Loomer Unleashed - EP193: THE DONROE DOCTRINE: Inside GITMO and CENTCOM With Secretary of War Hegseth

00:32:26.000 There is a young female journalist, conservative journalist, by the name of Laura Loomer.

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00:34:32.000 All righty.

00:34:33.000 I just got back.

00:34:34.000 Landed in Florida this afternoon, late this afternoon from Washington, D.C., after spending the day yesterday in Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon team.

00:34:48.000 And then we also went to U.S. Central Command, which, of course, is headquartered out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.

00:34:56.000 So I have a lot to talk about with regards to traveling with the Pentagon as a member of the Pentagon Press Corps, the comments and the remarks that were given yesterday at the brief.

00:35:08.000 At Central Command in Tampa by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

00:35:14.000 And also just kind of like what the experience was like.

00:35:16.000 A lot of you have asked me, oh, what was it like going to Gitmo?

00:35:19.000 What was it like traveling with the Pentagon?

00:35:21.000 What's it like being a member of the Pentagon Press Corps?

00:35:24.000 So I'm definitely going to answer all those questions tonight because I know some of you were commenting on the photos and the videos that I posted, as well as the questions that I asked Secretary of War Hagseth.

00:35:36.000 And if you didn't see those questions, then we'll play them for you tonight and you'll get to see everything that was covered on that trip.

00:35:45.000 Why don't we get started too from the beginning of the trip with the visit to Gitmo?

00:35:50.000 So I'll just tell you how the day went.

00:35:53.000 So I was contacted by the Department of War.

00:35:57.000 Let's see, yesterday was Wednesday.

00:35:59.000 So I was contacted by the Department of War on Monday because these trips usually get very last minute notice.

00:36:05.000 You don't really get a lot of notice.

00:36:07.000 And I was busy taking care of some administrative stuff for my business.

00:36:12.000 And all of a sudden I got contacted by the press team at the Pentagon and they said, oh, we have a trip.

00:36:17.000 That we would like to invite you on as a member of the Pentagon Press Corps.

00:36:21.000 We think that you're going to find this trip to be very interesting, but we'll need to know today whether you can attend.

00:36:28.000 And of course, I asked them what the trip is, and they tell you until you're able to announce it.

00:36:32.000 It was off record at the time.

00:36:33.000 So I really wasn't able to tell my supporters or my fans or my viewers where I was going until the morning of when we departed very early in the morning.

00:36:43.000 So they said it was going to go to Gitmo and Central Command.

00:36:46.000 So of course, I immediately cleared my schedule for the week and I booked a flight to Washington, D.C., because I don't live there.

00:36:54.000 And then we had to depart from Joint Base Andrews out of Maryland at 4 30 in the morning yesterday.

00:37:00.000 And so I got into D.C. around, I don't know, 7 p.m. on Tuesday.

00:37:06.000 And then I was up at 1 30 in the morning because I had to get ready and I wanted to be awake for a bit so I wasn't feeling groggy.

00:37:16.000 And then I had to be at the actual base by 3 30 in the morning.

00:37:21.000 And then we took off at 4 30.

00:37:23.000 So it was a full day, and we didn't actually get back till about 8 p.m. or so Eastern that same day.

00:37:30.000 So, definitely was quite a busy and exhausting day.

00:37:36.000 But it just goes to show you how, I mean, we already know how hard Secretary of War Pete Hegseth works.

00:37:41.000 But, you know, these government jobs are not nine to five jobs.

00:37:45.000 And these staff, they're working around the clock.

00:37:48.000 I mean, even the night before, they're coordinating in the chats with us where to meet.

00:37:53.000 And I mean, they're up at midnight messaging people.

00:37:55.000 And then they're up hours later meeting everybody at Joint Base Andrews for the trip.

00:38:02.000 You know, you have to have an incredible amount of stamina and a very strong work ethic to work for the Trump administration, to work for the White House, or to work for the Pentagon, because, I mean, it's a lot of hours.

00:38:13.000 And mind you, you're going to different time zones, you're traveling all over.

00:38:18.000 And these trips are often back to back.

00:38:20.000 And so while they rotate members of the press, and you don't get to go on every single trip if you're a member of the Pentagon press corps, so they rotate among different reporters.

00:38:30.000 There were only three reporters on this trip it was myself.

00:38:34.000 The chief national security reporter for Reuters.

00:38:38.000 And then there was a producer from Fox News who was there as well to do the live coverage.

00:38:43.000 But aside from that, there really weren't any other reporters.

00:38:46.000 And for different trips, they have a different amount of reporters.

00:38:50.000 I know next week they're going to be traveling to the NATO summit.

00:38:53.000 And so they're going to be going abroad and they're bringing several more reporters with them.

00:38:59.000 And you get to cycle it out.

00:39:00.000 But definitely a very exciting experience.

00:39:04.000 There's no Wi Fi on the plane.

00:39:06.000 So when you're on these planes, they have to clear the line and make sure that the line is completely secure.

00:39:11.000 Because while we were on the plane, the secretary had to take a 30 minute phone call from the president of the United States, likely because they were doing, you know, they were conducting airstrikes.

00:39:21.000 And so while you're traveling all day, you're kind of in this rat race to get all your content and get all your reports.

00:39:29.000 And then you have a very limited window to get your reports up if you, unless you wait till the end of the day, because well, there's no wifi on these planes and they don't actually allow The press have Wi Fi, they only make Wi Fi available to the Secretary of War and actual Department of War employees.

00:39:45.000 So it's definitely a lot like you're not taking any breaks throughout the day.

00:39:50.000 You're filming your content and then you're rushing to try to get it up.

00:39:53.000 And usually when we go on these trips, you have cell service or you have Wi Fi on the ground, wherever the location is.

00:40:00.000 But when we got to Gitmo, because technically the towers are in Cuba, they immediately had everybody put their phones on airplane mode. 0.70

00:40:09.000 Because, well, they don't want the Cubans getting access to your information or spying on you or somehow hacking into your cell phone or your devices.

00:40:19.000 So we weren't even able to connect to the internet or get cellular service while we were on the ground at Gitmo, which made it a little bit more challenging to get the reports up. 0.66

00:40:31.000 But we still were able to get our reports up when we landed in Tampa and we were at McDill Air Force Base.

00:40:37.000 And so throughout the day, sporadically, I was posting videos.

00:40:40.000 But of course, the Department of War had, you know, Wi Fi the entire time because they actually take Starlink devices, I believe, out into the field with them.

00:40:51.000 They're very efficient the way that they work.

00:40:52.000 And so while they're taking photos and recording the Secretary of War, they're also uploading it and doing the DOW rapid response.

00:41:01.000 They have an incredible production team over at the Pentagon and really impressive staff, photographers, and video team.

00:41:09.000 And the way that they're able to just film super high quality content and then get it out and inform the American public.

00:41:15.000 I don't remember seeing this in any of the other previous administrations, certainly not the Biden administration, but what we see is literally what you see.

00:41:23.000 And of course, you know, there's some off the record moments, and then you're not going to see that.

00:41:28.000 But for the most part, everything that we were able to see as members of the Pentagon Press Corps while we were at Gitmo, you also were able to see because I feel that the Pentagon Press team does such a fantastic job at covering the activity of Secretary of War P. Exeth and then uploading it to their various accounts.

00:41:49.000 And so, probably one of the most exciting things that we did when we got there, we landed at Gitmo.

00:41:56.000 And then, in order to get over to where the troops were, you have to take a Chinook, which is, of course, a military helicopter.

00:42:05.000 And so, what we did is we landed, and then immediately they had three helicopters there.

00:42:10.000 One of the helicopters was undergoing some maintenance.

00:42:14.000 And so, they were only able to transport us in two.

00:42:17.000 So, they did multiple trips back and forth.

00:42:20.000 And you could see me here.

00:42:23.000 I was in the Chinook, had to wear some earplugs because it's extremely loud.

00:42:27.000 Never been in a helicopter before.

00:42:29.000 Was my first time in a helicopter, especially a Chinook.

00:42:33.000 Pretty cool experience to have your first time in a helicopter be in a Chinook.

00:42:38.000 That's what it looks like.

00:42:39.000 You have to wear a seatbelt inside.

00:42:40.000 And obviously, they have all this military gear everywhere.

00:42:43.000 And then they put you in the Chinook.

00:42:46.000 And then they, you know, you're in the air for about 15 minutes and you're flying to the other part of the base.

00:42:54.000 And that's where we got off.

00:42:55.000 And you can see the location where they dropped us off after the Chinook landed.

00:43:01.000 And you didn't see me disembarking, but this is from when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth landed after getting transported in the Chinook to the other side of the island, where he then did PT with the troops and rallied them and met with some of the generals there.

00:43:22.000 So let's go ahead and play this clip.

00:43:33.000 And you can see his hair blowing the wind there because I'll tell you, as soon as that helicopter landed, oh my God, you, you know, I'm lucky that the phone didn't get knocked out of my hand when I was filming this because, well, you know, the wind is just so incredibly powerful.

00:43:48.000 It's enough to completely move your body because it's just of the force of the helicopter.

00:43:56.000 So Secretary of War Hagseth arrived at Gitmo.

00:44:01.000 And then immediately after that, we were loaded up into vans and then we drove.

00:44:06.000 Uh, to basically the borderline, the border fence.

00:44:09.000 And, you know, it's obviously Cuba because it's a piece of leased land.

00:44:13.000 And every single year, the U.S. government supposedly writes checks to Cuba for the land.

00:44:20.000 But from what I was told, the Cuban government doesn't cash the checks because under Castro, he said that cashing the checks would mean that they were submitting to, um, like a totalitarian rule by the U.S. government.

00:44:35.000 And so when you get there, You'll see from the video and the photos that I'm about to show you, there's an actual fence line and then a sign that says Guantanamo Bay and Cuba.

00:44:46.000 But once you pass over the other line, it's kind of like a North Korea situation, right?

00:44:51.000 Where you have the line, you're not allowed to cross over because, well, you'll get shot.

00:44:55.000 They were telling us that directly over the fence on the side of the land that isn't leased by the United States government or isn't controlled by the United States government, there's mines.

00:45:08.000 All over the place.

00:45:09.000 And so they were saying that you can't even cross over the fence because if you do, you run the risk of stepping on a mine because the entire place is just loaded with mines, they said.

00:45:19.000 Pretty interesting.

00:45:20.000 Definitely very hot.

00:45:22.000 You can imagine tropical weather, summertime tropical weather, and very basic conditions.

00:45:29.000 And so when we got there, I think there's a clip.

00:45:33.000 There was like a long 14 minute clip, but several other clips too.

00:45:38.000 We can just show when we pulled up, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

00:45:43.000 We got out of the vehicles when we were at Gitmo, and you can see him wearing his green shirt and his gym shorts because that's how he came dressed to do PT with the troops.

00:45:52.000 You just see him lined up, and then there's tons of army officers and Marines, probably over like 350 of them in a line.

00:46:04.000 And Secretary of War Agseth was talking about how grateful he was to them for their service and the strategic importance of Guantanamo Bay and how.

00:46:14.000 They were the line of defense if the United States government were to decide to somehow invade Cuba or maybe do a capture and kill operation in Cuba of Miguel Diaz Canal, similar to what happened in Venezuela with Nicolas Maduro.

00:46:33.000 But let's go ahead and play this clip.

00:46:35.000 This is Pete Hegseth giving a pep talk before doing PT with the troops at Guantanamo Bay.

00:46:42.000 It's an honor to be here at Guantanamo Bay.

00:46:44.000 I was here 20 years ago serving as a soldier.

00:46:47.000 As part of the detention mission.

00:46:50.000 This was then and is here today a very important and strategic piece of American terrain.

00:46:57.000 And we're here from the Department of War to get a chance to see it, make sure it's as strong as it could possibly be, that you have everything you need to be, and that the world understands that American might, whether it's 9,000 miles away or 90 miles away from our shores, is the greatest in the world.

00:47:17.000 and prepared to go on offense or defense at any moment to defend our interests.

00:47:22.000 So we're here to talk to your leaders, but even more importantly this morning to be with you to do some PT in this beautiful piece of terrain.

00:47:39.000 So it was really great to see Pete Hegseth talking about how he was once stationed at Gitmo in, I think he said 2004, 2005.

00:47:49.000 And I've said this before and I'll say it again.

00:47:51.000 It's really great having such a young, like attractive, fit guy running the Department of War.

00:48:00.000 All right.

00:48:00.000 I'm talking about Pete Hegseth.

00:48:01.000 And I said this before when I traveled with him with Arsenal of Freedom and the media was like, oh, Laura Lehmer says Pete Hegseth is attractive.

00:48:07.000 Well, yeah, because traditionally speaking, all of these military leaders or Uh, previous uh secretaries of war, or uh, you know, secretaries of what they called the Department of Defense before, of course, he changed it to the Department of War.

00:48:22.000 I mean, Lloyd Austin was limping around hiding prostate cancer from the public.

00:48:27.000 He's not exactly fit, right?

00:48:28.000 He limps like an old man, he's obese, not exactly in shape.

00:48:33.000 And so, when you have somebody who's what I think Pete Hegseth is 48 years old, he's not even 50, who's young, and when I say attractive, he's physically fit.

00:48:42.000 I mean, he's clearly ripped.

00:48:45.000 Is a young guy.

00:48:46.000 He's got a hot wife.

00:48:47.000 He's got, I think, seven kids.

00:48:50.000 This guy is basically the same as these troops, right?

00:48:56.000 Who are stationed around these various bases all over the world that Secretary of War Hegseth is visiting all over the country doing PT with them.

00:49:03.000 I mean, he does this.

00:49:04.000 This is something that he decided to implement upon becoming Secretary of War PT with the troops.

00:49:11.000 And so it doesn't matter where he goes, whichever base he's visiting, he always incorporates PT with whoever he's visiting.

00:49:18.000 Whether it's abroad or it's in California, like when I traveled with him to Los Angeles, or whether it's a ghetto.

00:49:25.000 And I think it's good because, you know, he gave his speech last year where he said, the Department of War is done. 0.99

00:49:31.000 We're not going to be gay. 0.64

00:49:32.000 We're not going to be trans. 0.93

00:49:34.000 We're not going to be fat. 1.00

00:49:35.000 No fatties allowed.

00:49:36.000 If you're going to be a general, you're going to lose weight.

00:49:39.000 You're not going to be fat. 0.98

00:49:40.000 We're going to suspend you if you're fat.

00:49:42.000 I mean, he literally said that they're not going to tolerate obesity and that if you're going to be leading and directing the troops, You need to have a standard for physical fitness.

00:49:52.000 He said they were going to be like re implementing the physical test to make sure that everybody was physically fit and capable of doing their job duties.

00:50:00.000 And so everybody there is super fit, super young, super energetic.

00:50:04.000 And, you know, Pete Hegseth is tatted up, right?

00:50:08.000 He's got very patriotic tattoos.

00:50:10.000 He's got all types of tattoos.

00:50:13.000 He's got a Hebrew tattoo.

00:50:14.000 He's got a Jerusalem cross.

00:50:15.000 He's got We the People.

00:50:17.000 He's got an American flag.

00:50:18.000 He has all types of military slogans.

00:50:20.000 He's got a Deuce Bolt.

00:50:22.000 Right, a crusade tattoo. 1.00

00:50:23.000 So he's got an infidel tattoo, right? 0.98

00:50:26.000 He's got like a tattoo that marks him as a kefir or infidel. 1.00

00:50:31.000 So he knows what's up about Islam. 0.98

00:50:33.000 And knowing P. Eggseth and being friends with him for the last 10 years as well, I know what P. Eggseth thinks about Islam.

00:50:40.000 And so I have always supported P. Eggseth because, well, I knew P. Eggseth in a personal capacity as his friend when I was living in New York and he was working at Fox News.

00:50:49.000 He supported me when I ran for Congress.

00:50:52.000 And I have confidence in him because I know how he views our.

00:50:57.000 Like the threat analysis facing the United States of America and his own national security views from my own personal conversations with him over the years.

00:51:05.000 And so it's great having somebody like that who is young, fit, attractive, patriotic, family centered, and fully supportive of President Trump and fully MAGA.

00:51:17.000 Because when these guys see, wow, you know, I'm sweating my ass off here in the middle of Cuba and there's really not a lot to do aside from working out in the gym and taking orders.

00:51:29.000 I mean, really honestly, there's literally nothing to do there aside from the gym.

00:51:32.000 They actually have a gift shop at Gitmo, and I'll get into this.

00:51:35.000 I was actually really surprised that they have a gift shop at Gitmo, but believe it or not, they do have a gift shop at Gitmo.

00:51:40.000 Very limited supply, like t shirts, mugs.

00:51:43.000 I bought a t shirt, I will say, I bought a t shirt, but I had to run because we didn't have a lot of time.

00:51:48.000 So I was able to buy a t shirt and was able to buy a coffee mug because I collect magnets and coffee mugs.

00:51:54.000 But I bring this up because when these young men see somebody like Pete Hegseth, who is highly accomplished, was making millions of dollars a year working at Fox News and gave it up so that he could serve his.

00:52:06.000 Country to, you know, be the Secretary of War at the Department of War.

00:52:11.000 And even during his time at Fox News, he was still active duty military.

00:52:17.000 He was still fulfilling his duties and still serving his country.

00:52:22.000 I mean, there were times when they would say, Oh, Hegseth is, you know, on leave right now because he's fulfilling his duties right now for the military.

00:52:29.000 You can go back and you can see from his time at Fox News, this happened on multiple occasions.

00:52:34.000 When he's able to look these guys in the eyes and participate in PT with them, and he's sweating with them, he's wearing gym clothes, and He's, you know, lifting weights and he's not slacking.

00:52:46.000 We have the videos of him working out, doing 44 reps and, uh, running in the heat and lifting weights.

00:52:52.000 And I mean, really honestly, sweating his ass off.

00:52:56.000 I watched it, saw it with my own eyes and I saw it in California as well when he did PT out in California at UCLA with ROTC.

00:53:07.000 These guys then can say, wow, you know, he was me at one point in time.

00:53:11.000 He was here 20 years ago, 21 years ago.

00:53:16.000 He was here at Kitmo.

00:53:17.000 And someday, maybe that could be me, right?

00:53:19.000 There's not like this elitist sense where you have classism or people thinking, oh, well, you know, he's just some out of touch guy who is only going to have dinner and, you know, have steaks with the defense contractors.

00:53:32.000 No, he's only going to meet with the executives of Boeing and Lockheed Martin and SpaceX, whatever, right?

00:53:38.000 Like there's this mentality that, you know, at the Department of War, There was kind of this separation between the troops and then the actual defense secretary or the secretary of war, which is what they now call him.

00:53:53.000 But Pete Hegseth, he's eating breakfast with the troops, right?

00:53:56.000 He's eating the same food as them after they were doing PT.

00:53:59.000 They had breakfast sandwiches and breakfast burritos.

00:54:02.000 He's there working out with them, getting dirty in the mud.

00:54:06.000 I mean, they must have showered after the fact because, and it's not just Pete Hegseth, it's his entire team.

00:54:11.000 He makes his entire team bring gym clothes so that they do PT too.

00:54:14.000 So, Unless you're managing the press or you're a member of the video team, they all were in gym clothes doing PT with the troops.

00:54:24.000 And I think they also have little physical fitness tests amongst themselves because his own team has become very competitive and they were all like, you know, making fun of each other depending on like how much they could each lift or in terms of like how physically fit they were.

00:54:38.000 So it's good that his own team like enjoys the bonding exercise that comes with doing PT at all of these different locations around the world.

00:54:49.000 And it also helps ground the staff and the personnel who are overseeing and working with P. Hagseth at the Department of War because it gives them insight into what life is like for the troops and members of our military.

00:55:04.000 So I really admire that about P. Hagseth because he certainly doesn't need to be doing that, but he does.

00:55:10.000 It's certainly not a job requirement, but he has decided to actually engage with them and to participate with them, which I find to be.

00:55:20.000 Quite remarkable.

00:55:21.000 And it's very touching, actually, watching this because you see how much he cares.

00:55:25.000 And he's not just up there in a suit giving a speech and then, you know, talking a big talk and leaving and getting on his jet and flying back to Washington, D.C. for, like I said, these expensive steak dinners with defense contractors, which is the reputation that a lot of the defense secretaries in the past have, you know, garnered for themselves because, well, that was the culture of Washington, D.C.

00:55:50.000 But clearly, Pete Hegseth isn't in this job for the money.

00:55:53.000 He's in it because he actually cares and he's really trying to improve life.

00:55:57.000 For our troops and members of the military.

00:55:59.000 And he's also trying to improve the culture at the Department of War.

00:56:03.000 And you see this with the Arsenal Freedom Tour as well, and the way that he's trying to open up the bidding process for contracts at the Department of War to smaller, more competitive companies so that they don't just go to the main defense contractors.

00:56:16.000 So I think that Pete Hegseth, as well, being so young and fit and attractive in a physical sense, but also attractive in an aspirational sense, like His lifestyle is very attractive.

00:56:31.000 So he's young, fit, young.

00:56:35.000 He's 48 years old.

00:56:35.000 He's a young guy.

00:56:36.000 He's not old.

00:56:37.000 He's under 50 years old.

00:56:38.000 I mean, Pete Hegseth really could be president someday.

00:56:41.000 He really could.

00:56:42.000 He could be vice president someday.

00:56:43.000 And I wouldn't be surprised if we see Pete Hegseth on a 2028 ticket because the way he speaks, he's so eloquent in the way that he speaks.

00:56:51.000 And I'm going to play some of these clips as well.

00:56:53.000 I'm going to play this 14 minute long clip so that you can see after he just got done.

00:56:57.000 I mean, mind you, I swear to God, watch you with my own eyes.

00:57:00.000 No notes.

00:57:01.000 No teleprompter, no staff telling him what to say or, you know, giving him papers or anything.

00:57:08.000 He gets done working out, working his ass off, sweating his ass off in the hot sun.

00:57:15.000 And mind you, I was wearing long sleeve everything because I didn't want to get sunburned.

00:57:20.000 But it was very, very hot.

00:57:22.000 And everybody was extremely hot.

00:57:24.000 Even the staff just standing there who weren't doing PT, like the camera staff, right?

00:57:27.000 Everybody was sweating a lot.

00:57:28.000 I mean, my shirt was soaked by the end of the day.

00:57:31.000 It's kind of disgusting, right?

00:57:32.000 But, and, you know, I was wearing black.

00:57:34.000 So, Not to give you TMI, but you know, when you sweat and your shirt gets really wet from sweat and you're wearing black and then it dries and you get that like white line because of the salt in your sweat.

00:57:46.000 I know that sounds really disgusting, but that's what it looked like at the end of the day because I was wearing a black shirt and green and green, like army green pants.

00:57:55.000 But this is what he does, right?

00:57:57.000 Brings a change of clothes.

00:57:59.000 I don't know if he uses the military showers to shower while he's there, but literally gets done with PT, gives a very inspirational speech with no notes whatsoever.

00:58:08.000 And it's all, I mean, it sounds like something that would be scripted in some kind of military show, right?

00:58:17.000 Every time Pete Hegseth speaks to the troops, I feel inspired.

00:58:21.000 I'm like, wow, I want to go enlist.

00:58:22.000 I want to go fight for my country.

00:58:24.000 And I really think that having Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War has done wonders for the U.S. military because he's inspiring young men, like manly men too.

00:58:38.000 Bullshit that we saw under Lloyd Dawson and Joe Biden, like real masculine men to join the military, get married, have families, and fight for their country.

00:58:49.000 And I think that he's inspiring people all over the world by the way that he has fundamentally transformed the Department of War. 0.95

00:58:56.000 And so I find PXF to be an incredibly inspirational person and a very impressive person.

00:59:04.000 I always said this, even when people were doubting him when President Trump first nominated him.

00:59:08.000 And they were like, oh, what is this Fox News guy going to do?

00:59:11.000 How is he going to be Secretary of War?

00:59:12.000 I always said, don't underestimate PXS because he's one of the smartest guys I've ever met.

00:59:16.000 I mean, his ability to just rattle off wartime history or talk about American history is unmatched.

00:59:23.000 And he's, I just can't say enough nice things about Pete Hegseth.

00:59:28.000 He is truly a remarkable person.

00:59:30.000 And I wanted to play this.

00:59:32.000 It's about 14 minutes long, but this is the speech he did.

00:59:36.000 So, just to put things into perspective for you, he just got done doing PT with the troops.

00:59:40.000 It's like 100 degrees outside, feels like 100 degrees because it's extremely humid Caribbean weather.

00:59:45.000 And just take a listen to how phenomenal this speech is and how pumped up and excited all these young men are and women too.

00:59:52.000 There were some women there as well.

00:59:54.000 And you could just see that.

00:59:55.000 You know, they're not just standing there interacting by nodding their head and waiting for him.

00:59:59.000 They're genuinely very excited.

01:00:02.000 And even when they did the coin ceremony, if you paid enough attention, you could see some of the knees of the men that were receiving the coins trembling because they were so nervous.

01:00:11.000 And I thought it was, you know, quite endearing because they're obviously very macho masculine men, you know, doing PT.

01:00:18.000 And you just see them there standing, sweating in their outfits, their army shirts or their navy shirts or marine shirts.

01:00:24.000 But some of them, you could see their knees were a little shaky because.

01:00:28.000 You know, you could tell that they were nervous.

01:00:30.000 You're only going to be nervous, I'm just going to say this, in front of somebody who you respect.

01:00:35.000 I don't think that you're going to be nervous to meet somebody if you actually have no respect for them because why would you be nervous or intimidated?

01:00:45.000 But they had genuine respect for Secretary of War, Hegseth.

01:00:48.000 And like I said before, I noticed it.

01:00:51.000 I don't know if anybody else really noticed it, but I was kind of looking and noticed that some of their knees were trembling because, well, Why wouldn't you?

01:01:00.000 I mean, this is probably Priya Hagseth is going to go down in history as probably one of the best modern day secretaries of war that we've had, fundamentally transforming the Department of War for the better.

01:01:11.000 Just record investments $1.5 trillion under his leadership at the Department of War invested into our troops, into our military, into acquisitions, into innovation, transforming the speed of manufacturing, the allocation of Department of War contracts.

01:01:31.000 He's completely changed the mentality of the so called military industrial complex and how it's supposed to operate in the United States of America.

01:01:41.000 And I think that he is also not just inspiring young people to join the military, but also inspiring young people to have more respect for the military.

01:01:50.000 Because I think that a lot of people were just very disrespectful towards our military under Biden because Biden didn't have any respect for our military.

01:01:58.000 But President Trump and Pete Hegseth are really restoring.

01:02:02.000 A sense of nationalism and pride in the United States military.

01:02:05.000 And we saw this last year with the military parade that they had, which was incredible.

01:02:10.000 I was there for the military parade.

01:02:12.000 There were some logistical issues.

01:02:14.000 I won't deny that.

01:02:15.000 But how come Joe Biden didn't have a military parade, right?

01:02:18.000 And I'm sure the America 250 celebrations are going to be incredible.

01:02:22.000 Those are coming up in the next few weeks.

01:02:23.000 But go ahead and you could put your comments and your thoughts in the chat.

01:02:30.000 But I'm going to go ahead and play this 14 minute long clip.

01:02:32.000 This was immediately after PT with the troops for about 30 minutes.

01:02:36.000 And then And then Secretary Boerhegseth just gave such an inspirational speech.

01:02:40.000 And just think to yourself could you deliver something like this after being completely out of breath and sweating?

01:02:45.000 Could you go from working out and sweating and being in hot weather to then instantly delivering a flawless speech and an inspirational speech to our troops?

01:02:57.000 I don't think many people could do that.

01:02:59.000 I don't think many people in Washington, D.C. are equipped for that.

01:03:02.000 I don't think many people would be able to be completely covered in sweat and say, all right, I'm going to.

01:03:09.000 Now deliver a speech.

01:03:10.000 I think a lot of people in Washington, D.C. are a little too vain for that.

01:03:14.000 And they'd probably say, Oh, I got to go shower.

01:03:17.000 I got to go do my hair.

01:03:18.000 I got to go touch up my hair gel.

01:03:19.000 I got to go put a suit on.

01:03:21.000 I think there's a lot of image focused people in Washington, D.C., that care more about vanity and fame and recognition than, you know, as opposed to Pete Hegseth, who is truly service and goal focused and oriented.

01:03:38.000 And I was just completely blown away.

01:03:41.000 I know I've said that like five times now, but really, honestly, I was so blown away by the speech that he was giving.

01:03:49.000 I recorded the entire 14 minute speech just to have it on my own phone.

01:03:52.000 Even though I knew the Department of War was recording it and Fox News was there as well, I recorded the entire thing because I thought to myself, wow, someday if he ever runs for president or if he's on a vice presidential ticket with a presidential candidate, I don't know, 2028 is coming up.

01:04:08.000 People have to see this because it's just such a testament to his character, his patriotism, and just what an amazing American Pete Hegseth is.

01:04:17.000 So let's go ahead and play this clip.

01:04:20.000 Coins, coins.

01:04:21.000 If you're getting a coin, come up here.

01:04:30.000 Coins.

01:04:32.000 Hey, Jeff.

01:04:34.000 He's going to pop in too.

01:04:36.000 Sit down here.

01:04:40.000 All right.

01:04:41.000 Sorgeous.

01:04:42.000 FDA too. 0.86

01:04:45.000 What the hell are you doing?

01:05:27.000 How are we doing this morning?

01:05:29.000 If you haven't been to Northeast Gate, welcome to Northeast Gate. 1.00

01:05:33.000 That's Cuba. 0.99

01:05:34.000 This is America.

01:05:36.000 And you just PT'd on it, show what we're doing here.

01:05:38.000 We have the Secretary of War on our turf.

01:05:41.000 PT, we have the largest EGA on this island.

01:05:43.000 And I love that you're all here this morning.

01:05:52.000 I'm going to be like, what are you doing?

01:06:09.000 Mission, focus, and readiness all day long.

01:06:14.000 Arise!

01:06:21.000 This is FCA2 Micah Sargent from Winnebago, Illinois.

01:06:26.000 He has been instrumental in the standing up of our counter UAS system with the Pulsar and now drone here with the Fordham, sir.

01:06:32.000 Completely integral to what we're doing here to protect our airspace, sir.

01:06:51.000 Specialist currently serving as a public, as a deputy public affairs officer on the Guard.

01:06:59.000 He has been instrumental in capturing and displaying all the good things that the Guard has been producing.

01:07:09.000 So he's extremely personal, has the integrity and the confidence to put up in the organization.

01:07:24.000 Staff Sergeant Select Schroeder with 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion coming out of Camp Lejeune.

01:07:28.000 He's part of the actual on ground security detail.

01:07:30.000 He is a guard chief over on our leeward side of the island, holding down what is normally a staff and CO gunnery sergeant job.

01:07:36.000 He is holding it down as a sergeant right now, but soon to be a staff sergeant.

01:07:39.000 He's doing great things for us on the ground.

01:07:42.000 All right.

01:07:43.000 We have Corporal Jones.

01:07:48.000 Corporal Jones is part of the 24th MEU.

01:07:50.000 He was low air defense down here with the Madison team, the first time the Madison has been employed.

01:07:55.000 Down here on the ground, a significant important detail for counter UAS, especially given times right now.

01:08:00.000 Sergeant Morgan is part of the base N2.

01:08:08.000 He is the only really N2 that the base utilizes as an intelligence analyst.

01:08:13.000 He is the fusion cell for everything that comes through the N2 and sending up intelligence CIRs and PIRs that are significant for this base and for the actual defense and anything that runs on this base intelligence wise goes through this man right here and he shoulders it all.

01:08:26.000 Who do you got, Sergeant?

01:08:28.000 Give it up to these guys one more time.

01:08:40.000 Marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and anything else I miss.

01:08:47.000 God bless you and good morning.

01:08:49.000 No better way to start a morning than with PT.

01:08:51.000 How about that?

01:08:51.000 This is about my time of day to do PT at Gitmo.

01:08:57.000 Because 20 years ago, as a second lieutenant, I led a platoon of soldiers from the New Jersey Guard here as part of the detention mission.

01:09:05.000 And we did 12 hours on and 12 hours off shifts for a year.

01:09:10.000 And so when we got done, you know, you get your weapons in the arm room, you do your checks.

01:09:14.000 You get set, and right about 9 30 or 9 is when I go hit PT.

01:09:18.000 So, this is about, you know, it's getting hot.

01:09:21.000 And when you're that young, it feels good.

01:09:24.000 These days, I decided to do PT with the troops, and it turned into smoke the secretary everywhere I go.

01:09:32.000 But looking at all you is a reminder of kind of where I was 20 years ago.

01:09:37.000 Standing in front of that very gate, I have a picture right there as the platoon leader.

01:09:42.000 And looking out at you, I see myself, but even through that gate to over 100 years ago, We see San Juan Hill, the Spanish American War, what the Marines did here over 100 years ago, what it took to secure this piece of key terrain.

01:09:59.000 That was Americans.

01:10:00.000 That was Rough Riders. 0.96

01:10:02.000 Just like all of you.

01:10:03.000 Right here, and I'll never forget thinking about that when I dropped my duffel bag first time as a lieutenant.

01:10:08.000 Sure, we were doing a different kind of mission, but man, not 40 miles from here, Teddy Roosevelt led Rough Riders up San Juan Hill, winning the Medal of Honor, and creating a lot of the conditions when he was president for this to be American soil.

01:10:22.000 We're standing here.

01:10:24.000 Because of the actions of courageous Americans.

01:10:27.000 And he would be proud to stand right here and look out at this group of courageous Americans who not only raised their right hand to serve, but also to go forward deployed.

01:10:38.000 Hey, 20 years ago, there was almost, I mean, there was a huge difference between Iraq and here, but I was still calling home with an ATT phone card on a payphone 20 years ago.

01:10:47.000 So it felt like 3,000 miles away, but it was 90.

01:10:50.000 So, yeah, we're closer to the States, but from this War Department's View and the national defense strategy we have right now, that makes it even more important because we are defending the homeland and we are taking back our hemisphere.

01:11:06.000 There was something called the Monroe Doctrine that was ignored for far too long by presidents that wanted to pretend like our backyard didn't matter.

01:11:14.000 And then a president showed up and added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

01:11:20.000 And that president was Teddy Roosevelt because he understood the importance of the hemisphere. 0.95

01:11:25.000 And then foolish politicians over time let it fade. 0.65

01:11:28.000 We got distracted by other things all around the world, many of which are important. 0.99

01:11:32.000 Americans did great things.

01:11:35.000 This president came in and said not only is the Monroe Doctrine alive, and not only does the Roosevelt Corollary live, but now we have the Don Roe Doctrine, the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

01:11:48.000 That the territory, terrain in our hemisphere is key terrain.

01:11:52.000 Take the Panama Canal, where we're working there.

01:11:55.000 Sure, that both sides of the canal are secure, that our ships flow freely, that we have more marines and more soldiers, a new jungle school there, key terrain.

01:12:05.000 We want to make sure foreign adversaries could not control that.

01:12:08.000 Look at Venezuela and Nicolas Maduro, who thought he could flaunt the United States of America, and then he found out in about 45 minutes in the middle of the night.

01:12:22.000 The most heavily fortified compound inside their capital city.

01:12:26.000 And Russian air defenses and Cuban guards, Cuban guards were no match for them.

01:12:33.000 Our operators, our rangers, those that do incredible things.

01:12:37.000 In fact, there was a Medal of Honor, as you all saw, that came out of that engagement.

01:12:41.000 What a pilot did in keeping his men safe while landing that aircraft and ensuring it landed back safely.

01:12:48.000 Things of the history books.

01:12:50.000 History still happens today.

01:12:52.000 History still happens in the eyes and the mind of all of you.

01:12:55.000 Take what we're doing and taking on designated terrorist organizations, criminal cartels, in drug boats.

01:13:02.000 I would not get in a drug boat in the Caribbean or the Eastern Pacific right now because we are hunting you like we hunted Al Qaeda and ISIS in the Middle East.

01:13:11.000 With the same networks and the same intelligence and the same capabilities.

01:13:15.000 And that's why we've seen drug flows in the water drop dramatically.

01:13:19.000 They're trying to find new roads.

01:13:20.000 Doesn't mean they're going to stop, but that's why we formed the America's Counter Cartel Coalition.

01:13:25.000 Where now we're working with friendly countries in their countries to find where these designated terrorists operate, where they create their drugs, and we're partnering with them.

01:13:36.000 Sometimes we're doing it open, in the open, so the world can know, and a lot of times we're doing it quietly.

01:13:41.000 So that we can work with those governments, hunt those designated terrorist organizations.

01:13:46.000 In fact, there's some big news coming out of Venezuela very soon on that subject because now we've got a partner there in Venezuela willing to work with us.

01:13:55.000 We may have more of a partner in Colombia.

01:13:57.000 You look at Ecuador, you look at Honduras, you look up and down.

01:14:02.000 We're working more and more to get after that problem stuff.

01:14:05.000 And then you look at Cuba, where we are, where the United States of America has been for over 100 years and where we will remain in key terrain.

01:14:13.000 And that government.

01:14:14.000 Has decisions to make about what kind of reforms they want to pursue.

01:14:19.000 It's not my job to make that decision for them.

01:14:21.000 It's our job at the War Department to be prepared for whatever our Commander in Chief asks us to do on behalf of defending the American people. 0.68

01:14:31.000 It would be unwise for the government of Cuba to try to procure or get access to the types of weapons that could reach this base or the American homeland. 0.65

01:14:41.000 They would be inviting the kind of confrontation not only do they not want.

01:14:45.000 But they could not stand.

01:14:47.000 No country on earth can match the capabilities of the United States of America.

01:14:50.000 We seek no enemies.

01:14:52.000 We seek no foes.

01:14:54.000 We're a great friend, and we hope soon we can be a friend of the leadership of the government of Cuba.

01:15:01.000 For now, let's see what happens.

01:15:04.000 But the Department of War will give the Commander in Chief every single option he needs inside that contingency.

01:15:11.000 And when I look out at those words, and when I say those things about deterrence, make no mistake about it.

01:15:17.000 I see your face when we say those words.

01:15:21.000 My words are empty without the strength of deterrence of all of you, which is what helps us every single day get up early and stay awake late to make sure we're getting everything you need in every possible contingency.

01:15:34.000 Of course, right now, we're with the folks slinging it out in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and ensuring Iran doesn't target shipping.

01:15:43.000 And again, we're prepared there to do what needs to be done.

01:15:47.000 Right now, they're defensive strikes to ensure we protect our people. 0.91

01:15:50.000 Again, Iran would be unwise to challenge us further. 0.61

01:15:54.000 President Trump is seeking a deal, but not just a deal, a great deal, on behalf of the American people so that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. 0.66

01:16:03.000 That is core to America's national defense.

01:16:05.000 Those are the types of things we will pursue around the world to protect our people and our interests.

01:16:11.000 And as we do that, we do not lose gaze right here on this hemisphere.

01:16:15.000 So we're reviving the warrior ethos.

01:16:18.000 I hope you see that in your formations, colorblind.

01:16:21.000 Gender neutral, merit based, standard discipline, accountability, training, readiness, lethality. 0.79

01:16:28.000 That's what you do here, that's what we're all about.

01:16:31.000 And then we're rebuilding the military, spending a historic amount.

01:16:34.000 $1.5 trillion, we believe, this fiscal year.

01:16:37.000 To get not just to where we need to be, but well beyond where any adversary could compete with us.

01:16:43.000 But that begins with our people.

01:16:45.000 And that's why we're fixing barracks, investing in schools and hospitals, increasing pay for E1 to E5 by 7%.

01:16:53.000 E6 to 03 by 6%.

01:16:58.000 We figure all those officers deserve a little raise, too.

01:17:01.000 Just not as much as you guys.

01:17:03.000 Everybody works their tail off.

01:17:05.000 And we see that, and we want to invest in that in rebuilding our military.

01:17:08.000 It's about people at every echelon in our office.

01:17:13.000 And then it's about reestablishing deterrence, and I laid that out for all of you around the world and here at home.

01:17:19.000 And we are cattle prodding the defense companies because they deserve it to make things faster, more efficiently, more cost effectively, so you don't get something in 2033 when you need it in 2026.

01:17:33.000 That's our job to change the way the department works, and we're doing it as fast as we can.

01:17:37.000 So, on behalf of the War Department and President Trump, he always wants me to tell you that he's got your back.

01:17:44.000 He's got your back in the circumstances that you need to undertake.

01:17:47.000 That's all I ever wanted when I was a lieutenant here or a first lieutenant in Iraq.

01:17:51.000 If you're going to ask me to do tough things or difficult things where I have to make a tough decision at a moment's notice, just have my back because not everything's going to go right every single time.

01:17:59.000 But if I'm doing it for the right reasons and on behalf of the country, we are going to untie your hands and unleash you to get it done so that you come home and the bad guy doesn't.

01:18:08.000 That's the point.

01:18:09.000 And so we've got your back at every echelon.

01:18:11.000 Let your families know we appreciate them.

01:18:13.000 We support them.

01:18:14.000 We love them.

01:18:15.000 They serve with you.

01:18:17.000 Your wives, husbands, kids, they're in the fight with us.

01:18:20.000 That's certainly how my wife sees it as well.

01:18:23.000 So God bless you.

01:18:25.000 Keep going and stay ready.

01:18:27.000 Let's go.

01:18:36.000 I mean, isn't that just so incredible?

01:18:39.000 I feel like it's one of the most incredible speeches I've ever heard anybody give in terms of, you know, from the Department of War, anybody from the Pentagon.

01:18:48.000 I think that there's a lot of inspirational speeches out there.

01:18:50.000 But in terms of speeches from the Defense Secretary, or now they call it the Secretary of War now, probably the most inspirational speech I've heard.

01:18:59.000 It's just, it's so off the cuff, too.

01:19:01.000 And I showed you, I didn't even crop the video because I wanted you to see how he was still like basically.

01:19:10.000 Catching his breath from working out.

01:19:12.000 And this wasn't like, oh, him getting off the bus and then giving this speech.

01:19:16.000 He was literally drenched with sweat.

01:19:19.000 And then they were, you know, getting ready to do the coin ceremony, recognizing members of the base for their outstanding work or exemplary behavior at Guantanamo Bay.

01:19:33.000 And hey, I think that those guys are going to remember that moment for the rest of their life.

01:19:38.000 And I just find it to be so incredible. 1.00

01:19:40.000 And, you know, he's not full of shit. 0.99

01:19:41.000 Here's the actual photos. 0.99

01:19:42.000 We have the photos of, Pete Hegseth serving at Gitmo in 2004, actually.

01:19:47.000 So he walks the walk and talks the talk.

01:19:50.000 So let's go ahead and get those pulled up.

01:19:52.000 That was the exact same fence where we were standing right there where they're doing PT.

01:19:57.000 You could see in that exact same spot right there with the same flag.

01:20:00.000 There's Pete Hegseth right from 2004.

01:20:03.000 There's the photo.

01:20:07.000 Okay.

01:20:10.000 And then there's the other photo.

01:20:16.000 So he's not making it up.

01:20:19.000 You can clearly see him there at Gitmo in 2004.

01:20:24.000 So I think it's really inspirational for all those young men there to know that, wow, maybe someday I'll be the Secretary of War.

01:20:33.000 Maybe someday I'll be working in a presidential administration.

01:20:36.000 Maybe someday I'll finish my time here and I too will be giving inspirational speeches all around the country, all around the world.

01:20:46.000 To American troops and service members.

01:20:49.000 I just think that it really makes Pete Hexa stand out because he's young, he's relatable, and again, he is just a total patriot.

01:20:58.000 As President Trump likes to say, central casting.

01:21:01.000 If you were going to have any kind of scripted movie and have a casting call for somebody to portray a very patriotic, young, attractive, smart leader or a Secretary of War in some kind of a movie or some kind of a TV series.

01:21:21.000 Pete Hegseth, central casting, probably one of the reasons why President Trump chose him.

01:21:26.000 And he chose well.

01:21:31.000 You saw that during that speech, one of the things that Pete Hegseth was talking about is how a lot of former presidents really abandoned the Monroe Doctrine and how President Donald Trump has reaffirmed that the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well with his own little twists and spin to it, now referring to it as the Don Roe Doctrine.

01:21:53.000 You saw in that speech, that's what Secretary of War Hagseth said. 0.64

01:21:57.000 And he's absolutely right.

01:21:59.000 And essentially, what this means is that America is going to continue to aggressively defend its hemisphere, the Western hemisphere, against foreign threats and encroachment from hostile actors and adversaries, whether that be from China, in Venezuela, in our backyard in the Western hemisphere.

01:22:19.000 And you saw that President Trump asserted that American dominance by taking over the oil infrastructure.

01:22:25.000 In Venezuela, taking control of it when China, prior to this, was taking a million barrels of oil per day out of Venezuela under Maduro.

01:22:34.000 And now Donald Trump is doing the same exact thing. 0.98

01:22:37.000 While I don't exactly 100% agree with all of the handling of Iran thus far, personally, because I think that we should have bombed the shit out of Iran. 0.91

01:22:47.000 I don't think that Donald Trump should have been as diplomatic as he's currently being.

01:22:51.000 But then again, I'm not the president of the United States, and I'm sure he has access to way more intel and way more information than I have. 0.95

01:22:58.000 But I just personally prefer bombing, you know, Islamic regimes that we shouldn't be negotiating with terrorists, and these people are terrorists. 0.98

01:23:06.000 He once again is asserting that American dominance and demonstrating the concept of the Don Roe Doctrine by telling the Iranians, if you don't come to the table, we're not only going to bomb the shit out of you, but we're going to take over Card Island and then we're going to control all of the oil. 0.99

01:23:23.000 So it's a power move. 0.85

01:23:25.000 And who knows whether the Iranians will be beaten to submission by Donald Trump and the Don Roe Doctrine.

01:23:31.000 We will see.

01:23:32.000 I have my own doubts, not because I don't think that Donald Trump is. capable of it, but because I don't think that you could ever trust the word of an Islamic regime. 1.00

01:23:42.000 I mean, these are genocidal Muslim terrorists that we're talking about here. 0.98

01:23:45.000 I don't think that has anything to do with Donald Trump. 0.99

01:23:47.000 It's just the ideology of Islam itself, which, you know, we need to have an honest conversation about.

01:23:53.000 I don't really think a lot of people want to have this conversation, but you can't really make a deal with people who don't believe in a concept of a ceasefire.

01:24:01.000 Ceasefire doesn't exist in Islam.

01:24:04.000 A ceasefire, they view, Muslims view warfare through the lens of Muhammad, right?

01:24:10.000 Through the Quran, through the teachings of Muhammad, who is, you know, the prophet, their prophet and the most revered man in Islam. 0.99

01:24:18.000 Every single Muslim aspires to live their life like Muhammad, who was a ruthless and barbaric warlord, a bloodthirsty warlord. 0.96

01:24:27.000 And in Islam, this concept of a ceasefire doesn't exist because in Islam, a ceasefire is known as a hudna, H-U-D-N-A. 1.00

01:24:36.000 I've talked about this previously on Lumor Unleashed, but I'll say it again for those of you who maybe didn't catch the last episode or maybe you are new.

01:24:44.000 A hudna is this concept in Islam that can't extend past a 10 year period.

01:24:51.000 So you could view it as like a modern day ceasefire, but a ceasefire would actually be permanent, right?

01:24:59.000 Like you would hope that a ceasefire would actually lead to a long term peace deal or would be complied with. 0.98

01:25:05.000 Muslims believe in hudna. 1.00

01:25:07.000 So instead of having permanent ceasefires or peace treaties, they don't actually believe in a concept of peace. 0.98

01:25:12.000 They believe in the concept of total global Islamic domination. 0.75

01:25:15.000 And so when you have a hudna, What this is, is it's no longer than a 10 year period, can't be longer than 10 years, according to Muhammad and the teachings in the Quran, because you can't do anything differently than Muhammad because you have to live your life and act according to Muhammad. 0.94

01:25:34.000 So it's this period for which an Islamic army and really every single mosque in America, every single mosque around the entire world is a military base in Islam, right? 0.77

01:25:46.000 So back in the time of Muhammad, Mosques were not places of worship and prayer or religious teaching. 0.89

01:25:55.000 They were quite literally military command centers. 0.80

01:25:58.000 And to this day, Muslims are taught that mosques are supposed to be military command centers. 0.92

01:26:07.000 And that's why, in places like Gaza or other places in the Middle East, especially where you have a lot of urban warfare per se, when you think of places like Iraq and Afghanistan, Mosques are places of military operations.

01:26:26.000 They are literally military command centers. 0.97

01:26:29.000 And so what happens, right?

01:26:31.000 You sometimes find weapons, you'll find grenades, you'll find bomb making material, you'll find all types of military weapons or military manuals.

01:26:47.000 We have the evidence from the war on terror.

01:26:50.000 Ask anybody who served in Afghanistan or anybody who served in Iraq or anybody who spent time in Gaza, right?

01:26:56.000 Ask any IDF soldier and they'll tell you. 1.00

01:26:59.000 Anytime you ever raided a mosque or anytime they ever went into any type of Islamic center, You will find hordes of weapons and hordes of, I guess you could say, like lethal grade weapons or devices meant for killing the infidels and killing the enemy to Islam, which is essentially any non Muslim. 1.00

01:27:21.000 This is just a fact. 1.00

01:27:22.000 And so when you have a hudna, a hudna then allows for the party involved, whether it's Hamas, right?

01:27:30.000 When you're talking about a ceasefire in Gaza, right? 0.74

01:27:33.000 This would be Hamas for that instance.

01:27:35.000 Or when you're talking about Iran, we're talking about the IRGC, of course. 0.88

01:27:38.000 Of course, the Islamic regime of Iran, the IRGC, of course, which is the apparatus upholding the Islamic regime in Iran, along with the mullahs who use the IRGC for carrying out their barbaric Islamic military operations, their acts of Islamic jihad. 0.86

01:27:58.000 The Hudna then says that, all right, you can agree under the terms of Taqiyah, right? 0.66

01:28:05.000 The concept of permissible lying in Islam, you can agree to a so called 10 year ceasefire or a peace treaty, right? 0.82

01:28:13.000 And you can even look at the Abraham Accords. 0.97

01:28:16.000 I'm willing to bet money on it. 0.83

01:28:17.000 I don't think that Abraham Accords are going to last longer than 10 years because this is supposed to be the terms for not just warfare and ceasefires, but also treaties, especially peace treaties when you're dealing with any Muslim nation, not just Iran, talking about any Muslim nation. 0.90

01:28:37.000 And they view it as a period of rearmament. 0.67

01:28:39.000 So, under the terms of the Hudna, right? 0.90

01:28:43.000 If you are Pretending to be involved in a so called peace treaty or a ceasefire, you can pretend to be agreeable with your enemy, with the infidel, only for the sake of advancing the cause of Islam. 0.91

01:28:58.000 You are allowed to lie and say, okay, we want to have normalized relations with Israel. 0.81

01:29:02.000 We don't want to chant death to America. 0.67

01:29:05.000 Or in the case of this so called deal that President Trump announced today, oh, well, maybe the Iranians are going to agree to never have a nuclear weapon and to stop arming and training their proxies. 0.82

01:29:18.000 Hezbollah and Hamas. 0.66

01:29:20.000 Okay. 0.96

01:29:23.000 Sure.

01:29:25.000 Right.

01:29:26.000 I don't even think that that's going to be the case because I don't even think that Iran would ever agree to these terms, even if they now say that they will.

01:29:33.000 Even if they did, that would last for like one second before they violated this so called ceasefire.

01:29:37.000 We've already had a million of these deals, right?

01:29:39.000 I don't know how many times we have to go back to the drawing board to restart these negotiations.

01:29:43.000 We don't negotiate with terrorists, but I guess we've just forgotten about that.

01:29:46.000 And we even have the tweet, too, from I think it was 2014, Trump saying he doesn't negotiate with terrorists.

01:29:52.000 Um, I saw this again on my timeline today.

01:29:55.000 I sent it to my producer.

01:29:56.000 I was like, this is exactly what I'm talking about, right?

01:29:59.000 Like, we know that we don't negotiate with terrorists, but here we are negotiating with terrorists.

01:30:03.000 We'll get that pulled up in a moment. 0.78

01:30:05.000 But that being said, I want everybody to understand this concept of a hudna because Muslims view it as a period no greater than 10 years where you can rearm and you can rebuild and you can regroup and you can engage in training.

01:30:21.000 And again, as I said before, it's for the purpose of advancing the cause of Islam.

01:30:27.000 So if you have to pretend for a 10 year period, no longer than 10 years, right? 0.99

01:30:32.000 Doesn't matter how many years they say that these deals are going to last for. 0.74

01:30:36.000 But if you have to pretend to be involved in a so called peace treaty or a ceasefire as a Muslim nation or an Islamic theocracy like Iran is, after 10 years, you have to attack because you are not allowed to go past that 10 year period. 0.98

01:30:57.000 Within this framework of a hudna, and it may sound really obtuse for some people who haven't studied Islam, or if you haven't read the Quran, or if it's your first time learning about the concept of a hudna, but I guarantee you that if you were to ask any Islamic scholar, or if you were to study Islam yourself, you would see this is the case. 1.00

01:31:15.000 And Muslims will lie to you and say, That's not true, that's not true. 0.97

01:31:18.000 But again, you have to understand you can't take their word for anything because Muslims are literally taught from the first time they ever open up a Quran that lying, especially lying to The non Muslim lying to the infidel is allowed as long as it advances the cause of Islam. 0.97

01:31:36.000 So they will tell you there's a moderate Muslim. 0.96

01:31:39.000 We're not all the same.

01:31:40.000 They're peaceful Muslims. 1.00

01:31:42.000 They will tell you any bullshit line you want to hear because they need to advance the cause of Islam. 0.99

01:31:48.000 So, you know, you're not supposed to lie. 0.99

01:31:50.000 Like if you are a Jew or you are Christian, it's frowned upon to lie, right?

01:31:54.000 Like thou shall not lie, thou shall not cheat, thou shall not steal.

01:31:58.000 You know, you know the rest. 1.00

01:32:00.000 But in Islam, you're allowed to lie. 1.00

01:32:04.000 You're not allowed to lie to your fellow Muslim, but you are allowed to lie to a non Muslim. 1.00

01:32:09.000 You're allowed to lie and say that Islam means peace, that the majority of Muslims are peaceful people, that they're going to abide by the terms of a ceasefire, that they want to come to the table for a so called deal. 1.00

01:32:20.000 But at the end of the day, you have to realize everything that these people say, everything that these people do, especially in a time of warfare, is for the long term. 0.99

01:32:32.000 These people play for the long term.

01:32:35.000 They're not just looking for instant gratification in the moment.

01:32:38.000 These people are playing for their long term goal of establishing the Ummah, the one world Islamic order. 0.89

01:32:46.000 And it doesn't matter how long they have to wait five years, 10 years, 15 years, 20 years. 0.96

01:32:52.000 These people will wait.

01:32:54.000 Although, when it comes to warfare and violence and acts of kinetic warfare, can't go past 10 years. 1.00

01:33:02.000 So, after 10 years, they have to regroup and reactivate these Islamic armies. 0.99

01:33:07.000 Because the goal in Islam is always perpetual conquest, perpetual conquest, perpetual domination and enslavement of the non Muslim. 0.99

01:33:15.000 You see this in the memorandums, the exploratory memorandum, uh, explain it, excuse me, the explanatory memorandum as outlined by the Muslim Brotherhood. 1.00

01:33:24.000 You see this in the Hamas Charter, right?

01:33:26.000 You see this in all types of Islamic texts and Islamic writings. 0.99

01:33:31.000 It's all for the sake of total global Islamic domination. 1.00

01:33:35.000 Now, we can go to the chat. 0.99

01:33:37.000 I don't know if any of you have heard about this concept of a Hudna before.

01:33:40.000 Maybe some of you have studied Islam.

01:33:43.000 I don't know.

01:33:44.000 A lot of people haven't studied Islam.

01:33:45.000 A lot of people have been completely brainwashed into thinking that, oh, there's moderate Muslims and Islam is, there's different variations of Islam and there's different interpretations of Islam.

01:33:57.000 All these excuses that people will provide and people will give you so that you force feed yourself or you allow them to force feed you this idea that it's possible to coexist with these people. 0.98

01:34:10.000 Or that you allow these people to force feed you the idea that we are going to have a deal with an Islamic theocracy that chants death to America and is hell bent on developing a nuclear weapon to nuke Israel to commit a Holocaust of the Jewish state because they hate Jews, right? 0.91

01:34:28.000 Again, another Quranic teaching. 0.98

01:34:30.000 Find the non believer wherever you can, you know, wherever you can find them. 1.00

01:34:36.000 Strike fear into their hearts, kill them wherever you find them, right? 1.00

01:34:40.000 Straight out of the Quran, you guys, straight out of the Quran. 1.00

01:34:44.000 Kill the polytheist, kill the disbeliever, kill the non believer, kill the infidel. 1.00

01:34:50.000 Again, they will tell you that these are not real texts. 1.00

01:34:53.000 They will tell you that these are not real quotes from the Quran.

01:34:57.000 They will tell you that this is not real and that it's a figment of your imagination or that you are getting the wrong interpretation.

01:35:04.000 It's always the wrong interpretation, it's not an interpretation.

01:35:08.000 There's no such thing as an interpretation of Islam.

01:35:12.000 There's literally only one Islam.

01:35:14.000 And in fact, all of this stuff is actually, they'll tell you yourself.

01:35:18.000 They have this university called Al Azhar University, which is essentially like the Harvard for Islam.

01:35:25.000 And this is where they define and they have Islamic scholars of the highest order in the Islamic world at Al Azhar deciding and dictating the actual so called interpretations and definitions.

01:35:38.000 And so they'll tell you themselves there's no, there's no, you know, differing interpretation.

01:35:44.000 They actually have like set Islamic codes and books dedicated to telling every single Muslim, every single practicing Muslim, or anybody who wants to learn about Islam themselves what every single verse in the Quran means, what every single Islamic teaching means.

01:36:04.000 And you will see for yourself that no, it's not some interpretation. 0.95

01:36:08.000 You aren't just some silly Westerner. 0.99

01:36:11.000 When they say kill the disbeliever, there's no magical interpretation, okay? 1.00

01:36:16.000 When they say to kill the infidel and to enslave them. 1.00

01:36:19.000 And to capture them and strike fear in their hearts. 0.99

01:36:21.000 There's not some weird spiritual interpretation. 1.00

01:36:24.000 They are quite literally saying to capture and find the non believer wherever you may find them and to strike fear in their hearts and to kill them, to decapitate them, to enslave them, to make their women sex slaves. 1.00

01:36:36.000 And there's just no interpretation. 0.99

01:36:39.000 So, knowing this, how can we actually negotiate with these animals?

01:36:44.000 I mean, I agree with President Trump.

01:36:48.000 Let's pull up the tweet that President Trump posted himself.

01:36:50.000 I think that was 2014.

01:36:52.000 Yep, May of 2014.

01:36:54.000 I agree.

01:36:56.000 The U.S. cannot negotiate with terrorists.

01:36:58.000 It is a sad and terrible situation for the family involved, but this can only lead to disaster.

01:37:03.000 Well, we are quite literally negotiating with terrorists right now. 0.77

01:37:06.000 We are quite literally negotiating with the IRGC, with Islamic terrorists in Iran, who have been carrying out a regime of Islamic terror against the entire world, especially the United States of America, murdering thousands of. 0.73

01:37:23.000 US service members and innocent Americans and acts of terror all around the world, especially in the Middle East, for the last 47 years. 0.91

01:37:35.000 So, again, I agree with President Trump.

01:37:40.000 The US cannot negotiate with terrorists.

01:37:43.000 It is a sad and terrible situation.

01:37:46.000 Obviously, I still support President Trump. 0.93

01:37:48.000 But that being said, at the same time, I can support President Trump, but also recognize that people around him telling him to make a deal with the Iranians are clearly not. 0.85

01:37:58.000 Taking into account that these people don't care about anything aside from total global Islamic domination. 0.79

01:38:04.000 So I don't know. 0.91

01:38:06.000 They need to brush up the people who work for the president.

01:38:09.000 I know P. Exeth understands this.

01:38:11.000 I know that P. Exeth understands it.

01:38:12.000 I'm pretty sure Marco Rubio understands it.

01:38:15.000 I know Donald Trump understands it because he said it when he campaigned for president. 0.99

01:38:18.000 So I know that Donald Trump is not naive to how barbaric and how ruthless and brutal and just incompatible with Western civilization, Islam as an ideology is. 0.98

01:38:31.000 He has said it. 1.00

01:38:32.000 And I posted a compilation video of President Trump saying this several months ago.

01:38:37.000 Every so often I repost it.

01:38:40.000 The people around him, sadly, a lot of the people who work for President Trump, they don't understand Islam.

01:38:48.000 And that's just a fact.

01:38:49.000 So, I wanted to go to the chat, take some comments, take some questions.

01:38:55.000 I don't know what you guys think about this, but unfortunately, this is the reality.

01:39:03.000 I don't really see things changing.

01:39:07.000 I know that the president is being gracious and Donald Trump is trying to. 0.98

01:39:11.000 Avoid having to destroy infrastructure and causing harm and strife for the Iranian people who are being victimized by this Islamic Republic of Iran. 0.99

01:39:20.000 But it may need to happen. 0.99

01:39:24.000 It may need to happen. 0.60

01:39:26.000 Or else, what are the long term effects going to be if Iran does somehow obtain a nuclear weapon in the future?

01:39:33.000 What does that mean for us when Donald Trump isn't president anymore?

01:39:37.000 What does that mean?

01:39:41.000 Let's scroll up.

01:39:42.000 I want to see what people were saying.

01:39:45.000 Have any of you heard of this concept of a hoodna before?

01:39:48.000 Or is this the first time you're hearing about it?

01:39:50.000 If it's the first time you're hearing about it, put one in the chat because I'm really interested in knowing if anybody actually is aware of it or if this concept is just unknown to the American people.

01:40:02.000 Scroll up a bit.

01:40:03.000 Let's see what people were saying before. 0.98

01:40:05.000 If you've heard of a hoodna before, let me know.

01:40:08.000 If this is your first time hearing about it, put a one in the chat. 1.00

01:40:19.000 Yeah, some people said I'm absolutely right.

01:40:22.000 Yeah, I mean, if you know anything about Islam, you know, you know. 1.00

01:40:30.000 It's crazy.

01:40:31.000 Yeah, someone said that it's crazy that the woke Reich is actually supporting this.

01:40:34.000 Yeah, Tucker Carlson was actually on a show yesterday rallying for Iran, saying, Well, at least the Iranians hate the Jews, and at least the Iranians are supporting the Palestinians who are being genocided. 0.88

01:40:45.000 Therefore, I'm for Iran.

01:40:47.000 Wish I was joking, but that's what he said on his show.

01:40:51.000 We can play the clip.

01:40:51.000 We have the clip.

01:40:52.000 But sadly, there are a lot of people who pretended to be conservatives or have a very large microphone, and they are encouraging people to side with this Islamic regime over the Trump administration and over the United States of America. 0.92

01:41:10.000 Let me go ahead and pull this clip up, and I'll have to play this clip because honestly, it's just so unbelievable. 0.90

01:41:16.000 I saw this last night.

01:41:17.000 I guess this was from, I haven't watched the full episode, but.

01:41:23.000 This is from yesterday.

01:41:24.000 I haven't watched the full episode.

01:41:26.000 I need to go back and watch it.

01:41:27.000 I was traveling all day yesterday with the Pentagon, but I will be watching the full episode probably tomorrow.

01:41:34.000 But I saw snippets of it, and he's justifying the Iranian regime after they shot down an Apache helicopter and injured two of our pilots two days ago. 0.54

01:41:45.000 And he keeps on making excuses for the Islamic regime of Iran because, well, they're standing up for Palestinians.

01:41:53.000 They're funding Hamas, an Iranian proxy. 0.98

01:41:58.000 They're calling out Israel because we hate the Jews, and the Jews are genociding Muslims. 0.97

01:42:04.000 And these Muslims, even though they're kidnapping people and they're holding them hostage, and they murdered Americans and innocent Israelis on October 7th, which is the biggest massacre of Jews since the time of the Holocaust. 0.99

01:42:15.000 I'm going to side with these people because, well, I just don't really like Jews very much. 1.00

01:42:19.000 Let's go ahead and play the clip. 1.00

01:42:26.000 And destroying Arab. 0.87

01:42:28.000 Iran, which is bombing Arab countries and destroying Arab countries, is more popular in some Arab countries than it was at the beginning of the war.

01:42:37.000 Now, how could that be? 0.54

01:42:39.000 Well, because Iran has taken a clear position on the murder of Palestinian civilians, particularly in Lebanon, but not just Lebanon, in the West Bank and Gaza also.

01:42:53.000 Iran has tied its ceasefire negotiations to a ceasefire in Lebanon.

01:42:59.000 Now, that's not something that resonates with most Americans.

01:43:01.000 Like, who cares?

01:43:03.000 But in the Middle East and in the entire rest of the world, really, which is watching this, watching Israel destroy Lebanon for reasons that are not clear at all, murder Christians wholesale in Lebanon, destroy Christian villages, bomb Beirut, not a traditional Hezbollah stronghold.

01:43:20.000 Why are you bombing Beirut?

01:43:21.000 Unclear.

01:43:22.000 But it's happening, and the rest of the world is watching carefully because Lebanon is a country a lot of people have been to.

01:43:27.000 Probably the most beautiful country in the world with some of the most sophisticated people in the world.

01:43:33.000 It's not Yemen, it's Lebanon.

01:43:35.000 It's on the Mediterranean.

01:43:37.000 And the rest of the world is watching this in horror, and no one's doing anything about it.

01:43:40.000 The United States is abetting it.

01:43:41.000 The United States is helping it happen, despite what they tell you. 0.88

01:43:44.000 Those are American weapons and weapon systems being used to murder Christians in Lebanon. 0.95

01:43:49.000 Who is doing something about it? 0.97

01:43:51.000 Iran. 1.00

01:43:52.000 Hate to say that. 0.99

01:43:54.000 Wish that weren't true.

01:43:55.000 Wish it didn't fall to Iran to do something about this, but it has, and they are.

01:44:00.000 And they're doing more about this than any other country, including ours, including any of the Gulf states.

01:44:04.000 Sorry. 0.59

01:44:06.000 Because they are tying the reopening of the strait, which the world wants, to an end to Israeli bombing and murder in Lebanon.

01:44:18.000 So, in the eyes of the region, whatever people hate about Iran, and there's a lot that the Arabs hate about Iran, they are uniquely standing up for the Palestinians.

01:44:30.000 The mass murder in Gaza, the genocide in Gaza, and history will record it as that.

01:44:35.000 It is genocide. 0.70

01:44:37.000 It is a state policy to eliminate a people and transfer them out of a land.

01:44:41.000 It is genocide by any definition, is the biggest thing that is happening at this point in history.

01:44:48.000 It is the biggest thing.

01:44:49.000 It is the thing about which the most will be written going forward.

01:44:52.000 How did the rest of the world watch this and do nothing?

01:44:54.000 How did the United States back this?

01:44:57.000 How did the United States become the only country on the planet, other than Israel, to approve of this genocide?

01:45:04.000 These are questions normal people will ask fairly soon.

01:45:06.000 They're asking them now.

01:45:09.000 And Iran, for all of its many faults, as an American, it's painful to admit this, has tried to do something about it.

01:45:16.000 So long term, that doesn't hurt Iran, whatever their motive for doing that.

01:45:24.000 That does not hurt Iran.

01:45:25.000 That enhances Iran as a state. 0.73

01:45:32.000 It's completely sold out to the Iranian regime. 0.60

01:45:35.000 But it's been in the works for a while.

01:45:37.000 I mean, last year I showed you how Tucker Carlson interviewed the president of Iran on his show, ran cover for him when he said that Iran wasn't actually plotting to assassinate Donald Trump, even though the president himself said that they had evidence that Iran was trying to assassinate Donald Trump and his staff multiple times.

01:45:53.000 So, big problem.

01:45:55.000 We have a big problem, you guys, in this country. 0.82

01:45:58.000 And, well, it's only going to get worse unless we start to crack down on the woke Reich. 0.86

01:46:06.000 I think that.

01:46:07.000 I think that the Trump administration really needs to start going after these people for not registering with Farah and really start monitoring their bank accounts, looking into who's paying Tucker, looking into who's paying Candace Owens, looking into who is behind all of these so called right wing podcasters, all of a sudden rallying in support of our adversaries, Iran and Russia and China.

01:46:32.000 And it's just very bizarre to me.

01:46:39.000 I want to see people's answers in the chat about the Hudna.

01:46:42.000 So, again, I said that if it was your first time hearing it, press one in the chat.

01:46:46.000 And if you had heard it, well, then put it in the comment section.

01:46:50.000 But let's scroll up.

01:46:50.000 Let's see what people said.

01:46:52.000 I don't really think a lot of people knew what a Hudna is or what it was.

01:46:56.000 Scroll up a little bit more.

01:46:59.000 Scroll up some more.

01:47:02.000 Keep on going.

01:47:03.000 Keep on going.

01:47:08.000 Someone said, I listened to Annie Cyrus, so yes, I've heard of it.

01:47:11.000 Okay, most of you had not heard of it.

01:47:15.000 Scroll down.

01:47:18.000 Oh, there was one more.

01:47:19.000 Scroll up a little bit more.

01:47:22.000 Scroll up a little bit more.

01:47:31.000 Yeah.

01:47:32.000 Well, most people have not heard of it.

01:47:36.000 And is it any wonder why people are being brainwashed into thinking that you can have a so called ceasefire or a peace deal, whether it be with Hamas or whether it be with the IRGC or whoever it may be?

01:47:48.000 I wonder how most people would react or what the polling would change to overnight.

01:47:52.000 The polling as it relates to American voter support for Donald Trump bombing the Iranian regime, if they actually knew what the concept of a hoodna was.

01:48:02.000 I think that polling would dramatically shift overnight. 0.61

01:48:05.000 I mean, it already is in support of the president bombing Iran, but I think that you would see double digit increases in the polling in support of the president bombing Iran if Americans knew that there's no real concept of a peace treaty or a so called ceasefire in Islam because they view it as a time of military rearmament and strategic preparations for more Islamic domination and warfare.

01:48:32.000 I think that public opinion would probably drastically change overnight if people actually were educated about what a hudna is.

01:48:42.000 So maybe the Department of War, maybe the Trump administration should start actually hiring people who know something about Islam.

01:48:49.000 Like I know Secretary of War Hegseth understands Islam.

01:48:54.000 He's got infidel tattooed on his body. 0.71

01:48:56.000 But maybe the president ought to actually hire some people who understand Islam.

01:49:01.000 And then maybe they could actually give the president a briefing that's.

01:49:05.000 Worth something. 0.98

01:49:06.000 None of this subversive shit that's coming out of ODNI under Tulsi Gabbard and all of her anti Israel, anti America, pro Iran staffers, right? 0.99

01:49:19.000 Maybe, maybe they should actually brief the president of the United States on Islam and explain to him what a hoodna is. 0.95

01:49:27.000 So, again, I think that the president has good intentions, but a lot of these intel reports should actually be framed from the ideological perspective. 1.00

01:49:39.000 Concept of Islam, right?

01:49:40.000 How Islam itself is not really a religion.

01:49:42.000 It's more of a political ideology.

01:49:44.000 I think that they should be framed more from an ideological level as opposed to an editorial level.

01:49:52.000 And you know that these reports are completely being editorialized because we already know what Tulsi Gabbard thinks about Trump and Iran, right?

01:50:00.000 We already know what Tulsi Gabbard thinks about Venezuela.

01:50:03.000 We already know what Joe Kent thinks.

01:50:04.000 We already know what all the staff who work at ODNI think about Donald Trump and the war in Iran.

01:50:09.000 They don't support it.

01:50:13.000 Because they clearly don't understand the existential threat of Islamic terrorism.

01:50:19.000 So they want to subvert it by giving the president bad intel and by making the administration think that, like Joe Kent, every single day, I don't know who he's talking to, but there's some theories out there that he's now working with the Iranian lobby, right?

01:50:33.000 Seen a lot of speculation online about that.

01:50:37.000 His alignment with Trita Parsi and the Quincy Institute.

01:50:40.000 There's now reports that Trita Parsi is going to potentially be deported.

01:50:44.000 I've talked about this before on the show.

01:50:45.000 I talked about how Trita Parsi, who's one of the founders of NIAC and Quincy Institute, should be deported for acting as what I believe is a foreign agent.

01:50:56.000 He's already, this has already gone to court.

01:50:58.000 He tried suing somebody who said that he was lobbying for the Islamic regime in Iran.

01:51:03.000 And then ultimately, nothing happened, right?

01:51:06.000 He tried suing this person for saying that.

01:51:09.000 And, well, the court actually ruled in support of the person who he sued because, well, I don't think Trita Parsi really wanted to open up the books.

01:51:19.000 I don't think he really wanted to open up the books.

01:51:20.000 But that being said, he has Iranian citizenship and he's got Swedish citizenship.

01:51:27.000 And there was a report out today about how Trita Parsi might be deported soon.

01:51:31.000 So, Joe Kent, maybe even before he resigned, right?

01:51:38.000 Resigned in disgrace.

01:51:42.000 Just days before it was announced that he's under FBI investigation for allegedly leaking classified information.

01:51:49.000 Again, this is who Tulsi Gabbard selected as her chief of staff at ODNI before he was made the director of National Counterterrorism Center.

01:51:59.000 Why is he propping up all of these Iranian publications?

01:52:03.000 Why is he attached at the hip with Rita Parsi?

01:52:06.000 Why is he every single day speaking into his little selfie videos, talking about how, Mr. President, you are being misadvised and I'm speaking to the Iranian people?

01:52:17.000 And then he says, the president should just declare victory and walk away right now.

01:52:22.000 Why?

01:52:22.000 Why should we declare victory when this isn't a victory?

01:52:24.000 Why should we declare victory before we absolutely bomb the shit out of the Iranian regime? 0.99

01:52:30.000 Why should we declare victory so that the Iranians can be left alone and engage in a hudna and rearm themselves for another 10 years and then develop a nuclear weapon and then nuke Israel and nuke the United States of America? 0.99

01:52:30.000 Why? 0.99

01:52:48.000 I think people should be very alarmed by the rhetoric coming out of OTNI and the rhetoric coming out of people like Tucker Carlson and Joe Kent, all of whom are clearly working together.

01:53:00.000 This is clearly a coordinated operation to. 0.80

01:53:04.000 Make people think like the United States of America is the aggressor and that Iran is some kind of innocent regime and that, you know, Donald Trump is a neocon for wanting to protect the United States of America from being nuked by genocidal Muslims who want to kill and destroy everything that doesn't submit to Islam. 0.92

01:53:22.000 I hope people are paying attention to this propaganda. 0.70

01:53:29.000 I was able to actually ask Secretary of War Hagseth about this yesterday outside of the Central Command Center in. Tampa, Florida, at McDill Air Force Base, and he held a briefing.

01:53:41.000 I was able to ask him three questions actually a question about Ghimma, a question about Cuba, and then I also asked him about the capabilities of the Department of War to find and execute every last remaining member of IRGC leadership if the Iranians refuse to come to the table and make a deal. 0.91

01:54:01.000 That's what I asked him while we were at CENTCOM, which is pretty great. 0.86

01:54:06.000 That's the main.

01:54:07.000 Military command center where they handle all of the operations out of the Middle East.

01:54:11.000 They're coordinating right now all of the airstrikes and all of the attacks that you're currently seeing in Iran from the United States happens at CENTCOM.

01:54:20.000 And so it was quite an honor to be there that day while strikes were literally happening, right?

01:54:28.000 Being directed out of CENTCOM while we were there visiting with the Secretary of War.

01:54:33.000 So it was an honor to be there.

01:54:35.000 And, you know, another thing that I found to be so striking is you constantly hear these woke right podcasts.

01:54:42.000 That will say things like, oh, like people didn't sign up to join the military so they could go die for Israel.

01:54:49.000 We don't want our troops to die.

01:54:50.000 Yeah, we don't want any troops to die, obviously.

01:54:53.000 But when people sign up to join the military, they sign up to pay the ultimate sacrifice.

01:54:58.000 It's not like they're naive knowing, like, oh, I'm going to join the military and I'm not going to run the risk of losing my life.

01:55:04.000 Like, everybody who signs up to join the military is committing a selfless and altruistic action in support of their nation because they love America.

01:55:17.000 And they know, God forbid, someday they might actually pay the ultimate sacrifice for their country with their life.

01:55:26.000 We don't want it to happen, but it might happen.

01:55:30.000 So it's kind of disrespectful to our armed service members who obviously know what they signed up for.

01:55:37.000 Because when Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was there at CENTCOM yesterday, and we were able to watch him give a talk to all the staff at CENTCOM and all of the military officials who were operating out of CENTCOM before he went and did his classified briefing, which of course we were not a part of.

01:55:57.000 But we got to see him give a speech, and you know, I have some of that right here.

01:56:00.000 I'll play it for you momentarily.

01:56:04.000 They were all ready to go, and Pete Hegseth was encouraging them, saying what a great job they're doing, how uh, how amazed he is at you know what a fantastic job they've done with Operation Epic Fury, and how they're going to continue to strike Iran if they don't come to the table to make a deal with President Trump's administration, and how the American military is the strongest in the world.

01:56:30.000 And how they're going to do the same thing to Cuba if the Cubans think that they're going to screw around and potentially acquire missiles that cross our border or attack our troops or attack our military bases.

01:56:43.000 And all of the people at CENTCOM, you didn't see any of them poo pooing the idea.

01:56:47.000 They were all saying, We're ready, Mr. Secretary.

01:56:49.000 We're ready to go.

01:56:49.000 We're ready.

01:56:51.000 They were eager, right?

01:56:53.000 They were eager to carry out these strikes for the Commander in Chief, President Donald Trump, carry out these strikes for America.

01:57:01.000 Carry out these strikes against our adversaries, against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

01:57:07.000 So when they tell you, oh, the troops are, you know, they have low morale right now, they have extremely high morale.

01:57:14.000 I was there at CENCOM, I was there at Kitmo, and I got to see it up close in person.

01:57:19.000 They have the utmost respect for President Trump.

01:57:21.000 They all cheered and clapped when he said President Trump's name.

01:57:25.000 They didn't cheer and clap during the Obama years, if you recall.

01:57:28.000 Remember that?

01:57:30.000 When you hear them say, Oh, our military is, you know, totally demoralized, none of them want to do this.

01:57:36.000 When Joe Kent says, Oh, our, you know, our military members, they don't want to fight this war.

01:57:40.000 Yes, they do.

01:57:42.000 Yes, they do, actually.

01:57:44.000 And they were very excited to do so and were very much looking forward to these strikes that we were promised today by President Trump before President Trump canceled these strikes a couple hours ago.

01:57:55.000 So that was something that was very shocking to me that I wish, you know, everybody could have seen.

01:58:01.000 At CENTCOM yesterday, is just how eager everybody is in the military to carry out these strikes and to attack Iran and to make sure that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon and to liberate the people of Iran and to carry out the mission, to carry out the Don Roe Doctrine, as Pete Hegseth so eloquently laid out while he was at Gitmo.

01:58:23.000 And Rachel Ann has a really great point. 0.52

01:58:29.000 The ones who talk about dying for Israel have no problem with millions dying for Islam. 0.96

01:58:33.000 It's been going on since the Islamic Caliphate. 1.00

01:58:35.000 So true. 1.00

01:58:36.000 So true.

01:58:36.000 It's so ironic, isn't it?

01:58:38.000 Oh, I don't want to die for Israel. 0.86

01:58:40.000 I don't want our troops dying for Israel. 1.00

01:58:43.000 I'm not going to send my son to the military to die for Israel, but I am totally okay with my son and my child and my grandchild and my entire family and all of humanity being wiped out in a nuclear holocaust by the Islamic regime. 1.00

01:58:57.000 I don't think people understand. 1.00

01:58:58.000 I mean, yes, there's obviously the human cost of war.

01:59:02.000 People die, sadly.

01:59:04.000 Troops die.

01:59:06.000 We try to avoid that at all costs.

01:59:08.000 Civilians die.

01:59:09.000 It's unfortunate. 0.99

01:59:11.000 It's part of warfare.

01:59:11.000 Happens.

01:59:14.000 But what people need to be thinking about is the long term death count and the long term destruction that's going to happen if Iran does obtain a nuclear weapon and if the Iranian regime is not subdued and put down like a dog. 0.64

01:59:32.000 And what's going to happen long term if Iran is able to get support from Russia and China and other countries, other adversaries to have nuclear weapons? 0.65

01:59:43.000 Or to have more missile capabilities or drone technology. 0.64

01:59:48.000 And then they further arm and fund their proxies in the Middle East and also in Europe and America.

01:59:56.000 There's Iranian proxies in all 50 states.

01:59:59.000 We have millions of Iranian proxies living here in the United States of America.

02:00:03.000 We've sent loomer unleashed correspondence.

02:00:03.000 I've shown the footage.

02:00:05.000 Look at Charles Downs going outside of the White House following the strikes.

02:00:10.000 Look what happened after the death of Khomeini. 0.98

02:00:12.000 People in Dearborn, Michigan, and people in Washington, D.C. Protesting with the flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran outside of the White House, holding a literal fucking funeral for Khomeini. 0.98

02:00:27.000 So, yeah, we don't want troops dying abroad, but we also don't want millions of Americans dying in a nuclear fucking Holocaust if Iran is able to obtain a nuclear weapon. 0.99

02:00:37.000 So, I find people like Tucker Carlson to be so low IQ. 0.99

02:00:42.000 He's so arrogant the way that he tries to say that everybody else has low intelligence and that everybody else is.

02:00:51.000 Unaware, or they're an agent for Israel, or oh, they just want to fight wars for Israel.

02:00:56.000 And he even sells this merchandise on his website. 0.99

02:00:59.000 It's pathetic. 1.00

02:01:00.000 It's pathetic. 1.00

02:01:01.000 I actually subscribe to his newsletter just so that I can keep tabs on him and his insanity so that I can continue reporting back to the White House and letting them know how crazy he is and how much he's escalating. 0.99

02:01:14.000 And I like keeping President Trump up to date with the shitty things that Tucker says about him because. 0.76

02:01:20.000 Well, we all know a lot of his staff are not letting him know, right? 0.91

02:01:24.000 They're not. 0.92

02:01:25.000 I know for a fact that President Trump wasn't aware of any of the shit that Tucker was saying about him until I actually prepared a document and gave it to the president and showed him everything that Tucker and Marjorie Trader Green and others were saying about him. 0.91

02:01:39.000 So I unfortunately only subscribe to Tucker's newsletter so that I can inform the president of the United States and people who need to know about. 0.95

02:01:50.000 The subversive activities that Tucker is engaged in because, well, I think that people need to know.

02:01:57.000 I think people need to be aware of how he's manipulating the American public into thinking that we're fighting a war for Israel.

02:02:08.000 And he's not talking about the long term death and destruction that is going to happen here in the homeland, not in some faraway land, not in Israel, not in the Middle East, not in Gaza, not in Iran.

02:02:20.000 But here in the homeland, if Iran is somehow able to obtain a nuclear weapon or get support from our adversaries, and the Iranian regime isn't completely neutralized and overthrown by the end of Trump's administration.

02:02:36.000 Just something to think about.

02:02:37.000 But let's go ahead and we'll go ahead and play this interaction with P. Agseth and the troops at CENTCOM and the staff at CENTCOM.

02:02:46.000 And again, he did another coin ceremony, he gave another talk.

02:02:51.000 This was the part that we were privy to because then he gave a private talk that the press wasn't allowed to attend.

02:02:56.000 And again, just very inspirational, very motivating.

02:03:00.000 And you can clearly see that the demeanor and the morale is very high.

02:03:04.000 So, contrary to what these people want you to think, our troops, our service members are actually very eager to go to war with Iran and to finish the job.

02:03:12.000 Let's go ahead and play this clip.

02:03:14.000 And I just want to say, on behalf of the President of the United States, on behalf of the American people, how proud we are of the work that CENTCOM has undertaken.

02:03:23.000 What an incredible testament to your leadership, to your audacity, to your courage, to your toughness, to your adaptability.

02:03:31.000 What the War Department can do, what the fighting men and women of our country can do, is on full display through CENTCOM to the rest of the world.

02:03:40.000 It has been for over 100 days, from major combat operations to this ceasefire to the blockade.

02:03:46.000 At every turn, from the admiral all the way down to every single troop in CENTCOM, you have been leading the way, charting the course for what American power looks like.

02:03:57.000 And you should be incredibly proud of what you've accomplished, how you've done it, the adversary you're staring down, the important mission you have undertaken and are still undertaking to ensure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon, which everyone here understands why that is so critically important.

02:04:18.000 You have stayed laser focused on that.

02:04:21.000 Our job at the Pentagon has been to make sure that the Admiral and his team and everyone has everything they need in that mission to be successful.

02:04:30.000 And we will continue in that.

02:04:32.000 And even just today, the President of the United States revealed something to the American people, to the world, that you've been doing that the world didn't know, that is a follow through of our mission and a reflection of the capabilities this COCOM has that no other in the world has and no other country in the world.

02:04:51.000 Could conceivably do.

02:04:53.000 So, from the bottom of my heart, to the uniformed and the civilians here, thank you for everything you do.

02:05:00.000 Thank you for the way you do it.

02:05:01.000 Thank you for setting the standard and making us proud.

02:05:04.000 I read every report, I look at every piece of data and every statistic coming our way.

02:05:09.000 And anything he needs, he can call me anytime, and we try to make sure we can deliver for you.

02:05:14.000 The president reads them as well, he's tracking what you're doing, and he's exceedingly proud.

02:05:19.000 So, keep going.

02:05:21.000 We're laser focused on exactly the outcome.

02:05:24.000 That the president desires on behalf of the American people, and we've made great progress.

02:05:28.000 And as the president said today, they're not going to make a deal and we're going to hit them hard.

02:05:33.000 CENTCOM does that very well, better than anyone else in the world, and we'll have the effects we're looking to have on behalf of the American people.

02:05:42.000 So, Godspeed.

02:05:43.000 Thank you for what you're doing.

02:05:44.000 Let's give away some coins and then we'll talk a little bit more.

02:05:47.000 Thank you.

02:05:47.000 God bless.

02:05:51.000 So, again, CENTCOM is headquartered at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, and is commanded by Admiral Brad.

02:05:58.000 Cooper.

02:05:59.000 And you could see there that when we were there yesterday, Secretary of War Hagseth, he spent, we were probably there for about, I would say, two hours.

02:06:09.000 We ended up getting back to Washington, D.C., two hours later than was expected because he really took his time meeting with people at Gitmo, spending his time speaking with people at CENTCOM.

02:06:22.000 And so it was great to watch.

02:06:24.000 And then shortly after that, after he gave his inspiring remarks and he met with Admiral Cooper and he met with other officials, He then gave a briefing outside of CENTCOM where I was able to ask several questions along with the two other reporters who attended this trip with me.

02:06:41.000 And we can go ahead and play this clip of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, you know, just arriving to this briefing after his meeting with Brad Cooper and his meeting with other officials at CENTCOM regarding these strikes on Iran.

02:06:58.000 And then we'll get into the questions.

02:07:00.000 So let's go ahead and play this clip and.

02:07:03.000 For those of you who are wondering what it was like, you see the setup right there.

02:07:06.000 We were waiting, right, obviously in front of him.

02:07:09.000 And I was standing probably like four feet away from him on the right hand side asking questions.

02:07:15.000 And then there was Fox News.

02:07:17.000 And then there was a reporter from Reuters.

02:07:18.000 So very intimate, up and close.

02:07:21.000 You know, we were able to each ask about two to three questions.

02:07:24.000 I got three questions in.

02:07:26.000 That doesn't generally happen because usually there's way more reporters on these trips or the pools, the press pools are larger.

02:07:33.000 But just giving you guys some behind the scenes as to how this went down.

02:07:37.000 So we ended up waiting for him after his private classified briefing.

02:07:41.000 And then, you know, we were waiting outside and he took us time, right?

02:07:44.000 We were supposed to be out of there two hours earlier.

02:07:47.000 But it just, it's a testament to how much he cares and how, you know, he's willing to spend extra time.

02:07:52.000 He's not just trying to rush in and complete the task and get out, right?

02:07:55.000 He really took his time and spent time with these military leaders and our troops and really just tries to make everybody feel very special.

02:08:05.000 And again, very inspirational remarks there off the cuff.

02:08:09.000 Okay.

02:08:10.000 You don't really find those qualities in a lot of leaders, but.

02:08:14.000 I'll say it again, right?

02:08:15.000 Fangirling over here, but not really fangirling, just actually reporting the real news here.

02:08:21.000 The media would be telling you this if they actually reported news, honestly, but they don't.

02:08:26.000 They want to demonize Pete Hegseth.

02:08:30.000 I got to see it up close in person, and I just find it to be remarkable, really, just really remarkable.

02:08:36.000 Real great American patriot.

02:08:37.000 What a patriot he is.

02:08:38.000 Let's go ahead and play this clip.

02:08:40.000 Good afternoon, everybody.

02:08:41.000 It's good to be here at U.S. Central Command.

02:08:43.000 Admiral Cooper, the commander of CENTCOM, was going to be here.

02:08:47.000 With me, we just got done with detailed briefings, but of course, he is busy because CENTCOM, Central Command, will be busy tonight because President Trump said we will be hitting Iran hard, and we will be because Iran has a chance to make a good deal, a great deal, to codify what they said they've been willing to do, and they haven't been willing to do it.

02:09:09.000 So, as President Trump said, they've been tap, tap, tapping. 0.54

02:09:13.000 You can see when someone's trying to tap, tap, tap on a deal.

02:09:16.000 Instead, they're going to have tap, tap, tap bombs dropping on key facilities in Iran from the United States of America.

02:09:22.000 And that's not because we want to restart anything we don't have to restart.

02:09:26.000 It's because we are, the War Department is prepared to set the terms to ensure that we get the kind of deal President Trump expects. 0.60

02:09:34.000 And Admiral Cooper and the team here at CENTCOM has done a phenomenal job from the beginning on Epic Fury and through this blockade ensuring that we have a chance to reach that end state, which is Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which they say they don't want. 0.55

02:09:51.000 And so since we're so close to that negotiated deal, if that's the case, they should step up and do it. 0.52

02:09:57.000 There's another thing that was revealed today by the President that the press has not been aware of, but certainly this building, the U.S. Central Command, has known, is that Project Freedom, the idea of running ships through the Strait of Hormuz, it never stopped.

02:10:11.000 It just went underground.

02:10:12.000 And so there's some things the public knows and some things the public doesn't know, but ultimately we've been protecting commercial shipping going through the Strait of Hormuz, as the President announced, to the tune of over 100 million barrels that have moved through and more in the middle of the night protected by the United States in a way that Iran can't stop. 0.85

02:10:32.000 They can't see it and they can't stop it. 0.90

02:10:34.000 So answer me this.

02:10:35.000 If our blockade is ironclad, which it is, we just disabled another tanker attempting to leave just yesterday.

02:10:43.000 Our blockade has stopped almost 140 ships attempting to navigate in or out to Iranian ports.

02:10:49.000 So if our blockade is ironclad, which it is, and we're able to move commercial shipping in and out of the Strait of Hormuz, who controls the Strait of Hormuz? 0.94

02:10:58.000 And President Trump said it, and he's right.

02:11:00.000 The United States of America controls the Strait of Hormuz. 0.99

02:11:02.000 We're able to bring oil in and out and other things with partners and have done so now for weeks and weeks in ways the Iranians don't want to acknowledge.

02:11:11.000 That's a powerful reality on the ground.

02:11:14.000 Add that to what the United States military, what Central Command did to their Navy, to their Air Force, to their air defenses, to their power projection capabilities.

02:11:25.000 And we know exactly on this ledger who's on the strong end and who is not, who's had decisive effects and who can't defend.

02:11:33.000 And so from the beginning, we've shown overwhelmingly the kind of capabilities the War Department can bring.

02:11:38.000 This building continues to plan.

02:11:40.000 And so those strikes that will happen tonight will be strong.

02:11:44.000 They will be clear.

02:11:45.000 If they happen to happen tomorrow night, they will be strong and they will be clear. 0.97

02:11:48.000 And throughout, Iran has an opportunity to make a deal. 0.98

02:11:53.000 That's the point.

02:11:54.000 President Trump is a dealmaker, the best in the world.

02:11:57.000 He's prepared to make that deal.

02:11:58.000 Iran would be wise to take it.

02:12:00.000 Otherwise, they would have to deal with the types of plans that I just had a chance to see inside Central Command.

02:12:08.000 So, after he ended those remarks, I had the opportunity to ask several questions.

02:12:12.000 So, I want to go ahead and play the first question I asked him about the IRGC and whether or not, well, what the capability was of our Department of War and our troops and Central Command to identify and track down, find, locate, and also execute every single remaining member of the IRGC and IRGC senior leadership if Iran refused to come to the table and make a deal.

02:12:38.000 And, Secretary.

02:12:40.000 Of war, Hegsef was kind enough to answer all of the questions that I asked.

02:12:45.000 And again, just you didn't really see this during the Biden administration.

02:12:50.000 They were very evasive.

02:12:51.000 They didn't exactly make themselves available to reporters to answer questions.

02:12:55.000 And off the cuff, right?

02:12:57.000 No scripted questions.

02:12:59.000 I had my questions ready.

02:13:00.000 Nobody had my questions ahead of time.

02:13:03.000 No pre scripted questions.

02:13:05.000 I remember when I became a member of the Pentagon Press Corps, all the liberal media said, We're not going to sign that.

02:13:10.000 We're not going to sign those terms.

02:13:12.000 We're not going to agree to not solicit classified information inside the Pentagon.

02:13:16.000 They're going to make you turn in your questions ahead of time and you're only allowed to ask questions that they have scripted ahead of time. 0.99

02:13:22.000 The most bullshit lie I've ever heard in my life. 0.98

02:13:25.000 Never have I ever had anything scripted from the Department of War. 1.00

02:13:29.000 In fact, the Department of War has actually defended me, believe it or not.

02:13:34.000 When I became a member of the Pentagon press corps and the liberal media was attacking me and they were attacking Secretary of War Hagstaff for giving me credentials, Secretary of War Hegseth and the Department of War actually issued a statement in support of me and said that the press would be better if more members of the media were like Laura Loomer.

02:13:53.000 They actually did that.

02:13:54.000 So, not only do they support press freedom and they let you ask whatever question you want to ask, and they give you incredible access if you're a member of the Pentagon Press Corps, but wow, nobody's really ever defended me in terms of an actual cabinet member.

02:14:08.000 Trump's defended me before when they've attacked me, and he said, Oh, she's a free spirit.

02:14:13.000 She's a patriot.

02:14:14.000 She's a fighter.

02:14:14.000 I like her.

02:14:15.000 But aside from that, like not a lot of people are going to stick their necks out for you.

02:14:20.000 But he did.

02:14:20.000 He's a real leader and he gets it.

02:14:23.000 He understands the, you know, he understands how to deal with the fake news media.

02:14:28.000 I think like working for Fox News and having so much experience dealing with the media and dealing with reporters probably prepared him for this.

02:14:37.000 But again, it's just another testament to his character and how amazing it is being a member of the Pentagon Press Corps.

02:14:46.000 Because I never thought that I would be traveling on an official military U.S. government plane, right?

02:14:53.000 That says United States of America with the Secretary of War, let alone going to Gitmo.

02:14:58.000 When I was a kid and I was watching the war on terror, and they opened up Gitmo, I think in 2002, under Bush to detain a lot of these 9 11 terrorists and Islamic terrorists who were in Al Qaeda and the Taliban, who they wanted to have these military trials for in Guantanamo Bay.

02:15:19.000 Never thought that I would ever be visiting Gitmo, but here I am, right?

02:15:23.000 Here I am.

02:15:26.000 I think it's quite an honor, and it's a shame that other members of the media don't express gratitude for the type of openness and transparency that this administration gives them, because I think it's quite unprecedented compared to anything I've really ever seen in previous administrations.

02:15:45.000 But let's go ahead and play the question and the answer from Secretary Hegseth.

02:15:51.000 Again, this is me yesterday asking him a question outside of Central Command. 0.75

02:15:55.000 So in the event that the Iranians don't come to the table and they keep playing games and they refuse to make a deal, how certain are you on our targeting ability to immediately find and finish off and execute every remaining senior leader within the Islamic Republic of Iran, an IRGC? 0.71

02:16:09.000 Well, let's just say this command has used the ceasefire wisely and with great efficiency to ensure that we are refining our intelligence and target sets in a way that are far, far beyond even the beginning of Epic Fury. 0.81

02:16:23.000 And that's a part of what I had a chance to see today.

02:16:25.000 So, when you see the commencement of Epic Fury, if a conflict were to have to recommence, our ability to target, our ability to sense, our ability to see, our ability to get into networks has only been vastly improved over time.

02:16:39.000 And that's certainly what the commanders relayed to me.

02:16:41.000 So, the historic success of Epic Fury would only be built upon whether it's personnel, locations, capabilities, you name it. 0.62

02:16:49.000 And again, remember, Iran doesn't have a defense industrial base, and what they have is extremely limited, meaning they don't have the ability right now to make More missiles or make more drones. 0.88

02:16:58.000 What they have is what they have. 0.97

02:16:59.000 And if they've dug it out, we'll strike it again if we need to.

02:17:02.000 So we know the terms and we've got always more capability to bring.

02:17:13.000 And then, of course, we spent half the day at Gitmo.

02:17:16.000 And as I showed you in that speech that he gave to the troops there, he was talking about how Cuba was going to find out really fast, right? 0.98

02:17:25.000 Fuck around, find out like they did in Venezuela. 0.96

02:17:28.000 If they somehow acquired weapons that could, or found themselves acquiring weapons or bringing weapons across our border or attacking Americans, or because it's only 90 miles off the coast of Florida, right? 1.00

02:17:41.000 From the southernmost point.

02:17:42.000 If you ever go to Key West and you see the big sign, 90 miles, right?

02:17:46.000 90 miles from Cuba. 0.56

02:17:47.000 So you have this communist regime, a hostile regime that, you know, has the Chinese clearly have signal intelligence bases in Cuba.

02:17:58.000 Everybody knows that.

02:17:59.000 So, You have the CCP with signal intelligence bases there spying on Americans, spying on the US military.

02:18:09.000 You have Russians, you have all types of hostile adversaries helping the communist regime in Cuba.

02:18:18.000 And I was just very interested after hearing him talk about the possibility of the Cubans firing or acquiring weapons and using them against the Americans.

02:18:29.000 A U.S. military operation like the one we saw conducted in Venezuela against Maduro and the narco terrorists in Venezuela could be carried out in Cuba, and whether or not a capture and kill operation was still on the table, or was it possibly being discussed, just like it was with Nicolas Maduro?

02:18:49.000 And here's the question and the answer from Secretary of War Hagseth yesterday at CENTCOM.

02:18:55.000 How long would a U.S. military operation take to remove the communist regime in Cuba?

02:19:00.000 And what would happen, per se, and how long would it take to reestablish order if President Trump were to decide to do a capture-kill operation with Miguel Diaz-Canal like he did with Maduro?

02:19:13.000 All I would say is options, options, options.

02:19:16.000 Our job is to present options at different scales.

02:19:19.000 Depending on where the commander in chief and the president of the United States wants to go.

02:19:23.000 So, capture and kill is still an option?

02:19:25.000 We've got options all over the map.

02:19:27.000 Just like we've got lots of options in CENTCOM, that's our job.

02:19:31.000 Our building literally plans for a living.

02:19:33.000 So, besides the Pentagon, no one plans better than United States Central Command.

02:19:38.000 So, to kind of bring it back home to while we're here, all those options are on the table.

02:19:43.000 The president expects us to be strong and resolute with the way that we respond and bring firepower, and we will certainly do that if need be.

02:19:50.000 So, thank you for traveling with us today.

02:19:52.000 Very much, and we will strike them hard tonight.

02:19:59.000 And then, of course, I had to ask about Gitmo because we didn't do a briefing while we were at Gitmo.

02:20:04.000 We did the briefing at CENTCOM, but we did spend half the day at Gitmo.

02:20:08.000 And Gitmo, of course, is notorious for being the detention facility, in addition to being a naval base in Cuba that is a command center ready where our troops are prepared to defend our country in the event of.

02:20:26.000 Possible attacks from Cuba, its base, but it's also a military detention camp for Islamic terrorists.

02:20:35.000 And we were told in the beginning of the Trump administration that Guantanamo Bay was going to be expanded.

02:20:39.000 If you recall, President Trump said Guantanamo Bay was going to be expanded and they were going to do additional construction at Guantanamo Bay to house the worst of the worst.

02:20:49.000 Well, that has not happened.

02:20:51.000 And currently, there are only 15 Islamic terrorists and prisoners that are still being held to this day at Gitmo. 0.91

02:20:57.000 And most of those people are.

02:20:59.000 Either ISIS terrorists or Yemeni terrorists, Al Qaeda terrorists, Taliban terrorists.

02:21:04.000 So these are a lot of them are individuals related to the 9 11 Islamic terrorist attacks, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9 11, and multiple other 9 11 co conspirators.

02:21:19.000 And it's kind of shocking that we are paying, it costs over $100 million a year to operate Gitmo, taxpayer money, of course. 0.88

02:21:29.000 Why are we paying for Islamic terrorists who helped murder and plotted the murder of nearly 3,000 Americans that day alone on 9 11? 0.88

02:21:38.000 Not to mention the thousands of service members who have died in the war on terror, whether it be from actual direct death and combat in the Middle East or suicide from the trauma that they obtained while fighting in the war on terror overseas or illnesses that they developed from the toxic pits or. 0.92

02:22:00.000 Uh, you know, diseases that they developed, or you know, shortness of their lifespan due to traumatic injuries, whether it be brain injuries or amputations, right?

02:22:11.000 Lots of quadriplegics, a lot of amputations, uh, just so much loss of human life, loss of American life.

02:22:18.000 And yet, these terrorists are being taken care of, right?

02:22:23.000 At a military base, Gitmo, but still, right?

02:22:30.000 Provided food, provided shelter, provided health care, provided lawyers.

02:22:36.000 And it's just an abomination that they haven't been executed yet, right?

02:22:42.000 I mean, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary of 9 11 this year.

02:22:45.000 It's shocking, right?

02:22:46.000 I was eight years old when 9 11 happened, but I vividly remember it, vividly remember it, and grew up watching the war on terror.

02:22:55.000 I had those Iraqi training cards. 0.78

02:22:58.000 Remember those Iraqi cards that they had, the Iraqi playing cards of the most wanted terrorists? 0.74

02:23:03.000 They were issued by the CIA.

02:23:05.000 Do you remember those cards?

02:23:06.000 While a lot of kids were playing with Pokemon cards, I was playing with those cards, right?

02:23:10.000 So I was sitting on recess at school on my breaks playing with my Iraqi most wanted terrorist cards that were issued by the CIA to help Americans. 0.95

02:23:20.000 Identify and locate and turn in these Islamic jihadists for rewards, right? 0.76

02:23:25.000 During the war on terror, if you recall, a lot of people had those cards. 0.96

02:23:32.000 I certainly had those cards.

02:23:35.000 But that being said, it's kind of shocking. 1.00

02:23:37.000 I don't think that a lot of Americans know that there's still 15 Islamic terrorists that are being held prisoner, rightfully so. 1.00

02:23:44.000 Although I personally would just shoot them in the head. 1.00

02:23:46.000 I mean, I think that they deserve a bullet in between the eyes, but they have lawyers. 1.00

02:23:51.000 You recall the Biden administration tried to make a Plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and then they tried to pretend like they didn't know about the plea deal. 0.98

02:23:58.000 Remember that?

02:23:59.000 Do you remember when the Biden administration tried to make a plea deal with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed so that he could avoid the death penalty? 0.99

02:24:04.000 I mean, absolute bullshit, right? 0.97

02:24:07.000 But we are still paying for these people to receive care, and I just don't understand why they haven't been executed. 0.99

02:24:13.000 So I asked Secretary of War Hegzeth about this as well.

02:24:19.000 I know we spent a half the day at Gitmo with you.

02:24:21.000 There's still currently 15 prisoners there, mostly Islamic jihadists.

02:24:25.000 So given Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's detailed confession, to orchestrating 9-11 and other al-Qaeda plots. 0.61

02:24:30.000 Why has the United States government chosen to keep him alive and comfortable at Gitmo for decades along with these other Islamic jihadists instead of executing them and delivering justice for the 3,000 victims of 9-11 and the other service members who lost their lives in the war on terror? 0.60

02:24:46.000 Well, I appreciate the question.

02:24:48.000 There's a reason we started the day down at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Southcom, is because we want to make sure Cuba understands that the United States' capabilities are robust.

02:24:59.000 It's right in our neighborhood.

02:25:00.000 The Don Roe Doctrine is in full effect.

02:25:02.000 And we're going to be prepared to defend with all the capabilities we need there, but also everything the War Department could bring to bear.

02:25:08.000 So, my message was clear there, and it was great to be with the Marines and others, do a little PT, see how fired up they are about their mission down there.

02:25:16.000 But listen, I've written extensively about it. 0.68

02:25:18.000 These Gitmo detainees should have been executed, in my mind, personally, a long time ago for the crimes of what they committed against the American people.

02:25:26.000 Unfortunately, the gears of American justice got gunked up all the way back to when I was a guard at Guantanamo Bay. 0.55

02:25:32.000 In 2004, 2005, I was one of the guards, one of the, you know, Exterior guards, small part, in the first attempts on these trials that were just starting.

02:25:41.000 And there was a lot of hope.

02:25:43.000 Hey, we might be able to try these guys swiftly for the crimes they've committed against the United States of America.

02:25:47.000 And then the, the, whether it's international groups or, or lawyers and the things on top got layered on top and it all got stuck.

02:25:55.000 We're committed to the death penalty, uh, in, in that, in that case and in any others.

02:26:00.000 We don't have any interest in it.

02:26:01.000 Is there any interest in it, though?

02:26:02.000 Because it's been, you know, over two decades.

02:26:04.000 Whatever we can do, we'll do, but I, I share your frustration.

02:26:11.000 We'll see. 0.96

02:26:11.000 I think that one of the best things we can do to celebrate 250 years of America and also honor the victims on the 25th anniversary of 9 11, which is going to be this year, is to execute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. 0.96

02:26:24.000 So, look, if Jeffrey Epstein can commit suicide in his jail cell and the cameras can be malfunctioned while he committed suicide in his jail cell and Maduro can be captured in the middle of the night with no U.S. casualties. 0.72

02:26:40.000 Can't we find a way to make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed have an accident in his jail cell at Gitmo?

02:26:45.000 Oh, he got food poisoned and he died.

02:26:48.000 He had a gastrointestinal issue and his stomach exploded.

02:26:51.000 Hmm, what a shame.

02:26:53.000 Oh, God, I don't know how this man who's in his 60s, he's like 65 years old, he just had a massive heart attack in his sleep and died.

02:27:01.000 Wow, hmm, what a shame.

02:27:02.000 We found him dead. 0.98

02:27:04.000 Oh, my God, there was an electrical fire and all of the Islamic terrorists got burned alive in their cells at Gitmo. 0.91

02:27:10.000 We just couldn't put out the fire on time. 0.97

02:27:12.000 What a shame.

02:27:15.000 Oh my God, he tripped and he fell, and he's an old man and he hit his head and he got a brain bleed.

02:27:20.000 Whoops, well, he's dead.

02:27:22.000 Don't know how that happened.

02:27:24.000 I mean, come on.

02:27:24.000 Our government is surely creative, right?

02:27:28.000 Surely.

02:27:28.000 Because, I mean, come on.

02:27:30.000 We all know our government has killed people.

02:27:32.000 I've always been told that they have these things called heart attack guns.

02:27:34.000 The CIA, have you heard about this?

02:27:35.000 The heart attack gun?

02:27:37.000 Look this up.

02:27:38.000 There's something called a heart attack gun.

02:27:38.000 You don't believe me.

02:27:40.000 It's some weapon, apparently, that the intel agencies have where they're allowed to, like, they can prick you with this.

02:27:47.000 Or prick you with some kind of needle, and it's non detectable and it can actually give you a heart attack, right?

02:27:55.000 The CIA heart attack gun is a top secret, non lethal assassination weapon publicly revealed during the 1975 U.S. Senate Church Committee.

02:28:04.000 It was designed to fire a poisonous dart that induces fatal cardiac arrest while leaving virtually no trace in the victim's bloodstream.

02:28:11.000 Why can't they do this to the terrorists at Gitmo?

02:28:16.000 Why? 0.99

02:28:17.000 Why can't somebody just go in there in the middle of the night and shoot them with the heart attack gun, the CIA heart attack gun? 0.99

02:28:23.000 CIA Director John Ratcliffe, your country is counting on you, and I have faith in you. 0.99

02:28:30.000 I am rooting for you, sir. 1.00

02:28:33.000 It is your duty to find a way to make sure that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and these other filthy Islamic terrorists are somehow dead before the 25th anniversary of the 9 11 Islamic terrorist attacks. 1.00

02:28:45.000 I have faith in you, John Ratcliffe. 1.00

02:28:47.000 I have faith in you.

02:28:48.000 I'll be rooting for you.

02:28:49.000 But no, seriously.

02:28:50.000 I mean, if Jeffrey Epstein can commit suicide in his jail cell and the cameras can just.

02:28:57.000 Oh, wow.

02:28:58.000 Oh my God.

02:28:59.000 At the exact same time that Jeffrey Epstein hung himself, the camera seems to be missing a frame.

02:29:04.000 Oh my God.

02:29:05.000 I have no idea how that happened.

02:29:07.000 We have absolutely no idea.

02:29:08.000 We swear to God, we have no idea.

02:29:11.000 Trust me, bro.

02:29:12.000 We had no idea.

02:29:16.000 If Jeffrey Epstein can commit suicide in his jail cell and the camera footage can go missing, I'm pretty sure Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can accidentally trip and fall and hit his head and have a brain bleed or die from a massive heart attack.

02:29:27.000 And whoops, the cameras just weren't working. 0.51

02:29:31.000 It's pretty much an abomination that these people have not been executed.

02:29:35.000 I personally would live stream it.

02:29:36.000 And I'm personally a fan of the torture that was carried out at Guantanamo Bay.

02:29:42.000 I think that we need to actually increase funding for GETMO and we should make it a torture facility and actually torture terrorists. 0.86

02:29:51.000 To teach them a lesson, especially as we face growing threats of Islamic jihad and Islamic domination in the United States of America. 0.89

02:29:58.000 I personally think that these enhanced interrogation tactics, as they like to call them, were very effective during the war on terror. 0.95

02:30:05.000 And we should bring them back for, you know, narco terrorists, for Islamic terrorists, um, and teach people a lesson. 0.59

02:30:13.000 But only 15 prisoners still remain at Gitmo to this day. 0.86

02:30:17.000 All of them jihadis, right?

02:30:19.000 All of them jihadis.

02:30:22.000 I just think it's disgraceful that we're coming up on 25 years since 9 11, and the mastermind of 9 11 is still living comfortably in a jail cell at Gitmo.

02:30:31.000 I don't know if a lot of people knew this or not, but hopefully, if you agree with me that they should be executed, you could press one in the chat.

02:30:39.000 I mean, they could easily take him out.

02:30:44.000 They could easily take him out.

02:30:46.000 There's so many things they could do.

02:30:47.000 They could poison his food.

02:30:48.000 They could make him have a heart attack.

02:30:51.000 I don't know.

02:30:51.000 Like, they could trip him and he could have a fall.

02:30:56.000 They could, like, stage a suicide, you know?

02:30:59.000 Jeffrey Epstein had a stage suicide.

02:31:05.000 Maybe, can't he just, like, fall into a noose?

02:31:05.000 I don't know.

02:31:09.000 Help, I've fallen into a noose and I can't get up.

02:31:14.000 Can't something be done?

02:31:14.000 I don't know.

02:31:17.000 Can't something be done to make these Islamic terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on 9 11 just disappear before the 25th anniversary? 0.92

02:31:27.000 Again, I see people in the chats here, the old heart attack gun. 0.93

02:31:29.000 So I'm not the only person who's heard of this.

02:31:31.000 There are ways to make people disappear.

02:31:34.000 There are ways to make people disappear and make it look like it was suicide or make it look like it was an accident.

02:31:41.000 There are ways.

02:31:42.000 There are ways.

02:31:47.000 There are ways, but I don't know why it hasn't been done.

02:31:52.000 Scroll up.

02:31:53.000 We'll take one or two more questions and then we'll see you next week.

02:32:00.000 Let's see.

02:32:01.000 Anyone could be taken out easy.

02:32:02.000 Exactly.

02:32:03.000 In this day and age, anybody could.

02:32:09.000 Flaw Hustler said they don't want him dead.

02:32:12.000 Well, I think more people need to start asking questions about this.

02:32:21.000 Pellets that are frozen and they melt when injected into the skin.

02:32:25.000 Okay, so that's another way, I guess.

02:32:27.000 I don't know. 0.95

02:32:28.000 I'm learning about so many ways that you can kill somebody.

02:32:33.000 You learn something new every episode.

02:32:37.000 Someone said wishing death.

02:32:38.000 Yeah, of course I'm going to wish death. 1.00

02:32:40.000 These are terrorists who murdered 3,000 Americans. 0.99

02:32:44.000 Oh my God, if you're one of these people that says you're wishing death on innocent people, this is not the show for you.

02:32:50.000 These are not innocent people. 0.66

02:32:51.000 These are terrorists who murdered your fellow Americans. 1.00

02:32:54.000 They deserve the death penalty. 1.00

02:32:56.000 They deserve the death penalty. 1.00

02:32:57.000 So if you don't think that it's acceptable to wish death on Islamic terrorists who murdered 3,000 Americans, there's something wrong with you. 1.00

02:33:07.000 Let's see. 0.97

02:33:08.000 You can scroll down. 0.96

02:33:14.000 Someone said Israel can do it. 0.98

02:33:17.000 I don't even care who does it at this point in time. 1.00

02:33:19.000 I just think that these Islamic terrorists need to be taken out. 1.00

02:33:23.000 They just need to be taken out because we should not be paying for it. 0.99

02:33:26.000 We should not be paying for Islamic terrorists to be taken care of for over two decades at Gitmo when they murdered or participated in the murder of over 3,000 Americans. 0.96

02:33:40.000 I think we can all agree. 0.94

02:33:43.000 I think we can all agree.

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Loomer Unleashed - June 11, 2026

EP193: THE DONROE DOCTRINE: Inside GITMO and CENTCOM With Secretary of War Hegseth

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