Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / K.T. McFarland | Former Deputy National Security Advisor Reluctantly Implies We're Stuck in Iran
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Look I say it again, and Katie's going to be
- 0:02Speaker 1: joined me in a second. A lot of very small
- 0:04Speaker 1: people smarter than me. I'm not that smart. I did
- 0:06Speaker 1: sports for seventeen years, but.
- 0:09Speaker 2: I might about just about everything. And the war.
- 0:12Speaker 1: I've been right the whole way, the whole way. I
- 0:15Speaker 1: loved Midnight Hammer was great. We basically ruined e Don's chance.
- 0:20Speaker 1: So building a weapon, then that was it. Right then
- 0:22Speaker 1: and there knocked out their central fugurees and so I
- 0:25Speaker 1: need it, really But I was good with Operation Epic Fury.
- 0:27Speaker 2: I liked it. Wiped out forty of their big leaders.
- 0:30Speaker 2: I call me and.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Others, but I've been making the argument for months, months,
- 0:35Speaker 1: yelling and screaming. I guess on this show, people at
- 0:38Speaker 1: my station smarter than me, that we've won nothing. Nothing,
- 0:43Speaker 1: there's thing's a mess. We've been stuck for the better
- 0:47Speaker 1: part of two and a half months.
- 0:49Speaker 2: Stuck. No, no, no, no, no.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Look at this number. Look at that number. Now, look
- 0:55Speaker 1: at the numbers. All I've been saying is wipe them out.
- 0:59Speaker 1: We had that opportunity of a couple of months ago.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Now.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Trump's a nice guy. I know that I love Donald Trump.
- 1:03Speaker 1: I love him dearly, and that's who he is. He
- 1:06Speaker 1: doesn't want to kill innocent people. But you can't get
- 1:10Speaker 1: into a war with people like this without doing it,
- 1:14Speaker 1: and you can't win until you do. So let's stop
- 1:18Speaker 1: the nonsense about the Dow Jones and oil prices.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Stop it. Oil prices, guess what?
- 1:24Speaker 1: Back to one hundred bucks a barrel gas over four dollars.
- 1:28Speaker 1: American soldiers are dying, and we're about to be on
- 1:31Speaker 1: the brink once again of all out war. So, like
- 1:34Speaker 1: I said, and I've been saying, we won nothing. We
- 1:38Speaker 1: don't win until we wipe out a whole bunch of
- 1:40Speaker 1: that IRGC. That's the win, not just the dust, not
- 1:44Speaker 1: just the straight If these people are still there, nothing
- 1:48Speaker 1: changes every peace proposal they laugh at.
- 1:53Speaker 2: So I've been right all along.
- 1:54Speaker 1: I'm sorry I have been, And now Trump is doing
- 1:57Speaker 1: what he should have been doing, quite frankly to months ago.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Kat mcfallan, what do you think.
- 2:05Speaker 3: I am reluctantly coming to the same conclusion.
- 2:08Speaker 2: I know you are.
- 2:08Speaker 1: I know you reluctantly, but I've been begging you.
- 2:11Speaker 2: I've been hitting you over the head. Kat.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Why why are you get why why are you getting there?
- 2:18Speaker 3: Why are you getting there, because if you see what
- 2:21Speaker 3: they're willing to do, and how they're using this trait
- 2:24Speaker 3: up for Amos's weapon, how they're whatever revenues they are
- 2:28Speaker 3: getting from somewhere they're using to rebuild their nuclear program.
- 2:31Speaker 3: They're mister Arsenal, you realize that that this is what
- 2:35Speaker 3: would they do if they currently if they possess nuclear
- 2:38Speaker 3: weapons right now, I mean, they would use them. They
- 2:41Speaker 3: wouldn't just threaten.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I think so. I think so.
- 2:44Speaker 1: But that's why that's why I love Midnight Hammer. That's
- 2:48Speaker 1: why I'm good with Trump going in. He showed the
- 2:51Speaker 1: courage that the last six presidents should have shown. I'm
- 2:54Speaker 1: not mad at Trump. He did the right thing. What
- 2:57Speaker 1: I'm mad at is the last couple of months, who's
- 2:59Speaker 1: ever giving them information? And was that what making some
- 3:02Speaker 1: of those decisions? They messed up a lot, a lot kt.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Whatever however we got there were here, and so what
- 3:11Speaker 3: do you do next? And I'm looking at the numbers
- 3:14Speaker 3: of so how many are in the IRGC? What is
- 3:17Speaker 3: the Iranian the Arteesh, it's called well, their regular Iranian army,
- 3:22Speaker 3: not the Revolutionary Guard. But there's this second military, the Arteche,
- 3:26Speaker 3: that predates the Revolutionary Guard. They're about four hundred thousand
- 3:30Speaker 3: and they're a trained military and they're not as ideologically driven.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Maybe their top leadership here is more ideologically driven because
- 3:39Speaker 3: they're hand chosen, but the rest of them are not.
- 3:42Speaker 3: The IRGC is ideologically driven and they're maybe one hundred
- 3:45Speaker 3: and eighty thousand. So is there an alternative if there
- 3:49Speaker 3: is a leadership spot in Iran right now? And I
- 3:52Speaker 3: think there is. There's the guys who need to the
- 3:54Speaker 3: guys who are negotiating with I think they really do
- 3:57Speaker 3: want to deal because they know they have to run
- 3:58Speaker 3: the country. And you don't run the country of ninety
- 4:00Speaker 3: one million people. If you're going to be you know,
- 4:03Speaker 3: destitute for at the next generation, you need to have
- 4:06Speaker 3: intact by civilian infrastructure. You need to have intact and
- 4:10Speaker 3: energy infrastructure. That's the only way you're ever going to
- 4:12Speaker 3: make any money. So is there a way to drive
- 4:14Speaker 3: a wedge between them, and is there a way for
- 4:17Speaker 3: to say that, look, these are not good guys. They're
- 4:20Speaker 3: crazy and crazier. But the crazier are the ones that
- 4:22Speaker 3: I think we can't do with. And those are the
- 4:24Speaker 3: guys who are running the iris. You see, And so
- 4:26Speaker 3: we're now working as President Trump says, we got rid
- 4:28Speaker 3: of the first tier of those leaders, the second tier.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Now we're on the third tier. Well, you know what
- 4:33Speaker 3: about the twelfth tier. Is there somebody there who's willing
- 4:36Speaker 3: to make a deal, Because if if President Trump had
- 4:39Speaker 3: not done what he had done, Iran was going to
- 4:42Speaker 3: get nuclear weapons. Now, whether it was going to be
- 4:44Speaker 3: a month from now, a year from now, three years
- 4:46Speaker 3: from now, doesn't matter. They're going to get nuclear weapons, right,
- 4:49Speaker 3: and if they had nuclear weapons, they would use nuclear agreements.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I've got no issue with what Trump did. I really don't.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Again, I bout him courageous and gotty, and he did
- 4:57Speaker 1: the right thing. But there is execution that matters. And
- 5:00Speaker 1: you know, Brian killed me. He told me something this
- 5:02Speaker 1: morning which I liked. He said, you know, sometimes you
- 5:06Speaker 1: get into war, you have these issues with very bad people.
- 5:10Speaker 1: But you know what, very bad people, very bad will
- 5:15Speaker 1: occasionally make a deal. But irrational people irrational, right, whether
- 5:23Speaker 1: it's Putin or the Iranians. And I've been calling them
- 5:25Speaker 1: I rational from months and months. I said, you're wasting
- 5:30Speaker 1: your time. Kushner whit cough jd vance Trump, It's a
- 5:34Speaker 1: waste of time. They don't care if they die. They
- 5:37Speaker 1: certainly don't care if their civilians die.
- 5:40Speaker 2: They don't care.
- 5:41Speaker 1: They're going to fight this tooth and nail to the
- 5:43Speaker 1: very end. So if you're going to start it, well,
- 5:46Speaker 1: basically out.
- 5:47Speaker 3: Of options again. And I look at Jimas. Okay, so
- 5:51Speaker 3: you know we talked about Jimas. Hamas is a plague
- 5:54Speaker 3: on the Palestinian people for decades. They use their women
- 5:57Speaker 3: and children as human shields. They wanted to keep fighting,
- 6:00Speaker 3: care if the people got killed, because they believed in
- 6:02Speaker 3: their messianic cause.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Correct.
- 6:04Speaker 3: The only way we ultimately got rid of Hamas was Israel,
- 6:10Speaker 3: you know, did some careful assassinations of the top first, second, third,
- 6:14Speaker 3: fifth year of Hamas leadership and the golfingre of stuff
- 6:17Speaker 3: giving them money. So now we're are we in Gaza.
- 6:20Speaker 3: There's a gossip, peace planned. We're not talking about Hamas anymore.
- 6:24Speaker 3: Did that had been an intractable problem for fifty years,
- 6:28Speaker 3: and now it is on its way to solution, not clean,
- 6:31Speaker 3: not pretty, but it's getting there. Maybe the irs you
- 6:34Speaker 3: see is Hamas. Maybe they are the people that you
- 6:37Speaker 3: cannot reason with. Like you said, they're a messianic called
- 6:41Speaker 3: they'd far rather be murders than they would to have
- 6:44Speaker 3: any kind of a deal, and they're perfectly happy to
- 6:46Speaker 3: have ninety one million people go with them.
- 6:48Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, the worse than Hamas. You
- 6:51Speaker 1: know what they are, and we know this. This is
- 6:53Speaker 1: a fact that's not said Rosenbroke's opinion, because I could
- 6:57Speaker 1: produce financial data to prove it. They're Hamas, the houtis
- 7:02Speaker 1: Crisbola all wrapped up in one because they punned all
- 7:05Speaker 1: three of those groups, right.
- 7:08Speaker 3: So unfortunately, with the price of oil going up, they're
- 7:12Speaker 3: finding their way to getting more income. It's it's like,
- 7:14Speaker 3: you know, it's like a two to two age short. You
- 7:17Speaker 3: wanted price of world to go down because you bankrupt
- 7:20Speaker 3: those guys. You want the price of world to go
- 7:22Speaker 3: down because it obviously is good for the American academy
- 7:25Speaker 3: and President Trump is selectoral possibilities. But you're not going
- 7:28Speaker 3: to get the price of oil down until you've finished
- 7:31Speaker 3: this war.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Here's the other theory, but the price of oil.
- 7:35Speaker 1: And again, I hate conspiracy theorists, but I think I'm
- 7:39Speaker 1: becoming one as I'm getting older them because I told
- 7:41Speaker 1: you this too weeks ago, and I think it's true.
- 7:44Speaker 2: I think they're getting money. I think they are, and
- 7:46Speaker 2: I think we know about it. I do.
- 7:48Speaker 1: I think the Russians that broke but they got something.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Chinese I think they're getting I know they're getting weapons.
- 7:54Speaker 1: I know Iran is getting weapons from Russia, China and
- 7:57Speaker 1: other spots. I think they may have more weapons than
- 7:59Speaker 1: we do it this point.
- 8:03Speaker 3: Intelligence.
- 8:04Speaker 2: I think they're getting intelligence. I think they're getting weapons.
- 8:06Speaker 1: And I think there's an Arab country or too out
- 8:08Speaker 1: there giving them money. And if that's if I'm right,
- 8:12Speaker 1: and I've been right a lot the way here, if
- 8:14Speaker 1: I'm right, they're even more dangerous than we think and
- 8:16Speaker 1: the fight is not nearly over.
- 8:18Speaker 2: If I'm right.
- 8:20Speaker 3: To me, I'm looking for two things. I want President
- 8:22Speaker 3: Trump to talk to the American people in the level
- 8:25Speaker 3: with the American people. The great thing about Trump is
- 8:27Speaker 3: he doesn't sugarcoat anything. You know, he's not a poll
- 8:29Speaker 3: he doesn't spin. And I would love him to take
- 8:32Speaker 3: an opportunity to speak to the American people.
- 8:34Speaker 2: I would love that toill. Let me stop you right now.
- 8:37Speaker 2: I love that too. And you're you're brilliant.
- 8:38Speaker 1: So if you were going to write the speech for
- 8:40Speaker 1: Trump and you work for four different presidents, including Trump.
- 8:43Speaker 1: You work for the two greatest presidents of our generation,
- 8:46Speaker 1: Trump and Reagan. If you're going to write that speech
- 8:49Speaker 1: and I want the same thing you want, what would
- 8:51Speaker 1: you tell Trump.
- 8:51Speaker 3: To say, Well, I've written those species. I've written the
- 8:55Speaker 3: speeches to the nation, the Oval office species. The greatest
- 8:58Speaker 3: speeches are the ones. Whether it's Abraham Lincoln or Ronald
- 9:03Speaker 3: Reagan or FDR. You lay out the problem, you convince
- 9:07Speaker 3: the American people it's the problem, and then you give
- 9:10Speaker 3: the American people a solution, and then you say to
- 9:13Speaker 3: the American people, I want you to sacrifice with me
- 9:16Speaker 3: to get this solution, to get this done. And that's
- 9:19Speaker 3: what Reagan did, That's what FDR did, That's what Abraham
- 9:23Speaker 3: Lincoln did. Frankly, it's what George Washington did at Ballet Forge.
- 9:26Speaker 3: So what is the problem. A problem is Iran. And
- 9:30Speaker 3: just as you and I have discussed, this is a
- 9:32Speaker 3: group of people who would rather die, and rather have
- 9:36Speaker 3: millions of people die along with them, than to give
- 9:38Speaker 3: up their objective, which is to destroy Israel, kill every Jew,
- 9:42Speaker 3: kill every Christian, and then somehow their version, their particular
- 9:47Speaker 3: version of Islam, prevails in that's what they believe. So
- 9:51Speaker 3: they're dangerous not only to themselves. I don't care about
- 9:54Speaker 3: that as much, but I care that they're dangerous to
- 9:57Speaker 3: the American people into the world. They have to be
- 9:59Speaker 3: a limit. We've tried everything. We've tried negotiating, we've tried bankruptcy,
- 10:05Speaker 3: We've just tried everything. But this is a group of
- 10:07Speaker 3: people that just can no longer be allowed to be
- 10:11Speaker 3: in a position of authority, and particularly to have nuclear weapons.
- 10:13Speaker 3: So we have to stop their nuclear program, we have
- 10:15Speaker 3: to stop their missile program, and we have to stop
- 10:18Speaker 3: their ability to hold the world hostage. Here's what I'm
- 10:22Speaker 3: proposing to do. I'm going to take out their entire military.
- 10:26Speaker 3: I'm proposing that we will have to work with other
- 10:29Speaker 3: countries in the Gulf to eliminate their leadership. And I'm
- 10:34Speaker 3: proposing that the solution is that the world is going
- 10:37Speaker 3: to not use these critical waterways. They're going to use pipelines,
- 10:41Speaker 3: They're going to buy American American oil and natural guess
- 10:44Speaker 3: and I want you, the American people, to give me
- 10:48Speaker 3: the space I need to accomplish this. I'm not talking
- 10:51Speaker 3: about a twenty twenty year plan. I'm not talking about
- 10:54Speaker 3: a twenty month plan. I'm saying, we're going to go in,
- 10:57Speaker 3: and we're going to go hard, and we're going to
- 10:58Speaker 3: go now. We also have a solution, which is that
- 11:02Speaker 3: the we have a group in Iran or we feel
- 11:05Speaker 3: that the Iranian leadership is there to replace and to
- 11:09Speaker 3: run around. So we're not talking about American boots on
- 11:12Speaker 3: the ground. We are talking about a homegrown Iranian revolution
- 11:15Speaker 3: that we are going to encourage and speed along.
- 11:17Speaker 1: Love it one more for you, Kat, That was great,
- 11:20Speaker 1: really great.
- 11:21Speaker 2: Go back to work for them.
- 11:22Speaker 1: Will you do me a favor call them today saying
- 11:24Speaker 1: that I propose was it in Trump? He loves you,
- 11:27Speaker 1: this lunatic mayor of ours? You know, I guess fining
- 11:30Speaker 1: this this morning. I'm going to ask you too. I'm
- 11:32Speaker 1: surprised about how many people in this country have brought
- 11:36Speaker 1: into the Israel genocide. That nonsense, It's a complete lie,
- 11:40Speaker 1: complete How many of them hate bb These are Christians?
- 11:43Speaker 1: I mean, they not understand that they wouldn't have religion
- 11:46Speaker 1: if not for the Jewish people. Yeah, let's be honest.
- 11:49Speaker 1: The Old Testament, A lot of the stuff that you
- 11:51Speaker 1: see in church comes from Judaism, right, we know that Jesus,
- 11:55Speaker 1: by the way, was Jewish, so I'm surprised how quickly
- 11:57Speaker 1: Christians turn on BB.
- 11:58Speaker 2: It's actually very alarming to me.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I'm not sure that it's Christian's turning then, Babe, as
- 12:02Speaker 3: much as it is people who really don't believe in
- 12:04Speaker 3: a whole lot of anything.
- 12:05Speaker 1: Well, yeah know, but what I'm saying, you're right, and
- 12:08Speaker 1: most Christians are with us, most are most overwhelmingly most.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I'm surprised that even the small percentage.
- 12:13Speaker 1: Look, the truth is, the Democrats have built their party
- 12:16Speaker 1: on Joe hating, and you've got a couple of fringe
- 12:18Speaker 1: lunatics on the right, led by people like Talker Carlson
- 12:21Speaker 1: who walk gladly buying into this.
- 12:23Speaker 2: And it's gross and it's a lie, and it's time.
- 12:25Speaker 1: But I'm starting to feel like, and maybe I'm wrong that,
- 12:29Speaker 1: especially here at New York City, with Mamdanie and his
- 12:32Speaker 1: obsession with this Prime Minister, while people are dying from
- 12:34Speaker 1: Legionaire's disease, and people are being taxed out of the state,
- 12:37Speaker 1: and we have a million issues in this city and
- 12:40Speaker 1: he's worried about BB coming into town. I'm starting to
- 12:42Speaker 1: think that maybe the tide is turning just a.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Little What do you think you mean, turning against this
- 12:51Speaker 3: mayor turning against anti Semitism?
- 12:54Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit of both.
- 12:56Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Well, I think we've reached peak woke. I
- 13:01Speaker 3: hope we've reached peak anti Semitism. And as far as
- 13:04Speaker 3: the mayor thinks, they're just going to go from bad
- 13:06Speaker 3: to worse. I mean, where are we going to be
- 13:08Speaker 3: a year from now when there'll be no firefighters and
- 13:10Speaker 3: they'll be we're not paying the guys to pick up
- 13:12Speaker 3: the garbage. It is going to be a real crisis
- 13:15Speaker 3: for New York because what are they going to do.
- 13:17Speaker 3: They're just going to They've all the rich people will
- 13:19Speaker 3: have left, and so they're then going to have to
- 13:20Speaker 3: tax the middle class. The people that Mandami voted for,
- 13:23Speaker 3: if you actually look at the numbers, he didn't whether
- 13:26Speaker 3: he did or didn't win, The people who supposedly voted
- 13:29Speaker 3: for him were not the people who live in New York.
- 13:31Speaker 3: These are the people who were here temporarily on their
- 13:34Speaker 3: first job, and they're angry because they're priced out of
- 13:38Speaker 3: every market. You want to solve the housing crisis, they're
- 13:41Speaker 3: fifty thousand apartments that are just languished and left empty
- 13:46Speaker 3: in New York City. You could solve that heusing crisis
- 13:49Speaker 3: in a minute if you change the rank CONTROLSS. They
- 13:52Speaker 3: won't do it.
- 13:53Speaker 2: They won't do it. You're right.
- 13:54Speaker 1: And a lot of those voters too, are white, middle
- 13:57Speaker 1: class people, to your point, ones who are going to
- 14:01Speaker 1: get hammered. You know, it doesn't matter that Bill Lackman
- 14:03Speaker 1: or Ken Griffin or John Katzmatidi's we got killed, you know.
- 14:07Speaker 1: And we're the ones who voted for him, not me,
- 14:08Speaker 1: but women specifically, you know. So in the end, the
- 14:11Speaker 1: people that he promised to save are the people that
- 14:14Speaker 1: he's going to hammer, you know. I see Bill Lackman
- 14:17Speaker 1: was on Box News yesterday and he's contemplating running for mayor.
- 14:20Speaker 1: I said, go ahead, you got ten billion dollars. Trump
- 14:23Speaker 1: loves you, you love New York.
- 14:24Speaker 3: You know.
- 14:24Speaker 1: I've been a little back and forth with Bill because
- 14:27Speaker 1: he did extend an alive branch of the mayor right
- 14:29Speaker 1: after he won. I never did you know that?
- 14:31Speaker 2: Never? He did.
- 14:32Speaker 1: So did Jamie Diamond. But okay, fine, who cares. He's here,
- 14:36Speaker 1: He's got money, He is angry with the mayor. He
- 14:38Speaker 1: knows what it takes to rebuild a financial mess.
- 14:42Speaker 2: So if you're Bill Lackman, do it right? Why not?
- 14:46Speaker 3: The thing about Mndammy is I think a lot of
- 14:48Speaker 3: the anti is thrull. I'm going to arrest BP Netnye who.
- 14:52Speaker 1: You know.
- 14:52Speaker 3: There was a part of me that thought, you know something,
- 14:55Speaker 3: you try to go after BB Netanya who in New York?
- 14:57Speaker 3: What's going to happen? I mean, do you really say
- 15:00Speaker 3: that you want to go up against Mesad Israelians? Oh Man? Anyway,
- 15:04Speaker 3: and then I got more serious about it. But I
- 15:07Speaker 3: think that part of this whole is distraction that Mandami
- 15:11Speaker 3: is using to focus on Israel, focus on ving Nenyakho,
- 15:14Speaker 3: focus on all the graffiti that has you know killed.
- 15:16Speaker 3: The juice is being written all over Central I mean
- 15:19Speaker 3: Midtown Manhattan. I think it's because he's not delivering all
- 15:22Speaker 3: the things he told all those people who voted for him,
- 15:25Speaker 3: all the things he was going to give him. The
- 15:26Speaker 3: free grocery store, is a free child care of a
- 15:28Speaker 3: free transportation, everything's going to be terrific. None of this
- 15:31Speaker 3: stuff has happened.
- 15:32Speaker 2: True.
- 15:32Speaker 1: But he also promised though RESTBB Nataniello, and now he
- 15:35Speaker 1: can't do it. So that's another promise.
- 15:37Speaker 3: You don't get it yeah, but it's but if pandering
- 15:40Speaker 3: and distracting. You know, look over here, don't look at
- 15:42Speaker 3: what I'm doing. Yeah, look over here at the shiny object.
- 15:45Speaker 2: You're right, but you're right.
- 15:46Speaker 1: And he did break a lot of those promises, and
- 15:49Speaker 1: seemingly he breaks a promise every week.
- 15:51Speaker 2: You don't.
- 15:52Speaker 1: You come every week and do a fantastic job. I
- 15:54Speaker 1: love your Kate mcfaulan, enjoy the Hamptons. This weekend is
- 15:57Speaker 1: always great conversation. Will do it again that week, sweetheart.
- 16:00Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Thank you, sir, Come on, Kate,
- 16:02Speaker 2: You're the best. Kat mcfauland right here on Sitting Friends
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