Episode 5199： WarRoom Sunday Special War In Iran Continues Pt 2
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Trump derangement syndrome. The Democratic Party. The war against Israel and the war against Iran. And the war in the Middle East. And, of course, a special guest appearance from Rabbi Elie Seidler.
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Fat f*** Trump, if you listen to this, you listen good, because what I'm getting ready to say
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is what a lot of people in this country speak for, who I speak for, and I speak for a lot of
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f***ing people, you hear me, you fat ass f***er. This is what we believe. You're right. I got
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Trump derangement syndrome. I hate the mother f***er. And you know what? I don't want to get
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rid of it. I don't want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more. I pray to God
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in heaven. God, reign the righteous reign of Trump derangement syndrome on me. Pray for me, Lord. I'm
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your vessel on this earth. Pray for the people that listen to this. We want more. We want to hate the
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son of a b***h so much that we can't see straight. Chuck Schumer's elected from New York. Bernie Sanders
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elected from Vermont. They wanted the commander in chief to be elected by the entirety of the nation.
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And they're even talking about impeaching him if they take the House of Representatives. Ladies
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and gentlemen, we have an enemy within, and it is the Democrat Party. Every reprobate, miscreant,
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and malcontent is in that party. The Marxists and the Islamists are in that party. Do they act like
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they love the nation? Do they? When we have men and women in uniform, Democrats and Republicans and
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independents fighting an enemy? Fighting terrorists? The greatest terror regime in America in the world
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history? And we're winning. And that's why they're going nuts. We're winning. This is so spectacular what's
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taking place. And I want our troops to know something. These people who are trying to undermine you,
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they are a small percentage of the population. We red-blooded Americans, we love victory.
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And we love you. You are of us. And most of us have had relatives, if not ourselves, in the military.
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Chuck Schumer means nothing to us. Hakeem Jeffries means nothing to us.
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You, Mr. and Mrs. America, we support our military. We support our commander-in-chief.
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We support victory. This is a spectacular, spectacular military operation with our spectacular ally,
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the Israelis, with their spectacular prime minister. It's working. It's effective. It's spectacular.
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And these guys, we have to hurry back to Congress. We need to have a vote on the War Powers Act of
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1973. This would be the same party that dragged us into Vietnam, right? Was that a declared war?
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No, it wasn't. I can't take any more. I can't take any more. I will let the audience decide.
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Carvel has lost it, though. Levin lost a long time ago, but Carvel is having, that's got to be a
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nervous breakdown, right, on national television. But you see a Trump derange of how much they hate
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him. Carvel is going to stick around. I got Caroline Rand here on some very important politics
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related to, but Rabbi, we're looking. First off, just on the battle side, Tel Aviv hit last night,
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but correct me if I'm wrong, the center of gravity for the Israelis obviously is the Persians, but
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now you're going after the proxies. I thought Hezbollah was dealt with, but now it looks like Lebanon,
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Beirut, there's an evacuation, Lebanon, maybe even parts of Syria, Rabbi?
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Well, I mean, the Lebanon situation has been an open sore since the official ceasefire. And I say
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official ceasefire because it hasn't really been much of a ceasefire that was struck over a year
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ago. And, you know, the Lebanese government had committed itself to disarming Hezbollah by the
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end of 2025. And of course, they did nothing about it, not because they didn't want to, but they're
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actually incapable of disarming Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a much stronger army, even in its weakened state,
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than the Lebanese army itself. And there's also this Shiite population that would have resisted.
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But now that Hezbollah made the tragic mistake, a mistake, frankly, I'll be perfectly frank,
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the Israelis were hoping they would make, of firing missiles at Israel in support of the Iranian
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regime, they just invited the Israelis in to finish the job and disarm Hezbollah themselves.
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So that's what the Israelis are doing now. They're going in there. And the Lebanese are playing this
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funny game where they're no longer complaining about Israeli airstrikes as they used to. It used
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to be when Hezbollah would attack Israel, Israel would attack Hezbollah positions. And then the
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Lebanese government would make noises about being upset about Israel attacking. And now that's not
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happening. You actually have even Shiites in the population, even the Amal party, which is a Shiite
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party that for decades has been the partner in the government with Hezbollah, which also functions
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as a political party. Amal voted to declare Hezbollah illegal the other day. So Hezbollah is
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now isolated in Lebanon. Israel's going in to finish them off. And I'll also say on a personal
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note, my son, who's a commander in the infantry in the Givati Brigade, told me that he's actually
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Was that making, is this part of the greater Israel project? Is this part of the greater
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Israel project or are Israel smiting, are they smiting all their, they smiting all their,
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Israel has no interest in any territory. Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. By the way,
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by the way, you did the best. I know there was an essay written a few decades ago that everyone's
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still, you guys love talking about. It has nothing to do with Israeli policy.
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We'll talk about Israeli policy now because the Israeli Air Force delivered a hammer blow
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the other night to the command structure of, and it looks like they are focused on the command
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structure maybe more than the Americans. It looks like ours with Captain Fennell's degradation
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of the ability to actually fight either force projection on their people or force projection
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on their neighbors. You're still, it looks like the Israeli Air Force is still very focused on
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leadership decapitation, but this war is expanding, not just in the Gulf with, with Persian versus Arab.
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It's also expanding in Syria and Lebanon and other areas, maybe even with the Kurds.
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I mean, a little bit into Syria, the Syrians themselves aren't, I mean, we're not going to,
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we're not going to be butting up against the Shara or anything like that, but you do have,
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the issue with the Kurds in Iraq is, is, is a sticky one. I don't see Israel right now being
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involved in that, although they did bomb a few Iranian IRGC bases on the Iranian side of the
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Iraq around border, trying to set the stage for, for a Kurdish incursion. But there's no agreement
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between the Iranian Kurdish groups and the Iraqi Kurdish groups who are both in Iraq. If that's
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confusing, sorry, that's the way it is. The Iranian Kurdish groups are based in Iraq, but they don't
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get along with the Iraqi Kurdish groups who are more aligned with the Iranian regime and Turkey.
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This is, this can get a little confusing, but the key arena that Israel is focusing in besides Iran
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is Lebanon. Lebanon is on our northern border. Steve, let's pull back the camera. Israel's doctrine
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of defense changed after October 7th. And it is no longer based on an evaluation. I've said this on
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your show before. It's no longer based on an evaluation of our enemy's intentions. And are
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they deterred? Are they not deterred? Can we make an agreement with them? Can we, can we appease them
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with some economic deal with the West? It's no longer based on that. It's simply based on an
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evaluation of capabilities. And when there are, when there are regimes or groups that pledge openly
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that their goal is the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people, as the Iranian
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regime does, as Hamas does, as Hezbollah does, so long as they have any capabilities to harm Israel,
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we will deal with those capabilities. And, you know, I was listening to Sam Faddis before, and he's
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absolutely right. The Israelis' goal is to eliminate the threat. And the bottom line is, if you allow your
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country to be taken over by insane people who do crazy, reckless things, then FAFO, unfortunately,
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there is, there is a price to pay. And I'm with you on the Iranian people. I'd love to see a healthy
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regime change. But whatever comes after this regime, no matter how chaotic it is, from Israel's
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perspective, is not going to be as dangerous as the regime itself. And therefore, you know, Israel is
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going to protect itself, and it's going to look after its own interests. Do we want a regime that's
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more peaceful with us? And that is stable? Yeah, sure, it'll be better for everybody. But top of
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the agenda for Israel is simply eliminating threats wherever they may be. And the threat from Lebanon
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with Hezbollah, it's been festering too long. The Lebanese government has not been willing to do
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anything about it. So Israel's stepping in and doing something. And it seems that the Lebanese are
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actually in favor of Israel dealing with the problem once and for all, even though they're not being too
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vocal about it. But that's the signals that we're getting. But just, just, just so we can be
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realist, though, in a lot of the Levin, you see all this propaganda coming out that we want a free
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and democratic Iran and Persia. I couldn't care less. And President Trump continues to talk about
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the happy ending that is like World War II when we rebuilt Germany and supposedly denazified and we
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took out Imperial Japan. Although we didn't make any changes structurally, the same people that ran
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Japan in 1939 were essentially the same people that ran Japan in 1946. The, the, the samurai families
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that run the, the trading companies, they, they, they ran it, they put a little phony thing on a
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constitution and all that, but they ran it. So we didn't really make fundamental changes in either
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nation. Uh, but it was on the surface, a happy ending here. And I think Sam said it. I don't,
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I don't care if we have, I don't care if we have, I don't care if, if Persia and Iran go into a 30
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year hell hole, I could care less. They brought the Islamic Republic on. We had the Shah, uh, and
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maybe he didn't get there. Maybe he wasn't democratically elected, but the country had a
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thriving middle-class or at least was trying to do that. Obviously it was very Western and that
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seems like it didn't assimilate into Persian culture, but these people and their parents
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and grandparents brought it on. They're going to have to, and I would have loved to had a
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situation where just economically with Scott Besson, who was destroying their currency and
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destroying the economy. And now we know, and this is the hidden game that nobody talks about.
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We never went to what, what UAE threatened the other day in Dubai, which was to cut off the money.
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They're, they're all the Persians cash is not really in Switzerland. It's all in Dubai.
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And this is one of the reasons the sanctions have never been a hundred percent. People say,
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well, how can you have these sanctions? They don't really work because the Arabs are playing
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double games all the time. And that's why when UAE threatened to cut off their money from Dubai,
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next thing you know, Dubai's getting lit up. Uh, you know, Dubai is kind of like Tortuga was for
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the Caribbean pirates, uh, that, that went against the British empire, uh, back, you know, it's,
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it's, and that's what Dubai is. It's, it's a pirate cove. And now you're getting down to it where
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you're starting to steal, take their assets, take all their cash and just, and, and throttle them
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down. But I don't care. They brought it on themselves. If they're a hell hole for 50 years
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or a hell hole for 50 years, I don't say, if we spend one penny in Ukraine or here reconstructing
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it and not that penny in East Palestine, East Palestine, Ohio, to me, that's a crime.
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Well, my thoughts, you said something really interesting just before when you were talking about
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how in the Japanese regime after world war two, it ended up being run by a lot of the same people
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who were running it before. And you said there was no real significant change, but there was,
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and it connects directly to what president Trump just said that he wants unconditional surrender
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because the major change that happened, even though Japan was run by the same people is that
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they dropped the genocidal imperialist ideology that led them to slaughter so many people in the
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far East and create the second world war in the Pacific theater. So, and look at, and look at Nazi
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Germany, Nazi Germany also unconditional surrender led to them becoming a fairly benign state that,
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that dropped the genocidal ideology. You know, in, in January, 1943 at Casablanca is where Roosevelt
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first said that peace can only come to the world by the total elimination of the Japanese, German,
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and Italian war power, which means the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy, and Japan. That was,
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he used that term then. And there's a direct causal relationship between the unconditional surrender
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and the breaking of those genocidal ideologies. And this connects with what you were saying before
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about Mamdani in New York. Islam is on the rise. Europe has fallen. We know that these guys are playing
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for keeps. And the only way to push back is if there's actually some sort of defeat. Now,
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what happens after the defeat, how much chaos there is and how much of a mess there is to clean up
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that is for them to sort out. But it is the, I believe it's the moral responsibility of people
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who are good to deliver a defeat to those who are evil. Roosevelt understood that. And it worked
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Imperial, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany ceased to be evil regimes now. And, and Iran, one way or
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another, whether out of weakness or out of a change of mindset, we'll also, we'll also cease to be an
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evil regime. Yeah. So no off ramp by Tuesday. I would also submit that that should be Israel's
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moral high ground to the West, not our fight. Just not. We're in it though. We're in it. And there's
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no off ramp on Tuesday. Short break back in a moment.
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captain finnell obviously they look like they went after oil infrastructure resources last
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night is that uh is that is that just what happens when you proceed down you've been you've said hey
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look and i you know as a as a surface warfare officer and you're an intelligence officer
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people should understand this is what the navy does you do these exercises constantly all the
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time you practice practice practice so that it becomes second nature so when the balloon goes
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up you know what to do and you've as you said you've got your target sets that can change
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with intel but you know what you're doing when you want to take down or what it was called degrade
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their ability to have force projection either uh to surrounding countries or force projection now
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as the president keeps talking about on their own people do you believe that we've gone to another
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phase of this war not just the how uh brutal the bombing was last night in tehran but it looks like
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they went after oil infrastructure sir uh steve i would say that we are entering a second phase the
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first phase as admiral cooper stated was about being able to kill the iranian things that could
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shoot at us so this first week over 3 500 possibly closer to 6 000 uh attacks from both u.s and israeli
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forces was about rolling back their air defense capabilities their missile capabilities that were
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on the ground and their air defense and their naval forces we have successfully i think to to the large
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degree eliminated most of those that are out in the open so now we're going into the second phase which
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is to really start going after the infrastructure that supported the military the irgc so the target
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sets are command and control centers military communication sites irgc joint headquarters irgc
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aerospace force headquarters the integrated air defense a ballistic missile cities now the iranian navy
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ships and subs and they struck last night isfahan basher calm uh bandar abbas so there's massive
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strikes going further inland from that coastal region that we needed to establish so that our
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forces could get in and out without risk so i think we're in this second phase and what people need to
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know is this is not just a naval force this is a joint of u.s military force commanded at central command
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and it's now a combined force and so what they have is what they call a combined targeting coordination
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board and that represents all the services that are involved all the nations that are involved plus
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the intelligence agencies from cia dia nga all that it's an interagency process even state department
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gets involved and there are people there that are saying hey we need to consider this we need to consider
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that it goes before the board and people analyze it and they say yes this is something valid we want
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to go after or not and then it gets put on the list and then there are there are legions of people that
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find the target material and intelligence that helps give us precise location of where these assets are
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but it's worked together and it's been going on for i would say years the planning about how if we
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you know contingency had to go after iran centcom's been working on this for decades and so what you
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see is the unfolding of a plan that's being refined to do the the levels of damage that will ensure
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that iran's military is completely and thoroughly defanged and as we and i said in a communication to
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you this last week as mal said the party controls the gun and if there's no gun in the party's hand
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then who's running all everything and so the the mission is to take the gun away from the iranian
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regime i i think if you look at the 12-day war if you look at venezuela if you look at what's
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happening here we're going to leave the politics aside we're going to get into all that and the
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strategy all that but if you just look this is why our military is so magnificent the practice the
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precision uh the dedication to make this second nature to ingrain this in yourself before i go to sam
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faddis and i'm gonna ask you to stick around jim um in 1979 and 80 when i was there we had two
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carrier we eventually because the navy had never really been there we had two carrier battle groups
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on camel station and gonzo station in the north arabian sea we have two carrier battle group two
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strike forces today that contain 10 times more lethality than we did back in the 80s just because
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of the weapons packages but now you're the first one to call it you said on this show over a week ago
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he said hey they're going to get the bush they're going to get a third carrier strike group over
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there and it appears that that is what's happening yes uh the the bush the carrier uh george hw bush
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completed its uh basic final phase of its training and on the 5th of march pulled into norfolk
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it certainly reloaded fuel and ammunition for not just the carrier but the strike group and there's
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indication that uh she's already leaving or has already left norfolk and is making the transit
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it's about a four or five day transit across the atlantic very small compared to the pacific and so
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that'll add a third carrier and i'll just remind folks in desert storm we had six carrier battle groups
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operating for desert storm in oef we had five carrier strike groups so just adding a third one
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is really about bringing in more of that ordinance that's using the mark series the dumb bomb series
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with the the fusing and the fins in the back that give us the precision strike so we don't have to use
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the high end uh high demand low density uh interceptors and other kind of missiles that are
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you know were discussed on friday in washington so it's this idea of moving from standoff to stand-in
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weapons it's planned it was understood and the bush will bring a lot more punch to the the fight with
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that from the eastern med while the ford and the lincoln now can combine their carrier strike groups
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and now those 16 destroyers that are with it can now start to work on how are we going to open up the
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strait and provide some kind of escort plan we're not going to escort ship by ship but we'll maybe do
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something like we did in 87 where we had baskets and we had ships on station in those baskets as we get
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further along this yeah grinding down their iranian naval threats to naval shipping
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particularly as you also take out their their their missile defense the combatants can then go into
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the straits of her moves and and figure out how to open this or if it even could be opened uh hang
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up a second right before i go the brits he's now talking to the brits he's all over starmer that we're
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actually discussing two of the smaller they get smaller carriers to deployment of two british uh
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carriers to the region also well that you know the brits were and it's coming out this weekend that
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actually the u.s approached the british three weeks before the bombing struck to say this is what
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we're thinking of doing and we would like to coordinate with you our ally and let's work together
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on it and the brits and starmer gave us the the heisman and said no we're not going to let you
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use our bases so when the war started they didn't participate they denied us use of their bases in
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cyprus they denied us use of diego garcia and then just here only a couple of days ago did starmer say
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well you can use our airfields but we will only allow you to use your aircraft to attack defensive
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targets in iran which is like air defense sites and missile sites so they put a lot of restrictions on it
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in the meantime the iranians attacked their base in cyprus and the brits still have yet to send a
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single destroyer out there because of their readiness the british navy is almost gone uh it's
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less than 80 ships probably less than 70 so they don't have much to provide to us and i think the
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president's instincts are right on this in a way hey you know you didn't want to be with us at the
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beginning why do you want to come in now when you feel like we're uh the tide is turning
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uh jim hang on for one second i'll bring in sam fatta sam you wrote an amazing piece uh over the
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weekend about our objectives and goals but i want to ask you this whole situation with unconditional
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surrender i mean you spent a good part of your life inside here they're talking about unconditional
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surrender i think they've overnight and they now have an official supreme leader president united
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saying yeah i don't know about that we don't want to come back here every 10 years so i think i got
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to have a hand in picking that from the mindset of the persians as they sit right now are are what
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do you what when they hear the president talking about unconditional surrender and that means no
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forced projection against neighbors but most importantly no forced projection against their
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i don't think there's any way on earth that they are considering unconditional surrender now i've said from
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the beginning there is some possibility here that at some point you get a hint you get some guys within
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this government who effectively stage a coup and we end up with the venezuelan solution and uh they say
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we're not riding this thing all the way to the ground uh and that would be in my my view a happy ending but
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as of now they're going to dig in and they're going to take this thing into an unconventional
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realm and they are going to prolong this conflict and are they going to be hammered mercilessly by the
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united states military without question i mean anybody who bet on the iranians to stand up to the u.s
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military uh was delusional uh they've been flattened and they're going to continue to get flattened but in
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in their world view they will just dig in and this will become
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low-cost drones and proxy forces and terrorist attacks abroad and
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attacks on desalinization plants and oil refineries and sort of let's
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did they not yesterday try to there was some sort of communication or something they tried to back off
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and said hey they're not going to go after the which i think is the most interesting thing not
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go after the gulf countries so they didn't but that's looks like it's all torn asunder now they
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did they're trying to hit it or they hit a desalination plant uh are they is it all bets off
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persians versus arabs right now or is that back on hold and last night's bombing we've got about a
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minute i'll bring you back after the break was was the difference in intensity last night of the
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americans of our forces going after their oil infrastructure and hitting tehran the refineries
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there go take this next level look i think what they were trying to do was divide us from our
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allies and encourage the gulf states in particular to to part company with us and that didn't work
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and so now they've gone i mean they they just hit a desalinization plant in bahrain they hit a number
00:26:12.200
of other targets so they they they gave that a whirl and it didn't work so now that they're gonna
00:26:18.720
they're going to intensify what they do against the gulf states to the extent they can
00:26:22.800
sam hang on for one second you gave a perfect segue you talk about objectives trying to divide
00:26:30.920
allies wrote a pretty impressive piece for n magazine if we can get that up and if mo and grace
00:26:37.060
and elizabeth can make sure the war and posse sees it we're gonna bring sam fetus back and talk about
00:26:41.960
that point also rabbi will lickie will join us from jerusalem for a live update we're packed we got
00:26:48.620
poso thayer weikert caroline wren on this huge political story in texas all of it this morning
00:26:56.580
our special edition of the war here's your host stephen k van
00:27:00.500
okay we've got uh geostrategic uh things we have to get to uh in a moment uh poso is going to stick
00:27:09.180
around get brandon weiker dr thayer financial times reporting the chinese communist party actually
00:27:14.840
made a statement yesterday they want the meeting with president trump in april which i think is
00:27:20.380
pretty stunning because they've basically been i think cucked this entire time so it's quite
00:27:26.240
fascinating what's happening here and get some of our top experts to jump into this in the wars of
00:27:31.400
progressives i want to turn now though to an important matter at hand this is the situation
00:27:38.300
on the runoff in the state of texas caroline wren joins us caroline you've been at the tip of the tip
00:27:43.740
of the spear you and boyle and a couple of others of driving uh this narrative about john cornyn has never
00:27:50.120
supported maga in fact he's been virulently anti-maga and he's been virulently anti-president trump
00:27:55.720
for since president trump came on the scene but he's been a do-nothing uh bush bushite uh for his
00:28:02.480
entire career and that's why he has nothing positive to talk about ma'am the floor is yours
00:28:07.140
well that's that is true and you know i just think the texas senate race is by far the most
00:28:13.340
important race of the cycle and all eyes right now are on president trump to see who he endorses and
00:28:18.460
look i understand it is very rare for a sitting president to endorse against an incumbent senator in
00:28:24.760
his party now president trump rightfully endorsed a primary challenger to senator bill cassidy who
00:28:30.340
deserved it he voted to impeach trump but i would actually argue that cornyn is much worse than
00:28:35.860
senator cassidy for every controversial decision president trump has made and of course by
00:28:40.760
controversial i mean something that morning joe and mika don't like but for every i guess
00:28:45.560
controversial decision there is a statement from john cornyn criticizing president trump about it
00:28:50.660
and you know we knew cornyn was bad but the barrage of oppo that has dropped on him over the last 72
00:28:56.040
hours exposing cornyn's record i am in shock just how bad it is i decided to get out my copy of
00:29:02.120
government gangsters here by cash patel in this book cash patel lists out there's an index of names of
00:29:07.820
the worst and most corrupt deep state actors and i went by through the list of names index name by name
00:29:14.360
and just search that person's name and then john cornyn's statement literally without fail john cornyn
00:29:20.140
has defended every single bad actor listed in this book i mean like it is just it is amazing to me that
00:29:27.620
he goes out of his way when trump criticized gina haspel for example cornyn went on television and said
00:29:32.900
she was doing a fantastic job and when uh trump fired mark esper cornyn went on tv and called it unhelpful
00:29:39.680
and unnecessary when trump criticized dr fauci for refusing to open schools and businesses john
00:29:45.080
cornyn called fauci a national treasure when biden nominated notorious russi gate hoax co-conspirator
00:29:50.640
lisa monaco for deputy ag cornyn took to the senate floor to give a full-throated glowing endorsement
00:29:56.420
for her nomination when trump wanted to fire robert mueller cornyn defended mueller's honor saying it
00:30:01.480
would be a huge mistake for trump to fire him when trump fired james coney cornyn went on tv and called
00:30:06.900
it a troubling and terrible decision where cornyn i mean repeatedly praised and slobbered over james
00:30:12.660
comey calling him a good and decent man quick reminder james comey called for the assassination
00:30:17.340
of president trump when the sham eugene carroll verdict came out cornyn ran to msnbc to say that
00:30:23.120
this because of this verdict donald trump was unelectable and shouldn't run again when alvin
00:30:27.560
bragg was indicting trump john cornyn defended bragg and said the process was necessary and needed to play
00:30:32.580
out regarding january 6th john cornyn compared it to 9 11 then called the j6 attendees quote
00:30:39.100
white supremacists domestic terrorists insurrectionists rioters seditionists and anarchists
00:30:45.040
he then asked then fbi director chris ray if a new law was needed to charge the j6 attendees with
00:30:51.000
domestic terrorism and when the senate tried to impeach donald trump for a second time cornyn's only
00:30:56.720
complaint was that the impeachment process was actually holding up them and delaying
00:31:01.880
biden being able to get his cabinet nominees confirmed and i could go on and on with these
00:31:07.000
states i was just going through this book googling john cornyn's statement on that person and without
00:31:11.600
fair he has defended each one of these deep state actors and you know these could like maybe be
00:31:18.280
defensible statements a few of them if you're susan collins and you represent a state like maine that's
00:31:24.180
a purple or blue state john cornyn represents ruby red texas no i mean this is this is hang on hang on
00:31:31.460
hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on there's no excuse this is this is it's not just texas this is
00:31:36.800
why it's unforgivable you could have been quiet or you could have said something passing this is a
00:31:42.940
pattern recognition he is adamantly a defender of the deep state he despises president trump he detests
00:31:51.000
maga uh and the biggest mistake we can make is allowing this guy untethered with a re-election
00:31:57.200
to to to do he did this understanding now here's what he bet he bet that maga was finished he bet that
00:32:05.420
trump would never come back and what he wanted to do was to do whatever it was in his power to do
00:32:11.080
to bury it deeper go back to january 21 when when when when when they ran president trump out of
00:32:19.860
washington dc essentially into exile into mar-a-lago that was a defining moment john cornyn not
00:32:27.220
just try to do what a politician does he was a strong advocate of the deep state for the total
00:32:33.980
destruction of maga and donald j trump there is in no circumstance and anybody that works for him
00:32:40.380
or put money in or supports him is against maga and against the interest of president trump and the
00:32:46.820
people that are showing him phony polling this is my point caroline i've spent five weeks down here
00:32:52.580
now and met all the grassroots there is a significant element of the grassroots in texas and in maga that
00:32:59.440
under no circumstances will vote for john cornyn if john cornyn is the nominee in november he will lose
00:33:06.000
he will lose significantly because there is a core that see what you're talking about and it stuns me that
00:33:11.900
the paxton campaign didn't have this out but i know you're going to put it out in a systematic john
00:33:16.520
cornyn did it systematically to defend the deep state against the american people against maga and
00:33:22.520
against president trump and now people that are anti john cornyn and pro paxton and pro maga and pro
00:33:28.660
president trump are going to start putting this out he'll be swamped with this stuff this is not going
00:33:32.960
to go away because these weren't just passing comments there's a pattern here that he took about
00:33:38.560
himself even more than lindsey graham or mitch mcconnell he took upon himself as part of that
00:33:43.960
leadership team to lead the fight against maga and to lead the fight against president trump man
00:33:50.620
he absolutely did i think he's much worse than those others that you just said and you know you're right
00:33:56.400
like a lot of these other senators probably privately feel this way these kind of dinosaurs have been in
00:34:01.560
there forever but you know they're at least somewhat politically savvy that cornyn went out of his way
00:34:06.400
every single time to run to his best friends on msnbc and criticize donald trump and right you know
00:34:13.140
the the cornyn campaign keeps you this line of oh he voted 99 of the time with donald trump okay
00:34:18.500
whatever what does that even mean like that is that is not the point here that we are trying to make and
00:34:23.160
they all all the republic you can make up those type of statistics and say they they all you know
00:34:27.740
vote together but ever i mean there were massive investigations coming out of the judiciary
00:34:32.540
committee of which he's been a long-term you know very senior ranking member on and there are so
00:34:37.300
many questions about you know rushingate these other he didn't do anything he didn't fight stop
00:34:41.580
any of this in fact he was probably encouraging it i mean he was behind a lot of this stuff
00:34:45.340
and championing these same people that have just targeted donald trump over and over again
00:34:49.600
and then after the other thing that's driving me crazy about this is i just think back to that time
00:34:55.120
and especially around in 2020 when they took the election from us you had ken paxton out there
00:34:59.940
authoring amicus briefs supporting president trump on january 6th ken paxton was on stage
00:35:05.220
with donald trump at the white house ellipse saying this is outrageous they stole the election from
00:35:09.140
donald trump while john cornyn was calling us all domestic terrorists and trying to figure out a way
00:35:13.700
to conspire to get us all you know charged and lock up in jail for the rest of our lives like how could
00:35:18.140
this be even a decision that's happening but you mentioned earlier i mean the problem is that the folks
00:35:23.800
around president trump and by advising him they they want cornyn i don't know why but they do and so
00:35:29.900
president trump is the busiest man in the world right now he's uh you know our commander in
00:35:35.140
chief and we are at war and so we're out there just kind of yelling these things posting these clips
00:35:39.380
but that doesn't mean this is this is this is but this is the bush effort this is bush versus trump
00:35:45.320
the reason they're pushing cornyn is because they hate paxton why they hate paxton because of
00:35:50.060
we were there ken paxton destroyed the last remnant of the bush dynasty when he took the goofballed
00:35:57.420
dumb as a brick grandson who ran against him and beat him by 20 points and we had a runoff and he
00:36:03.800
beat him by more points then that was the whole the whole collection of people around trump are all
00:36:07.820
bushies they're all involved in that don't think we haven't had long odds with ken paxton before okay
00:36:14.240
this is something that the caroline runs and the steve bannons and the mad boils we didn't show up to
00:36:19.360
this party last night we've been fighting this for almost a decade now and this is why paxton paxton is
00:36:25.100
symbolic and he's made in those days in those days of the of the uh nog phony inauguration of an
00:36:33.580
illegitimate regime that stole the 2020 election and destroyed this country with allowing in 15 to
00:36:40.720
20 million illegal alien invaders and destroyed us financially that we're still digging ourselves out
00:36:45.620
of ken paxton is glazing biden and welcoming biden and approving lisa monaco she's that's inside
00:36:53.300
baseball she was the demon that set the whole thing up over at doj merrick garland some figurehead
00:36:59.760
and he's glazing her he's glazing fauci he's glazing esper this is the core of the deep state that was
00:37:07.800
against people and at that time ken paxton comes in and he's the first ag folks go back in time we had
00:37:14.920
no other defenses president trump was a lion and winner down in mar-a-lago we had ken paxton
00:37:20.140
a third of the war room audience was so depressed they left we had i said we got a rally victory
00:37:26.440
begets victory victory begets victory and we're going to come back in the darkest days of 20 january
00:37:32.380
and 21 january of 2021 i said we are going to return bigger than ever with trump and people said you're
00:37:39.340
a madman you're a nutcase i go no and you know who believed it and you know who stood in the breach
00:37:44.420
and delivered was ken paxton we would never have had the victory in 2024 ever and the people and
00:37:52.240
this is why don jr and the smart folks over there and the good folks over there came to paxton's
00:37:56.740
defense the other day we there would be no 2024 if it had not been for warriors like ken paxton
00:38:03.320
that bet it all the odds against this carolina as you remember that time were so long
00:38:08.580
and that's what and that's when you see the definition of heroes when they know the odds
00:38:14.060
are long and they go i don't care it's because it's the right thing to do ken paxton has flaws he
00:38:20.220
ain't perfect donald trump's got flaws he ain't perfect caroline renn steve bannon got flaws they
00:38:24.980
ain't perfect but they're in this fight and ken paxton has been in this fight in the darkest and
00:38:30.280
toughest days ma'am that is so true and the other reason we have to talk about that they that why does
00:38:36.660
washington dc hate paxton so much it's for all the reasons you just listed but there's another
00:38:41.480
big glaring reason and i this is someone i worked with the republican attorney generals association
00:38:46.520
the number one donors are corporations and paxton pretty much couldn't even come to raga meetings
00:38:53.260
why like the corporations the corporate donors and lobbyists would boycott it because ken paxton
00:38:57.940
cannot be bought he it was the most aggressive ag in this country bar none he does not care he would
00:39:05.040
sue amazon apple any of these bad actors and corporations coming after him and that's why
00:39:10.720
these corporations and the dc lobbyists they hate him they fear him they do not want him there cornyn
00:39:15.840
they know they can just give their five thousand dollar pack check and get endless bills through
00:39:19.500
that they want done i mean ken paxton is truly their worst nightmare to come up there and do it he was
00:39:24.980
the worst nightmare even out of at a raga conference and that to me is when i fell in love with ken
00:39:30.280
paxton and was like this is this was before you know the watching what he did after the 2020 stolen
00:39:36.260
election it was watching him go up against the corporate lobbyist and say i could care less about
00:39:42.560
your cocktail parties i don't need to be there i don't want to be invited i'm doing what is right
00:39:46.700
for we the people in texas and there's no lobbying my office and that amazing right there is why they
00:39:54.520
cannot have him okay caroline your social media you've been the tip you and boil are driving this
00:40:00.840
uh where do people go to follow you ma'am it's at caroline wren on x and a true social and getter
00:40:08.480
okay folks let me tell you this is a fluid situation you got to get it with caroline and what we need
00:40:16.340
today is force multipliers you got to take the content that's being put up and you got to be a force
00:40:20.680
multiplier this this is a long way from resolve but it could happen in any moment so this is why
00:40:26.420
it's a very fluid situation am i correct in that caroline it is a very fluid situation i would say i
00:40:32.440
thought that the the cornyn endorsement was a done deal i mean uh alex eisenstadt who's probably one of
00:40:37.240
the best sourced reporters with the white house he reported three days ago that donald trump has
00:40:41.540
made his decision the atlantic reported it too which i was a little more skeptical but i mean i think
00:40:47.380
that the cornyn endorsement is i think i have to be honest with your audience i think it's still
00:40:51.140
sitting on his desk if i were a betting person i say that he comes out and endorses cornyn which is
00:40:55.960
just i you know i would be a terrible decision but at the same time you know the president's going to
00:41:01.760
do what he what he's going to do um but but i'm not gonna you know just lay down right now right
00:41:06.760
now is the time to fight and to get everyone to speak up everyone i know and talk to is for paxton
00:41:11.040
and so it is so important i'm just telling people right now please be loud if you have
00:41:14.860
president trump's cell phone number please text him and make sure he knows that you're you support
00:41:18.580
paxton please let him know why uh you know call him go meet with him try and get in front of him
00:41:22.900
here because his endorsement does matter i you know could paxton still pull it off maybe but you
00:41:28.920
know donald trump has the most important endorsement that i've ever seen in politics and so it matters
00:41:34.260
and i hope that we're able to reverse it big okay uh today also we'll get this clip and make sure
00:41:40.620
this thing goes viral so caroline thank you appreciate you coming on change your sunday up
00:41:44.260
we've got some time constraints but i want to appreciate rav has let us blow our brakes here
00:41:51.240
jack basobik uh first off your thoughts on the paxton situation jack i know you're involved and
00:41:56.400
also then give me your your geostrategic assessment here in a couple of minutes before we bounce
00:42:01.820
well steve what's what's interesting here is that we were told out of dc and we saw a post from the
00:42:08.040
president's account on true social that it looked like an endorsement was forthcoming
00:42:12.340
um probably about the midpoint or late last week that endorsement has not occurred yet we have not
00:42:18.980
seen that and it seems that paxton's move which was just an incredibly brilliant move uh i don't know
00:42:26.800
who possibly could have been down there in texas advising on the campaign for for moves such as this
00:42:32.560
my you know my i can only speculate really as to which uh which war room leaders may have been there
00:42:38.000
but this move regarding the save act really seems to have changed the entire conversation and the
00:42:45.780
entire frame of the endorsement making the entire thing hinge on the save act because essentially what
00:42:53.260
this is has been and i'm just going to say it it was a bluff it was a bluff because senate gop leadership
00:42:58.280
steve they have not put the save act on the fast track the way that they should have senate gop
00:43:04.060
leadership what have they spent this time their time doing this week steve they spent their time
00:43:08.220
this week the senate gop leadership i want to remind you and this is going viral because i called it out
00:43:14.020
on uh on twitter this week they spent their week putting up a plaque for january 6 up in the united
00:43:21.560
states capital one that the house rejected by the way for the defenders of democracy on january 6 that's
00:43:30.180
what the senate gop leadership spent their week on where was ken paxton on january 6 oh that's right
00:43:36.260
he was standing with president trump and the mag of faithful who wanted an honest adjudication of the
00:43:43.140
2020 election just like war room and all of us associated all along have always called for that's
00:43:49.700
where ken paxton was so look when when you look at john cornyn i would say his candidacy is in real
00:43:56.740
trouble with whether or not he gets an endorsement or a cleared primary and all of these things the
00:44:02.160
mag of faithful i just don't think steve that they are going to come out in a november election in a
00:44:09.200
general election for him this could potentially lead to james tallarico entering the united states
00:44:14.960
senate from texas which is a state that has not elected a democrat statewide since the days of lbj
00:44:20.400
and plus he's aware we're gonna get into the plaque we're all of it tomorrow jack i gotta bounce that was
00:44:26.480
brilliant give me just two minutes because i gotta go unconditional surrender uh the foreign minister
00:44:32.740
i think so i'll meet the press the iranian foreign minister unconditional surrender president
00:44:36.260
trump says that means inability to project power on their own people your thoughts sir do i take it jack
00:44:42.440
you agree with me there's no off-ramp on tuesday uh i mean look i would not count anything out beyond
00:44:50.700
president trump he is the deal maker in chief he's the greatest deal maker that we've seen in american
00:44:56.280
history since ben franklin got the french in on behalf of the revolutionary war he's the greatest deal
00:45:03.280
maker since then or or when uh when john adams was over working with the uh working with the dutch to
00:45:09.180
finance the whole thing so you know greatest greatest deal maker since the revolutionary
00:45:13.300
generation i wouldn't put anything past president trump that said both sides are digging in you got
00:45:19.080
israel up this weekend and they are pounding hezbollah targets in southern lebanon you've seen over 100 000
00:45:25.160
people have already fled southern lebanon the the suburbs of beirut are turning into a ghost town i mean
00:45:31.560
you look at some of the footage that's coming out of there and the reason that they're not taking
00:45:34.980
civilian uh casualties you know in these in these apartment blocks and others is that they're the
00:45:40.320
people have fled so you're you've already got a humanitarian crisis there you've got people
00:45:45.080
fleeing areas of central tehran which are getting hit uh lit up you of course all the oil fields and
00:45:50.160
the oil supplies lit up in tehran last night looked like the looked like the fuel burnings out of uh out
00:45:55.500
of iraq and kuwait in 1991 so going back to the original gulf war some of those striking images that
00:46:02.140
came out and then as well you do you do see the iranians they're slipping their cluster bombs some
00:46:08.500
of them because they're using these saturation attacks they are starting to penetrate the iron
00:46:13.020
dome so you are seeing some of these get through here the rocket fire the drone fire it is starting
00:46:18.600
to get in it is starting to have effects on israel proper on television and then again kuwait kuwait
00:46:24.560
just getting lit up night after night this is getting uh thing jack your social media your twitter
00:46:31.320
feed is a must people got to go there keep up with this war where they go yeah we're up on x of
00:46:37.540
course at jack posobiec the podcast human events daily we're doing daily sit reps look we're trying
00:46:42.780
to call balls and strikes here we're trying to give you the unvarnished look and explain what's
00:46:48.580
actually going on from the tactical level as well as the strategic
00:46:51.560
in the book on humans make sure you get that big article today uh and about the new mccarthy
00:46:59.840
yeah so get to that tomorrow yeah yeah new new hit piece on on you still still
00:47:03.920
imagine you put the book out two years ago and we're still generating hate from the atlantic they
00:47:11.040
they're very upset that we called for a new mccarthyism
00:47:13.620
yes we're going to talk about this week jack thank you and thank you tanya tay for letting jack
00:47:20.000
visit with us this morning uh brandon wiker we only got a couple of minutes uh but give us
00:47:25.560
i need your battle assessment of where we are after last night sir uh in my opinion the war is
00:47:31.920
set to expand even more the iranians have been degraded as i have said they have not been destroyed
00:47:38.560
they have shifted their munitions now from what were the older missile systems as jack was just
00:47:44.500
noting uh to now these more advanced systems there is a massive strain on the particularly qatar
00:47:52.280
and israeli air defense interceptor arsenal uh so if this thing continues to go on as you and i believe
00:47:59.740
they will and will then the defense of these countries gets even more precarious i also want
00:48:05.540
to point out the houthis have not yet opened up on the red sea the saudis are moving most of their oil
00:48:11.420
transportation away from the strait of hormus into their red sea port i think the houthis are waiting
00:48:17.620
for them to be totally reliant on that and then they're going to seal it up but we now have the
00:48:22.740
issue of the eritrean coastline the ethiopians have taken operational control they are saying they're
00:48:29.240
going to allow u.s or israeli forces to use ground-based missiles to break up uh the houthi
00:48:36.020
capabilities across the way in yemen what that means is steve we're now talking about a war expanding not
00:48:42.180
just to azerbaijan not just to beirut you know and all these other places but now possibly in the
00:48:47.700
horn of africa as well this war is not ending anytime soon real quickly your your reporting
00:48:55.700
drove the the the ceos that come to the white house on friday give me a minute because i'm jammed
00:49:00.860
for time what was the out what was the outcome of the ceo meeting on on friday with president trump
00:49:05.840
at the white house uh they probably said some very pretty things to each other but ultimately the
00:49:11.080
reality is there will not be the ability to surge production the way we need to do remember we need
00:49:17.220
at least 200 uh tomahawks per year we're not producing anywhere near that in 24 months that is
00:49:24.060
an industrial bottleneck that has to be overcome and by the way who controls the rare earth minerals
00:49:29.140
that go into the creation of these systems that's the people's republic of china and they are absolutely
00:49:34.320
not going to let their their chokehold on that go away now if they meet with trump in beijing
00:49:39.420
they're going to tell him you stop the war or we're cutting you off from the rare earths china
00:49:43.760
is the beneficiary of all of this right now contrary to what some of the reporting earlier
00:49:48.540
was saying okay hang on where do people go to get your your reporting sir you can get me at 1945.com
00:49:57.320
you can get me i'm the nat sec guy at emerald tv dot tv and you can get me uh the weikert report that's
00:50:03.240
old though i don't really go there anymore uh and you can get me on twitter at we the brandon
00:50:07.840
well go to twitter i guess for the updates you can get all the books shadow war of a great primer
00:50:14.680
if you need one on iran versus the united states uh thank you sir thank you sir dr thayer i'm shocked
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uh weikert says the chinese are winning in this i don't know if i agree with that but the financial
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times of london has said that they want they've actually gone public and they want president trump
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to come for a state visit correct how much there you gotta explain this to me they just get destroyed
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in venezuela they're getting destroyed their guys are getting destroyed in iran and they're not doing
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anything about it how is this not a how do they not lose face by having a state visit where president
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trump comes in like a conquering hero sir well steve because the chinese communist party is in desperate
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straits uh economically as we saw this week and last week right the economy is in free fall uh they're
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in dire straits uh in in that respect and they're looking for president they're desperate for president
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trump to save uh the chinese communist party xi jinping is going full stalin on the military right he's
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purging uh the uh the military you saw his address to the people's armed police than the pla uh today at
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that um the uh meeting of the delegation uh from those two bodies where he said there's no room for
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anybody who's disloyal to the party uh so the ccp is in dire straits and they need president trump to
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come in and say no changes to tariffs or tariff relief no changes to investment right despite what
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president the trump administration is stressed there's still investment uh in communist china
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and um no changes to the students right they still need to get the intellectual capital uh and knowledge
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uh from the united states through legal and illegal means so the ccp needs president trump
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president trump doesn't need the ccp that's an important point to keep in mind they're in dire straits
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they need help and president trump uh can provide that uh for them so we need to keep that in mind
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hang on real quick real quickly real quickly this purge of the pla talks about corruption
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and the military's got to be loyal or they're gone we got a minute uh he's already purged the military
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at the highest ranks is there going to be continued if there's a continual purge that means they're not
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ready to go strike taiwan correct well let's not uh maybe right i think we want to be careful about
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striking taiwan and we we don't want to say because of x they can't do it um uh they may have a horrible
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surprise for us with respect uh to taiwan but look steve at this rate you're going to be asked to be on
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the cmc uh you know the way that they're going through uh their generals their admirals right it's
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going to be banned they're burning through guys their military commission they're they're they're
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burning through guys like crazy i mean it's it's insane and everybody thinks that uh she's getting
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weaker yes lenin goes to stalin yeah he's moving towards an efficient stalin is what he's uh dr
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thayer where to where do people go to get all your contents amazing yeah a brad thayer on x and
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brad thayer at truth and uh getter thanks steve thank you appreciate you sir i want to thank real
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