On today's show, we discuss CNN's Iran leak scandal, Joe Rogan's endorsement of Bernie Sanders, and why we should all be worried about the future of the country. Plus, we take a look at how much money is being thrown around by the media, and we talk about the new $1,000,000-a-day deal.
00:03:25.000And I know that there have been some, I should say there's been some speculation, there have been some inferences, and there are some implications that perhaps people here might have ulterior motives and be paid by entities or nonprofits or foreign governments to express opinions.
00:03:43.000And, you know, I would just say, look, I'm always willing to argue ideas, always willing to make the case.
00:03:48.000And I know that the people who don't necessarily love our segment yesterday often say they're open to debate.
00:03:55.000So this is an open invitation to anyone who we've addressed.
00:07:37.000What do you think is the biggest mainstream media hoax, legacy media hoax, or the most consequential one, I guess, of all time that you can think of?
00:09:23.000So maybe don't send our country into war when the vast majority of Americans, Republican, Democrat, and Independent, don't want us randomly bombing.
00:09:37.000First off, define random when we're talking about Iran nuclear facilities with great specificity.
00:12:23.000One of the dumbest people in Congress is now calling for my impeachment, despite the fact that the crooked and corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before.
00:12:43.000Now, let's go to other psychopath Crockett, who thinks that she's the one in charge.
00:12:48.000Just so you know, you didn't vote for Donald Trump.
00:12:51.000I'm sure that more of you in this country nationally voted for Crockett because she should have the mandate as far as whether we go to war or not.
00:12:59.000And to understand enough about the Constitution to the extent that I'm the one that's supposed to make the f ⁇ ing decision or at least get a vote.
00:13:42.000These people have a fundamental misunderstanding of, well, first off, they don't know that we're a constitutional republic, but even democracy.
00:13:48.000I don't know if that's not how it works.
00:13:50.000You don't decide anything, and certainly not as it relates to a covert operation to take out nuclear facilities.
00:13:56.000I don't know that there's anyone who could be less covert than Crockett.
00:14:02.000Yeah, if she ever does have a presidential run, I hope they play that clip a million times.
00:17:00.000All job metrics, employment metrics that we have available to us seem to be going pretty well right now at this point in time.
00:17:06.000Tariffs seem to have leveled the playing field quite a bit.
00:17:08.000Certainly haven't had the cataclysmic results that people said that they would, and they are having a net positive effect.
00:17:13.000And we just took out what the world has unilaterally agreed upon was the biggest nuclear potential threat of this century without killing anybody.
00:17:29.000If you can't celebrate the wins, and if we can't unify and find common ground on that, like it's about, this is where I am at this point in my life.
00:17:45.000Better handling of inflation, employment, and taking out nuclear capabilities, and at least a ceasefire, which, by the way, you guys may not realize, they're going to be rockets launched.
00:18:03.000Well, the CNN is pretty clear because it seems that they are actively rooting against the United States of America, which I certainly hope we don't see on the right.
00:18:22.000All right, all references available as we do every day, link in the description so you can peruse them yourself.
00:18:27.000So yesterday, only hours after the Israel-Iran ceasefire, CNN dropped this bombshell report, and we'll explain the truth after.
00:18:37.000Three sources tell CNN that according to an early U.S. intelligence assessment, three U.S. military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program.
00:18:50.000Based on a battle damage assessment that was carried out by U.S. Central Command, essentially looking at the images and looking at what was actually damaged, the Defense Intelligence Agency has assessed that the core components of Iran's nuclear program are largely intact and that Iran's nuclear program has essentially only been set back by months.
00:19:58.000Just last week, CNN told us that Iran's nuclear program, which now is only set back a couple of months, wasn't even really a thing, wasn't a threat.
00:20:20.000Yeah, John, there appears to be some daylight between the U.S. intelligence community and Israel, and I guess now Donald Trump on this question of how close Iran is to obtain a nuclear weapon.
00:20:30.000And specifically, sources telling me and our colleague Katie Bo-Lillis that the intelligence community assessed before the most recent Israeli strikes that Iran was years away, as much as three years away, from not only obtaining a nuclear weapon, but developing the system meant to deliver it at a target of its choosing.
00:20:47.000And that does really run counter to the more urgent and dire timeline that Israel and Donald Trump.
00:21:21.000Given the explosive payload utilized and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred.
00:21:28.000And today the White House released this statement from the Israel Atomic Energy Commission.
00:21:32.000I know I'm not only giving you the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, so don't say biased.
00:21:36.000It's not the only reference, to be clear, but they said we assessed that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes and other elements of Iran's military nuclear program, had to try and wedge their own wins in there, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years.
00:21:49.000The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear materials.
00:21:55.000So they're now saying it's only been set back months, so Trump actually didn't do that much.
00:21:58.000Yeah, but you guys said that they weren't even close to it.
00:22:00.000So none of this makes sense as far as your own math.
00:22:03.000All of the third-party agencies and some who might be biased are saying, yeah, this has been a scale of damage that is massive, that honestly we probably couldn't have predicted to be this effective.
00:22:14.000The person behind this report, Natasha Bertrand, she's the same one who wrote that political article about the Hunter laptop story being Russian disinformation, which Meta and X and YouTube and Google used as the reason for banning that story during a critical election year.
00:22:28.000So it's the same broad who knowingly lied about that.
00:22:31.000She is the source for, actually it runs fine.
00:22:39.000By the way, we included the Israel part because Israel, if they wanted to keep us involved, because, you know, Israel is kind of determining what the United States does and Donald Trump bows down to Netanyahu, as we heard from so many other people.
00:23:04.000Key fact number three here, this assessment, along with them being completely inconsistent, saying that Iran was not really a threat and now saying, actually, they're still going to be a threat.
00:23:20.000She received the leak and she was the source of it.
00:23:22.000Just to be clear, because we don't want to get sued.
00:23:24.000So along with all of those things, this assessment and this whole thing regarding may have been illegally leaked to CNN.
00:23:34.000And Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth actually explained the extent of the damage, why we know that's the extent of the damage, and clarified that a criminal investigation regarding this illegal leak may be underway.
00:23:48.000Pete, do you have something to say about that?
00:23:49.000Well, Mr. President, when you talk to the people who built the bombs, understand what those bombs are, and deliver those bombs, they landed precisely.
00:24:42.000We're doing a leak investigation with the FBI right now because this information is for internal purposes, battle damage assessments, and CNN and others are trying to spin it to make the president look bad when this was an overwhelming success.
00:24:54.000Honestly, that's the first time I've seen someone answer so perfectly that President Trump himself acted as nothing more than a hype man.
00:25:38.000Fake news CNN, together with the failing New York Times, they're failing, have teamed up in an attempt to demean one of the most successful military strikes in history.
00:25:48.000The nuclear sites in Iran are completely destroyed.
00:25:52.000Both the Times and CNN are getting slammed by the public.
00:26:02.000That brings us to some real news, fake news.
00:26:09.000And this is three other times that CNN has gotten it super, super wrong just in recent memory.
00:26:14.000And the best way to stay in touch with us, if you're watching this on YouTube or anyone else, is just download the Rumble app, follow us there.
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00:27:06.000What I'm learning is that this ceasefire has been mediated and, according to President Trump, also achieved.
00:27:14.000There were talks between the U.S. and Israel and Qatar and Iran to tie the final knots and agree on the final conditions of this ceasefire.
00:29:09.000They said, hey, Democrat, and AOC just echoed that.
00:29:11.000Democrat leaders weren't notified regarding Iran at all.
00:29:15.000The military action here, I think, is more significant than we've seen a president undertake, I think, in almost any instance without more consultation with Congress.
00:29:26.000I mean, the fact that they only notified the Republican leadership, not the Democratic leadership before it was done, really takes this to an entirely new level, but very much, you know, in tune with the kind of the overall approach of the second of the Trump presidency.
00:29:45.000Of course, Democrat leaders were notified prior to the strike to the point that CNN had to issue a formal correction over that very strike.
00:29:53.000It's, of course, it's in tune with the fact that, oh, sorry, we have to retract that and correct it because we're full of shit.
00:30:49.000You're a retarded person, and it's fake Ebonics.
00:30:52.000Here's another fake news installment that you saw.
00:30:55.000And this was one that also resulted in a lot of infighting and people, unfortunately, on the right, picking this up and running with it when it was flat out false.
00:31:02.000CNN said that Trump was pissed at Tulsi for contradicting him on the nuclear threat of Iran.
00:31:08.000The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, former Democrat, is contradicting or contradicted Israel's claims that Iran is racing towards a nuclear weapon.
00:31:19.000And that appears to be causing a real problem between her and Donald Trump.
00:31:23.000Sources tell CNN that Trump sees Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, as off message when it comes to this conflict.
00:31:38.000Tulsi responded on X confirming that they were on the same page, meaning her and Trump on Iran.
00:31:43.000She said, the dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division.
00:31:50.000And you may not have seen this portion of her testimony because you saw one clip out of context, which included, if people were being honest with you, her being clear about just this topic.
00:32:03.000In the past year, we've seen an erosion of a decades-long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision-making apparatus.
00:32:14.000Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons.
00:32:26.000If you saw the other clip where she said, no, Iran currently doesn't have a nuke or currently is not building a nuke.
00:32:31.000Someone cut that and shared it with you specifically to lie to you.
00:32:36.000You may disagree with Tulsi Gabbard's stance on the fact that Iran is a nuclear threat and they're enriching their uranium to a degree where it would only be appropriate for said measures to be taken if they're trying to build a nuclear weapon.
00:32:54.000So it makes sense as to why President Trump, Daddy, as that creepy, I think, German called him, would be pretty salty towards CNN because CNN sucks.
00:33:02.000And you know, the fake news, like CNN in particular, they're trying to, you know, they're trying to say, well, I agree that it was destroyed, but maybe not that destroyed.
00:33:49.000So you're saying in 2028 or 2029, when you think you're going to have leadership and then you get to take out the nukes, you get to be the heroes?
00:37:04.000You could have disagreements on foreign policy, but when your initial reaction without information is, oh, can you believe that we did something to Iran?
00:37:12.000As though they're right and we're wrong.
00:37:13.000That means you hate the United States of America.
00:37:14.000But what do you expect from a man who literally honeymooned in the USSR?
00:38:55.000Consistency is only valuable if you're consistently right or you're consistently virtuous or you're consistently proven over time to have been correct.
00:39:04.000Bernie Sanders has contributed nothing.
00:39:13.000But when people try and give Bernie Sanders this credit, like, well, actually, he believes what he says.
00:39:17.000You mean he believes that breadlines are a good thing and that a 90% tax rate is reasonable and that Russia and communist China had it right?
00:39:26.000Why would I give him any brownie points for believing in evil?
00:39:31.000Which brings us to an installment of claim truth.
00:41:04.000I think the last 10 years have been the warmest on record.
00:41:08.000Oh, there are millions of good-paying jobs transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency, to solar, to wind, and other sustainable energies.
00:41:18.000I think the climate change issue is very complicated.
00:41:20.000The Washington Post looked at it, what was the time period that they looked at?
00:41:24.000That essentially they found that we're in a cooling period, that the Earth over the past X amount of years, and this was like a very inconvenient discovery, but they had to report the data and kudos to them for doing that.
00:41:39.000So look at the far end of that graph, and you see we're in a cooling period.
00:43:41.000And by the way, he'd like to destroy our economy while not addressing the major drivers of this.
00:43:45.000The United States and every country in Europe and every country in Africa and South America and everywhere else could do everything right, get to zero, and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference according to their models because of China and mostly China, but some India as well.
00:43:59.000So maybe start there if they're willing to play ball.
00:45:18.000I think that's probably the worst decision that the Supreme Court has ever made.
00:45:22.000So what is the result of that decision?
00:45:24.000The result of that decision, let's take us to where we are today, is that Elon Musk, and I know Elon was on your show, and he's here in Austin now.
00:47:44.000A lot of you don't know necessarily that Citizens United was about a documentary that was anti-Hillary Clinton, right, that went to the Supreme Court, whether they had a right to release this and whether businesses had the right to basically be seen as people and they still maintain their First Amendment.
00:47:56.000It's more complicated than he makes it out to be.
00:47:59.000He just never shines a light on his own side.
00:48:02.000And I know people say, oh, during the primaries.
00:48:04.000No, no, he doesn't want it for self-gratification because he got screwed.
00:48:07.000He had the rug pulled out from the primary.
00:48:12.000But he's never even said what a number would be.
00:48:15.000So basically, you're mad that people got to hear the message from the candidates because essentially that's what this money does is it puts ads in front of people.
00:48:22.000You can say that the ads are complete lies and stuff like that, and you can run against whatever's in the ads, but you're pissed off that people got to see more content from these candidates is what it really comes down to.
00:48:31.000And you've never put a number out of what is acceptable.
00:48:33.000Also, by the way, if you were to tally up the hundreds, hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars in free advertising from CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, let alone what happened with Meta, Twitter, YouTube, Google, manipulating search algorithms, it's not even close.
00:48:48.000The actual spending is not even close.
00:48:49.000But if you were to actually take that into account, free advertising, it's not even in the same galaxy.
00:48:56.000He then went on to try and sort of substantiate it.
00:50:23.000But what you have right now, and I just saw this the other day, you are a Republican member of Congress, okay?
00:50:31.000And you say, you know, there's a reconciliation bill, which we can talk about in a minute, that this is Trump's big, bad, big, beautiful bill that's coming up literally on the floor of the Senate.
00:50:39.000Do you guys realize this is a technique that Bernie uses?
00:52:22.000So the number of people who actually would qualify for what you think, you know, Medicaid, if you support the program at all, the number of valid people who've been kicked off or would be kicked off with this bill, zero.
00:53:12.000In other words, when he says, we shouldn't have Fox News and you shouldn't be able to go after the media, we need what they have in the place where I did my honeymoon.
00:53:24.000So he says that Donald Trump, he's an authoritarian because he goes after the media.
00:53:27.000And we'll give you the truth because it's glaring.
00:53:31.000One of the things, and there's a lot of arguments about Trump that worries me very, very much is this movement toward authoritarianism and going after media, suing media, as opposed to the freedom of communism.
00:54:22.000That's a false equivalency, and he knows it.
00:54:24.000Joe's not asking him about, hey, should you be able to, I think you should be able to sue me if I ask a question you don't like.
00:54:29.000He's asking Bernie, don't you think there's something ethically wrong with what you claim to be objective journalism if they are, of their own volition, editing down an interview specifically to favor one candidate while running hit pieces on the other?
00:54:44.000He's not saying, hey, should you have the right to sue me because I ask you a question.
00:55:44.000Well, here's the truth here, and I'm going to get to all of the examples, but here's the really important truth.
00:55:50.000In every single instance that I'm about to list for you, Bernie Sanders is defending propaganda, whether it's the Des Moines Register, whether it's CBS, whether it's ABC.
00:56:00.000And in many of these cases, the courts have ruled, Bernie, here's the one-through line.
00:56:03.000He is defending dishonest propaganda that invariably only favors one side.
00:56:09.000CBS, President Trump rightfully is suing CBS for deceitfully editing the Kamala Harris interview on 60 Minutes.
00:56:18.000So the FCC already released the transcript, which showed that the video was edited down from 50 minutes to 20 minutes, including editing out nonsensical answers that didn't even relate to the question, or as Bernie Sanders refers to it, an answer.
00:56:33.000With ABC, Trump sued them and George Stephanopoulos for defamation because they wrongfully said that Trump was liable for rape of Eugene Carroll.
00:56:42.000You still have people out there who believe that.
00:56:44.000He was not found to be liable of rape.
00:56:46.000Eugene Carroll, they had to pay Trump a $16 million settlement.
00:56:52.000So FCC admitted, at least at this point right now, yeah, propaganda.
00:56:56.000ABC, they had to pay $16 million because propaganda.
00:57:00.000It's already been defended by Bernie Sanders.
00:57:02.000Meta, Meta had to pay a $25 million settlement to Trump after they suspended him, right after January 6th.
00:57:10.000The Des Moines Register, that's another one.
00:57:12.000Ann Seltzer, who I believe is retired now because of the stench of propaganda that still clings to her.
00:57:18.000Like the epaulets, I'm sorry, sleeves to Bernie Sanders' shoulders.
00:57:23.000In his lawsuit, President Trump accused the outlet of brazen election interference.
00:57:46.000Trump was up by 13. And there has been no justification.
00:57:50.000There's been no explanation whatsoever for the methodology outside of propaganda.
00:57:55.000So ABC, CBS, Meta, Des Moines Register, the one through line is Bernie Sanders is defending propaganda.
00:58:04.000And he's doing the same thing when he wants to silence voices of dissent when he talks about Citizens United.
00:58:09.000Even if you have a view of PACS, and I agree with you that we need to probably reform our elections a little bit as far as spending, I get it.
00:58:17.000But his problem is that someone was going to privately release an anti-Hillary Clinton documentary.
00:58:22.000He defends the big brother government at every single turn and tries to keep the little guy under his thumb.
00:58:30.000I remember when we did our election coverage last year, I know how much you guys spent on legal and how much you guys spent on or were careful to not give out false information or give out false leads because of this reason.
00:58:42.000Remember on election night when we called, we were the first place to call Georgia?
00:58:46.000And we were, yeah, you were so, you were like, I don't know if we should.
00:58:48.000We called the whole election and I was just like, I was, I was with fear and trembling.
00:59:23.000Unless you want to look at Rasmussen and then, you know, our buddy, what is it, Mark Mitchell over there usually gets it pretty freaking close.
01:00:42.000So basically, Bernie is a socialist with three houses who honeymooned in the USSR.
01:00:47.000And I wish that I loved anything as much as Bernie Sanders loves propaganda and protecting bloated bureaucratic government.
01:00:56.000There's nothing that he loves more because it's the only thing he knows.
01:01:01.000Unlike Bernie Sanders, who has subsisted off of the government teat for his entire life while contributing nothing, also being the least generous representative, I believe, in our Howard Halls and the least generous tipper.
01:02:26.000Zoron Mamdani for mayor of New York, which brings us to our next installment, Socialists We Hate.
01:02:33.000NYC goes Muslim, NYC goes Muslim Cuomo's whole career is true and this is really troubling NYC goes Muslim, NYC goes Muslim If you be an NYC, get our value still functioning.
01:02:49.000So last night, Assemblyman Zoron Mamdhani Amnani won the Democratic primary for New York City Mayor.