00:00:40.080They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.
00:00:42.700They gave us a present, and the president arrived today.
00:00:47.800It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.
00:00:52.360And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant
00:00:56.540uh uh prize and they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it so that meant
00:01:04.120one thing to me would deal with the right people
00:01:06.420i'm clear what that president he's talking about actually is though he did later say it had to do
00:01:12.760with the strait of hormuz and was oil and gas related purported gifts aside though gas prices
00:01:18.240rose again today to three dollars and 98 cents a gallon just two cents shy of the four dollar mark
00:01:23.300and a full dollar a gallon more than the day the war began.
00:01:27.540Meanwhile, today, a senior diplomat in Iran who requested anonymity told MSNOW
00:01:32.720Iran is not ready to enter negotiations at this time.
00:01:36.960Also breaking tonight, MSNOW just confirmed the Pentagon is preparing to send about 3,000 soldiers to the region.
00:01:44.240The troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division are in addition to nearly 5,000 Marines already on their way to the Middle East.
00:01:54.200That's a total of nearly 8,000 troops headed to the region.
00:01:58.500Here's how House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries pushed back this afternoon.
00:02:03.920Not a single troop should be put into harm's way in the context of Donald Trump's failed effort to try to bomb Iran out of existence without any clear strategy to improve the quality of life of the American people.
00:02:26.560Story. The United States has now sent Iran a 15 point plan to end the war in the Middle East as fighting rattles the region and economic fallout escalates.
00:02:37.280That's according to The New York Times, citing two officials briefed on the diplomacy who say the plan was delivered by way of Pakistan.
00:02:47.320The paper notes it is unclear how widely the plan has been shared among Iranian officials.
00:02:52.440It also remains unclear whether Iran will accept any offer or if Israel is on board with the proposal.
00:02:59.680I would say those are two key areas for this to work.
00:03:03.800Officials tell The Times the plan addresses Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
00:03:10.280The Wall Street Journal, meanwhile, cites officials who say the document calls on Iran to dismantle its three main nuclear sites and end any enrichment on Iranian soil.
00:03:21.740suspend its ballistic missile work, curb support for proxies, and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
00:03:30.220The officials add that Iran would, in return, have nuclear-related sanctions lifted
00:03:35.900and the U.S. would assist while monitoring the country's civilian nuclear program.
00:03:42.920The journal also reports that mediators from Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan
00:03:46.840are pushing to have a meeting arranged between U.S. and Iranian officials
00:03:51.080in the next 48 hours, but both sides remain far apart.
00:03:56.760He was bluffing. They called his bluff, and he backed down. And, you know, you can say that he
00:04:02.880was doing this to soothe the markets. Another way to say that is that he's doing this to manipulate
00:04:06.240the markets. And what have we seen? We've seen the president completely change his explanation
00:04:10.760of what he wants. Just days ago, he was calling for the unconditional surrender. Now he's saying,
00:04:14.360OK, we want to make a deal with such and such terms. And this is complete strategic incoherence.
00:04:19.920And despite the fact that we have a military that can hit any target that Trump tells it to hit,
00:04:23.580if we have no strategic direction, then there's no clear way to get to the end of this war.
00:04:27.760Now, it's a good thing. And I think that Trump has realized that he's going to have to deal
00:04:30.780with the Iranians. But to do so in a way that has no coherence and no actual plan for extricating
00:04:36.480the U.S. out of this war is is diplomatic malpractice.
00:04:41.000The head of the guy who was assassinated last week, what's his story?
00:04:46.840So it's not a regime change, it's personnel change, Anderson.
00:04:50.460Essentially, you have a new group of individuals who share the same ideology.
00:04:57.860They call themselves principlists because it means they're loyal to the principles of the 1979 revolution.
00:05:03.540Do they actually, I mean, that's the term they actually use?
00:05:05.480Yeah, in Persian they say usulghera, so principlists.
00:05:08.120And those principles are essentially now a couple of things, death to America and death to Israel.
00:05:14.920Hasn't it always? I mean, those have always been kind of guiding principles, haven't they?
00:05:19.260They've been the guiding principles since 1979, and it hasn't evolved at all since 1979.
00:05:25.740Is it are they more hard line, though? I mean, that that has been the argument that, yes, OK, it is technically, I guess, regime change because there's new people there.
00:05:34.160Is it a regime that is harder against Israel in the US?
00:05:37.820I think it's a regime which is even less flexible than before, even more brutal than before,
00:05:45.280because they know that that's the only thing that they have left to stay in power is brutality, given their lack of legitimacy.
00:05:53.060Sources say roughly 1,000 U.S. soldiers from the 82nd Airborne, as we said, are expected to deploy.
00:05:59.140If they, in fact, did deploy on Iranian soil, from a legal standpoint, which is what you do,
00:06:06.160How does that change the equation for them?
00:06:09.280So for me, I think it's helpful to remember that we actually don't have affirmative congressional authority to be engaging in this war.
00:06:16.700Only Congress has the power to declare war and they haven't here.
00:06:19.660And so the way that the executive branch has basically been getting around that is by saying we're not technically at war.
00:06:24.480We're just engaged in hostilities or just less than hostilities.
00:06:27.360We're just doing airstrikes and we're not committing serious numbers of troops to any type of ground force invasion.
00:06:32.920Well, you're kind of out of that excuse when you hit that.
00:06:35.580Even if it's just a couple thousand troops?
00:06:38.680Yes. I mean, that is expressly what Article 1 is meant.
00:06:40.960And the War Powers Resolution is meant to prevent commitment of significant ground troops to a region without having congressional input,
00:06:47.360without having basically the people approving that through their legislators.
00:06:51.620And General Marks, you heard the Israeli defense minister saying today that they wanted to occupy a swath of southern Lebanon.
00:06:58.820How difficult a military operation would that be?
00:07:01.780I went out with Israeli troops in southern Lebanon in 2006, and it was incredibly difficult.
00:07:07.660I mean, just moving inch by inch in armored vehicles because of, you know, roads that were mined.
00:07:13.160Right. The difficulty with that clearly is you put your troops at risk.
00:07:18.240So in order to do that, you have to move to the northernmost or furthest most boundary, and then you have to work your way back.
00:07:27.100In other words, you have to isolate it. That simply takes time.
00:07:30.220And, again, any time you put boots on the ground, you enhance the risk.
00:07:34.020If I can also go back to what Margaret said, in advance of that, there clearly is intelligence that has to be provided to your partners if they are, in fact, going to execute some operations.
00:07:48.160And, again, you want to be able to do the diligence and the vetting in advance so you know what your partners are all about.
00:07:53.940Because you're going to share in this particular case, we're going to share with the Israelis and they're going to share with us in advance of any strike or any operation.
00:08:00.780And in a sign of that distance, shortly after the 15 point plan was submitted to Iran, the country's military mocked the attempts for peace, speaking in a prerecorded video that aired on state TV.
00:08:14.220an Iranian military spokesman put it like this quote have your internal conflicts reached
00:08:21.260the point where you are negotiating with yourselves he added quote our first and last word
00:08:28.000has been the same from day one and it will stay that way someone like us will never come to terms
00:09:18.080I think that this is a regime which understands that if they open up to the world, that's actually an existential threat to them.
00:09:26.820because their ability to control Iran is much easier when you don't have the forces of international capitalism and civil society.
00:09:36.040And it's a regime which for 47 years has been premised on hostility towards the United States.
00:09:41.540And they actually fear normalization with the United States more than they fear conflict with the United States.
00:09:47.120I mean, we're getting energized about the fact that we're deploying forces.
00:09:51.680But both the MU and the individual response force, the IRF, or what's called the Ready Brigade from the 82nd Airborne Division, they're relatively small forces, and they can't move around a lot.
00:10:05.600They have specific missions that it's understandable why they would go in first, but this is a first effort.
00:10:14.040You know, the 82nd deploys worldwide with that, that ready brigade deploys within 18 hours, their wheels up out of Fort Bragg or Fort Liberty.
00:10:27.280What that means is they parachute in somewhere conducting an airborne assault to seize key terrain like an airfield or or a weapon site or critical infrastructure.
00:10:37.960But they can't move around a lot and neither can the Marine Expeditionary Unit.
00:10:44.040Once they go ashore or drop in from the sky, they are stationary.
00:10:49.600And a long time ago, I heard a comment that if you forget logistics in war, you're going to lose.
00:10:56.880Now, these two forces may be the entry-level forces, but it indicates that there's plans for others to come in.
00:11:04.940But those others coming in will come in very, very slowly.
00:11:08.720When you're talking about the rest of the 82nd Airborne Division, still, that's a relatively small force, about 15,000 to 18,000 soldiers, depending on how many you bring in with the entire division.
00:11:20.480In a land that's as big as Iran, with the kind of terrain they have and the geography, even supported by a massive number of overhead aircraft and Tomahawk missiles, these two forces can form a lodgment, as the military calls it, but they can't do a whole lot more until more follow-on forces come in.
00:11:44.220So I'm scratching my head trying to figure out what these two, actually three, two MEWS and one brigade are going to do.
00:11:52.260Now, the 82nd Airborne has also deployed their command post, which indicates to me that more are going to come in.
00:11:58.520But first of all, where are you going to put them as they all pull together?
00:12:02.420Because you can't put them immediately into Iran.
00:12:04.940They don't have the logistics support to go in there.
00:12:10.340What are the following follow on forces?
00:12:13.200because these three forces, two mews and a brigade, are designed to open a fight but not to finish one.
00:12:23.260And so we're thinking about putting forces, a lot of forces, on the ground.
00:12:27.700This is an opening gambit, and it's interesting that it's taking place while we're still bombing and conducting peace talks in Pakistan.
00:12:35.880Do you think the president's thinking right now, based on your reporting, and what direction are we going?
00:12:42.000So I'm going to guess that the president is thinking today the same thing he thought the day the war began,
00:12:50.000which is that the overwhelming military power that the U.S. is sending has sent to the Gulf
00:12:58.120and has been using against Iran will force Iran to make concessions that it now says it's not prepared to make
00:13:06.120and that the U.S. will get a settlement that's acceptable, that meets basic minimum U.S. demands.
00:13:13.420I think he still believes that, as he keeps saying.
00:13:17.820We're winning this war, and by conventional military standards, he's right.
00:13:22.080The problem is that the military campaign has consolidated power in Iran around the worst of the worst,
00:13:31.020The hardest line people in Iran, tougher in many ways than the people who were running the country before, are now in charge, and they don't want to make a deal.
00:13:41.620So I think, truly, we just have to be cautious over the next few days and see how this proposal for peace, the 15 points that Trump has sent, how that's received by Iran.
00:13:56.720There's a new deadline. Trump has said he's going to wait five days to get an Iranian answer.
00:14:02.920So that clock tolls Saturday, as I understand it.
00:14:06.900So there's not much time left. But as The Wall Street Journal said in an editorial this morning,
00:14:11.920even Donald Trump today doesn't know the answer to your question, Joe.
00:14:16.260He doesn't. I don't think he knows how this plane is going to land.
00:14:19.840wednesday 25 march in the year of our lord 2026 war and the rumor of war this morning
00:14:29.040on the war we're in the war room on the war room in the room i guess we're in the world
00:14:33.620natasha owens takes us out we're going to break it all down for you in much much much more back
00:14:49.840What about when you took your shot at the one you called a king?
00:19:43.600They're using Trump and D.C. Republicans, and they're saying,
00:19:46.980I did that, and they're pointing to the same campaign.
00:19:49.920So the D.C.C. realizes that the Achilles is the gas price.
00:19:53.980The Iranians realize that the Achilles is the gas price.
00:19:58.820And so any little kind of comment out of the Iranians is jacking up oil prices.
00:20:04.940I think that dovetails with something that you and I talked about weeks ago, where we said these Middle Eastern countries are saying they're pro-Trump and they're supporting Trump.
00:29:42.000Now more than ever, turbulence, a goal today, bouncing up,
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00:30:39.200So make sure you really get all the information, immerse yourself in information.
00:30:43.320Speaking of that, all-family pharmacy, we had the CEO on yesterday, another huge turnout of the war on posse.
00:30:48.280you don't have you can't have let me say a different like medical freedom until you have
00:30:54.740the freedom to talk to a pharmacist that will listen or a licensed physician that will listen
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00:31:15.500and the McKessons of the world, the middlemen, have on you.
00:31:43.560sam fattis um you know the neighborhood they have shattered the command and control the command
00:31:54.240and control and remember the israelis did more of kind of the decapitation move the americans
00:31:59.740focused on more the technological command and control but it's pretty evident and the president
00:32:06.080reiterates this the chairman of the joint chiefs reiterates this the uh cencom reiterates this we
00:32:12.660have to a degree shattered their traditional you know ayatollah mullah revolutionary guard i think
00:32:20.240somebody told me down to the brigade level um and so president trump the first issue he's got to
00:32:26.400deal with is like who is even in charge to make a deal with and that's why the pakistani field
00:32:32.380and you know the pakistanis very well uh lovely lovely lovely folks the pakistani you know field
00:32:39.760marshal who is very close to president trump has offered up and offered to them to actually host
00:32:46.040this you've got the arab council the the gulf council their guys have come together and said
00:32:51.220we want to help we want to figure something out and you've got the turks so from an intelligence
00:32:57.220point of view how are they framing this with the president now and how are they getting this type
00:33:02.640of operational intelligence to basically give the commander-in-chief, who is open to do
00:33:09.320a deal with someone, if it makes sense, and if he achieves his objectives, which are the
00:33:14.540non-actual kinetic objectives, how do they frame this for him of exactly who in the hell
00:33:25.120he should be talking to to get a deal that can actually be executed inside Iran, sir?
00:33:32.640Well, look, I think you put your finger on something really, really important.
00:33:38.320The Iranians are continuing to resist by moving to this completely decentralized command system where all the pieces just keep fighting.
00:33:46.660But now you want them to act as a unified whole, and you want somebody to be able to speak for the government.
00:33:55.580Not only is it hard to figure out who that is, but there may not, in fact, be agreement inside Iran.
00:34:02.640on who that is it's not just like we can't figure it out they don't know either and then of course
00:34:08.800you've laid out the turks the pakistanis i mean all of these people have their own interests and
00:34:15.640have history have a history of being incredibly duplicitous with us saying one thing very very
00:34:22.440clearly hang on hang on hang on i want to take a second i want to take a second because this this
00:34:29.080area was your beat for many decades i want to go into this because right now they've got one element
00:34:36.020of the uh of the eye uh the revolutionary guard and i don't know how big this element is they say
00:34:40.780they talk for all of them but it's interesting they're kind of trumpian to a degree they're
00:34:45.260coming back to president trump and go get out of here who are you you know you've already lost this
00:34:49.220you're not i mean it's it's interesting how they're doing it but on the duplicity side
00:34:53.920because this is why we have bowling on here one of his most brilliant insights to say hey look
00:34:58.100don't think these guys that are begging for us to start escorting destroy you know getting
00:35:02.520destroyers and escorting things through there don't think they're actually pulling for you
00:35:05.820their their business models don't work at trump's full spectrum energy dominance with a four handle
00:35:12.860in front of this and of course there's some folks in west texas not crazy about forty dollar oil
00:35:17.480either but with trump's you know idea of full spectrum energy dominance there's not a guy in
00:35:23.380the Persian Gulf that signed up for that. They love it at $1.40, right? At $140. And the Turks,
00:35:29.420just take a second on how duplicitous they've been with us in the region overall for many,
00:35:34.580many, many decades, sir. Look, all of these guys are going to lie to your face. Let's just be clear,
00:35:40.880right? They've all got their own interests. They're all going to sit down and swear loyalty
00:35:45.220and tell you that they're your brother and all of this, and we're going to drink a lot of tea,
00:35:49.360and they're going to tell us all kinds of wonderful things and then they're going to walk right out
00:35:55.880they're going to walk right out of the room and do exactly the opposite they never had it's not
00:36:00.880a question of them reneging on the agreement the agreement actually means nothing at all to them
00:36:07.040right we we have this you know weird american sense that okay we had a negotiation we had a deal
00:36:13.920that means we actually agreed and intend to follow through on it that is not the norm in
00:36:19.580the middle east the norm in the middle east is we talked and swore that we were each other's
00:36:25.660brothers and then you stab me in the back the second i walk out the door i mean i've sat in
00:36:29.900meetings with the pakistanis where we were going to go raid a terrorist safe house by the time we
00:36:34.560got to the terrorist safe house the same guys we had just talked to had called the guys in the
00:36:39.260safe house and told them to get out of Dodge, right? That is the norm. So you have to understand
00:36:47.580that. It doesn't mean you have to be taken advantage of, but you have to force them to
00:36:53.780come to an agreement. You can't rely upon their word. You have to rely upon the fact that you put
00:37:02.140them in a position where they don't have any choice. One of the critical issues obviously here
00:37:07.020is your human intelligence. When you're sitting in the room with the sheikh and the sheikh is
00:37:13.840telling you one thing, what you really need is the guy in the sheikh's office who tells you
00:37:19.020what was the meeting that they had before they came in the room with you, what he's really saying,
00:37:25.180what he really intends to do. And then, of course, the same guy can tell you afterward what they did.
00:37:30.100That comes down to human intel. You can't see that with a satellite. You're probably not going
00:37:34.680to pick that up in an intercept because the shake's not so stupid he's talking over a phone
00:37:38.460about it and i mean you know my position on that our human intelligence is really really weak we
00:37:46.040don't have the guys we need inside they're telling us okay great this is what he's going to say and
00:37:54.060this is what's really happening behind it so you're you're in a little bit of a minefield and
00:37:58.700you're in the dark you are you would counsel i don't want to put words in your mouth but let me
00:38:08.760respond this you would cancel counsel then the president if you were advising him now and all
00:38:14.700these different perturbations of how to actually see if we can't figure something out here now that
00:38:19.860the president feels he's he's completed or near completion some of the most important military
00:38:26.840objectives of this military operation you would counsel him to say yeah let's get the couple of
00:38:33.840these marine expeditionary units in place on station in the north arabian sea or gulf of oman
00:38:38.780let's let's get a brigade of the the 82nd airborne and maybe we bring in a couple of three other
00:38:44.160assets because the only thing they're going to respond to is the hammer if we if they if we they
00:38:51.220know we got the hammer and we're prepared to use the hammer whatever that is and i'm far from
00:38:55.420advocating ground troops but whatever that hammer is that's the way it's like a come along that's
00:39:02.800that's the way you get their attention and keep them to basically maybe get to a position of a
00:39:08.320deal identify first off who can actually make a deal get to a deal and then make sure that you
00:39:13.040have something that you can actually execute upon sir i i would i would recommend all of those things
00:39:22.000Although, like you, my strong preference would be that we not go down this road to use ground troops.
00:39:28.240There are lots of other levers we have.
00:39:29.860Let's keep in mind, whether we take Kargisland or don't take Kargisland, the Iranians will never export another barrel of oil as long as the United States Navy sits outside the Gulf of Hormuz.
00:39:43.780They can run around up in the Persian Gulf all they want.
00:39:57.320But listen, I mean, I don't want to make this sound like I'm the only guy who's ever done this.
00:40:02.020But like in the run up to the Iraq war, when we were leaning on guys to pick a side or the other, at some point in those negotiations, talking to lieutenant general, whoever it is, we're saying, look, we're prepared to do the following for you, hand you X number of dollars and so forth.
00:40:17.900And the other side of the coin is, General, if you don't come over to our side, we're also prepared to put a JDAM through the building where you work and have it explode on your desk.
00:40:58.820Just in the Gulf of Oman or even pull it back to the North Arabian Sea, the United States Navy can stop, can quarantine, just like they were doing in Venezuela.
00:41:06.620You can stop any vessel coming out there and either turn it around or just seize it.
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