Stay Free - Russel Brand - June 16, 2025


WW3 WARNING! Trump Opens Door To US Involvement + Minnesota assassin ARRESTED - SF597


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Russell Brand is back with a brand new show on Rumble streaming live on YouTube. This week, he's joined by the hosts of the show, Jake Chapman and Isaac Cohen, to discuss the complexities of the Israeli-Iranian conflict.

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00:05:01.000 Hello there, you awakening wonders.
00:05:03.000 Welcome to Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:05:04.000 We're streaming live on Rumble.
00:05:05.000 At the moment we're on YouTube and we're on X. Join us wherever you can for one more person's view on a global conflict that's extremely complex and confusing.
00:05:16.000 But perhaps there are assets and aspects of it that we can sort of...
00:05:29.000 Certainly Tucker Carlson don't think we should get involved.
00:05:31.000 You were right, Jake.
00:05:32.000 How are you coping over there with reality?
00:05:34.000 Life, man.
00:05:35.000 Life.
00:05:36.000 What do we think about it?
00:05:37.000 It's difficult, isn't it?
00:05:39.000 Watch us now, Isaac.
00:05:42.000 We're in the fortunate position of we've got members of our team.
00:05:45.000 We've got a Jewish man.
00:05:47.000 We've got ourselves a Jew.
00:05:49.000 We've also got Massey, who does a lot of our post-production, vital member of our team, Iranian.
00:05:56.000 And Canadian, kind of.
00:05:57.000 Iranian, Canadian, he's got an English accent.
00:06:01.000 I don't understand him.
00:06:02.000 I've been working with him for a while.
00:06:07.000 Look at all the people that you've hired.
00:06:08.000 Also, if you can have complex gender fluidity, and there are certain days where I can understand that ideological argument where you can say, look, I don't want to be a burn. 0.82
00:06:19.000 Like me, actually.
00:06:20.000 Like when you're a father.
00:06:21.000 It was Father's Day yesterday.
00:06:22.000 You've got children.
00:06:24.000 You've got responsibilities.
00:06:26.000 That's it.
00:06:28.000 Testosterone, husband, daughters, son.
00:06:31.000 You're a man, son.
00:06:33.000 Get on with your job.
00:06:35.000 Get on with it.
00:06:36.000 You know, there are days where I'd like to go, do you know what?
00:06:38.000 I'm a pixie like let me I don't want to come up with complex arguments about whether or not militarily it's beneficial to the United States for America to support Israel, what the relationship between Israel and America is, the responsibility of the British because of the carving up of that region, the Balfour Tree. 0.76
00:06:57.000 I don't know what to do anymore!
00:06:58.000 And I don't think anyone else knows either.
00:07:01.000 But let us know in the comments and chat if you've got a solution, if you want to tiptoe through these daisies with us.
00:07:07.000 Before we get into Israel, Iran, and escalating tensions and the fractures and fissures that's causing in even MAGA spaces, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson, for example, saying that they don't want American dollars to support Israel's conflict with Iran.
00:07:22.000 Before we get into that, let's have a look at the less complex ideas that are emerging out of the United Kingdom, where it becomes clear that whether it's digital ID or eating bugs, the British media are willing to catch...
00:07:39.000 Look at that.
00:07:40.000 That's in the Guardian.
00:07:41.000 Digital ID would be good for Britain.
00:07:44.000 And a secret weapon against reform, against patriotism.
00:07:48.000 This is TikToker looking at Keir Starmer.
00:07:52.000 He's still the leader of the UK, although there's a lot of online stuff going on now, man.
00:07:56.000 It may not be long for Keir Starmer.
00:07:59.000 Although, over the weekend, I thought...
00:08:04.000 I don't want to put out anything negative about anyone anymore.
00:08:07.000 I felt this sort of exhaustion with it, Jake.
00:08:10.000 I sank down to my knees and felt I can't, even with people that I feel personal grievances against, say whether that's legacy media or British establishment, I can't carry it anymore.
00:08:21.000 I can't carry the loathing.
00:08:23.000 But let's have a look at this TikToker who seems like he has got time to find ways to be somewhat mean to Keir Starmer. 0.96
00:08:30.000 Let's have a look.
00:08:32.000 Watch this.
00:08:33.000 Watch his face, right?
00:08:34.000 Watch this. 0.98
00:08:35.000 This is not fucking right, right? 0.95
00:08:36.000 Just watch this. 0.97
00:08:37.000 Watch this.
00:08:40.000 Watch. 1.00
00:08:45.000 The fuck is going on here? 1.00
00:08:46.000 What the fuck? 1.00
00:08:47.000 Look at it. 1.00
00:08:49.000 He is fucking sweating. 1.00
00:08:51.000 He was at a snort or something of that nature, but look at the fucking state of that. 1.00
00:08:55.000 For real. 0.99
00:08:56.000 Look at it.
00:08:59.000 I'm in.
00:09:00.000 That was my face this morning.
00:09:02.000 Right, you won't just take a little breath.
00:09:05.000 Seems like a life face.
00:09:07.000 Just getting hit with it.
00:09:10.000 This is what I feel like.
00:09:11.000 And let me know how you feel if you've joined us from Mug Club or if you're joining us from Timcast.
00:09:17.000 Ultimately, join us over on Rumble.
00:09:19.000 Rumble support us. 0.98
00:09:20.000 They pay us a damn fine wage. 0.95
00:09:23.000 They pay us a stipend for our endeavours and our efforts over on Rumble as we continue to speak freely. 0.96
00:09:28.000 And what I can tell you about Rumble is they supported me and accommodated me when YouTube turned against me, when the British government turned against me, when the legacy media turned against me.
00:09:39.000 Let this guy speak freely.
00:09:41.000 Do you feel like when you're looking at bombs raining down on Tel Aviv or Jerusalem or Tehran or the rubble in Gaza, do you feel like, I've just got to get my kids to school, man!
00:09:54.000 I've just got to earn a living!
00:09:55.000 I've just got to pay for my children! 0.99
00:09:57.000 I've just got to keep grinding!
00:09:59.000 Do you sometimes feel that you are not evolved or designed to accommodate geopolitical complexity?
00:10:07.000 When I look at scripture and I think of even like a giant of the Old Testament, like David, it's odd to call him a giant given mostly he's a giant slayer really, when I think of like the complexity of his life, being in exile because his son wants to claim the throne or returning to the throne and finding like another one of his sons is turning against him and refusing to honour his preferred inheritor, Solomon, obviously being his preferred.
00:10:37.000 I feel like, wow, at least I suppose in those days you were dealing with regional tribal wars and the establishment of nations and an ark where you're carrying God, where God is something you're communicating with.
00:10:53.000 God is someone, something that you can conceptualize.
00:10:58.000 And territory is something you can understand and fight for, where your enemies and opponents can be understood to be.
00:11:05.000 People whose names you know, whose tribal wars date back to a time that at least you can feel the dust and ashes and blood on your own hands and on your own sword.
00:11:15.000 Now, how are we meant to conceptualise this, Jake?
00:11:19.000 Well, should Iran be allowed to develop nuclear capacity?
00:11:22.000 Should France?
00:11:23.000 Should England?
00:11:24.000 Should America?
00:11:25.000 Who's got the right to kill one another?
00:11:27.000 Who can answer those questions now?
00:11:29.000 John Mearsheimer?
00:11:31.000 Jeffrey Sachs?
00:11:32.000 Donald Trump?
00:11:33.000 The leader of your country?
00:11:35.000 Hey, I went on Candice Owens when I was in Nashville.
00:11:38.000 And even my own relationships, I'm friends with Dave Rubin and do a podcast with him.
00:11:42.000 You know he's a Jewish man.
00:11:44.000 He's very pro-Israel.
00:11:46.000 I'm friends with Candice Owens.
00:11:47.000 She got a podcast.
00:11:49.000 She's very, I guess you would have to say anti-Israel, I guess, would be a way of describing her position.
00:11:54.000 She has Jewish employees, too.
00:11:56.000 So she can't really hate Jews.
00:11:59.000 I don't think any of us can really like...
00:12:02.000 That's why I was thinking, you know, maybe we should...
00:12:06.000 Well, no, not random Iranians, because there's very specific Iranians.
00:12:10.000 Massey, who works for us, and a random Jewish man.
00:12:13.000 And just go, look, come on, should we work this out?
00:12:16.000 Because I don't reckon that we would, left to ourselves, left to our own devices, escalate these conflicts in the casual, faceless, anonymous way that seems to be possible when you're operating under the auspices of giant nations that appear to be puppeted by interests that go beyond all of us.
00:12:34.000 Do the people of Israel benefit from the policies of Netanyahu?
00:12:38.000 Do the people of Gaza benefit from the ideals of Hamas?
00:12:41.000 Do the people of the UK Before we get into that, eat the bugs!
00:13:01.000 It's being popularised. 0.75
00:13:02.000 Eat 'em.
00:13:02.000 I don't think that you can have, like, an Ironman athlete that's living on a diet of bugs.
00:13:07.000 Let me know what you think, Paul Schrober, Desert X rider, Noel2024.
00:13:11.000 I'm talking to all of our friends in the Rumble chat, as well as my beloved friends, ploughing on in locals, even as it becomes evident and clear that Rumble Premium is ultimately the paywall financial goal of this business model.
00:13:24.000 I love you, Claude, Jude Psych, What's It to you, all of the locals'members.
00:13:30.000 So I'm seeing...
00:13:34.000 Rusky73.
00:13:35.000 Free Israel. 0.89
00:13:36.000 Israel took my lunch money. 1.00
00:13:37.000 The last of the Mohicans was a dirt worshipper Jew. 1.00
00:13:41.000 I mean, wherever you look, you will eat the bugs. 0.80
00:13:43.000 Let's have a look at British media normalising eating bugs, which to me seems like, even when you were a fan, say, let's call it a fan of St. Peter and St. Peter's vision, the canopy is being lowered from the heavens.
00:13:57.000 And on that canopy, there are reptiles, birds and four-legged beasts.
00:14:04.000 There is no one that is unclean.
00:14:06.000 Go out to the Gentiles. 1.00
00:14:08.000 Start converting the Gentiles to the faith. 1.00
00:14:11.000 Because it was assumed up till then that the only followers of the way, as they called it then, could be circumcised Jews.
00:14:17.000 But increasingly we believe it's the heart that's got to be circumcised. 0.93
00:14:21.000 The heart.
00:14:21.000 Circumcise your heart.
00:14:23.000 Have a raw, bare heart. 0.91
00:14:24.000 Although I'm in a room with American men, and I know I'm the only dude in this room with a foreskin. 0.88
00:14:28.000 Here we go. 0.91
00:14:29.000 Here we go.
00:14:31.000 The flavour is quite light, they're sort of hollow.
00:14:36.000 I'd say it tastes a little bit like a very mildly flavoured nut.
00:14:40.000 There's nothing revolting about it, no back taste, nothing makes me want to heave.
00:14:46.000 In fact, I like a bit of salt on that.
00:14:48.000 Richard Madeley, man.
00:14:50.000 That dude's been operating in TV spaces for a long time.
00:14:53.000 It was one of the thresholds that I crossed over into normal UK domestic fame.
00:14:57.000 If you're, like, a European person or a non-US resident or citizen, you go through the threshold of becoming famous in your own country, generally.
00:15:07.000 Like, that's a nice little threshold to become UK famous, to appear on UK daytime TV.
00:15:12.000 To go through normal, exciting, non-controversial fame before you go into the, ooh, I'm controversial.
00:15:22.000 I'm getting my own COVID.
00:15:26.000 I'm getting my own me too.
00:15:28.000 I'm getting my own everything heaped upon me.
00:15:30.000 There was an innocent time where being famous just meant, you know, wow, I'm getting a table at a restaurant.
00:15:36.000 Wow, girls are attracted to me, man. 1.00
00:15:39.000 This is pretty cool.
00:15:40.000 I'm talking about decades ago, early fame.
00:15:42.000 And Richard Madeley, he's one of the gatekeepers out there.
00:15:45.000 And there he is now, just gnawing on the bugs, gnawing on the bugs.
00:15:50.000 You can, like, when you've got a little bit of first-person schooling in media spaces, you get to understand how this particular New York Times article or this particular Rolling Stones cover all are e-mails.
00:16:10.000 You will eat the bugs.
00:16:12.000 You will vote for this war. 1.00
00:16:14.000 You will carry an ID card.
00:16:16.000 In this instance, it's just simply normalising, chowing down on bugs.
00:16:21.000 you know when um...
00:16:34.000 Don't look at a plague of locusts as a problem, that's a snack.
00:16:38.000 Yeah.
00:16:39.000 So that would be the snack.
00:16:41.000 Right, now this is the dinner, this is minced cricket in a kind of a, well, chilli sauce I think.
00:16:45.000 I just don't want to hear minced cricket.
00:16:47.000 I don't want to arrive home after a day's graft and toil and hear the phrase minced cricket.
00:16:54.000 I don't want to hear that.
00:16:55.000 I'll take one as my conscience, like little Pinocchio, but I will not take one as my dinner.
00:17:01.000 You will not make me eat those things.
00:17:09.000 I feel the saliva in his chica boos. 1.00
00:17:12.000 I feel the hand of the WEF on my shoulder.
00:17:15.000 I feel the global policemen pushing the barrel of their gun into the small of my back.
00:17:20.000 And even though we got bigger fish to fry, we ain't got bigger cockroach.
00:17:28.000 It's a war.
00:17:29.000 Who's going to be involved in this war?
00:17:30.000 Do you want your country funding it?
00:17:32.000 Do you want your tax dollars funding it?
00:17:34.000 What do we do now, baby?
00:17:36.000 Let's forget about the bugs.
00:17:37.000 If you're watching us on YouTube, we'll be with you for a few more minutes.
00:17:41.000 If you're watching us on X, we'll stay with you for as long as we can.
00:17:44.000 But ultimately, we want you to join us on Rumble Premium.
00:17:47.000 It's a good platform.
00:17:48.000 On Rumble Premium, we do additional content.
00:17:50.000 When we go over to Nashville to participate, We'll give you additional content.
00:18:00.000 In fact, we'll show you over the course of the week some of the stuff that we made while we were over there in Nashville.
00:18:06.000 Interesting, man.
00:18:07.000 Like, while sitting ringside at an MMA event, you know, PFL's a much smaller league than UFC.
00:18:14.000 And I think that when you enter into the sort of storm of glamour, of brutal glamour around a UFC event where Trump might arrive like Caesar, where you might see Elon Musk, where you'll hear the familiar tones of Joe Rogan, all of that paraphernalia accompanies the excellent brutality in the ring.
00:18:33.000 You don't have...
00:18:53.000 watching someone crane around to get a better view of some brutality, like sort of the indifference of an attractive woman tapping away on their phone as they kind of work. 0.84
00:19:05.000 That final fight of the night, there was some excellence on display.
00:19:09.000 And it is brilliant to watch warriors practice their craft.
00:19:13.000 But when you're watching brutality conducted in front of a crowd that's sort of like drifting around or munching on snacks or shouting drunken, xenophobic phrases, you feel like, at least I feel like, wow, man, we've got to edge back from the violence in us.
00:19:35.000 We've got to find some compassion in us.
00:19:37.000 This has got to be a season of mercy or it's going to be a season of relentless destruction.
00:19:43.000 I don't like it either, Rumble Foreskin, when I get a peanut stuck on my tongue.
00:19:47.000 Like, if I get something stuck in my tooth and it's got an antennae on it, it's over for me.
00:19:52.000 The apostles were Jews, says the devout.
00:19:55.000 No doubt about it.
00:19:56.000 There's no doubt about that.
00:19:58.000 Let's get into the serious business of war.
00:20:02.000 Iran and Israel are involved in a hot war.
00:20:06.000 They are bombing each other's sovereign nations.
00:20:08.000 there's no nice way of describing it, in the Yemen...
00:20:15.000 I guess that's where we live now.
00:20:17.000 I guess we're in an age where political leaders come from entertainment backgrounds, whether it's Donald Trump.
00:20:24.000 Or Vladimir Zelensky.
00:20:27.000 And we now, thanks to technology, thanks to GoPros and easy access and drones, we live in an age where the actual process of bombardment can be streamed live into your home.
00:20:40.000 Have a look at this sort of uneasy spectacle of the citizens of Yemen enjoying the retaliatory strikes of Iran on Israel.
00:20:48.000 And ask yourself, can either side be right when this is the business of war?
00:20:53.000 Make sure you push me through the...
00:21:19.000 ...
00:21:43.000 Games have a spiritual component and a component of brutality.
00:21:47.000 Obviously, when it's physical combat like MMA and the UFC or PFL, but even baseball or football or soccer have a conflict component that allow us to catharsis our own deep feelings of...
00:22:09.000 Every day I nurse the injuries of my childhood.
00:22:12.000 I walk wounded through life.
00:22:14.000 And turning sport into sanitized war, or at least observing it as such, is something that I guess we can accommodate.
00:22:20.000 But when war becomes emboldened and more punitive and consequential sport...
00:22:31.000 Let me know how you feel about war as entertainment.
00:22:33.000 I suppose it's a natural evolution as news as entertainment.
00:22:37.000 Once we had 24-hour cable news, well, I guess that was a step in that direction.
00:22:42.000 Now we have independent news medium.
00:22:44.000 Whatever your flavor, there's someone that will support you.
00:22:47.000 You could be watching Rachel Maddow right now in Consternation or Joe Scarborough or Brett Byer or Stephen Crowder or me or Sam Cedar, like he's like a left-wing version.
00:22:57.000 Or Owen Jones, who does such great reporting on Middle Eastern conflict, and in particular the situation in Gaza.
00:23:04.000 There's someone that has your view.
00:23:06.000 Maybe you like the Tim Dillon perspective, or Tucker Carlson.
00:23:10.000 Tucker Carlson, I reckon, is one of the early and significant voices that travelled from the mainstream into independent media, and holds and heralds a significant audience.
00:23:20.000 In our item unpacked, where we offline do a deeper dive into the news of the day, we talked about Tucker Carlson's article.
00:23:29.000 That will be posted on the Rumble channels a little later today.
00:23:32.000 Here's Tucker Carlson's post, which in a sense, I reckon, captures the sentiment of many Americans and the challenge of trying to be anti-war without being anti-Semite.
00:23:43.000 Let's have a look.
00:23:44.000 Tucker turns on Trump is how it's been reported by some Xbox News host blasts, complicit president for backing Israel. 0.58
00:23:51.000 And of course, Alex Jones, who's been a significant figure.
00:23:56.000 For a number of years now, whether you figure that's in the conspiratorial or more mainstream, mainline, MAGA space supports Tucker.
00:24:04.000 Here he is.
00:24:05.000 He's right.
00:24:06.000 Trump is aiding and abetting Israel's attempt to trigger total war with Iran.
00:24:09.000 Most military experts agree it leads to closing the Strait of Hormuz and all-out war in the Middle East.
00:24:14.000 The world's never been closer to thermonuclear war.
00:24:18.000 Trump doesn't deny the possibility of American financial and even military support.
00:24:23.000 Says it's a possibility.
00:24:26.000 Now, many people believe that the key motivation is to impede and prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.
00:24:34.000 The assumption being that Iran are a state or a nation that can't be afforded that capacity or that ability.
00:24:40.000 And I reckon that people that know a lot more about this conflict than I do would say that Iran have been backing Hamas and various agitators in this conflict.
00:24:48.000 And to view it through the lens of Gaza as a bombed out and genocided region and population is myopic because there are, whether it's Hezbollah or Hamas or the Houthis, there are Iranian-backed interests in that region and war for the last 100 years and maybe always has been fought by proxies, i.e.
00:25:12.000 the Ukraine-Russia war is ultimately a NATO-Russia war and perhaps even a United States and Russia war that's having to be navigated and negotiated.
00:25:22.000 And many people thought that the election of Trump would mean the seizing of that sublimated dynamic and an explicit conflict that could be explicitly resolved.
00:25:31.000 Now we have the complex and In short, a world war.
00:25:43.000 A world war.
00:25:44.000 A true world war that perhaps won't be conducted in the good old glorious sentimental manner of the Second World War, or even the grinding early industrial terror of the First World War, but in a kind of new capacity that's truly apocalyptic, that's Armageddon.
00:26:01.000 At the end of a hand, because, of course, of the facility and utility that we now have.
00:26:06.000 Now, Tulsi Gabbard testified not so long ago that she doesn't believe that Iran have nuclear capacity, but the idea of Iran developing nuclear weapons is a trope or narrative that's gone on for a long, long time.
00:26:19.000 People have always said, oh, well, we can't let Iran develop nuclear weapons.
00:26:22.000 Well, I don't know, man.
00:26:24.000 Why not?
00:26:24.000 Do you think that there's a point that we get to where people might grab you up by the throat and say, listen, you, imagine it was me, imagine it was you, say, listen, do you know what the real threat is?
00:26:34.000 Like if China get in true ascendancy, they will house us all in cells, we'll all be hived off. 0.97
00:26:41.000 If Russia assume the role of a unipolar population, We're all finished. 0.87
00:26:46.000 You need to back the United States of America. 0.73
00:26:49.000 You need to back the United States of America's allies in the Middle East.
00:26:53.000 Do you think that that's the real threat here?
00:26:55.000 How do you see this playing out?
00:26:56.000 Let me know in the comments in chat with emergent potential BRICS, with all Alternative currencies emerging.
00:27:01.000 With the dollar potentially tanking.
00:27:03.000 With America still, I suppose, in a fragile position.
00:27:08.000 What does American debt mean when it comes to American military action?
00:27:12.000 What does the various bifurcations, separations, fissures and conflicts across the United States right now?
00:27:18.000 I mean, like, last week we were just talking about LA riots.
00:27:20.000 Then we were talking about the spat between Elon and Trump.
00:27:23.000 Now we're talking about potential war in a nation that seems quite divided, even with MAGA, within MAGA, within a movement that necessarily was somewhat cohesive.
00:27:33.000 It was cohesive enough to get Trump elected by a near landslide.
00:27:37.000 There are now divisions.
00:27:40.000 Sectarianism.
00:27:41.000 Let's have a look at first what Tulsi Gabbard said about Iranian capacity.
00:27:46.000 Hey, yo, thanks Crowder for the raid.
00:27:48.000 And if you're joining us from Mug Club, I hope you're having a good time here.
00:27:51.000 If you're watching us on X or YouTube, get over and join us on Rumble.
00:27:55.000 It's Rumble that ensures that we're financially, spiritually supported and that we're protected from various nefarious forces that seem less and less important and relevant as we stand on the brink of a holy war.
00:28:07.000 What are my problems, man?
00:28:12.000 The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003.
00:28:23.000 The IC continues to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program Jake was your take home from that clip her great streak did it kind of move is Tulsi Gabbard's Superhero grey streak moving across her forehead. 0.96
00:28:41.000 Is she signalling to us?
00:28:42.000 Wow, since I've been in government, I've been captured, I'm being controlled.
00:28:45.000 I know Tulsi Gabbard.
00:28:46.000 I know her husband.
00:28:48.000 I don't know him well.
00:28:48.000 I've not seen him since I've been in office, but I like her a lot.
00:28:51.000 I think she's a beautiful human being.
00:28:53.000 I don't know what happens to people once they're in government.
00:28:55.000 and I'm not in a position to understand the complexity, but maybe she's communicating through the follicles of her very scalp.
00:29:03.000 Now, this idea that Iran can never be allowed to have nuclear capacity...
00:29:08.000 Maybe no one should be allowed to have nuclear capacity.
00:29:11.000 That seems like a perfectly reasonable perspective to me.
00:29:14.000 Sorry for the belching. 0.99
00:29:15.000 Let's have a look at this ongoing What about when Iran was, like, sort of democratizing itself and, like, America disrupted its ass and balls that all up for us in the 1970s, man? 0.99
00:29:31.000 80s. 0.99
00:29:32.000 80s.
00:29:32.000 Iran-Contra.
00:29:33.000 This is our good time for...
00:29:38.000 He's got a lot of good Jewish followers.
00:29:40.000 Let's have a look at this, and then we will do Ask a Jew. 0.98
00:29:42.000 Only if we've created an asset for it, though.
00:29:44.000 Take Iran about 12 months to enrich enough nuclear material for a single nuclear weapon.
00:29:49.000 United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning that Iran is potentially just months away or less from nuclear breakpoints.
00:29:54.000 Iran is two months away from a nuclear weapon, and it's a victory to get them one year away? 0.95
00:29:58.000 Iran could be less than a month away from building a nuclear weapon.
00:30:02.000 Netanyahu has made two tough-talking TV appearances.
00:30:05.000 I'm saying that Iran is just months away from making a nuclear bomb.
00:30:08.000 What is important to understand is that you have to dismantle the entire terror empire, and especially before its main practitioners, the terrorist states of Iran and Iraq, acquire nuclear weapons. 0.91
00:30:17.000 And this, I think, has been a wake-up call from hell.
00:30:19.000 It is telling us.
00:30:21.000 Okay, we're going to be asking a Jew about this in a matter of moments, but also an Iranian.
00:30:25.000 Is Massey on the line?
00:30:26.000 Can we get Massey as well? 0.55
00:30:27.000 Because I'd like to hear what he's saying all the way from Persia.
00:30:31.000 One person whose views are always explicit and always consistent are Lindsey Graham.
00:30:36.000 Lindsey Graham wants war. 1.00
00:30:39.000 He wants it bad.
00:30:40.000 Game on.
00:30:40.000 Pray for Israel, says Lindsey Graham.
00:30:42.000 Marjorie Taylor Greene, she's got some, she's essentially in a sort of a wild call, a Tucker position. 1.00
00:30:48.000 And America first, we don't want to escalate this war.
00:30:51.000 If you want to watch our show Unpacked, that's when we record offline deep dives into a news item.
00:30:57.000 But Tucker Carlson essentially has come out and said, America should not be involved in this war in any way at all.
00:31:04.000 Like if Israel want to have a war with Iran, then American taxpayers shouldn't fund it.
00:31:09.000 Let me know what you guys think.
00:31:10.000 Here's Thomas Massey on the subject.
00:31:13.000 Thomas Massey, he's been pretty consistent.
00:31:14.000 Israel don't need US taxpayer monies for defensive.
00:31:17.000 It already has enough to start offensive wars. 0.94
00:31:19.000 I vote not to...
00:31:23.000 Here's Rand Paul.
00:31:24.000 I mean, this is an alliance of people that over the last few years, and I'm talking primarily about matters relating to COVID, where I've come to think, I can rely on this dude.
00:31:35.000 Like Thomas Massey, Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:31:38.000 I met her at the RSC.
00:31:39.000 She blew my mind.
00:31:40.000 She was like, I think people like that should be in politics.
00:31:42.000 People that are just like, yeah, come on, man.
00:31:45.000 She's like a yeehaw truck driving politician. 1.00
00:31:48.000 She'll come on the show.
00:31:48.000 Good.
00:31:49.000 Get it right up.
00:31:50.000 I like them.
00:31:51.000 The Ameri... 0.98
00:31:51.000 Let's just read this, I kind of like him. 0.98
00:31:54.000 The American people overwhelmingly oppose our endless wars, and they voted that way when they voted for Trump.
00:31:59.000 Is that a good assessment?
00:32:00.000 I urge Trump to stay the course, keep putting America first, and not to join in any war between other countries.
00:32:05.000 Every American should hope and pray for peace.
00:32:08.000 Excuse me.
00:32:09.000 War of Iran is not in America's interest.
00:32:10.000 It would destabilise the region, cost countless lives, and drain our resources for generations.
00:32:15.000 We should pursue diplomacy, not destruction, engaging in dialogue.
00:32:18.000 Thank you.
00:32:25.000 I don't know.
00:32:25.000 difficult to argue with that, but in a minute we will try to do exactly that with Massey, our Iranian producer and his I don't know why you're being called in to support Israel.
00:32:37.000 I mean, you're Jewish.
00:32:38.000 I mean, I'm sure that...
00:32:42.000 We could get on a whole variety of very vocal Jewish people who demand less aggression from Israel in this conflict.
00:32:51.000 Anyway, listen.
00:32:52.000 We'll get into all of that in a matter of moments.
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00:35:03.000 David Icke, one of the forefathers of the conspiracy movement, you might call him, a free thinker, a radical, ever vocal on these matters, says, look at this, current events in Israel or Iran are the latest step in a calculated global cult sequence that goes back to Trump's first term and beyond.
00:35:19.000 It involves Obama, Blair, Boy Bush, as they seek step by step to bring the West against the East in a global conflict.
00:35:25.000 This sequence isn't working through right and left, and what's happening now is the latest stage.
00:35:30.000 This is what I said in the Renegade film about my life in 2017-18.
00:35:33.000 Note how NATO build-up on the Russian border, or how the NATO build-up on the Russian border, contributed to the later Russia-Ukraine war.
00:35:41.000 The key trigger is Israel Netanyahu's long-time desperation for war in Iran.
00:35:46.000 Here's David Icke right about that.
00:35:47.000 Here to represent those views are an Iranian...
00:35:59.000 And you, my dear friend Isaac, are, above all else, a Jew.
00:36:04.000 Now let's get to the bottom of this situation.
00:36:06.000 Firstly, Massey, mate, did you grow up in Iran?
00:36:09.000 When did you leave Iran?
00:36:12.000 He's frozen.
00:36:13.000 Oh, that's not him.
00:36:15.000 Did he cut out?
00:36:17.000 Now, that's interesting.
00:36:18.000 The person involved that's in charge of tech is a Jewish person.
00:36:21.000 And once again, he's APAC'd him into total silence.
00:36:25.000 Massey, bear in mind that the tech is being controlled by an APAC-funded Jew. 0.99
00:36:32.000 Would you please let me know that you're speaking now and that you've not got, even now, a gun in the small of your back.
00:36:38.000 So that audio, he just spoke there, Isaac.
00:36:41.000 That didn't come through.
00:36:42.000 Oh, there you go.
00:36:43.000 There you go.
00:36:44.000 So, Matthew, what are you saying?
00:36:45.000 You grew up in Iran, is that right?
00:36:47.000 Yeah, I was lived in Iran between 83 and 88, so we were mostly in Iran.
00:36:53.000 When I look at your eyes, you've got those kind of blue Persian eyes that people sometimes have.
00:36:58.000 Now, what kind of affinity do you have with your homeland, mate?
00:37:01.000 And what do you feel about, for example, the activity in the 70s and 80s and this continuing escalation?
00:37:09.000 I don't know much about the Iran-Israel stuff.
00:37:13.000 I obviously know a little bit about the Iranian Revolution.
00:37:16.000 Most of my family fled Iran during that time, so most of them are in England now.
00:37:21.000 But obviously we've got, like, my uncle Faramaz, he's got friends that died, really close friends.
00:37:26.000 He was reading about that stuff in the newspapers, so pretty crazy time to be there.
00:37:32.000 But, like, this current thing, I mean, I only found out the other day that I've already had distant relatives that have died due to the Israel bombings.
00:37:39.000 Oh, my God.
00:37:52.000 So, yeah, I mean, I've put an image in the drive, Isaac, there, of those two that actually died, if you want to bring it up.
00:38:04.000 Until it actually affects people that you know.
00:38:06.000 And obviously I don't know them, but they're both Radfars and, you know, part of my family.
00:38:11.000 Yeah, and it's no longer a TV show.
00:38:13.000 People I know, even though, you know, people part of my family, even though I don't know them, have already died in this due to these strikes.
00:38:19.000 Yeah, well, I suppose what this space becomes, the online independent media space, Is a vitriolic rhetorical space where it's easy to have strong views, and in fact you're rewarded for having strong views on increasingly vast and insurmountable subjects.
00:38:38.000 And there's two things that I'd like to comment on.
00:38:41.000 Firstly, when we're just hanging out and running our team, it's kind of irrelevant what people's racial and national identities are.
00:38:52.000 And then, on the other hand, suddenly something that becomes like a sport, like you saw that footage out of Yemen, now has to be handled, you know, like, I've been sort of guilty of, I suppose, because my own personal challenges of not...
00:39:15.000 in particular, I suppose, Israel and Gaza.
00:39:17.000 It just seems like I've got so many friends who are Israeli or Jewish, and I've got so many...
00:39:25.000 friends and former colleagues that are deeply invested and infuriated by the ongoing conflicts in that region and the impact on people in Gaza.
00:39:35.000 I've sort of, you know, I sort of uncustomarily signed, you know, like...
00:39:48.000 But I guess like you, like as an Iranian person who's now got sort of skin in the game and blood on the carpet and you've lost people that you, even if like tangentially, that you are related to, you don't have that privilege anymore. 1.00
00:40:00.000 In fact, the only thing I've ever been able to say that kind of makes any sense to me is those of us that are not directly affected by it have a kind of responsibility not to sort of leap in.
00:40:09.000 What are you saying, Isaac?
00:40:12.000 How do you continue to handle even working here with us lording the triumphs of Kanye West or just inquiring into the sort of general impact of Israel's relationship with America on sort of, you know, America First sort of aficionados?
00:40:27.000 How do you feel about all of it, mate?
00:40:29.000 My main, well, one of the questions I want to give to Ask Massey is what are his thoughts on the regime specifically in Iran right now compared to what was there potentially before, right?
00:40:40.000 I think that's a good starting point because I think a lot of what Israel is trying to do in general is to damage the regime enough and obviously civilians are going to die.
00:40:50.000 Civilians are dying in Israel.
00:40:52.000 You know, my wife's friend's home was completely obliterated by the strike in Tel Aviv last night.
00:40:58.000 And they were in the bunker, you know, so thank God they were, you know, they were all right.
00:41:02.000 But they have a newborn.
00:41:03.000 They could have been just as easily killed if they weren't in their bunker.
00:41:08.000 So I think that Israel is really just trying to instill enough damage onto the Ayatollah regime to allow for the people to kind of rise up and take over their country back. 0.93
00:41:19.000 Like you said, it was democratically, you know, it was very Western prior to the regime change that was Jimmy Carter's doing.
00:41:25.000 You know, I don't really think he was a great president.
00:41:28.000 I think he did a lot of damage, you know, across the world and to our country.
00:41:32.000 So, you know, I think that's a good starting point, right, is like kind of going over the regime itself and seeing, you know, is that something that's going to happen?
00:41:43.000 Of course.
00:41:44.000 So we ain't going to do as well as that.
00:41:47.000 So why don't we just convey our personal connection?
00:41:51.000 Because that's the thing.
00:41:54.000 What I feel, Isaac, is we could talk to Mehdi Hussain or we could talk to Owen Jones.
00:42:06.000 When it comes to expertise and a granular understanding, there are such articulate people on both sides of this conflict.
00:42:20.000 Well, my personal reaction to it is that reaction that, like, I don't see it, you know, you could look at it as an unprompted Israeli aggression onto Iran, but I see it as, you know, they're waving a gun in their face endlessly, kind of saying, hey, you know, if we get a nuke, we will use it against you.
00:42:39.000 Like, that's the difference.
00:42:41.000 You know, when we talk about should they not have a nuke, who's to say?
00:42:44.000 Like, the part of it is, you know, if you're going to flagrantly use it as a threat against another nation, then...
00:42:52.000 I see it.
00:42:54.000 Massey, can you get back on?
00:42:56.000 Is he getting back on?
00:42:58.000 Yeah, don't worry about that.
00:42:58.000 Let me handle that.
00:43:00.000 Right, so listen, here's the, I reckon what a lot of people in this country, in the United States of America believe.
00:43:09.000 That's the view that Tucker Carlson has articulated in his article and in a sort of pretty succinct post.
00:43:17.000 Here's Tim Dillon commenting on a British political figure up until recently and maybe even now the leader of the opposition talking about how this is a proxy war already.
00:43:27.000 Have a look.
00:43:27.000 It's interesting.
00:43:28.000 Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK just like Ukraine is on behalf of Western Europe against Russia. 0.62
00:43:35.000 We have to.
00:43:35.000 Stop it right there.
00:43:36.000 Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the United Kingdom?
00:43:44.000 Is that the most insane thing anyone's ever heard?
00:43:48.000 Are people right now in the United Kingdom, is their biggest problem Iran? 1.00
00:43:54.000 What is this woman speaking of? 0.99
00:43:56.000 What is she talking about?
00:43:58.000 What is anyone talking about?
00:44:00.000 Is Iran the reason that no one can afford a house? 1.00
00:44:03.000 Is Iran the reason that There's fentanyl everywhere. 1.00
00:44:06.000 Is Iran the reason that we've got political corruption? 0.97
00:44:10.000 Is Russia the reason? 0.91
00:44:12.000 Is Iran the reason that we have 12 people that own everything in this country? 1.00
00:44:16.000 Is Iran the reason that we have an epidemic of poison food that's killing people and children? 1.00
00:44:25.000 Is Iran the reason for any of this? 0.99
00:44:27.000 Is Iran the reason that corporations in America just pillage and leave the trail of death and destruction in their wake? 0.99
00:44:35.000 Is Iran the reason we have no healthcare? 1.00
00:44:37.000 I mean, this is the most insane thing I've ever heard.
00:44:41.000 She's saying Iran's the enemy of the UK because people pop off. 1.00
00:44:45.000 The mullahs in Iran talk a lot of shit. 1.00
00:44:47.000 What are they doing? 1.00
00:44:48.000 Did Iran attack the UK?
00:44:50.000 Did Iran attack the United States of America?
00:44:53.000 Am I complete?
00:44:55.000 Is Russia attacking the United Kingdom or the United States of America?
00:44:59.000 Am I wrong?
00:45:02.000 But when she says, just get her out of here, but when she says, we are there fighting a proxy war on behalf of us, and that that's what the Ukraine is doing for Russia, it's on behalf of us.
00:45:17.000 Number one, it's very dangerous to say, because number one, there's a lot of people in this country that are not trying to get in a war with Russia.
00:45:25.000 I mean, we're not trying to do that.
00:45:29.000 I don't want to be in a war with Russia.
00:45:32.000 So, this framing of the issue that I just don't agree with, that you're in a proxy where your own society is collapsing.
00:45:46.000 Your own society is declining perpetually, year after year.
00:45:54.000 Annually, things get worse.
00:45:56.000 People are fleeing.
00:45:59.000 Yeah, Tim Dillon there.
00:46:01.000 I think I'm going to go on his show soon.
00:46:02.000 I think he might be coming on this one.
00:46:03.000 We're working that stuff out because I suppose now in an increasingly divided America, is there a strong enough mandate to continue to pursue various wars that were pretty defining in the last election?
00:46:20.000 Seems like...
00:46:24.000 Listen, we're going to be back in a minute.
00:46:25.000 We're going to be talking about some of the other, until very recently, significant news issues that were defining this space.
00:46:31.000 We were talking about the LA riots.
00:46:33.000 We were talking about the murder of a couple of lawmakers.
00:46:35.000 I mean, the world is moving so quickly.
00:46:37.000 If I don't have a taste of eternity, if I don't have some resource that goes beyond this ever-shifting, fluctuating madness of our online space, I don't know what we're going to cling on to.
00:46:48.000 Let's have a quick message from one of our partners, and then we'll be back.
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00:48:49.000 Go to Rumble and Rumble Premium, where we can all just relax together and recline while gently enjoying what seems to be an irreversible march towards the apocalypse.
00:49:01.000 An apocalypse that none of us want nor need either.
00:49:05.000 Spore about at the behest of people that seem to live in an inaccessible.
00:49:12.000 You know, like, if you were just to step outside your house right now, look around for a moment, it's just people like you and I. It's extraordinary, isn't it?
00:49:19.000 Here's a...
00:49:20.000 Should we look at Jeffrey Sachs on this?
00:49:22.000 Here's the insights of someone who's covering these issues from the not...
00:49:33.000 It's Jeffrey Sachs.
00:49:34.000 War with Iran will be World War III. 0.94
00:49:37.000 Iran is not alone, and it will not remain alone.
00:49:41.000 With Russia, we are at a possibility of peace, but we're also at a possibility of nuclear war. 0.98
00:49:48.000 They're both very close.
00:49:49.000 And if we go to war with Iran...
00:49:54.000 Do you think that the people pushing us toward war with Iran understand that?
00:49:59.000 No, I think that they're following a plan, clean break 1996, and a plan 1991, seven wars in five years.
00:50:10.000 That has been deep-set and that has been Netanyahu's baby all the time. 0.89
00:50:14.000 Netanyahu I regard as one of the most delusional and dangerous people on the planet.
00:50:20.000 He has engaged the United States so far in six disastrous wars and he's aiming to engage us in yet one more.
00:50:29.000 We're not standing up for Israel. 0.96
00:50:31.000 We are engaging in war on Israel's behalf all over the Middle East. 0.94
00:50:37.000 That's a completely different thing.
00:50:39.000 Nothing that has happened in the Middle East has been for American national security.
00:50:44.000 Okay, there you go.
00:50:51.000 Let me know what you think in the comments and chat.
00:50:52.000 A lot of positive perspectives on Jeffrey Sachs because he's been pretty reliable throughout this late, whether it's been Russia, Ukraine, or these new potential emerging conflicts.
00:51:09.000 Let's now have a look at events in California, because prior to this weekend, most of us were concerned about the potential of civil war in the United States of America.
00:51:25.000 Here's Mel Gibson talking about Karen Bass.
00:51:29.000 And then we're going to have a look at Trump's military parade.
00:51:33.000 Does that play into the hands of Trump's critics and detractors that believe that he wants to bring about a Handmaid's Tale style dystopia?
00:51:43.000 Or is it just some patriotism and pride?
00:51:54.000 Now as we experience rampant lawlessness and civil unrest, it's never been more clear.
00:51:59.000 They're unable to respond effectively and responsibly during calamity.
00:52:04.000 Whether it's sheer incompetence or outright malevolence, the reality is stark.
00:52:09.000 California's in a state of turmoil, and I ask my fellow Angelenos, why are Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass still in office?
00:52:17.000 How much more of their destructive decision-making masquerading as leadership are we going to tolerate?
00:52:25.000 It's time to take back our community and our state and put the power and the privilege in the hands of competent leaders whose goals are to protect us and the way of life this nation was founded upon.
00:52:37.000 You know, like, I'm watching Braveheart at the moment, so I'm really predisposed towards Mel Gibson and his opinions.
00:52:43.000 It's a good voice.
00:52:45.000 I mean, I was thinking about the Patriot just now.
00:52:48.000 Like, I wanted him to run back into his house, grab his hatchet from underneath his bed, a couple of guns.
00:52:54.000 What a legend.
00:52:56.000 He's sitting on a lot of energy, Mel Gibson.
00:52:59.000 He's someone that you might be able to lean into in a crisis.
00:53:04.000 You know, when we went to Mar-a-Lago, he just said, my house is burning down.
00:53:12.000 It's like he's on an inferno at all times, particularly when he's discussing an actual one.
00:53:18.000 Let me know which of the world's recent action heroes' perspectives you want to hear.
00:53:25.000 is Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying he don't blame Trump, but a broader political decline and the uniparty politics that I suppose has even led to the emergence of this space.
00:53:36.000 This wouldn't happen if the politicians... 0.97
00:53:42.000 Think about it.
00:53:44.000 What do you mean by that?
00:53:47.000 What do you mean by that?
00:53:49.000 For decades, almost four decades, we have had a problem where they talked about immigration reform.
00:53:58.000 Comprehensive immigration reform.
00:54:00.000 But the Democrats and the Republicans, both of the parties, have no interest in solving this problem because they use that to raise money.
00:54:10.000 What they do is they just keep pointing the finger at each other, and then they're surprised.
00:54:14.000 They've all of a sudden, we are using our middle finger on them, right?
00:54:18.000 But I mean, it's all bogus, because I think that we can do better than that.
00:54:22.000 Democrats and Republicans, and you know, when I talk about Democrats and Republicans, even though I'm a Republican, I tell you, it is sometimes disappointing.
00:54:30.000 I think even just when you look at the symbols of the party, think about that. 0.96
00:54:35.000 I mean, the Democrats, donkey, Republicans. 0.99
00:54:39.000 Elephant. 1.00
00:54:40.000 And a donkey is a jackass. 1.00
00:54:43.000 And, of course, wherever the big animal goes, lives a pile of dump. 1.00
00:54:48.000 Right?
00:54:49.000 I mean, so the symbols say it all.
00:54:53.000 And I just get very frustrated because we send those politicians to Washington to solve the problems in all their eyes.
00:55:02.000 Instead of public servants, they are party servants.
00:55:04.000 And I think this is really the bad thing about it.
00:55:07.000 Our culture is running out of ideas.
00:55:09.000 There's going to be radical change real fast.
00:55:10.000 It's going to be a giddy ride for the next few months.
00:55:12.000 A little bit of pageantry and attempts to reboot patriotism took place over the weekend.
00:55:20.000 Trump held that much-voted military parade.
00:55:25.000 But I don't know, man.
00:55:26.000 I didn't see much of it.
00:55:27.000 Apparently, it didn't live up to expectations.
00:55:33.000 They're not even in unison.
00:55:37.000 That's not a march.
00:55:39.000 They're just like walking.
00:55:41.000 Everybody's doing their own thing.
00:55:42.000 And to give us a glimpse of them and the work that we do and how seriously we're taking.
00:55:49.000 Oh, lordy lord, we're in trouble.
00:55:52.000 Maybe this is the standard that was being inspired to.
00:55:56.000 Let's have a look.
00:56:23.000 I mean, if it comes down to synchronicity and parades, North Korea are in with a serious chance as the global holy war begins to unfold. 0.82
00:56:34.000 Let's have a look at the tanks in the parade.
00:56:38.000 The parade tanks.
00:56:40.000 Oh, I get it.
00:56:40.000 I get it now.
00:56:41.000 There are no tanks.
00:56:42.000 Let's have a look at this.
00:56:43.000 I can't feel it.
00:56:44.000 I'm gonna be okay, okay, okay, alright.
00:56:50.000 It's about that time.
00:56:51.000 I need a sentimental, and I'm gonna be too far.
00:56:55.000 Look at my mouth.
00:56:56.000 Look at my senior walking in my belly.
00:56:58.000 I see this time when I'm about to watch.
00:57:00.000 Cause I don't give a word, I get too much.
00:57:02.000 I'm gonna get like some more.
00:57:04.000 You want to get up, I want to get out.
00:57:06.000 Oh, that's all I'm good.
00:57:19.000 That's a pretty nihilistic spectacle, but I think this is a comparison between the expectation and the reality of that event.
00:57:46.000 Oh, no.
00:57:46.000 These could potentially be the end times.
00:57:50.000 Well, around this election, it felt like potentially we were in an important and significant moment where new political ideas were emerging from us.
00:58:05.000 That the right might provide an anti-establishment perspective that could revivify old values and could potentially help us turn the corner in a real pivotal moment.
00:58:17.000 Now though, man, it don't look good.
00:58:20.000 It don't look good.
00:58:21.000 I'm trying to cast my eye somewhat objectively across Iran, Israel, emergency civil war, execution of people in Congress, my own crazy country.
00:58:33.000 Where they're legitimising ID cards for a variety of reasons.
00:58:36.000 First it was a pandemic, now it's for migration.
00:58:39.000 Pretty concerned about it, let me tell you.
00:58:43.000 Do you want to see Soldiers Parade in March?
00:58:45.000 Have a look at Trooping the Colour in the UK.
00:58:47.000 We do that stuff well.
00:58:48.000 We do pageantry well, baby.
00:58:51.000 That we're clinging on to.
00:58:52.000 All right, listen, before we go, let's have a look at these...
00:59:04.000 We begin with breaking news and the manhunt for the suspect wanted in the killing of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband.
00:59:11.000 Multiple sources tell ABC News police arrested Vance Bolter near his farm in Minnesota.
00:59:18.000 Good evening, I'm Tanya Rivero.
00:59:20.000 And I'm Joe Torres.
00:59:21.000 Tonight's arrest would bring the two-day manhunt to an end.
00:59:24.000 Investigators say Bolter shot.
00:59:26.000 And killed beloved Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark early Saturday morning.
00:59:32.000 A second lawmaker, State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette, were shot in a separate attack.
00:59:38.000 Eyewitness News reporter Lucy Yang is following all the breaking developments.
00:59:42.000 Lucy?
00:59:42.000 Well, Tanya and Joe, multiple sources are now telling ABC News that Vance Bolter has been arrested near his farm in Green Isle, Minnesota.
00:59:52.000 Residents no doubt sleeping easier tonight.
00:59:55.000 We're told he was spotted on a trail via a camera and tonight was taken into custody.
01:00:01.000 Flowers and condolences outside Minnesota's state capital, while churchgoers an hour away in Sibley County learned the killer may have been way too close for comfort.
01:00:13.000 There's a nationwide warrant for his arrest.
01:00:18.000 The night of terror began 2 o 'clock Saturday morning in Minnesota.
01:00:22.000 Police found State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette shot in their home.
01:00:27.000 We understand he was hit nine times, his wife Yvette eight times.
01:00:32.000 Amazingly, doctors were able to save them, the state senator now recovering from a collapsed lung.
01:00:39.000 90 minutes after the first shooting, officers went to check on another local politician nearby.
01:00:44.000 When they arrived at the Hortman residence, we're told there was a car similar to a police cruiser already in the driveway.
01:00:50.000 When our officers confronted him, the individual immediately fired upon the officers who exchanged gunfire, and the suspect retreated back into the home.
01:01:04.000 Inside the home, authorities discovered the former Speaker of the House, Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark had been assassinated.
01:01:12.000 But in our darkest hours, we're reminded of the strength and resilience of community.
01:01:16.000 We come together not only to grieve, but to stand strong.
01:01:19.000 Inside the mock police cruiser in the driveway, authorities say there was a long hit list of Democrats and abortion providers scribbled in a notebook and a stack of flyers saying no kings.
01:01:32.000 The suspect has now been identified as 57-year-old Vance Luther Bolter.
01:01:37.000 Authorities report he wore a latex mask on the night of the methodical shootings.
01:01:42.000 Bolter worked at a private security firm, Praetorian Guard Security Services in the Twin Cities.
01:01:48.000 Which featured police-like protection.
01:01:51.000 How bitterly ironic.
01:01:53.000 Sunday morning, police found this second car with apparently more evidence tying the vehicle to Bolter, including his hat.
01:02:00.000 Authorities also confirmed the family has been questioned, but they are not under arrest.
01:02:08.000 This friend, stunned to learn his roommate is now a fugitive.
01:02:18.000 He doesn't kill anybody else.
01:02:20.000 And I hope he gives.
01:02:24.000 More than 100 law enforcement were part of this dragnet.
01:02:28.000 Local, county, state, and federal investigators linking arms to find the assassin before any more blood was shed.
01:02:36.000 There was a $50,000 reward being offered by the FBI.
01:02:40.000 Indeed, an arrest could not come soon enough.
01:02:45.000 We're live in the newsroom.
01:02:46.000 I'm Lucy Yang for Channel Zine.
01:02:50.000 I'm exhausted by it.
01:02:52.000 It's only Monday, man.
01:02:54.000 Listen, I feel like we're going to wrap it up because I've got a lot more to do.
01:03:04.000 I've got a lot more to do.
01:03:06.000 I want to talk about what Bobby Kennedy's been doing at the CDC, and I want to have a deeper understanding of what's happening in your country right now before I delve any more deeply into this complex, unfurling and difficult situation.
01:03:24.000 Yeah, he's been caught and arrested.
01:03:25.000 Yeah, thank God for that.
01:03:27.000 Hey, Trish McLeod, don't go yet.
01:03:29.000 Yeah, extraordinary.
01:03:31.000 Alright, you love, thanks very much for joining us.
01:03:33.000 We'll be back tomorrow, not for more of the same, but for more of the different.