The Auron MacIntyre Show - Is the Iran War Over？｜ 5⧸25⧸26

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, how's it going? Thanks for joining me this afternoon. I am Oren McIntyre.

00:00:06.380 Do we have peace in the Middle East? Donald Trump has announced that serious negotiations are

00:00:11.560 underway. Now you might think to yourself, I've heard many times that the Iran war is at the end,

00:00:18.020 that it's going to be over, that Iran's about to give up or sign some kinds of terms. But this

00:00:24.040 time all the neocons are freaking out this time the lindsey grams uh the benjamin netanyahu's

00:00:30.600 everybody out there is screaming about uh the you know dangerous nature of this deal and how it's

00:00:38.440 going to leave america high and dry and so while i too have been a little frustrated with the hey

00:00:43.700 the war is almost over it's happening in the day now it's finally going to be complete on and on

00:00:47.960 and on. It seems like we might actually be at the edge of a deal here. I don't think this many

00:00:53.960 people would be freaking out against Donald Trump if we weren't close to actually seeing a real

00:01:00.500 resolution to this conflict. Interestingly, also, ultimately, if this is so dangerous to these

00:01:07.920 people, they are willing to turn on the president. And we know that, of course, many of these

00:01:13.940 neoconservatives the Mark Levins of the world are now the new MAGA they define what MAGA is

00:01:19.860 except it turns out that they're all willing to attack Donald Trump to turn on Donald Trump

00:01:25.500 on a dime so we'll go through their freakouts their reactions and what it all means also Marco 0.99

00:01:32.260 Rubio is calling you stupid from India we'll get into why he's doing that as well so let's go ahead 0.98

00:01:40.940 and jump in we're going to take a look at some of the posts that donald trump has made uh discussing 0.99

00:01:47.380 the possibility of this peace deal so initially he says i'm in the oval office at the white house

00:01:53.320 where we just had a good call with the president of saudi arabia the president of the united

00:01:59.340 america emirates uh you you have all well i guess probably not a president there but you get the idea

00:02:04.920 he's got all of the principles you got you know turkey you've got uh pakistan you got all of these

00:02:10.500 people who might be involved in the negotiations or the joint agreements, the process, this kind

00:02:15.500 of thing. It says concerning the Islamic Republic of Iran and all things related to a memorandum

00:02:21.800 of understanding pertaining to peace. An agreement has been largely negotiated subject to finalization

00:02:29.340 between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and various other countries as

00:02:35.040 listed separately interestingly i call i had a call with prime minister bb netanyahu of israel

00:02:42.420 which likewise went very well final aspects and details of the deal are currently being discussed

00:02:48.840 and will be announced shortly in addition to many other elements of the agreement the

00:02:54.440 will be open thank you for your attention to this matter donald trump so we can see it looks like

00:03:00.860 he's talking about a coalition uh you know different people who would be impacted by this

00:03:05.940 discussion separately he also spoke with Netanyahu which is pretty important because obviously is

00:03:12.280 Israel is a huge driver of this war um in many many people including Marco Rubio said they're

00:03:19.940 the reason that we got into this war uh so whether or not they agree to the the uh deal matters quite

00:03:26.540 a bit. Will they try to break it? Will they try to drive America back into the war? It's been

00:03:32.920 clear that they've tried to do that several times. But it looks like perhaps Trump is ready to

00:03:39.580 sew this up and is willing to put enough pressure on Netanyahu or at least find a way to get him

00:03:44.820 enough of what he wants to ultimately call this to a close. Now, he also posted this.

00:03:50.760 Take a look real quick. Much longer here. And so let's see here. Yeah, this is the negotiations with Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely. It will only be a great deal for all or no deal at all. Back to the battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever.

00:04:15.660 So obviously, yes, says we need to make this deal, you know, again, lists many of the principles involved.

00:04:24.380 As I've stated, after all the work done by the United States to try to pull this very complex puzzle together,

00:04:30.440 it should be mandatory that all of these countries at a minimum simultaneously sign on to the Abraham Accord.

00:04:37.880 So he obviously wants to expand, you know, this kind of peace treaty with Israel in the area.

00:04:44.220 That is certainly one of the kind of defining parts of this for Israel, obviously.

00:04:52.060 Let's see, where did I have that one?

00:04:54.960 Those countries discussed are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain.

00:05:02.540 it may be possible that one or two have a reason for not doing so and that will be accepted but

00:05:08.680 most should be ready willing and able to make the settlement with iran a far more historic event than

00:05:14.400 it would be otherwise so he wants to expand the peace deal not just to iran but try to draw

00:05:19.960 everything under the umbrella of the abraham accords abraham accords have proven uh to be

00:05:24.740 for the countries involved uae morocco sudan kazakhstan bahrain emirates a financial economic

00:05:32.640 and social boom uh even during this time of conflict and war the current members have never

00:05:38.600 suggested uh leaving or taking uh even a pause the reason for this is the abraham accords have

00:05:44.000 been great for them and uh will be better for everyone and bring true power strength and peace

00:05:49.540 to the Middle East for the first time in 5,000 years. It will be a document respected like no

00:05:55.460 other. And he just kind of goes on about how important it is that ultimately you'd be able

00:06:00.960 to draw this coalition together and how it will benefit everybody. Now, I don't know ultimately

00:06:06.960 if he's going to really try to fight for that to be a huge deal. I don't know if he's really going

00:06:11.840 to fight and try to make that like a center of the agreement. That said, many different conservatives

00:06:18.220 were kind of brought in on background like a media uh call went out to kind of explain uh the the

00:06:25.820 basics of the iran deal so i'll just read this one from andrew colvett of tp usa he says was on

00:06:33.500 background a media call regarding details of the iran peace deal a senior administration official

00:06:39.320 confirms the deal is around 90 to 95 percent ironed out they made it explicitly clear that

00:06:45.000 no american money would be transferred to iran from the u.s in any way shape or form no pallet

00:06:50.560 of cash that was very important a lot of people criticized donald trump saying you're going to go

00:06:55.620 to war to basically get the same deal that we got from obama and the big thing that most people

00:07:00.960 were scandalized from barack obama was how much money was given to iran ultimately in cash payments

00:07:06.280 uh and so uh they want to make it really clear that no we're not getting the exact same deal

00:07:11.360 we're not we didn't just go to this war to end up exactly where we started uh so there will be

00:07:16.400 no money exchange what does iran get possible sanctions relief relief but the framework of

00:07:22.640 the deal per this official mandates there will be no relief without iran's making good on their end

00:07:27.240 of the bargain first so you're not going to get this upfront sanctions relief iran has wanted

00:07:31.980 that to be a critical part of the negotiation but basically you're going to need to go ahead

00:07:36.920 and take other actions before the sanction relief kicks in it's not just an automatic thing that

00:07:41.820 occurs when we make the deal no dust no dollars meaning if iranians keep their obligations as

00:07:47.340 outlined in the deal to give up their enriched uranium then sanctions uh would be partially

00:07:52.740 relieved if the strait is open without tolls or harassment of shipping vehicles the u.s

00:07:57.200 within the blockade and there will be additional relief etc if they don't deliver on the uh on

00:08:02.740 their commitments, then they don't get anything. We've set up enforcement mechanisms. So I want

00:08:08.240 to make it clear, they're not just walking away from Iran. Iran has to do separate things to 0.89

00:08:13.500 ultimately get each part of this deal unlocked. The official also ripped their notion this is

00:08:23.180 anything like the JCPOA. Again, they want to distance themselves very much from the Obama deal.

00:08:28.700 very embarrassing if you go in and you only get the obama deal so certainly want to make sure that

00:08:33.680 that is not how it was perceived which gives iranians pallets of actual cash allowed them

00:08:38.460 to stockpile and rich uranium in the first place which is partially how we got here and contain no

00:08:43.480 actual uh particular enforced mechanism enforcement mechanisms what uh what changed

00:08:49.440 the iranian thinking making them more amenable to the deal unclear if military or economic pressure

00:08:54.380 was most persuasive. But the official confirms Iranians are talking in depth and in detail

00:09:01.240 about getting rid of their rich stockpiles and stopping enrichment in ways that they haven't

00:09:05.660 been willing to discuss before. They have acknowledged that that's something they now

00:09:12.880 have to give on. The broader overarching goal is to empower the moderate elements of Iran,

00:09:21.180 to overpower the influence of the hardliners we have high confidence that we will have good

00:09:26.640 understanding of their common structure in quotes i'm assuming he got that from somewhere he's not

00:09:32.200 allowed to attribute due to his own background moderates may not be in control yet hardliners

00:09:37.500 are still there but they are ascendant the officials say returning back to the block here

00:09:41.620 military posture remains on the table if talks break down so from what i've seen a lot of people

00:09:47.720 are saying that it looks like uh this is basically kind of a six month um negotiation premise that

00:09:56.140 kind of puts the the war uh on hold it's basically an extended ceasefire uh and that allows uh

00:10:04.380 basically in six months to get over the mother contentious issues so like the 99 90 to 95 percent

00:10:10.980 is like the basic stuff withdrawal forces uh you know opening the straight the things you would

00:10:15.640 expect. The harder sticking points are those things like different sanctions, like the

00:10:22.580 possibility of enrichment. I somewhat doubt, I would believe Iran might give up some level of

00:10:29.880 enriched uranium that they happen to have stockpiled. I am slightly less likely to believe

00:10:36.220 that they have promised to completely and totally end all capacity for enrichment. I imagine that

00:10:42.960 that will probably be something that will remain. And I think that's enough. I think that the Trump

00:10:47.460 administration walking away with some level of enriched uranium and an open strait and a relatively 0.93

00:10:54.900 devastated Iranian military is enough to call success. If they still have capacity for enrichment, 0.90

00:11:01.120 if they still have the ability to spin up a reactor at some point and get some level of

00:11:07.580 material. That is not a direct threat. And so they will probably try to maintain that. But again,

00:11:14.180 that's speculation. All of this is behind closed doors. Like I said, the most we have is this on

00:11:20.600 background report. And so a lot of this is still up in the air. Now, again, this could go sideways

00:11:27.560 in any moment, but I'm starting to think it won't. And for a couple of reasons. One, the Iranians

00:11:34.800 have broken the current ceasefire many times over many many times over at this point uh they fired

00:11:41.180 at you know several different targets even though a uh a ceasefire was in place if trump wanted this

00:11:48.620 ceasefire to be over he has every justification and excuse for doing so so the fact that trump

00:11:55.660 has largely ignored the iranian violations of the ceasefire i think means he recognizes that

00:12:03.420 the war needs to end i think he's looking around uh he didn't get the quick war that bb netanyahu

00:12:09.860 promised him he looks at the polls he looks at the gas prices look i know that uh you know out

00:12:16.240 there there's still some plan truster who's like i saw the poll 100 maga support but like trump's

00:12:22.120 not an idiot he knows that yeah he has support amongst his supporters but he can look at general

00:12:27.980 polls and know that things are not looking great and i think he just intuitively understands the 0.99

00:12:33.060 longer that this war goes on the worse it gets for him the worse it gets for the united states

00:12:38.120 the more it impacts midterms and the more the american people are suffering at the pump these

00:12:43.620 kind of things everyone wants to see a return to domestic agenda that kind of thing and it can only

00:12:47.940 really happen once this kind of sort of damocles with irana negotiations are kind of at least at

00:12:54.180 least put on hiatus right and so i think he recognizes the importance of pushing this through

00:12:58.780 now again many many people uh you know i've said yeah one more peace negotiation we're right next

00:13:04.960 to peace again yeah okay and i get it i get it yes we've had this announcement several times

00:13:10.120 but i think this one is different and the reason i think this one is different is that the neocons

00:13:16.780 are absolutely losing their minds so you look at mark levin here

00:13:22.320 history teaches us that peace deals are best made after the enemy is defeated or surrendered

00:13:30.580 this is and i want you to understand this levin whatever you think about him he knows what he's

00:13:36.520 messaging here he's saying don't trump you didn't get the job done don't trump you didn't fix this

00:13:43.080 for me so this isn't a real peace deal this is this is not a defeat of your enemy that's what

00:13:49.740 he's that's what he's messaging to trump you have lindsey graham here one of several different

00:13:54.680 lindsey graham had like a whole spool of different uh posts but uh here's one here uh if it's

00:13:59.740 perceived in the region that a deal with iran allows the regime to survive and become more

00:14:04.600 powerful over time we will have poured gasoline on the conflict in lebanon and iraq by the way

00:14:10.200 did you know lindsey graham is a senator in the united states of america specifically south 0.99

00:14:15.580 carolina did you know that in theory and representative democracy lindsey graham is

00:14:19.820 supposed to i don't know represent the people of that state you'd never know because he never

00:14:24.960 mentioned south carolina unless he's talking about how many south carolina uh south carolinian men

00:14:30.520 he can get to die in the middle of the middle east a deal that is perceived to allow iran to

00:14:36.020 survive and possess the ability to control the straight home uh straight and the future will put

00:14:40.300 hezbollah in lebanon and shia militias in iraq on steroids so lindsey graham's like yeah if you 0.61

00:14:47.480 don't basically kill every uh iranian uh to the last man if you don't just completely destroy

00:14:52.760 their government anyone serving in it anyone connected to it then uh other countries that

00:14:58.320 israel cares about might have problems right like that's that that's kind of where he's going with

00:15:02.640 that uh and of course many other uh posts from him as well we got mark dubowitz uh already getting

00:15:08.560 questions but mark i thought you supported the president uh trump's iran policy i support good

00:15:13.660 policy i call balls and strikes i opposed obama and biden's failed iran policy i supported trump's

00:15:19.800 iran policy uh in his first term and so far in his second but i will pose a bad deal no matter 0.73

00:15:25.860 who signs it i will continue to support uh iranians to get back to their country from the evil regime 0.54

00:15:30.880 so again all of these new uh you know supporters for trump all these guys who were never trump

00:15:37.560 people who hated Trump, who said, don't support Trump, never vote for Trump. Trump is Hitler. 0.96

00:15:42.660 Trump is vile. They're all freaking out. You know, Eric Erickson, Ted Cruz, all the worst 1.00

00:15:49.800 people in the world, Mike Pompeo, you know, they're just all freaking out. And so this is

00:15:57.900 why I think this one might be real, because these guys were playing nice with the president for as

00:16:04.740 long as they thought they could get him to drive foreign policy the way that they wanted they were

00:16:09.900 only kowtowing to trump they were only bending the knee to the extent that they thought he would do

00:16:15.540 their bidding and by extension do what i what israel ultimately wants done in the middle east

00:16:21.520 and the minute that they think that trump might not do that the nong knives are out all of these

00:16:26.800 people are turning on trump all of them are losing their mind and there's a lot here okay there's a

00:16:34.720 um a lot of a lot a lot of people are trying to pivot on this a lot of people who are who uh

00:16:43.000 uh we're we're kind of going you know blindly trust the plan no matter what they're like well

00:16:48.140 see look trump it's not a forever war it's just several months war that didn't exactly go the way

00:16:53.420 we wanted or achieve most many of the goals we were looking for it's like i get it guys yeah

00:16:58.860 they're trying to do like oh well this is trump's 5d chess move he's gotten everything it's over

00:17:03.200 he's he's secured it all yeah trump trump trump like look look i am happy i i want to be very

00:17:10.740 clear here very very clear i've supported donald trump in every single presidential election he

00:17:18.140 has been involved in okay i want trump to win i want trump to succeed but obviously that's not

00:17:28.140 what happened here however whatever it takes i am glad i am glad that it seems like trump

00:17:35.480 recognizes the situation and that it is best to extract us from it and get back to domestic

00:17:41.560 policy that's all i ever wanted him to do that's all i've ever wanted him to do that's the only

00:17:46.980 reason i was upset that's the only reason i had problems that we were focusing on israel and the

00:17:52.980 middle east instead of focusing on america americans and getting things done for this nation

00:17:58.360 so if that's what we got to say to get out of our end fine great that's all i wanted i'm not

00:18:06.100 going to lift a look a gift to her so now mouth i'm not going to try to be here and and you know

00:18:11.000 try to get some kind of apology or extract some kind of victory whatever it's fine if trump says

00:18:16.660 we're done and he wants to wrap it up fantastic let's go home that's all i wanted that's all i

00:18:22.840 wanted so i want to be really clear here this is not an attack on the president this is not a you

00:18:28.240 know this is not me trying to try and trying to get one over or anything at all i am very happy

00:18:35.120 that it seems like this is a real negotiation and we are trying to end this war fantastic this is

00:18:41.320 what i wanted and i'm getting it and i'm happy about it just don't come back and tell me this

00:18:45.940 was the plan all along okay like that's a bit much okay that's obviously not the case so we're

00:18:52.820 cool right everybody's happy that this is over right that's what we all wanted i think i'm pretty

00:18:57.880 sure i hope what we wanted was trump back on domestic policy the administration focusing on

00:19:03.380 deportations focusing on getting that kind of stuff done and that's happening now so great but

00:19:09.120 just just you know please don't try to blow smoke on me okay just like please don't try to tell me

00:19:14.700 that this was the 5d chest the entire time look if trump gets even more than we thought of the

00:19:19.420 deal. Fantastic. He's a great negotiator. Great, great. But just please don't tell me that this

00:19:25.160 was the plan from the beginning. That's a little rough. All right. Also, we see reports that

00:19:31.580 Benjamin Netanyahu is beside himself after a furious phone call with President Trump over

00:19:37.660 Iran that left the Israeli leader with his hair on fire per Daily Mail. Several outlets were also

00:19:45.700 reporting this. So despite, you know, the words of Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump, I've got a feeling

00:19:52.800 that Netanyahu probably was not a big fan of hearing this because, of course, if the United

00:19:57.220 States does not fight the war on Israel's behalf, Israel simply can't fight it. Israel cannot do

00:20:03.900 this. They are not a sovereign nation. They do not have the military capacity. Israel is entirely

00:20:10.820 dependent on the United States when it comes to the military. If we don't do it for them,

00:20:14.460 They can't get it done. They've got a very competent, you know, intelligence force.

00:20:21.320 They've got some pretty decent armaments, mainly that we sell them. 0.87

00:20:24.860 But ultimately, Israel, while having a relatively advanced military for its size, cannot fight Iran. 0.73

00:20:32.000 They certainly cannot fight like the eight fronts they are fighting on right now without U.S. holding up at least a few of them for them.

00:20:39.780 And so you can imagine that Netanyahu is probably quite, quite angry about this.

00:20:44.460 so uh good news all the worst people are angry all the worst people are very very upset about this

00:20:54.020 which makes me feel like this is good here here's a few more of the worst people right

00:20:58.100 uh Ted Cruz here says I'm deeply concerned about what we are hearing about an Iran deal

00:21:03.880 being pushed by some voices in the administration and by some voices he means Donald Trump he's

00:21:08.880 attacking Trump but he's doing it obliquely because he knows that he has to maintain some

00:21:13.800 veil of like well i'm not directly yelling at donald trump president trump's decision to strike

00:21:18.860 iran was the most consequential decision of a second term actually uh really not at all ted

00:21:24.420 cruz so i care about the united states of america and you care about a foreign country that's what

00:21:30.320 you said in the tucker carlson interview you are someone who went to congress to fight for israel

00:21:36.280 that's who you are here in the united states where we actually care about americans because we're like

00:21:42.380 loyal patriots uh what we think are the most consequential actions of donald trump's 0.66

00:21:47.180 presidency are things like mass deportations uh pardoning all the j6 uh defendants uh going out 0.64

00:21:54.960 of your way to destroy a usa id uh challenging the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship 0.90

00:22:00.840 actually those are way more consequential way more consequential than anything that happened

00:22:07.060 in the middle east under donald trump we don't care we don't care about the country that you

00:22:14.400 seem so obsessed with i'm obsessed with america i want america to succeed so maybe maybe the people

00:22:21.260 of texas could elect someone who shows up to the senate for texas and not a foreign country

00:22:28.900 because Ted Cruz he thinks that Israel is the most decisive thing it's the most consequential

00:22:37.180 thing the the wars that Israel want those are the things that matter the things that Americans want

00:22:43.340 not so consequential he was right to do so we achieve extraordinary military results including 0.53

00:22:48.720 destroying all of their missiles and drones and sinking their entire navy okay great but we also

00:22:53.520 destroyed all of their nuclear program on the last strike right so since we destroyed all of it last 0.72

00:23:00.140 time and it all came back in six months can we not assume that since we destroyed all of their 0.85

00:23:05.660 navy and all of their missiles and all of that stuff would it not just be back in six months

00:23:10.240 basically what i'm saying is you lied to me last time and i knew you lied to me at the time and

00:23:15.840 all the people who told me oh we're only going to i ran this one time we'll just drop this one bomb

00:23:20.500 and it'll be over they were all wrong every single one of them and they all said oh look we didn't go

00:23:26.960 to world war we didn't go to war it was fine and then we did and not not a single one of them said

00:23:32.880 i'm sorry not a single one if the result of uh all this is to be an iranian regime still run by 0.93

00:23:39.340 islamists who chant death to america now receiving billions of dollars being able to enrich uranium 0.89

00:23:43.820 and develop nuclear war and having effective control of the straighter humus then the outcome 0.97

00:23:48.140 would be a disastrous mistake. So here, Ted Cruz is just admitting the only acceptable change

00:23:53.160 is regime change, right? That's the only acceptable result is regime change, which was

00:24:00.260 always the case. This was always a regime change war. That's what Israel wanted. That's what Ted 0.50

00:24:05.620 Cruz wanted because Ted Cruz wants what Israel wants, the end. That's it. That was the only 0.85

00:24:10.940 acceptable outcome. Details are still coming in and I pray the reports are wrong, blah, blah, blah.

00:24:15.340 so you get the idea right like it's a bunch of a bunch of these guys freaking out on the timeline

00:24:19.420 mike pompeo the deal will be floated with iran seems straight out of the wendy sherman

00:24:24.240 robert malley uh ben rhodes playbook again have to tie to obama it's the i pay the irgc

00:24:31.820 to build a wmd program and terrorize the world right that's what he's that's how he's characterizing

00:24:38.280 the deal not remotely america first it's straight forward open the strait deny iran access to money 0.95

00:24:44.400 take out enough iranian capacity they can't threaten the reading uh the region overdue let's

00:24:51.160 go again just all these guys are furious they hate trump for this they really really despise him uh

00:24:58.080 for not sufficiently uh you know getting involved uh now here is mark levin again and this one is

00:25:04.320 fantastic this one is absolutely fantastic so uh mark levin here and i can't make this up guys i

00:25:10.640 cannot make this up mark levin while being angry about the deal yeah he says here if there's if

00:25:18.340 there is a deal we'll see all the details and enforcement mechanism the iranian interpretation

00:25:23.080 and if the senate wants to roll it will all play out and nobody nobody is going to shut up or be 0.94

00:25:29.380 intimidated one way or the other despite what some morons are saying on the internet it'll all be put 0.94

00:25:34.820 to the test uh that's how we deal with big issues that isn't iran or qatar or some ironic 0.99

00:25:41.140 moronic podcast now look who he's quote tweeting he's quote tweeting a account that's literally

00:25:48.960 called massad commentary massad commentary

00:25:55.360 what are you supposed to do with this right like what what what are we supposed to say

00:26:03.860 in a moment like this uh that that he he's literally using Mossad commentary as a as a

00:26:10.620 source all right so again I want to I want to talk about a few things here again I am very glad

00:26:19.480 that Donald Trump is the kind of president who can look at a situation and reevaluate it

00:26:25.360 I think he can look at it and see that he was not promised the war that he got that once he

00:26:33.700 was stuck in it he was very frustrated i don't think he made a mistake when he sent marco rubio

00:26:39.720 out to tell people that we were only at war because israel basically forced our hand i don't

00:26:45.640 think that's a whoopsie from marco rubio i think there has been tension there i understand that a

00:26:51.060 lot of people just want to be like well trump just does whatever israel tells him to do however i am

00:26:58.060 still you know very concerned about israeli influence i want to make this clear right like

00:27:02.920 i i know that the the point is to you know be on one side radically or the other i understand i'm

00:27:09.620 not i'm not trying to i want to be clear again like i'm not claiming the holy banner of centrism

00:27:15.860 i'm not like well both sides are mad at me so i'm right like no that's a dumb argument sometimes 0.97

00:27:20.920 one side is just right and one side is just wrong and you're stupid for being in the middle so i'm 0.93

00:27:25.760 not I'm not doing that but I just think this is correct like I think that Israel has way too much 1.00

00:27:32.780 influence on the United States I think I've been very clear on that I think I've been very clear 1.00

00:27:37.740 in this very podcast about that I think that there are actors in the United States who basically do

00:27:43.300 whatever Israel says I think that's very real however I think that Trump is wise enough at

00:27:51.140 some level to understand if he's losing something i think he likes winning i think he wants to win

00:27:59.540 enough to make changes and if he thinks that this war is unpopular enough or it's not going to

00:28:05.840 achieve every goal that he hoped in the timeline where he wanted to achieve it then he might be

00:28:11.040 able like you know the president of the largest and most powerful nation in the world to turn and

00:28:17.400 say no to somebody like Netanyahu. Again, I don't think he did that at the beginning when it would

00:28:25.080 have been best, but I think at this point, the evidence has piled up enough that we need to tell 0.95

00:28:31.360 Israel no. If you want to fight this war, have fun. That's your problem. 0.98

00:28:38.940 So I think the situation we're seeing is an attempt to turn. Again, Trump has ignored

00:28:45.660 several violations from Iran on the on the ceasefire. Any one of them was a causes bell to

00:28:54.420 go back to war. If Trump wanted us to be back into the war, we would have been there. But he didn't

00:29:01.520 because he knew that this is not the war he was offered and that this is not playing well

00:29:06.880 domestically and that this is not going to do well for the Republicans. And it's probably time

00:29:11.660 to wrap this thing up. Now, the good news is that Trump is a good enough negotiator that he could

00:29:17.400 probably get a decent amount of what he wanted on the way out of this. Is he going to get what

00:29:22.600 Israel wanted out of this? Absolutely not. Is he going to get everything that the United States

00:29:28.140 probably wanted when they were initially considering going in? Probably not. But is he

00:29:34.420 going to get more than the naysayers are saying? Is he going to get some concessions from the

00:29:40.460 Iranians, I do think that's the case. Because here's the thing. This war is not in Iran's 0.99

00:29:46.560 interest. There are a lot of people out here. Look, I've listened to the breaking points,

00:29:51.180 guys. I've listened to the Young Turks. I've listened to these other, you know, these leftist

00:29:56.980 outlets. And they're all like, oh, yeah, Iran really controls everything. They have all the 0.60

00:30:02.660 cards. This is true. You know, the United States has lost utterly in every sense. That's not true

00:30:08.340 either now is this a black eye on america because you kind of had to end up negotiating with a

00:30:14.140 country you should be able to out muscle maybe but like ultimately i still think that donald

00:30:20.580 trump is going to walk away with enough to sell it to the american people certainly to the american

00:30:25.480 right as a moderate victory and great again i am not here to be like oh well i wanted to be

00:30:34.020 vindicated i wanted trump to lose no i never wanted trump to lose i just thought this was a

00:30:37.860 bad idea. And so the faster we get out of the bad idea and the better it can be as we get out of the

00:30:43.040 bad idea, I'm on board. Yes. Peace deal. Yes. Get as much as you can get some of that uranium,

00:30:49.880 you know, get the straight open, do it all, get, get everything you can. Is it going to be

00:30:54.520 everything you thought you were going to get? Probably not. Is it going to be everything

00:30:57.420 Israel wants? Absolutely not. And you probably have to restrain Israel. Like you probably have 0.76

00:31:02.620 to keep them from you know scurrying the peace deal because they don't want it israel i want to

00:31:08.320 be really clear israel wants regime change and by that i think they really just want an anarchic 0.54

00:31:14.000 iran like they want a shattered failed state in iran that's what they want they can't get it

00:31:21.320 they're not going to get it so i think that ultimately if trump can get the most he wants

00:31:27.700 out of that deal then fantastic and let's pack it up go home get the troops back and get back to

00:31:34.020 focusing on domestic issues i think that's a huge win now a lot of people have told me

00:31:42.340 that the reason that all this happened is that the neocons were so kind to trump the reason that

00:31:51.280 we started getting this stuff is that neocons are nice to trump and all the people who opposed the

00:31:55.740 i ran war were mean to trump and that's why we got the war and you know the neocons know how to

00:32:00.300 play the politics because they are they they know how to basically like flatter trump and that's what

00:32:05.920 puts them in power we can see here that that just was never true okay and it's weird because

00:32:12.920 unfortunately there's a lot of people who in their attempts to try to support trump did a lot of

00:32:18.620 rewriting of history on this okay a lot of people were telling me oh well that's why lindsey graham

00:32:23.860 has Trump's support. And that's why Mark Levin has his support. And that, you know, they're just

00:32:28.000 always buttering Trump up and they're always pro-Trump. Well, no, actually, the minute Trump

00:32:32.120 does something they don't like, they go right back to being never Trump. It was never that they were

00:32:36.700 these really sophisticated political actors who knew how to manipulate the system and had

00:32:42.500 incredible message discipline. No, every one of them to a man is turning on Trump now. They're

00:32:46.640 all losing their minds. Okay. So garbage. All of that is garbage. These were not, these were not,

00:32:53.520 you know guys who are really deft political actors who are no like they they thought for a moment that

00:32:59.940 trump was going to do something they wanted him to do and so they were in support of him and the

00:33:05.520 very minute they realized they weren't going to get their ground war with iran their never-ending 1.00

00:33:10.440 war with iran their regime change war with iran they said well trump is stupid that's not how you 1.00

00:33:17.340 do peace deals. This is a disaster of a deal, right? A lot of really odd angles, not directly 1.00

00:33:23.900 attacking Trump, but coming as close as humanly possible, very obviously doing this, right?

00:33:29.880 So their tactics are no different than anyone else's. Most of them had the wisdom to not

00:33:35.780 directly attack Trump. And to the extent, again, that people on the right were like,

00:33:40.000 well, Trump is an idiot. Trump is useless. Trump is a slave of Israel. Well, yeah, 1.00

00:33:44.860 you kind of made sure that trump will never listen to you again sorry like bad move maybe you feel

00:33:51.280 like you told the truth maybe you did tell the truth one thing i know for sure is if you're

00:33:55.520 trying to operate politically that's probably not your smartest maneuver right so i'll agree that

00:34:01.200 any anyone who like was out and out doing that directly not the wisest maneuver that said sorry

00:34:07.540 but the neocons are no wiser right like they're out there doing essentially the same thing at the

00:34:12.580 moment because these people were never allies and and so all these people who went out and told you

00:34:18.660 well we have to side with the neocons you know with neocons you win right like that's how we

00:34:24.080 have to do it no actually these people are not allies like they are at best fair weather supporters

00:34:32.080 who will tell you and butter you up and do tell you exactly what you want to hear while they think

00:34:37.700 they're going to win and then the minute they don't get what they want they're going to turn

00:34:41.060 around they're going to stab you in the back and return right back to being never trumpers they

00:34:45.220 always were and so if you hold them up as like the exemplar of the coalition like trump did

00:34:51.220 you can't be surprised when they turn around and slash you and now is mark levin still og maga is

00:34:58.660 he still the the true arbiter of maga as so many people who call themselves plan trusters tried to

00:35:03.700 convince me of sorry i don't think you were trusting the plan i think you were i think you

00:35:10.140 were buying into ridiculous narrative and it has proven to be a disaster these people were never

00:35:17.260 on your side putting yourself next these people is embarrassing will you lose credibility around

00:35:24.020 it i hope so but either way like i hope we all learned a lesson kids i hope we all learned the

00:35:30.860 lesson never make a deal with the neoconservatives they will take what they want and they will leave

00:35:37.280 you high and dry they will never deliver they will never deliver never lash yourself to the

00:35:46.480 neoconservatives never think for a minute they will not betray you the very minute you are not 0.53

00:35:51.700 doing what israel wants to get done when you're not providing the war that feeds the machine that 0.59

00:35:57.160 they need to line their pockets. Do not make this mistake. Please, for the love of God, 0.93

00:36:06.340 stop doing this. No neoconservatism. Not one time. Not one time. It's never worth it. It's always

00:36:17.320 a mistake. I don't know how it could be any more clear. All right. So hopefully this wraps up.

00:36:26.800 Hopefully the seal is completed. Donald Trump gets the maximum amount of concessions from the Iranians. Israel doesn't sabotage this entire thing. And we get out of Iran with enough time to kind of repair things. Gas prices go down. You start addressing domestic issues and the midterms don't have to be a disaster. 0.99

00:36:46.800 we already saw some victories with uh with redistricting right so we've got we're gonna

00:36:53.560 have more republican seats not as many as we should have several states dropped the ball

00:36:57.840 but we're gonna have more seats than we thought we're gonna have inherently and then we might not

00:37:04.020 have quite the bloodbath in the midterms as we had hoped as we had feared right so let's let's hope

00:37:09.860 that that's the case and that this gets wrapped up you know it's it's not even june yet the gas

00:37:16.300 prices start to go down by the time you get to september october the memory of that has passed

00:37:22.120 we didn't spend too much time in iran more than we were promised but we didn't get locked in there

00:37:27.120 forever great no long-term decimating impacts no terrible footage of pouts of cash being dropped

00:37:34.240 off in iran you can walk away start focusing on the domestic issues again something like jd vance's

00:37:40.800 fraud tour going around, attacking all the immigrant fraud and things. Great. More of that, 0.54

00:37:46.600 more deportations, more of getting things done, more focus on affordability in the United States,

00:37:52.380 that kind of thing. That would be great. We might still have time. There's still time to wrap this

00:37:58.820 up, get home and focus on the domestics and save the midterms. It's still a long shot, but there

00:38:04.940 is time. So hopefully that's what we see. That's what we see from this pivot. Wraps it all up and

00:38:11.880 we get a better result. All right. The other thing I wanted to talk to you about today is

00:38:16.040 Marco Rubio thinks you're stupid. Let's listen in. 1.00

00:38:21.200 I'm sure that there are people that have made comments online and other places because every 1.00

00:38:29.320 country in the world has stupid people. I'm sure there are stupid people here. There are stupid 1.00

00:38:33.560 the people in the United States that make dumb comments all the time. 1.00

00:38:38.220 I don't know what else to tell you other than the United States is a very welcoming country. 0.99

00:38:42.100 Our nation has been enriched by people who come to our country, have come from our country

00:38:45.480 from all over the world, have become Americans, have assimilated into our way of life, and

00:38:49.460 have contributed greatly. So that's all I can comment on that in regards to your point,

00:38:56.220 your second question. All right. So sorry, I apologize for the low

00:39:02.520 quality of that clip uh but the state department initially posted this clip as like a headline

00:39:08.820 like they were very proud marco rubio in india tells a bunch of indians that americans are 0.97

00:39:15.140 racist and stupid and they deleted that because it was awful it was insane the fact that the 0.94

00:39:23.240 state department put that up as like a highlight of this was crazy and they deleted it uh very 0.99

00:39:30.240 quickly in fact i had a tweet that was starting to build a lot of momentum and it got deleted out

00:39:34.520 from under like because i cited it uh that they had posted that and it just got deleted under

00:39:39.040 there you know the whole time and so uh you know other other sources luckily captured the video and

00:39:43.640 put it back up that said you can see kind of the disaster here now let me frame this for you

00:39:50.100 marco rubio is in india he's secretary of state okay so i understand some people have said oh

00:39:55.460 what did you want marco rubio to get up there and say yeah we don't want indians in america

00:39:59.260 yeah we don't we don't need uh you know india changing america and taking all our jobs no he's

00:40:05.100 the secretary of state i get that he's not going to visit a foreign country and then deliver those

00:40:09.760 talking points it would be based if he did would have been cool if he did actually kind of wish

00:40:14.140 that is exactly what happened but i'm realistic i i don't expect basically our chief ambassador

00:40:19.980 to show up in india and say yeah we don't want you here so stay here stay in in india i get that

00:40:27.400 that said at the very least this is framing 101 when a reporter in india asks you why are americans 1.00

00:40:36.140 racist the answer is not to say well because i guess we've got stupid people in the country and 1.00

00:40:42.340 there are stupid people everywhere no marco that's accepting the premise of the question 1.00

00:40:49.320 so if you don't believe it and it sounds like you do but if you don't believe it the first 0.99

00:40:56.680 thing you say is people americans have a right to voice their concerns about immigration

00:41:02.420 that's the answer and then you move on you're not there to please the journalism core of

00:41:12.040 india you're there to represent me you're there to represent americans and our interests and

00:41:20.600 what's not in our interest is large-scale immigration from india it is not america's job

00:41:27.260 to take the excess population of india and give them all of our jobs and have them transform our

00:41:36.620 country with their foreign religion and foreign way of life i am an american i have the right to 1.00

00:41:42.320 say i do not want people coming here who will change my culture indians come here and they 1.00

00:41:48.620 build temples to foreign gods. They do not belong here. I do not want them here. I don't have great 1.00

00:41:56.160 hatred in my heart for them. I don't need to be racist towards them, which is just a leftist

00:42:01.380 lie, a leftist construction, a word you should not use because it's leftist propaganda.

00:42:07.680 But I don't need to hate these people. But I can say, just like Muslims, I don't want them here. 1.00

00:42:13.440 they are not part of american history they are not part of the fabric of the united states 1.00

00:42:19.320 they do not worship our god the christian god they do not they don't belong here they demand

00:42:28.080 carve outs they have ethnic nepotism which means that they hire their own people and ignore the 0.81

00:42:33.040 good of my people they take our jobs they create cartels ethnic cartels where they buy up different

00:42:40.180 businesses and make sure no one else of other ethnicities can get involved. This is destructive 0.96

00:42:47.100 behavior. When you get a question like this, as my secretary of state, your job is to turn to that

00:42:54.380 reporter and say, Americans have the right to notice when Indians change their culture.

00:43:01.220 Americans have the right to decide if Indians should come to the United States. Americans

00:43:06.000 have the right to feel a preference for their people when they hire. I want to be really clear.

00:43:14.000 No American company should hire an Indian immigrant before they hire a native-born 1.00

00:43:18.880 American. None of them. And you can call me whatever you want. That's what I believe. 1.00

00:43:26.680 So when you go to another country and my totally legitimate beliefs about what America is and how

00:43:33.500 it should be protected as a people how it should be prioritized above any other people in the world 1.00

00:43:39.680 by my own government when you go to another country and you tell them i'm a stupid racist 0.99

00:43:46.100 yeah you've lost every ounce of my support and here's the thing this is not the first time 0.99

00:43:53.440 marco rubio has said stuff like this of course marco rubio is famously pro amnesty he was part

00:44:00.980 of the gang of eight he literally went to my friend and colleague at the blaze steve dace

00:44:06.020 and begged him to support the amnesty he supported now marco rubio as of late since he joined the

00:44:14.380 trump administration has changed some of his wording and he's got some more based rhetoric

00:44:18.840 but it's very clear that nothing has actually changed marco rubio does not believe that america

00:44:26.340 is a nation. He does not believe America is a people. He believes in amnesty. He believes

00:44:33.040 anybody can come to America. As he said very clearly, anyone can come to America. Anyone

00:44:37.840 can assimilate. Anyone can be an American. Nothing has changed. Marco Rubio is not an

00:44:45.520 immigration hawk. He is not for border enforcement. This is not a man who cares about reforming

00:44:50.420 the immigration system in a way that protects the United States. He believes anyone can be

00:44:54.300 american he's still pro-amnesty i promise you nothing has changed and there is no small wonder

00:45:01.480 that this guy is being floated as a possible candidate or president after trump leaves to

00:45:06.700 try to replace somebody like jd vance who would actually care about immigration restriction

00:45:11.060 marco rubio keeps stepping on the same rake over and over again to the point where his team has to

00:45:19.300 delete his statements from the internet

00:45:24.300 Because he is not changing on immigration. 1.00

00:45:28.280 And he will go to a foreign country and call you a stupid racist rather than to reject the premise of the question. 1.00

00:45:37.280 Now, maybe it's not nefarious. 1.00

00:45:39.740 Maybe he got crossed up.

00:45:41.420 Okay, I guess.

00:45:42.740 But he is the Secretary of State. 0.99

00:45:45.760 So at the very least, he should be familiar with the fact that he needs to reject framing from a foreign press when they call our people stupid. 0.99

00:45:53.300 and racist well they just call us racist he called us stupid and so i'm sorry i don't trust 0.99

00:46:00.280 marco rubio at all this guy keeps saying this stuff over and over again i do not trust him 0.84

00:46:07.000 i do not think he should be in near power i do not think you should trust him i do not think

00:46:11.820 you should allow you should consider for a moment this guy running for president

00:46:15.900 sorry i don't trust him at all and it's for reasons like this he reveals himself in these

00:46:24.320 moments and he does it over and over again and nobody around him can seem to stop him from doing

00:46:30.480 it because i don't think he's changed on anything i really don't i think for all the new base

00:46:35.920 speeches and all the new base statements at the end of the day when you put marco rubio up in a

00:46:41.420 room where he has to react and give answers instead of reading off a script or preparing

00:46:46.960 something on social media. When he actually gets in the room with people, he says stuff like this.

00:46:52.480 Again, I don't expect him to go into India and say, yeah, we don't want you sending people to

00:46:57.160 the United States. Keep everybody here. I didn't expect that. But at the very least, when a reporter 1.00

00:47:03.760 comes to you and says, are the American people just racist? The answer is, I'm sorry, but America

00:47:10.100 is allowed to have legitimate concerns 0.92

00:47:12.160 about who enters their country

00:47:14.000 and what impact it will have.

00:47:15.760 And you don't get to call my people racist for doing that.

00:47:19.240 That's it.

00:47:20.040 That's all you need.

00:47:21.420 You don't have to engage with the premise.

00:47:23.960 You don't have to defend it.

00:47:25.720 You don't have to attack it.

00:47:27.180 You just step outside of it.

00:47:29.760 And if you're going to be doing this job

00:47:31.280 at the highest level,

00:47:32.340 you got to have those skills.

00:47:35.520 Sorry, you just do.

00:47:37.420 But I do think this actually does

00:47:39.260 reveal something more nefarious i don't think this is just a misunderstanding of how to handle

00:47:43.840 the frame i think this reveals marco rubio's real allegiances his real beliefs i think marco rubio

00:47:50.340 is still an amnesty guy i think he's still a guy who believes in the propositional nation

00:47:54.200 that everybody's already an american and you just have to come here and work hard

00:47:58.240 and roll up your sleeves and whatever and i get it he's the he's the son of cuban immigrants

00:48:03.180 right but that's kind of the problem i don't i don't think guys like marco rubio should be

00:48:10.300 allowed to hold office like i i think you you should have three generations in the united states

00:48:14.560 before you're even allowed to vote i'm not saying no one can assimilate i am saying we're now

00:48:21.820 talking about going and fighting cuba because marco rubio is cuban and we do whatever ethnic

00:48:29.860 kind of beef

00:48:32.160 whoever is sitting in the State Department has

00:48:34.360 at any given time. That's kind of what the

00:48:36.340 State Department has become. 0.99

00:48:38.000 When it's Eastern Europeans in the State Department, 0.97

00:48:40.400 we go to war with Russia. When it's 0.99

00:48:42.260 Cuban in the State Department, we go to war with Cuba. 0.54

00:48:46.100 You don't have to exactly be a rocket scientist.

00:48:48.380 I did my episode

00:48:50.340 on diaspora politics.

00:48:53.160 Okay?

00:48:54.620 I don't think there's anything weird.

00:48:56.720 I don't think there's anything strange about

00:48:58.360 why this is happening. I think this is just human nature, but because it's human nature,

00:49:01.780 we've got to understand the truth about this. Okay. I don't think Marco Rubio is uniquely evil

00:49:09.700 or sinister, but I do think that it's very natural for immigrants to prefer to care about their

00:49:17.460 homeland for generations after they get here. And that's why they shouldn't have access to power in 1.00

00:49:23.360 the United States for multiple generations.

00:49:25.680 I believe in the Aristotelian, the Aquinas version of citizenship.

00:49:34.120 Multiple generations.

00:49:35.180 Aquinas said three generations.

00:49:36.880 I'm on board with that.

00:49:38.380 You get here, you're not a citizen.

00:49:40.660 Your children are not citizens.

00:49:43.000 But your grandchildren, all right, they might be citizens, right?

00:49:47.480 That's how long it should take.

00:49:50.260 And Marco Rubio isn't far enough removed.

00:49:53.360 to him Cuba is still a place his parents remember it's still a place that he cares about deeply

00:49:58.660 I got a feeling that you're not going to get a speech from Marco Rubio about how adding millions

00:50:05.820 of Indians to Cuba will increase their standard of living or their competitiveness I don't think

00:50:14.860 you're going to see Marco Rubio fighting to get a lot of Indian immigration into Cuba so they can

00:50:20.140 bring their high iq and their ability to uh to to ultimately assimilate into cuban culture to bear

00:50:26.700 to change that you know why because marco rubio sees cuba as his homeland and his people and so

00:50:35.760 they're not going to get invaded by a million indians because he cares about the ethnic makeup

00:50:43.240 of Cuba. Now look, Cuba's garbage. Their government's garbage. There's plenty of leftist 1.00

00:50:51.120 stuff that's get funded and lodged out of Cuba. This is not me saying that there are not real

00:50:56.320 issues with Cuba. I could even at some level get sold the idea that we maybe we did need some kind

00:51:02.940 of military intervention in Cuba if we hadn't just gone to Iran. If we had actually kept things in

00:51:07.780 the monroe doctrine if we went to venezuela and then we went to cuba i'd feel better about that

00:51:13.640 actually i'd still a little tend to be a little worried about military intervention but at least

00:51:18.520 that is in our natural sphere of influence that makes sense inside the monroe doctrine that makes

00:51:23.920 sense as america is kind of having this natural dominant dominion over north america and central

00:51:29.480 america i can be sold on that a little bit of a stretch but i can be sold on it but we did just

00:51:35.680 go to war with iran and we are just trying to big dig ourselves out of it and it does seem like

00:51:39.960 we're only going to cuba because marco rubio is running the state department so i mean

00:51:46.420 it's just hard not to notice these things anymore i'm very tired of watching these diaspora politics

00:51:56.020 driving american foreign policy and again as you can tell in this episode it's not just one diaspora 0.89

00:52:02.200 i don't want indians and their diaspora running america i don't want cubans and their diaspora 0.95

00:52:07.520 running america i don't want israelis and their diaspora running america i do not want any of 1.00

00:52:12.560 these diasporas influencing my politics and they keep doing it my problem is not any given diaspora 0.98

00:52:20.580 or any given people it's not that one is more nefarious than the other it's that all of them 0.99

00:52:25.320 are a problem because they aren't putting America first. I'm remarkably consistent about this across

00:52:33.220 the board. It's what some might call a universal principle. I believe that foreign countries should

00:52:39.120 not hold sway over American politics, no matter what foreign country it is. And right now I can 1.00

00:52:45.220 see three simultaneously having an impact on where we're going. So I'm a little concerned.

00:52:53.300 can we at least wrap up the last mission we went on due to diaspora politics in iran before we go

00:53:02.180 to invade the next one in cuba and can the guy who's planning the cuban invasion chill out on 0.94

00:53:08.100 calling me stupid and racist in india that would be great that said i hope there's no contest 0.97

00:53:13.920 ultimately at this point when it comes to rubio being in you know the the seat for the presidency 0.99

00:53:20.240 see, obviously this guy should not be near power. Like, sorry, I just don't trust him. I don't

00:53:27.060 trust him. I don't think much has changed. I don't, I don't think that anything has really

00:53:30.880 changed. Look, man, I've been in the room when people have gotten the Republican baptism. I've

00:53:36.160 been in the room when former union bosses sweared, uh, you know, allegiance to the Republican party

00:53:41.500 because they had to, to get elected in the area. They didn't really change their ideology, man.

00:53:45.960 They just started saying a couple of things about lower taxes and calling themselves

00:53:49.740 Republican I don't think

00:53:51.840 anything has changed for Marco Rubio

00:53:53.320 I think he's still open borders guy I think he's

00:53:55.800 still a propositional nation guy I

00:53:57.660 still don't think he's putting the idea

00:54:00.020 of America as a people

00:54:01.740 who have the right to 0.50

00:54:03.840 determine who comes into their country 0.99

00:54:05.640 and tell Indians sorry

00:54:07.780 I'm sure you're lovely people but no 1.00

00:54:09.560 you are not allowed to come in because we need

00:54:11.900 jobs for our people we want to 1.00

00:54:13.740 keep our population 1.00

00:54:15.820 as Christian as possible and you are not

00:54:19.740 I don't think that he really believes any of that. 0.99

00:54:22.320 And I think he shows it every time he gets on stage.

00:54:25.360 It's really that simple.

00:54:29.640 All right, guys.

00:54:31.700 We're going to go ahead and wrap this one up.

00:54:34.520 I don't think we have any questions from the people, but let me double check real quick.

00:54:41.500 All right.

00:54:42.120 Yeah.

00:54:42.400 So we're going to go ahead and wrap this up.

00:54:44.660 Once again, I want to thank everybody for coming by.

00:54:47.460 I hope you're having a great Memorial Day.

00:54:49.500 I meant to, of course, say this at the beginning, but it's a good time to say it now.

00:54:53.320 Take a moment, of course, to thank God for the men who have died for this nation.

00:55:01.600 You know, take a moment to reflect on the sacrifices that have been made.

00:55:06.140 If we're going to talk about being a people, if we're going to talk about being a tradition,

00:55:10.340 then one of the things you have to do is ultimately value those who have laid their life on the

00:55:15.280 line for our country for the people that we are if you don't honor that if you don't honor that

00:55:22.440 sacrifice that history then you cannot possibly be tied into the tradition the heritage the

00:55:30.080 beliefs of your country or your people so don't treat this as just a day to grill or get some

00:55:39.280 sail somewhere as sad as that has become to kind of just be the you know what what many people think

00:55:45.720 of memorial day as make sure you take time to actually honor the fallen uh because again if

00:55:51.320 we don't do that if we talk about history we talk about tradition we talk about a nation and the

00:55:56.480 people but we don't we don't honor the people who have sacrificed for it uh then we're really no

00:56:02.020 people better than the people who have abandoned it entirely all right oh okay actually it does

00:56:07.320 see like we have one comment right here uh ian bridges says uh or sorry ian briggs says after

00:56:17.580 this middle east nonsense is over can the trump administration do regime change where it could

00:56:22.440 actually be useful i.e cuba again i'm a little worried about that i would feel better about it

00:56:29.140 if marco rubio wasn't the guy spearheading it if it wasn't just a direct obvious a cuban is in

00:56:34.880 the state department and now we go to cuba anyway like i said i understand cuba's bad i understand

00:56:41.840 it is actually like a launch pad for leftism in the united states a lot of stuff flows through it

00:56:47.120 i'm more sympathetic to regime change in cuba than i am in the in the middle east for sure i

00:56:52.600 really am i promise i think we should chill out though and just do what needs to be done in the

00:56:57.840 united states at least through the midterms guys can you can we at least get through an election

00:57:02.160 without invading another country please okay again i i could i could be convinced about cuba

00:57:09.140 eventually but can we please like seal this peace deal finalize it get gas prices down

00:57:17.340 chill out focus on the domestic issues i'm sorry if you have a full-on case that going after cuba

00:57:27.420 is like a clear path to victory for the right in the United States, that by like cutting Cuba

00:57:33.800 out at the knees, we ultimately can secure like better voting patterns, more victories in the U.S., 0.83

00:57:40.420 the achievement of certain domestic goals. I'll listen to it, but I don't hear a lot of people

00:57:45.940 making that. I've seen some people say, you know, I've seen that they're subpoenaing Hassan Piker

00:57:51.600 over Cuba. Great. Great, man. Okay. I'm all for that. I'm all for that. Right. And if you can

00:57:57.080 do a lot more if you can show me like clear domestic victories not just subpoena something

00:58:03.080 but like actually if we crush cuba then antifa funding goes down or it opens up some ability to

00:58:09.840 prosecute all these leftists that colluded with the cuban government because there's actually

00:58:13.900 this vast network and they're the like hub of the ngo network and once we get that all unlocked

00:58:18.940 if that's true make the case like show me if that's real all right but like until i see that

00:58:27.060 I'm, I'm hesitant to just say, yeah, let's go in there at the very least, get through the midterms

00:58:32.480 first, get through the elections first. Again, I think there is legitimate foreign policy activity

00:58:39.400 for the United States. I do. I'm not this person who says there is no sphere of influence for the

00:58:44.360 United States. There is no area in which they should exercise their control. Cuba is the perfect

00:58:49.660 area where there should be sphere of influence. I am not principally against understanding some

00:58:56.640 level of action in cuba but it is ill-advised at the moment okay man it's just ill-advised get

00:59:02.460 through the negotiation have peace for a while get through the elections get the price of gas

00:59:07.780 back down calm the geopolitical situation and then let's talk right now not a good time in my opinion

00:59:13.920 all right so i think that's it okay all right so again let's go ahead and wrap this up i want to

00:59:24.040 thank everybody for coming by always a pleasure discussing uh things with you have a lovely

00:59:29.020 memorial day honor the fallen honor the country and of course if it's your first time on this

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 25, 2026

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 25, 2026

Is the Iran War Over？ ｜ 5⧸25⧸26

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Is the Iran War Over？｜ 5⧸25⧸26