Louder with Crowder - Examining Trump's Iran Deal: Is this Obama 2.0?

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00:06:01.000 Welcome to the lineup live.

00:06:03.000 Big words from a man who likes soccer, questioning our orientation like that.

00:06:07.000 That's Gerald.

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00:06:09.000 Hey, the Iran agreement, this memorandum today.

00:06:16.000 All right, let's get into it.

00:06:19.000 We're going to get into it.

00:06:20.000 We're going to get into the three biggest lies that are circulating.

00:06:22.000 There's so much misinformation and incomplete information out there.

00:06:27.000 Our only goal today is to clarify and to have an honest conversation.

00:06:31.000 I think there are legitimate cases to be made for it. 0.80

00:06:34.000 Against it, and I think there are legitimate cases to be made, and I've heard them made for the destruction of Iran or not doing anything. 0.81

00:06:42.000 Some people have made the case.

00:06:43.000 There are legitimate cases to be made in conversations across the board, but can we actually have those anymore?

00:06:49.000 When you're talking about a negotiation, we understand it's a compromise, right?

00:06:51.000 We understand that we're never going to find an agreement where everyone is going to be happy.

00:06:55.000 It doesn't excuse lying about it. 0.62

00:06:58.000 Biggest one 300 billion American taxpayer dollars that would fix homelessness we're spending in Iran.

00:07:01.000 No, we are not.

00:07:02.000 That's not true.

00:07:03.000 So we're going to get into all of this. 0.91

00:07:04.000 Also, Soccer is gay, and we'll explain to you why.

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00:08:54.000 Glad to be with you.

00:08:56.000 I do have a question for you. 0.99

00:08:57.000 If 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. 0.97

00:09:09.000 What would you include? 0.99

00:09:12.000 I'll ruin it.

00:09:12.000 Don't look at me.

00:09:13.000 What do you mean?

00:09:13.000 I don't.

00:09:14.000 They have to convert to Christianity.

00:09:15.000 Yeah.

00:09:16.000 That wouldn't ruin it.

00:09:17.000 No, it would ruin it for them.

00:09:18.000 Well, no, they'd be better off.

00:09:20.000 What are you saying?

00:09:21.000 Christianity does not improve the lives of those who subscribe to it? 1.00

00:09:24.000 It definitely does. 0.97

00:09:24.000 You're better than that. 0.97

00:09:25.000 You don't sound like a man of faith.

00:09:27.000 I don't know that I'm better than that, but I appreciate your confidence.

00:09:29.000 Well, we'll have these conversations more every weekday at 11 a.m. Eastern.

00:09:33.000 Captain Morgan, CEO, how are you?

00:09:34.000 Very well.

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00:09:36.000 My body's falling apart, but I'm not supposed to be here.

00:09:39.000 I feel like a gold member with things flaking off.

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00:09:45.000 Yeah, that's pretty much it.

00:09:47.000 Wednesday, June 24th at the Addison Improv in Dallas, Texas.

00:09:50.000 Not underscore Firestine on X. How are you, sir, Josh?

00:09:52.000 Good. 1.00

00:09:53.000 The one demand I would have remove the hijab. 1.00

00:09:57.000 Yeah, the hijabs, burqas, get rid of that rule. 1.00

00:09:59.000 Tops off in Tehran, that's what I say. 1.00

00:10:01.000 That's exactly right.

00:10:02.000 Yeah.

00:10:03.000 No, you're not a blue guy, but for the rest of us, straight men.

00:10:03.000 There you go.

00:10:05.000 Well, he wouldn't mind it if there was like an agreement where a palette of them was provided.

00:10:12.000 A palette of what?

00:10:13.000 I don't know.

00:10:14.000 I feel like anytime noodles is gone, all of you feel like you have to be on some weird behavior for Applejack and you're quiet.

00:10:20.000 What did I do?

00:10:21.000 I didn't do anything.

00:10:22.000 No, Gerald did, though.

00:10:23.000 This is all on Gerald.

00:10:24.000 I was having fun.

00:10:25.000 I said, tops off in Tehran, that's an alliteration. 1.00

00:10:27.000 It's fun and implies that it's bullshit. 0.99

00:10:28.000 Gerald doesn't like fun. 0.99

00:10:29.000 It's not, though.

00:10:29.000 It's not.

00:10:30.000 He just doesn't like fun.

00:10:31.000 He's like, well, I don't like it.

00:10:32.000 Oh, that's not fair.

00:10:33.000 I don't like that.

00:10:34.000 Your thing is not my thing.

00:10:36.000 He's that guy.

00:10:37.000 I know.

00:10:37.000 It's really, it's kind of grinding me down.

00:10:39.000 He's like, you don't like soccer?

00:10:39.000 I know.

00:10:40.000 Well, I guess you think the whole world is wrong.

00:10:42.000 Yes!

00:10:43.000 How many times do you have to go through this?

00:10:46.000 Everybody's like, well, you just think the whole world missed something?

00:10:48.000 Yes!

00:10:49.000 Yes!

00:10:50.000 Eventually, they've been having zero opinions. 0.92

00:10:52.000 The whole world, who none of them can win a war, and most of them, the whole world outside of the United States, is not entirely gay. 0.95

00:11:00.000 Gayer than the United States. 0.84

00:11:02.000 They have won wars historically. 1.00

00:11:04.000 They just, you know, they're all gay. 1.00

00:11:05.000 So he can't help himself. 1.00

00:11:06.000 So he just.

00:11:07.000 Well, you know, they have.

00:11:08.000 Actually, the teacher, I could use some more homework.

00:11:12.000 I hope you could.

00:11:14.000 Hey, how many packages does it take to screw in a light bulb?

00:11:16.000 Well, actually, if they have two hands, it only takes one.

00:11:18.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:11:19.000 On a technical basis.

00:11:21.000 Yeah, all right.

00:11:24.000 I know you don't want to fact check, Josh.

00:11:25.000 You know I've told you this when we're talking about it.

00:11:27.000 Usually you're wrong.

00:11:28.000 Yeah.

00:11:28.000 Well, look, I present to you Exhibit.

00:11:31.000 Whatever is Z14. 0.85

00:11:33.000 I don't know how far we are in as far as making the case that soccer is gay. 0.94

00:11:36.000 I feel like it's pretty definitive, but it certainly seems to be the favored sport of Marxists.

00:11:43.000 Maybe curling, because a lot of Canadians play it.

00:11:46.000 But 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?

00:11:54.000 Just you can comment below.

00:11:55.000 What do you do?

00:11:56.000 Just look whoever is considered oppressed, marginalized, minority will be supported.

00:12:03.000 That's it. 0.91

00:12:03.000 They must be oppressed, and the majority must be the oppressor. 0.91

00:12:06.000 They must be the colonizer, right? 0.99

00:12:07.000 That's how they support Hamas, Palestine, and LGBTQ. 0.92

00:12:11.000 That's how they support the Iranian regime. 0.99

00:12:14.000 But then also, you know, stop Asian hate until they realize that, wait a second, black people are carrying out the violence. 0.99

00:12:18.000 It doesn't matter what it is. 0.99

00:12:19.000 Oppressor, oppressed.

00:12:22.000 I'll reverse the order.

00:12:23.000 Oppressor, oppressed.

00:12:24.000 That's it.

00:12:25.000 Marxism.

00:12:25.000 Always.

00:12:27.000 Okay. 0.74

00:12:27.000 That's how they build their useful or useless coalitions. 0.74

00:12:31.000 Now, here the leftists describe why they like soccer and who they root for.

00:12:36.000 Okay, so for my Latinos watching the World Cup, let me clarify this in the rooting order, okay?

00:12:40.000 First, number one place you're rooting for is the country you or your parents are from.

00:12:45.000 When your country is not playing, you must root for the underdog.

00:12:49.000 We also always choose underdog over colonizers.

00:12:52.000 So, for example, we're going to choose a country in a Latin American country over European countries.

00:12:58.000 And then we're going all of Africa except South Africa. 0.94

00:13:03.000 I'm going to root for the team that was colonized.

00:13:06.000 I do not want any of the European countries to win it.

00:13:09.000 Let the rest of us win the game, the tournament.

00:13:14.000 Senegal versus their colonizers. 0.99

00:13:16.000 Oof.

00:13:18.000 Do we really need to question who's so far on?

00:13:21.000 Yeah, you probably should.

00:13:22.000 At the bottom.

00:13:25.000 Yeah, that's right. 1.00

00:13:28.000 They don't like Argentina because they're basically white. 1.00

00:13:29.000 Now, and they won last year or last time. 1.00

00:13:32.000 Think about this.

00:13:32.000 You really have to know.

00:13:33.000 I'm going to support the colonized team.

00:13:35.000 Do 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?

00:13:46.000 Why do you give them the moral high ground?

00:13:48.000 Also, they mentioned South America, all of South America.

00:13:50.000 You know what language they speak in most of South America, right?

00:13:54.000 Almost everywhere.

00:13:55.000 Spanish.

00:13:56.000 You know, the Spanish at one point, right?

00:13:58.000 They were an empire too.

00:13:59.000 They're just not today because they're lazy and they take naps in the middle of the day.

00:14:03.000 So you understand that that is shifting.

00:14:05.000 I mean, Mexico was a colonizer for crying out loud.

00:14:07.000 I know. 0.71

00:14:08.000 It was a Mexican empire for about, I don't know, six years. 0.93

00:14:10.000 I know. 0.99

00:14:11.000 Not even that.

00:14:11.000 When there's no moral basis, it's just whoever is most successful in their endeavors must be wrong.

00:14:18.000 Or we will obviously not grant the moral high ground.

00:14:21.000 We'll grant the moral high ground to even evil people, terrorists in many instances.

00:14:25.000 They apply it to soccer.

00:14:26.000 It couldn't be more clear. 0.99

00:14:28.000 Now do it with trans and kids. 0.99

00:14:29.000 Even Democratic congressional candidates in New York City are jumping on this whole colonizer, colonized soccer is gay, but they don't realize it. 0.99

00:14:36.000 That's my commentary, this trend. 0.99

00:14:38.000 The first match this week in a MetLife stadium taking place in New Jersey, even though some people say it is technically New York.

00:14:44.000 But what do you think will win it all?

00:14:46.000 Who are you rooting for?

00:14:47.000 Oh, I like Mexico.

00:14:49.000 Mexico, there you go. 1.00

00:14:50.000 I'm rooting for Senegal. 1.00

00:14:51.000 Senegal, okay. 0.95

00:14:53.000 What? 0.87

00:14:55.000 No vote for me.

00:14:56.000 Yeah.

00:14:57.000 I'm rooting against America.

00:14:58.000 Rooting for the underdog.

00:15:00.000 I 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.

00:15:08.000 Ironically, it all comes full circle.

00:15:14.000 What a conundrum that must be to be like, oh, we got to root for the colonized country.

00:15:18.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:15:19.000 Oh, they violate human rights.

00:15:22.000 Yeah. 0.94

00:15:23.000 Yeah, but they were colonized.

00:15:24.000 Yeah, but it's still okay.

00:15:25.000 Yeah.

00:15:26.000 Right.

00:15:26.000 Yeah.

00:15:27.000 They don't have running water.

00:15:30.000 That's all it is.

00:15:31.000 That's all it is.

00:15:33.000 If you want to understand it, Marxism.

00:15:35.000 And this is because they need to appeal to minorities to build a very large coalition. 0.88

00:15:39.000 That's why we've talked about the Bolsheviks. 0.66

00:15:41.000 Yeah, there was a disproportionate percentage of Jewish representation.

00:15:45.000 It was a single digit percentage, but also Georgians, also people who were oppressed in any capacity.

00:15:51.000 They just build up this coalition, but it doesn't matter as to the motivations of those underdogs or oppressed.

00:15:57.000 And that's why invariably it leads to violence and civil war.

00:16:01.000 Because turns out they can't all get along. 0.96

00:16:04.000 Diversity is not really our biggest strength.

00:16:06.000 They're better off after being colonized anyway, in most cases.

00:16:08.000 But hey, you know, whatever.

00:16:10.000 Legitimate.

00:16:10.000 I'll stick with that.

00:16:11.000 Yes, of course they are. 0.96

00:16:13.000 Okay, you know, let's just go straight to Iran. 0.63

00:16:15.000 Let's deal with this.

00:16:17.000 You guys been following this?

00:16:18.000 A little bit.

00:16:19.000 You guys heard about this?

00:16:19.000 A little bit angry.

00:16:21.000 What are you, Jay Leno?

00:16:24.000 You guys heard about this?

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00:16:41.000 He's been around for a while. 1.00

00:16:44.000 Okay.

00:16:45.000 Why are you mad?

00:16:46.000 Before I get into my personal.

00:16:48.000 I'm mad at some of the responses that I'm seeing.

00:16:50.000 And we'll talk about Tucker Carlson here in just a little bit in this segment.

00:16:53.000 I watched more of his video, so it got me more angry.

00:16:56.000 All right.

00:16:56.000 So, the Memorandum of Understanding is what this is being called the tentative Iran deal that remains to be finalized.

00:17:04.000 Okay.

00:17:04.000 That was signed yesterday.

00:17:06.000 It will be finalized within 60 days unless there's some kind of mutually agreed upon extension.

00:17:11.000 Let me start this off with what we're going to be doing.

00:17:14.000 We're going to go through the objectives that were listed, whether we've accomplished them or not.

00:17:18.000 The 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.

00:17:32.000 But 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.

00:17:41.000 We are giving Iran $300 billion.

00:17:43.000 You see this everywhere.

00:17:44.000 I even think it was, I don't know if it was Nancy Pelosi, some representative who said, we could fix homelessness with that.

00:17:49.000 It's not American taxpayer dollars.

00:17:50.000 That's not happening.

00:17:50.000 Klobuchar.

00:17:51.000 Was it Klobuchar?

00:17:52.000 And then Pelosi offered some commentary that this is just like Barack Obama's deal, maybe worse.

00:17:52.000 I think so.

00:17:56.000 That's incorrect.

00:17:57.000 Incorrect entirely.

00:17:59.000 And that President Trump, you know, taco Trump, you're seeing that too right now.

00:18:02.000 That's not what's happening.

00:18:05.000 You 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?

00:18:18.000 And there's a term for that.

00:18:19.000 Yeah, Batna.

00:18:20.000 Best alternative to a negotiated agreement.

00:18:22.000 Right.

00:18:23.000 So that's how we need to.

00:18:24.000 Look at this.

00:18:25.000 Now, at some point there was going to be an off ramp and it was never going to be ideal.

00:18:32.000 The 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.

00:18:45.000 So are we better off having taken this off ramp?

00:18:47.000 What's good about it?

00:18:48.000 What's bad about it?

00:18:48.000 And what's the truth?

00:18:50.000 Well, let's go through the objectives, I think, first.

00:18:52.000 At the beginning of this, where a lot of people tried to lay out the objectives for this administration, Pete Hegseth.

00:18:58.000 Clarified it and reiterated it.

00:19:00.000 Three primary objectives.

00:19:02.000 The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser focused. 0.82

00:19:06.000 Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their Navy and other security infrastructure, and they will never have nuclear weapons. 0.86

00:19:17.000 Okay, so I think that's a good place to start. 0.90

00:19:18.000 Pretty clear.

00:19:18.000 Did we accomplish this?

00:19:20.000 Let's go through some of those objectives. 0.99

00:19:21.000 The first one this isn't easy, this is a gimme destruction of Iran's Navy. 0.85

00:19:25.000 The verdict, yeah. 0.98

00:19:27.000 Yeah.

00:19:29.000 Achieved.

00:19:30.000 A little bit.

00:19:31.000 Yeah.

00:19:31.000 Their pre war navy was anywhere from 100 to 145 vessels.

00:19:35.000 And I mean, 120 were sunk at least by mid March.

00:19:39.000 Yeah.

00:19:39.000 So just to be clear, that's about as definitive as you get.

00:19:43.000 Milton Bradley would say Trump won.

00:19:46.000 Oh, wow.

00:19:47.000 Looks like I sunk all your ships.

00:19:50.000 Wow. 1.00

00:19:52.000 What do you have to say about that, Khomeini?

00:19:57.000 He would be impossible to play that with.

00:20:00.000 He just always wins. 0.85

00:20:04.000 Number two, let's go through this as far as objectives preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. 0.92

00:20:10.000 The verdict, we don't know. 0.99

00:20:15.000 Cautiously optimistic.

00:20:17.000 And that is a problem, but I'll tell you an even bigger problem people commenting on this as though we have the information.

00:20:24.000 We don't.

00:20:25.000 Part of this agreement is they have 60 days to work this portion out because it is incredibly technical.

00:20:31.000 Yeah.

00:20:32.000 And it's funny that people often say, oh, you don't have room for nuance.

00:20:35.000 You don't think there's nuance in ensuring that they don't have nuclear weapons?

00:20:39.000 What's required to inspect said sites?

00:20:41.000 Also, the down blending, I guess to use the term, of the enriched uranium that they have.

00:20:47.000 That takes a while, and I'm willing to bet it's going to be more than just a multi point memo.

00:20:52.000 Yeah.

00:20:52.000 No, they're going to have to talk a lot about that, but they do address at least the minimums here, right?

00:20:56.000 And you mentioned it the down blending.

00:20:57.000 At 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.

00:21:05.000 And that's point eight in this memorandum.

00:21:07.000 And what's included, again, you can check the references that Iran agrees not to procure or develop nuclear weapons.

00:21:12.000 The United States and Iran agree to resolve the issue of Iran's enriched uranium.

00:21:16.000 Like you said, at minimum, down blended under IAEA supervision.

00:21:20.000 And any sanctions relief is tied to Iran complying with all of this, to be clear.

00:21:26.000 So these are going to be pushed to the final agreement as far as the details, the enrichment, the timeline, the inspections.

00:21:32.000 I 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. 0.86

00:21:40.000 Please tell me you understand the difference between preemptive appeasement through diplomacy and wrecking their shit and then negotiating. 0.74

00:21:53.000 You get that that's like the primary difference. 0.97

00:21:56.000 Now, as to whether we use that leverage to get enough, sure, some of that remains to be seen.

00:22:01.000 But 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.

00:22:11.000 That's the whole reason for the conflict.

00:22:13.000 That's the whole reason for the destruction of the Navy.

00:22:17.000 And again, a big part of this, remember, Obama's deal, there were a lot of problems with the IAEA. 0.57

00:22:21.000 They didn't have the ability to inspect Iran's undeclared site.

00:22:24.000 Right. 0.50

00:22:25.000 That was, they were saying, look, we know that they're enriching.

00:22:27.000 We don't know how much.

00:22:29.000 That needs to be worked out.

00:22:31.000 We don't have the details.

00:22:31.000 I'm willing to bet that that'll be.

00:22:34.000 Well, that'll be a crucial point.

00:22:35.000 That'll be a crucial point.

00:22:36.000 We've seen them do this before.

00:22:37.000 Right.

00:22:38.000 So going into it, we know that.

00:22:40.000 Point number three, destroy their ballistic missile capabilities, right?

00:22:43.000 That you saw Hagseth mention.

00:22:44.000 Here's the verdict on that.

00:22:47.000 That's a no.

00:22:48.000 That's a, that's a, that this one has not gone, has not gone well if that was the objective.

00:22:53.000 Right.

00:22:54.000 They are going to keep their ballistic missiles, to be clear.

00:22:58.000 Right.

00:22:59.000 And this brings us to bad messaging.

00:23:01.000 Back then, Marco Rubio being pretty damn clear as to why that would need to be neutralized.

00:23:08.000 The purpose of this is to destroy that missile capability.

00:23:11.000 Why does Iran want that ballistic missile capability? 0.93

00:23:14.000 What 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. 0.94

00:23:23.000 Meaning, 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. 0.83

00:23:33.000 That 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. 0.88

00:23:41.000 We would love for that to be possible.

00:23:43.000 But the objective of this mission is the destruction of their ballistic missile capabilities and of their naval capabilities.

00:23:49.000 Now, 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.

00:24:01.000 And I get what President Trump is saying here, but it's bad communication.

00:24:05.000 He said it'd be unfair for Iran to not have these missiles.

00:24:09.000 See how it all goes. 1.00

00:24:10.000 I think it's going to go well.

00:24:12.000 Go well, see.

00:24:12.000 So I will see you guys at Versailles.

00:24:14.000 Can I follow up quickly on something you said in the press conference?

00:24:17.000 You said you don't mind Iran having ballistic missiles.

00:24:21.000 Can you elaborate on that?

00:24:22.000 I want to make sure we have a standard position.

00:24:24.000 No, I'm saying that if other countries have them, it's a little bit unfair for them not to have some.

00:24:30.000 A ballistic missile is not the same thing as what we're talking about when we talk nuclear.

00:24:34.000 But if Saudi Arabia and Qatar and they all have some, I would say in relative proportion, I think it's okay. 0.97

00:24:42.000 That's what I mean.

00:24:43.000 Now, it's not written that way, but what he just said, I don't have as big of a problem with.

00:24:49.000 Yeah.

00:24:50.000 And let me explain to you what I mean.

00:24:52.000 Marco Rubio was very clear that in tandem, it's a problem, right?

00:24:57.000 Iran'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. 0.62

00:25:05.000 And 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. 0.70

00:25:14.000 That was the primary problem.

00:25:15.000 With those ballistic missiles.

00:25:17.000 If 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.

00:25:30.000 So 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. 0.55

00:25:44.000 Yeah, and we did wipe out about 50% of their pre war levels of missiles. 0.59

00:25:49.000 It's not completely failed, but there's still enough left that if that was your goal, you didn't achieve it.

00:25:53.000 Well, also, they're going to be less effective with said missiles because of their Navy being wiped out.

00:25:57.000 Yes.

00:25:58.000 So that hurts a lot.

00:25:59.000 All these things.

00:25:59.000 Yeah.

00:26:00.000 I mean, you were talking about this, that they have the right that extended.

00:26:01.000 Yeah.

00:26:02.000 When you have ships, you could take them out into the sea and then you have a longer range.

00:26:05.000 They don't have that ability now.

00:26:07.000 Right.

00:26:08.000 So all they have to launch is from land.

00:26:11.000 Yeah.

00:26:11.000 So, I mean, it does.

00:26:13.000 And you said 50% of their missiles gone.

00:26:15.000 It's a huge, huge deal.

00:26:16.000 And with Trump just saying this, saying they have a right to defend themselves, essentially, it kind of looks like America plays dad.

00:26:23.000 Yeah.

00:26:24.000 You know, overseer, like, hey, look, we did what we wanted to do.

00:26:28.000 Now, what you guys do is on you, but we're going to keep a close eye.

00:26:31.000 I mean, you're starting off with a negotiation.

00:26:33.000 Like, 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.

00:26:39.000 All right.

00:26:39.000 And you go, okay, here's what you have to do Your dog needs to have a muzzle on him, and we need to have a fence that he can't jump.

00:26:45.000 All right.

00:26:46.000 He doesn't have the muzzle.

00:26:47.000 He didn't do the, but there's a fence and he can't get out.

00:26:49.000 Well, now the muzzle is less important at that point.

00:26:53.000 It doesn't mean that you didn't start off with that negotiation, but the primary issue is.

00:26:57.000 The dog is no longer a threat to bite people. 0.87

00:27:00.000 That's what we're talking about with nuclear weapons in Iran, right? 0.73

00:27:04.000 It's also not that hard to get ballistic missiles.

00:27:05.000 That's a lot harder to regulate than nukes.

00:27:10.000 Nukes, people kind of keep track of those.

00:27:12.000 So, ballistic missiles, I'm not thrilled with it.

00:27:14.000 The messaging is bad.

00:27:15.000 Here's the catch, I should tell you they do have to purchase their missiles from China and, of course, hope they never have to use them.

00:27:29.000 Yeah, I wouldn't.

00:27:29.000 Oops.

00:27:30.000 It was a tchotchke economy. 1.00

00:27:30.000 Not great. 1.00

00:27:32.000 They're not.

00:27:33.000 They shouldn't be making missiles.

00:27:34.000 That actually makes it all worth it.

00:27:35.000 I'm actually fine with it now.

00:27:36.000 Yeah.

00:27:37.000 Did you have anything you wanted to add to that before we go to the comparison of JCPOA in this?

00:27:42.000 Yeah, no, and I agree with your point.

00:27:43.000 Like it was all tied, the missile shield was always tied to nuclear weapons. 0.73

00:27:47.000 And I do think that, you know, we're taking a different approach with Iran right now.

00:27:50.000 We'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.

00:28:00.000 How 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?

00:28:07.000 Maybe that will be a path forward while not taking the military option off the table.

00:28:11.000 There's no loss for us.

00:28:13.000 If we want to go back over there tomorrow and start bombing the hell out of these people, we can do that again.

00:28:17.000 We probably won't, though.

00:28:17.000 Let's be honest.

00:28:18.000 We probably won't.

00:28:18.000 But 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.

00:28:25.000 You better build something that can get oil out so that if this ever happens again, you remove that chip. 0.84

00:28:31.000 You remove that from Iran's capabilities.

00:28:33.000 We're not talking about this story. 0.91

00:28:35.000 This is done weeks and weeks and weeks ago because they don't have that to close to inflict pain.

00:28:40.000 That's what they need to do.

00:28:40.000 Yeah.

00:28:42.000 It could also be a case made that they sort of know they have a little bit more leverage.

00:28:45.000 All they need to do is close that straight for a while and we'll come to the table and acquiesce.

00:28:49.000 For now.

00:28:50.000 Yeah.

00:28:50.000 That's the way.

00:28:51.000 So I really do think there are legitimate grievances, criticisms on all sides, and some of those remain to be resolved.

00:28:58.000 The 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.

00:29:05.000 Communicate opinions where I go, well, that's, you know what, that's pretty reasonable.

00:29:07.000 Then I realized it was articulately put, but it was based on nothing as far as reality.

00:29:15.000 Just people have either no information, incomplete information, incorrect information, and then they relay that information to you with their opinion.

00:29:23.000 But the truth is, a lot of people are guessing.

00:29:26.000 Instead of guessing, focus on what you know and hopefully what we'd like to see take place.

00:29:30.000 Right now, it's, there's some good, but who knows?

00:29:34.000 There's a lot left.

00:29:34.000 Right.

00:29:36.000 To be figured out here, but I do have a lot more faith in this administration to figure this out than other ones.

00:29:40.000 And 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.

00:29:46.000 So we probably should go to him.

00:29:47.000 At some point, I mean, we can go to him right now.

00:29:48.000 We can have the guys watch and see if anything interesting.

00:29:50.000 I'm sure he's going to get some rather pointed questions.

00:29:52.000 Let's go to him right now, and then they can let us know.

00:29:54.000 We'll continue with the JCPOA stuff after.

00:29:56.000 Their capacity for enrichment, the facilities at which they were using to develop enrichment and develop a potential nuclear weapon, those facilities are still destroyed.

00:30:05.000 Their conventional military is still destroyed.

00:30:07.000 Sounds like it's a cold.

00:30:08.000 Sounds like it's a cold.

00:30:09.000 To our gas stocks.

00:30:10.000 It's still largely gone.

00:30:11.000 And now we see whether they are willing to comply with the next step of the president's peace plan.

00:30:17.000 As 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.

00:30:27.000 You will hear things about $300 billion or $24 billion or this or that number of money or amount of money. 0.63

00:30:33.000 And 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. 0.88

00:30:50.000 And so you really have a win win situation for the United States of America. 0.83

00:30:54.000 If the Iranians don't change their behavior, their military and their nuclear program is still destroyed. 0.52

00:31:00.000 If 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.

00:31:10.000 That's a win for the American people and for the President of the United States. 0.67

00:31:14.000 Regardless of which option the Iranians ultimately choose, we obviously want them to choose the right option.

00:31:19.000 The 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.

00:31:30.000 And 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.

00:31:44.000 The United States wants those people to win the argument. 0.99

00:31:46.000 The United States wants to have a better relationship, but in order for that to happen, The Iranians have to perform. 1.00

00:31:52.000 And if they don't perform, as we've said before, they don't get any of the benefits of the bargain. 1.00

00:31:57.000 So, 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.

00:32:03.000 It's almost like they read my preparation.

00:32:05.000 I know.

00:32:06.000 The sanctions relief and so forth that comes along with this bargain.

00:32:09.000 I guess we can show that.

00:32:11.000 I was going to say, well, look, going off this and then we'll go back to them.

00:32:14.000 I wanted to get to the comparison that people are making because there are memes out there Obama's deal with JCPOA versus Trump.

00:32:19.000 They're calling it the MOU, the memorandum today.

00:32:22.000 What we saw with Barack Obama was there was a bunch of oil and energy sanctions lifted, right, upon IAEA verification.

00:32:30.000 That administration reversed like $160 billion in oil revenue losses.

00:32:33.000 They 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.

00:32:46.000 Now, there's more to it than that because a lawsuit and stuff, we weren't just like, hey.

00:32:49.000 There's a lawsuit from 1979.

00:32:51.000 More than Donald Trump will be paying.

00:32:53.000 As far as American taxpayers, zero, right?

00:32:55.000 Zero.

00:32:56.000 Zero, and so that's more.

00:32:57.000 Zero, just to be clear. 0.97

00:32:58.000 So, 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. 0.95

00:33:08.000 That's not up for debate.

00:33:10.000 The 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.

00:33:23.000 In other words, we've said for a very long time, this is my favorite part, I will say, of this deal.

00:33:27.000 To 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. 0.62

00:33:53.000 In 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.

00:34:02.000 For that and some self regulation.

00:34:04.000 That could be fantastic, and it's being misrepresented as $300 billion of American taxpayer dollars.

00:34:11.000 That's not true.

00:34:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:34:14.000 And you saw JD Vance say that to transform the relationship with the Middle East.

00:34:17.000 That's what we were just talking about with the Gulf states.

00:34:19.000 If 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. 0.88

00:34:28.000 Old regime of Iran, not changing their behavior at all, constantly being a threat to their neighbors. 0.87

00:34:33.000 That is a guaranteed war at some point for some reason. 0.99

00:34:37.000 Right. 0.64

00:34:38.000 Changing 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. 0.62

00:34:55.000 It required a neutering. 0.52

00:34:56.000 It required a hey, here is your place. 0.99

00:34:58.000 If we send ground troops in, there is zero question that we take over Iran, period. 0.95

00:35:03.000 It may be costly, but we will win that war short of nuclear weapons, even. 0.91

00:35:06.000 Just.

00:35:07.000 Full capabilities outside of that.

00:35:08.000 Done.

00:35:09.000 They know that right now. 0.97

00:35:10.000 We can neuter you from the sky and you can't do a thing about it. 0.97

00:35:13.000 And then we can send some boys in to march through your streets. 0.85

00:35:16.000 We'd prefer not to do that second part.

00:35:17.000 Yeah.

00:35:18.000 How about we just integrate you back into society and you guys play ball?

00:35:21.000 You know what's happening a little bit?

00:35:21.000 Let me give you an analogy.

00:35:24.000 When I thought of a scene from a movie, and you'll understand it in a second.

00:35:28.000 Now, we're not going to be the ones who are putting troops on the ground there.

00:35:32.000 But getting this sort of coalition of all these Gulf states, right?

00:35:35.000 He just mentioned them.

00:35:36.000 I think he mentioned Saudi Arabia, Qatar.

00:35:38.000 There are others as well.

00:35:39.000 Who, for example, go, OK, we are going to help you rebuild with this reconstruction 300 billion diffused over a lot of them.

00:35:47.000 That means that Iran could find themselves with more technological capability. 0.67

00:35:51.000 That means that Iran, yeah, could find themselves with more ballistic missiles. 0.71

00:35:54.000 But now you have everyone in that region who have been frustrated and kind of exhausted with Iran, who are regulated.

00:36:02.000 It's kind of this. 0.88

00:36:03.000 Here you go.

00:36:03.000 It's like, you know what?

00:36:05.000 Here's your gun.

00:36:06.000 Now pull that smoke wagon and see what happens.

00:36:08.000 Yeah.

00:36:09.000 That's what's going on here a little bit.

00:36:10.000 Yeah.

00:36:11.000 It's like, pull it out, see what happens.

00:36:12.000 That scene in Tombstone, where they just get slapped by their neighbors, not by us.

00:36:17.000 That's the dynamic that could emerge from this.

00:36:20.000 It may not.

00:36:22.000 But that's the attempt.

00:36:23.000 Do we want to go back to Vance?

00:36:25.000 Okay.

00:36:25.000 He's answering questions?

00:36:26.000 To 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.

00:36:41.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President. 0.87

00:36:42.000 You were just saying that you're hoping this deal would prevent Iran in the future from getting a nuclear weapon.

00:36:48.000 But from what's been put out there from the MOU, I'm curious how does the MOU reflect?

00:36:54.000 That in the future Iran will not, in fact, get a nuclear program.

00:36:57.000 What's stopping them from down the road, to your point, rebuilding and restarting from where we were before?

00:37:02.000 Good question, though.

00:37:03.000 Yeah.

00:37:03.000 Well, number one, they would have to get a lot of money in order to rebuild their nuclear program.

00:37:07.000 You're talking about billions and billions of nuclear infrastructure that the United States destroyed.

00:37:11.000 In order for them to rebuild that program, they would have to get a lot of money.

00:37:15.000 And we have them in an economic chokehold right now that we're not going to release until they fundamentally change their behavior.

00:37:19.000 What would that look like?

00:37:21.000 That would mean a real inspections regime.

00:37:23.000 That would mean a real enforcement regime.

00:37:25.000 As the MOU contemplates, That would mean the destruction of their enriched stockpile.

00:37:29.000 All of these things are the sorts of steps you're going to take if you're serious about ending your nuclear weapons program.

00:37:35.000 And that, again, is why I go back to this fundamental trade that's built into the deal.

00:37:39.000 They need money to do anything, their economy is in absolute dire straits.

00:37:45.000 But 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.

00:37:53.000 And that's why the deal is set up in the way that it is.

00:37:56.000 Go ahead.

00:37:57.000 You have to parade in the corner.

00:37:58.000 Yeah, I know.

00:37:59.000 That he was going to blame you if the talks of the RAND go sideways.

00:38:03.000 Are you worried that he's going to make you the full guy?

00:38:06.000 No, not at all.

00:38:06.000 I mean, I think the president was joking, but as he often does.

00:38:10.000 But 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.

00:38:16.000 Now, 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?

00:38:26.000 And I would point those progressive critics to the fact that just two days ago, I spent over an hour on The View.

00:38:32.000 So, I actually have great experience in very hostile negotiations, and I've used that. 0.98

00:38:37.000 I mean, look, Joy Behar is way tougher than the Iranians, and she and I are best friends now. 1.00

00:38:42.000 So, we're going to get to a good place here. 1.00

00:38:44.000 We're going to get to a good place.

00:38:45.000 We're already at a good place. 0.96

00:38:47.000 It's just a question of whether we can really get the icing on the top of fundamentally transforming Iran's relationship with the world. 0.97

00:38:53.000 Go ahead. 0.81

00:38:54.000 A couple of just timing questions.

00:38:56.000 How soon, as the MOU lays out, can Iran start selling any of its oil that has sort of been impounded, right, with the blockade?

00:39:04.000 And, two, Can you sort of explain the Lebanon component to the MOU and how that front ends and the enforceability of it?

00:39:13.000 Yeah, so the Lebanon component, this is about regional peace, right?

00:39:17.000 This is about regional peace.

00:39:18.000 And what that means is we expect Hezbollah is not going to be firing rockets and firing drones at the Israelis.

00:39:24.000 And we also expect that the Israelis are not going to be going wild in Lebanon, right?

00:39:28.000 Both sides have to honor their end of the deal.

00:39:30.000 Now, as you guys know, sometimes these ceasefires are a little messy.

00:39:34.000 The 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.

00:39:42.000 What you've seen is radical progress in Lebanon, less shooting, less firing.

00:39:47.000 But you're still going to have these little flare ups from time to time.

00:39:50.000 And that's just the sort of thing that we're going to have to manage through the diplomatic process.

00:39:54.000 Secretary Rubio's been sort of the person on point.

00:39:57.000 It's actually worked out extraordinarily well because we do have substantially less shooting, but it's going to be something we have to manage.

00:40:04.000 And 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.

00:40:19.000 Southern Lebanon or Beirut, either.

00:40:20.000 That's the plan there.

00:40:21.000 You asked about the Iranian oil.

00:40:22.000 Look, 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.

00:40:33.000 Fundamentally, 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. 0.55

00:40:45.000 We see that process starting to work already.

00:40:48.000 It's going to take a little time before it picks up fully.

00:40:50.000 But that's where we are today.

00:40:52.000 Go ahead.

00:40:53.000 Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

00:40:54.000 The MOU, just on the straight, the MOU guarantees these 60 days of toll free passage, but after that, it is, of course, a major dialogues.

00:41:02.000 Yes.

00:41:02.000 Deciding the future governance of the straight.

00:41:04.000 A 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.

00:41:12.000 How strenuously will the U.S. fight to keep tolls out of the straight and keep any fees away from the future straight commercial traffic?

00:41:19.000 And are you going to leave it to the Gulf states to kind of fight this battle?

00:41:22.000 Well, first of all, we believe international waterways should be.

00:41:25.000 And that's been our position.

00:41:25.000 Free of tolls.

00:41:27.000 That's what you see, of course, in the 60 days of the MOU.

00:41:29.000 And 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?

00:41:40.000 You 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.

00:41:54.000 And what I mean by that is that we don't ever want this to happen again.

00:41:56.000 That's not about tolling.

00:41:58.000 That's about ensuring that the Straits are never used as a choke point for the global economy ever again. 0.99

00:42:04.000 It's frankly not what the Iranians want. 0.98

00:42:06.000 It's not what the Omanis want.

00:42:07.000 It's not what the GCC wants either.

00:42:09.000 So, what we're going to do, of course, working with our allies in the region, is to ensure that that is reflected in the final deal.

00:42:14.000 And if that's not reflected in the final deal, there's not going to be a final deal.

00:42:18.000 And that is, I keep coming back to this fundamental structural point of this negotiation, which is that we have all the cards. 0.59

00:42:25.000 If the Iranians want the benefits of the bargain, they have to give us the things that are necessary. 0.93

00:42:30.000 To get those benefits, go ahead. 1.00

00:42:35.000 He's doing better than he did on the viewing.

00:42:36.000 He is.

00:42:37.000 Both you guys.

00:42:38.000 There's one in the white and then one in, you know, orange, I think.

00:42:41.000 What about the pink?

00:42:42.000 I'm sorry.

00:42:43.000 You said, what about the pink?

00:42:45.000 Maybe I'm colorblind.

00:42:46.000 It looks more orange to me.

00:42:48.000 I don't want to have a debate about that.

00:42:49.000 Orange, pink.

00:42:50.000 I understand that.

00:42:51.000 You go first and then in front of you go second.

00:42:54.000 You lose out on so much joy of the world.

00:42:57.000 Now, yeah.

00:42:58.000 The points about granting some immediate waivers.

00:43:02.000 On sanctions, especially from the Treasury Department.

00:43:04.000 How does that square with the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act?

00:43:08.000 And are you planning on briefing Congress on this portion?

00:43:12.000 Thanks, James Braid, our head of OLA.

00:43:12.000 Yes, good job, Congress.

00:43:14.000 We do plan to brief Congress very soon.

00:43:16.000 I believe that they got the formal copy of the signed document this morning.

00:43:19.000 And if not, they're going to get it at some point later today.

00:43:22.000 All right.

00:43:22.000 You've been listening to Vice President.

00:43:23.000 Yeah, I was going to say this is actually a good time for me to come in because CNN sucks. 0.66

00:43:27.000 So, going, you know, this is an important, another comparison here the inspections. 0.58

00:43:31.000 Huge.

00:43:32.000 So people go, oh, well, at least under Barack Obama, there was a cap. 1.00

00:43:36.000 Those people are also being dishonest or they are incredibly ignorant. 0.97

00:43:40.000 So, under Barack Obama, the inspections were a joke. 0.97

00:43:43.000 That was the reason for the JCPOA being torn up.

00:43:46.000 You 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.

00:43:55.000 No, Donald Trump tore up the agreement because inspections were a joke.

00:43:59.000 They weren't, it wasn't capable to conduct them.

00:44:03.000 We suspected them quite reasonably of enriching far beyond that.

00:44:08.000 And again, we need to do something differently.

00:44:10.000 So that's why it was torn up, and then we knew that they'd enrich it.

00:44:14.000 As to when, your guess is as good as mine, because under Barack Obama, there was a 24 day notice of inspection.

00:44:21.000 On the suspected undeclared sites, including military installations.

00:44:24.000 So imagine they've got 24 days to move their stuff to Eddie Haskell.

00:44:30.000 And gee, you look really great.

00:44:32.000 There's nothing here, Mrs. Cleaver.

00:44:34.000 The IAEA, by the way, as I understand it, never asked to visit these sites.

00:44:39.000 They feared that that kind of a request would just collapse the entire JCPOA. 0.99

00:44:43.000 So that's a very important thing to keep in mind because Iran was holding the cards. 0.97

00:44:48.000 Yes. 1.00

00:44:48.000 They were able to intimidate the people who were tasked with investigating, inspecting their sites. 1.00

00:44:54.000 They had to give them 24 days' notice.

00:44:56.000 And even then, they're going, you know what?

00:44:57.000 I don't want to walk into an ambush.

00:44:58.000 Let's just not do it.

00:45:00.000 So they weren't being conducted.

00:45:02.000 Right.

00:45:02.000 And 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.

00:45:09.000 He's like, hey, they don't perform.

00:45:11.000 They don't get the benefits of this agreement.

00:45:13.000 That's a much better way to structure it.

00:45:14.000 Well, and there are a bunch of sunset clauses under the Obama agreement.

00:45:17.000 That's one of the biggest problems with it.

00:45:19.000 Yeah.

00:45:20.000 And those are not in this agreement.

00:45:21.000 No.

00:45:21.000 So they had sunset clauses.

00:45:22.000 And a lot of people skip right over this when you talk about the JCPOA.

00:45:25.000 That is what they wanted. 0.87

00:45:26.000 To avoid because they saw the same pattern with North Korea. 0.71

00:45:30.000 Buy time so that you can develop it and then it's too late, right?

00:45:33.000 So they're like, listen, we don't want to push this.

00:45:35.000 You just said they were referring to three different people.

00:45:37.000 So they wanted to avoid sunset clauses.

00:45:38.000 So the administration wanted to avoid the same issue that we slow walked with North Korea, right? 0.94

00:45:43.000 They slow walked really the rest of the world, specifically us. 0.99

00:45:46.000 We wanted to avoid that.

00:45:47.000 We 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.

00:45:54.000 Just please don't develop nuclear weapons.

00:45:56.000 And 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.

00:46:03.000 He's like, no, we're not doing that.

00:46:04.000 We have to reset this relationship.

00:46:06.000 That isn't going to work.

00:46:07.000 That was a huge problem.

00:46:08.000 Right.

00:46:08.000 Now, this has not been finalized, meaning the terms as far as the inspections, that's one of those TBD, right?

00:46:15.000 Next 60 days, what we have.

00:46:17.000 But we do know they've been adamant, there's not going to be sunset clauses on it.

00:46:20.000 Right.

00:46:20.000 It's going to be a deal, and it is going to be the final deal or no deal.

00:46:26.000 That's how it works.

00:46:27.000 A few points, I think, here to consider because there's good, there's bad.

00:46:35.000 I'm pretty hopeful.

00:46:36.000 I 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.

00:46:45.000 I go back and forth on it, really does depend on all of these issues that are to be determined.

00:46:50.000 But 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.

00:46:59.000 No new wars.

00:47:01.000 Well, it switched from no forever wars to no new wars whatsoever when Donald Trump was very, very clear.

00:47:05.000 He's always been clear that he would take a hard line on Iran.

00:47:07.000 But let's go with the critics.

00:47:09.000 No forever wars, right?

00:47:11.000 This administration.

00:47:12.000 And I said, give it three months, which was kind of right on the money, about 40 something days till the fighting stopped.

00:47:17.000 And now we're a little past three months as far as this final agreement.

00:47:20.000 I said, give it, and then we can kind of make an assessment. 0.89

00:47:24.000 Other people are saying, impeach him because this was guaranteed to be another forever war in the Middle East.

00:47:30.000 We're lurching again into another forever war.

00:47:33.000 You're repeating the same mistakes again and again, launching hegemonic wars, forever wars.

00:47:38.000 That's a forever war. 0.62

00:47:40.000 And the only way they're going to achieve that is regime change.

00:47:43.000 We're worried about.

00:47:44.000 Sending their loved ones into what could be another forever war.

00:47:47.000 The Trump family appears to be profiting from the war and in really no rush to end it.

00:47:54.000 Okay.

00:47:55.000 So, those same people, right?

00:47:56.000 And they were all like, gas and inflation.

00:47:58.000 And this is not America first.

00:47:59.000 Now, those same exact people are saying, what?

00:48:02.000 With this off ramp?

00:48:03.000 Taco Trump.

00:48:05.000 Our Navy, the most powerful one, our Air Force, could have escorted tankers in and out of the strait, but he chose to halt them.

00:48:12.000 Yeah.

00:48:13.000 And he, taco will be the joke.

00:48:15.000 Look, sometimes politicians forget what every school child knows.

00:48:19.000 If you stand up to a bully nine times out of ten, they will back down.

00:48:25.000 The taco meme, Trump Always Chickens Out, exists for a reason.

00:48:30.000 And I think they have taken to heart what people may have heard of the taco phenomenon Trump Always Chickens Out. 0.73

00:48:38.000 The Iranian regime counts on being tougher and more resolved than Trump is.

00:48:43.000 One of the names given to President Donald Trump in America is Tackle. 0.73

00:48:46.000 Very popular, isn't it?

00:48:48.000 I'm sure you would have heard of it.

00:48:49.000 Trump always chickens out.

00:48:51.000 Tackle.

00:48:52.000 Trump always chickens out.

00:48:55.000 This is exactly what has been happening in the past 24 hours.

00:48:59.000 I'm sorry.

00:48:59.000 Here's my racism just coming to the surface.

00:49:02.000 I can't take you seriously with that accent. 0.92

00:49:05.000 It's hard.

00:49:05.000 It's very difficult.

00:49:06.000 Blocking you, blocking you, blocking you.

00:49:08.000 Yeah.

00:49:09.000 It'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.

00:49:21.000 Yeah, that's very serious.

00:49:21.000 And we know that you all like tacos.

00:49:25.000 I think you do, but I don't know.

00:49:27.000 Do you like tacos?

00:49:28.000 Comment below.

00:49:30.000 I just like my video.

00:49:31.000 It's not a serious country.

00:49:36.000 So these were the people that Donald Trump was addressing.

00:49:39.000 And this brings us to some pretty bad messaging.

00:49:40.000 But I also understand what Donald Trump meant to do.

00:49:45.000 And this isn't me being a mind reader, this is me looking at a track record here.

00:49:48.000 Donald Trump makes this mistake consistently.

00:49:51.000 And I've, by the way, I've been guilty of it.

00:49:53.000 I think everyone is who works in this space.

00:49:56.000 Just like a mechanic is guilty often of assuming that you have baseline information, and sometimes you'll find yourself confused.

00:50:03.000 Anytime you get into a space that's specialized or niche, you have less information than the person who specializes in said niche.

00:50:13.000 So Donald Trump will often start assuming that you have this baseline information.

00:50:18.000 When that's not the case, it comes across quite poorly.

00:50:21.000 So he posted this on Truth Social. 1.00

00:50:22.000 He said, These fools. 0.99

00:50:24.000 Which means the critics, the people who were saying, Tuckle Trump. 1.00

00:50:28.000 These 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. 1.00

00:50:42.000 Most likely stupid, people say. 1.00

00:50:45.000 Make America great again, President DJT. 1.00

00:50:48.000 Now, I will say I understand what he is, the information there that's a given is a neutered Iran. 0.85

00:50:55.000 Where they have had billions of dollars in their nuclear enrichment facilities capabilities destroyed, a navy that is completely destroyed with really no enforcement mechanism. 0.82

00:51:05.000 So, that as a baseline, which was ignored and has now been accomplished, what remains is the primary criticism that, oh, oil prices, oh, inflation.

00:51:15.000 Well, now that is going away.

00:51:18.000 Now that's what he meant to say.

00:51:20.000 Yeah.

00:51:21.000 Because it does matter. 1.00

00:51:22.000 There's no more Iranian Navy. 1.00

00:51:23.000 You can say that.

00:51:24.000 There is, you know how there used to be an Iranian Navy?

00:51:28.000 There's not now. 0.62

00:51:30.000 That's not like a small thing. 1.00

00:51:32.000 Like, will every country that has a Navy please stand up? 0.96

00:51:35.000 Iran, not so fast. 1.00

00:51:38.000 All of them. 1.00

00:51:39.000 Oh, yeah.

00:51:39.000 You know, like, that's a huge deal.

00:51:43.000 Not able to enrich uranium.

00:51:46.000 Not able to be anywhere close to nuclear.

00:51:49.000 As far as we know, and that remains to be negotiated, these are all big things.

00:51:52.000 But the critics were saying it doesn't matter because either, insert lie here, hundreds of billions of American taxpayer dollars going to rebuild Iran.

00:51:58.000 That's not true.

00:51:59.000 It doesn't matter because this is hitting Americans, and why do they care about what's going on in Iran?

00:52:05.000 And by the way, If you didn't have that base information, you could say, well, yeah, the Dow was already at record highs.

00:52:11.000 Yeah, the Strait of Hormuz was already open.

00:52:12.000 Yeah, gas prices were unbelievably cheap in comparison to Biden.

00:52:17.000 They were comparing Trump, here's the big irony, they were comparing Trump economically in the face of a war against Trump.

00:52:24.000 That's who he was addressing.

00:52:27.000 And here's a montage just so you no longer have any doubt.

00:52:32.000 I do hear everybody complain about the price of groceries and the gas.

00:52:36.000 It's just not me.

00:52:38.000 We don't know the cost prices.

00:52:41.000 Groceries, whether we're going to pay rent or eat, Medicaid gets cut.

00:52:45.000 We have issues with SNAP benefits.

00:52:46.000 New poll shows President Trump's economic approval work underwater.

00:52:50.000 According 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.

00:53:00.000 This comes as inflation rose 4.2% last month to a three year high.

00:53:05.000 I 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.

00:53:12.000 Wages are stagnant and prices are up.

00:53:16.000 Whether you look at it from economic numbers, gas prices, fertilizer prices, food prices, this thing was an albatross.

00:53:22.000 This report says people here are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of simply having a roof over their heads.

00:53:28.000 So I think this is pretty important.

00:53:30.000 That's why we started off with the objectives.

00:53:31.000 The objectives, destruction of the Navy.

00:53:33.000 The objectives, destruction of their missile capability, their ballistic missile capability.

00:53:38.000 Of course, their ability to develop nuclear weapons.

00:53:40.000 All right.

00:53:41.000 Contrast that.

00:53:42.000 With the rhetoric and the criticism.

00:53:44.000 Forever wars.

00:53:45.000 Okay.

00:53:46.000 That's not the case.

00:53:49.000 What was it?

00:53:50.000 Forever.

00:53:50.000 Oh, inflation.

00:53:51.000 Economy.

00:53:51.000 Okay.

00:53:52.000 That's not the case.

00:53:53.000 Hundreds of billions of American dollars.

00:53:55.000 Okay.

00:53:55.000 That's not the case.

00:53:57.000 It just keeps moving.

00:53:57.000 The goalposts just keep moving.

00:54:00.000 Yeah.

00:54:00.000 Did we accomplish the objectives?

00:54:02.000 In some cases, yes.

00:54:03.000 In some cases, no.

00:54:07.000 But what are those?

00:54:08.000 Do you think that those people, now the people who are saying, we don't want no blood for Israel?

00:54:13.000 Okay.

00:54:13.000 There you go.

00:54:15.000 Oh, now you're a taco.

00:54:18.000 What?

00:54:19.000 Which is it?

00:54:20.000 Yeah.

00:54:20.000 What do you do now?

00:54:21.000 Here's the off ramp.

00:54:22.000 Everything is going to stabilize.

00:54:24.000 It'll go back to the comparison that you've used, which is not Biden ever.

00:54:27.000 It's good Trump.

00:54:29.000 What do you think is going to happen?

00:54:31.000 It'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.

00:54:37.000 That's what is most bothersome to me.

00:54:40.000 Do you want to get to some of the worst responses?

00:54:41.000 I think we should, but I'm glad you brought up Israel because this should forever put to bed the idea.

00:54:47.000 That Donald Trump is controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel because this goes completely against what they want.

00:54:54.000 There 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.

00:55:02.000 And we basically just said, no, you can't. 0.94

00:55:06.000 I don't want to hear it anymore.

00:55:07.000 Or if you want it, then you're going to go it alone.

00:55:10.000 Yeah.

00:55:10.000 You're going to go, hey, you want to fight a war?

00:55:12.000 Then you guys go fight your own wars.

00:55:13.000 This does show that there can be periods where we can have goals that happen to be running parallel to each other.

00:55:22.000 And that doesn't last forever.

00:55:23.000 Meaning, okay, we believe that our objectives are sufficiently accomplished.

00:55:27.000 We're taking the off ramp.

00:55:28.000 Israel's saying, no, no, no, we're not.

00:55:29.000 Well, then fine.

00:55:30.000 Our goals are no longer aligned.

00:55:33.000 This shows that Donald Trump can be a pragmatist in dealing with.

00:55:36.000 Aligning with them where convenient and telling them to go screw themselves when they're acting like entitled pricks.

00:55:41.000 And I get that they want to defend themselves.

00:55:43.000 I 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.

00:55:51.000 Has Israel fixed the Iranian problem?

00:55:54.000 Has anybody in the last, say, 40 years fixed the problem with Iran?

00:55:57.000 I know it's been since 1979, but has anybody actually had any material impact on them? 0.80

00:56:02.000 Yeah, we can talk about slowing down weapons development for nuclear bombs.

00:56:05.000 We can talk about taking out scientists.

00:56:07.000 We can talk about.

00:56:08.000 You know, cyber warfare where he destroyed all their centrifuges and stuff like that.

00:56:11.000 But does anybody actually solve the problem?

00:56:13.000 No.

00:56:14.000 No one.

00:56:14.000 We're taking a different approach to solving the problem.

00:56:16.000 And if Israel doesn't like that, I'm sorry. 0.85

00:56:18.000 Yep.

00:56:18.000 It 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.

00:56:26.000 I get it.

00:56:27.000 It's fine.

00:56:27.000 You're not big enough to do that.

00:56:29.000 But you're not going to draw us into that.

00:56:30.000 We're going to change the game here.

00:56:32.000 And if they get in the way, I guarantee you Donald Trump is going to have some very strong words, hopefully strong actions against that.

00:56:38.000 Well, you know what?

00:56:38.000 That brings us to what I think are some of the worst takes and responses that include both Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro.

00:56:43.000 Not fans of how either of them reacted.

00:56:45.000 Doesn't seem like either of them are talking America first or MAGA.

00:56:48.000 So here's Tucker on his show saying that the deal shows Iran is a power player.

00:56:54.000 And he does this thing that he always does where he takes exhibits in.

00:56:58.000 He would get destroyed in court because of the way that he tries to build his cases.

00:57:01.000 It's disingenuous, it's illogical.

00:57:04.000 And anyone who would be able to conduct some kind of a cross examination.

00:57:09.000 Would make him look like a child because he makes the case.

00:57:12.000 I guess America doesn't care about gays and women now or something.

00:57:15.000 Why is this significant?

00:57:17.000 Well, 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.

00:57:28.000 In fact, as a powerful sovereign country whose internal affairs will be, as a matter of record and agreement, a treaty unmolested.

00:57:37.000 Because you don't interfere in the internal affairs in Powerful countries.

00:57:45.000 Oh, really?

00:57:45.000 Of course you do.

00:57:46.000 So basically, this is acknowledging paragraph two, before we even get to the Strait of Hormuz and the nuclear program and all the rest.

00:57:52.000 This document is acknowledging that Iran is not a rogue terror state.

00:57:56.000 Iran is a sovereign nation.

00:57:57.000 In fact, a great power because it's negotiating with the world's greatest power, the United States.

00:58:02.000 And the United States is acknowledging that, hey, you know, you have a right to run your country as you like.

00:58:06.000 Pause.

00:58:07.000 Just really quickly.

00:58:08.000 So that means this is something that Tucker does that.

00:58:14.000 Is a great disservice to anyone who is just watching him skim past this.

00:58:19.000 That you have the right to run your country, however.

00:58:22.000 No, no. 0.96

00:58:24.000 You, 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. 0.90

00:58:34.000 But you go, oh, hold on, there's a problem. 0.98

00:58:35.000 They were elected by equally gay people, right? 1.00

00:58:38.000 This government was elected to do lockdowns and silly, goofy, gay shit, so you would be in conflict with the people. 1.00

00:58:44.000 That is not the case with Iran. 1.00

00:58:46.000 When 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.

00:58:58.000 It's very important to make that delineation.

00:59:00.000 It's not why we were in the conflict, but he does that on purpose and he does it consistently.

00:59:06.000 Let's continue. 0.95

00:59:07.000 It 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. 0.96

00:59:19.000 The truth? 0.95

00:59:19.000 We're okay with that now because you're a great power. 0.95

00:59:22.000 And if you want to throw gays off buildings, it's not really our business. 1.00

00:59:25.000 Goalpost. 0.95

00:59:26.000 Well, that's quite a change, whatever you think of it.

00:59:29.000 Yeah, it's actually not a change.

00:59:30.000 And so this is what Tucker does this thing.

00:59:32.000 And this is why I say he'd get torn apart in court. 0.99

00:59:34.000 And he knows it because he's not an idiot. 1.00

00:59:38.000 He's hoping that you are. 1.00

00:59:41.000 So, in court, you will present exhibits to make a case.

00:59:45.000 And ultimately, you'll have an actual ruling.

00:59:48.000 What the United States was doing was presenting exhibits, right?

00:59:51.000 Their ultimate goal is hey, we don't want a nuclear end. 0.86

00:59:53.000 Going, this is a nation that is so unstable where more than half of their government leadership are active pedophiles. 1.00

01:00:01.000 They have harems of effectively sex slaves, concubines, like. 0.99

01:00:06.000 Muhammad, their holiest prophet, who's no doubt looking up at us, that this is an unstable place where they throw gays off rooftops. 1.00

01:00:15.000 They sex, they enslave young women as sex slaves. 1.00

01:00:19.000 They torture dissidents. 0.97

01:00:21.000 And 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.

01:00:34.000 And by the way, look, all their neighbors are incredibly concerned about it.

01:00:38.000 So what Tucker does.

01:00:39.000 Is he takes the exhibits, he takes the case building, and he conflates that with the actual concern or end game. 0.98

01:00:46.000 We 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? 0.67

01:01:01.000 Those 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. 0.76

01:01:08.000 The war wasn't about the village people being thrown off a bedrock roof. 0.59

01:01:15.000 It was about ensuring that those psychos aren't able to damage people here who don't share those values.

01:01:21.000 Does that make sense?

01:01:22.000 And he does that all the time.

01:01:23.000 He does that all the time.

01:01:24.000 And he started off his entire episode.

01:01:25.000 And this is where it pissed me off, I guess, the most.

01:01:27.000 He said that the American empire is over.

01:01:31.000 And it is at the signing of this MOU.

01:01:33.000 He's American first.

01:01:33.000 It's a little separate from the next video we're going to say, but it's along those same lines.

01:01:37.000 He said it's basically over.

01:01:38.000 And 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.

01:01:46.000 He'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.

01:01:52.000 And so, therefore, they're no longer the empire that they used to be.

01:01:55.000 That is not what happened here.

01:01:57.000 He's making that example and he's doing it in bad faith.

01:01:59.000 It's not a legitimate argument.

01:02:01.000 And again, he's hoping the viewer will just go, Yeah, well, that seems right.

01:02:07.000 I want to remind Tucker of what he said several months ago.

01:02:10.000 Whoever ends this war is daddy.

01:02:13.000 He was thinking China was daddy, and he said it.

01:02:16.000 In not so many words, in the rest of that episode.

01:02:20.000 The United States ended this war in Iran, Tucker.

01:02:23.000 Who's your daddy?

01:02:25.000 It's the United States. 1.00

01:02:26.000 Well, Iran's a great power. 0.99

01:02:28.000 Great power. 0.98

01:02:29.000 Apparently.

01:02:32.000 Yeah, here you go.

01:02:34.000 Here's actually a clip to that effect that, ah, the American supremacy is now done because he's MAGA.

01:02:40.000 He's America first.

01:02:42.000 The United States has shown that it does not have, despite possessing the world's best or biggest or certainly most.

01:02:50.000 Generously funded military.

01:02:52.000 He seems to be questioning it.

01:02:53.000 Does not have the military power.

01:02:54.000 I'm not worried.

01:02:55.000 I never would.

01:02:56.000 To impose its will on the 34th biggest economy in the world.

01:03:03.000 That is not a lesson that we're going to take decades to come to.

01:03:08.000 That is an extremely obvious conclusion.

01:03:10.000 In fact, that is the obvious conclusion of this document.

01:03:14.000 Again, for good or bad.

01:03:16.000 And there's something poignant about it, there's something sad about it, something also bitter about it, considering it was predictable.

01:03:22.000 This is why people opposed a regime change war against Iran, because this was always the case.

01:03:28.000 It wasn't a regime change war.

01:03:30.000 It 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.

01:03:38.000 That would have to come from within. 0.89

01:03:40.000 Iranians, I hope you don't pull in Israel and go, look at our polling. 1.00

01:03:43.000 Donald Trump sucks now because it was on you. 1.00

01:03:46.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:03:47.000 I love you.

01:03:47.000 My heart goes out to you.

01:03:49.000 If you don't do it, them's the brakes. 1.00

01:03:53.000 Same thing with Israel.

01:03:54.000 Oh, we don't like Donald Trump. 0.99

01:03:56.000 Well, we don't give a shit about your polling. 0.99

01:03:58.000 He's not your president, he's our president. 0.98

01:04:02.000 This 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.

01:04:10.000 That's what I think is a main takeaway.

01:04:12.000 By the way, his logic, Tucker's, you could use it with any post conflict agreement.

01:04:16.000 You could use it with us in Japan and the conditions that we laid out.

01:04:19.000 We also, by the way, did help directly rebuild and fund.

01:04:22.000 Yes.

01:04:23.000 It is completely disingenuous to say that.

01:04:26.000 And he uses it all as a springboard to say we're no longer an empire and we shouldn't be.

01:04:30.000 We're not that great. 0.98

01:04:31.000 And boy, Iran is an up and comer. 1.00

01:04:33.000 And they just proved it because we didn't have the military capabilities. 0.92

01:04:36.000 And I love how he did a little switcheroo here just to try to make a bigger case.

01:04:39.000 He's like, Our military, our military, their GDP.

01:04:42.000 It's like, well, why don't you do their military?

01:04:44.000 Their military is not that much better, but it's 16th in the world.

01:04:48.000 So it's not nothing.

01:04:49.000 And we didn't even do what we were capable of doing.

01:04:52.000 Right.

01:04:52.000 So it's just, it's such.

01:04:54.000 And 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.

01:05:05.000 Interested in America being the power that it has been and still is today.

01:05:10.000 He is interested in something else.

01:05:11.000 I 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.

01:05:20.000 It 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.

01:05:36.000 Because people like Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin's been on the show, and I think he's a very decent man.

01:05:39.000 I just disagree with him.

01:05:40.000 It'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.

01:05:51.000 Yeah.

01:05:52.000 Above those of the United States, or at very least, which to me is just as offensive, equal to.

01:05:58.000 It shouldn't even be close.

01:06:00.000 It'd be a little different if Ben Shapiro was wearing, you know, combat uniform.

01:06:06.000 It'd be a little different if Mark Levin was wearing a helmet, carrying a.

01:06:10.000 You know, carrying a gun, but so and that's what allows people like Tucker and people to go, they just want to send.

01:06:15.000 Well, no, we don't.

01:06:18.000 We want the best interests of the goals of the United States to be accomplished.

01:06:23.000 I 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.

01:06:32.000 Well, 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.

01:06:43.000 This current operation was the signal act of political bravery, perhaps, of my lifetime.

01:06:49.000 With 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.

01:06:57.000 There are effectively five goals that were set by the administration at the beginning.

01:07:00.000 One was ending the nuclear program, not just nuclear weapons, no nuclear enrichment, zero enrichment.

01:07:05.000 That is not in the deal.

01:07:06.000 Ballistic missiles ended.

01:07:08.000 That is not in the deal.

01:07:08.000 And 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.

01:07:17.000 Then you have the support of terrorism.

01:07:18.000 That is not part of the deal.

01:07:20.000 Anything that looks like an attempt to end terrorism.

01:07:23.000 A permanent opening of the Strait of Hormuz toll free.

01:07:25.000 Not 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.

01:07:32.000 And then finally, the idea that Iran would receive some sort of sanctions relief after all of those things happen.

01:07:37.000 We are already seeing from day one relief in their ability to ship oil out of Iran.

01:07:42.000 In my opinion, the vice president of the United States, the chief negotiator on this particular project, has not well served the president.

01:07:48.000 Also, 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?

01:07:52.000 Their hands are tied with this deal.

01:07:54.000 They're not.

01:07:55.000 Israel's hands are not.

01:07:56.000 Go it alone. 1.00

01:07:58.000 Go it alone.

01:08:00.000 Because here is the key takeaway for me. 0.79

01:08:03.000 Look, 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. 0.74

01:08:12.000 Let's be honest.

01:08:13.000 So, again, it could be a different mile marker as to where that off ramp is. 0.85

01:08:19.000 Is the negotiated off ramp better than the complete and utter destruction of Iran and certainly the regime? 0.67

01:08:27.000 Well, Those who said no new forever wars would have to acknowledge that it is.

01:08:32.000 Those who said inflation, gas, this is not good for America first, impeach Trump, would have to acknowledge that the negotiated off ramp is.

01:08:41.000 And those who actually want what is best for the United States would understand that this was always the end point.

01:08:48.000 There would be a negotiated off ramp, and we generated leverage by destroying their Navy and rendering them far less capable than before.

01:08:56.000 The alternative complete and total destruction.

01:08:58.000 Or And option number three that seems to be coming from some folks, and I understand why you have grievances with them. 0.84

01:09:04.000 Yeah, but this is an off ramp for us, but not the best one for Israel. 0.99

01:09:08.000 Don't give a shit. 0.99

01:09:13.000 I think we're better off here, and I know that some issues remain to be seen. 0.99

01:09:16.000 But 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.

01:09:26.000 Some things are out of your control.

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Louder with Crowder - June 18, 2026

Examining Trump's Iran Deal: Is this Obama 2.0?

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