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In this episode of the War Room, we talk about the upcoming election in Romania, the Middle East, the future of energy storage and nuclear plants, and much, much more! War Room is a podcast produced by and .
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do
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everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and
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where do people like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of
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these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer
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is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k van
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wednesday 14 may year of our lord 2025 thank you uh for sticking around for the second hour of our
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late afternoon early evening edition of the war room this is pretty packed today so no big cold
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opener we get on with it we have tom dans last time we talked with tom he was in greenland now he's in
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romania why are you in romania tom the the election that takes place on on sunday why should anybody in
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the war room posse uh care about this sir sure hey steve great to be with you great to be with
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the posse uh yeah so romania is going to be big this is the one of the key first steps in what you're
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going to see is a movement from east to west in europe of populist nationalist groups coming to power
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if everything goes right on sunday recall this is the kind of the fourth bite at the apple here for
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the romanian people each time sending a very clear signal that they want change and what they have
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here in uh the leader of i'm coming to you from the headquarters of the aur party george simeon a 38
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year old uh newcomer to politics but an outsider uh is is looking to take the helm he had a very convincing
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win uh two weeks ago uh in basically the way they run things a two-round uh system here so the top two
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vote getters proceed to a runoff uh but he garnered 41 percent of the national vote verse uh fellow who had
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21 percent who's basically the mayor of bucharest it's a he's a neo-marxist kind of being rebranded as a
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centrist you've seen this movie before but again this is the final act in what was uh something we
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know about well in the u.s which was courts getting involved to override the will of the voters which is
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what happened in december when uh his predecessor kalen georgescu won commandingly in the first round
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they were then the elections were then canceled by something called a constitutional court not to be
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confused with the supreme court here uh but basically sent them back to square one when they didn't like
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uh the outcome of the election charging russia russia russia uh and and sending things back to where
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they are right now so we're looking for history to be made romania's got big challenges in front of it
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again just lost him just froze okay yeah yeah we'll try to reboot him uh let's try to reboot him
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and the question is is this going to be any different than what happened when uh chisjescu won
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what six months ago and the eu just decided to steal it and shut it down george simeon we've had him on
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the show a number of times had him at cpac poso did this incredible interview with him the other day
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uh pretty commanding lead but they're very concerned about voter integrity there we'll get uh
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tom back up in a minute i want to go to dave walsh dave two things are happening i want to get to the
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middle east in a moment i've got pesak or well lucky is going to join us um to talk about what's
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happening in israel in the middle east and i think your uh analysis of these huge energy deals and what
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we're talking about in the middle east will segue into that but first i gotta go my mind my head's
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blowing up because of kind of green new deal and other energy things i don't see getting ripped out
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in in the big beautiful bill in fact i just read something i think it was tom massey was saying that
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some of the corporate underwriting for some of this green new deal nonsense is going to go on for
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another years and years and years what in the hell is happening right now with all the energy side
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that's in the uh the big beautiful bill sir well our ways and means committee does want to take an axe
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to the 42 billion a year of incentives for wind solar and plus we have battery storage carbon capture
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nuclear on top of that they want to take an axe to that however we've got seven rhino republicans
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gang of seven in the senate if you might have said specifically kramer north dakota hoven north
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dakota theme there murkowski curtis tillis moran and capito west virginia republicans all opposed from
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one sort or another to any abolition of the incentives to corporate entities on wind solar battery storage
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carbon capture and nuclear now basically positing that you know you know we can't do economic
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development we can't do r d in this country without government support nonsense government
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doesn't need to be involved in nuclear power incentives in in geothermal incentives in wind
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solar battery storage or any incentives that's what this is about the people can't afford this
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taxpayers can't afford this the budget deficit is huge the incentives and all this stuff collectively
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are borderline 80 80 billion per year when you account for the nuclear incentives to keep operating
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fleets prosperous against horrible rto pricing allowing renewables to be priced so cheaply so
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we've got basically a gang of seven in the senate republican rhinos have already spoken out on the
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abolition of any incentives that are all about 100 chinese solar 100 chinese battery storage being
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imported here and oh by the way the fact that if we're going to have small nuclear reactors we can
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only have them if government stands behind the research and behind incentivizing operating nuclear
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plants because the recipients of these incentives are in this order kind of companies exxon mobil
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constellation energy duke energy next era companies abroad iberdrola edf bp royal dutch shell and
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orsted are the massive recipients of u.s renewable incentives the solar and battery part entirely going to china
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for the chinaization of a very high cost american electricity supply that cannot support cannot
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support regrowth and reshoring of industry here at the present cost of solar wind power and battery
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storage hold on hang on hang on hang on hang on well slow down so are you telling me that these senators
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and guys in the house are fighting to keep these substantive corporations and that some of this is
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actually going to underwrite the chinese communist parties industries is that the implication you're
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making sir that that's the direct line 87 percent of the battery storage imported into this country
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all of it and 87 percent of the thin film pv solar panels are made in china are made in china that fact
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remains with all due respect to the fact that we may solve our trade issues with them those products
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are made in china those products are going to drive up electricity cost here by a factor of four or five
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times and they're causing a massive massive shortage of electricity the president cabal opposed to
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dismantling these incentives appears to be in the senate the aforementioned senators all republicans
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standing up opposed to any rapid dismantlement of these huge incentives which are by the way all
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about benefiting the rich we're talking about equity cap corporations all exceeding a hundred billion
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each receiving the lion's share of this money to incentivize solar wind and battery storage along
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with carbon capture the incentives go to the corporate elite the high high capex uh and equity
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cap firms on wall street and abroad who are the big investors but that's where those incentives go
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for a second i thought i thought the theory of the case full spectrum energy dominance with trump i thought
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the theory of the case is that the net zero carbon capture the decarbonization thing i thought that trump
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we're going to get to the middle east in a second i thought president trump is like that's that's that's
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the radical cult that's running germany we ain't doing that here how does that fit trump is adamant
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about this why do we have these centers why are the why are these things not shut down immediately i'm kind
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of missing how this can how we even can be discussing this sir well because steve the power of greed
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overways president trump's good intentions on this corporate donors next era
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iberdrola edf orsted all these firms that are massive corporate donors here into packs
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are having their sway over seven seven republican senators who have stood up and said we're not
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going to be reducing any carbon capture wind solar battery storage incentives anytime soon
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seven republicans in the senate who are heavily impacted go posse go look it up go look who
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donates to these people you'll see these names prominently on their list next era included
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all about their they're now their corporate welfare is tied into the incentivization of their energy
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device procurement from the federal government this is this this greed the greed for this money
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and for the enormous profits being made on these uh part-time regulated energy systems that are
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sapping u.s electricity supply the greed on this is so high that that that seems to overweigh what
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the president wants in the eyes of these seven senators backing this two of whom by the way are
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represent north dakota can i get can we get can you slowly give us a seven again
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north dakota kramer and hoven alaska murkowski utah curtis tillis north north carolina believe jerry moran
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and shelley morcopito west virginia all locked and loaded that we must have these incentives to
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retain the u.s manufacturing that they cause which is nonsense because incentives that drive up
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electricity cost here by five or six times as a factor are creating net zero value jobs we don't
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need jobs creating that kind of electrification and also she's indicating that emergent emerging
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technology like nuclear and uh and geothermal must be maintained government doesn't need to be
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maintaining incentivizing development of technology that's not the role of government now as we roll
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is this all going to be stripped out of the house bill and they're asking for it where do we stand with
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the big beautiful bill as you see it now through the energy against commerce committee where do these
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things exactly what you're talking about where they stand are they going to be out of the house bill
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these guys are asking back for it or are they going to be in the house bill well the seven seem to be
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drawing a line in the sand don't bring us a house bill a big beautiful bill that includes any rapid
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deconstruction of these incentives that are coming at an enormous cost to u.s taxpayers they've drawn a
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line in the sand the seven i mentioned so there's a present debate between the ways and means committee on
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the house side and the seven that the the ways and means committee on our side does want to
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demolish these incentives in accordance with president trump's wishes the seven senators who
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are republicans are saying hey not so fast we don't want to do this and they don't want to do this because
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of pack donations they receive let's be very direct and blunt about this let's be right on you know
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right out in the open about why this occurs these firms are massive donors to the seven affected folks
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that's how things work to cut cut a good senator uh or a good senator of wisconsin comment to the
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quick that's the why of this we get it we know we know that's why this happens this is happening in
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texas as we speak the major defenders against the good legislation the texas house wants to put forward
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making companies install full-time energy with their batteries and solar making an installed baseload
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on-demand dispatchable energy along with that the opponents are now exxon mobile and the oil companies
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they're so heavily invested in greenwashing their their equity position on stuff like carbon
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capture they don't want they don't want texas to step forward forcing a fair market for combined
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cycle gas versus wind and solar by demolishing incentive wow advantages there the oil companies
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don't want to do this even they're major donors they're huge donors they're on board with the
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uh i'm not going to do a call to action i want to get you back on here when i think about this
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tonight we're going to figure this out this this is a big one but i want to go to the middle east
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um president trump historic speech so much going on there one of the underlying things this was a
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business meeting for deals not just technology and things but also energy brought me through your
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assessment of what we've seen so far well it's a fantastic endorsement of his presidency the the
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greeting he received from the royal family was unprecedented in terms of their traditional ways
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i've spent a lot of time over there in large operations i had in westinghouse in in saudi um
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fantastic reception for him and basically a huge huge commitment to the u.s economy in 600 billion
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and being committed over time in private sector investments by by the royal family through its
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numerous enterprises aramco savik swick and other saudi enterprises over here um the energy part is
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is curious a fair portion of it unfortunately does right now relate to uh renewables and aramco and the
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royal family's greenwashing efforts on on the one side um would be an opportunity i think to entice
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investment such as we have with nippon in the steel industry in things that we no longer have
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domestic interest in investing in such as combined cycle gas-fired power plants that might be a good
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place for inviting the uh the saudi investment into more aggressively capitalizing on federal lands be it
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at tba be it at the savannah riverside be it in uh the air force base down here in tampa necessary
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combined cycle plants for the u.s deployment of rapid baseload continuous duty power plants
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that the private sector for some reason appears to be foot dragging on building because those things
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aren't incented like solar and wind that might be a good avenue of addition to this program or inside
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of this program of investment targeting areas that um that we've for some reason have uh disincented the
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private sector and utilities from investing in that which is basically necessary here
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base load continuous duty power and of a gas-fired nature so there's there's some tweaks but no
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overall a fantastic benefit for the economy piled on top of the trillions the president is already
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attracted from from japan from taiwan and other other nations this is really going to be an
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exceptional thing the energy part could be could be jiggered a little bit but overall what is your
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assessment what do you set what's your assessment just back of the envelope of how much energy
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energy has dropped energy costs have dropped uh in the 100 and some days of the trump uh second term
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well gasoline costs at the bumper down about uh about 10 to 12 percent from day one great gasoline
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costs at the bumper only about uh you know 15 percent of all in u.s energy electricity cost is about half
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of it electricity costs have remained very high and they've actually gone up another they've
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flipped up another 10 percent since january because of the embeddedness of the present ongoing investment
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commitments by major u.s utilities in very expensive solar and battery storage is basically the only
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weapon of choice that they're investing in going forward unless and until these incentives are
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dismantled so you look at the 2025 electrification capex planned for the country by u.s utilities 91 percent of
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that is solar and battery storage so the utilities and industry are marching along with the net zero
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decarbonization momentum it hasn't changed yet we've got to throw our bodies in front of it
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to have a more meaningful impact on all in energy costs of all type not just gasoline gasoline is a small
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element of it electricity is 45 percent of energy cost in the country it's headed the other direction
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gone up 42 percent since uh biden's inauguration through now through now unabated electric electricity
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cost in the country because of this as i projected in this forum yeah commitment to solar wind and
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batteries that are very very costly it's it's very it's it's it's a it's a it's a radical ridiculous
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cult this is what you bring in germany to its knees uh dave walsh uh i want to put some media
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this bone i'll talk to you afterwards where do people go on your uh on your social media sir
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you can find me at dave walsh energy at x truth social and getter thank you steve appreciate
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you sir talk to you talk to you afterwards tonight dave walsh a lot going on there historic trip okay
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policies, putting sanctions on Iran, as President Trump mentioned. They're wiping out ISIS, taking
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out Soleimani, sending the message that the bad activity will not be tolerated, and bringing the
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Gulf states, the Saudis, the moderate Arab states who want engagement and prosperity and that type
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of cooperation with the West, bringing them into the American orbit. And then along came the Biden
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administration. And by lifting the sanctions on Iran and basically cozying up to them,
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they drove the Saudis and the Gulf states into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party, who looked
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suspiciously at the United States and looked at them as a fair-weather friend. And that enriched
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Iran. They started selling their oil again. They signed a 25-year cooperation deal with the Chinese
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Communist Party. And then we ended up having, as President Trump just mentioned, Hamas and Hezbollah
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and all the rest. And the Saudis became an important part of the BRICS nations, which was really designed
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to take down the U.S. dollar. They really were not very trusting of the Americans. And President Trump
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is now trying to rebuild those relationships and to pull the Saudis back into the American orbit,
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to pull the Gulf states back into the American orbit. The big loser in all this, hopefully,
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is the Chinese Communist Party. And at the same time, critical to all of this is the Iranian regime.
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And that's why there was such a great round of applause when he said what he said there about
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the fact that Iran cannot have, or the policy that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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You know, I guess we'll talk about it more after a break.
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No, no, we're going to break, but real quickly, why did the media, they did not cover that part of it
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all, which was one of the most important parts of the speech, the thunderous applause he got from the Arab
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nations about Trump saying, there's no way that Iran's ever going to have a nuclear weapon on my
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watch. Why was that not reported by anybody, sir?
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That's a question I can't answer, Steve. I'm in Israel. And here it was, it was the top line of
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the coverage of Trump's speech. You know, it could have to do with, it could have to do with what I
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just mentioned there, that this is really rolling back the mistakes of the Biden administration. And that
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was central to it, but we'll talk about it more. There's a, there's a Saudi interest in this.
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Welcome back, Rabbi. So, Rabbi, you mentioned 17, which I was one of the guys put the trip
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together and we'd set Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Rome. As you know, we had a little fracas when we got
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there because the central part of going was basically to get an understanding, and we had
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worked on this for months, of tariff financing. We get there. We had these meetings. We got a
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memory of understanding. MBZ's all over to sign it. The Saudis are all over to sign it. The rest of
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the Gulf Emirates. Qatar was pretty adamant not going to sign it. We've had so much of people that have
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been traditional colleagues of ours and allies of ours. Their heads are blown up because the
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president's in Qatar. They're having a state dinner tonight. I mean, in this narrative, how did Qatar
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go from a pariah? Because 30 days after we departed, MBZ and UAE and the Saudis, MBS,
00:31:47.820
completely cut off Qatar, surrounded them, and almost went to a war in the Gulf. It had to be,
00:31:53.320
you know, we had to be tapped down by the United States, by President Trump personally, probably
00:31:56.740
90 days, you know, 90 to 100 days after we left and finally kind of put it to bed. So what's
00:32:02.480
changed, sir? Well, what's changed is that Qatar has done a much better job investing in the United
00:32:09.760
States and purchasing assets in the United States and doing its PR and funding American universities.
00:32:17.300
They've done a great job of it. Their relationship fundamentally hasn't, you know, with the other
00:32:21.940
states out there hasn't changed. In the Middle East, everyone plays nice on the surface.
00:32:26.900
The fact is that the Muslim Brotherhood, who is viewed, who is designated a terrorist organization
00:32:33.800
by the countries you mentioned, by the Saudis, by the UAE, by the other moderate Arab states,
00:32:39.100
is the pet project of the Qataris. The Qataris fund Muslim Brotherhood activity all over the world.
00:32:46.600
They house their leadership. Their clerical council is based in Qatar. Hamas, for years and years,
00:32:52.980
were living the lives of royalty in Qatar and funded, of course, by the Qataris. So how Qatar ends up in
00:33:02.760
this family of moderate Arab nations is really an act of sleight of hand. People tend to view the
00:33:07.940
Qataris, unfortunately, in the same category as the UAE and the Saudis, as part of those Muslim nations,
00:33:17.380
part of those Arab nations that want peaceful engagement with the West and ultimately normalization
00:33:21.980
with the West and with Israel. But Qatar really doesn't fit into that category. You know, Al Jazeera
00:33:26.460
is their anti-West, anti-Israel propaganda arm. The head of the Qatari daily paper just about two weeks
00:33:34.680
ago published on his X account. He posted on his X account a call for the death of all Jews in the world.
00:33:40.740
I mean, and this is someone who works for them. Of course, it was in Arabic, so people speaking English
00:33:45.420
didn't necessarily notice it. Qatar is a problematic country. And, you know, with this, you know, with this
00:33:51.480
gift to the United States and their involvement with people in the Trump administration, the Attorney General
00:33:58.040
Pam Bondi, I think a lot of your viewers know this, that she worked for a period of time back in 2020 and 2022.
00:34:06.140
She worked as a lobbyist for the Qatari. She was registered with Farah. She received over, she received
00:34:10.900
$110,000 a month from the Qatari government. And there's a lot of, unfortunately, I say this as someone who is,
00:34:17.740
who is a staunch supporter of President Trump, as you'll find. But there's, there are some warning signs here.
00:34:23.700
How the Qataris get involved here is a real question. On the other hand, the Qataris might
00:34:29.760
be reformable and brought into the family of moderate nations if the right incentives are given
00:34:35.460
to them. I say that optimistically and hopefully, even though in my heart of hearts, I have, I have
00:34:41.280
questions. So when you ask me, how did we get here that the Qataris are put, are, are part of this trip
00:34:46.920
and, and, and President Trump is viewing them as a friend, I don't know. This is very, this is very worrisome.
00:34:53.700
Um, this unity you're seeing coming out of the Gulf and it's been a historic trip where
00:34:59.140
President Trump, I think he's doing more on the reordering of the Middle East on this trip
00:35:04.340
than has been done since the Sykes-Pico agreement was signed back in what, 1918. Um, what happens
00:35:12.260
at unity if, I think Bibi's saying, Netanyahu's saying that military, major military operations
00:35:19.140
are going to recommence in Gaza in the next 24 to 48 hours? Am I correct in that?
00:35:25.020
They will be commencing soon. Yes. Uh, in, in the Gaza Strip, they will be commencing soon. I don't
00:35:30.100
know. Uh, you know, we asked what implications, what happens in Gaza has with the, you know,
00:35:35.980
with these Gulf States and with these other Arab States, one of the successes of Trump's first term,
00:35:42.080
and I think he's moving in that direction, in that direction again, is really decoupling
00:35:45.680
the Palestinian issue from Arab relations in general, and even with, from Arab relations
00:35:51.780
with Israel. Let's, you know, again, in the Middle East, the, the statements that people make on the
00:35:58.360
surface are less important than the actions that they take. We have to take a look at how Arab states
00:36:03.320
relate to the Palestinian issue themselves. And one of the great successes of the, of the first
00:36:08.260
Trump administration was showing that peace with Israel is possible, even without resolving the
00:36:13.320
Palestinian issue. Now, the, the Muslim Brotherhood proxy in, in Gaza known as Hamas, who are also
00:36:21.400
a proxy of, of the Iranians, that has to be dealt with. And I'll, I'll remind everyone once again,
00:36:28.120
that there would, this whole war will end immediately if the Whitcoff plan had been accepted by Hamas,
00:36:34.380
which meant that all the hostages are released and, and Hamas's leadership is exiled from the
00:36:41.880
Gaza Strip and is not part of the governance of the Gaza Strip going forward and is completely,
00:36:46.160
and, and is demilitarized, obviously. This war would end tomorrow, would have ended a year ago,
00:36:51.000
would have ended the day after October 7th, if that was agreed to. But, and that's why Israel still
00:36:56.800
needs to secure its future by dealing with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And, you know, I, I don't know what,
00:37:03.520
you know, what the implications are for Trump's trip, but I know that in Israel, there is a
00:37:08.180
commitment to wait until Trump's trip is over before, before intensifying the attacks there.
00:37:15.440
Although yesterday, even during Trump's speech, there was a major attack in the Gaza Strip to
00:37:19.000
assassinate Mohammed Sinwar, Yichia Sinwar's brother, who is the head of the military wing
00:37:24.260
of Hamas and one of the architects of October 7th. There's still some question as to whether or not
00:37:28.560
Israel got him, but he's really been the one standing in the way of, of any hostage deal.
00:37:33.440
He's really the one who's pulling the strings there in the Gaza Strip. So, look, there's a,
00:37:38.340
this is a dangerous game right now, Steve, when you look at what, you know, what Donald Trump is
00:37:42.820
doing with his pronouncements about, about Iran that were in your cold open, about how there will
00:37:48.200
be maximum pressure and do anything, anything possible to prevent Iran from having a nuclear
00:37:54.440
weapon. One of the, one of the risks that Trump is taking here is that if the Iranians call his bluff,
00:38:01.360
I mean, obviously, President Trump does not want kinetic, uh, uh, action. He does not want to attack
00:38:06.960
Iran. He wants a negotiation. And I think we all want that. We all want a negotiated, uh, conclusion
00:38:13.920
to this where Iran is prevented from ever having a nuclear weapon. But the response of the Iranians to
00:38:20.320
Trump's statements in, in Saudi Arabia that, that, uh, that hit the Arab media today, the Iranians
00:38:27.080
referred to Trump's statement as despicable and that they, and that they view the enrichment of
00:38:32.080
Iranian, of uranium as, uh, as a right that they have as a nation and that they're not going to go
00:38:36.960
along with this. So in the end of the day, the risk that Trump is taking is that if his, if his
00:38:42.840
threats are viewed as empty threats, then, uh, then, then America is going to come out looking weak and
00:38:48.960
it's not going to work. So there has to be some willingness to follow through on the threats
00:38:52.600
that he's making. Uh, and this is, uh, you know, the, the, the, the most tense moments in this are
00:38:59.040
yet to come, Steve. Oh, no, no, this is, uh, this is all a process. It's going to get very,
00:39:04.740
this is going to put us on the edge of a broader war. Trust me. But he said, he went to our favorite
00:39:09.860
thing about cutting off Iranian oil, 100% for anything, leaving the Persian Gulf and, uh,
00:39:15.600
anything going to the Chinese communist party, which is two over 2 million barrels a day.
00:39:21.040
Uh, your thoughts on that? Yeah. And it's 90% of Iran's oil revenues. It comes from the Chinese
00:39:26.960
communist party. And that was critical when I talked a few minutes ago, uh, about how, when we go back
00:39:33.480
to the end of the previous Trump administration and Iran could not sell its oil, it also meant that
00:39:38.500
the Chinese communist party didn't have this, this source of oil. They didn't have the source of
00:39:43.440
energy. They didn't have the strategic relationship with the Iranians. And now the Russians have also
00:39:49.040
signed a strategic partnership with the Iranians. The Iranians produce a lot of the drones that the
00:39:53.800
Russians have used in the war against Ukraine. So these three countries, this axis that has,
00:39:58.760
that was really formed, uh, as a result of the mishandling of the world by the Biden administration,
00:40:05.000
Donald Trump is now seeking to restore what, what, uh, the situation when he left office and pull them
00:40:11.640
away from the Chinese, the Chinese communist party benefits greatly from this, from this
00:40:17.200
relationship to Iran. And with the maximum sanctions, there is a chance that the, that
00:40:23.960
with one, with one act, you can kill two birds with one stone and put greater pressure on the
00:40:29.020
Chinese communist party, but also bring the Iranian regime to heal in the sense that they will once
00:40:34.740
again, not have the money to fund their terrorist proxies. Let me remind everyone that this isn't just
00:40:39.800
an Israel issue. There seems to be this perception that the threat of Iran is, is an Israel issue
00:40:45.380
and America, uh, getting tough on Iran is helping Israel. The greatest victim of Iranian aggression
00:40:52.380
from the Houthis, uh, has been over the years, the Saudis, the Saudis that were attacked for years and
00:40:58.600
years, lost billions of dollars in their own oil revenues from the attacks by the Houthis on their
00:41:03.860
infrastructure, attacks on civilians, killing Saudi civilians. Well, militarily, even UAE and, and
00:41:09.680
Saudi Arabia couldn't pull it, uh, pull it off. Look that you answered the question by the applause.
00:41:14.060
That was thunderous applause. That was the biggest applause line in the entire speech is when President
00:41:19.500
Trump talks about the Persians not getting a nuclear weapon. And that was not a guy, a bunch of guys in
00:41:24.000
Knesset. That, that was the leaders. Exactly. It's not about Israel. Rabbi, hang on for a second. I,
00:41:31.200
because we're going to do something here in the United States. I want your commentary after it's
00:41:34.620
the great Michael Young. We've got a cold open, a very disturbing situation down in Texas. Let's bring
00:41:39.480
in, let's do the cold and bring in Michael Young. This is Colony Ridge, Texas, reputed to be the
00:41:48.440
largest illegal alien city in America. On May 13, I took helicopter and fixed wing aircraft flights
00:41:59.160
over the city to see what's happened since Donald Trump was elected in November, 2024. Development is
00:42:06.900
down. That's the good news. But the bad news, the state of Texas and ICE apparently are no longer doing
00:42:39.400
With Donald Trump's mass deportation plans, this is a target-rich environment.
00:42:55.940
And it's unclear why, after some initial ICE Texas operations, that few others have followed.
00:43:09.400
With Donald Trump's mass deportation plans, this is a target-rich environment.
00:43:39.380
There are two situations in Texas, and I think they're inextricably linked.
00:43:43.820
One, you've had these real estate developers around these things, like the colony, where it housed illegal aliens down near the Houston area.
00:43:55.880
Now you have, it's coming to light, all of this kind of Islamic centers coming around, mosques coming around, huge, like, their own towns, our own entities-like colony.
00:44:12.340
Why are we not doing mass deportations out of there and, like, doing them immediately?
00:44:17.100
And because this is one of the reasons I think these real estate developers get there.
00:44:24.240
They don't care about the United States of America.
00:44:25.680
And you're seeing it now in this kind of mass infusion of Islamic centers and others, these kind of communities in Texas.
00:44:38.780
I just got back to Texas from Panama, where I was watching the things down there.
00:44:44.820
And I was in the front seat of both of those aircraft yesterday from those videos.
00:44:50.160
The great patriot David Cannon allows me to jump in his helicopter and his airplane every time I come to look at Colony Ridge.
00:44:57.200
We've been looking at Colony Ridge for a while.
00:44:59.180
We all know that it's a safe city, you might say, for illegal aliens.
00:45:05.080
And it is filled with drug activity, prostitution, lots of violent crime.
00:45:11.380
And the Texas law enforcement is doing nothing about it.
00:45:14.620
Governor Abbott has actually taken $1.4 million from the developer of Colony Ridge, Trey Harris.
00:45:21.840
And we know that I was just watching a Texas House of Representatives homeland security, public safety, and veterans affairs testimony before I came on with you this morning.
00:45:35.200
And they opened that testimony with basically welcoming their stakeholders.
00:45:42.660
This is the Texas House of Representatives stakeholders.
00:45:48.800
We know that Governor Greg Abbott is a member of the World Economic Forum.
00:46:04.800
The only state that's really standing up to this and adhering to 287G, which is the provision, the agreement between, should be an agreement between states and the federal government to, that law enforcement can be basically deputized at the federal level to begin mass deportations.
00:46:24.660
The only state that's actually adhering to this is Florida.
00:46:35.660
I was just looking at this hearing, actually, and the Lieutenant Colonel Jason Taylor, the Deputy Director of Law Enforcement Operations, who I'm sure will see this today, at DPS.
00:46:50.180
DPS is the Department of Public Safety in Texas.
00:46:54.700
So Lieutenant Colonel Jason Taylor is saying that Texas, the DPS, does not want to adhere to 287G.
00:47:03.700
287G is the provision that it helps us mass deport people.
00:47:09.400
I hope that President Trump sees this and will call up Texas and threaten to cut off all federal funding to the state of Texas if they keep operating like California.
00:47:19.800
I mean, Texas is becoming like California because of the leadership that's been installed into these offices, like Abbott, who fooled many of my good friends in Texas for quite a while by taking the buses from the border with Mexico and bussing people up to places like New York.
00:47:37.920
And, of course, my conservative friends were immediately happy in the beginning, and I said, be careful.
00:47:44.120
He's actually inserting more of these invaders deeper into our heart.
00:47:47.960
Remember New York and Massachusetts and all those places?
00:47:53.220
Abbott is just clearing the banks of the Rio Grande to bring more in.
00:47:57.080
Now, fast forward to 2025, it's obviously true what some of us have been saying for so long, including you.
00:48:05.020
I know, Steve, I know you go after Abbott all the time and with very good reason.
00:48:14.180
He's actually set up this state, Texas, as a sanctuary state.
00:48:33.880
We've been spending a lot of time in Texas with the folks in the House where the Democrats are now running it, although it's a MAGA state.
00:48:39.440
Trump won by 14 points, folks, and this is what you get.
00:48:42.820
Where do people go to get all your content, Michael?
00:48:46.420
I just published on this on Substack about an hour ago.
00:48:51.900
I haven't put this footage up yet because we got back late, but I'll put it up later tonight.
00:49:03.000
There are a lot of law enforcement in Texas that want to defend our country.
00:49:10.340
But the leadership at DPS, Steve, as you well know, cowards are natural traitors.
00:49:16.860
They're installing cowards into these leadership positions, like this guy, Lieutenant Colonel Jason Taylor.
00:49:22.700
I mean, he's clearly on the side of letting these illegal aliens stay in the state of Texas.
00:49:28.780
And I hope Jason Taylor sees this, Lieutenant Colonel.
00:49:33.300
Many people are watching how you behave from here out.
00:49:39.700
Look forward to having you back on the next couple of days.
00:49:44.940
Rabbi, there's a situation also inextricably linked with this.
00:49:49.660
It's a major kind of infusion of these communities financed by, it looks like, Islamists.
00:49:59.400
You know, some good, don't be wrong, some good folks, Muslims, but there's a bunch of concerns about these Islamic centers.
00:50:09.880
Well, it's directly connected to what we were talking about before.
00:50:12.440
Let's recall that Iran doesn't just fund Hezbollah in Lebanon, but there is Hezbollah Paraguay and Hezbollah Venezuela that have existed for more than a decade.
00:50:23.180
They've been trafficking drugs and human beings into the United States for many years.
00:50:27.380
The DHS threat assessment for 2025 and the DNI threat assessment from March 2025 both name Iran and its sleeper cells in the United States as one of the major threats to American national security.
00:50:39.800
So this is, look, what the Europeans are coming face to face with and realizing that Western civilization is under attack by Sharia and jihadists is coming to America.
00:50:51.420
And, you know, people like Frank Gaffney and others who have been, you know, with their hair on fire, looking like conspiracy theorists, screaming about it for decades.
00:51:02.380
And people should stop thinking that the Iranian threat and the Muslim brotherhood threat is just about the Middle East and Israel.
00:51:09.800
Rabbi, real quickly, social media, where do you go?
00:51:17.280
And we have the Israel 365 YouTube channel where I post three times a week important updates from Israel.
00:51:28.640
We'll be back tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
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They're going to add loose, I think, from the Financial Times of London is scheduled to join us.
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