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00:05:06.000And people don't realize what they have.
00:05:11.000And 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.
00:05:25.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:31.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:09.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:14.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:20.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:28.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:36.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:39.000And 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.
00:07:53.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:56.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:00.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:07.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:11.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:40.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:08:46.000It 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.
00:09:00.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:10.000I 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 America
00:09:41.000is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
00:09:52.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:10:00.000Believe me, it's for their They have to change.
00:14:48.000Because 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.
00:16:49.000Lawrence, I found something really interesting.
00:16:57.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
00:17:04.000But 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.
00:17:22.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:17:30.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:17:40.000And 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.
00:29:35.000Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well.
00:29:39.000When your story goes from here, it will be defined.
00:29:44.000By your vision, your perseverance, and your grit, you will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say.
00:29:59.000You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls.
00:30:08.000As long as you have pride in your beliefs.
00:30:12.000Courage in your convictions, and faith in God, then you will not fail.
00:30:20.000As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come.
00:31:58.000Replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:07.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
00:32:18.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake.
00:32:21.000In this election, for 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.
00:32:33.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.
00:32:41.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:32:44.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not We, the people, reclaim control over our government.
00:32:56.000The 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.
00:33:16.000The 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.
00:33:43.000This is a struggle For the survival of our nation.
00:33:48.000And this will be our last chance to save it.
00:33:52.000This 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.
00:35:52.000This nation belongs to you, belongs to you.
00:35:57.000It was patriots like you that built this country, and it's patriots like you that are going to save our country.
00:36:19.000To 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 our borders.
00:37:26.000As 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.
00:43:20.000My narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blow.
00:43:24.000It 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.
00:43:39.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:43:48.000I 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...
00:44:19.000Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, were all cut from the same cloth.
00:52:44.000Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
00:52:46.000Because I think it's a very mean life.
00:52:48.000I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.
00:52:53.000And I also see it as 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.
00:53:09.000And that's a sad commentary for the political process.
00:53:12.000And if you have a minute, why don't we go?
00:55:01.000I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:55:07.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:55:17.000And 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.
00:58:13.000reward i'm back up on them on the diamonds girl you see these diamonds girl you see this jet you know i'm different climbers uh how i got this guy got it kind of trying to wish it in their family wish it in their memories
00:58:28.000hold it up where you at the club hold it up where you have that gun oh yeah pull up by side yeah pull up on them uh now i got this bag on hats on them i'm straight out these diamonds i'm
00:58:43.000straight out these lights yeah yeah how you gonna save these bills how you gonna save these lights yeah turn up at my show at least just do it right yeah yeah we go all night you're gonna send me big gonna send me big gonna shut up all night you're gonna send my
00:58:59.000drink you're gonna send my cup you're gonna take me all right they're acting the feeling that they got a problem in the bank and they tell me the place i'm tweaking we got no good single blood outside of you out of your mind you crazy tweaking out of my lane back out of my mind i'm really out of my thinking know that you're loving this life you're loving this world we're running it back every
00:59:14.000weekend shut it up with me every time i know where she bleak all y'all trying to get inside this lights that world y'all get to run the bed up every weekend now you see i'm going off on the deep end you say that i'm back for
00:59:39.000want to be a dictator and you know why i want to be addicted because i want a wall i want a wall and i want to drill drill drill my love has got no money he's
01:00:07.000got 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 he'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 he's looking for
01:00:35.000He's looking for, freed from desire People
01:07:07.000And 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.
01:07:21.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
01:07:26.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
01:09:05.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:09:09.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:09:16.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:09:23.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:09:31.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:09:34.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
01:09:48.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
01:09:52.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
01:09:56.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
01:10:02.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
01:10:06.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
01:10:35.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
01:10:41.000It 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.
01:10:56.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
01:11:05.000I 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 America
01:11:36.000is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
01:11:47.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
01:12:02.000to change and they have to change right now my soul an exclusive mission is to go to work for you it's time to deliver a
01:12:18.000victory for the American people we don't win anymore but we are going to start winning again who dreams for their child and every child who dreams for their future I say Good words to you tonight.
01:12:40.000I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you.
01:12:47.000Saying to me is like, this is probably pretty cool for you.
01:16:35.000We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ.
01:16:40.000We have to want it more than they do because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny that nothing can stop us and nothing will.
01:17:56.000Oh Oh Oh Oh You gon'send my drink, you gon'send my cup, you gon'send me all right I got the feeling to be out of front of the naked, they tell me the flesh I'm tweakin'We got the girls in
01:18:11.000the world outside of you, out of your mind, you crazy tweakin'I took me out of my lane, back out of my mind, I'm willing, but out of my thinking Know that you lovin'this life, you lovin'this world, we runnin'the naked every weekend Shuttin'in love with me every time I know, what's you leakin'All y'all try to get sound, these lights that world,
01:18:26.000y'all get to run the bed up every weekend Now you see I'm pulled off on the table, you say that I'm bad for the reason, bitch, I'm big up Lawrence, something really interesting
01:18:52.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
01:18:59.000But 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.
01:19:17.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
01:19:25.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
01:19:35.000And 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.
01:28:09.000Years 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.
01:28:20.000Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.
01:37:17.000They released the JFK files, like 80,000 pages for the first time in 60 years, with bombshells in them.
01:37:28.000I mean, last week we're talking about the budget.
01:37:31.000Last week we did like three shows on the budget.
01:37:36.000And then in one week, the one week that I'm gone, JFK files, war in the Middle East, war in Gaza, war with Iran, Department of Education shuts down.
01:37:47.000It's like, why is it always like that?
01:37:51.000Why does it always have to be exactly like that?
01:40:29.000We want you to stop killing us all the time.
01:40:31.000Israel said, okay, well, we're going to starve you and stop sending food and medicine and electricity and humanitarian aid into the strip until you just unconditionally surrender.
01:40:44.000Hamas said, yeah, well, we're not going to do that.
01:40:47.000So Israel starts bombing them, and they're bombing them all the time.
01:43:53.000This is going to be World War III level, unprecedented.
01:43:58.000And so we have to spend a lot of time covering this as we have for the past year and a half because this is the next big geopolitical flashpoint.
01:44:08.000So tonight's show, we're going to talk all about that.
01:44:59.000But we're going to be doing one tomorrow.
01:45:00.000We're going to be doing a thorough, comprehensive 101 breakdown of the JFK assassination, the conspiracy.
01:45:09.000We'll talk about the new revelations, the files, and it would seem, and we'll talk a little bit about it right now, it would seem that the biggest revelation in this latest document dump is concerning the church committee hearings in the Senate in 1975.
01:45:28.000And so, if you had been paying attention to the news, the Trump administration finally declassified all of...
01:45:37.000The remaining JFK files related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
01:45:45.000I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised.
01:45:47.000I thought that when the administration promised this, that it would be like many of the other promises, would not materialize, or it would be a disappointment.
01:46:37.000And so I imagine it's going to take time to find everything that's in them and put them into the context of the bigger story.
01:46:45.000But like I said, it seems that so far, the big bombshell from the files, and if you're looking for a place to start, this is where...
01:46:55.000The big bombshell disclosure that has been found in the files, and we will talk about it at length tomorrow night, is a private hearing during the church committee hearings in the Senate in 1975 concerning the head of CIA counterintel, James Angleton.
01:47:15.000And that is a name that is very, very important in the story of the JFK assassination.
01:47:21.000He was a very powerful, high-ranking member of the CIA there at its inception, there in Italy with the OSS when a lot of this stuff was born.
01:47:32.000And he maintained very close contacts within Israeli intelligence and with the Israeli Mossad.
01:47:39.000He was deeply embedded in many intelligence agencies, but specifically in Israel's intelligence.
01:47:46.000And what we found in these JFK files, what has been declassified, And actually unredacted is his testimony in a closed-door hearing with the Senate in which he says, this is the bombshell, that he did facilitate as a member of the CIA the transfer of knowledge and technology and possibly even plutonium from the United States to Israel's nuclear program.
01:48:13.000And that means that U.S. intelligence not only knew about Israel's ambitions, To acquire a nuclear weapons capability, but also actively facilitated it, even against the civilian American government, specifically the one led by John F. Kennedy.
01:50:19.000Somebody in the replies to somebody posted, there's a video Ye posted from his account where he goes, I'm with my number one white supremacist friend.
01:53:08.000They've frozen all the company credit cards because they got nothing.
01:53:12.000He said that Boring and Ben Shapiro themselves had to inject cash into the company because they're running out.
01:53:20.000And he says that basically Jeremy Boring, everyone hates him.
01:53:25.000Everyone thinks he's a jerk, and they all hate him at the company.
01:53:28.000And he's a very bad businessman because he's spending all their money on these, like, big-budget movies they're trying to do based on some book.
01:56:18.000Ben Shapiro called her an idiot and said she's a faux sophisticate because of her false equivalency that she draws between Palestinians and Israel, her friendship with Ye.
01:56:31.000And we know she was fired because she didn't love Israel enough.
01:56:41.000Shapiro goes out and says the only reason he loves America is because America loves Israel.
01:56:48.000The CEO, Jeremy Boring, said Candace had to be let go because being anti-Israel doesn't fit with the politics and the values of the company.
01:57:22.000And Ben Shapiro is maybe the foremost Jewish supremacist Israel loyalist in conservative media.
01:57:30.000Is there anybody more synonymous with like sniveling treachery?
01:57:37.000Is there anybody who is more synonymous with the hypocrisy of the right wing that says they're against identity politics except for when it concerns Jews and Israel?
01:58:28.000That liberal Jews are pushing anti-white migration and hate speech and other policies.
01:58:36.000Yet both Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles continue to be associated with, beneficiaries of, and are propping up the Daily Wire, a Jewish supremacist racket.
01:58:55.000A lot of people like Michael Knowles, a lot of good people, a lot of Americans, a lot of white people, a lot of Christians.
01:59:02.000As long as Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles remain at Daily Wire, they are giving Daily Wire credibility with an audience of patriotic Christians.
01:59:15.000They're giving Daily Wire credibility, probably propping them up financially.
01:59:22.000And in a sense, covering for what is a Jewish-Israeli fifth column in the American right wing.
01:59:31.000Now, you could have said seven years ago that that was a pragmatic move because the whole right wing is Jewish-occupied territory.
02:00:16.000And so, it is at this point, this year, in 2025, when ignorance...
02:00:49.000Pragmatism is no longer an excuse because you can survive independently without being censored on social media.
02:00:57.000And given what we now know about Daily Wire, all that Walsh and Knowles are doing is helping to pull the wool over the eyes of trusting Christians, white people, and Americans.
02:01:13.000Other than that, probably they have job security and they make a lot of money at Daily Wire.
02:01:20.000And at this time, that is not a good excuse.
02:01:25.000At this critical juncture, when people are becoming aware of the subversion of our country and its people by a hostile foreign alien influence, you cannot any longer take money to lie about this dire situation.
02:01:43.000That's why I'm calling on everybody, including and in particular the people that watch their shows, to demand that Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles resign immediately from The Daily Wire.
02:01:57.000No amount of money is worth your soul.
02:02:00.000No amount of money is worth your integrity.
02:02:03.000And certainly, the longer that both of them remain at Daily Wire, their credibility should diminish in equal proportion.
02:02:12.000Like I said, maybe seven years ago, you had a pass.
02:02:17.000Maybe seven years ago, you could say, maybe they don't know.
02:02:30.000Given that they know, given that they could survive outside of Daily Wire, there is no excuse anymore for them to be complicit.
02:02:41.000In the deception at Daily Wire, if Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles leave, the entire edifice will collapse.
02:02:50.000And bringing down Daily Wire, not only in terms of its reputation, but also in terms of its money, it will be a serious, major, concrete victory in the battle of ideas between real America first and Israel first.
02:03:09.000It will be a major triumph in the right wing between people that are actually honest, people that are fighting for America, people in the spirit of Joseph Kennedy, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Ye, Mel Gibson, but also George Washington and all the other greats.
02:03:29.000It will be a victory for a long line of Americans that want this country to be independent.
02:03:34.000So I am calling on Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles, and I will be fighting a sustained campaign on social media, and I want you guys to do the same.
02:04:11.000I don't know if he loves it, but he does think it's morally permissible.
02:04:15.000Why are you still defending a company and working for a company that supports those people as well as fires and engages in lawfare against Canis Owens for criticizing Israel when both of them should be Catholics that love America and should know better about all of it?
02:04:32.000And Every monologue, every video, every tweet they post, people should be asking, why are you still a puppet of Ben Shapiro?
02:04:42.000And my personal overture would be as simple as this.
02:04:46.000I see Matt Walsh at the State of the Union.
02:04:49.000He's standing next to Ben Shapiro, who literally has a giant yarmulke on.
02:04:54.000He's rubbing his evil hands as Trump talks about killing innocent people in the Middle East.
02:05:02.000And you have to ask yourself, is that what you want your legacy to be?
02:05:31.000I will not bend the knee to those that killed Jesus, to those that have subverted our country and instrumentalized it for their own use for their country.
02:05:44.000Because I don't think that making these nicky-nag videos about we're conservative and the left sucks, Bud Light is for gays or whatever, that's all great.
02:05:55.000I know that brings home the bacon and everything, but what about your legacy as a man, as an American, as a Catholic, as a white man?
02:06:03.000We have to aspire for more than that, and I'm asking for more.
02:06:12.000We're asking for them to step up and for them to deal what could be the killing blow to the absolutely worst, most treasonous conservative media company in America.
02:07:33.000And so for all of these people that want to beat their chest and thump their chest about how white they are and explorers, pioneers, our ancestors, you want to be proud?
02:07:48.000How are you going to let Candace Owens and Brad Cooper have bigger balls than you as a Catholic white person?
02:07:55.000How are you going to let Candace Owens, a pregnant black woman, and Brett Cooper, like a 20-something little white girl who talks about celebrity drama, how are you going to let them deal a bigger blow to the Israel lobby in America than what are supposed to be two married dads with daughters and they're white Christians and they're so fucking based?
02:09:33.000Trump's war with the Houthis in Yemen.
02:09:36.000We're going to talk about his ultimatum against Iran.
02:09:39.000And we're going to talk about the Gaza ceasefire, which has just fallen apart.
02:09:44.000So the first part of this is the bombing campaign in Yemen.
02:09:50.000And I'm sure many of you heard that a few days ago, the Trump administration launched a major military operation against the Houthis in Yemen.
02:10:04.000It is a multi-day, potentially multi-week, sustained aerial campaign to degrade and bomb the Houthi rebels in Yemen, in north and western Yemen on the coast of the Red Sea.
02:10:20.000If you've been following this for a long time, you understand why this is.
02:10:25.000This all goes back to Israel's invasion of Gaza.
02:10:30.000Ever since Israel invaded Gaza a year and a half ago, Iran's proxies across the Middle East have declared war on Israel.
02:10:40.000And they've done this in an effort to force Israel to withdraw.
02:10:44.000Israel has been fighting in Gaza, and it's a totally asymmetrical, unfair conflict.
02:10:52.000It's also violating every rule of war.
02:10:56.000Basic morality, any objective understanding of ethics.
02:11:01.000Israel is not only at war in Gaza, they have completely blockaded Gaza.
02:11:06.000That means that food is not getting in, water, electricity, fuel, medicine.
02:11:12.000Nothing is getting into the strip, which means that the entire population has been starving to death for a year and a half.
02:11:20.000That's a detail that isn't always covered.
02:12:55.000We don't actually have accurate numbers about how many have been killed, but it's a lot.
02:12:59.000And this is all being inflicted by Israel on Gaza.
02:13:04.000All of the neighboring Arab countries can do nothing about it because the United States is making sure to threaten and deter anybody that wants to intervene.
02:13:16.000The United States has, throughout the conflict, deployed aircraft carriers with carrier strike groups to deter any neighboring country from intervening.
02:13:28.000The United States is bribing neighboring countries with foreign aid, with military equipment, with the prospect of future deals for them not to intervene.
02:13:39.000So Israel is effectively carrying out a genocide, an ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
02:13:46.000The people there can do nothing about it.
02:13:48.000And the United States, using the threat of military force, is preventing any country or any group of neighboring countries from getting together and intervening either diplomatically or militarily or in any other way to stop the totally senseless violence being perpetrated by Israel.
02:14:08.000So, Iran's proxies, which are non-state groups, are exerting pressure on Israel.
02:14:17.000And the way that they're exerting pressure, the way that the Houthis are exerting pressure, is they are bombing commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
02:14:24.000So the Red Sea is situated in this strait of water, which separates the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.
02:14:33.000It is a major choke point for international trade.
02:14:37.000This is the famous trade route which cuts shipping time.
02:14:43.000Between Europe and Asia, you otherwise have to go around Africa or it was previously impossible.
02:14:48.000Now it's possible you go through the Arctic.
02:14:51.000And so the Houthi rebels who are in Yemen on the coast of the Red Sea have identified that if they launch missiles at commercial ships that are going into ports in Israel, not only does this harm Israel, Because it prevents shipping from reaching Israel, or it makes shipping to Israel more expensive.
02:15:14.000It also deters many other countries from sending their shipping through the Red Sea.
02:15:21.000And so it's not only making commerce more expensive for Israel, it's making commerce more expensive for everybody, and in particular for European countries and the United States, which support Israel.
02:15:35.000Egypt, which is situated in the Suez Canal on the north end of the Red Sea, Egypt relies for a significant percentage of its government revenue on the money that they raise from commercial shipping that goes through the canal.
02:15:52.000So every ship that goes through the Suez Canal and for the most part that goes through the Red Sea, Egypt is charging them money.
02:16:01.000If shipping declines in the Red Sea, Egypt loses money.
02:16:05.000Egypt is one of Israel's only Arab allies and a major recipient of U.S. aid.
02:16:11.000So it puts pressure on Israel but also on the United States and Europe and acutely on Egypt, one of Israel's Arab neighbors.
02:16:21.000So this is one of the parallel campaigns that is being run alongside Israel's intervention in Gaza.
02:16:30.000It's very important to understand Why the Houthis are bombing Red Sea shipping.
02:16:41.000The Houthis are attacking Red Sea shipping for one reason and one reason only.
02:16:48.000They are doing it to apply pressure on Israel to stop genociding Palestinians.
02:16:55.000And insofar as this affects European nations, insofar as it affects the United States, Or it affects the United States in its responsibility to protect global shipping lanes.
02:17:09.000It all goes back to Israel's conduct in Gaza.
02:17:37.000The problem is that the Houthis are not just a militant group.
02:17:43.000They also actually control territory in Yemen.
02:17:46.000That means they effectively administer half of the country like a government.
02:17:52.000Because they control land and because of the nature of the weapons they're using, an air campaign alone has actually been ineffective.
02:18:01.000And so although the United States has been bombing the Houthis, it hasn't made much of a difference at all.
02:18:07.000The equipment the Houthis use is highly mobile.
02:18:10.000So by the time the United States identifies where the missiles they are launching were launched from and the United States retaliates, The missile launch platform has already been moved.
02:18:46.000And being a state, it makes them more resilient than other groups.
02:18:50.000So though the United States has been trying to counteract the Houthis, they haven't been successful.
02:18:55.000Now, since Trump got into office, up until this point, there has been no fighting in Gaza.
02:19:02.000On January 19th, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect, and that meant that Israel began withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, and for the most part, stopped attacking them militarily.
02:19:17.000Consequently, the Houthis stopped their campaign in the Red Sea.
02:19:22.000This is important because it illustrates that the Houthis are not irrational fundamentalists.
02:19:29.000It demonstrates that they are not aggressing Israel or the international community.
02:19:35.000It demonstrates that they are rational actors with clearly defined objectives.
02:19:42.000And that their campaign is in response.
02:19:46.000It is contingent upon the actions of Israel, which is supposed to be a client state of the United States.
02:19:55.000So, the Houthis were running this campaign for as long as Israel was fighting in Gaza to pressure them to withdraw.
02:20:03.000When Israel began to withdraw, they stopped.
02:20:08.000The big development of the past two weeks, as we've talked about on the show, is that Israel has almost unilaterally destroyed the ceasefire.
02:20:19.000We will talk about the terms of the ceasefire later tonight, but it's sufficient for right now to say that the ceasefire was in place from January 19th until March 1st, the beginning of this month.
02:20:33.000After that point, Israel began to walk back its commitments They refused to comply with parts of the deal, refused to implement the rest of the deal altogether, and instead demanded an unconditional surrender, which is the release of all the hostages in exchange for another temporary ceasefire.
02:20:53.000Hamas rejected it, so Israel reinstituted the siege, and they began bombing Gaza and Hamas again.
02:21:02.000So about a week after that happened, the Houthis restarted their campaign.
02:21:08.000When the ceasefire went into place, the Houthis stopped.
02:21:11.000When Israel violated the ceasefire and then completely pulled out of the deal and began bombing Gaza again and put them under siege again, the Houthis restarted the campaign.
02:21:24.000So the Trump administration restarted the United States campaign against the Houthis.
02:21:31.000And they announced that there would be a powerful and strong...
02:21:36.000Potentially a weeks-long aerial campaign against the Houthis far more significant and meaningful than anything the Biden administration did to prevent them from attacking shipping.
02:21:50.000And this is a story from the New York Times.
02:21:52.000It says, quote, President Trump said on Wednesday that the Iran-backed Houthi militant group in Yemen...
02:21:58.000Would be completely annihilated by U.S. military strikes and warned Iran to immediately stop supplying it with military equipment and general support and let the Houthis fight it out for themselves.
02:22:10.000His remarks posted on social media came as the U.S. military continued a wave of attacks on targets in Yemen as part of what American officials said was an effort to stop the militant group's attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea.
02:22:25.000Earlier on Wednesday, the U.S. Central Command posted a video showing American fighter jets shooting down attack drones.
02:22:33.000The military has been striking the group's training sites, command centers, and weapons facilities since the weekend in what it says is an attempt to restore freedom of navigation in regional waters.
02:22:43.000After Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in January, the Yemeni militants suspended their campaign, but vowed to resume attacks as truce talks fall.
02:25:19.000And it's crucial to understand that Israel cannot carry out the campaign without two commitments from the United States, which is one, we are literally giving them the bombs that they are dropping.
02:25:32.000So without direct U.S. military support, and by direct, I mean we're giving them the equipment.
02:25:42.000We're giving them even the anti-air systems that allow Israel to defend itself from the people it is attacking.
02:25:50.000But two, more importantly, there is an indirect military support, which is that if any neighboring country or all the neighboring countries...
02:26:56.000Iran needs to let the Houthis and Hamas and Hezbollah fight by themselves.
02:27:02.000But we're not letting Israel fight by itself.
02:27:05.000You know, all of the defenders of this foreign policy like to make it out like Israel is just winning this war and, you know, why should anyone get in the way of Israel defeating its enemies?
02:27:19.000But the crucial detail they're leaving out is that this whole arrangement is our creation.
02:27:24.000The table is set the way that it is only because of our unconditional security guarantee to Israel.
02:27:32.000So I see this all the time on Twitter.
02:27:34.000People say, just let them kill each other.
02:27:37.000Just let Israel and the Muslims kill each other.
02:27:52.000We support them more than any other country.
02:27:55.000We support them and not the countries Israel is fighting.
02:27:59.000And as a matter of fact, we are directly and indirectly preventing the entire region from pushing back on Israel.
02:28:06.000And we are also furnishing Israel with the weapons to destroy their much weaker opponents.
02:28:12.000Because if you said, let Israel fight it out, it would look very differently.
02:28:19.000If we didn't give Israel the Iron Dome, all those rocket attacks might deter Israel from invading.
02:28:27.000The only reason that Israel's sky is not overwhelmed every day by rockets from Hezbollah and Hamas is because we are giving them very expensive Iron Dome missiles that shoot those down.
02:28:41.000If we weren't and if Hamas and Hezbollah could fight back, Maybe Israel would not be able to defend themselves, and maybe they wouldn't invade Gaza and kill everybody.
02:28:53.000What's more, if the United States didn't pull up with three aircraft carriers every time Iran and Israel got in a confrontation, maybe the combined strength of Iran, Syria, Iraq, maybe some of Israel's allies.
02:29:09.000Maybe there would be a diplomatic pressure or a military pressure by the states in the region to force Israel to stop.
02:29:16.000If Egypt said, you know what, if you go in, we're ripping up the treaty, Jordan would be forced to do the same.
02:29:23.000Probably the Gulf countries would support action against Israel.
02:30:05.000Well, you can believe whatever you want.
02:30:08.000The idea that Israel and Hamas are just going at it alone completely ignores Washington's involvement and why we are involved, which is the Israel lobby.
02:30:21.000And that extends not just to the proximate conflict, which is Gaza and Israel, but all of the other conflicts, which is the Cold War between Iran and Israel playing out in the entire region.
02:30:35.000In Yemen, in Iraq, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Iran itself.
02:30:44.000But Trump is bringing us to war in Yemen.
02:30:47.000Now, I said at the beginning of this year, before Trump was inaugurated, that this would happen within the first 100 days.
02:30:54.000I said that the ceasefire will collapse and after that, Hezbollah and the Houthis will restart their campaigns.
02:31:03.000For Hezbollah in Israel, for the Houthis in the Red Sea, I said, and the first thing Trump is going to do is a major military operation against them in Yemen.
02:31:15.000And I said, that is one, because that will repudiate the weakness of Biden.
02:31:21.000If Biden couldn't stop them, Trump will, because Trump is tough and strong, and that would be his way of reestablishing himself, reestablishing in his mind deterrence.
02:31:33.000American credibility with the use of force.
02:31:35.000His own credibility in negotiations with Putin, Xi or the Ayatollah.
02:31:43.000I said the other reason is Trump will not tolerate any group challenging American supremacy.
02:31:50.000And if international shipping is the purview of American empire, Trump would take it as a great insult and an embarrassment to allow a small militant group To interrupt that or to violate that.
02:32:08.000The U.S. administration, in particular the Israel-controlled Republican Party, says that the Houthis are directed from Tehran.
02:32:16.000Now, it is true that the Houthis are funded and trained by the Iranian paramilitary group, the IRGC, but there is no evidence which says that the Houthis are directed by Tehran, meaning they act independently.
02:32:30.000And this is a major source of contention.
02:32:32.000Iran has allies just like every other country has allies.
02:32:38.000Iran furnishes their allies with weapons just like we do.
02:32:43.000But Iran does not necessarily give them direction, does not control them.
02:32:48.000And so that's a major source of contention.
02:32:51.000Iran and its defenders will say that Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas, popular mobilization forces, They may be getting support from Iran, but they're not getting direction.
02:33:03.000Israel and all of the Zionists say no, these are all Iranian proxies.
02:33:08.000They're acting under the direction of Iran.
02:33:12.000Any idea that they're separate is just a veil to cover up Iran's culpability for their actions.
02:33:19.000The reason why this is contentious is because if Iran is directing these groups, then that means Iran is responsible for what the groups are doing.
02:33:28.000If the groups are attacking Israel, then that means that Iran is responsible for attacking Israel.
02:33:35.000That's a problem if the United States has unconditionally guaranteed Israel's security.
02:34:05.000But it doesn't seem clear at all that we will be able to get them to stop without ground forces.
02:34:10.000As a matter of fact, the Houthis have been launching strikes against the United States and Israel for as long as we've been bombing them in the past week.
02:34:20.000So I don't know how much more of what we've already been doing and have done in the past will change the situation.
02:34:26.000They say it's not open-ended, and yet it seems actually pretty open-ended that the Houthis will be able to carry out these strikes.
02:34:34.000So there's this question of how much we're being drawn in.
02:34:38.000We are now in what is effectively a perpetual state of conflict against one of Iran's proxies.
02:34:46.000This is especially a problem if you believe that Iran is controlling them.
02:34:56.000We start to say, how can we get them to stop?
02:35:00.000Well, if we believe that Iran is directing them and funding them and supplying them, then we go after Iran.
02:35:08.000And that's exactly what the Trump administration has said.
02:35:11.000They say that now we're going to target Iranian assets, and we already did.
02:35:17.000Allegedly, we killed four Quds Force, which is elite paramilitary.
02:36:43.000This was about the long-standing Cold War between Iran and Israel, which is that ever since the United States invaded Iraq, Iran has been increasing its power in the region.
02:36:58.000Iran and Iraq were the two most powerful countries.
02:37:02.000They went to war with each other in the 80s.
02:37:06.000Saddam Hussein built up a massive military.
02:37:09.000Iran has a huge population and a big military.
02:37:29.000When the United States invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam, It created a power vacuum that was filled by Iran.
02:37:37.000And so Iran started to influence every country where there's a Shiite population with its revolutionary ideology, with its domestic security industry.
02:37:47.000And so they began to support Hezbollah, Shiite militias in Iraq, the Assad regime, and they began to deploy their forces inside Syria.
02:37:56.000They supported the Houthis in Yemen, Shiite uprisings in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia's eastern province.
02:38:03.000And so gradually, Iran developed influence where Iraq and the Ba'athists, the Sunnis, used to have influence.
02:38:11.000And the Middle East became a tug of war between Iran and its allies on one side, and Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United States, the Emirates on the other.
02:38:21.000Israel's goal in the war is not just to destroy Hamas.
02:38:26.000It is to draw in every one of Iran's partners.
02:38:30.000And systematically defeat and destroy them.
02:39:05.000Israel cannot defeat its neighbors without American military aid and unconditional support.
02:39:12.000They cannot defeat Iran without direct American military action.
02:39:17.000The problem is the United States doesn't want to get in a war with Iran.
02:39:20.000We're trying to get out of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
02:39:25.000How can Israel get the United States into another regime change war, into another Middle Eastern war, especially as we're trying to pivot to China, to Taiwan, which is the next big security challenge?
02:39:38.000Well, Israel has to bait us and trick us into the war, which is what they've been doing.
02:39:45.000They did it last year when they provoked Iran by bombing one of its embassies in Syria.
02:40:01.000Now that Trump is in office, who is a big supporter of Israel, now that there's a Republican Congress, Republican Party is controlled by Israel, now Israel sees this as the opportunity to bring the United States into a confrontation with Iran.
02:40:29.000Israel is trying to get Iran and the United States, neither of which want a war with each other, to destroy each other.
02:40:37.000Now the Trump administration is in effectively an open-ended campaign against one of Iran's proxies, threatening to bomb Iran if it doesn't stop.
02:41:51.000This leads me to the next big part of what has happened this week.
02:41:55.000We have now learned the contents of a very important letter.
02:42:00.000At the beginning of the year, Donald Trump sent a letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran, the Ayatollah.
02:42:06.000In it, we knew he had requested diplomacy.
02:42:12.000The Trump administration asked, it was a diplomatic overture, if the Iranian regime would negotiate a new nuclear deal, which is to say that Iran would agree to international inspections, a limit on the enrichment of uranium and other nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, potentially foreign investment normalization in the international community.
02:43:30.000It says, quote, Axios reported on Wednesday that President Trump gave Iran a two-month deadline to reach a deal.
02:43:37.000On its civilian nuclear program in a letter that he recently sent to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.
02:43:44.000The report, which cited two sources briefed on the letter, said it was unclear if the countdown to the deadline began when the letter was delivered or if it would start at the beginning of negotiations.
02:43:54.000But U.S.-Iran talks are unlikely as Iranian leaders have rejected negotiations in response to Trump's so-called maximum pressure campaign.
02:44:04.000Axios reporter Barack Ravid, a former IDF intelligence officer, wrote in his report that if Iran doesn't negotiate, the chances of U.S. or Israeli military action against Iran's nuclear facilities would dramatically increase.
02:44:18.000The news of Trump's deadline for Iran comes as the president is warning he will blame Iran for attacks launched by the Houthis, even though it is widely believed that the group acts independently and would not take orders from Tehran.
02:44:32.000Khamenei rejected Trump's letter when Iran received it last week, calling it a deception, meant to make it seem like the U.S. was the reasonable party and that Iran was rejecting negotiations for no reason.
02:44:44.000Last year, Khamenei appeared to give Iranian President Massoud Pazeshkian to pursue direct talks with the United States, but in the face of increasing U.S. sanctions and threats from Trump, both leaders are now ruling out negotiations.
02:45:02.000Earlier in the year, it was reported by Washington Post and Wall Street Journal that Israel wanted to bomb Iran before the middle of the year.
02:45:36.000Here we are trying to avoid a war with Iran.
02:45:40.000Here we are trying to avoid getting into another war in the Middle East.
02:45:43.000Israel is desperately trying to get us involved, and yet all of our diplomatic communications seem to contain the words, bomb Iran, bomb Iran.
02:47:36.000The reason that this is disturbing for Israel, contrary to popular belief, is not because they think that Iran is getting a bomb to kill Israel, because that's what they say.
02:47:46.000That's sort of the unspoken conclusion or implication.
02:47:51.000They say if Iran gets a bomb, these fanatical nutjobs are going to use it to kill everyone in Israel.
02:47:59.000What that ignores is reality, which is that Iran wants a nuclear weapon purely for defensive deterrent purposes.
02:48:08.000We know that because they could get one if they wanted one.
02:48:11.000If their goal was to bum-rush a nuclear bomb, get it, drop it on Israel, and they go out in a blaze of glory, they could have done that a long time ago.
02:48:35.000There's a lot of things they could do.
02:48:37.000But contrary to what fanatical Zionists say, Iran is not bum-rushing, racing to get a weapon, to use it on Israel because they have this apocalyptic, religious...
02:49:03.000They see what happened to Libya, which is that basically every country that doesn't like Israel eventually gets destroyed.
02:49:11.000The United States does airstrikes and Gaddafi gets murdered in the streets.
02:49:15.000The United States invades and they kill Saddam Hussein.
02:49:18.000The United States backs al-Qaeda and then Bashar al-Assad is chased out of his country and now it's run by al-Qaeda and ISIS.
02:49:26.000So Iran, looking around in its neighborhood and seeing that, hey, every house that doesn't put a Jewish flag in its window gets blown up mysteriously.
02:49:37.000A nuclear capability and now they stand on the threshold of acquiring a nuclear weapon to deter the United States or Israel from destroying them because the nuclear weapon is the only thing that guarantees survival.
02:49:54.000It's unthinkable for the United States to go to war with Russia because we both have nukes.
02:50:23.000Iran does not have one, but they stand at the threshold of acquiring one so that the United States and Israel might think twice about preparing to invade them.
02:51:12.000Option two is you get them to make a deal.
02:51:15.000If we can guarantee that Iran will survive, they will probably back off.
02:51:21.000If Washington gives Iran reasonable assurances and confidence that we will not overthrow their government, if we bring them into the community of nations, If they become interdependent with the global economy, if they maybe make peace with Israel, then they might feel safe to give up their nuclear ambitions.
02:51:43.000Then they might relent and allow inspections, limit the enrichment of uranium.
02:51:48.000They might limit their nuclear program and become part of the international community.
02:53:37.000Then, throughout the 2024 campaign, there are all kinds of rumors that Iran is trying to kill Trump.
02:53:43.000That Iran is sending assassins to murder Trump at Mar-a-Lago, at his rallies, all these things.
02:53:48.000So then Trump gets into office and we're supposed to expect that Trump, who killed Iran's leaders and destroyed their economy, and who allegedly Iran is trying to kill him, we're supposed to believe that Trump is now going to make a deal with Iran?
02:54:06.000These are two countries that have not trusted each other for 45 years.
02:54:10.000We've effectively been at war with Iran for 45 years, ever since the revolution and the hostage crisis in 1979.
02:54:19.000There has been bad blood and hatred and animosity, sanctions and war, proxy war, for 45 years, nearly half a century.
02:54:37.000And Trump is supposed to overcome all the bad blood of 50 years, all the bad blood and animosity between him as a person and that country.
02:54:46.000And in two months, he's going to make a deal?
02:54:49.000They are going to trust Trump and give up the only thing that might be protecting them in exchange for a promise that we won't destroy them.
02:54:59.000And he is going to agree to that after they try to kill him, allegedly.
02:55:04.000And they're going to agree to it after he killed their leaders.
02:55:07.000And by the way, Israel backed out of its deal that Trump brokered with Hamas.
02:55:17.000So if that's not how it will be resolved, if Trump and Iran are never going to make a deal for those reasons, for those glaringly obvious reasons, then what is the inevitable result?
02:55:29.000If the United States can't make a deal with Iran, that Iran will voluntarily give up its nuclear program in exchange for reassurance, in exchange for reasonable assurances that we will not destroy them, which we really cannot provide.
02:55:46.000Then the only other solution is that we destroy the regime.
02:55:50.000We destroy the program, destroy the regime, and we install a regime that does not want nuclear weapons.
02:56:00.000So the ultimatum is if you don't come to the table and make a deal in two months, we're going to war.
02:56:04.000Well, if that's the timeline, hey, guess what's going to happen in two months?
02:56:08.000We're going to war because we're not making a deal.
02:56:47.000Again, there was a ceasefire on January 19th.
02:56:51.000And so technically, the war between Israel and Hamas has been on hold since then.
02:56:58.000In reality, Israel has been conducting sporadic raids against Gaza.
02:57:04.000They've been shoring up their position in Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank.
02:57:07.000It's very much ongoing, but they did partially withdraw from Gaza.
02:57:13.000They did temporarily allow some humanitarian aid, although there's some disagreement about that.
02:57:20.000And again, we talked about many times throughout this year the terms of this deal.
02:57:25.000The ceasefire that was agreed to on January 19th was supposed to unfold in three phases.
02:57:31.000Phase one was a seven-week ceasefire and a hostage release.
02:57:36.000Phase two was supposed to begin on March 1st, and it would end in a permanent ceasefire and a full withdrawal of Israel from Gaza.
02:57:46.000What was supposed to happen in that intervening time in the first phase was for Israel and Hamas to come to the negotiating table and agree as to how exactly the second phase would be implemented.
02:57:57.000So phase one, they said, short-term truce, give us hostages back.
02:58:02.000And we'll talk about how we might implement a full withdrawal, a full end to the fighting.
02:58:07.000Well, Israel just, they never held up that end of the bargain.
02:58:10.000Israel refused to negotiate the entire time.
03:00:11.000And this is a story from the New York Times.
03:00:13.000It says, Those moves came a day after Israel announced it had recaptured the Netzerim Corridor, which bisects central Gaza after withdrawing from that area as part of the ceasefire.
03:00:43.000This escalation and hostilities came after a two-month ceasefire in Gaza collapsed this week with a deadly Israeli aerial bombardment in the territory, which the military said had targeted Hamas.
03:00:55.000Israel argued the truce could not continue unless Hamas released more hostages while Hamas accused Israel of violating the agreement.
03:01:03.000Hamas delayed firing rockets until Thursday in an attempt to give mediators more time to pressure Israel to stop its attacks.
03:01:10.000But as Israel continued its assault and the death toll rose, a leader from Hamas said they had to give indications that it could respond.
03:01:19.000The renewed Israeli assault has killed more than 500 people in Gaza over the last three days, including dozens of children, according to the Gazan Health Ministry.
03:01:29.000Carolyn Levitt, the White House spokeswoman, told reporters on Thursday that President Trump fully supports Israel and that the actions they've taken and the actions that they've taken in recent days.
03:02:26.000Trump's guy, Steve Witkoff, forced Israel to make a deal, forced them against their will to make the deal that Biden could not get.
03:02:36.000Trump forced Netanyahu to make peace because it doesn't look good for Trump if he's supporting the genocide in Gaza.
03:02:44.000So they said that goes to show anyone that said Trump was controlled by Israel was wrong because he made them make a deal.
03:02:53.000And we said at the time, no, this isn't going to last, because Netanyahu was going on TV and saying that.
03:03:02.000Netanyahu was going on Israeli TV when they were making the deal and said, yeah, guys, don't worry, we're going to break this deal in six weeks.
03:03:33.000Netanyahu literally, because his government was about to blow up, the people to the right of him in his government said, we will not support Netanyahu if he stops killing Palestinians.
03:03:43.000And Netanyahu went on TV and said, no, it's all cool.
03:03:47.000Trump told us we can violate the deal.
03:03:51.000After we get $12 billion, and we will.
03:03:54.000Rest assured, we will violate the deal.
03:03:57.000We will kill Palestinians as soon as humanly possible.
03:04:43.000We are giving Israel billions of dollars in military aid, more than Biden.
03:04:48.000We are totally supporting them, genociding Palestinians.
03:04:52.000We are threatening to bomb Iran, in particular threatening to bomb their nuclear program.
03:04:57.000We are in the process of creating a justification to do that.
03:05:02.000When we say make a deal or else, the only reason we're saying that is so that when we bomb them, we can say, hey, we asked you to make a deal.
03:05:12.000It's just creating a pretext for a war.
03:05:14.000If I hold the gun to your head and say, okay, count backwards or else I'm going to kill you and then I kill you, you know, this is just creating the justification.
03:05:25.000We say if the Houthis don't stop, we're killing Iran.
03:05:28.000If they don't make a deal, we're killing Iran.
03:05:30.000It's just so that we could create and drum up a pretext.
03:05:34.000That's exactly what they're in the process of doing.
03:05:37.000That's what they telegraphed throughout 2023, 2024.
03:06:05.000We're just listening to what people are saying.
03:06:08.000And what they've said, what they've all said, is that the master plan is get Trump in office, leverage the fighting in Gaza into a regional war, leverage that into bombing Iran's nuclear program.
03:06:24.000This has been in the works since the first time Trump got elected.
03:06:29.000And now it looks like it's unfolding in front of our eyes right now, according to all available information.
03:06:37.000The war in Gaza means that the war is everywhere.
03:06:41.000If Israel is in Gaza, that means the whole region is hot again.
03:06:45.000That means potentially Hezbollah gets involved again, although they're in retreat for now.
03:06:51.000The Iraqis are threatening the United States.
03:06:55.000They're saying if we don't leave, according to Joe Biden's timeline, which was set last year, then the Iraqi militias are going to bomb Americans in Iraq.
03:08:31.000There's this element that they are narrowing the field of possibilities or the horizon of possibilities for us to act, which is exactly what they've done throughout history.
03:08:43.000When the US president does not do what Israel wants, Israel finds a way of either destroying that president, as in the case of Jack Kennedy, Or in the case of George Bush, by the way, who they plotted to kill, the first Bush, or they will limit the president's actions by creating false flag attacks or other crises, which are not of our making.
03:09:19.000Escalating the fighting but will pull back at the critical moment.
03:09:23.000Trump is escalating this maximum pressure campaign on Iran with sanctions, bombing the Houthis, maybe bombing Iraq in the future, other things.
03:09:33.000But what happens if at the critical moment when Trump intends on backing down or seeking an off-ramp or deferring the fight for another day, what happens if at that critical moment Israel pulls the trigger?
03:09:51.000What happens when, after Trump threatens Iran repeatedly, bombs Iran's allies repeatedly, puts sanctions, all this rhetoric, all this tension, Trump is deploying aircraft carriers, fighter jets, personnel to the region.
03:10:05.000What happens if, at that critical moment, when Trump intends to bluff using pressure to get a deal, Israel lights the fuse and creates a scenario where we can't back down?
03:10:40.000The fear is not necessarily, and again, this, but this speaks to you either understand the nature of these people or you don't.
03:10:49.000You either have this naive faith in the system and you think that the president is really in control and you think that the Israelis are just one country among other countries and you think that Trump is going to ratchet up all the pressure and then just taper it off when it gets uncomfortable.
03:11:12.000That the history of the Zionist movement is of high-level assassinations, deception, false flags, infiltration of our intelligence community as well as all the other Western nations.
03:11:24.000They traffic in blackmail, deception, in exactly these kinds of manufactured crises to achieve extremely specific but very ambitious foreign policy objectives, which they have a great record of having done for nearly 100 years at this point.
03:12:33.000Rather than criticize Israel in apparently the correct way or a reasonable way, they fixate on criticizing the people that criticize Israel.
03:12:41.000There are people that support Trump that believe that Trump is fighting an enemy that is bigger than the Jews or bigger than Israel.
03:12:47.000They're fighting communism or the left or whatever.
03:12:51.000And they really believe that the president has far more agency and power over the Israelis and the Jews than really exists.
03:13:03.000Because they ascribe all of those views to low-IQ anti-Semites or conspiracy theorists or people that fixate on that issue.
03:13:12.000They have this enormous blind spot where they think, we're going to ratchet up all this pressure on Iran, and then we're just going to turn it down when we feel like it.
03:13:20.000And that there's no risk that this will blow up.
03:13:35.000I mean, like to his credit, he clearly sees it.
03:13:38.000I mean, he probably got the intel himself because he's in the CIA.
03:13:43.000But it's like nobody wanted to be honest throughout the election last year about the risk of war with Iran.
03:13:48.000Even now, people don't want to be honest about it.
03:13:51.000People are so caught up in defending Trump, so caught up in like this fake fight with the left.
03:13:58.000They won't talk about what's going on with Israel.
03:14:01.000They think that to talk about that is like, well, the only people criticizing Israel are leftists or like groipers, so that must be fake.
03:14:08.000The real problem is like, well, Hollywood's Jewish.
03:14:12.000The real problem is like Bud Light and DEI and theater kids.
03:14:17.000It's almost criminal how irresponsible it is.
03:14:23.000It's almost like a criminal amount of negligence.
03:14:26.000To not properly assess the risk of a war with Iran, not be informed about where all this is headed, and then lie to people, lie to the audience, lie to the conservatives and say, oh, you know, that's just not really a big deal or we're not thinking about that.
03:15:49.000At the expense and cost and blood of Americans for a hundred years.
03:15:55.000World War I, World War II, 48, 56, 67, 73, the war in Iraq, the war in Syria, the war in Libya, the war in Yemen, the war in Sudan.
03:16:08.000All these wars, all of the money, the foreign aid, the proxy wars, weapons transfers.
03:16:15.000The arms smuggling and trafficking as well as the foreign military aid.
03:16:20.000It's all been building Israel, making Israel stronger, defeating Israel's enemies, making Israel nuclear, clearing out Israel's Palestinian problem, making sure they never have to pay, never have to negotiate, never have to work with other countries, deal with the United Nations, the international community.
03:16:38.000It's all been Like this parasitic enterprise of diminishing the United States to increase Israel.
03:16:45.000Israel increasing itself by draining our life force.
03:16:51.000That's the history of the past 100 years.
03:16:53.000And every time an American has stood in the way, like John F. Kennedy, they get shot in the fucking head.
03:18:42.000I don't care how, you know, all this other crap, it means nothing.
03:18:47.000If you're with the nation of priests, if you're with the nation of human sacrifices and blood pass over, destroying America to build their own country, I'm not with you at all.
03:22:10.000And I probably could have really reaped the rewards and become very popular with Elon, with all these people.
03:22:17.000Like, I probably could have used that to advance my career, right?
03:22:24.000And instead, even after this long fucking fight, I've been fighting my whole adult life, even after all this, and fighting tooth and nail to recover from everything that happened to me after January 6th, finally I got my head above water.
03:25:25.000I'm one of the only independent people.
03:25:28.000I'm one of the only people that's actually...
03:25:30.000Thinking and putting out original stuff.
03:25:33.000And I'm one of the only people that's just, not to just break my hand patting myself on the back, but it's really important that people recognize what 2024 was, which is that Trump was installed by Israel for this reason.
03:25:49.000I was the only one who had the balls to say that or the eyes to see that it was happening.
03:26:23.000All these people who I thought, you know, a lot of them were cool.
03:26:27.000They threw me under the bus to cocksuck the GOP because their career and livelihood and their everything is contingent on access to the GOP system.
03:26:37.000And people that are in that situation can never tell the truth.
03:26:58.000So all these people that were saying, rah, rah, rah, YMCA, it's going to be different this time, golden age, the rules don't apply anymore, it doesn't matter that Israel's paying them $200 million.
03:27:10.000Okay, obviously they were fucking wrong.
03:27:13.000And they basically need to be humiliated about it constantly.
03:27:16.000And by the way, those same people, instead of today coming out and saying, you know what?
03:30:47.000So I started watching right after WrestleMania 24. And I fell off before WrestleMania 27. So 24 to 27 was about...
03:30:57.000I just started watching right after the consequences of WrestleMania 24. And I saw 25, 26. I dropped off before 27. WrestleMania 26, 25 was epic.
03:35:56.000I've always hated when people say, oh, like, I wish priests were like, you know, veins bulging out about Jews and, you know, fire and brimstone preaching like Protestants do.
03:39:26.000So. I disagree with the whole – like Protestants really like that.
03:39:31.000Like white nationalists really like that.
03:39:32.000I think it's like a defective personality trait for people that really get off on like people getting angry and yelling.
03:39:39.000I mean I just – I do it because it's entertainment.
03:39:42.000Like I said, I'm trying to draw people in to get them the information, but I don't think that's actually impressive to see someone get up and like get everybody all pissed off.
03:39:53.000It's actually a tendency I wish I – but I'm a young guy, so.
03:40:23.000I was wondering, for those of us who are more visual learners, if there were any sources of media for the information expressed in the show that you learned about politics that might be easier to absorb.
03:41:07.000So, yeah, look, I'm going to make it my mission this year to build up more of a media operation that does make spoon-fed content for dummies like you.
03:41:19.000Because, yeah, not everybody can do their own research and even understand this show.
03:41:23.000They need to be spoon-fed PragerU-style graphical videos that say, Hi!
03:44:31.000It's like an interesting idea that like, you know, we can kind of dispense with some of these categories and break it down and say like, you know, they say, for example, the government funds its bills with taxpayer dollars and it's like, well, no, it actually really doesn't.
03:45:31.000What if we change the words on the money?
03:45:33.000Yeah. Is that really the best you fucking dummies can come up with?
03:45:36.000This is why white people are oppressed.
03:45:39.000You know, Jewish people create systems, and they come up with these convoluted ways to gain control, and then white people are like, what if we put, what if we said Jesus on the money instead of God?
03:47:26.000Like, the creator of the universe thinks there's all the difference in the world between pressing a light switch and rotating a cover on top of a lamp.
03:47:39.000The light switch on the refrigerator door, as soon as you open it, it doesn't come on.
03:47:46.000I actually think that that is why Jesus Christ fulfills the old law and perfects it, because then it becomes about the spirit of the law, not about what's written.
03:47:55.000Then it's not about being a lawyer, it's about actually being a priest.
03:47:59.000You don't have all these rabbinical lawyers who are going into the letter and saying, well...
03:48:05.000I'm creating these convoluted distinctions.
03:48:07.000Well, if I press a light switch, that's against the rule.
03:48:10.000If I rotate a thing, that's not breaking the rule.
03:48:13.000So that's why I reject the whole premise.
03:48:19.000strategy for grow up or slash alt writers to try to get jobs in intelligence agencies like the CIA or NSA?
03:49:10.000Part of me was really happy to see Tucker imply that the Axis might have been the good guys in World War II, but I still don't think that he can be trusted given his connections.
03:49:15.000I want to believe he has good intentions but I don't know.
03:50:28.000They saturate the environment with messaging and you consciously and unconsciously absorb that and it makes you feel a certain way and you think, I'm feeling good about this.
03:54:31.000$0.10. Last week you said you would side with Rome in a war between Vatican City and America.
03:54:35.000Doesn't this show why Americans since the founding have distrusted Catholics, that they are more loyal to a supranational organization than the nation they live in?
03:54:40.000Isn't that exactly what you accuse the Jews of?
03:54:42.000The supranational organization is Jesus Christ Church.
03:54:49.000You belong to a supranational organization.
03:57:47.000level fast forward eight years he is starting a war with iran you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain bro brandon paris sent ten dollars thank you for no ads thank you for no scams or mean coins thank you for being hilarious thank you for being right about everything is we getting a pack v chad warden sent ten dollars thirteen dollars a month club socks groiper sent ten dollars poigroiper sent ten dollars how's your march madness bracket looking who did you pick to win i know how obsessed you are with sports greatest schooner sent 100 All right.
03:59:57.000It's like, okay, so we live in a world with other countries and other people and those other people have leaders and liberalism has really only existed around the world for like 30 years and has only existed anywhere for like 200 years and you're saying every leader that existed before that or during this time That is not liberal.
04:03:27.000Maybe. Yeah, and then Sam Hyde will have a show, and then we'll call it Daily Based, and then Fox News will be won by Andrew Anglin, and...
04:06:19.000I love how his girlfriend, I posted a picture of Ye with the swastika shirt, and this girlfriend is in the replies, and she's like, so when Joel does it, you criticize, but when a black guy does it, you like it.
04:06:41.000And it reminded me of, you remember that scene in The Dark Knight?
04:07:47.000If there was a white billionaire, look, do you really think that race is the common denominator?
04:07:52.000Do you think that if there was a world-famous white billionaire, if like Mel Gibson was doing it, do you think that we wouldn't support that?
04:07:59.000There just isn't a white person doing that.
04:08:03.000Do you think, because they say, oh, well, you support Ye doing the swastika, but not Joel Davis.
04:11:18.000And the problem with a lot of white nationalists is they think that they should just be crowned the king because they just have all the right ideas.
04:15:30.000You want to know why they call them Wiggers?
04:15:32.000Because there is a tendency in identitarian politics, like racial-based politics, for there to be grifters.
04:15:42.000I'm not saying he's a grifter necessarily, but we all are familiar with the idea of race-baiting, that someone like Al Sharpton is like a hack.
04:16:01.000It's just kind of—like, he's secured this paid, fake, political job speaking for the black people, being an organizer, giving speeches and stuff.
04:16:12.000And you can recognize how it's like, this is really an unimpressive guy.
04:16:17.000He has just styled himself as a community leader, and it's like you're kind of just like a deadbeat.
04:16:24.000And there's a big tendency, I feel like, among white nationalists to do the same, and that's why we call them Wiggers.
04:16:29.000That's what Wignat, you ever heard Wignat?
04:16:32.000It comes from Wigger Nationalist because it's like the same way that you have black race hustlers, you have white race hustlers.
04:22:24.000Can we hear your thoughts on the Europa The Last Battle documentary?
04:22:29.000I'm not a fan of those documentaries because it's filled with like errors.
04:22:33.000What good is a documentary like that if the information is no good?
04:22:37.000You make like a 12-hour documentary and the information is like 60% wrong.
04:22:43.000It's like – because I read through Keith's 10,000-word article about it and he goes through one hour of a 12-hour documentary and like it seems like 70% of the information is false.
04:22:56.000So why would you sit through like a 12-hour alternative history?
04:22:59.000Oh, the mainstream narrative is false.
04:26:43.000Like, are all the public people supposed to be perfect?
04:26:46.000Like, you can't have a big Twitter account without being a perfect human being.
04:26:50.000You can't be a public-facing individual unless you conduct all of your personal relationships in such a way that is beyond reproach subjectively to the other people.
04:28:07.000Like, honestly, is anybody really reading Harry Sisson's posts on Twitter, watching his TikToks and being like, man, I wonder if this guy's, like, sexually faithful to his, like, hookups.
04:28:20.000So I hope that the girls he's sexting are not under any illusions about his level of commitment because that would really bother me when I watch these.
04:29:44.000Because the Bible says that, you know, in the new millennium, like, they're all going to become Christian and this and that.
04:29:50.000And it's like, okay, so if, like, a person has a religious conviction that, like, you have to be nice to Jews every time no matter what.
04:29:59.000It doesn't matter what you argue with them.
04:30:02.000So it just enters a whole different dimension, like it's a different value judgment.
04:30:05.000Because then it turns into, if the Bible says, give Israel limitless foreign aid, then every argument you previously had, unless it means the Bible's fake or the Bible didn't say that, becomes invalid.
04:30:19.000So then you're in a theological argument.
04:30:21.000And then you're saying, well, you know, that was true.
04:30:26.000But then there's such a thing called supersessionism, which is that there's a new Israel, there's a new ark, there's a new law, there's a new covenant, there's a new church, new sacrifice, new priests, etc.
04:30:40.000But then you're in a theological debate effectively about what is a true church and how do we interpret the scriptures.
04:30:48.000And now it's no longer a geopolitical debate about whether America benefits or not.
04:30:53.000Then it turns into an argument about what flavor of the Bible do you like.
04:30:58.000And they always do this because it's really just a bag of tricks.
04:31:04.000Whether Israel benefits us, this is an empirical question.
04:31:13.000But if you can route the conversation into this place where it gets shut down and you ask a question like, does Israel have a right to exist?
04:31:22.000Or, well, do you believe that the Bible is true?
04:31:26.000Well, now we're not talking about whether Israel benefits America.
04:31:30.000Now we're talking about, like, you know...
04:31:37.000Like, what it means to have a country?
04:36:57.000I mean, that's more aggressive, and if you get confrontational, the audience is going to be on his side because they're there to see him, and he'll have the power of the pulpit to rally the crowd.
04:37:09.000So if you say, no, you're going to say this, then you don't have control over the venue.
04:37:42.000$10. Joel's GF making a deleting posts about how Monica Bellucci would have been a slave in Rome for red haired Aryans and almost all Italians are Arabs.
04:37:47.000Joel does an interview with Greg Johnson saying Nords and Slavs are closely related, but meds aren't.
04:37:50.000Then the same pride bullies call you divisive.
04:37:52.000Pathetic. That is, yeah, that is so true.
04:39:08.000My 86-year-old grandma who can't focus on anything for more than five minutes sat up in her chair through this whole show and was genuinely locked in the entire time.
04:39:13.000She wants me to visit more often so we can watch her show again.
04:39:38.000Unfortunately, the Iranian people are desperate for a regime change, so much so that they are hoping for an attack by Israel and America, and God knows that kind of reaction would Mm-hmm.
04:43:31.000But if you're going and asking about foreign aid and corruption and campaign finance and the ADL, I mean, basically the problem of organized Jewry in society, you cannot let them take you to a place.