WEBVTT - Iran’s Hardline Endgame 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:01.440 Thanks to all of you for being with us. 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.600 Write down our toll free telephone number if you want 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:07.080 to be a part of the program. ATS eight hundred 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.639 nine to four one, Shawn if you want to join us. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:12.800 It looks like. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.680 The talk ceasefire talks that were supposed to take place 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.080 in Pakistan. We don't know if they're going to happen, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.119 and I'd say the odds are probably pretty high they're 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.320 not going to happen. State TV Iran upset about what 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.000 they described as mixed messages from the US. It has 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.080 nothing to do with the US. That's not what's going 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.640 on here. The President now saying that he expects to 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:44.599 be bombing as now. This ceasefire deadline is looming and 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.680 Central Command now aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is receiving 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.120 supplies as they have been replenishing since the ceasefire began, 0:00:55.520 --> 0:01:00.600 and the blockade continues as as it has been. The 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.240 US forces now have ordered twenty eight ships to turn 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.640 around return to port during this blockade and they have 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.840 been effective in doing so. And now we have reports 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:17.480 that the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayato Lahamani, 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.760 the younger Haminee, who the older Haminee never wanted to 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:27.960 take power, take control if he died, has lost. They're 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.959 unable to contact this guy, and now the Military Council 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:37.400 has controlled everything. And what you have is an emergence 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:42.400 of an intramural fight for power inside of Iran. I 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.679 think Lindsay Graham described it describe what's going on best. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.840 You have the guys that want to negotiate, the guys 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:53.280 that were making promises to President Trump that obviously they 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:56.560 are unable to keep. Those are the guys in the suits, 0:01:57.240 --> 0:02:01.640 the guys with the guns, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. They 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:05.800 are the ones that have, it seems, the upper hand 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.840 in terms of this power struggle. And they, of course 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.480 the elite branch of the Iranian armed Forces, and anyway 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.880 they are now it's seemingly pushing out the son of 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.320 the former Supreme Leader who was apparently appointed Supreme Leader 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.119 but really nobody's ever seen or heard from him. Apparently 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.440 was injured in the initial strike of Epic Fury. But 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:31.000 there clearly is a huge shift going on and a 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:36.640 power struggle going on. And if the IRGC, in fact 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:39.800 it gets control of this, and it appears to me 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.200 that they are, then what have I been saying for 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.400 the last number of days, it's either going to end 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.440 the easy way or it's going to end the hard way. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.480 And as this deadline now is coming to an end. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.320 By the way, for example, Vice President Vance never left 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.079 today because we never got word that the Iranians were 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:02.640 definitely showing up. But so as the deadline looms, and 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.520 the president is now re arming and saying that he 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:12.360 expects to be bombing as this ceasefire deadline looms, what 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.920 do we have it? Who does it appear now to 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:20.400 be in charge? This guy, Ahmad Bahadi Bahdi is his name. 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:26.519 He is Iran's new Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps chief, who, 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.680 by the way, has been tied to global attacks. He 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.880 is a radical. He's one of these Death to America 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:39.040 ideology ideologists. He's bought into that ideology and he has 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:44.160 a long record of terror and repression, hardline ideology. And 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:48.040 Bahdi recently elevated to the top of the Islamic Revolutionary 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:52.560 Guard Corps. They're elite parliamentary force within Iran's military. There's 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.520 about an estimated remaining because they've taken out a lot 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.880 of them. One hundred and thirty thousand of those troops, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:03.960 but very sha Revolutionary Guard commander, long history of terror, repression, 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:07.800 hard line ideology, and anyway, he seems to be the 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.360 one in with the guns, emerging as the most powerful 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.720 guy in Iran, which means he doesn't want a deal. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.440 And by any standard, Bahitis considered more radical than maybe 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:23.240 even the regime that was there before. Putting this guy 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.960 with such a bloody, murderous record at the top of 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.680 the Revolutionary Guard Corps confirms the regime is not moderating 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.320 under pressure. On the contrary, they're going to double down 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.000 on men who's you know, on careers of people who 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:42.120 have been built on hostage taking, assassination, domestic repression and 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:46.800 torture and of people. And by any standard, he is 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:51.560 considered as radical as the regime's hardline elite that was 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:56.800 in power now. Vahits rise could shape whether Iran moves 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.719 towards peace or a deeper conflict. The thing is is, 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.680 you know, there is stupid on top of this. You 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:11.760 would think logic would dictate that after the after President 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:16.120 Trump gave Iran fifty days before he gave the green light, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.920 in spite of these idiots and their proclamations. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:22.920 Israel Is controlling Donald Trump. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:28.040 BBE is controlling Donald Trump, Fox News is controlling Donald Trump, 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.640 none of which has been true. But this new Iranian 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.040 Revolutionary Guard Court chief, he's been tied to nothing but 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:40.479 terror and global attacks and death to America. And with 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:46.440 this power increasingly being concentrated outside of formal institutions, I 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.479 don't think the guys in suits that would like to 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.799 make a deal that see the handwriting on the wall, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.040 that saw what happened after the fifty day deadline ended, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.800 and on day fifty one, Israel bombed the living daylights 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:03.960 out of Iran. The same people that were in power, 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.039 and they were given a warning before Midnight Hammer to 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.680 stop enriching uranium and give up those enrichment sites, and 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.240 they decided not to do it, and then that ended 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.800 in a disaster for them with fourteen bunker buster bombs. 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:21.560 You would think after Operation Epic Fury, which sunk their navy, 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:26.039 their air force, most of their military capabilities, the ballistic 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:30.680 missile capability, drone capability, and you know, you would think 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.440 at this point they'd recognize defeat. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:34.880 Even after Midnight Hammer. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.960 I mean that went on for twelve days, and the 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:43.040 Iranians said, okay, enough, we want a peace steal and 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.279 then of course we find out when we negotiate with 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.039 them they're bragging about their four hundred and sixty kilograms 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:51.719 of sixty percent of rich uranium. But Bahits rise comes 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:54.960 at a moment where their political institutions are weaker than ever. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.800 This would be a good moment had they had the 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.560 ability to get armed into the hands of people for 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.080 them to rise up against them. But you know, long 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.320 before the world ever knew about General Solomani, the longtime 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:14.120 commander of the elite Cuds Forces that was killed by 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.800 President Trump and a drone strike on that tarmac, Bahiti 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.120 was one of the men that helped build the infrastructure 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.520 for the Iranian overseas terror operations, and he himself served 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.280 as the commander of the Cuds Forces before Solomani took over, 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:33.760 that elite unit responsible for foreign operations, covert actions, and 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:38.080 support for proxy groups. Anyway, analysts that have studied Wahiti 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.440 you know, say he played a very central role in 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.239 building Iran's network of terrorist allies all across the Middle East, 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:50.200 especially his Bala in Lebanon, amas in Gaza, the Huti Rebels, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.360 one person describing it as describing this guy as the 0:07:55.400 --> 0:08:00.920 embodiment of the Islamic Republic's most militant wing. As Solomani's 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.200 predecessor at the Kudz Force, he helped build Tehran's terror 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:05.520 infrastructure abroad. 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:07.800 They say he. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.120 Was part of the original generation of Iranian operatives that 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.920 forged ties with militant groups in Lebanon before the nineteen 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.440 seventy nine Islamic Revolution. I mean, so this is his 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:23.200 life's work culminating here. Some accounts suggest he trained in 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:28.600 camps link to Palestinian Lebanese factions in southern Lebanon, laying 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:32.800 the foundation for his alliance with Hasbala and Vahiti. Has 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.800 been linked to, you know, analysts Western governments, some of 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.960 the deadliest attacks carried out by Iranian back networks over 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.160 the past four decades. But as commander of the kuds 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.319 Forces for the ten year period of nineteen eighty eight 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.360 to ninety eight, he has been connected to the nineteen 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.120 eighty three Beirupe Barracks bombing that killed two hundred and 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.840 forty one US service members, the Kobar Towers incident in 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:00.880 Saudi Arabia, and when that took place, thousand and eight 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:05.560 attack on the US embassy in Yemen, and Bahiti has 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.560 been implicated, for example, by Argentinian prosecutors in ninety four 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.360 for a bombing that took place there at a Jewish 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.480 community center in Buenos Aires. Eighty five people were killed 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.320 in that bombing. Investigators in courts linked Bahiti to the 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.160 nineteen ninety two bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:27.440 And you know, if you want a little bit more 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.720 background on him, I can keep going. But he's under 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.280 multiple layers of sanctions by both the US the European Union. 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:38.040 So what does this mean? He is the most radical faction. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.199 He's got the guns, he's got the forces behind him, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.840 and the guys that would be more reasonable and understand 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.400 the costs that is about to come their way are 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.719 not gonna It looks to me, I would say the 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:59.240 odds now are much lower that we're going to have 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.720 a peaceful agreement. I think the odds are much higher 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:08.280 that this is the bombing campaign. Will we'll start anew 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.839 and I think it will be devastating. And the sad 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.160 part is the president has not wanted to do this. 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.000 The sad part is the president, like he did before 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.240 Israel attack first after fifty days and before Midnight Hammer 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.719 and before epic fury. He has given the Iranians a 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:31.320 time for peace. Each time they have made the wrong choice, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.559 and it looks like the hardliners once again will make 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.120 the wrong choice. Will the Iranian people as a result 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.240 suffer in the short term, Yeah, they're going to suffer, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:46.240 unfortunately because of the leadership. But this might create the 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:52.440 vacuum that is needed for the change that would once 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.160 again help the Persian people re emerge. The President put out, 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.439 I don't know if you saw this today, Linda, the 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:03.440 President put out pictures of the women that this Islamic 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.120 Republic is preparing to hang. You put out the pictures 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.400 of these women, beautiful young women in the prime of 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:14.079 their life because they dared to stand up against this regime, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.040 are about to go to their own hanging. The President 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.600 put out to the Iranian leaders, I would greatly appreciate 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.920 release these women. I'm sure that they will respect the 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.880 fact that you did so. Please do them no harm. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.280 Would be a great start to our negotiations. And now 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.440 the President has had to say they have violated our 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:39.600 ceasefire many times, and the President really is kind of 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.000 I'm sure he's probably throwing his hands up. They just 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:48.240 reject common sense, logic and peace. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.840 And may I say, Sean, one of the young girls 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.080 that the regime is planning on hanging to death is 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.640 sixteen years old, like these are not. This is sixteen 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:01.480 years a young. 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.040 Women, some of them, A lot of them look like 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:07.320 they're in the I don't know, twenties. What do I know? 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.440 How my I don't even know how old you are. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.640 They're babies, but I mean they're babies. They're out there 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.680 just trying to, you know, speak for their freedom. People 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.360 don't know how good they got it. I wonder where 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.120 the movement is now. Believe the women stand behind women, 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:20.960 they're very quiet. 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:22.160 Look at how women are treated. 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.200 If they're not covered properly, they're beaten, if they're really 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.600 if they dress provocatively, like Solomoni's niece and grand niece, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.480 they would be They would be murdered, just like gays 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.960 and lesbians are murdered. Just like anybody that dared to 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.160 speak out against this tyrannical regime is now being hung. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.640 This is a brutal regime, the number one state sponsor 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.040 of terror, and they wanted a nuclear weapon. And this 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:49.000 is This is what compelled the president thinking long term, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.360 understanding the lessons of the last century. I've said this 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:56.200 many times. Either you learn from history or you doom 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.960 to repeat it. Would it be smart to neutralize threat? 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.760 It's like Mao and Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.800 If you saw emerging threats and you knew in the 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.319 end that millions of people would die, of course it 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.840 would be smart. Does that make any of this easy? No, 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.200 none of it's easy. Does it make any of it pleasant? 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:16.440 No? 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:17.800 War is not pleasant either. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.840 Then you've got, you know, this whole cadre of people 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.959 that are out there cheering for the president to fail. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.320 Look at Chris Murphy, you know, he reacted to an 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.800 Iranian propaganda report claiming that at least twenty six Iranian 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.640 shadow fleet vessels by passed the blockade. He writes, awesome 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:43.360 of an American senator rooting against the US military. Does 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.120 it get any more disgusting and repulsive than that. That's 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:53.280 the radicalized Democratic Party today, radicalized leftists today. That's also 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.120 the legacy media mob. They have not reported on any 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:01.760 of the success, I mean, unprecedented, historic military success of 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:06.040 the president in this in this effort with a minimal 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.559 amount of casualties in the shortest amount of time. Now 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.360 it's going to come to a conclusion, and it's going 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.800 to be looks like the hard way, not the easy way. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.360 And how are we going to find define victory? Will 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.080 either in tomb the nuclear dust, keep eyes on it 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.560 if they ever dare to go near it, or just 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.280 go in and take it, or eventually they'll just wake 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.920 up and make the deal. And the straight of horn 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.040 Moves is going to be open the hard way, And frankly, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.120 it's not even our problem because we don't get any 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.280 oil from the from the Straight of horn Moves, So anyway, 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.040 that's where it seems to be as of now. I 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:49.920 would imagine that this radical leader that has now emerged 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:57.240 is probably going to choose, you know, stupidly. Bahiti will 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.480 be dumb. He will cling to his indoctrinated radicalism and 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.760 not to common sense, not to human decency, because it 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.720 doesn't exist in people that can kill innocent men, women 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.320 and children with abandon and believe that they're going to 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.920 be rewarded by Allah with seventy two virgins. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:15.720 But that's the mindset. 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.400 Let me explain, and I want to have time in 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.560 this segment to really get into it deeply. Let me 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.560 just give you a headline. Let me explain why it's 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:42.800 not my preferred option. My preferred option would have been 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.640 a negotiated settlement. But let me explain why on the 0:15:46.640 --> 0:16:06.560 other side, why it's not the best choice. Draining the 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.800 swamp one a corrupt politician at a time. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.840 This is the Sean Hannity Show. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.560 So there is a proposed constitutional amendment vote in the 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.520 Commonwealth of Virginia today. It is the most you know, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:29.440 corrupt power grab, blatant power grab that I have seen 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.160 in modern history. Now, we do know Democrats. They don't 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.720 want integrity in our elections. They don't want simple things 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.440 like proof of citizenship. They don't want voter i D. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.960 You know, if you want integrity and elections, you have 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.080 voter i D, signature verification, chain of custody, controls for 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.200 mail in ballots. I think you should limit mail in ballots. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.280 I think early voting should be only for people on 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:57.640 a need to have basis. You need updated voter roles, 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.840 and you need partisan observers that would want the voting 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.280 all day, in the vote counting all night, and then 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.560 we'd have confidence in results. Both Democrats and Republicans have 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:13.240 complained bitterly after certain electoral losses. Now the question is 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:19.120 jerry mandering, and they put this constitutional amendment on the ballot. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.040 People are voting today in Virginia. If you're listening, I 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.400 hope you're paying very close attention. And here's how they 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:31.160 write this question. Could the Constitution of Virginia be amended 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:37.400 to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:43.399 districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections while ensuring 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:49.480 Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:53.240 the twenty thirty census. Oh, it sounds fair, right, I mean, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:57.560 we have to restore fairness. The way this thing is 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.280 worded is the most abuse usily corrupt and partisan wording 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.359 you can ever imagine. Because what the net result of 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.919 this is is a power crap. We heard James Carvill 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.080 and we played it yesterday. James Carvill says Democrats get 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.040 controlled the House, the Senate, and the presidency. He wants 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:19.760 d C statehood, Puerto Rico statehood, and he wants to 0:18:19.800 --> 0:18:23.399 pack the US Supreme Court. Okay, when it comes to elections. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.480 Democrats don't want the Save Act, they don't want proof 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.159 of citizenship, they don't even want voter ID. If you 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.640 want to go to a Democratic national convention, you need 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.960 multiple IDs with your picture on it, and you have 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.520 to stop at multiple locations. I know because I've been 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.119 to the last number of them. But you need it 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.399 for everything else that you buy. Everywhere else you go 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.240 to drive a car, etc. To get a pack of cigarettes, 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.200 if you smoke, to get a six pack of Burea 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:51.199 or bottle of wine. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.119 That's simple. Anyway. 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.040 Joining us to weigh in on what the ramifications of 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.800 this in a second, but remember this would read district 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.159 in such a way. Donald Trump got forty six percent 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.120 of the vote in the last election, and a nex 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:10.639 result of this will be ten safe Democratic congressional seats 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.960 in the Commonwealth of Virginia only one safe Republican seat 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.800 in Virginia. This is a power grab and it's written 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.200 in such a corrupt way. I'm not sure if it'll pass, 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.879 you know, muster when it goes before courts. If it 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:27.479 were to pass, I hope it doesn't. 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:28.520 Anyway. 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.720 Joining us is the former governor Glenn Younkin is with US. Also, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.600 Jason Miaris is with US, former Attorney General of Virginia. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.720 I wish these guys were still there. Governor Youngkin, Let's 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:43.120 start with you on the wording of this. I can't 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.359 think of anything a more corrupt way to write up 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.119 a constitutional amendment proposal. 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.920 No, it's incredibly deceptive, Sean, And in fact, the Washington 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.359 Post even said that it's brazenly dishonest. And we have 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.040 heard from voter after voter, by the way, Republican voters, 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.080 but independent and even Democrat voters that are just flat confused. 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.840 And as a result, this election, which we could solve 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:12.720 today with enough people coming out today and voting no. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.120 But at the end of the day, this has been 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:21.720 a corrupt process from the beginning. The constitutionally mandated way 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:27.040 of a constitution amendment, they violated our state code, and 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:29.760 they've done it all in order to try to deceive 0:20:30.040 --> 0:20:33.120 voters into voting for something that they don't understand. That's 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:36.520 just fundamentally wrong. It's an American and Virginians can't stand it. 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.480 And that's why Abigail Spamberger is the least popular governor 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.120 in modern modern Virginian history. But I saw pol last 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.600 week that had her rated as possibly the least popular 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.520 government America because voters she lied to them. She told 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.680 them that she had no interest in redistricting, and now 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.440 all of a sudden, the first piece of legislation, legislation 0:20:54.520 --> 0:21:00.000 she signs, is in fact redistricting Virginia in this corrupt, underhand, 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.359 the deceptive way, and they're trying to trick Virginians, and 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.560 Virginians hopefully you are going to stand up today. We 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.760 need a huge turnout in order to say no, we. 0:21:08.680 --> 0:21:15.680 Will not be lied to any anecdotal information regarding turnout 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:16.840 in the right locations. 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.440 Well, it sounds like from early voting the data would 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:25.240 suggest that there was a strong turnout in our red counties, 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:29.800 and today it sounds like there is again good turnout 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:32.200 in our red counties. But Sean, we had an uphill 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.720 battle to begin with. We knew it, and I will 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.880 tell you Jason Miarz, who's on the line with us, 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.439 our former attorney general, who by the way, battled every 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:42.919 day in our courts in order to stand up for 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:47.359 free and fair elections, has done a masterful job canvassing 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:50.240 Virginia with me. We've had the best time listening to 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.119 voters and straighten them out because they were confused by this, 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.280 by this deceptive practice. And Jason, you've been on the 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:57.919 road today as well. What you seen What have you 0:21:57.960 --> 0:21:59.800 been seeing out at the precincts? 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:02.520 Well, I mean, listen, I think we have seen an 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:08.600 uptick of rural Virginia because rural Virginia voters are being disenfranchised. Sean, 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:11.960 if this goes through, fifty six counties in Virginia will 0:22:12.000 --> 0:22:15.600 effectively have no voice in Congress because they're going to 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.520 be replaced by Northern Virginia Liberals. If this goes through, 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:22.560 you're going to have five districts that you're going to 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.080 have five congressmen all live within a fifteen mile radius 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:29.440 of each other in Northern Virginia. That's not fair. That's 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:32.400 not democracy. It's not democracy. When forty eight point five 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.080 percent of Virginians voted for a Republican to represent them 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:38.080 in Congress and leave them a nine percent of the vote, 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.159 you know, the Party of Democracy is right now trying 0:22:42.200 --> 0:22:46.320 to disenfranchise millions of Virginia voters, rural voters and rural counties. 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:48.320 And so I think that's why you're saying that. But 0:22:48.359 --> 0:22:52.200 to the Governor's point, it is a brazenly dishonest ballot question. 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:56.240 It is confusing. Oh, it's just talking to somebody this morning. 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:59.240 I don't think it's confusing. Jason, with all due respect, 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:01.560 I think this is just outright lying full. 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.000 Yeah, it's deceitful that they thought a yes vote meant 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:07.040 they were going to stop gerrymandering, and so we've seen that. 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.879 But I do think this is a moment that we 0:23:10.000 --> 0:23:12.679 need to defeat this today. But if not, the Virginia 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:14.560 Supreme Court needs to do its job. As governor, you 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:14.960 can have. 0:23:14.960 --> 0:23:19.000 Said, well, you're familiar with the court. I mean, worst 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:21.240 case scenario, I know the best case scenario would be 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:24.960 and the preferable option would be that the people of 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:27.439 the Virginia get out and huge numbers and vote. Know 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.520 today that would be don't go along with this scheme, 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:35.200 this power grab by Abigail Spamberger and Democrats in Virginia 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:39.440 because they want to basically disenfranchise any Republican even though 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.119 Donald Trump got forty six percent of the vote and 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:44.520 your last governor is on the line here with us, 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:47.879 Glenn Youngkin. So they want to disenfranchise half the state 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:52.080 and they want ten safe Democratic congressional seats, only one 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.879 safe Republican seat. That would disenfranchise ninety percent of the state. 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:01.199 Yeah, yeah, it would. In the reality is, you know, 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:03.560 I know, the courts have at times been reluctant to 0:24:03.560 --> 0:24:07.159 get involved in what they views at political fight a canley. 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:10.280 By not getting involved, that's being seen as that they 0:24:10.280 --> 0:24:12.320 are taking sides in a political fight when they just 0:24:12.320 --> 0:24:15.040 got to call balls and strikes. As the governor noted, 0:24:15.080 --> 0:24:18.959 they violated the law. There's numerous legal deficiencies of what 0:24:19.040 --> 0:24:22.040 they did. It's not a close call. And listen, Virginias 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.600 haven't changed. In twenty twenty, they voted by a thirty 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.240 point landslide saying you know what, we don't want politicians 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:29.879 to be the party drawing these lines. We are going 0:24:29.920 --> 0:24:32.000 to go potentially from one of the fairest maps in 0:24:32.040 --> 0:24:34.159 the country to one of the most gerrymanderd maps in 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:36.679 the country. That's not Virginia. And that's I think to 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:40.000 the Governor's point. There's a reason why Abigail Spamberger is 0:24:41.200 --> 0:24:43.920 the least popular governor in Moann Virginia history. There's never 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:46.320