Louder with Crowder - War With Iran: Foreign Policy Genius or A New Forever War?

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00:01:54.000 Good morning and welcome to the lineup live on Rumble 11 a.m. Eastern Time.

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00:02:02.000 We are obviously going to be talking about the strikes in Iran over the weekend and the ensuing conflict there.

00:02:08.000 Also Shia LaBeouf, apparently he feels about gays, much like the Ayatollah used to.

00:02:13.000 Huh? 0.71

00:02:13.000 He's dead. 0.71

00:02:14.000 Not going to be around anymore.

00:02:15.000 And President Trump is going to give some remarks here in just a few minutes from the White House.

00:02:20.000 We don't know if that'll be in the next three or four minutes or the next 15 minutes, but when that happens, we will go live to him and cover any updates for you.

00:02:28.000 Make sure that you stay with us.

00:02:29.000 We have a lot of information to get through and a lot of people to expose as people who simply hate America and will take every opportunity to dogpile, even when our troops are in harm's way.

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00:04:57.000 Like I said, we've got a very good show for you today.

00:05:00.000 A lot of information on Iran, giving the update and some of the justifications, dealing with some of the issues that we all, I think, have reasonable questions about with any kind of a war or, I don't know, not war, depending on who you ask in this process.

00:05:15.000 Also, the death of the Ayatollah, potentially having a little bit of a closing time for that.

00:05:20.000 And then Shia LaBeouf.

00:05:21.000 I didn't realize he was still a thing, but then he got arrested over Mardi Gras, and I'm like, okay, he's back in the news.

00:05:26.000 And apparently, he's got some real deep thoughts on homosexuals.

00:05:31.000 So we'll get to all of that.

00:05:32.000 We'll have some fun along the way.

00:05:34.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:05:35.000 Well, let's not ask questions that we really don't want to have the answers to, nor pictures of.

00:05:40.000 By the way, how do you like my chair over there, Mr. Josh Feierstein?

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00:05:46.000 Okay.

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00:05:47.000 So you're going to be Friday and Saturday, March 20th and 21st at the Summit Comedy Club in It's Happening in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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00:05:56.000 We'll have some fun.

00:05:57.000 Yeah.

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00:06:03.000 Yes, that would be great.

00:06:04.000 I'm just kidding.

00:06:05.000 Three weeks-ish from now.

00:06:06.000 And you know him.

00:06:08.000 You love him.

00:06:08.000 Lane the brain sitting over here in third chair.

00:06:11.000 How are you, sir?

00:06:11.000 They know me.

00:06:12.000 I don't know if they love me.

00:06:13.000 Wow, you know, that's objectionable to some, I suppose, but you know, to know you is to love you.

00:06:18.000 Always happy to be participating.

00:06:20.000 No, hate you biblically.

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00:06:31.000 So, make sure that you guys have some good questions for us, maybe some things that you have seen.

00:06:36.000 But, like I said, President Trump right now, go ahead and bring up CNN.

00:06:39.000 You can see they're gathering for his speech, his update here in just a minute.

00:06:44.000 When they go, we will bring you guys some commentary on that for the first few minutes and just see what direction it takes.

00:06:49.000 And then we'll be monitoring it for the rest of the show.

00:06:52.000 But we need a little levity.

00:06:54.000 It's been a pretty heavy weekend for anybody who's been paying attention to what's going on around the world.

00:06:59.000 So, you know, we'll go to Shia LaBeouf.

00:07:01.000 And no, not in Transformers, though that would be fantastic if it was number one.

00:07:05.000 He was actually sitting down for an interview following his New Orleans arrest, and we got some answers.

00:07:11.000 We got a lot of answers from Shia, specifically, first off, on gay dudes. 0.98

00:07:17.000 I don't think I have a drinking problem.

00:07:19.000 I think I have a different problem, and I'm going to address it.

00:07:22.000 What's that problem?

00:07:23.000 I think I have a small man complex.

00:07:25.000 Some kind of Napoleonic.

00:07:27.000 I don't know what it is. 1.00

00:07:28.000 I'll be honest with you: big gay people are scary to me. 1.00

00:07:33.000 When I'm like standing by myself, likes to me touching my leg, I get scared. 0.97

00:07:39.000 I get scared, bro.

00:07:40.000 I'm sorry.

00:07:42.000 If that's homophobic, then I'm that.

00:07:46.000 Does that happen a lot?

00:07:48.000 No, it just happened one time recently.

00:07:50.000 Well, that's why I got arrested.

00:07:53.000 His sweater goes off.

00:07:53.000 Oh, okay.

00:07:54.000 So you were sort of being groped and surrounded. 1.00

00:07:56.000 I'm not going to say that because my lawyer said, oh, fuck dude. 0.99

00:08:02.000 I am wrong for touching anyone ever. 1.00

00:08:08.000 And that's the end of my statement on this bullshit. 0.99

00:08:13.000 Sounds good. 0.99

00:08:14.000 Cool.

00:08:15.000 You know, I'm really gay. 0.92

00:08:16.000 Be gay over there, though. 1.00

00:08:17.000 Don't be gay in my lap. 1.00

00:08:18.000 Push your space, you know, which gets it gets weird. 1.00

00:08:21.000 It's Mardi Gras.

00:08:22.000 That's why, bro, I was drunk and it's Mardi Gras.

00:08:24.000 So all everything I'm saying is nonsense.

00:08:27.000 It's Mardi Gras.

00:08:28.000 You know?

00:08:29.000 You definitely have a drinking problem.

00:08:31.000 What are you talking about?

00:08:33.000 It sounds like he wants to have a problem as an excuse.

00:08:36.000 Like, that's his defense.

00:08:36.000 Yeah.

00:08:37.000 Hey, man, it's Mardi Gras.

00:08:39.000 Well, it's Mardi Gras, and I was drunk, but I repeat myself.

00:08:43.000 It's Mardi Gras, and it's totally fine.

00:08:46.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:08:46.000 If that's a problem, sign me up.

00:08:48.000 Is this a bit?

00:08:49.000 Like, this is not him acting, right?

00:08:51.000 No, people just don't know how to handle real, authentic, cool dudes anymore.

00:08:54.000 Ah, real deal.

00:08:55.000 This is the real peanut butter falcon, right?

00:08:58.000 Apparently, before he went on his homophobic rant, he was giving unsolicited acting advice to people at the bar, still.

00:09:04.000 Well, he was hammered, though, and it was Mardi Gras.

00:09:07.000 You just have to keep that in mind. 0.97

00:09:08.000 And also, lots of gay dudes around him, apparently.

00:09:11.000 What bar were you at? 0.85

00:09:12.000 Anyway, he also got into the Bible and just wait until you spot it, Martin Luther. 0.96

00:09:21.000 I know I'm fucking deep off into the Bible. 0.98

00:09:23.000 I know what the Bible says about homosexuality. 0.99

00:09:26.000 What does it say?

00:09:27.000 Nah.

00:09:30.000 That's a long time ago.

00:09:32.000 Do whatever you want with the text.

00:09:33.000 It's not my business.

00:09:35.000 I'm a traditional Catholic.

00:09:36.000 That's okay.

00:09:37.000 What's the difference between a traditional Catholic and, let's say, a more progressive Christian?

00:09:40.000 I really with the Bible.

00:09:41.000 You believe in hell and stuff.

00:09:43.000 Yeah.

00:09:43.000 Who do you think's down there?

00:09:45.000 Who's down there?

00:09:47.000 Martin Luther?

00:09:49.000 The man who wrote the Protestant Martin Luther.

00:09:52.000 Martin Luther's there.

00:09:53.000 Yeah, he's got the special character. 0.99

00:09:54.000 The fool's gone for dying the divinity of the Pope. 1.00

00:09:54.000 He's gone. 1.00

00:09:57.000 There's a whole lot.

00:09:58.000 We could talk about this.

00:09:58.000 There's the whole rest of the interview.

00:10:00.000 I don't want to do that either.

00:10:01.000 I'm not Mel Gibson.

00:10:02.000 I'm not trying to be out anymore than that either.

00:10:03.000 God bless you.

00:10:04.000 I love you too.

00:10:04.000 I'm not.

00:10:05.000 I'm not angry with my Christianity like that.

00:10:07.000 I just really believe in what I believe in.

00:10:09.000 I'm not trying to proselytize nobody.

00:10:11.000 I'm not trying to hold no traditional Catholic line. 1.00

00:10:13.000 I'm not some fucking weirdo like that, tight ass fucking. 1.00

00:10:16.000 No, none of that, bro. 1.00

00:10:18.000 I'm on my relationship.

00:10:19.000 I'm in a full-blown love affair with Jesus.

00:10:21.000 Sounds like it.

00:10:22.000 And by the way, we did some checking ourselves, and it turns out he's not lying.

00:10:34.000 That was in my service this Sunday.

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00:10:52.000 By the way he's sitting and the short shorts that he's wearing, I don't think those are completely out of style or anything, but it's also this giant man spread going on.

00:11:00.000 I'm like, I wonder why gay dudes approached you. 0.91

00:11:03.000 Nah, dude, he's just, that's a lot of aura that he's dropping out right there.

00:11:07.000 You just don't get it.

00:11:07.000 You just don't know how to bog, Gerald.

00:11:10.000 I do nothing but mog.

00:11:12.000 I just didn't know that I was mogging, mostly frame mogging because I'm giant.

00:11:16.000 You're not much of a mugger.

00:11:18.000 What?

00:11:19.000 No.

00:11:20.000 I wouldn't put you next to the ASU frat leader.

00:11:22.000 Oh, okay.

00:11:22.000 That's all.

00:11:23.000 Would you choked on a piece of pizza?

00:11:24.000 I haven't done that.

00:11:25.000 We know way too much about this.

00:11:27.000 The few young people in the audience have left.

00:11:30.000 Yeah, they actually have.

00:11:30.000 They're like, get out of here, bro.

00:11:32.000 You guys are gay. 1.00

00:11:34.000 Shut up. 1.00

00:11:35.000 Anyway, this is not where I thought this conversation was going with Mr. Elbof. 0.99

00:11:42.000 He is nah, bro, on gays, and he loves the Bible except hates Martin Luther.

00:11:49.000 And then we get into his gang membership. 0.90

00:11:51.000 I got Bar Miss Hood. 1.00

00:11:53.000 I wasn't into that shit at all. 0.99

00:11:55.000 It's also that you're like down from a hood in L.A. 0.99

00:11:58.000 Can you elaborate?

00:11:58.000 It's true.

00:12:00.000 Harpy's 13, my keyholder is Cornejo.

00:12:03.000 It happened through a film.

00:12:04.000 I was prepping a movie.

00:12:05.000 I asked if I could.

00:12:06.000 He told me what the requirements were.

00:12:08.000 I said, yes.

00:12:09.000 We love each other.

00:12:10.000 All of us.

00:12:11.000 We are all, most of us fathers.

00:12:13.000 Most of us are trying to live good lives.

00:12:16.000 Most of us are God-led.

00:12:17.000 Did you have to get like jumped in or anything?

00:12:19.000 Nothing silly like that. 0.55

00:12:20.000 No, come on. 0.85

00:12:21.000 When I joined, it was sort of, I was 36, and it was like they had already done all the rowdy for so many years that I'm kind of the t-shirt salesman.

00:12:35.000 I feel like we're going to start seeing him do videos with knives, much like Britney Spears.

00:12:41.000 I feel like we're misreading this situation.

00:12:42.000 I feel like he is.

00:12:43.000 We're about to have the comeback of the ages.

00:12:45.000 Oh, really?

00:12:46.000 Him and Terrence Howard both, huh?

00:12:47.000 They've solved.

00:12:48.000 Don't you ever compare those two.

00:12:51.000 He sounds like Terrence Howard in a lot of ways right now.

00:12:55.000 Am I wrong?

00:12:55.000 Terrence Howard said he solved math.

00:12:58.000 Yes, I understand that, but he also said he's in.

00:13:01.000 What do you disagree with that he said?

00:13:02.000 It's not that I disagree with what he said because Nah is, okay, a really good summation of what the Bible thinks about homosexuality. 0.93

00:13:10.000 Fine.

00:13:11.000 Martin Luther is not in hell.

00:13:12.000 Yes, I would agree with that.

00:13:13.000 I would agree with you on disagreeing with that. 0.97

00:13:15.000 And I, too, am afraid of very large gay men. 1.00

00:13:18.000 So I guess it's fine. 0.93

00:13:20.000 Really?

00:13:21.000 And I'm a Nick?

00:13:23.000 I'm a t-shirt salesman.

00:13:25.000 That's where I think he's a little crazy, and he's stringing thoughts together, but I feel like he's right on the edge of losing it.

00:13:30.000 Well, get him into new Transformers with Megan Fox, and all will be right with the world.

00:13:34.000 I really don't.

00:13:35.000 Yeah, what are the Transformers?

00:13:36.000 Megan Fox's kids.

00:13:38.000 Oh, no.

00:13:42.000 How much crazy can you fit on a film set?

00:13:45.000 More than meets the eye.

00:13:46.000 Anyway.

00:13:47.000 Great, great callback.

00:13:50.000 It was really good.

00:13:52.000 You know, listen, what do you think he'll do next?

00:13:54.000 And do you think his manager will ever, ever, ever let him sit down to do another interview?

00:13:58.000 His manager.

00:13:59.000 Maybe book him on this show.

00:14:01.000 You think he has a manager?

00:14:02.000 Yeah, we could get Shia LaBeouf.

00:14:05.000 Yes, but do we want to?

00:14:06.000 Yes, we absolutely want Shyla Chat. 0.99

00:14:09.000 How did the interviewer stay still and relatively silent?

00:14:13.000 Because Andrew Kayla, he's really good at that.

00:14:16.000 He's a pro.

00:14:16.000 Yeah, he's been doing this for years.

00:14:19.000 So nothing surprises him.

00:14:20.000 He's just kind of like, okay, all right, roll with it.

00:14:23.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:14:23.000 I know you're afraid of big gay men. 0.99

00:14:25.000 Does that happen to you often? 0.96

00:14:27.000 It's a really good fear.

00:14:28.000 They were good questions.

00:14:29.000 He was like, no, it was.

00:14:30.000 And he goes, yeah, he goes, who's down there?

00:14:31.000 Like right away, who's down there?

00:14:33.000 I don't think, yeah, I don't think I could do that.

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00:14:50.000 I feel like I have to say the last part a little faster to kind of be, you know, in with it.

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00:14:56.000 We have covered our base there to make sure that they don't get sued.

00:14:59.000 Not necessarily us, but they tell us that they'll, you know, they'll hurt us.

00:15:03.000 Speaking of getting hurt, I want to, on a serious note, like we're going to transition a little bit.

00:15:07.000 President Trump isn't speaking just yet, but as soon as he does, like I said, we will go and check out his comments there.

00:15:12.000 There was a shooting in Austin, Texas.

00:15:15.000 And it was one of those weekends where you just kind of knew something was going to happen.

00:15:21.000 It's not like you have to be a genius to figure that out with the bombing of Iran.

00:15:25.000 I don't know how you guys found out about it.

00:15:27.000 I woke up and was on my way to the range to do some training, and I saw it on the way.

00:15:33.000 And I was listening to it on my drive all the way there.

00:15:36.000 And it just, you kind of feel like a bit in shock when you're hearing stuff like that.

00:15:41.000 Like you're kind of processing what's going on.

00:15:42.000 You're trying to figure out what reports are accurate, what's not, what's actually happening as stuff is coming in, and what kind of damage has been done, who's been actually taken out, and some of the retaliation, which we'll get to in a minute, didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time.

00:15:57.000 Why don't you admonish me?

00:15:59.000 Don't dare.

00:16:00.000 It's just natural for you to admonish me.

00:16:03.000 When you make a mistake, you admonish me.

00:16:06.000 And the first thing that really entered my head after kind of getting over the shock of all of that is like, okay, be prepared because there may be people in the United States and around the world that will carry out terrorist attacks in the name of defending the Iranian regime, the Ayatollah, and also in the name of Islam.

00:16:27.000 And unfortunately, that turned out to be very, very true.

00:16:31.000 At least it appears that way.

00:16:33.000 I think the gentleman piece of dirt that carried out the shooting in Austin had a shirt on.

00:16:40.000 Yeah, no, no, I know.

00:16:42.000 I was trying to do it in like a derogatory way, but I felt like it didn't quite.

00:16:45.000 It was like almost a little bit of sarcasm there.

00:16:45.000 You know what I mean?

00:16:48.000 That scumbag. 1.00

00:16:49.000 Yeah, that piece of crap that shot people in Austin had, I think, property of Allah shirt on. 1.00

00:16:55.000 There's been reports that there was an undershirt that had more stuff on it. 0.99

00:16:58.000 There was a Quran, I think, either in the car or around him at some point.

00:17:03.000 I don't remember all the details, but it was all covered in BO.

00:17:06.000 Well, of course.

00:17:06.000 Yeah.

00:17:07.000 But the biggest thing that I wanted to tell you is like, be prepared.

00:17:10.000 I leaned over to my wife in church and said, listen, don't be afraid.

00:17:14.000 Don't be anxious.

00:17:15.000 Just have a little bit of heightened awareness.

00:17:17.000 Be kind of aware of what's going on around you.

00:17:20.000 If you have a firearm and you are in a place, I hate to even have to say this, where you are legally allowed to carry it, carry it.

00:17:27.000 And not just carry it, but make sure you understand how to access your firearm in a situation, not standing still perfectly at a range, where you actually have to pull it out and defend your family, move your family out of the way, move yourself, understand what you're going to do in certain situations.

00:17:44.000 Again, this is not being paranoid or filled with anxiety or fear, but it's time to be prepared because there are a lot of people that came over the border during the Biden administration and before that may want to do us harm as a part of this.

00:17:57.000 And this is not something that we're just making up.

00:18:00.000 I think, was it Hassan who said, or not, not Hassan, what's his name, who said that we can't attack Iran because of the sleeper cell people here?

00:18:07.000 I mean, that's kind of an across-the-board argument.

00:18:10.000 I think it was Robert Barnes that I was responding to on that one. 0.95

00:18:13.000 I figured it was a leftist, like crazy lunatic, but it was Robert Barnes. 0.80

00:18:17.000 It's just this impetus of putting the responsibility on Americans for everything, which essentially takes agency away from everybody else. 1.00

00:18:25.000 And it just we'll get into it more, but it's just a really stupid criticism. 0.99

00:18:29.000 Yeah, absolutely. 0.99

00:18:30.000 So moral of the story, be prepared.

00:18:32.000 And prayers absolutely go out to the families of those that have been affected so far by that, not just here, but abroad as well.

00:18:39.000 And obviously for our soldiers and their families.

00:18:41.000 So it's a good reminder, too, that if you don't know how to do CPR, you should probably learn.

00:18:46.000 There's other life-saving skills you can learn.

00:18:50.000 But CPR, for sure, I saw a video of the immediate aftermath, the police, Austin Police.

00:18:56.000 It was 6th Street, so they're very close.

00:18:58.000 They're right there within one minute.

00:18:59.000 Yeah, they were great.

00:19:00.000 So shout out to Austin PD for the great work.

00:19:02.000 But there were people on site also.

00:19:04.000 There was a woman doing CPR, a man and a wife beater trying to help out.

00:19:09.000 Those skills are priceless.

00:19:12.000 It can be seconds.

00:19:13.000 So get yourself a class, get your family a class.

00:19:16.000 I don't imagine that you can beat a minute for response time.

00:19:16.000 Yeah.

00:19:19.000 Not just professional phones either, by the way.

00:19:21.000 If there's ever an emergency, you're out in the lake, somebody falls off a jet ski or somebody falls off a hill or might need CPR someday.

00:19:27.000 So learn it.

00:19:28.000 Absolutely.

00:19:29.000 But also carry and be ready to use your firearm responsibly if necessary.

00:19:34.000 Okay.

00:19:35.000 So let's go to Iran.

00:19:36.000 And we saw a number of this conversation happened before, right?

00:19:41.000 You guys remember this was World War III prior to this when we struck and took out nuclear capability or sorry, the enrichment capability.

00:19:50.000 I say nuclear because it's like the only country in the history of the world that's ever gotten to 60% and not pursued a bomb if they don't actually pursue a bomb.

00:19:58.000 The enrichment capability.

00:19:59.000 It was nuclear capability.

00:20:00.000 It just wasn't weapons grade at all.

00:20:01.000 It wasn't there yet.

00:20:02.000 Right.

00:20:03.000 And so there's some valid criticisms of how we approach the situation with Iran.

00:20:10.000 But then there's also some people on the right and left that are giving these childish temper tantrums about why the United States should sit on its hands and just trust that the Iranians are going to honor their word and we should have just negotiated with them in the first place. 0.74

00:20:25.000 We'll get to all of that.

00:20:26.000 But for those of you who haven't been paying much attention to this, I'm going to give you a quick update this weekend.

00:20:30.000 Donald Trump, president of the United States, launched Operation Epic Fury on Iran.

00:20:51.000 That's supposed to be China using lasers to shoot down incoming rockets.

00:20:56.000 Is that what the...

00:20:57.000 That was in Israel.

00:20:57.000 That was in Haifa.

00:20:58.000 Yeah.

00:20:59.000 So what would China be using?

00:21:00.000 No, no, I'm sorry.

00:21:00.000 I meant to say Israel using it.

00:21:02.000 Not China. 0.95

00:21:02.000 Oh, yes. 0.95

00:21:09.000 and we made sure not to use any video game footage That's good.

00:21:16.000 It's a very uniquely U.S. thing.

00:21:31.000 So, obviously, there's extensive damage.

00:21:34.000 You can see from CNN's coverage and everybody else right now that there are scenes unfolding around the Middle East of damage, obviously in Iran and other places.

00:21:43.000 We'll get to a list of some of those.

00:21:45.000 But let me just give you a quick rundown.

00:21:46.000 The Ayatollah is dead.

00:21:47.000 That was confirmed over the weekend.

00:21:49.000 Also, 554 is the estimate coming out of Iran right now as well.

00:21:54.000 Including most of his entire command structure.

00:21:55.000 Yes, exactly.

00:21:56.000 Yeah, but I heard that Iran has already filled their briefly open position of supreme leader with the Shayatollah LaBeouf.

00:22:02.000 Big people are scary to me.

00:22:05.000 Bro, you could be Jewish over there. 1.00

00:22:07.000 Just don't be Jewish on my lap. 1.00

00:22:11.000 Just do it. 0.98

00:22:12.000 I don't know that I disagree with don't be Jewish on my lap either. 0.99

00:22:15.000 Like, that's my lap, bro.

00:22:16.000 Still, I mean, it sounds like something. 0.94

00:22:18.000 Natalie Portman could be Jewish on my lap. 0.99

00:22:20.000 Wow. 0.78

00:22:21.000 Whoa.

00:22:22.000 I'm serious.

00:22:23.000 I'm just saying.

00:22:24.000 Queen Amadala.

00:22:26.000 What a shill. 0.65

00:22:26.000 You wouldn't get. 0.65

00:22:27.000 Where's your 7,000 shekels, Lane?

00:22:29.000 I would do it for free. 0.98

00:22:32.000 I'm just saying, bro, Jewish people scare me. 1.00

00:22:34.000 Big Jewish people on my leg? 1.00

00:22:36.000 Bro, getting into a fight. 1.00

00:22:38.000 If that makes me anti-Semitic, then I'm dead.

00:22:43.000 Again, providing a little levity.

00:22:45.000 It never hurts.

00:22:47.000 He might be Jewish.

00:22:49.000 He's Catholic.

00:22:49.000 Shut?

00:22:49.000 He's Catholic.

00:22:50.000 I was about to say, what are you talking about?

00:22:50.000 Yeah, he's Catholic.

00:22:51.000 Didn't he say his bar mitzvah?

00:22:53.000 He said, I'm not down with that.

00:22:55.000 Like, I don't understand this person.

00:22:58.000 Over 740 missiles and 850 drones were launched by Iran.

00:23:04.000 And look, like we said, questioning the strikes and the motivations, the mission, the defined kind of outcomes that we are seeking, that's totally fine.

00:23:14.000 Nobody has a problem with somebody going on and saying, hey, I want to know how this ends.

00:23:19.000 I want to know what we're trying to accomplish.

00:23:21.000 I want to know if it's not a war, what is it?

00:23:22.000 If it's not regime change, what is it?

00:23:24.000 If it's not boots on the ground, what is it?

00:23:26.000 If it's not a war for Israel, what is it?

00:23:28.000 Those are fine questions to ask, but please don't get trapped in this logic of if Israel's interests happen to align with the United States interests, that we're going to war for the Jews.

00:23:38.000 And that's what I see more and more and more of.

00:23:41.000 And it basically, you're taking your brain and just putting it off to the side and saying, I can't think about this logically.

00:23:47.000 I'm just going to go with the Jews control everything and therefore the United States is getting into a war. 1.00

00:23:52.000 And I've seen the document, there's these seven countries that they're going to take out or six countries and whatever the number was.

00:23:57.000 And Iran was always on the list.

00:23:59.000 Really?

00:24:00.000 It didn't need to be a list that was created to understand that Iran was going to be a problem that needed to be taken care of at some point.

00:24:06.000 There are different ways that you can take care of that through negotiations, through agreements, through targeted strikes like we've done before in the past.

00:24:14.000 And obviously on this occasion, something like this.

00:24:17.000 We've tried a lot of different ways to deal with Iran, the largest state funder and sponsor of terrorism in the world. 0.99

00:24:23.000 Without Iran, the Middle East pretty much looks like a much better place for a lot of people. 1.00

00:24:29.000 It's not fixed, but these guys are a thorn in everybody's side, and it was a problem that would have to be dealt with.

00:24:36.000 Now, let's go back to President Trump.

00:24:37.000 Oh, go ahead.

00:24:38.000 Yeah, well, the one thing I wanted to add to this is we're by no means just sitting here and running the party line of everything Trump does is good. 1.00

00:24:45.000 And if you oppose him, then you're not MAGA and you're an idiot. 0.99

00:24:48.000 That's not what we're doing. 1.00

00:24:49.000 What we're saying is there's valid criticisms to be had.

00:24:52.000 Namely, that we need to know, we know what day one looks like.

00:24:54.000 You need to tell us what the last day looks like.

00:24:56.000 And nobody has made that clear yet.

00:24:58.000 And the administration is incumbent to do that.

00:25:00.000 But to just say, well, this is going to be, you know, Iraq 2.0. 0.84

00:25:03.000 This is going to be a 20-year war.

00:25:06.000 You don't know that any more than I know this is going to be just like Venezuela or, you know, the operations this summer.

00:25:11.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:25:12.000 But to pretend that the justifications are only because of the Jewish lobby or because of the Zionists, there's a million variables that you have to ignore or just be too stupid to understand to come to that conclusion. 0.95

00:25:25.000 I hate to say this, but that's a really good jumping off point to Dave Smith's tweet. 0.99

00:25:30.000 Traitor. 0.97

00:25:32.000 That's what he said about the president. 0.98

00:25:34.000 You see the difference?

00:25:37.000 You can say, hey, listen, we've been down this road before.

00:25:40.000 We have spent many, many, many lives and trillions of dollars on wars in the Middle East.

00:25:46.000 I feel like we were dragged into those wars by Israel for their purposes, not necessarily the purposes and the benefit of the American people in the United States. 0.77

00:25:53.000 I want to make sure we're not doing that again.

00:25:55.000 I want to make sure we understand how this ends and what our goals are and why we're doing this.

00:25:59.000 Didn't say that.

00:26:00.000 Said traitor.

00:26:03.000 Tells me everything that I need to know. 0.99

00:26:05.000 I think he's a smart guy that has some really stupid opinions on how the world actually works, not living in a fantasy land where everybody just gets along because we signed a piece of paper and I can trust everybody to do their job. 0.98

00:26:15.000 Not how it works in reality, unfortunately. 0.98

00:26:18.000 President Trump yesterday, though, briefed the nation on our operations so far.

00:26:22.000 Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, this wretched and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across many countries. 0.91

00:26:46.000 The entire military command is gone as well, and many of them want to surrender into saving their lives.

00:26:54.000 They want immunity.

00:26:56.000 They're calling by the thousands.

00:26:58.000 Combat operations continue at this time in full force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved.

00:27:06.000 We have very strong objectives.

00:27:09.000 They could have done something, but they just couldn't get there.

00:27:13.000 You should tell us what those are.

00:27:14.000 I know, right?

00:27:14.000 CENTCOM shared the news that three U.S. military service members have been killed in action.

00:27:21.000 As one nation, we grieve for the true American patriots who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation.

00:27:30.000 Even as we continue the righteous mission for which they gave their lives, we pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen.

00:27:46.000 And sadly, there will likely be more before it ends.

00:27:50.000 That's the way it is.

00:27:52.000 Likely be more, but we'll do everything possible where that won't be the case.

00:27:58.000 So that is a really good example of a couple of things that we've just talked about.

00:27:58.000 There you go.

00:28:04.000 One, tell us what those objectives are, right?

00:28:06.000 We have the best objectives.

00:28:07.000 To that point, CNN was reporting earlier that Pete Hegseth was going to be laying out those objectives in Arlington or might have already done it.

00:28:15.000 Okay.

00:28:15.000 I had him on screen.

00:28:16.000 I can't hear.

00:28:17.000 Okay, perfect.

00:28:18.000 So if they do lay that out during the show, we'll bring that to you guys.

00:28:20.000 So Mission Control, you guys make sure you're on top of that.

00:28:23.000 The other part is really interesting to point out is that people stopped that clip at the place where he said there were going to be more.

00:28:29.000 Right.

00:28:30.000 Instead of playing the full clip of what he actually said, which we did.

00:28:35.000 Now, we didn't play all of the speech, but to give you the context of that moment, he didn't just say there's likely going to be more dead.

00:28:41.000 Boop.

00:28:41.000 And you go to CNN Wolf Blitzer telling you President of the United States says more people will die, in fact, in this, of course, this conflict could produce more casualties.

00:28:41.000 Cut.

00:28:51.000 Unfortunately, we are now up from three to four U.S. servicemen dead, 10 Israelis and five in Arab states as well.

00:28:58.000 And those Arabs would like, I assume, they're ones allied with us or helping with us.

00:29:02.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:29:03.000 So that's unfortunate.

00:29:04.000 But he said we're going to do everything that we can to minimize that.

00:29:08.000 I just, I want to make sure you understand that I don't think that Donald Trump ever wants to do this.

00:29:14.000 Ever.

00:29:15.000 I think he wants to make sure that he has no remote possibility of being forced into doing something much, much more dramatic later.

00:29:25.000 I think he's willing to do small operations to make sure he can solve a problem instead of having to do incredibly large troops on the ground operations in these countries.

00:29:36.000 So he added this on Truth Social.

00:29:38.000 I've just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk nine Iranian naval ships.

00:29:43.000 I didn't know they had nine.

00:29:44.000 Some of them relatively large and important.

00:29:46.000 We're going after the rest.

00:29:48.000 They will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea also.

00:29:51.000 Okay, you don't float if you're at the bottom of the sea.

00:29:52.000 But listen, let's not split hairs.

00:29:55.000 They're at the bottom of the sea.

00:29:56.000 That's all that really matters.

00:29:58.000 In a different attack, we largely destroyed their naval headquarters.

00:30:01.000 And this is a part of Trump right now that we're about to read that you don't get from most people throughout history that are leading this country.

00:30:08.000 He went on to say, other than that, their Navy's doing very well.

00:30:13.000 President Donald J. Trump, he just takes the time to just dig in.

00:30:19.000 Listen, if I was a, I mean.

00:30:20.000 Did he just compliment Sandwich?

00:30:24.000 You guys are doing great.

00:30:25.000 He's negging.

00:30:27.000 You guys are still floating on the bottom.

00:30:28.000 It's not quite on the bottom.

00:30:30.000 Iran's beautiful fleet.

00:30:31.000 Mostly destroyed, but still doing very well.

00:30:33.000 Use some glass bottom boats to look at the ships in your fleet.

00:30:38.000 If I was in service right now and I was being deployed and I was over there and I read that, I would be like, hell yeah.

00:30:38.000 I don't know.

00:30:43.000 That's my commander-in-chief.

00:30:45.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:30:46.000 I would love that.

00:30:48.000 And so far, pardon me, allergies are still kind of a thing here in Texas.

00:30:53.000 The response from Iran, the retaliatory strikes, have hit a number of places that maybe you wouldn't think, but here's a clip.

00:31:12.000 What'd the hotel do wrong?

00:31:15.000 Whoa.

00:31:17.000 Whoa, another one.

00:31:17.000 Whoa.

00:31:18.000 Whoa.

00:31:19.000 They were targeting Andrew Tate's war room.

00:31:26.000 It's just the Matrix, bro.

00:31:30.000 It's just the Matrix, bro.

00:31:34.000 Sounds like they're watching football.

00:31:36.000 That was a big one.

00:31:37.000 I mean, it's kind of the equivalent, if you think about it.

00:31:48.000 Yes.

00:31:49.000 Oh, my God.

00:31:53.000 That's a bad one right there.

00:31:55.000 Oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.

00:31:59.000 Obviously, the strikes that resulted in loss of life, worse.

00:32:02.000 I'm just saying, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of reason to do that if you're Iran, right? 1.00

00:32:06.000 You're going to piss some people off that were basically staying out of the fight to a degree.

00:32:10.000 So let me just run down a list really quickly of where they've hit.

00:32:13.000 So in the UAE, they've hit civilian infrastructure and also a French base in Bahrain, civilian infrastructure, as well as U.S. Fifth Fleet base.

00:32:21.000 I believe that's the domed thing that you have to do.

00:32:23.000 I think that's where the casualties occurred, if I'm correct.

00:32:26.000 And I've heard reports that that was a very, very expensive forward-looking radar.

00:32:26.000 Exactly.

00:32:31.000 I don't know what not forward-looking radar.

00:32:33.000 It was some kind of an advance warning radar system that we lost there.

00:32:37.000 So that's obviously not good stuff at all.

00:32:39.000 Like, this is all very, very bad.

00:32:40.000 Kuwait, U.S. bases, and the embassy.

00:32:43.000 Qatar, Alude Air Base, International Airport, natural gas facilities.

00:32:48.000 What prompting Qatar to shut down their LNG production right now, which immediately spiked gas prices and energy prices across Europe.

00:32:55.000 I think by somewhere is about 50%.

00:32:57.000 I saw 50%?

00:32:59.000 50%, 5%, 0% is what I saw. 0.89

00:33:01.000 So maybe fact-check that, guys.

00:33:02.000 It's one of those things where you seem excessive.

00:33:04.000 I could be wrong, but that seems excessive.

00:33:05.000 I mean, because oil is only up about 50%.

00:33:08.000 Yeah, it was the LNG stuff.

00:33:09.000 So fact-checking.

00:33:10.000 Most of the LNG there, a lot of it goes to Asia too.

00:33:13.000 So it would surprise me that that had that effect on European markets.

00:33:16.000 They may just be getting scared.

00:33:16.000 But I could.

00:33:17.000 That happens, especially in France.

00:33:18.000 They're like, hey, we need more nukes.

00:33:21.000 We'll get to that.

00:33:22.000 Saudi Arabia, they hit oil refineries and air bases. 0.58

00:33:25.000 And the Saudi Arabia thing really, it just really baffles me.

00:33:28.000 You can be pissed off at Saudi Arabia if you're Iran. 1.00

00:33:30.000 I get that, right?

00:33:32.000 But they basically said, we're just not going to do a whole lot about this about a month ago.

00:33:36.000 The United States can't use our airspace or anything like that.

00:33:38.000 So just everybody chill, right?

00:33:40.000 They didn't tell us not to do anything, but it seemed like they were kind of hedging their bets a little bit.

00:33:43.000 Well, you start bombing their infrastructure, Iran, to Saudi Arabia, and now the kingdom put this statement out.

00:33:50.000 The kingdom affirms its full solidarity with an unwavering support for the brotherly countries and its readiness to place all its capabilities at their disposal in support of any measures they may undertake.

00:34:01.000 It also warns of the grave consequences resulting from the continued violation of state sovereignty and the principles of international law.

00:34:10.000 I'm not sure they care a whole hell of a lot about international law.

00:34:12.000 No one cares about international law.

00:34:14.000 It's a made-up term.

00:34:14.000 Bombing our facilities.

00:34:15.000 It's nice to put in press releases, but that was before they had been directly targeted also.

00:34:20.000 So you can assume after this latest round of rogue attack from the regime that the Saudis are not going to be too happy, especially to see later, we have a clip.

00:34:28.000 Didn't even know this.

00:34:28.000 A few years ago, MBS referred to the Ayatollah as Hitler.

00:34:33.000 So it's not like, again, I was a discussion.

00:34:36.000 What does Israel get out of this that Saudi Arabia doesn't also directly get out of it?

00:34:40.000 So, right there, if you just look at that comparison, the do-it-for-the-Jews thing kind of falls apart, especially since there's some reporting behind the scenes that Saudi Arabia was pushing this attack too.

00:34:48.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:34:49.000 So when I don't know about you, but when I saw that, I was like, what are they doing?

00:34:53.000 What are they doing?

00:34:54.000 I don't think they know what they're doing.

00:34:55.000 Well, unless they're just trying to commit terror to make these countries too scared to respond and step in on I feel like it's going to have the exact opposite response where they're saying, okay, well, yeah, we thought it was a threat before and we were happy to let Israel and the United States kind of deal with it, but now we're going to step into the fight because they've taken it to us.

00:35:11.000 And so we have to join in.

00:35:13.000 Now, that's always nice to hear, but unfortunately, in Kuwait, that resulted in some friendly fire with the three F-15s that were shot down.

00:35:21.000 Fortunately, it seems like everybody got out, but that's the viral picture of a guy who's on his knees with his hands up and a guy kind of with a pipe.

00:35:28.000 And he's basically saying, Hey, I'm not a threat.

00:35:30.000 I could not validate that that was a real picture.

00:35:33.000 But that's what's making the rounds, at least on the internet.

00:35:35.000 And so that's in reference to that potentially.

00:35:38.000 Be careful with what you're sharing.

00:35:39.000 Do not share video game footage.

00:35:41.000 Do not share pictures.

00:35:42.000 Do not do anything until you double, triple, quadruple check because people get clicks in times like these.

00:35:48.000 They absolutely do.

00:35:49.000 So the question is: why is Iran being so haphazard with its response? 0.95

00:35:54.000 And maybe the answer is the command structure doesn't exist anymore.

00:35:57.000 We have already told our Army Armed Forces to be careful about the targets that they choose.

00:36:07.000 As a matter of fact, our military units are now, in fact, independent and somehow isolated.

00:36:18.000 And they are acting based on instructions, general instructions given to them in advance.

00:36:27.000 That's not great.

00:36:28.000 It's like a break glass in case of emergency.

00:36:31.000 And they broke the glass for a flood, and there's a fire extinguisher.

00:36:34.000 It's called standing orders.

00:36:35.000 Yeah.

00:36:36.000 You know, you give orders in case this happens, in case that happens, these are your orders.

00:36:40.000 I saw this in Crimson Tide.

00:36:41.000 They were told to fire their nukes.

00:36:43.000 I didn't see that.

00:36:46.000 I know that that's a great movie.

00:36:47.000 How can you do that?

00:36:48.000 I know you're supposed to roll tide, but I don't know about any of that.

00:36:51.000 Whatever.

00:36:52.000 Look, if the fighting does continue, we all have to be careful because some sources say that Iran may actually deploy their most ancient weapon. 0.87

00:37:01.000 You don't want to kill some Jews, do you? 0.97

00:37:04.000 We can go on a flight, bomb Israel. 1.00

00:37:07.000 Is it safe? 0.90

00:37:08.000 Even families.

00:37:11.000 What?

00:37:12.000 Do you trust me?

00:37:29.000 Big if true.

00:37:30.000 Jesus.

00:37:33.000 Accurate reporting.

00:37:35.000 I don't.

00:37:36.000 Did you know Aladdin was Chinese?

00:37:37.000 Ah.

00:37:38.000 He was a Uyghur. 1.00

00:37:39.000 Ah, was he?

00:37:40.000 Yes, I think he was.

00:37:41.000 No, he wasn't. 0.99

00:37:41.000 He was a street rat. 0.99

00:37:42.000 Everyone knows that. 0.95

00:37:43.000 Yeah.

00:37:43.000 Well, that's the lamp.

00:37:46.000 Don't rewrite history, okay?

00:37:47.000 It's a Chinese.

00:37:48.000 Look it up. 0.91

00:37:49.000 Pokemon Razzler, street rat.

00:37:52.000 Can we fact-check that research?

00:37:54.000 I want to get an admonishment.

00:37:55.000 He was the diamond.

00:37:55.000 I've already been admonished by Activist.

00:37:57.000 Don't be wrong.

00:38:01.000 He was the diamond in the rough, not the diamond miner in the Congolese. 0.88

00:38:04.000 Yeah, he's China.

00:38:05.000 That's also not China.

00:38:06.000 None of this has to be done.

00:38:07.000 Why did we go to Africa?

00:38:08.000 Because China doesn't have to.

00:38:09.000 Okay.

00:38:09.000 There's no need.

00:38:10.000 Anyway, sorry for this worm. 0.77

00:38:11.000 Let's move on.

00:38:12.000 The question is: really, is any of this necessary?

00:38:14.000 And most importantly, and I think we should always think about this with this context: does it benefit the United States of America?

00:38:22.000 There are a lot of different things in kind of our international stance that will benefit this country.

00:38:28.000 Surprisingly, you can't just kind of retreat from the rest of the world and expect everything to go swimmingly well for you and for them.

00:38:36.000 So, I understand that there are different challenges with that, but let's just go through a couple of the reasons that this would be in the best interest of the United States and others.

00:38:43.000 And I'll give you a list.

00:38:44.000 Reason number one: nukes.

00:38:47.000 Iran was pursuing enrichment.

00:38:49.000 And I don't care how many Dave Smiths or anybody else out there that might come along and say they had no desire whatsoever for acquiring nuclear weapons or producing a nuclear weapon.

00:39:01.000 They wanted a latent nuclear deterrent.

00:39:03.000 A latent nuclear weapon. 1.00

00:39:04.000 It's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of in my life because a latent nuclear deterrent becomes a, I got to kick your ass so you don't develop a nuclear deterrent. 1.00

00:39:14.000 It's the stupidest thing I've heard of. 1.00

00:39:14.000 Okay. 1.00

00:39:16.000 But prior to Midnight Hammer, and that was the operation, what was it, last June?

00:39:20.000 June.

00:39:20.000 So last June, where we was flawless.

00:39:20.000 Yeah.

00:39:24.000 There were 972 pounds of 60% enriched uranium.

00:39:29.000 Now, just remember, only 2% to 5% enrichment is needed for civilian use.

00:39:33.000 And this is important because they'll say, well, they weren't, they say they're two weeks away from a weapon, two weeks away from a weapon.

00:39:38.000 No, what they're saying is that 60%, which they had major stockpiles of, and even 20% can enrich to 60%, can enrich to weapons grade in a matter of days and weeks.

00:39:46.000 Yeah, it can go very, very, very quickly.

00:39:48.000 Now, delivery mechanism, fine, I understand that, but there's a lot of reason to be concerned.

00:39:53.000 Like, do you think if they nuked Israel or if they nuked Saudi Arabia or something like that, you think that wouldn't drag everybody in? 0.97

00:39:58.000 No, of course not.

00:39:59.000 You see proliferation of nukes like you've never seen, like you couldn't even fathom.

00:40:03.000 What if it's just one we didn't even know existed?

00:40:06.000 Or how about a dirty bomb?

00:40:06.000 How about that?

00:40:08.000 You ever hear of people?

00:40:08.000 You ever hear of that?

00:40:10.000 Is there maybe a movie or a show throughout the history of the United States that maybe shows, I don't know, Muslim extremists trying to get a nuke or a dirty bomb into the United States? 0.97

00:40:19.000 Now, could we stop it? 0.98

00:40:19.000 Yes, of course. 0.98

00:40:20.000 I hope.

00:40:21.000 You want to take that chance?

00:40:22.000 Or do you want to make sure it never happens in the first place?

00:40:25.000 And by the way, recent negotiations with Iran, they refused to stop enrichment.

00:40:30.000 This is pretty simple.

00:40:32.000 They refused to stop enrichment.

00:40:34.000 No matter what we did, they refused.

00:40:37.000 Now, here's a kicker.

00:40:38.000 Some of the negotiations are starting to leak out.

00:40:41.000 Apparently, the United States made an offer that would have taken care of all of their, we just want this for peaceful use arguments.

00:40:49.000 The United States offered Iran free nuclear energy forever.

00:40:57.000 Forever.

00:40:58.000 And it's really interesting because they had a budget, they were enriching it, ISFAN, I think, to 20%.

00:41:03.000 And they said, okay, you can do that, but we're doing that so we can send it to the Tehran research reactor, which wasn't hit because that's where we use it for things like making medical research.

00:41:11.000 Yeah.

00:41:11.000 And then they looked into it.

00:41:12.000 Not one medicine had ever been developed at the terror on the bank.

00:41:16.000 That you know of.

00:41:17.000 They've invented a whole lot of stuff.

00:41:18.000 It's just, it's all, it's all a sham.

00:41:20.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:41:22.000 So, so that in and of itself right there is a problem.

00:41:26.000 Now, I told you guys on, I think, Friday or Thursday, whenever we covered this subject, it looks like President Trump is coming in in just one minute.

00:41:32.000 So, again, we'll bring you over to that when that happens.

00:41:35.000 I said a negotiated deal is preferable to any other scenario here, but you have to have a willing and trusted partner on the other side of the table.

00:41:42.000 And right there, they're not willing and they're certainly not trusted, right?

00:41:46.000 And for all of those people out there who I think, again, with maybe some best intentions, some not so best intentions, saying like we should just go back to the JCPOA.

00:41:58.000 We had an agreement with them.

00:42:00.000 Did we?

00:42:00.000 Oh, really?

00:42:00.000 So Iran was supposed to stop enrichment of uranium at 3.67% and agree to inspections of facilities.

00:42:06.000 We've talked about this before.

00:42:08.000 It was a flawed inspection process.

00:42:10.000 Fine.

00:42:11.000 But it was better than nothing.

00:42:12.000 I'll grant that.

00:42:13.000 Reduce the number of centrifuges.

00:42:15.000 And then here's the problem.

00:42:18.000 It had sunset provisions, 10 to 15 years on their nuclear ambitions.

00:42:22.000 And then we got to do this again.

00:42:23.000 It's like a draft pick that you're trying to lock up into a long-term contract.

00:42:26.000 Like, no, I want a short-term contract so we can come back to the table and try to bend you over a barrel again. 0.99

00:42:32.000 And essentially, we opened up massive amounts of revenue to them.

00:42:35.000 And we didn't deal with the terror groups or their ballistic missiles in that deal.

00:42:40.000 It was a bad deal.

00:42:42.000 For the Dave Smiths of the world, it was a great deal because it kicked the can down the road.

00:42:47.000 Kept us out of war for a minute, but it didn't solve the problem.

00:42:50.000 I'd rather solve the problem earlier than later.

00:42:53.000 Call me crazy.

00:42:54.000 Especially when people don't have enough time to make a bomb.

00:42:57.000 That would be ideal. 1.00

00:42:58.000 And there is a lot of political risk in Donald Trump doing something like this because if it fails, he looks like an idiot. 1.00

00:43:03.000 And then you can say, well, there was no imminent threat. 0.99

00:43:06.000 But this is something you can really only judge decades down the road when you see the fruition of this.

00:43:11.000 Because, like, kicking, like you said, kicking the can down the road.

00:43:14.000 And then someone else has to deal with it.

00:43:16.000 And you realize what a massive mess up that was to kick the can down the road because that can eventually explodes and destroys everything.

00:43:22.000 Exactly.

00:43:22.000 I mean, look at what we've done with immigration, kicking the can down the road.

00:43:25.000 Now we have a problem that it's almost impossible to deal with with deportations because everybody goes, well, no, you can't do that.

00:43:30.000 That's not humane.

00:43:31.000 It creates additional problems.

00:43:32.000 And look, I want to be fair.

00:43:34.000 I do like Dave.

00:43:35.000 I just happen to vehemently disagree with him on this point.

00:43:38.000 If I veer into any personal attacks, that's not my intention.

00:43:40.000 I really want to go after the ideas because I think the ideas don't make sense in the world that we live in.

00:43:46.000 In another world, maybe.

00:43:48.000 Just certainly not this one.

00:43:49.000 Reason number two: ballistic missiles. 0.97

00:43:55.000 I really don't think they sound like that.

00:43:57.000 Did Applejack just fart?

00:43:58.000 What happened?

00:43:59.000 Yeah.

00:43:59.000 So listen, there was a potential nuclear threat down the road, depending on who you listen to.

00:44:04.000 It could be very soon or very long.

00:44:05.000 It doesn't matter.

00:44:06.000 There was a threat there that we had to deal with one way or the other.

00:44:09.000 But there's a missile threat now.

00:44:11.000 And there's a fear that Iran would use them preemptively.

00:44:14.000 And they do have the capability to make hundreds of these per month.

00:44:18.000 They have a very good program.

00:44:19.000 They don't have that.

00:44:20.000 Not good for us, good for them.

00:44:21.000 They don't have a history of preemptively attacking people, though.

00:44:23.000 No, but there was a fear that they could.

00:44:25.000 So if they get backed into a corner.

00:44:26.000 They do, though.

00:44:27.000 If negotiations absolutely do.

00:44:29.000 That's cool.

00:44:30.000 They usually did it in response, right?

00:44:32.000 The thought, and you can read this from the Axios article.

00:44:34.000 It's really good.

00:44:35.000 Marca Puto put a great thread together on X.

00:44:37.000 And what the officials in the White House were saying is if they got to a position where they felt negotiations weren't going their way, then they could go ahead and preemptively use this massive swath of ballistic missiles that they have.

00:44:47.000 And instead of waiting for that moment, let's take out their launchers, let's take out some of their missiles, let's take out their air defense, let's do all this all now while we're on our front foot.

00:44:54.000 Again, you can agree or disagree.

00:44:56.000 That is a valid thing.

00:44:57.000 That is a valid argument.

00:44:58.000 And to your point, Josh, like I thought most of their ballistic missiles that they have fired were in response, coming from Iran.

00:45:04.000 I'm just saying.

00:45:04.000 They funded, no, no, no, they funded the terror groups to launch rockets into Israel all the time.

00:45:10.000 Well, they've done it too.

00:45:11.000 I mean, in the last decade for sure.

00:45:13.000 Yeah.

00:45:14.000 Yeah.

00:45:14.000 I was, never mind.

00:45:15.000 I was just trying to make a little joke there.

00:45:16.000 That's okay.

00:45:17.000 I see how it is.

00:45:17.000 Thank you, Lane.

00:45:18.000 I mean, they shot at our base when we killed the Soleimani guy.

00:45:21.000 So, you know, we'll see.

00:45:23.000 Most of these guys are pretty new on the job, though, because we took most of them out last time in Operation Midnight Hammer.

00:45:28.000 So we'll see how they're doing.

00:45:30.000 Reason number three: terrorism.

00:45:33.000 I just addressed that just a little bit, but they also refused to address the issue of its terror proxies.

00:45:37.000 Wouldn't even bring it up.

00:45:38.000 Would not even bring it up.

00:45:39.000 And it's Kataib Hezbollah, which killed Americans in Iraq, the Taliban, Hezbollah, I guess Hezbollah regular, and the Houthis, and then also Hamas. 0.91

00:45:50.000 I mean, these groups are just funded and alive and well and able to shoot, kill, maim, harass other people, Jews, because of Iran. 0.99

00:46:06.000 How do we forget that?

00:46:07.000 These aren't like isolated incidents where this is a fully self-funded group in Hamas and the Taliban's just running around, you know, because they have secret stashes of gold everywhere.

00:46:17.000 You know, they're being funded to do this stuff.

00:46:19.000 It's coming from Iran. 0.75

00:46:20.000 It's coming from the leadership of Iran. 0.81

00:46:23.000 So the question is now or later.

00:46:25.000 Do we do it now and handle the problem?

00:46:28.000 Or do we feel like we'll be in a better position to handle the problem later?

00:46:35.000 Clip.

00:46:36.000 An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire threat to every American. 1.00

00:46:45.000 We cannot allow a nation that raises terrorist armies to possess such weapons, would allow them to extort the world to their evil will.

00:46:55.000 Not going to let it happen.

00:46:57.000 We're not happening to us, and we're not going to let it happen to others.

00:47:01.000 We're undertaking this massive operation not merely to ensure security for our own time and place, but for our children and their children, just as our ancestors have done for us many, many years ago.

00:47:17.000 This is the duty and the burden of a free people.

00:47:21.000 These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical, bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats.

00:47:36.000 Pretty simple, right?

00:47:38.000 You do have to deal with this problem one way or the other.

00:47:40.000 We tried negotiations.

00:47:42.000 Now we're trying the other thing.

00:47:44.000 And Lane, I think you made this point.

00:47:46.000 Either you run through it.

00:47:47.000 Did you come in and say it on air or not about North Korea?

00:47:49.000 No, I don't think I made it.

00:47:50.000 There was that point.

00:47:51.000 I don't know.

00:47:51.000 I think it was Mehdi Hassan is saying that Iran proved the case for more countries to pursue nuclear weapons and North Korea was the opposite.

00:47:58.000 But I don't understand that because North Korea is the case to pursue nuclear weapons, what we let happen. 0.95

00:48:03.000 And we have negotiated and they just continue to buy time.

00:48:07.000 By time, by time.

00:48:08.000 So in 93, they threaten to leave the non-proliferation treaty.

00:48:11.000 They don't.

00:48:12.000 Then they come back in.

00:48:13.000 Then they leave.

00:48:14.000 Then we have six-party talks with the most powerful countries in the world.

00:48:16.000 That lasts for six years all the time.

00:48:18.000 They're basically progressing just a little by little.

00:48:21.000 Yes.

00:48:21.000 Then they leave the six-party talks.

00:48:23.000 Then they do nuclear tests.

00:48:24.000 Then Trump comes back in and he's like, well, maybe we can re-engage with them.

00:48:28.000 He tries to re-engage once in Singapore, again in Vietnam.

00:48:31.000 That falls apart.

00:48:32.000 And then by 2022, they're launching more missile tests and ICBMs that are capable of reaching the United States and its entire continental framework, all because they were able to push the can down there, push it, push it, push it a little bit.

00:48:44.000 And now it's a problem that is unsolvable and you cannot deal with North Korea. 0.97

00:48:49.000 They kind of have carte blanche to operate in a lot of ways that could be extremely destructive to not only our troops in the region, the South Koreans, the Japanese. 0.93

00:48:58.000 That is what you were dealing with.

00:49:00.000 Now take that out of the hands of a sovereign state actor like Kim. 0.84

00:49:03.000 You can call him crazy, but it's a state to a radical Islamist apocalyptic regime.

00:49:08.000 And it's a 10x worse scenario. 0.90

00:49:10.000 Exactly.

00:49:10.000 So that, I think, has to come into the calculation.

00:49:13.000 And I think people, I mean, if you're thinking about this rationally, and again, you have to take off your everything in the world that is wrong is all the fault of the Jews. 1.00

00:49:22.000 You have to take that hat off.

00:49:23.000 And I know for some of you, it's really hard to get that one off.

00:49:26.000 You wear it all the time.

00:49:27.000 And just think about this rationally and go, hey, do we really want the largest state sponsor of terror to Hezbollah, Taliban, the Houthis, Hamas?

00:49:38.000 Do we want them to possess nuclear weapons like North Korea possesses nuclear weapons?

00:49:43.000 How did North Korea get, oh, wow, this slow march, right?

00:49:47.000 Where we try to engage with them.

00:49:48.000 We tried sanctions.

00:49:49.000 We tried to engage economically and give them benefits, more revenue to make sure that they don't do this.

00:49:53.000 And inspections and, hey, we nonproliferation. 0.98

00:49:55.000 And hey, and then finally we find ourselves in a, well, crap, they have a bomb. 0.99

00:49:59.000 And you can't even blame the North Koreans. 0.99

00:50:01.000 No, because they're doing what's in their own best interests.

00:50:04.000 I mean, it's a calculation they took, and I get it.

00:50:07.000 I mean, we've seen this play out before, and this is in parallel to what's going on in Iran, except Iran has a little bit different motivations.

00:50:14.000 So I think it's a really, really good point.

00:50:17.000 But also, there's some really bad points being made here.

00:50:20.000 Some people say that this is all about China, that this is going to encourage Taiwan.

00:50:23.000 I mean, the response to Russia-Ukraine was going to make China take Thailand.

00:50:27.000 The response here is going to make Taiwan. 0.98

00:50:30.000 If they take Thailand, that'd actually be maybe an upgrade for the people in Thailand.

00:50:34.000 Who knows?

00:50:34.000 There's a lot of sex trafficking going on there.

00:50:36.000 Never mind. 0.99

00:50:37.000 Well, the Chinese aren't going to take care of that. 1.00

00:50:38.000 So never mind.

00:50:39.000 I take that.

00:50:39.000 It's about China and Taiwan.

00:50:41.000 It's not all about China.

00:50:42.000 Enough about your summer vacation.

00:50:44.000 But it definitely does hurt Beijing.

00:50:46.000 I think this could tip the scales.

00:50:47.000 It's like, well, this will, if we're on the fence, well, it's also not going to be great for Beijing.

00:50:52.000 So let's go ahead and make the it might make sense for us to do that because something that's not great for Beijing is actually good for us.

00:50:59.000 Yes.

00:50:59.000 Typically, I mean, maybe there's some scenarios.

00:51:00.000 Like a meteorite hitting the Earth or something like that.

00:51:04.000 Is it a meteorite at that point once it enters the Earth?

00:51:07.000 Yeah, because it has the right stuff to enter the atmosphere.

00:51:10.000 Is that really how you remember it?

00:51:11.000 Yeah.

00:51:11.000 It's science.

00:51:12.000 Got it.

00:51:13.000 I always thought it was like there's a meteor and then a little meteor is a meteorite.

00:51:17.000 Oh, President Trump is speaking right now.

00:51:19.000 Let's go to that.

00:51:21.000 Oh.

00:51:21.000 Being here and what?

00:51:34.000 Love you, my Mountain Dew.

00:51:37.000 The hell needs to happen.

00:51:38.000 Okay, so.

00:51:39.000 And a little bit of chicken fries.

00:51:41.000 Honor yourself.

00:51:42.000 And a little bit of Mountain Dew.

00:51:44.000 This Medal of Honor is presented by Mountain Dew.

00:51:48.000 Taste the Pa Blast. 0.92

00:51:51.000 Chuck Norris's urine.

00:51:53.000 Mountain Dew.

00:51:54.000 The war in Iran is code red.

00:51:55.000 So is Mountain Dew.

00:51:57.000 Jeez.

00:51:58.000 Do the dew.

00:52:00.000 I mean, really, running like, you know, Mountain Dew commercials and video game commercials during a war, guys, bad form.

00:52:05.000 So really, we'll go back to this.

00:52:07.000 If he comes back, I don't know if that's on our end, guys, or if that was on their end.

00:52:10.000 Like if something's wrong with our researchers, let us know if they start addressing the actual situation in Iran.

00:52:16.000 Right.

00:52:16.000 We want to go to it when they address the situation.

00:52:18.000 So let us know for that.

00:52:19.000 So 13% of China's seaborne crude comes from Iran.

00:52:24.000 And there was a recently developed Overland route to ship crude and other products.

00:52:28.000 I wonder why.

00:52:28.000 Everybody's kind of gearing up for this.

00:52:30.000 And they were actively collaborating on arms deals for drones and for missiles.

00:52:35.000 So let me see now if he's doing this because it looks like he might be doing it now.

00:52:39.000 Let's go.

00:52:39.000 ...bases both local and overseas and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America.

00:52:48.000 The purpose of this fast-growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden by us nuclear weapons. 0.54

00:53:02.000 We were the ones that were complaining.

00:53:04.000 We were the ones that wanted it stopped.

00:53:07.000 But everybody was behind us.

00:53:08.000 They just didn't have the courage to say so.

00:53:11.000 That's true.

00:53:12.000 An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people. 0.99

00:53:24.000 Our country itself would be under threat, and it was very nearly under threat.

00:53:30.000 I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama.

00:53:37.000 That was a horrible, horrible, dangerous document.

00:53:40.000 They would have had nuclear weapons three years ago, and they would have used them.

00:53:46.000 The answer is not letting them.

00:53:47.000 Maybe for the reasons we laid out, guys, that they could potentially get there under these agreements.

00:53:51.000 The US regime has been attacking the United States and killing Americans every time you see someone with missing arms and legs or a face that's been absolutely shattered violently. 0.57

00:54:03.000 It was almost certainly caused by an Iran roadside bomb.

00:54:09.000 They were put there by General Salome, who was the father of the roadside bomb.

00:54:17.000 Very proudly, he thought, but I terminated him in my first term.

00:54:25.000 This was our last best chance to strike what we're doing right now and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime. 0.69

00:54:36.000 And they are indeed sick and sinister. 0.82

00:54:39.000 There is debate on whether those roadside bombs were made in Iraq versus Iran.

00:54:43.000 Destroying Iran's first 10 years of the war on terror, there's the estimate that about 20 percent of deaths were attributed directly to Iran.

00:54:51.000 Brand new ones, and pretty good ones they make.

00:54:54.000 Second, we're annihilating their navy.

00:54:57.000 We've knocked out already 10 ships at the bottom of the sea.

00:55:01.000 Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon. 0.72

00:55:10.000 It's like the sponsoring terror. 0.54

00:55:12.000 They're never going to have a nuclear weapon.

00:55:14.000 They were on the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country.

00:55:23.000 And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.

00:55:34.000 And we thought we had a deal, but then they backed out.

00:55:37.000 And they came back, and we thought we had a deal, and they backed out.

00:55:40.000 I said, you can't deal with these people.

00:55:42.000 You've got to do it the right way.

00:55:45.000 Today, we grieve for the four heroic American service members who have been killed in action and send our love and support to their families.

00:55:55.000 In their memory, we continue this mission with ferocious, unyielding resolve to crush the threat this terrorist regime poses to the American people, and a threat indeed it is.

00:56:07.000 We have the strongest and most powerful by far military in the world, and we will easily prevail.

00:56:16.000 We're already substantially ahead of our time projections, but whatever the time is, it's okay.

00:56:24.000 Whatever it takes, we will always, and we have right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that.

00:56:37.000 We'll do it.

00:56:38.000 Whatever somebody said today, they said, oh, well, if the president wants to do it really quickly after that, he'll get bored.

00:56:44.000 I don't get bored.

00:56:46.000 There's nothing boring about this.

00:56:47.000 Do you agree with that, Pete?

00:56:49.000 I don't think there's anything, Mr. General.

00:56:51.000 I think there's nothing boring about it.

00:56:54.000 Somebody actually said from the media, I think you'll get bored after about a week or two.

00:56:59.000 No, we don't get bored.

00:57:00.000 I never get bored.

00:57:01.000 If I got bored, I wouldn't be standing here right now, I guarantee you that, to go through what I had to go through.

00:57:08.000 We also projected four weeks to terminate the military leadership, and as you know, that was done in about an hour, so we're ahead of schedule there.

00:57:19.000 But please join me in thanking every American service member who bravely is standing in harm's way.

00:57:26.000 They really are incredible, and I just want to thank you.

00:57:28.000 We have a lot of them right here.

00:57:29.000 Thank you very much.

00:57:30.000 Absolutely.

00:57:31.000 Thank you. 0.97

00:57:32.000 By the way, anybody on X right now saying those people died for Israel, which I have heard over and over and over again, go screw yourselves.

00:57:40.000 They died defending and making sure that this country was safe.

00:57:44.000 Thank you, everybody.

00:57:45.000 We have a lot of great service members here with us, too, in this beautiful building, isn't it?

00:57:50.000 Beautiful.

00:57:51.000 We're adding on to the building a little bit.

00:57:53.000 We're improving the building.

00:57:56.000 It's not the time.

00:57:57.000 No.

00:57:58.000 When that comes down right now, you see a very good place.

00:58:01.000 Just not right now.

00:58:03.000 A year and a half from the first plan.

00:58:04.000 All right, listen, we will come back to this if there's anything that we need to.

00:58:08.000 We'll cover some breaking information here.

00:58:10.000 What he talked about is like that proverb, and I think it's actually a very like the father plants the tree knowing he's never going to sit under its shade.

00:58:17.000 Yeah.

00:58:18.000 And maybe the tree grows, maybe it doesn't.

00:58:20.000 But that's the people, and I don't want to speak out of turn because I never had the bravery to sign up like other people did.

00:58:25.000 But just because their sacrifices aren't immediately tangible now, you have no idea what that's preventing in the future.

00:58:32.000 I know that's not the greatest argument, but to say that their lives were lost in vain, I think, is a disrespect to what they've done and they decided to do.

00:58:40.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:58:40.000 Because they did it with agency, and I think they should be honored for it and not say, well, because if you say they did it in vain, you're calling these people stupid for signing up. 0.98

00:58:48.000 And I just don't think that's the case.

00:58:49.000 Yeah.

00:58:49.000 And I could be off there, but that's my no, I don't think you're off at all.

00:58:52.000 It's not in vain, and the men who serve next to them will ensure that.

00:58:56.000 Exactly.

00:58:57.000 You know, it's part of your code, you know?

00:58:59.000 Yeah.

00:59:00.000 Absolutely.

00:59:01.000 So one of the things that we said is if this goes well, we want to know what day, whatever looks like, the end, the final day of this conflict.

00:59:08.000 What does it look like?

00:59:09.000 And if it all goes as planned, Kaushi already has odds on who will visit Iran first.

00:59:16.000 And that brings us to our Kalshi check-in.

00:59:21.000 All right.

00:59:22.000 So prediction markets are all the rage because for a while, these guys have been getting it more right than wrong because that's where people are putting their money.

00:59:30.000 So Raza Pahlavi has 30% chances right now.

00:59:34.000 So that, what is that?

00:59:34.000 The crown prince.

00:59:36.000 Yeah, the heir to the throne.

00:59:38.000 Exactly.

00:59:38.000 So that's really high odds there.

00:59:40.000 Jared Kushner, 17%, and also Marco Rubio at 15%, who unfortunately Marco will find out he's now the new Ayatollah and in charge of the country.

00:59:50.000 As long as it's not Steve Witcoff.

00:59:53.000 I have authority.

00:59:54.000 It's Shayatollah. 0.86

00:59:57.000 Just going back to that, you're sticking with that?

00:59:58.000 You're sticking with your story there?

00:59:59.000 Yeah.

01:00:00.000 By the way, the reality I live in.

01:00:02.000 And I bring that up because that could actually matter to what happens next.

01:00:06.000 Yeah.

01:00:06.000 Right.

01:00:07.000 So if Reza, who does have some popularity, there is debate right now about how popular he is, how many hardliners and supporters are.

01:00:13.000 He's very popular at the diaspora overseas.

01:00:15.000 Unclear as to how popular he would be domestically.

01:00:19.000 Yeah, absolutely.

01:00:20.000 But as you noticed, Stephen's not here today.

01:00:23.000 Stephen was out shooting a super video, and he is actually going to call in as a guest here in just a little bit.

01:00:29.000 So as soon as we have him, I'll bring him up.

01:00:31.000 And we're going to stay wide.

01:00:32.000 We're going to go a little longer today just because there's a lot happening right now and I want to get some updates for you guys.

01:00:37.000 So we're not going to normally cut in about a minute or two and send you guys on, but we're going to keep going here for just a few more minutes.

01:00:44.000 Really quickly before we go any further, in recognition of the Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khomeini's death, we bring you one that we've been waiting for for a very long time.

01:00:58.000 Time to close. 0.98

01:00:58.000 May he rest in piss. 0.98

01:00:59.000 The recording of Iran's supreme leader speaking almost 30 years ago has emerged in which he says he's not qualified for the job. 0.95

01:01:11.000 Time to close.

01:01:14.000 Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.

01:01:24.000 America has to be able to go back from this point and want to go.

01:01:44.000 Endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.

01:01:54.000 Turns out the regime who chanted death to America and death to Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel.

01:02:05.000 Time to close endings and beginnings are ending and beginning now.

01:02:16.000 The Ayatollah, Kamani, the new Hitler of the Middle East. 0.99

01:02:21.000 Absolutely.

01:02:52.000 I know it's time for things to close.

01:02:57.000 Been a long time coming on that.

01:03:07.000 And speaking of a long time coming, I'm not sure that this has ever happened before.

01:03:12.000 We have a guest for you, Stephen Crowder.

01:03:19.000 Mr. Stephen Crowder, can you hear me and see me?

01:03:23.000 I can.

01:03:25.000 My face is frozen like this.

01:03:26.000 Now, I'm glad to.

01:03:28.000 Can you guys hear me?

01:03:29.000 Fine.

01:03:29.000 Do I need to go vertical or horizontal?

01:03:31.000 Does it matter?

01:03:32.000 You're good right there.

01:03:32.000 Stay in the gram mode.

01:03:33.000 Let's go.

01:03:35.000 All right.

01:03:35.000 Are we wide?

01:03:36.000 We're not on premium yet, right?

01:03:37.000 No, we are still wide.

01:03:38.000 No.

01:03:39.000 So, like, here's the thing: I can stay what I was doing.

01:03:42.000 I was riding along actually with ICE this morning.

01:03:45.000 So, I've been up since three.

01:03:48.000 We got an MS3 all on camera.

01:03:50.000 We got an MS-13 member. 0.76

01:03:52.000 We got a child pornographer, and then a couple of Hondurans. 0.99

01:03:56.000 The hell's the difference? 0.97

01:03:57.000 But that'll be happening here in the next couple of days.

01:04:00.000 I haven't been on top of the news, but correct me if I'm wrong here.

01:04:05.000 They appointed a new interim Ayatollah, and then they killed him super fast as well.

01:04:12.000 It's unclear, but that is some of the reporting right now.

01:04:15.000 That is the reporting.

01:04:17.000 So fast.

01:04:18.000 Somewhere in Iran right now, there's an imam going, now, now.

01:04:24.000 Apparently, they've got three people that are currently in charge.

01:04:28.000 One of them being a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a guardian council member, and president, in quotes, president Masoud Pezik Kastakastan.

01:04:39.000 That's according to Al Jazeera.

01:04:40.000 So yeah, it's one of those things like you don't want to be next up on the list.

01:04:45.000 It's like they're presenting.

01:04:46.000 That's the sound of all those people you just named dying.

01:04:50.000 They're dead.

01:04:51.000 Yeah, those people saw the Al Jazeera and they're like, no, no, I mean, it's one of those things where it's, you know, this was, I was glued to my set on Friday.

01:05:03.000 I wonder if like the blackbill people, like, if they're, if they're going to kill themselves. 1.00

01:05:06.000 But I also, but I don't know.

01:05:08.000 Like, you know, I've talked about this with Iran.

01:05:12.000 If you look at Iran, even before the first time, I don't offer as super strong emphatic opinions.

01:05:16.000 And the reason for that is Josh made this point.

01:05:18.000 I know, well, I come from, you know, a family where there's quite a few people in the military.

01:05:23.000 There is certain information that we don't know, that we can't know, that we rightfully shouldn't know.

01:05:28.000 And so remember, I said, well, should we do it?

01:05:30.000 I think there's a valid case.

01:05:31.000 Depends on how it's done.

01:05:32.000 If someone would have said, look, there's going to be a window where they will Ayatollah, his whole bloodline, everyone in command, and most of their counter, their significant counter-striking capabilities will happen within a span of hours.

01:05:46.000 I'd be like, well, of course, absolutely.

01:05:47.000 You should take that opportunity.

01:05:49.000 But I didn't know it at the time.

01:05:51.000 So here we are.

01:05:52.000 I know things could go sideways.

01:05:53.000 I don't think they're going to go as sideways as people think. 0.99

01:05:55.000 But it's just so, like, I think if you're a dictator in the world right now, you must be going like, shit, can he do that to me? 0.97

01:06:02.000 Like, you can just do stuff? 0.99

01:06:04.000 Can he do that?

01:06:07.000 Did you do stuff?

01:06:08.000 That's a really good point because he's meeting with Xi Jinping next month.

01:06:11.000 So I don't think that's coincidental.

01:06:13.000 Yeah, no, back to back.

01:06:14.000 And by the way, Steven, are you sitting like, are you at like a hostel sitting under a bunk bed?

01:06:19.000 What the hell is that above your head?

01:06:20.000 It is a bunk bed. 0.99

01:06:22.000 What the heck? 0.93

01:06:23.000 Look at this. 0.97

01:06:25.000 Look at that.

01:06:27.000 Is who we have there?

01:06:31.000 It's an Airbnb, and we were just going along with ICE, and they were doing unbelievable work.

01:06:36.000 But yeah, this whole thing, too, like, I don't know if you guys did this today, because again, I was on the road getting very car sick.

01:06:43.000 So you'll see in the footage where whenever I talk with him, I'm like, because we were just speeding down the freeway.

01:06:50.000 But it's, we need to mean check stuff because you'll have some people that are like, wait a second, should we attack Iran because they have nukes, but we won't attack Russia because they have nukes? 0.96

01:06:58.000 Dummy. 0.91

01:06:58.000 Iran doesn't have nukes. 0.91

01:07:00.000 No one said that.

01:07:01.000 They're at that point where they would have the ability to.

01:07:05.000 Same thing with Xi Jinping, right?

01:07:07.000 Do you want Iran to be a power like China, like Russia, with nukes potentially?

01:07:13.000 And so really just the discussion comes down to: hey, do you believe that at some point Iran is going to be a problem for multiple members of the free world?

01:07:23.000 If the answer is yes, okay, it just comes down to at what point in time do you do something about it?

01:07:29.000 And really, the answer to me is it's the most opportune time with the least amount of resources and our lives lost.

01:07:36.000 Seems like we're there.

01:07:38.000 So I get that people may not agree with it.

01:07:41.000 The point I was making too on Twitter was not, look, we can have a discussion if we should do this or not, foreign intervention.

01:07:48.000 That's a legitimate discussion that used to be simply a policy difference.

01:07:52.000 But people saying this is just a war for the Jews.

01:07:55.000 Like, we'll tell that to every single diaspora of Iranians.

01:07:59.000 You can say what you want.

01:08:01.000 It's not our job to go in and rescue them.

01:08:03.000 Sure.

01:08:04.000 But all the Iranians across the globe are not paid by the Jews.

01:08:07.000 Many people have a vested interest in this whole, I don't even know what you call it, a country, this debacle going down.

01:08:15.000 So hopefully it puts some clarity on that.

01:08:18.000 Yeah, the state funder of terrorism throughout the world.

01:08:21.000 So one question I had for you, I know you said you were watching on Saturday.

01:08:24.000 I don't know if you had the same response that I did, but at first it's like, okay, a little bit of trepidation because I want to make sure that our men and women in uniform are taken care of, that many lives are protected as possible.

01:08:34.000 I want this to go well.

01:08:36.000 But then I saw the response.

01:08:37.000 And they didn't just attack Israel, which was what they did last time, or shoot something at one of our bases.

01:08:42.000 They attacked multiple countries.

01:08:44.000 Were you as surprised by that as I was?

01:08:47.000 Well, no, I mean, and I also wasn't surprised that people said like, oh, it's clearly just Mossad doing it, so they have an excuse.

01:08:53.000 No, they were in talks.

01:08:54.000 You realize we weren't the only ones in talks.

01:08:56.000 I'm sure Lane was talking about this with Iran.

01:08:58.000 A lot of these other countries were.

01:08:59.000 They thought they were negotiating in good faith. 0.99

01:09:01.000 And Iran is a petulant child. 1.00

01:09:03.000 So they're just going like, ah, we're going to wreck it all. 0.96

01:09:05.000 So it really is 101 in how to get everyone in the world to hate you, to have no allies.

01:09:12.000 Well, they attacked a French naval base.

01:09:15.000 What did the French do? 0.99

01:09:17.000 I mean, that's what's fair.

01:09:18.000 Well, did you see?

01:09:20.000 And I was watching CNN all day.

01:09:22.000 And I tell you what, all of the talking points that you see from the left, it's the exact same talking points from the Black Pill Right. 0.71

01:09:28.000 In other words, Rokana's talking points are the same as Thomas Massey, are the same as whatever the Dave Smiths out there were even, remember that one they go, yeah, here's your freedom killing 56 or 60 children, you know, with some rock.

01:09:40.000 Well, it turned out that Iran had a rocket that, as best I know right now, again, I've been out of the loop, that didn't quite work.

01:09:46.000 It had a failure upon launch, and they killed their own people. 1.00

01:09:49.000 But the issue is, hey, the same people, remember Tucker Carlson got offended at Mike Huckabee because Mike Huckabee said that, you know, Israel goes to great lengths to try and avoid.

01:09:58.000 And he said, and I don't know any nation that goes those lengths, including Army.

01:10:00.000 He goes, well, now you've offended me because I'm American.

01:10:02.000 Now you're saying that America is bad.

01:10:04.000 But all of you people were so ready and willing to say that America was killing children.

01:10:08.000 Do you know who knows that there's going to be civilian casualties?

01:10:11.000 The Iranian people.

01:10:13.000 And they are dancing and celebrating in the streets.

01:10:15.000 So the issue is like, can we get back to a policy difference in the approach and not say that anyone who thinks the Ayatollah dead, this regime out of power, is only in the interest of the Jews. 0.50

01:10:26.000 When people say, how does it benefit the United States?

01:10:29.000 First off, before I get to that, you know what would be the funniest thing ever?

01:10:32.000 The funniest thing ever, because the Congress are saying, we're going to bring him up about the illegal war and ask him, if I was Donald Trump, you know what I would do?

01:10:39.000 I'd say, yeah, yeah, bring me up.

01:10:40.000 And they'd say, when was war officially declared?

01:10:42.000 I would answer, 1979.

01:10:44.000 1979, and they officially declared war on the United States and they never undeclared war and walk out.

01:10:54.000 Literally, that's your answer.

01:10:55.000 We have been at war with Iran since 1979 to some varying degree.

01:11:00.000 So people acting like this is new.

01:11:05.000 I don't know how many josh happened for thousands of Americans including their last several decades.

01:11:14.000 I'm amazed at the Black Pill Right and how I'm going to echo the talking points of the left.

01:11:19.000 They both say it's an illegal war.

01:11:21.000 They both say it's a war for Israel.

01:11:23.000 They both say he doesn't have the power to do so.

01:11:26.000 And then you hear other complaints, you know, like, well, if he can, he can just take out the Ayatollah, but why can't he deal with the ICE protesters in Miami?

01:11:34.000 Or sorry, in Minneapolis.

01:11:35.000 It's like, well, for better or worse, when it relates to foreign policy, that's as close as the president actually does have to monarch powers.

01:11:43.000 He can kind of palm any dictators he wants.

01:11:46.000 Civilians here in the States, that's where he's really more of a figurehead and the power rests with the legislature.

01:11:51.000 All this shows us is when you don't have to go through lower courts and you don't have mayors and governors, you know, basically usurping you, that you can be relatively effective, whether you agree with the policy or not.

01:12:03.000 But so the new Ayatollah is allegedly killed in record time.

01:12:06.000 I do have that right.

01:12:07.000 Yeah, they'll be looking for a few understudies potentially.

01:12:11.000 It's reported.

01:12:12.000 If he's not now, probably soon.

01:12:14.000 Yeah, reports are claiming that he has been killed in North America.

01:12:17.000 They're making it so that that position is not going to be a very highly wanted position.

01:12:22.000 Yeah.

01:12:22.000 No, why would you?

01:12:23.000 Yeah.

01:12:24.000 Why would you do that?

01:12:25.000 By the way, I don't know.

01:12:27.000 We read this quote, and I don't know if you saw it from President Trump.

01:12:29.000 He was talking about sinking nine of their naval vessels and more are going to be on the way and we've struck their base.

01:12:35.000 And he goes, but other than that, Iran's Navy's having a great day.

01:12:40.000 We're like, oh, this guy, he just throws his tags in.

01:12:46.000 They released this announcement and you're breaking up just a little bit there.

01:12:52.000 Sorry.

01:12:55.000 Oh, sorry.

01:12:55.000 There you go.

01:12:56.000 You're good.

01:12:56.000 Go ahead now.

01:13:00.000 Okay.

01:13:00.000 They said there was a big announcement.

01:13:02.000 Like, we're going to close the strait of Hormuz.

01:13:04.000 It's like, how about, no, you're not.

01:13:07.000 Like, how about no, you're not.

01:13:08.000 But that got reposted everywhere.

01:13:11.000 Like, you can check the traffic.

01:13:12.000 You're like, it looks pretty open to me.

01:13:14.000 They can't do anything about it.

01:13:18.000 And when people say, how does this benefit the United States?

01:13:20.000 The same people saying this will create energy instability.

01:13:22.000 It's like, well, hold on a second.

01:13:24.000 You're mad that he inherited a war with Russia, Ukraine, and he wasn't able to end it.

01:13:28.000 Putin's not coming to the table, not going to negotiate.

01:13:30.000 Huh?

01:13:31.000 Let's think about this for a second.

01:13:33.000 Venezuela, all right, 80% of their, I think it's 80% link. 0.93

01:13:36.000 In fact, check me of their energy was going to China.

01:13:38.000 You look at Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, how important that is to Russia.

01:13:42.000 It's almost like he's pulling other levers where not only is it beneficial to Americans, but people might be more likely to come to the table.

01:13:50.000 And instead, people just go, it's all bad.

01:13:54.000 Why don't we have school lunches or whatever?

01:13:57.000 I guess just everything is bad.

01:13:59.000 And the fact that the Ayatollah is dead and his understudy is dead, we're just supposed to go, this is another forever war. 0.91

01:14:05.000 It's not, though.

01:14:06.000 It's not.

01:14:07.000 No, and it's reasonable to bring up some.

01:14:09.000 We said this at the outset.

01:14:10.000 And I kind of went after Dave's ideas on this.

01:14:12.000 And I said, it's not a personal attack.

01:14:13.000 I think Dave's a smart guy, but I really disagree with him on this.

01:14:17.000 Like, you can bring up these questions and say, I don't want to get into this.

01:14:19.000 I want to make sure we understand what the last day looks like.

01:14:21.000 I want to understand what our objectives are and why we're doing this.

01:14:25.000 And please lay that out, Mr. President.

01:14:26.000 But what Dave chose to do was to post traitor.

01:14:30.000 That's what he posted. 0.91

01:14:31.000 One word, traitor.

01:14:32.000 Now, he's posted other stuff too.

01:14:34.000 But that shows you his thinking.

01:14:35.000 He doesn't care about any of this. 0.82

01:14:36.000 It's like, no, listen, traitor, you can't go do that ever, ever, ever.

01:14:39.000 It doesn't matter if it's in our interest or not.

01:14:41.000 That's not America first.

01:14:43.000 Yeah.

01:14:44.000 Oh, no, it's not first.

01:14:46.000 And the same people when someone criticizes America.

01:14:50.000 Well, just, let's just, let's just see: are you retweeting and reposting every piece of propaganda from Iranian media and we're seeing out there right now?

01:14:58.000 Yeah.

01:14:58.000 I know that the call is choppy.

01:15:00.000 I have to go to premium there, but thank you guys for holding on the floor.

01:15:05.000 And I don't know about this tomorrow, but you'll be able to arrest him.

01:15:10.000 By the way, I was ready for a flashbang.

01:15:12.000 Two of them.

01:15:13.000 You got hit by a flashbang.

01:15:14.000 Two of them.

01:15:15.000 Two flashbangs.

01:15:15.000 Very nice.

01:15:16.000 So I didn't get hit.

01:15:18.000 I didn't get hit.

01:15:18.000 Did you try to pick it up?

01:15:20.000 What's funny is they told us that.

01:15:22.000 No, I couldn't get it.

01:15:23.000 But they said there's going to be a flashbang.

01:15:24.000 And they said, they coached us before and they briefed us.

01:15:27.000 They said, and so when you hear the flashbang after that, if you hear multiple, then that means there's return fire and get down.

01:15:33.000 Well, they threw in two flashbangs.

01:15:35.000 But here's the thing: the first flashbang wasn't that loud.

01:15:37.000 You'll even see I have a GoPro.

01:15:38.000 You'll see like the GoPro go, but then the second flashbang was so much louder. 0.99

01:15:44.000 You'll see the GoPro go, oh, shit. 0.92

01:15:45.000 Where it turns out they were at the same place. 0.99

01:15:48.000 They were two different batches.

01:15:49.000 I guess there's no quality control to flashbangs.

01:15:51.000 That means one was like 18 times louder.

01:15:54.000 I was sure they were shooting at us.

01:15:56.000 Nice.

01:15:56.000 But yeah.

01:15:59.000 It was a child pornographer. 0.89

01:16:01.000 And well, you'll be able to see.

01:16:03.000 She said she didn't speak English, but I pulled a magic trick and we found out pretty quickly she could speak English.

01:16:09.000 I mean, it's just a level of evil.

01:16:11.000 Yeah, she was like, she was like, no, I'm English.

01:16:13.000 And I was like, I don't speak English.

01:16:15.000 What would possess the mother to take photographic pictures of her children to them? 0.95

01:16:21.000 And then she turned the other guy to Spanish and she said she would rather speak with a lawyer.

01:16:28.000 Let me get in Spanish.

01:16:30.000 Yes, in Spanish. 1.00

01:16:31.000 I was like, you speak the king's English, you fat Hunter and bitch. 1.00

01:16:34.000 Yes. 1.00

01:16:35.000 Well, good job doing the work.

01:16:36.000 You are a little choppy right now, so we will let you go.

01:16:39.000 But we look forward to seeing that video.

01:16:40.000 And Godspeed on your travel getting back.

01:16:42.000 Enjoy.

01:16:43.000 Put some ice on it.

01:16:43.000 You'll be fine.

01:16:44.000 Stephen Crowder, ladies and gentlemen.

01:16:50.000 All right.

01:16:51.000 So we've gone a little bit long here today.

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01:17:23.000 Now do it.

01:17:24.000 Hey, we're

01:19:05.000 back.

01:19:06.000 Applejack, by the way, thank you very much for jumping in.

01:19:09.000 Tim was on the road down there making sure Stephen had good support.

01:19:14.000 I think that video is going to be awesome.

01:19:16.000 They seem to have gotten some really bad people off the road.

01:19:18.000 So let me go back really quickly and then we'll have a brief conversation about this.

01:19:21.000 But we talked about China and I was talking about them actively collaborating on arms deals for drones and missiles.

01:19:27.000 And then there was a statement this morning from Chinese MFA.

01:19:30.000 What's MFA standard?

01:19:31.000 Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

01:19:32.000 Foreign Affairs.

01:19:32.000 Okay, spokesperson.

01:19:34.000 China supports, they're still using hashtags.

01:19:36.000 How cute is that?

Louder with Crowder - March 02, 2026

War With Iran: Foreign Policy Genius or A New Forever War?

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