Bibi Netanyahu meets with President Trump in the Oval Office for a bilateral press conference. President Trump makes his first foreign visit in his second term and meets with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House.
00:05:02.320Well, let me just make an overall observation, Steve.
00:05:04.920As you know, I had the privilege of working for President Reagan when he was practicing peace through strength.
00:05:11.760And it was an extraordinary moment in my life.
00:05:16.700I'm happy to say that I think the most glorious moment, probably even surpassing that, is the one we're living in now.
00:05:23.660You were talking with Julie earlier about the time to be alive.
00:05:26.600What Donald Trump is doing every single day, and I set the Middle East aside for a moment, but every single day in domestic policy and foreign policy is demonstrating that he is making America great again.
00:05:40.080And he's doing it by the practice of leadership, first and foremost, and the policy of peace through strength.
00:05:49.160And let me just say this to our friends who are relatively new to all of this.
00:05:54.220America first, I think, joins brilliantly with peace through strength because the idea behind the Reagan strategy was not to use our strength.
00:06:07.200It was to have our strength deter enemies from doing bad things and to come to terms that were acceptable to us.
00:06:13.680Because Donald Trump has the opportunity, and I think this is what we're going to see in the press conference coming up momentarily, I pray it is, is that the kind of partnership that arguably we haven't seen since, oh, I don't know, FDR and Churchill or maybe Reagan and Thatcher and John Paul is available now to enable us to have the decisive victory we need.
00:06:41.440And I mean, and I mean, we meaning both the United States of America and the Judeo-Christian civilized world, and also, of course, Israel, without having to use our strength by allowing the Israelis to use their strength and, in fact, assuring that they've got the kit, the wherewithal to do that.
00:07:00.920But they have understood, I think, finally, in the aftermath of October 7th, and President Trump spoke powerfully about it a moment ago, that horrific event shred, I hope for all time.
00:07:14.940The idea that they can simply make peace with people determined to destroy them, whether it's Hamas, whether it's Hezbollah, whether it's Houthis, whether it's Iran, whether it's other Sharia supremacists, Turkey, they will have to prevail over them.
00:07:29.360And the very important insight for our America first team is that restraint won't get us there, let alone retreat.
00:07:39.040What will get us there is enabling Israel to finish the job, as President Trump has put it, to assure that victory is actually achieved over these enemies.
00:07:49.580Whether gutter can play a role or not, I don't know.
00:07:53.580But here's an interesting opportunity for a test.
00:07:55.760I was talking with our colleague David Wormser on our show, Securing America, earlier today, and he pointed out, gutter has a village or series of villages, I guess, that they built for the World Cup.
00:08:12.560How about we put 100,000, I don't know, women and children from Gaza in there right away to start this process?
00:08:19.080The other thing I just wanted to mention, Steve, is I don't know what they're talking about right now, but I've got to believe that with Donald Trump moving the Overton window, as my friend Pesek likes to say, on this whole idea that Gaza is someplace that can be occupied, that can be inhabited for any time for the foreseeable future, not by Israelis, as was mentioned by somebody in the press, not by the Palestinians for sure.
00:08:47.500We have to change this ceasefire that the president basically inherited from Joe Biden, this hudna, if you want to be technical about it, a pause, not real peace, not even temporary peace, but just a time for regrouping, for rearming, and then for resuming the fight.
00:09:08.160This is a tradition that goes back to Mohammed.
00:09:11.140But the point is, you cannot be allowing hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Gazans to go back into the north under these circumstances.
00:09:23.140That's provided for in phase two of this ceasefire deal.
00:17:26.060But again, the finger of responsibility should be pointed at where it belongs.
00:17:30.700On those—their leadership and their population that has chosen this, they embrace Hamas.
00:17:35.760Now, practically speaking, where are they going to go?
00:17:37.980I believe that the only real practical solution is to deliver the Sharia supremacists, the jihadists, such a resounding defeat that they do what the imperial Japanese and what the Nazi Germans did, and that is rethink their genocidal ideology because it is unequivocally defeated.
00:17:57.820It's really the only way to change these people.
00:17:59.820Otherwise, you're just moving around the deck chairs on the Titanic, shifting jihadists from
00:26:59.320In other words, he was dismissing that.
00:27:01.160But at the same time, you're right, he wasn't all smiley and gracious in the way that he often is.
00:27:06.840And I think that part of that is just being noncommittal.
00:27:09.440This was an impromptu press conference, you know, during the photo op in the chairs.
00:27:15.060The main press conference is coming now.
00:27:16.840And I think that before he had the conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu,
00:27:21.060he didn't want to—he didn't want to, you know, be too—you know, be too generous in what he's going to be saying.
00:27:27.380You know, he doesn't want to be committal.
00:27:28.660And—but I think it's also clear that President Trump wants to make it known that whatever policies are going to come out of this are his.
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00:32:18.520Through the eyes of America's, not Israel's, through the eyes of America's enemies in the region, what are they going to be looking for?
00:32:26.560What's the thing that we can say to put our enemies on the back foot?
00:32:30.180And what are they going to be looking for in this about any kind of gap between the American historical relationship with Israel?
00:32:38.800Particularly President Trump, as you know, greatly admires the Israeli military, right, as being a force that has had some tremendous victories in the past, sir.
00:32:49.900Well, they're going to be looking for two things.
00:32:51.800They're going to be looking on the Iran front for what comes out of President Trump's mouth in terms of being open to Israeli strikes against Iran.
00:33:00.000He already announced earlier today that he's, you know, renewing the sanctions and pointing the finger at Iran, and, as you mentioned earlier, threatening them if they try to come after him.
00:33:09.380Let's remember that Iran was broke when President Trump left office.
00:33:12.380They had no money to fund Hamas and Hezbollah.
00:33:14.820So they're going to be watching for what he says about Iran.
00:33:17.680Prime Minister Netanyahu has made it his life's work to take them down.
00:33:20.360And on the Gaza front, they're going to be looking for what President Trump says about phase two, phase two, which we're now on day 17 of this 42-day ceasefire.
00:33:32.460And they're supposed to—they've started negotiating phase two, which is supposed to lead to a permanent ceasefire.
00:33:38.940The right wing in Israel is threatening to bring down the government if we don't go back to war at the end of phase one.
00:33:45.300And they're going to be looking for President Trump to be pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu or an announcement that they are going to be going into phase two for a permanent ceasefire.
00:33:56.400They're going to be looking for something in that direction, although I don't think you're going to get any commitment out of them one way or another on that.
00:34:03.560Yeah, Steve, I would just say, as Bibi put it, they're looking for daylight between these two allies.
00:34:14.280And whenever they see it, they think they can build wedges that will exploit it.
00:34:18.460They believe that they can help undermine Israel.
00:34:22.160But as you said yourself a moment ago, Israel is a speed bump on the road to the United States of America.
00:34:32.080We've talked about the threat that is present here and not just in our hemisphere but inside the country.
00:34:36.740That will be magnified enormously if these guys actually think they can finish off Israel, which has been their set purpose for generations.
00:34:47.840If they don't see that daylight, if they see that special relationship, if they see, as Rabbi Peck was saying, if they see the president of the United States saying, hey, obviously we can't continue into phase two under the present deal because that means having all these people moving north into the northern part of Gaza.
00:35:08.880So we're talking about a do-over of some kind, and that will be a very powerful signal if it's rooted in the principle that Hamas has to be defeated, not allowed to survive or even actually prevail over Israel, en route to what they all hope will be the next step, which is defeating Israel itself.
00:35:27.380Rabbi, you have a powerful and rising part of the MAGA movement, and particularly on the America First national security policy, and that is I would call the Tucker Carlson, Darren Beattie, Kurt Mills, and these are some of the smartest people we have in this movement and huge followers of President Trump.
00:35:51.380And I would actually add Grace Chung, who runs our social media, that there's not an insignificant amount, probably 50-50 of you in the war room posse that is in the social media and in the chat rooms and talk about it all the time, that a tripwire for them, and if you mention war with Persia, if you mention even airstrikes on Iran or Persia, they literally say, okay, we can't do that.
00:36:17.660What do you say to those folks to say, hey, maybe you're not thinking of this?
00:36:23.320What would be your outreach to them to try to get them on board where these are the folks that are saying, hey, too much of this is the tail wagging the dog in the Middle East.
00:36:33.300We don't really have a fight over there.
00:36:35.300It's not our – we hear Bannon, we hear Gaffney, we hear the jihad, you know, the anti-jihad crowd, but we're not buying it.
00:36:43.480We still think the tail wags the dog, and we're adamantly opposed to this.
00:36:48.380Now, if Bibi – and you said it right there, and I agree with you.
00:36:52.600He thinks it's – he believes in his heart of hearts it's an existential threat, and I believe he feels that on his watch he has to take care of it.
00:37:02.780And we don't know how long his watch is going to last.
00:37:05.520So what do you say to that – what do you say to that element of the America First that's pretty adamantly opposed to this, sir?
00:37:13.960Well, first what I said earlier, and that is that Iran's nefarious behavior is not limited to the Middle East.
00:37:21.220They're also funding a lot of what's going on on your southern border, and they're working very closely with the cartels.
00:37:27.780They are actively an enemy of America, not only in theory.
00:37:31.760I would also point to the Iranian people who are suffering under this regime.
00:37:37.680Iran is actually not a very religious population.
00:37:40.500They have the lowest mosque attendance per capita of any Muslim nation, and you have a suffering population that's actually quite pro-Western and even pro-Israel that is suffering under the mullahs and, you know, much akin to the Lao Bajing out in China.
00:37:55.460But mainly I would also argue that you're just kicking the can down the road if you don't deal with Iran.
00:38:10.700Why should we live in perpetuity with this Sharia supremacist, jihadist regime that started in 1979?
00:38:17.360It's not a law of nature that they have to be governing one of the largest nations in the Middle East.
00:38:23.140And if the Iranian mullahs regime were to fall, this isn't like Syria.
00:38:28.280It wouldn't be replaced by some other radical group.
00:38:31.140Iran is quite an advanced, you know, fairly Western nation if you think about what it was under the Shah.
00:38:38.000You would have a very powerful partner with the West.
00:38:40.880It would have—and the ripple effect of peace throughout the world would be incredible.
00:38:44.440And this is very much a national security issue for the United States as well.
00:38:48.580The Iranian regime, if it's not dealt with, if it remains in power, especially if it continues to sell its oil, which Donald Trump is putting a stop to, but if the Iranian regime remains in power, there will be jihad.
00:39:04.260Jihad is what they put their money into, not into their own people.
00:39:07.460There will be jihad continuing throughout the Middle East, throughout Europe, throughout South America, and into the United States in perpetuity so long as that regime is in power.
00:39:28.240The East Room is on the residence side.
00:39:30.120That's actually in the residence of the White House itself, proper, historic.
00:39:36.280So many important press conferences, meetings have taken place there.
00:39:40.760You've got to leave the Oval Office, walk through the colony, pass the Rose Garden into the back of the residence, then up, of course, down that carpet, that beautiful centerpiece, to the East Room.
00:39:55.140President Trump is due there momentarily with Bibi Netanyahu.
00:39:59.740So right now, in that Oval Office, Frank Gaffney, they're talking about war and peace.
00:40:05.700Bibi Netanyahu is making his case that Rabbi just made, that the Persians are a threat, not just the reason, the Persians are a direct threat to the United States of America.
00:40:15.740And he's making a case for war against the Persians.
00:40:19.880And his case is that, hey, we were able to take – Hezbollah was supposedly the best light infantry in the world, and we've taken – we've basically destroyed them in much of the Syria-Lebanon corridor.
00:40:35.680It's got all these elements that the rabbi just talked about.
00:40:38.060And if you just give me some – if you just give us some support, if you just give us – you don't have to be in combat, but you give us some air support, and if you look the other way in any type of infantry, at least initially you won't have to be involved, we can take this down.
00:40:54.540Am I wrong in that, or is that the pitch that Bibi came here to make?
00:40:57.380I suspect he's looking for help in a couple of different places, including the ones we've just been talking about, Gaza, for one, relief from the deal, finishing the job in Lebanon, clearly, not a perpetual ceasefire that allows Hezbollah to have the hudna and get back in business.
00:41:19.360But Iran is clearly part of this agenda, Steve, and I just want to add to everything that Pesek Walicki was talking about, the other piece of it.
00:41:27.340And I – with all due respect to the people who just don't think this is a problem, the Iranians could have a nuclear weapon at any time.
00:41:35.780If they don't already, I'm kind of astonished, frankly, but it could be any time.
00:41:40.300And if they don't think that's a threat to us, think again.
00:41:44.220One of the reasons that Donald Trump is absolutely right about pursuing a so-called Iron Dome for America – it won't be exactly an Iron Dome because Iron Dome in Israel is for short-range things.
00:41:55.320We need long-range missiles to be protected against.
00:42:03.700And not only, Steve, do we have the technology to do it, thanks, among other things, to what Elon Musk has been doing.
00:42:09.260But back in the George H.W. Bush administration, we had a program that was ready to go to put space-based sensors and weapons in place that would have neutralized not just the Iranian threat or the North Korean threat, but the Chinese and even the Russian threats.
00:42:25.940And unfortunately, Bill Clinton, when he came to office, he brought in Les Aspen, one radical leftist, as his secretary of defense.
00:42:34.280And one of the first things he did in office was say, we're taking the stars out of Star Wars.
00:42:40.100And ever since then, we basically have not pursued the logical, the effective, the efficient, the cost-effective, especially way of doing a comprehensive defense of the United States against missile attack of all kinds, hypersonic, by the way, cruise missiles, the whole works.
00:42:58.560So Donald Trump is right about that, and in part, it is a matter of the utmost urgency because Iran is at the cusp of joining that league of people who, with a short-ranged missile off the coast of the United States, could launch an EMP attack against us, electromagnetic pulse, take out our grid, and we would be done.
00:43:18.520If you don't think it's a problem, ladies and gentlemen, I entreat you to study it more closely because if you do study it, even a little bit, I think you're going to realize that retreat gets us killed.
00:43:30.980It enables them to defeat us, not just the Israelis.
00:43:35.300And pretending that these aren't problems or that it's somebody else's problem is a terrible mistake.
00:43:39.760The best thing about it, though, just to wrap this all up, Steve, is, and I'm sure this is a point Bibi is making to the president, we can do this, Mr. President.
00:43:49.060Just help us with material support and take care of it.
00:43:52.960I don't think the stakes can be higher.
00:43:54.880I actually don't think, Rabbi, this is to you.
00:44:10.940His problem, he thinks, is the Muslim Brotherhood, the financing, but the great Satan he's seen historically in his life is the Persians in Iran.
00:44:19.460And he's got one shot with an audience of President Trump to convince him to support him in a military place.
00:44:42.220But the central thing is – and what Bibi's wanted to accomplish, and he needs an American president to have his back,
00:44:48.920and he thinks President Trump is the one that's the most logical and open to his, since the Democrats allowed him essentially to get a nuclear weapon,
00:44:59.080that President Trump, who thinks outside the box is his best shot, even though he's got leading intellectuals like Tucker Carlson, like Kurt Mills, like Darren Beattie,
00:45:08.020and dozens and dozens and dozens of others to say this is a sucker's play.
00:45:12.380Is that not the pitch in the Oval Office right now that he's making, sir?
00:45:17.580Oh, it absolutely is, because on those other issues you mentioned, like Hamas ruling Gaza and what to do with some of these other issues,
00:45:27.120there's already agreement between the Trump administration and Bibi's administration.
00:45:30.560We know that already the statements have already been made.
00:45:33.100It's on the Iran issue that I guess you could say we're not sure that President Trump has been convinced by Netanyahu.
00:45:41.220But everything you're raising, Steve, speaks to the fact that there's a much larger issue here,
00:45:46.300which is are we serious about the threat to Western civilization?
00:45:51.220Because the Sharia supremacists, the Qataris, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Shiites in Tehran,
00:45:57.420they're very serious about their desire to defeat our civilization.
00:46:02.160And I don't see that resolve coming on our side the same way.
00:48:25.860We had great victories together four years ago.
00:48:28.840Not so many victories over the past four years, however.
00:48:31.540In my first term, Prime Minister and I forged a tremendously successful partnership that brought peace and stability to the Middle East like it hadn't seen in decades.