A communist is likely to be the next mayor of New York City, and guys, if you re in New York, you bought it. You effed around, and now you re about to find out. Plus, all of the fallout from the end of the Israel-Iran war, the media trying to undermine President Trump s triumphant victory, and more.
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00:00:53.000So we are now living at the very end of Planet of the Apes, when stunned Americans wander the beaches of, as it turns out, New York City and find the Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand.
00:01:05.000Because Zoran Mamdani, a communist, pro-jihadi, insane person who seems to have been bred in a laboratory at Columbia University just to be a leftist pastiche, is now the mayoral frontrunner in New York City because he won the Democratic primary last night in stunning fashion over the disgraced former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
00:01:27.000According to the New York Times, Zoran Mamdani, a little-known state lawmaker whose progressive platform and campaign trail charisma electrified younger voters, stunned former governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York on Tuesday night, building leads so commanding that Cuomo actually conceded.
00:01:43.000In fact, here is film of Andrew Cuomo conceding.
00:01:46.000This is, by the way, an indicator of where the Democratic Party is going, as we'll get to shortly.
00:01:50.000Here is former governor Andrew Cuomo conceding the Democratic primary on the first night.
00:02:41.000I applaud him sincerely for his effort.
00:02:46.000And let's give him a round of applause.
00:02:49.000So that Sad Sack now wants to run as an independent.
00:02:51.000We will find out whether that is real or whether that is not real.
00:02:54.000Because after he registers as an independent, and now the mayoral race becomes Eric Adams, who's running as an independent, and Cuomo running as independent against Momdani, who will be the Democratic nominee, Momdani is pretty clearly the frontrunner.
00:03:06.000There's a reason that Polymarket, which is essentially a politics betting website now, that Polymarket has Mamdani as the heavy favorite at this point.
00:03:16.000According to the New York Times, Momdani, a 33-year-old Democratic socialist from Queens, tapped into a current of anxiety around New York City's growing affordability crisis.
00:03:25.000His joyful campaign, it's always joyful for the New York Times.
00:03:28.000When you are a socialist nut job, that means that you are filled with joy.
00:03:32.000And anybody who accurately characterizes the state of New York City as not particularly good, that person is filled with rage.
00:03:38.000They did the same routine about Kamala Harris.
00:03:40.000Remember, she was so filled with joy and Donald Trump was so filled with rage.
00:03:43.000Well, it turns out that Trump's perspective on reality was significantly more linked to reality than his opponents, than Kamala Harris's.
00:03:52.000Well, apparently Cuomo was filled with rage and despair, but Mamtani was filled with joy.
00:03:56.000There'll be so much joy at the state-run supermarkets.
00:03:59.000I'm not even kidding when I say that that was one of Mamdani's proposals.
00:04:02.000He wants the city to run supermarkets because he believes that the profit motive is creating bad grocery choices in New York City, which is psychotic.
00:04:12.000Socialists have never been good at distribution of food.
00:04:15.000That's why they have breadlines in socialist countries.
00:04:18.000And Mamdani is not just a left-leaning Norwegian type.
00:04:22.000Mamdani is somebody who believes in the full-scale nationalization, the government running of the means of production.
00:04:28.000When we say he's a communist, he's an actual honest-to-God communist.
00:04:32.000But according to the New York Times, his joyful campaign brought new voters into the fold who rejected the scandal-scarred, Cuomo's ominous characterizations of the city and embraced an economic platform that included everything from free bus service and childcare to publicly owned grocery stores.
00:04:44.000And I think the most important thing here to remember is that young Democrats are basically sixth grade voters in your middle school election.
00:04:50.000If you ever ran for student body president in middle school, you will remember that if you ran a normal campaign, pledging, for example, that you were going to clean up the gym better.
00:05:04.000And then some kid came in and said, I pledge free ice cream and no homework for everyone.
00:05:09.000And all the kids voted for that idiot.
00:05:11.000Yeah, that's New York City when it comes to all of the Gen X, millennial, and Gen Z voters.
00:05:18.000That is who they decided to vote for, particularly white people.
00:06:09.000The polling leading up to this election, which again, did have in some of the polls Montani winning, suggested that white voters were going to vote for Mamtani by over a 60-40 margin.
00:06:30.000That's what the polls showed, by the way, also: is that if you went to college, you were voting Montani 60 to 40, no college, Cuomo 60-40, in that Emerson poll leading up to the election.
00:06:40.000Just showing that college makes you stupid, unbelievably stupid, apparently.
00:06:44.000According to the New York Times, the decisiveness of New Yorkers' swing toward Mr. Montani reverberated across the party and the country at a time when Democrats nationally are searching for an answer to President Trump and are disillusioned with their own leaders.
00:06:56.000And as I say, we'll talk about the national implications of this in a second.
00:07:00.000National figures are signing into chat.
00:07:02.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who is sort of the early version of Zoron Mamdani.
00:07:06.000She's now the grand old lady of the Democratic Party, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:07:09.000Since Mamdani is 33, she tweeted out, congratulations, Zoron.
00:07:14.000Your dedication to an affordable, welcoming, and safe New York City, where working families can have a shot has inspired people across the city.
00:07:20.000Billionaires and lobbyists poured millions against you and our public finance system, and you won.
00:07:27.000And let me just say this, as a resident of Florida since 2020, a citizen of Florida with real estate investment, with real estate.
00:07:35.000Let me say this to all the high net worth individuals in New York City, all the people who pay taxes in New York City, all the productive people in New York City with investment firms and financial investments.
00:07:50.000We're here for you down here in Florida.
00:07:53.000Leave your values at the border because your stupid values bought you this.
00:07:56.000So don't come down to my state and wreck my state.
00:08:00.000We will be checking ID as you come down into my state.
00:08:02.000We'll be deporting all New York illegal immigrants into the state of Florida.
00:08:06.000If you come down here and you bring your Democratic crap politics to my state, but if you're coming down here as an act of contrition and repentance, noticing that your city has completely destroyed itself, noticing that your city is now trending toward full-scale socialism, wrecking all of the things that made New York City great, all of the investment, all of the creativity, all of the innovation in favor of redistributionist nonsense.
00:08:30.000If you're coming down here and you are simply bringing your productivity and your innovation and yes, your wealth down to Florida from New York, come, come, come.
00:08:44.000We'll be here for you in your time of need.
00:08:46.000And yes, the real estate prices may be a little bit higher since that's your penalty for not having seen what was coming in the city that you helped to wreck over a period of time.
00:08:59.000Kathy Hochl, the erstwhile governor of New York, a woman who has failed up at every job she's ever held, said in a statement, quote, today voters made their voices heard, demanding a more affordable, more livable New York City.
00:09:25.000And it's really exciting because the reality is that if you had told me after September 11th, that fast forward a quarter century and the person who would be the New York City mayoral frontrunner and Democratic nominee for the party would be a terrorist supporting communist, I would have been a little bit surprised to be honest with you.
00:09:49.000But it just goes to show you that no lesson is learned permanently in life.
00:09:52.000No political victory is ever complete.
00:09:55.000There is no one track toward the future.
00:09:58.000Sometimes there are inflection points and there are many, many stupid people.
00:10:01.000And so New York City deserves precisely what's coming to it.
00:10:04.000You guys broke it and now you bought it.
00:10:06.000And so I hope that you enjoy what you have created.
00:10:09.000You decided to allow this to fester in your city, this ideology to fester in your city.
00:10:14.000You decided that it was very important to indoctrinate all the liberal white people in your city with the dumbest ideas in the history of planet Earth.
00:10:22.000Mandani is the kind of person who has said he wishes to actually propose something like $65 million for transing the children in New York City.
00:11:01.000I mean, you're talking about perhaps the greatest American city, New York City.
00:11:06.000But if this is the way that New York City decides to destroy itself, well, there wasn't much we could do about it, was there?
00:11:12.000And I welcome the splitting of America politically with more Republicans and independent leaning people leaving blue governed junk areas and leaving them to their own devices.
00:11:24.000I despaired of California and I left and I took my family and I took my business and my life got better and the people at my company's lives got better and our company got better and California got worse.
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00:13:44.000And so if you insist, if the voters insist on making these sorts of decisions, there will be some predictable consequences and you brought it on yourself.
00:13:51.000I'm very much in favor of real life consequences for real life stupid decisions.
00:13:54.000And New York is about to, they have to round and now they're about to find out.
00:13:58.000Mamdani, for his part, he was out there bragging.
00:15:19.000She, of course, is a member of Congress.
00:15:21.000Nydia Velazquez, she showed up to talk about how the billionaires are going to try to stop him.
00:15:25.000Well, actually, the billionaires are just going to leave.
00:15:27.000One of the most amusing things about the left is that the left hates billionaires, but they need them to exist so they can suck their blood out.
00:16:10.000Ella M. Hoff, a pseudo-Jew who has no relationship to Judaism, who is the stepdaughter of Kamala Harris, who seems deeply unhappy and slightly unhinged.
00:16:22.000That is the typical Zaran Mamdani voter.
00:16:24.000Ella M. Hoff put out a graphic of herself frowning into camera.
00:16:29.000She is a celebrated beauty, obviously, and you can see just why.
00:16:33.000She's wearing a shirt that says blue skies, and then it says, feeling so many emotions voting again.
00:16:37.000It was a little traumatic walking to the same voting place as I did in November, but I feel so much hope for New York and what Zoran Mamdani will bring.
00:16:44.000Also, he's not my district, but if you are District 36 and are not voting for close, we are not friends.
00:16:50.000Thank you to everyone who is out there on this horribly hot day helping.
00:16:53.000And she's wearing a headscarf that says Zoron for New York.
00:16:58.000It says, y'all better be voting today.
00:17:18.000And so in that fight, one of the things they care deeply about is virtue signaling about how much they hate anyone who is connected to the system.
00:17:27.000So in a city that is quite heavily Jewish, I mean, New York City is one of the most Jewish cities in the country demographically, they are poised to elect somebody who is full-scale anti-Semitic.
00:17:39.000That, again, is not a gigantic shock because this is the way that the Democratic Party has been trending for quite a long time.
00:18:10.000This is the coalition of scavengers that is coming together on behalf of Zoran Mamdani, people who hate the system, who live off of the kill made by the lions.
00:18:18.000New York City is reliant on the wealth generation of Wall Street.
00:18:22.000New York City is reliant on the wealth generation of the small shop bodega owner who simply wants to generate enough money for his family, but now has to fight off street crime because of people like Zoran Mamdani and his policies.
00:18:35.000Those are the people who actually generate.
00:18:38.000And then you have the scavengers, and the scavengers are a bunch of college-educated leeches with sociology degrees from Wellesley.
00:18:43.000Those are those people, the Ella M. Hoffs of the world, all uniting and virtue signaling about how much they hate anyone who is productive and decent.
00:18:54.000And I've called Bernie Sanders a leech on the ass of society.
00:18:56.000And I think, frankly, that that is being kind to Bernie Sanders, a man so useless he was once thrown out of a commune for failing to do work.
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00:22:06.000I'm just going to point out right now that if you watch that debate and your takeaway from that debate was that Zarmamzani is the reasonable one on the stage on the issue of Israel, that everyone else on the stage who just said Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state is wrong and crazy.
00:22:20.000And Zarmamzani is reasonable for believing that Israel does not have a right to exist.
00:22:26.000That is a belief that is held by a small sliver of very, very well-educated white people and psychotics and ambulatory psychotics in the Democratic Party, but that describes a large share of the Democratic voting base today.
00:22:41.000What does this mean nationally for the Democratic Party?
00:22:44.000Well, once again, it means that the Democratic Party is quite likely to swing to the left.
00:22:48.000Now, I've predicted this for a while, that what you are seeing in the United States is a Democratic Party that does not know where to go next.
00:22:55.000It's a Democratic Party that's lost in the wilderness.
00:22:57.000And so they are looking at what to do.
00:23:00.000And what they believe they ought to do now, it appears, is move hard to the left.
00:23:04.000There's been this battle inside the Democratic Party between the more practical people and pragmatic people, like, say, Congressman Richie Torres or John Fetterman, or hell, even Nancy Pelosi at this point, and people like AOC.
00:23:17.000And the ambulatory psychotics are going to win.
00:23:18.000And they're going to win because Democrats are constantly, people on the left are constantly looking to the youth of America as a sort of bellwether for where they should go next.
00:23:28.000They're constantly looking at the radicals in their own party and saying, well, you know, are they that radical or are they just idealistic?
00:24:33.000You're seeing a Democratic Party that is beginning to concede to its younger generation.
00:24:38.000And good luck to you if that's what you, but we're playing a very dangerous game because the other thing that we ought to mention here is that if you become a major party nominee in the United States, one of the two major parties in the United States on a presidential level, there's at least a 40% shot you're president of the United States.
00:25:01.000And then it turns out that he is likely to be the next mayor of New York City.
00:25:05.000And so people who are poo-pooing AOC right now, you're likely to be very disappointed when it turns out that she is the Democratic nominee come 2028.
00:25:13.000And then when she has a serious shot of becoming president, because again, any member of one of the two major parties who's running for president in 2028 has at least a 40% shot of being president.
00:25:25.000God forbid something goes seriously wrong on the foreign policy front.
00:25:29.000If that happens, then you could very easily end up with somebody as far left as an AOC as president of the United States.
00:25:36.000This is why I truly believe that the Democratic Party needs to moderate.
00:25:40.000I do care actually what happens inside the Democratic Party.
00:25:43.000I believe the Democratic Party is cleaning itself out, that the Democratic Party has made itself hostage to the demands of a radical minority who do not represent the vast base of the Democratic Party, but who do show up in primaries.
00:25:56.000And by the way, this does speak to the problems in the primary process in all the parties.
00:26:00.000Everybody likes to rag on the smoke-filled backrooms that used to pick party nominees because parties are vehicles for victory.
00:26:09.000But getting rid of those smoke-filled backrooms turns out very often to embolden the most radical members of your party constituency.
00:26:15.000And that's how you end up with Azora Mamdani as the Democratic Party nominee.
00:26:19.000And that's not good for New York City because now New York City is going to be left with a choice between Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, who just lost the Democratic primary, and Eric Adams.
00:26:28.000And there's a very good shot that Adams and Cuomo split that remaining independent vote, and Mamdani ends up running right up the left side and taking the mayoralty.
00:26:40.000So if you're a Democrat today, you should be a little scared.
00:26:43.000If you're a Democrat who's in the realm of the sane, who doesn't believe that the solution to housing costs is complete rent control and destruction of all possible new development, if you're somebody who in New York City believes that perhaps the radical overpricing of everything has to do with the insane tax and regulatory structure of New York City, if you are what they are now calling an abundance Democrat, right?
00:27:08.000If you are an Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson Democrat, right, Ezra on the show to talk about this, if you're a Democrat who lives in the world of reality such that you actually understand that capitalism is a wealth generator and you just want more redistribution, right?
00:27:22.000You're more of a European left-winger than you are a full-scale communist.
00:27:29.000You have decided to give credence to these people.
00:27:32.000You have decided that it was very important to pat them on the head as they said insanely radical things about every particular topic.
00:27:39.000And how radical is this group of people?
00:27:42.000This group of people is so insanely radical that the campaign director for Zoran Mamdani recently posted about Luigi Mangion, you know, the alleged murderer of United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.
00:27:58.000Quote, Mangion is one of the few entities not rejected online, which is ironic considering how harmful he deemed social media.
00:28:04.000And while his remarkable good looks hardly hurt, anyone who thinks his acclaim is rooted primarily in aesthetics is missing the point probably on purpose.
00:28:11.000He is adored, not only because he dared to target a leader of one of the most vile, self-enriching industries darkening our society today, but because he dared to defy the stasis of nihilistic rejection.
00:28:19.000The question is not whether he was right or wrong.
00:28:21.000It's how many others he has shaken loose.
00:28:23.000That is the campaign director for the future mayor of New York City in all likelihood.
00:28:57.000It was you elderly Democrats who thought that the new wave was just jet fuel that you could use for your own ambition.
00:29:03.000And it turns out the revolution always eats its own first.
00:29:06.000Robespierre is first to the guillotine.
00:29:09.000So I hope you enjoy, Democrats, because this is what you have created.
00:29:12.000Speaking of Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday that President Trump's decision to strike Iran without seeking congressional approval is, quote, absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.
00:29:25.000And this is the Democratic Party that you guys are pushing.
00:29:27.000A single strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities is grounds for impeachment, according to AOC, who had nothing to say.
00:29:33.000Well, Joe Biden bombed a wide variety of countries, as it turns out, ranging from Yemen to Syria while he was president of the United States.
00:29:40.000President Trump immediately responded in a lengthy post on his truth social network saying, quote, stupid AOC, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, one of the dumbest people in Congress, is now calling for my impeachment, despite the fact that crooked and corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before.
00:29:55.000He also labeled her the mouse, which the man has a gift for nicknames.
00:30:02.000Meanwhile, Al Green, who has made a living off of calling for President Trump's impeachment, announced yesterday yet another impeachment attempt against President Trump when he's not waving his cane.
00:31:18.000He did say that she is unqualified for office, AOC, but, quote, far more qualified than Crockett, who is a seriously low IQ individual.
00:31:26.000He also compared Ocasio-Cortez to Ilhen Omar, who he said, quote, does nothing but complain about our country.
00:31:31.000Yet the failed country that she comes from doesn't have a government, is drenched in crime and poverty, and is rated one of the worst in the world if it's even rated at all.
00:31:38.000Again, point to President Trump right there.
00:31:40.000Speaking of Jasmine Crockett, she was also on the impeachment bandwagon.
00:31:45.000Here was Jasmine Crockett complaining that she had not received her briefing about Iran yet.
00:31:50.000Yes, America waits with bated breath to hear the opinions of Jasmine Crockett about Iran's foreign policy.
00:31:58.000But I wanted to jump on because obviously it's been bombs, missiles, all kinds of stuff.
00:32:09.000And to be clear, I've still not gotten any type of briefing.
00:32:14.000So just so y'all know, nobody's tried to call us in for a top secret briefing at all as whole sitting members of Congress, but you know, whatever.
00:32:58.000And to understand enough about the Constitution to the extent that I'm the one that's supposed to make the decision or at least get a vote.
00:33:16.000Quote, take it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war.
00:33:22.000It only took you five months to break almost every promise you made.
00:33:25.000By the way, did AOC have any comment whatsoever when Joe Biden was striking random families in Afghanistan with hellfire missiles as he pulled out an ignominious disgrace from Afghanistan?
00:33:53.000You went so nuts that President Trump became president in 2016 that you decided to abandon any principles you ever had and simply throw your hat in with the nuttiest among you.
00:34:03.000And so once again, all I'm saying is that you're effing around and now you're finding out.
00:34:11.000The people who have my sympathy in New York City are the people who are actually just good taxpaying citizens who want to go about their daily business and raise their families and the lines of our society.
00:34:20.000Those are the people who have my sympathy.
00:34:23.000I really do feel bad for those people, truly.
00:34:26.000But if you were complicit in this, if you kept voting Democrat year after year after year after year because you didn't like that George W. Bush was pro-traditional marriage, or you didn't like that Donald Trump had appointed justices to the Supreme Court who didn't love Roe versus Wade.
00:34:43.000If you decided that you had to vote Democrat because you needed to virtue signal about how much you had sympathy for Comosnicks, or if you decided that you were going to vote Democrat because it was imperative that you send a message to those terrible red state Republicans about COVID, then this is your fault.
00:35:12.000If not, then stay wherever the hell you are and enjoy the crevasse you have made for yourself in New York City.
00:35:20.000Well, folks, the media lie about everything and the leaks to the media with regards to the Iranian nuclear program, those do not seem quite honest.
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00:37:44.000Meanwhile, speaking of Iran and the end of the Israel-Iran war brokered by President Trump, the ceasefire that he brokered is indeed holding.
00:37:51.000Of course, as I said yesterday on the program, that's what he was mostly concerned with.
00:37:55.000Once the president has set his credibility behind a ceasefire, he wants that ceasefire to hold.
00:38:00.000Now, Iran's going to test that ceasefire.
00:38:02.000Apparently, they've already started firing drones at Israel.
00:38:05.000Those are being shot down outside of Israeli territory.
00:38:08.000And there will come a point here where Israel is going to have to act kinetically in order to stop Iran again.
00:38:12.000It is not as though Iran is going to simply quit.
00:38:16.000Constant ceasefires are broken in the Middle East by enemies of Israel.
00:38:26.000Ceasefires have been broken repeatedly between the Gaza Strip, when it was completely run by Hamas, and Israel, typically by Hamas, preparing or actually participating in a terror attack.
00:38:37.000However, the ceasefire is, for the moment, holding.
00:38:40.000I wish to point out at this point that again, for the millionth time, all of the people in the media who are telling you there's a massive split over President Trump's kinetic action against the Iranian nuclear facilities, anyone in the media who tells you there's a giant split in the Republican Party over this is lying to you, lying.
00:39:26.00085% of Republicans are in favor of what President Trump just did to the Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:39:32.000How about MAGA Republicans, people who identify themselves as MAGA Republicans, people who love President Trump, voted for President Trump, and aren't quote unquote traditional Republicans?
00:39:46.000So when the media tell you there's a massive split between the neo-isolationists, horseshoe right, and the rest of the Republican Party, if by a giant split, you mean there is a sliver that is extremely vocal on X and on social media, and you get a lot of play from random podcasters, large and small.
00:40:06.000If that is your take from the media, it's because they are lying to you.
00:40:09.000That is not representative of the Republican base, the Republican electorate.
00:40:13.000It is not representative in the slightest.
00:40:15.000And by the way, many of the people who you see who are very critical on the so-called right of President Trump over the Iran strikes, many, not all those people, many of those people were leftists before and will revert to being on the left again as soon as it is politically convenient to do so.
00:40:31.000And meanwhile, again, the media coverage here is just egregious.
00:40:33.000The media, there's a Michael Crichton thought model that he put out at one point, the author of Jurassic Park.
00:40:40.000He suggested that the problem with the legacy media is that if you look at an area you really, really know in the newspapers, let's say that you're a businessman, you look in the newspapers and you work in, say, the printing industry and you look in the newspapers, there's an article about the printing industry.
00:40:55.000What you will find from the journalist who's covering the story is a million errors.
00:40:59.000You'll say, this is not true, and this is not true, and this is not true.
00:41:02.000This, by the way, is absolutely accurate.
00:41:04.000If you ever watch newspaper coverage of an industry you know really well, you will find tons of errors in the media coverage of that industry.
00:41:10.000And then you turn three pages later to an industry you don't know all that well, and you just assume the journalists are correct.
00:41:16.000Okay, well, as it turns out, everything they do is filled with non-objectivity, filled with error.
00:41:22.000And that is particularly true of the media coverage of the Iran-Israel war.
00:41:26.000The suggestion that number one, this was a tit for tat is wrong.
00:41:29.000Israel destroyed Iran's nuclear capacity along with the United States.
00:41:34.000Obviously, President Trump making that final call was huge, but Israel had already devastated Natanz and Isfahan.
00:41:39.000The United States put the final marker on that and then destroyed Fordo.
00:41:43.000Okay, so when we talk about the media coverage today, understand the media are dishonest.
00:41:48.000They're either lying or they're wrong on so much of their coverage.
00:41:52.000The idea that this was sort of fought to a standstill, nope.
00:41:55.000Israel completely knocked off the entire upper echelon of the IRGC.
00:42:00.000Israel knocked off the entire upper level of the IRGC.
00:42:02.000Israel knocked off pretty much every nuclear scientist in Iran.
00:42:07.000And by the way, going to be very hard to recruit for nuclear scientists in Iran from now on.
00:42:11.000You're an MIT grad, you're going back to Iran where Mossad probably knows where you live, or are you going to get a job somewhere else?
00:42:17.000Israel devastated the ballistic missile capacity of Iran, their ballistic missile launcher capacity.
00:42:23.000And somehow the media declared this thing kind of a draw, sort of.
00:42:27.000Okay, well, let's be clear about what's going on.
00:42:29.000Israel, immediately upon the ceasefire, reopened all restrictions on its citizens.
00:42:40.000All the people that I know in Israel are back at work today.
00:42:43.000Home Front Command said that all regions of the country can resume full activity without restriction.
00:42:48.000But even during the war, Netanyahu was walking around in broad public daylight while Ayto-Khameni was hiding in a bunker like Hitler at the end.
00:42:56.000Okay, so again, the ceasefire is holding.
00:43:46.000Both Israel and Iran wanted to stop the war equally.
00:43:48.000It was my great honor to destroy all nuclear facilities and capability and then stop the war.
00:43:53.000And again, presumably he is responding to all of the DOLTs we talked about yesterday on the show who were suggesting that he wanted to lead America into World War III, which was, of course, always complete and utter idiocy that was never going to happen.
00:44:05.000And a lot of those people were very mistaken for ideological reasons.
00:44:09.000Meanwhile, what about the idea that Russia BRICS was going to come to the defense of Iran?
00:44:14.000The answer is that Russia didn't care what happened to Iran.
00:44:18.000The Wall Street Journal has an entire piece titled, Why Russia is Giving Iran the Cold Shoulder After the Israel Attack.
00:44:24.000The Kremlin leader made no mention in his meeting with Iran's top diplomat, Abbas Araki, on Monday, of military support in his public remarks ahead of the talks.
00:44:32.000Instead, he suggested they discuss an exit ramp out of the conflict.
00:44:35.000This gives us a chance to think together about how it would be possible to get out of this situation, said Putin.
00:44:42.000Apparently, after Moscow fumbled the initial stages of its invasion of Ukraine, Iran boosted Russia's war effort with ammo, artillery, shells, and thousands of drones, but Moscow is unlikely to return the favor.
00:44:51.000With Iran facing its most existential challenge in decades and even calls from President Trump for regime change, Russian military aid is unlikely to come through, analysts said.
00:44:59.000While the strategic partnership reached between the two countries did not include a mutual defense pact, it strengthened intelligence sharing, prohibited the countries from aiding each other's enemies in conflict.
00:45:08.000The move underscores the transactional nature of even Putin's strongest partnerships, and that's the key.
00:45:13.000Iran was getting wrecked by Israel and then by the United States, and Russia ain't going to do nothing about that.
00:45:24.000It turns out that peace through strength is a real thing.
00:45:26.000And when you show strength, your enemies tend to back off, Particularly when you happen to be the United States or an ally of the United States, backed by the United States.
00:45:36.000According to the Washington Post, sitting on the sidelines amid this dramatic geopolitical upheaval, with much to lose over the spiraling conflict and ambitions to influence policy in the Middle East, was China.
00:45:47.000William Figueroa, a China-Iran expert at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, quote, China has little ability to affect the situation directly.
00:45:54.000China does not benefit from any kind of wider conflict.
00:45:57.000And he said they have no ability to militarily influence that conflict.
00:46:01.000China is heavily dependent on oil and gas from the Middle East.
00:46:04.000Iran, which is subject to a harsh international sanctions regime, also relies on China to buy its oil.
00:46:11.000Even when Washington asked for China's help, Beijing seems unable or unwilling to insert itself into the tensions, analysts say.
00:46:17.000On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Beijing to encourage Iran not to shut the strait in an interview with Fox, citing China's dependency on the passageway, saying such a move would be economic suicide for Iran.
00:46:28.000The Chinese foreign ministry, a spokesperson named Wao Jiacun, said the Chinese government, quote, maintained communication with its Iranian counterparts and is willing to work with Iran to enhance communication, but it's unclear if they actually took any steps.
00:46:44.000Again, gigantic win for President Trump, gigantic fail for all of his ideological opponents who believed either on the horseshoe left or the horseshoe right that President Trump was an isolationist who was willing to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
00:46:58.000Now, again, President Trump is being extremely clear about what the end goal here was.
00:47:03.000And as I said, throughout this conflict, it was not the goal of the Israelis or the Iranians to effectuate themselves regime change.
00:47:11.000The conditions are right for people in Iran to rise up if they wish to do so.
00:47:14.000And that's what President Trump had said and Prime Minister Netanyahu.
00:47:17.000But the idea that we were ever going to engage in a full-scale nation-building effort in Iran was insane, ridiculous, silly, foolish.
00:47:26.000Hey, Prime Minister Netanyahu in Israel.
00:47:29.000How is he going to effectuate regime change?
00:47:31.000Again, Israel is a country of 9.7 million people.
00:47:34.000Iran is a country of 91 million people.
00:47:36.000Perhaps the only fact that Tucker Carlson got right during this entire debate.
00:47:41.000You think Israel is going, what, deploy hundreds of thousands of its troops to Iran, 1,500 miles away across the airspace of multiple countries in order to effectuate regime change in Iran?
00:47:52.000Is that a thing that people thought was going to happen?
00:47:54.000Or that the United States, led by Donald J. Trump, was going to embark on a nation-building adventure in Iran?
00:49:00.000Now, the propaganda effort by the Iranians and their allies, including John Kerry and the legacy media, who just hate Trump so much that they would rather side with Iran, they're trying to claim everything's hunky-dory.
00:49:12.000So again, the same folks who claim that Iran was negotiating peacefully, not racing to a nuclear bomb.
00:49:17.000Now, now they're going to race to a nuclear bomb.
00:49:19.000Now, again, this sort of blowback theory that Iran only acts because the United States or Israel acts is it's really, really foolish, truly foolish.
00:49:31.000They've been pursuing those independent interests since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and they will continue to pursue those interests, which is why Israel bombed them.
00:49:40.000And then the United States bombed them as well.
00:49:42.000Here, for example, is an Iranian TV host now claiming they'll enrich as much uranium as they want.
00:50:34.000No one has been wronger for longer than John Kerry, a man whose face is now collapsing like a mudslide in the Hollywood Hills.
00:50:41.000John Kerry, truly one of the most despicable people in American public life for decades, ran for president, thank God lost in 2004 to George W. Bush, and then was Secretary of State under Barack Obama, horrifyingly bad Secretary of State, a man who suggested there could never be an Abraham Accord because, of course, he needed to solve the Palestinian issue before getting to any sort of agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
00:51:02.000Now he says, you can't bomb away the memory of how to make a bomb.
00:51:06.000It's very hard to say what exactly is going to bring them back to the table, but I know this.
00:51:13.000You cannot bomb away the memory of how to make a bomb.
00:51:18.000You can't bomb away the knowledge that they have developed.
00:51:22.000You can't bomb away the broad array of technicians who've been working on this for years who will go back to work if that's the mission they're given by the leadership of the country.
00:51:37.000Israel's been delaying the Iranian nuclear development by killing its top nuclear scientists for legitimately decades, and they killed pretty much every top nuclear scientist in Iran, like all of them.
00:51:47.000Beyond that, Israel also apparently destroyed the Iranian nuclear archive.
00:51:50.000So Israel got access to those archives back in April.
00:51:53.000And then, apparently, during this wave of attacks, Israel also destroyed Iran's nuclear archive.
00:51:58.000So it's going to be a little difficult, Actually, now the big report of the day, again, this is the legacy media trying to cover ass for the fact that President Trump did a courageous, heroic thing and that Iran's nuclear facilities have, in fact, been set back by, at the very least, significant years and maybe forever.
00:52:15.000Now they are trying to report a low-confidence DIA assessment leaked to the New York Times.
00:52:20.000Here is CNN suggesting that the early U.S. intelligence assessment is that it's only set back the Iranian nuclear program by months.
00:52:28.000As of right now, the DIA has produced this intelligence assessment that we are told was based on the battle damage assessment that U.S. Central Command has done following those massive bombings and strikes that the U.S. carried out inside Iran last weekend.
00:52:43.000And what we are told is that based on the assessments of the damage that these bombs implemented on these nuclear sites, that as of right now, it does not appear that they ended or obliterated Iran's nuclear program.
00:52:57.000Instead, they only set it back by months.
00:53:00.000According to White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt, she said, quote, this alleged assessment is flat out wrong.
00:53:06.000She said it was classified as top secret, but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous low-level loser in the intelligence community.
00:53:31.000Narrative number one is that actually everything here was unsuccessful.
00:53:35.000Sure, the 12-day war, which completely decimated Iran's top military levels, killed their ballistic missile program, destroyed their missile launchers, killed their top nuclear scientists, and hit their nuclear facilities.
00:53:45.000Sure, all of that happened, but it didn't really work.
00:53:48.000So the neo-isolationist, it turns out, were right.
00:53:50.000This is the claim that's now being made by some of them based on nothing, as I'll explain in a moment.
00:53:56.000And then there is the other claim that is being made by the neo-isolationists and now leaked out to prominent media outlets.
00:54:04.000That claim is that if it had not been for the intervention of the neo-isolationists, World War III would have happened.
00:54:10.000It definitely was going to happen, except that they intervene and they stopped that madman Trump.
00:54:14.000Now, first of all, if you're a neo-isolationist in the administration, and I know that there are many of you there at the top levels of the administration, I'm fully aware many of us are.
00:54:23.000If you are undermining the foreign policy of the president of the United States in this way, you ought to quit.
00:54:29.000If you believe that the president of the United States was going to get us into World War III, except for the amazing advice of the neo-isolationists, that's not true.
00:54:56.000And you now trying to backfill and suggest that if it had not been for your personal intervention, if it had not been for your steady, clear-headed, gimlet-eyed advice to the President of the United States, then the world would have gone up in nuclear flame.
00:55:13.000It's weak and it's wrong and it's stupid.
00:55:16.000And by the way, it is highly disloyal.
00:55:19.000And anybody who's a close watcher of politics can tell whom has been leaking a lot from the White House and from agencies associated with the federal government.
00:55:31.000Okay, now, as to the actual content of this supposed report reported by CNN and the New York Times.
00:55:37.000Quote, a preliminary classified U.S. report says the American bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran set back the country's nuclear program by only a few months, according to officials familiar with the findings.
00:55:48.000The strikes sealed off the entrances to two of the facilities, but did not collapse their underground buildings.
00:55:52.000The officials said the early findings concluded.
00:55:54.000Before the attack, U.S. intelligence agencies had said if Iran tried to rush to making a bomb, it would take three months.
00:55:59.000After the U.S. bombing run and days of attacks by the IAF, the report by the Defense Intelligence Agency estimated the program had been delayed, but by less than six months.
00:56:09.000Some Israeli officials said they also believed Iran government had maintained small covert enrichment facilities so it would continue its nuclear program in the event of an attack on the larger facilities.
00:56:18.000Other officials noted the report found three nuclear sites, Ford, Natans, and Isfahan, had suffered moderate to severe damage, with the facility at Natans damaged the most.
00:56:28.000Okay, so let us point out now that as Jennifer Griffin of Fox News reports, this particular DIA assessment is a preliminary intelligence assessment and is deemed low confidence in intelligence parlance.
00:56:46.000It is based on satellite images and SIGINT obtained since the strikes.
00:56:52.000It is a preliminary DIA intelligence assessment.
00:56:55.000They're trying to claim that an unknown amount of highly enriched uranium was moved out of the Fordo facility.
00:57:05.000The real likelihood is that it is inside Ford.
00:57:08.000I mean, if you think that the Israelis and the Americans were not watching the entire time at Fordo, you're out of your mind.
00:57:15.000Israel is hitting specific apartment bedrooms in Tehran.
00:57:19.000You think they weren't watching Fordo, the most highly publicized nuclear facility in Iran for months leading up to this?
00:57:26.000You think that Iran was what, just bringing in like gigantic trucks and carrying this stuff out?
00:57:32.000That's your idea, and that the Israelis had no idea that it was done secretively?
00:57:36.000The Iranians are great at keeping secrets from the Israelis, as we know, which is why Ayatollah Khomeini was literally hiding in a bunker for most of this conflict.
00:57:45.000The high likelihood is that that enriched material is still inside Fordo and that the reason that Israel has not actually blown it up more is because they were afraid of an environmental catastrophe if they were to actually blow up the enriched uranium.
00:57:57.000Seth Mandel over a commentary magazine points out, quote, here's one assertion in the Times report.
00:58:04.000The strikes badly damaged the electrical system at Fordo, which is housed deep inside a mountain to shield it from attacks, officials said.
00:58:09.000It's not clear how long it will take Iran to gain access to the underground buildings and then repair the electrical systems and reinstall equipment that was moved.
00:58:16.000As Mandel points out, if the Times is reporting that detail accurately, Fordo is done for.
00:58:23.000So sure, it's accurate to say the site was not completely destroyed physically.
00:58:26.000That doesn't mean it is functional or operational.
00:58:29.000The facility is hundreds of meters deep, among other things, there is no air in there.
00:58:34.000And some of the other reporting from the legacy media, desperately hoping for an L for President Trump.
00:58:39.000There's a passage from CNN, quote, instead, the impact to all three sites, Fordo, Natan, and Isfahan, was largely restricted to above-ground structures, which were severely damaged, according to sources.
00:58:49.000That includes the site's power infrastructure and some of the above-ground facilities used to turn uranium into metal for bomb making.
00:58:55.000Well, above-ground facilities, as Mandel points out, are not coat rooms or lounges.
00:59:01.000David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Studies says, quote, in particular, major setbacks include the elimination of or severe damage to the majority of centrifuges at Natan's, significant damage to the Ford Ale underground site, destruction, damage to several facilities at the Isfahan nuclear complex, including one used in the conversion of enriched uranium to uranium metal, another that converts natural uranium into uranium hexafluoride.
00:59:24.000Relatedly, the attack on the IR-40, a rock-heavy water reactor, has likely destroyed the reactor, eliminating a potential future source of plutonium that could be used in nuclear weapons.
00:59:34.000Albright is basing his judgment off of satellite imagery, which again is the exact same imagery that the DIA is now using.
00:59:42.000So, if you do not mean, if what the media is trying to say is they weren't obliterated, like they still exist in some form or fashion, maybe.
00:59:50.000Does that mean that they are functional or usable or that the nuclear facilities are recoverable?
00:59:56.000Well, I mean, General Dan Kane said, Raisin Kane said, on Sunday the bombing was, quote, designed to severely degrade Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure.
01:00:05.000And by the way, the leaked report is already outdated.
01:00:08.000It underestimated the amount of uranium buried in the strikes and therefore based its conclusions on Iran having more uranium to work with than it actually does.
01:00:17.000Also, again, the idea that Iran is able to rebuild that quickly is kind of crazy.
01:00:24.000And the idea that Israel is going to stop doing operations is kind of crazy.
01:00:28.000But I think that we should take into account the fact that the legacy media that are eager to report this low-level assessment, this low confidence intelligence assessment from DIA, let me just point out, Israel has the best intelligence on the ground in Iran, not the United States, Israel, because they have human intelligence on the ground in Iran.
01:00:46.000The joke going around is that there are more Mossad agents in Iran than there are Iranians in Iran at this point.
01:00:51.000You think the Israelis would have been fully satisfied with a ceasefire if they believed that Iran was capable of going nuclear again in six months?
01:01:14.000I remember, Dan, at one point, being in Tehran years ago, and they're chanting death to America all around me, even as I say, oh, I'm an American reporting for CNN, and they were happy to speak to me.
01:01:26.000So those two sort of jarring realities of the chant and yet the friendliness have existed together.
01:01:35.000They're actually friendly when they chant death to America because they're willing to talk to a credulous CNN reporter, Aaron Burnett, we should take totally seriously.
01:01:42.000And all the things the media say and are leaked to, we should take totally seriously.
01:01:46.000Again, the leaks that are happening to the New York Times are happening for a reason.
01:01:52.000People leak to the media in order to obtain a political result.
01:01:56.000If the goal is to undermine President Trump's credibility, if the goal is to undermine the more hawkish side of the Trump administration and to undermine President Trump's foreign policy, that's the goal.
01:02:06.000And you should all see the goal because leaks don't happen in a vacuum.
01:02:30.000You might call them a deep state inside the Trump administration, actually, who have attempted to undermine the president's foreign policy every step of the way through coordinated leaking and messaging with their allies outside.
01:02:42.000Okay, meanwhile, Hollywood is very upset.
01:02:44.000Again, I have a general rule of Hollywood's upset with the thing.
01:02:47.000Rosie O'Donnell posted what looks like an AI-generated photo of a tiny President Trump sitting in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's lap.
01:02:55.000Now, again, I'm old enough to remember when this was considered der Schirmer-type anti-Semitism, this idea that Benjamin Netanyahu is pulling the strings of the president of the United States.
01:03:05.000By the way, I noticed the president of the United States yesterday call off an Israeli airstrike on Iran.
01:03:09.000So I have a feeling that actually that's not the way this relationship really works.
01:03:14.000Meanwhile, pop megastar and wicked actress Ariana Grande shared a post from Congresswoman Alexandro Ocasio-Cortez calling for President Trump's impeachment.
01:03:22.000I definitely needed to hear the thoughts of an underfed pop star waif on Middle Eastern policy.
01:03:30.000Ariana Grande would last precisely 2.7 seconds in Iran doing what she does publicly.
01:03:36.000Mia Farrow, who of course is also not all there, she says, unprovoked, without imminent threat, Trump attacked a country without consulting Congress.
01:03:44.000Mark Hamill, who, again, it's always a little bit sad when people who you watched in movies that you loved growing up turn out to be some of the world's biggest doofuses.
01:03:58.000He said, I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we've gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress.
01:04:03.000I remember Mark Hamill being super upset about all of Joe Biden's kinetic military action in the Middle East and Barack Obama's.
01:04:48.000So like when we were bombed by the Japanese during World War II and then we decided to destroy the Japanese empire, that was about money, according to, okay.
01:05:45.000But if you find yourself on the horseshoe right agreeing with these people, let me suggest that you look around at your allies, the people who you're hanging out with these days.
01:05:52.000Maybe it's because you agree with them.
01:05:54.000Maybe it's because your ideology is the same and you're not nearly as right-wing as you've said you are.
01:05:59.000Again, those polling splits, MAGA Republicans, 95% in favor of the president's action in Iran.
01:06:07.000And meanwhile, President Trump has headed over to the NATO summit.
01:06:12.000He has gone there in order to demand, again, that the NATO allies pay their fair share.
01:06:18.000He shared a post from Mark Rudy of NATO, the head of NATO, praising him for actually calling on all of these members of NATO to pay their fair share.
01:06:26.000Quote, Mr. President, dear Donald, congratulations and thank you for your decisive action in Iran.
01:06:31.000That was truly extraordinary, something no one else dared to do.
01:06:35.000You are flying into another big success in The Hague this evening.
01:06:37.000It was not easy, but we've got them all signed on to 5%.
01:06:40.000Donald, you have driven us to a really, really important moment for America and Europe and the world.
01:06:44.000You will achieve something no American president in decades could get done.
01:06:47.000Europe is going to pay in a big way, as they should, and it will be your win.
01:06:50.000Safe travels and see you at His Majesty's dinner.
01:06:52.000That was Mark Rudy, who is the Secretary General of NATO, which is good.
01:06:56.000Again, it was always good that President Trump was calling on the Europeans to stop freeloading and taking advantage of America's largesse in order to bulk up their welfare states while we paid for their military.
01:07:06.000So NATO countries, all except for Spain, which again, Spain is a socialist trash heap at this point, agreed in preliminary talks to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP.
01:07:16.000The spending commitment is divided into two parts, 3.5% for traditional military spending, according to the Daily Wire.
01:07:22.000That would be air defense, recruitment.
01:07:23.000The remaining 1.5% can include infrastructure like roads and bridges.
01:07:34.000However, the move by President Trump to get them to pay their fair share is the correct move.
01:07:39.000Meanwhile, the Europeans are picking up the burden in Ukraine, as they should, as they should.
01:07:43.000There just needs to be enough of a transition from American support to European support so there is no gap in Ukraine's defense.
01:07:50.000Here's Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the EU, suggesting that there is a financial program amounting to $150 billion to support Ukraine's defense.
01:07:59.000We have designed a funding program of 150 billion euros.
01:08:04.000We call it SAFE, where member states, but also Ukraine and other partners, can take these loans to invest in the Ukraine defense industry, which has shown its ability to innovate, to produce fast and reliably at scale.
01:08:22.000We can learn a lot from you, what that is concerned, but in this way we can support you also for the survival of Ukraine.
01:08:32.000Okay, so the Europeans look like they're going to pick up the bill.
01:08:36.000There needs to be a transition, again, because a lot of the weaponry being used by the Ukrainians is American in origin.
01:08:41.000You can't just shift over immediately to American-made, from American-made weaponry and ammo to European-made weaponry and ammo.
01:08:48.000That takes a bit of a transition period for certain.
01:08:51.000President Trump has said that he plans to meet with Vladimir Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, on Wednesday alongside the NATO summit, according to a White House official granted anonymity to discuss the meeting.
01:09:20.000Russia can do the churning through the meat of its soldiers indefinitely, but are they going to win any additional territory?
01:09:30.000Well, if the Europeans step up and if there's enough of a bridge from American support to European support, then Russia is not going to make any more significant gains in Ukraine.
01:09:38.000That's what needs to be ironed out right now.