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3/3/26: Rubio Admits War For Israel, US Embassies Burn, Tucker Claims Mossad Captured In Gulf Countries · Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

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  Speaker 4: Where we have Prissel a load to get to.
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  Speaker 2: You will not be surprised to learn Marco Rubio claiming
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  Speaker 2: that the preemptive threat against the US was actually from Israel.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. No, we will break you off, and
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  Speaker 2: not just him, Mike Johnson too. I mean this is
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  Speaker 2: crazy stuff that they're saying this out loud. Break all
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  Speaker 2: of that down for you, baby. Was on Fox News
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  Speaker 2: last night celebrating, of course, the golf States are in chaos.
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  Speaker 2: Our embassies are being attacked. Par Arcie is going to
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  Speaker 2: join to break down what is going on. Scott Horton
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  Speaker 2: is also going to join to break down his larger
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  Speaker 2: historical perspective of how.
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  Speaker 4: We got to this place.
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  Speaker 2: Media is propagandizing during their pro war propaganda on overtime.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some low lights for you there, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to take a little trip back and the very
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  Speaker 2: recent trip back down memory lane of all the lies
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  Speaker 2: that we're told from Jade Vance and Tulci Gabber and
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  Speaker 2: An RFK Junior and Steven Miller and Donald Trump himself
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  Speaker 2: about how they did not want war with Iran, and
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  Speaker 2: yet here we are. Also Ryan and I are going
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  Speaker 2: to record an interview with kat Abogazella. You'll recall last
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  Speaker 2: week Ryan had some reporting about her foreign policy views,
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  Speaker 2: she thinks about various issues, including the Iran war of course,
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  Speaker 2: so we will have that for.
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  Speaker 4: You as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested to follow that been a lot of drama
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  Speaker 3: before the Iran war entire out number.
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  Speaker 3: let's go ahead and kick it off with what Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump and his administration are saying is the reason why
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  Speaker 3: that we are in this war in the first place.
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  Speaker 3: You if I said it three days ago, it would
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  Speaker 3: have been the anti Semitic conspiracy, And now it is
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  Speaker 3: coming out of the mouth of the United States Secretary
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  Speaker 3: of State.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: So not only Marco Rubio, but also Mike Johnson saying
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  Speaker 2: that the reason, because everyone's saying why are we doing this?
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  Speaker 2: That the reason, according to them, is that Israel is
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  Speaker 2: going to strike around no matter what that that would
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  Speaker 2: put our US service members at risk, and so we
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  Speaker 2: calculated while we may as well be involved, because maybe
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  Speaker 2: that will help us to be able to control the outcome. Here,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and take a listen to how they
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  Speaker 2: framed that.
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  Speaker 5: Why now, Well, there's two reasons why now. The first
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  Speaker 5: is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under
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  Speaker 5: attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone,
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  Speaker 5: they were going to respond and respond against the United States.
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  Speaker 5: The third is the assessment that was made that if
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  Speaker 5: we stood and waited for that attack to come first
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  Speaker 5: before we get them, we would suffer much higher casualties,
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  Speaker 5: and so the President made the very wise decision. We
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  Speaker 5: knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,
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  Speaker 5: we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces,
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  Speaker 5: and we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after
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  Speaker 5: them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher
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  Speaker 5: casualties and perhaps even high those killed, And then we
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  Speaker 5: would all be here answering questions about why we knew that.
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  Speaker 6: Indeed, they had to evaluate the threats to the US,
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  Speaker 6: to our troops, to our installations, to our assets in
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  Speaker 6: the region and beyond, and they determined, because of the
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  Speaker 6: exquisite intelligence that we had that if Israel fired upon Iran,
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  Speaker 6: it took action against Iran to take out the missiles,
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  Speaker 6: then they would have immediately retaliated against US personnel and assets.
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  Speaker 6: The consequences of inaction on our part would have been
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  Speaker 6: could have been devastating. We don't know at what magnitude,
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  Speaker 6: but you can assume, because it is common sense that
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  Speaker 6: if Iran had begun to fire all of their missile
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  Speaker 6: arsenal short and in mid range missiles at our personnel
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  Speaker 6: and our assets and our installations, we would have suffered
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  Speaker 6: staggering losses.
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  Speaker 4: I mean sager.
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  Speaker 2: Taken at face value, this is utterly humiliating and insane
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  Speaker 2: and obviously begs one really clear question, which is okay,
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  Speaker 2: If Israel striking Iran was going to create all of
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  Speaker 2: these problems and put our service members at risk, why
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  Speaker 2: don't we stop Israel from striking Iran?
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  Speaker 4: This is our client state.
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  Speaker 2: They can't function without our protection, our weaponry, our support, etc.
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  Speaker 2: So why did we just get coerced into this rather
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  Speaker 2: than going to our client vassal state and saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to strike Iran because this is against
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  Speaker 2: our interests.
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  Speaker 3: We need to This is the most extraordinary admission probably
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  Speaker 3: in modern history by the United States Secretary of State.
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  Speaker 3: They claimed that this war was preemptive, and it was
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  Speaker 3: preemptive in the sense that we had to preempt Iranian
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  Speaker 3: reaction to Israel's preemption. Are you here with me now?
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  Speaker 3: We are not a sovereignty is threat threat. We have
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  Speaker 3: sacrificed our sovereignty. We are a non sovereign nation. If
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  Speaker 3: the world's superpower is subject to a country the size
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  Speaker 3: of New Jersey, which basically makes nothing and is controlling
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  Speaker 3: our politicians such that, despite being the largest single recipient
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  Speaker 3: of military aid in the history of the United States,
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  Speaker 3: that we are not capable of telling them no. And
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  Speaker 3: it is now documented history from the New York Times
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  Speaker 3: now to the open mouth of the comments of the
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  Speaker 3: U s Secretary of State and the Speaker of the
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  Speaker 3: House that.
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  Speaker 1: This is Israel's war. Israel's war.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Donald Trump has agency, but he never once was
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  Speaker 3: able apparently it even entered his mind to say, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to do that. We're going to cut
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  Speaker 3: off weapons. We're going to make you a global pariah,
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  Speaker 3: and good luck defending yourself without all of our missile
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  Speaker 3: defense systems. That never once entered their minds. And you
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  Speaker 3: know what I also I was thinking about. You have
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  Speaker 3: to think even the Iranians. Iranian strategic calculus was, guys,
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  Speaker 3: they won't want to hit us, or Israel's not going
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  Speaker 3: to want to hit us because we'll hit US bases.
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  Speaker 3: And the theory behind that was by threatening US basis,
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  Speaker 3: it would mean that we would constrain or restrain Israel
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  Speaker 3: from striking them from their belliger inaction. They never could
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  Speaker 3: have imagined the world where the client state is actually
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  Speaker 3: dictating and dragging policy of the United States and the
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  Speaker 3: global Empire actually enter the war on their very behalf.
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  Speaker 1: We are beyond screwed.
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  Speaker 3: Also, at a certain point, is it even useful to
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  Speaker 3: play comments here? At this point from Donald Trump, Israel's
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  Speaker 3: in the driver's seat. They're the ones who killed Iatola Kamani.
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  Speaker 3: We're the ones, apparently who gave them the intelligence. There
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  Speaker 3: are the ones who do it. All of the strikes
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  Speaker 3: now so far are for regime collapse. The ingredients for
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  Speaker 3: civil war are happening. They're already job bb Netanyahu got
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump, maybe got Donald Trump made Donald Trump, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know, got Donald Trump on the phone with a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of Kurdish leaders in Iraq and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: go on in there, let's let's stoke a little civilrties.
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  Speaker 2: This hill border guards they killed all the come in
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  Speaker 2: over the Portvity is.
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  Speaker 3: Really stressed by their own admission they are new. They're
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  Speaker 3: going after and blowing up all the police stations. You
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  Speaker 3: only do that to collapse the civil society. And they're
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  Speaker 3: in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Nine different hospitals, obviously murdered those schoolgirls, et cetera. And
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  Speaker 2: here's the thing is, you know, I keep bringing up
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  Speaker 2: the Epstein files because you have to look at this
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  Speaker 2: and go, Okay, this is insane. You know, Trump clearly
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  Speaker 2: had resistant reluctance to go into a full blown war
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  Speaker 2: with a run, and yet nevertheless he did it. And
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  Speaker 2: it never occurred to him, or it never seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be an option to him to go tos Roun and
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  Speaker 2: say no, we will cut you off.
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  Speaker 4: Here will be the you know, here will be the reaper.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that previous American presidents have been able
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  Speaker 2: to do. It's not like Israel's so out of control
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  Speaker 2: and they have so much autonomy that they're able to
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  Speaker 2: do all of these things on there. No, they're fully
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  Speaker 2: and completely enabled by us. So why is that not
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  Speaker 2: an option on the table? Why and you have I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can't help but ask yourself. Maybe it is Epstein files, right?
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  Speaker 2: Is it just the money from Miriam Addelson? Like there's
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  Speaker 2: lots of people who give Trump money for his campaign.
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  Speaker 2: There's all sorts of interests that are you know, at
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  Speaker 2: filling his both campaign and personal coffers with cash. So
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  Speaker 2: that really it, it's just about the Israel lobby cash.
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  Speaker 2: There's some piece of this that is missing that just
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  Speaker 2: does not add up. Because listen, Donald Trump is extremely belligerent, right,
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  Speaker 2: He's bombed more countries in you know, his presidency than
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  Speaker 2: like any other American president. He has no problem taking
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  Speaker 2: a hawkish military action. But it did seem like the
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  Speaker 2: one thing that he was reluctant to do was get
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  Speaker 2: embroiled in a long, large scale war, particularly in the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East. And yet here we are and you've got
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  Speaker 2: the Secretary of State saying, well, Israel made us do it.
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  Speaker 2: It does not add up. It does not make sense.
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  Speaker 2: There is some piece of this that is missing. And
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  Speaker 2: so you cannot call people crazy when they look at
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  Speaker 2: the Epstein files, cover up and go, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't know, maybe maybe that's it. Maybe that's what's going
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  Speaker 4: on here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the to quote Dave Smith, think about this, George W.
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  Speaker 3: Bush had the wisdom not to do what Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: is doing. I mean I said it before, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to launch a so called war of choice, preemption, whatever
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  Speaker 3: you want to call it, now admitting openly nin with
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  Speaker 3: ten months or whatever before the midterm elections in your
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  Speaker 3: first year. If we think back to the history of
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  Speaker 3: the Bush presidency, we're we're all on the right track.
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  Speaker 3: You've got an unpopular war in the Middle East. You're
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  Speaker 3: going to have what a w call the two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and six midterms a thumping?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what he said? It's a thumping whenever they democraticking?
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  Speaker 1: And then yeah, that.
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  Speaker 3: Was Obama's Yeah, I think I think a Bush called
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  Speaker 3: it a thumping. Then we have a massive financial crash.
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  Speaker 1: So we're on track. Okay, oh yeah, we're all on track.
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  Speaker 2: This thing is is down of control. I mean, we've
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  Speaker 2: got embassies that are being attacked. We're telling Americans now
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  Speaker 2: in twelve different countries in the region, like, oh, use
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  Speaker 2: commercial means and get out of the region. Well, there
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  Speaker 2: are no commercial means. The air lines are all shut down.
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  Speaker 2: The airports are all virtually shut down. You know, there
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  Speaker 2: was an article yesterday about how Americans, mostly wealthy Americans,
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  Speaker 2: and the UAE, we're trying to get the heck out
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  Speaker 2: of Dubai and there's no way to get out of
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  Speaker 2: that area. The busiest airport in the entire world, and
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  Speaker 2: it's all but closed down. So you've got this thing
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  Speaker 2: already completely spiraling out of control. And you know, apparently
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  Speaker 2: they thought maybe if we take out the Ayatola and
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  Speaker 2: we hit them pretty hard in the front, maybe this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing will collapse and the IRGC will just hold
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  Speaker 2: a hand over their arms and we can declare mission accomplish.
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  Speaker 2: This is delusional, obviously, and now they realize this is delusional,
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  Speaker 2: which is why Donald Trump is not going out and
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  Speaker 2: talking to anybody. Yesterday sent he said, oh, everybody, go
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  Speaker 2: listen to beb Nanyahu on Fox News because apparently this
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  Speaker 2: is the person who's actually calling the shop.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to that, but yeah, Trump is out to
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  Speaker 3: lunch like completely. Let's take a listen to him yesterday
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  Speaker 3: at the White House during a Medal of Honor ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: We're in he.
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  Speaker 3: Spent I watched the entire thing. He began with maybe
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  Speaker 3: a four minute segment on Iran, where he was extremely tired,
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  Speaker 3: he seemed distracted, his heart really didn't seem in it
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  Speaker 3: at all, and he immediately pivoted to start talking about
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  Speaker 3: the fucking ballroom.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: Our objectives are clear. First, were destroying orens missile capabilities,
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  Speaker 7: and you see that happening on an hourly basis, and
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  Speaker 7: their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good
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  Speaker 7: ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked
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  Speaker 7: out already ten ships. They're at the bottom of the c. Third,
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  Speaker 7: we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of TARA
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  Speaker 7: can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have
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  Speaker 7: a nuclear weapon. We're already substantially ahead of our time projections.
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  Speaker 7: But whatever the time is, it's okay. Whatever it takes,
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  Speaker 7: we will always and we have right from the beginning,
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  Speaker 7: we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability
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  Speaker 7: to go far longer than that.
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  Speaker 8: We'll do it.
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  Speaker 7: Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president
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  Speaker 7: wants to do it really quickly. After that, he'll get bored.
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  Speaker 7: I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this to
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  Speaker 7: that nice drape. When that comes down right now, you
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  Speaker 7: see a very very deep hole. But in about a
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  Speaker 7: year and a half from now, you're going to see
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  Speaker 7: a very very beautiful building. And there's your entrance to
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  Speaker 7: it right there. In fact, it looks so nice, I
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  Speaker 7: don't think i'll even I think I'll save money on
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  Speaker 7: the doors, because you can't get more beautiful than that.
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  Speaker 7: I picked those drapes in my first term. I always
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  Speaker 7: like gold. But I think we can and save a
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  Speaker 7: lot of money. I just saved I just saved curtains.
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  Speaker 7: But and it will be It'll be spectacular, be the
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  Speaker 7: most beautiful ballroom. I believe it's because I built many
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  Speaker 7: a ballroom.
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  Speaker 8: I believe it's.
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  Speaker 7: Going to be the most beautiful ballroom.
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  Speaker 1: That was not an unfair cut. That literally happened.
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  Speaker 3: I watched the entire thing, not joking, like we only
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  Speaker 3: spared you about two to three minutes in between Iran
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  Speaker 3: and all of that. In addition, by the way, Trump
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  Speaker 3: continues this thing where he'll take his and will answer
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  Speaker 3: his cell phone for anybody who calls. Let's put this
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  Speaker 3: up here on the screen from the New York Post
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  Speaker 3: where yesterday he refused to rule out sending US troops
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  Speaker 3: to Iran if necessary, saying, quote, I don't have the
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  Speaker 3: YIPS with respective boots on the ground. Like every president
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  Speaker 3: says there will be no boots, I don't say it,
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  Speaker 3: Trump said after launching strike Saturday to decapitate Iran's military
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  Speaker 3: and political leadership. I say, probably don't need them or
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  Speaker 3: if they were necessary. So that is the situation as
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  Speaker 3: we currently have it. And Crystal, you know that civil
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  Speaker 3: war point that we made earlier. At every time that
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  Speaker 3: we have to try and launch some insurgency to over
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  Speaker 3: throw or destabilize a government, there are US special forces
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  Speaker 3: that accompany them on the ground. And look, no hate
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  Speaker 3: to the Kurds. You know they've been screwed around by
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  Speaker 3: the United States now probably decades. But we did a
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: lot of work together in the counter Isis campaign, So
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: these forces know exactly how to work together as a
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  Speaker 3: basin air bill, right, you know where they are, and look.
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  Speaker 1: It's all ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: The weapons are there, will be the most well armed
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  Speaker 3: insurgents in history, that's all. They need a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a forward deployment from a couple special advisors. It's
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  Speaker 3: going to look like the special operations that went in
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  Speaker 3: in October two thousand and one with the Taliban, or
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  Speaker 3: to defeat the Taliban.
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  Speaker 1: That's the theory at least.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: But that is the recipe for quagmire, for disaster, for
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: civil war, for collapse, and that is Look, if we
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: are to acknowledged this is Israel's war. It is almost
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: irrelevant to what Donald Trump wants. Only he can pull
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: the plug. At least he did in the Twelve Day War.
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: But of course that was just a lead up to
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: do this entire thing.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: It was a pause.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Then we tried all of the internal you know, let's
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: collapse therency, let's stoke the protests, you know, let's see
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: if that will work. And then when that failed, then
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: we're back to a war. And yeah, I mean you
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: and with all of them, obviously they all lie, you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: when if they're breathing, they're lying.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: But you can look at what they're doing.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: And to your point, we see these reporting about oh,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: let's let's talk to the Kurds, let's kill the border
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: guards and you know, open up that border so people
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: can flood in. And then you also see in the
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: targeting they targeted Akmadnazad, you know, previous president of Iran.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: They targeted a jailed opposition leader who was under house arrest,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: so they wanted to make sure that this actually wasn't
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: a regime change, that there was no other person who
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: had any sort of legitimate base of support who could
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: come in and take the reins, because Israel's goal is
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: regime collapse.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: They don't want a strong Iran.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: They want they don't I apparently don't believe they can
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: really successfully install a puppet, so they just want it
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to be chaos, death, insanity, civil war, et cetera, so
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: that they can, you know, extend their region regional hegemony.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: With that being said, we've got a lot more to
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: get to and we've got doctor Tree to Parsi standing by,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: so let's go ahead and bring him in. All right, everyone,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: we are fortunate to be joined by front of the show,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: doctor Tree to Parcy of.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: The Quincy Institute for Responsible state Craft.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Great to see, Sir good, Deseasir good to be with
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: you guys.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: So we just played for the audience, Marco Ruvio and
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Mike Johnson both saying no, the imminent threat came from
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: the fact that we knew Israel was going to attack Iran.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Regardless of whether we involved ourselves, we knew that would
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: put our US service members at risk. Therefore, we felt
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: compelled to strike Iran first. Your reaction to those extraordinary revelations.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: I'm delighted that he has spelled it out that this
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: is the reason that, at the end of the day,
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: the Israelis have been driving the boat on this one,
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: and that the United States has followed their lead and
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: let them decide when the US goes to war and
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: when it doesn't. This is, at the end of the day,
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: a decision they made. They made a decision to let
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: the Israelis decide, and now they're trying to hide behind
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: that as if is some sort of a self defense.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: At this point, there's no speculation value any longer as
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: to whether that Israel is the driving force behind this
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: or not. It is coming out of the mouth of Rubio,
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: and it's coming out of the mouth of the Speaker
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: of the House as well. It is now clear this
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: is what they decided. This is not by any definition
• 18:17
  Speaker 8: America first. This is Israel first.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: This is probably the most consequential Kinsley gaff in American
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: history where they accidentally tell the trilogy, and that is
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: one where I really don't even know where to go
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: from here. I do think it is worth noting that
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: the administration has laid out the most maximalist goals and
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: it's now making a mockery of America. First, let's say
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: put a six let's say up there on the screen.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I really loved this exchange. So Matt wall Show over
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: at the Daily Wire.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: He put out a tweet, He's like, I've got some
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: questions about this whole operation, and Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: released a statement and said, let me reiterate all of
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: the objectives. We're going to destroy the regime's missile raise
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: our missile industry to the ground. We're going to annihilate
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the navy. We're going to ensure the regime's terrorist proxies
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: can no longer operate. We will stop them from making
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: and using IEDs and when, by the way, ID literally
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: means improvised, So okay, guarantee that Iran can never obtain
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. Preventing the regime from threatening America killing
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: terrorists is good.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: And there's a long continued diet tribe.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I was like, you know, whenever she was meant to
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: address concerns about regime change. This is a regime change manifesto.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I don't see any way that there could be a
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: realistic off ramp without effective surrender from the Trump administration.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Curious for your review.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: So here's what I think has happened. I think, first
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: of all, you're right. But here's I think how we
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: got there. The administration was led by these Raelis to
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: believe that this is going to be a very simple operation.
• 19:46
  Speaker 8: They thought that by Sunday evening this would have been
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: wrapped up, that the regime would have imploded as a
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: result of the assassination of the Supreme Leader. That obviously
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: did not work. Twice reportedly, perhaps even three times, from
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: preached out and trying to see if he could get
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: a ceasefire from the Vannius. The Vannius rejected it, and
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: I can go into as to why the Iranians rejected it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: So now they're stuck in a situation in which they
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: understand that the Iranian game plan is to prolong this
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: and expand this war and play to what their relative
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: strength is, which is they can withstand this, whereas Trump
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: probably cannot, not militarily but politically, he cannot withstand this.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: For a couple of weeks. So now the Trump administration
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: is trying to essentially convince the Iranians that no, no, no, no,
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: the United States is more than ready to withstand this
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: for a long time. He suddenly said four weeks and
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: that now as a result of the Iranians refusing a ceasefire,
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: he is going even more maximalism. So he is throwing
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: good money after bad money after his first completely unrealistic
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: expectation was not met. And this is the very definition
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: of losing control. We're not even two or three days
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: into the war and it's already clear they have lost control.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: Look at how they are grasping for straws, not just
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: to find what objectives they should have, but also how
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: to justify them. And in that effort they have gone
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: as far as to say that Iran is at war
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: with civilization, to actually admitting that all of this was
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: done because Israel decided it was time to go there.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: So I want to go back to why Trump let
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: himself be led around by the nose by Israel, Because
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: clearly there was some reluctance from the administration. You know,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: they were concerned you had the top military brass here
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: leaking to basically every newspaper they could get a hold
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: of to say, this is a real problem. We are
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: not ready, there's an interceptor issue, this is not going
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: to go well, there's tremendous risks here.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: And yet, in.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Spite of all of that, and in spite of all
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: of the very clear campaign promises that you know, we're
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: going to play them later, he made Jadvan's made, Toulci
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Gabbard made RFK junior maid Steven Miller made like every
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: top person in this administration said oh, of course, we're
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: not going to go to war with Iran. In spite
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: of all of that, he still ends up making the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: decision to do Israel's bidding.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Like, what can explain that?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Is it just the power of the Israel Is that
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Miriam Addelson money? Like how does this calculation get made
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: when you have so many people, from the political people
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: to the military people, warning that this is going to
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: be a disaster.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: It's really difficult to explain that. I absolutely cannot claim
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: to have an answer. I think a part of the answer, though,
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: is he has been lulled into this belief that everything
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: he has done has been an absolutely amazing success, and
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: everything he would did was in contradiction to the conventional
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: wisdom and their advice. They told him that he can't
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: move the embassy. He did, nothing happen. They told him
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: that he couldn't recognize the Golan highs. He did, nothing happen.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: They told him, you can't kill Suleimani. He did, in
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: his view, nothing happened. They told him that he can't
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: take out Foordo. He did. In his view, nothing happened.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: And then of course he did Venezuela. He's on this
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: massive sugar high, the mother of all sugar highs. It's
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: easier for the Israelis under those circumstances to tell him, Look,
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: the Iranians are just so weak. All you need to
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: do is push a little bit. You're going to be
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: the hero. You're going to be the president that finally
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: puts an end to this regime. Everyone said that you
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: can't do it. That's precisely why you should do it,
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: because only you can prove them wrong.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: So what you may see, maybe they mocked up a
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: newspaper cover like us, or I.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Mean, they played to his psychology. The Aonians did not.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Right, yeah, right, and we shouldn't we should say that is,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: we should fault to their negotiating team as well. But
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: now we are where we are, and so you know,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: what do you see? You said that the Iranians have
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: rejected two, maybe three diplomatic overtures from the Trump administration.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: What is the internal logic inside of the regime right now?
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: It seems pretty clear that they expected to take mass
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: casualties at the top, They have decentralized military command. What
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: is their internal assessment right now? From far as you
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: can tell, from how they're doing and for what they're planning.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: The first thing we have to say to truly understand
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: how they're thinking is that they truly unlike these Raelis
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: who oftentimes throughout and say, oh, this is existential. For them,
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: this truly is existential, and this is why they're making
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: the decision of the way they're making it. They believe
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: that a premature ceasefire, one in which after the US
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: has scored a major victory, if they were to accept it,
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: all it would do. It would allow the US and
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: Israel to regroup, remobilize, and then six months later relaunch
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: a war. If there's to be a ceasefire, it has
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: to be a prolonged and durable one. The only way
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: the ceasefire could be durable, they believe, is if this
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: war ends up being tremendously costly to all sides, so
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: that all sides believe it was a mistake to start it,
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: and as a result, believe it would be a mistake
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: to restart it if they agreed to a ceasefire too
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: quickly without that cost actually being felt. They believe that
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: it will only give the other side, the US and Israel,
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: time to be able to regroup and then once again attack, Yvonne.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: This is the conclusion they drew after agreeing to ceasefire
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: in June. Many of them believe that it was premature.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: Many of them believe that these Radis were in a very,
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: very bad situation because they had run out of interceptors,
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: and it was a mistake for the Iranians to agree
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: to that ceasefire and they're paying for that mistake now.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was another incredible moment for Rubio as
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: he also talked about that interceptor you'd made it. Yeah,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: he talked about, you know, they've got these drones and
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: they're very inexpensive, and meanwhile we're shooting all these intercepts
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: or we can't. They can make the drones much more
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: quickly than we can make the interceptors. It's like, okay,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: then why are we doing this if that's not thing.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: Once you're in this situation and you recognize that logic,
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: which they should have recognized before, it actually pushes them
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: to go all out as well. And that is what
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: I think we're going to see in the next couple
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: of days. Trump is going to.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Throw it where about what you yeah, tell me more
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: about what you mean by that, And just to you know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: as a little preamble here, we can put a nine
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: up on the screen. We now know at least six
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Americans have been killed in action, at least eighteen have
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: been seriously wounded. You have US embassies that are being
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: attacked in a number of countries, both by Iran and
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: also by local people. We know now we have confirmation
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: that US Marines we're shooting at civilian rioters at the
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: US embassy in Karachi in Pakistan. We can put a
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: eleven up on the screen. So already this straight up
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: horror moves was sort of de facto closed because the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: insurers pulled the plug on shipping traffics, and basically we're
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: not going to injure you, or we're going to jack
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: up the price extraordinarily. Now Reuter's is reporting Iran is
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: notifying vessels it is officially closing the Straight of Hormus.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: If officially closed, twenty plus million barrels of oil per
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: day will be impacted, twenty percent of global supply. Qatar
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: has cut off their LNG production. Gas prices in Europe
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: have already skyrocketed some fifty percent. So when you say
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: we're going to throw everything that we have at it
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and we're going to go big, you know what does
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: that actually in effect look like.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Let me start off by just saying one of the
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: thing that I think is important. Just a couple of days,
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: about three days before Trump decided to start this war,
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: I was in a closed meeting with a bunch of
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: former officials, analysts, military people, and the general view in
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: the room was the Vonians would never do this. They
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: will never close the straits, they would never attack the
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: GCC states. It would be too costly for them. And
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: I think it reflected the fact that this had not
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: really dawned upon people. The manner in which Trump is
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: doing this is making a clear signal to Devonians. This
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: is an existential fight, and in an existential fight, they're
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: not going to think about tomorrow. They're not going to
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: think about what GCC round relations are going to be
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: a year from now. They're going to think about how
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: they survive this war. And as a result, decisions that
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: were perceived to be unthinkable just empty threats from the
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: Varnians we are now seeing happening on a daily basis.
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: As you pointed out the closing of the straits, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: again I think it shows the profound miscalculation, although of
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: course those people in the room were not the decision makers.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: I think it reflects what also decision makers have been
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: thinking about this. I think what is happening now is
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: that because of this essential I wouldn't call it panic,
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: but really scrambling to try to figure out a new plan.
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: The emphasis is going to be to throw everything at
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: the Iranians. I think we're going to see significant bombardment.
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: We're going to see an effort to use the Kurds
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: in order to launch attacks in the Kurdish areas in
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: the absence of other ground troops, although I wouldn't be
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: surprised if there may be some Israeli ground troops with
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: the Kurds, although the Kurdish numbers are not very high.
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: It's not so much that this actually would end up
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: becoming like a real invasion, but something that would be
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: further effort to try to cause Tehran to lose control
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: of the largest situation. If the Iranians are trying to
• 28:50
  Speaker 8: expand the theater of war into areas that the US
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: wasn't ready for. The US is responding in kind. But
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: bottom line is we're seeing that the original plans didn't
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: even survive the first five seconds of reality.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah right, yeah, I mean already this is a full
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: blown regional conflict, which, as you said, and by the way,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Trump admitted, you don't just have to listen to you.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: We were surprised that they attacked the golf countries. He
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: has caused absolute chaos. The State Department saying this morning,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: all citizens in the Golf should leave, all of them,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: by the way, good luck leaving. All of the airports
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: are closed. The US Ambassador Mike Huckabee is putting out
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: guidance about how to get on a bus from Israel
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: to the Sinai Peninsula and then hopefully be able to
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: catch a flight from there to somewhere else before they
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: can eventually get the hell out. There's over a million
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Americans who live in the region. I used to be
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: one of them. But sticking with that, sir, let's put
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: a ten up here on the screen, just so you
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: can already see huge strikes in the middle of Tehran
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: in the middle of daylight. I mean, God only knows
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: the number of people that have already been killed. But
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: many of the reports coming out of Iran saying that
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: the Israeli strikes are specifically targeting these police stations. As
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: as you said, the internal logic right now for the
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: golf and for the United States is that this is
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: already intolerable from a munition's depletion standpoint for interceptors, which
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: means that they have to go all out bombard the
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: country as much as humanly possible and try to basically
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: erode their capacity to fight. This is the North Vietnam
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: bombing strategic logic of many, many decades. Of course, it
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: doesn't work if you have a population and a regime
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: which is hardened in its belief that it is completely existential.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: So let's say we do get this massive bombardment an
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: effect effective trying for to collapse the state. Let's say
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: they do take out the missile launchers, what's next from
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: that point because the regime itself will still be intact,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: and it's not like Trump and Israel can just declare victory.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: Again. I don't think there is much of a plan.
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: The hope was that now they're targeting a lot of
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: police stations, IRGC headquarters, besiege headquarters. The hope is that
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: this eventually will lead to a regime implosion, because the
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: repressive capabilities of the state will be eroded, and then
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: magically people will rise up and take over. And you know,
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: there is some basis to believe that something like this
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: could happen. To bet an entire war. That it will
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: happen is a completely different story. I go back to
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: what I said on this show several times. I repeated
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: it as often as I could in every interview. Trump
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: has been led to believe that Iran is much weaker
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: than it is, and as a result, he's gone down
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: this path. And now we're discovering that it is not
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: that simple. As you mentioned, the problems for people for
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: Americans to leave the GCC states, even leaving Israel. At
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: this point, I spoke to a friend who was traveling.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: He was in Dubai, can't get out, had to take
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: a cab all the way to Oman. That border to
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: Oman between the U and of Oman was just completely
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: overloaded with people trying to escape Dubai and try to
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: find a flight out of the Arabian Peninsula. Clearly no
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: planning whatsoever from any side for this to be able
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: to have, and yet the riding was on the wall.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we've been listening to Professor Robert Pape,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: who's expert on warfare and airpower in particular. In one
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: hundred years of trying this, there's never been a successful,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: a successful regime change just using air power. We also
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: have the recent example of Gaza, which obviously is much
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: smaller and where the Israelis with our assistance, bombed the
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: hell of it out of it, reduced it all to
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: rubble effectively, and had a ground invasion and still were
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: not able to dislodge Humas from power. So the you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the arrogance, the delusion here is just extraordinary to me
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: as someone who was not expert on these things whatsoever.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Last question I had for you is, you know, I
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: was watching that bombardment of Tehran, looking at the fact
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: that they've already targeted.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: Some nine hospitals.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Obviously, little girls massacred, over one hundred and sixty of
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: them at a school. Another school, I think a girl's
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: volleyball team was killed. Are they since the initial let's
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: try to collapse the regime didn't work out, are they
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: now going to pursue effectively the same strategy they pursued
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: in Gaza.
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: It appears that at least on a couple of occasions
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: that has happened, we've seen evidence of double tap attacks.
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: There's a video of an Iranian woman who actually doesn't
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: live in Iran, I don't know if she's Iranian American,
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: who is crying and said that they struck this hotel.
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: When people rushed in to try to help it, they
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: struck again. So evidence of these double taps are now emerging.
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: One thing I have to say, though, I'm sorry to
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: raise this, but I was on BBC last night and
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: they aired tapes or reconstruction of tapes of three voices
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: from Iran that they claim to have spoken to, who
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: all were praising these bombings. I mean, one of them
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: was saying that you know, we're applauding every time to
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: hear a bomb without a doubt. I do believe that
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: there is some level of support inside of Iran for
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: this campaign. Certainly there's a degree of support, although I
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: think it's exaggerated in the diaspora. But BBC aired three
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: voices who all said the same thing, given the viewers
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: the impression that this is a liberation board, that the
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: people inside of Iran are just yearning to be bombed.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: And I had to call them out on and I said,
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: this is worse than the Iraq war propaganda that I've seen,
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: because you know very well that there's a diversity of
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: us inside the country, yet you only aired one type
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: of a voice and give people the impression that everyone
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: is welcoming this for which is absolutely not the case.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's outrageous. And we've been watching this happen in
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: our own There are ninety two million people in Iran.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Ninety two million? Did three? Maybe what about the rest?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: How do we have any idea and how have we
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: not seen this story? I've seen plenty of videos. Yeah,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I've seen plenty videos. I'm sure you have too, of
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: like secular looking people who are like we will stand
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: and fight to the death against the United States and
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: against Israel in the streets of Tehran could be selective
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: regime propaganda. I'm not going to take that fully as
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: the only voice, but of course that voice exists too.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: It's completely irresponsible to say that it doesn't. And at
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: this point, I mean the history of nationalism. Even in
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: countries which are being externally bombed with you know, external
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: pressure to be applied, many are not willing to just
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: play ball with the imperial aggressor. But as you know,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: even if they do disagree with the internal politics, which
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: is quite literally the story of Iraq. I mean, I
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: guess the final thing that we wanted to I guess
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: wanted to talk to you a little bit about here
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: is with this logic up along the escalation ladder, the
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: consuming of the Gulf States, every story Top Wall Street, Journal,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Bloomberg is interceptors are running out in the golf by
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: the way, even these golf got I mean, I'm reading
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: stories they're shooting Patriot four million dollar missiles at Shahad drones,
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: which cost twenty thousand dollars.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: They're going to be out within a week, maybe a month.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: We don't exactly know the number if that happens, and
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: we see a conflagration. Already, Saudi Ramco is under threat.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: They're saying that they're going to avoid the Straits of Hormuz,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: move oil through the Red Sea via pipeline. Qatar LNG
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: has already shut down Iran, saying this morning they may
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: even attack Europe. When we see a depletion of that
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and we see this actually globalized into a major war,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: what does that look like from a global perspective, not
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: only impact on the United States, but broadly for a
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: regional and global picture for our geopolitics.
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: We don't know, because the planner who didn't think this through.
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: I mean, this is truly unprecedented. The Iranians have struck
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: or tried to strike Cyprus, where the Brits have been
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: using a base that was extremely active in the genocide
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: against Gaza, but apparently also had played a role in
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: some of the attacks on Iran. It may also be
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: a retaliation for the Brits allowing Garcia to be used
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: by the United States after first having resisted. The Iranians
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: cannot reach out, so perhaps deystruckt the Cypress base short
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: of that, But we also see what's now happening between
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: Europe and Russia. Europe is now putting pressure on the
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: Ukrainians to allow Russian gas and oil to come into
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: Europe because now they're suffering from an astute fuel shortage
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: that has been made much much worse because of this war.
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: I mean, life as a vassal is clearly not particularly easy,
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: since you have put your own destiny in the hands
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: of someone else. But the Europeans, to chose to become
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: vassals of the United States in this matter, are not
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: paying the price for it now. Will this then eventually
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: lead to a scenario in which the Russians and the Chinese,
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: one way or another, are also dragged into it. The
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: conventional wisdom has always been that the Russians, at least
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: the Chinese will do everything they can to stay out
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: of this. The Russians are not going to jeopardize their
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: prospects for a deal to end the Ukraine Wars in
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: order to help the Iranians. But if this expands in
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: an uncontrolla uncontrollable way, then we cannot say exactly what
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: the response of some of these other countries will be.
• 37:47
  Speaker 8: We're also seeing right now other things. We're seeing that
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: in Bahrain there are riots taking place. There's some reports
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: that the Saudis have stepped in into Bahrain again to
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: clamp down on those protests, as they did in twenty eleven. Rain,
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: of course, used to be Iranian territory. It's majority Shia,
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: so we're already seeing the kind of repercussions that most
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: people thought would only happen in the worst case scenario.
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: We're three days into it. We're already in the worst
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: case scenario in that sense.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable, just absolutely unbelievable, Doctor Parsi, thank you as always.
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: Thank you, sir, thank you so much for having me.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Turning now to the Golf situation, which we just talked
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: about with doctor Trita Parsi, the entire region and flame
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: and also deeply afraid of what it means if they
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: run out of interceptors. We did want to start though,
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: with this extraordinary accusation by Tucker Carlson reporting that there
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: were MOSAD plots and agents arrested by two different golf
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: countries trying to foment terror and chaos in these countries.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: It really really hurts these countries, and Israel wanted to
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: hurt these countries. That's the point, wanted to hurt these countries,
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: wanted to show chaos and disorder because they are rivals
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: of Israel. So it's probably not hasn't been reported, but
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: it's fact that last night in Qatar and Saudi Arabia,
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: authorities arrested MASAD agents planning on committing bombings in those countries.
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: Now that's weird, that doesn't make any sense. Why would
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: the Israelis be committing bombings in two golf countries which
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: are also being attacked by Iran. Aren't they on the
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: same side.
• 39:24
  Speaker 10: No, No, Israel wants to hurt Iran and Qatar and
• 39:31
  Speaker 10: Eway and Saudi and Bahrain and Oman and Kuwait.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Extraordinary claim there by Tucker Carlson and obviously highlighting the
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: bigger strategic picture that we picked off our entire show
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: is this is Israel's war. There's really not a whole
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: lot in here for the United States. We've depleted our
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: interceptor stockpile. We've now made a mockery of all of
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: these golf country You know how many billions of dollargies
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: in golf countries have spent on US.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: I mean it's probably hundreds of billions if.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: You total all of it together where they're like, look,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: we buy all your weapons, you get to keep our
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: you get to keep your bases here to support the
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: war in Iraq. We get to have a literal monarchy
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: and it's all cool, and we have a ton of
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: oil and you buy it.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: So it's security in exchange for monarchy. Everybody's kind of
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: done a handshake deal around that. That's all being blown
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: up their entire vision before the world. Let's go ahead
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: and put some of this vo that we have up
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: here on the screen. In each of these cases, we're
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: showing you the region is literally inflame. So you've got
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: Tel Aviv in the middle of last night. This is
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: all just from last night. You've got missiles that are
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: flying around the screen. You can see some of the
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: interceptors that come multiple interceptors that they're having to fire.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: This one was in Doha.
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: Guitar.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is genuinely shocking, Like it's crazy. Look
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: at the amount of interceptors and all that are being
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: fired up into the sky to intercept either drones or
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: missiles that are coming in towards them. These people have
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: never seen anything like this. This was video which was
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: actually on the border of Saudi Arabia and of Bahrain.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: As riots continue to break out in Bahrain, which has
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: a large Shia population which you can see in front
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: of you, Saudi Arabia is having to dispatch some security
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: forces potentially to try and crush those riots, just like
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: they did in the middle of the Arab Spring. So
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: your foundation of their society is now in question. From Bahrain,
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: which is the home of the Fifth Fleet, tens of
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: thousands of Americans. Kuwait, of course their long security relationship
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: with the US.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Iraq.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: This morning, which somewhat allegedly was our protectorate or kind
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: of was whenever we invaded and occupied it for I
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: don't know, like twenty years, just had to shut down
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: their largest oil field, Saudi Arabia this morning. The US
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Embassy in Saudi Arabia issuing a explicit notice that they
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: have incoming missile and UAV attacks on dah Ran.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: If you don't know what, Doron is, the home of
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the Saudi.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Aramco compound and of the largest oil facility in the world.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: In addition, we had the Saudi Embassy which was or
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: the US Embassy in Riod was hit by drone yesterday
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: and apparently the roof was caved in three different drone
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: attacks that hit the US. I mean, do you know
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: how insane a single attack on a US embassy is
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: an international story. The US embassy in Riahat has now
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: been hit. The US embassy in Baghdad was basically under
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: siege for two days straight. You've got now confirmed reports.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: We were careful. We talked about this yesterday. The United
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: States military is now confirming vi A Reuters that marines
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: fired on people in Pakistan. Sure that's going to go over. Well,
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: That's going to go over real well in Pakistan, isn't it.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Pakistani protesters killed by American marines in the middle of
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: a consulate in a massive protest where people are shooting
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: at each other. This is full blown chaos all over
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: the entire world, and then bigger. What really belies all
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: of this is this story. Let's put B three up
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: here on the screen. The UAE and Katar are urging
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: allies to urge allies to help Trump find an off
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: ramp and largely interceptor stocks. Front page of the Wall
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Street Journal literally this morning is about the number of
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: interceptors that these trees are firing. They're four I mean,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: just think about the math here, four million dollar patriot
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: against a twenty thousand dollars drone. They say that they
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: might be done in a matter of a week, perhaps days.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: And then what the hell is going to happen to
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: the Burj Khalifa or the Queen Elizabeth Hotel or in Doha,
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, the Ritz Car, all of these famous hotels.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: What did Professor jeongsay yesterday? Water desalination plants, the dams
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: which are all over the country for water supply. What
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: about Qatar LNG has already done. Qatar LNG announced this
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: morning they're shutting down all downstream production, not just LNG
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: production of everything is happening. The Iraq oil field is down,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: The Saudi Aramco is basically notifying its suppliers that they're
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: going to have to pick up from somewhere else to
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: avoid the straits of the.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Disruption across the Gulf.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: It will take them years to recover from this, you know,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: structure militarily, what are they going to do? And then
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: brand wise, Oh my god, you've got probably a million
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: plus maybe two million Americans who are now stranded all
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: across the entire golf.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I mean, these are like very rich people like oil.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: I used to live there. I'm telling you, like, I
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: went to the American School of Doha.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Every other kid is like, oh, my dad works at
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: Exon or whatever. Imagine you've been living there for a decade,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: You're drinking Margarita's the Intercontinental Hotel, and the next day
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: you are literally trying to get the hell out of
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: the country.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: But you can't. You literally can't.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: All the people who go and vacation there, you know,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: again very high end luxury, Like do you think that
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: they're going to be rushing back for their Dubai vacation
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: after seeing luxury hotels going up and flame? And this
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: is what their whole economy and image is built around.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: So that's why it's so long term devastating to them.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: To your point, Zager, about that Wall Street Journal front
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: page article on the Interceptor's math math, which again Marco
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Rubio himself came out and was talking about quite openly.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Yesterday.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Now, Donald Trump put on a truth social post saying
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: that we could do war forever and it wouldn't be
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: a problem. I'll ask you to you know which which
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: version you'd believe. But in any case, they quote this
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: expert who says, the intensity of interceptor usage that we
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: have seen over the last couple of days cannot be
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: maintained for more than another week, a week, probably a
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: couple of days at most, and then they will feel
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: the pain of interceptor shortage. That is from Fabian Hoffman,
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: a missile expert at the University of Oslo.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: So that's where we're at.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: And the Iranians number one, they have an asymmetric interest
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: in this fight. So of course they're outmatched by the
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: amount of firepower that we have in Israel and all
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: of our allies, all the weapons we sold them over
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: the years, blah blah blah. But they have one thing
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: going for them, which is that it's truly an existential struggle.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: This means so much more to that. I mean, how
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: how much do you care about this? You just probably
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: want us to end this war?
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: They know that this is truly truly existential for them.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: We couldn't defeat the frickin' hoofies right armed with much
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: cruder arms and much lower level of supply, because ultimately,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, we didn't care enough
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: to be able to you know, when they saw the
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: fight as more important, we spent twenty years in Afghanistan
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: with all of our weaponry and a ground invasion. And
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: at the end of those twenty years when we left,
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: guess who came back into power the Taliban. Why because
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: they cared much more than we did at the I mean,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: that's what really has screwed us. That is the lesson
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: that should have been learned over all these many years
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: when you were attacking people's lives, when you're attacking a government,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: when you're threatening its existence, they will fight to the death.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: And the American people are not bought in for this
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: They are not willing to accept any of this pain.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Like the six service members who have already been killed
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: in action is six to many, no one, virtually, no
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: one outside of this small area and some you know,
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: people in the Iranian diaspora here are really excited and
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: enthused and motivated to suffer in any sort of way
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: for this. And yet we can already see, I mean,
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: doctor parties said it. It is already spiraled.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Out of control.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: And to go back to Israel's motivation here with allegedly
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: sending massad agents in to commit terror attacks, which it's
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: not confirmed, but I certainly don't put it past them.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: The logic of that is that not only do they
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: have an interest in just sewing chaos everywhere. We're going
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: to talk to Scott Horton about how they're now openly
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: advertising like, eh, Turkey's next, you know, after Iran, next
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: threat is Turkey. But also they want to they want
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: to create these false flag attacks so that the Golf
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: States are fully bought into the war too, that they
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: also want to fully engage. So that's what Israel's constantly
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: pushing for US and for all of the GCC to
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: be fully in to this war. That is what serves
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: their interest and so that is what they're trying to foment.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Right put C four up there on the screen, just
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: to highlight again the problem and why this is really
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: diminished the United States.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: This is from the Middle East eye.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: US is stonewalling request by Golf States to replenish interceptors.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: One Golf States sought reassurances on US commitment to air
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: defense when discussing access to its bases. Again, by the way,
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: Katar and the UAE highly dispute that original Bloomberg report.
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: They're like, we're fine, we have plenty of interceptors. Apparently
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: that's the new line. Donald Trump actually put out a
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: truth social in the middle of the night. Let me
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: read it to you, because this is actually one of
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: the most unhinged, dangerous things that he has said.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll add this in posts.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: The United States munition stockpiles have at the medium and
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: upper grade never been higher or better. Not true, as
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: we stated to me today, we have virtually unlimited supply
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: of these weapons.
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: Not true.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Wars can be fought forever very successfully, yes, but not
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: with interceptors. Maybe with dummy bombs, jade ams and some bullets,
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: but in that scenario you're going to be taking a
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: shit pot of casualties. Wars can be fought forever using
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: just these supplies. At the highest end, we have good supply,
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: but we are not where we want to be. Much
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: additional high grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: That's the most dangerous part. Why because it means we
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: have to go all in. We don't have that many
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: of these interceptors. If we want to go all in,
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: say goodbye to Taiwan, Say goodbye to Ukraine. If you
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: care about those places, say goodbye to any place in
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: the world which may matter more than this tiny little
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: country the size of New Jersey, which literally produces nothing,
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: called Israel, and we are done.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: That's it. It's over in terms of US geopolitical projection.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: There aren't they already talking about pulling a sad battery from.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: From South Korea? South Korean state media right now?
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, anyone want to tell me what trading partner South
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Korea is compared to Israel in terms of its rank.
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: South Korea is one of the most developed economies in
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: the entire world, one of the most important trading partners.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Ever heard of this little brand called.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Samsung or any of these other places or you know,
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: oh my god, I mean, I could go on forever
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: of it's importance, not that anybody in the US apparently
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: even gives a shit, but yeah, fad battery out of
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: that against Let's compare threats. One state has one of
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: the world's largest standing armies, a literal nuclear tipped ICBM
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: capable of hitting the United States, and frequently launches missiles
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: against South Korea and Japan, two top trading partners which
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: are vitally important to the security of the US.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: That's called North Korea. The other one is called Iran.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: It has short range and medium range ballistic missiles, it
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: doesn't have a nuclear weapons program, and it can't hit
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: the United States. And if we've done a deal with them,
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: pretty much wouldn't have met. And which do you think
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: is more important to defend against.
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: And has never started a war and has never.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Started a war or at least directly against the United States?
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: So which do you think would you say is more
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: important to defend But we're going to strip it from there.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: That's just that's just one example. It's over.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, let me let me read you my interceptor math,
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: because people really do not appreciate how dire all of
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: this is. I have the direct numbers. These are from CSIS.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: In the Twelve Day War, the US fired one hundred
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: and fifty that interceptors to protect Israel. That was twenty
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: five percent of the whole US stockpile. In the last
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: forty eight hours, we have fired we don't really know,
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: probably you know, several dozen at the very least in
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: How many new interceptors do you think that we.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: Got ten twelve, ten month the year before, so tens
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: in the last two years. So we fired more than
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: what triple or sorry, Quinn Tipple in a single twelve
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: in twelve days, and we'd acquired in a two year period.
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: It's over. They can't manufacture these things cost millions of dollars.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: The defense supply chain is screwed. And for all the
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: two trillion dollars that we spend on this, you know,
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: it's funny. I was listening to the CSIS expert. They
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: go The NPR person is like, but where does all
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: the money go? And he's like, well, most of the
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: money's on Tricare, which is like welfare for all of
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: these services and healthcare programs and subsidies. It doesn't actually
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: go to a lot of the critical weapons systems, despite
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: the fact that people have been.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Warning about this for years. But Trump's own admission.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: The Patriot missile battery they say in there, the UAE
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: and the Katar they were like, can we get more
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Patriots and are like, oh, we gave them all the Ukraine, sorry,
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: they're all gone. We literally gave them all away. The
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Europeans can't give you anything. They shipped it all already
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: for the Eastern Dunboss region.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: It's this is bad.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: They're like those they're mussling us up with those drones too.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: And I mean that was one of the things Professor
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Jang said yesterday is that our military really was built
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: for the Cold War. It was built for flexing, it
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: was built for performance of power, and it really has
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: not been you know, reimagined for modern warfare. And so look,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: the Iranians learned from the Twelve Day Wars. Okay, we're
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: going to shoot off our you know, lower tech missiles
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: and use these drones that can you know, evade some
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: of them will evade your interceptors, and we're gonna we're
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: gonna bet that we can outlast you. Now, let me
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: tell you the other side of the other side of
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: that is that the US. Look, they're bombing the hell
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: out of Tehran right now. Their their goal is to
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: destroy all of the missiles, destroy all of the missile launchers,
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: so that Iran can never make it to that point
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: that Iran is not capable of, you know, outlasting because
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: their capabilities have been so severely degraded and destroyed. And
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: that is certainly a possibility. That is the bet that
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: they're making. But look already already what Iran has been
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: able to do by saying basically fuck it, we're throwing
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: everything against the wall, where we are putting all our
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: chips on the table. We are all in the economic damage,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: the brand damage, and the gulf, the chaos, the attacks
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: on the US, the humiliation really truly of the US.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Our fighter jets are flying or dropping out of.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: The sky, which, by the way, there should still be
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of questions about what the hell exactly happened
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: there and whether that was truly friendly fire or not,
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: because if it was, I mean the whole it's insane anyway.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: But the level of humiliation the US has already suffered
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: here is truly incalculable. And you know, and the Iranians
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: are like, no, we're not going to negotiate with you.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: We need to exact some pain because otherwise you will
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: never leave us alone. So we are going to do
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: everything we can to make you suffer. And there is
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: zero appetite for suffering on the US.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Also, our new update, just while we were filming Donald Trump,
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: their Air Defense Air Force NAVAN leadership is gone. They
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: want to talk, I said, too late.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: Great, Oh yeah, I'm sure we take his word for it.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: But no, I'm just like said a liar.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: Regardless of what is being you know, maybe they probably
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: said no, we don't want to talk at all, but
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: him saying Nope, we're not going to talk at all.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: We're going to go full on. So this is it.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean he's lying they I mean, based
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: on other recording, they rejected it. And so he's trying,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Oh you didn't fire me, I quit you know that's
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: what he's doing.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, regardless, the situation is the same. There's only one
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: logic from here. If you know you're going to run
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: out of interceptors, then you've got to bomb the shit
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: out of the country and to try and flatten and
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: destroy it, collapse it into civil war. Well okay, well
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: what comes next? What's going to happen after that massive
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: refugee crisis, huge civil war? It could bleed all into
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: the rest of the Gulf. These drones aren't going anywhere.
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: You've got hundreds of thousands of people with a bunch
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: of guns and military training, and we don't have a
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: ground force there to do anything about it.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: So what do you think they're going to do? You
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: think you're gonna take it, sit and line down.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: By the way, they just attacked the Rocky Curds this morning,
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: to try and preempt some sort of attack by them.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: So we're already going cross border.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Well, and here's the other thing, you know, a bigger
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: picture in terms of these So we know public sentiment
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: in the US is against this war overwhelmingly. Look, the
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Republican base is going to go along with it by
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: and large, but the rest of the populations like, what
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: the hell is going on here?
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: And you even hear democrats, the democratic rhetoric has already
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: shifted from being so extremely lame at the you know,
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: especially at the top levels, to now after those Rubio comments,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I'm here in democrats like Mark Warner saying some things
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: about Israel I never thought I would hearer in my
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: entire life, so that they are already reading the political
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: writing on the wall here. But you also have to
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: think about the populations in the region where you know,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: to Sager's point, these are monarchies like these are not
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: representative democracies.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: And they've made some noise about oh the.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Palestinians, yes, we support it, to state, but they are
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: populations who many of whom truly do support the Palestinian
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: cause and truly are disgusted with the genocide in Palestine.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: And the you know, annexation of the West Bank and.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: All of that.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: They do not agree.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: They see the fecklessness, they see the game that their
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: leaders are playing. So you also start this war at
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: a moment of a low point in regional public opinion,
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: both about the UI and about Israel, which is why
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: you know, you see multiple of our embassies being attacked,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: you know, in Pakistan, the fact that US marines were
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: shooting civilians attacking the US embassy in Karachi. I mean,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: this in and of itself is just that one thing
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: is an absolutely insane event. And then you've got you know,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: mobs at the bag Dad embassy as well. I mean,
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: this is this is a moment when most of the
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: population in the region. Look, they're you know, typically not
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: too crazy about US. They hate our freaking guts, and
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: they hate the Israelis. And that's the moment when you're
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: gonna ask to you know, them to bear the pain
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: of their countries getting attacked. They're you know, the luxury
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: hotels next to them getting blown up, and their governments
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: are on board with all of it. You're gonna have
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: some you know, you're gonna have some local and we're
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: already seeing that in Bahrain, which is why the riots
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: are very significant.
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: Development that's going to be the first one to fall
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: because they have the Shia population. But the rest of them,
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, there's some there is a serious social contract. Right,
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: you have no rights literally whatsoever. But you're gonna be rich.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: But that rich.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: Those riches come from oil, natural gas being this global playground.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: All of these Indian laborers, I mean, how many of
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: them are going to stick around? Like money's worth it
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: up to a point before you think you're gonna die.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: And then if you have enough money, do they have
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: enough money to continue paying them? I think I mentioned
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: earlier the US embassy and riod is issuing this imminent
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: threat of a missile attack over dah Ram, which is
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: the seat of Saudi Aramco.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: This is the lifeblood of these places.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: The money is the only thing that flattens out all
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: of the tensions in these people's societies. If it dries up,
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: if it dries up by even thirty percent, it's catastrophe
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: for these economies.
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: Rock is shut down oil production at the world's second
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: largest oil field, which produces one point five million barrels
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: of oil per day, amid escalating military activity, and the
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: American government is telling Americans in the region you should
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: get out, but we're not going to help you.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: You're on your own.
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: Good.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Imagine being stuck in Israel and you're like, hey, how
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: do I get out of here? And you have to
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: go to the US ambassador's Twitter feed where he's giving
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: you these minute instructions about how to catch a bus
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: to the Sinai and then when you get to the Sinai,
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: use this link which you have to pay to cross
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: the border. And then when you cross the border, let's
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: hope that you I mean, look, I've only been once,
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: but I'm pretty sure that it's not a very big
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: airport in the middle of the Sinai peninsula. Are they
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: going to be you know, there's seven hundred thousand Americans
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: who live in or at least seven hundred thousand American
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: citizens who live in Israel. Are they all going to
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: be able to get out? And now imagine Dubai Doha.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: What Treta Parsi said there? Do we have that story
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: about five times? Yeah, let's put that one up there.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: See five up there on the screen. Half of Dubai
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: is booking. Expats are driving to Oman and Saudi Arabia
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: to try and to find flights. I said yesterday the
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: going rate for a PJ out of Saudi Arabia right
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: now is three hundred and fifty thousand for a single
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: flight to be able to get out of the country.
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: Trump's podcast advisor Alex bruceter Witz from the campaign, he
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: got stuck in the Gulf, and he apparently had to
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: talk with a bunch of friends, including like TikTok influencers
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: or whatever, to charter a PJ to Greece to be
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: able to get That's the only way out is you
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: have to be able to get a private jet.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: And I bet you the premium is unbelievable. So unless
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: you don't have that kind of money, you're stuck. You're
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: stuck for a long time down there, and they're basically
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: even the ambassador is saying openly he goes flights even
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: when they do reopen, will be extremely limited and they
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: will be disrupted for a significant period of time. It
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: could be months that these people are completely stuck with
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: missiles flying all over there.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: Let's just put C seven up on the screen. This
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: was some important reporting from drop site. We've got you know,
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: we saw Iranian drones I think mostly that attacked various
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: hotels throughout the golf And according to you know sources
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: that DROPSDE are in touch with, they say some of
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: the buildings and hotels that were hit were specifically housing
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Israeli or US personnel or intelligence operations, and that Iran
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: pinpoint at the locations has really caught the Americans and
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Israelis off guard, according to an Iranian official. So you know, this,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: that level of intelligence penetration too was apparently shocking to
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: the Americans and to the Israelis. And let me say
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: something like, you know, the Iranians are obviously attacking civilian infrastructure,
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: or they're attacking hotels, they're attacking two data centers now
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: have been taken out. They're you know, yeah, they're attack
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: and they're attacking the some of the oil infrastructure. You know,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: they're claiming some of that is incidental or they didn't
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: mean to or whatever, but there is no doubt they're
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: attacking civilian infrastructure. Like we have zero ground. I don't
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: even hear anyone complain ABO because we have zero ground
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: to stand on. Zero And that's the other thing, like,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: you know, when you talk about the Pandora's box that
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: was opened by GASA, And what is now on the
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: table right is not just confined to us. We're not
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: the only ones who are going to take advantage of
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: this new law of the jungle where schools and mosques
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: and hospitals and you know water zalinization plants and you
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: know wastewater treatment plants, where that is all on the table.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: Our adversaries are going to take advantage of that as well.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: And that has already already right now in this moment,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: that has put Americans at risk, and that's part of
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: why they are being urged to flee the region immediately,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: being given no.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: Help, no help in order to do that.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: In those six Americans, you know, I think hag Seth,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: it's oh, they were in a fortified facility.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: No, they weren't.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: Bullshit, we just say they were in a triple wide trailer.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: That's what they were in.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: They were in a triple wide trailer with concrete walls
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: that were put in front of them because in their mind,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: they're protecting against suicide car like they called v BITS,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: like vehicle borne IED. It's not two thousand and five anymore,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: you know, the IED it comes from the air with
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: a twenty thousand dollars drone which crashed directly into it's
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: called a tactile operations center also known as a TALK
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: and they all got bowned up. Imagine that a temporary
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: trailer totally unfortified. There's now an investigation as to why
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: there weren't proper troops or there weren't proper air defenses
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: or any of that put around them sitting down, it's
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's beyond comprehension. These are six guys, their family.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, what are you going to tell their families?
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: Who did they die for? What did they die? I
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: hate to talk to that way, I really do, but
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: I do think you know, we have to say it
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: viscerally in the middle of a conflict. Otherwise is going
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: to get caught up in this Iraq war. Freedom isn't
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: free level bullshit, and no, we're not doing that this
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: time around. We're not going to let them do that
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: to us, because that's how we lost thousands, tens of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: thousands who were maimed as well. It really is just
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: absolutely sickening. Okay, we've got Scott Horton standing by. Let's
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: get to it.