00:00:59.900He'll punch it out for the next couple of days with, quote-unquote, our allies in Europe.
00:01:05.500He will also then go to Turkey to the NATO conference.
00:01:12.560Captain Fennell, if there is a signing of this MOU, if it takes place Friday, which I think is highly problematic, but we'll find out how it works.
00:01:21.080It looks like right now it's going to be J.D. Vance in some sort of—the vice president with some sort of—
00:01:26.320It's not exactly the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Harbor on September 5th.
00:01:33.400The instrument is not an instrument of surrender.
00:10:01.140and they're going to fight it out. It makes sense for them.0.99
00:10:03.720It makes even more political sense for Netanyahu, and the United States is just going to have to live with that, sir.0.75
00:10:12.280Maybe, but I think there are consequences for what you've been observing for at least a year, that Israel is a protector of the United States.0.68
00:10:19.040And so what you've seen in the course of this war with the Israelis basically trying to get the United States into the war to do their bidding is that we've become enmeshed.0.60
00:10:29.020And to end the war on the U.S. side, America has had to make guarantees to the Iranians that the Israelis will at least vaguely honor some red lines.
00:10:39.800And so Lebanon has been a key linchpin of the Iranian strategy throughout this, a curious linchpin, but one that appears that it largely worked for the goals of the Iranians to secure their own security.
00:10:53.520So I think the idea that Netanyahu, in essence, can go back into Lebanon and not disrupt the entire peace, I think is not really—unless Willicky has information that I don't, which is entirely possible, I don't think that's going to be received well in the White House because we already saw what happened this weekend.
00:11:17.660If Israel wants to do this, then they shouldn't have a random understanding with the U.S.0.63
00:11:23.000Hang on, hang on, hang on. I want to make sure that he's saying, hang on, what Rabbi Walicki said is that this just wasn't any attack.
00:11:32.840This was the Iranians who, Hezbollah is not a proxy, they're really an arm of their military, that these attacks were very deliberate, very focused and very smart, but had to be responded to.
00:11:46.240There wasn't an option not to respond to him. In fact, that us try to restrict him might even have been immoral, but at least was strategically and tactically incorrect. Your thoughts?0.95
00:11:58.160I don't think this has anything to do with the United States. I don't think it matters at all if Hezbollah has control of southern Lebanon. I don't think this affects Americans. I don't think this is what Americans voted for. I think they're not a danger to the United States.
00:12:11.200Yeah. Is Hezbollah full of hard Lebanese dudes? Sure.
00:12:15.600But if the U.S. simply didn't mess in this region, I don't think there's a serious case of blowback.
00:12:21.560These are not al-Qaeda. These are not ISIS. These are not Sunni millinery and terrorists.
00:12:26.600I think there's a willful conflation by Israeli intellectuals and authorities to scare Americans into basically getting involved in the civil war, which we have no fair.
00:12:37.180Hang on a second. Rabbi Boulicki, I've got about two minutes. I've got to go to break.
00:13:24.320It really has little to do with Lebanon other than the fact that they occupy Lebanon.0.90
00:13:30.320They've occupied Lebanon since the early 80s.
00:13:33.040This isn't about a Lebanese civil war.
00:13:34.980This is about attacks on Israel from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces in Lebanon that are now, the Lebanese people are screaming every day to get rid of Hezbollah so that they could live a normal life and have normalized relations with their neighbors.
00:13:57.380and israel is seeking the peace of its northern communities that's what that's what's going on
00:14:03.400in lebanon and to restrain israel and and i think he misunderstood the point that i made
00:14:08.720when you when you raised the point that that what what that what the iranians were doing when they
00:14:12.600were attacking israel was trying to drive a wedge between the u.s and israel when he says it has
00:14:18.300nothing to do with americans sure in in theory what happens in lebanon has nothing to do with
00:14:22.320americans but the iranians were trying to provoke the israelis so that president trump would lash
00:14:28.400out at prime minister netanyahu when israel responded which we had to do that is that's the
00:14:34.480point that i was making and i think it was just uh it was just a little bit misunderstood there
00:14:38.000i just want to make sure that your viewers fully understand that okay hang on and and
00:14:42.400hang on hang on i'm gonna save the good hang on rabbi licky kurt mills captain finnell
00:14:46.560Now, Elizabeth Mitchell is going to join us on a different topic momentarily.
00:14:52.600We're going to take a short commercial break.0.97
00:17:02.620It's going to be access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund funded by the Gulf Emirates, funded by the Gulf Emirates, not the United States, funded by the Gulf Emirates.
00:17:14.420I don't know what our role is going to be, but it is going to be a $300 billion reconstruction.
00:17:21.180Somehow we're going to make sure that they get paid.
00:17:24.920I'm going to get Curt back here in a second.
00:17:26.760Rabbi Willicki, I think you would agree with me that whatever J.D. signs or whatever is signed, and Trita Parsi, I still think, has got this right.
00:17:34.800I'm not so sure anything's ever really going to get signed.
00:17:37.260But what President Trump has structured here is not going to be a signing like on the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Harbor on September 5th of 1945, correct?
00:17:48.980And why do the Persians, and we've got to be blunt about this, their media, they're mocking us right now.
00:17:55.760They say this is a capitulation of the Zionist American Empire, sir.
00:18:03.840Well, first a little bit of history, Steve.
00:18:06.880Shiite, you know, we all know the terms Shiite and Sunni, but most Americans, even though they just know there's two groups of Muslims, there's actually more than two, but they don't know what that really means.
00:18:15.940Shiite Islam's origin story was after Muhammad, there was a power struggle between a couple of his grandsons.
00:18:25.200and there was and the Shiites basically were were massacred the the first Shiites they were
00:18:32.520founded by this Imam Ibn Ali and and there was this battle at Karbala that they lost they got
00:18:37.860but they weren't totally destroyed and the whole ethos of Shiite Islam one of the one of the just
00:18:44.200the key ideas is that when you suffer and when you are up against the man when you're up against a
00:18:50.440more powerful foe and you survive and you're not destroyed and you show resilience and you're able
00:18:56.880to continue on, that's a sign that Allah loves you and that's a sign that you will ultimately
00:19:02.660be victorious. They view their very survival as victory. But more than that, if you go back to
00:19:10.380February 28th, when President Trump stood before the nation, he gave an eight-minute speech laying
00:19:15.260out the objectives of this war. And he laid out four objectives. He said, we're going to destroy
00:19:21.200their Navy. We're going to destroy their ballistic missile capability. We will destroy their proxy
00:19:25.740network or their ability to fund the proxies. And we'll make sure that they no longer have
00:19:29.980an ability to have a nuclear weapon. And then later in the speech, he said to the
00:19:34.480Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, to the IRGC, I say, lay down your weapons or face certain death.
00:19:41.140And then he turned to the Iranian people in that speech. And he ended off the speech by saying,
00:19:58.180How are we going to survive this onslaught of the Israelis and the Americans?0.99
00:20:01.300They know that they're not a more powerful military.1.00
00:20:04.220Their whole goal is find a piece of leverage that could make this as painful as possible
00:20:08.780for President Trump so that he stops short of destroying us, so that he stops short of
00:20:14.060bringing us down so that he stopped short of achieving those goals. And the leverage that
00:20:18.560they chose was the Strait of Hormuz. And that strategy worked perfectly. So from their perspective,0.61
00:20:24.740and I read Iranian state media every single day, I read a number of their outlets, I read the
00:20:29.580analytical pieces, I read the news stories, and it is very clear exactly what you say. They are
00:20:34.000declaring victory. They see their resilience and their survival against a foe who vowed to destroy
00:20:39.860them and bring them down. And the fact that they're not destroyed and that they're still in power
00:20:43.900And that the Americans backed off, the American Zionist alliance backed off that. And again, in Shiite culture and in Persian culture, that is the ultimate sign of victory, that you resisted a more powerful foe and you got them to back down. That shows that you are more powerful.
00:21:41.600Kurt Mills, your observations on that.
00:21:44.900Yeah, I mean, I just like the whole framing is entirely off.
00:21:48.080I mean, the way of describing Shiite Islam or the Iranian authorities as uniquely interested in survival or uniquely interested in explaining their own positions to their own people.
00:22:00.040The idea that we don't do this ourselves, that we don't want to survive, that we don't valorize resilience, I think this is a human trait, not an Islamic trait or a Muslim trait or a Shia trait.
00:22:12.140So I'm not really sure what the relevance of that is.
00:22:14.380As to the actual deal, the $300 billion fund, allegedly, if any of this money ever gets dispersed, as you correctly observed, Steve, will be done by people in the region.
00:22:57.260But like, you know, they were who we thought they were.
00:23:00.680And if you actually read the analysis, you actually read what their own people are saying, their own hardliners are upset that they signed this deal.
00:23:08.560So I think we have a durable peace here if President Trump doesn't cave into thinking that this war has anything to do with the United States in essence, which it doesn't.
00:23:19.240And this is a sideshow conflict thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of miles away from the United States.0.95
00:23:27.760And if the United States doesn't poke the bear, the Iranians will continue running a sort of middling dictatorship.0.91
00:23:33.620But that is the Iranians' own people's business, not the business of the United States.1.00
00:23:39.520It may be the business of Israel, but why should we care?0.73
00:23:43.680Israel is the most powerful country in the region.0.68
00:23:45.660They have nuclear weapons, hundreds of them, which they don't can see that they do.
00:23:51.620And the action here, the derelvention, is that only one country in the Middle East is seeking to expand with American taxpayer dollars, and that is Israel.0.58
00:25:38.300We're going to wrap up now, but would you agree that Israel, to do what you just said about Hezbollah,0.66
00:25:45.040Israel will end up doing that on their own, that it's pretty obvious the United States has no real interest in furthering that,
00:25:51.900that if you guys want to do it, you're not a vassal state, you're not a protectorate, you're your own sovereign nation,
00:25:57.040that if that has to happen, as you said, it has to happen, you guys will have to do that on your own?
00:26:03.540It's going to happen one way or another, because the Lebanese government does not really have the wherewithal.
00:26:10.500The Lebanese army is not as strong as Hezbollah, and there are elements in the Lebanese army that are actually aligned with Hezbollah.
00:26:16.340They're never going to disarm Hezbollah, even though they said they were going to.
00:26:19.700And the Israelis were not going to tolerate these terrorists firing missiles and rockets into our communities in the north of Israel.0.66
00:26:28.880So Israel, yeah, Israel is going to go clean it out.0.84
00:26:30.960And once Hezbollah is actually gone, we'll be able to normalize relations with Lebanon.0.77
00:26:35.220The only reason that Lebanese politicians ever condemn Israel is because they're afraid of Hezbollah coming after them.
00:26:42.060The Lebanese people are increasingly in favor of peace deals with Israel because they want Hezbollah gone.
00:26:47.520But in your theory of the case, which is saying, hey, Ben, and you guys are wrong, you and Boling keep saying Hezbollah is a proxy.
00:26:54.780It's not. It is a hardwired part of the Iranian army.
00:26:58.840In doing that, you guys will stay in a direct war with Iran,0.81
00:27:03.660in a war that if you're going to crush Hezbollah, will only expand?
00:27:09.540Not necessarily. It depends how the Iranians behave.0.87
00:27:12.600You know, for many of, over the course of the last 47 years,0.58
00:27:16.900or really Hezbollah has been around for about 43 years,
00:27:19.820over the course of that time, Iran has not joined our skirmishes with Hezbollah most of the time.
00:27:25.060They did it last week and they did it one other time over the last couple of years.
00:27:29.980They generally don't start firing from Iran.
00:27:33.640And they're getting desperate now because they see their grip on Lebanon slipping through their fingers with Israel degrading Hezbollah every single day.
00:27:42.560Unfortunately, and this is what I, at the beginning of this conversation today, I said this.
00:27:46.300unfortunately tying israel's hands and saying keep things quiet in lebanon stop attacking hezbollah
00:27:51.820it condemns the lebanese people to continue to live under the thumb of iran and it means that
00:27:57.980israel is being told that you cannot deal with an enemy that's firing rockets at you none of those
00:28:02.600those two things are intolerable yeah we will have a much better relationship with our lebanese0.87
00:28:08.020neighbors if we can if israel is given a free hand to go in there and destroy hezbollah which0.66
00:28:13.540no one else is willing to do. We've got about 30 seconds. Where do people get your content, sir?0.83
00:28:20.220You can find me on YouTube at the Israel 365 News YouTube channel or my own personal YouTube
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00:31:35.380I need I need an investigation of what's going on here.
00:31:38.800But more but substantively, substantively, you are correct in observing two things with the Congress thing.0.99
00:31:47.180Number one, he is talking to the president of the United States like he's an imbecile.0.98
00:31:52.620So he doesn't reference Trump. He just says Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama, Obama. It's not Obama's deal. This is Trump's deal. Secondarily, Congress, and not just Levin, Levin thankfully not in the Congress, Congress is utterly cynical.0.99
00:32:07.960People like Lindsey Graham. There's no congressional role, as there is in the Constitution, for when a war is declared or a war is all but declared.
00:32:18.400But all of a sudden, if the president of the United States wants to end military hostilities, then it needs to be subjected to congressional oversight.
00:32:25.380It's just this is open, naked, cynical contradiction at its finest.0.99
00:32:30.280They are treating their viewers like they are dumb. They are treating the president like he is stupid.1.00
00:32:35.420And I think enough is enough. And the markets today and the reception of the public to this deal is going to be positive, no matter what people want to say about capitulation, surrender.1.00
00:32:46.320This is a victory for Trump. This is good that we moved on. The United States made the right call here.
00:32:53.360Kurt, where do people get you over the American Conservative?
00:32:57.220Thanks. The magazine is www.theamericanconservative.com, founded in 2002 against the Iraq War by Pat Buchanan and others.
00:33:05.420And you can find my own work at C-U-R-T-M-I-L-L-S on X.
00:33:11.360Kurt, you do agree that this ain't your last time coming on here to talk about this.
00:33:15.360We got a long, tough slog through this.
00:33:17.920And my fear is that even with the process President Trump's trying to get going in the MOU, in the longer negotiations, we're stuck over here.
00:33:27.980Unless people are adamant about it, and I intend to be adamant about it, we're going to be stuck over there for a long time to come?0.68
00:33:33.300it's the middle east man nothing new under the sun um luckily for sickos like us we can talk0.85
00:33:38.960about it further but yes the the it's a sideshow to a sideshow as i said at the national conservative
00:33:44.760convention back in early june of 2025 kurt mills thank you captain finnell you get the last word
00:33:52.620here where are we in all of this and what is the importance of the american military in this sir
00:33:57.480we're gonna have to wait for the actual signing of this agreement so we have five days to wait
00:34:03.940to see what behind the scenes uh negotiations continue to work through any hard points and
00:34:10.520then we'll have to watch and see what happens do you feel good captain finnell captain finnell do
00:34:14.280you feel good about that we're going to be party to if not writing a check somehow putting together
00:34:21.320a $300 billion reconstruction fund for the regime financed by Qatar, UAE, and the Saudis, sir?
00:34:31.580Well, as you've said repeatedly over the last two or three months, that the Gulf states don't
00:34:37.020produce. So I'm not too worried about that right now. Really, what I'm worried about is to see if
00:34:42.040the Iranians actually start making actual movements and opening the strait and allowing
00:34:49.720inspectors in. And if those things happen, then we can talk about 300 billion. But I'm not concerned
00:34:54.740about that today. What I'm concerned about today is let's see if they move and they act. And if
00:34:59.420they do, then we can move our military forces into the Indo-Pacific to face the larger and0.95
00:35:06.440more serious threat from the People's Republic of China. But we're not there yet. So let's.0.92
00:36:45.940Should the president of the United States authorize Scott Besson to go make a deal with the British and not even, hey, you've got a choice.
00:36:56.420We're going to pay it and take Diego Garcia, sir.
00:37:00.160Yes, we should take all of the Chagos Islands and put those under U.S. sovereign control.0.87
00:37:05.220However we do it, let them work it out. But we cannot rely on the United Kingdom anymore to protect that. And oh, by the way, so everybody knows when Epic Fury stopped and the bombing stopped for the last two months, American naval forces had to go down to Diego Garcia to get new munitions.
00:37:23.800Our Navy cannot reload T-LAMs at sea, so we have to go down to bases that have T-LAMs in storage and load them aboard.
00:37:32.360And we did that, and that's why we were able to fire more T-LAMs this weekend.
00:37:36.200But we need to make sure that we have this critical outpost.
00:37:39.680We allowed the Biden administration to give away Afghanistan and Bagram Air Base.
00:37:44.460We better not give away Chagos and Diego Garcia.
00:37:48.740Where are your writings? Where can people go to get your writings, Captain?
00:37:53.800I haven't been writing too much lately, but American Greatness when I do.
00:37:56.520I would like to see, if this deal goes through, I'd like to see the USS Abraham Lincoln go back to her home port on the west coast of the United States via the Taiwan Strait.
00:38:13.360captain finnell would appreciate during the first term my recommendation for
00:38:20.440inauguration day since she had gone out talk smack about us at davos my recommendation as
00:38:28.200president trump was taking the oath of albus once his hand came off the bible a carrier battle group
00:38:33.600would would go through transit through the straits of taiwan suck on that ccp didn't happen but that's
00:38:42.460okay um as uh elizabeth mitchell over the daily signal magnificent piece i want to get it up
00:38:50.000so elizabeth as young americans men and women are on these carrier battle groups in the north
00:38:57.300arabian sea defending their country um and uh and we've had 13 of our warriors uh i think die in
00:39:05.700this killed in action and many many more wounded uh they uh when they come back to the united states
00:39:10.740They don't have the opportunities. One of the reasons is we have hundreds of thousands of foreign students in our universities.0.98
00:39:20.820And they backdoor into being in those universities, their first step to getting a permanent job here in the United States of America.0.52
00:39:26.640And there's a lot of folks in the United States of America have had a belly full of this.
00:39:30.280You've got a brilliant article about all of it. And it's I think, folks, it's not a better day to read that than today.
00:39:37.100We're talking about MOUs and $300 billion and what we're going to do.
00:39:40.780And, you know, Israel is going to continue the war up in Lebanon and Turkey is not going to be there's not going to be any Palestinian state because Hamas has not been their weapons have not been taken away.
00:39:53.440And, you know, we grind through this thing every day and we're going to grind through it every day that to know that the young men and women on those in those carrier battle groups don't have the full access to the blessings of liberty and the pursuit of happiness in their own country.
00:40:09.800Ma'am. And we're talking about young people who are about to graduate from college, particularly
00:40:16.600those who studied STEM. Maybe they are prepared to do some coding. They are going to face perhaps
00:40:22.660a more difficult job market because of this optional practical training program. So the way
00:40:27.860this works was created in 1992, and it enables foreign students, foreign graduates to get jobs
00:40:35.160in the United States after graduating. Their visas allow them to stay. And both they and their
00:40:40.460employer benefit from a tax break, where because of their visa status, they are not taxed for
00:40:46.360Social Security or Medicare for their first four years, for several years in the United States.
00:40:51.700And so this incentive would make it easier for tech companies, any kind of company, to hire
00:40:57.900these foreign graduates than it would Americans. And so this is something that's causing a lot of
00:41:02.500concern for young people who are looking for jobs in a variety of fields and are going to know that
00:41:08.940even though this is their country, they're going to perhaps have less of an ability to get these
00:41:13.340jobs than someone who came here from another country. So this is so outrageous because,
00:41:21.340you know, we've talked about this optional practical training, OPT. My recommendation,
00:41:28.740because you're essentially stamping a green card in here to compete with kids.0.99
00:41:32.020My recommendation is that you give an exit visa.0.78
00:41:35.820Every graduate, every foreign student in this nation should have an exit visa0.62
00:41:41.820stamped on their diploma when they pick it up
00:41:43.680and give them 30 days to hang out and party with their classmates.
00:41:51.400This is the exact opposite, is it not, ma'am?
00:41:53.520Yes, this is something that the MAGA movement is strongly against, as you've talked about on this show many times. Various Republican Congress members, representatives, senators, a lot of people in the MAGA movement are saying that this program needs to end.
00:42:10.100And Kristi Noem told Senator Jim Banks that she was examining, evaluating the program
00:42:15.720to see if it's in line with what the congressional intent was.
00:42:19.660But we have not heard from Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen yet about if he has any intention
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