00:08:28.320So I think it's important to recognize one thing.
00:08:31.160Trump already said about two weeks ago, the United States is not importing oil from the
00:08:36.400Persian Gulf. This Strait of Hormuz is important to Asian countries and to European countries.
00:08:42.000It is not crucial to the United States any longer. The entire Middle East is no longer
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00:08:46.460crucial to the United States. This is one of those problems that we have here in the United
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00:08:51.520States in which we are overextended in a region that doesn't have a vital interest
00:08:55.840for U.S. national security any longer. We're not in need of the oil from the Middle East.
00:09:00.180the rest of the global market is. And they were not willing to step up when Trump asked them to
00:09:05.680step up militarily and help. And I have full understanding why they didn't. It would have
00:09:10.340been a losing proposition. And Trump has essentially said, look, this doesn't bother or concern us any
00:09:15.860longer. And as a result, if the rest of the world has a problem with Iranians charging a fee, then
00:09:20.900the rest of the world will have to deal with it. You know what the rest of the world is going to
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00:09:23.960do? They're going to acquiesce to it. They're going to negotiate their own arrangements with
00:09:27.660the Iranians because the fees are nominal, are very, very small. And the idea of either going
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00:09:32.800to war with Iran or just paying the small fee is a no-brainer for the vast majority of countries.
00:09:37.520If the United States, with its massive navy, couldn't open up the straits militarily,
00:09:42.380what is South Korea or Japan going to do about it?
00:09:48.440I'm going to put this to Fennell and Faddis as soon as you bounce, but continue on because
00:09:54.720your analysis of this, what else about these 10 points do you think gets worked at? It starts on
00:10:01.340Friday, I think, in Islamabad. Give me your assessment of that. So I don't think this is
00:10:08.020going to end up working. I don't think there's going to be an agreement. Instead, I think there's
00:10:11.240going to be a non-agreement agreement, which means the two sides don't come to an agreement on any of
00:10:17.060these points or the majority of these points. But it does not mean that the United States goes back
00:10:22.700into war with Iran because Trump did the right thing of pulling out of this. He should never
00:10:28.180have gone into this war. At this point, it should be clear to everyone it was a mistake. This does
00:10:33.120not serve U.S. interests. And even if the Israelis want to continue the war, that should be an
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00:10:37.720Israeli war. This should have been an Israeli war from the outset without the involvement of the
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00:10:41.900United States. And that is then going to leave a scenario in which there will not be an agreement,
00:10:46.840but there will be a new reality. I think one of those realities is that the Iranians are going
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00:10:51.020to charge tolls in the Persian Gulf, but the U.S. is not going to lift sanctions on Iran. It's not
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00:10:55.480going to do any of those other things that the Iranians are asking for, but it's also not going
00:10:59.540to go back into a war that really does not have a path to victory. At this point, I would be very
00:11:05.700surprised after Trump's experience in the last 39 days that he decides that this is worth another
00:11:11.360go. Now, if the Israelis push again, which I think they will, it will really come to Trump making a
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00:11:17.980decision as to whether he wants the Israelis to decide when the United States goes to war
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00:11:22.100or whether the president of the United States decides when the United States goes to war.
00:11:28.100Let's go to, okay, the New York Times then reported Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's
00:11:33.800part of their new book. It was a shocking, I think, expose in the, and who knows if it's fake
00:11:40.120news or not, but the first part of it was about Israel's presentation, I think on February 11th
00:11:45.860of president trump actually in the situation room which is pretty extraordinary i'm not so sure
00:11:50.760that's ever happened before to have a foreign leader in the situation room then it was about
00:11:54.720president trump's senior advisors it turns out that at least according to the new york times
00:12:00.940and i haven't seen it refuted by the israelis they were 100 dead wrong on all their intelligence
00:12:05.060everything they briefed president trump on was wrong and the second part of the story was jd
00:12:11.840and Ratcliffe and Marco, you know, going out of their way to say, oh, that their intelligence is
00:12:20.920wrong and here's what's correct and maybe we shouldn't do this. What's your assessment of
00:12:25.200that piece, sir? It does correspond with what I heard throughout this entire period, that Trump
00:12:33.040himself was the person in the White House most eager to go down this path because the Israelis
00:12:38.600had managed to convince him, and this also comes through very clearly in this piece,
00:12:42.560and it's also what I've been saying on your show in previous interviews,
00:12:45.420Trump was convinced to think that this was going to be very, very easy.
00:12:49.540And if it was going to be easy, he would never have to deal with these issues
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00:12:52.820of the Iranians controlling the straits, or that this is impacting his poll numbers in the U.S.,
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00:12:57.800or that it's impacting inflation and gasoline prices,
00:13:01.300because this would be over with within four days,
00:13:03.980slightly longer than Venezuela, but far more glorious.
00:13:07.060They had managed to convince them of that again, based on rosy pictures and false intelligence.
00:13:14.480Very specifically, the Israeli part of the presentation is that after the initial bombing of the shock and awe that the Iranian military would not have any ability to control the Strait of Hormuz, and there would be a massive uprising of the people.
00:23:29.580We cannot possibly come anywhere close to negotiating an end to this war based on the 10 points the Iranians have put forward.
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00:23:41.100But those are the only 10 points.
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00:23:43.740And they say in their announcement, they, the Iranians, when they said, we agree to this ceasefire, they were very explicit in saying that we are negotiating from our 10 points, that they had rejected the original 15-point plan, I think it was, that Trump put out, and now the Americans have agreed to negotiate on this basis.
00:24:06.540Now, the fact that Iran says that doesn't make that true.
00:24:10.320I'm just saying, okay, we're miles apart here.
00:24:12.820But Sam, there's a but hang on. There's a logic there. We put out a maximalist position.
00:24:18.100I thought the 15 points were pretty good. It's a maximalist position, which I'd love to take.
00:24:21.940And President Trump, that's how he's negotiate. These guys put a maximalist position.
00:24:26.280But when you do deals, you've got to have a big crossover at some point because there's always tension before you close and execute on the deal.
00:24:33.980Right. Pull it apart. You're so far. The bid and the ask here are so far apart.
00:24:38.860you're going to ask Donald Trump for reparations uh you're going to ask Donald Trump to pull out
00:24:45.120all the military we've got in the Middle East I mean in this regard what the Israelis are saying
00:24:50.160right now is that this thing's a non-starter and when they look at the 10 points and they're
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00:24:54.560getting their nose rubbed in this they're actually from their perspective correct are they not
00:24:58.880yeah they they are I mean look we're the Iranians say as one of their 10 points we will
00:25:04.940cease all activity against all of their proxies, including the Lebanese resistance. For those that
00:25:11.440don't speak Ayatollah, that's code for Hezbollah. We have, we and the Israelis need to stop being
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00:25:18.060mean to Hezbollah. We got to pay reparation. I mean, on and on and on. The thing, that's why I
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00:25:23.980say that as drafted, this is a surrender document. There's no way in hell we can agree to this thing.
00:25:30.880So good question. What are we going to exact? What are we talking about when we sit down in Islamabad? Because we are miles and miles apart here.
00:25:41.300I just think we need clarity. Captain Fennell, your thoughts and observations on this.
00:25:46.080i am i mean if we if we go with what the iranians are putting out it would be a surrender
00:25:53.520obviously president trump isn't going to surrender so i think uh i'm not a diplomat but
00:26:00.460i would guess that if i was heading to pakistan to try to negotiate this that i'd it would be a
00:26:05.300very tough uh tough meeting uh because these are some of these things are you just can't get around
00:26:12.320I think the nuclear inspections, but hang on, but hang on, but hang on, hang on, hang on.
00:26:18.220Why do we even go to what do you mean? Look, and I'm a guy that wants to get the hell out of here.
00:26:22.240Why do you even go to Islamabad? You tell him right now and say, hey, look, we don't want to go back to using the we don't want to go back.
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00:26:29.300But in this ceasefire, there's got to be some light at the end of the two week tunnel.
00:26:33.800We don't want to go back to pounding again. So right now there's such what they've put out there.
00:26:40.06010 points are so in your face, offensive, that how do you even go to Islamabad? What do you talk
00:26:46.780about? Well, again, I'm not a diplomat, so I wouldn't go there because I wouldn't be able to
00:26:53.300talk to them. But there's got to be something that if we're going to try to get through this
00:26:58.240and get some kind of peace agreement and stop this killing, then let's see what happens. But
00:27:04.000if it doesn't work, we're going to go back to it. And I think whoever's on our side going there is
00:27:09.100going to say exactly that message if you guys don't start acting realistic with us then it's
00:27:15.320just going to we're going to turn the spigot on again and this time as the president said we're
00:27:19.560going to take out you know your infrastructure uh oil electrical power grid we're going to make
00:27:26.460sure that you can't function as a society so i think that's that's what the hardball is going
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00:27:32.500to be played in in pakistan yeah hang over a second i want to hold to you guys we're going
00:27:38.200to go to texas briefly and find out what's going on there but i've got a recommendation you just
00:27:43.260tell them hey look we saw the 10 we're gonna we're gonna have a stand down but the real meeting is
00:27:48.400going to be in beijing on may 13 and 14 let's get principles in the room the united states and the
00:27:52.660chinese communist party chinese communist party's hands all over this and they need the oil better
00:27:56.560worse than anybody in the world so let's deal principle to principle why are we doing with
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00:28:00.640intermediaries like the pakistanis and even the revolutionary guard because we can pound those
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00:28:05.180guys again. Let's have principle to principle. Let's have Xi and President Trump sit there and
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00:28:11.140make the deal, make the peace. And while we're at it, let's send a couple of carrier battle groups
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00:29:44.620Okay, let's talk about a real problem.
00:29:47.840uh down in texas brandon hall joins us brandon uh we left frank yesterday frank gaffney just left
00:29:54.980testifying we got an update correct me if i'm wrong i understand you guys went to two in the
00:29:59.840morning central time uh in in austin dealing with this situation sir yeah that's correct steve we
00:30:07.600heard from hundreds of testifiers yesterday on this issue but i'll tell you texas patriots
00:30:12.880yesterday roared like a lion. And a big part of that was definitely war room. Um, we had lots of
00:30:17.860people come in and say that they were sent there, um, by your show here. And so I just want to thank
00:30:22.500you and the Texas Patriots for highlighting this issue. And, you know, the media was trying to
00:30:26.780paint this as a one-sided issue. So really it's your show that, that helped us turn out all these
00:30:32.000people. So where do we stand? I mean, our audience was pretty shocked yesterday when we heard that
00:30:39.480some republican the republican was still pushing this and that people just didn't understand the
00:30:44.900logic of teach american history and texas history and patriotic history that we in the concept that
00:30:51.400we would have any islamic involvement in this whatsoever is just such a alien concept no pun
00:30:57.160intended to our audience so why did people are shocked this morning when they're hearing it went
00:31:02.320to two in the morning it should have been over with a quick vote quick discussion and a vote
00:31:06.580when you guys finished so why did it go into the early hours of the morning sir well part of it was
00:31:13.600a lot of the testifiers that we had it took a while to get through all those testimonies but
00:31:17.480again yes we're going to be in debate probably all day today going through this line by line
00:31:22.900and we're going to have to defend keeping the good american patriotism and exceptionalism and
00:31:26.760our texas history in and making sure that we don't get the global perspectives and definitely not the
00:31:31.820influence of Islam. And so this battle is far from over. I'm encouraged we had some good
00:31:36.600amendments that were positive yesterday. And I think that's because the SPOE members are hearing
00:31:41.980from these testifiers. And so I think people who may have been a little on the fence or a little
00:31:46.400bit not as strong as they needed to be in standing up to Islam, I think they were really motivated
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00:31:51.220to do the right thing by all the testifiers that we had yesterday.
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00:31:56.660So what's going to happen today? I know you got to bounce because the meeting is about to start,
00:31:59.900But just walk us through what's going to happen at the what are you saying that the best outcome we could have by the end of the day?
00:32:08.360Well, the best outcome that we could have by the end of the day is to pass what we have on the table right now.
00:32:13.560And I'm going to have some amendments and some of the conservatives will have amendments that would strengthen it.
00:32:18.140But the draft that we have right now with the sweeping amendment that was made last night is very pro-America, teaches a great perspective of American history.
00:32:26.840And it's very America and Texas focused. It's not globalists at all. We're in a really good spot with Islam. I'm going to make some amendments today to try to strengthen where we're at with Islam, because our students need to know that this is a foreign way of life. It's not just a religion. It's a whole set of values and the system of Sharia. It's a foreign way of life that would destroy this country if we allow it to take a foothold.
00:32:48.640And so our students just need to know the 1400 years of documented history of Islam showing up on your doorstep, and they never show up to coexist or to get along or to assimilate. They always show up to conquer and to take over. So if we can show our students that, I think we have a better chance in America of stopping it. And so we're going to be fighting that today. But the best possible case scenario is that we can pass what we have with maybe a little bit more strength to it.
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00:33:12.400brandon where do people follow you on social media and your website because
00:33:18.180there's an intense interest not just in our great patriots that follow the show in in texas but
00:33:24.700throughout the country and quite frankly our large international audience all eyes are on texas today
00:33:29.840sir so where do they go to follow you yeah they can find me at brandon hall tx on x.com and they
00:33:36.940can also go to sboe.texas.gov to find out my bio and a little bit more information about me as
00:33:42.600well as my contact info thank you sir appreciate you thank you steve captain for now you've done
00:33:51.820such a great job here on going through the CENTCOM the military plan the defang and decline but this
00:33:56.420is my point you you gave a very uh touching um and meaningful uh talk about your your um your
00:34:04.800brother in arms that you serve with and then he went back to texas as a real texan he talked about
00:34:10.240texas values you talked about what made this man what he is this is my point the fight we've got
00:34:16.160right now ain't in tehran the fight we have right now is inside the wire in the united states of
00:34:22.300america and we're losing this country i want people to understand until and it's not about
00:34:27.480the war room it's about you know jenny's story and people rallying down there starting in january
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00:34:31.900Karen Sigmund, all the great patriots in Texas, to fight this imposition of Sharia law that is so
00:34:38.740far advanced, as Peter McIlvaney has told us. He went there and said, in the same time frame of
00:34:44.100London, and London has fallen, that it is much more advanced in the state of Texas. And this is
00:34:50.500what we have to say. We have to beat this back. This is like the gates of Vienna. This is like
00:34:55.420tours, right? This is like Charles Martel, the hammer, defeating them. They are in this country
00:35:01.980and it must be defeated. We don't have a choice. If we do not defeat it and we don't defeat it
00:35:06.740in Texas, you're not going to have a country. You're going to have what's happening in New
00:35:10.400York City today. Captain Fennell, given that, your perspective on where do we go here in this
00:35:16.380situation in Iran, sir? Well, Steve, just one comment about Markham Dossett, who passed away
00:35:23.380last week. Markham is a seventh generation Texan, and he was standing up against the invasion as
00:35:32.240you're talking about. There was no question in his mind that Texas was under attack, and he
00:35:38.500understood that. And so patriots like the one you just had on and others that are in Texas
00:35:43.020and your show that's been down there, it's very, very important. So I don't disagree with you at
00:35:48.000We have to make sure that we secure our own internal borders, and we have to clean this up, and we cannot allow this to happen to America.
00:35:58.000But in terms of the external fight, we are in a fight.
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00:36:01.480We've been in a fight for a month now with the Iranian regime, and we need to find a way to get out of it without allowing them to hold the world and ourselves hostage.
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00:36:13.820So that negotiation is going to happen.
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00:36:18.000If it doesn't go well, I see that, as the Secretary of War said, our forces are still in the region
00:36:23.340and still will be able to bring power to bear. I see the Iranian response, and I heard the
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00:36:30.540other gentleman from the Quincy Institute talk about, you know, where the Iranians are and what
00:36:35.500they think. It's kind of like a small child, you know, they throw a temper tantrum, but they really
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00:36:41.620can't do much. You're still the parent, you still have the power, and they can say and do what they
00:36:47.860want. What is really critical is that, in my opinion, are the two issues. It's what we do and
00:36:53.760how we negotiate the nuclear issue, which is really important, but also the Strait of Hormuz.
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00:37:00.000And there's no way that we can allow Iran to charge tolls for transiting through the Strait
00:37:06.800of Hormuz. The precedent that that would set would undo not just 250 years of American naval heritage,
00:37:13.740but another two, three, 400 years of British and other nations. We cannot allow the Iranians to
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00:37:20.920have a toll booth to control an international waterway. If we do that, then Beijing will try
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00:37:27.520to do the same for the Strait of Malacca, the South China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, the Yellow Sea,
00:37:35.040and the Sea of Japan, to be honest, and beyond. They want to control even around out to Hawaii
00:37:40.300and beyond. So we cannot allow that to happen. I don't think the president will allow that to
00:37:44.880happen. And I think the best way to demonstrate our ability in this negotiation is to have freedom
00:37:50.920of navigation with our ships. And we have five ships, American ships, flagged ships that are in
00:37:56.740the Gulf right now. I know others have been calling for this. I repeat what they've said,
00:38:01.060Salmukalayagal, I spelled the same name wrong. But we need to get our American ships out that
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00:38:06.200flag to demonstrate that we're not going to stand by for this and help the other nations
00:38:10.640that are dependent upon this. We don't have to stay there forever, but we have to demonstrate
00:38:14.700that the Iranians are toothless in this area. And if they pop off and try to shoot somebody,
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00:38:19.900then the hammer comes down again. But we've got to get through this and we've got to get out of it
00:38:24.260to focus on the main thing, which is what this meeting with Xi and President Trump is going to
00:38:29.240be about in may which is to remind xi that he is not going to control half of the pacific ocean
00:38:37.100and and keep us in the west coast of america that's not going to happen
00:38:41.920as the you know captain finnell myself poso we've talked about the chinese communist party
00:38:48.360involved in it they came forward yesterday so now you know their involvement and this is going to
00:38:52.480be central i'm still the belief forget islamabad let's just negotiate it mano a mano in the same
00:38:58.520room in beijing captain finnell thank you so much look forward to having you back on sir great
00:39:04.120analysis sam faddis your closing thoughts on this uh on day 39 um sam you've done such a good job
00:39:14.280being so even-handed it looks like the iranians are so over the top it would lead one to believe
00:39:20.320that the balloon may go up again am i too far off base in saying that
00:39:25.160No. At this point, if I had to predict, I would predict that we're going to be back in a shooting
00:39:34.320war sooner rather than later. I hope that's not true, but we're miles apart. I mean,
00:39:42.840look, we think or want to think they're coming to the table because they believe they are losing
00:39:50.180the war. They are coming to the table because they believe they are winning the war and we are
00:39:56.240losing, which is why they're dictating terms to us, which amount to surrender. So that's where we
00:40:05.440are. You don't have to agree with their assessment. You don't have to adopt their position. I'm just
00:40:11.700saying they don't at this point believe that we are forcing them to the table. They believe they
00:40:17.020have forced us to the table that's where we are in americans national security strategy
00:40:23.780since really the beginning of this republic and i realize we've become an imperial power all over
00:40:30.100the globe one of the central underlyings that we we assumed and this is what about the end of the
00:40:36.540dollar empire at breton woods once the the royal navy and the british pound couldn't do it the
00:40:42.640americans stepped in at the end of world war ii but free navigation has been a central central
00:40:48.480central look at world war one look at world war ii the pacific all of it how big a deal
00:40:54.980because people say well hey it's a couple million bucks if you look at the thing it doesn't matter
00:40:59.400it's not about the money it's not about even how bad this is which is terrible
00:41:06.180paying it in chinese currency instead of petrodollars it is the very very concept
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00:41:11.660that a collection of pirates which they are and theocrats could actually set up a toll booth
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00:41:21.960and what is heretofore been a freely navigate navigatable uh straight into a place where
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00:41:29.840you know 20 they say 20 of the world's resource but if oil but if you look at europe you look at
00:41:36.120Asia, I don't know, it's 75 percent, 80 percent. So to even have that conversation is going down
00:41:44.200a slippery slope that in showing people that you're even interested in having that conversation,
00:41:50.660you can't be interested in having that conversation because it's never going to happen. So we don't
00:41:54.140have time to waste time. Am I wrong in that? No, you're absolutely right. It's foundational,
00:41:59.980Right. It's like, OK, we're we're not having this conversation. I mean, let's look. President Jefferson, we barely had a Navy and a Marine Corps establish this principle with the Barbary pirates. Right. I don't care what the Brits are doing and the French. They pay you off and ransom their citizens. We don't roll like that. Right. We're going to you know, we barely got it.
00:45:07.700I hung around a couple more weeks, conquered some more, and now we're going to go to the negotiating table on a we got a we got a ceasefire.
00:45:15.960Right. Hopefully that holds already. I think there's a bunch of commotion, but who knows?
00:45:19.900The decentralized command. One of the things I keep I keep saying is that who can actually make a deal and enforce a deal?
00:45:26.400I know one group of people can do it and they live in Beijing.
00:45:30.000So President Trump's scheduled to go. Let's have a big let's have a big discussion on all geopolitics.
00:45:37.700Taiwan, the Strait of Hormuz, the Middle East, all of it.
00:47:30.020And what they're telling you over at Axios in this article today, and we'll have we'll have Joe and some people up this afternoon to talk about it, is 100 times more lethal to this country, to you personally, and to this thing called, you know, what we are as a homo sapiens as a species, full stop.
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00:52:41.080We'll see you this afternoon, Mike. Thank you.
00:52:43.040The Charlie Kirk show is next. Post those after that. Steve Gruber, Eric Bolling, and I'll do a transition with Bolling.
00:52:49.620We're back here 5 to 7 tonight. Ben Harnwell is going to be riding shotgun with me. See you at 5 o'clock.
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