Learn English with Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on November 4th, 2019. She is a former first lady of the United States of America and served as Vice President between 2001 and 2006. She has been an advocate for equal pay for equal rights for women, and has been a fierce advocate for same-sex marriage.
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00:00:07.000But as soon as people start playing games, I stop.
00:05:06.000And people don't realize what they have.
00:05:11.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
00:05:25.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:30.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:09.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:13.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:20.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:27.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:35.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:38.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:52.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:56.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:00.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:06.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:10.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:40.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:08:45.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:09:00.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:09.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that.
00:09:42.000Ruypers and all the alt-riders that got banned, all the alt-riders that got slandered, even people that killed themselves.
00:09:49.000Our corpses paved the way for you now to walk over.
00:09:54.000And you can't give us acknowledgement?
00:10:08.000In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
00:10:15.000One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away.
00:11:39.000Go to a nice suburb where the lawns are nicely kept, where the mailman walks around and delivers the mail, where people are walking their dogs and little kids are ice skating in the park.
00:11:51.000And people are driving around and they're driving clean cars and the houses are maintained and kept up and you go down to the bakery and you get a...
00:12:19.000we can't even get into the transportation.
00:12:21.000Maybe somewhere you go to a train station and people politely wait for people to leave before they enter.
00:12:27.000You go to an elevator and people wait for the people leaving the elevator before they get in.
00:13:51.000And many people are just trying to enjoy the last hurrah before it's all over.
00:13:57.000People are living lives of hedonism, taking advantage while they can.
00:14:02.000Or they're living more responsible lives, but similarly, just trying to soak it in while they still can.
00:14:09.000And ignoring, living in a sort of self-imposed naivete or delusion about what's going on just outside the city gates, outside of the gated community, on the other side of the tracks, downtown, wherever.
00:17:46.000But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived.
00:17:56.000Jesus Christ is our present now and Jesus Christ is our future.
00:18:02.000after we die on earth We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet Earth.
00:19:06.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
00:26:57.000The President: Years from now, Some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
00:34:22.000I know I thought I was going to break till I'm tiny Deep to my eyes while I'm getting like the only thing like a good one And...
00:34:29.000I know I thought I was going to break till I'm tiny Deep to my eyes while I'm getting like the only thing like a good one I know I thought I was going to break till I'm tiny Deep to my eyes while I'm getting like the only thing like a good one Deep to my eyes while I'm getting like the only thing like a good one No narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:35:00.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:35:14.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:35:24.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty.
00:35:39.000And of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
00:45:39.000When you remove the fear and love of God, you create the fear and love of everything else.
00:45:50.000I'd like to propose a toast to our people.
00:45:55.000I'd like to propose a toast to the Voipers, to White Boy Summer, White Boy Century, to the reaction and the reclamation of the United States.
00:48:23.000In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
00:48:29.000One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th, parked just across the river from New York City, has not gone away.
00:51:21.000You know, against all the hate, against all odds, against all the snipes, and the jabs, and the feds, and the journalists, and the doubters, and the traitors, and the deceivers, the human beings got to rise up!
00:51:34.000And we got to do what must be done, no matter what.
00:51:37.000With the power of God, with the will of God guiding us, God paving a path, we've got to rise up.
00:56:35.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
00:56:43.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:57:00.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:57:08.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:57:18.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
01:00:50.000Yeah, turn up at my show and you just do it right Yeah, yeah We go out all night You gon'save me big, gon'save me big, gon'serve up all night You gon'save my dream, you gon'save my cup, you gon'save me all right They actin'the feeling that they got a problem, they make it, they tell me the blocks I'm tweakin'We got the bills that you put my side of
01:01:06.000you, out of your mind, you crazy tweakin'That's a bit out of my lane, bad in my mind, I'm really but out of my tweakin'Know that you lovin'these lights, you lovin'this world, we runnin'it big every weekend You get in love with me every time I know You're a split All y'all track inside this lights, that world Y'all get in Runnin'that up every weekend Now you see I'm going off on the deep end You say that I'm back for no reason I want to be a
01:02:22.000One more and more People just want more and more Freedom and love What he's looking for One more and more People just want more and more Freedom and love What he's looking for
01:02:37.000There is something involved where we have to forget We do have to forgive them for their ignorance.
01:03:01.000We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding.
01:03:04.000And we have to embrace them and say, better late than never.
01:08:58.000And people don't realize what they have.
01:09:04.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
01:09:18.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
01:09:23.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
01:11:02.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:11:06.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:11:13.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:11:20.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:11:28.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:11:31.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
01:11:45.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
01:11:49.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
01:11:53.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
01:11:59.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
01:12:03.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
01:12:32.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
01:12:38.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
01:12:52.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
01:13:02.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019, when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty, and of course, defending Nick Fuentes, and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement, who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure
01:14:01.000In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
01:14:08.000One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away.
01:15:31.000Go to a nice suburb where the lawns are nicely kept.
01:15:35.000Where the mailman walks around and delivers the mail.
01:15:38.000Where people are walking their dogs and little kids are ice skating in the park.
01:15:45.000And people are driving around and they're driving clean cars and the houses are maintained and kept up and you go down to the bakery and you get a...
01:16:12.000we can't even get into the transportation.
01:16:14.000Maybe somewhere you go to a train station and people politely wait for people to leave before they enter.
01:16:19.000You go to an elevator and people wait for the people leaving the elevator before they get in.
01:16:57.000That's going to be, if I have kids, the generation of my grandchildren.
01:17:02.000They're going to be living in South Africa.
01:17:05.000Graffiti, violence, litter, weeds everywhere, dust and dirt and filth, and open sewage, and the water's poisonous, and the air is poisonous, and the government's unstable, and the entertainment is slop and trash.
01:17:43.000And many people are just trying to enjoy the last hurrah before it's all over.
01:17:50.000People are living lives of hedonism, taking advantage while they can.
01:17:55.000Or they're living more responsible lives, but similarly, just trying to soak it in while they still can.
01:18:02.000And ignoring, living in a sort of self-imposed naivete or delusion about what's going on just outside the city gates, outside of the gated community, on the other side of the tracks, downtown, wherever.
01:22:58.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
01:34:11.000Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well.
01:34:15.000When your story goes from here, it will be defined.
01:34:20.000By your vision, your perseverance, and your grit, you will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say.
01:34:34.000You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls.
01:34:43.000As long as you have pride in your beliefs.
01:34:48.000Courage in your convictions, and faith in God, then you will not fail.
01:34:56.000As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come.
01:38:43.000I wish that you could gain my patience.
01:38:48.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
01:38:52.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
01:39:07.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
01:39:17.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that.
01:39:47.000Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, were all cut from the same cloth.
01:52:15.000In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
01:52:22.000One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away.
01:55:13.000You know, against all the hate, against all odds, against all the snipes and the jabs and the feds and the journalists and the doubters and the traitors and the deceivers.
02:00:28.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
02:00:36.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
02:00:53.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
02:01:01.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
02:01:11.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
02:12:51.000And people don't realize what they have.
02:12:56.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
02:13:10.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
02:13:16.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
02:14:54.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
02:14:59.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
02:15:05.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
02:15:13.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
02:15:21.000People have got to start to get courageous.
02:15:24.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
02:15:38.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
02:15:41.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
02:15:45.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
02:15:52.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
02:15:56.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
02:16:25.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
02:16:31.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
02:16:45.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
02:16:55.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and of course defending Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.
02:21:45.000But there's been two massive developments on either front just in the past few days.
02:21:51.000Our featured story, we're talking about Iran.
02:21:54.000And like I said last night, and we talked all about this last week, this past Sunday, two days ago, was the deadline for Trump's ultimatum for Iran.
02:22:06.000Trump said they had 60 days to make a nuclear agreement, which was supposed to replace the JCPOA, which Trump withdrew from back in 2018.
02:22:34.000And so far, there seems to be no agreement.
02:22:37.000And very little progress has been made in these negotiations.
02:22:41.000Nevertheless, Trump submitted a proposal to Iran just a few days ago.
02:22:46.000And initially, we had some rumors about what was in the deal, first reported by Axios.
02:22:54.000And the headline is that Trump has apparently caved on enrichment, which if you've been watching the show, if you've been paying attention, you already know what that means.
02:23:03.000We'll get into that a little bit tonight.
02:23:05.000But the rumor from Axios, again, reported on Sunday or Monday, is that Trump had actually caved and would allow Iran to enrich uranium under very limited circumstances for a short time and only to 3.75%.
02:23:23.000The New York Times came out today and basically confirmed that is 100% true.
02:23:29.000This is interesting because Trump responded to the original report, which came out yesterday, and said, no, we're not giving them enrichment at all.
02:23:37.000Well, the New York Times says, yes, that is what the proposal says.
02:23:42.000That, again, under certain conditions, Iran would have enrichment on their soil in the beginning, and then maybe even potentially under certain circumstances indefinitely in the future.
02:23:52.000We'll talk about the details of the proposal.
02:23:55.000But the proposal is apparently going to be rejected.
02:23:59.000Iran has not submitted its response to the United States yet, but they're drafting it up.
02:24:06.000It's going to be sent over in the next few days.
02:24:09.000And so even though Trump has apparently caved and has come a long way, certainly it's far better than the neocon position as expressed by the Republicans in the Senate, even Trump's own cabinet members, and the state of Israel.
02:24:24.000Seems like it's still not good enough for Iran.
02:24:28.000So we're going to talk all about that.
02:24:30.000It's going to be a lot of Iran stuff, but, I mean, we're kind of getting to the edge here.
02:25:20.000Over the weekend, Ukraine launched a massive drone attack inside Russia, hitting five different Russian air bases.
02:25:29.000We don't know exactly what the damage was.
02:25:31.000The Ukrainians have self-reported that they destroyed 41 strategic aircraft.
02:25:38.000And strategic, if you don't know, is basically shorthand for nuclear, nuclear capable.
02:25:45.000When you say strategic, that means related to strategic deterrence.
02:25:49.000It means related to its theoretical escalatory framework with the United States.
02:25:55.000So when you say strategic aircraft, this means Ukraine is flying drones and they're doing suicide runs.
02:26:03.000The drones are doing a kamikaze maneuver with explosives and destroying strategic nuclear-capable aircraft that are sitting out there on the tarmac, on the runway, visible by satellites, according to a Russian treaty with the United States.
02:28:15.000I took kind of a victory lap, which, you know, I just feel like I deserved.
02:28:20.000I was ranting and raving about that for so long, and nobody even knew what I was talking about, or they were ignoring me, or they were hand-waving that away.
02:28:30.000I would say, Ballinger's taking over the government!
02:28:32.000And all these Trump chads would be like, so?
02:29:55.000First, Elon Musk is out of the government.
02:29:58.000As you know, we covered this, I think, last week or two weeks ago.
02:30:03.000Elon Musk had a limited window where he could work in government because As far as I understand, he had a very prominent role without Senate confirmation, so he was constrained in how many days he could actually work in the federal government.
02:30:17.000That just expired a couple weeks ago, and already he had stepped down from Doge.
02:30:24.000So even though formally he left the role, I think he actually left early.
02:30:28.000He was supposed to have a couple hundred days, if I'm not mistaken.
02:30:31.000But even though he formally left last week, he stepped down weeks ago.
02:30:37.000Basically, after he realized that Doge wasn't going anywhere, or at least the purported objectives of Doge would not be completed.
02:30:46.000Doge set out to cut all this deficit spending.
02:32:14.000We all know at the end of the day, they're going to try to bring spending down by eliminating any of the money for the border, for the wall.
02:32:21.000It's not going to come from anywhere else.
02:32:24.000And anyway, so I'm not the biggest fan of the bill.
02:33:24.000He said, and everybody who voted for it should be ashamed.
02:33:28.000This is Trump's signature legislation.
02:33:31.000This is maybe the most significant legislation that he will ever pass again for the remainder of his presidency.
02:33:40.000Historically speaking, he will most likely lose the House in the midterms.
02:33:44.000So good luck getting anything significant passed after that.
02:33:48.000And using budget reconciliation, using this process this year, That means he only has one other opportunity next year to use that procedural rule.
02:34:00.000This may be the last or the second to last major piece of legislation that Trump passes.
02:34:07.000Last or second to last major piece of legislation he will pass in this term.
02:34:13.000And Trump is trying so hard, forcefully, to get the Republicans to come together.
02:34:18.000Because even the Republicans are divided.
02:34:20.000They only need a simple majority to pass it in both chambers because of budget reconciliation.
02:35:42.000And Elon Musk, Trump's best friend, who gave Trump $270 million in the campaign, best good friend on Air Force One in the Oval Office, holding court, wearing the dark MAGA hat.
02:35:57.000Elon's coming out with 60 million impressions.
02:36:01.000This tweet has 60 million impressions, saying the bill is an abomination, it's disgusting, it's outrageous.
02:37:03.000And to the extent that he's against illegal immigration, I think like a lot of the people in this administration want to prioritize the violent criminals.
02:37:12.000They don't care so much about everybody else.
02:37:15.000So this guy is a liberal, always has been a liberal.
02:37:18.000He was a liberal when he opposed Trump eight years ago.
02:37:21.000He was a liberal when he gave Trump nearly $300 million a year ago.
02:37:29.000And now Elon is against this Trump agenda probably because, like a lot of Classical liberals, and by liberal I don't mean progressive necessarily or leftist, I mean liberal.
02:37:43.000Elon's overriding concern with this administration was deficit reduction.
02:38:15.000You know, again, I'm not purity testing him.
02:38:18.000That's an accurate description of his ideology.
02:38:23.000Contrary to what a lot of Republicans or Trump supporters believed.
02:38:27.000So Elon put all this money behind Trump because Elon, like a lot of people, saw the writing on the wall, which is that this country is going bankrupt.
02:38:35.000The fiscal situation alone, in isolation, not necessarily the mass migration, these other problems that really inspired MAGA from the beginning.
02:38:45.000He said, we need to cut the deficit and have a balanced budget or the country's going to go bankrupt.
02:38:52.000He gets into the administration and tries to implement this agenda.
02:38:58.000Cutting trillions of dollars from the deficit, balancing the budget, so that we can avert this insolvency crisis, which seems to be right around the corner all of a sudden.
02:39:11.000Because of the constraints and limitations and the speed limit of government, because of the courts, because of opposition from Congress, because of pressure from outside groups, because of the media.
02:39:24.000Elon was thwarted at every turn for making meaningful cuts to the budget.
02:39:30.000Even the cuts that he found, the potential spending reductions that his team was able to locate using AI and other things, Congress won't even vote on him.
02:39:43.000Elon wanted trillions of dollars in cuts, moving at a breakneck pace.
02:40:05.000At the same time, Trump is jamming through the Congress this bill, which is going to increase the deficit by trillions of dollars over the next couple years.
02:40:15.000So we had a $3 trillion deficit in 2020.
02:40:21.000It's hovered between $1 trillion and $2 trillion ever since.
02:40:25.000This spending bill, which cuts corporate taxes, cuts taxes on tips, Social Security, increases military spending by $100 billion, increases DHS and ICE by $200 and some billion, $150 to $200 billion.
02:40:41.000It's going to make the deficit go up to probably $2 trillion.
02:40:45.000For the next few years, in the long term, it's going to add trillions of dollars to the debt.
02:40:49.000So now, one explanation is that Elon sees this and says, okay, WTF, I put all this money behind Trump to cut the deficit.
02:40:58.000I tried to do it because of politics I wasn't able to.
02:41:02.000Now, not only are we not going to reduce spending, forget about cutting trillions or balancing the budget or having a surplus, they're not even going to reduce spending at all.
02:41:40.000He appointed Kristi Noem to run DHS and she's an idiot.
02:41:44.000She's more worried about her rumored affair with Corey Lewandowski and her makeup and dressing up like Barbie than she is about deporting illegal immigrants.
02:42:44.000If you have three Senate Republicans led by Rand Paul, among others, that are not going to vote for this spending bill because it increases the deficit too much.
02:42:54.000If they are emboldened by Elon Musk getting 60 million impressions on a tweet, controlling X. Being a vocal critic of the White House, now outside the White House, this spending bill is not going to include $100 billion for the border.
02:43:13.000If the Senate wants to rewrite the bill, if Elon is backing them up and is in the media and is talking about primarying Republicans who vote for it, this bill is not going to have everything that it currently has in it when it passes.
02:43:34.000I said, look, if the bill includes corporate tax cuts, which are going to cost a ton of money, if it includes other tax cuts, if it includes spending increase on the military and spending increase on the border, and to pay for it, they're going to cut Medicaid.
02:43:53.000Which of these things, if you can't have all of them, which of these things in this equation are going to go?
02:44:01.000Politically, what makes the most sense?
02:44:04.000Are Republicans going to not cut corporate taxes or taxes for waiters?
02:45:22.000If we can't cut Medicaid, which means we can't spend a ton of money, but the money we're going to spend, it's non-negotiable that we're going to use it to cut taxes for corporations and to give money for the military.
02:47:39.000When you have cynical, self-serving interests that are ideologically opposed to you and they suddenly support you, that's how you know you're winning, actually.
02:49:03.000And once we're in the midterms, say goodbye to any opportunity to fix this.
02:49:07.000The other thing I wanted to talk about very briefly, I saw a video today, I think from, it was San Diego in California.
02:49:16.000You had ICE literally being chased out of a neighborhood while they were conducting an immigration raid.
02:49:23.000And I don't know, the video wasn't 100% verified, but that is how it was reported.
02:49:29.000ICE was attempting to raid a neighborhood, arrest illegal immigrants, and they were literally chased out of the neighborhood on the street by liberal protesters chanting and yelling and throwing things at them.
02:49:51.000This is exactly what I'm talking about.
02:49:54.000What do you think is going to happen during the midterms?
02:49:57.000When Elon Musk is threatening the primary Republicans that vote for border security, and if the Trump administration tries to ramp up these illegal immigrant raids, there's going to be scenes like this, of liberal solidarity in their neighborhood, standing shoulder to shoulder, holding hands, repelling the Gestapo, repelling Trump's illegal immigrant Gestapo.
02:50:27.000What did you think was going to happen?
02:50:29.000Honest to God, what did you think was going to happen?
02:50:31.000We're going to deport 40 million people?
02:50:35.000RFK Jr. and Elon Musk and Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker are going to come together and we're going to deport 40 million people because it's different this time.
02:51:04.000I know a lot of good people that fell for it.
02:51:08.000But I really just lost a lot of respect for everybody that did fall for it because it's like, this is when you realize the guy standing next to you is an NPC.
02:51:17.000This is when you're at the Hitler rally.
02:54:36.000So in the first place, there was a story last week from the Wall Street Journal about a new report from the IAEA.
02:54:44.000That's the Nuclear Monitoring International Organization.
02:54:47.000They did inspections on Iran's nuclear program, and they found that Iran is not in compliance with the JCPOA, the original nuclear deal from 2015.
02:54:58.000And they made a number of startling discoveries.
02:55:28.000Follows five rounds of indirect negotiations between the special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's foreign minister.
02:55:39.000And it seems to have come up with a creative solution to the impasse, which is at the center of these negotiations, which is whether Iran will have the ability to enrich uranium on their territory.
02:55:54.000So this is a story from the New York Times.
02:55:56.000We'll work through this, and we'll talk a little bit about what it means.
02:56:00.000It says, quote, That would allow Iran to continue enriching uranium at low levels while the United States and other countries work out a more detailed plan intended to block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon, but give it access to fuel for new nuclear power plants.
02:56:20.000Under the proposal, the United States would facilitate the building of nuclear power reactors for Iran and negotiate the construction of enrichment facilities managed by a consortium of regional countries.
02:56:33.000Once Iran began receiving any benefits from those promises, it would have to stop all enrichment in the country.
02:56:40.000At least in the opening years of the proposed arrangement, when new enrichment facilities to produce fuel for power plants are being built in cooperation with Arab states, Iran would be allowed to continue enriching uranium at low levels, despite Mr. Trump's post on social media on Monday saying the United States would not allow enrichment of uranium.
02:57:01.000One key unresolved question is whether Iran's leadership will agree to an ultimate arrangement in which no nuclear fuel is produced on Iranian soil.
02:57:10.000Iran's foreign minister said we do not need anyone's permission to enrich uranium.
02:57:15.000The wording of the new proposal crafted by Steve Witkoff is vaguely worded on many of the most important issues, suggesting that considerable negotiating lies ahead.
02:57:24.000Iranian officials said they would not take any measures curbing their program without parallel sanctions relief, particularly diluting or exporting the huge stockpile of enriched uranium that the UN atomic watchdog said allows them to build 10 bombs if they chose to weaponize.
02:57:44.000We gotta go back to the beginning a little bit, just to get some context.
02:57:50.000So, once again, we're talking about Iran's nuclear program.
02:57:58.000This is the big challenge, you could say arguably, one of, maybe one out of two, of the biggest foreign relations challenges of Trump's second term.
02:58:09.000Israel is forcing a confrontation between the United States and Iran over Iran's nuclear program.
02:58:16.000Iran maintains a peaceful civilian nuclear program.
02:58:21.000They have a vast nuclear complex which is fortified in underground across five or six different cities.
02:58:29.000What is at the center of the controversy is that because Iran has a native nuclear program, even though it's peaceful, even though it's for civilian purposes, they have the ability to enrich uranium.
02:58:42.000Highly enriched uranium is the fuel for a nuclear weapon.
02:58:47.000So Iran's ability to enrich uranium and make highly enriched uranium gives them the capability, if they chose, to make a bomb.
02:58:59.000They don't have a nuclear weapons program, but they have the ability to make the fuel for a bomb.
02:59:07.000The problem with this is that if they decided to make a bomb in two weeks, they could take all this fuel they have.
02:59:14.000They can enrich it further to 90%, and this would supply the enriched uranium for 10 nuclear bombs.
02:59:22.000So everything concerning Iran's nuclear program is around the capability and the math here, which is to say that Iran could, without being detected by the United States, make a decision very quietly to make a bomb.
02:59:39.000And once they make that decision, the window of time between that decision being made and the actual construction of a nuclear device is shrinking.
03:00:03.000Now they say that it could be two weeks.
03:00:05.000Now, when I say two weeks, don't mistake what I mean.
03:00:56.000The United States says Iran cannot enrich uranium on its soil.
03:01:02.000Because if Iran has centrifuges that enrich uranium, Theoretically, they have a nuclear capability because they could make a bomb if they wanted to.
03:01:12.000And that's really a distinction without a difference.
03:01:18.000If they have the infrastructure, if they have the material, and if they have this stockpile of highly enriched uranium, it could be days, weeks before they have a bomb.
03:01:30.000We might not even be able to detect it in time.
03:01:48.000And they must have the ability to use the infrastructure to enrich uranium.
03:01:53.000Now, Iran says they're using their infrastructure to enrich uranium for energy, for nuclear reactors.
03:02:01.000The problem with this is that you only need low enriched uranium for peaceful purposes.
03:02:07.000You only need 3.75% enriched uranium for their one nuclear power plant at No other nuclear country that has a civilian energy program but not a weapon enriches uranium past that threshold.
03:02:42.000We're going to have highly enriched uranium.
03:02:44.000And they're using that effectively as leverage to say, don't bomb us.
03:02:50.000If you bomb us, we're going to make a bomb.
03:02:52.000If you don't want us to make a bomb, then lift the sanctions and we'll enrich uranium, but only at a low level.
03:03:00.000That's the discussion that's been ongoing over the past 60 days.
03:03:04.000And like I said, at the beginning of April, Trump said that he had initiated negotiations with Iran, and they have not been terribly successful.
03:03:12.000Steve Witkoff has made five trips out there to Italy and to Oman to meet with Iran's foreign minister indirectly to talk about this.
03:03:20.000And so far, we haven't overcome that impasse at all.
03:03:23.000Iran wants the centrifuges and wants enrichment, and we say, you can't have it.
03:03:29.000That has been the state of play the entire time.
03:03:32.000The only ambiguity is actually in Washington's position.
03:03:36.000It is Washington has gone back and forth and said, maybe we'll let them enrich, but some other personnel will control it.
03:03:44.000Maybe we'll let them have their centrifuges, but they can't use them.
03:03:49.000And sometimes they say they can't have the centrifuges at all.
03:03:52.000They can't have any of the infrastructure.
03:03:55.000We're going to go in and destroy it and oversee the destruction of the infrastructure, period.
03:04:00.000So the position from Washington has not been entirely clear.
03:04:26.000And they will be owned and operated jointly by Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.
03:04:34.000So maybe we'll put it in Saudi Arabia.
03:04:37.000Maybe we'll put it on an island in the Persian Gulf.
03:04:39.000It will be outside of Iran, off of Iranian soil, but Iran will have stake in it.
03:04:46.000And those enrichment facilities will send uranium to Iran.
03:04:50.000That way Iran is only getting fuel for a reactor.
03:04:53.000If the enrichment happens in Saudi Arabia or off the coast, that means it's only being enriched to 3.7% and then it's being sent to Iran and Iran can't enrich it any further.
03:05:06.000In the meantime, because that will take years to do, it will take years to come to some agreement to build the facilities.
03:05:13.000To figure out how that's going to work, bring in the other Arab countries.
03:05:17.000In the meantime, the administration says that Iran can continue to enrich uranium at a low level.
03:05:24.000So in the maybe two to three years, in the time it takes to reach a long-term agreement in another country with a consortium of other countries exporting the nuclear fuel to Iran, Iran will be able to enrich at a low level monitored by the United States.
03:05:42.000There are some problems with this deal, however, because in the time that Iran is enriching uranium at a low level, the sanctions remain in place.
03:05:53.000So Iran is enriching, which is what they want, but the sanctions are still there.
03:05:58.000What's more, Iran is expected to destroy or export its already highly enriched uranium.
03:06:06.000So Iran has this huge stockpile of uranium that's enriched to 60%, enough for 10 bombs.
03:06:12.000The United States says you can continue to enrich at a low level.
03:06:17.000Ultimately, though, we're going to take that away.
03:06:20.000In the meantime, we need to destroy your stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
03:06:25.000Either we're going to take it or we're going to oversee that you dilute it to a lower level.
03:06:30.000Once again, the United States wants that without any sanctions relief.
03:06:35.000The sweetener is that Iran gets to save face.
03:06:42.000The other sweetener is that when, after this period is concluded, if Iran adheres to the deal, then the United States will come into Iran and help them build more nuclear reactors.
03:06:53.000We'll build 10 nuclear reactors for them.
03:07:24.000And what that means is, look, we're not going to give enrichment to Saudi Arabia and not have it on our soil.
03:07:31.000We're not going to give you any concessions before you lift the sanctions.
03:07:35.000Some of the possible workarounds that have been proposed is that maybe Iran will have centrifuges but on an island in the Persian Gulf.
03:07:44.000That way both sides kind of get what they want.
03:07:48.000Technically, Iran has it on their soil, but it's not on their mainland, so the United States can say we took it from them.
03:07:55.000And also, if the enrichment is happening on an island, then that means it's not fortified underneath a mountain.
03:08:02.000The problem with Iran's nuclear program is that so much of it was undisclosed and it's heavily fortified, meaning it can't be monitored and, if necessary, it can't be destroyed because it's deep underground and could not be hit even by America's bunker-busting bombs.
03:08:20.000So the proposed workaround is that Iran can enrich uranium for a short time.
03:08:26.000Then we're going to oversee the destruction of the centrifuges that are fortified underground on the mainland.
03:08:31.000It can take place on Iran's islands in the Persian Gulf where they won't be fortified.
03:08:38.000They'll be jointly operated by a consortium of other countries, and it'll be limited to low enriched uranium where it'll be exported to Iran and to the other countries in the Persian Gulf, to the countries on the other side of it on the Arabian Peninsula.
03:08:55.000And that way, If this facility starts to produce highly enriched uranium, well, then Saudi's going to get it as well.
03:09:12.000And Iran doesn't want Saudi Arabia to have the bomb either, and vice versa.
03:09:22.000Taking it outside of Iran's mainland so it can be destroyed but leaving it on Iran's territory so they can claim they have native enrichment.
03:09:31.000This is the basic structure of the deal and maybe where it's going to go.
03:09:36.000Like I said, though, the problem is Iran has rejected the deal.
03:09:52.000We have sanctions not just in connection to nuclear but also in connection to other things.
03:09:57.000They say we're not going to budge one inch until we get a clear roadmap and some relief in the short term of how these sanctions are going to be lifted comprehensively so that they can integrate into the global economy, so that they can start to grow as a nation.
03:10:14.000At the end of the day, I don't think that's going to happen.
03:10:17.000I don't think the administration is going to budge.
03:10:19.000And you can already see that both sides are saying that they don't want to lose face here.
03:10:24.000Yesterday, after the details of the deal were reported by Axios that the administration would allow Iran to enrich uranium, Trump comes out and says, no, we are not letting them have enrichment.
03:10:37.000Well, yes, that is what the deal says.
03:10:40.000If the details are true, that is exactly what the deal says.
03:10:44.000Maybe he means that in the long term, Iran won't have enrichment, technically.
03:10:50.000But Trump is saying they, this is when I say they're flip-flopping and kind of talking out of both sides of their mouth.
03:10:56.000They say we might let them have enrichment in some ways, but also it's a red line and they can't have it at all.
03:11:46.000The Iranians allegedly tried to kill Trump and hacked the RNC, according to the mainstream media.
03:11:53.000Real or false, that's the perception of the world and of the interested parties.
03:11:58.000To overcome that immense distrust and hostility, it just simply takes time.
03:12:04.000And that is the thing that we really don't have.
03:12:07.000And we don't have that because Israel is pushing the issue.
03:12:10.000They want to launch a military strike on Iran as soon as possible.
03:12:14.000They're eager to see these negotiations collapse and fail so that they have a soft green light by Washington to carry out potentially limited or comprehensive airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program.
03:12:27.000And they're champing at the bit to do that.
03:12:30.000Champing or chomping at the bit to go ahead and carry out those strikes.
03:12:37.000It seems better than I thought it would.
03:12:39.000I predicted that these negotiations either would not happen or if they did, that they would have fallen apart by now.
03:12:46.000And the Trump administration has been more flexible than I ever thought they would be, especially in light of what the Senate has said, personnel in the White House, what Israel has been saying behind the scenes.
03:13:01.000The question is, how long is that going to last?
03:13:59.000With that being said, the next deadline to watch is next week.
03:14:05.000Next week, the European signatories on the JCPOA will have a meeting, and they are considering reimposing sanctions on Iran over Iran's violation of the JCPOA.
03:14:17.000Like I said, last week there was a report by the IAEA which says that throughout this process, Iran has been enriching uranium to 60%.
03:14:25.000Throughout this whole negotiation with Trump, Iran has been making enough highly enriched uranium to fuel at least one bomb every single month.
03:14:37.000so they went from having enough highly enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs now to enough highly enriched uranium for 10 nuclear bombs and that has taken place since February of this year that is now they're accelerating the rate at which they're enriching this material so this report came out last week detailing The rate at which they're violating the deal.
03:15:01.000That they have undisclosed nuclear activities in new sites that have not been mentioned before.
03:15:07.000And in response to this, the Europeans are going to meet, like I said, on June 9th, next Monday.
03:15:13.000And they may determine that they're going to reapply sanctions on Iran.
03:15:31.000There's a not insignificant number of contingencies like this that are going to make diplomacy less likely.
03:15:40.000If the European countries put sanctions on Iran, if the United States puts more sanctions on Iran, if Israel provokes Iran in some way, and we're starting to see maybe the beginnings of a provocation just now.
03:16:14.000And eventually Iran is going to get too close to a nuclear bomb and it's going to force Israel's hand and that's going to force the United States to intervene.
03:16:22.000The other scenario that I just said a moment ago is that today an Iranian-backed group inside Syria launched a drone attack against Israel.
03:16:31.000This is exactly the kind of tempo and ecosystem of conflict which is going to undermine diplomacy.
03:16:39.000Last year, Israel was at war with Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, and the Iran-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.
03:16:48.000This wider environment of conflict to provoke Iran.
03:16:52.000They used it as an excuse to bomb Iran's embassy in Syria to kill the leader of Hamas inside Iran.
03:17:00.000Since Israel restarted its offensive in Gaza, it seems that Hezbollah has been neutralized.
03:17:08.000The IRGC has been expelled from Syria, so those militias over there are a non-factor.
03:17:14.000And the militias in Iraq have been pacified since last year.
03:17:18.000That only leaves Hamas and the Houthi rebels.
03:17:22.000If, however, an Iranian-backed militia inside Syria is now launching drone strikes against Israel and Israel is facing, once again, drone attacks over their northern border and their southern border while they're fighting Hamas, once again, this is creating a situation where Israel might be able to provoke Iran.
03:17:41.000If an Iranian-backed group bombs Israel, that sort of gives Israel a license to do something that provokes Iran.
03:17:48.000Do they attack Iran directly over this?
03:17:51.000Do they bomb Iranian assets inside some other country in retaliation for this?
03:17:57.000These are the types of things, it's antagonism between Iran and everybody else, which might alter our ability to make a deal because it's so precarious right now.
03:18:37.000Europe is considering sanctions again.
03:18:39.000The offensive in Gaza has restarted, and we're entering this timeline that was already articulated by the Israelis when they want to do a strike.
03:18:49.000So like I said at the beginning of the show, this is make or break.
03:22:00.000And you would think that someone like him, it'd be easy for him to kind of be flanderized and become a caricature and kind of just have nothing new to say.
03:22:08.000But every time I watch him, I'm like, wow, it's something new.
03:23:08.000Very careful and very true and a very funny way to say it.
03:23:12.000And even his take about Hal Hitler, the song where he says, you know, he says that's a phrase that had all this energy put into it and then they bottled it up.
03:23:23.000You couldn't say it for 80 years, he said, and then, yay, opened up the bottle.
03:29:12.000The prospect of AI massively transforming society in the coming years, with the pace it has been progressing, is increasingly feasible, even likely.
03:29:17.000Do you have any advice on what younger people should focus on to despite the uncertainty, along with general thoughts?
03:32:37.000you know you guys are fucking idiots we own 42 cent 10 dollars watched the interview you did on sauce cast from a year ago seems like they had you on to personally attack you you cooked them 1v4 though were you informed on the topics in advance and did you know you'd be attacked the whole time They did.
03:32:48.000That's exactly why they had me on, and they lied to me.
03:32:50.000They told me, because we did a Zoom call beforehand, they said, we just want to have a casual show.
03:32:58.000We want to just talk about, like, relationships and dating, and, you know, because it's like a lifestyle show.
03:33:04.000So, like, we want to talk about lifestyle topics, not even politics.
03:33:08.000I said, we don't want to talk about politics.
03:34:08.000Even if they bring on four people and it's an ambush and it's a big surprise and, you know, it's unfair in other ways, I won unequivocally.
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