Join us as we discuss the latest on the latest in the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran, including the possibility of ground troops entering the conflict zone, Iran's refusal to accept a cease-fire, and the prospect of a ground invasion.
00:07:35.080saying that it's unrealistic, unreasonable, excessive.
00:07:38.280These are demands, things like Iran abandoning its nuclear activities, stopping support for its proxies like Hezbollah and Lebanon and elsewhere.
00:07:49.280And, you know, kind of things like that that have that have really been on the U.S. wish list when it comes to what it wants Tehran to do for many, many years.
00:07:59.040And it's always been rejected and it seems to have been rejected this time as well, at least at least publicly.
00:08:05.300Iran has come up with its own list of five things that it thinks needs to be done to bring an end to the conflict.
00:08:12.500And that's equally unrealistic, talking about things like the United States getting rid of its bases across the Middle East,
00:08:19.800making sure that Iran has full control over that strategic strait of Hormuz into the future,
00:08:25.300a guarantee of no attacks and also war reparations that it wants paid from the United States
00:08:30.500because of all the damage that's been done inside the Islamic Republic.
00:08:34.160Again, absolutely unrealistic. And so given those two extremes, Kate, it doesn't seem that at least publicly there is any sign of a compromise emerging.
00:08:46.240What there is a sign of is lots of escalation, because over the course of the past couple of days, in particular, we've seen Iran fire drones and missiles at all sorts of targets across this Persian Gulf region, really escalating the tension.
00:09:01.720The Iranian-backed Houthis and Houthi rebels in Yemen have joined the war in the Middle East,
00:09:06.140conducting a series of strikes on Israel this weekend.
00:09:08.880The Houthis are one of the most powerful and important members of Iran's axis of resistance.
00:09:13.640But this marks the first time since the U.S. and Israel began their airstrikes on Iran just over a month ago
00:09:19.400that the Houthis have entered the fighting.
00:09:21.760The situation's been vastly different with another powerful Iranian-backed group, Hezbollah, in Lebanon.
00:09:27.580Full-scale fighting between Hezbollah and Israel has been nonstop since the start of the war with Iran,
00:09:32.500and Israel has now launched an expanding ground invasion of southern Lebanon.
00:09:37.320Vast portions of Lebanon's south are starting to look like the destruction seen previously in Gaza,
00:09:42.700something top Israeli government ministers have actually publicly called for.
00:09:47.320Israeli strikes in and around the Lebanese capital of Beirut are also leaving massive destruction.
00:09:51.960At least 1,189 people have died in Lebanon, according to the health ministry, including at least 122 children.
00:10:00.640So the Department of Defense is reportedly preparing for weeks of potential ground operations in Iran.
00:10:07.460That's according to U.S. officials who spoke to The Washington Post.
00:10:11.280Those officials said any potential operation would fall short of a full-scale invasion.
00:10:17.580It could involve raids carried out by a mix of special ops forces and conventional infantry troops.
00:10:26.420And according to exclusive reporting by The Wall Street Journal, President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract uranium from Iran.
00:10:37.060But military experts warn any operation would require plenty of manpower, a specially trained extraction team and even a makeshift airfield, which could take several weeks.
00:10:51.280They say this mission would be the most challenging of Trump's presidency and could ultimately lengthen the war.
00:10:59.620For the world, there is no longer any such thing as American credibility, just a strange reality television show in which the main actor swerves, bobs and weaves his way through crises, hoping that what he says today will solve the crisis caused by what he said yesterday.
00:11:18.560The day before he threatened to obliterate Iran's power plants,
00:11:23.380Trump claimed that the U.S. was considering winding down its military operations against Iran
00:11:28.260and implied that protecting the Strait of Hormuz was not his problem
00:11:32.160and could be dealt with by other nations whose imports passed through the strait.
00:11:36.980At another point, he said he didn't need any other country's help.
00:11:41.280Businessmen used to rail against previous administrations because of policy uncertainty,
00:11:47.120Now they line up to praise Trump as his carnival of chaos roils markets almost every week.
00:11:56.720Donald Trump has gotten used to playing with the United States' massive power, punishing those who don't bend the knee and rewarding those who do.
00:12:06.400In doing this, he's squandering credibility built up over decades to extract short-term goodies,
00:12:13.720sometimes to the benefit of his own family's business interests.
00:12:17.700But in Iran, he seems to have come up against an adversary
00:16:22.040okay welcome back we've got uh sam faddis and we're going to have eric bowling's also going
00:16:33.020to join us uh to go through this make sure you have all the information particularly from over
00:16:37.380the weekend um one thing on the arab front because we have called for i wonder why mark
00:16:44.820events why why are we not talking about a combination idf arab you know get the uae
00:16:53.080special forces there's all types of rumors and it's up on facebook and different sites uh in
00:16:59.780the middle east that uae is prepared to freeze the 530 billion or seize it i should say the 530
00:17:08.040billion a dollars held at um you know the pirate cove of dubai and um also to reject
00:17:17.320which i don't think anybody realized they had 99 year visa golden visas for iranian elites
00:17:24.240persian elites remember the arabs are double dealing you all the time every the world's
00:17:31.540greatest ally uh headquartered in uh in jerusalem and the uh and the arab nations double dealing you
00:17:38.820all the time just remember this as we're in this and so my recommendation all this talk about combat
00:17:44.280troops and ground troops let's start with the idf and let's start with the arab nations uae special
00:17:49.720forces saudi infantry you know what cutters got what kuwait's got and people are over the week
00:17:56.040oh no you can't do that steve they're too incompetent they can't fight well hey i don't
00:17:59.220care no better time to find out than test them let's throw them over then let's take the first
00:18:05.040wave it'll draw out the iranians and maybe we can kill maybe we can kill the persians easier
00:18:09.820use them as bait i don't give a damn i don't want to use american kids let's use theirs
00:18:15.420if you got nuclear fairy you got nuclear fairy dust over there you got to get so this is the
00:18:20.800latest thing we got nuclear fairy dust you got to get well send the idf in there they got all
00:18:25.240the special forces get take out detachment uh they they were rounding up the cnn crew yesterday
00:18:31.820in the um uh in the uh you know talking about all kind of violence against christians
00:18:40.020uh over in judea samaria and they rounded up a arrested or rounded up a cnn crew
00:18:47.180i have no problem with that i'd probably arrest all the cnn crews also
00:18:51.280but um you know take up and take a brigade of that or take a brigade out of lebanon and let's
00:18:56.960have them go get the they got the best intelligence let them go get the nuclear fairy dust go do it
00:19:01.980do it today didn't stop you from bombing the gas fields and which is still the inflection point
00:19:09.000that 100 shifted this center gravity of this battle down to the persian gulf so let's let's
00:19:14.780go go go send them in today let's have the arabs i want arabs i want the i want a uae
00:19:21.240mbz who's the best they got over there and he's got a real he's got a real army it's not huge but
00:19:27.580they actually know how to fight karg island there's your objective go and throw in a couple
00:19:33.100of qatar princes let's say throw the saudi princes in there too get them out of london get them out
00:19:37.700of the casinos and whorehouses in london and get them back to the gulf get them here net yahoo's
00:19:44.360kid down in Miami get turf him out tomorrow where's DHS we need him get him throw him out
00:19:48.520get him back there put a uniform on him let's have him in the first wave
00:19:52.760it's sick let's play Marco Marco came out of all you need to do is put the band in their back
00:20:03.680and they'll so Marco little Marco comes out national security advisor Marco comes out
00:20:08.460yesterday out of the witness protection program finally so we don't have to have Scott Besson
00:20:12.840talking war strategy you should be talking seizing assets that's what we've got to be doing you got
00:20:18.500to go to you have to force uae to seize the assets of the iranian let's go total war means economic
00:20:24.800war information war all of it before we start putting people in harm's way seize their assets
00:20:32.240all kind of rumors are finally going to do it and man if they got 99 year visas arrest all the ones
00:20:37.200that got the visas in arrest them all right now in in in in Abu Dhabi in Dubai arrest them if you
00:20:44.820got Persians over there roll them up throw them in a camp somewhere put them out in the desert
00:20:48.400if you're gonna if you're gonna jeopardize our best the best we have are these young men and
00:20:54.100women if we're gonna put them in harm's way hey they volunteered for it I got it they kind of
00:20:59.820knew what they were getting into that's all good they they they and they want to be in this fight
00:21:05.580But we have to take every action we can possibly take from our allies, quote, unquote, all of them, the world's greatest ally up in Tel Aviv, in our Arab, in our great Arab allies who still have not committed to the, understand something.
00:21:21.840They have not committed to this war yet.
00:21:24.560They're kind of sitting there going, oh, this is horrible.
00:21:28.000We're going to do force majeure and, you know, kick the, throw out the old contracts and ratchet up the new contracts.
00:21:33.500have you said there's no alliance where's their navies out there taking out speed boats looking
00:21:39.000for mines hell they're all in the persian gulf and they talk big games you know they're going
00:21:45.120to invest they're going to invest nine trillion dollars here let's let's get your military
00:21:48.800first wave in karg island the all arab second wave idf and we'll then we'll reconsider we'll
00:21:55.700see how it stands there let's play i want to play marco again the the war room engine room
00:22:02.960pointing out something. Let's just get Marco and let's see what he's got to say.
00:22:07.440Well, first of all, it's important to remember the objectives of this operation from the very
00:22:11.140beginning. We were going to, we are destroying Iran's Navy. We are destroying their ability to,
00:22:17.000their missile launchers by a significant percentage. We're going to wipe out their
00:22:19.900defense industrial base, meaning their ability to make new missiles and new drones in the future
00:22:23.960because it posed a great threat to the region. This Iran that you're seeing now, this is Iran
00:22:28.840at its weakest point imagine them two years from now if they had thousands of more missiles to
00:22:33.380thousands of more missile launchers and factories to make even more that was an unacceptable risk
00:22:37.900it needed to be addressed and president trump is addressing it yeah and i think implied is the
00:22:44.360nuclear capability he only gave three but the fourth one is the force is power projection
00:22:49.620against neighbors power projection that would be against israel against the gulf allies that
00:22:55.260that was always the fourth they've won they've always they've admitted now since the beginning
00:22:59.100the first week was power projection against their own people because it ain't going to be any
00:23:03.700uprising because that was from the exquisite intelligence that was a miss because we had the
00:23:11.700persians at cpac tell us you have 92 million people and you know nobody has any guns you think
00:23:20.020the second amendment's important nobody's got any guns that's why they can't revolt sam faddis
00:23:25.200The search for President Trump is applying the hammer constantly, but also trying to negotiate.
00:23:35.700When you shatter, as we have, there's no doubt, CENCOM has shattered the regime's elite in their communications, and they've cut off the internet.
00:23:47.460You have different factions, and you've got guys in Pakistan talking about one thing.
00:23:53.120the Saudis are talking about another and president Trump's trying to deal with that and find out who
00:23:57.860in Tehran can actually negotiate with walk me through how you think this process is going and
00:24:02.640how can our intelligence service services help the president yeah I I don't think I don't think
00:24:10.420it's going particularly well Steve um and I think you got a whole bunch of issues I mean one is what
00:24:15.760you just talked about which is we've been gone heavy on decapitating these guys and killing
00:24:21.380everybody at a senior level who puts his head up so uh there's first of all the question of who
00:24:27.380wants to put his head up and even if they trust us maybe do they trust the israelis because the
00:24:35.300israelis so far have shown that the president says one thing and then they go out and do whatever the
00:24:40.740hell they want then there's of course the part where they have moved to a completely decentralized
00:24:45.940command structure which is how they're continuing to function the 31 different commands that
00:24:51.380just are authorized to continue to fight on their own. In other words, we cut off the heads, sort of.
00:24:56.400But now you want them to act as a unified entity.
00:24:59.800The last factor I would throw out is why do they want to negotiate right now?
00:25:04.120I mean, we're beating the hell out of them in a conventional military sense. There's no question.
00:25:08.340I mean, it's completely one-sided, but we beat the hell out of them,
00:25:12.520and they hold a knife to the world economy with the Straits of Hormuz and the possibility of attacking production facilities.
00:25:18.660so that's and and right now i'm not convinced that they think they have to accept these 15 points
00:25:24.960do they um in in the job we've done of decapitation of the regime um also given the ideological you
00:25:38.100you don't normally or let me ask you a different way it's the intelligence community looks at this
00:25:43.980helping and assisting with the targeting as the farther down the chain do you go do you finally
00:25:49.600get to we're searching for jeffersonian democrats do we ever get there or you just get harder and
00:25:55.880harder core colonels and lieutenant colonels who see themselves as the grand poobah
00:26:00.780yeah absolutely well let's put it this way you're not going to find jefferson that's sure
00:26:06.480that's for damn sure i mean yes you're going to run into ideologues and you're going to run into
00:26:12.300guys who who think they get to be king now and you're going to run into a million issues and
00:26:17.860let's be let's be real here i mean our technical intelligence collection capability is second to
00:26:24.760none you know if it's if it's a transmission in the air we can we can hear it and decrypt it
00:26:29.620if if you can see it from space from overhead we can see it we got all kinds of sensors
00:26:35.680obviously our human intelligence capability is terrible right now and we relied apparently
00:26:42.000as far as I can tell on Israeli intelligence which by the way also turned out to be terrible
00:26:48.620so now you're into the ultimate kind of area where you would want human human intelligence
00:26:53.840right this is not about where's a building or what's inside this is about will this guy
00:26:59.300work with us will he not is he telling us the truth the only way you know that is if you have
00:27:04.580spies if you have sources and and I don't think we have any worth a damn on the ground in Iran
00:27:10.880And the Israelis, for whatever collection of reasons, have proven that they're feeding us stuff that isn't true.
00:27:20.040So, you know, that would be your key right now.
00:27:22.740This is the ultimate time when you need, when you're talking to some Iranian and then when they go in the back room and you're not president anymore,
00:27:30.420you need somebody who was there in that meeting to tell you what their real bottom line is and hand you that critical information.
00:40:06.980Steve, I said this earlier, I believe, I said earlier a little bit early,
00:40:11.900but I believe $120 for West Texas Intermediate is baked in the cake right now.
00:40:16.500Now I really believe it because I had not realized that all these prices
00:40:20.160were based on oil that hadn't hit our shore yet.
00:40:22.700we're we're we've essentially run out of cheap oil into our refineries you're going to see a
00:40:28.220five dollar gallon of gasoline i have no question in my mind about it um where the hell are the
00:40:34.100arab ground troops like you mentioned why aren't these countries are supposedly our allies putting
00:40:38.860their boots on the ground they have probably a lot a lot more at stake than we do we're not being
00:40:43.860bombed essentially here in the united states they are and we're more importantly where they're not
00:40:49.460hold it hold it they're not hang on hang on hang on well the iranian people first are having hell
00:40:55.320rain down on them right they're having held they're having hell rain down on them and if
00:40:59.980they come out and say hey we hate the guys running this thing they'll probably be killed
00:41:03.360so i'm not but they're not you're not gonna have an uprising not at least not anytime soon let's
00:41:07.540go back to the arabs though the arabs are doubling and tripling their wealth right now remember the
00:41:13.220saudis took saudi aramco public and and folks think about this it's the biggest because they've
00:41:21.240nationalized all the all the all over there they took it public and this is what it was so screwed
00:41:26.540up they couldn't take it public in new york they couldn't take it public in london they couldn't
00:41:31.520even take it public in like in shanghai some places that or in vancouver they had to create
00:41:37.140their own exchange and take it public in Riyadh why because the the the disclosure documents were
00:41:43.160so got off and first they wouldn't disclose a ton of stuff principally how much the royal family's
00:41:48.440just stealing right off the top these are not these are not good guys the Qataris are not good
00:41:54.020guys UAE is the best of the lot over there MBZ he's double dealing this he tried to do a Chinese
00:41:59.180naval base years ago the Arabs are double dealing this their net worth from the time this war started
00:42:05.000with oil at 50 bucks a barrel or 55 and trump trying to drive it to 40 because remember the
00:42:10.500underpinning of the trump economic revolution is full spectrum energy dominance led by boom
00:42:17.440getting oil and gas down as cheap as you can possibly get it with their lifting costs at 30
00:42:22.600bucks now and their lifting costs gone from what three dollars back in the old days to 30
00:42:28.160because of their graft corruption and incompetence right just late natural laziness
00:42:33.900um their net worth has gone they've they their assets in the ground which is a depleting asset
00:42:40.140has increased at 110 bucks or what's what's uh brent right now 113 114 it's gone up a couple
00:42:48.240times 114 they're loving this now they're gonna have some cash flow problems this is why i think
00:42:54.060they're selling gold like crazy they're going to some they're going to have some short-term cash
00:42:57.720problems but their net worth the nation's the nation's value is going up exponentially and
00:43:05.060they've got these armies we've been giving them weapons for years and and buying it hey i want to
00:43:09.400see all the young princelings in saudi arabia i want to see all the guys in dubai i want to see
00:43:14.260all the influencers saying it's the greatest place in the world to run around babes and bikinis put
00:43:19.380them in a uniform let's get them over to karg island put them in a uniform today put all the
00:43:23.920princelings in Saudi Arabia. In fact, get MBS. He's all the talk. Put MBS on a white charger and
00:43:29.120let's get him down there with that big Arabian sword, that big broadsword. Let's do it. They're
00:43:35.400the ones making the money here. You don't think they're going to rub your nose in it later? Au
00:43:39.880contraire. Short break. Bowling and Faddis on the other side.
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00:45:35.540But coming across in an exclusive at the New York Post, just and we want to thank the Baltimore engine room for getting this right away.
00:45:45.360Trump tells the Post his response to Iranian regime coming shortly after Tehran attacks Israel's biggest oil refinery, Washington, D.C.
00:45:53.800President Trump on Monday put Iran and the Speaker of the Islamic Republic's parliament on notice after Tehran attacked Israel's biggest oil refinery and told the Post his response is coming shortly.
00:46:04.900Iran escalated its attack on infrastructure by striking a water and
00:46:09.100electrical plant in Kuwait and an oil refinery was set ablaze in the
00:46:12.740northern Israeli city of Haifa after the Iranian missile attack.
00:46:17.600Asked by the Post what his response to the strike will be,
00:46:20.840the commander in chief told the New York Post, you will see shortly.
00:46:25.320Sam Faddis, they're giving as good as they got.
00:46:29.080I put up earlier that Haifa attack, also in Kuwait.
00:46:34.200And this is one of the reasons people are saying, well, you're being too hard on the Arabs, Steve.
00:49:13.540The Saudis threatened to force majeure.
00:49:15.180Think about that for one second. Force majeure means you can't deliver, whether it's act of nature, act of war, whatever, but you cannot deliver. The country with the most reserves in the ground, the second highest producing country in the world, maybe the first, says they can't deliver oil.
00:49:34.100what because of tanker they got seven million barrels flying right through their pipeline right
00:49:38.000now it's all bs i almost said the bad word it's all bs they're all in this they know higher oil
00:49:43.940prices are good for the region israel saudis all our allies included with the iranians i i i said
00:49:52.200earlier steve i'm not so sure there's not a wink and a nod going on throughout the middle east
00:49:56.740flying back and forth on telegram like all right we're going to hit this this uh electrical plant
00:50:31.320Eric, real quickly, what should people look for over the next 24, 48 hours of importance?
00:50:36.620What are you looking at, the audience?
00:50:39.700I think for the first time, Steve, something happened since the war started.
00:50:42.700Oil prices are substantially higher today.
00:50:46.200And the stock, the equity market, is finding its footing right here.
00:50:49.840So it's possible that there are two different factions going on.
00:50:52.840The oil people who see what's actually going on in the physical market, the delivery market, the transportation market, and they're very, very bullish.
00:51:00.780maybe the equity market is listening a little bit too much to the administration saying,
00:51:05.740hey, we're going to get this thing fixed soon.
00:51:07.860It doesn't look like there's any insight to this unless they make a deal.