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00:02:37.060Erica, I think it's part of the simulation.
00:02:39.740I think it's the simulation telling us something about what we all need to do at this point, you know, to like follow, you know, our instincts inside of us and become like.
00:06:41.300The first thing I want to do, you guys – oh, man.
00:06:44.400This – I know this hits for all of us is I want to just recognize our heroes that have lost their lives.
00:06:54.200We have their names now, and I just want to take a second to honor them.
00:06:59.420We have Sergeant First Class Nicole Amore of Minnesota, Sergeant First Class Noah Tijens of Nebraska, Sergeant Declan J. Cody of Iowa, and Captain Cody A. Cork of Florida.
00:07:17.480And, you know, it's just sad and a shame.
00:07:23.960I know that there's, I think, two more people.
00:07:57.400I, you know, having been in the military but never being deployed somewhere, I certainly felt it when, you know, I saw that my unit was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times.
00:08:13.260And it's certainly a heroic and very brave thing to serve.
00:08:16.820And I just, what I took away from it more than anything else was just a sense of gratitude for all the men and women that serve, that protect us and keep us safe and do the fighting so that we don't have to.
00:11:31.540I was talking to a couple of friends in the last week that were having issues.
00:11:36.540And I don't know, maybe it's like that when you get older, you get wiser.
00:11:40.740And I mean, I'm not like, you know, 99 years old, but you do just tend to understand that, you know, like sometimes people say, if you don't like the players on your team, get new players.
00:11:51.880Like the same thing, if the people in your life are challenging you like that and you really can step back and be like, oh, no, no, they're actually toxic.
00:12:16.900And to get rid of them right away because it's poison, right?
00:12:21.120It's like alcohol is poison even in moderation, right?
00:12:24.800So when it comes to those people like that, it's not get away and physically, but also like mentally to get them out of them mentally, out of your head.
00:12:35.200And that includes any anger you have towards them is also poison to you, not to them.
00:12:42.180So I don't have a real clear reframe for that, but I just wanted to add that to get them out of your head completely.
00:12:48.680Yeah, and I also saw somebody said, what if the toxicity comes from your family?
00:19:06.360He indicated, and he was very proud of this.
00:19:09.880I don't know if you guys got to watch.
00:19:11.780It was today at five in the morning, my time, eight, uh, East coast time.
00:19:17.340He said the Iranian Navy rest at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
00:19:22.780He's just, I just love how secretary of work Pete has said, um, maybe because he's had time and TV, um, you know, as Fox news anchor or Fox news.
00:19:36.200He's host, but he's just a such good way of efficiently using his words.
00:19:42.260Um, and he indicated America's winning, um, without mercy.
00:19:47.440I know that there's a different perspective, a different POV, as you would say, um, regarding the war, uh, there is, uh, part of the
00:19:56.480conservative side that doesn't believe what the government is saying to us.
00:20:01.400Um, the beliefs that the, uh, how would you say that Israel is driving this, that the four, um, service men, that service women and men that Erica mentioned today, um, didn't die for the United States, but they died for Israel.
00:20:20.480So there is that, you know, so I'm just reporting it.
00:20:25.540I'm not making a statement regarding how I feel, um, in regards to the New York times reported, uh, again, it's the New York times.
00:20:33.720You guys, um, they reported they ran, made a secret offer to the U S to negotiate a deal, to end the war.
00:20:40.000They reported this, um, I believe last night.
00:20:43.680And since they reported this, the, the futures went up, I think, because they find this to be close in, in similar to Venezuela, where Venezuela lost Maduro, the next leadership started negotiating with Trump.
00:21:03.420And it's been stable ever since, you know, stable, quote unquote, um, basically what the New York times was saying is that this was, um, Iranian intelligence directly went to the CIA officers to try to negotiate one day after the attack.
00:21:23.180However, um, you know, this was one day after the attack, I believe those, probably those Iranian intelligence officers are probably dead by now.
00:21:33.400Um, president Trump had a press conference yesterday with the chancellor of Germany.
00:21:39.540And while he had the press conference, hi Stella, while he had the press conference with chancellor, um, I forget his name.
00:21:50.740Um, well, the one that sits cross-legged, um, he told the press, and this is Trump.
00:21:57.340He told the press, president Trump told the press that he knew the leadership had been killed.
00:22:03.360Then the next leaders had been killed as well, that the next leaders, they might not even know who they are in time.
00:22:11.180They will know, but because they're killing everybody.
00:22:14.080And I believe, uh, correct me if I'm wrong, Owen, I believe that one, the second eldest son of Khamenei became the supreme leader or has been appointed supreme leader since yesterday.
00:22:34.940I don't know if that's the same person actually, but, um, I, I understand that they thought it was his eldest son, but his eldest son is not, it's not him.
00:22:44.580It's, uh, it's like the second eldest that is now taking over, um, you know, short, maybe there'll be a short time where he, uh, I'm not sure if he's dealing with the U S government.
00:22:57.200However, this gave a lot of, I don't know how the markets are right now, but this will give, um, kind of a push for the markets to feel like this can be done and over with faster than everybody realized.
00:23:13.100Um, however, there's, um, there's a person, a scholar I follow regarding Iran and he's Ellen Jurnow.
00:23:21.580And he was talking about how Venezuela is very different than Iran, um, meaning that in Venezuela you have ideologues, but they're fake ideologues.
00:23:33.720They just pretend they're just there to be like socialists, but they want power.
00:23:40.020And they're moved differently while he was saying that in Iran, if we tried to make a deal, like we did in Venezuela, it would be very different because they're, they really are centered in, uh, you know, Shiite beliefs, uh, Islamic Shiite beliefs and very ideological versus very practical.
00:24:03.420So that's what, uh, he was saying that it might not result in the same way that Venezuela did.
00:24:10.400So I'll, I'll give the floor to Owen and everybody else.
00:24:15.640Well, um, certainly I think, uh, one story that I posted was, um, from zero hedge, they're talking about how, um, apparently there are some discussions with Kurdish fighters or Kurdish leaders to potentially be the resistance in Iran.
00:24:32.600Um, um, I think this is potentially being floated as an alternative to having U S ground troops in the area.
00:25:09.580The Financial Times is where it came from originally.
00:25:11.440And they are claiming that, uh, Israel hacked into the Tehran traffic cameras and mobile phone towers and was able to track Khomeini that way.
00:25:19.680Um, they used this unit 820B and was able to, you know, get data on the bodyguards and the drivers.
00:25:29.000They knew the parking, the routes, the duty hours.
00:25:31.180They disrupted the phone towers to block any warnings.
00:25:37.680They had CIA human sources confirming the meeting.
00:25:40.920Um, so there's a very detailed story around this, but I just put a big question mark around it because, you know, if, if the CIA had done something like this, um, I would just assume whatever they told me was false because pretty consistently we say, oh, we got to protect sources and methods.
00:26:01.660We can't let anybody know how we did something because then we won't be able to do it anymore.
00:26:04.940And we might burn our resources and we might, you know, it could cause all sorts of damage within intelligence.
00:26:13.300And I can't imagine that Israel wouldn't do the same thing.
00:26:16.320The interesting thing about the Financial Times article is that they did cite that Iran itself had hacked into Israeli, um, Israeli traffic camps as well.
00:26:29.860So that, and then that's known because they were able to hit Israel at one point or another and know where people were.
00:26:36.920So obviously that was, uh, you know, undone by Israel, but it's, it's happened, you know, it happened already.
00:26:48.060I just, I just have, I'm just highly skeptical, but I just don't know that I can really put any credibility into this to the way Scott would talk about it.
00:26:55.160Just because it's like, okay, what's the motive behind this?
00:27:01.440If you're just bragging, that doesn't make any sense, right?
00:27:04.840It doesn't make any sense to brag about what you did unless you're trying to make something happen.
00:27:09.740And, and to me, it probably is meant to create paranoia in the minds of the Iranian leadership that if they think their traffic cameras and phone towers and everything else are compromised, then they're not going to want to use them.
00:27:50.000And the purpose to me would be to create paranoia and fear in the minds of the Iranian leadership.
00:27:55.300Just like the pagers, you know, that the pagers I see is a little bit different because once you set them off, you already know, okay, we can't do that again.
00:28:03.080You know, they're not going to fall for that a second time.
00:28:04.800And so you may as well tell them, yep, that was us.
00:28:07.200But, you know, for anything else like this, especially if it's ongoing, I, I just don't think it would make any sense to release it unless you were just intentionally trying to make people think you knew where they were.
00:28:19.880And making them panic or making them move in some way that they wouldn't otherwise, or be limited in how they can communicate and that sort of thing.
00:28:28.200So I think to me, this is a disruption operation.
00:28:32.220Stella is like, I think the U.S. is winning because Stella is right there.
00:31:26.140And I think Marco Rubio spoke yesterday at the press conference.
00:31:29.120And I love the way Marco, I mean, I love a lot of things about him, but I love the way he handles the press because the press kept pounding him like, oh, you're just this really puppet.
00:31:41.840Or, you know, all these things, you know, they're pushing him.
00:31:44.780And he was like, these are, you know, like fanaticals and we're trying to take them out.
00:31:52.520And we're just we're didn't start this war.
00:31:54.700We were ending it and, you know, paraphrasing what he said.
00:31:58.460But he I love how he can control the press.
00:32:03.000And I think that's something that when Scott talked about is Trump changed that for candidates, because I remember before Trump, there being President Bush and McCain and all that, and they always cater to the press.
00:32:18.880But once President Trump brought in the whole fake news and uncovered them for what they are and made it known to the public, now I feel like, you know, it's not just Marco, it's many other politicians.
00:32:34.140Now that they're able to speak to the press and tell them, no, you're wrong or you're doing this and you're doing that.
00:32:59.680But it was it was basically referring to Chiang Kai-shek.
00:33:04.040And that was, I think, after World War Two, that there were there was this threat to release or unleash Chiang Kai-shek to attack mainland China.
00:33:17.080And I don't think that was accidental, frankly, that that particular reference was used in this whole context of geopolitics.
00:33:25.200Because I think it's meant to strike fear in the hearts of China, most likely.
00:33:31.280And I think Owen had a story about that today.
00:33:38.100Schweitzer was on Fox News with Laura Ingraham.
00:33:45.260And Peter Schweitzer was talking about how this is a disaster for China.
00:33:49.700And so he was pointing out that China has a terrible hand, that they gave all their most advanced air defense systems to Iran, and they just got wiped out by the United States.
00:33:58.760That they invested something like $100 billion in Iran to industrialize their energy and everything, and they're never going to get those loans back.
00:34:07.780And that they were getting 20% of their oil from Iran and now in Venezuela, I guess.
00:34:13.240And so now they don't have access to the Venezuelan oil and the Iranian oil, at least throughout, at least without using U.S. dollars to purchase it.
00:34:21.820So now they're going to be forced to use U.S. dollars to purchase their oil.
00:34:24.660So he's just pointing out that across the board, this is kind of a very bad situation for China.
00:34:32.400And putting them in kind of a somewhat powerless position where they're just sacrificing left and right, and they can't really do anything about it.
00:34:40.940And we've certainly seen that they're not standing in to try and defend Iran.
00:34:45.520So it does seem like they're reluctant to get involved.
00:34:50.500You know, it's like Sun Tzu is from China, right, supposedly?
00:34:53.640And he said, win without fighting is the ultimate.
00:35:31.980In the kickoff to the 2026 midterm elections, we had elections yesterday in Texas, North Carolina, and Arkansas.
00:35:38.780In Texas, a major upset unfolded in the Republican, sorry, I need to compose myself.
00:35:46.240In the Republican primary of U.S. House District 2, State Representative Steve Tott decisively defeated incumbent Representative Dan Crenshaw,
00:35:59.060ousting the fourth-term congressman in a race centered on loyalty to President Trump and conservative credentials.
00:36:06.160Todd led with around 56% to Crenshaw's 41%.
00:36:09.240He was, as I quote somebody saying on X, he was blindsided.
00:37:02.320For Democrats in the U.S. Senate race, there was a clear winner.
00:37:09.280Senator Representative, State Representative, sorry, James Tallarico, narrowly defeated Representative Jasmine Crockett to claim the nomination.
00:37:19.580Jasmine Crockett, you know, you know her.
00:37:23.340I don't know if you have a picture of that.
00:37:39.480So Crockett alluded to, I don't know if she, I don't know if anybody can state, I hardly want to watch her.
00:37:49.920So I sort of listened to a bit of what she was saying.
00:37:54.880She was saying that sort of that Tallarico had played games and basically, quote unquote, allegedly cheated in the elections.
00:38:03.040And I think some people retweeted her or, I'm sorry, reposted her and said, hey, you should back up, you should back the SAVE Act for voter ID since you think that way.
00:38:16.640In North Carolina, former Governor Roy Cooper easily won the Democratic Senate primary to succeed retiring Republican Senator Tom Tillis.
00:38:27.020Tom Tillis, as you know, is against the SAVE Act or, well, not voting for it.
00:38:34.080Governor Roy Cooper, who is a Democrat, won the one in that race.
00:38:39.820While Michael Watley took the GOP nod, other notable results include strong incumbent performance in Scatterhouse and statewide races amid the early battles for congressional control.
00:38:52.480There's more than just these elections, but it kind of gives you a sense of where we are.
00:38:58.120The highlight was Crenshaw, surprise, loss, because he's a, he's basically.
00:40:24.740And a judge actually did extend the voting to 9 PM.
00:40:28.880And Crockett was saying, everybody needs to stay in line.
00:40:31.400We can't reward this behavior, blah, blah, blah.
00:40:33.180And, um, I think the website at some point crashed, which was how people would find where their precinct is.
00:40:40.860Um, so, you know, I, I think we have to allow her that if she has a really stupid voters, if that's her base, who can't figure out where their voting precinct is, then she might've been put at a disadvantage.
00:40:52.220You know, what are you saying, Owen, about her voters?
00:42:34.760So apparently, um, the Democrats, there's some reports at least that they really want AOC to be president or the nominee for president in 2028.
00:43:03.480Some people are claiming that she might run for both and then end up being a Senator again, but, um, or, you know, run for Senate and president and then end up being a Senator.
00:43:11.680But, um, you know, we'll have to see how that plays out, but it seems like the left is really pushing for that.
00:43:18.500Um, in the meantime, they're not, apparently not going to have their midterm convention that they were talking about because they don't have enough money.
00:43:25.880Um, so, um, they don't have the funding.
00:43:31.040The RNC has something like 150, $100 million cash over them.
00:43:35.320Uh, it looks like the DNC took a $15 million loan for their 2025 wins.
00:43:53.020And then, um, there's, there's a pullout that says that apparently we're, the GOP is catching up with the congressional ballot, like generic ballot thing that they do.
00:44:05.120Um, so apparently that's a dead heat now, 50, 50, um, it was 54% Democrats last month.
00:44:11.860So we caught up four points and we're dead even with them now.
00:44:16.280Um, you know, we're hoping that we might be able to get to something like the 54% ourselves based on arresting all the criminals and shutting down the border and having low taxes.
00:44:26.860But, um, the Democrats are probably going to be countering with trying to give away free services and take down billionaires and crap like that.
00:44:34.620So I think the anti-Trump messaging does, according to this poll, seem to resonate with Democrats, that they like it when those types of messages come out about Trump being a dictator and things like that.
00:44:45.300So we'll have to see what resonates with people.
00:44:47.240But, um, I think Trump's approval rating is still slightly negative, but it's up from where it was.
00:44:51.980So it seems like we're making progress on the midterms.
00:44:56.420So it's looking, looking like we might have a chance.
00:45:29.860The next story is the U.S.-Ecuador operation.
00:45:34.180Um, this report comes from the Wall Street Journal.
00:45:36.860The Trump administration is escalating its fight against Latin America drug gangs, launching joint U.S.-Ecuador operations, targeting the terrorist-designated group Los Choneros and Los Lobos.
00:45:49.280Um, with Ecuador now a major cocaine transit hub, U.S. Special Forces are providing advisory support for Ecuadorian commando raids on drug sites, marking a shift from prior vote strikes to direct on-the-ground collaboration.
00:46:05.220This expansion aims to curb narco-violence and trafficking flows to North America and Europe.
00:46:12.100And this was done in conjunction with, in, in, uh, together with Ecuador's forces with the U.S. military.
00:46:35.220Well, um, so apparently with this Austin shooting, uh, it looks like the Soros DA, um, seems to be going after the police that was stopping that.
00:46:47.620I think, um, it, it looks like the, the cops who killed this terrorist, um, were going to be facing a grand jury.
00:46:56.420And, um, now this Garza Soros DA apparently had to back off from that once the backlash came.
00:47:02.680Um, because apparently once the cops layered up, everybody started finding out about this and was, of course, pretty outraged.
00:47:09.100So it looks like, it looks like the Soros DA did make his attempt to try and go after the police.
00:47:16.500So these Austin police that killed the Senegalese terrorists, um, you know, the, the, apparently they, the DA wanted to have a grand jury against the cops.
00:47:29.400And, um, but now that it's been publicized, apparently they're backing off of that and he's claiming it never happened.
00:47:36.300And so it looks like it's going the way it should.
00:47:40.560Um, but you know, Garza made a statement.