Speaker 1: It is Monday, June the twenty third. This is the morning.
Speaker 2: It has been an eventful weekend in the United States,
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump and Champagne Pete Hegsath ordering the United
Speaker 2: States Air Force to attack three Iranian nuclear facilities with
Speaker 2: a sortee of more than one hundred and twenty five warplanes.
Speaker 2: It has become fashionable all of a sudden for media
Speaker 2: reporters who couldn't tell the difference between a captain and
Speaker 2: a lieutenant colonel, a United States Marine and a soldier,
Speaker 2: to cite with joy and smiles the power of the
Speaker 2: GBU fifty seven A and B massive ordnance penetrator, of
Speaker 2: which there were reportedly twenty in the American arsenal until
Speaker 2: this week, where we are now down to eight after
Speaker 2: Halving dropped twelve.
Speaker 1: Of them on Iran.
Speaker 2: Now, the reaction to the attacks has ranged from the
Speaker 2: surreal to the ludicrous, but none top this from the
Speaker 2: editors of Barry Weiss's The Free Press, at the end
Speaker 2: of their editorial celebrating the dropping of bombs on Iran. Again,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's a single editor that could tell
Speaker 2: us what the strategy is, what the plan is, what
Speaker 2: victory looks like. Or what comes next, and we'll talk
Speaker 2: about that in the minute.
Speaker 1: But first the surreal conclusion.
Speaker 2: To the cheerleading essay, the editorial by the Free Press,
Speaker 2: let me read one final point.
Speaker 1: During Donald Trump's first term.
Speaker 2: His critics often noted how lucky it was for the
Speaker 2: US that he didn't face the serious foreign policy crisis.
Speaker 2: Their assumption is that he would be in over his
Speaker 2: head and act irrationally. More recently, Wall Street coined the
Speaker 2: acronym Taco Trump always chickens out. That's the opposite of
Speaker 2: what happened on Saturday night. No matter what you think
Speaker 2: of Trump's policies on immigration, tariffs, or anything else, there
Speaker 2: is only one adjective to describe his action in this crisis, presidential.
Speaker 2: There are no words to describe the ludicrousness of that statement. First,
Speaker 2: there is a prerequisite required for any commander in chief
Speaker 2: to send American men and women into harm's way, and
Speaker 2: that's some semblance of moral authority beyond the statutory authority.
Speaker 2: And so at the end of the day, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: is a liar who can be trusted with nothing about anything,
Speaker 2: but with regard to the specifics of the attack, was
Speaker 2: it presidential to come out immediately before all of the
Speaker 2: information was known, and declare that the attack was a
Speaker 2: complete success.
Speaker 1: Let's watch Trump do.
Speaker 3: It here tonight. I can report to the world that
Speaker 3: the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear
Speaker 3: and Richmond facilities have been completely and totally obliterated around
Speaker 3: the bully of the Middle East must now make peace.
Speaker 3: If they do not, future attacks would be far greater
Speaker 3: and a lot easier.
Speaker 1: And are these truth social posts? Are they presidential?
Speaker 2: And what about the Secretary of Defense, a man who
Speaker 2: put classified war plans onto an unclassified group chat now
Speaker 2: ordering American men and women into harms way a presidential
Speaker 2: fanboy of the ten star variety. Let's watch Champagne Pete
Speaker 2: Hegsath do his best ass licking that there is in America.
Speaker 4: Many presidents have deamed of delivering the final blow to
Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear program, and none could until President Trump. The
Speaker 4: operation President Trump planned was bold and it was brilliant,
Speaker 4: showing the world that American deterrence is back. When this
Speaker 4: president speaks, the world should listen.
Speaker 2: Of course, the great presidential decision and its impact is
Speaker 2: immediately refuted by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, who,
Speaker 2: according to Trump, was picked because Trump liked the cut
Speaker 2: of his jib wearing the red Maga hat, which the
Speaker 2: General denies. At least in this instance, the General seems
Speaker 2: to understand that he needs to maintain some credibility. Now,
Speaker 2: Marco Rubio and the Vice President and the Secretary of
Speaker 2: Defense all went on the Sunday shows and they said
Speaker 2: absolutely that regime change was.
Speaker 1: Not the goal.
Speaker 2: And Iran, according to the Vice President, this was an
Speaker 2: act of war against the nuclear reactors.
Speaker 1: But of course that.
Speaker 2: Held up for a couple of hours before that great
Speaker 2: President of ours undermined all of those people from his
Speaker 2: administration in the top national security jobs when he said,
Speaker 2: in fact, miga make Iran great again. And so it
Speaker 2: comes to be that one hundred and fifty seven days
Speaker 2: into the administration that was supposed to end foreign entanglements,
Speaker 2: that was supposed to end the foreign wars, that the
Speaker 2: United States has dropped twelve of the twenty massive ordinance
Speaker 2: penetrators in its arsenal on Iran, a country that Field
Speaker 2: Marshall ted Cruz has no idea how many people live
Speaker 2: in or their ethnic makeup. And so here we are
Speaker 2: again the question about the Iranian nuclear program a straightforward.
Speaker 2: This evil regime cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: But according to the Trump administration, the Iranians had no
Speaker 2: imminent threat of building a weapon. The Israelis claimed that
Speaker 2: the threat was imminent that contradicted American intelligence. And when
Speaker 2: the Israelis struck the Iranian reactors, the Israeli government said
Speaker 2: the strike was decisive and the reactors were destroyed, which
Speaker 2: does beg the question if they were destroyed in the
Speaker 2: first strike by the Israelis, why did Donald Trump have
Speaker 2: to send one hundred and twenty five airplanes and just
Speaker 2: saying it seems that the one thing this attack shared
Speaker 2: with the Israeli attack was the quick draw to declare
Speaker 2: it a success before any of the assessments were done.
Speaker 2: According to The New York Times, it may be the
Speaker 2: case that the highly enriched use uranium was quartered away
Speaker 2: from the Mountain reactor site in the days before the attack. Now,
Speaker 2: the Iranians have used this nuclear program as a bargaining check,
Speaker 2: but wouldn't the lesson be for the Iranians if the
Speaker 2: program was not completely destroyed. Did they better do everything
Speaker 2: they can to get their hands on a nuclear warhead
Speaker 2: as quickly as possible to immunize themselves from attack.
Speaker 1: So if it is the worst case.
Speaker 2: That the regime has not been toppled and the program
Speaker 2: has not been destroyed, what next. The Iranians might still
Speaker 2: have the highly enriched uranium. They certainly still have the
Speaker 2: knowledge there are lots of mountains in Iran.
Speaker 1: The cheerleading on.
Speaker 2: A military attack within twenty five years time of the
Speaker 2: same people cheerleading the beginning of the last Middle Eastern
Speaker 2: War is astonishing. The one thing that should be perfectly
Speaker 2: clear to every American where they sit is it's a
Speaker 2: lot easier to start a war than to end one.
Speaker 1: And Don Junior and Eric and none.
Speaker 2: Of these people will be parachuting into Tehran. Of course,
Speaker 2: the people that will, one day, like the veterans who
Speaker 2: fought in the Iraq War, can look forward to their veterans'
Speaker 2: benefits being cut as the VA is closed down, as
Speaker 2: the promise is made, are broken again.
Speaker 1: And so here we go again.
Speaker 2: The most dis honest group of political leaders, the most incompetent,
Speaker 2: the most extreme, the people that have deployed the United
Speaker 2: States Marine Corps, the seventh Marines, the Guadalcanal Marines, with
Speaker 2: their M four slum and.
Speaker 1: Live ammunition issued.
Speaker 2: According to the Free Press, have acted presidentially to use
Speaker 2: the military to bomb a foreign nation, while simultaneously components
Speaker 2: of that military face forward the American people in a
Speaker 2: government of the people, by.
Speaker 1: The people, for the people.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed very presidential. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.