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00:00:00.000But as soon as people start playing games, I stop.
00:01:23.000This has been a production of Iowa Public Television.
00:05:16.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
00:05:31.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:36.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:14.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:19.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:25.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:33.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:41.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:44.000And 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.
00:07:58.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:08:01.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:05.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:12.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:16.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:45.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the globe.
00:08:51.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:09:05.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:15.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and,
00:09:30.000of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure For the future and the success of that movement.
00:10:14.000In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
00:10:21.000One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th parked just across the river from New York City has not gone away.
00:11:44.000Go to a nice suburb where the lawns are nicely kept.
00:11:48.000Where the mailman walks around and delivers the mail.
00:11:51.000Where people are walking their dogs and little kids are ice skating in the park.
00:11:58.000And people are driving around and they're driving clean cars and the houses are maintained and kept up and you go down to the bakery and you get a...
00:12:25.000we can't even get into the transportation.
00:12:27.000Maybe somewhere you go to a train station and people politely wait for people to leave before they enter.
00:12:32.000You go to an elevator and people wait for the people leaving the elevator before they get in.
00:13:56.000And many people are just trying to enjoy the last hurrah before it's all over.
00:14:02.000People are living lives of hedonism, taking advantage while they can.
00:14:07.000Or they're living more responsible lives, but similarly, just trying to soak it in while they still can.
00:14:15.000And ignoring, living in a sort of self-imposed naivete or delusion about what's going on just outside the city gates, outside of the gated community, on the other side of the tracks, downtown, wherever.
00:19:11.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to beat their final destiny, then nothing can stop us.
00:23:01.000Moments ago, the United States entered the war with Iran officially.
00:23:06.000And we've been watching this for the past couple of weeks, waiting to see what the president's decision would be, whether we would enter the conflict or not.
00:23:17.000And tonight we finally got our answer.
00:23:19.000Hours ago, the United States dropped six bunker buster bombs from B-2 stealth bombers on Iran's nuclear facility at Fordow.
00:23:32.000In addition, we launched 30 missiles via submarine at Isfahan and the Tans, their other two nuclear facilities.
00:24:37.000Iran poses no threat to the United States strategically.
00:24:41.000They're a regional power barely at this point.
00:24:46.000This is their fight, and in spite of the president's reluctance, we have now been drawn into a shooting war, a direct conflict, with major airstrikes against Iran.
00:25:00.000And to impress upon you the significance of that fact, For those that don't know, for those that have been living under a rock for the past 20 years, what is so surprising about this is that, of course, Trump ran 10 years ago against the legacy of the Iraq War.
00:25:20.000You might recall that in 2015, in the Republican primary for the presidential nomination, Jeb Bush was the frontrunner at this time.
00:25:31.000And when Trump entered the race against him, he of course was running not only against Jeb Bush himself, but the legacy of the Bush family.
00:25:41.000That George Bush Sr. and George Bush Jr. were responsible for bringing us into a war in Iraq and initiating what has now become 25 years, a full quarter century of forever wars, never ending wars.
00:25:59.000And counterinsurgencies and airstrikes and drone strikes and ground forces in the Middle East.
00:26:06.000When Trump ran in 2015, he ran against the legacy of the Iraq War, 9-11, as the Casa's belly for a global war on terror, which has wasted all of our resources, all of our energy, and has ushered in the late stage, maybe the closing stage, of our American empire.
00:26:29.000Ten years ago, he said the war in Iraq was a mistake.
00:26:33.000They said they have weapons of mass destruction.
00:26:40.000Now, as far as Iran is concerned, in this space, in politics, and specifically on the right wing, on the dissident side, bombing Iran is like the first tile on the bingo card of the Israel lobby.
00:27:40.000And as much as that was synonymous with Israeli exuberance, their influence over our government, their far-reaching expansion as goals, to redesign the entire region for their benefit using our military.
00:30:35.000Now, of course, Israel's in a war with Iran.
00:30:38.000A decision was made after October 7th that a Republican president would be the one that would support this effort.
00:30:46.000More than the Democrats, more than a progressive like Kamala Harris, more than the Biden administration.
00:30:52.000And not only would a Republican, because the GOP is controlled by the Israel lobby, not only would a Republican president give the most support in the form of foreign aid and cover for the genocide in Gaza and ultimately support for a joint operation in Iran, but more importantly, a Republican president would sell it to the American people.
00:31:28.000If Biden got re-elected and was in a wheelchair going to war with Iran?
00:31:34.000Because some say it's inevitable either way, and I probably agree with that.
00:31:38.000If Biden was in a wheelchair or Kamala Harris, who never won the nomination fair and square, if either of them brought us to war in Iran, do you think anybody would support it?
00:32:18.000Not the influencers, not the networks, not the congressmen and senators, although I don't think they're even tempted to, because they're all in on the take from Israel.
00:32:29.000What is so surprising, what's so shocking is not that this has happened.
00:32:34.000Israel has controlled the tempo and the ladder of escalation in this regional conflict for 60 years, since 1967, and especially in the past 25 years since the war in Iraq.
00:33:04.000But what is so disturbing is that what should happen next is the entire United States, the American people, should be furious and outraged and standing up in one voice and saying, we do not want a war in Iran.
00:33:25.000Which is what we have, by the way, in case you missed the headlines.
00:33:29.000Some people are a little confused on this.
00:33:32.000But because it's Trump, because he is a Trojan horse, and I always said that was the worst effect.
00:34:13.000Instead, I see people on Twitter Like Charlie Kirk and Matt Gaetz and Jack Posobiec and all the dissidents saying, well, you know, if we stop here, it's not really a war.
00:34:29.000They're saying, I don't think Trump wants a war in Iran.
00:34:32.000I don't think he wants a big, wide war in Iran.
00:34:46.000Conventional bombs weighing 30,000 pounds that are nearly the size of a very small nuclear bomb on Iran's nuclear program.
00:34:59.000And this, after we supported Israel's surprise attack, murdering their scientists, murdering their commanders, blowing up their airports, their capital, everything.
00:35:10.000And people say, if we go to war, I don't think Trump wants a war.
00:36:05.000The rhetoric is so good, said Kurt Mills.
00:36:09.000Kurt Mills, the genius, the genius who said just trust Steve Witkoff and trust Trump because of their rhetoric, their framing of the issue.
00:37:08.000We're very much in it and we should be in it, but offensively, we shouldn't be in it.
00:37:14.000Then it went further and it said, well, once Trump said he was considering bombing Iran with American air power, they said, well, You know, hey, Trump always said he would destroy Iran's nukes.
00:37:27.000So, you know, if we got involved in that way, that's fine.
00:37:32.000Then when it became clear that that's what we would do, people said, hey, but it isn't regime change.
00:37:43.000America has bombed their nuclear facilities with six massive bombs, struck two others with 30 missiles, and people are saying, well, but he doesn't want regime change.
00:37:54.000Well, but he doesn't want a wider war.
00:40:02.000We're in a war with Russia in Ukraine, if it isn't clear already.
00:40:07.000We've been at war with Russia for three years, backing Ukraine and their ambitious attacks against Russian naval assets in the Black Sea, their surprise drone attack against Russia's strategic aircraft a few weeks ago.
00:40:23.000Now we're in a shooting war with Iran that will very quickly expand into the entire region.
00:40:29.000We're at war in Africa, where Russian and Chinese proxies are overthrowing French and American forces everywhere over minerals, minerals and trade routes and ports and things like that.
00:40:42.000In Taiwan, there are currently several Chinese aircraft carriers approaching the shore of Korea and Guam and Taiwan, and we have aircraft carriers forward deployed there as well.
00:41:19.000One year ago, a little bit more than a year ago, I said that I would not vote for Trump.
00:41:25.000And I said I wasn't going to vote for Trump for exactly this reason.
00:41:29.000Would you like to know how I knew that this would be the case?
00:41:33.000Well, a big reason is because back in May of last year, after the Republican primary for the presidency was over, Nikki Haley dropped out of the race and visited Israel.
00:41:46.000Nikki Haley is a close friend of Miriam Adelson, who's a major donor from the Israel lobby, one of the biggest donors.
00:41:53.000In the past 15, 20 years in the GOP and in absolute terms, one of the biggest individual donors in nearly every cycle, her and her husband.
00:42:03.000Miriam Adelson, who's close with Nikki Haley, brokered a deal where Nikki Haley gave Trump her endorsement.
00:42:11.000She said she was surveying Israel on behalf of his campaign.
00:42:15.000Trump accepted the endorsement, hinted that Haley might be in his administration.
00:42:20.000And that is when Miriam Adelson gave a pledge to Donald Trump for $100 million for his re-election campaign.
00:42:31.000That's when I knew exactly what kind of deal was struck.
00:42:36.000Miriam Adelson cut the check and Nikki Haley gave the endorsement and bowed out of the race and she visited Israel because a deal was struck and a concession was given.
00:42:50.000Trump continued to insinuate that he might strike Iran, that he would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, bought into this idea that Iran was trying to assassinate him.
00:43:00.000And in the event that that happened, we should wipe Iran off the map.
00:43:03.000And I got the uneasy feeling that Israel was plowing ahead based on their provocations against Iran in April and July of last year to orchestrate.
00:43:22.000And I said this very precisely and explicitly and openly last year.
00:43:27.000And do you know what people said about me?
00:43:29.000They said that for saying that, I was a Democrat plant.
00:43:33.000They said, you're telling us not to vote for the Republican candidate?
00:44:34.000And people attacked me, they destroyed my reputation, humiliated me, mocked me.
00:44:41.000But the reason that I was right and they were wrong, the reason why six months, not even, five months into this administration, we're at war with Iran and there's no mass deportations, the reason I knew that would happen is because I was watching.
00:45:24.000This is an extraordinary lesson for every American patriot, every American nationalist, every American dissident who is currently infiltrating politics.
00:45:36.000What we've seen over the past year, you can never forget.
00:45:41.000Last year, they said it was a frat bro uprising.
00:46:00.000When everybody else was swept up in propaganda and rhetoric by people that you should have never trust, loyalty to the Republican Party, loyalty to the interests that support the Republican Party, look at how that has paid off.
00:46:26.000The Republican Party would have you believe, Bronze Age pervert, Ben Shapiro, Joe Lonsdale, Peter Thiel and his network, Sovereign House, all these assholes, and Vance for that matter too, they would all have you believe that the problem is the left and the Democrats.
00:47:37.000They both get money from Peter Thiel, who works with Alex Karp at Palantir for the CIA, doing facial recognition in Gaza, and they're all Zionists?
00:47:49.000I remember, and I will never get tired of telling this story, I was friends with a white, attractive, Chad, high IQ guy who was going to an elite university.
00:48:28.000Israel is going to finish off Hezbollah, and then they're going to force us into a confrontation with Iran.
00:48:34.000They're going to continue to provoke and catalyze them as they did throughout 2024, and they're going to create a crisis where we have to intervene.
00:48:41.000And I said, I just don't see that happening.
00:48:44.000And now here we are in another forever war that puts America last.
00:51:38.000This was the first tile on the bingo card of the Israel lobby for 30 years.
00:51:44.000And the no new wars president delivered it.
00:51:48.000And you bought it because he's a Republican.
00:51:51.000You bought it because of this propaganda.
00:51:54.000Because Peter Thiel made a move in 2022 to buy up everything.
00:52:00.000And from NatCon, run by the dual citizen Yoram Hazoni, to Sovereign House, and by future Moldovan citizen and Nick Allen, a couple of pro-Israel Jews, to Passage Press, run by the Jew, Jonathan Keeperman, publishing the Jews, Curtis Yarvin and Costa Lamar, you who hosted their big DC party and all the crypto adjacent groups that they're affiliated with from one thing to the next red scare, all of it.
00:52:29.000They bought it to And that's why dissidents that should have been Groypers, dissidents that would have been, should have been white identitarians, white nationalists, Israel critical.
00:52:44.000Counter-Semitic, they're now pro-Trump Republican glazers defending a fucking war in Iran.
00:52:53.000Because they convince you to be more concerned about a black person working at the DMV than a CIA contractor, Peter Thiel, and the Israel lobby.
00:53:34.000All of you young white men, and other men for that matter, all of you patriotic young men that love America and that love Jesus Christ, listen and listen well.
00:53:45.000We have been at war for a quarter of a century for Israel, for an anti-Christ state that wants Americans to die, to pave the way for their new empire and their third temple.
00:54:18.000For those people that are just getting into politics, you're a college Republican, you're inside the administration, you're in a congressional office, you're in state politics, if you are one of those young America first men, Trump sold you out to the Israel lobby.
00:54:36.000We're fighting a war that we should have never been involved in.
00:54:40.000George W. Bush wouldn't even bring us into this war.
00:54:42.000If you believe in the paleocons and Pat Buchanan, he's been talking about it for 35 years.
00:55:52.000Kurt Mills from American Conservative, he was being told right up until the fucking bombs dropped that everything was going according to plan and the posters and patriots are in control because he's got a buddy in the National Security Council.
00:56:14.000If we are being outmaneuvered politically at every step of the way, as long as the Israelis are in control of the administration and pulling the levers of power, nothing matters.
00:58:02.000A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
00:58:18.000Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
00:58:25.000Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and A stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
00:58:38.000Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
00:58:46.000Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
00:58:51.000Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
00:58:55.000If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.
00:59:00.000For 40 years, Iran has been saying death to America, death to Israel.
00:59:06.000They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.
00:59:14.000We lost over a thousand people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate.
00:59:23.000In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani.
00:59:29.000I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.
00:59:35.000I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
00:59:40.000We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before.
00:59:45.000And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
00:59:49.000I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done.
00:59:54.000And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.
01:00:08.000Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity.
01:02:36.000So if Iran retaliates, and they almost certainly will against U.S. bases in the region, of which there are many, And Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Emirates, Qatar, elsewhere.
01:02:49.000Then the United States will go back in and carry out more strikes.
01:02:53.000And certainly, this is not the last word for Israel either.
01:02:57.000Bibi Netanyahu says that he's giving a speech shortly after Trump.
01:03:48.000We bomb those two facilities with missiles from submarines.
01:03:52.000And then we bomb Fordow, which is near Coombe.
01:03:56.000And we drop bunker-busting bombs on Coombe from B-2 stealth bombers, probably from Diego Garcia, which is out here in the British Indian Territory.
01:04:05.000Although some people believe we did it from Guam, which is out here in the Pacific.
01:04:14.000Because American stealth bombers first went to Hawaii, and then they went to Guam, and then they kept moving west.
01:04:21.000And they have the range to hit Iran from all the way out in the Pacific.
01:05:16.000The bases in the Gulf are right across the Persian Gulf.
01:05:21.000What that means is that the missiles that are launched by Iran against Israel are easier to shoot down because we can detect them sooner and we have more time to target them because they're further away.
01:05:34.000So it takes longer for them to arrive.
01:05:37.000The missiles that are launched potentially against an American base will have virtually no time to detect them, will have virtually no time to intercept them.
01:05:45.000What's more, Israel has a complex missile defense system.
01:05:50.000They have our missile defense, which comes in the form of Patriot missile batteries, the THAAD system, our destroyers, fighter jets, but they also have their series of air defense systems, the Iron Dome, the David Sling, and the Arrow 2 and 3. The United States does not have a complex web of air defense on every one of their bases.
01:06:12.000Our bases are spread out across the entire region.
01:06:15.000There's many of them, and not all of them have a robust missile defense system.
01:06:20.000And so what that means is that if you thought that we're going to bomb Iran and maybe they retaliate, but it's not going to be a big deal because we'll just shoot them down, we are more vulnerable than Israel.
01:06:32.000Our assets, our hardware is far more vulnerable.
01:06:36.000It'll be easier for Iran to strike us than it is for them to strike Israel.
01:06:42.000What's more, the Iranian regime is still in place.
01:06:46.000What is exactly going to happen next here?
01:06:49.000The Trump administration said after Israel struck that Iran still has an opportunity to negotiate and give up their centrifuges.
01:06:58.000Well, why would they have done it a week ago?
01:07:01.000The United States was conducting diplomacy with Iran.
01:07:04.000And they knew the entire time that Israel was going to sabotage the diplomacy and they were alerted in advance that Israel would bomb Iran.
01:07:14.000And then the United States said, well, come back to the negotiating table and let's make a deal.
01:07:20.000Why would Iran come back to the table if the first negotiations were a ruse?
01:08:18.000What Trump has just done, As he has made it so that Iran is in survival mode.
01:08:24.000Now the entire country and the regime are in peril.
01:08:28.000The idea that Iran, with its back against the wall, being hammered by Israel and the United States, bombing their nuclear program, now they're just going to give up.
01:08:38.000It's totally outside their national character.
01:08:40.000It's totally outside their national interest.
01:08:43.000They've been forced against the wall into a survival situation.
01:08:47.000Now they will do anything possible just to ensure the continuity of the regime.
01:08:52.000And probably they have a significant amount of radioactive material, nuclear material, that's not even stored at Natanz and Fordo.
01:09:03.000That's the other big part of this equation.
01:09:07.000The big question surrounding these strikes was not only would we be able to attack without spillover into other countries or retaliation or deepening the conflict.
01:09:17.000The other question was will the bombs even do the job?
01:10:30.000It's probably something they will do over the course of the next week.
01:10:35.000So, almost certainly, this war will continue.
01:10:39.000For those that think, oh, it's just one little strike, it's not a big deal, almost certainly, this will continue, and it will continue for the same reason that it has gotten this far, why it started in the first place, which is that Israel is driving the conflict forward.
01:11:00.000Now that Fordow has been disabled or maybe partially destroyed, now certainly Israel will feel emboldened to carry out more strikes, maybe potentially carry out a decapitation strike against the supreme leader.
01:12:03.000All of that flows through the Strait of Hormuz to be shipped out to China from Iran for the most part, but also to all the other countries.
01:12:11.000Iran could use their navy to mine and blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
01:12:17.000If that happens, global oil prices are going to get jacked up because it's going to effectively shut down a big part of the oil trade.
01:12:23.000The other thing that could happen is that the Houthis, which control northwestern Yemen, this portion of Yemen, they could renew their operations in the Red Sea.
01:12:33.000They have been attacking commercial shipping for the past year and a half, ever since October 7th, inside the Red Sea and in the Bar al-Mondeb Strait.
01:14:25.000Its military is far more sophisticated and bigger.
01:14:29.000But of course, it's not just about Iran.
01:14:32.000If it were just about Iran, that would be a big deal by itself.
01:14:34.000But this is now spilling over into the entire region.
01:14:39.000It could draw in proxies from Yemen, from Lebanon, from Syria, from Iraq.
01:14:43.000It could involve targets inside Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia.
01:14:52.000It is going to involve international shipping and the global oil trade at two of these major waterways, not just the Red Sea but also the Persian Gulf.
01:15:01.000And if you look on the planet where this is situated, this is in the middle of the world, obviously.
01:15:07.000So this is shutting down a significant portion of the global economy.
01:15:10.000If they shut down the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz and the airspace is all closed down, this has an effect on everybody.
01:18:10.000That's why they play up the threat of the nuclear program and embellish the risk that it poses to the United States or even the reality of whether Iran has weaponized or desires weaponization at all.
01:18:24.000So now that the United States has disarmed Iran, And its nuclear program, that clears the way for Israel to do what it always wanted to do, which is to knock down the regime.
01:18:54.000Does Iran retaliate against the United States?
01:18:57.000If they didn't, there's no deterrence.
01:18:59.000If Iran lets itself get bombed and does nothing, it probably invites more aggression because it says that you can drop bombs on us and we will do nothing.
01:19:11.000If Iran retaliates, then America will avenge the deaths of American soldiers.
01:19:17.000And this is why in 2020, They responded to American bases, but they heavily telegraphed it in such a way that the United States could evacuate and make preparations, and so Americans didn't die when Iran retaliated.
01:19:39.000That was the middle ground, where you establish deterrence by retaliating, but you don't invite more aggression by killing anybody.
01:19:48.000Now, I don't think they could do that because this was a bigger deal.
01:19:52.000Bombing Iranian soil with American bombers, their nuclear program, that's a much bigger deal than assassinating Soleimani on foreign soil at an airport.
01:20:03.000So I think there has to be a bigger response.
01:20:06.000Additionally, even if they don't kill Americans, the fact of retaliating will invite more aggression either way.
01:20:14.000Whether they kill people or not, whether they injure people, how many people die, it doesn't matter.
01:20:43.000And Iran will keep fighting with Israel.
01:20:45.000Now, what Trump said during the statement is that Iran has to surrender.
01:20:50.000And I would imagine that what that means is not only that they stop, or rather that they don't retaliate against the United States, but that they cease retaliating against Israel as well.
01:21:01.000And so if the fight between Iran and Israel continues, which it surely will because Israel will keep it up.
01:21:09.000Then probably the United States will intervene in that scenario too.
01:21:13.000So this is how this is going to unfold.
01:21:17.000And almost all scenarios point to more fighting.
01:21:20.000The conflict will continue to widen, meaning it will expand outside of Iran.
01:26:53.000There's a report being passed around this week, today.
01:26:57.000It says, during a call, Vice President J.D. Vance pushed back, saying the United States should not be directly involved in suggesting the Israelis would drag the country into war.
01:27:43.000But he says in this report that has been planted in the press, oh, I'm against it.
01:27:48.000The Israelis are dragging me into the war.
01:27:50.000And the shills that supported Trump last year and said he's not going to take us to war in Iran, they're all passing this around and saying, see?
01:29:29.000J.D. Vance is the protege of Peter Thiel.
01:29:33.000Peter Thiel hooked him up from beginning until now.
01:29:38.000J.D. Vance met Peter Thiel in law school, and Thiel has been his patron ever since.
01:29:43.000Peter Thiel got him his first job in Silicon Valley.
01:29:46.000Peter Thiel got him a job at his venture capital firm.
01:29:49.000When J.D. Vance started his own venture capital firm, Peter Thiel and his Founders Fund were the first big contributors in the first round of funding.
01:29:58.000Peter Thiel brokered a truce between Vance and Trump and got Vance the Trump endorsement when he ran for Senate.
01:30:05.000Peter Thiel donated $30 million to Masters and Vance, $15 million to Vance when he ran for Senate in 22. It was the biggest outside contribution in the history of the U.S. Senate.
01:30:16.000And Peter Thiel is a CIA contractor with Palantir.
01:30:20.000Peter Thiel founded Palantir with Alex Karp and the CIA.
01:31:00.000In 2017, after Trump won the election, J.D. Vance met with David Frum and all of his other patrons, maybe Peter Thiel was there too, to discuss a run for the presidency.
01:31:14.000J.D. Vance was elected to the Senate in 2022.
01:31:18.000In 2017, when Vance was a never-Trumper, he held a meeting a week after Trump's inauguration in D.C. He invited Fromm, who was a neocon speechwriter for George Bush and other people, and they said, how am I going to become the president after Trump won and I was a never-Trumper?
01:31:35.000This is what he's always wanted, going back like 15 years.
01:32:11.000He's an investor in all these different groups, Sovereign House, Passage Press, every one of these things, you name it, he's involved in it.
01:32:19.000And that's why none of them will say anything negative about Vance.
01:32:23.000And they will push the story to say, he was based, he was opposed to the war.
01:32:28.000They planted this story and never forget that a year ago he was, He wasn't even asked about it.
01:34:07.000Before the 2016 election, Vance's future political path looked straightforward.
01:34:11.000He would await the expected Trump defeat and then emerge as a next generation Republican savior, a candidate who could speak from his origins in Appalachia to the suburbs of Columbus, all while preserving his connections to his donors in Silicon Valley.
01:34:27.000Obviously, that's a big deal with Palantir, with Elon Musk, with the rest of them.
01:34:33.000Trump's Electoral College victory complicated that calculation.
01:34:37.000Some Democrats wooed Vance to change parties.
01:34:40.000Obama's guru, David Axelrod, had Vance as a guest.
01:34:43.000On his podcast a month after Vance's Times article was published.
01:34:48.000More plausible was a path for Vance as leader of the internal Republican opposition to Trump.
01:34:54.000About a week after the inauguration in 2017, Vance invited me and a dozen other anti-Trump conservatives to a quiet meeting in a downtown Washington, D.C. conference room to discuss ways forward about the Trump predicament.
01:35:09.000That meeting was off the record, but Vance subsequently emailed participants to alert us that he himself had spoken to a reporter about it.
01:35:18.000Among the topics was considered, could any good come from the Trump administration?
01:35:23.000How outspoken should we be in opposition?
01:35:26.000The meeting did not reach conclusions, but it didn't need to.
01:35:29.000The unspoken but widely understood agenda looked further into the future.
01:35:34.000We were present at the creation of a Vance for President campaign that might go into operation sometime in the late 2020s or early 2030s.
01:41:16.000I'll give full coverage on—excuse me, on Monday.
01:41:20.000But just to get into the history a little bit here, for those that are just joining us, for those that haven't been paying attention, we have to talk about a few different tracks here.
01:41:30.000I'm going to give you a really thorough rundown right now on how we got here.
01:41:39.000For everybody that's just tuning in, we have a huge live audience right now, 62,000 viewers.
01:41:44.000I'm sure it's the number one stream maybe anywhere.
01:43:40.000But to begin to unravel that narrative, you really need to go all the way back.
01:43:45.000Because that narrative, just like the narrative about Bashar al-Assad, just like the narrative about Gaddafi, just like the narrative about Saddam Hussein, it's starting in the middle of the story.
01:43:58.000It's starting smack in the middle of it where Iran has this nuclear program.
01:44:11.000And the start is that Israel declares independence in 1948.
01:44:19.000And they declare it out of the Mandate of Palestine.
01:44:22.000This entire region was British territory.
01:44:26.000After World War I ended, in the early 20th century, Turkey's empire was split up between the French and the British.
01:44:35.000The French got Lebanon and Syria, the British got Israel and Jordan.
01:44:40.000And so the area that would become the modern state of Israel and Palestine and Jordan was called the Mandate of Palestine.
01:44:49.000You had modern Israel and Transjordan, now what we call Jordan.
01:44:54.000Under the control of the British Empire.
01:44:57.000The Zionists had Jewish people moving there throughout the 20s, 30s, and 40s.
01:45:02.000The early Zionist movement that wanted to fill up Palestine with Jews, ultimately they wanted Jordan too, some of them.
01:45:09.000They were called revisionist Zionists.
01:45:11.000But all the early Zionists wanted the Jews to settle in the land of Israel.
01:45:15.000And in order to get Jews to settle there, they terrorized them.
01:45:19.000They created anti-Semitic hoaxes in Europe.
01:45:22.000They created anti-Semitic hoaxes in Iraq, in the broader Middle East, to try to convince world Jewry that the only place that they would be safe is in a country of their own, in Israel.
01:45:32.000And to go and stake out this project where they were building farms and kibbutzes and cities, and they were going to populate the state of Israel and create their own nation.
01:45:42.000After World War II, and we're skipping ahead a little bit, 1948, they declare their independence, and they start massacring Palestinians.
01:45:51.000They start killing Palestinians, driving them from their land.
01:46:28.000The United States implements a ceasefire, and so do some of the other players.
01:46:32.000But while there's a ceasefire in Israel, American Jews inside the United States and in Europe are smuggling weapons to a But in terms of arms races, you have light arms trafficking, like machine guns and things like that, ammunition.
01:46:56.000And American Jewish gangsters, American Jewish businessmen, and other Jews in Europe, they're trafficking weapons to this early state of Israel to build up their military capability.
01:47:20.000During the ceasefire, you have the beginnings of the arms race, which is U.S. smugglers, Jewish smugglers, businessmen, gangsters, even politicians.
01:47:30.000They're smuggling light arms from World War II into Israel to help them defeat Egypt and Syria.
01:47:49.000He's against British occupation and colonization of Egypt.
01:47:53.000He nationalizes the Suez Canal, which is this all-important waterway that connects the Mediterranean to the Arabian Sea.
01:48:01.000So Nasser, the president of Egypt, nationalizes the Suez.
01:48:06.000The British and the French want the Suez Canal back under their control.
01:48:11.000But the United States doesn't want them to intervene, and they don't want to piss off the United States.
01:48:16.000So they work with Israel to fabricate a false pretext for Israel to invade Egypt and seize control of the Suez from the Egyptians.
01:48:27.000The Israelis claim that Egypt was preparing for war, that they're harassing them in the Gulf of Tehran.
01:48:33.000Among other things, there's a military buildup in Egypt.
01:48:37.000So Israel, with the support of the British and the French, invades Egypt to take the Suez Canal.
01:48:43.000The United States comes in under Dwight Eisenhower, and at that time the United States regime is trying to have a balanced approach towards the Arabs and Israel.
01:48:52.000Eisenhower comes in in 56 and says, Israel has to leave and the war has to stop.
01:48:58.000So Eisenhower overrules the British and the French.
01:49:04.000And for 10 years, things are reasonably quiet between Israel and the Arab coalitions.
01:49:09.000In the meantime, however, in the mid-1950s, Israel's president, David Ben-Gurion, becomes obsessed with acquiring a nuclear weapon.
01:49:20.000By the mid-1950s, other countries have nuclearized.
01:49:23.000The United States has the atomic bomb and a hydrogen bomb.
01:49:27.000The Soviet Union tests a weapon in 1949.
01:49:30.000The French and the British get a nuclear bomb.
01:49:33.000And so in the 1950s, Israel's leader Ben-Gurion becomes obsessed with the nuclear bomb.
01:49:39.000He says the only way that Israel will ever be safe amidst the threat of Egypt and Syria, this Arab coalition against us, he says the only way that we will be safe is if we acquire a nuclear device.
01:49:52.000And so Israel begins collaborating with the French in the late 1950s to develop a nuclear reactor at Damona out in eastern Israel, southeastern Israel.
01:50:05.000When Dwight Eisenhower leaves office in 1961, he warns JFK, the incoming president, that Israel is acquiring a nuclear bomb and warns Jack Kennedy about this.
01:52:33.000He was prime minister from 1948 when Israel was declared until 1963.
01:52:39.000He was the first prime minister after Israel declared independence, and then except for a little interim part in the mid-1950s for about a year, he was their prime minister uninterrupted from them until 1963, when he resigned the day after he got the letter with no explanation.
01:52:56.000And to the day that he died, never explained why he resigned.
01:53:00.000This is the founding father of Israel.
01:53:03.000JFK sends a letter to Ben-Gurion's successor in July and says the same thing.
01:53:09.000I told your predecessor, Ben-Gurion, I need inspections or else we're cutting you off.
01:53:17.000Of course, in November 63, JFK is assassinated.
01:53:21.000His assassin is assassinated by Jack Ruby, otherwise known as Jack Rubenstein, who is connected to the Jewish mafia, guys like Mickey Cohen, who were running guns to Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
01:53:36.000Why did Jack Ruby kill Lee Harvey Oswald?
01:53:39.000Well, he says, I did it for my people.
01:53:43.000In January 1964, Lyndon Johnson is the president.
01:53:49.000Israel is believed to have tested their nuclear weapon two months after JFK was killed.
01:53:56.000According to American intelligence, the earliest timetable that Israel could have acquired a nuclear weapon was in January 1964, just months after JFK was killed.
01:54:10.000After Lyndon Johnson becomes the president, the amount of foreign aid to Israel triples.
01:54:17.000And previously, whereas foreign aid to Israel was almost all humanitarian and economic aid, now it's three times as big and it's all weapons.
01:54:26.000It's missiles, it's advanced weaponry, it's tanks, it's all military equipment.
01:54:33.000And suddenly, the American administration is all in favor of Israel.
01:55:51.000During this campaign, there is an American radar ship, a reconnaissance ship, off the coast of Israel, the USS Liberty.
01:56:02.000The reconnaissance ship was there to keep an eye on the evolving military situation in the build-up to the Six-Day War.
01:56:12.000Israel believes that if that reconnaissance ship is there, it will detect Israeli troop movements that are moving towards Egypt, and it might blow the element of surprise.
01:56:23.000The United States might know the full extent of their military activities.
01:56:28.000So Israel launches an all-out attack on the USS Liberty off the coast of Israel.
01:56:36.000They shoot the ship, they bomb the lifeboats, they see the American flag flying on it.
01:58:32.000Golda Meier, the Prime Minister of Israel, calls up President Nixon and the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and she says, you need to bail us out, otherwise we might take extraordinary measures.
01:58:44.000At the same time, they take out their nuclear bombs so that they can be detected by U.S. reconnaissance.
01:58:53.000Israel's pushed to the brink of destruction in a surprise attack.
01:58:58.000The United States is reluctant to intervene because we believe that if we go in, the Soviet Union will go in on the side of Syria and Egypt.
02:00:06.000But it's after this happens in 1973 that many of the left-wing Jews in America move to the right wing.
02:00:15.000Many of the American Jews, who were all communists at this point, Bolsheviks were all Jews, American communists were all Jews.
02:00:24.000All these left-wing Jews in America who are Trotskyites, they're communists, they're in New York, they're part of this intellectual movement, they see that the Arabs surprised attacked Israel with the help of the Soviet Union.
02:00:36.000They realize the Soviet Union might destroy Israel.
02:00:58.000They saw that their communist utopia wasn't so friendly towards Israel.
02:01:02.000So they become the biggest cold warriors.
02:01:05.000They become the biggest foreign policy hawks.
02:01:07.000They say now we need to destroy the Soviet Union because the Soviet Union backed the surprise attack on Israel that almost destroyed it.
02:01:16.000So all these guys like Irving Kristol and John Podhoretz and many others from Commentary Magazine.
02:01:23.000All these Jewish publications, they all come aboard the right wing and they become the biggest cold warriors.
02:01:30.000In 1975 in Israel, there's a big commission that's meant to do an audit on how Israel was caught by surprise, how they didn't see it coming.
02:01:40.000Because even though they won the war, it's still a major victory morally for the Egyptians and Syrians that they were able to have these military victories and catch Israel off guard.
02:01:51.000In 1976, the Likud party comes to power in Israel.
02:01:55.000For the first time, even though Israel was dominated for many decades by the Labor Party, by left-wing parties, a right-wing party called Likud, which emerges from the revision of Zionists that wanted all of Israel, that wanted Transjordan, they come to power.
02:02:15.000They say the new doctrine of the state of Israel is we have to destroy all of our enemies.
02:02:21.000Oded Yanon's plan for the 1980s says the only way that Israel can be safe is if we destroy all of our neighbors.
02:02:30.000It says that even though our neighbors are strong militarily and our borders are under threat, he says our neighbors are actually weak because they're based on diversity.
02:02:43.000Oded Yanon says that Lebanon has five different nations inside of it.
02:02:47.000It has a Christian nation, a Shiite nation, a Druze nation, all kinds of different ethnicities living inside.
02:02:53.000It says Syria has Alawites in the west, Sunnis everywhere else, Druze in the south.
02:02:59.000It says that Egypt has a big Coptic Christian population, a big Muslim population.
02:03:04.000It says that Iraq has the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites.
02:03:14.000So in the late 1970s, when the Likud party comes to power after the failures of the left-wing party to anticipate the surprise attack, they say it's time to go on the offensive and blow up all these different countries.
02:03:28.000In 1978, Israel brokers a peace agreement with Egypt.
02:03:32.000Israel gives them the Sinai Peninsula.
02:06:40.000They say even though we're on the offensive, they say we're still not safe.
02:06:44.000They say we gave up the Sinai Peninsula for peace with Egypt.
02:06:48.000They said we gave up the West Bank for peace with Jordan.
02:06:54.000They say we don't want to give up Golan for peace with Syria.
02:06:57.000We can't keep giving up land in exchange for peace with the Palestinians and our neighbors.
02:07:03.000They say so, we need a clean break with the past.
02:07:07.000And in order to secure our northern border, because Egypt and Jordan are already taken care of, they say we need to knock out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, we need to take out Syria, and then we need to take out Iran.
02:07:19.000We need to take out Iraq because Saddam Hussein is too belligerent.
02:07:22.000We need to take out Syria because they remain fundamentally at war with us and challenging us.
02:07:28.000And we need to take out Iran because they have trained up Hezbollah in Lebanon and they're sponsoring some of our adversaries.
02:07:36.000The Israelis that drafted that report come into the George W. Bush administration.
02:07:42.000After 9-11, they fabricate intelligence that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9-11 and other terrorist plots.
02:07:50.000They say that Saddam Hussein is once again building up his nuclear arsenal like they did in 91. Their program, which was not fully destroyed in 1990, they claim.
02:09:04.000In Syria, protests lead to major opposition movements against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
02:09:13.000With the Syrian regime and the Iraqi regime weakened, and the United States withdrawing from Iraq in 2011, suddenly there's a radical Islamist group that spawns in the middle of Iraq and Syria.
02:13:14.000The only remaining adversary at the time of October 7th in 2023 is Iran and all of its proxies in southern Lebanon, in Yemen, in Iraq, and the Assad regime, which is not totally defeated in Syria.
02:16:28.000Tonight, the United States carries out its attacks on Iran.
02:16:32.000And as we talked about earlier tonight and throughout the week, the only way this can end is in regime change in Iran.
02:16:39.000The regime that was put up in 79, that created that proxy network, the nuclear program, it's going to be gone.
02:16:46.000And when that is finished, either sometime this year or next, you can see how the entire Middle East, from Morocco all the way through to Egypt, from Somalia to Sudan, From Yemen all the way up to Syria, from Israel to Iran, the entire Middle East will be under the thumb.
02:17:10.000The entire Middle East and Northern Africa will be under the thumb of Israel.
02:18:58.000It's a country of a restive population.
02:19:01.000It's a fragile, hereditary monarchy from 100 years ago.
02:19:07.000Saudi Arabia could never resist Israel, even if they wanted to.
02:19:12.000If Israel could take out Iran, they could take out any one of these fragile Gulf monarchies, any one of these countries.
02:19:19.000That means that Israel will dominate the entire region.
02:19:22.000And that means that all the trade that goes through the Red Sea, all the trade that goes through the Persian Gulf, all of the Belt and Road Initiative ports and highways and rail, all of the India-Middle East-Europe corridor infrastructure, it will all go through a region controlled by Israel.
02:19:42.000All the trade from Africa, Asia, and Europe that has to go through water or land routes in this region, it's going to be going over Israeli soil.
02:19:52.000It's all going to be going over Israeli clay.
02:19:58.000They want to dominate the region, profit from all the trade.
02:20:01.000They will profit from China and the United States, from BRICS and the Abraham Alliance.
02:20:08.000That is the next phase of development.
02:20:10.000That's how they go from not even a country surrounded by enemies to every country has been destroyed and pacified to total regional hegemony over the Middle East.
02:20:21.000And then they want to ditch the United States.
02:20:24.000Then they want to say, we don't want your foreign aid anymore.
02:20:27.000It gives you too much leverage over us.
02:20:29.000We want to conduct our own independent foreign policy.
02:20:32.000And that means we can do whatever we want.
02:20:34.000We can hedge and work with China if we want.
02:20:42.000And that's how we were used to give birth to a rival power.
02:20:49.000That's how we were used, like a parasite does, to give birth to a rival entity.
02:20:55.000And so, yeah, if you're completely ignorant, you would say, oh, you know, Iran wants nuclear weapons because they just want to kill everybody.
02:21:03.000No, Iran wants nuclear weapons because Israel and the United States have destroyed every one of Israel's neighbors.
02:21:11.000And Iran doesn't even have a nuclear bomb.
02:21:37.000It's a story of subterfuge, of intelligence operations, of deep influence in the United States.
02:21:43.000None of it would be possible without the United States.
02:21:46.000Without the Jewish mafia running guns to Israel in 1948, without JFK being assassinated to clear the way for Lyndon Johnson to come in and pour conventional arms into Israel, without Jews in America stealing the United States nuclear program to give it to Israel, without the U.S. bailing them out in 1973, without the neocons giving them their war in Iraq, it would have never happened.
02:22:15.000So the United States is just as much a part of this, and there's subterfuge over the Republican Party, over the American state.
02:22:22.000It's quintessential part of the plan, and that includes the media and public opinion.
02:23:23.000You know, calling me those names is a part of it.
02:23:26.000Because if people like me were popular and were able to just make arguments in public and do my thing, you know, people would be educated and maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
02:23:43.000They don't want you to have the information.
02:23:44.000The information's out there, but if they attack anybody that advertises the information or puts it out there, well, you know, people aren't going to get it.
02:24:34.000I'll be doing my show as scheduled on Monday.
02:24:37.000I'll be early because this is a big deal.
02:24:39.000So Monday at 8 o 'clock Central, if you want the whole story on the strikes and the latest, I'll be covering the war in Iran all week, this coming week, starting Monday.
02:34:52.000I mean, look, if you watch the show, we obviously have tons of new viewers right now, but if you've been watching my show for two years, you've got to admit, it's pretty uncanny.
02:35:02.000If you're one of my viewers that tuned in after Yay 24, after October 7th, you know I have been on the money on this every night, almost to the point of being annoying.
02:37:33.000The public diplomacy of Israel, or Hasbara, includes mass communication, individual interactions with foreigners through social media and traditional media, as well as cultural diplomacy.
02:38:09.000The French journalist gave the following example of Hasbara in a French paper citing an IDF spokesman.
02:38:16.000As rockets traced white lines across the sky on New Year's Eve, Colonel Raffowitz gave vent to his outrage on the news.
02:38:25.000For those wondering why Israel has to eliminate Hamas, here's your answer.
02:38:28.000Hamas terrorists are indiscriminately bombing Israeli cities on the stroke of midnight.
02:38:33.000There were no reported Israeli casualties, but on December 31st, The IDF's bombing of Gaza continued uninterrupted, causing 300 deaths, just like any other day.
02:38:43.000A few days later, the total number of neutralized Palestinians, at least a third of them children, passed 22,000.
02:39:30.000It engages an open and fully attributable undirectional or unidirectional mass communication that targets unaffiliated civil populations in other countries.
02:39:41.000In other words, they're trying to convince the masses that they're awesome, and they literally have a handbook for it.
02:39:48.000You can once again find that on Internet Archive.
02:40:22.000But they literally publish a handbook, how to trick the goyim.
02:40:26.00025 rules for effective communication, a glossary of words that work, how to talk about Palestinian self-government, isolating Iran-backed Hamas as an obstacle to peace.
02:40:37.000The language of tackling a nuclear Iran.
02:42:37.000All Americans, even those on the left, and many Europeans, get that Iran-backed Hamas as a terrorist organization.
02:42:44.000However, to Americans, there's a vital distinction between the Hamas leadership and Palestinian people that you must appreciate and weave into all of your language about Gaza.
02:42:53.000To them, Hamas is evil, but the Palestinian people are poor and underrepresented.
02:42:59.000For now, your rhetorical quarrel needs to be with Hamas, not the people of Palestine.
02:43:35.000In December 2008 to January 2009, Luntz wrote a report titled Israel's Project 2009 Global Language Dictionary.
02:43:43.000He wrote that book that I just showed you.
02:43:45.000It was commissioned by the Israel Project and meant to advise media spokespeople to use specific language he believed would create a more favorable impression of Israel and the United States and the rest of the international community.
02:43:57.000And Frank Luntz was roommates with Kevin McCarthy, the former Speaker of the House.
02:44:07.000Contributor on Fox News does opinion polling.
02:44:25.000Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy admits he rented a room from GOP pollster.
02:44:29.000Okay, so the guy that wrote that book, when they say things like, the real forever war is Iran, that is an advisory that has been created by marketing people.
02:44:39.000Like Frank Luntz, who wrote one of them 15 years ago, he was a roommate with the Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy.
02:44:49.000So when they say things like Israel's white, the reason they hate Israel is because they think Israel's white and they hate settler colonialism like BLM does.