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.
00:09:56.000Palantir 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.
00:24:25.000People just want more and more freedom and love.
00:24:29.000What he's looking for, freed from desire.
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're 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.
00:26:18.000My 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.
00:27:32.000Every mother and father understands the love for a child.
00:41:53.000You got that back, that's a lack of fun.
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 things you're all the things that running through my head, running through my head, running through my head.
00:42:18.000All the things you had, all the things you said, running through my head, running through my head, all the things you had, all the things you had.
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.
00:51:06.000And 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.
00:53:50.000And 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.
00:54:32.000And 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.
00:54:45.000What 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.
00:56:50.000Mission 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.
00:57:45.000Palantir, 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.
00:59:54.000This 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.
01:10:53.000Okay, when homies never seen before, you started on camp with them in a bunch of head before you go to be everything, my parents stay in the mouth.
01:13:43.000It's this country not having a border.
01:13:46.000It's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never gonna own anything.
01:13:52.000Think about it, never making an income to support a family, never being able to have a family, people being corrupted before you're even a teenager by things on their phone, sick addiction to technology.
01:14:07.000The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation.
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, people 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.
01:15:30.000And 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?
01:15:44.000It'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.
01:33:10.000If 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.
01:34:02.000Think 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, against the people that are cruel, the people that are hateful.
02:02:50.000And by that, I mean the people that are really cruel, not 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.
02:03:04.000What 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.
02:05:07.000Mission 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.
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.
02:06:43.000And anybody that settles for anything less is just as much of an enemy.
02:06:48.000I 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.
02:07:10.000And I will always be anchored, understanding that that is the fundamental struggle.
02:07:14.000As 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?
02:08:18.000Barack Obama created the joint comprehensive plan of action, the JCPOA, or the Iranian nuclear deal.
02:08:27.000And 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.
02:08:50.000Netyahoo 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.
02:23:18.000Inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see, people 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.
02:25:43.000how to say that the blood quintessential part the blood of our people is something that is essential That we are different.
02:26:12.000that America was different because we are different.
02:26:31.000Palantir is an AI data analytics company.
02:26:36.000They use artificial intelligence to look at vast amounts of data and create insights.
02:26:43.000If 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.
02:27:01.000Palantir comes in and interprets the data using algorithms, using artificial intelligence, using software to make vast amounts of data usable.
02:41:27.000If we don't have freedom on the Internet in the age of AI, we are going to be mind raped every day forever.
02:41:35.000Think 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.
02:41:58.000They have access to your bank account.
02:41:59.000AI will literally know everything about you.
02:42:04.000Everyone you know, your relationship to them, your tastes, your preferences, your habits, your whereabouts, your routines, your schedule, when you asleep.
02:42:13.000They know how much REM sleep you're getting.
02:42:17.000They know how many calories you consume.
02:42:20.000Think about the ways that they can manipulate you.
02:42:22.000You 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.
02:42:34.000You have a smart home, economy of things.
02:42:37.000It's like total, like, rape of everybody by the system forever.
02:42:53.000My life is like a first-person video game, you know?
02:43:52.000These material appetites, they will never be satisfied.
02:43:57.000And 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.
02:44:06.000And every mother and father understands the love for a child.
02:49:39.000We're talking about the war in Iran, day 32.
02:49:43.000And it seems like we are approaching the decisive point in the war.
02:49:49.000Finally, at least that is what has been said by the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, earlier today.
02:49:57.000And the big development in the conflict right now is that all signs are pointing toward potentially an imminent surrender by the United States.
02:50:10.000Now, that's where things are pointing.
02:50:13.000And maybe that's what they want us to think.
02:50:16.000But as it stands right now, it looks like for the past 48 hours, this is unambiguous.
02:50:27.000The administration is telegraphing that the United States is preparing to exit the conflict within the next two weeks.
02:50:35.000And maybe more importantly, not only are we going to end the conflict, but we are going to do so without really achieving any of our strategic objectives.
02:50:47.000And that is none of these strategic objectives that we set out to accomplish at the beginning or the objectives that emerged as the conflict progressed, such as specifically the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
02:51:05.000We are, it looks like, surrendering in the conflict after a strategic defeat and a total humiliation.
02:51:15.000Now, we're going to talk about who is saying that and the signs that are coming from the White House, because I'm not totally convinced.
02:51:23.000I think that, like this has been the case for the entire time throughout the past four, almost five weeks, the messaging and the signaling coming from the White House is part of the strategy.
02:51:38.000Just like the naval bombardment, aerial bombardment, the assassination strikes, the messaging is part of the strategy as well.
02:51:52.000And the messaging has been used to reassure the markets.
02:51:55.000It has been used to bluff against Iran.
02:51:58.000But I also believe the messaging is being used to bluff against our allies as well in the Gulf, in Asia, in Europe.
02:52:07.000And so when we consider the messaging coming from the White House and from the comms team and the State Department and the Pentagon, when we look at what is being planted in the media, we have to consider that none of this should or ought to be taken at face value.
02:52:26.000As a matter of fact, it's the opposite.
02:52:28.000All of this has to be taken, and it must be considered that this is part of a deliberate disinformation or misinformation strategy.
02:52:40.000And they are flooding the zone at all times with mixed messages, contradictory signals.
02:52:47.000And it could equally be because the messaging is real and the United States is preparing to actually surrender.
02:52:56.000Or it could also be the case that it's a fake out, that it is a ruse, just as the negotiations were back in February and just like they were back last year in April, May, and June.
02:53:09.000And so we're going to talk tonight all about that.
02:53:11.000Like I said, we're going to walk through what is being said because, as I said, for the past 48 hours, we have just been getting bombarded from the Secretary of War, Secretary of State, from the White House press office, from Lindsey Graham, from Israel.
02:53:32.000You could argue even it's something like a social media campaign.
02:53:36.000And it seems that the purpose of that campaign, for one reason or another, is to convince the public that a cessation of hostilities is imminent on Iran's terms.
02:53:49.000And as I said, it could be because that's true.
02:53:52.000It also could be the case that this is a big fake out.
02:53:56.000And in reality, they're preparing the opposite, which is an escalation.
02:54:01.000So we're going to go through all that.
02:54:03.000If we have time, we're going to talk about this major blow against President Trump.
02:54:08.000A federal judge ruled today that he, as a matter of fact, cannot destroy the East Wing of the White House, which he already did.
02:54:18.000As you may or may not know, President Trump demolished the entire East Wing of the White House, and he has made plans to rebuild a new structure there, which is actually twice the size of the actual White House, which is a little far, even for me.
02:58:50.000I dropped another 30-minute voice message talking about Iran and really expanding on everything we're going to talk about tonight, but in much greater detail and intensity and candor.
02:59:01.000And I give my honest opinions in there.
02:59:03.000On the show, I basically have to dumb it down for all the idiots that tune in.
02:59:08.000But in the group chat, I can really be myself.
02:59:11.000I have no fear of being misinterpreted.
02:59:16.000No one's going to take me out of context.
02:59:18.000And I know that everyone's going to know where I'm coming from.
02:59:20.000So if you want to see me mask off, where I can really, I can really give you the real information.
02:59:26.000You got to give me $100 every single month at AmericaFirst.plus.
02:59:32.000Okay, with that, we're going to move on.
03:02:24.000I feel like all the girls had like the Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez personality, and it fucked them all up and made them all act really obnoxious.
03:02:32.000So it just reminded me of everything I didn't like.
03:02:35.000Reminded me of everything I didn't like about that whole era in our lives.
03:03:40.000I don't know if I'm just fatigued, if I'm just exhausted from reading 50,000 takes every day on Twitter, but I'm just like, give it a rest.
03:03:53.000I load up Twitter and I'm thinking, what are we really going to say today that Jews brought us to war in Iran?
03:06:08.000If Islam is so enlightened and the West is so decadent and degenerate and evil, and if we got it all wrong about Haiti and everything like that, man, passport will get you anywhere.
03:07:45.000And we are entering, as we talked about, we are actually halfway into week number five of the war, day 32.
03:07:54.000And our big development for today, as I'm sure you have heard, all the talk, all the rumors, all the press says that this war is about to end imminently.
03:08:08.000President Trump is giving a primetime address tomorrow.
03:08:12.000Interestingly enough, on April Fool's Day, kind of like not a great sign, not a great omen.
03:08:20.000That's kind of arguably the worst day, I would say.
03:08:24.000We're in the middle of this catastrophic war.
03:08:27.000People are wondering, are we about to invade Iran or are we going to cut our losses?
03:08:33.000And Trump announces a primetime address on April Fool's Day.
03:08:37.000How's anyone going to know it's legit?
03:08:40.000How can anyone believe what he says tomorrow?
03:08:43.000Is Trump going to give a speech tomorrow and say the war is over?
03:08:47.000We don't even want the straight anymore.
03:08:51.000April Fools, how are we going to know?
03:09:02.000And everybody suspects that this speech is going to be about how we are drawing down our engagement in Iran.
03:09:11.000There have been a number of public statements from the Secretary of State, from the Secretary of War, from the White House press office, from Senator Lindsey Graham, from Benjamin Netanyahu.
03:09:23.000All statements in the past 48 hours, which seem to indicate that there is a lot of pressure in the White House to bring the war to a close.
03:09:35.000This is a story from the Wall Street Journal, and this includes a statement from the president as well.
03:09:41.000It says, quote, President Trump said on Tuesday the U.S. would be leaving Iran in two to three weeks.
03:09:47.000Addressing reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the U.S. has eliminated Iran's nuclear threat.
03:09:53.000He said it will take 15 to 20 years for them to rebuild what we've done to them.
03:09:57.000Trump plans to address the nation on the war tomorrow at 9 o'clock Eastern Time.
03:10:03.000Earlier in the day, the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the coming days of the conflict would be decisive and that the number of projectiles launched by Iran in the past 24 hours represented the lowest during the war so far.
03:10:18.000At the same time, the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and its accompanying warships are deploying to the Middle East, joining two other U.S. carrier strike groups in the region.
03:10:31.000So you're going to have three carrier strike groups positioned.
03:10:34.000I believe by the end of this week, that is the USS Abraham Lincoln, the Gerald Ford, and the George Bush.
03:10:43.000That's actually one additional carrier from when we started.
03:11:04.000The decisive four-day operation to collapse Iran's government with a decisive strike failed.
03:11:12.000We are now in an attritional war, which is depleting our munitions, standoff weapons, missile defense systems.
03:11:22.000Iran is successfully targeting U.S. radar, U.S. bases, strategic U.S. aircraft like an E-3 Sentry, which was destroyed earlier in the week and which cannot be replaced, which we don't, we only have about a dozen of those and we don't make them anymore.
03:11:38.000We don't know how to make them anymore.
03:11:41.000And that is not even mentioning the biggest problem in this attritional war, which is not even the economical problem of our slow defense supply chains, the fact that we have been rendered vulnerable to Iranian drones and ballistic missiles, which has caused significant losses of U.S. military hardware and infrastructure.
03:12:02.000But the biggest problem, as everybody knows, is this global energy crunch, which has resulted from Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
03:12:12.000And make no mistake about it, let's say this, and I don't know that I've said it explicitly to date in my coverage of the Iran war.
03:12:21.000And if I have, I haven't said it enough.
03:12:23.000Understand that this represents an actual territorial gain for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
03:12:32.000Consider that last year, when we engaged Iran in negotiations in the summer, we were looking to negotiate on their nuclear program and maybe their missiles and their proxies.
03:12:46.000It was the same framework in February when we re-engaged Iran in negotiations again.
03:12:52.000Well, consider that whether we end the conflict this week or whether we escalate the conflict to win, consider that we have no ability to leverage Iran on any of those issues.
03:13:06.000Obviously, if we walk away now, we will not have meaningfully imposed restrictions on Iran's support for its proxies, on Iran's missile program, or on Iran's nuclear program.
03:13:17.000And those were the three issues of contention.
03:13:20.000Those were the three big files or big areas that were subject to debate last year and last month.
03:13:29.000What has changed is that Iran has actually expanded its strategic posture in the Middle East.
03:13:39.000When we say that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz, what we are talking about is that they are using drones and missiles to prevent allied Gulf Country commercial shipping from leaving the strait.
03:13:52.000So if a Saudi, Kuwaiti, Emirati, Qatari container ship or chemical tanker tries to leave the strait, it will come under attack by Iran.
03:14:04.000And because the strait is so narrow, it will surely be hit.
03:14:08.000And so these vessels are not being insured.
03:14:12.000So there's a very good chance it will be sunk.
03:14:15.000And so a lot of them don't want to take the risk because they don't want to die and they don't want to lose the cargo.
03:14:21.000And also the cargo is not going to be insured.
03:14:24.000So you've got all these ships stuck on the other side.
03:14:26.000And Iran is effectively now exercising a veto over which ships can leave and which ships will remain stuck inside the Persian Gulf.
03:14:36.000Now, what is important to understand about this arrangement is this is not a temporary condition of the conflict.
03:14:44.000This is actually a strategic seizure of the Strait of Hormuz.
03:14:50.000By effectively closing the strait to some shipping and leaving it open to other shipping, Iran has effectively seized control over it.
03:15:01.000It's not just about they're lobbying drones over there and the whole thing is shut down.
03:15:07.000No, they are effectively exercising control like a tollway.
03:15:12.000And what has been made clear by Iran is that they are now going to formalize this new dynamic.
03:15:18.000This is going to actually become the long-term formal legal situation.
03:15:26.000And by that, I mean Iran aims to seize legal control over the strait.
03:15:32.000And in the future, they are going to charge every ship that enters and exits the strait a toll, which might be up to $2 million per ship.
03:15:44.000And this is not the way the Strait of Hormuz worked before.
03:15:48.000This is how other choke points work, like the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal, where Panama and Egypt will charge a toll for shipping the transits through that canal because they had to build the canal, because they have to maintain the canal.
03:16:02.000This is not how the Strait of Hormuz used to operate.
03:16:06.000So consider that Iran has actually expanded its control.
03:16:11.000So not only are we not getting what we originally asked for and what we originally weren't even considering was on the table.
03:16:19.000So we're not getting nuclear restrictions.
03:16:22.000And we weren't even talking about missiles and regional proxies before.
03:16:30.000And as we look toward a possible retreat or surrender, we're not even going to take that back.
03:16:38.000And so when you look at this conflict, not only have we lost on the battlefield because we have not achieved our strategic objectives, actually the opposite has happened.
03:16:49.000Iran has achieved strategic objectives.
03:16:53.000Not only did they survive and their regime is intact, what's more, many of their weapon systems are still intact.
03:17:01.000They still maintain the ability and what they claim to be their right to have a domestic drone and missile industry, to have nuclear enrichment, to have a nuclear complex.
03:17:11.000They still have that highly enriched uranium buried in one of their nuclear facilities.
03:17:16.000But also, they're walking away with more than what they started with.
03:17:24.000Their oil exports are actually still going through.
03:17:28.000And in the future, they're going to be able to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a revenue source.
03:17:34.000And by seizing control over it, they now have de jure veto power over 20% of the world's oil supply.
03:17:44.000So you could say another way to frame that is that prior to the conflict, Iran produced 4% of the world's oil.
03:17:53.000So they controlled 4% of the world's oil.
03:17:56.000Well, now that they've taken control over the strait, through which 20% of the world's oil flows, now they have quintupled the amount of energy resources that they actually control.
03:18:10.000Whereas before, they controlled the oil that they made and exported, which was 4%.
03:18:15.000Now they control five times that because they get to dictate all the energy that goes through the strait, which is all the energy that is pumped from the Persian Gulf, not just from them, but also from the Gulf countries across the way.
03:18:29.000They also have now taken control over a fifth of the LNG market because it's 20% of the world's natural gas, which is being pumped out of Qatar through the Strait of Hormuz.
03:18:42.000So we are in a situation where, as we've said repeatedly throughout the past few weeks, Trump was not able to achieve his objectives.
03:18:52.000Iran survived the killing blow, and now they're not going anywhere.
03:18:56.000Because the attack failed, it has actually strengthened and buttressed the regime.
03:19:04.000And now Iran is inflicting the maximum amount of pain to deter future aggression, another attempt to topple their government.
03:19:13.000And not only that, but they have also taken control of the Strait of Hormuz in such a way that it might be impossible for us to undo this situation.
03:19:24.000And if we don't fix it now, we may never fix it because that would entail repeating this war, which would entail all the same problems that we're encountering now.
03:19:33.000A shortage of weapons, a shortage of munitions, the inability to suppress Iran's tactical capability to launch and make drones and ballistic missiles.
03:19:48.000And as we've said, there's really just two options.
03:19:51.000Trump can either escalate or de-escalate.
03:19:54.000He can either ramp up the tactics, and the only way he can do that is with ground forces.
03:20:00.000We are doing everything that we are capable of in the air and from the sea.
03:20:05.000And so the only domain that we can actually even extend the fighting into is with some kind of ground presence.
03:20:12.000Whether that's an amphibious invasion, whether that's using a proxy force like the Kurds, whether we're backing an anti-government group on some timeline.
03:20:22.000That's the only way that we can escalate from a modal point of view, escalating the mode of fighting to achieve the initial objectives, which are regime change or disabling every position where they've hidden and are able to launch drones and missiles.
03:20:39.000The only other option is we sue for peace and we beg Iran for a truce through intermediaries like through Pakistan and China.
03:20:51.000Now, as I said, the big development from today is that Trump appears to be looking for an exit.
03:20:58.000And that has been the story for the past few weeks.
03:21:00.000What is this exit going to consist in?
03:21:03.000Is Trump going to make some audacious invasion attempt, either of the islands or of the mainland, an attempt to escalate in order to save face, gain leverage, dictate terms to end the conflict?
03:21:20.000Or is Trump effectively just going to bow out and surrender?
03:21:26.000And the logic so far has been that it's unlikely that Trump will surrender.
03:21:32.000Based on what we know about Trump and his MO, based on what we know about the pressures in the region, our allies like Saudi Arabia and the Emirates and Israel, they want us to keep going and they're pressuring us to keep going.
03:21:46.000Based on the conditions in this conflict, if we wrap it up now, almost certainly this is going to become a problem again in the future.
03:21:55.000The leadership that we killed has been replaced by hardliners that are less willing to negotiate and more extreme.
03:22:03.000Because of the way we conducted ourselves in the conflict, we have probably alienated the Iranian people and made an uprising less likely, not more likely.
03:22:15.000Additionally, this war might be so catastrophic for the economy at a global level that if we even were to consider going back in and finishing the job, assuming that Iran tries to rebuild its missiles or nukes or other military capabilities, the entire world is going to protest a second go at it, a second attempt to try to do this all over again.
03:22:42.000And almost certainly, that is what the situation would call for on a long enough timeline, an emboldened regime that the people have rallied behind, that is engaging to retake and rebuild its missile program, its highly enriched uranium, begin enriching uranium again.
03:23:01.000You're going to have pressure to go back in.
03:23:03.000So the wisdom so far has been that Trump is not going to walk away because really he can't.
03:23:11.000There's no way from a strategic point of view, it just isn't sound for us to just wash our hands of this and get out of it.
03:23:18.000On some level, Iran has all the cards and they are going to dictate how this is going to go.
03:23:25.000They're going to dictate the timeline and the terms.
03:23:29.000And there's very little that we can do to alter how they feel about it and how they're going to go about this.
03:23:36.000So like I said, you've got this statement from Trump earlier today.
03:23:40.000Trump says the war is going to end imminently.
03:25:01.000And like I said at the top of the show, it might be the case, of course, that if we take this at face value, that this indicates that the war is truly about to end.
03:25:14.000And maybe Trump in the primetime address tomorrow will announce that the war is over and we will begin a withdrawal.
03:25:22.000There have been a lot of discussions to this end.
03:25:27.000Well, they have demanded that the U.S. withdraw from all of its Middle Eastern bases.
03:25:32.000There was a report just the other day that the United States wants to leave all of the Middle Eastern bases and they want to build a base in Israel to replace them.
03:25:42.000So maybe that points towards a surrender with honor.
03:25:48.000Maybe that points towards a face-saving withdrawal.
03:25:52.000Iran says that the new status quo is that they will control the Strait of Hormuz and charge a toll.
03:25:58.000Again, Trump has said and the Secretary of State has said that retaking the Strait of Hormuz is no longer necessary to end the war.
03:26:07.000Initially, when the war was declared, Trump said that one of the objectives was regime change.
03:26:15.000Well, just yesterday, Trump said we achieved regime change, even though that's not really true.
03:26:20.000Just like in Venezuela, the security infrastructure remains intact.
03:26:25.000The entire security apparatus is still there.
03:26:28.000It's still the Iranian revolutionary Islamic government.
03:26:32.000It's still the IRGC that runs the country.
03:26:36.000They appointed a new Ayatollah, and he is the son of the previous Ayatollah.
03:26:41.000And so there is not a meaningful regime change, and yet they're saying that it's mission accomplished, that that victory condition has been satisfied.
03:26:52.000So there's a lot of evidence right now, again, just based on what is being said, how they are finessing the objectives, various rumors, statements, that maybe Washington is coming to peace with the fact that we can't win this one, that there's literally no way out.
03:27:14.000And the longer this goes on, the more likely it will have catastrophic effects on the economy.
03:27:20.000And to the extent that they have considered some kind of amphibious assault of an island or the mainland, maybe they're reconsidering in light of the fact that it would be a suicide mission.
03:27:34.000There would certainly be high casualties, whether it's successful or not.
03:27:38.000And that might actually tend to increase our commitment in this war rather than lead to a way out of it.
03:27:47.000So this is some of the logic that might suggest that we're leaving the war and all the hype and all the buzz reflects an actual strategic pivot inside the White House.
03:27:58.000On the other hand, and this is where I've been coming at it from the past few weeks, I am deeply skeptical of everything that is being said by this administration right now, especially right now.
03:28:12.000And that is because the administration has a tendency to lie about everything.
03:28:17.000And in particular, the administration lies about matters of war.
03:28:34.000He likes to offer the carrot and the stick.
03:28:37.000He likes to confuse and throw the opponent off balance.
03:28:41.000And so, actually, if you're taking it at face value on its face, you almost have to assume that this is misdirection.
03:28:51.000It's almost a safer bet rather than assume they're telling the truth and they're telegraphing their real strategy.
03:28:58.000There is a pivot inside the White House and they're just telling us, I think actually, maybe the more likely explanation is that it's misdirection.
03:29:07.000This is a case of tactical misdirection.
03:29:11.000And you know this because the messaging is very coordinated right now.
03:29:17.000And it's also a complete 180 from the messaging on Sunday.
03:29:22.000So while the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the insiders say that Trump is getting ready to wind down, he's bored with the fighting.
03:29:55.000We're not going to do anything at all.
03:29:58.000Simultaneously, there's been a lot of talk about diplomacy, about peace talks.
03:30:04.000And there has been this line for a week and a half, almost two weeks at this point.
03:30:10.000The administration is saying that they are in talks with intermediaries, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and they are trying to broker a truce with Iran.
03:30:22.000And to put it bluntly, Trump has just been lying about these negotiations since the beginning.
03:30:28.000Trump said that we are in talks with Iran.
03:31:01.000Iran has their own plan, their own proposal to end the conflict, and it's almost the opposite of what Trump demanded.
03:31:09.000Trump is demanding surrender on every issue, and Iran is demanding that the U.S. pay them reparations, close all their bases, give them the strait of Hormuz, and lift all the sanctions.
03:33:47.000Well, as I've said over the past few weeks, if we take history as a guide, every time that we have dealt with Iran, or even Iran's proxies for that matter, like Hezbollah or Hamas, it seems that the peace agreements are always a ruse.
03:34:04.000The negotiations are always a fake out.
03:34:06.000Last year, were Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner actually seeking a real nuclear deal?
03:34:15.000I do know that those peace talks began the day that Netanyahu visited the White House.
03:34:22.000And after the 60 days expired, it gave Israel and the United States time to plan and to time to create the favorable conditions for their attack against Iran in Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer last June.
03:34:41.000The White House engaged Iran in negotiations, and the entire time they were moving 50% of our deployable Air Force to the Middle East, moving two carrier strike groups to the Middle East.
03:35:16.000But upon further inspection, when you look at the deployments that are happening, upon further inspection, when you look at the two positions of either side in the negotiation, what do you realize is the talks are not making any progress at all.
03:35:29.000They're not making any progress towards each other.
03:35:33.000They both have the red lines and they're both sticking to them.
03:35:39.000Okay, our $100 a month club is spamming the group chat because it just turned midnight on April Fool's Day.
03:36:03.000So as I said, if history is our judge, the way this plays out over and over and over again is that you have these negotiations, they're a farce, and they are a farce that gives the United States breathing room to plan and execute and mobilize a military strike.
03:36:19.000It seems like maybe that's the play all over again, but it could go either way.
03:36:26.000We are in the fog of war, and honestly, nobody knows other than the president, other than the national security team, whether we are going to withdraw immediately or whether we're going to escalate and we're going to try some sort of amphibious landing.
03:36:41.000The last piece of information in the puzzle is these other countries that are involved in this.
03:36:49.000And so ostensibly, we are negotiating with Iran through intermediaries like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey.
03:36:58.000But consider that many of these countries, at least one of these countries, is actively seeking Iran's destruction.
03:37:06.000Although initially some of these countries were reluctant to support our war in Iran, now they are the biggest cheerleaders.
03:37:15.000Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, all of these countries are now lobbying Washington that they want us to continue the war.
03:37:25.000They want us to continue until the Iranian regime is toppled.
03:37:29.000And they're telling us we can't leave until we finish the job.
03:37:34.000Now, and this was reported today, the United Arab Emirates has pledged that they will actually intervene in the conflict in an offensive way.
03:37:43.000They may support the United States with their air force.
03:37:47.000They may provide territory for the United States as a staging ground to invade some of the islands in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf.
03:37:57.000And this is a story from the Wall Street Journal about that.
03:37:59.000It says, quote, the UAE is preparing to help the United States and other allies open the Strait of Hormuz by force, say Arab officials, a move that would make it the first Persian Gulf country to become a combatant.
03:38:12.000The UAE is lobbying for a UN Security Council resolution that would authorize such action.
03:38:17.000Emirati diplomats have urged the U.S. and military powers in Europe and Asia to form a coalition to open the strait by force.
03:38:25.000The UAE officials said the country was actively reviewing how it could play a military role in securing the strait, including efforts to help clear it of mines and other support services.
03:38:35.000The Gulf state has also said the U.S. should occupy islands in the strategic waterway, including Abu Musa, which has been held by Iran for a half century and is claimed by the UAE.
03:38:46.000Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states are now turning against Iran's regime and want the war to continue until it is disabled or toppled.
03:38:54.000The UAE has bases, a deepwater port, and a location near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz that could be useful staging grounds for a U.S.-led operation to seize islands or to escort commercial tankers through the waterway.
03:39:08.000Now, what is interesting about this is if you were paying attention, last week, Iran's parliamentary speaker went to the press and said he knows that the U.S. is preparing an amphibious invasion.
03:39:23.000He also said he knows that one of the Gulf countries will be assisting in the invasion.
03:39:30.000And he said that Iran would punish that country, would not spare any of their critical infrastructure.
03:39:37.000Well, does that not line up with what is happening?
03:39:40.000When you look at the Western press, when you look at the American press, what are they saying?
03:39:46.000Well, the American press is saying the war is about to end.
03:40:10.000Trump is brokering a deal through intermediaries.
03:40:13.000They're willing to leave without taking the straight back.
03:40:17.000But if you look at what Iran has been saying, Iran has been saying the entire time, we're not negotiating with the United States and we don't want to.
03:40:27.000They're saying this isn't even the time to end the war.
03:40:30.000The war is going to go on until we say it stops.
03:40:33.000So forget about we're in negotiations.
03:40:36.000Iran is telling us they're not even interested in negotiations.
03:40:39.000They're telling us they don't trust us.
03:40:41.000They're telling us the 15-point plan is a non-starter for negotiations.
03:40:58.000When Trump extended the deadline and said that Iran begged for this, Iran said that's a lie.
03:41:03.000Trump only said that because he wants to reassure the oil market in the United States, which is probably true as well.
03:41:11.000And while the entire Western media is telegraphing that the war is about to end, Iran has been saying since last week they are anticipating an amphibious assault with the UAE helping them.
03:41:24.000And it's reported today, with all this fanfare about an imminent surrender, that the UAE, not only do they not want the war to end, but actually they're going to help.
03:41:33.000Actually, they're going to allow us to use their territory.
03:41:36.000They may even provide their Air Force to help us topple the government.
03:41:42.000And so, as I said, this could go either way.
03:41:46.000This is the fog of war, and this is a disinformation strategy.
03:41:50.000They are flooding the zone with mixed signals because they want everybody to be off balance.
03:41:57.000And as I said last night, they want everybody to be off balance.
03:42:00.000They want Iran to not know the next move.
03:42:04.000If we're going to invade, they want Iran not to anticipate that.
03:42:08.000But they're also trying to deceive the Gulf countries.
03:42:12.000And they're trying to convince the Gulf countries that if they don't provide more assistance, we will abandon this project, which they believe will be very beneficial for them.
03:42:23.000And we're bluffing to Asia and Europe that we will end the conflict without freeing the Strait of Hormuz to put pressure on them to help us in this military operation.
03:42:32.000And I think the only way that you can consider all of this information is this is a deliberate misinformation strategy.
03:42:39.000This is part of the conduct of the war in itself.
03:42:42.000And this is meant to leverage the different pieces that are in place.
03:42:45.000Trump wants Europe and Asia to help him.
03:42:49.000He wants the Gulf countries to play a bigger role.
03:42:52.000He wants buy-in from these nations because he knows that if Iran isolates Israel and the United States, then we lose.
03:43:01.000If Iran can negotiate with every other country and get these oil products out to sea and sell the oil and collect their toll, then they won.
03:43:12.000And if the United States is not able to topple the regime without a ground war, well, the pressure is only going to mount in the United States against the conflict.
03:43:46.000Well, apparently Israel forced our hand.
03:43:49.000I don't think a deal with Iran is impossible, but it is impossible if Israel is sabotaging it as a matter of their grand strategy.
03:43:58.000If their doctrine is fundamentally about undermining diplomacy between Iran and the United States, then yes, a deal is impossible.
03:44:08.000But if we can push Israel outside the process while we build trust over time and negotiate with a weakened but emboldened Iran, it's possible we can achieve diplomacy.
03:44:19.000But first we have to take care of closest ally.
03:44:22.000That being said, if I had to make a prediction, I would guess tomorrow is more theater.
03:44:28.000I would guess that tomorrow is a big fake out.
03:44:33.000I think that Trump is going to go out there.
03:44:35.000He's going to tout all of his accomplishments.
03:44:37.000All the Magatards are going to say that it's 4D chess.
03:44:41.000Trump said he was going to give a prime time speech and trolled the media into covering him, brag about his presidency.
03:44:48.000I think he's going to extol everything we've done in the war, but I don't think he's going to end the hostilities.
03:44:55.000I think it might be a big nothing burger.
03:44:57.000And I would not be surprised if by the weekend, which is just shy of the deadline, again, Trump gave the ultimatum on Friday that they have until, or pardon me, on Thursday.
03:45:08.000Trump gave them the deadline of April 6th.
03:45:11.000So they have until Monday, when the markets open again.
03:45:16.000And so when we fit all the timelines together, Trump's deadline, the market open on Monday, the arrival of the Marine Expeditionary Unit, the paratroopers, the third carrier, all this fanfare surrounding a peace deal or a withdrawal from the conflict, it all points toward potentially a major escalation by the end of this week, at the minimum, at the end of this weekend.
03:45:42.000And what Pete Hegs has said this morning specifically is he said the next few days are going to be the most decisive days in the war.
03:46:44.000Try that with Japan, South Korea, India.
03:46:48.000He wants to draw in the other countries so that they are stakeholders because then that puts in Iran, that puts Iran in a much more isolating position.
03:46:59.000Where if they are going to follow through on their closure of the strait, it now forces them into a confrontation with all the other G7 countries.
03:47:06.000Now you're not just bombing the United States and Israel and these Gulf countries, but now you're also bombing the UK, France, Japan, India, South Korea.
03:47:18.000And all this talk about we're going to leave without closing the strait, it makes sense when you consider that, again, that is going to hit Asia first, Europe second, and it's only going to hurt us in terms of price.
03:47:31.000Who's going to have an energy shortage in two weeks?
03:48:44.000Maybe we need your boots on the ground.
03:48:49.000But it seems to be that all of this is one giant messaging up.
03:48:53.000I've seen it everywhere all day today.
03:48:55.000Well, but Lindsey Graham says the war should end.
03:48:57.000Oh, well, Netanyahu says Iran doesn't pose a threat.
03:49:02.000Well, quite honestly, we've heard all this before.
03:49:05.000We've heard all these statements before.
03:49:08.000And I think it doesn't change the reality on the ground, which is that we're still fighting.
03:49:12.000We're deploying more assets, not withdrawing them.
03:49:15.000And I will add, they made it a point to say that Iran has fired the least amount of projectiles since the beginning of the war.
03:49:22.000Maybe that has some bearing on the potential success of an amphibious assault.
03:49:29.000The only thing that is deterring the U.S. Navy from entering the Persian Gulf is we're afraid that Iran will hit us with a missile or a drone.
03:49:38.000And the only reason that it is a very high-risk, high-reward operation to take Karg Island or one of the other islands is because we know those islands will be bombarded by missiles and drones.
03:49:51.000Well, if we have intelligence that Iran is running out, if they have launched fewer missiles today than ever before and it's tapering off all the time, then maybe the idea is they just don't have enough weapons to deter this.
03:50:20.000Oh, well, you'll never get to the island because of the drones and missiles.
03:50:24.000Well, not if you prepare for three weeks.
03:50:26.000Not if you bomb Karg Island's military assets.
03:50:29.000Not if you move missile defense systems into place.
03:50:33.000Not if you move the attack helicopters into place.
03:50:37.000And if Iran runs out of drones and missiles or is running low, then the attack helicopters will have an easier job shooting them down.
03:50:44.000And your concentrated layered air defense system will have an easier job shooting down Iranian missiles.
03:50:50.000And that allows the Marines to land, make a beachhead, repair the runway, repair the other facilities, and then they can begin flying in the paratroopers and the other ground forces.
03:52:55.000He wants to host big parties and bring people around.
03:53:00.000He wants to have an adequate Mar-a-Lago Trump Tower-esque space where he can invite Putin and Xi Jinping and not feel totally outclassed by these other dictators.
03:53:13.000So Trump has demolished the East Wing, and he is now building a giant structure on the White House to house this massive ballroom.
03:53:24.000Well, the big story from today is that we are very thoroughly into the process.
03:53:29.000Trump has demolished the East Wing, this historic East Wing.
03:53:33.000I think it's been around for about 70, 100 years.
03:53:39.000They're building this unbelievable structure.
03:53:42.000Apparently, there's going to be some kind of military command center underneath, and then there's going to be a giant structure that's bigger than the actual White House on top of it.
03:53:53.000And today, a federal judge filed an injunction that prevents Trump from moving forward on the plan.
03:54:02.000It says, quote, a federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump's sprawling plans to build a massive ballroom where the East Wing of the White House once stood.
03:54:12.000U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said Trump is the steward, not the owner of the White House, and that the project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion.
03:54:24.000Leon granted the National Trust for Historic Preservation's request for a preliminary injunction, halting the administration's fast-track plan.
03:54:33.000The Trust has argued that the White House needs congressional approval for the extensive renovation and said in a filing earlier this month that the president is a temporary tenant of the White House, its steward, not its landlord.
03:54:47.000The National Trust sued the president and other federal agencies, arguing the demolition violated the Constitution and asked the judge to block construction until a required review process.
03:54:59.000The complaint said, quote, no president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever, not Trump, not Biden, and not anyone else.
03:58:19.000So a year ago, during the blitz of the opening months of the second Trump administration, during the high period of the golden age, in the era of the high golden age, in the first two or three months of the Trump administration, Trump signed an executive order overturning birthright citizenship.
03:59:50.000So the president cannot make laws, cannot change laws.
03:59:54.000What the president can do is sign memorandums that determine the application and enforcement of the laws by the various federal departments and agencies.
04:00:04.000Now, do you believe that Trump has the authority with a memo to deprive, I don't know, 20 million people of their citizenship, however many people it is?
04:00:15.000How many people have birthright citizenship?
04:00:18.000How many people have naturalization because they were born on the land?
04:00:23.000Does anybody believe that Trump can sign a memo and take all that citizenship away for all those people?
04:00:44.000The Supreme Court is adjudicating this, and they're about to tell us that, no, you can't overturn birthright citizenship.
04:00:51.000Trump is on True Social yesterday saying the Supreme Court is terrible because he's anticipating that they're going to strike it down.
04:00:59.000He's actually going to hear the oral arguments in court tomorrow.
04:01:05.000And so you say at a certain point, how much losing is enough on every issue, literally every issue, big and small, significant and insignificant, every issue, it's a taco.
04:01:31.000Chickens out on Greenland, on tariffs, on Russia, on Iran, on the Strait of Hormuz.
04:01:39.000Chickens out with the European Union, chickens out with the East Wing of the White House on mass deportations, on birthright citizenship, on the border wall.
04:04:08.000We are just sending energy and momentum to the pendulum, to this wrecking ball that is going to swing so hard the other way, it's going to bury us for a generation.
04:04:19.000Honest to God, I'm leaving the country.
04:04:23.000If or more likely when a Democrat wins in 2028, I'm leaving America.
04:04:29.000And when I say that, I don't mean like I'm leaving America because like I don't like the way things are going.
04:04:35.000I mean they're going to try to kill us.
04:05:36.000I saw a John Doyle video about this the other day.
04:05:38.000John Doyle said, if you find yourself criticizing Trump, pandering to the left, he said, this is about you getting cold feet and you want out of the fight.
04:07:00.000So part of the reason why I told people not to vote and why I thought maybe Kamala would be better is because we know that Trump, like before, is barking up the wrong tree.
04:07:13.000He is calling out and attacking the most powerful people in the world or working with them in some cases, but with zero willingness or ability to actually defeat them or finish the job.
04:07:26.000He doesn't cross the Rubicon and march on Rome and do what must be done.
04:07:31.000He goes in the Rubicon and kind of hangs out in there.
04:07:35.000And he chills out on True Social and says, I'm going to do this.
04:08:05.000I sacrificed a lot for this movement, a lot.
04:08:10.000I went to Charlottesville and got my life destroyed.
04:08:13.000I wore a MAGA hat everywhere and became a social pariah and professionally ostracized.
04:08:21.000And I did the stupid internet show and I bought into all the nonsense about immigration and the bro science and the conspiracy theories and all this crap.
04:08:31.000And when Trump said the election was stolen, I showed up to the rallies, stop the steal.
04:08:37.000And I showed up on January 6th and I got royally fucked all over again.
04:08:47.000Trump didn't do a damn thing to help anybody.
04:08:50.000Didn't pardon everybody when he had the chance to in 2021.
04:08:54.000He didn't lift a finger to stop tech censorship when he was president the first time.
04:08:59.000And all the people that campaigned and volunteered for him, one by one, he threw them under the bus and they weren't even hired in the administration or they were allowed to be ostracized by people that hate Trump.
04:09:12.000I learned my lesson and I said, I'm not doing it again.
04:10:54.000And if it's not going to work, then I'm not going to be a part of it because I'm not going to put all that back on the line for a movement that isn't serious.
04:11:17.000You can't be getting an airplane from Cutter and doing all the graft and embezzlement that's going on and expecting everybody to go out and cape for this stuff.
04:11:26.000I don't want to be there when Antifa starts cutting everybody's heads off.
04:16:03.000But isn't that sometimes, sometimes you have to really be aware of how dull your average person really is.
04:16:14.000And you'll know that when you read a YouTube comment section, you'll know that when you see this kind of slop and realize that people are buying it and reading it and they're thinking it's insightful.
04:16:27.000He said, The guys in suits told me I was crazy to write a book as a freshman.
04:19:34.000It's like, well, technically, it doesn't even really matter.
04:19:38.000Like, yeah, obviously Jesus was an English dumbass, but like, you know, so why is that important for you to say, yeah, well, your God was brown like me?
04:19:59.000You know, racial supremacy is the root of all evil.
04:20:02.000White supremacy is, why do you care if white people think they're better than like, why does that, how does that affect you?
04:20:09.000White people have a very solid claim to being the greatest race.
04:20:13.000And I wouldn't even necessarily count myself among them.
04:20:17.000You want to know where all the achievement happened?
04:20:19.000According to Charles Murray, you know this.
04:20:24.000Almost all human achievement occurred in this narrow polygon in like northern Italy, eastern France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Low Countries, Denmark, and England.
04:20:39.000And I don't have ancestors anywhere there.
04:20:41.000My ancestors are from Ireland, allegedly Portugal, Mexico, and Italy, southern Italy.
04:20:48.000So we can just say, yeah, I mean, look, if you're German, if you're white, it's like, congratulations.
04:24:24.000was right sent $20 why must they wear shower caps in public and do the spongebob kick talk while i eat also listening to some you'll be 44 whitney What's the SpongeBob TikTok?
04:24:54.000Thanks for the tier of war analysis, Nick.
04:24:55.000Israeli ministers wearing news lapels and popping champagne to celebrate their new death penalty law earlier this week was a truly sick insight into their depraved morality.
04:26:48.000Obviously joking, but seriously, it's like, seriously, you get people like Anna Kasperian, you know, screaming and yelling on TV about like, you bloodthirsty criminal.
04:27:15.000You know, you're not hardcore unless you live hardcore.
04:27:19.000Maybe it's time for us to put a little Punisher skull on our helmet.
04:27:24.000Maybe it's time for us to put a little Punisher skull on the armband.
04:27:30.000You know, that's why I kind of, I didn't like when Richard Spencer said that we should like anoint the Antichrist, but I did like when he said, like, white people are the villain.
04:30:19.000Israeli ministers were wearing noose lapel pens and popping champagne to celebrate the death penalty was a sick insight into their debrave morality.
04:30:31.000It's like, holy dude, is your pussy bleeding?
04:35:08.000I use it and I think it can increase productivity.
04:35:12.000But I also think that we should have regulations on it because it's clearly a very destabilizing technology.
04:35:18.000So, but I mean, you're one of these knuckle-dragging idiots that thinks that if we all just bury our head in the dirt, that like none of these things have to be dealt with intellectually.
04:35:29.000None of these things have to be dealt with politically.
04:35:32.000If all the stupid rubes go over there and shove their head in the cow shit, then you know, we don't have to worry about the developments happening in the world.
04:35:42.000I denounce vaccines and AI and government and taxes and the internet.
04:35:47.000And, you know, it's like you can't actually just opt out of history.
04:40:01.000Rachel Corey, a 23-year-old American peace activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer on March 16, 2003, in Rufa, Gaza, while protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes.
04:40:10.000Well, what did she think was going to happen?
04:42:40.000It's really crazy people are shocked that Americans are not trusting of Muslims considering one of the biggest terror attacks in history happened in New York.
04:42:45.000Sorry if we carry a little animosity still.