WEBVTT - 2/25/26: BP Team REACTS Trump SOTU: Iran, Data Centers, Immigration 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.720 Hey, guys, Saga and Crystal. 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:04.680 Here, independent media just played a truly massive role in 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.480 this election, and we are so excited about what that 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:08.720 means for the future of the show. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.719 This is the only place where you can find honest 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:13.280 perspectives from the left and the right that simply does 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:14.640 not exist anywhere else. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.080 So if that is something that's important to you, please 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.599 go to Breakingpoints dot com. 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Crystal informed him that look crazy. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.879 Everyone is crazier, so he made it even more musky. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:49.960 All right, So that was what did we clock in 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:51.560 at our fifty Yeah. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:52.239 Calling it you know. 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.960 Actually the threat was sort of effective because it's some 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.560 inspecations for going to a midnight So when he wrapped 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.280 up abruptly at eleven PMO. 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.000 Yeah, like, okay, all right, it's not so not so 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:06.080 bad overall, purpose very long speech. However, it's easily going 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.200 to be the longest State of the Union probably in 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.240 American history, at least in terms of the one that 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.800 has been delivered. Lots of stuff that eventually came up. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:19.520 Started off largely on economics, transition to an Olympic love vest, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.880 for about ten minutes there on hockey, and then very 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.479 typical of what we warned about on State of the Union, 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.679 a lot of box checking. Everything was bullet points. You 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.160 had the immigration section, you had voter ID, there was 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:33.360 some stuff on foreign policy. We're going to start with 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.760 that there in a second. Then kind of wrapping it up, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.360 lots of metals. The sound guy here he goes, is it. 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.839 Normal to hand out so many medals in a State 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.440 of the Union. Were like, no, it's not normal. 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.679 But you know, fifty of the speech was like various awards. 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.160 A very large percent of the speech was handing out I'm. 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:51.840 Gonna make sure I'm gonna make an annoying point. 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.680 Have you followed the Withering Heights discourse about how it's a. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.200 Movie for BP You got, yeah, yeah, okay. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.000 It's a movie for TikTok. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:03.920 I mean you're stringing all of these scenes together because 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.080 you want them to become part of the clip universe. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.840 Okay, that's what say the unions. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.880 Are now because you're trying to check a box for 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.600 every different cohort and then you know it's going to 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:14.760 get targeted in this place, in this place, in this place. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.760 And so that's why the speeches, I think, at least 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.600 from Trump's perspective, are getting longer, because then you have 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.320 more like you can put the metal softly. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.280 I like that point a lot. That's it's not even. 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:27.120 Really meant to be right, to be consumed as all cohesive. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:27.519 Yeah. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.160 I kind of confirmed it also with somebody with. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.959 Oh really, see that's actually very interesting. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.120 It actually makes it helps because you know, watching it 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:35.680 in full, you're like, oh my god. 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.280 Man, please, But I mean, none of that was really 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:40.880 super Yeah. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:41.440 There were no moments. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.520 I mean, we we grab some clips, we'll show you 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.840 some clips, but there was really literally nothing that I 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.079 was like, oh, that's going to be right, that's. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.040 Nothing super interesting. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.360 But he got his hockey moment, he had his Arina 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.000 z Ritzka's parents, he had all of the different veterans 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:56.480 that those will go into the veterans. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.440 If you asked me what those most viral from that speeches, 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.080 probably hockey, right. Also because totistically people only well, let's 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.040 think timing people are our fifty. The vast majority of 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:06.880 people who watch, it's only going to be the first 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.720 fifteen to twenty minutes before thirty. 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:12.520 Know, Like I mean, I guess it's like sort of 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.239 a controversy. But the things that usually go viral is 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:16.160 where there's some sort of. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.960 Oh, I didn't mean controversy. I mean because people were like, oh, great, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:21.600 the hockey team is there. That's really all. 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.720 It was heckled by Ilhan Omar and then I'm treamed 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:26.640 in and said you should be ashamed of yourself. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.000 That will probably be she yelled at him about Epstein. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.600 We'll get to it. We don't have that clip exactly, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.880 but by far what we were all looking for going 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.560 into the speech was Iran, and we got a very 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:39.600 limited section on Iran. So we've gone ahead and pulled it. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.800 So control and please cube that up. As I lead 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.760 into it, there was some expectations, some speculation. People were worried, 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.200 oh my god, are we gonna announce that we're going 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:47.480 to war with Iran tonight. 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:48.600 That's not really how it worked. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.360 There was even some you know, I even thought I said, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.200 maybe it's going to lay out a deadline like a 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.720 declaration ultimatum of some kind. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.760 It was extremely generic. 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.320 She's saying that Iran has not yet said the sacred 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.320 words that they will not pursue a nuclear weapon. Not true, 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.320 which Ryan will debunk on the other side. But guys, 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.120 if we can go ahead and play at the iron 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.160 section from the speech, and then we'll react on the 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:11.800 other side. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.920 As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.360 I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.440 we must. That's why, in a breakthrough operation last yearn 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:29.320 the United States military obliterated Rand's nuclear weapons program with 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:33.880 an attack on a Radian soil known as Operation Midnight Hammer. 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.960 After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:45.200 attempts to rebuild their weapons program, in a particular nuclear weapons. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:49.560 Yet they continue starting it all over. We wiped it out, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.840 and they want to start all over again, and at 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:57.120 this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions. We are in 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.560 negotiations with them. They want to make a deal, but 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.760 we haven't. We heard those secret words. We will never 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.800 have a nuclear weapon. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:09.640 So a couple of things they're saying after midnight hammer 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.359 that they have tried to restart their program. No evidence 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.360 of that, literally whatsoever? You know, let's where's the DNI. 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.640 Are they even going to trot out some fake intel? 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.239 And then Ryan, if you want to redo your fact 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.040 check on that latter part, perhaps you can right now. 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:28.360 So foreign ministers say at Arakchi today, yeah, literally today 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:31.080 before the speech actually, so they could have included this 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:36.440 if they wanted to. Arachi said, quote, our fundamental convictions 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:41.599 are crystal clear colon. Iran will under no circumstances ever 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.840 develop a nuclear weapon. Now, when it comes to like 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:50.920 diplomatics speak, oftentimes they try to leave some like wiggle 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:56.800 room for interpretation. But Iran will, under no circumstances ever 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.600 develop a nuclear weapon. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.760 Rights, not a lot of not a lot of wiggle room. 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.160 Bear, It's like, what else do we want? 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:03.520 You know? 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.000 I mean they put it on official letterhead and have 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.040 the Ayatola sign it. Then then but of course we 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.239 all know then the goalposts will. Oh, but they didn't 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.760 address ballistic missiles. But they didn't address the what else? Oh, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.440 they didn't address regional proc which is fake. It's like, yeah, 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.039 which regional proxy we're talking about? Syria were talking about Lebanon, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.000 which water commanding. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.400 So this this is definitely the first time in American 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:30.359 history that a president has declared victory and celebrated his 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:35.279 achievement of annihilating a foe at the same time that 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.119 he's promising to re annihilate fo true. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.279 Have you seen the White House press release going around 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:43.640 about how it back in June after midnight hammer Emily 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:49.560 where they're like Iranian nuclear facilities obliterated. Any any speculation 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.120 that it's wasn't true is insult. 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:54.640 Yeah, to the White House. 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.200 I was gonna say a little bit of breaking news, 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.000 not on arambat on Venezuela. I just got a statement 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.160 from a War Department of official because I asked them 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:06.400 about it yesterday's Yeah, well, I was told I was 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:08.120 told I could attribute it to a War Department of 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.600 so on Venezuela. I had asked who they targeted yesterday specifically. 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:14.200 Now they had a. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.880 Big guest come out Venezuela. Wise in the middle of 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.360 the State of the Union, made a big deal about it. Uh, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.280 they will not tell me what group was targeted yesterday. 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.800 They're setting quote uquote operations security in the boat or 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.040 on land or the land or the boat strike yesterday. 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.120 So this gets to us to Iran. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.080 You have this contradiction of we annihilated the nuclear site 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.520 and yet now we need to strike Iran again. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.080 And the same thing with Venezuela. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.640 We have annihilated the threat of Maduro who is directing 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:48.840 Trenda Arragua, and the director running the country says, to 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.400 protect operations security in our forces, we will not discuss 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.720 specific groups, targets. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:54.520 Orgolog By the way, Trump in his State of the 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.080 Union called Venezuela new friend and partner. So we are 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:00.400 now bombing our new friends, bombing our new and part 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.239 of the Kilda morele like, just again, the Iran section 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:05.920 of this is going to be the most important, and 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.000 it was incredibly vague. There was no time that was 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.360 added to it. The post about the so called claim 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.600 around they haven't said the sacred words. It's like, again, 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.600 I don't know what else could happen here, but this 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:19.120 is going to. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.400 Be very disappointed that the case wasn't made right. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.400 Well, if people did not watch are pre Coosh, if 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.560 people did not watch our pre show into the State 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.000 of the Union, there was this pathetic effort by Mark 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.480 Warner and Senator Chuck Schumer, who were like, oh, well, 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.520 a lot of crazy stuff, said the president really needs 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.760 to make his case to the American people. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.640 It came, I mean, I don't have the time stamp. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.000 What was an hour fifteen, probably so far into the 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:43.760 vast majority of. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:44.880 People had already turned it off. 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.800 Only professional news folks like us are even watching there 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.560 at that point barely, I mean almost a minute maybe 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.440 on Iran I would say ninety seconds, fifteen to twenty 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.200 seconds there on the Russian and Ukraine war. It was 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.120 minuscule I think in terms of the I'm actual part 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:02.240 of this speech, but it was. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.439 The number one thing that we were all looking for. 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.920 So unfortunately we can't really add a ton of commentary, 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.160 so accepted to say what he's what he's claiming is 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:09.960 not really true. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:11.720 So in terms of his demand. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.880 So this this martyr made post that came out, yeah, 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.959 three or four hours ago. What can we so this 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:24.800 is what's his name, Daryl like huge podcaster? He what 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:27.480 can we make of this? Can we talk about this 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:27.800 at all? 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:29.440 Like? Yeah, it's public? 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:30.800 I mean, how to pull up? 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:31.760 Here's what he said? 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.120 He said, Trump has been quartered his options as he 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.080 sees them, are to start a war with Iran on 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:39.360 something like our own terms, or to be dragged into 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.760 it at a time in the manner of Israel's choosing, 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.760 the third option, telling Israel to fight their own war, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:46.679 is not on the table because he believes that if 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:51.240 he does that Israel will use nuclear weapons and he 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.160 and members of his family will be in physical danger. 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.120 I'm not totally sure why these two things are tied together, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.160 but anyway, The rest of the post says the military 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.640 build up has had three purposes. First, he hoped that 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.400 Iran would capitulate and submit to an agreement strong enough 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.200 to calm the Israelis down for the time being fanciful. Second, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.640 to have enough forces to deal with the fallout if 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.720 Israel attacks and Iran retali it's against American bases and allies. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:16.880 And finally, to potentially strike first and at least be 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.240 able to control the first phase of combat. The talk 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:22.040 of limited strikes reflects his hope that Aron can be 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.439 intimidated into buckling because Trump generally does not want war. 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:26.199 That's where we're at. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.080 I've never prayed for a politician or government before, but 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.160 I prayed for Trump for the first time. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.400 Innstry you should too. So that's what he's saying based 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:33.000 on whoever. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:35.760 He is obviously close to Tcker Carl Soon. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.200 Yeah, yeah, you know. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.840 Look what I will say is I heard something similar 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.280 in terms of what Donald I mean, Look, I alluded 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.480 to it earlier in our show Crystal, is that Israel's 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.560 fundamentally in control of the dynamic. When we talk about 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.800 the Pentagon will deep frustration with the United State, of 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.120 the deep frustration within the White House right now. And 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.800 again I'm not excusing this, I'm explaining kind of the 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.600 view is well, Israel may do it or not, and 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.240 if they do it, then we're going to get sucked in, 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.439 so we might as try well try to control the dynamic. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.600 But what this ignores, what happens if you this is 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.360 the problem, is that it ignores and the third option, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.800 the actual option, which is, hey, tell Israel not to 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.520 do it and decide that we're going to get them up. 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.320 Say hey, if you do like, we're not going to 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:18.880 continue to sell you weapons. We are not going to 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.520 be there to make sure that you don't get hit 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.640 when there is Iranian retaliation. I mean, the threat of 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:29.080 nukes here is so insane, and let's keep in mind, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.920 like Israel doesn't, you know, supposed to be still a 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.679 secret that they have nuclear weapons. But there's all this 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.199 concern about Iran getting a nuclear weapon, Like you have 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.320 this psychoerogue regime in Middle East already that is supposed 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.839 to be our client state, and they're out here basically 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.320 like low key threatening US that they're going to start 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:48.600 some sort of nuclear conflagration if they don't. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:48.880 Get their way. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.440 So I don't think we should ignore in that State 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.760 of the Union speech that Trump literally said Iran is 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.920 trying to create an ICBM capable of hitting the United States. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.120 I know we're living in a poster like can we 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.839 get some evidence of that at all, because that would actually, 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:01.160 you know. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.440 Be a game changer. No, it's fake, right, it's literally 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.520 made up? Is that? Oh they had regional ballistic missile threats? 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:08.040 He set Europe in our bases. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.840 I think we all know who he's talking about whenever 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.800 it comes to regional But they're trying to frame it 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.880 very Irock War style of like, oh, well, first it's 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.000 Europe and our but now. 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.079 They're developing this in what did Steve what Cough say. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.120 They're weeks away from an industrial grade bomb which, as 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.640 our producer Mac points out, isn't literally every state bomb 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.040 and industrial grade bomb, like he can't create a bomb. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.040 He was using the wrong term, which goes to your 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.120 point about like not having like not remotely experts, like 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.800 using basic terms wrong. I'm not an expert, but no, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.079 industrial is not the right term. The weapons grade is 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:41.760 what he's trying to And of. 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.480 Course the goalpost in June was absolutely had to do 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.400 this because of their nuclear capacity. It was specifically the 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:50.960 threat of nuclear imminence coming from Irong. 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.079 So this is it's in disagreement with their own argument 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:54.400 in June. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.880 Yeah, and when he says that his family would be 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:02.080 at risk, I feel like that's code for his family 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.360 is vulnerable on a lot of levels. When it comes 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.280 to that, you could expose things about the more they have, 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.680 like business relationships that could be jeopardized. I don't think 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.040 that Israel is going to go out and kill them, Like, 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.360 I just don't. I'm sorry, that's that's not like, Yeah, but. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.920 If I had told you Israel would nuke them, like, dude, 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.839 there is a serious part. There's a serious thought here 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.280 in Washington that they actually would that they really would 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.560 use I mean considering what has now happened with Gaza. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.240 Now the gloves are so at seven countries models in 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:32.199 two years. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.480 Say in different things, Oh, okay, you're totally bought into 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.520 the idea they would new Gharan. Oh you don't believe 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.920 they would assassinate Trump and his family. However, this is 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.360 where the Epstein files kind of a play, don't they. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.880 I mean, this is the thing, This is why this 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.040 the revel What we the little bit we know is 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.960 so important to understand, Like what do the Israelis know? 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.320 What is Trump think the Israeli's no, what is he 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.600 concerned about? Because we can say without a shadow of 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.800 a doubt that he is worried about what is in 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.680 these files in their entirety. Look at the treatment of 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.760 Glene Maxwell getting moved in the club veed or getting 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.440 a puppy and treating the warden like her bitch. He 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.439 is worried about some things that are in there, and 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.720 he has to assume the Israelis know about that. So 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.160 when some of these pieces don't add up of like okay, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.280 well if they attack Iron, why are we getting sucked 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.000 into it? And how does this put you in danger? 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.160 You have to put the Epstein factor into that as well. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.800 Yeah, I mean not just but that business, like you 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.600 just said, the business relationships of everything. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.080 I mean, because they're not independent. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.120 These are all non in Yeah, exactly, not exactly independent. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.960 I don't want to get too far down the around rabbit, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:39.600 but I still believe, I mean, this is the number 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.640 one most important part in the. 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:42.880 Story in the entire country. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.960 And yeah, even within the state of the if anything, 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:48.160 actually not having a State of the Union. There was 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.720 no flagship proposal, right, there was really it was really 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.600 it was a lot of box checking and if you 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.840 guys want, we can turn to the economy. The first 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.760 fifteen minutes or so was basically a retread the greatest 0:14:58.800 --> 0:14:59.680 economy in history. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.160 I have ware great and. 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.040 Up and roaring economy is roaring like never before. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:11.360 Right, mortgage rates, new construction jobs, largest taxis affordability. They 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.960 said caused and created. They said, Democrats caused and created 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.240 the prices. You caused that problem. We did pick up 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.520 though that. The White House is obviously very you know zoom, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:24.120 They're very paying attention, I think to some of the 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.280 populous issues that we've highlighted here in our show, and 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.040 there were three of them, all in a row data centers. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:33.160 Number one, two was stock ban, and three was about 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:37.840 banning these private equity groups from owning large swats of housing. 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.560 So we actually have a clip here on data centers. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.120 It was kind of the more populous section, if you will, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:44.040 of the State of the Union. 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:44.920 Let's take a listen. 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.800 Many Americans are also concerned that energy demand from AI 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:54.000 data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.640 Tonight, I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.680 new rate payer protection. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:01.160 You know what that is. 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.040 We're telling the major tech companies that they have the 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.680 obligation to provide for their own power needs. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.120 They can build their own power plants as part of their. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.080 Factory so that no one's prices will go up, and 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.400 in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.280 the community, and very substantially down. This is a unique 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.960 strategy never used in this country before. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:25.880 We have an old grid that could never. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:29.520 Handle the kind of numbers, the amount of electricity that's needed. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.280 So I'm telling them they can build their own plant. 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.480 They're going to produce their own electricity. It will ensure 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.280 the company's ability to get electricity well at the same 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.960 time lowering prices of electricity for you and could be 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:45.920 very substantial for all of you cities and towns. You're 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:48.120 going to see some good things happen over the next 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:48.960 number of years. 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.080 By the way, that was clearly that was immediately followed 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.600 by the private equity discussion and then by the Congressional 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.360 stock brate trading ban, all issues that have been bubbling 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:01.760 up online now as usual, devil's in the details. 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:02.720 Is it going to happen? 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.760 This is a rate pledge allegedly privately agreed to by companies. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.479 Where's the fact sheet? Are they actually going to do it? 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.040 Is this going to be national policy? 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:11.440 Now? 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.040 Part of the what have we learned about the data 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.560 center fight? Data centers is a state and a local issue. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.960 Is every state in local locality actually going to be 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:18.840 able to agree with this? 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:19.160 Right? 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:22.439 So I'm very doubtful that this will actually become national policy. 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.200 But for me, this is a reminder that they can 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.879 see some of the writing on the wall. And despite 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.200 the first fifteen minutes or so, which was very much 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.800 like we're in the roaring economy, everything is Biden's fault. 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.280 That was a mid term section where they're like we 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.280 need to reclaim. But let's some ground here. There was 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.120 no credit card interest rate cap, which I did take 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:38.440 notice of. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.159 That interesting, Yeah, let's talk about whether that was actually 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.960 good politics or whether this guy is living in a bubble. So, Crystal, 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.399 you live in a rural area, come to royal people 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:47.879 and say, you know what, I want to build a 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.480 data center. People like Now you come to them, say 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.400 I want to build a data center and right next 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:56.679