Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Alex Traiman | CEO of Jewish News Syndicate | 06-15-26

Transcript

Alex Traiman | CEO of Jewish News Syndicate | 06-15-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Are you okay, Love, I'm I'm just sorried. I can't sleep.
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: I'll set I'm any more money for lunch. My book
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: has to change.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Look whatever it is, I'm here.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Just look on fine. I'm in trouble. Read between the
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: lines to spot the signs of gambling. Teenage gambling doubles
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: the risk of problem gambling in adulthood. Get support at
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: your AI dot I e from the Gambling Regulatory Authority
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: of Ireland.
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: He's the CEO of JNS dot Morgan. The reason why
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to Israel this Thursday is because he once
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: again has given me the tremendous honor of speaking at
• 0:41
  Speaker 2: j n s's International Policy Summit, a big three day
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: speaking event in its second year. It's gonna open up
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: as they do each year, with bb Netanyao and Mike Huckabee,
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: and then I'm probably gonna speak the last block with
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: people like Mark Levin and Alex and Ron Dermer, Toria Cots,
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Morton Klein and others on the Tuesday Night. But over
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: the years, these last couple of years on this show,
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: Trainman has really come to love President Trump. He really has,
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: and most Israelis have. That may be over Here was
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: Alex's tweet yesterday. The statements by President Trump are absurd
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: and no way for a US president to speak to
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: an ally. The President reserves the nicest comments for Israel's enemies,
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: including Erdawan, Alkani and al Shara. You could add Mamdani
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: that list. The president while his string, with his string
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: of recent comments and his saving of Iran's regime along
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: with its terror proxies, risks turning into an Israeli adversary.
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: Now this may play into Neetanyahu's sweet spot that Tanyaho
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: was definitely manage the war on multiple fronts, dealing with
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: all kinds of diplomatic pressures, and historically now Tignano has
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: been at his best when dealing with adversarial presidents. Well,
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, you know, Alex, nobody loves President Trump
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: more than me. I adorem. I think I texted him
• 2:12
  Speaker 2: six o'clock yesterday morning to wish him a happy birthday.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: But I agree with you one hundred percent. This deal sucks.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: It's a bad deal. There's nothing good about it. He's
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: basically putting everything back where it was. That's it, from
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: the street to giving money to Weron, He's putting everything
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: back where it was. That's it. And for you folks,
• 2:33
  Speaker 2: it's a horror show. So I want to disagree with you, Alex,
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure I can.
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: Well, good morning said, I would say that many Israelis
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: are disappointed. You know, a country that's been in war
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: for two and a half years is ready to keep
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: that war going if it would mean the end of
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: this regimement Ron. The deal that President Trump's entering into
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: is a deal that saves the regime.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: It's a deal that is meant to.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: Protect Iran's proxies, including Chrisbala, which.
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: Is actively firing on Israel.
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: But what's worse about all of it, because you can
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: understand that America has really no obligation to Israel and
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: helped Israel tremendously and Israelis are tremendously grateful for that,
• 3:18
  Speaker 3: is that at the end of it, you know, with
• 3:19
  Speaker 3: Israeli flying side by side in the skies.
• 3:23
  Speaker 4: With America for six weeks, that the US President would.
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: Just publicly turn on his ally on our Prime minister,
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: who I believe has just been acting the way he's
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: been acting the entire time since this war began, which
• 3:35
  Speaker 3: is to protect Israeli citizens and defend Israel's interests.
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: So why is he doing that? Is he, you know,
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: upset that there are morons out there that say, oh, BB,
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: this is Pebe's war. So is Trump coming off particularly
• 3:47
  Speaker 2: rough on BB? I mean calling them names almost every
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: day now, every day to prove to these morons out
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: there that he's in charge. God, I hope he's not
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: doing that.
• 3:57
  Speaker 4: Well, it's exactly what he's doing.
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: And he's doing that by speaking to reporters like Barack Revied,
• 4:02
  Speaker 3: who are the very same reporters that the Biden administration
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: was leaking, you know, comments about Netanielle too. So you know,
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: he's using these left wing journalists, you know, which if
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: it was on American concerns, he would be calling them
• 4:16
  Speaker 3: out and telling them how disgusting they are. But here
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: worth regard Israel, he's using them to do exactly what
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration was doing. He's doing it to get
• 4:26
  Speaker 3: the MAGA community off his back, and he's also doing
• 4:29
  Speaker 3: it to demonstrate to Iran and tokays Baba and the
• 4:33
  Speaker 3: Kataris and the Turks and everybody else in the region
• 4:35
  Speaker 3: that he is the boss and that he can push
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: NATANIAO around and.
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: BIB can't be much about it because correct me if
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: I'm wrong. Elections may be coming up as early as
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: October in Israel, and BB almost needs to win. Again.
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people here who say he doesn't win,
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: they're going to arrest them, you know, pretty much the
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: same thing as Trump. Remember if Trump didn't win, he
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: was going to jail, bottom line. And a lot of
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: people think BB is facing very similar circumstances. Plus he
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: wants someone because he's a great prime minisot and he
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: loves the country. But I think Bbe may not be
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: able to say to Trump what he wants to because
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: he's probably afraid that Trump will really kill him and
• 5:17
  Speaker 2: that'll hurt his re election chances. So is that not true?
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: Well, I think for Natanyao, he's a statesman and he's
• 5:24
  Speaker 3: one of the world's top diplomats, and he would never
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: talk about that like that about an American president. He
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: never talked like that about President Obama or President Biden,
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: even when he had differences, you know, and he always
• 5:36
  Speaker 3: stressed that there can be differences, and there always are
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: differences in the room when you're talking among family. But
• 5:42
  Speaker 3: what's the most important thing is that when you're in public,
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: that you always make it look like there's zero daylight
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: between Israel and the United States, because showing that daylight
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: sends a very, very powerful and dangerous message to the
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: enemies of Israel, who are, by the way, the same
• 5:59
  Speaker 3: enemies of the United States. So you know, Nathaniel would
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: never talk like that about President Trump. And I think
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: that even as President Trump says these things about Nathaniello,
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: and Nathaniel is still grateful for the help that he
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: has received from President Trump, and particularly the bombing of
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: Fordeaux a year ago in June, and these last six
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: weeks of war against tac tackling Iran's nuclear facilities and
• 6:23
  Speaker 3: ballisticness OL facilities.
• 6:25
  Speaker 2: Here was the bottom line. President Trump did what other
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: presidents promised, but Trump had the courage to do it.
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: I love you, mister President. Did a great job. Anybody
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: who argues that we should not have gone into Iran
• 6:38
  Speaker 2: is stupid or or anti Semitic or biased. We had
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: to do what we did. We had to had no choice.
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: They did have enough material to build eleven nuclear bombs.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: Whether it was the next day or six months later.
• 6:52
  Speaker 2: They said the same thing about World War Two with Hitler, Oh,
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: which not tomorrow. So what so I took a couple
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: of months to kill six million people. At the very least,
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: he did the right thing when he started this thing,
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: but it unrivaled, that's the bottom line, And there was
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: no exit strategy, and he underestimated. I believe Iran they'll
• 7:09
  Speaker 2: stick around and keep doing this for years. And he's
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: got the midterms coming up and gas and oil prices
• 7:15
  Speaker 2: are going through the roof, and he was stuck. We
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: were stuck. So he just ended this thing because there
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: was no good way to end it. That's not a
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: good deal for me. That's what I'm.
• 7:27
  Speaker 4: Thinking, right.
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: I mean israelis we're hoping that this military campaign would
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: crush the regime. And I understand that the president has reasons.
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: Why he didn't want to keep it going.
• 7:38
  Speaker 3: But there was also a feeling in Israel that the
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: economic pressure on Iran could eventually lead to its downfall.
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: But what this deal does, in addition.
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: To leaving the enrich uranium in place, you know, we
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: don't know what's going to happen with that. That still
• 7:53
  Speaker 3: has to be negotiated. By what it does is it
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: immediately releases very strong sanctions on Iran, I was around
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: to start selling oil once again?
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: Is that a media I've heard numbers anywhere between twenty
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: to twenty eight billion dollars. I just want to make
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: sure because they're going to spend the next sixty days
• 8:09
  Speaker 2: joking each other off talking about the uranium, which the
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: Iranians are not going to give it up no matter
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: what Trump does or it says. So you're right, does
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: that start right away, the sanctionedal leap on that money
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: right away?
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: Not only sanctions relief, but what we're seeing now is
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: the exact reversal of what had we saw early in
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: the war, where you had countries in the Gulf, you know,
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: turning to the United States turning toward Israel. And now
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: just in the last week, we've seen countries like the
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: United Arab Emirates reportedly releasing anywhere from three to ten
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: billion dollars that they're basically bribing Iran. With the Katari
• 8:43
  Speaker 3: Is sending money basically has bribes to Iran, you know,
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: with the United States unwilling to still finish the job,
• 8:49
  Speaker 3: these countries now are very quickly pivoting and they're basically
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: paying off the Iranian regime not to attack them.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: Wow, I just can't believe that we've gone to this
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: point with this war where the president in the United
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: States is about to sign a bad deal. I just
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm shocked, and you know, you what said to
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: me on this show many many times, and even Trump
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: has said it. Trump said, if I run in Israel,
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: I'd beat Pebe, I could beat anybody.
• 9:17
  Speaker 4: He's right.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, all those times I kept going back and forth,
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: there were Trump signs all over Tel Aviv. Probably ninety
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: five percent of Israel loved them. And I talked to
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of people, not just you, Alex and Israel
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: now that are very upset. How much of a hit
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: is Trump taking with this deal?
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: I think Israelis are very upset right now. You know
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: there we always heard, you know, don't you take Trump seriously,
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: but you don't take take him literally. But what we've
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: heard just over the last really two months, since the
• 9:50
  Speaker 3: fighting stopped, is we just see a president that's foot flopping,
• 9:54
  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like he knows what he wants to do,
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: what he doesn't want to do, is constantly intentionally trying
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: to misdirect us, and now he's turned very, very hard
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: against our prime Minister, and we support our Prime minister
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: in his battles against Kibala and Kamas. Even those that
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: want a different candidate for Prime Minister come October doesn't
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: mean that they think that this war should be fought
• 10:17
  Speaker 3: any differently than it's been fought. So, you know, it's
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: very very disappointing, and Israelis are very concerned that the
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: president has lost his way.
• 10:24
  Speaker 2: Mb he loses his way. What you're really concerned about
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: is that what we saw October will be three years
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: ago will happen again. I mean, it's just gonna happen again.
• 10:35
  Speaker 2: Maybe it'll be another three years, another five years, maybe ten.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: But the concern is what this deal does is almost
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: ensure that it could happen again.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Yes, it basically ensures that Iran will race once again
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: to build nuclear weapons because they know that they need
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: them now that that's the only military deterrent that they
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: have against Israel. And I believe that the Prime Minister
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: and the people around them are very very concerned that
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: Iran cannot be trusted to keep to any deal that
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: they sign, it's not worth the paper it's printed on,
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: and that they will find a way to build secret
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: facilities or acquire a nuclear weapon from other means that
• 11:15
  Speaker 3: is an existential threat to the State of Israel.
• 11:19
  Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to Sit In Friends in the Morning.
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: You can hear Sit in Friends in the Morning weekday
• 11:25
  Speaker 5: mornings at six. If you like the podcast, share it
• 11:28
  Speaker 5: with your friends and listen anytime at WABC radio dot
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: com and download the WABC Radio app. Hit that subscribe
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: button on all major podcast platforms. Plus follow WABC on
• 11:40
  Speaker 5: social on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and X see you next
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: time for a new episode, so you never have to
• 11:47
  Speaker 5: wonder what the
• 11:48
  Speaker 4: Heck is going on here.