00:04:04.180Folks, the Iran military operation continues.
00:04:09.040U.S., of course, involved in direct participation, as we know, Operation Epic Fury.
00:04:14.180We are in an active and highly escalatory phase as of this day.
00:04:18.380The conflict is now in its third week, approximately day 19.
00:04:21.400And what we're now seeing is Israeli and U.S. airstrikes intensifying, targeting Iranian leadership, military infrastructure, increasing economic assets.
00:04:32.100Now, they've been met with Iranian ballistic missile and drone barrages in retaliation, the proxies, Hezbollah, Iraqi militias, threats to the Gulf states.
00:04:40.300Over the last 24 hours, Israel has come out and confirmed the killing of Iran's intelligence minister, Koteb, in an Israeli strike on Tehran.
00:04:48.960This is the third high level assassination in two days. Previously, we saw the security chief, Ali Larajani, a key figure who was running aspects of Iran during the war and the besieged commander Soleimani.
00:05:01.600Iran has, of course, granted the ID, excuse me, Israel has granted the IDF blanket permission to target remaining high value Iranian leaders without case by case approval, signaling what we see as an intensification of this decapitation campaign.
00:05:17.700In retaliation, missile barrages on Israel, Iran launching a major what they call revenge wave of ballistic missiles,
00:05:25.100including reports of cluster warheads targeting central Israel, particularly near Tel Aviv.
00:05:30.120At least two civilians killed an elderly couple.
00:05:33.440It's reported in widespread damage in populated areas, sirens across multiple reasons.
00:05:39.620Multiple missiles have been intercepted by Israeli defenses, the Arrow system, the Iron Dome,
00:05:44.640but impacts cause destruction and at least one confirmed fatality pair near Tel Aviv.
00:05:50.220Israel, and with U.S. backing, struck Iran's massive South Pars gas field.
00:05:57.100This is the world's largest natural gas field.
00:06:02.980And for the first time, we're seeing these targeting of Gulf-based energy and economic assets,
00:06:09.280plus oil, petrochemical facilities, and a gas processing plant in Fars province.
00:06:14.640Iran, of course, vowing decisive action.
00:06:17.140They are threatening retaliatory tit-for-tat strikes on Gulf energy facilities.
00:06:21.280Think Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Hezbollah, launching missiles in northern Israel,
00:06:28.180multiple strikes in southern Lebanon, bridges over the Latani River that have been targeted by Israel.
00:06:33.700We're also seeing the Iraqi Islamic resistance now in Iraq target those U.S. bases,
00:06:39.060Victoria Basin, Baghdad, Erbil, explosions elsewhere at U.S. sites in Kuwait, elsewhere.
00:06:43.960All multiple interceptions, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia reported intercepting Iranian missiles and drones, blasts near Dubai Airport and other sites.
00:06:54.860And we're seeing the Houthis potentially, potentially coming on board in the Red Sea.
00:06:59.480And of course, this would compound multiple issues with the resumption of their shipping attacks for the sea lane and the sea line of communication.
00:07:06.840Probably the biggest bombing overnight.
00:07:08.880The U.S. deploying the 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs near the Strait of Hormuz,
00:08:17.420We've seen the bunker busters on the strait.
00:08:19.580And Human Events, of course, is going to be here to give you all of the situational reports, the sit reps as this continues.
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00:10:33.840Now, I did also want to mention, by the way, so we have DNI Gabbard is out there.
00:10:39.180She's testifying today at the at the Senate.
00:10:42.780But the 2026 annual threat assessment was just released by DNI Gabbard.
00:10:48.660It reveals the terrorism threats on the rise and specifically talks about the 2025 New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Boulder, Colorado attacks.
00:10:58.800And it talks about the fact that we are now seeing these teenage extremists, these teenage, in some cases it calls them lone offenders or homegrown radicals, that this is becoming the largest terror threat in the United States.
00:11:15.740And certainly we've seen multiple instances of this since the Iran operation, since Operation Iran has begun.
00:11:22.200So D&I Guy, we're delivering that report and answering questions there up at the Senate today.
00:11:26.480In order to go through this and some other stuff, I wanted to bring in filmmaker and author and sub-stacker Mike Cernovich joining us here on the program.
00:11:40.340So actually, you know, I hadn't run that by you before, but seeing that headline come out from DNI Gabbard saying that this is the first time that we've actually seen, I think, this phrase teenage extremists.
00:11:51.820They're calling it homegrown extremists of Islamic radicals.
00:11:55.360We haven't seen that put in intelligence. I just remember this from being in the IC.
00:12:00.280We never saw that put at such a high level before. What do you think it says that, you know,
00:12:05.400in the media has been trying to gaslight us for years about these things. What does it say that
00:12:08.800we're actually seeing the administration put this front and center? The timing is the problem,
00:12:15.380right? And I'll tell you why. You and I, we were talking about the Red Green Alliance in 2017.
00:12:22.280None of the neocons were talking about it.
00:17:34.940In that race as well, though, weren't there like, I think there were multiple candidates.
00:17:39.900So it was actually, I think it was like two far left candidates and then one moderate Democrat.
00:17:45.260So if you look at it together, that's a split of the far left vote.
00:17:49.380So that means your actual far left vote chair was like 45, 50%.
00:17:52.720And so the moderate only had about what, 19, 20% or something like that.
00:17:57.900So you could say she lost, but that doesn't actually mean because if you look at the full vote share, that's a huge number, again, for the far left candidates.
00:19:55.360We're on with with filmmaker Mike Cernovich.
00:19:58.300That footage that we just had there, ladies and gentlemen, that was footage from Tehran.
00:20:02.380It's going on right now. And this is footage of one of the one of the leaders who was killed
00:20:09.360in the recent strikes, his funeral, his his coffin there being paraded through the square.
00:20:15.320What do you get Mike Cernovich in here to get your take on this? Because
00:20:17.880you had a tweet up recently talking about sort of the different camps on the war. You know,
00:20:24.240some people totally for some people totally against some people skeptical, but optimistic.
00:20:28.980You see videos like this coming out of Tehran. It seems to me like we're starting to see a rally around the flag moment by the Iranian people rather than sparking this protest revolt that obviously was was what the hope had been.
00:20:43.580I mean, I'm sure there's opposition out there still, but you also have supporters of the regime. So where do we go in a situation like this?
00:20:50.920that that's the quagmire so if you spend time in the in la or in china there's a huge iranian
00:20:59.260diaspora and they have friends and family back home and there's a large amount of people that
00:21:04.400wanted freed from the oppressive thumb of the mullahs the mullahs did kill a lot of people i
00:21:09.440remember to argue with and that's what really makes me sad about the info environment i remember
00:21:13.860arguing with a lot of maga people where they say oh the numbers are made up the mullahs didn't kill
00:21:17.420anybody. Guys, you can be anti-Mullah. You can be against, you can think this was an ill-advised
00:21:22.480thing and be anti-Mullah, please, for the love of God. We, you know, we have a country to save
00:21:27.720and people are somehow forgetting that. And, but there are people that obviously are part of the
00:21:32.800Mullahs. There's also a lot of foreign people who brought in from Iraq, just like they were Cubans
00:21:36.960in Venezuela. Remember the Maduro's Praetorian Guard was largely Cuban because he couldn't
00:21:43.120trust his own people in Venezuela, right? He couldn't trust Venezuelans, so they brought in
00:21:48.480Cubans there. There's that element, too, with the militias, and other groups are not always
00:21:53.160Persian, and they're more ready and willing to fire on people who would protest the mullahs.
00:22:02.220And that's the problem. Where does it go? You don't know, because the enemy gets a vote. This
00:22:06.660is something that the podcasters and the chicken hawks and neocons they either don't know or they
00:22:14.060don't care about the enemy the enemy gets a vote you don't know what's going to happen and once you
00:22:19.160start kicking over trees you don't know how many rattlesnakes are going to be under there
00:22:24.480that's a problem so in terms of the the war in MAGA because I get that a lot because a lot of
00:22:30.400people call me a fence sitter and I'm completely fine with that is you can be you can think that
00:22:36.360the mullahs are evil they are killing their own people you can want the mullahs to fail but you
00:22:41.200can also not support a ramped up war which it does look like the war is ramping up i was hoping this
00:22:48.080would be a two-week thing and i didn't consider that realistic but i i that's what that's what
00:22:53.880my hope was and now they're talking about it lasting until what september blowing up natural
00:22:58.880gas fields now that's gonna bring in the other middle eastern countries into the mix the whole
00:23:05.860the whole situation is getting unpredictable and uncontrollable.
00:23:12.360And so the question there, I think, you know, it comes down to and I pointed out, by the way,
00:23:17.640that there are and Politico, you know, kind of pulled some of my stuff. I said, there's there's
00:23:21.440ways you can you can neutralize things, oil infrastructure, et cetera, without having to
00:23:26.180go boots on the ground. But at this point, when you see the Marines go in, you know, heading over
00:23:30.940there from japan we're seeing uh social media people talking about deployments do you think
00:23:35.940we're going to see boots on the ground yeah we were we're talking about that yesterday and i
00:23:42.280didn't want to tweet out because then people are demanding a source and that gets out of my my
00:23:45.980skin but the opsec on social media is not what it used to be there are things posted that the
00:23:53.680chain of command would not approve of and includes by a lot of family members and there have been
00:23:57.240way more deployments that have been reported. I find it insulting that we're not getting
00:24:02.340the real information because I've seen, I've seen deployment information posted by parents who
00:24:08.800either don't understand OPSEC or don't care, or maybe they do want to post what's going on.
00:24:14.060And then somebody will find it and they'll say, oh, we didn't know, you know, oopsie, my bad.
00:24:17.980And don't, you know, don't blame my son for this. I don't really know, but there have been way more
00:24:22.380deployments than have been reported. And I've seen it. And I know immediately somebody's going
00:24:28.580to say, give me a source. No, I'm not going to get family members in trouble. If you can't find
00:24:32.040this stuff on your own, that's your problem. It's not my job to go spoon feed people. They can go
00:24:38.180spend more time figuring this stuff out. Now, there might be boots on the ground already. We
00:24:43.720don't know. We don't know anything right now. It's almost impossible to find reliable information
00:24:48.080on that war. So for example, that video you showed me, I hadn't even seen that. The cemetery
00:24:54.440or the coffin video, I hadn't even seen that yet. I haven't even got caught up today. It takes
00:25:00.560forever to find any kind of information to find out if it's reliable. The UAE, and I don't disagree
00:25:07.100with these decisions, but a guy from the UK posted a video of a bomb attack. He's in jail. We're not
00:25:13.960getting any kind of information. The satellites haven't been updated, right? There's a two-week
00:25:18.300lag that was imposed now, so we don't know what targets have been hit and where. We're getting
00:25:24.060no credible information about the war. So how should people, and just in the last two minutes
00:25:30.020that we have you, how should people go about thinking about these things when it's obviously
00:25:35.620such a hot topic, for sure, and it should be. It's questions of war and peace. But how should
00:25:41.100people be thinking about that as they go about their day they're interacting with social media
00:25:45.480obviously it's very emotional but at the same time there's real you know would you would you
00:25:50.540say a healthy skepticism just to everything you see i don't believe anything i see stuff coming
00:25:56.560out because i follow ryan grimm the drop set news guys you have to read all these you have to read
00:26:02.400everybody and that's not to say that i believe anything i see because i see information where
00:26:07.460they'll say oh the settlers in Israel they were they drove over people and the Israel side says
00:26:13.440no the people they got run over were running at the car I don't believe any of it at this point
00:26:18.300and the the big problem I have is I should be able to trust this sounds naive and childish but
00:26:24.400I should be able to trust this administration to give us accurate information and when I'm
00:26:30.620seeing information on deployments posted on social media by parents who shouldn't have posted it
00:26:35.400and not hearing that from from the rest of because they can't claim we can't talk about
00:26:42.480deployments because that gives the enemy info dude it's out there the enemy knows i don't want
00:26:48.640to hear any more of this spin let us know by the way and we know we've we've covered here that
00:26:53.280china is china's watching the whole thing with their spy satellites now and posting it all on
00:26:57.480open source so it's it's totally out in the open for the other side and guess what facebook didn't
00:27:03.260even exist when the iraq war began mike cernovich we should go longer man thank you so much for
00:27:08.080being here thank you so much for your words and providing expertise and a different perspective
00:27:12.020perhaps to other people go give him a follow at cernovich on x and other associated platforms
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00:29:44.020Also, folks, just as a programming note, I want to let everyone know that we do have the footage,
00:29:49.480President of the United States, President Trump, along with Secretary of War Hegseth, have arrived at Dover Air Force Base there for the dignified transfer of the air crew that was lost in, went down in Iraq.
00:30:04.040This, the six member crew, and he's there awaiting that.
00:30:09.040We have footage, this footage you're watching right now, this is from moments ago.
00:30:12.720And of course, we're awaiting the live footage or whenever we can get the footage of President Trump attending that dignified transfer and the dignified transfer actually taking place.
00:30:23.700Of course, we will cut to that as soon as we have the ability to do so.
00:30:28.980So there you see the president coming down off of Air Force One, see him meeting with the officials there preparing to make the transfer, the beast in the background as well, meeting with the military officials.
00:30:41.200You see Secretary Hegg set there arriving just after the president and President Trump, of course, showing and making the case that this situation is not bloodless, that this is very serious business.
00:30:55.320And the president, of course, taking time, as he's done already, to go and attend this transfer.
00:31:02.080We'll bring that to you. If it happens while we're still alive, we will go directly to that on Human Events.
00:31:07.520And so I wanted to bring in now, as we're looking at Iran, as we're seeing the situation intensify, I am seeing reporting from Axios, Shelby Talcott here, that she said she's told that, excuse me, she's a semaphore, but she's confirming something from Axios. Shelby Talcott says, I'm told the U.S. was aware of the Israeli strike against the gas facility in Iran, but the U.S. did not play a part in the attack.
00:31:29.980This is notable as the Trump administration has previously been wary for a few reasons of striking certain infrastructure in Iran.
00:31:36.780I want to bring in here Malcolm Flex because Malcolm Flex, you were the man who told us last week, you said we are going to see intensification.
00:31:45.720We are going to see this military operation intensify.
00:31:50.520We're going to see it expand in terms of scope.
00:31:52.420And that's exactly what we're now seeing.
00:31:54.080We've seen there had been this, you know, this essentially a block on hitting the oil infrastructure, the gas infrastructure.
00:32:02.680One of the reasons, I think, was because they were saying the oil infrastructure, obviously, that's the commodity.
00:32:07.220But the gas infrastructure, that speaks to the direct electric grid of Iran.
00:32:12.900And, of course, we're also seeing the deployment of the Marines now, 2,500 Marines from Japan.
00:32:18.720And the 31st MEU is now steaming its way towards the Persian Gulf, which, of course, provides that optionality for the president.
00:32:25.560So, Malcolm Flex, you wanted to get your take on this in terms of how you see this going.
00:32:31.860You're the man who called that it was going to escalate.
00:32:34.160We're now seeing them hit the electric grid, Marines potentially on the way, bunker busters in the Strait of Hormuz.
00:40:11.500China made an energy security deal offer to Taiwan amid the Middle East war,
00:40:18.700offering them reunification in exchange for energy security.
00:40:25.180I want to bring Malcolm Flex back on here because, Flex, is this just about Taiwan or is this perhaps really all about semiconductors?
00:40:35.140It's all about the chips and China knowing that if that island, the island of Taiwan, which we were talking about this yesterday here on the program vis-a-vis AI, that if they don't have the energy to be able to continue those supplies, then that's going to cause so many problems all around the world, not to mention for Silicon Valley and the power brokers there.
00:40:56.640yeah well what we're seeing now is probably a ram in a bush so to speak you know if i want to use a
00:41:06.040biblical term for uh for china here and the thing is a lot of people don't understand is tsmc is
00:41:14.460extremely unique in the way that they create the semiconductors and the microchip and the silica
00:41:20.120and all of that it's a very intricate process and it's one that cannot be duplicated the united
00:41:25.980states has tried many times it's going to take a long time before we even anywhere close to that
00:41:30.660china understands that that if we go in guns a-blazing taiwan's just going to sabotage it
00:41:37.640they're not going to let it fall in the ccp hands so again you can do that but what you're doing is
00:41:43.760guaranteeing sort of a doomsday scenario in taiwan creating a headache for you and so they're seeing
00:41:50.440right now hey with the breakdown of the international rules-based order with a lot of
00:41:55.520the nato countries and this coalition that was supposed to defend taiwan sort of breaking down
00:42:00.620why not let's go ahead and you know offer a little bit of a uh you know a sweet deal to them
00:42:07.280and now taiwan historically has had issues with their electrical grid now they've announced that
00:42:13.640they were going to increase imports from the united states of uh lng in order to sort of
00:42:19.200subsidize things but that supply chain is still difficult and right now what's going to end up
00:42:23.840happening especially if the united states does decide to disembark from nato like trump is sort
00:42:29.080of saying then you're going to have a bit of an issue where okay how do we handle international
00:42:34.060waters how do we secure safe passage against things like pirates and all of that of energy
00:42:38.660that's going across there so then china really does become an easy way to just get consistent
00:42:45.640lng and so like i said again if i'm the leadership over there in a taiwan you know over there in
00:42:51.260taiwan i'm looking at the dignitary from uh china's taiwan affairs office um i'm i'm kind
00:42:57.380of looking at this deal i'm like you know what do we do because again you can either take the blood
00:43:03.020bath which it will be i know i know we lampoon china's navy and whatnot but that's still a war
00:43:09.300that's still a battle and it's one that you're not necessarily likely to win especially even if
00:43:14.940japan gets involved like you're not necessarily likely to win it especially if the u.s which has
00:43:19.880your biggest guarantor of freedom is already overextended and over leveraged in the middle
00:43:24.560east and you know the enemy of course gets the boat over there and they drag us deeper
00:43:28.880and then you got israel which is now going in lebanon and other areas and starting to leverage
00:43:34.560other conflicts that they're going to need our help taiwan's kind of wondering where they fall
00:43:39.480on this and then russia and ukraine you know that we're still kind of leveraged over there
00:43:43.980And China does have a relationship with Russia, who is still a gas exporter. So there are opportunities there in that same sphere of influence where Taiwan can maybe secure a future that's not, you know, self-deterministic. Maybe they don't exist as their own sovereign entity. But, you know, I mean, geographically, maybe makes a little bit more sense.
00:44:06.420i'm not advocating for that i'm just saying that could be the play there and you know again
00:44:12.180putin's looking at that they're looking at opportunity to where hey we can finally build
00:44:18.140up a cohesive system that's right over here on this side of the world free from western interference
00:44:25.720and free from the quagmires and everything else and iran is basically you know it's the first
00:44:31.760dominoes to fall in that so i don't know man yeah and you could even say you know the economic jenga
00:44:40.460is 100 right because you could even say i mean ukraine really started all of this that ukraine
00:44:47.160and having russia in there is directly going to be the situation that has them bogged down now
00:44:54.000they're talking about a huge um summer counter-offensive and of course the russian coffers
00:45:00.340are going to be flushed right now because they're making money hand over fist in the oil markets.
00:45:06.120So, and of course, they're selling it to China, who's in turn, you know, offering it to Taiwan
00:45:09.260here. So, because they've got the cash reserves to be able to do so, as well as the LNG reserves.
00:45:14.400So, Russia is going to plan this massive counteroffensive in Ukraine, or excuse me,
00:45:19.820massive summer offensive in Ukraine. Meanwhile, though, that means they don't have the free hand
00:45:25.400that they had in the past to help out with Iran. They didn't have a free hand to help with the
00:45:29.500Wagner group when it came to Assad to be able to shore up the his regime there in Syria.
00:45:34.800So that's why Assad fell. That's why Assad is now over in Moscow right now. And the same deal with
00:45:39.620Tehran. They don't have the leverage that they would have normally to be able to respond or even
00:45:44.680act as a mediator here. But, you know, that's kind of my big question, I guess. And let me let me
00:45:48.960throw it to you is at some point we now we know that the president has already postponed this
00:45:55.980trip to beijing that he was supposed to be taking at the end of the month the end of march so at
00:46:01.500some point though does he get putin on the phone does he get xi jinping on the phone and say guys
00:46:06.520we could do this the way we're doing it now or we can come to some sort of grand strategy agreement
00:46:13.940what do you say he could the question is are they going to pick up an answer right now because you
00:46:20.580know everybody wants to have their cake and eat it too and at the moment you know the united states
00:46:25.120just kind of playing a little bit a little bit sweet we are i think we are stripping away some
00:46:30.240of the sanctions that we put on russia this is more so a play at you know keeping the gcc
00:46:34.920countries from freaking out and destroying sort of the oil economy but you know we're kind of
00:46:40.660reducing some of those sanctions so that russia can continue to provide oil so that the gas prices
00:46:44.980don't go high but you know russia if i'm russia what incentive right now do i necessarily have
00:46:50.740other than and it's the only thing if ron falls or if iran is in such disarray and russia sort of
00:46:58.200leaves them out the dry the shahad drones that that russia is getting from iran which are yes
00:47:04.420manufactured in facilities in russia but that last 10 of the manufacturing process iran still holds
00:47:10.860those shahad drones are off the table that's the only bit of you know sort of downside that russia
00:47:18.460even has in this and china i mean china has like no motivation at all you know they're collecting
00:47:24.300batted battle data right now on the united states and how we're handling the asymmetric warfare
00:47:29.760of uh iran and sort of what strikes that we're leveraging and here's the thing
00:47:34.780iran they're learning more every they're learning more every chance they get yeah again we have to
00:47:42.540increasingly we've got to throw increasingly stronger munitions at them every single time
00:47:47.520So they're seeing what we got, they're seeing our hands.
00:47:49.960That's exactly right, and China sees all of it.
00:47:52.020Flex, where can people go to follow you?
00:47:54.520Go ahead and follow me on x, Malcolm Flex.
00:47:56.920You know, I'm getting a little bit more acerbic, I'm getting a little spicier.
00:48:00.060But trust me, I will tie it in with some nice stuff.
00:48:02.680But yeah, if you wanna follow me there, follow me there.
00:48:04.480Follow me on Instagram, Malcolm underscore Flex 48.
00:48:07.360If you like my MMA content and all of that stuff, but yeah.