It was a big weekend in news, folks, and we'll get to all of it in a moment. First, your reminder, join DailyWirePlus for extensive coverage of the 2024 election season, including tomorrow night's VP debate, with our exclusive pre- and post-backstage show. Second, the aftermath of Hurricane Helene has been devastating across the Southeast, including North Carolina. Third, Israel just reshaped the entire politics of the Middle East and we ll talk about what that means for the 2020 election. And finally, we'll talk about why the Biden-Harris White House is a disaster, and why you should vote for Jill Biden. Daily Wire Plus is a conservative ad-free show from the most trusted names in conservative media. Stay informed with facts mainstream media will not share. Go to Dailywire.me/Dailywire and become a member today! Subscribe to become a Member today. It helps us bring you the most uncensored version of the conservative media you can read, hear and watch wherever you get your favorite shows and listen to the most influential conservative news and opinions. And it helps us create the most impactful and influential conservative voices in the world. We create a world where you get the most out of your time and your voice matters the most. We make things, not just for your day-to-day life, but for your voice and your day to day life. Today's show is a must-listen to the things you need to know and care about. . Join Dailywireplus.me newsletter! Subscribe today! Subscribe today using our exclusive discount code POWERFULTERMACO to get 20% off your first-edition discount code: POWERFUL. POWERFUL FIVE DAY OFFER to receive $5,000 off your ad discount when you sign up for VIP access to our next ad discount! FREE PRICING CODE POWERFUL PRODUCING DAY AND VIP SUPPORTING WEEKEND PROMO CODE: FAST FOLLOWING FRIENDS WEEKEND OFFER? FREE MONEY OFFER CODE: PODCAST: VIP PROMOTIONAL SUPPORTING VIP SUPPORT WEEKEND VIP SUPPORTED WEEKEND DEED? FREE FASTEST WEEKEND TRAINING PROMETOR WEEKEND FREE FOUNDATION AND VIP PRODCAST CLICK HERE TO BUY TALKING SUPPORTED MONTH-UPSETTERING WEEKLY AND VIPIZER?
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00:00:23.000I begin today by mentioning that in our description today we have a link To places that you can help people in North Carolina in particular who are getting absolutely hammered by the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
00:00:35.000Hurricane Helene tore through some of the panhandle of Florida and then moved up into Tennessee, South Carolina and it absolutely pulverized parts of North Carolina according to USA Today.
00:00:46.000More than 2.1 million people remained without power on Sunday across the Southeast in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, including more than 460,000 in North Carolina where the storm pulverized homes, trapped residents, spawned landslides, and submerged communities under raging floodwaters.
00:01:00.000Nearly 70 people have died across multiple states.
00:01:02.000Since the record-breaking storm hit Florida's Big Bend as a Category 4 hurricane with 140 mile-per-hour winds on Thursday and then moved through Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas before weakening to a post-tropical cyclone, the death toll is, in fact, expected to rise.
00:01:16.000The videos coming out of North Carolina, in particular, are astonishing.
00:01:19.000I've seen entire towns have been wiped away.
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00:01:34.000Now, the big news of the weekend is that Israel basically just reshaped the entire politics of the Middle East.
00:01:39.000And we'll talk about what this means for the 2024 election because it does have in fact,
00:01:43.000pretty significant electoral ramifications given the fact that the Biden-Harris White House
00:01:48.000has absolutely blown it on foreign policy.
00:01:51.000First, it is important to note exactly what happened.
00:01:54.000So if you've been following the news from the Middle East for the past few weeks or for the past year or so
00:01:58.000since October 7th, what you will have noticed that after October 7th,
00:02:02.000Hezbollah, which is a massive Lebanese terrorist group, it is really an Iranian proxy group,
00:02:08.000but it's also a party in the Lebanese government.
00:02:11.000Basically, Lebanon has been turned into a chaotic hellhole by Iranian and Syrian intervention in the state.
00:02:17.000Hezbollah is a major part of the government over there.
00:02:19.000They are also, of course, a major terrorist group.
00:02:22.000In 2000, Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon in an attempt to basically draw back and say, we don't want to police this area of Lebanon.
00:02:29.000That area of Lebanon before that had been used by the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hezbollah as a launching point for terror attacks on Israel.
00:02:36.000Israel had then fought to keep a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to make sure that southern Lebanon was not used as a launching off point.
00:02:44.000In 2000, Israel completely withdrew in the same way that they withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
00:02:49.000So, turns out the unilateral Israeli withdrawals tend to be really, really stupid and they don't work well.
00:02:54.000Just doing a little bit of history here.
00:02:55.000So in 2000, Israel withdraws unilaterally from southern Lebanon.
00:03:00.000Then in 2006, There is a fairly major war, about a 34-day war between the Hezbollah forces in Southern Lebanon and the Israelis.
00:03:09.000The Israelis go in, they pound Southern Lebanon pretty hard, and that is concluded with a UN resolution, UN Resolution 1701, which calls for demilitarization of Southern Lebanon from Hezbollah to be guaranteed by UNIFIL, a UN-sponsored set of fake troops.
00:03:25.000Immediately upon Israel withdrawing again, that entire area is taken over by Hezbollah.
00:03:31.000And so the widespread perception in the aftermath of October 7th was that the greater military threat was not Hamas in the south to Israel.
00:03:38.000The greater military threat was Hezbollah in the north to Israel.
00:03:42.000They were reportedly armed with up to 200,000 rockets.
00:03:45.000They also had a bunch of sophisticated weaponry that was capable of hitting towers in Tel Aviv.
00:03:50.000And so one of the things that Israel had to contend with throughout the war that they were fighting with Hamas was the possibility of Hezbollah getting in.
00:03:57.000And then they would be in the middle of a two-front war.
00:04:00.000Well, as it turns out, because of the Biden administration's pressure on Israel and the fact that they've drawn so many stupid ideas from the Obama administration about the Middle East, because of that, Israel doesn't just face one front war in the South, they face not just a two-front war, they face essentially a seven-front war.
00:04:17.000It also included the Iranian-sponsored Houthis in Yemen.
00:04:20.000It included the Iraqi-Iranian-sponsored terror groups in Iraq.
00:04:24.000Iranian-sponsored terror groups in Syria, direct Iranian attacks from Iran, attacks from the West Bank sponsored by Iran.
00:04:32.000Basically, Iran motivated all of its proxies on October 7th and beyond to attack Israel in the hopes of sinking any sort of nascent peace deal between Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arab world.
00:04:44.000That was the thing they were trying to forestall.
00:04:45.000They were hoping that by initiating a conflict, that it would turn into a broader Muslim versus Jew conflict as opposed to a Shia versus Israel plus Sunni conflict.
00:04:56.000Which is the way the Middle East was breaking down.
00:04:58.000The Abraham Accords were largely about Israel and the Sunni Gulf Arabs deciding that Iran was a greater threat.
00:05:05.000And they were going to basically get together.
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00:06:48.000Well, a couple of weeks ago, Israel decided that it had enough.
00:07:11.000They put together a fake beeper company in the knowledge that Hassan Nasrallah, who is the evil terroristic head of Hezbollah, we'll get to him in just a moment, That evil terroristic head would eventually realize that all of his communications were being hacked, and he would move to dumb methods of communications like beepers.
00:07:28.000That's why Hezbollah's entire infrastructure, their terror infrastructure, they're using beepers like they were in some sort of episode of Seinfeld from 1995 or something.
00:07:37.000The reason they're using beeper is because they were afraid that if they used iPhones, Israel would hack the iPhones, essentially.
00:07:42.000They'd be able to monitor all their communications.
00:07:44.000They started using beepers in about February or March of this year.
00:07:48.000Israel had not only known that, they had sold them the beepers they were using.
00:07:52.000And so simultaneously, they blew up all the beepers a couple of weeks ago, thereby not
00:07:56.000only handicapping and blowing the off of hundreds, if not thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, but also
00:08:02.000destroying their entire method of communication. They then followed that up by bombing all of
00:08:07.000When they moved from the beepers to their secondary mode of communication, their walkie-talkies, it turns out, oops, they bought those from the Israelis also.
00:08:14.000So it turns out that the clever Jews had clevered again.
00:08:19.000So now their methods of communication were gone.
00:08:21.000Their top infrastructure was largely damaged.
00:08:23.000And they didn't really have the ability to do anything because Israel had such great intelligence penetration into Lebanon that it was simultaneously launching massive air assaults, some 1,600 air assaults over the course of some 36 hours, destroying about half of Hezbollah's long-range weaponry.
00:08:40.000What that meant is that Israel, over the course of the last 10 months, has basically taken Hamas out of play.
00:08:45.000Hamas is still holding about 100 hostages, maybe half of those people may be alive, stationed around Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas, if he is in fact still alive, which is unclear at this point, because nobody's heard from him for weeks, so he could theoretically be dead.
00:08:58.000And those hostages could just be sort of dispersed, being held by terrorists all over the Gaza Strip at this point, no one really knows.
00:09:03.000But, in terms of what Israel has accomplished with Hamas, Israel, in the aftermath of October 7th, has wrecked Hamas.
00:09:10.000I will say this, the mark of a first world country, the mark of a proper military, is not that you never get surprised.
00:09:16.000The mark of a proper country is that if you do get surprised and you get hurt, you hit back so hard that the people who hit you no longer exist, nor do any of their friends.
00:09:26.000So the mark of America being a first world country is that when we get hit at Pearl Harbor, we then proceed to launch two of the most destructive assaults on our enemies in world history, on the Japanese and on the Germans.
00:09:38.000The mark of the power of the United States is that after 9-11, we took down two countries.
00:09:48.000It's a massive disaster, the worst intelligence and human disaster in the history of the state of Israel.
00:09:53.000And they proceed to completely root out Hamas, and they have this threat in the north.
00:09:59.000And this threat in the north has been used by Hamas as a rationale for not surrendering the hostages, because they are hoping, Hamas was hoping, in the Gaza Strip, that eventually, if it came down to it, Hezbollah would get full scale in the war, and the intimidation factor of Hezbollah in the north would force Israel to make all sorts of concessions to Hamas, including leaving them in power in the Gaza Strip.
00:10:19.000So Israel has now completely taken that off the table because not only did they wreck Hezbollah's forward operating power, and remember Hezbollah is an arm of Iran.
00:10:28.000So Iran has now had its two knights taken off the board.
00:10:33.000Hezbollah has been effectively Hezbollah has been really, really hurt.
00:10:39.000And that was before what happened on Friday.
00:10:42.000And as for Iran itself, what Iran has shown is that Iran does not actually have the forward operating capacity, in the absence of its proxies, to attack Israel in any sort of serious or sophisticated way.
00:10:51.000You remember earlier this year, they tried to launch an attack on Israel.
00:10:53.000They fired 300 cruise missiles and drones at Israel.
00:10:57.000About half of them, because they were crap, fell into Iran themselves.
00:11:00.000And the rest of them were shot down by Israel and its Western allies, including by the way,
00:11:04.000Jordan and some from Saudi Arabia, apparently Saudi Arabia shot down
00:11:08.000some simultaneously fired missiles from the Houthis.
00:12:19.000And then, because of the influx of people from the Palestine Liberation Organization, because of the influx of Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, the influx of Syrian Muslims, because of that, Lebanon, which is always multicultural and multi-religious, has turned into a chaotic, Civil War-ridden bleep show.
00:12:37.000Lebanon is a disaster area, and that is because of Hezbollah in large part, which is the single most powerful proxy of Iran in the region.
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00:13:54.000Well, number one, they're responsible for hundreds of American deaths.
00:13:56.000They're responsible for the Beirut barracks bombings.
00:13:59.000But not only that, they're responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Syrian Muslims who are siding against the Assad regime.
00:14:07.000The Assad regime has worked with Hezbollah.
00:14:08.000They're responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Lebanese, Muslims, and Christians.
00:14:13.000Hezbollah is a State Department-designated terror organization.
00:14:16.000In fact, Hezbollah is an Arab League-designated terrorist organization.
00:14:22.000And they've made their agenda very clear, going all the way back to like 1985.
00:14:26.000In an open letter published February 16th, 1985 in Al-Safir, they say, we are often asked, who are we, the Hezbollah, and what is our identity?
00:14:34.000We are the sons of the Ummah, the Muslim community, the party of God, Hezbollah, the vanguard of which was made victorious by God in Iran.
00:14:40.000Right, they're an Iranian front group.
00:14:44.000has tried through its local agents to persuade the people that those who crushed their arrogance in Lebanon and frustrated their conspiracy against the oppressed were nothing but a bunch of fanatic terrorists whose sole aim is to dynamite bars and destroy slot machines.
00:14:55.000Such suggestions cannot and will not mislead our Ummah, for the whole world knows that whoever wishes to oppose the U.S.
00:15:00.000that arrogant superpower cannot indulge in marginal acts which may make it deviate from its major objectives.
00:15:06.000We combat abomination, and we shall tear out its very roots, its primary roots, which are the United States.
00:15:11.000It's an anti-American, and therefore anti-Israeli, because Israel is, of course, an ally of the United States, anti-Semitic terror group.
00:15:20.000Hassan Nasrallah himself has suggested that the slogan of Hezbollah ought to be, Death to Israel.
00:15:50.000Hezbollah has also angrily threatened to destroy US hegemony in the Middle East.
00:15:55.000And of course, they've attacked a couple of U.S.
00:15:56.000embassies and the Marine Peacekeepers' Barracks in Lebanon, as mentioned, as well as American targets in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and they've carried out terror attacks as far-flung as in South America.
00:16:05.000Hassan Nasrallah is the head of Hezbollah.
00:16:08.000So it's not just that Israel took out everybody under Hassan Nasrallah.
00:16:32.000Why are you leaving town in the middle of... There was actual criticism of him in Israel for having left.
00:16:37.000And so the question is, why was he doing that?
00:16:39.000And there was a lot of speculation that perhaps he was doing that because he wanted to meet with Team Biden.
00:16:43.000Because Team Biden, Saudi Arabia, the French, the French have sort of a vestigial interest in Lebanon because Lebanon was a French protectorate from effectively 1920, the end of World War I, until 1944 when they gave autonomy to the Lebanese.
00:16:56.000They continued to give military support to the Lebanese regime.
00:17:00.000So there's all these countries, and they came forward and said, we want a 21-day ceasefire.
00:17:03.000And Israel's like, are you kidding me right now?
00:17:13.000But they're not doing it, so ain't no ceasefire.
00:17:15.000But there's a lot of speculation that maybe Netanyahu is gonna come to the United States, he's gonna make nice, he's gonna be a little more conciliatory, because why else would he be showing up?
00:17:24.000So that was the perception domestically in Israel.
00:17:26.000It was the perception in the press as well.
00:17:28.000And it happens to be the perception in Lebanon.
00:17:36.000So, apparently, according to reports, Monday of the week that Netanyahu went to the UN, on Monday, the IDF, the higher levels of the IDF, and remember, the IDF and Netanyahu do not see eye-to-eye politically.
00:17:48.000Many of the top members of the IDF would not vote for Netanyahu.
00:17:53.000It's a very diverse coalition right now of people who are pushing to end the threat to the north in Israel.
00:17:59.000There's video of Yair Golan, who's the head of the Labor Party.
00:18:02.000Yair Golan is very much to the left, standing in northern Israel, pointing at the mountains of Lebanon and saying, we need to be over there.
00:18:08.000Okay, so there's widespread unity that Israel should finish the job now and clear out southern Lebanon sufficient that Israelis can live in Israeli territory.
00:18:17.000So, people were pretty pissed that Bibi was going to the UN.
00:18:21.000At least there was a lot of consternation.
00:19:10.000So in a scene very much reminiscent of the end of Godfather 1, where all family business is put to bed, where Michael's at the baptism, meanwhile, Clemenza's shooting Tattaglia, that's basically what happened at the United Nations on Friday.
00:19:23.000So Netanyahu gets up and he gives a barn burner of a speech at the UN.
00:19:26.000I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran.
00:19:52.000There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach.
00:20:05.000and And that's true of the entire Middle East.
00:20:09.000Okay, and that was a big line, because the perception of Israel after October 7th is that maybe Israel was the paper tiger, maybe Iran was on the move.
00:20:16.000Now again, a lot of that had been promoted by the Biden administration, which upon coming into office, had basically distanced itself from Saudi, had distanced itself from Israel, and had tried to make overtures via cutouts, like Robert Malley, who may in fact have been working hand-in-glove with the Iranians, with Iran.
00:20:30.000Now as you can see from the footage of this UN speech, it's basically empty in there.
00:20:38.000The Sunni Gulf State Arab nations are ecstatic about what Israel is doing right now.
00:20:43.000Israel is wrecking all of their enemies.
00:20:45.000All the same people that Israel is wrecking right now are enemies of the Sunni Gulf States.
00:20:51.000The Houthis, who Israel, after they killed Nasrallah, Have been hitting.
00:20:56.000So the Houthis fired a cruise missile at Tel Aviv after the killing of Nasrallah.
00:21:00.000Israel waited three, four days, and then they blew up a couple of ports.
00:21:05.000So while the Biden administration is sitting with its thumb up its butt, while the Houthis hold up all shipping in the Red Sea, the Israelis are flying a thousand miles to blow up ports with sorties.
00:21:16.000So you know who's ecstatic about that?
00:25:35.000According to the Wall Street Journal, a series of Israeli attacks killed many of the Lebanese militant groups' senior leaders, blew up its electronic devices, and destroyed some of its vast arsenal of missiles.
00:25:44.000Some plan to use this meeting, where they were meeting 60 feet below the surface of a bustling working-class neighborhood in southern Beirut.
00:25:49.000They plan to use this meeting to express frustration that Iran was restraining them From responding more forcefully to the Israeli attacks, according to people familiar with Hezbollah's discussions.
00:25:57.000Around dusk, explosions shook the city above.
00:26:00.000Israel's Air Force struck the bunker with about 80 tons of bombs.
00:26:04.000According to several people familiar with the situation, the attack used a series of timed, chained explosions to penetrate the subterranean bunker, a senior Israeli military official said.
00:26:14.000Nasrallah's death leaves a void at the top of the world's most heavily armed non-state militia, which is designated as a terrorist group by the United States.
00:26:20.000It was a transformative event for the Middle East.
00:26:24.000The killing showed Israel's leaders are prepared to blow past the red lines that previously defined the country's slow-burning conflict with Hezbollah to ensure its own security.
00:26:31.000Israel has hit Lebanon with more than 2,000 airstrikes in recent days.
00:26:35.000They said their military campaign is aimed at ending Hezbollah's attacks on Northern Israel that have forced tens of thousands of Israelis to evacuate from their homes.
00:26:49.000Because not only have they taken Hamas off the board as a workable piece in the Iranian proxy war, they have now effectively castrated Hezbollah as a serious forward operating base for Iran.
00:27:16.000And Iran directly is, frankly, not capable of doing serious damage to Israel if their assault earlier in the year showed anything at all.
00:27:24.000In fact, Israel is significantly more capable of doing serious damage to Iran's nuclear facilities and oil fields than Iran is capable of doing the other way around.
00:27:32.000Israel's been attempting to cut off the supply lines from Syria into Lebanon in order to isolate Hezbollah.
00:27:38.000There are militias in Syria, but one of the things that Israel has been doing also is hitting targets in Syria.
00:27:44.000And they're preventing the shipping of Iranian materiel into Lebanon.
00:27:48.000In fact, over the weekend, the Israelis told the Lebanese, if you allow Iranian planes into your airport, we're gonna blow up your airport.
00:27:57.000So there were Iranian planes en route when this happened.
00:28:01.000The Lebanese called up the Iranians and said, turn those planes around.
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00:29:13.000While the United States, the most powerful military force on planet Earth by leaps and bounds, is allowing a ragtag bunch of terrorists funded by Iran to fire on shipping in the Red Sea with near impunity, to fire at American ships without serious retaliation, to kill Americans in Jordan, for example.
00:29:31.000The Israelis, a far smaller country, Israel, a country of 7.5 million Jews, about 2 million Arabs, 9.5 million people total in Israel.
00:29:40.000That country is taking on all comers right now and wrecking them.
00:29:44.000And their intelligence apparatus is astonishing.
00:29:47.000They have penetration in all these areas.
00:29:48.000By the way, one of the reasons they have penetration into places like Lebanon and places like Iran, where you will remember they killed Ismail Khenia, the political head of Hamas just a few months back, is because there are so many people in these places who hate these regimes.
00:29:59.000There are a lot of people in Lebanon who hate Hassan Nasrallah.
00:30:03.000There are Syrians who are literally handing out candies in the street after hearing that Nasrallah was dead.
00:30:09.000When it comes to Iran, the people of Iran don't like the regime.
00:30:12.000It's just the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the world's largest terrorist organization, which is in charge of this terror regime.
00:30:19.000Ayatollah Khamenei, by the way, has been in hiding.
00:30:21.000He's afraid that the Israelis are going to kill him.
00:30:23.000He's afraid he's going to pick up his cell phone and there'll be a bomb in it.
00:30:27.000So what Israel right now is showing is the power of strength and the Sunni Gulf states are going to sign back on because here's what they see.
00:30:39.000And despite the fact that the Biden administration has blown it six ways from Sunday, Israel is demonstrating that despite the leash being held by the Biden administration, the slow walking of aid, the soft arms embargo, the Joe Biden idiotic midnight phone calls, telling Israel not to go into Rafah, telling Israel not to go take the win with regard to Iran, Despite all of that, Israel has said, no, we are going to protect ourselves.
00:31:28.000In fact, the Financial Times actually reported that in the days after October 7th, Israeli warplanes took off with instructions to kill Nasrallah.
00:31:37.000And Joe Biden got on the phone and said no.
00:31:40.000The White House demanded Netanyahu not do it.
00:31:42.000So what did the Israelis do this time?
00:32:06.000And then as I mentioned, they've also been bombing the Houthis.
00:32:09.000The bombing of the seaports in Yemen on Sunday after the rebel group launched a couple of ballistic
00:32:16.000missiles at Tel Aviv is yet another sign
00:32:19.000that Israel is not going to take the sitting down anymore.
00:32:21.000That there's no more Mr. Nice Zionist over there.
00:32:25.000Which means there are now all sorts of opportunities in Lebanon, by the way, because with Hezbollah weakened, it turns out there might be other powers that could fill that space.
00:32:34.000Either the Lebanese government is going to fight Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and pull those forces out, or Israel's going in and they know it.
00:32:41.000By the way, France could be helpful here.
00:32:43.000France has been shipping all sorts of material over there and about Israel getting involved in Southern Lebanon.
00:32:47.000Maybe the French should actually do something useful for a change.
00:32:52.000So, this is the opening of a new era in the Middle East.
00:32:56.000It's not just me saying this, it's people on the left saying this.
00:32:59.000Dennis Ross, former Special Assistant to Barack Obama.
00:33:02.000And Stephen Tehan, a Research Director of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute, who worked in the US State Department at Time Magazine.
00:33:12.000They write, just when the prospect of peace in the Middle East seemed further away than ever, the dramatic death of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah significantly alters the balance of power and offers a renewed opportunity for peace.
00:33:24.000The broader opportunity comes from what has accompanied Nasrallah's death, the systematic degradation of Hezbollah's capabilities over the last month.
00:33:31.000The entire operational leadership of Hezbollah has been emptied.
00:33:34.000You would have imagined that if they killed Nasrallah at the beginning of this war, there would have been 10,000 rockets flying.
00:33:55.000Like, if you don't believe in miracles, this would be a good time to start believing if you're just looking at the stats that have been presented on the ground as to what is happening militarily.
00:34:04.000Like, a thousand years from now, as a Jew, a thousand years from now, there'll be a Jewish holiday.
00:34:36.000With Hezbollah out of the picture, what's the deterrent against the West taking out their nuclear facilities?
00:34:41.000The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel.
00:34:48.000Iran spent the last 40 years building this capability as its deterrent.
00:34:51.000President Trump would often say Iran has never won a war but never lost a negotiation.
00:34:55.000The Islamic Republic's regime is much tougher when risking Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian and Houthi lives than when risking their own.
00:35:01.000Their foolish efforts to assassinate President Trump and hack his campaign wreak of desperation
00:35:05.000and are hardening a large coalition against them.
00:35:08.000Iranian leadership is stuck in the Old Middle East while their neighbors in the GCC are
00:35:12.000sprinting toward the future by investing in their populations and infrastructure.
00:35:16.000They are becoming dynamic magnets for talent and investment while Iran falls further behind.
00:35:20.000As the Iranian proxies and threats dissipate, regional security and prosperity will rise
00:35:23.000for Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike.
00:35:26.000Israel now finds itself with the threat from Gaza mostly neutralized and the opportunity
00:36:31.000First, the 2024 vice presidential debate between J.D.
00:36:33.000Vance and Tim Walz is coming to DailyWirePlus tomorrow night.
00:36:36.000But let's face it, these debates are better with friends.
00:36:38.000Especially friends who can spot every lie and false promise.
00:36:41.000Which is why we're doing a special backstage with pre-show analysis from Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Jeremy Boring, and of course, You're truly.
00:36:47.000Plus, stick around for a post-debate breakdown with insights you won't hear from the mainstream media.
00:36:52.000So instead of yelling at your TV alone, come yell with us.
00:36:54.000The VP Debate, tomorrow night, 8.30 Eastern on Daily Wire+.
00:36:58.000Well, as you would predict, the usual sources are very upset.
00:37:04.000Ayatollah Khamenei, who is literally in hiding right now, he put out a tweet announcing that Iran was in a state of mourning.
00:37:09.000They're also presumably going to raise some red flags of revenge or whatever.
00:37:13.000They're going to go into their flag stash again, they're going to put up their red flag of stupidity, and they're going to put up their purple flag of disappointment, and their orange flag of angst, and all the rest of their flags, and all the rest of that sort of stuff.
00:37:23.000But meanwhile, he's hiding because he understands that he is now stuck between a rock and a hard place.
00:37:27.000The rock is that he has been abjectly humiliated by the Juden.
00:37:32.000The Jews have really humiliated him here.
00:37:34.000And because they have really humiliated him, this makes him vulnerable.
00:37:37.000At the same time, if he ups the ante here, Israel will clock him into next week.
00:37:41.000Israel has been prepping for 20 years to hit the nuclear facilities, to hit the oil fields, to do serious damage.
00:37:47.000And by the way, people are forgetting that after Iran fired those 300 cruise missiles and drones at Israel, and none of them did any damage, after that happened, Israel retaliated by firing a piece of ordinance that was so technologically sophisticated, it was literally directed very short distances from where the Iranian nuclear facilities were.
00:38:21.000So Mahmoud Abbas, he's the supposed moderate.
00:38:22.000So whenever you hear morons say that Mahmoud Abbas should lead the Palestinians into a brighter future, understand that he too is a radical pro-terror piece of trash whose regime actually pays people to kill Jews.
00:38:36.000He put out a statement, Mr. President Mahmoud Abbas extends his condolences to the
00:38:39.000Lebanese Hezbollah on the martyrdom of his Secretary General Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.
00:38:44.000His Majesty also gave his deepest condolences to the Lebanese government
00:38:47.000and the Lebanese brotherly people on the martyrdom of the civilian victims
00:38:50.000who have fallen as a result of the heinous Israeli aggression
00:38:52.000and the continuation of the war of genocide against the Palestinian and Lebanese people.
00:38:56.000By the way, Israel is super bad at genocide.
00:38:58.000It turns out they are fighting the most targeted military operation in literally human history between what they have done to Hezbollah in the north and what they have done to Hamas in their south.
00:39:08.000Other pro-terrorists who are out there...
00:39:28.000Also, if there is funding that's going the wrong way, it would be the funding to, say,
00:39:31.000the UNRWA, or the funding to Hamas, or the funding to Iran.
00:39:35.000Those would be the wrong direction of funding.
00:39:38.000And herein lies the problem for the Biden-Harris administration.
00:39:40.000I said this has political ramifications in the United States, and it absolutely should.
00:39:45.000The only reason any of this is happening is because Joe Biden is a moron when it comes to foreign policy.
00:39:51.000Robert Gates, former Obama Secretary of Defense, said Joe Biden had never made a good decision on foreign policy, and that is true.
00:39:56.000And there's only one person in his near orbit who's even worse than he is, and she's running for president right now, and that's Kamala Harris, obviously.
00:40:03.000So Joe Biden, even Joe Biden, was forced to put out a statement saying,
00:40:06.000yeah by the way we're pretty happy Nasrallah is dead.
00:40:08.000Quote, Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah,
00:40:11.000were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror.
00:40:14.000His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims,
00:40:18.000including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.
00:40:21.000The strike that killed Nasrallah took place in the broader context of the
00:40:23.000conflict that began with Hamas's massacre on October 7, 2023.
00:40:27.000Nasrallah, the next day, made the fateful decision to join hands with Hamas and open what he called a Northern Front against Israel.
00:40:34.000The United States fully supports Israel's right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and any other Iranian-supported terror groups.
00:40:41.000Just yesterday, I directed my Secretary of Defense to further enhance the defense posture of U.S.
00:40:45.000military forces in the Middle East to deter aggression and reduce the risk of a broader regional war.
00:40:52.000And then... Ultimately, our aim is to de-escalate the ongoing conflicts in both Gaza and Lebanon through diplomatic means.
00:40:58.000In Gaza, we have been pursuing a deal, backed by the UN Security Council, for a ceasefire and the release of hostages.
00:41:04.000In Lebanon, we have been negotiating a deal that would return people safely to their homes in Israel and southern Lebanon.
00:41:08.000It is time for these deals to close, for the threats to Israel to be removed, and for the broader Middle East region to gain greater stability.
00:41:39.000If that had been the position of the administration all along, this thing would have been cleaned up by the new year 2024.
00:41:45.000Instead, they decided that they were going to take the middle road, the middle position.
00:41:49.000And that was because, of course, they have political aims in places like Michigan.
00:41:54.000So what we now know about Vice President Harris, she apparently is so far backing President Biden's diplomacy-focused strategy in the Middle East.
00:42:07.000Your diploma's seeing the hell out of this one.
00:42:09.000Amos Hochstein, the doltish, cloddish negotiator the United States has been sending to Lebanon, and then to Israel, and then to Lebanon, and then to Israel, and then to Iran, and then to Israel.
00:42:18.000Like, they're sending him all over over there.
00:42:39.000And you can see the split inside the Biden-Harris administration.
00:42:42.000So John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson, he says, listen, nobody is mourning Nasrallah's death.
00:42:49.000I don't think anybody's mourning the loss of Mr. Nasrallah, a known terrorist, a guy with American blood on his hands as well as Israeli blood on his hands.
00:43:08.000So Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, looking very uncomfortable, saying, guys, the best solution is always diplomatic, always it's diplomatic.
00:43:14.000Listen, if you could have diplomacy your way out of this one, don't you think that might have happened over the course of the last year?
00:43:19.000It turns out a great solution is to kill people trying to kill you.
00:43:25.000So we would hope that we don't see a ground incursion, because if that happens, There is a chance that the conflict could broaden into what could be a regional conflict.
00:43:41.000So, again, we think the best solution going forward is a diplomatic solution.
00:44:06.000If they're going to do a grand incursion, go at it, man.
00:44:09.000If they did that, the Lebanese government might actually have an interest in not trying to hold out against all of this.
00:44:16.000Once again, the weakness of this administration, the weakness of Kamala Harris, the weakness of Joe Biden, they've made the world a bloodier place, and it is only because Israel is doing historic things right now that the Middle East is being reshaped anyway, in the absence of American leadership.
00:44:30.000Well, the United States can't afford to lose its power, lose its influence, and your business, you can't afford to lose time.
00:45:34.000Go check them out right now for the special offer, stamps.com, code Shapiro.
00:45:38.000Well, meanwhile, Kamala Harris, she headed down to the border to pretend that she's actually tough on the border, which, of course, she is not.
00:45:45.000She's got a big problem in the polls with Latinos, apparently.
00:45:47.000According to a brand new national NBC News Telemundo poll, she has the worst level of advantage for a Democrat in four election cycles.
00:45:56.000Right now, she's winning Latinos, but only 54 to 40, with 6% saying they're unsure or would not vote.
00:46:04.000That's a 14-point advantage, but that is not nearly Joe Biden's advantage in 2020.
00:46:09.000In 2020, Joe Biden had a 36-point advantage.
00:46:12.000Not 14, 36-point advantage on Donald Trump.
00:46:17.000In 2016, Hillary Clinton had a 40-point advantage on Donald Trump.
00:46:21.000In 2012, Barack Obama had a 39-point advantage on Mitt Romney.
00:46:27.000So, honestly, this is one of the things that's very difficult for me to understand about How they're even constructing these likely voter samples.
00:46:36.000If Trump is only losing by 14% among Latinos, if that's real, and if Donald Trump is also outperforming among black voters, which he seems to be, And if Donald Trump is outperforming along male voters, which he seems to be, how is this even a super tight race?
00:46:52.000Now, it seems to be a tight race by every poll.
00:46:55.000As I mentioned last week, that could be poll grouping, that could be a bunch of risk-averse pollsters.
00:46:59.000It could also be that they are trying to model out an electorate that's going to have heavy male-in voting.
00:47:05.000According to an NBC News poll, 51% of all votes in this election cycle will be early, and those heavily trend toward Democrats, which again is setting the stage for another one of these red mirage nights.
00:47:16.000That's the thing that's going to be talked about for the next five weeks.
00:47:18.000A lot of the mail-in voting, which gets counted last by law in states like Pennsylvania, is counted after the day of voting.
00:47:24.000Day of voting, Trump is expected to win in most of these states, and then the mail-in voting starts to come in, and that trends more toward the Democrats.
00:47:31.000So that's why you gotta wait a little bit later on into the night to see exactly where the voting is just so you actually know.
00:47:36.000It's also why, if you're a Republican, please early vote.
00:48:33.000She's so tough that she's even wearing her, like, look at me, I'm on the border jacket, which is really exciting.
00:48:40.000There's only one problem, of course, which is in 2019, she literally said that Donald Trump was creating fictional problems at the border, which is weird because they weren't fictional.
00:48:47.000We have a president of the United States who has created a fiction about a crisis at the border, and he has held up the United States government and its workers around his vanity project called the wall.
00:50:42.000If John Kerry has his way, that is what we're going to see.
00:50:44.000This guy was the special envoy on behalf of the Biden administration for years.
00:50:48.000Here he was at the Orwellian World Economic Forum saying the First Amendment has to be stopped.
00:50:53.000It's allowing too many people to say things that John Kerry doesn't like.
00:50:59.000Look, if people go to only one source and the source they go to is sick and, you know, has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.
00:51:16.000So what you need, what we need, is to My goodness.