty nineteen, federal authorities directed

1233
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 3: the New York Police Department to stand down it's investigations

1234
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 3: related to Epstein. New documents released show the directive applied

1235
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 3: to the NYPD Special Victims Unit, the group that was

1236
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 3: specially trained and equipped to handle sex crimes. At the time,

1237
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,320
Speaker 3: the Manhattan DA had an ongoing investigation with the Epstein victims,

1238
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 3: but the FBI assumed that would come into a halt

1239
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,800
Speaker 3: as well following the bureau's directive. Revelations are part of

1240
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,480
Speaker 3: the chronology, which spans nineteen ninety sixty two thousand and five.

1241
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,479
Speaker 3: The timeline amounts to the most comprehensive record to date

1242
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 3: of the publicly available information of New York law enforcement

1243
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 3: authorities actions and inaction whenever it regards Epstein, and is

1244
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 3: provided below. You can read very specifically, not only the

1245
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 3: origination of the claiming about Maria Farmer, but then the

1246
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 3: NYPD stand down order, and sometime around twenty twelve, Epstein

1247
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,320
Speaker 3: and one of his victim's assistants actually discussed NYPD contacting

1248
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 3: her and so you have this year's long kind of

1249
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 3: investigation and discussion with Epstein, the NYPD who's constantly kind

1250
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 3: of monitoring this case and potentially getting involved until they

1251
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 3: get this federal stand down directive. Now again, we always

1252
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 3: got to present the innocent explanation. Anybody ever watched a

1253
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 3: cop show, there's always terf wur you don't want them

1254
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 3: to get involved.

1255
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,000
Speaker 1: It's it's possible, it's possible.

1256
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 3: But like you said, with the murder investigation, you're like, well,

1257
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 3: you know, if you look at it as a one

1258
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 3: off shirt, but if you put the totality of it

1259
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 3: at all, it's a little bit it's a bit sketchy, right,

1260
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 3: And so that's why I think this is worth highlighting

1261
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 3: as well.

1262
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was, you know, during the first Trump administration.

1263
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 4: Bill Barr is ag.

1264
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 2: His dad is the one who hires Jeffrey Epstein when

1265
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 2: he's wildly unqualified for his first job at the elite

1266
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 2: Dalton School. So he's put in contact with the children

1267
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:24,840
Speaker 2: of Manhattan's elites. And you know, that's the era that

1268
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 2: we're talking about here in terms of AG Bill Barr

1269
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 2: being in place and Trump being the president at the

1270
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Speaker 2: time that this standdown order is ultimately issue