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00:05:13.000And 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.
00:05:26.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:32.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:10.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:15.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:22.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:29.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:37.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:40.000And 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.
00:07:54.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:57.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:01.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:08.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:12.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:41.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:08:47.000It 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.
00:09:02.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:11.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who
00:09:34.000through an increasing amount of activism are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
00:09:41.000America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics and cynics.
00:09:54.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:12:57.000I can't see a damn thing if they walk I can't see a damn thing if they walk They like Stevie They can't see me They won't beat me I'm in that guinea You can't go back to the past That's what people always say, isn't it?
00:13:19.000And the answer is, whether you're conservative or liberal Right, when you're left wing The answer is no We're never going back It's done It's gone All of that is gone But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead Because Jesus Christ was our past Before any of us were born or conceived Jesus Christ is our present now And Jesus Christ is our future After we die
00:16:58.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
00:17:05.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:17:23.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:17:31.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:17:41.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
00:26:07.000I should have supported Grape of War 2.
00:26:15.000Years from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
00:31:58.000is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:08.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
00:32:19.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
00:32:23.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
00:32:34.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.
00:32:42.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:32:45.000This is a crossroads in the history...
00:32:48.000of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.
00:32:57.000The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
00:33:15.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
00:33:27.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
00:33:49.000And this will be our last chance to save it.
00:33:53.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
00:35:57.000It was patriots like you that built this country.
00:36:16.000And it's patriots like you that are going to save our country.
00:36:20.000To all of those who think that they can coerce and subjugate the citizens of this land, hear these words from me tonight: The people of America will not surrender.
00:36:39.000We will not surrender our faith, we will not surrender our values, we will not surrender our history, we will not surrender our liberty and our liberty.
00:36:51.000We are done with their distorted visions for America.
00:36:59.000It's time to start talking about greatness for our country again.
00:37:04.000We want our country to be great again.
00:43:50.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Grover Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty, and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
00:44:20.000Paulie and Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, were all cut from the same cloth.
00:52:45.000Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
00:52:47.000Because I think it's a very mean life.
00:52:49.000I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.
00:52:55.000And I also see it that somebody with strong views and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile.
00:53:10.000And that's a sad commentary for the clinical process.
00:53:13.000And if you have a minute, why don't we go?
00:53:19.000Talk about it somewhere, only we know.
00:54:36.000Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
00:54:43.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:55:01.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:55:08.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:55:19.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
01:07:08.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
01:07:22.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
01:07:27.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
01:09:06.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:09:10.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:09:17.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:09:25.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:09:32.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:09:35.000And 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.
01:09:49.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
01:09:53.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
01:09:57.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
01:10:03.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
01:10:07.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
01:10:37.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
01:10:42.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
01:10:57.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
01:11:06.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty, and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who,
01:11:29.000through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
01:11:48.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
01:15:22.000It's gone, it's gone, all of that is gone.
01:15:25.000But I would call myself something like a Christian futurist instead, because Jesus Christ was our past before any of us were born or conceived.
01:15:35.000Jesus Christ is our present now, and Jesus Christ is our future after we die.
01:15:41.000on earth We want this century to be the most Christian century in the history of planet Earth.
01:16:44.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
01:18:54.000Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
01:19:00.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
01:19:18.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
01:19:26.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
01:19:36.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
01:21:28.000Like you thought you were gonna tap the screen to pressure Trump except one problem Elon owns the platform, but now the check marks are being removed Which means people are being de-amplified and then it's being manipulated they're manipulated Trump saying in June, staple the green cards to the diplomas.
01:28:12.000Some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
01:33:54.000We're replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
01:34:03.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
01:34:14.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
01:34:19.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
01:34:29.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.
01:34:37.000This is not simply another four-year election.
01:34:40.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.
01:34:52.000The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration.
01:35:05.000And economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
01:35:11.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
01:35:23.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth.
01:35:32.000And put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
01:35:40.000This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.
01:35:48.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
01:39:21.000As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that we deserve.
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01:44:07.000The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say.
01:44:13.000We must always remember that we share one home and one glorious destiny.
01:44:20.000We all bleed the same red blood of patriots.
01:45:45.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty, and of course defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that.
01:46:16.000Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump.
01:54:40.000Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
01:54:43.000Because I think it's a very mean life.
01:54:45.000I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.
01:54:50.000And I also see it that somebody with strong views and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile.
01:55:05.000And that's a sad commentary for the political process.
01:55:08.000And if you have a minute, why don't we go?
01:56:53.000I cannot support this and I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
01:57:03.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
01:57:14.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
01:57:28.000If not Donald Trump, if not now, then when?
02:00:06.000I'm back for no reason, bitch, I'm back up I'm, I'm dumb, yeah, girl, you see these dumbest, girl, you see this jet You know I'm different climbers, uh, how I got this damn Thought I ain't trying, uh, richer than they family, uh, richer than they memories, yeah Hold it up, where you at the club?
02:00:30.000Hold it up, yeah, pull it by side, yeah, pull it on them Uh, now I got this bag with hats on them I'm straight out of these diamonds, I'm straight out of these lights, yeah, yeah How you gon'save these bills, how you gon'save these lights?
02:00:45.000Yeah, turn up at my show, at least just do it right Yeah, yeah, we go out all night You gon'save me big, gon'save me big, gon'serve them all night You gon'save my dream, you gon'save my cup, you gon'save me all right They actin'the feeling that they got a problem, let them make
02:01:00.000it, they tell me the black, I'm tweakin'We got the bills, they put my side to you, out of your mind, you crazy, tweakin'Got me out of my lane, bad in my mind, I'm really right out of my weekend Know that you lovin'these lights, you lovin'this world, we runnin'it big every weekend You ain't in love with me every time I know, we're sleepin'All y'all truck inside this
02:01:15.000life, that world, y'all get to run the bed up every weekend we can't see i'm going off on the table you say that i'm bad for the crazy i want be a dictator and you know why i want to be addicted
02:01:44.000i want a wall right i want a wall and i want to drill drill drill my love has
02:02:00.000got no money he's got his strong beliefs my love has got no power he's got his strong beliefs my love has got no fame he's got his strong beliefs my love has got no money
02:02:15.000he's got his strong beliefs one more and more people just want more and more freedom and love what he's looking for one more and more people just want more and more freedom and love what
02:02:33.000feed from desire my nonsense is purified feed from desire my nonsense is purified feed from desire my nonsense is purified feed from desire no
02:02:49.000so like hot teddy on my chest nigga take me about to slide those on the vip nigga i got one of the bleed i did by the fire i kept moving on these legs they were fucking lies we see all these kids say you can't fucking die i said put a really in my fri-guys oh i'm a fri-guys I thought I said it really, what do we just fool it back?
02:03:16.000I said he'd be gonna pay, I got no pay, he can't even fuck with us I said he'd be like a free, I got no pay, he can't even fuck with us I'm so hateful and fucking fucking with the love, boy I said he'd be
02:03:48.000even fuck with us But as soon as people start playing games, I stopped, I stopped
02:04:03.000playing games And at any moment, I can hit that yay button I said trust your man, I was gonna leave your day, boys, let me go I said treat you for girls like your brother My mama said
02:04:18.000trust no, hold you so problem I'm at, one, two, stop the track I think it's the first, itch See Ricky said, but I don't want to phone you Don't think I'm gonna phone you In the world, okay Okay, bro
02:04:50.000my words, not my rules, I just endorse them, alright They say trust don't, baby, but you love us, I never leave your day, boys,
02:05:05.000let me go I'm gonna come up with the same truth, I'm gonna say you love it, I'm gonna say you trust no, hold you so problem But they say trust don't, baby, but you love us, I never leave your day, boys, let me go We're
02:14:50.000We were going to cover this last night, but I talked way too much about Jason Whitlock, my new nemesis, another one of my new, everyone's attacking me all the time.
02:16:13.000So in other words, people were saying, well, that would be pretty brazen if Trump did a worldwide tariff, 180 countries, but none for Israel.
02:16:21.000They said that would be too obvious, too overt.
02:16:26.000Really? Because that's exactly what they did with foreign aid.
02:16:30.000anyway. So ostensibly Netanyahu was there primarily for the tariffs, seeking relief on the tariffs.
02:16:38.000He was also there to discuss the military buildup with Iran and potential strikes.
02:16:44.000That is what we'll talk about tonight is what they discussed during the meeting.
02:16:49.000And thirdly, they talked about Turkey's incursion into Syria.
02:16:53.000Netanyahu struck out on all three, didn't get sanctions Trump surprised Netanyahu by announcing negotiations with Iran on Saturday, which Netanyahu opposes.
02:17:08.000Erdogan, like two weeks ago, said that Israel was evil or something like this.
02:17:14.000I mean, something really, and they've been, Erdogan has been one of Netanyahu's biggest critics.
02:17:21.000And Trump said he's brilliant and he did what nobody's been able to do for thousands of years, which is conquer Syria, which I don't really know what he means by that because that doesn't really make sense.
02:17:56.000This is news because we knew that there was a back channel.
02:18:00.000Trump had sent a letter to the Ayatollah.
02:18:04.000The Ayatollah replied with a letter of his own.
02:18:07.000Since then, there have been negotiations about negotiations.
02:18:11.000There has been a back channel through Oman, mediated by Oman, about whether and how the United States and Iran might sit down and negotiate over the nuclear program.
02:18:23.000Trump's big breakthrough is that the negotiations will be direct, which contradicts what Iran has been saying.
02:18:31.000Iran said they will do nothing other than indirect negotiations as long as Trump is threatening Iran.
02:18:37.000As long as there are sanctions, as long as they're threatening war.
02:19:49.000We're also going to talk tonight about these Ivy League schools.
02:19:54.000The Trump administration is adding two additional schools to the list of elite universities, which are being targeted by various departments and agencies in the federal government, withholding federal funds because they're anti-Semitic.
02:20:10.000And the two universities that were added to the list are Northwestern and Cornell.
02:20:15.000And that's added on to, I think it's four or five Ivy Leagues that have already been targeted.
02:23:44.000But we'll listen to a little bit of it and we'll enjoy a little bit.
02:23:49.000Goodness. You just love to see the Groyper curse.
02:23:53.000And you know what's so funny about these people?
02:23:55.000Is they really have every advantage in the sense that they are anonymous.
02:24:00.000And when you are anonymous, you have this enormous advantage of no one can really say shit about you.
02:24:08.000Because if you don't know anything about a person, you can't really talk trash about that person.
02:24:15.000And there's things like if someone goes on a voice chat, you can...
02:24:20.000Overwhelm them by being argumentative or something.
02:24:23.000But if you don't really know anything about a person, it's like an unfair playing field.
02:24:27.000You know, so I get attacked by all these haters and they make fun of my appearance, they make fun of everything about me, and I can't really say anything about them because they're cowards.
02:25:45.000And then he starts a video, has no idea what he's talking about, like doesn't even know, has never watched my show, has never watched a clip.
02:27:29.000You try to be a good white person and just be considerate of everybody, and reality says you're not racist enough.
02:27:36.000Every time a white person goes out and says, I'm going to be a good person, I'm going to be tolerant and inclusive and respectful, even as the racist headquarters and reality says, you are not racist enough.
02:42:03.000I want to get into the news and I guess we'll start with our featured story.
02:42:06.000We'll talk about Iran first because there's a lot to say.
02:42:10.000I want to make sure I cover everything.
02:42:12.000Also, I promised you I'd talk about it yesterday.
02:42:15.000So as you know, the biggest story in the world right now, which I feel like people are not talking about enough, is...
02:42:23.000This military buildup and imminent war with Iran.
02:42:27.000I don't think your average person realizes that we're this close.
02:42:32.000If you talk to your average person like a normie about what's happening with Iran, I bet you they would have no idea just how close we are.
02:43:18.000And this is also a war which is going to be orders of magnitude more serious for reasons we've talked about on the show before, and we'll get into it tonight a little bit also.
02:43:32.000And the big development we're going to talk about tonight is a major announcement that was made last – not last night, but yesterday – And like I said, Netanyahu visited Washington yesterday, flew home today.
02:43:50.000And ostensibly he was in Washington to meet with Trump for the tariffs.
02:44:21.000Trump did not commit to eliminating the tariff on Israel, which was interesting because a lot of people have pointed out it was surprising that Israel had tariffs in the first place.
02:44:35.000Because like I said, when the State Department earlier in the year shut down foreign aid to every country in the world, they made an exception for Israel.
02:44:45.000Israel's the number one recipient of foreign aid, and they were So anyway,
02:45:13.000it was a surprise that Israel even got tariffs to begin with because They are the welfare queen.
02:45:20.000They get the most special status about everything.
02:47:29.000Seems like there's a rift because Trump did not give relief.
02:47:34.000Netanyahu had to come to ask for it, didn't even get it.
02:47:36.000Trump gave him that response, which is brutal.
02:47:40.000But the biggest surprise from yesterday had nothing to do with the tariffs.
02:47:45.000I think the real reason that Netanyahu was in Washington was to coordinate a strike on Iran.
02:47:53.000Because not only did this meeting take place a week after Liberation Day, this is taking place in the middle of Trump's ultimatum against Iran.
02:48:02.000Trump, at the end of Last month gave Iran an ultimatum and said you have two months to make a new nuclear deal with the United States or we will literally destroy you.
02:48:13.000So we're coming up on the end of that deadline in May.
02:48:17.000Pursuant to that threat, Trump has increased the force posture of the United States in the region.
02:48:31.000Refueling aircraft, carrier strike groups, and now even they're hardening targets inside of Israel.
02:48:39.000They're building bunkers and fortifications around Israel's missile sites, around their critical, vulnerable infrastructure, and they've deployed an additional THAAD system, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System.
02:49:17.000We have stealth aircraft to bypass their air defenses.
02:49:20.000We have this type of stealth aircraft to carry.
02:49:24.000Bunker-busting bombs that will destroy Iran's underground nuclear facilities.
02:49:29.000We're putting carrier strike groups there to neutralize their air defense and their air force.
02:49:34.000And we're hardening targets inside of Israel and elsewhere in the region in these Gulf countries, anticipating a retaliatory strike from Iran, anticipating that the Houthis, Iraqi, Shiite militias, and Iran itself are going to launch a volley of ballistic missiles back at Probably Israel, definitely the United States, potentially Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other countries inside the Arabian Peninsula.
02:50:01.000So we are making preparations for war.
02:50:03.000I think that's the reason Netanyahu visited Washington, was to discuss with Trump and potentially coordinate a preemptive strike against Iran in the context of the threat and the military buildup.
02:50:16.000Well, it is about this topic that Trump made a surprise announcement.
02:50:21.000Trump said that we are going to have a direct negotiation with Iran, and by we, I mean the United States, this Saturday.
02:50:59.000We're not going to negotiate under threat.
02:51:02.000We're not going to initiate any kind of direct negotiation while you're threatening to Obama So the state of the negotiations as of a week ago is that there would be an indirect Communication between Iran and the United States mediated by Oman.
02:51:20.000Oman is one of Iran's allies in the Middle East.
02:51:26.000One of the countries that's more friendly, the other is Qatar.
02:51:29.000And so Oman was supposed to mediate between Washington and Tehran and they were supposed to have an indirect summit on Saturday.
02:51:37.000And I said this last week, I don't know what an indirect meeting looks like.
02:52:16.000If they're now direct high-level negotiations, that means the timeline has been accelerated greatly.
02:52:21.000It was confirmed today, and this is the big story, it was confirmed just this morning that the delegations that will be in Oman for the talks are the foreign minister of Iran, that's the equivalent of their secretary of state, and Steve Witkoff, our envoy to the Middle East.
02:52:40.000Oman has confirmed and the United States has confirmed these are direct negotiations.
02:52:46.000They've confirmed that these are the parties.
02:52:49.000If that's the case, these are direct, very high-level negotiations, which is a really good sign.
02:52:58.000It says, quote, President Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, will lead the U.S. delegation for nuclear talks with Iran on Saturday in Oman, according to Two sources familiar with the plan.
02:53:10.000President Trump surprised the world Monday by announcing the high-level meeting between U.S. and Iranian officials.
02:53:16.000If diplomacy fails, the next stage is likely war.
02:53:20.000So far, there have only been negotiations about the negotiations, which don't yet seem to be resolved.
02:53:27.000Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqi, whom Iranian press reports say will be Iran's chief negotiator, insisted the talks will be indirect.
02:53:35.000With Omani mediators passing messages between the sides.
02:53:39.000Trump insisted the talks would be direct.
02:53:42.000Two U.S. officials told Axios that is indeed the plan.
02:53:46.000Trump said if the talks are not successful, Iran will be in great danger.
02:53:49.000He said it's not a complicated formula.
02:53:54.000Trump kicked off the nuclear diplomacy last month with a letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
02:54:01.000in which he gave Tehran two months to make a deal without actually saying when the clock would start ticking.
02:54:06.000Khamenei had publicly dismissed the idea of direct talks with Trump, who withdrew from the previous Iran deal in 2018, but responded with a letter of his own in late March.
02:54:16.000Omani mediators have exchanged messages between the sides since that response.
02:54:22.000The exchange has mostly been a negotiation about the format of the eventual negotiations, Trump threatened to strike Iran, but he aligns more with the dovish camp that favors a diplomatic solution.
02:54:33.000Witkoff and Vice President Vance believe a deal with Iran is possible and preferable, but hawks like National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are much more supportive of military action and skeptical of the chances of a deal.
02:54:48.000Another prominent Iran hawk, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, was in the Oval Office during the announcement.
02:54:55.000officials say Netanyahu was briefed ahead of time.
02:54:58.000Still, the situation was embarrassing for a prime minister who has strongly criticized past administrations for their Iran outreach.
02:55:06.000which So this apparently came as a surprise.
02:55:11.000But there are some more details about the announcement.
02:55:14.000So these are rumors, unsubstantiated, but I think it's credible.
02:55:20.000They say that Netanyahu was briefed about Trump's announcement just prior to making it.
02:55:27.000Trump and Netanyahu met privately on Monday morning or Monday afternoon, and they talked privately before the Oval Office press conference.
02:55:38.000And it was during that talk that Netanyahu was apprised of the strikes, or rather of the negotiations in Oman on Saturday.
02:55:48.000During that meeting, it is reported that Netanyahu then went to the Israeli press and leaked and said that Israel was considering striking Iran without the United States.
02:56:02.000And this was a story that was circulating yesterday afternoon.
02:56:07.000It came out from certain Israeli sources.
02:56:09.000Israel is going to go forward with a military strike on Iran They certainly can't do it with their air power alone.
02:56:29.000If they did, it would be extremely bold and risky.
02:56:33.000They might be able to do it with missiles.
02:56:35.000If they do it with missiles, there's no guarantee they will completely destroy.
02:56:40.000Iran's nuclear facilities, many of which, like I said, are deep underground.
02:56:44.000They won't be able to complete the strike.
02:56:46.000So this report went out yesterday, and it was very confusing because people said, why are they announcing this now?
02:58:05.000And a nuclear strike would be unacceptable.
02:58:08.000The United States would not tolerate that.
02:58:10.000And that would encourage the United States to participate if they were considering that.
02:58:15.000If Israel doesn't finish the job, that is going to force Iran to nuclearize.
02:58:21.000If Iran gets hit first in a preemptive attack, that gives them a legitimate reason to pursue a nuclear bomb.
02:58:28.000And they have the means to do so in a weeks-long timeline.
02:58:32.000There's a recent report that says that they have blueprints for a primitive nuclear device that they could, if they decide to pursue weaponization, they could construct in two weeks.
02:58:42.000So Israel either destroys Iran's nuclear arsenal with nukes, that's unacceptable to the United States, puts pressure on us to support and assist them.
02:58:52.000If Israel does not significantly degrade Iran's infrastructure, puts them on a path to the bomb.
02:59:08.000Part two is that whatever the case may be, whether Iran gets nuked, whether their nuclear program is degraded and they pursue weaponization, the second step is then Iran attacks Israel.
02:59:21.000If Israel attacks Iran, Iran attacks Israel.
02:59:24.000And the United States is forced to intervene in defense of Israel.
02:59:29.000We're forced to defend Israel from strikes.
02:59:31.000Almost certainly some of those missiles will get through.
02:59:35.000Maybe Iran will even attack the United States also, preemptively.
02:59:40.000And then the United States is forced to attack Iran anyway.
02:59:45.000So Netanyahu is told Monday afternoon before the press conference, before Trump announces it to the world, Trump tells Netanyahu, we're trying to make a deal.
02:59:55.000We're going to have high level direct negotiations on Saturday.
03:01:16.000The second thing he says is that Iran must pursue the Libya model.
03:01:22.000For those that don't know, Libya model refers to how the United States, United Kingdom, and France oversaw the denuclearization of Libya in 2003.
03:01:37.000The United States went to war with Iraq ostensibly because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
03:02:00.000Fearing that they would be on the receiving end of a similar attack or invasion, Gaddafi agreed to let the United States come in and supervise the denuclearization of their country.
03:02:13.000And for years, that was considered a success of non-proliferation.
03:02:17.000Here is one of these rogue states which was pursuing WMDs and then under supervision of the United States and the IAEA.
03:02:26.000They verified the removal of their nukes, and they agreed to join the NPT infrastructure or architecture.
03:02:34.000The problem with Libya model, the reason they don't say that anymore is because, of course, eight years later, Muammar Gaddafi was deposed by the United States.
03:02:46.000Gaddafi gave up his nukes in 2003, and then in 2011, he was attacked by NATO and overthrown and then killed in the streets by his own people.
03:02:57.000So what does that say to countries that are pursuing nuclear weapons as a deterrent?
03:03:03.000The reason that Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya are pursuing nukes or were pursuing nukes is because Israel has one, and Israel and its ally, the United States, were pursuing destabilizing regime change wars against every other country in the region.
03:03:41.000Saddam was attacked twice, and its nuclear program was bombed.
03:03:46.000Syria eventually was overthrown in an over 10-year-long civil war.
03:03:51.000Their nuclear site was bombed by Israel also.
03:03:54.000Libya gave up their nukes and was overthrown.
03:03:57.000Iran is pursuing this nuclear threshold status to protect itself from attack.
03:04:04.000The basis and understand this, the basis of the negotiation on Saturday is we want Iran to agree to give up their nukes.
03:04:12.000The only way we're going to convince them to give up their nukes is if we can make them confident that we will not overthrow them.
03:04:24.000They want a nuclear weapon because they are afraid that America and Israel will bomb them and go to war with them and overthrow their regime.
03:04:31.000The only way we can convince them to give up their nukes is if we give them assurances.
03:04:38.000There must be perpetual assurances on both sides.
03:04:41.000We must instill confidence and trust that we are not going to attack them, destabilize them, overthrow their government.
03:04:50.000If you want to convince them of this, if you want to inspire confidence, you don't tell them you're going to get the...
03:06:03.000Biden was on his way to rebuilding the Iran nuclear deal.
03:06:06.000It took him two and a half years to achieve a pretty big breakthrough.
03:06:10.000It was a prisoner swap plus the unfreezing of $6 billion in funds that had been frozen in South Korea.
03:06:18.000It took him two and a half years and that was a Democrat.
03:06:21.000That was a Democrat with favorable elements inside the federal government that wanted to make a deal.
03:06:27.000That was a Democrat who was the vice president for Obama who made the first Iran nuclear deal.
03:06:33.000On the other hand, Trump ripped up the first deal.
03:06:36.000Trump killed Qasem Soleimani, which is their war hero, and the architect of the Quds Force and the IRGC and their network of proxies.
03:06:47.000And there's this rumor that Iran is trying to kill Trump.
03:06:50.000So in other words, any diplomacy between Iran and the United States, specifically the Trump administration, it's necessarily going to be protracted.
03:06:58.000It's necessarily going to require verification.
03:07:08.000It's not gonna happen maybe in a year.
03:07:10.000This is a big deal for Iran to give up their threshold status.
03:07:14.000What's more, It's already a complicated negotiation because Trump is seeking more than Obama ever got.
03:07:21.000Trump wants Iran to completely eliminate their nuclear program.
03:07:26.000Not just their highly enriched uranium, not just their ability to refine plutonium, they want Iran to give up all of its nuclear infrastructure, including its nuclear power plant at Bushir.
03:08:42.000It's gonna take a long time to establish trust and for both sides to come down on what they're demanding from the other.
03:08:50.000And in the middle of this, Netanyahu is is trying to pour gasoline on it and light it on fire in the middle of it.
03:08:57.000Netanyahu is pressuring Trump to go to war by saying, well, well, the only way a deal is going to happen is if we strike first is if we unilaterally hit Iran first, we blow it up.
03:09:11.000Netanyahu and the neocons inside the administration are trying to poison pill diplomacy by using this very Iran is supposed to be our enemy.
03:09:38.000Iran is supposed to be a state sponsor of terrorism.
03:09:42.000They chant, death to America, they're a mortal enemy.
03:09:46.000Hezbollah killed all these Americans in Beirut and they attack our soldiers and they attack our closest ally.
03:09:52.000Iran is supposed to be the, the most evil country in the world that's Iran wants peace.
03:10:33.000Our supposed greatest adversary, the greatest state sponsor of terrorism, the author of all the problems in the Middle East, that country wants to make a deal.
03:10:44.000It is the closest ally, apparently the special friend, best friend we've ever had.
03:15:49.000And now, even though, and I said this also, Trump does not want a war, but he was installed because the Israelis knew they could push him into one.
03:15:58.000Trump was installed because Trump gave Israel $12 billion since he got into office.
03:16:05.000Trump is giving them everything they need.
03:16:07.000He is the one that is pushing for potentially airstrikes on Iran's nuclear program.
03:16:35.000Because you need to know how they play to understand how this works.
03:16:40.000I was comfortable with Trump doing brinksmanship with North Korea.
03:16:44.000Because there's no Israel pushing us to bomb North Korea.
03:16:48.000I was comfortable with the administration pushing Venezuela for the same reason.
03:16:54.000But if you know how the Israelis operate, they operate with deception, false flags, subterfuge, they have huge influence over our government, and these people are maniacs.
03:17:05.000I would wager that Israel is threatening to use nukes behind the scenes.
03:17:12.000I would not even be the slightest bit surprised if Israel is threatening to nuke Iran behind the scenes.
03:17:33.000This would be the third time that Israel has threatened to use nukes to force the United States to help them.
03:17:41.000The first time was in 1973, when Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel, which started the Yom Kippur War on October 6th, 1973, almost 50 years exactly before October 7th.
03:19:04.000Iran will destabilize the region with the nukes.
03:19:06.000Israel killed Kennedy to get the nukes, and now they use the nukes to blackmail us to fight their wars for them.
03:19:13.000Second time they did it was October 7th.
03:19:15.000And they didn't do it directly, but this is what all their proxies said in the United States.
03:19:20.000Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager and others said, look, if the United States doesn't help Israel after October 7th, Israel should just nuke Hamas.
03:19:33.000I wonder if that's what they're doing right now.
03:19:35.000Because you wonder, when Netanyahu says we'll just strike Iran without the United States, when Israel says they have to be blown up before a deal can be made, you have to wonder what he means by that.
03:19:47.000Because there's no way Israel can destroy their nuclear infrastructure.
03:19:50.000And the only thing they'd be doing is pissing off Iran.
03:19:53.000The only thing they would do by attacking Iran is forcing them to nuclearize, or weaponize rather, and forcing them to hit Israel back.
03:20:02.000So what could they possibly be talking about?
03:23:00.000Directly, indirectly, you will know who to blame.
03:23:03.000And when the country is bankrupted, when we are in ruins, when Americans are being blown up by Iran, either there or here, you're going to know who's responsible.
03:23:13.000And you're going to say, I don't know.
03:23:16.000Was this the beginning of the Golden Age?
03:26:07.000Why are you always the idiot that's proposing these?
03:26:11.000You know, the way that you think the world works is like, the rich people are going to get together on an island and be like, take that, Trump.
03:26:21.000The donors are leaning on the Republicans in Congress.
03:26:25.000The donors are leaning on Republican senators and congressmen, and they're going to try to get the Republicans to team up with the Democrats to put some constraints on Trump's ability to levy the tariffs, because the Republicans have a very narrow majority in the House.
03:26:40.000Republicans have a three-vote majority in the House.
03:26:43.000They have a three, technically four-vote majority in the Senate.
03:26:46.000And so what the Republican donors are doing is they're trying to get the more libertarian members like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, who just hates Trump, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski.
03:26:59.000And in the House, they're trying to get some of these guys to team up with the Democrats because a handful of Republicans plus all the Democrats gives you a majority.
03:27:08.000And what they're going to try to do is get Congress to take back Trump's emergency powers to unilaterally manage the tariffs.
03:36:59.000Because going really hard like they did is forcing countries to come to the table to make deals.
03:37:06.000Now, I don't necessarily believe in making free trade agreements with everybody.
03:37:10.000I think that we should keep high tariffs.
03:37:12.000But that was clearly the intended purpose was shock and awe.
03:37:16.000And Scott Besson said yesterday, 70 countries have come trying to negotiate.
03:37:20.000And I believe that because these countries rely on our market.
03:37:25.000But yes, I think that in the long, I agree with you, in the long term, they should be tailored to be industry and sector specific, because you're totally right.
03:37:33.000We don't necessarily need tariffs on like textiles, but we should have them on the things that matter.
03:37:38.000So they should be, because every industry is unique.
03:37:42.000Every industry requires unique monetary and non-monetary approach.
03:37:47.000You know, things like quotas and intellectual property protections and, you know, not just The tariff.
03:39:05.000I read a post that a debt economy stifles artistic creativity due to art being being profit oriented to pay back investors or loans.
03:39:10.000It's why yay and even Sam hot are truly exceptional because they make media from the love and the craft and creativity with the will to sacrifice the potential profit that comes from it.
03:46:39.000Even then, I wasn't a religious person until I found your show two years ago, and I want to thank you for helping me in my journey of turning to Catholicism.
03:46:44.000It has significantly helped me move forward in life and move on from that day.
03:46:52.000Well, I mean, it's terrible that you were involved in that shooting, but I'm glad you're okay, and I'm glad to hear that you're a Catholic now.
03:50:49.000Is that really the victory you think it is?
03:50:52.000The same day that we say there's no tariffs, or rather that there are tariffs on Israel, the same day we put a modest tariff on Israel, we're rounding up all the universities because they are allowing criticism of Israel.
03:53:35.000After being at war with Japan for four years, we used it against Japan because they refused to surrender and it was going to cost a million lives.
03:53:42.000We used it in Japan when we had almost no understanding of it.
03:53:48.000That was one thing, but to use it now would just be unthinkable.
03:55:06.000The ones I know are good, but we don't have them here.
03:55:09.000They have them in L.A. They have a lot of Persians, because I have friends in L.A., and they say, oh, there's Persians everywhere, Persians, everything's super gaudy, and a lot of them are Jews, apparently.
03:55:20.000But we don't have any in Chicago, so I don't have too much experience with them.
03:55:53.000The cope is watching what has happened and then you wait for the smallest thing like, oh, he put tariffs on Israel and then it's like, oh, everything that happened before doesn't matter now.
03:56:03.000Okay, when he releases those $3.3 billion to American schools, then I'll agree.
03:56:09.000When he fully pulls us back from the brink of war with Iran, then I'll agree.
03:56:13.000Until that point, you have no leg to stand on.
03:56:55.000I don't agree with a ton of the – a lot of people are saying, oh, well, there's a lot of criticism of him and I'm not a fan because he's a Sunni fundamentalist.
03:57:08.000But I think that his job is to stabilize Syria.
03:57:11.000So people are blaming him for these massacres of the Alawites in Latakia.
03:57:31.000His goal is to bring in the Kurds and eventually claw back that land from Israel if that's ever going to happen.
03:57:38.000So the last thing he needs is sectarianism, further conflict between Alawites and Sunnis and Kurds.
03:57:44.000So he's in this very difficult position.
03:57:47.000I mean, yeah, he happened to be the warlord who marched into Aleppo and then took over the country.
03:57:53.000But by no means is the civil war over because there are these outstanding questions about Turkey, the Kurds, Israel, and whether these various sections of society are going to join up with this Sharia government.
03:58:08.000He says, well, everyone's going to participate in the government.
03:58:13.000So he's in this very difficult position.
03:58:15.000And one other guy, and everybody else is a Sunni Muslim in his cabinet.
03:58:18.000So, you know, he's promising democracy, but it's with all these conditions.
03:58:23.000So, I mean, they're going to turn Syria into, it's not going to be Afghanistan, but it's going to be, it's going to be a Sunni Islamist government.
03:58:30.000It's going to be like Egypt under Morsi.
04:00:09.000We have a need for Christ because we're not only culpable for our particular sins, we're culpable for original sin.
04:00:16.000We needed Jesus not just for the sins we commit, we needed Jesus on the cross to resolve original sin, to reconcile us to God.
04:00:29.000After the damage that was done to us by original sin.
04:00:32.000So forget even about the evil that we do to each other in the world now, or that any one of us could do.
04:00:38.000We literally, the basis of the religion, is the need for the hypostatic union and the sacrifice to reconcile to us because original sin and how it separated us from God.
04:00:51.000So that's just not a Christian doctrine at all.
04:01:24.000Some kid at my school went up to cricket one of those college tours today and asked how the Trump admin could be a success when he's failing on deportations wearing a fell for it again shirt and somebody else asked about Tom again.