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00:00:07.000But as soon as people start playing games, I stop.
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 inadvertently 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.
00:08:42.000I got places to be Good evening everybody You're watching America First.
00:09:10.000I, I, I, I, I, I, I No one's allowed to say that the blood is a quintessential part of this, that the blood of our people is something that is essential.
00:09:38.000that america was different because we are different palantir 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 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.
00:39:51.000People just want more and more freedom and love What he's looking for.
00:39:57.000And more People just want more and more freedom and love What he's looking for, Freed from desire.
00:40:07.000Mine and senses purify, Freed from desire.
00:40:11.000Mine and senses purify, Freed from desire.
00:40:14.000Mine and senses purify, freed from desire.
00:40:22.000There is something involved where we have to forgive them.
00:40:25.000We do have to forgive them for their ignorance, We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding And we have to embrace them and say, better late than never, Welcome to the right side of history.
00:40:37.000to our massive vision, our massive and ambitious vision for how we want the world to be.
00:41:16.000Hello, I got places to be Good evening everybody You're watching America First.
00:42:00.000Listen to the cure, I listen to the cure, listen to the cure, and then it cry.
00:42:14.000All the people cry, all the things you had, running through my head, running through my head, running through my head.
00:42:19.000All the things you had, all the things I've had, running through my head, running through my head, all the future side, all the things you're fine.
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.
00:51:09.000Inadvertently, 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.
00:54:35.000The 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.
00:54:43.000What 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.
00:55:23.000An 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.
00:56:50.000is 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.
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 longstanding, 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.
01:02:33.000Just like in Iraq, which went from 1990 until today, just like Libya, which went from 2011 to today, Syria, which went from 2011 to today, and Iran, which went from 2018 until today.
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.
01:15:01.000Inadvertently, 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.
01:15:17.000And 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.
01:17:55.000that 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.
01:32:35.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
01:32:39.000What he's looking for, want more and more.
01:32:43.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
01:32:47.000What he's looking for, freed from desire.
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 Think 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 geo location, 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're 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.
01:35:49.000Every mother and father understands the love for a child.
01:42:00.000And today, Marco Rubio came out addressing the press pool, and he said, the reason we went to war is because Israel was preparing to strike whether we intervened or not.
01:42:45.000They said, so if we're going to get hit anyway, if Iran already has the missile launch platforms in place and the coordinates are entered in and we're going to get hit no matter what, Rubio said, well, so we might as well hit Iran too and will mitigate the potential damage from that inevitable retaliation.
01:43:24.000Either we're going to hit Iran with Israel or not.
01:43:28.000And if we're going to get retaliated against regardless, well, we might as well hit Iran too.
01:43:34.000Okay, but why are we starting in the middle of the story?
01:43:39.000Why don't we rewind and consider that Israel is a client state of the United States of America, completely dependent on U.S. military aid, on U.S. military technology, on U.S. diplomatic cover in the United Nations for sanctions, its deterrent force.
01:43:59.000Why is Israel making the decisions here?
01:44:40.000Obviously, the decision that should have been made, and I said this from the very beginning, if you want peace in the Middle East, Iran is not the problem.
01:46:19.000Oh, well, it turns out he supported the war.
01:46:24.000Nobody in Trump's cabinet opposed the war, including Vance.
01:46:29.000Vance was actually pushing for us to do as much as possible.
01:46:34.000So when the U.S. was considering whether to enter the conflict and how to enter the conflict, Vance was pushing for us to go bigger and wider.
01:46:47.000Vance, according to the New York Times, actually encouraged the administration to do a full-fledged war.
01:47:06.000Tucker Carlson encouraged Trump to nominate JD Vance last year.
01:47:11.000Tucker said, you need to pick JD Vance as assassination insurance.
01:47:17.000If the neocons know that Vance would succeed you in the event of your death or impeachment, well, then they would be apprehensive about it because they're afraid of Vance because he's the real deal.
01:48:05.000Let me tell you what the plan seems to be.
01:48:09.000So Israel is going to launch this strike.
01:48:12.000The U.S. determines that if we want to mitigate the casualties on our side at our bases in the Gulf, we are going to have to intervene.
01:48:21.000If we intervene, we should go big and disrupt their command, control, and communications and destroy their missile launch platforms so they can't retaliate.
01:48:33.000What's more, we are decapitating the government.
01:51:10.000When it's MAGA Night at the White House, when we go and protest World War III at the White House and we get drone strike by Palantir, we're going to need these, okay?
01:51:19.000Get your blue hats because we're going to need them.
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01:51:42.000You get every episode of the show, every debate I've done, every speech, every gaming stream, commentary stream, thousands and thousands of videos.
01:52:48.000And this was not really a big surprise.
01:52:52.000I said on my previous show on Thursday that most likely we were looking at strikes this weekend.
01:52:58.000And without getting too much into detail, you had that third and final round of negotiations between Iran and the United States on Thursday morning.
01:55:05.000We are now engaged in a full-fledged regime change war in Iran.
01:55:10.000That is what Trump announced on Friday night.
01:55:13.000And specifically, he said the goal of this operation is to destroy Iran's navy, to destroy its missile production capabilities, to destroy its missiles and missile launch platforms, and to kill the military and civilian leadership of the country.
01:55:31.000He said the operation would go on as long as it needed to.
01:55:35.000And when it is over, he encouraged the Iranian people to emerge from their shelters and to rise up against the government and that this is their opportunity to take their country back.
01:55:47.000Now, the United States has done exactly this.
01:55:50.000We have completely destroyed Iran's navy.
01:55:57.000And so one of the big risks involved in the war was the threat that Iran would use its navy to close the Strait of Hormuz, which is a narrow sea route which gives access from the Indian Ocean to the Persian Gulf.
01:56:11.000So I believe it's about 20% of all the world's fossil fuels flow through the Strait of Hormuz.
01:56:18.000All of the Persian Gulf's oil and its liquefied natural gas from Kuwait, from the Emirates, from Qatar, Saudi, Iran, it all goes through there.
01:58:26.000Their actual launch platforms have been destroyed.
01:58:29.000So that ability has been, let's say, subdued for the time being.
01:58:33.000So the United States is sort of achieving its objectives.
01:58:37.000As it stands right now, the conflict looks pretty one-sided.
01:58:42.000Iran, its airspace is controlled by the U.S. and Israel.
01:58:46.000They say that the U.S. and Israel have launched thousands of airstrikes now against regime targets, against weapon systems, all throughout the entire country.
01:58:56.000And Iran is not able to effectively fight back.
01:59:00.000They have no effective anti-aircraft systems.
01:59:03.000Their air force has not been competent.
01:59:06.000Even their missiles have been so far mostly intercepted.
01:59:12.000And then finally, the United States has also been successful at assassinating the military and civilian leadership of the country.
01:59:20.000In the first round of strikes, the United States assassinated the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is the supreme leader of Iran, which is a huge deal.
01:59:30.000That would be like killing the king of England or like Putin.
01:59:38.000He is the head of the revolutionary regime.
01:59:42.000And so killing him is a significant blow.
01:59:44.000And they've also killed a number of people that run the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which is the paramilitary vanguard that answers to the Ayatollah.
01:59:53.000And they've killed a number of other civilian and military leadership on top of that, too.
01:59:59.000So that is how the war is progressing so far.
02:00:04.000Now, before we get further into where all this is going, because I think that even though the war has been one-sided so far, that may not be the case in the coming days and weeks.
02:00:18.000And we'll talk a little bit more about the strategy.
02:00:20.000But before we do, first of all, I want to talk about the justification for this war, how we got here, because it's very interesting.
02:00:30.000As you know, I have been predicting for two and a half years that we would be engaged in a war with Iran.
02:00:38.000I have been predicting this since October 7th, 2023.
02:00:44.000Nobody is talking about October 7th, 2023 anymore.
02:00:49.000The reason why October 7th matters is because you have to consider that we didn't start out in a war with Iran.
02:00:59.000This has been slowly building for a very long time.
02:01:04.000And in order to understand exactly how we got here, because it's sort of surreal, I seriously wake up today, yesterday, Saturday.
02:01:13.000And even though I have been predicting this and I believe it in my bones and I've analyzed and I've talked about it on the show, honestly, I still can't believe it's actually happening.
02:01:23.000It's really, when I see the headlines, which are that the U.S. and Israel are bombing Iran every day, we're at war with Iran.
02:01:33.000We're in a regime change war with Iran, this like once and for all confrontation.
02:01:38.000You got to understand, this has been building for 20 years.
02:01:46.000I got into politics in 2012, and I became very interested in this topic when the original nuclear deal was signed in 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
02:02:01.000And so this war has been a long, long time in the making.
02:02:06.000And it really has always been a question, will we or won't we?
02:02:10.000It was always unthinkable that we would.
02:02:13.000There was this expectation that we had made this mistake so many times in Iraq, in Libya, in Syria.
02:02:23.000There was such a small appetite for more of this among the American electorate.
02:02:28.000It felt inevitable, but at the same time, it also felt unthinkable.
02:02:33.000It felt inevitable that Israel and the Jews would get what they wanted, that the momentum, the inertia behind this terraforming strategy in the Middle East was unstoppable and it was really just a certainty.
02:02:47.000At the same time, it was unthinkable how a government could do this, would do this.
02:07:35.000Let's just put that out there for openers.
02:07:38.000Now, that is what Trump said on Friday.
02:07:42.000What we have since learned, however, is that this is really a lie.
02:07:46.000Trump said we're going to war because Iran is sponsoring all this terrorism and they're a historical antagonist and they're a threat to world safety.
02:07:58.000As I said, war of choice, war of aggression.
02:08:01.000But Trump's own statement on Friday has today been undermined by his own Secretary of State and according to reports in the New York Times.
02:08:15.000It says, quote, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has suggested that a planned Israeli attack on Iran determined the timing of Washington's assault on the government in Tehran.
02:08:27.000The top diplomat told reporters on Monday that Washington was aware Israel was going to attack Iran and that Tehran would retaliate against U.S. interests in the region.
02:08:44.000Sort of an interesting logic, isn't it?
02:08:47.000Rubio said, quote, we knew there was going to be an Israeli action.
02:08:52.000We knew that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
02:08:57.000And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.
02:09:05.000The state secretary's comments came minutes before the U.S. military confirmed that its death toll from the conflict had risen to six after two bodies were recovered from a regional facility struck by Iran.
02:10:18.000Well, Israel was not going to be very successful because Israel doesn't actually have that big of an air force.
02:10:26.000And so if Israel went at it alone, maybe they would have gotten themselves in trouble and they couldn't handle it.
02:10:32.000And we would have to come in and save the day.
02:10:35.000And you know what else would have happened?
02:10:37.000If Israel went in by themselves, they would not have absolutely destroyed Iran's command, control, and communications, and they would not have destroyed Iran's missile launch platforms.
02:10:49.000So if Israel triggered the war and didn't finish it, all that would do is force Iran to retaliate, not just against Israel, but against us, because we are the sugar daddy for Israel.
02:11:05.000So Iran was then planning on hitting U.S. military facilities in the United Arab Emirates, in Qatar, in Bahrain, in Saudi Arabia, in Kuwait, in Iraqi Kurdistan, in Jordan.
02:11:19.000Even they hit targets in Oman as well, which is actually a neutral country.
02:11:28.000Israel was planning on attacking Iran.
02:11:31.000It would have been an unsuccessful attack.
02:11:33.000All it would have done is put Israel in harm's way, knowing they couldn't save themselves, and triggering Iran to retaliate, not just against them, but against us.
02:11:43.000In other words, Israel was going to trigger an attack that would kill a lot of Americans.
02:11:49.000So in order to preempt Iran's counterattack, we had to join Israel's war of choice.
02:13:32.000And by the way, that was reported in all the papers of record last week, in Politico.
02:13:39.000They said the logic inside the administration is that they maybe wanted Israel to attack Iran first because then Iran would hit our bases and that would create a better justification for the United States to enter the war.
02:15:35.000In April 2024, under President Joe Biden, Israel launched an airstrike in Syria.
02:15:43.000They targeted a consulate building owned by Iran in Syria's capital, Damascus, and Israel killed seven Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders.
02:17:31.000He deployed carriers to deter them and shot down their missiles and then left.
02:17:37.000What did Israel do three months later?
02:17:39.000Well, at the end of July 2024, Israel assassinated the political leader of Hamas in Tehran, Iran's capital.
02:17:50.000And not just on any day, but after Iran's president mysteriously died in a helicopter crash, Ebrahim Raisi, they were inaugurating their new president, Masood Pazeshkian.
02:18:02.000It was on the inauguration day of their new president that Mossad went into Iran's capital, blew up the safe house for Hamas's political leader, Ishmael Haniah.
02:18:17.000Another provocation, assassinating a foreign leader on Iranian soil on the inauguration day of their new president.
02:18:58.000Israel goes into Iran's capital, provokes them, triggering Iran to retaliate, and that invites us into the theater to defend them yet again.
02:19:09.000Then Trump gets elected, inaugurated January 2025.
02:19:14.000Netanyahu is the first foreign leader to visit the White House.
02:20:34.000Netanyahu is sabotaging the diplomacy throughout.
02:20:38.000On the 61st day, one day outside of the deadline, June 13th, 2025, what does Israel do?
02:20:48.000They launched Operation Rising Lion, an all-out attack, preemptive attack on Iran, hitting Iran's nuclear facilities at Natans, Fordo, Esfahan, but also hitting elsewhere.
02:21:02.000They actually started the attack with drone and missile attacks from inside the country.
02:21:08.000And they launched them against the Iranian military and the civilian leadership.
02:21:27.000But oh no, what happened after Israel hit Iran and claimed victory?
02:21:31.000Well, Iran started hitting Israel back.
02:21:34.000And for nearly two weeks, Iran was raining missiles down on Israel, volleys of hundreds of ballistic missiles.
02:21:42.000And again, the intercept rate was about 86%.
02:21:46.000So many of those missiles were getting through in the desert where the nuclear plant is, at the Mossad sites, at other military sites.
02:21:55.000It also turns out that Israel by itself was not able to destroy Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
02:22:03.000And they knew they couldn't because Iran's nuclear infrastructure is famously deep underground and fortified by mountains and actually thousands of feet of earth.
02:22:15.000So Israel hit all these facilities knowing they could not achieve their objectives.
02:23:21.000And if Israel hits Iran's nuclear sites and they are not destroyed, what's the first thing that Iran is going to do?
02:23:27.000Well, they're going to race towards a nuclear bomb because either the sites will eventually be destroyed or they will produce a nuclear bomb to deter that from happening.
02:23:39.000So, in other words, Israel started a war it knew it couldn't win or finish, least of all achieve its objectives.
02:23:46.000They started a war that they knew would trigger an Iranian retaliation that is not survivable.
02:23:52.000And they also knew that not only could they not achieve their objectives, but actually it would accelerate the Iranian nuclear program.
02:23:59.000By not finishing off those sites, it might actually accelerate the timeline for Iran to acquire a bomb.
02:24:06.000So that required the United States not only to defend Israel, but also to finish off the nuclear sites offensively, which is what we then did.
02:24:18.000And on the final day of the war, we went in with B-2 stealth bombers and we dropped the bunker buster bombs, 35,000-pound bombs, on Natans, on Fordo, and we launched Minuteman missiles at those sites and Esfahan as well.
02:24:48.000The war with Iran has been going on for 15 years, maybe longer, depending on where you want to draw the lines.
02:24:56.000The war with Iran has been going on for decades.
02:25:00.000And many people said that was the beginning and the end, that the war with Iran started when Israel bombed them and it ended when we bombed them.
02:25:08.000Well, it didn't start then, and it surely didn't end then either.
02:25:13.000That was only the climax at that point in time of an already ongoing conflict, of an already established pattern.
02:25:23.000As a matter of fact, the war between Israel and Iran had been crescendoing.
02:25:29.000Again, going back even further, going back to the assassination of Qasem Suleimani in 2020, going back to Israel's cyber attacks and industrial sabotage and assassinations in 2021 and 2022, October 7th, and the provocations against Iran in 2024, and then the bombing in 25.
02:25:52.000That was only the latest and greatest operation.
02:25:55.000And so, if you were to solve for X, if you're to finish the equation, well, what's going to happen after Midnight Hammer?
02:26:05.000Iran is going to give up their ambitions for a deterrent capability.
02:26:09.000Is Israel going to give up their quest for regime change?
02:26:13.000Or are we going to get the same pattern, which is that Israel will provoke Iran, they will trigger a conflict, it will force the United States to intervene, and that pattern will keep playing out until the Iranian regime is defeated.
02:26:29.000Well, that's how I predicted that we would be back here, because that has been the pattern up until now.
02:26:35.000And that is apparently exactly what happened.
02:26:38.000Israel came to the United States in December 2025.
02:26:43.000This was Netanyahu's fifth visit to the White House, okay, to the United States.
02:26:50.000He came in February 25, April 25, July 25, September 25, and then Netanyahu returned just before New Year's in 2025.
02:27:41.000And Netanyahu came back to the White House again in February, this month, February 2026.
02:27:47.000Then Netanyahu informed the president that Israel would go to war.
02:27:52.000Israel was going to launch a war before the Jewish holiday of Purim to celebrate the Jews' victory over the Amalekites over their enemies, and that it was really just a question of whether we're in or we're out.
02:28:06.000And again, this was going to be whether they did it alone or we did it the way we did it, it would have been the same outcome.
02:28:13.000Israel basically told the U.S., we're going to rerun the playbook from last year.
02:28:19.000Well, again, if they bombed Iran without us on Friday, Iran would have launched its missiles at our bases in Erbil, in Iraq, at Al-Udaid, in Qatar, in the Emirates, in Saudi Arabia, in Jordan, all over the region.
02:28:37.000And if Israel hit Iran and then Iran counter-attacked us, we probably would not be able to intercept all the missiles.
02:29:25.000They control the ladder of escalation.
02:29:27.000And what role does the United States play in this?
02:29:31.000What we are told about the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is that they are our ally and that we are their patron and they are our client.
02:29:42.000We furnish them with $3.8 billion per year in military aid.
02:29:46.000Last year, the Congress authorized $26 billion.
02:29:51.000Forgive me, that was in 2024 in the spring.
02:29:55.000$24, $25 billion in additional U.S. military aid for Israel.
02:31:42.000The king is the sovereign of the United Kingdom because he, at the end of the day, gets to control what happens inside the country.
02:31:51.000Sovereignty comes from the peace of Westphalia when the German princes are able to decide whether they're going to be Protestant or Catholic.
02:32:04.000Now, in political science, we say that the essence of sovereignty, according to Carl Schmidt, is the ability for the government to tell its citizens to kill and be killed.
02:32:18.000That is actually what, effectively, what sovereignty means.
02:32:22.000Theoretically, definitionally, sovereignty means you control what happens in your borders.
02:32:27.000But what it means to be sovereign is you can command your subjects or your citizens to kill and be killed, to go to war.
02:32:40.000We are going to get a bunch of guns and you're going to go and fight those people and you're going to have to kill them and you might have to be killed for the sake of us, for the sake of our political entity.
02:32:52.000So if Netanyahu can come to the White House and say, you're going to die for us, these are the terms under which you're going to kill and be killed.
02:34:41.000Well, Larry Ellison owns the largest media conglomerate in America.
02:34:46.000So if he blacklists you and says, hey, we're not going to work with that guy and we're going to cut contracts with anybody that does, you can't work.
02:35:01.000Bill Ackman, who runs his own financial fund, he goes to Larry Fink after the protest from October 7th and says, we need to blacklist every student who protested against Israel in finance.
02:35:15.000And Larry Fink, running BlackRock, says, okay, BlackRock is the largest asset manager in the world.
02:35:22.000Trillions of dollars in assets under management.
02:35:25.000If Larry Fink says you can't work in finance, you can't work in finance.
02:35:51.000And so people have said, well, the reason President Trump couldn't refuse is because he knows they would kill him.
02:35:56.000That's what Tucker Carlson said today.
02:35:59.000He said, you can't say no to Israel because the last president that did is JFK.
02:36:05.000And he's referring to the fact that in 1963, John F. Kennedy, the U.S. president, was in a dispute with Ben-Gurion, the president of Israel, the prime minister of Israel.
02:36:17.000And at that time, Israel was producing a nuclear weapon, very similar to Iran.
02:36:22.000And JFK, his policy was nonproliferation, inherited from Eisenhower.
02:36:28.000Eisenhower, in fact, told JFK about this during the presidential transition in 1961.
02:36:34.000He said, you got to watch the Israelis.
02:36:40.000He wanted the IAEA and the United States to inspect Israel's nuclear facilities to determine that they were not making a nuclear weapon.
02:36:49.000And JFK's demands kept growing stronger until eventually JFK told Ben-Gurion: Look, if you don't do what we say, you're cut off.
02:36:58.000JFK sent him a letter in June of 1963 and said, if you don't give us inspections twice a year and we get to see all of your facilities, then we're cutting you off from foreign aid completely and we'll back the Arabs.
02:37:13.000Ben-Gurion resigned the day after he got that letter.
02:37:17.000And five months later, on November 22, 1963, JFK was assassinated.
02:37:25.000And under his presidency, Israel went nuclear.
02:37:28.000About a year later, Israel got a nuclear bomb, successfully tested a nuclear device.
02:37:33.000And not only that, but U.S. foreign aid to Israel, not only did it increase threefold, but the composition of it changed also.
02:37:42.000Whereas foreign aid to Israel from 1948 to 1964 was mostly economic and humanitarian aid, after Lyndon Johnson became president, it's almost all military aid, almost all of it.
02:37:55.000And they start getting the most advanced U.S. equipment, tanks, guns, you name it.
02:38:02.000So the implication is a U.S. president can't say no to Israel because they control our system and they have penetrated our country so thoroughly they will literally kill you.
02:38:14.000In the same way that we were able to kidnap Maduro and we were able to assassinate the Ayatollah, Israel could simply take out the top of the United States.
02:39:22.000It is to die on our feet, not live on our knees.
02:39:25.000That is why we elected Trump to be a leader that would look at all the foreign special interests, to look at Israel in their face, at their hook nose, to look at India, to look at the multinational corporations, to look at the transhumanists in big tech, and to tell them, no, I'm the boss.
02:41:11.000The real best and greatest and the most valorant among us, they are dying in a war of choice, a war of aggression for Israel because Trump is afraid or stupid, because Vance is afraid or calculating.
02:43:43.000This is what they laid out 50 years ago.
02:43:46.000They said the era of land for peace is over.
02:43:49.000We're not giving up more land for peace with our neighbors.
02:43:51.000We're aggressively going to confront them.
02:43:54.000We're going to exploit their weaknesses, which is their diversity.
02:43:57.000We're going to obviously infiltrate the United States and use them as the instrument to do it.
02:44:04.000And we will create, as they said, a mosaic of tribes with flags.
02:44:08.000We will basically disintegrate all the states into fiefdoms that could never challenge Israel.
02:44:13.000Tiny statelets that can never create a powerful military that will always be dependent for energy or for access to the sea or other things.
02:45:10.000They can take the Sinai, control that choke point at the Suez.
02:45:15.000They can move north and they can control up to the Latani River to protect themselves there.
02:45:20.000They're going to move up into Damascus in the suburbs, maybe cross the Jordan River or at least take the West Bank right up to the Jordan River.
02:45:29.000And then they can dominate the entire region.
02:45:31.000As we've been talking about with nuclear weapons, their qualitative military edge, that has been the plan from the beginning.
02:47:30.000Well, what is JD Vance's position on this war of choice?
02:47:35.000His old mentor, David Frum, cheering on from the sidelines, who wrote Axis of Evil 25 years ago, arguably creating that justification for a war way ahead of schedule.
02:47:46.000Well, according to the New York Times, JD Vance was all in favor of this war.
02:47:52.000The New York Times did a big piece, you should read it, about how the decision was made to go to war.
02:47:58.000And it says that when the administration was faced with this decision, do we join Israel or not?
02:48:04.000Nobody opposed U.S. entrance into the war.
02:48:17.000It says, quote, Vice President JD Vance, a longtime skeptic of American military interventions in the Middle East, argued in a White House Situation Room meeting that if the United States was going to hit Iran, it should go big and go fast.
02:48:49.000Vance was encouraging Trump to go to war.
02:48:51.000The only person that was discouraging it was Tucker Carlson, to his credit.
02:48:57.000And I have my beef with him, but to his credit, as far as we know, Tucker Carlson is the only one who went to the White House on February 23rd and tried to discourage President Trump from taking us to war.
02:49:10.000And for that, whatever Tucker is, CIA, foreign operative, whatever, we owe him gratitude because he tried.
02:49:21.000And for whatever reason, who knows what he really is, we should be somewhat grateful.
02:49:26.000We have to give him the credit he deserves for that.
02:49:59.000Well, you want to know how we know it's true?
02:50:03.000JD Vance said the exact same thing in July of 2024.
02:50:10.000You want to know when he said it and where he said it?
02:50:14.000Well, a week after Donald Trump was shot in the ear and Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk, and Peter Thiel called Donald Trump and encouraged him to select JD Vance as his nominee, the RNC was held.
02:50:31.000And it was at the RNC where Trump announced that JD Vance would be his running mate that JD Vance conducted his first interview as the VP nominee with Sean Hannity.
02:50:42.000His first interview at the Republican National Convention, the nominating convention in July of 2024, in his first interview, JD Vance sat with Sean Hannity and he said, we have to hit Iran hard.
02:51:42.000They pushed the foreign policy, which is called restraint, name of a book by Barry Posen.
02:51:50.000And they push foreign policy restraint using American power, but in a restrained way.
02:51:55.000JD Vance went to this conference, and according to the Jewish Post, he put a pro-Israel spin on America first, according to Jewish Insider.
02:52:05.000And during the speech, JD Vance said, we have to arm Israel so they can bomb Iran.
02:52:11.000He said, we treasure Israel as an ally.
02:52:14.000We work on them with missile defense and they are the Holy Land and we should give them what they need to bomb Iran.
02:52:20.000He went to an anti-war think tank and told them we need to bomb Iran for Israel.
02:52:32.000He gave that interview in July at the RNC in 24.
02:52:36.000And this week, he encouraged Trump to go max on Iran, to go all the way.
02:52:43.000Now consider, people are saying that Vance is normally anti-war.
02:52:48.000Where exactly does JD Vance come from?
02:52:52.000Well, like I said, he was groomed and he was the protege of David Frum, who is a Jewish neocon, former speechwriter for George W. Bush.
02:53:02.000And if you read that article, it is very suspicious because somehow David Frum knew in the 2010s that JD Vance would be the president in the late 2020s.
02:53:15.000How did he get this feeling when JD Vance was just some former law student?
02:53:21.000Well, he said he got that feeling because of Vance's biographical credibility, because of his book, his book, Hill Billy Elegy, which talks about how he's from the disaffected white working class.
02:53:33.000And effectively, David Frum said he believes Vance will become the Republican president because Vance is going to be able to trick all the stupid white people.
02:54:16.000In 2016, when Donald Trump launched the anti-war America First movement, Trump said, as we talked about earlier in the show, that the war in Iraq was a mistake, that there were no weapons of mass destruction, that George Bush knew there weren't weapons of mass destruction.
02:54:38.000Trump repudiated David Frum's legacy, the Republican Party legacy, repudiated the Bush dynasty, destroyed Jeb Bush, single-handedly made support for Iraq actually a non-starter in the Republican primary.
02:56:15.000And they thought that if they could take enough votes away from Trump in a state like Utah, Hillary would win that state, and she would get a few of those electoral votes, and she might win it in a pinch.
02:56:48.000Bill Crystal, for those that don't know, is one of the architects of the Iraq war.
02:56:54.000Writing for the Weekly Standard, which is one of the big intellectual magazines of the 90s and 2000s, Bill Crystal was pushing the strongest for the war in Iraq.
02:57:03.000He's part of that same generation as David Frum.
02:57:07.000And his father, Irvin Kristol, is the godfather of neoconservatism.
02:57:24.000The guy that was mentored by David Frum, the guy that voted for Bill Kristol's spoiler, Evan McMullen, the guy that told us at an anti-war think tank that we need to go to war with Iran in his first interview as the VP nominee said, we got to bomb Iran really hard.
02:57:42.000Now people deny they're surprised that JD Vance was in favor of a war with Iran now.
02:59:00.000But, you know, I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
02:59:03.000I'm sure that timing was just really serendipitous for him.
02:59:06.000He got lucky that he became Trump's number one cheerleader right when he needed his endorsement to win that three-way primary and then get his Senate seat, which would then propel him into the vice presidency and now the presumptive nominee for president in 28.
02:59:22.000Yeah, that's not, that wasn't orchestrated and manufactured for 15 years by the CIA and the Israel lobby.
02:59:29.000No, that's the story of how a white guy that's just like us realized, you know, learned to stop.
03:02:41.000Last thing that we need, if Trump, Vance, and Rubio take us to war and you vote for them again in 26 and 28, is there any limit to what you will tolerate?
03:06:31.000People tell me, well, it doesn't matter whether we vote for the Democrat or the Republican, we get the same thing.
03:06:37.000Okay, so then what does it even matter?
03:06:40.000If we're going to get a war with Iran all the same, if we're going to get H-1Bs and foreign students all the same, then why is this the most important election of our lifetimes?
03:07:13.000The best we can hope for is, you know, we'll be a little bit better than the most progressive Democrat in history.
03:07:20.000They say, well, he's better than Kamala Harris.
03:07:23.000You mean the most progressive Democrat in history?
03:07:27.000He's better than the mixed race woman with a Jewish husband and that freak show family who wants to abolish the police and let in 10 million illegals and is in favor of, oh, he's marginally better than her.
03:11:39.000Iran is hitting all the Gulf countries with missiles, hitting their airports, hitting their hotels, in a bid to get the Gulf countries to pressure Washington to stop.
03:13:35.000This Jewish war of aggression by the Jewish state for greater Israel on the Jewish holiday of Purim against the Jewish enemy, the Amalekites, has nothing to do with Judaism?
03:14:01.000Do you know, just real quick, for anyone that would say it's Netanyahu, do you know that Netanyahu's opposition in the Knesset, the leader of the opposition party, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times late last year, and he literally said on the front page, said, It's not just Netanyahu, it's all of us.
03:14:27.000I believe it was either Yair Lapid or Benny Gantz, the leader of the Israeli opposition, okay, the guy that's running the party against Netanyahu, took out an op-ed in the New York Times and said, don't blame this on Netanyahu.
03:14:43.000He said, this is the bipartisan security consensus of all of Israel, and most people support this here.
03:15:26.000All of the vital members of the Knesset are on board with this and support it.
03:15:30.000So the idea that there is some, you know, significant pushback, it's not demonstrable of the entire Jewish community, or I should say, representative of the whole Jewish community.
03:16:15.000When you see what the Israelis have done in Beirut, what they've done to the Tezboh and Lebanon, when you see what they've due, what they've done to Iran, it's a little bit terrifying, but it's what it is.
03:17:33.000When Israel was bombing Iran and we were getting involved, Charlie said, you know, just turn your phone off and just stop paying attention to politics.
03:21:29.000Like, that's really that's just next level.
03:21:32.000So, what happened to a few days ago, they were saying if we go to war with Iran, they're going to blow up an aircraft carrier with a hypersonic missile.
03:21:40.000I guess they'll settle for their leader being assassinated instead.
03:21:44.000You know, it's like two weeks ago, Iran was posting hype videos.
03:21:50.000We're going to drop a hypersonic missile on an aircraft carrier and we're going to rain missiles on all these bases.
03:25:43.000I found this guy on YouTube who has an exhaustive list of Catholic commentary on a JQ I thought was worth sharing, biblical commentary, church fathers, et cetera, all the way to Nostray.
03:32:41.000All the Islamic terrorism in Europe and the United States comes from Wahhabist, fundamentalist, Salafist clerics that were sponsored by the Saudi state until recently.
03:35:28.000Even though he had a big problem with me, had a big ship on his shoulder, had all this animosity for me.
03:35:34.000When he saw the Groyper thing taking off, he jumped right on the bandwagon, jumped right on the bandwagon and started doing flips and tricks on it like it was nobody's business.
03:35:45.000Then when things got a little bit heated, he switched sides like grilled cheese.
03:35:51.000Things got a little bit heated and he switched sides.
03:35:55.000And so when the government came down, oh, he was running for the Hills.
03:40:53.000Today at work, I had a guy say the entire world is ringing for Trump and the only people that are mad about the war are liberals crazy that strangle hold Fox News and GOP is on people.
03:44:50.000I don't know how a person like finds themselves in that situation where they wake up one day and they're in a bedroom full of toys and they're an adult.
03:46:34.000Curious to how long you think Iran can keep promoting lower-level officers to keep taking the helm.
03:46:38.000There must be a limited amount of people who know enough about their operation to actually stand up against strikes from the U.S. and Israel.
03:46:41.000Trump seems pretty determined to get all of them.
03:54:19.000Do you foresee China making a move in the Indo-Pacific as we transfer resources to Middle East and burning through years through our interceptor missile stockpiles?
03:56:21.000My biggest fear is the sleeper cells that may have come from Iran into the United States during Biden's open border, putting American lives at risk now.
03:59:00.000Thank you for the big super chat exception.
03:59:01.000NCG sent $200 except today's monologue on the Iran war explicitly insisted that the war has nothing to do with Jews, but it's just good old-fashioned Dashak's geopolitics.
04:07:39.000It's multi-domain operations, MDO, using multiple domains, cyber, space, air, naval, and ground.
04:07:50.000It's using all the intelligence, this fifth-generational warfare, to basically disintegrate all the material, all the personnel in a very short amount of time to prevent a war of attrition.
04:08:46.000What are your thoughts on John Kariako saying Israel threatened nuclear war if we didn't intervine further on Iran's nuclear development and Trump slash our military attack to avoid nuclear war slash railways?