00:00:00.000Just unfortunately, we're just in a really in a bad position.
00:00:02.640I hope President Trump and I pray for him to get some clarity in all this and just realize that he's getting bad advice from a lot of the people who encouraged him to get into this war.
00:00:10.280He tunes them out and he just says, hey, I'm going to come home.
00:00:14.000I think he should look at the long arc of history.
00:00:16.380We've gotten out of other wars and temporarily it's been bad for presidents.
00:00:19.740But in the long run, when we got out of the wars, it ended up being the right thing to do for a president.
00:00:24.880So I think if any president could sell this, it would, you know, could potentially be President Trump.
00:00:29.740Unfortunately, I just have not seen him behave in a way that makes any sense to me recently.
00:00:34.680So I do fear that we're going to continue this escalation cycle.
00:00:37.660Where would we be in the next 10 to 14 days?
00:00:39.740I think that's how you end up with something like a ground incursion, because President
00:00:42.980Trump's just going to get frustrated with the lack of results from this air campaign.
00:00:47.220And then I think, you know, at a bad moment where he's mad and wants to get something
00:00:51.280done, he signs off on some sort of a ground invasion of either one of the islands or,
00:00:56.380you know, Vandera Boss, the port there that we've been kind of doing some shaping operations around
00:00:59.920through our air campaign. That's truly what I fear, because his options are just really limited
00:01:05.320right now. The idea that he's going to be able to, you know, choke them off economically, you know,
00:01:10.940I saw a lot of like happy, you know, happy talk about how the economic warfare that we're waging0.83
00:01:16.140against Iran, you know, that's going to be the final nail in the coffin. It's like, look, these0.99
00:01:19.640guys have been under some form of heavy sanction since 1979. There's not much more that we can do
00:01:24.940them and as a matter of fact the dollar is even weaker because of everything we did in ukraine
00:01:28.300and there's just all these alternative workarounds for them to sell their oil on the market right now
00:01:33.420so again the iranians know they have time on their side and i think they know that they have
00:01:37.580more options than we do regardless of you know how we want to beat our chests here in america
00:01:41.580this war is not in our best interest expanding the war is not in our best interest and for the
00:01:46.220president to think about anything else and to listen to people that are explaining to him like
00:01:49.820you know all these complicated plans for how we finish the job and how this is really some sort
00:01:53.020sort of a checkmate on China, et cetera. He needs to tune those people out and he needs to listen to0.94
00:01:57.640Donald Trump in 2016 when he spoke plainly and clearly about what was in the best interest for
00:02:02.880the American people. And if he starts thinking that way, I think he could still save this entire
00:02:06.920situation, but I fear he's not. We're in a tough spot. I mean, President Trump has very limited
00:02:11.620options, unfortunately. His best hand still remains just to, I would say, to walk away from
00:02:16.900this whole thing and do the best he can here domestically to declare victory. But he's not
00:02:21.000doing that. And I fear that he's not doing that. And I fear that he is going to escalate this
00:02:25.120because now that the Iranians have hit us once more, the Iranians aren't giving him what he1.00
00:02:29.440needs. President Trump feels like he needs a piece of paper, some kind of a formal agreement
00:02:34.500that says Iran's going to give him something so that he can say that he got a deal. I think the
00:02:39.600Iranians are aware of this and they are not going to give him a deal. So right now, Iran has the0.90
00:02:44.720upper hand in whether or not Iran chooses to kind of go for broke and to try and get us sucked into0.93
00:02:49.800a larger conflict or they just keep us you know strangled economically that's kind of where things
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00:03:19.800We are now being joined by the eighth director of the National Counterterrorism Center, a combat veteran, special forces operator and all around man's man.
00:03:29.100Joe Kent joins me here for the third hour. I want to get right into it.
00:03:33.280The updates on the war. It's July 30th, 2026. The Middle East continues to be on fire.
00:03:38.220Since the last time we talked, Joe, we've lost four additional American service members that we know about.0.96
00:03:43.360Their names, Tyler, Sarah, Angel, and Michael, all now deceased in a war of choice, ultimately manufactured by another country.
00:03:53.260Unfortunately, we're not in a good position at all.
00:03:55.900I would say even worse than the last time that we spoke.
00:03:58.520Like you said, we tragically lost some soldiers.
00:04:01.580We did our round of retaliation strikes that lasted for quite some time.0.98
00:04:05.440There was back and forth between us and the Iranians.0.89
00:04:07.660And then we attempted this, I think, sort of an effort to have a ceasefire so we could get more space for the negotiations.
00:04:15.160But the Iranians basically said that they're not playing that, and they just restarted the hostilities by launching some cruise missiles back at one of our bases in Jordan.
00:04:22.960Since then, we did retaliatory strikes against one of the Iranian-backed militias inside Iraq.
00:04:29.160But there's some technical issues we can get into there.
00:04:31.800That is part of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces.
00:08:48.200And so for the Iranians to continue to do what they're doing right now, it's very advantageous for them.0.53
00:08:53.900And so I think that they are more than content to sit back and say there's no way we're going to give President Trump the deal that he wants.1.00
00:09:11.940Or do they sit back and let the economics and all the different wars start getting lit on fire and just the expansion of the war, the way that Zelensky and others are trying to combine these two fronts, like thinking that that's somehow going to help us?
00:09:25.960And I think the Iranians realize that.1.00
00:09:27.700So short of President Trump realizing his best move is just to walk away, I do fear that here pretty soon he's going to have to make another decision.0.85
00:09:38.540I don't know if they're accurate or not, but this sounds right to me, that the Pentagon is saying, hey, boss, we can do another 10 to 15 days of heavy bombing, and that will take out all of Iran's missile capabilities.0.69
00:09:49.480I really hope he doesn't even entertain that at this point because the Iranians have shown that they have a very durable system that has been dispersed that's hard for us to vector in on.0.82
00:09:59.220So where would we be in the next 10 to 14 days?
00:10:02.140I think that's how you end up with something like a ground incursion, because President Trump's just going to get frustrated with the lack of results from this air campaign.
00:10:09.900And then I think, you know, at a bad moment where he's mad and wants to get something done, he signs off on some sort of a ground invasion of either one of the islands or, you know, Vandera Bas, the port there that we've been kind of doing some shaping operations around through our air campaign.
00:10:24.500That's truly what I fear, because his options are just really limited right now.0.87
00:10:28.340The idea that he's going to be able to choke them off economically, I saw a lot of happy talk about how the economic warfare that we're waging against Iran, that's going to be the final nail in the coffin.0.54
00:10:41.660It's like, look, these guys have been under some form of heavy sanction since 1979.0.95
00:10:46.000There's not much more that we can do to them.
00:10:47.660And as a matter of fact, the dollar is even weaker because of everything we did in Ukraine.
00:10:50.960And there's just all these alternative workarounds for them to sell their oil on the market right now.
00:10:55.840So, again, the Iranians know they have time on their side, and I think they know that they have more options than we do, regardless of how we want to beat our chests here in America.
00:11:04.600Right. I just think the West has made too many key assumptions, they would say, in intelligence gathering.
00:11:10.000We've made too many key assumptions. Oh, they're about to fall. We're about to beat them. They're about to be out of missiles.
00:11:16.040And the reality is I think it's demonstrated our intelligence on the ground has not been good enough.
00:11:20.420It really hasn't been because they've had the ability to continue the missile strikes, the drone strikes.
00:11:25.380Trump can say it's obliterated, it's gone, but there's a reality that our ships are parked very far off the coast in the blockade.
00:11:31.940Because if we got any closer, they'd be under severe threat.
00:11:34.980And there can be a debate where those are Chinese anti-ship missiles, where the Iranians might have those.
00:11:39.620The reality is they have a wind condition called the Straddle Hormuz.0.97
00:11:43.800We don't really have a wind condition besides taking over their country.
00:11:46.960And I think it's key. You mentioned earlier, our key allies, our strongest allies, Zelensky and Netanyahu visiting for the state funeral of Lindsey Graham.
00:11:57.300I guess he was literally in the rotunda. And while they're there, Netanyahu makes a statement or a reporter asks him, are there any cracks in the relationship between you and Trump?
00:12:05.920He says, no, it's as strong as a wall of granite, which is just to me, it's pretty terrifying because if it's as strong as a wall of granite, it sounds like he's probably going to get what he wants.
00:12:14.420And then Zelensky comes over here and kind of makes the same implied threat that made Trump outraged when he visited and sat down with Trump and J.D., which is, you have a big ocean.
00:12:24.680You don't feel pain now, but you'll feel pain later.0.51
00:12:27.480So all these vague threats, failed threats, it's simply put, both Netanyahu and Zelensky need a wider conflict in order to stay in power.
00:12:42.560But in the Constitution, it states they have to have it even during wartime. Netanyahu, of course, wanted by his own government, not just the ICJ, wanted by Israel for crimes.
00:12:53.620They will not be able to prosecute him as long as he remains in power. Just how do you see kind of this new really access to evil forming, man? I don't want to be a part of it.
00:13:01.440I don't either. And look, there's no advantage to America for being a part of any of these conflicts.
00:13:09.700I have yet to see any of the hawks, any of the foundation for the defense of democracy, neocons or people who are just cheerleading this war or the Ukraine war.
00:13:19.220Explain what is actually in it for the for the American people and explain it, explain it in a very, very clear and concise way that makes sense to your average American.
00:13:28.720And if you say that we have to, like, you know, win over the Donbass, otherwise Putin is going to roll into Paris by Christmas and then he'll be in New York City, you know, by New Year's.
00:14:22.400And so are a lot of the neocon backers.
00:14:24.100And again, for the neocons that say, go in there and finish the job.
00:14:27.100Number one, they can't define what finishing the job in Iran actually means because most of them have never served a day or they just want us to involve in this thing endlessly and they won't just come out and say it.
00:14:36.020So they like that slogan a lot more.0.80
00:16:16.160Trump's trying to make that happen right now, kind of.
00:16:18.240But based on what's taking place, the way that the war has now expanded into Iraq and just Iraqi domestic politics, I don't think that's going to happen there either.
00:16:26.480But none of this benefits the American people.
00:16:28.780And this is at a time when most people have a hard time filling up a full tank of gas and paying for groceries.
00:16:33.920So this war is not in our best interest.
00:16:37.000Expanding the war is not in our best interest.
00:16:38.940And for the president to think about anything else and to listen to people that are explaining to him, you know, all these complicated plans for how we finish the job and how this is really some sort of a checkmate on China, etc.
00:16:47.840He needs to tune those people out and he needs to listen to Donald Trump in 2016 when he spoke plainly and clearly about what was in the best interest for the American people.
00:16:56.600And he starts thinking that way. I think I think he could still save this this entire situation.
00:20:09.140You know, Zaydi, the prime minister, was in Washington, D.C., meeting with President Trump, and then he went to Tehran.
00:20:15.680So he's very much trying to make sure his country doesn't get dragged and sucked into this.
00:20:19.800the Iranians had their proxies start doing strikes into Saudi Arabia, knowing that we
00:20:24.600would respond. So us and the Saudis then responded. And so now you have Americans and Saudis,
00:20:30.580Sunni Saudis, killing Shia militiamen in Iraq. So that's another way that they can start0.99
00:20:35.180chipping away at the alliance that we have with Iraq. There's a lot of other dynamics there at0.82
00:20:40.000play. But basically, the Iranians are trying to inflict a cost on all of our allies within the0.99
00:20:46.520region. And if you look at Kuwait, if you look at Bahrain, you look at, to a certain extent,0.99
00:20:51.400Qatar as well. A lot of the countries that have been very closely aligned with us, Jordan most
00:20:55.340recently, the countries that have been the most closely aligned with us are starting to feel a
00:20:59.380lot of pain and they're going to start feeling a lot of internal pressure. Their leaders are
00:21:02.920from their people, from their parliaments to say, hey, maybe we need to tell the Americans,
00:21:07.100like, hey, we love you, but you can't base here and you most certainly can't launch attacks
00:21:10.660here against Iran because it's really just not worth it anymore for us. Because if they keep0.64
00:21:15.420hitting along the Red Sea, they keep hitting the Suez Canal, or even just occasionally doing it,
00:21:20.020that frustrates that shipping and makes the insurance premiums shoot up. That takes away
00:21:24.900a good deal of the money that the Egyptians receive, because the Egyptians, they basically,
00:21:28.680they have tourism, they have some energy, but the Suez Canal is a huge moneymaker for them.0.99
00:21:33.180They're going to start losing money because of what the Houthis are doing further south down
00:21:36.500the Red Sea, but an occasional drone or an occasional attack on any of those ports on
00:21:41.100the Med side, that's going to take away a lot of the Egyptian government's revenue as well.0.94
00:21:45.420So this is the Iranian strategy, and they don't need a lot of resources, basically, to continue to inflict pain upon us.0.95
00:21:51.180This is where time is very much on the Iranian side, and it's not on our side at all.0.96
00:21:56.240Right, and let's just look out because months, years plus into the future, ultimately people that support these operations, if you ask them, you say, hey, point to a calendar for me if you could.0.96
00:22:07.120What day is this going to end? You know, whereabouts? And, you know, just tell me, like, the gradual recovery of the oil market, the fertilizer, all the supplies and goods that flow through these vital waterways that are choked off.
00:22:17.680You know, how long is it going to take us to rebuild our bases, rebuild our capability in the region with the radar and all of that?
00:22:23.480And they're not going to be able to give you a timeline because their position is it has to continue forever.
00:22:28.820Like, that's what they have to defend. Right. If you're defending the operations right now, you have to say that we're able to do this in the region forever.
00:22:35.100I think it was demonstrated before this happened, just by the will of the American people, Trump winning a referendum against the Iraq war in 2016, that Americans were done with this sunk cost fallacy.
00:22:45.740It's like the last day I was in the casino at Vegas.