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00:08:57.000If you could make one demand of the Islamo death cult that is known as the leadership of Iran, you can make one demand as an unconditional portion of their surrender.
00:11:33.000I don't know how far we are in as far as making the case that soccer is gay.
00:11:36.000I feel like it's pretty definitive, but it certainly seems to be the favored sport of Marxists.
00:11:43.000Maybe curling, because a lot of Canadians play it.
00:11:46.000But remember, I've told you hey, if you need to understand why the left makes the decisions they do, why they back the people that they do, it's simple, right?
00:13:33.000I'm going to support the colonized team.
00:13:35.000Do you realize that there are places in Africa that would be less colonized, for example, than other, for some of the French colonies, the English colonies, that still try to rape away their aides?
00:13:46.000Why do you give them the moral high ground?
00:13:48.000Also, they mentioned South America, all of South America.
00:13:50.000You know what language they speak in most of South America, right?
00:14:29.000Even Democratic congressional candidates in New York City are jumping on this whole colonizer, colonized soccer is gay, but they don't realize it.
00:15:00.000I got colonized countries like Senegal who imprison you, by the way, for 10 years for anything even remotely homosexual, which is bad news for their soccer team.
00:17:06.000It will be finalized within 60 days unless there's some kind of mutually agreed upon extension.
00:17:11.000Let me start this off with what we're going to be doing.
00:17:14.000We're going to go through the objectives that were listed, whether we've accomplished them or not.
00:17:18.000The comparison to Barack Obama's Iran deal, where a lot of people are drawing false equivalencies, and what this actually means for us, for Iran, for example, the entanglements with Israel, as many people view them.
00:17:32.000But I want to leave this with the three biggest lies, just so you know, we'll give you all the references as we do every single show when we stream 11 a.m. Eastern, that the United States is giving Iran.
00:18:05.000You need to keep in mind with negotiations, the primary question you need to ask is will this negotiation, will this deal, will I be better off for making it than if I had not?
00:18:25.000Now, at some point there was going to be an off ramp and it was never going to be ideal.
00:18:32.000The alternative to an off ramp, and I get it, there could be a different mile marker for it, is complete destruction of Iran, which many people obviously didn't want, namely the critics of Donald Trump.
00:18:45.000So are we better off having taken this off ramp?
00:19:02.000The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser focused.
00:19:06.000Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their Navy and other security infrastructure, and they will never have nuclear weapons.
00:19:17.000Okay, so I think that's a good place to start.
00:20:52.000No, they're going to have to talk a lot about that, but they do address at least the minimums here, right?
00:20:56.000And you mentioned it the down blending.
00:20:57.000At the very minimum, we're going to have this in the 60 day agreement, which to us, it's either get rid of that stuff or down blend it to where you can use it in your reactors, and that's it.
00:21:05.000And that's point eight in this memorandum.
00:21:07.000And what's included, again, you can check the references that Iran agrees not to procure or develop nuclear weapons.
00:21:12.000The United States and Iran agree to resolve the issue of Iran's enriched uranium.
00:21:16.000Like you said, at minimum, down blended under IAEA supervision.
00:21:20.000And any sanctions relief is tied to Iran complying with all of this, to be clear.
00:21:26.000So these are going to be pushed to the final agreement as far as the details, the enrichment, the timeline, the inspections.
00:21:32.000I also want to put one thing out there that's very important before we even get to the comparisons of Barack Obama's deal versus this.
00:21:40.000Please tell me you understand the difference between preemptive appeasement through diplomacy and wrecking their shit and then negotiating.
00:21:53.000You get that that's like the primary difference.
00:21:56.000Now, as to whether we use that leverage to get enough, sure, some of that remains to be seen.
00:22:01.000But to act as though we are entering into these talks with the same positioning, I would imagine anyone saying that either hasn't thought of this or is being dishonest.
00:22:11.000That's the whole reason for the conflict.
00:22:13.000That's the whole reason for the destruction of the Navy.
00:22:17.000And again, a big part of this, remember, Obama's deal, there were a lot of problems with the IAEA.
00:22:21.000They didn't have the ability to inspect Iran's undeclared site.
00:23:01.000Back then, Marco Rubio being pretty damn clear as to why that would need to be neutralized.
00:23:08.000The purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability.
00:23:11.000Why does Iran want that ballistic missile capability?
00:23:14.000What they are trying to do and have been trying to do for a very long time is build a conventional weapons capability as a shield where they can hide behind.
00:23:23.000Meaning, there would come a point where they have so many conventional missiles, so many drones, and it can inflict so much damage that no one can do anything about their nuclear program.
00:23:33.000That said, We would not mind, we would not be heartbroken, and we hope that the Iranian people can overthrow this government and establish a new future for that country.
00:23:41.000We would love for that to be possible.
00:23:43.000But the objective of this mission is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities and of their naval capabilities.
00:23:49.000Now, it would have been good if he had just had a meeting with President Trump or if President Trump had sat down with him and they just sort of made sure they were on the same page because that brings us to now.
00:24:01.000And I get what President Trump is saying here, but it's bad communication.
00:24:05.000He said it'd be unfair for Iran to not have these missiles.
00:24:50.000And let me explain to you what I mean.
00:24:52.000Marco Rubio was very clear that in tandem, it's a problem, right?
00:24:57.000Iran's this sort of opaque policy where we're not able to inspect, we have no idea what they're doing with their uranium or enriching it.
00:25:05.000And then building effectively a dome, a covering, so that no one would ever be able to stop them to inspect, see what they are doing with nukes.
00:25:17.000If you take away one of those components, namely the nuclear component, then you can make the case that, you know what, actually everyone around there having a similar amount of missiles kind of forces them to play nice as opposed to a race to nukes.
00:25:30.000So when you remove the nuclear component, which remains to be seen, so there's a lot of if this, then that, I think that there could be a case made that it's at least not as irreparably damaging for Iran to have some ballistic missiles.
00:25:44.000Yeah, and we did wipe out about 50% of their pre war levels of missiles.
00:25:49.000It's not completely failed, but there's still enough left that if that was your goal, you didn't achieve it.
00:25:53.000Well, also, they're going to be less effective with said missiles because of their Navy being wiped out.
00:26:24.000You know, overseer, like, hey, look, we did what we wanted to do.
00:26:28.000Now, what you guys do is on you, but we're going to keep a close eye.
00:26:31.000I mean, you're starting off with a negotiation.
00:26:33.000Like, for example, let's say you have a dog that's just constantly being a problem in your neighborhood, and the dog is biting people, and the dog's not fenced in at all.
00:27:37.000Did you have anything you wanted to add to that before we go to the comparison of JCPOA in this?
00:27:42.000Yeah, no, and I agree with your point.
00:27:43.000Like it was all tied, the missile shield was always tied to nuclear weapons.
00:27:47.000And I do think that, you know, we're taking a different approach with Iran right now.
00:27:50.000We're taking an approach that says the last decades of trying to solve this problem, kind of with hard force or with sanctions or any of the things that we've tried, hasn't really worked.
00:28:00.000How about we try to take a baby step to integrating them in the region a little bit and making all of them play nicely together?
00:28:07.000Maybe that will be a path forward while not taking the military option off the table.
00:28:18.000But here's the other thing it did show the rest of the world, especially the Gulf states, you better have an alternate to the Strait of Hormuz.
00:28:25.000You better build something that can get oil out so that if this ever happens again, you remove that chip.
00:28:31.000You remove that from Iran's capabilities.
00:28:51.000So I really do think there are legitimate grievances, criticisms on all sides, and some of those remain to be resolved.
00:28:58.000The thing that's really hard with this story, and I know this feels dry, but it's because last time I was spending so much time with it and seeing people.
00:29:05.000Communicate opinions where I go, well, that's, you know what, that's pretty reasonable.
00:29:07.000Then I realized it was articulately put, but it was based on nothing as far as reality.
00:29:15.000Just people have either no information, incomplete information, incorrect information, and then they relay that information to you with their opinion.
00:29:23.000But the truth is, a lot of people are guessing.
00:29:26.000Instead of guessing, focus on what you know and hopefully what we'd like to see take place.
00:29:30.000Right now, it's, there's some good, but who knows?
00:29:36.000To be figured out here, but I do have a lot more faith in this administration to figure this out than other ones.
00:29:40.000And by the way, speaking of which, JD Vance, right now, the Vice President's speaking at the White House doing a briefing on this very topic.
00:29:47.000At some point, I mean, we can go to him right now.
00:29:48.000We can have the guys watch and see if anything interesting.
00:29:50.000I'm sure he's going to get some rather pointed questions.
00:29:52.000Let's go to him right now, and then they can let us know.
00:29:54.000We'll continue with the JCPOA stuff after.
00:29:56.000Their capacity for enrichment, the facilities at which they were using to develop enrichment and develop a potential nuclear weapon, those facilities are still destroyed.
00:30:05.000Their conventional military is still destroyed.
00:30:11.000And now we see whether they are willing to comply with the next step of the president's peace plan.
00:30:17.000As you all know, the part of the peace plan, the part of this MOU that I think have been most misrepresented by certain parts of the media is the idea that the Iranians get all these benefits.
00:30:27.000You will hear things about $300 billion or $24 billion or this or that number of money or amount of money.
00:30:33.000And the simple fact is that the only way the Iranians get any of those resources, not a single penny, by the way, from the United States of America under any circumstances, But the only way that they would ever get any benefit of the bargain is if they comply fully and change their behavior.
00:30:50.000And so you really have a win win situation for the United States of America.
00:30:54.000If the Iranians don't change their behavior, their military and their nuclear program is still destroyed.
00:31:00.000If they do change their behavior, then they are going to have a transformative relationship with the Middle East, and the Middle East will have a transformative relationship with the people of Iran.
00:31:10.000That's a win for the American people and for the President of the United States.
00:31:14.000Regardless of which option the Iranians ultimately choose, we obviously want them to choose the right option.
00:31:19.000The interesting thing about their system, and I think it's important for the American people to appreciate this point in particular, is that there are real divisions within their country about how exactly to proceed.
00:31:30.000And what we've seen over the last couple of months is that the pragmatists within the Iranian system, the people who really do want to transform their relationship with the Middle East and with the world, those people are winning the argument.
00:31:44.000The United States wants those people to win the argument.
00:31:46.000The United States wants to have a better relationship, but in order for that to happen, The Iranians have to perform.
00:31:52.000And if they don't perform, as we've said before, they don't get any of the benefits of the bargain.
00:31:57.000So, what I'd ask all of you is just to report honestly that the United States isn't giving up a cent of the bargain.
00:32:03.000It's almost like they read my preparation.
00:32:11.000I was going to say, well, look, going off this and then we'll go back to them.
00:32:14.000I wanted to get to the comparison that people are making because there are memes out there Obama's deal with JCPOA versus Trump.
00:32:19.000They're calling it the MOU, the memorandum today.
00:32:22.000What we saw with Barack Obama was there was a bunch of oil and energy sanctions lifted, right, upon IAEA verification.
00:32:30.000That administration reversed like $160 billion in oil revenue losses.
00:32:33.000They restored access to $56 billion in frozen assets and then released about $1.7 billion, but it was really $1.3 billion of American taxpayer dollars plus interest to Iran.
00:32:46.000Now, there's more to it than that because a lawsuit and stuff, we weren't just like, hey.
00:32:58.000So, anyone out there saying $300 billion of your dollars, who aren't people who are now fiscal hawks, they are either very, very ignorant or lying to you.
00:33:10.000The reconstruction, the $300 billion, is incredibly conditional, and it is designed to provide a potential bridge to all of these other Gulf states who hate Iran so that they can actually have some skin in the game.
00:33:23.000In other words, we've said for a very long time, this is my favorite part, I will say, of this deal.
00:33:27.000To be very clear, it's not only not American taxpayer dollars, this may prove to be, and we don't know yet, historically something that transforms that area of the world where, for the first time, other nations who have hated Iran, who have not wanted Iran to have a nuke, who have sort of siloed themselves from Iran, may actually have some skin in the game and a vested interest in a more stable Iran and be able to take part.
00:33:53.000In other words, if we want to remove ourselves, recuse ourselves from the Middle East, that area of the world, this could be an off ramp.
00:34:14.000And you saw JD Vance say that to transform the relationship with the Middle East.
00:34:17.000That's what we were just talking about with the Gulf states.
00:34:19.000If Qatar wants to invest and build a power plant in Iran, that's the kind of thing that this deal covers only if Iran changes its behavior.
00:34:28.000Old regime of Iran, not changing their behavior at all, constantly being a threat to their neighbors.
00:34:33.000That is a guaranteed war at some point for some reason.
00:34:38.000Changing their behavior in the Middle East, tying them a little closely together with the other Gulf states, and making sure that they have incentives to do the right thing and have a flourishing economy and have the right people win the argument, as JD Vance said, within Iran, that's a different strategy that we haven't really been able to try effectively at all before.
00:36:26.000To do that, what we're trying to ensure is they don't rebuild that capacity, not just a year from now, two years from now, but many, many years from now, so that our children never have to worry about a state sponsor of terrorism having a nuclear weapon.
00:37:21.000That would mean a real inspections regime.
00:37:23.000That would mean a real enforcement regime.
00:37:25.000As the MOU contemplates, That would mean the destruction of their enriched stockpile.
00:37:29.000All of these things are the sorts of steps you're going to take if you're serious about ending your nuclear weapons program.
00:37:35.000And that, again, is why I go back to this fundamental trade that's built into the deal.
00:37:39.000They need money to do anything, their economy is in absolute dire straits.
00:37:45.000But in order for them to get any integration into the world economy, they're going to have to show us and verify for us that they are changing their behavior.
00:37:53.000And that's why the deal is set up in the way that it is.
00:38:06.000I mean, I think the president was joking, but as he often does.
00:38:10.000But no, I think, look, the entire team has worked very well on this, and we've got this thing to a very good place for the American people.
00:38:16.000Now, I have seen some progressive criticisms of me personally saying, what experience does the vice president of the United States have with hostile, high stakes negotiations?
00:38:26.000And I would point those progressive critics to the fact that just two days ago, I spent over an hour on The View.
00:38:32.000So, I actually have great experience in very hostile negotiations, and I've used that.
00:38:37.000I mean, look, Joy Behar is way tougher than the Iranians, and she and I are best friends now.
00:38:42.000So, we're going to get to a good place here.
00:39:18.000And what that means is we expect Hezbollah is not going to be firing rockets and firing drones at the Israelis.
00:39:24.000And we also expect that the Israelis are not going to be going wild in Lebanon, right?
00:39:28.000Both sides have to honor their end of the deal.
00:39:30.000Now, as you guys know, sometimes these ceasefires are a little messy.
00:39:34.000The President of the United States said this a couple of weeks ago that a ceasefire in that region of the world just means they're shooting a little bit less at each other than they were before.
00:39:42.000What you've seen is radical progress in Lebanon, less shooting, less firing.
00:39:47.000But you're still going to have these little flare ups from time to time.
00:39:50.000And that's just the sort of thing that we're going to have to manage through the diplomatic process.
00:39:54.000Secretary Rubio's been sort of the person on point.
00:39:57.000It's actually worked out extraordinarily well because we do have substantially less shooting, but it's going to be something we have to manage.
00:40:04.000And eventually, what we want to see is the Lebanese government, the elected representatives of the people of Lebanon, who are able to police southern Lebanon so that Hezbollah is not taken over the country, the Israelis are not threatened, and then consequently, the Israelis are not attacking.
00:40:22.000Look, one of the interesting things that you've seen is that the Iranians have been completely unable to sell oil, not because of sanctions, but because of the blockade.
00:40:33.000Fundamentally, the thing that we have done here, the original, you know, what we give, what they give, is that we said we're going to lift the blockade, we're going to allow you to sell some of your oil, and they're going to open the Strait of Hormuz.
00:40:45.000We see that process starting to work already.
00:40:48.000It's going to take a little time before it picks up fully.
00:41:02.000Deciding the future governance of the straight.
00:41:04.000A senior U.S. journalist yesterday that they expect Iran to push aggressively on this, but also that Gulf states won't allow any kind of tolls.
00:41:12.000How strenuously will the U.S. fight to keep tolls out of the straight and keep any fees away from the future straight commercial traffic?
00:41:19.000And are you going to leave it to the Gulf states to kind of fight this battle?
00:41:22.000Well, first of all, we believe international waterways should be.
00:41:27.000That's what you see, of course, in the 60 days of the MOU.
00:41:29.000And when you say it leaves it open, it doesn't really leave it open, except in the sense that, of course, the final negotiation is going to set the terms of what comes afterwards, right?
00:41:40.000You said, I think that it's the Omanis and the Iranians, but it's actually the MOU contemplates that the Omanis, the Iranians, and the Gulf Coast Coalition together will figure out a proper security framework for the Straits in the future.
00:41:54.000And what I mean by that is that we don't ever want this to happen again.
00:43:32.000So people go, oh, well, at least under Barack Obama, there was a cap.
00:43:36.000Those people are also being dishonest or they are incredibly ignorant.
00:43:40.000So, under Barack Obama, the inspections were a joke.
00:43:43.000That was the reason for the JCPOA being torn up.
00:43:46.000You will hear those on the left and the Marxist right say, well, it was capped at 3.6% their enriched uranium, and they only went beyond it when Donald Trump tore up the agreement.
00:43:55.000No, Donald Trump tore up the agreement because inspections were a joke.
00:43:59.000They weren't, it wasn't capable to conduct them.
00:44:03.000We suspected them quite reasonably of enriching far beyond that.
00:44:08.000And again, we need to do something differently.
00:44:10.000So that's why it was torn up, and then we knew that they'd enrich it.
00:44:14.000As to when, your guess is as good as mine, because under Barack Obama, there was a 24 day notice of inspection.
00:44:21.000On the suspected undeclared sites, including military installations.
00:44:24.000So imagine they've got 24 days to move their stuff to Eddie Haskell.
00:45:02.000And basically, Obama's agreement with them gave them a lot of these things without making them perform to get these things, which is what he's just saying.
00:45:47.000We also didn't want to just give them a 10 or 15 year agreement that basically said, we're going to give you some money and you don't really, we'll give you 24 days' notice to go do this.
00:45:56.000And then 10 or 15 years later, it's like, okay, well, now we have to sign the next contract with these guys and hope that it holds after that.
00:46:36.000I also think that history could look back on this if this goes poorly and people could say, you know what, this is something that the Trump administration did not handle well.
00:46:45.000I go back and forth on it, really does depend on all of these issues that are to be determined.
00:46:50.000But I will say the critics of President Trump, you know, the people who said, I was betrayed and I'm not voting for him right back then, they were peddling misinformation saying, Donald Trump said no to.
00:49:09.000It's like, even if you disagree with Russian propaganda, Pravda or Russia today, when you hear someone like, And we know that with Donald Trump, this will be the approach that you're like, oh my God, they mean business.
00:50:24.000Which means the critics, the people who were saying, Tuckle Trump.
00:50:28.000These fools who think I haven't been tough enough on Iran when the stock market just hit a record high and oil prices are tumbling down are either jealous, bad people, or stupid.
00:50:45.000Make America great again, President DJT.
00:50:48.000Now, I will say I understand what he is, the information there that's a given is a neutered Iran.
00:50:55.000Where they have had billions of dollars in their nuclear enrichment facilities capabilities destroyed, a navy that is completely destroyed with really no enforcement mechanism.
00:51:05.000So, that as a baseline, which was ignored and has now been accomplished, what remains is the primary criticism that, oh, oil prices, oh, inflation.
00:51:46.000Not able to be anywhere close to nuclear.
00:51:49.000As far as we know, and that remains to be negotiated, these are all big things.
00:51:52.000But the critics were saying it doesn't matter because either, insert lie here, hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars going to rebuild Iran.
00:52:46.000New poll shows President Trump's economic approval work underwater.
00:52:50.000According to a Reuters and Ipsos survey, only 22% approve of Trump's handling of the cost of living and just 21% approve of his handling of inflation.
00:53:00.000This comes as inflation rose 4.2% last month to a three year high.
00:53:05.000I think the reason you see him so eager to make this announcement is the pressure he feels in terms of gas prices and rising inflation.
00:54:31.000It's just going to shift to something else, including, by the way, those on the Marxist right who claim to be amongst you and be America first.
00:54:40.000Do you want to get to some of the worst responses?
00:54:41.000I think we should, but I'm glad you brought up Israel because this should forever put to bed the idea.
00:54:47.000That Donald Trump is controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel because this goes completely against what they want.
00:54:54.000There is no clearer line in the sand for them than being able to go into Lebanon whenever they want and to be able to strike Iran whenever they want.
00:55:02.000And we basically just said, no, you can't.
00:55:33.000This shows that Donald Trump can be a pragmatist in dealing with.
00:55:36.000Aligning with them where convenient and telling them to go screw themselves when they're acting like entitled pricks.
00:55:41.000And I get that they want to defend themselves.
00:55:43.000I understand it, but it doesn't mean that their method in defending themselves or dealing with these conflicts is the same as ours or that it should be.
00:56:18.000It doesn't include just bombing them all the time from now until whenever, until you get somebody to come in and do your dirty work and do the ground invasion that you can't do yourself.
00:57:17.000Well, because the United States is addressing the Islamic Republic of Iran not as a rogue terror state, the Third Reich reconstituted in the Middle East, but as a normal country.
00:57:28.000In fact, as a powerful sovereign country whose internal affairs will be, as a matter of record and agreement, a treaty unmolested.
00:57:37.000Because you don't interfere in the internal affairs in Powerful countries.
00:58:24.000You, I mean, the IRGC, the people, if you could make that case with Canada, where if we were to invade Canada, be like, you know what, you guys are just too gay, Canadian government, and so we're going to de gayify you, whatever.
00:58:34.000But you go, oh, hold on, there's a problem.
00:58:35.000They were elected by equally gay people, right?
00:58:38.000This government was elected to do lockdowns and silly, goofy, gay shit, so you would be in conflict with the people.
00:58:46.000When Tucker says you're free to run your country however you want, what he's really saying is you are free to subjugate, to rape, to torture, to enslave your own people who didn't vote for you and don't want you.
00:58:58.000It's very important to make that delineation.
00:59:00.000It's not why we were in the conflict, but he does that on purpose and he does it consistently.
00:59:07.000It means almost 50 years of watching reports on television about how Iran is an out of control theocracy that murders gays for being gay and prevents women from getting educated or whatever they've been telling you.
01:00:21.000And this completely unstable, see exhibits A through X, wants to have a nuclear weapon so that they could outsource, they could actually export that instability across the globe.
01:00:34.000And by the way, look, all their neighbors are incredibly concerned about it.
01:00:39.000Is he takes the exhibits, he takes the case building, and he conflates that with the actual concern or end game.
01:00:46.000We were saying, and the whole world was saying, a nation that does ABC and acts in a way that aligns with XYZ, hanging gays, throwing them off rooftops, burning people alive, raping dissidents ceremonially, right?
01:01:01.000Those people, because of all these indicators, really shouldn't have a nuclear weapon because they've also told us what they would do with it.
01:01:08.000The war wasn't about the village people being thrown off a bedrock roof.
01:01:15.000It was about ensuring that those psychos aren't able to damage people here who don't share those values.
01:01:38.000And then he compared us to the British empire and said they were basically over after Suez, certainly after World War I and World War II, but they kind of stayed around.
01:01:46.000He's making this kind of comparison that Britain couldn't win a war on its own and had to call in other people to help to win that war.
01:01:52.000And so, therefore, they're no longer the empire that they used to be.
01:03:30.000It would have been nice, and they've clarified this administration many times, if the people stepped up and decided that they wanted regime change, but we weren't going to do that.
01:03:56.000Well, we don't give a shit about your polling.
01:03:58.000He's not your president, he's our president.
01:04:02.000This couldn't be more clear that he is, for better or worse, whether you agree or not, in good faith, Donald Trump is acting on behalf of the American people.
01:04:10.000That's what I think is a main takeaway.
01:04:12.000By the way, his logic, Tucker's, you could use it with any post conflict agreement.
01:04:16.000You could use it with us in Japan and the conditions that we laid out.
01:04:19.000We also, by the way, did help directly rebuild and fund.
01:04:54.000And again, I really hope that this is the final nail in the coffin of Tucker Carlson being a thing because he has shown completely by those statements that he is not.
01:05:05.000Interested in America being the power that it has been and still is today.
01:05:11.000I don't know what it is, but he seems to be pretty pro Russia, pretty pro China, and pretty pro Islam based on his comments and where he chooses to vacation.
01:05:20.000It won't be a thing as long as people like Ben Shapiro are around, who, by the way, has been on the show many times and I've had a friendly relationship with him, but he acts as a very good backboard for someone like Tucker Carlson, who's trying to paint everyone who disagrees with him as Ben Shapiro like.
01:05:36.000Because people like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin's been on the show, and I think he's a very decent man.
01:05:40.000It's like they don't have the chip in their brain to simply understand that there's the appearance of them looking out for the best interests of Israel.
01:06:18.000We want the best interests of the goals of the United States to be accomplished.
01:06:23.000I don't know exactly what someone like Ben Shapiro wants because, on the flip side of Tucker Carlson, he's equally wrong, just the other direction.
01:06:32.000Well, I've said many times the president deciding to go into Iran and to hit nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer and then to go after Iran's ballistic missile facilities, nuclear facilities, Army, Navy, and Air Force in.
01:06:43.000This current operation was the signal act of political bravery, perhaps, of my lifetime.
01:06:49.000With that said, this MOU appears to be just from the text a disaster that does not achieve any of the actual signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning.
01:06:57.000There are effectively five goals that were set by the administration at the beginning.
01:07:00.000One was ending the nuclear program, not just nuclear weapons, no nuclear enrichment, zero enrichment.
01:07:08.000And the president today suggested that ballistic missiles should actually continue to be held by the Iranians because the Saudis, our allies, also hold ballistic missiles.
01:07:17.000Then you have the support of terrorism.
01:07:20.000Anything that looks like an attempt to end terrorism.
01:07:23.000A permanent opening of the Strait of Hormuz toll free.
01:07:25.000Not only is that not in the deal, the deal appears to have a provision allowing Iran and Oman to attempt to toll the Straits after 60 days.
01:07:32.000And then finally, the idea that Iran would receive some sort of sanctions relief after all of those things happen.
01:07:37.000We are already seeing from day one relief in their ability to ship oil out of Iran.
01:07:42.000In my opinion, the vice president of the United States, the chief negotiator on this particular project, has not well served the president.
01:07:48.000Also, there's another clip, if you guys can pull it from his own show, where he talked about well, what is Israel supposed to do?
01:08:00.000Because here is the key takeaway for me.
01:08:03.000Look, and I hope that everyone understands we kind of had a binary choice a negotiated off ramp or total destruction, which would be total destruction of Iran, not the United States in this scenario.
01:08:13.000So, again, it could be a different mile marker as to where that off ramp is.
01:08:19.000Is the negotiated off ramp better than the complete and utter destruction of Iran and certainly the regime?
01:08:27.000Well, Those who said no new forever wars would have to acknowledge that it is.
01:08:32.000Those who said inflation, gas, this is not good for America first, impeach Trump, would have to acknowledge that the negotiated off ramp is.
01:08:41.000And those who actually want what is best for the United States would understand that this was always the end point.
01:08:48.000There would be a negotiated off ramp, and we generated leverage by destroying their Navy and rendering them far less capable than before.
01:08:56.000The alternative complete and total destruction.
01:08:58.000Or And option number three that seems to be coming from some folks, and I understand why you have grievances with them.
01:09:04.000Yeah, but this is an off ramp for us, but not the best one for Israel.
01:09:13.000I think we're better off here, and I know that some issues remain to be seen.
01:09:16.000But I think we can all agree that you'd be better off not being stuck in the middle of this conflict if it's avoidable, and certainly not a middle seat on an airplane.