00:00:00.000Good morning. President Trump is now on his way to the G7 summit in France after announcing a
00:00:04.700diplomatic breakthrough. More than 15 weeks into this war, the U.S. and Iran say they have reached
00:00:10.100a framework that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade on Iran's ports
00:00:15.680and pave the way for the much harder and more complicated, complex, technical,
00:00:20.580important talks on the nuclear issue ahead. A signing is set for Friday in Geneva,
00:00:24.980but already there are conflicting accounts of what happens, well, after that, literally after the signing.
00:00:31.240Iran says a 60-day period of nuclear negotiations will begin only when the U.S. releases billions of dollars of its frozen funds.
00:00:39.480But a U.S. official says no funds will be released before Iran follows through on its own commitments.
00:00:46.060Adding to the unknowns this morning, Israel.
00:00:49.100Iran says the agreement includes an end to the conflict in Lebanon.
00:00:52.920Israel's defense minister just spoke out today, saying that the IDF is not withdrawing, though, from southern Lebanon.
00:00:59.120And just before the agreement was announced, Israel hit Beirut.
00:01:02.980A U.S. official says that that move angered President Trump.
00:01:08.840And he told Axios of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, quote, he has no effing judgment.
00:01:15.680Good thing when a conflict ends, this is one that's really harmed the global economy.
00:01:21.480So if the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, and that seems to be the basic top line of this deal, that will be a good thing for the global economy.0.89
00:01:31.580It is a long way to go for what appears to be very little in terms of locked-in promises from Iran.
00:01:41.340It does look very similar to the JCPOA, which Trump scrapped.
00:01:47.200as some of the provisions may even be somewhat weaker.
00:01:52.160It's hard to tell because we're just going to begin those negotiations this week and over the next 60 days.
00:02:00.160But I think in some ways the thing that's most important but seems most unrealistic in this deal
00:02:08.740is this idea of a broad change in the Middle East,
00:02:13.160It's a process where the U.S. over time, if Iran responds positively, begins to pump development money, not just reconstruction, but to build Iranian businesses and has a vision for Iran becoming over time a country more like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates than like the very closed and really impoverished country it's been.
00:02:38.340And if they can do that, if the Iranians are really prepared to make those changes, that would be a significant move into the future.
00:02:47.340But right now, in terms of what's actually agreed, actually on paper, it's pretty thin.0.78
00:02:53.100The main achievement is one that I don't want to discount, opening the Strait of Hormuz.
00:03:00.140It's one of the many reasons why Israel is so dead set against this.
00:03:03.960What they see is an enraged Iran with more radical leadership.
00:03:10.880You have the Revolutionary Guard now running it and the most hardened elements of the Revolutionary Guard.
00:03:18.040They believe, and as Richard said, everybody around these talks believe that 60 days in, they're going to start charging tolls.
00:03:26.840And then you look at the sanctions relief they're going to get, which, again, the Trump administration, as you know, constantly berated Joe Biden's administration for lifting sanctions against Iran from time to time.
00:03:42.500They're going to do it. And we have talk of reconstruction if Iran behaves well down the road.
00:03:50.100I mean, as Richard said, and again, the devil's in the details.0.91
00:03:57.680We're really glad there's a possibility that this war, which should have never started, comes to an end.
00:04:07.720If people want to be lied to, go to another channel, because I can tell you which channel to go to.
00:04:13.600They will be lying through your teeth to you right now, telling you how wonderful this is.0.93
00:04:17.440But if you want to know the truth of what's happening right here, the fact is, Jonathan, people in the neighborhood around Iran have every reason to be scared to death right now because this is a more radical, a more enraged and soon to be richer Iran thanks to this war.0.90
00:04:40.840It has murdered Israelis. Are we committed to protecting Hezbollah so it can continue to0.93
00:04:48.240attack Israel and continue to brutalize the people in Lebanon? This is the lifeline that0.99
00:04:55.220Iran is depending on. Well, if we are, then this deal won't stand. It won't stand for long,
00:05:00.220even during the Trump presidency. Israel will not be able to adhere to what would be a suicide0.93
00:05:05.140pack. The Israeli people won't put up with it. The prime minister won't put up with it. We should0.84
00:05:11.480not accept it either. Because remember, Hezbollah has attacked us. And when Israel is forced to0.99
00:05:18.740defend itself, including preemptively against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and remember, they're not
00:05:23.180at war with Lebanon. They have a peace deal with Lebanon. They've never been at war with Lebanon.
00:05:27.480And it is said to be in violation of the deal. We saw this play out earlier. Providing the Iranian
00:05:34.080regime with a strategic opportunity to attack israel claiming it's defending its ally and that0.73
00:05:39.600israel violated the deal what then will israel become a pariah and will it be admonished
00:05:49.840iran's counting on it and so is hezbollah hezbollah must not be in the deal
00:05:56.800it must not and that must be very clear but to me and at this stage it's not very clear
00:06:01.760It's an important point for those who are members of the U.S. military to understand whether you are saying ground troops would be involved in cleaning up nuclear dust.
00:06:14.780You're saying that. You're trying to put words in the mouth to create a headline.
00:06:18.020What I'm saying is we have plans. No, we have plans for everything.
00:06:21.960And should the president need a compel option, we have compel options and many different types of compel options.
00:06:28.720But right now, we've set the conditions for 60 days to ensure that that material is downblended, destroyed, or removed.
00:06:35.760Whatever the president decides is in the best interest of the United States of America.
00:06:39.780And the War Department is there to support that effort.
00:06:42.160Okay, you're saying immediately, but Secretary Rubio had said the U.S. would help to clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:48.680You just used 30 days as like a period of time.
00:06:52.020Can you clear the mines and remove the security threats in the strait within 30 days?
00:06:56.180we can do any of those things within 30 days in a permissive environment so the ball is in
00:07:02.600Iran's court at some level we would get back to pre-war shipping we're already doing things I
00:07:06.400can't we're already talking we're already doing things I can't talk about on this program
00:07:11.880um and and that to ensure that safe passage happens as quickly as possible so we're
00:07:17.240all over this we know exactly what the dynamics are uh Iran probably doesn't because they can't
00:07:22.680see and sense their capabilities around the straight, especially these last couple nights
00:07:26.720were very devastating for them as far as their ability to understand what's going through the
00:07:30.740straight. So if they have capabilities and can do it, great. If not, if international partners
00:07:35.460who've said they want to step up, want to step up and contribute, great. But once this deal is
00:07:41.200signed, our expectation is that Iran will stop shooting, you know, drones at commercial shipping.
00:07:46.980It's been them shooting at shipping the entire time. Yeah, they did that just on Friday. And in
00:07:50.740fact, a drone collided with an Apache helicopter last week. They fired drones into Bahrain. They
00:07:55.600fired missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan just a few days ago. They still have the capacity
00:08:00.300to hurt our friends and partners. And that's why you have to deal with these
00:08:02.500folks with strength and not just ask them at the table. And it's the military strength
00:08:07.460that compelled them to this point where they're making a deal which will be great for the
00:08:11.400security of the United States, America. And that's why this is such a big moment. And
00:08:15.460only President Trump's strength and clarity of mission to say no nuclear weapon will0.77
00:08:20.380ensure that now and underneath the MOU, the terms are set that are performance based for Iran0.57
00:08:26.480to ensure that they never get a nuclear weapon. Well, I think Netanyahu, his people and his0.58
00:08:34.560mouthpieces in the Israeli media are all furious about this deal. The Israeli ambassador to
00:08:42.980Washington, Yekia Leiter, has been making phone calls to members of Congress telling them how
00:08:50.140much Netanyahu is concerned and disappointed about this deal. One of Netanyahu's key mouthpieces
00:08:57.980in the Israeli press, a guy called Inon Magal, wrote on X a super strong post where he called
00:09:09.660the U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Jew boys. He called Vice President
00:09:19.780Vance scum. He said they're working for Qatar and the other Gulf countries. So when somebody0.99
00:09:27.800that close to Netanyahu writes those things on X, I think it gives some sort of an impression
00:09:33.480about how Netanyahu and his close circle, what they think about this deal.
00:09:41.260I come to you with honesty, with information, with truth.
00:12:56.780Of course we have to have the fireworks.
00:13:00.020It's just because the rain backed us off a little bit.
00:13:02.640Anyway, the president's right there at the G7.
00:13:05.740I think Scott Besson is in London, right?
00:13:08.720I don't know. Is Scott Bessent working out a deal to buy Diego Garcia? Who knows?
00:13:13.540Or maybe talking about Anthrop. There's so much to get into today and we're going to get into all of it.
00:13:19.160Eric Boland is going to join me first. We're going to break all this down and talk about the economy, talk about the impact of all of this.
00:13:25.480Peter Navarro. We've got a Fed meeting tomorrow. Peter Navarro. We can't cram it in this morning.
00:13:31.540So Peter's going to join us this evening, I think, in the five o'clock hour.
00:13:35.680We're going to go through the Fed meeting tomorrow about the raising of rates.
00:13:38.880I want to thank our sponsors at Birch Gold.
00:17:27.140And look, whether you were like, I'd love the fact that MMA is there or not, you've got to say a guy who's 80 years old, he goes through, and the thing's delayed many hours.
00:17:37.880He keeps his, you know, he's the great, he's like the master concierge being in the hospitality business, the media business.
00:18:00.160Eric, you've taken a couple of three red eyes before.
00:18:02.980And, of course, in the Air Force One, they have a special accommodation, a cabin for the commander in chief and the president, which they don't have for anybody else.0.88
00:18:12.000I've taken a million red eyes in my life.
00:18:13.960The most uncomfortable flight I've ever been on is Air Force One because it's really a military command post with a couple of seats in the back for the ground.
00:18:22.360dunes and the president gets his own suite but still 80 years old he comes off fresh he's going
00:18:27.760to jump in the helicopter here momentarily and go to uh and go up to i guess evion uh bowling
00:18:33.420first off your thoughts on the president of the united states on the first day of his 80th year
00:18:38.240sir amazing amazing he's so he you know you pointed out he he hit the hit the helicopter
00:18:44.800three-ish in the morning by the way how much respected that man have and earn last night
00:18:51.080People, the fighters would come out of the ring saying, no one else would do this but Trump, you know.
00:18:56.280And Dana White has a massive, massive following.1.00
00:18:59.040And Dana just flanking President Trump with Melania on the other side.
00:19:15.580You saw the guy who's the way I understood it was you always had to be ready for a phone call from the president, whether it was two, four or seven in the morning.
00:19:23.960He was he may call and you better better be ready.
00:19:26.540But look, he's you know, those people who say he fell asleep here and there and comparing him to Joe Biden, there is no comparison to the dimension that Joe Biden is not in the same universe.
00:19:55.640At the same time, he's prepping for a G7 meeting of which they're all going to attack Trump now because America is not everywhere and Trump's the problem, etc.
00:20:03.920Then he goes to NATO, to a NATO meeting in Turkey,
00:20:06.720which is going to be a quite controversial NATO meeting.
00:20:59.460He'll make sure the lighting and the camera angles are perfect.
00:21:02.280To the most minute detail, he's not only a president, he's also probably one of the greatest, I would say, the second greatest television producer ever to walk the earth behind the great Roger Ailes.
00:21:14.640I think that's one of the reasons he and Ailes got along so well, among other things.
00:21:19.620Now, he'll come in, he'll know what side he wants to be shot on, he'll know the lighting, he'll understand the angle, and he'll rearrange it right there.
00:21:28.480He's not shy about rearranging it right there.
00:21:30.740Steve, I will tell you this, one of his first interviews with him in the Rose Garden, it was off to the side of the Rose Garden when it was still Rose Garden, and he didn't like the height of his chair, so he sent one of his comms people, go get it, I'll never forget this, go get a cushion from the Oval Office.
00:21:51.480she runs across the rose garden lawn and she's got spiked heels and every time she steps her
00:21:57.000heel would go into the lawn and she comes running back with this oh drops one of her shoes falls1.00
00:22:02.260off her feet just to make sure he had that that extra you know two inches because he saw the shot
00:22:07.840he wanted it to be perfect it's it's it's he's he's very intricate he's he's very meticulous let's
00:22:13.320say eric i want to um by the president's put out something on faiza that's going to be quite
00:22:20.800extraordinary we're going to get to that here in a moment but i've got you uh captain finnell
00:22:26.000rabbi willicky kurt mills everybody go down through you've been my markets guy um this is
00:22:32.440a lot of this is about her moves tell us today where where actually are we on her moves today
00:22:38.000because i guess that's not going to be done until that's not going to be lifted until after the
00:22:42.420signing on friday or the tentative signing set for friday the fleet is still going to have the
00:22:46.640blockade but that's going to be lifted just as you read this deal from a market's perspective
00:22:51.140and i think that's one of the most important perspectives how do you read this okay so as
00:22:57.280you know since the very beginning here i would tell you exactly where i thought oil was going
00:23:01.320i thought it was going a lot higher it did and i told you that i have a short position in oil all
00:23:05.920the way up and i was losing money all the way up i'm i'm cashing out right now because oil dropped
00:23:10.660from 105 or so early in the week last week to now 80 80 a barrel right now it may go a little bit
00:23:16.620lower. But I'm nervous about this, Steve. I'm nervous about what you were playing Mark Levin
00:23:21.600there a little bit. I'm nervous about there's a chance Israel could spark up more tensions.0.90
00:23:27.180There's a chance Hezbollah could maybe put a bullet through this deal, so to speak,0.57
00:23:32.640by hitting Israel and just making the Middle East tension flare up again. And who knows what the0.66
00:23:37.320Iranians are going to do? They're crazy SOBs. So I'm going to take this position off at $80 a barrel1.00
00:23:43.520because I'm not sure it's going to go, first it may go back up for a little bit because of,
00:23:48.620until that deal is inked and signed of what really it is, like there are rumors right now,
00:23:53.640rumors, I'm trying to get with my guys to tell me if this is real or not, but they literally
00:23:57.440called me and said, there's one rumor spread around where it's 300, 300, some insane number,
00:24:04.060like $300 billion over a few years of reparations for the Iranians. There's another one saying that
00:24:10.160they were still going to be allowed to charge tolls to transit the Strait of Hormuz.
00:24:15.380And then we're keeping our military presence there until deals are signed.
00:24:19.100I just want, again, it's not that I don't trust Trump.0.95
00:24:22.740It's not that I would ever trust the Iranians.
00:24:57.120Are you shorting those because of the world's biggest IPO on?
00:25:02.300And I don't want to work through the mechanics of your trading, but are you shorting NASDAQ because of the now included in all the indices is going to be the SpaceX or I should say the 90 percent government contractor that Elon Musk runs, sir?
00:25:17.940No, I'm shorting it because I think this whole thing is euphoric.
00:25:21.160They're buying the old trading adage, buy the news, sell the fact.
00:25:25.760They're buying the crap out of the news right now, and I'm going to sell the fact until I see real corporate earnings, until I see inflation come down for real.
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00:32:12.420Take advantage of first mover advantage, you move.0.63
00:32:17.040And I should add that my own independent research discovered Khomeini's embrace of both Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin.
00:32:24.680I see the relationship between our president and the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, as a FDR-Churchill relationship, as a Reagan-Thatcher relationship.
00:32:34.420History will write us of a Trump-Netanyahu relationship.
00:32:38.320I continue to believe that we should finish the spectacular military achievements we have won,
00:32:44.060arm the Iranian people, and get it over with.1.00
00:35:22.240Would have nothing to do with AIPAC money, would it?
00:35:24.560Rabbi Walicki, you're with us this morning.
00:35:27.560And walk us through exactly where you think this thing stands.
00:35:31.620You're one of the most reasonable guys.
00:35:33.940Obviously, you have a point of view, as all of us do.
00:35:35.860But just walk us through, in your wisdom, exactly where are we on this interim deal to get to a broader deal?
00:35:43.540And more importantly, where are we in this war, sir?
00:35:48.020Well, Steve, I remember some conversations we had on War Room around the beginning of this or in the days leading up to it0.70
00:35:54.820where I kept reminding everyone, reminding us, that the U.S. and Israel do not have the same0.89
00:36:03.480interests. And people who pretend that they do, like Mark Levin, it's, you know, and I'm talking
00:36:11.300from the Israel side. I'm sitting in Israel. I live in Israel. My kids fight in the Israeli army.
00:36:15.320I served in the Israeli army. That is where my, that is where my concern is. I immigrated to this
00:36:19.400country. But pretending that the U.S. and Israel have the same interests is just a recipe for0.57
00:36:28.100misunderstanding what we're seeing here. I remember talking about this months ago with you,
00:36:31.960Steve, that at some point we would see a divergence between U.S. and Israeli interests because we
00:36:35.640don't have the same goals for this Iran situation. Israel's goal is to once and for all deal with0.81
00:36:42.960the enemies that have been attacking us and threatening us for decades and decades and0.93
00:36:47.540decades, almost every problem that Israel deals with has been funded by the Iranian regime,
00:36:52.720whether it's Hamas or Hezbollah or the Iranians themselves or the Assad regime before they fell.0.62
00:36:58.380That was, you know, it was what we call the ring of fire, the Houthis in Yemen as well.0.78
00:37:02.480Israel wants to defeat our enemies. The United States wants to make sure that, I mean, I guess0.55
00:37:06.800what is in the best interest of the United States is determined by the president of the United
00:37:11.020States, by the commander in chief. And if he determines that the best thing for America
00:37:14.040is to open up the Straits of Hormuz and get a deal on the nuclear. And even if it leaves,
00:37:19.600you know, Hezbollah in Lebanon and, you know, if that's what the president determines is the0.70
00:37:24.620best interest of the United States, so be it. But Israel is not in the deal. And as you mentioned
00:37:30.440that when President Trump first tweeted about this deal, and it was actually two days before
00:37:35.080it was announced, it was on the 11th, he put out a truth, I'm sorry, a truth social post.
00:37:38.860He said that all the countries involved all agreed to it, and he listed the countries, and he listed the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Turkey, Pakistan, etc.
00:37:49.180He went on a whole list of countries, and that they're all in alignment.
00:37:54.580And Prime Minister Netanyahu's office then put out a statement thanking President Trump for all that he's done, but the opening line of the statement was, Israel is not a party to this deal.0.71
00:38:05.680because, you know, from the Israeli perspective, this deal is actually folly because we have an
00:38:13.380enemy in the north, Hezbollah, which is actually not even really correctly a proxy of Iran. And
00:38:18.400this is something I have to correct Eric Bolling. It was on before you. He was talking about,
00:38:21.740you know, what Hezbollah will do, what Iran will do. There's no such thing. Hezbollah is the Iranian
00:38:26.480army. It's not like Hamas or the Houthis who are a proxy, who are a separate organization who get
00:38:32.840funding and weapons from Iran. Hezbollah is actually Iran. It's like if you have American
00:38:37.260troops stationed in another country, they're not a proxy of the United States. They are the forward
00:38:42.880troops of the United States. So when Hezbollah starts launching drones at Israel yesterday,
00:38:48.640provoking an Israeli response, which then provokes President Trump lashing out at Prime
00:38:54.280Minister Netanyahu, the question we have to ask about an incident like that is why did Iran give
00:38:59.860orders to Hezbollah to fire yesterday when this deal was supposed to be finalized. The Iranians0.65
00:39:06.920use Hezbollah to provoke Israel. That's how this whole thing with Lebanon started.1.00
00:39:13.020There was no firing between Israel and Hezbollah before March 2nd. But on March 2nd,
00:39:17.920because of the U.S.-Israel joint action against Iran, Hezbollah started firing rockets from Lebanon
00:39:23.860into Israel. So Israel retaliated. Everything Israel does in Lebanon is to retaliate and remove
00:39:28.480Hezbollah. And what's more, by telling Israel to hold back in Lebanon, what we're doing is we're0.61
00:39:34.840allowing Hezbollah to remain. We're making it far more difficult for the Lebanese government or the0.96
00:39:41.060Israelis to get rid of Hezbollah, which is one of the stated goals officially here, that we're0.78
00:39:45.520supposed to disarm Hezbollah and get them out of there so that the country of Lebanon could actually0.60
00:39:50.080have its sovereignty back after decades of being occupied by the Iranian regime and being used as
00:39:57.320basis to launch terrorism into Israel. So unfortunately, by trying to restrain the0.66
00:40:04.140Israelis from attacking Hezbollah right now, President Trump is actually throwing a lifeline
00:40:08.340to Hezbollah. You know, so the Israelis want no part of this. Now, let me talk politics here,
00:40:13.780Steve. We have the elections coming up, and there's a fascinating dynamic that has developed.
00:40:19.020When we talk about the divergence of U.S. and Israeli interests, let's talk about the interests
00:40:22.740of Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump, because with the approaching midterms
00:40:28.280and the domestic sensitivities about the war, the unpopularity of kinetic action on the American
00:40:35.400side, the problem with the rising oil prices domestically for President Trump, with the
00:40:41.460midterms approaching, President Trump's incentive is to not have kinetic action, to keep things
00:40:47.240de-escalated as we approach the midterms. The worst thing for him would be a kinetic flare-up.
00:40:52.100On the contrary in Israel, though, Prime Minister Netanyahu's incentives politically move in the opposite direction.
00:40:58.980No one else is talking about this, Steve. They move in the opposite direction.
00:41:02.520For Prime Minister Netanyahu, for the Israeli people, and this is not only on the right,
00:41:07.000what's most interesting is that the criticism of Prime Minister Netanyahu from the left right now is identical as from the right,0.85
00:41:13.800that we are not doing enough against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
00:41:17.580The Israeli people feel that we were sold a bill of goods in Gaza where, you know, we were told, oh, yeah, there's going to be all these countries that are going to come in.
00:41:26.600They're going to disarm Hamas and we're finally going to move to a future where we don't have Hamas down there.
00:41:31.020Don't worry. It's all going to be taken care of. Nothing.
00:41:33.500We talked about that on War Room over the months.0.98
00:41:35.660We don't have victory against Hamas. They're still in Gaza.0.95
00:41:38.240We don't have victory over Hezbollah. They're still in Lebanon.1.00
00:41:41.080The Israeli people are feeling very anxious about this, about the possibility that with our enemies on the ropes and victory over them within reach to finally move past all these terrorist groups in the Middle East, we are now being restrained and we have the possibility that we don't have victory on any front.
00:41:59.640So Prime Minister Netanyahu's incentive structure politically is to escalate with his election coming, because if action is not taken up there, it hurts him politically.
00:42:11.100So their incentives are moving in opposite direction.
00:42:13.120We should expect the rift between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump to widen in the days and weeks ahead.
00:42:20.400I've said I've been the most, I think, vocal about this of saying, first off, UAE, Saudi, Qatar are American protectorates, but also Israel is an American protector in a vassal state.
00:42:36.100I understand that has become a hot wire topic in Israel in this election, in this discussion.
00:42:44.440Do you believe, as one of the observers, I think, gets it right about Israel the large majority of time,
00:42:52.040that this is the beginning of this break, that you won't be able to have even a scintilla of evidence going forward
00:42:59.480that Israel's a protectorate of the United States, that Israel's actually going to have its sovereignty?
00:43:05.020if that sovereignty means, you know, breaking the relationship they have today and go to a
00:43:09.840different relationship, but that they can fight on and they can take on Hamas. There's no border
00:43:13.660peace. There's no, there's no Turkey providing security in Gaza. There's no Qatar underwriting
00:43:20.200it. You guys are full on in Southern Lebanon, all the way up to Beirut taking on Hezbollah,0.50
00:43:25.840but you got to do what you got to do as a sovereign nation, sir. That's where things
00:43:31.720are moving in Israel. And that's what this, you know, these attacks on the Dakhia in Beirut
00:43:36.280yesterday in response to Hezbollah firing drones at our northern border. And let me be even more
00:43:41.540accurate. In response to Iran firing drones at our northern border towns. Remember, Hezbollah is
00:43:48.260Iran. So yesterday we have, in the midst of all this, where Iran is saying they want de-escalation0.78
00:43:53.080in Lebanon. They provoke Israel. When Prime Minister Netanyahu did not heed President Trump's0.74
00:43:58.800request to not respond, which I thought was an immoral request. It was absurd. We have drones
00:44:06.440being fired at civilian towns, and because no one got killed, we shouldn't do anything about it.
00:44:12.320Hang on. Hang over a second. That's pretty harsh coming from you. You believe the commander-in-chief,
00:44:17.520the president of the United States, who's probably done more in relationship for Israel than any
00:44:22.040American president? You think he gave an immoral request? Well, it was unwise. I mean, think about
00:44:31.120this. We're getting attacked by Hezbollah drones being fired at civilian towns. Families in their
00:44:39.320bomb shelters, people have been killed by these drones. People hear drone, they don't understand
00:44:43.440what this is. It's basically like a missile that you can control. They move very fast. They have
00:44:47.000an explosive tip on them, and they kill people. And we've had many casualties over the last two
00:44:54.200months during this supposed ceasefire from these drones being fired into our towns. And there were
00:44:59.100drones fired in yesterday morning by Hezbollah. And let's remember, the chain of command of Hezbollah
00:45:04.180starts in Tehran. So we have the Iranians firing drones at us in the morning. And the purpose of
00:45:10.520that. It's great game theory by the Iranians because either Israel retaliates and then they1.00
00:45:20.800can blame it on Trump and say, hey, you were complicit, or Trump tells Israel not to retaliate0.98
00:45:26.180and then either it turns into a widening rift between Trump and Netanyahu, which serves the
00:45:31.820Iranian interest, or Netanyahu listens to Trump and that shows that the Iranians can then say,
00:45:37.800you see we were able to fire on israel with impunity and restrain them this is it was a0.56
00:45:44.000brilliant play by the iranians and i think that president trump fell into this trap because he
00:45:48.160wants the deal so listen i love president trump i can't imagine the dystopian hell we'd be living
00:45:53.700in if kamala harris had won he's done amazing things for israel but we have to be clear-eyed
00:45:57.880about this current situation the desire for a deal has clouded his judgment about the middle east you
00:46:03.960cannot allow these people to attack us with impunity. Hang on for one second. Just stick
00:46:09.140right there. You're going to get back. I got Kurt Mills. I got Kevin Funnell, but I got to go to
00:46:12.300Eric Bolling and Eric, I know you got to bounce. We've got the president's helicopter now coming
00:46:17.020in. I think it's to Evian where the G7 is going to take place. Eric Bolling, given what you just
00:46:22.440heard Rabbi Willicki say, I think quite prescient about the divergence of strategic objectives and
00:46:28.820goals here in all clarity. What is your sense of the holding of this deal? And what do you think
00:46:34.080is going to happen to oil markets? Because I get a sense from the Israelis that, hey, game on,1.00
00:46:39.920we're going to fight this out. And nobody's going to tell us what to do, sir.1.00
00:46:44.720So I think there are, by the way, great assessment by the rabbi. I don't think I ever
00:46:50.900made the assumption or the accusation or the alleged that Hezbollah was not funded
00:46:57.840and a wing of the Iranian government, IRGC.
00:48:32.360I see the Fed's hands tied to lower interest rates, which would be great for the economy, great for the market, great for midterm elections.
00:48:41.080But they can't do it at 4.2 percent inflation.
00:51:10.120Rabbi Willicki, the war room engine room, the New York division reminds me in our discussion to say, hey, we just had this big fracas last week on the NDAA where we're merging the defense industrial bases of Israel.
00:51:29.220And there's an aspect of this deeper that we're merging the basically backroom operations, I guess, of our intelligence operations.
00:51:37.600So institutionally, the United States and Israel are coming together more, which I adamantly oppose, but it's happening, right?
00:51:46.300And we're trying to stop it, but it's happening.0.61
00:51:48.160So how can you have Israel break the vassal state protectorate nature of this relationship, move to its own sovereignty and its own independence,
00:51:57.220And quite frankly, to go fight a war that you're saying they have to fight and they have to win, particularly the Iranian army of Hezbollah in Lebanon at the same time that we're merging the two operations, sir.
00:52:12.880Well, the merging of the operations is is really the heading towards the new arrangement post aid.
00:52:19.900This was all part of Ron Dermer's plan to wean Israel off of the aid and move more to a cooperative relationship where we're jointly investing and jointly doing R&D and merging other types of operations.
00:52:33.880But, you know, Steve, I disagree with your framing of the question.
00:52:38.860The total amount of U.S. aid to Israel constitutes less than 10 percent of our defense budget, of our national budget.