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  It's time for the truth be told with Booker Scott.
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  We start this hour having to report another six American service people have been killed.
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  This one was over Iraq, and it was a refueling KC 135.
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  We continue to have the thoughts and prayers of ourselves for our military that is in harm's way tonight.
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  I'm Booker Scott.
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  This is The Truth Be Told.
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  As always on Monday, we are joined with Matt Palumbo here.
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  Matt, it's Mondays with Matt, and welcome back.
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  You missed last week.
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  So glad to have you back.
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  Very good to be back.
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  How was Albania, by the way?
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  You know, I got a text message.
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  I get a text message from you that says I've been summoned to Albania.
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  What did you say?
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  You're like, that's the only time anyone's ever said that.
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  Yeah, no one has ever said I got summoned to Albania before.
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  But that's what I got from you.
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  And anyway, welcome back to the country.
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  And how was your trip?
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  It was good.
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  I mean, it was mainly just to um because of the uh by the book I'm writing about the country um and their first president.
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  So it was just related to that.
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  So I didn't really get to do um, you know, much exploring or anything.
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  I just kind of went for walks when I have like a free hour here and there, but that was really all.
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  But it it was it was a lot of fun.
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  I'll probably be back uh the summer with my family this time and uh get to explore more freely.
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  I am glad to have you back.
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  I flew solo last week, so let's get into it.
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  We have a lot to talk about.
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  You have the Iranian conflict, war, whatever you want to call it.
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  It doesn't seem like uh the people on social media really understand what is going on.
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  My son, he is about your age, and he keeps texting me.
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  Are we losing the war because of the social media that he sees?
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  And I'm like, don't believe those lies because that is not reality.
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  Again, we have seen military precision taking place in Iran.
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  We have decapitated the leadership, not once, but twice, and maybe even got a third of the next guy.
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  They said his leg was amputated.
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  I don't think that was true.
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  We don't know for sure.
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  And then there was the rumor going around that Netanyahu had been killed.
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  And I said that's not true either.
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  And then Netanyahu came out Sunday and said, No, I'm fine, I'm right here.
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  So you have to be real careful in what you are taking in right now.
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  Overall, though, I think the military is doing an incredible job here.
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  Well, I mean, we've killed their so-called supreme leader who is rolling with an iron fist, and then basically all of his subsequent replacements, and now it's I believe his son in charge, but he released a statement um that was just a written statement.
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  He hasn't been seen on camera or in public, so he clearly is living in fear, knowing it's very likely he's gonna be killed the second he appears.
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  So um, I I don't think anyone on our side is in that situation.
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  So if we had a that was the only detail we knew when we had to say which side is winning, I would say the one where you know the the side who's a leader doesn't want to be seen in public is probably the losing side.
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  I would think so too.
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  And he does not want to be seen.
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  If I were him, I wouldn't want to be seen either, because it would probably be the end of me.
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  The big news over the weekend was the bombing of carg, the island there that sits about 18 miles off the Iranian coast there near the Strait of Hormuz, which is another part of the story that we'll get into here in a few minutes.
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  But this was strategic bombing of military bases there on that island.
• 3:49
  The island is very important, isn't it, Matt?
• 3:52
  Uh well, yes.
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  I mean, I believe it's not like 20% or so of our um you know oil and natural gas is traveling through there of the world's rather.
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  Yeah, that's through the whore moves.
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  The Strait of Horror moves.
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  Yeah.
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  Yep.
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  And then also, I mean, even countries like China have a stake in keeping that open.
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  Obviously, Iran is trying to keep it shut in retaliation.
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  Although I did see a statement recently where they claims we're only shutting it for America and Israel.
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  I don't know, you know, if they're if they're actually going to enforce it that way, but I I guess you know, for oil prices, it would be technically preferable if only we were excluded.
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  But uh, you know, I don't think that's actually going to stand in that you know, they can say that, but they also have to enforce it.
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  And we have a Navy that Trump said, or Trump at least flow to the idea of the Navy escorting ships.
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  And one of the reasons we have a military as large as we have is to maintain um, you know, harmony on the seas to enforce trade routes and that kind of thing.
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  It's a major benefit, probably to the trillions of dollars a year that is kind of this unseen benefit of the military that a lot of people just don't even realize or will forget about.
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  So I, you know, I I was in researching um the straight of our moves about trying to become an expert on it within a week.
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  Uh you know, the question I wondered is well, why don't we just take it over?
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  And I the only video I found on YouTube trying to explain why we couldn't, uh I thought failed to make the case.
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  I mean, I Iran's military and their capabilities are going down on a daily basis.
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  They don't really have leadership.
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  And we have the biggest military in the world by quite a large margin.
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  So I just I it it's you know, there is the mildest solution will just be our our military escorting ships through.
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  The most radical would be us taking it over.
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  But I don't know.
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  I I don't think it's gonna be an issue as big an issue as people think it is.
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  Let's go back and visit that island carg that was bombed over the weekend because a ninety eighty-five-90% of the oil that Iran produces is done there.
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  What Donald Trump and the U.S.
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  military did was strategically bomb military assets of Iran there on that island.
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  And they sent a message there saying, if we did that here, we can do this to your oil.
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  We don't want to.
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  We don't want to do that to your oil because if you remember, Donald Trump got upset at Netanyahu in Israel last weekend when he bombed the refining facility there in Iran.
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  Donald Trump doesn't really want to do that.
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  But when it comes to CARG, so much of that oil, that 80-90%, is sent to Asian countries.
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  And the main one is China, but there is also Japan, who is our ally.
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  There's North Korea, who, by the way, was uh sending rockets again.
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  We haven't heard anything from Rocket Man in a while.
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  But suddenly he he did about 10 missiles over the weekend.
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  CARG is very important, and I have seen some talk on you know, Fox and News Nation and other ones, where these very you know, smart generals are saying we should siege it and seize CARG.
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  And then you have to wonder about the Marines and the expeditionary force that are on their way over there that will probably be there in a week.
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  Is that the purpose of the Marines?
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  Are they going to do that?
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  And if they do, is that a good idea?
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  I'm not so sure that it is.
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  Yeah, I don't know like for the strategic, you know, perspective, whether that is a good idea.
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  I mean, I I think it'll be a successful mission, but the obvious question is how many casualties are we willing to tolerate for that?
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  And uh, you know, I tend to err as close to zero as possible.
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  Uh at least I know that's not realistic and being utopian, but uh, you know, when there are other alternatives, uh, I would I would say that.
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  Um now in the past, whenever Trump has placed ships near a country, it's been for the most obvious reason.
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  Um, you know, remember leading up to the Venice when we took Maduro, we had some ships on the coastline, and Trump was asked why did you park them there?
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  And he he tells the interviewer, well, they have to be parked somewhere.
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  And it was, you know, a whole area's answer because we all knew the real and the real reason they were there, and that was seen in the future weeks, but it was the same with Iran.
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  We send a parking ships on the you know, uh on the coast ahead of uh us taking out their their so-called supreme leader.
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  And uh, you know, it's uh the the simplest explanation is is the true one, usually uh what when it comes to uh the I guess Trump setting ships to a certain area.
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  I think everybody has to be careful in what they hear, what they believe when they hear things and when things are reported.
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  There's a lot of artificial intelligence that's being used here.
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  By the way, um Iran hacked striker medical, which has about 50,000 employees.
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  They did that last Thursday.
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  It has caused a lot of problems with that company.
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  That's something we're gonna have to watch for, as well as the couple of bombings that we'll talk about a little bit later that took place last weekend.
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  Keep your head on a swivel out there, because it's a time now that some of those gotta ways may, you know, come back and get us, or at least try to.
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  Donald Trump is talking about negotiating, and he says that Iran wants a deal.
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  Do you think that there is any validity to him saying that, or is there something else, another reason why Donald Trump is saying that Iran wants a deal?
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  Uh, well, you know, that you know, it is in Trump character for Trump that no matter what is happening, it's working out.
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  Um, I mean, I I think in this case it actually is.
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  Um, as to whether or not they want a deal.
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  I mean, their public uh persona or their their public messaging does not really suggest that.
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  It suggests a defiant Iran, but it is entirely possible that in private they you know are not completely delusional of the circumstances they're in.
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  Um, that being said, I was I was reading up on their new leader, the Ayatollah's son.
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  Um, you know, the one who will not be seen in public, and it everything about him seems to be that he is more radical than his father was.
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  He is um ultra conservative in you know, I'm using conservative in in the context of um uh you know.
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  Devotion to Islam.
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  A literalist, I should say, might be a better word to use.
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  But is very radical in those regards.
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  So he has an ideologically motivated guy.
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  And when your enemy is someone who believes that paradise awaits them if they fling out and die while trying to kill you, they are a harder opponent to reason with.
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  Yeah.
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  Let's go to this sound here.
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  We're talking about Donald Trump saying that Iran, yeah, they want a deal.
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  They want a deal.
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  The Iran foreign minister was on Face the Nation over the weekend.
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  Here is that exchange.
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  President Trump said this weekend he is not ready to make a deal with Iran because the terms aren't good enough yet.
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  His administration is saying this war could last another three and a half weeks or so.
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  Has Iran asked for a ceasefire?
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  No, we never asked for a ceasefire.
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  And we have never asked even for negotiation.
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  We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes.
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  And uh this is what we have done so far, and we continue to do that until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war with no uh victory.
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  And uh, you know, uh there are you know, people being killed only because Trump wants to have fun.
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  This is what he has said.
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  Have fun?
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  We are not yes, this is what he said that they are sinking uh, you know, ships uh targeting different places because it is fun.
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  Uh and uh uh the Secretary of War has said that there is no uh no mercy.
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  Uh and this is actually a war crime.
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  Even even saying that is a war crime.
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  So this is a war this is a war of choice by President Trump uh and the United States, and we are going to uh continue our self-defense.
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  Until they can't.
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  And how close are they to that?
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  It seems like they're pretty close to the point of not being able to defend themselves.
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  Missiles are becoming less and less every day into Israel and into the other uh Gulf Arab nations.
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  I think they're running out of ammunition, Matt.
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  Uh, both literally and figuratively.
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  I uh I I hadn't seen that clip, so I'm I'm I'm glad he didn't contradict what I was saying right beforehand.
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  Uh uh No, it was hilarious that even Margaret Brennan, I assume that was who was speaking, was shocked when he said we got bombed for fun.
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  Right.
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  Like Trump just like, all right, guys, we're bored the Saturday.
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  What are we gonna do?
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  Uh bomb Iran.
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  Sounds good.
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  I don't know.
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  It will be hilarious if that's in the history books.
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  So you know, that that was the cause was Trump and Heggs with getting bored one weekend.
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  Obviously, it's it's not, but it was uh it is funny that he floated that as a reason.
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  And like I said, don't believe anything that's coming out of Iran at all.
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  Question everything that's coming out of the Pentagon and the United States of America.
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  Well you have that right, and you should.
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  Yeah, and he he was I mean, they were killing tens of thousands of their people and blocking internet access, so the information couldn't get out of the country leading up to this.
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  So for them to claim like they're in any way concerned with the loss of human life is obviously laughable.
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  Um they I mean they're they're killing their own civilians, so I don't know who they exactly do care about.
• 13:31
  Uh when it comes to it, and you were kind of hinting at this earlier um about misinformation, like we have the fog of war plus AI now, and there are uh a depressingly large number of people that have no antibodies to uh or or any uh detection or any ability to detect when something is AI.
• 13:51
  Um it's gotten to the point where I've seen people post video game footage and try to pass it off as actual war footage, and it was going viral.
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  So it is uh sad to see how quickly a lot of misinformation is spreading here.
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  But you you are right, there are narratives that uh secretly Israel is cowering uh in in response to the retaliation, or uh Netanyahu wasn't seen for a day, so therefore he must be dead.
• 14:16
  Uh just a lot of craziness, and and most of the time the rule is just give it a day or two, and the truth will normally usually reveal itself.
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  Yeah, let the dust settle.
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  Just let the dust settle.
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  You don't have to jump on everything as soon as you hear about it.
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  Use your discernment.
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  And that brings me to the FCC and Chairman Carr, who is threatening networks and other media outlets for reporting fake news.
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  What do you think about that?
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  Because the left has come unglued about it.
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  Well, you know, it would have to be deliberately spreading fake news.
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  And the reason I say deliberate is just because, you know, there are if you're reporting, let's just say you and I are reporting a thousand stories a year, just by random chance.
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  There's gonna be one or two that kind of fly under our radar where we missed, you know, we we spread misinformation that was later corrected or appeared true at the time but turned out not to be.
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  You know, even if we put me in a good faith effort in every single story to verify, like just by chance, one in so many you're gonna miss, or your your BS meter just didn't go off that day, and it's gonna be a total accident.
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  And if you you know, prosecute every single person pushes a fake story, uh it really condenses the amount of reporting you're really going to see.
• 15:36
  Um that being said, uh, you know, when when it was stories like the Russia collusion hoax, uh, you know, or um, you know, the them them trying to debunk Hunter Biden's laptop, they clearly were knowingly lying.
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  Um they clearly were acting in that faith.
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  They were deliberately soliciting the opinions of so-called experts to spread misinformation.
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  So, you know, in those like huge narratives that have dominated media cycles, uh I think there is a case to prosecute that or go after them because it required fake news and then fake news on top of fake news, and then fake experts to uh to give credibility to the prior fake news and so on and so forth.
• 16:19
  Um so yeah, that's how I would say it.
• 16:22
  You know, I I think go after like the the big guns there when it comes to that.
• 16:26
  Well, let's go to ABC News and let's go to James Longman.
• 16:29
  He reported from inside Iran because some of the information that we're not getting is how the Iranian people actually feel about what's going on, what America and Israel is doing in their country.
• 16:41
  Seventy-five percent of the population of Iran, they don't want the regime.
• 16:45
  25% of them are supportive of the regime, but 75% is a lot of 90 million.
• 16:51
  The only way that we're actually going to see regime change is from the inside, not from Donald Trump and not from Netanyahu.
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  It's gonna have to be from that 75% of the 90,000.
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  So what are they saying?
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  Because they have no internet.
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  The regime shut down the internet as soon as this started.
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  So we're not getting any information from there.
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  But James Longman of ABC News, he did, and here is his report.
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  It was around 1 a.m.
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  Uh, all the people in my neighborhood, they were screaming, they were shouting, and you know I it was like uh a celebration, and everybody was shouting get homeney, and uh we were so happy.
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  Those who sent messages of us their names not be used and some voices altered for their safety.
• 17:37
  As war descended on Iran, the regime once again cut off internet and communications across the country, controlling its people and silencing their messages of resilience.
• 17:47
  We check the news, we uh try to keep the connection uh to the satellite TVs uh and by the phone, although we we are in uh total blackout, and um the slightest uh connection that we have is very unsecure.
• 18:07
  Everybody all around Tehran has heard and felt the wave and the sound of explosion that was very big, very enormous, uh almost like an earthquake.
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  But I can say the sound it keeps us going.
• 18:32
  We are grateful for this opportunity, and we are waiting for the day that we can go out to the streets and get back our country.
• 18:42
  They are waiting for the day that they can go out into the streets and get back their country that has been taken from them since 1979, and that's what a lot of this is about, isn't it?
• 18:55
  Yeah, and um, you know, when we say like one in four support the regime, you also have to account for the fact that you know there are gonna be people who say they do because they think they're gonna get killed if they were to say otherwise, or we found out.
• 19:06
  So it's probably far less than that.
• 19:08
  The country is um, you know, far more the public is far more secular than you expect in an Islamic theocracy.
• 19:15
  There has been um, you know, rebellion against the mandatory hijab in recent years.
• 19:20
  Um this was all a long time coming, and Trump has learned from the mistakes of the sort of neoconservative wing of our party that has pushed regime change where we handpick um uh a replacement, and that oftentimes goes wrong for reasons that are foreseeable or not foreseeable.
• 19:38
  Um Trump has learned that you know from the mistakes that we've made in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you know, in Venezuela, it seems like he's kind of gonna let it be the same people in charge, but we're gonna be pulling the strings, and you know, we might even let them rhetorically criticize Trump in the US, but it's just gonna say the face in Iran.
• 19:56
  He indicated that the um those who are protesting the
• 20:00
  Street should be the people who who take over the government, which would be um, you know, uh it would be uh you have some symbolic um I just say you know, it would be uh phrase it.
• 20:14
  Uh, you're gonna have to cut this a little bit.
• 20:15
  Well, let me let me just jump in here and help you out a little bit because uh in order for a regime change to take place, it's gonna have to take some ground troops, and it's not gonna be American, it's not gonna be Israeli.
• 20:28
  I believe it's gonna be the Kurds.
• 20:29
  I read over the weekend that the Kurds are ready.
• 20:32
  They are waiting for Donald Trump to say, yep, let's go ahead and do it.
• 20:35
  You have to remember that the Kurds helped out in Iraq and they were instrumental in that, and there are Kurds within Iran, and you have to arm the people, the those people that you just heard there in that audio clip, they have to be armed to enable and enabled to uh do this regime change.
• 20:52
  So that's what we'll wait on.
• 20:53
  I think it's coming.
• 20:54
  We're gonna tie together a few of the things that you just did with Iran, Venezuela, and into Cuba.
• 21:00
  We're gonna do that here in just a minute.
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• 22:57
  Welcome into Mondays with Matt here on The Truth Be Told.
• 23:01
  I'm Booker Scott with Matt Palumbo.
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  You can see Matt as a Fox News contributor, also a Newsmax contributor.
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  He's written 11 books.
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  Go to Amazon, put his name in there, Matt Palumbo, and pick out one of his 11 books there.
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  You can find Spygate that he wrote with Dan Bongino.
• 23:17
  You can find The Man Behind the Curtain about George Soros and his newest book, The Air about Alex Sorrell.
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  So there's a few of them you can pick from.
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  Also, fact-checking the fact checkers is another one of those.
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  Yeah, it is a classic, of course.
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  You wrote it.
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  Let's get it back into the cop what you were just talking about.
• 23:34
  I think there is something to the way Donald Trump did Venezuela.
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  Everybody thought that he was going to go in there and topple the government, and he didn't.
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  He kept the vice president who was actually handpicked by Maduro to take the place of him.
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  And so far, that seems to be working.
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  I don't know that maybe she has no choice but to work.
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  And as long as that's the case, I think it's working.
• 23:56
  We look over to Cuba, and it seems like Cuba is ready to topple.
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  We have talked about it, but it's been about a month or so since we have.
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  It seems like it's getting really close.
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  They have no energy there.
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  I saw a video on social media claiming to be showing protesters setting the uh communist party headquarters on fire.
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  Um hopefully I'm not falling for AI.
• 24:17
  I was about to say about five minutes ago, but I I I it yeah, it does seem like that could be the next domino to fall.
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  Um and we've been sort of hinting at that since Venezuela anyway.
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  The thing is, there probably half a countries on the planet.
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  We could just take over within a week if we really felt like it.
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  So, you know, Cuba really does not stand a chance at all.
• 24:39
  Um we're we're gonna have uh a bay of pigs invasion, but with competent people.
• 24:45
  Yeah.
• 24:46
  Well, I think you made a good point a few minutes ago, where I think Donald Trump has learned from our history in the Middle East and other places that a true regime change by our picking and the way we would like to do it, it just doesn't work.
• 25:00
  So here's Peter Ducy from Fox News.
• 25:02
  He's talking about the connection between Maduro, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran.
• 25:07
  Here is this piece.
• 25:08
  And based on what President Trump is saying tonight, it would seem like it's only going to be a matter of time before something big happens with Cuba.
• 25:16
  But something else that we are are seeing, every one sentence quote that President Trump gives to a different outlet is the impact that the success of the Maduro raid in January had on his world view.
• 25:28
  Of course, this is a president who became popular and around the time of the 2016 primaries, criticizing previous Republicans for getting entangled into long-running Middle Eastern wars.
• 25:40
  But after being able to go into Venezuela, take the leader out and then have a hand in what happens next.
• 25:47
  The president seems very encouraged to try to replicate that in places like Iran.
• 25:51
  That is why he is telling Axios today the following.
• 25:54
  They are wasting their time.
• 25:56
  Comedy's son is a lightweight.
• 25:58
  I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Dulce Rodriguez in Venezuela.
• 26:03
  And then with this Cuba uh situation, he says Cuba's going to fall too.
• 26:09
  We cut off all oil, all money, or we cut off everything coming in from Venezuela, which was the sole source, and they want to make a deal.
• 26:17
  And they also want to make a deal in Cuba.
• 26:20
  It's just a matter of time.
• 26:21
  Here's my question coming out of that piece and our conversation here on Donald Trump going for regime changes that some people call it that.
• 26:30
  In Venezuela, Cuba, and also right now in Iran.
• 26:34
  Do you think Venezuela emboldened Donald Trump to make the move in Iran and then will also end Cuba?
• 26:41
  Well, yes.
• 26:41
  I mean, the Venezuela mission was so successful, it almost sounds funny to describe it.
• 26:46
  But it's like, all right, so what here's what we did.
• 26:49
  We um we had a after a foreign president, so we showed up at his house and picked him up and then nuked his predecessor's grave for the hell of it.
• 26:58
  The end.
• 26:59
  Like it I don't I don't know how it could have possibly gone any better.
• 27:02
  It couldn't have.
• 27:03
  And I think it did embolden him to do these things.
• 27:06
  And in some ways, it's taking his eye off the domestic things that need to be worked on going into a midterm coming up this year.
• 27:14
  It's gonna be very interesting.
• 27:16
  I think we're I think this war has to end this conflict or whatever you want to call it in Iran.
• 27:21
  It it needs to end pretty quickly.
• 27:23
  They are saying he four to five weeks from the start of it.
• 27:26
  Uh who knows?
• 27:27
  Uh, here's Pete Hegseth on Whore Moose on the Strait of Hormouth.
• 27:30
  We were talking about it earlier.
• 27:32
  Here's a little more on that with Secretary of War, Pete Hegzass.
• 27:36
  You have said that the U.S.
• 27:37
  military has essentially uh aerial superiority, naval superior over Iran.
• 27:41
  Yet we're not escorting ships to the Strait of Hormuth.
• 27:45
  Why?
• 27:45
  How did you not plan for this?
• 27:48
  We we plan for it.
• 27:49
  Why aren't we?
• 27:49
  We recognize it.
• 27:51
  Um because ultimately uh we want to do it sequentially in a way that makes the most sense for what we want to achieve, and ensure that we're we're sending the right signals uh to the world when we do so.
• 28:02
  So when Chris Wright speaks or we speak, it's based on a full assessment of of what we're what we're up against, what we want to say to the world, how that we want them to see and understand the conflict.
• 28:11
  It's like this whole idea of the war widening.
• 28:13
  That's what the press wants to make it look like, like it's widening in chaos and so no, we're actually closing in on grabbing hold of and controlling what what objectives we want to achieve and how we want to achieve them.
• 28:25
  And Matt, I think that's an important point right there, because you see this in the mainstream media, you see this on the left that we didn't have any plans for the Strait of Horror moves.
• 28:35
  We didn't think about it.
• 28:36
  Of course, they thought about it.
• 28:38
  I I saw General Kellogg on uh March 5th on Fox News on the Will Kane Show.
• 28:44
  He was talking about that carg island that we talked about earlier in the hour.
• 28:48
  They obviously have thought about it, but I think it's important for people to hear what he just said there that we are messaging a certain way.
• 28:56
  We're doing things a certain way, the way that we want to do them, because I think a lot of people are missing that point.
• 29:02
  Yeah, it was good.
• 29:03
  And you can even tell the um uh the reporter, at least from the sound of what you played, did seem like he was trying to become uh be argumentative uh with Hag Seth and the way he was presenting it.
• 29:13
  So I'm I was satisfying to see uh him shut him down and say, no, of course we thought of this.
• 29:18
  Yeah, let's finish up with this clip.
• 29:20
  Here is Pete Hagsack.
• 29:21
  It's called shaping operations and setting the conditions.
• 29:23
  But when you shape the environment, you don't always tell, I mean, foolish political leaders and foolish military leaders of the past will hang an exact deadline on it.
• 29:32
  Or here's exactly when we'll do what we're gonna do, or here's how long it's gonna take us.
• 29:36
  And then if you meet that, uh maybe you meet it.
• 29:39
  But if you don't, you fail.
• 29:40
  And if you're far beyond, we know exactly what we're shaping and why.
• 29:43
  We're sending those signals working across the interagency.
• 29:45
  The Strait of Horror Moose is something we've paid attention to from the beginning.
• 29:48
  Uh, and the American people can rest assured, uh, we will ensure that our interests are advanced.
• 29:53
  So they knew about the Strait of Horror moves from the beginning.
• 29:56
  Obviously, they knew about it, but that's another one of those things that the left is.
• 30:00
  Uh trying to do that's trying to change a narrative and make people feel like things aren't going so well in Iran.
• 30:07
  Uh yeah, pretty much.
• 30:08
  And you know, just despite the fact that I do think things are going well, it is in our best interest to try to wrap this up as soon as possible.
• 30:15
  Um the polling seems to indicate it's Republicans are on board, but independents are wary of it, and um you know, listen, when we voted for Trump, obviously we wanted to minimize foreign entanglements.
• 30:27
  I I am glad that the ones that are happening, though, haven't um you know, have been going pretty well.
• 30:32
  Well, if Donald Trump didn't do it, they probably would have never been done.
• 30:36
  And all three of them should have been done.
• 30:39
  It's one of those things too, where you have to consider the counterfactual, where if we did nothing now, well, it may require even more intervention down the road.
• 30:48
  Or they would never do it.
• 30:50
  I mean, Biden and Obama, you know, they were appeasing Iran for all of those years.
• 30:55
  They had no intentions of ever doing what Donald Trump is doing right now, and it needed to be done for the world.
• 31:02
  Yeah, I mean, like, you know, better to do it now than you know to prevent them from having a nuclear bomb and to wait for them to have it and then have to navigate that.
• 31:10
  Are you keeping up with Tucker Carlson and what's going on?
• 31:14
  Is it something else?
• 31:15
  Really, I really, you know, when Tucker got kicked off Fox, my first thought was well, this is gonna be cool because you know he's gonna start his own thing and he's gonna do all this cool reporting that Fox and the mainstream media wouldn't let him do.
• 31:28
  And it turns out those stories are just like schizophrenic nonsense for state media.
• 31:33
  It's it's really sad to see.
• 31:34
  And and I know um Gregory Reeve was a guy who wrote all of Tucker's monologues, and I I think we just like Greg the whole time.
• 31:44
  I don't know if it was really Tucker.
• 31:46
  It seems like Tucker's either lost the plot, they the only alternative is that Tucker is some sort of double agent where he's like pretending to be friendly with these third world regimes, but he's just collecting dirt on them for our administration.
• 32:00
  But I don't know, it is very sad to see.
• 32:02
  He's just kind of gone into every conspiracy avenue.
• 32:05
  He even did like a 9-11 truth thing recently.
• 32:08
  Like it's every little conspiracy he he's uh diving into, and it's it's sad to see.
• 32:13
  And he said over the weekend that the CIA is reading his text messages.
• 32:18
  Yeah, that's that he is nuts at this point.
• 32:20
  I don't think he's collecting dirt though, Matt.
• 32:23
  I think he's collecting big paychecks from Kyle.
• 32:26
  Correct.
• 32:26
  No, I was I was just kind of half joking that because people were saying, like, you know, he um uh people were joking saying, like, you know, he's Trump had um invited him to the White House and he he's been in those circles recently, and they were joking like maybe they were they were feeding him fake information on Iran to spread with them so that our our uh military operations would be more successful, and it was a tug-in-cheek, but uh that was the gist of it.
• 32:50
  Well, it sounds like Trump has done away with Tucker Carlson now, as well as Marjorie Taylor Green.
• 32:56
  I do believe that the CIA probably was looking into his messages because there are there is probably a case for him um that he probably should have registered for Farah, the the foreign agent uh agents registration act.
• 33:11
  Whereas if you are um you know uh advancing a foreign interest knowingly uh in the U.S., which he is with a lot of these people, um, it is something you have to register for.
• 33:22
  The only way really he he could get around it is and this is what he probably will argue is uh I'm just a journalist letting people speak.
• 33:29
  Well, that's what he's already done.
• 33:30
  He's already said that.
• 33:32
  But look there, it but no normally it's not like the kind of thing you go to jail for because uh Ron uh Rhonda Santis is him with her exact role within his administration, and it's Christina Pouchaw.
• 33:44
  Uh but before working for DeSantis, she had done some consulting work for the president of Georgia, the the country.
• 33:51
  And this was not there's no attempt to hide it.
• 33:53
  Um it was it was work she had done publicly.
• 33:56
  Um, but a few years ago, I think the DOJ contacted her and told her, hey, you're gonna register for FARA, and it was just they met with her, she then paid you know, whatever the fee is, I think it's a couple hundred bucks, she registered, and that was it.
• 34:09
  So it's one of those things, crimes where they kind of just give you the chance to register after the fact, and that clears it up.
• 34:16
  So you know, if he does get a meeting with the DOJ, it's probably just gonna be, hey, you gotta disclose of this or else, but it it's not like they're gonna come in guns blazing and arrest them.
• 34:28
  I at least uh it wouldn't really make much sense.
• 34:31
  Plus, I don't think Trump would let that happen for obvious reasons.
• 34:34
  Well, let me go through Tucker Carlson's history, and you can follow the money here just like I did.
• 34:40
  MSNBC, CNN, Fox, and now Cotter.
• 34:43
  He says whatever someone is paying him to say.
• 34:47
  Does that make sense?
• 34:48
  Here's Pete Hexeth in one of those uh press conferences where he was asked about Tucker Carlson.
• 34:53
  Here's Pete Hexeth.
• 34:54
  And parts of the party, particularly from your fellow Fox News alum Tucker Carlson.
• 34:59
  He called the war disgusting and evil, and then set up unconditional surrender, which the president has called for means foreign troops get to rape your wives and daughters.
• 35:07
  Have you heard these comments?
• 35:08
  And what's your reaction to them?
• 35:10
  Um we're busy executing on behalf of great patriotic Americans with a clear mission.
• 35:14
  Uh that's 47 years overdue.
• 35:16
  Um we're gonna execute on that regardless of what people say about it.
• 35:19
  Hexeth did a good job there of skirting around that and not bringing in any more attention to it.
• 35:26
  However, the words there that Tucker Carlson uh talked about, he is talking about American troops raping uh in Iran.
• 35:32
  That's how far he gets.
• 35:36
  You know, doing that in retaliation to us.
• 35:39
  That's insane.
• 35:40
  Yeah, it is insane.
• 35:41
  Well, the Department of Homeland Security is not working because uh well, there's a government shutdown.
• 35:47
  Did you forget about that?
• 35:48
  It's been going on for weeks now.
• 35:50
  Federal employees missed their first paycheck last Friday, and we had some bad things happen last week.
• 35:57
  We had a couple of them on the same day.
• 35:58
  It happened on Thursday, one at Old Dominion University in Virginia, the other one at a synagogue in Michigan, West Bloomfield.
• 36:05
  Let's go to some sound and get some background on both of these stories here.
• 36:11
  Gazali's vehicle gets jammed between hallway walls, and he begins firing through the windshield of his vehicle.
• 36:19
  Ghazali and the first security officer engage in a gunfight through the rear window of Gonzalez vehicle.
• 36:26
  At this point, Gonzale is unable to extract himself due to the vehicle being jammed in the hallway.
• 36:33
  At approximately 1222 p.m., a second security officer engages Gonzali in a gunfight from the front of the vehicle.
• 36:41
  And soon thereafter, Gonzalez vehicle, his engine compartment catches on fire.
• 36:46
  And at some point during the gunfight, Gonzalez suffers a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
• 36:51
  And that was the one in Michigan.
• 36:54
  Yeah, and this guy, his name is his first name is Mohammed, by the way.
• 36:59
  So is the guy at Old Dominion University.
• 37:02
  What are the odds that a guy named Muhammad with a car full of explosives drives into a synagogue to kill a hundred kids in pre-K after millions of gataways came into this country?
• 37:14
  Matt, we talked about it years ago.
• 37:16
  We've been doing this together over two years now weekly, and we actually go back almost three years, but we have been talking about this the entire time that Joe Biden was president, that these things were going to happen, and they are happening now.
• 37:30
  And so now we have a couple of Mohammeds that have come in and done exactly what we said would.
• 37:35
  And it's it's not a big story for those of us that have paid attention to the last four or five years under Joe Biden with millions of these people coming into this country.
• 37:45
  And then within I believe it was within a week of those two.
• 37:48
  There was the case where that guy, um I think Jake Lang is his name.
• 37:52
  He's like a I mean, the term far right actually is accurate in this time to uh context to describe him, but he's like a provocateur, very anti-Islam.
• 38:00
  Um Jake has been on this show a few times, four times, I believe.
• 38:05
  Three times from the DC gulag when he was there as a J6 presidenter, and he actually text messaged me and wanted to come on the show the week that happened.
• 38:16
  He wanted to be able to do that.
• 38:17
  That's cool.
• 38:18
  I I stayed away from it.
• 38:19
  I didn't do it.
• 38:20
  I I did not do that interview.
• 38:21
  Okay, interesting.
• 38:23
  Uh, but yeah, but there's you know, uh it was a scene like out of a curb your enthusiasm episode where this liberal is doing a speech in front of him about how everyone is welcome here, and then some Muslim jumps up on him and throws a bomb over him.
• 38:37
  Um and fortunately it didn't go off.
• 38:39
  But we had we had three Islamic terror attacks in basically a week, week and a half, and we only lost one life.
• 38:45
  So they're getting they're they're sending us their worst terrorists, fortunately.
• 38:49
  Um, but still, you know, there's gotta be so many more in the country.
• 38:52
  And the one that attacked Jake Lang, I think was based in Pennsylvania.
• 38:56
  So we have ISIS cells in Pennsylvania, which is insane.
• 39:00
  And one of those that happened last Thursday, his brother was killed.
• 39:03
  He is a member of Hezbollah.
• 39:05
  He was killed by Israel in Lebanon.
• 39:07
  So there's the connection there.
• 39:09
  The point of all of this is uh keep your head on a swivel out there, be careful, pay attention to things.
• 39:15
  One more a couple of more things here I want to get onto before we get to the break about Iran, and that is the cost of gas.
• 39:22
  I noticed that gas here in Florida went from 275, 280 to 375 almost overnight, which to me seems ridiculous because I have done research on this before.
• 39:34
  From the ground to your gas tank takes six weeks.
• 39:38
  So in a war from uh uh ground to your gas tank takes about three days.
• 39:44
  I think they're gouging us here, but let's go to Chris Wright.
• 39:47
  It could be.
• 39:48
  Yeah, he is the energy secretary.
• 39:50
  He was on the weekend shows on Sunday.
• 39:52
  I believe this was Face the Nation.
• 39:54
  How long should Americans expect for gas prices to be high?
• 39:58
  Are we talking weeks?
• 39:59
  Are we talking
• 40:00
  Months or just don't know at this point.
• 40:02
  Yeah, I I think that this conflict will certainly come to the end in the next few weeks.
• 40:06
  Could could be sooner than that, but the conflict will come to the end in the next few weeks, and we'll see a rebound in supplies and a pushing down of prices after that.
• 40:15
  Um but yes, we were very aware, very aware that we would have short-term disruption.
• 40:21
  We would cause some uh we would cause a little bit of increased prices on Americans.
• 40:26
  Prices today are still far below what they were in the Biden administration, where they were begging, bartering and bribing Iran to to behave better.
• 40:36
  We we had five dollar gasoline in the middle of the Biden.
• 40:39
  Yeah, I don't think that this is a good point he's trying to make.
• 40:42
  I get what he's trying to say, and he's right, it was five dollars with Joe Biden at the height of that.
• 40:48
  Donald Trump, he campaigned on bringing the prices down, and just because they're a little bit less than they were when Joe Biden is, that's not a good reason.
• 40:57
  And people are going to lose the will to continue what's going on in Iran unless it's over quickly.
• 41:03
  I believe that it will end pretty quickly, though.
• 41:05
  Well, yes, I mean that's why it has to end soon because the you know, the more consequences for someone's day-to-day life, the more against what they're going to be.
• 41:12
  And yes, they're not going to view it in context of well, gas just went up, but thank God it's lower than it was two years ago.
• 41:19
  Is it gonna be in the context of what was it a week prior?
• 41:21
  People are you know that's how we view things.
• 41:23
  It's it was it's we're very short-term thinkers, unfortunately.
• 41:25
  But but the thing is too, though, like when the price is artificially high because of a decision that we made, you also then can't blame your predecessor.
• 41:34
  Um, the the good news is I think this is just gonna be a short term spike anyway, and it'll probably be well worth the cost, but it should not be something we draw out at all.
• 41:42
  Let's listen to Kevin has it.
• 41:44
  He is part of the Trump administration, and he also was talking over the weekend.
• 41:47
  I wanted to just say that the countries around them, they also suffer from the risk of having them go nuts and attack them.
• 41:54
  And so we expect that the global economy is gonna have a big positive shock as soon as this is over, and we're still being briefed that it would be four to six weeks from the beginning, and that we're ahead of schedule.
• 42:04
  A big positive shock, four to six weeks.
• 42:07
  So this is uh an April 9th scenario you're talking about.
• 42:10
  You're gonna see some kind of president will decide.
• 42:13
  The president will decide if they if they no longer have the capability of blackmailing us and harming our neighbors.
• 42:20
  And once he decides that, then he'll call an end to the war.
• 42:23
  That's a pretty broad definition.
• 42:26
  Well, we've destroyed their navy, we've destroyed their Air Force and so on.
• 42:29
  So I think that we're well on the way.
• 42:31
  The media just needs an answer, don't they?
• 42:33
  They want, okay, so this is all gonna be over April 9th.
• 42:36
  Well, nobody can answer that question.
• 42:38
  Have some patience, let the military do what they're doing, allow the president of the United States to make the decisions, and let's let this happen.
• 42:47
  Be patient with it.
• 42:48
  My favorite exchange was it was months ago, I think, when Trump was asked, like the reporter is very specific, like what's your plan for Iran?
• 42:57
  But was asking for like extreme specific things, and he just goes, Well, I wouldn't tell you.
• 43:01
  I'll remember that.
• 43:03
  And that's pretty much the answer.
• 43:04
  Like, what you think we're gonna take the whole world is watching everything he says.
• 43:08
  We're not gonna telegraph anything.
• 43:09
  In fact, if if Trump were ever going to publicly say his plan, he he would have to lie and say something else to throw them off.
• 43:16
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• 44:54
  Well, Matt, we ran a little longer on that segment, but we still have some time to cover some ground here.
• 45:00
  We're gonna leave Iran behind us now.
• 45:03
  We're gonna talk about the Save Act a little bit.
• 45:05
  It looks like the Save Act is going to come for a vote at the Senate this week.
• 45:10
  What do you think?
• 45:11
  How are they gonna do it?
• 45:12
  It doesn't sound like uh maybe the standing filibuster talking filibuster is going to be the way to do it.
• 45:18
  What do you think?
• 45:19
  Well, we don't have Fetterman's vote.
• 45:21
  We don't have Lisa Markowski's vote.
• 45:23
  So we're you know, we're we don't even have all Republicans on board.
• 45:27
  We don't have the one Democrat who might defect, uh, or at least I shouldn't say the one, the one who is the most likely to vote for that kind of thing.
• 45:34
  So it looks like it's not going to go anywhere, unfortunately.
• 45:37
  Um I mean it puts Democrats on record, but I don't really know what difference that's gonna make.
• 45:42
  I wrote an article last week about the Save Act and how really when you look at the Save Act and look at the poll numbers across the line, Democrat and Republican, 80, 83% of the American people, they want voter ID.
• 45:57
  They want people to be an American citizen to make a decision when they go in and vote in a poll.
• 46:03
  And we have our Congress that is defying the will of the people.
• 46:08
  And when you have done that, you have they they've run a dagger of death through the heart of this republic.
• 46:16
  That's my opinion.
• 46:17
  That's what they're doing.
• 46:17
  They're no longer representing the Americans' wishes at this point.
• 46:21
  They're doing whatever the hell they want to.
• 46:24
  Yeah, and you know, they're they're always telling us, oh, voter fraud, there's oh, there's only 30 cases a year in federal elections that have you know a hundred million votes.
• 46:32
  And I'm thinking, well, then why do you care?
• 46:34
  Like what then what's the big deal here?
• 46:36
  Like they like, you know, listen, I I know that there, you know, the estimates on on voter fraud vary so much depending on who you're looking at, but it it has to be way more than they're saying, or else they would just say, okay, let's pass the Save Act, and nothing's gonna happen in the elections.
• 46:53
  And look, you guys were idiots the whole time, and we're gonna keep beating you with you know, even with it.
• 46:58
  But even having Republicans against this, and you do the same.
• 47:01
  Yeah, Lisa Markowski and her, I think she said something like even was even specific and said like you could disenfranchise people in my community.
• 47:09
  And I'm thinking in Alaska, like I you know, the argument is always like blacks and Hispanics can't get IDs is the leading liberal argument, which obviously they reject given they overwhelmingly support this.
• 47:21
  But that's those are demographics that really aren't constituencies in Alaska.
• 47:25
  So it just our comment made no sense there.
• 47:28
  And it is interesting too that it is a media onslaught, the narrative that the the SAVE act is disenfranchised people.
• 47:37
  Um they're now claiming like well that married women won't be able to vote or like they it's getting increasingly hysterical by the day who they're claiming it'll disenfranchise.
• 47:46
  And basically no one believes it if you look at the polling, which is is very rare.
• 47:50
  The media is usually very good at brainwashing people.
• 47:52
  This is one of those lies that is so obviously not true that no one's buying it.
• 47:56
  No one.
• 47:57
  It's eighty, eighty-three, eighty-four percent.
• 47:59
  I think it's over ninety percent for Republicans, and Democrats are even uh above seventy percent.
• 48:05
  Yeah.
• 48:05
  Yeah.
• 48:06
  This is a no-brainer, but yet it can't get through Congress.
• 48:09
  Let's listen to the minority leader on the Senate side, Chuck Schumer, the Democrat from New York.
• 48:14
  There might be some information in here that may make it all make sense.
• 48:18
  It's about voter registration.
• 48:20
  It makes it it allows ice to kick tens of millions of people off the rolls.
• 48:28
  Whoa.
• 48:30
  What does that mean?
• 48:31
  Tens of millions of people off the rolls.
• 48:34
  Why would I be doing that?
• 48:36
  You have any idea, Matt?
• 48:38
  I I wonder what what could possibly be it?
• 48:41
  Chuck Schumer just said that.
• 48:42
  He said that's it be on the rolls in the first place.
• 48:45
  And you notice too, like when he says tens of millions can be kicked off the rolls.
• 48:50
  I mean, in theory, they could all be Republicans, right?
• 48:52
  Yeah, very good.
• 48:54
  Uh obviously he knows they're not.
• 48:56
  So he has some inside information there that it would be people kicked off that are to the benefit uh of the Democrats party.
• 49:03
  Yeah.
• 49:03
  And and all like I live in New Jersey, unfortunately, where it's a state where when you um when you get your driver's license, uh you can you are automatically registered to vote.
• 49:14
  This is very common in a lot of states.
• 49:16
  Florida, Florida's the same way.
• 49:18
  That's where I am.
• 49:18
  Yeah, yeah.
• 49:19
  Yeah.
• 49:19
  And and we for some reason allow legal aliens to get driver's licenses here.
• 49:24
  So I mean, it it's pretty easy to put two and two together that when you have a legal getting driver's licenses, they're also gonna get registered to vote.
• 49:31
  And and even if there's supposed to be some sort of oversight to prevent that, we're working with government bureaucracy here, and we're working with governments that benefit from having a legal register to vote.
• 49:42
  So, yeah.
• 49:43
  Let me keep going with Chuck Schumer.
• 49:45
  Here's a little more of that.
• 49:46
  Off the rolls, and they don't tell them until election day, and you show them you say, You're not registered anymore.
• 49:53
  You're not registered here.
• 49:54
  You're not on the rolls.
• 49:56
  And they say, I didn't know that.
• 49:58
  This is a bill that decides.
• 50:00
  Destroys the country.
• 50:01
  And it is not about showing ID when you show up to vote.
• 50:04
  It's about the voter registration roles, destroying them, purging them, not letting people know, and taking the rights in a uh algorithm put together by us.
• 50:15
  Okay, he he doesn't know what he's talking about at this point.
• 50:18
  And cleaning up the voter roles, that should be it should be the most important thing that we do.
• 50:24
  That's the only thing that we do as Americans.
• 50:27
  It's the only voice we have is to choose our representation.
• 50:31
  And of course, as I said a few minutes ago, these these guys in DC, they no longer represent us anyway, if you can't pass the SAVE Act.
• 50:39
  But it's interesting there what Chuck Schumer had to say.
• 50:41
  I I just think the Democrats are lost completely in their messaging on this, and they're lost in you know their ideology on this.
• 50:49
  Yeah, there's just no defense.
• 50:51
  Like what can you do without an ID nowadays in the modern world?
• 50:56
  It's like trying to get a buy without a without without a cell phone.
• 50:59
  It's just not really possible anymore.
• 51:00
  You need it for uh what to see a movie and a rent a car to get a hotel room to buy alcohol.
• 51:06
  Like you need an ID for basically everything.
• 51:08
  So why would voting be the one thing you don't need one for?
• 51:12
  And and even if you don't have a license, like you can get a non- you can get other forms of photo ID.
• 51:17
  It's there's just so many options to get one that it's it's unbelievable to me that there's you know millions of people that can never cannot take an hour out of their day to get one.
• 51:28
  Yeah, no, I agree, Matt.
• 51:30
  And it is going to come for a vote.
• 51:32
  It's going to come this week.
• 51:34
  And I'm not sure how they're going to do it.
• 51:36
  That there was talk of the nuking the filibuster, which I think is the dumbest idea in American political years.
• 51:42
  Yeah, it surely is.
• 51:43
  And then the standing talking filibuster, I would love to see that.
• 51:47
  I would love to see that, and I think that it could pass if that was done.
• 51:51
  But evidently, John Thune, the majority leader in the Senate, he can't even uh get enough Republicans to go along with that.
• 51:58
  Mike Lee put a video out over the weekend, and he says they have maybe a hybrid idea.
• 52:04
  So we'll have to wait and see this week what happens.
• 52:06
  Go ahead, Matt.
• 52:06
  Well, my understanding with the talking filibuster is that it might be difficult to have enough people there for a quorum, and that if Democrats didn't show up, uh I think it was like if if only one or two Republicans left, it would um collapse the session.
• 52:22
  But I might be incorrect about it.
• 52:23
  They probably know more than me on that.
• 52:24
  Well, you know what?
• 52:25
  I would love to see the Senate do away with Cloater.
• 52:27
  I would love to see them do away with that and change the rule back where you actually had to filibuster.
• 52:33
  The way it's supposed to work is when you bring a bill to the Senate floor the way it used to work a hundred years ago back to 1917.
• 52:40
  That started the clock, and the debate continued until everybody had had their say and no one else had anything else to debate.
• 52:48
  And at that point, you voted for the bill.
• 52:50
  What Clocher did in 1917 was allow them to put the motion on the table.
• 52:56
  So once a bill is introduced, it can put it over to the side, you don't have to debate it, and then they change the rules in 75 where you don't even have to do a foot real filibuster anymore.
• 53:05
  You can just say we're gonna filibuster, and then that's good enough.
• 53:08
  So if they did those two things, if they went back to the real filibuster, they got rid of Cloteur, we might see the Senate actually do something.
• 53:16
  But here is Senate uh leader, majority leader, John Thune.
• 53:30
  We don't have the votes either to proceed get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it.
• 53:39
  Um but that's just a that is just a function of math.
• 53:41
  And there is anything I can do about that.
• 53:43
  I mean, I understand the president's got a passion to see this issue addressed, as we all do.
• 53:47
  Does he understand that though?
• 53:49
  Well, we've conveyed that to him, but um we'll continue to make that argument because I think it's important that everybody understand that this really is about it's about the votes, it's about the math.
• 54:00
  And um I I'm for better or worse, I'm the one who has to be the clear-eyed realist about what we can achieve here.
• 54:06
  And so we'll continue to convey that.
• 54:08
  And um, and I think that we're gonna have the fight on the floor.
• 54:11
  We're gonna vote on this.
• 54:13
  Um, we're gonna put it up, and we'll give the Democrats the opportunity to cast their vote on whether or not they think non-citizens ought to vote in American elections.
• 54:21
  Now, Matt, you and I have been talking about this on this program for almost two years.
• 54:27
  It was in April of 2024 that Speaker Mike Johnson, he went to Mar-a-Lago, he and then candidate Donald Trump.
• 54:35
  They from a podium, they told everybody what the Save Act was.
• 54:38
  At that time, I said this will never pass the Senate.
• 54:42
  In May of 2024, I said it on the show.
• 54:44
  I think with you, that it was never going to pass.
• 54:47
  It was meant for political messaging going into the 24 election.
• 54:52
  That was a big thing for Republicans and conservatives.
• 54:56
  So it it gave the energy to the base and energized them to go vote.
• 55:01
  And now we are here, and it's not happening, and I think it's almost having the reverse effect for the Republicans and the base of Donald Trump.
• 55:10
  People are frustrated over this.
• 55:12
  Well, that's the problem with you know, trying to mobilize people around this is if it fails.
• 55:18
  I mean, okay, yes, you have the narrative of Democrats don't care about free elections, but that narrative is not going to get disseminated through the mainstream media.
• 55:26
  It's only going to be through right-wing media.
• 55:28
  And then you have a base that's saying, well, okay, so I'm gonna I'm gonna go vote in a fraudulent election that millions of illegals are in.
• 55:35
  Is that a motivating message?
• 55:37
  And I I don't really think it is.
• 55:39
  No, I don't either.
• 55:40
  Well, Matt, we are to the end of our hour.
• 55:43
  We've covered some ground here.
• 55:44
  What do we look for this week other than the Save Act?
• 55:47
  What else is on the agenda?
• 55:49
  Uh I mean, I guess that it's probably the lazy answer, but a lot of the things we talked about, the updates and stretched or moves, um, that situation, and then also what's next with Cuba.
• 55:58
  Let me run this by you too, because this is a story I kind of wanted to ask you about.
• 56:03
  I don't know that you've heard about this, but a woman was convicted of killing her husband with a two by four.
• 56:09
  And she is up for parole for the first time after 25 years.
• 56:13
  Now, this guy was a big Texas uh real estate broker at the time, and in the middle of his sleep, she just went to his head with a two by four.
• 56:21
  And do you think she should be paroled?
• 56:23
  She is seventy-five years old now.
• 56:25
  What do you think?
• 56:26
  No.
• 56:26
  This happened in June 2002.
• 56:29
  No, I mean so the the context is just she murdered someone out of the blue with no justification.
• 56:35
  Premeditated, yes.
• 56:36
  Yeah, then no, then no way.
• 56:38
  Yeah, he was asleep.
• 56:39
  She took a two by four out of the garage and went to work on his head, and he died.
• 56:43
  That's insane.
• 56:44
  No, no, of course not.
• 56:45
  Well, because like a trick question, you're trying to get me to the I know your honeymoon, just keep it in mind.
• 56:51
  Walk a straight line.
• 56:54
  Hey, man, have a great week.
• 56:57
  Yeah, please, always.
• 56:58
  Uh you remember Lorraine Bobbitt?
• 57:00
  Never mind.
• 57:01
  Have a good week.
• 57:03
  I I know exactly who that is.
• 57:05
  And don't forget that you were told two thousand years ago that you are the salt of the earth and salt without flavor, it has no value, so whatever you do, keep being salty.
• 57:14
  Have a great night.
• 57:15
  There is only one truth.
• 57:17
  You've been listening to The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott on America Out Loud.