00:45:40.260And we're starting a little bit early.
00:45:42.220I mentioned this yesterday, so Armin's going to join us when he can.
00:45:46.060But the reason that we're starting early is because President Trump has a very important press conference at 1 p.m. Eastern, which is in about eight minutes.
00:45:58.060Now, usually, President Trump does start a little bit late, so I'm going to be keeping an eye on the White House account to see when it goes live.
00:46:12.000However, President Trump just had a very interesting press conference, impromptu press conference at the Easter Egg, at the Easter Egg Rule annual, I think it's the annual White House Easter Egg Rule event.
00:46:30.960So let's tune into that while we're waiting for the updated or the while we get the press conference going, because he said a lot of very, very interesting things.
00:46:44.260I also want to point out on a completely random and unrelated topic. Today is the day that the NASA astronauts make it to the moon and they do the moon flyby.
00:47:02.960So we'll also keep an eye on NASA. And at some point, when it gets close to there, we'll switch over temporarily because that is also incredibly historic. And, you know, we want to check that out as well, very briefly. So let's just go to this. Let's find the part where the press conference started. Let's watch it together and see what happens.
00:47:32.960Who's going to be at the press conference?
00:47:35.640Who's not going to be at the press conference?
00:47:58.880See, so guys, remember when I said President Trump,0.89
00:48:01.780He knows the actual number of Iranians murdered by the Islamic regime, and he's been slowly increasing the number because he knows that it's going to be very difficult for people who are not familiar with Iran and the Islamic regime to understand how cruel and savage the Islamic regime is.0.86
00:48:24.260So he just said 45,000, maybe even 60 or possibly higher.0.92
00:52:59.840Fox News is not having a good day with their live feed.
00:53:02.4002000 lamar hi goldie i hope you're having a good day thank you i'm having a great day i'm having a
00:53:09.500great day day's just getting started uh president trump is saying exactly what i was hoping that he
00:53:17.020would be saying so uh it's a great day so far and i'm excited about his announcement at 1 p.m
00:53:22.380Okay. So the White House has now gone live, but they're still in waiting mode. Wait. Let me just bring it up here. Okay. So the White House is live now, but they always start a little bit late.
00:53:46.600so we're gonna um we're gonna go back to president trump's earlier um impromptu
00:53:53.640press conference it's about 10 more minutes and hopefully by that point
00:53:57.320the white house will have uh begun hi rosie how are you
00:54:05.640it's an amazing well we have a great military you're gonna lose like the diplomatic
00:54:10.840if it seems like diplomatic talks are picking up are you willing to hold off on attacking
00:54:14.360well i want to say i don't even want to talk about it because i've given them chances and
00:54:17.880they haven't taken it so i don't want to really talk about it why is the fox feed like this this
00:54:26.520is so strange okay i'm just gonna go back to the white house one they will uh they'd like to have
00:54:35.160the ceasefire because they're getting a murder, right. So we'll see how they do it.
00:54:45.160Number one, you have to have a lot of courage to do it.
00:54:47.160Chances of doing it are very small and successful.
00:54:50.160And it's amazing that we had nobody even injured. It's amazing.
00:54:54.160It never happens when pilots go down in war, you're in tough territory.
00:54:59.160Vietnam, places like Iran, they're tough to fight, they're nasty, very rarely if you go in because you're going to send 200 people in on a mission, and that mission will likely be successful, and you're going to get one person, and you're going to lose 200 people, but we have a great military.
01:02:08.080it's a great honor to be with you and happy easter we had a great easter this is one of our
01:02:29.600better easters i think in a lot of different ways i can say militarily it's been one of the best
01:02:35.440so good afternoon we have quite a bit to discuss we'll go into a pretty good detail
01:02:42.160and we have the people that are most involved we'll give you exactitude and we're here today
01:02:50.760to celebrate the success of one of the largest most complex most harrowing combat searches
01:02:56.800i guess you would call it a search and rescue mission ever attempted by the military
01:03:02.920generally when planes are knocked down in war especially when you're fighting a
01:03:07.880strong group an evil group you can't really do this because you send in 200 men to pick up one
01:03:17.420and it's something that's usually not attempted as much as you want to attempt
01:03:22.100and bad things happen to that one or two and in this case we did two and might not have been
01:03:29.220attempted before but we did and we got we had great talent we got a little luck too i would say
01:03:36.980and uh we were helped by a lot of people a lot of great people and it was an honor to be involved
01:03:43.780with it it's uh very historic this is a a rescue that's very historic it'll go down in the books
01:03:51.700late thursday night an american f-15 fighter jet went down deep inside enemy territory
01:03:58.180in Iran while participating in Operation Epic Fury, where we're doing unbelievably well,
01:04:05.780well at a level that nobody's ever seen before.0.85
01:04:10.080The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.0.71
01:04:16.700Both members of the crew ejected from the aircraft and landed alive on Iranian soil. I immediately1.00
01:04:23.560was asked to make a decision. I ordered the U.S. Armed Forces to do whatever was necessary to
01:04:31.800bring our brave warriors back home. A risky decision, because we could have ended up with
01:04:37.900100 dead as opposed to one or two. It's a hard decision to make. But in the United States
01:04:44.640military, we leave no American behind. We don't do it. Within hours, our armed forces deployed
01:04:51.76021 military aircraft into hostile airspace many flying at very low altitude being shot by bullets
01:05:00.480you bring rifles into play when you're going that low but there are also certain advantages
01:05:07.520and in broad daylight over iran for seven hours at times facing very very heavy enemy fire we have
01:05:15.200a helicopter that's got a lot of bullets in it it's amazing we just realized how good those
01:05:20.080those those weapons are those are machines are nobody has nobody has the equipment that we have
01:05:27.520but nobody has the military that we have not even close the most powerful military anywhere in the
01:05:32.800world by far the flight crews and war fighters aboard those aircraft took extraordinary risks
01:05:39.200to rescue their fellow service members this first wave of search and rescue forces successfully
01:05:45.760located the pilot of the F-15, and he was extracted from enemy territory by an HH-60
01:05:54.320Jolly Green 2 helicopter. Fabulous machine, as our warriors faced gunfire at very close range.
01:06:03.460It's amazing that when you look at the machinery, what happened, that nobody was even injured.
01:06:10.500Meanwhile, the second crew member, a weapons system officer, a highly respected colonel,
01:06:15.760had landed a significant distance away from the pilot when you're going at those speeds.
01:06:21.260Even if you go out two or three seconds later, it's miles. It's miles and miles away
01:06:26.820because you're going fast. He was injured quite badly and stranded in an area
01:06:33.420teeming with terrorists from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps rough group,
01:06:38.100as well as besieged militia and local authorities.
01:06:44.840Many, on top of everything else, they told the communities actually with inside of Iran,
01:06:53.240the people of Iran, they were given a tremendous incentive to find this pilot.
01:06:59.520Despite the peril, the officer followed his training and climbed into the treacherous mountain terrain
01:07:05.200and started climbing toward a higher altitude, something they were trained to do in order to
01:07:12.480evade capture. They want to always go as far away from the site of the shoot down. They want to go
01:07:21.760as far away because they all head right to that site. You want to be as far away as you can.
01:07:26.000And he was injured, and he was an amazing, amazing thing. He scaled clip faces,
01:07:34.880bleeding rather profusely, treated his own wounds, and contacted American forces to transmit his
01:07:42.560location. They have a very sophisticated beeper-type apparatus that is on them at all times.
01:07:51.760and when they when they go out on these missions they make sure they have lots of battery space and
01:07:57.940they're in good shape and this one worked really well amazingly saved his life we immediately
01:08:04.620mobilized a massive operation to retrieve him from the mountain holdout and he kept going higher and
01:08:12.820higher the mountain kept getting rougher and rougher and really very very hard to find the
01:08:18.500second rescue mission involved 155 aircraft, including four bombers, 64 fighters, 48 refueling
01:08:27.260tankers, 13 rescue aircraft and more. We were bringing them all over and a lot of it was
01:08:34.260subterfuge. We wanted to have them think he was in a different location because they had a vast
01:08:40.760military force out there. Thousands, thousands of people were looking. So we wanted them to look in
01:08:47.080different areas so we were scattered all over like we were right on top of them we had seven
01:08:53.240different locations where they thought and they were very confused they said well wait a minute
01:08:58.040they've got groups here they've got groups there it's an amazing thing i was listening to
01:09:04.680these great people these great generals general raisin kane who's amazing and pete hegseth was
01:09:11.560amazing but i listened to the whole thing it was pretty amazing so that all these different sites
01:09:16.840where everybody thought he was located. We think we have him over there because they have nine
01:09:21.880planes circling a little area that's 25 miles down the coast.
01:09:28.440So in a breathtaking show of skill and precision, lethality and force, America's military descended
01:09:35.960on the real area, engaged the enemy, rescued the stranded officer, destroyed all threats,
01:09:44.440and exited Iranian territory while taking no casualties of any kind.
01:09:50.760The heroic F-15 weapons system officer had evaded capture on the ground in Iran
01:09:58.120for almost 48 hours. That's a long time when you're in tough shape and when you're bleeding.
01:10:04.360It's a long time. When we left, as you probably know, we had two large planes,
01:10:12.120old pretty old planes it carried a lot we needed a lot more equipment going in than coming out
01:10:17.640obviously because going in we needed to be able to scale mountains and we had a lot of equipment
01:10:24.920but the sand was it was sandy wet sand so we thought there may be a problem taking off because
01:10:31.880of the weight of the plane and then we also had all the men jumping back onto the planes
01:10:36.680and they got pretty well bogged down and we had a contingency plan which was unbelievable
01:10:42.920where lighter faster aircraft came in and they took them out we blew up the old planes
01:10:49.160we blew them up to smithereens because we had equipment on the planes that frankly we'd like
01:10:54.780to take but i don't think it was worthwhile spending another four hours there taking it
01:10:59.560off so we didn't want anybody to have we have the best best equipment anywhere in the world
01:11:03.880didn't want anybody examining our anti-aircraft and other equipment. So these were large planes
01:11:11.960that were old and pretty old, and we blew them up. And we had faster, lighter planes come in,
01:11:19.720and they were able to land on the sand. We needed the bigger planes because we had so much
01:11:23.240equipment that we needed. We took three helicopters over there, which were very strongly used and
01:11:28.040couldn't have lived without them they did and they performed unbelievably well and if you'd see it you
01:11:33.960wouldn't believe it they came off the plane and these guys had them the uh the rotors were off
01:11:41.480they rebuilt these helicopters in less than 10 minutes and that was one of the more amazing
01:11:48.120things these are helicopters uh small unbelievably powerful but small heli very small so it can get
01:11:57.320into certain areas and they got them off the plane and they rebuilt all three of them in a matter of
01:12:05.640less than i would say less than 10 minutes it's very amazing what the the genius of these people
01:12:11.480who would think that you'd think it would take five days to build them and in some companies
01:12:15.560it would take five days and they wouldn't do it well but they served us well they as commander
01:12:21.160chief, I never forget the extraordinary risk taken by the warriors that we send into battle
01:12:27.920and the genius. I mean, think of it, having a contingency of three planes waiting because we
01:12:33.240think the sand is so bad that we probably won't be able to take off. And the planes really got
01:12:38.720bogged. The sand was, this was not much of a runway. This was a farm, not a runway. It's a farm,
01:12:44.760but it did the trick. But to have a contingency as opposed to having to wait two days,
01:12:50.920Can you imagine right in the middle? This was central. This was right. You would call it central casting if you were doing a movie for location. And probably the toughest area of Iran where we'd be sitting there. So these planes came in. Those pilots came in so fast and so quick and got out of there. Everybody got aboard and just got 15 minute intervals. One load out. One load out. One load out. It happened.
01:13:19.340and we were watching and we said that's amazing it's in many ways i was i was almost more impressed
01:13:26.320by the contingency that we had than the fact that you know we would have had a runway or decent soil
01:13:34.160but it was an amazing thing but we thank god for every single one of them and the talent
01:13:39.680the genius is not even talent it's genius it's the whole ball game every one of them
01:13:45.180And if you look at what we did with Maduro, we went into a military compound, a massive
01:13:52.180with thousands and thousands of soldiers within a matter of minutes.
01:33:04.100I know before I start, I know many of you want specific details in these briefings.
01:33:10.040We will share what we can, but I will retain what I must in the event that we have to go do this again sometime.
01:33:17.360And I cannot stress the importance, as the President said, around operational security.
01:33:23.680The Secretary and I will do a more detailed briefing tomorrow morning, and we look forward to sharing the details that we can.
01:33:29.940On Thursday to April at 10.10 p.m. Eastern Time, 4.40 in the morning, local Iran time,
01:33:36.960the Joint Personnel Recovery Center, which handles the Central Command area of responsibility,
01:33:41.760declared an isolated personnel recovery event for a U.S. Air Force F-15E strike eagle,
01:33:48.240call sign Dude 4-4, which was down in hostile Iranian territory. The pilot and weapons system
01:33:54.680officer had both safely ejected and were isolated behind enemy lines. Following confirmation of
01:34:01.380active rescue beacons and on the direction of the secretary and by order of the president,
01:34:06.040a rescue operation was launched with the stated purpose of bringing both Americans home safely.
01:34:13.260As the Secretary said several hours later on the morning after positively locating the front
01:34:18.780seater, call sign Dude 4-4 Alpha, and aware of an aggressive ongoing search by the enemy,
01:34:26.300a U.S. Central Command plan was approved by the Secretary and the President.
01:34:30.740Shortly thereafter, a U.S. Air Force Combat Search and Rescue Task Force comprised of A-10 Warthogs in their Sandy role, and I'll describe what that is in a minute,
01:34:42.180HC-130 Combat King II's, HH-60 Jolly Green II helicopters, and Air Force Special Warfare Airmen, a package comprised of combat rescue officers and para-rescuement operators, audaciously penetrated enemy territory in broad daylight to find, fix, and recover Dude 4-4 Alpha from behind enemy lines.
01:35:07.240This was an incredibly dangerous mission, an incredibly dangerous undertaking, but a filled promise made to every American warfighter that you will not be left behind.
01:35:23.340We will always come find you and we will always bring you home.
01:35:27.840Over the next hours, the Search and Rescue Task Force crossed the beach, entered into Iranian airspace, protected by a fighter strike package, and moved into the objective area, all under fire.
01:35:41.960En route, as some of you have seen on social media, the helicopters took gas off the C-130s and pressed onward and forward up into the objective area.
01:35:51.580While this was ongoing and out in front of them, the Sandy flight of A-10s and other remotely piloted aircraft, drones, and other tactical aircraft were violently suppressing and engaging the enemy in a close-in gunfight to keep them away from the front seater and allow the pickup force to get into the objective area.
01:36:13.480During this engagement, one of the Sandy aircraft, the one primarily responsible for communicating with the downed pilot, was hit by enemy fire.
01:36:24.380This pilot continued to fight, continued the mission, and then upon exit, flew his aircraft into another country and determined that the airplane was not landable.
01:36:35.680This was one of our A-10 Sandy aircraft.
01:36:37.960The pilot then made the decision to eject over friendly territory and was quickly and safely recovered and is doing fine.0.53
01:36:47.620After picking up Dude 4-4 Alpha, the HH-60 Jolly Green fight was engaged by every single person in Iran who had a small arms weapon.
01:36:59.760And one of the aircraft, the trailing aircraft, took several hits.
01:37:03.520The crew sustained minor injury and they are going to be fine.
01:37:07.960a note for those of you that do not know what a sandy does named after the flight call sign that
01:37:14.840did this very mission in vietnam flying a1 sky raiders and a7 corsairs a sandy has one mission
01:37:24.280get to the survivor bring the rescue force forward and put themselves between that survivor on the
01:37:32.040ground and the enemy they are committed to this this is what they live for and this is what they've
01:37:38.840trained for over many many years the a-10 force and the rescue force did fantastic did a fantastic
01:37:48.440job rescuing dude 4-4 alpha he was recovered friday afternoon as i said and the nation needs
01:37:57.000to know this this was an incredibly brave and courageous mission and a testament to the courage
01:38:04.520skill and tenacity of the joint force and our leaders and especially a daylight option
01:38:12.120having the guts to try means so much to so many meanwhile the backseater as the president and
01:38:19.640the secretary have said had continued to work and survive through the hours of daylight dude
01:38:26.2804-4 Bravo, the backseater, evaded. Using every means available, the efforts of the United States
01:38:33.880military, the Central Intelligence Agency, and others were attempting to find and locate with
01:38:39.840precision Dude 4-4 Bravo, the backseater. A note on the backseater and the frontseater.
01:38:47.560The single most important contributor to a successful rescue operation is the spirit of attack inside the heart of that downed aviator.
01:38:59.780Their will to survive, their will to evade, their will to recover is everything.
01:39:06.460In this case, the backseater's absolute commitment to surviving made much of our efforts possible.
01:39:12.680On Saturday, 4 April, after establishing positive communications with the backseater, we learned, as the President said, that he was injured and actively evading enemy forces.
01:39:26.100And thanks to our interagency partners, we were able to get eyes on his location and positively ID him.
01:39:33.580Throughout this entire time, the enemy force continued to search for 4-4 Bravo,
01:39:38.380and the joint force continued to strike them over and over and over again.
01:39:44.200Fighting off marginal weather in Iran and the enemy's search, for a second time on Saturday,
01:39:50.600at the recommendation of CENTCOM commander and at the approval of the Secretary and the President,
01:39:55.020we launched a rescue task force to recover dude 4-4 Bravo.
01:39:59.540Again, this came to the President and the Secretary for approval, this time with a much larger force package based on the time that the enemy had to prepare to find 4-4 Bravo.
01:40:12.400Again, this force was protected by A-10 warthogs using the Sandy call sign.
01:40:18.460And this force had one single mission, do everything they can to bring an American home.0.62
01:40:25.000This meant having a plan, being prepared to execute that plan, and more importantly, being prepared for multiple simultaneous contingencies.
01:40:37.000And because of this force's professionalism, grit, and determination, fight off two enemies at the same time, the enemy searching for 4-4 Bravo and contingencies, which anyone who has done these types of missions knows we run into every single time.
01:40:57.120The force fought off both of those enemies incredibly well.
01:41:00.800During the period of darkness on Saturday, and as the Secretary said, into Easter Sunday and into the daylight, the force fought its way in and rescued Dude 4-4 Bravo.
01:41:14.100They were protected overhead by an air armada, including tactical drones, strike aircraft, and others.
01:41:21.620The force fought through multiple simultaneous contingencies, something no other nation, no other military can do, and safely returned Dude 4-4 Bravo, the backseater, home, and all other Americans' home as well.
01:41:40.220At midnight 12 local Eastern time, Easter Sunday, more than 50 hours after the start of this operation, the Joint Personnel Recovery Center declared Dude 4-4 Bravo, both the front and back seater, returned to friendly territory.
01:41:59.880The courage demonstrated by both the pilot and the weapons system officer while isolated
01:42:06.560and them invading the enemy cannot be overstated.
01:42:10.860Their grit and warfighting tenacity is a direct result of the absolute trust they have in
01:42:16.980our rescue forces, their training, and their will to survive and return.
01:42:22.260They always knew that we would be ordered to go get them, and they always knew that
01:42:38.960It also perfectly captures the first truth of our special operations forces, that people are more important than hardware.
01:42:49.380That is the standard we live by, and the rescue forces that execute these missions operate under a clear motto.
01:42:57.560these things we do that others may live. Their actions were a direct embodiment of that commitment
01:43:06.600to others, and I could not be more proud of each and every one of them today.
01:43:13.940As the Secretary said to our enemies, this operation serves as a clear reminder of the
01:43:20.260capability and will of America's joint force. The United States of America will recover our
01:43:26.080warfighters anywhere in the world, under any conditions, when we want to. We will always
01:43:32.460bring overwhelming skill and firepower. To every member of the Joint Force, our interagency
01:43:38.140partners, the leadership at CENTCOM, and our leaders at the Department and above, thank you.
01:43:44.040I'm proud of each and every one of you and thankful to our deployed forces and their families.
01:43:50.140And lastly, and most importantly, to Dude 4-4, welcome home. Job well done. Thank you.
01:44:02.980Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. And these two gentlemen have been, from day one, they've been perfecto.
01:44:12.200You know, I got to know General Cain in my first term because he was able to take out ISIS in four weeks instead of the four-year projection that was given to me by other much lesser generals.
01:44:25.480And I said, you know, if I ever do this again, that's going to be the head of my Joint Chiefs of Staff.
01:44:30.760And we worked with that way, didn't we?
02:01:14.960But if we didn't hit them, that was a courageous decision, too, because we had all those planes flying in at night with very little cover, unbelievable stealth planes.
02:01:26.340And they were able to do their job.0.93
02:01:28.560If we didn't do that, Iran would have had a nuclear weapon at a high level, either one of those two instances.0.93
02:01:36.220And if they did, in my opinion, I told this to Bibi Netanyahu yesterday, Israel would have been0.89
02:01:43.800extinguished. Large portions of the Middle East would have been extinguished, whether it's Saudi0.84
02:01:50.380Arabia, Qatar, UAE, or others. And you saw that with thousands of missiles raining down upon them.
02:01:57.260They didn't think they were going to be hit. They thought they'd be watching us fight. And all of a
02:02:01.660sudden UAE got hit by 1,500 missiles, he would have taken them out also. And they were powerful.
02:02:09.540If I didn't come along and terminate the Obama deal, which was terrible, the Iran nuclear deal0.65
02:02:15.620was a road to a nuclear weapon, a big one, unlimited, legally, I terminated it without0.60
02:02:22.980even much thought. It was so easy. I terminated that. And then the B-2 bombers. And I did one
02:02:29.880other thing i had killed kassam solemini who was an evil genius and the reason i did it i heard he0.96
02:02:39.580was going to knock out five of our military bases and had he lived i believe we would be fighting
02:02:48.180perhaps a different iran right now because because he's never he's never been replaced you know and
02:02:56.900And I also, I did one other, but this one was not picked up.
02:03:00.500Osama bin Laden, if you read my book, I said you got to take him out one year before the
02:20:08.260We have we have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.
02:20:30.340I mean, complete demolition by 12 o'clock and it'll happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to.
02:20:36.840We don't want that to happen. We may even get involved with helping them rebuild their nation.
02:20:43.800And you know what? If that's the case, the last thing we want to do is start with power plants,
02:20:47.800which are among the most expensive things, and bridges. You saw the bridge. The bridge one,
02:20:52.920we were very close to a deal. And then I got a call from Mr. Witkoff, Mr. Kushner, and JD
02:21:01.540saying, I think they're breaking the deal. I said, tell them that's okay. Don't worry about it.
02:21:09.040But tell them to look out their window and watch. And within 45 minutes, I gave the order to knock
02:21:14.960out the biggest bridge. I gave the order to knock out the biggest bridge in, I believe,
02:21:20.640the Middle East, but the biggest bridge in Iran. And within 10 minutes after I gave that order,0.99
02:21:26.760that bridge was was over so so do i want to do that no do i want to destroy their infrastructure
02:21:34.920no it will take them a hundred years to rebuild right now if we left today it would take them
02:21:43.16020 years to rebuild their country and it would never be as good as it was
02:21:46.680and the only way they're going to be able to rebuild their country
02:21:49.480is to utilize the genius of the united states of america
02:21:52.440On NATO, you voiced your displeasure with NATO in the past.
02:21:59.360Is there a danger to the U.S. not being the de facto of the leader of the alliance and
02:22:04.400then other powers within the alliance, then getting the decision-making when it comes
02:36:52.580I mean, we have a Kurdistan province, right?
02:36:55.720In Iran, we have a Kurdistan province.
02:36:58.180And yesterday, I went over that video from the Iranian Kurdish wrestler, and I translated that video for you.
02:37:07.720I'm more than happy to do that later today, but let's go to, you know, the analysis or, you know, our analysis on what President Trump said, because he said so many important things in his speech.
02:37:21.100So let's, you know, Armin, how about I send you the link and that way you can pause whenever you want.
02:37:34.440Do we also want to mention about the recent cutlet that we just had?
02:49:10.920oh no what a huge problem okay well thank you guys you guys are so sweet okay um all right guys so
02:49:23.600i'm gonna put the link then in the disc for the discussion group in the chat hold on okay
02:49:30.380yeah americans were the first people on the moon were the moon's indigenous first
02:49:36.860true true okay good one good one good one um okay guys i'm again one more time i'm gonna put the
02:49:51.740link in the chat and if you want to come and talk to me there today is open today is open discussion
02:49:56.880so anybody can join and then you could come ask me questions or and then after after i leave then
02:50:03.540the conversation continues without me okay so there are many good people here with interesting
02:50:08.300thoughts it's a really good community that we have there so come join me over there and i'll
02:50:13.420see you guys soon all right guys bye see you soon armin
02:50:17.620okay guys so we're gonna go to to ctv uh he streamed this earlier this morning so we're
02:50:29.940just going to stream this. We're going to get an update on some of the breaking news from earlier
02:50:36.620this morning, and then I'll be back, and then we'll continue. And then when Armin returns in
02:50:43.180about an hour, we're going to dive into our analysis, feedback, and breakdown of what President
02:50:53.020Trump has said, what we think it all means, you know, what this deadline of 8pm Eastern is all
02:51:02.640about, who we think he's speaking to, you know, this, this, you know, deal that's being negotiated
02:51:10.040guys, this is the fact that President Trump is saying that he knows Iranian people are grateful
02:51:21.940people and Iranian people are more afraid of the United States and Israel leaving before
02:51:28.840before the Islamic regime is finished this shows that that he's listening he's listening to the
02:51:37.540Iranian people President Trump knows way more about what's going on than he's leading on right
02:51:44.620and he even said that in the press conference because reporters were asking him well what are
02:51:48.800going to do and president trump is like why would i tell you why would i give you my plan when we're
02:51:54.000in a sensitive military operation right so it just it it doesn't make sense that reporters are asking
02:52:02.000for so much detail when that detail could literally jeopardize it so um like he's he's he's uh you
02:52:10.080know feigning ignorance or whatever the case might be because he doesn't want to let the irgc know
02:52:17.120how much he actually knows. But he knows everything. And, you know, thank God, President
02:52:23.720Trump is listening to the right people. And what's really interesting is that he's now exposed
02:52:28.980the separatist Kurdish militia groups, which is a big deal, because everyone's like,
02:52:38.140oh, the Kurds, the Kurds. And we're like, really? The Kurds, the ones who support the Islamic regime,
02:52:43.960the ones who are I don't know sending condolence letters on on the extermination of Khamenei like0.61
02:52:50.260those Kurds right like it's just it's weird like guys Middle East dynamics is much more complicated0.56
02:52:56.440than people think right you do you guys actually think you think President Trump is a fan of Iran
02:53:06.020revolution live well if he is President Trump we're a huge fan of you and we love you and if
02:53:11.440if someone guys if someone from president trump's administration is watching or keeping tabs on us
02:53:16.800let us know let us know in the chat or something send us a signal send us a message we love you
02:53:21.760guys we love president trump all right let's go to 2c i'll be back in a little bit
02:53:41.440Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 2C TV. This is your global news channel, Amaya Tusi,
02:53:46.180and this is your new Iran war room setup. We are going to give you guys a latest update on
02:53:52.660what's been going on over the last few hours. The conflict in the Middle East is hugely escalating
02:53:58.180and we expect it to escalate even further, at least for the next few hours or until tomorrow.
02:54:04.040We're going to explain exactly what's going on. A few things we're going to cover,
02:54:07.220As you can see on the screen, Haifa was targeted massively by the IRGC's missiles.
02:54:16.080Their oil refinery has been hit, but also because they are using cluster warheads, they have hit the civilian areas on purpose.
02:54:25.080Now, the IRGC, their missile launch capabilities has been reduced massively.
02:54:30.940They've only managed to launch about 21 to 22 missiles today.
02:54:35.480But when it comes to Israel, they use cluster warheads, which is extremely, well, it's a bit of a violation, let's just state, to the rules of engagement of conflict.
02:54:47.740And despite the air defense system trying its best, because it's a cluster warhead, obviously it's still going to be hitting the civilians.
02:54:56.500That's why everybody, as Prime Minister Netanyahu said, must follow the home front advice and shelter beforehand.
02:55:05.880Moshtab al-Khamenei's position has also been targeted over the last few hours.
02:55:10.600We are unsure about his condition right now.
02:55:13.320We're also going to be talking about the latest list of eliminations,
02:55:17.620including senior IRGC figures, including the new head of the IRGC intelligence
02:55:23.380who has been killed by the Israelis, and finally, the ceasefire talks.
02:55:28.640So over the last day or two, we've had a lot of flip-flopping from the Islamic Republic.
02:55:32.760and they said no to the initial peace proposal but now they are they've received the new proposal
02:55:40.640from pakistan the u.s have also released that proposal to at least do a ceasefire first they
02:55:46.600haven't agreed to it yet the talks have just begun in order to then reach some sort of deal now we're
02:55:52.980going to give you guys the latest on this and the videos are coming in we also have our live feed
02:55:59.040from Haifa. First, let's go to Tehran, the capital of Iran, as overnight in the early
02:56:05.160hours of this morning, the Mehrabat International Airport to the west of the city was once again
02:56:12.060hit massively. Let's go and see what happened there.
02:56:16.080now of course uh let's not forget that uh tonight and tomorrow is the deadline that president trump
02:56:33.800has set uh for the islamic republic and if they don't reopen the strait of homers if they don't
02:56:41.000agreed to a ceasefire, then the Americans will be targeting the infrastructure and the power plants
02:56:47.460of Iran. The Israelis are also planning to do the exact same thing. This will be a joint
02:56:53.360cooperation between Israelis and the Americans to hit the infrastructure, which obviously will
02:56:59.400escalate things even further. But let's quickly go and talk about Mojtaba Khamenei, the so-called
02:57:07.460cardboard supreme leader of the islamic republic the latest reports that we have from uh israeli
02:57:15.200sources and they suggest that there was a massive strike targeted the strike in the city of gorm
02:57:22.220which is a tiny shia holy city to the south of the capital this happened in the early hours hours of
02:57:30.200This morning, the operation has been alleged to have targeted the new so-called supreme leader.
02:57:37.820We don't know whether he has been injured or not.
02:57:40.520But the latest leaked reports suggest that there have been a number of strikes on his positions over the last few weeks, apart from the first one on the first day.
02:57:51.180And in fact, according to the sources inside the Islamic Republic, they have leaked this info that apparently he could be on the verge of death.
02:58:01.960The explosions have caused severe injuries, including spinal cord damages and also disclosed jaw, brain damage and extensive head and facial trauma, preventing him from attending meetings.
02:58:18.260And now despite obviously a number of surgeries that he emergency surgeries that he has had over the last couple of weeks, apparently he is still in special care.
02:58:29.980As far as we know, because obviously they've said that they have targeted him again last night.
02:58:35.640So we'll wait to see if they did manage to actually get him or whether he's been injured again even further.
02:58:44.640Now, to be fair, he might also already be dead and they might just be lying to us.
02:58:48.900But again, you don't know until the information eventually comes out.
02:58:53.500Let's go back to Tehran, the west of the capital.
02:58:57.740Again, this is near the airport in Mehrabat.
02:59:14.640Now, the interesting thing about this there, because we're going to do an extensive coverage in the next few minutes of the whole situation in Haifa and central Israel as well.
02:59:26.020But this is fascinating because this specific area to the west of Tehran has been targeted, I mean, if I were to just guess at this point, probably 12 times so far over the last month or so.
02:59:40.380and there seem to be still elements left there
02:59:45.680because there were a couple of underground sites
03:05:37.920they had to use bunker busters the Americans the media said that students university students were
03:05:47.840targeted in a civilian area now what the media the so-called mainstream media forgot to mention
03:05:57.120was that universities are currently closed there are no students at Sharif University of Technology
03:06:02.940or any of the universities right now the universities and schools are currently being
03:06:07.300used as IRGC bases some of them are being used as temporary bases some of them including Sharif
03:06:14.740actually being used as a temporary base because they have a bunker underground bunker as part
03:06:20.900of the university building this is the aftermath
03:06:37.300Yeah, so they claim that this was some sort of civilian targeting, but obviously that's not true because there are not supposed to be any students at these universities.
03:07:02.440but the propaganda continues and we have to keep fighting to counter this all right we have more
03:07:08.720names for you guys of the latest list of eliminations in iran we told you about zari
03:07:16.540we also have sayed sayed musavi moeen heydari and milad salar vand all of them in charge of
03:07:26.100the ground forces and the air defense systems in the center of the country around esfahan
03:07:32.240And again, this kind of makes sense. The strikes that we saw over the last day or two around the province of Esfahan, it made sense that eventually there's going to be confirmation because the IRDC are not really going to bother with hiding the names of the mid-ranking commanders, for example.
03:07:56.920When it comes to the top leadership, yeah, they take their time.
03:08:00.780It takes a few days. There is a bit of denial.
03:08:03.080And then they say they're actually alive.
03:08:06.160And then, obviously, they have to confirm that they are losing their terrorists.
03:08:17.480Someone says, Thomas says, I was going to put the things on the screen again because that would be easier.
03:09:41.380There is a statement that's just come out from a
03:10:11.380our favorite infamous IRGC spokesperson. Remember this guy? He's back. Yep, he's still alive by the
03:10:22.840way. I don't know how. But he has now said any aggression against civilian targets in Iran
03:10:29.440will be met with a harsher, more destructive and broader response by our armed forces.
03:10:38.320Now, a couple of problems with this statement.
03:10:40.960Number one, your so-called armed forces are not actually even involved in this war.
03:10:46.280Not really. You have a bunch of IRGC military terrorists taking care of the business when it comes to launching missiles and drones.0.54
03:10:53.340That's number one. Secondly, really, you suddenly care about civilian or the civilian targets.0.79
03:11:01.540How many people did you kill in January in Iran yourself?
03:11:05.040now obviously they're trying to gaslight everybody and there are enough people in the establishment in the west that would believe these lies0.73
03:11:13.040saying yeah of course yeah i mean the islamic regime really care about people in iran
03:11:16.760and they they don't want their civilian targets to be hit hmm yeah they don't really care about any of that0.75
03:11:22.820they don't even actually care about uh again they've been promising harsher responses every single day
03:11:28.140every single week initially they said if if you target our supreme leader ali khamenei
03:11:33.540then we're going to go we're going to go nuclear well they kill Khamenei and nothing happened
03:11:37.520then they said if you target his son we're going to come for you they killed his son nothing
03:11:41.980happened then they said if you target our IRGC navy we're going to destroy the world nothing0.57
03:11:47.800happened it's just crazy they keep having red lines and all they can do is launch a handful0.75
03:11:53.580of missiles and as I said the only problem we're currently facing is that Israel is primarily
03:12:00.140getting targeted by missiles that have cluster warheads now there's still a handful of missiles
03:12:06.680today we had only 21-22 being launched across the region not just Israel across the Middle East
03:12:13.02021-22 I think now latest missiles that were launched a huge chunk of them towards Dubai and
03:12:19.940Abu Dhabi again but when they launch against Israel they use cluster warheads which means that0.70
03:12:26.600they're still going to it's still going to hit the civilian areas that's what we'll be able to
03:12:31.640give you guys the details of what's been going on in haifa you see the prime minister did reiterate
03:12:35.820saying follow the home front advice don't be outside don't be by the windows just go to the
03:12:42.000shelters now of course there will be some other people in some areas that will find it difficult
03:12:45.900unless they just want to live in some sort of bunker it's going to be difficult for them
03:12:50.800to reach the nearby shelters in time but most can. Let's quickly before we go to Haifa let's go to
03:13:01.000the eastern parts of Tehran the Piruzi streets where I actually grew up as a child0.98
03:13:08.100and now it's getting slightly destroyed by the Americans and the Israelis.
03:13:20.800someone says uh thank you for not making me uh listen to the IRGC spokesperson my my my my my
03:13:46.320my voice yeah yeah don't worry i'm not going to torture you again with his videos and it's not
03:13:53.240today maybe tomorrow okay we i think we have the confirmation yeah this is now sorted okay let's
03:13:59.900go to the israelis because the idf have now confirmed that kamal malham who was the artillery
03:14:10.020commander of the so-called Imam Hussain division in Iran has been destroyed, has been killed, and
03:14:17.960his headquarters has been destroyed. This was the division's fire control headquarters that was
03:14:25.160hit. Now, Malham was in charge of the artillery attacks towards Israel, serving as a central
03:14:32.840commander and also helped procure and command equipment sorry combat equipment and also this
03:14:41.160unit was part of the IRGC's Gots Force network which has been targeting the Israelis across the
03:14:50.040region for a very very long time now the whole unit have been eliminated and wiped out another0.98
03:14:57.720huge victory for the brilliant IDF. Let's go back to Tehran, the early hours of this morning and0.61
03:15:09.320then we'll see. I think we can now quickly go to the central part of Israel and Haifa.
03:15:20.520Let's talk about what's actually been happening in Haifa. First video from Israel from a couple of
03:15:26.440hours ago. Just a quick heads up, if you are watching from Esbril or in the region, you would
03:15:33.560experience sirens. The next video we're about to show you does include sirens, so maybe you want
03:15:38.840to turn down the volume, otherwise your neighbors will freak out. Let's go.
03:15:56.440Every single one of them, plus the warheads.
03:16:26.440and then this was the the moment the Haifa oil refinery was hit in northern Israel again
03:16:56.440of course multiple casualties have now been reported four bodies were recovered earlier
03:17:06.520today and we'll go through the actual details of that but i think the number of casualties
03:17:11.200fortunately is increasing and let's go to the aftermath in haifa
03:17:26.440Now, some of the details about what happened here, so the first responders are still on site in Haifa following the missile strike by the IRGC.
03:17:38.440They've been working over the last few hours to reach those who have been trapped under the rubble.
03:17:44.440And earlier on, we did hear that there are at least four individuals who were unaccounted for.
03:21:29.320Actually, a couple of things I mentioned about the Israeli Defense Forces.
03:21:33.580We can now confirm, because obviously we did say yesterday that the IDF were also assisting with the rescue operation of the two U.S. pilots.
03:21:43.020Well, we can now confirm that an Israeli official has now reported that two commando units from the Israeli Defense Forces were actually involved in the overall mission to rescue the American weapons systems officer or the second pilot that was still in Iran for about 48 hours.
03:22:11.260So the Israelis didn't just help with the intelligence for the operation, but also actually the commander units were active in order to help their American allies.
03:22:22.760On the issue of, I think something's coming from central Israel, I'm going to keep an eye on that.
03:22:29.780On the issue of the rescue operation, of course, yesterday we did a whole extensive coverage of that.
03:22:36.400But today we can give you some more info about the overall issue.
03:22:43.820So number one, if we go to our live map and go back to Iran.
03:22:52.920So for those, if you remember yesterday, this is our new interactive map that we have.
03:22:58.040So, the target was known, well, the target for the IRGC, which was the second U.S. pilot, was supposed to be here.
03:23:07.200And everybody thought it was going to be near Boucher.
03:23:10.420But we then discovered he was, in fact, just outside of Esfahan.
03:23:15.160Now, a couple of information, well, more details that we have, was that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps moved their troops from this part,
03:23:28.040from the center to the southwest they got diverted but why and how so a few things
03:23:35.240the crew member survived more than 24 hours did i say 48 hours more yeah 24 hours
03:23:43.000in the mountains just outside of esbahan in the center of iran 200 soldiers from the special
03:23:49.960operations units were involved in the rescue operation so this is some of the new information
03:23:54.920that we have. The F-15E that was shut down, we can now confirm that it went down after a shoulder
03:24:04.960fired missile was used against it. So it's just an individual IRGC terrorist. The officer then0.72
03:24:13.940hid in the mountain and was able to be located because of the latest US technology. They were
03:24:20.760contact with him throughout the whole time and located him that's why if you remember last night0.86
03:24:26.120we explained they came up with a plan to distract the irgc the americans to send them all to the
03:24:32.040southwest uh near dehdash where whereas actually the whole operation was going to the center
03:24:40.920we also have some info according to the americans that the officer
03:24:43.960as he was ejecting from the fighter jet he said God is good and there is also some huge information
03:24:55.100that when he went on the ground he was near a village in the Kukan region of Yasuj. Now the
03:25:06.120reports we have from Iran is that the Iranian civilians in that village actually helped give
03:25:12.280him shelter for a short period of time and then obviously he got in touch with the U.S. military
03:25:18.880and they told him exactly where to go and the Americans also in case you don't know they had
03:25:25.240a built a secret base inside Iran right around here just outside of Asfahan and apparently there
03:25:36.620was another one around here which was not really confirmed, but these are supposed to be covert
03:25:43.520operations. They actually had, they built a base on the Iranian soil in the middle of war and the
03:25:51.060IRGC were not able to even tell what is going on. It's fascinating. So the CIA, they initiated the
03:25:57.840deception campaign to confuse the IRGC forces. The second U.S. pilots also managed to evade
03:26:07.020the IRGC military by hiking up a 7,000-foot ridgeline to get to the mountain, which obviously,
03:26:18.020as I said yesterday, you are definitely going to have some sort of Hollywood movie make about
03:26:24.600this at some point. This whole operation is just going to be a whole drama. Also, the villagers,
03:26:31.320the Iranian civilians in the village that was just near Shiraz, to the south, 20 of them,
03:26:39.060according to our sources in Iran, 20 of them have now been arrested by the Islamic Republic security
03:26:45.260for helping the Americans. So that's the latest that we have from there. Now, the U.S.
03:26:54.340Central Command have released the latest footage of their operation and their targets.
03:27:02.800The CENTCOM has now said that this is the U.S. Air Force MQ-9A Reaper shooting down an Iranian
03:27:10.180unmanned combat drone over Iran. Of course, there's been a number of these that have been
03:27:19.040eliminated including drone carriers over the last few hours and also the last couple of days
03:27:24.940which have been making things difficult for the IRGC. But they still obviously have access to
03:27:30.960a huge number of drones compared to the ballistic missile situation. So let's quickly talk about
03:27:36.720what is going on with this whole saga around a ceasefire and deal and negotiations. Firstly,
03:30:59.900And yes, yes, see, so the Iranians, bah, bah, of course, bah, bah.
03:31:04.660Now, Murad Veysi. So his name is Murad Veysi. Okay. His name is Murad Veysi. And yeah, I see. Oh, look, all the Iranians are excited now. All the Iranians are excited. They're like, yes, I'm a Murad. Yes, yes. We all we all love Murad Veysi. And oh, yeah, Murad is fantastic.
03:31:30.540So, um, I mean, here I can, I can share his YouTube channel with you guys, but the challenge
03:31:37.380is he does like everything he does is in Persian.
03:43:21.860So they're saying after they brought in that other guy Kazemi, when they decided to move Kazemi to a different intelligence unit,
03:43:44.700So they're saying, he's saying when Mohamed Kazemi moved from intelligence protection to become head of IRGC intelligence, they brought Majid Khademi from the Ministry of Defense and appointed him as the new head of IRGC intelligence protection.0.65
03:44:03.020Let me just bring up the boom boom, the jihadi bingo sheet so that you guys see what I'm talking about here.0.92
04:12:01.680yeah it's 1997 after the sheesh is 1997 that that's that's accurate i said that it's 1997.
04:12:20.180youtube's actually doing a pretty good job of of translating the dates because he said his
04:12:26.000he said 1376. And then that translates to 1997. Okay. So he's saying in 1997,
04:12:35.960Khamenei won. And so guys, but what's important here is, is the context, right? So Khamenei,
04:12:41.640the Supreme dictator, um, is trying to decide who becomes the, the, the president or prime
04:12:49.060minister or whatever. Right. Um, this is what I mean when I say there are no elections in,
04:12:55.540in the islamic regime it's a dictatorship right the supreme dictator controls everything the1.00
04:13:01.380supreme dictator pretty much decides who can and can't run so far like i'm actually pretty impressed
04:13:09.060with with the subtitles like the auto generated subtitles so far so he's saying in 1997 when
04:13:20.340khamenei wanted to bring not ignore to power as president and and the people voted for khatami
04:13:28.820instead khatami is khatami is this guy so we're not going to get into the you know the dynamics0.79
04:13:40.740of the green movement and blah blah blah but they're all evil they're all evil so0.82
04:13:44.740So Khamenei wanted this other guy, and then Khatami came, Khatami, this other like jihadi0.62
04:13:50.980Durka Durka Mullah, Khatami pretended like he was a moderate, and he fooled the Iranian
04:13:59.560people, they voted for him, and then he ended up murdering even more Iranians.
04:14:05.520So, yeah, that's why that's why we say that the moderates are even more dangerous than the hardliners because the moderates pretend like they're normal, but they murder Iranians behind closed doors.
04:14:24.920And that's exactly what Khatami did. He basically, like, you know, guys, never trust a mullah.0.88
04:14:31.280Never trust a mullah. Never trust a mullah. They're all evil and they belong in hell.
04:14:44.440He's like, so at that time when the people voted for Khatami instead, Khatami's plan didn't go anywhere.
04:14:54.920So Khamenei felt that something had happened in terms of intelligence that he did not like, right?
04:15:02.460So guys, because Khamenei wanted that other guy to get elected and this other guy, Khatami, got elected instead, Khamenei felt like there was an intelligence failure, right?
04:15:16.160Because again, it's a dictatorship, right?
04:15:18.700So Khamenei wanted everything to be his way.
04:15:22.120So even, this is what I mean when I say the elections are fake.
04:15:42.160These people are more evil than Satan.
04:15:52.120So, he's saying when Khotami was elected, the Green Movement in two sentences.0.75
04:16:03.840The Green Movement is when the Green...
04:16:07.260Okay, so here's the Green Movement in two sentences, okay?1.00
04:16:13.460The Green Movement is when this mofo right here, this turbaned evil demonic mofo,0.99
04:16:20.240said to everyone, oh, vote for me because I'm going to liberate Iran. I'm going to reform the1.00
04:16:29.720country from inside. I'm going to get rid of the hijab laws. We're going to modernize Iran. We're1.00
04:16:37.660going to reform Iran. Vote for me. Vote for me. You can trust me. I'm a good guy. I'm a man of1.00
04:16:44.320God. So Iranians were like, OK, yes, like we want freedom. We want liberty. So, OK, because because Iranians wanted like Iranians wanted regime change at that time.
04:16:57.300And then the Islamic regime created the reform movement. And then this guy was like, oh, no, no, no, no, no. We don't we don't need to get rid of the Islamic regime.
04:17:06.840We can just reform it from the inside. And because that was the first time the Islamic regime tried1.00
04:17:11.700this, Iranians unfortunately believed them. They were lying. It was a trap. And when this guy was0.98
04:17:19.780voted in, this evil demonic, you know, Mullah or whatever, they continued murdering Iranians.
04:17:26.500And in fact, this evil demonic man increased the number of executions per month. So the Green0.78
04:17:33.660movement was basically a sham. The green movement is when these mullahs basically fooled the Iranian1.00
04:17:41.200people and never again. This is why we don't trust them. This is why we want full-on regime change.1.00
04:17:48.080We don't want reform. We want them all to be sent back to the stone ages where they belong
04:17:56.000because you cannot negotiate with evil. These moderates are even more evil and demonic than
04:18:02.560the hardliners because the hardliners, they don't hide who they are. The hardliners make it very
04:18:08.620clear what they want. They make it very clear that they want to rape, murder, pillage, and kill
04:18:13.960Iranians. The moderates or the reformists are more evil and more dangerous because they pretend
04:18:21.340that they're like normal, rational people, but behind the scenes, they're even worse. So that's
04:18:28.400why Iranians want no deal unless the deal is unconditional surrender. They want no compromise0.99
04:18:33.920and they want these people all boomed because every single person here is evil and they all0.99
04:18:41.120have blood on their filthy jihadi Muslim Nazi hands. Anyways, going back to what Morad Vesey0.96
04:18:48.440is saying. So he's basically saying Khamenei was not happy that that other mullah was exterminated
04:18:58.200sorry that other mullah was um elected and he felt like that was a failure in intelligence
04:19:03.720because he didn't get his way in the elections right so again this is why i say that the
04:19:10.520And Khamenei was not happy because at that time the Ministry of Intelligence was no longer under the control of the Supreme Leader as Khamenei himself said.
04:19:40.520So in 1997, you know, Khomeini felt like at that point the Ministry of Intelligence was not 100% under his control anymore because certain people had been elected that Khomeini did not want them to be elected.
04:20:00.680He wanted his guy to be elected. Why did Khomeini want his guy to be elected? Because that's how a dictatorship works, right?
04:20:07.880you you you pick and choose your people so that you have complete control over the system
04:20:18.120so this is like this is from 28 years ago it's a no solution
04:20:24.760wait is there an issue in the youtube chant sorry is there an issue on x yeah okay let me get rid
04:20:33.080of the troll on X. Thank you, Savukzote, for bringing this person to my attention. Let me
04:20:38.580just get rid of them. Random trolls. All right. Okay. I got rid of that troll on X. That's the0.86
04:20:52.280frustrating part. I can't even have mods on X. It's frustrating. All right. Let's continue.
04:20:57.640thank you guys listen we have our own we have our own savuk we have our savuk on on x monitoring
04:21:04.840everything thank you so much appreciate your service okay let's continue so he's saying at
04:21:12.760that time 28 29 years ago so he's so he's saying when khamenei was elected as a supreme dictator
04:21:24.040in 1989 the first place that khamenei tried to assert his control was the ministry of
04:21:34.440intelligence so that's back in 1989 between 1989 and 1992 khamenei was basically under the shadow
04:21:50.040of Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani is dead now, by the way. Khamenei murdered him.
04:22:00.600Rafsanjani was a president who was just as powerful as Khamenei. And the reason that Khamenei
04:22:07.480murdered Rafsanjani, guys, like, first of all, that's like basically saying one Muslim Nazi
04:22:12.440murdered another Muslim Nazi, right? So it's like, it's no, it's no, like, I don't care. Like,
04:22:18.040I actually don't care when these people murder each other.
04:22:22.480It's not like it's a loss or anything, right?
04:32:18.120A few times we've heard you and the other crew describe change during the course of
04:32:24.520your flyby would be interested in future descriptions of more uh verbosity about how
04:32:30.320it's changing thanks for the great service okay there's just a little quick update on the moon
04:32:36.080flyby i will be monitoring the moon because we love the moon and uh oh love you guys to the moon
04:32:43.980and back we love you to the moon and back oh that's so cute i like that thank you there you
04:32:52.380go so i'm just going to keep an eye on this um as they get closer um but there you go that's just a
04:32:59.040very very quick update on the moon okay armin let's go to president trump and can i can i do
04:33:10.760whatever you like oh yeah just just really short let me let me actually get some of the updates
04:33:16.580that i had um sorry just quickly no not at all this is important yeah okay so they're bringing out
04:33:33.060okay all right so just really quickly before we go to that um here i have three things first of all
04:33:41.620The regime is so desperate right now that they're making AI videos of Mushtaba Khamenei, you know, in the, oh here, look at this.
04:33:53.260An AI-generated video released Monday shows Mushtaba Khamenei entering a command center said to be directing operations against an Israeli nuclear site.
04:34:05.240The clip is part of a series of AI videos circulated by the Islamic Republic amid U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
04:34:12.540Guys, I know this is funny, but it's also very important to realize that this shows that the fact that Mushtaba is not present is hurting them.
04:34:24.220Because remember, they're missing the bond between IRGC and pro-regime people.
04:34:30.260the bond was held by ali khamini and right now the legitimacy of the islamic republic is at risk
04:34:38.520because much taboo is not filling that role they need to have a charismatic leader to come and
04:34:44.580inspire people to say that everything is good and because they don't have that they have to
04:34:49.260make these ai videos so this is this is what they wish they had right now look at this
04:35:00.260so guys you know i love how they blur the face of like the random irgc person in the background
04:35:11.700as if like that's a real person like you idiots do you think we don't know that this is ai generated
04:35:18.180and then why is the why is the tv screen in english shouldn't it be in persian0.90
04:35:22.260goldie those are such important points but the but the issue is that their audience are idiots
04:35:30.580right so because this is not made for you or me this is made for regime supporters and guys there
04:35:38.600we know that they're not selling this as an ai video to them because if they were selling this
04:35:43.880as an ai video to them they wouldn't be blurring these people's faces the fact that they blurred
04:35:49.160these people's faces shows that they're they made this with the intention of making it seem like
04:35:55.640this was a real video to regime supporters uh the next video is not ai and i wish it was okay
04:36:06.520because look at this oh yes i've seen this one oh my gosh
04:36:10.840look at the mullahs guys there's so much propaganda going on to make the
04:36:19.000protege people feel like part of this fight and give them some you know morale and motivation look0.87
04:36:24.600at this the mullahs are wearing military uniforms with like military weapons look at this
04:36:40.840so let me see the caption is saying the the release video shows muhammad nabi musa vifad
04:36:53.980the friday prayer leader of ahwas with a rocket launcher on his shoulder shaking his
04:36:59.720clenched fist amid the cheers of supporters so guys if we if you want to understand the
04:37:05.660importance of these people. If you go to our charts, okay, so you're not going to see this
04:37:11.000person here, but the way the location that he belongs to is here. Look at this. You see these
04:37:17.500numbers here. You see this 900 number over here, right? So these are the Friday prayer imams.
04:37:26.020And these were a major important part of the Ali Khamenei used to, so it says 900 district
04:37:31.740supreme leader representative and friday prayer moms the friday prayer moms of different cities
04:37:37.740they are the representation of the supreme leader in different local areas so that's what that that
04:37:43.100guy that you just saw is one of these 900 people right um and then another thing i want to show
04:37:49.420you guys is that the regime is really using girls a lot these days for their propaganda so let me
04:37:55.820just show you three videos about that and then we go to prison trouble okay so look at this0.61
04:38:17.180you know when she goes like this do you see that hand movement that's missiles going down on israel
04:38:22.460that's what she's pointing yeah that's the yeah that's the thing yeah0.59
04:38:35.740look at look at for a show like this is not islamic what's with her face what's
04:38:40.620what's with the what's with the makeup job like what is this like0.92
04:38:52.460You see what she does with her lips?1.00
05:10:10.680And I shed no tears for Ali Khamenei, who was killed at the beginning of this war.
05:10:17.960But the reality is that the U.S. underestimated the task.
05:10:25.680And I think, as of about two weeks ago, lost the initiative to Iran.
05:10:32.360In practice, the Iranian regime has been more resilient than I think anyone would.
05:10:38.320They took some good decisions, actually, as early as last June, about dispersing their military capability and delegating the authority for the use of those weapons, which has given them significant extra resilience against this incredibly powerful air campaign.
05:10:58.000They have embarked on what's technically called horizontal escalation, i.e. firing rockets at anybody within range, which at the time, honestly, Shawshank, I thought was nuts, but in fact, has been a very good way of putting in direct price on the U.S.
05:11:14.980And then they've understood the significance of the energy war and held the streets at threat and globalized and essentially not internationalized, just globalized the conflict in a way that gives them some weapons.
05:12:36.260for you to open the street. It's open. Nothing blocking. Right, but it's scary. It's scary.
05:12:46.360Okay, well, you have 48 hours. You have 48 hours. 48 hours to do one. So, as I said,
05:13:00.820So, I was thinking, um, maybe we could run it together, the street, we could run it together, but I already run it, but like you and me could run it together, but I already run it, I ran and continue to run it, yeah, I could help, no, thank you.
05:13:30.820you have five days is that maybe to open it two minutes ago i only had 48 hours i was being
05:21:28.680Well, that's a radical-level group of lunatics that you're with.
05:21:32.280Let me just tell you, let me just tell you, very fair question.1.00
05:21:36.720The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go up, they're upset.
05:21:42.040They want to hear bombs because they want to be free.
05:21:44.740And the only reason they're not out protesting, you know that,
05:21:48.020is because they were informed that if they protest like the wrestler and his friends
05:21:53.080if they protest they will be shot immediately and that's an edict that's in writing if they
05:21:59.840protest if they go out in the streets they will be immediately shot if they don't have guns you
05:22:05.460know we sent some guns but the group that was supposed to give which i said what happened to
05:22:10.680my people i said it i called it exactly we sent guns out of guns they were supposed to go to the
05:22:16.900people said they could fight back against these thugs you know what happened the people that they
05:22:21.360sent them to kept them because they said what a beautiful gun i think i'll keep it so i'm very0.98
05:22:26.880upset with a certain group of people and they're going to pay a big price for that but the iranian0.95
05:22:32.000people will fight back as soon as they know they're not going to be shot and as soon as they
05:22:37.080can get weapons if they had weapons not many of them if they had weapons that would go in the
05:22:42.820other way and you know what happened iran would give up in two seconds because they wouldn't be
05:22:47.640able to take it but in iran they have absolutely no weaponry and they've been told point blank
05:22:53.060if you come out if you come out to the street you will be killed as of this morning and we have
05:22:58.660this on pretty good information 45 000 protesters have been killed pretty bad goldie he says if the0.72
05:23:07.020Iranian people had weapons then it would be so immediately over so this this confirms that you
05:23:14.020know the strategy that we discussed the arming the Iranian people maybe from the south like maybe like
05:23:20.760they're still like president trumping said that even though the the arming from the you know
05:23:25.660separatist quarters failed uh because those are not the people you trust they're still he's still
05:23:31.500insisting and maybe the solution is to arm the iranian people what do you think about this
05:23:37.980it could be i mean it it definitely could be part of it um we don't know but yeah but i mean
05:23:46.660um what he's saying lines up with what we were talking about yesterday with the separatist
05:23:54.640groups right so armin you know remember you were saying um he's not referring to the iranian
05:24:00.880Kurds. He's referring to the separatist Kurdish groups. And there's two types of separatist
05:24:05.980Kurdish groups. There's the Iraqi separatist Kurdish groups, but we also have Iranian
05:24:12.400separatist Kurdish Kurdish groups, which is like the fringe, right? So, so we do have
05:24:17.580like a fringe minority of, you know, Iranian separatist Kurds that are like very, very small,
05:24:26.320like less than one percent um you know every population has a fringe minority and you know0.86
05:24:31.920they're basically the terrorists no one likes them no one accepts them um so we don't know
05:24:36.800which group it is but it's it's one of the separatist paramilitary groups but it's not the
05:24:44.560the iranian kurdish population because they're they're not like they're not a paramilitary group
05:24:51.920so but even president trump acknowledges that he thought it was a bad idea
05:24:57.920but people were like oh no no let's let's do it um and i hope like i don't know i hope at least
05:25:04.960now people get over like especially americans like get over your like weird like fetish with
05:25:10.640like separatist curds right like it's just it's embarrassing it's weird and these people are not
05:25:16.480your friends the the separatist kurds support the islamic regime uh that also includes the uh
05:25:22.400uh barzanis so the barzanis uh that currently control like uh you know kurdish area iraq or
05:25:30.480whatever the bars are autonomous you know whatever it's called uh the barzanis are also um supporters
05:25:38.240and allies of the islamic regime and president trump knows that so you know he just he exposed
05:25:44.080these people so yeah like you know americans like get over your like weird fetish with like the
05:25:48.920separatist paramilitary kurds or whatever so and whoever's saying i'm wrong on this one i'm not
05:25:56.380wrong we spoke about this yesterday oh you're just like you just you know you just can't accept facts
05:26:02.340like wait this is this is the most correct i mean goldie you know you're right but this is the most
05:26:08.140right you have ever been like there's this is the one that you are the most right about like what
05:26:12.580that like guys if you want to criticize goldie this is the one thing that you should like if
05:26:18.340you're disagreeing with her on this you have no idea what you're talking about right um yeah so
05:26:27.300but goldie i was um this is the let me know what you think about this because i my
05:26:34.180My guess is that the best strategy is to liberate a city, potentially Bandar Abbas or any other city close to Hormuz Strait,
05:26:47.480and then use that as a base of operations to get Iranians who want to fight to liberate Iran to come to that city to get armed with not just guns, but also drones.0.83
05:26:59.800and they need to have a vetting process there
05:27:04.100so that we're not just releasing guns and drones
06:11:10.040let me see the super check i'm saying if the u.s destroys the iranian industrial foundation and
06:11:17.340then iran becomes a u.s ally the u.s will pump billions into iran to rebuild this will create
06:11:23.280high paying jobs for the iranian people yes and in the forms of investments for sure no donations
06:11:29.600investments for sure yes yes yeah like we we don't want handouts we don't need charity because iran0.97
06:11:35.240has a lot of money iran is very resource rich it's just the the ayatollahs and the muslim nazis0.75
06:11:39.800have been stealing all the money for themselves um but president trump already said in a truth
06:11:44.920social post um i think a month ago like early on when when the the conflict or as he likes to call
06:11:52.600it when the excursion started he said at some point that when all this is over like you know
06:11:57.400make iran great again and you know he's going to help rebuild iran so he's already anticipating um
06:12:03.320I'm thinking, you know, that that economic partnership between Iran and the United States
06:12:09.080and, you know, his royal highness, King Reza Pahlavi, has also been very busy.
06:12:13.320Just a few days ago, he was in Texas meeting with a lot of like major American companies
06:12:20.120and basically speaking to them about future investment opportunities in in a free Iran.0.87
06:12:27.220So, yes, absolutely. Like when Iran is free, that's going to that's basically going to free over one trillion dollars in in, you know, economic funds.
06:12:42.200Oh, I have a troll in the trap. Someone's like, shame on you for not condemning Israel and Ben Gavir over the new slot.
06:12:48.900You are a disgusting person. I don't care. I'm Israel.
06:57:14.920We have promoted our Kurds, we have talked about them, we have said that the difference between the Iranians and the Kurds, what is the difference between the Kurds and the Kurds?
06:57:26.920If you don't understand it, you are the Kurds or the regime?
06:57:44.920these minority separatist groups we have done that over and we celebrate our our patriotic
06:57:50.360iranian courts so much all the time oh by the way goldie i don't know you might already know this
06:57:56.360but just in case okay just in case this is the two different ways that people write it in persian
06:58:02.200so the one without the vav is like the good like those are our cards but if they add a
06:58:08.680kurd instead of cord they put cord those are the separatists that's the way people write them i
06:58:14.520agree the quarter okay so it's a quarter ish and cool cool how does that all right
06:58:25.080let's continue go ahead thank you mr president for the question um deliberate attacks on civilian
06:58:31.480infrastructure by way for jimmy convention of conventions and international law who are you
06:58:36.120with i'm with the new york times zolan from the new york times are you feeling the feeling are
07:02:33.000But to close the strait, all you need is one terrorist that somehow has a truck loaded with, because you can carry them in trucks, large trucks, a water mine. Drop them in the water. And now you tell people that own chips that cost a billion dollars to don't worry about the mine. You can do that even just by saying we put mines in the water.
07:02:54.840sure so it's not like you don't even have to have my issues like we just put them there
07:02:59.860you could just say we did that you guys you don't even have to have you could have the like
07:03:04.000cheapest drones that are never going to hit their target and commercial ships are very risk averse
07:03:11.120okay so if you tell a commercial ship that there's a 99.99 percent chance that you're not going to hit
07:03:18.640get hit by a drone they're gonna be like well that's not good enough for me they're like
07:03:26.080well call me when it's a hundred percent okay call me when it's a hundred percent commercial ships
07:03:32.720are not like military ships they're gonna be like yeah we're gonna need a better guarantee here so0.99
07:03:38.880this is why the islamic republic with very little ability even if they like even if they just say1.00
07:03:44.720like we have drones we might throw them at these commercial ships it might hit them it might not1.00
07:03:49.440hit them that's good enough for the commercial ships to say like i'm out i'm out until you
07:03:55.360could guarantee me that this is not going to happen so we can knock out and that's why it's
07:04:00.560so easy to not close the strait of homers because the state of homers is not closed0.51
07:04:05.440ships are going through but only with the permission of the islamic republic i would0.84
07:04:09.440a $2 million toll on each oil tanker that is not the Islamic Republic's, they're making
07:04:18.040a lot of money off of that as well.0.71
07:04:19.800So it's not technically closed, it's just being controlled by the Islamic Republic.0.82
07:04:23.100This is why the only answer is full regime change.0.91
07:04:25.440Because if you reduce the ability, the military ability of the Islamic Republic to 1% of what0.91
07:04:31.620it used to be, that 1% is enough to be able to control the threat of hormones.0.95
07:10:19.800You know, they're coming to see me on Wednesday. They're going to say, oh, we'll do this. We'll do
07:10:23.240that. That hits harder, right? Like if he said, I'm angry, like, I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed.
07:10:29.960never disappear in my mind. You know, they're coming to see me on Wednesday. They're going to
07:10:33.180say, oh, we'll do this. We'll do that. Now they all of a sudden want to send things, you know,
07:10:37.620but they said it loud and clear at the beginning. When I spoke to UK of all, I would have said they
07:10:42.700would have been there first because they've been, they're the oldest. And I say, yeah,
07:10:47.180I'd love to have a little help. I said, no, sir, we'd rather wait till you win. I said,
07:10:52.240I don't need help after we win. You have two old broken aircraft carriers, barely work.
07:10:57.160I said, I guess we can use them. Who the hell knows? I called the general. He didn't even want to. He said, we don't really need them. We got the SS Abraham Lincoln, sir. We don't need them.
07:11:07.440You know, we have, in terms of technology, we had one day 101 missiles going at 2,700 miles an hour aimed at the Abraham Lincoln.
07:13:28.020They didn't steal the oil. They buy the oil and paid for that war many, many times over, many times.
07:13:37.620And you know the old days, to the victim, okay? You know that. To the winner belong the spoils,
07:13:47.060go the spoils. And I've said, why don't we use it? To the victor go the spoils. And we don't have
07:13:53.460that. We haven't had that in this country probably in 100 years because even the Second World War,
07:13:57.540You look at the Second World War. We didn't have it with the Second World War. We helped rebuild all those countries. We rebuilt Germany. How about Germany telling us? Germany telling us that, well, it's not their war. We had nothing to do with it. They wanted me to go and tell them everything I was doing. We didn't know anything about it.0.70
07:14:16.560Well, if I would have told them, they would have leaked it, and we wouldn't have been nearly as successful, possibly, right?
07:40:44.420They pressed it again and again. Nothing happened. And he said, we knew this whole thing was over in three minutes. We've never seen any. He used the word ferocity, the ferocity of these planes from 17 different angles. And it was over. They went inside. And remember, that was on a military base with thousands of soldiers. And those soldiers looked and they said, get the hell out of here. Thousands. We didn't have thousands. We had like 200 people.
07:41:10.700so we have a great military and i'll tell you what somehow this rescue captured the world's
07:41:19.260attention more so than normally you're talking about two people but this rescue captured the
07:41:26.300world's attention but we did it in venezuela that was amazing and now we have a very bad man in
07:41:32.600prison and going to trial i mean he he released aside from the drugs which he was terrible
07:41:39.640Maduro released hundreds of thousands of people from jails into our country.
07:41:46.040Drug dealers, murderers, the worst people in the world were released into our country
07:41:50.720because we had a stupid president who probably didn't know.
07:41:55.120And we had a border czar who never went to the border
07:41:57.180and never once called our great border patrol agents, right?
07:54:56.880We have we have a plan because of the power of our military where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again.
07:55:18.940I mean, complete demolition by 12 o'clock.0.84
07:55:22.320And it'll happen over a period of four hours if we wanted to.
07:55:37.120Armin, I mean, they have that ability, obviously,
07:55:40.300because the United States is the most powerful military in the world.0.97
07:55:42.700But the challenge here is that the Islamic regime doesn't care.0.87
07:55:48.940They literally don't care. Right. Like that means nothing to them. Right. We're dealing with this demonic, evil, psychotic Shia death cult. Right. All they care about is martyrdom and death and destruction.0.99
07:56:07.220So they actually don't care about Iran's infrastructure or bridges or anything like that.0.83
07:59:47.540I mean, listen, President Trump ultimately is a businessman, right?
07:59:51.260So he's also looking at this, and President Trump recognizes and understands that a free Iran is a $1 trillion economic opportunity, right?
08:15:16.140There were planes heading in their direction.
08:15:19.140Unfortunately, they decided to shoot those planes.
08:15:22.140they were off lanes. So, you know, NATO is a paper tiger. Now, he's coming to see me on Wednesday,
08:15:29.980as you know. He's a wonderful guy. Secretary General is great. And Mark Ruta, he's a great
08:15:37.260person, but he's good. All right, guys, no offense to the Kuwaiti people. I'm not talking about the
08:15:43.580people. I'm talking about whoever was in charge of that, you know, that thing. In fact, not only
08:15:49.260i'm not talking about kuwaiti people in general i really it was a very wholesome video of the
08:15:54.620kuwaiti people themselves when they went to greet the pilots they were so nice the kuwaiti people
08:16:02.540showed up when the pilots went down they were like are you okay are you okay they came up with their
08:16:07.580personal cars with the american pilots they they got them into their cars and they took them to
08:16:13.420the hospital the kuwaiti people themselves they were very nice to the american pilots and we
08:16:18.540appreciate that well i mean the people of kuwait are actually very very pro-america and american
08:16:26.060friendly because uh united states basically helped to uh rescue and save kuwait from saddam hussein
08:16:36.220yes of course there is a very strong relationship between kuwait and the united states yes
08:16:45.020a wonderful guy secretary general is great and mark ruta he's a great person but he's got and
08:16:55.780you know it all began with if you want to know the truth greenland we want greenland they don't
08:17:01.520want to give it to us and i said bye-bye bye-bye thank you very much everybody that's a perfect
08:17:08.660ending we went greenland they didn't want to give it to us and i said bye-bye
08:17:13.860perfect ending to a press conference oh my god
08:17:20.580oh my god oh this is perfect okay all right we're good all right bye-bye that was it right
08:17:33.660he's done yeah he was done oh my gosh okay that's great uh thank you so much armin you know that was
08:17:41.480um it was a very very epic speech but you know what there was one part here that really resonated
08:17:49.240with me and i just wanted to share this part again with you and everyone else and it's the part where
08:17:55.880president trump says the iranian people want to be free they have lived in a world that you know
08:18:03.560nothing about. Because, you know, Armin, no matter how much we describe, and, you know,
08:18:12.920first of all, I just want to say how grateful I am to everyone here, everyone who has tuned in,
08:18:19.960everyone who has watched our live streams, everyone who is, you know, part of the Iran
08:18:25.900Revolution Live Committee. You know, the fact that you're here, it gives us so much strength.
08:18:33.200And the fact that you have been so patient with us and you have set aside the prejudice that, you know, the mainstream media has shared when it comes to Iranian people.
08:18:49.980And, you know, you've you've come here with an open mind and you've listened to us.
08:18:54.520You've listened to our stories. You've listened to the stories of people in inoccupied Iran.
08:18:59.400you know you've you've watched the videos with us you've laughed with us you've cried with us
08:19:04.640you're all pretty much honorary Iranians at this point um you know it's just it's so amazing
08:19:10.580that after 100 days we have built this community together and you know we Iranians we don't feel
08:19:17.880so alone anymore and you know even Petito was saying that last night right our minutes after
08:19:23.300you left Petito was saying you know one of the most amazing things about Iran revolution life
08:19:28.240is that for the first time in his entire life, you know, he feels seen and heard and he feels like
08:19:35.100he's not so alone anymore and that people don't hate Iranians because everyone's learning the
08:19:41.320truth. And there's just one thing here that President Trump says, which is just, it's just
08:19:51.380so impactful and i just really wanted to to share this because he says i mean let me just let me
08:20:00.900just make this small again so he says the iranian people want to be free this is the part they have
08:20:07.580lived in a world that you know nothing about and you know armin and i we've tried you know we've
08:20:16.560shared a lot of videos and stuff but armin unless you've actually experienced it or or or lived it
08:20:27.020it's really hard to comprehend how evil these these these psychotic people are right like it's
08:20:35.860literally a world where for the last 47 years the regime will rape women before executing them
08:20:43.060because they want to make sure that the woman's soul does not go to heaven.
08:20:48.300And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how depraved0.71
08:25:29.240Guys, they are admitting that they know that their enemy cares about human lives.
08:25:34.940They're admitting that the fact that this works as a human shield is an admission that our enemy cares more about the lives of the people that we're about to use as shield and we don't.
08:25:47.940pure evil pure evil like has you have you seen anything in our lifetime that is closer
09:31:37.380and just one more logistics no we have gone as dark as we can in the cabin we have turned
09:31:48.940the du's all the way as dim as they can go so there's no you can't see anything on the
09:31:52.980screens every bit of light in the cabin uh affects the view um we're you're definitely
09:32:00.100seeing the brightness go closer, it's definitely brighter on the Earth's shine side, and so
09:32:08.360we are expecting to see something earlier soon.
09:32:14.300We copy all. Excited for what you see next.
09:32:30.100I'm not sure if we talked much about the star field, but we've got lots of stars.
09:32:40.180You've got the nice glow around the moon, but right off the, well, we're upside down now,
09:32:45.300but from upside down 4 o'clock, right off the edge of the moon, looks like a planet,
09:32:49.480that's a line of planets, there's something on the moon running to the left,
09:32:53.680and something right off the limb of the moon to the right, and then something orange.
09:32:59.000Uh, it looks orange, uh, to the right of that, about half the wind diameter, so, uh, but anyway, there are definitely stars, I think, uh, some of those planets, since you said we might see, we're seeing, and so, uh, in Unreal View, yeah, the moon in the foreground is one of the darkest things we see out the window, and now it's deep space behind it is, is kind of dark blue, like it looks from Earth, but we can also still see stars, it's a, uh, quite a wicked view.
09:33:29.000He's doing the best job and I'm not going to try to add on to what he's doing, it's just, it's indescribable.
09:33:38.000No matter how long we look at this, our brains are not processing this image in front of us.
09:33:45.000It is absolutely spectacular, surreal, there's no adjectives, I'm going to need to invent some new ones to describe.
10:04:07.560oh this is the image look at this guys so we have never seen anything like this before
10:04:13.800Yeah. Yeah. If Armin was here, he would be speaking for the hours or so. The crew has been going through their lunar flyby observation period. And now they will wrap up that period and complete some final tasks and begin downlinking some of the amazing imagery that they've captured throughout the day, as well as some of the observations that they've recorded.
10:04:39.800And now on your screen you're seeing a live look from the Orion spacecraft from the solar array wing cameras.
10:04:46.800The solar eclipse period ended just a few minutes ago and during this eclipse towards the end of the flyby window
10:04:54.800it lasted about an hour and it was when the Sun was hidden from view behind the opposite side of the moon
10:04:59.800from the perspective of the Orion spacecraft and its crew.
10:05:03.800And during that time, the crew saw a mostly dark moon, and they used the opportunity to analyze the solar corona, which is the sun's outermost atmosphere, while it was visible.
10:05:14.360And then once the sun was completely out of view behind the moon, the crew looked for impact flashes, which they reported seeing multiple impact flashes, and those are flashes of light from meteoroids striking the surface of the moon.
10:05:24.980They also looked for dust lofting above the limb or the edge of the moon, along with some
10:05:31.120deep space targets, including planets, and they noticed Mars off to the distance.
10:05:36.020And we also saw Venus on one of the solar ray wing cameras early on in the eclipse period.
10:05:43.320The crew also looked at parts of the moon illuminated by Earthshine, which is the sunlight
10:05:47.360reflected from the Earth when they come around toward the moon's nearside at the very end
10:11:06.840sat in some warehouse in Roswell or something like that.
10:11:09.540let's accept that we haven't seen any let's accept well we have to accept the picture that i've just
10:11:15.060given you about the milky way galaxy and its age because that's a measurement so we know that
10:11:18.820the question is then why how do we resolve yeah i just want to say like i really like the way that
10:11:26.660he's explaining it because i mean yes there's a lot of theories you know the um you know someone
10:11:33.460is saying, so KB Antikami says, US government disclosure stuff has confirmed contact with
10:11:40.420biologicals. I want to know what she's drinking. I mean, me, I'm drinking seltzer water, unless
10:11:48.740you're speaking about the person at NASA. I don't know what the person at NASA is drinking, but I'm
10:11:52.480just drinking seltzer water or carbonated bubbly water. No alcohol or anything. But going back to
10:12:00.460this. So guys, the interesting thing about this video and this theory is that what he's saying
10:12:07.900is that, you know, let's assume there's been zero contact whatsoever. I mean, again, I don't know
10:12:13.040if there's been contact or not. You know, we're not going to get into the internal politics of
10:12:18.680this. But the actual theory here is really interesting in and of itself. So I just want
10:12:25.620to share this theory with you. These apparent contradictions and paradoxes. So one answer
10:12:33.760to the Fermi paradox, this is the idea that we don't seem to see anyone, is that no one ever
10:12:40.980evolved. So life didn't get complex. Why might we think that? Well, what did we need to produce
10:12:50.520our civilization on this planet. Well, on this planet, one thing we needed was time. We have
10:12:57.640good evidence that life was present on this planet 3.8 billion years ago, perhaps even earlier. The
10:13:05.660planet is four and a half billion years old. So we know, as a matter of fact, as an observation
10:13:12.320on this planet, that life was present 3.8 billion years ago, but it took 3.8 billion years,
10:13:19.940give or take a few tens of thousands of years, to go from the origin of life to a civilization.
10:13:26.140Let's say from cell to civilization. Four billion years. That's one third of the age of the universe.
10:13:33.560So a possible answer to the Fermi paradox, the question of why there are no civilizations,
10:13:40.040is because the Earth is pretty much unique in the Milky Way galaxy in that it was stable enough.
10:13:48.760the climate the conditions on earth were stable enough for long enough for life to go from cell
10:13:56.680to civilization if you think about that's a big ask what i'm saying is on this planet
10:14:02.520an unbroken chain of life existed for almost four billion years notwithstanding the fact that we
10:14:09.560live in a violent universe the sun must have been stable enough for long enough we know the output
10:14:16.520of the sun has changed over those billions of years but it's not changed so radically that it
10:14:22.440managed to erase destroy life on earth we know that we live in a violent universe we know there
10:14:29.400are supernova explosions all over the place it turns out that there have been no stars massive
10:14:36.680enough to explode as a supernova in a way that would damage life on earth or erase life on earth
10:14:44.120in this vicinity for four billion years we know that nothing has happened like we know that there
10:14:50.760have been impacts on the earth right we know that you know i also want to point out like so for for
10:14:56.120all the people you know who who have religious views who are watching what he's saying doesn't
10:15:02.200contradict religion either because he's he's not actually talking about the big bang like he's not
10:15:08.760talking about the time before. All he's saying is that the measurable amount of time for the
10:15:17.060existence of the universe is like 10 billion years. And scientists so far can trace life
10:15:26.620back to 4 billion years ago, right? So he's saying from the first cell to the current
10:15:36.300civilization today took about 4 billion years. So, well, yeah, well, I mean, I mean, it could be I
10:15:44.280mean, it could be God protecting Earth, right? Like, but he's not like, he's not giving a religious or
10:15:51.560anti religious perspective. He's just looking at the data. He's looking at the science. He's just
10:15:58.280looking at the math here. So that's all this is. I mean, guys, I mean, I, I, I believe in evolution,
10:16:04.640i'm just saying but like it's just it's interesting how he's just like he's he's
10:16:14.320basically explaining a theory from a scientific perspective he's looking at the numbers and the
10:16:22.960data and trying to explain that universe we know there are supernova explosions all over the place
10:16:28.720it turns out that there have been no stars massive enough to explode as a supernova in a way that
10:16:37.600would damage life on earth or erase life on earth in this vicinity for four billion years we know
10:16:44.640that nothing has happened which is kind of strange right like he's pointing out he's like there
10:16:48.320hasn't been a massive supernova in the area um that that that's been big enough to wipe out the
10:16:56.720the earth for the last 4 billion years. So basically what he's saying is that since life
10:17:02.140was created on earth, there's been like nothing to like eradicate that life. Again, you can
10:17:09.680interpret that however you will. He's just stating like science and facts. And guys, we're not going
10:17:16.240to get into like a debate on like, you know, the religion versus science here. That's not the point.
10:17:22.340the point is i just wanted to share this theory with you on on on the fermi paradox which is
10:17:29.860some of the potential theories on why we have not like made contact with other uh like other
10:17:36.660civilizations yet which is kind of cool it's cool it's it's like a cool think of it as like
10:17:41.300a thought experiment it's a thought experiment as a supernova in a way that would damage life
10:17:49.140on earth or erase life on earth in this vicinity for four billion years we know that nothing has
10:17:55.860happened like we know that there have been impacts on the earth right we know that the famous impact
10:18:01.460that wipes out the the large dinosaurs there's been no impact big enough to destroy the unbroken
10:18:08.180chain or break the unbroken chain of life for four billion years so maybe maybe it's the case
10:18:15.540that whilst there are billions of planets which may have liquid water on the surface may have
10:18:22.100oceans that can support life it may be that none of those planets in the milky way galaxy have been
10:18:27.620stable enough for long enough to produce a civilization so that would be a property of
10:18:32.820the planet itself the so-called rare earth hypothesis actually i should say it's a property
10:18:38.660of a solar system it's not really just a property of the planet it's a property of the parent star
10:18:44.180you could ask the question well if it was a binary system for example a binary star system
10:18:48.820many stars are binary star systems is it possible to have a planet with a stable climate
10:18:56.420stable in up orbit in a binary star system to support an unbroken chain of life for 4 billion
10:19:02.740years perhaps not when we talk about rare earth um i think i would like to talk about rare solar
10:19:09.540system. Another possibility with the Fermi paradox is that it's not a paradox. They are here.
10:19:15.700So there are intelligent civilizations out there and they are present in the solar system.
10:19:20.100It's possible. Let's think, for example, what such an intelligence might look like. Well, who knows?
10:19:26.660They could have sent nano machines to our solar system. There could be probes all over the place
10:19:32.900in the solar system. But if they're the size of an iPhone, then we'd have no way of detecting them.
10:19:37.860So it could be the technology of a sufficiently advanced alien species, a civilization, is so beyond anything we can comprehend or detect that we haven't seen it.
10:19:50.940And we've been fooled into thinking that there are no advanced civilizations in the galaxy.
11:03:23.600And then I think when you you reach your middle age, it's just it is interesting to watch leadership throughout the world kind of change the course of human.
11:03:32.200You can watch that unfold. And now now that I'm I'm just a little bit over 50, you'll be there soon.
11:03:38.320Now that I'm just a little bit over 50, I mean, it all ties back to just family.
11:03:42.000And you you understand just how much you the people that you surround yourself with.
11:03:48.080And that is really every every night when you go to bed, that's really what you end up thinking.
11:03:52.180At least that's what I end up thinking.
11:03:53.600thank you all right so uh here's a question it's a good one so for the artemis 3 crew
11:04:07.740what is the first uh what is the advice you would pass along for the next astronauts that will go in
11:04:13.960Orion? That's a great question, Jared. We've actually been thinking about the Artemis II,
11:04:29.340sorry, the Artemis III crew since we were assigned as the Artemis II crew. It was the beginning of
11:04:35.060how we came up with how we wanted to fly this mission, how we wanted to buy down risk for the
11:04:40.100program and values as a crew and so uh you know over the over the course of these three years
11:04:45.880we've taken a lot of notes so we've almost got a book to hand them but i think a few practical
11:04:50.340things you know just sitting here that we've been living for the past six days uh how you pack is a
11:04:56.660huge impact to how you will live on the journey and so things like food and your hygiene products
11:05:02.780uh and then you know yeah you you know what's going on with our waste management system um the
11:05:09.100the technology that we have practicing that and being familiar with that and being being prepared
11:05:13.980mentally i used it on the station i used it at home guys okay so a lot of you have been asking
11:05:20.940about the dude on the left so um he's not trying to sleep so okay so first of all these three here
11:05:29.420right uh they're americans that's why they're standing straight this guy is canadian that's
11:05:37.440why he's sideways because the gravity, right? So as a Canadian, the gravitational pull from Canada
11:05:46.640is different than the gravitational pull coming from the United States, right? So that's why he's
11:05:55.960sideways because as a Canadian, he's experiencing a different type of gravitational pull, right?
11:06:03.760Because that's the difference between being Canadian and American.
11:06:07.060So the American gravitational pull is this way, and the Canadian gravitational pull is this way.
11:06:52.400That's just the Canadian flat earther astronaut.
11:06:56.440Remember, the gravitational pull as a Canadian
11:07:00.040is different than the gravitational pull as an american so that's why the americans are this way
11:07:06.300and canada is this way i hope that answers the question training but i'll be honest i wasn't
11:07:13.240really prepared to have to use it for over half the mission and uh but you know we adapt and
11:07:17.560overcome and so i can't wait to talk to that crew i'm glad you said it or else i was we uh
11:07:24.480we definitely have to fix some of the plumbing
11:07:29.280okay this is from merriam webster it's a wordy one here so you are going to be
11:07:35.440well you've already surpassed more than 250 000 miles from earth
11:07:39.760farther than any human has gone before so what are some
11:07:43.360words that come to mind when you try to wrap your mind around this
11:07:47.280very unique experience i'll be honest with you the main word because superlatives just don't do it
11:08:03.600justice is humility we would never be here if it weren't for so many people that came before us
11:08:11.120starting with Neil Armstrong, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, civil rights movement leaders,
11:08:20.160everyone who worked on this spacecraft. Before we got here in our three years of training,
11:08:24.880we went all over the country and even to our European and Canadian partners
11:08:29.440to see the people who have put their hands on this hardware, the millions of parts from every valve,
11:08:35.200from every valve to this entire thing the people that put on harnesses every day to rig it up in
11:08:41.520the vab there is wait guys when i when i was explaining why the americans were straight and
11:08:49.440the canadian was flat did you guys think it's being serious no no i was like joking from the
11:08:58.640the beginning oh no oh no i think i think i was being too serious i think i was explaining it
11:09:05.180too seriously did you guys actually think i was i was giving like a legitimate explanation
11:09:10.740no okay okay good because i was like joking from the beginning
11:09:18.140oh oh no I was being too serious oh no oh no okay okay you know you know you know okay so
11:09:34.360so do you know why I'm convincing no guys don't feel stupid no no no it's okay listen if you
11:09:41.880thought I was convincing. That's okay. Guys, remember, I was a politician for 10 years.
11:09:50.860There's a reason why politicians are like literally the most hated profession,
11:09:56.160right? Because they're literally trained to lie. There's very few good politicians.
11:10:02.380There's a reason I have a lot of respect for, you know, President Trump and Marco Rubio and
11:10:08.520Lindsey Graham and Pete Hegseth and Ted Cruz, right? There's very few good politicians.
11:10:17.800The vast majority of them are just trained to lie. Now, I never lied. I never said anything
11:10:23.900that I never agreed with, right? Sometimes I had to do whatever because I didn't want to get
11:10:30.120fat fuck Doug Ford angry. But ultimately, at the end, one of the reasons that he kicked me
11:10:37.220out of the party is because I was like, you know what, I'm just done with FFDF's garbage nonsense.
11:10:42.560But anyway, so most of them lie, but I never did. But I still, you know, I still had a lot of media
11:10:49.380training. So sometimes I forget. Yeah, you're right. Like, like, I used to be a lawyer. So I
11:10:56.000went from like the frying pan into the fire. Right. And now now I'm like, you know, thankfully,
11:11:02.420i'm like neither anymore like i'm not a practicing lawyer uh not a politician anymore right thank god
11:11:09.520because i you know i got i you know i i escaped from hell let's put it this way i escaped from
11:11:14.040hell but um yeah i guess sometimes when i explain something i forget that if i say it with a serious
11:11:20.380face but okay i legitimately thought that you guys would know that if i'm like talking about
11:11:27.760the gravitational pull of like america versus the gravitational pull of canada you would know that
11:11:34.680i'm joking oh no i feel terrible i'm sorry i'm sorry okay i'll keep that in mind they all passed
11:11:44.260the record we definitely didn't pass the record up here alone so this is actually very similar
11:11:53.260to the question uh the president united states i'm glad most of you knew i was joking but during
11:11:58.700the quiet moments on your journey when you were out of contact with everyone here on earth what
11:12:04.860were some of the that's a good theory that is a good theory your mind most
11:12:08.060yeah as victor said earlier when we were on the far side of the moon and and out of contact with
11:12:25.600planet earth we all knew it and it was a milestone we saw earth disappear your set
11:12:31.580but we were so busy with the science and we have such faith in our our vehicle integrity such
11:12:39.300faith faith in mission control that we were just at complete peace and just doing our job
11:12:44.760and just trying to do a good job to collect as much science data as we could while we were on
11:12:50.860the far side of the moon and we were just giddy in here like of our lives he's being a bit humble
11:12:57.100but as soon as we went out of calm with planet earth we did have maple cookies as we just
11:13:03.400gathered together for about 30 seconds each one of us had a maple cream cookie and then right back
11:13:08.160into the science but we had to take a moment to honor to honor that time going behind earth
11:13:12.920and it was a very or i'm sorry going behind the moon and out of touch with earth and that was a
11:13:17.200very surreal moment for this group guys remember we experienced that live as well remember so the
11:13:23.160moment that they went behind the moon and they lost contact we were actually watching that on
11:13:30.820iran revolution live um moon edition um and it was just so surreal and then we were like honestly
11:13:39.720is maple cookie a canadian thing yeah maple cookies are delicious maple cookies are delicious
11:13:46.920we also have maple donuts but we literally have maple cookies and they look like maple leaves and
11:13:54.720they have maple in the middle of them and and yeah they're like absolutely delicious
11:14:01.240like yeah maple cookies with like cream in the middle right yeah this this is a thing
11:14:09.640this is a thing and we love maple cookies they're delicious
11:14:13.140we also have ketchup flavored chips which you guys don't have this is why
11:14:20.520I don't know if I could ever be American because we have ketchup chips and there's no ketchup
11:14:24.980chips in America and I don't know if I could ever live in a country that doesn't have ketchup
11:14:29.400flavored chips I'm just saying ketchup chips are like like I don't know I don't know how you guys
11:14:37.700exists without ketchup chips and also all dressed we also have ketchup chips and then we have all
11:14:44.160dressed chips all right yeah ketchup chips
11:14:52.160copy that copy uh good maple cookies on the far side and how has this journey changed uh how has
11:15:03.480journey already changed the way you see our home planet and humanity's future among the stars
11:15:24.040yeah we we have dill pickle there's so many directions they're pretty good with that
11:15:28.200and i just you know i i think that there's you know but i think real impact is local and that's
11:15:38.700an instant man to see the earth as an entire thing and look at it and to see it all at once
11:15:45.720my daughter's you know i'm not a fan anyway so i don't care about can impact directly the people
11:15:52.600that i can touch that i can speak to hug and and show love and gratitude toward um is the the thing
11:16:01.160that i think is going to change and last and you also talked about the the future that we're going
11:16:07.920to have in the stars and you know this mission i think we swung for the fence and launched on our
11:16:13.940first try after learning a lot earlier this year but i think it set the stage for us to go out and
11:16:19.140continue to swing for the fence hard in our Orion SLS and ground systems programs to go and get the
11:16:25.100next one teed up so that that crew can knock it off out of the park. And so I have huge expectations
11:16:31.200for what's coming next. Good words. Are you feeling homesick for Earth?
11:16:49.140I will tell you, last in my eyes, I did start thinking about getting home.
11:16:56.640It's not homesickness at all, but the first time probably in three years, I let my mind get past the moon and back towards home, and I had to catch myself right there.
11:17:05.860You're an operator just like we are, and you know that is the place to be when you're up here.
11:24:52.860Let me just play it from the beginning because we were only, like, seven minutes in.
11:24:57.600So I'll just play this from the beginning, and then we'll see you guys tomorrow.
11:25:00.940Enrico Fermi is one of the great physicists, legendary Italian physicists, who laid many
11:25:06.940of the foundations of modern 20th century physics, so-called Fermi Dirac statistics and all sorts of
11:25:13.260things. If you do a degree in physics then you will spend a lot of time revising equations and
11:25:18.940theories that Fermi did. One of the great legends. The Fermi paradox is probably the thing he spent
11:25:26.460least time on actually it's almost one throwaway remark that he delivered and the question is um
11:25:35.660where are they by they i mean aliens the great filter why civilizations may not survive
11:25:45.820the the heart of the fermi paradox is this we know that we live in a big old galaxy
11:25:54.460in a big old universe. And let's, for the purposes of this discussion, confine ourselves to the
11:26:01.740Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy, we now know, has something like 400 billion suns. And
11:26:09.720we now know that most of those suns have planetary systems around them. So trillions of planets.
11:26:16.200The galaxy has been around for pretty much the age of the universe, 10 billion years plus.
11:26:20.680And so there's a lot of real estate and there's been plenty of time for civilizations to develop in the galaxy.
11:26:29.320The Fermi paradox at its heart is the statement that notwithstanding the fact that there have been billions of years on billions of worlds for civilizations to arise,
11:26:46.580we see no evidence of any of them in the galaxy at all.
11:27:45.400why might we think that well what did we need to produce our civilization on this planet well on
11:27:53.320this planet one thing we needed was time we have good evidence that life was present on this planet
11:28:01.8003.8 billion years ago perhaps even earlier the planet is four and a half billion years old
11:28:08.200So we know, as a matter of fact, as an observation on this planet, that life was present 3.8 billion
11:28:16.440years ago. But it took 3.8 billion years, give or take a few tens of thousands of years, to go from
11:28:24.040the origin of life to a civilization. Let's say from cell to civilization. Four billion years.
11:28:30.280That's one third of the age of the universe.
11:28:33.540So a possible answer to the Fermi paradox,
11:28:37.520the question of why there are no civilizations,
11:28:39.960is because the Earth is pretty much unique in the Milky Way galaxy
11:28:45.860in that it was stable enough, the climate, the conditions on Earth
11:28:50.980were stable enough for long enough for life to go from cell to civilization.
11:28:58.420If you think about it, that's a big ask.
11:29:00.140What I'm saying is on this planet, an unbroken chain of life existed for almost 4 billion years,
11:29:08.020notwithstanding the fact that we live in a violent universe.
11:29:11.620The sun must have been stable enough for long enough.
11:29:15.700We know the output of the sun has changed over those billions of years,
11:29:19.220but it's not changed so radically that it managed to erase, destroy life on Earth.
11:29:26.220We know that we live in a violent universe. We know there are supernova explosions all over the place. It turns out that there have been no stars massive enough to explode as a supernova in a way that would damage life on Earth or erase life on Earth in this vicinity for four billion years.
11:29:46.900we know that nothing has happened like we know that there have been impacts on the earth right
11:29:52.500we know that the famous impact that wipes out the the large dinosaurs there's been no impact
11:29:58.840big enough to destroy the unbroken chain or break the unbroken chain of life for four billion years
11:30:04.280so maybe maybe it's the case that whilst there are billions of planets which may have liquid
11:30:12.500water on the surface may have oceans that can support life it may be that none of those planets
11:30:18.980in the milky way galaxy have been stable enough for long enough to produce a civilization so that
11:30:23.780would be a property of the planet itself the so-called rare earth hypothesis actually i should
11:30:30.420say it's a property of a solar system it's not really just a property of the planet it's a
11:30:34.980property of the parent star you could ask the question well if it was a binary system for
11:30:39.700example a binary star system many stars are binary star systems is it possible to have a planet with
11:30:47.140a stable climate stable in up orbit in a binary star system to support an unbroken chain of life
11:30:54.740for four billion years perhaps not when we talk about rare earth um i think i would like to talk
11:31:01.140about rare solar system another possibility with the fermi paradox is that it's not a paradox they
11:31:07.220are here so there are intelligent civilizations out there and they are present in the solar system
11:31:12.820it's possible let's think for example what such an intelligence might look like well who knows
11:31:19.380they could have sent nano machines to our solar system there could be probes all over the place
11:31:25.620in the solar system but if they're the size of an iphone then we'd have no way of detecting them
11:31:30.580So it could be the technology of a sufficiently advanced alien species, a civilization, is so beyond anything we can comprehend or detect that we haven't seen it.
11:31:43.620And we've been fooled into thinking that there are no advanced civilizations in the galaxy.