00:06:30.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:06:34.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:06:41.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
00:06:43.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:06:48.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:06:56.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:06:59.000And 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.
00:07:13.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:17.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:07:21.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:07:27.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:07:31.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:09:38.000that America was different because we are different.
00:09:57.000Palantir is an AI data analytics company.
00:10:02.000They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
00:10:09.000If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
00:10:26.000Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
00:24:53.000If we don't have freedom on the internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind-raped every day forever.
00:25:01.000Think about anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, and even things that are not necessarily so scandalous, but even things like your favorite restaurants, your geolocation, because your phone also has a GPS.
00:25:23.000They have access to your bank account.
00:25:25.000AI will literally know everything about you.
00:25:29.000Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you asleep.
00:25:39.000They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
00:25:43.000They know how many calories you consume.
00:25:45.000Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
00:25:48.000You have a computer in your refrigerator, computer in your car, computer in your home security system, computer in your everything, computer in your clothes, your watch, your glasses, your VR headset, your alarm clock.
00:26:00.000You have a smart home, economy of things.
00:26:02.000It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
00:26:19.000My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
00:27:18.000These material appetites, they will never be satisfied.
00:27:23.000And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
00:27:32.000And every mother and father understands the love for a child.
00:50:55.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:51:00.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:51:07.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:51:14.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:51:21.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:51:25.000And 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.
00:51:39.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:51:43.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:51:46.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:51:53.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:51:57.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:53:51.000And I think that the mature people that actually love America, actually love our children, the people that recognize the division, the peril that we're in, we need to fortify a new consensus and rally the people of conscience, the people of decency, the people of humanity, the people of charity towards their fellow man,
00:54:16.000against those that want to kill us, against those that laugh and celebrate when innocent people are harmed.
00:54:26.000For any reason, for any ideological reason.
00:54:29.000Against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
00:54:33.000And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel.
00:54:35.000Not the people that say things you disagree with, not the people that are provocative, not the people that are sometimes angry, but the people that are really cruel and really evil.
00:54:44.000What makes Christianity and Christ so different from the other religions is that our religion is based on the bearing of suffering for the sake of even those that persecute us.
00:55:17.000So much of it, it cannot be contained.
00:55:23.000An unconditional, absolute standard of love for all of God's children, even those that are misguided, even those that persecute us, even the most heinous among us.
00:56:50.000Canary Mission is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which since July 2025 has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
00:57:02.000This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
00:57:09.000In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
00:57:21.000Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
00:57:33.000In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
00:57:46.000Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
00:57:55.000While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
00:58:09.000I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence as Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States.
00:58:26.000And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
00:58:31.000I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
00:58:35.000So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
00:58:39.000Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
00:58:46.000And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
00:58:49.000As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
00:58:53.000And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
00:58:57.000As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, and I will never be okay with that.
00:59:55.000This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
00:59:58.000What had just happened before the 2016 election?
01:00:01.000Barack Obama created the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
01:00:10.000And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
01:00:24.000The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
01:00:32.000Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
01:00:43.000This is the background of Trump's first election.
01:02:06.000They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
01:02:20.000This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
01:14:47.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:14:52.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:14:58.000And we're killing ourselves every day inadvertently with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:15:06.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:15:13.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:15:16.000And 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.
01:15:31.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
01:15:34.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
01:15:38.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
01:15:45.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
01:15:48.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
01:16:58.000Hello, I got places to be Evening everybody You're watching America First.
01:17:55.000that America was different because we are different.
01:18:14.000Palantir is an AI data analytics company.
01:18:19.000They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
01:18:26.000If the government has an amount of data which is kind of unimaginable, if you've got every phone call, every email, every transaction, every photograph of a license plate on the highway, satellite data, it's too much data for a bureaucracy to sift through.
01:18:44.000Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
01:33:10.000If we don't have freedom on the internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind-raped every day forever.
01:33:18.000Think about anything you've ever said or done in the vicinity of your phone's camera or microphone, everything you've ever put into your phone, and even things that are not necessarily so scandalous, but even things like your favorite restaurants, your geolocation, because your phone also has a GPS.
01:33:40.000They have access to your bank account.
01:33:42.000AI will literally know everything about you.
01:33:46.000Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you asleep.
01:33:56.000They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
01:34:00.000They know how many calories you consume.
01:34:03.000Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
01:34:05.000You have a computer in your refrigerator, computer in your car, computer in your home security system, computer in your everything, computer in your clothes, your watch, your glasses, your VR headset, your alarm clock.
01:34:17.000You have a smart home, economy of things.
01:34:20.000It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
01:34:36.000My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
01:35:35.000These material appetites, they will never be satisfied.
01:35:40.000And even if they are, it'll never be an adequate substitute for communion with our Holy Father, with somebody, with the author of the world.
01:35:49.000And every mother and father understands the love for a child.
01:59:13.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:59:17.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:59:24.000And we're killing ourselves every day.
01:59:26.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:59:31.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:59:39.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:59:42.000And 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.
01:59:56.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
02:00:00.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
02:00:03.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
02:00:10.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
02:00:14.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
02:02:08.000And I think that the mature people that actually love America, actually love our children, the people that recognize the division, the peril that we're in, we need to fortify a new consensus and rally the people of conscience, the people of decency, the people of humanity, the people of charity towards their fellow man,
02:02:33.000against those that want to kill us, against those that laugh and celebrate when innocent people are harmed.
02:02:43.000For any reason, for any ideological reason.
02:02:46.000Against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
02:02:50.000And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel.
02:02:52.000Not the people that say things you disagree with, not the people that are provocative, not the people that are sometimes angry, but the people that are really cruel and really evil.
02:03:12.000What makes Christianity and Christ so different from the other religions is that our religion is based on the bearing of suffering for the sake of even those that persecute us.
02:03:34.000So much of it, it cannot be contained.
02:03:40.000An unconditional, absolute standard of love for all of God's children, even those that are misguided, even those that persecute us, even the most heinous among us.
02:05:08.000is an Israeli-funded blacklist, which, since July 2025, has been confirmed to be used by the Trump administration to target students, professors, and professionals who oppose Israel and reside in the United States.
02:05:19.000This idea is part of an initiative created by the Heritage Foundation, the same group responsible for the infamous Project 2025.
02:05:27.000In their initiative, titled Project Esther, they state that students participating in pro-Palestinian protests and activism are supporting Hamas, a group that the United States designates as a foreign terrorist organization.
02:05:38.000Therefore, pro-Palestinian students are considered to be supporting terrorism and are subject to the revocation of visas, frozen bank accounts, asset seizures, and the denial of basic constitutional rights.
02:05:50.000In effect, the Canary mission serves as a means to circumvent constitutional protections, allowing the federal government to engage in intelligence gathering activities that would otherwise be considered unlawful.
02:06:03.000Palantir, another company closely aligned with the state of Israel, uses AI-driven analytics to maintain private databases on U.S. citizens and currently works with four federal agencies.
02:06:13.000While government contracting with the private sector is long-standing, the prominent influence of Jewish groups within these increasingly powerful organizations warrants careful examination.
02:06:26.000I renew the call for all able-bodied young American men, all of our elite human capital, all of our geniuses, warriors, intelligent people to dedicate themselves to American sovereignty and independence as Christians, as Americans, as white people, as citizens of the United States.
02:06:44.000And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
02:06:49.000I would actually consider them worse than our oppressors.
02:06:52.000So on Independence Day, it's important to reflect on the fact that we are an occupied nation.
02:06:57.000Now, just like then, we're being ruled by a small country across an ocean, serving itself at our expense.
02:07:03.000And as long as that is the case, I will always be obsessed with that.
02:07:06.000As long as that is the case, I will always be speaking out against that and fighting against that.
02:07:11.000And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
02:07:15.000As long as our presidents have to kiss the wall in Israel and wear a small hat, as long as they have to say that we want to make Israel great again and they're the greatest country ever, I will never be okay with that.
02:08:12.000This is not a timeline going back to 1948.
02:08:15.000What had just happened before the 2016 election?
02:08:19.000Barack Obama created the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
02:08:28.000And Barack Obama brought together China, Russia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the European Union to enforce a nuclear deal that restricts Iran's enrichment of uranium.
02:08:42.000The early talks were conducted in secret, and the Israelis were furious, furious about this.
02:08:50.000Netanyahu went to a joint session of Congress and gave a speech in defiance of the American president and its nuclear deal, and Congress gave 37 standing ovations.
02:09:00.000This is the background of Trump's first election.
02:10:23.000They colluded with Trump to get him elected so that Trump would do maximum pressure and create a ladder of escalation, pulling us out of the deal, declaring the IRGC terrorists, then killing its leader, putting sanctions on the regime.
02:10:38.000This is a war that started a long time ago, that Trump made hot in 2018 and has been going on for seven years.
02:23:04.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
02:23:09.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
02:23:16.000And we're killing ourselves every day inadvertently with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
02:23:23.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
02:23:30.000People have got to start to get courageous.
02:23:34.000And 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.
02:23:48.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
02:23:52.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
02:23:55.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
02:24:02.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
02:24:06.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
02:30:50.000That is what the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is all about.
02:30:55.000That is the chief means by which Iran is trying to force the United States to exit the conflict.
02:31:02.000However, up until this point, the U.S. and Israel have refrained, or for the most part refrained, from striking energy infrastructure inside of Iran out of fear that Iran will retaliate and hit energy infrastructure in the Gulf.
02:31:19.000This would be a major problem because it would take potentially months, years, maybe a decade to repair all of the energy infrastructure, which would lead to permanently high energy prices.
02:31:33.000So so far, the U.S. and Israel, they've hit everything else, everything other than oil and gas in Iran.
02:31:40.000Iran, doing their part, has refrained from hitting Saudi, Qatari, Emirati, Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil and natural gas infrastructure.
02:31:51.000Well, that changed today, and that's the biggest development.
02:31:54.000Today, Israel launched a major strike on Iran's gas fields near Tehran, huge strike.
02:32:02.000And because this is still a developing story, we don't really know actually all the details.
02:32:12.000And what I mean by that is earlier in the day, we were told that the Trump administration approved of the strike.
02:32:17.000So far, the administration doesn't want Israel to bomb the energy infrastructure for the aforementioned reason.
02:32:24.000Earlier in the day, I think morning or afternoon, it was reported that Trump gave the go-ahead.
02:32:30.000He greenlit the strike and that the administration was aware of it and they were okay with it and they approved it and Israel carried out the strike.
02:32:38.000Iran retaliated and they bombed natural gas fields in Qatar, in the United Arab Emirates, and oil in Saudi Arabia.
02:32:47.000Later in the day, the Arabs were furious.
02:32:51.000Emiratis, Qataris, and Saudis condemned the attacks, and they are furious with the Trump administration for allowing this because, of course, Israel's strike on Iran directly catalyzed Iran's strike on the Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
02:33:06.000So then just hours ago, hours ago, in the evening, Trump put out a post on True Social and said he didn't know about the strike at all.
02:33:15.000He said the administration was unaware of Israel's attack, did not give Israel permission to carry out the attack, and has said that there will be no further attacks on Iran's energy in the future, and that if Iran hits any energy inside the Gulf, then the United States will retaliate and do what exactly, I assume, more attacks on Iran's infrastructure, energy infrastructure.
02:34:24.000Like everything else, I think Trump is just abjectly lying.
02:34:27.000Of course, Israel told the United States.
02:34:30.000And of course, the United States knew about it.
02:34:33.000And of course, they approved it because this is part of the escalatory tactic against Iran.
02:34:39.000Just like how Trump bombed Karg Island last week, he authorized this strike because he is trying to ratchet up the pressure on Iran to compel them to allow the Strait of Hormuz to open up.
02:34:52.000And we'll talk about why I suspect this.
02:34:55.000If you understand the timeline, it's very clear that that is what happened.
02:34:59.000And we'll get into the details of that.
02:35:01.000That's going to be our main story about the operational side of the conflict.
02:35:10.000And it's a war that we really can't win.
02:35:12.000So Trump is trying to find a creative solution here, trying to find a way to have his cake and eat it too.
02:35:19.000How do we escalate the fighting without really escalating?
02:35:23.000How do we pry the Strait of Hormuz open without toppling the regime or invading the country?
02:35:30.000He seems to be trying to find a way out, but this is threading the needle here.
02:35:36.000This is a very narrow gap that Trump is trying to shoot through here between two really bad options: either a strategic defeat or a totally unacceptable escalation.
02:35:47.000So we'll talk all about the energy warfare.
02:35:50.000Then we're also going to talk, again, if we have time, about some of the plans to escalate.
02:35:56.000So in the background, it's very hard to tell what is really happening.
02:36:03.000Here's what I mean by this: in the background of all of this, all of this negotiating, bargaining that's happening, as I said, Trump is looking for a creative solution.
02:36:16.000In the meantime, there does appear to be a serious effort underway to escalate the fighting.
02:36:23.000And we saw last week, Trump has sent 5,000 Marines on amphibious assault ships to the Persian Gulf.
02:37:35.000Now, Kevin Feinberg in the Pentagon, he is responsible for a lot of the military procurement for the actual purchases of weapons.
02:37:43.000He's been saying we need to replenish our arsenal of precision munitions and other weapons.
02:37:48.000He says we need $200 billion, $200 billion for the war.
02:37:54.000It's probably cost us somewhere in the ballpark of $30 billion to date, maybe a little more, maybe a little less.
02:38:01.000Now they're asking for a serious increase in spending.
02:38:04.000We talked early in the conflict about how U.S. military intelligence is setting up personnel in southern Florida, and they're digging in for a 100-day conflict, maybe going as far as September.
02:38:19.000So while Trump is trying some of these creative solutions to try to break the stalemate and exert more pressure on Iran and possibly alleviate some of the economic pain, simultaneously, preparations are underway for an escalation on the ground.
02:38:37.000They're digging in for a long conflict.
02:38:40.000Now, the reason I say it's hard to understand precisely what's happening here is because you have to ask the question: is this a signal?
02:38:48.000Are they purely signaling to Iran, telling Iran that we're ready for the long haul?
02:38:56.000Because everything in wartime, it could be a legitimate preparation.
02:39:01.000It could be telegraphing or signaling that we're digging in.
02:39:41.000So Iran is under the impression that they only need to last a few weeks.
02:39:48.000They maybe are not prepared to really go the distance because they're getting hit really hard.
02:39:54.000And although they have a very deep bench in terms of IRGC leadership that can replace those that are assassinated, and although the regime is hanging on, how long can a country really sustain being attacked thousands of times every day before civil order simply collapses and society fragments and balkanizes and there's total disorder, total civil unrest.
02:40:18.000So if the Trump administration is making preparations for a long war, is that telegraphing to the Iranians that Trump is a madman that is willing to go six to 12 months?
02:40:32.000Is that signaling to the Iranians that it can, in fact, get worse?
02:40:36.000That the Iranian regime cannot survive a long conflict, that the United States might be irrationally committed?
02:40:44.000Or is the Trump administration actually making those preparations and actually preparing an operation to invade the coastline along the Strait of Hormuz or to invade Karg Island or to seize Iran's nuclear facilities or highly enriched uranium?
02:41:00.000It's hard to tell exactly what the goal is there.
02:41:03.000So we'll talk a little bit about that.
02:41:05.000And we're also going to talk tonight about Tulsi Gabbard, who in a hearing in the U.S. Senate today, this is amazing, she was asked point blank by Joel Asaf from Georgia, a Democrat.
02:41:20.000She was asked, do you believe that Iran presents an imminent threat to the United States?
02:41:25.000And she basically towed the line with the Trump administration and said, well, whatever Trump determines is a national security threat, that is true.
02:41:37.000And this is really the central question.
02:41:39.000This is the pretext for the entire war.
02:41:42.000Israel and President Trump, not even his whole administration, but Trump himself, they have said we had to invade Iran.
02:42:01.000Joe Kent, who worked in the office of the DNI, Tulsi Gabbard's office at the counterterrorism center, Kent resigned yesterday saying, this is a lie.
02:42:49.000You are the head of the office of the Directorate of National Intelligence.
02:42:54.000So her job is actually to gather the intelligence from all the 17 intelligence agencies and to create options and insights for the president.
02:43:03.000It's your job to determine what's an imminent national security threat.
02:43:15.000And if you know anything about Tulsi Gabbard, this is a disgusting betrayal because for years she has been a non-interventionist and has said that we should not fight a war with Iran, that Iran is not an imminent threat, that whatever threat Iran does pose to our strategic interests or allies in the region, it does not justify intervention, much less a regime change war led by the United States.
02:43:45.000And this is after yesterday, she effectively said the same thing on Twitter.
02:43:50.000Yesterday, after Joe Kent resigned, her follow-up to that, because Kent was her deputy in the ODNI, Gabbard said on Twitter, basically the same thing, it's Trump's judgment.
02:44:02.000Whatever he says is an imminent threat is an imminent threat.
02:44:07.000So this is either cowardice or it's a total betrayal.
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02:46:38.000If you missed the show last night, it was really essential viewing.
02:46:42.000You want to understand what's going on with Joe Kent, you have to watch the show last night.
02:46:48.000And I gave a little blurb on Telegram this evening.
02:46:52.000And I will just actually restate it here very briefly because I do think it's that important.
02:46:58.000Everybody is talking about this Joe Kent letter.
02:47:01.000And if you haven't heard yesterday, Joe Kent is the director of the Center for Counterterrorism, which is under the office of the Directorate of National Intelligence, run by Tulsi Gabbard.
02:47:15.000Yesterday, Joe Kent resigned his post to JD Vance, the vice president, and he published his letter of resignation on Twitter and basically said, I cannot go on in this role because I don't believe in what the administration is doing.
02:47:32.000He said, Iran does not and did not pose an imminent threat to the United States or our core interests.
02:47:41.000He said, rather, we were dragged into the conflict by Israel.
02:47:46.000He said we were dragged into the conflict, much like we were in Iraq by Israel and its lobby in the United States.
02:47:54.000And he said that he could not, in good conscience, support sending U.S. soldiers to die in the Middle East like they have been sent in the past for another endless war on behalf of a foreign government.
02:48:10.000I would maybe give it a B, a B plus, for reasons I got into yesterday.
02:48:14.000He simultaneously said that the killing of Qasem Soleimani was America first and a great decision, but also said the war in Iran is America last and influenced by the Israelis.
02:48:27.000And that doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
02:48:32.000And you don't get one without the other.
02:48:34.000So you can't be in favor of killing Suleimani, but also then want to pull back when we go to war in Iran because the killing of Soleimani directly led to the conflict.
02:48:45.000And anyway, I talked a lot about that last night, but he published this letter.
02:48:49.000And then today, he went on Tucker Carlson's show.
02:48:53.000And they did, I believe, 90 minutes or two hours.
02:48:56.000And Joe Kent elaborated on his position.
02:55:06.000When Candace Owens pushed on 28 different shows that Erica and Charlie Kirk were being chased by Egyptian military aircraft, Tucker Carlson said, I happen to know that that is happening for a fact.
02:56:44.000Oh, did you hear what Joe Kent said about the Charlie Kirk assassination?
02:56:48.000He strongly implied there's a conspiracy.
02:56:50.000Well, what is the actual purpose of having you in the USIC and then flaming out and resigning if you're not going to tell us what you know?
02:58:52.000He says, but the CIA is reading my text messages to the Iranian government, and they're going to charge me under FARA, Foreign Agent Registration Act, as an undisclosed lobbyist for the Iranian regime.
02:59:09.000Then Joe Kent resigns on Tuesday, goes on Tucker's show the following day, and they have this big interview about the war in Iran.
02:59:17.000Well, it comes out this afternoon that Joe Kent is under investigation by the FBI, and that investigation predates his resignation and maybe even the whole war with Iran.
02:59:29.000And they say it's related to him leaking classified intelligence.
02:59:34.000Now, Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson are good friends.
02:59:46.000If Tucker was meeting with Trump and receiving intel from Joe Kent, and then he was also in touch with the Iranian government, at the minimum, that does warrant a little bit of scrutiny.
02:59:57.000I do think actually that that might constitute some kind of an issue.
03:00:01.000And maybe the purpose of this media blitz was to get ahead of it.
03:00:30.000You could say either Tucker and Joe Kent are being punished by the deep state because they're opposing the war.
03:00:39.000You could say, and I think that's plausible too.
03:00:42.000You could say that Tucker, who is a staunch opponent of the war and lobbied Trump to stop, and Joe Kent, who resigned his post and was a conscientious objector, you could say the two of them are being punished by the deep state, which has gone authoritarian because they're at war and they are trying to crack down on anti-war dissent.
03:01:33.000And so it is interesting that Tucker came out this timeline on Saturday and said, I'm about to be charged under FARA.
03:01:40.000Tuesday, Joe Kent says, or rather it's reported, I think in the New York Post, it says the FBI is about to charge Joe Kent for leaking classified intel.
03:01:50.000It's hard to tell because we are in the fog of war.
03:02:00.000And either there's a rogue element in the administration that wants them to go to jail for opposing the conflict, or they are foreign operatives, which wouldn't be hard for me to believe because Tucker does roll with all the foreign governments.
03:02:15.000Okay, who is prosecuting the war in Iran?
03:02:18.000Well, it is Israel, but you know who else advocated for it?
03:02:22.000Saudi Arabia, the Emiratis, the Qataris, less so the Qataris.
03:02:30.000And Tucker is in bed with all those foreign governments.
03:02:33.000Tucker said that, in his opinion, the wisest man in the world is Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates or the president of the UAE.
03:03:30.000So the same day on Saturday that Tucker said he's under CIA investigation, the first member of the Trump government came out and criticized the war.
03:03:43.000David Sachs is the AI czar in the White House.
03:03:46.000So he's a member of the Trump government.
03:03:48.000For those that don't know, David Sachs has been a close personal friend of Peter Thiel since 1992, since they went to Stanford Law School together.
03:04:00.000And I believe Tucker Carlson met both of them in Washington, D.C. in 1992.
03:04:06.000So Tucker has known Peter Thiel as long as David Sachs has.
03:04:11.000David Sachs is tight with Peter Thiel.
03:04:25.000Tucker Carlson's son, Buckley, works for JD Vance in his press office.
03:04:29.000And Tucker had JD Vance on his Fox News show something like 45 times.
03:04:35.000Joe Kent, when he ran for Congress in 2022, got money from Peter Thiel.
03:04:41.000When he was running for Congress in Washington State, he got the maximum individual contribution from Peter Thiel and maybe other money as well.
03:05:14.000Joe Kent leaves the admin and interviews with Tucker.
03:05:17.000And Joe Kent and David Sachs are the only ones against the war in the admin.
03:05:21.000And Tucker interviews Kent and Tucker is obviously outspoken against the war.
03:05:27.000All three of these people, what do they have in common?
03:05:30.000They all have deep ties to JD Vance, direct and indirect personal and political connections to JD Vance.
03:05:39.000And as I said last night, and this is really the most important thing to understand, JD Vance is trying to save his prospects in 2028.
03:05:47.000So is the coterie of advisors that have staked their future and their career on a Vance administration.
03:05:55.000It looks like this is a desperate last-ditch effort to save Vance by trying to push Trump in the opposite direction.
03:06:04.000You're also seeing reports in the Daily Beast and in Axios about how Trump is about to break with Netanyahu.
03:06:12.000Certain unnamed White House aides are saying that Trump is about to have a big split with Netanyahu because Netanyahu wants the war to go on long and Trump wants to end the war quickly.
03:06:24.000I have a hunch that Trump is going to come out and deny those claims.
03:06:28.000I have a hunch that somebody's going to come out and deny that.
03:06:31.000I have a feeling that's a planted story.
03:06:33.000And I have a feeling that there is a concerted effort to try to push Trump away from this, even among, by the way, many of the people in the Bronze Age pervert Peter Thiel network.
03:06:44.000Their sole and exclusive mission is to make Vance the president.
03:06:48.000And when the U.S. and Israel went to war in Iran, many of the Thiel-backed network on social media, they said, this is a terrible mistake.
03:06:57.000We should have never went to war in Iran.
03:07:00.000Because they know, like Tucker knows, like David Sachs knows, like Joe Kent knows, that the person who is most affected by a catastrophic war with Iran, it's not even Trump, it's JD Vance.
03:07:12.000Because he is watching in real time his chances of becoming the nominee and then the president dwindle in real time with each passing day that the war goes on.
03:07:58.000And I find it highly suspicious that Joe Kent, as recently as 2024, was saying that we should give Israel foreign aid and we should bomb Iran's nukes and missile capabilities.
03:08:10.000He was saying that recently, and he has been saying it consistently for years.
03:08:26.000JD Vance was a Marine, then got recruited out of VL Law School, which is a notorious recruiting ground for the CIA, and then worked for Peter Thiel regardless.
03:08:37.000So I see a lot of intelligence connections there.
03:10:08.000Perhaps the president alone expected that this would be a quick and easy war, pound Iran very hard for a few days, decapitate the leadership, and a crippled and wounded Iranian regime will very quickly wave the white flag and sue for peace.
03:10:28.000Whereupon the Trump administration can impose conditions on Iran's nuclear program.
03:10:42.000The Iranian regime maintains its capability to launch drones and ballistic missiles.
03:10:47.000And they have used that capability to attack the Persian Gulf nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital choke point for oil, natural gas, and fertilizer, which goes out into the Indian Ocean, and to attack and degrade U.S. radar early warning systems and to attack the state of Israel.
03:11:11.000And so the war has settled into a second phase, you can say.
03:11:16.000If the first phase was the U.S.-Israel assault, bombing runs thousands of times in the first 12, 24 hours, bombing regime targets, decapitation strikes, bombing their Navy, their military hardware and infrastructure, logistics, supply chains, things like that.
03:11:38.000Now the war has settled into a second phase where it has become an attritional war, and it has become a war of economics.
03:11:45.000The United States and Israel are using their air and sea power to bomb Iran all the time and continues to decimate its leadership, continues to find and destroy its missile production and missile launch capabilities.
03:11:59.000But as long as Iran remains intact and as long as they're able to launch drones and missiles, then they are able to shut down shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, which chokes the global energy supply, hurting the global economy, and they're able to increase the pressure on the Gulf nations by hurting their real estate, tourism, and other industries, which they're trying to pivot towards.
03:13:33.000And there's, as we talked about, a couple of ways to do this.
03:13:36.000Either we have a truce and a ceasefire, and that allows the Strait of Hormuz to open up, and it relieves the economic pressure on the United States and the world.
03:13:46.000So that's one way to break the stalemate is effectively a strategic retreat and withdrawal.
03:13:52.000The other way is we have to actually win.
03:13:55.000We have to force the Strait of Hormuz open.
03:13:57.000But this is a very complicated endeavor because the way that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz is now mostly with drones, not even ballistic missiles, but with suicide drones.
03:14:09.000Iran has millions of them, millions of them.
03:14:37.000You cannot bomb all their drones, drone production.
03:14:41.000You cannot bomb all the places where they can launch drones.
03:14:44.000You can't kill the personnel that are launching them.
03:14:47.000The only way to stop Iran from closing the strait, it appears, is to topple the government and for a new government to come into place that orders the military to stand down.
03:15:00.000And the only way to topple the government is to invade.
03:15:04.000It has been reported that the IRGC is actually seven links in the chain of command deep, meaning that prior to the conflict, the highest-ranking IRGC officials, they prepared seven layers of succession.
03:15:22.000They have a second person, third person, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh person lined up in the event that they are assassinated.
03:15:29.000And then the next guy and the third guy and the fourth guy.
03:15:33.000So you can't kill everybody with air power and sea power.
03:15:37.000You can't destroy every place where they're storing, launching, and making drones.
03:15:41.000The only way to win is to topple the government.
03:15:43.000And you have to do that with a ground invasion, which obviously is off the table.
03:15:49.000So Trump is looking for a third way to break the stalemate.
03:15:52.000How do we win without retreating, without escalating?
03:15:55.000And what he is trying to do is find alternative ways to force Iran to comply.
03:16:53.000The one thing that the United States has left untouched is Iran's energy infrastructure.
03:16:59.000As you know, Iran is a petro-state, meaning they rely on the export of oil and gas for most of their government revenue.
03:17:08.000And so if you destroy that industry, which is not easily repaired or rebuilt, then you cripple Iran's economy, but you cripple it for years.
03:17:18.000So that's obviously, that is the one thing that we haven't hit yet.
03:17:27.000We've destroyed the headquarters, the airports, air bases, everything short of the energy.
03:17:33.000Because even though destroying the energy would cripple Iran's economy and it would take years for them to repair, so it'd be a problem for the successor regime.
03:17:48.000If the Trump administration bombs Iran's energy, then Iran will retaliate and bomb Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, and the Emirates energy.
03:18:14.000Because in the end, all this energy infrastructure will be destroyed and the global supply of energy will be chronically restrained, chronically, I should say, constricted.
03:18:27.000So you have a fifth or a third of the world's oil, depending on how you measure it, whether it's by volume of oil that moves through a sea lane or volume of oil overall.
03:18:38.000You have a fifth of the world's oil that moves through the Strait of Hormuz, which is going to be probably for 10 years taken offline, as well as liquefied natural gas, of which Qatar makes a lot of it.
03:18:52.000And that goes to Asian countries, but also Europe is reliant on it.
03:18:56.000And of course, the global supply determines the price.
03:20:54.000By bombing Iran's energy infrastructure, even in the short term, that constrains the global energy supply.
03:21:01.000Throughout the conflict, there has been oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz.
03:21:06.000It is Iranian oil mostly going to China.
03:21:09.000If you take that offline, there's just going to be even less oil in the world than there already was with the Strait closed.
03:21:18.000And then you'll have the same problem in Iran, having to repair that infrastructure.
03:21:24.000It will take a long time to bring that supply back to the global economy.
03:21:28.000And then even if you achieve regime change in the country, it will be tough for whatever regime comes next to rebuild if they don't have their energy sector intact, if they don't have that infrastructure still in place.
03:21:42.000So for these reasons, the United States doesn't want to go there.
03:21:45.000But it seems like that is the linchpin.
03:21:48.000And this is why Trump has shifted tactics starting on last Friday.
03:21:54.000On Friday, Trump launched a major airstrike on Karg Island.
03:21:58.000Karg Island is an island in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran.
03:22:02.000That is where 90% of Iran's oil exports move through.
03:22:07.000Iran gets the oil on the coastline and in the Persian Gulf, refines it on the Iranian mainland, and then ships it out to the island via pipeline where it gets picked up by tankers and then taken out of the Persian Gulf and through the Strait of Hormuz.
03:22:24.000So this is the hub for virtually all of Iran's oil.
03:22:30.000This is the critical center of Iran's energy sector.
03:22:34.000And Trump bombed it on Friday, but only the military targets.
03:22:38.000Now on Friday, I speculated that maybe that was in preparation for an invasion, for a ground force moving in and seizing the island.
03:22:48.000And that way you get a little bit of both.
03:22:50.000You're able to take control of Iran's energy without destroying the infrastructure.
03:22:56.000And so you can deprive them of the revenue without actually setting back in a permanent way the global supply of energy by destroying the infrastructure, which would take years to rebuild.
03:23:08.000That being said, an invasion of the island would be extremely difficult because it is within range of Iran's drones and missiles.
03:23:15.000So any amphibious assault on the island would surely be repelled by an Iranian drone and missile salvo launched at the Marines trying to land there.
03:23:25.000So I said on Friday, perhaps this is a gesture that indicates to Iran that if they don't open up the Strait of Hormuz, then the United States might attack the energy infrastructure on Karg Island.
03:23:42.000So the attack by bombing the military infrastructure, but not the economic energy infrastructure, Trump is threatening Iran and saying, we will do it.
03:23:53.000Maybe this is too close for comfort for you.
03:23:57.000If we're going to bomb the military infrastructure on the island, maybe the next strike is the energy.
03:24:02.000And the Iranians definitely don't want that to happen.
03:24:04.000So maybe that makes them uncomfortable.
03:24:06.000Maybe that makes them more willing to negotiate.
03:24:10.000Now, over the weekend, Trump made a pitch to the global economy.
03:24:15.000He made a pitch to the world community and said, look, everybody is affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and some more acutely than others.
03:24:25.000And what he's talking about there is that most of the Persian Gulf oil and gas doesn't actually go to the United States or Europe.
03:24:51.000There's a lot of problems in the long term if we don't open up the strait.
03:24:55.000And so Trump tries to expand this to other stakeholders and says, why should we alone bear the burden of solving this problem and reopening the strait?
03:26:36.000Now he's in the position of literally begging objectively inferior, weaker militaries to come to our aid and assist us, begging the United Kingdom, begging Germany, Japan, South Korea to come and help.
03:26:50.000As we talked about on Monday over the weekend, all the countries rejected this appeal.
03:26:56.000First Japan, then Australia, South Korea, then all the European countries, France, Germany, Italy, the UK, the European Union, Poland.
03:27:05.000They all came out and said, this is not our war.
03:28:31.000I said this, I think, yesterday or on Monday.
03:28:33.000The price of oil had stabilized at around about $90, $100 a barrel.
03:28:38.000This is after it spiked past $100, not last weekend, but the weekend before that.
03:28:43.000Today, oil exploded, even though Trump is trying to contain that, trying to contain the price shock by opening up the strategic oil reserves, changing some regulations, allowing Venezuela to export more oil.
03:28:59.000In spite of all of his efforts to limit the effects of the supply shock, now the oil has exploded because the war has entered now a third phase where we, the U.S. and Israel coalition, are openly targeting Iran's energy infrastructure, and they are responding in kind.
03:29:18.000Now, this is a story from the Wall Street Journal about the strike.
03:29:22.000It says, quote, Israel struck the giant South Pars gas field that Iran shares with Qatar, by far the largest in the world.
03:29:31.000Iran quickly retaliated with an attack on a major gas hub in Qatar, just across the Gulf, and a missile barrage fired at the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with debris landing near a refinery.
03:29:44.000Israel and Iran had already hit energy facilities throughout the nearly three-week war.
03:29:49.000But Wednesday's attacks struck some of the world's most important hubs and raised the prospect of tit-for-tat volleys against oil and gas facilities.
03:29:58.000President Trump approved of the strike to pressure Iran to unblock the Strait of Hormuz.
03:30:03.000The officials said Trump believes Tehran received the message and now wants to refrain from further strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure.
03:30:12.000Days earlier, Trump considered whether attacking Iranian energy sites could be part of an escalatory campaign against Iran, hitting one target and gauging Iran's reaction.
03:30:23.000If Iran didn't cede to U.S. demands, there would be more bombings of energy targets.
03:30:29.000Qatar condemned the attack as a dangerous escalation and a direct threat to its national security.
03:30:35.000Benchmark Brent oil futures shot up to close to $110 a barrel, and European gas prices surged 6% in the hours following the news.
03:30:45.000Arab governments were furious about Israel's attack and the U.S. failure to head it off.
03:31:18.000So Trump moved in with Israel to then escalate it, and he went from Karg Island military assets to Iran's gas field in the Persian Gulf, anticipating then that Iran would bomb Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Emirates.
03:31:37.000Now, why did Trump allow this to happen?
03:31:40.000Well, first of all, he knows that the only way to pry the Strait of Hormuz open without regime change or a ceasefire is that he's going to need to make it hurt more for Iran.
03:31:52.000The only way to do that is to hit their energy.
03:31:54.000And he needs them to be sure that he's serious.
03:31:59.000He needs them to know that he will actually cross that line.
03:32:15.000If they do nothing, hit another one until they open up the Strait of Hormuz.
03:32:21.000Now, why did he wait until today to do this?
03:32:23.000Well, what he said over the weekend is if Japan and South Korea and India and China, if they are the ones that are actually getting the Iranian oil and gas exports, then they should help us.
03:32:37.000If they won't help us, then we will hurt Iran's oil and gas industry.
03:32:43.000Because who will that affect the most?
03:32:45.000That will actually affect first and foremost the countries that actually get the oil and gas from Iran, which is China, India, less so Japan, South Korea.
03:32:56.000So Trump said, if you don't help us, well, we will be forced to take matters into our own hand and escalate.
03:33:03.000We will start an energy war that will hurt you the most.
03:33:08.000If we bomb Iran's oil and gas and then they bomb Qatar, the Saudis and the Emiratis, who is going to be without oil and gas?
03:33:15.000Who's actually going to face the most acute energy shock?
03:33:19.000it's going to be the Pacific countries and European countries, which are now dependent on LNG, they will feel the price shock as well.
03:33:34.000We still import a lot of energy for reasons having to do with our energy infrastructure, but we're not going to feel it as much as the Europeans and definitely not as much as the Asians.
03:33:45.000So Trump, by bombing Iran's energy, knowing they will retaliate against the Gulf, that is his way of punishing the allies that did not assist.
03:33:55.000He said, okay, if you won't help us open up the strait, we'll have to figure out our own way.
03:34:01.000And that involves hurting your economies.
03:35:07.000He said, quote, Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as the South Pars gas field in Iran.
03:35:17.000A relatively small section of the whole has been hit.
03:35:21.000The U.S. knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.
03:35:32.000Unfortunately, Iran did not know this or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the attack and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar's LNG gas facility.
03:35:43.000No more attacks will be made by Israel pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar, in which instance the U.S., with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars gas field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.
03:36:08.000I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long-term implications it will have on the future of Iran.
03:36:17.000But if Qatar's LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so.
03:36:21.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
03:36:25.000So Israel bombs Iran's energy after Trump told them two weeks ago, don't do that again.
03:36:31.000And if you're planning on it, get our approval first.
03:36:35.000It was reported this afternoon that Trump gave Israel permission.
03:36:42.000And Trump is telling Iran, look, you didn't know, but we didn't give permission.
03:36:47.000And so if you bomb Qatar, we'll grant that that was a mistake on your part.
03:36:53.000Trump says Israel will not attack again.
03:36:57.000But if you attack Qatar again, if this, in other words, becomes an energy war, if you've called my bluff, in other words, then we will go in, the United States will go in and we will completely bomb your energy infrastructure.
03:41:25.000It says, quote, the Trump administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran.
03:41:39.000The deployments could provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations with the Iran war well into its third week.
03:41:49.000Those options include securing a safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a mission that would be accomplished primarily through air and naval forces.
03:41:58.000But securing the strait could also mean deploying troops to the shoreline of Iran.
03:42:03.000The Trump administration has also discussed options to send ground forces to Karg Island, the hub for 90% of Iran's oil exports.
03:42:12.000Iran has the ability to reach the island with missiles and drones.
03:42:16.000Trump administration officials have also discussed the possibility of deploying U.S. forces to secure Iran's stocks of highly enriched uranium.
03:42:25.000The sources mentioned did not believe a deployment of ground forces anywhere was imminent, but declined to discuss specifics of U.S. operational planning.
03:42:36.000So they have 5,000 U.S. Marines on three amphibious assault vessels headed to the Persian Gulf.
03:43:56.000It says, quote, the Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war.
03:44:03.000That number would far surpass the cost of the administration's massive airstrike campaign to degrade, or rather to date, and instead seek to urgently increase production of critical weaponry expended as U.S. and Israeli forces have struck thousands of targets over the past three weeks, according to three other people familiar with the matter.
03:44:25.000It remains unclear how much the White House will ultimately ask congressional lawmakers to approve.
03:44:31.000Some White House officials do not think the Pentagon's request has a realistic shot of being approved in Congress.
03:44:37.000The Pentagon has floated several different proposed funding requests over the past two weeks.
03:44:43.000By December, Congress had approved roughly $200 billion in spending for the war in Ukraine.
03:44:49.000The cost of the war in Iran has rapidly grown, exceeding $11 billion in the first week alone.
03:44:55.000Shortly after the joint U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign began last month, the Trump administration started preparing an additional funding request to help cover the costs.
03:45:07.000So it's very clear that they are planning something bigger here.
03:45:11.000Right now, the USS Gerald Ford has actually left the theater of conflict and gone to a port in Greece because they need to make repairs.
03:45:20.000They say that the bathrooms exploded, the kitchen had a fire, and now the whole aircraft carrier is inoperable.
03:45:27.000So it's left the Red Sea and is going to Greece.
03:45:30.000Now, you only got one aircraft carrier there, the USS Abraham Lincoln.
03:45:36.000They say that Gerald Ford will be in repairs for at least a week, then it's going to come back.
03:45:42.000You got thousands of Marines headed there.
03:45:44.000You got additional thousands of ground forces being deployed.
03:45:48.000The war is costing $1.9 billion per day.
03:45:51.000They're preparing a $200 billion funding request.
03:45:56.000Clearly, they are preparing some kind of ground operation.
03:46:00.000It's just like the initial bombing campaign.
03:46:03.000First, they're talking about it, discussing it, planting stories in the media.
03:46:15.000So it's clear that Trump is not able to win with energy war, not going to happen.
03:46:20.000He's not able to open the strait by bombing the leadership.
03:46:24.000He actually wants to pry the straight open with some kind of invasion.
03:46:28.000He's going to send, it looks like a U.S. force to the strait or the island to try to take Iranian territory, establish a beachhead.
03:46:37.000And then at the minimum, even if they're not able to force the Iranian regime to completely capitulate, they can alleviate the economic pressure and collapse the regime as they're able to move the oil through the strait.
03:47:10.000They got another 400,000 regular ground forces.
03:47:14.000They got hundreds of thousands of militiamen.
03:47:17.000And we're going to invade this country.
03:47:19.000We don't even have a military big enough.
03:47:21.000If we had every member of the U.S. military invade Iran, it probably wouldn't be enough.
03:47:27.000And we're going to go in there with a tiny ground force.
03:47:30.000There are some reports that say we will go in with the Gulf countries, with the Kurds, Israeli intelligence, U.S. air power, and there's going to be some kind of tactical invasion.
03:47:57.000And what happens when we sustain heavy casualties?
03:48:00.000Let's say we try to invade on the shoreline.
03:48:02.000We're going to retreat after a ton of Americans die.
03:48:08.000Now they say that the Gulf countries, they want us to collapse the Iranian regime before we leave.
03:48:15.000They say now that Iran is bombing all of their cities and their energy and their airports, now the Gulf countries view Iran as an existential threat.
03:48:25.000And they want us to finish the job and collapse the regime before we leave.
03:48:32.000When we say we're going to war with Iran, nobody said Trump might make the judicious decision to launch a limited strike on Iran consistent with our interests, but not outside of them, you know, aligned with Israel, but not totally ident.
03:48:55.000What's the denotative meaning of those words?
03:48:59.000When we say dragged, when we say drawn, we mean that it is a gradual process where you have mission creep, where the goals keep changing, where one thing leads to another.
03:49:14.000And over time, there is a pressure, there is a narrowing of options and possibilities that ultimately leads to a full-fledged war.
03:49:28.000Nobody said the risk is that Trump might do, like I said, a limited tactical operation to achieve U.S. objectives, only U.S. objectives, not.
03:49:38.000We said we would be dragged gradually into a war and we would wake up one day and find ourselves inside of a conflict that nobody wanted.
03:49:48.000We would find ourselves in a conflict far wider and far deeper and going on for far longer than anybody ever conceived of, that anybody ever wanted, that nobody voted for, which is what happened in Iraq and Syria and Libya and Yemen and everywhere.
03:52:34.000And now that Iran is bombing the Gulf countries, this is an existential threat to them.
03:52:41.000If the Emirates is trying to build an economy on tourism, banking, technology, entertainment, how can they do that when they have drones bombing their malls and hotels and airports?
03:53:14.000If no other country will help us, if we are not able to withdraw, if Israel wants the fighting to go outside the U.S. commitment, well, then we need to open up the strait.
03:54:21.000And that is just going to be a deferring of the fighting.
03:54:25.000And in the meantime, Mossad and CIA are going to prepare the ground force.
03:54:30.000The Kurds, anti-government civilians, some kind of U.S. ground force.
03:54:36.000So even if we don't invade Iran tomorrow, the day is going to come when Iran has regime change and U.S. ground forces are going to be a part of it.
03:54:45.000And it will be a gradual process, how we get sucked in to yet another war.
03:57:37.000People are soundly asleep, eyes closed, snoring and kicking and carrying on, dreaming about a golden age, dreaming about Pam Bondi and Mark Rubio dancing to staying alive.
03:57:51.000And they go, I don't know, I just can't see it.
03:57:54.000I can't see Trump going to war with Iran.
04:07:47.000But because they're set again, structurally aligned against the GOP, they will slow the administration down.
04:07:54.000If this administration is controlled by Jews in Israel doing all this harm, that's a good thing.
04:07:59.000That's why I'm telling people to vote Democrat this year.
04:08:02.000It's not because I'm under any illusions.
04:08:05.000I'm voting Democrat to be an obstruction, an impediment to this administration from the executive branch of the government, because the House will use its oversight.
04:08:17.000There's checks and balances to check the power of the executive branch and they will slow down this Israel-occupied, out-of-control administration.
04:08:26.000Step two, in 2028, we need someone to run in the Democrat or Republican primary who is actually America first.
04:08:40.000I'm not going to vote for Josh Shapiro.
04:08:41.000I'm not going to vote for Marco Rubio.
04:08:44.0002028, we need to be prepared to say we will vote for anybody in a Democrat primary, in a Republican primary, who will put America first.
04:08:53.000But nobody from this administration who has brought us to war in Iran, nobody who has taken APAC money or Adelson money, nobody who's taken J Street money, nobody who's taken Jewish money can even be in consideration.
04:10:46.000You weren't, come on, we weren't born yesterday.
04:10:50.000So, and they're going to try to prevent the emergence of a real America first candidate.
04:10:54.000Suck all the oxygen out of the room for a Groyper, take all the blows from the Jewish lobby, and then bow out and throw all that support to Vance.
04:13:34.000I was reading it right up today on Twitter, endorsed by Ted Cruz, which claims you, Catholic integralists, Dugan, multipolarists, and Carlson and Co. are trying to hollow out the evangelical base to spurn Israel.
04:13:43.000I know you dislike Dugan and Tucker, but what do you make of this new ploy to triangulate your agendas?
04:15:34.000Looking into last night's show, unsurprisingly nearly every news article, tweet, or vague mention of Joe Kent's former support of Israel has been wiped from the internet or pushed to the asscrack of the algorithm.
04:15:41.000Least obvious reputation altering off of all time, Nigerikin is opinion.
04:16:35.000Clav is having incel Sperks don't need 30K for 60 seconds of looks maxing and you're here talking about Joe Kent for three hours every day.
04:16:40.000Newsboy, index pointing at the viewer emoji, clown face emoji.
04:17:03.000Tucker asked you if you were working for Teal at the dinner before your interview because he wanted to know if you both were on the same team.
04:18:14.000I hope when you read the super chats, you see that even if you watch this show every night, some people are just never going to be able to do this for themselves.
04:19:03.000Steve Agroy percent $20 just one day after dissenting from Trump and Kent publicly disavows you by name and I'm supposed to believe you're the psyop.
04:21:58.000You see, the problem with these ones is you.
04:22:17.000You either know the alphabetical all the countries, or you just have to think about every single country, which makes it true and And I don't know that there even are seven that start with a K, to be honest.
04:24:38.000Sorry your bubby never gave you this sobering reality here, but there's no Jewish uncle here that can pull some strings and get you an opportunity.
04:24:50.000My uncle said I could be on the Nick Fuentes show.
04:26:03.000Huckabee's picture is next to the definition of servility in the newest Webster after telling Bibi he's glad to not be on the Israel kill list and Ben called Mike a good boy.
04:36:28.000That's so, like, that's such a mom thing lover, but yeah, could you believe that's where her mind went?
04:36:36.000And sometimes I wonder, I'm not going to do like a whole like, not going to do like a therapy thing, but sometimes I wonder why I am the way I am.
04:36:45.000And then it's, I think it's stuff like that, you know?
04:36:47.000It's not like, I feel like a white family would be like, of course, son.
04:40:08.000Did you see the California GOP is vetting for infiltrating Grohipers?
04:40:11.000Carter 11B sent $20, looking as good as ever, man.
04:40:14.000Any plans to move from the pull-up bar to waits?
04:40:16.000Put 10 pounds of muscle on in his mug clav.
04:40:19.000Idaho University Groypers sent $20, been throwing the idea around that World War II was orchestrated by the Jews as a means to gain sympathy and then later power thoughts?
04:40:26.000Oh my $6 Indian cent $23, converting my family to Catholicism partly because of you.
04:42:22.000all amazing what do you think would happen if the united states just abandoned israel and blamed them for the war and leaves them on their own i know it very unlikely but i wonder what you think happens if true oh candace dick tucker suim sent twenty dollars You see Pierce storming off his own interview.
04:43:39.000Keith Woods wrote a little tweet on how the millennial hipster exposed Brick Urbanberger joint era was the last modern iteration of a uniquely white culture and I came to appreciate it a lot more.
04:43:46.000Yeah, I feel like he stole that from me, but I'm not sure.
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