The Ben Shapiro Show - March 04, 2026


Iran's Plan To Make You SIMP


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Learn English with Peter Bergen. He is the former mayor of New York City and current CNN White House Correspondent. He has been a regular contributor to CNN and the New York Times, and is a frequent guest on Fox News and CNN. He's also a frequent contributor on CNN and CNN, and a regular guest on CNN's Hard Knocks.

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00:00:00.000 There's a coalition of people that are coming together to take on the United States. 1.00
00:00:04.000 These people are cowards plus liars, plus people who despise America. 1.00
00:00:09.000 It's a coalition of scavengers. 1.00
00:00:10.000 There are the cowards who mouth platitudes about how much they really didn't like the Ayatollah, but then they spend their days talking about how the United States couldn't and shouldn't ever do anything. 0.98
00:00:20.000 And then there are the liars who literally craft stories out of nothing in order to undermine America. 0.96
00:00:27.000 And finally, there are the actual America haters who are often both cowards and liars, but really, really just despise America and her pursuit of our national interest in the world.
00:00:38.000 That coalition is coming together, but it's not going to win because President Trump is going to win this war. 0.99
00:00:44.000 But let's start with the cowards. 0.83
00:00:46.000 These are the people who pretend that, you know, they didn't like the Ayatollah very much, but they're really, really upset that anything is done about it. 0.88
00:00:53.000 So, for example, they're really, really mad that international law, ooh, international law, the precious gugaw of the pseudo-intellectuals, has been somehow violated.
00:01:03.000 Yes, if we don't have Myanmar's approval of a military strike on the Ayatollah's, or China's, which for, I mean, if there is one country I need approval from, it is China currently oppressing a billion people, or Russia, which is currently engaged in an aggressive war of conquest in Ukraine while throwing dissenters out of random third-story balconies at hotels.
00:01:25.000 I need Russia's approval. 0.58
00:01:26.000 That's international law.
00:01:28.000 And if we don't have their approval, the mullahs must remain immune. 0.99
00:01:31.000 Here, for example, is the pathetic Mark Carney of Canada. 0.81
00:01:36.000 The current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order.
00:01:42.000 Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat remains. 0.93
00:01:57.000 And now, the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada.
00:02:06.000 Who gives a who? 0.83
00:02:07.000 Really?
00:02:08.000 You guys can't even win a hockey match, bud.
00:02:11.000 I love this stuff from Mark.
00:02:13.000 My favorite part of that, I think, is where Mark Carney suggests international, we've had decades of the IAEA being thwarted.
00:02:19.000 We've had decades of UN resolutions being ignored.
00:02:22.000 And now the United States and Israel won't even go to the UN.
00:02:25.000 So you literally just said why they shouldn't. 0.98
00:02:28.000 You explained why those organizations are trash and do nothing.
00:02:32.000 And then he turns around and says, yes, but if you don't go to Canada with its vast military prowess, currently, Mark Carney, by the way, is trying to sell out Canada to the Chinese government because he's mad at President Trump's tariffs.
00:02:46.000 So if you don't go to Canada to Canada, what?
00:02:49.000 Are we dropping maple syrup on the Iranians right now? 0.98
00:02:52.000 Is that the idea?
00:02:53.000 Or take Zorhan Mamdani, who was happy to express support for terror supporters throughout his entire career, but now he too is hiding behind international law as cover for his consistent opposition to Western strength.
00:03:06.000 Mr. Mayor, do you think Iran is better off without the Ayatollah? 0.90
00:03:12.000 You know, I've said before that the Iranian government has engaged in systematic repression of its own people, even killing thousands of Iranians who were seeking to express the most basic forms of dissent earlier this year.
00:03:30.000 It is a brutal government.
00:03:32.000 And I've also said that while I may be a young mayor, I am old enough to remember the devastating consequences of our country pursuing a war with the intent of regime change in that very same region not that many years ago.
00:03:47.000 By the way, the answer there should be yes.
00:03:49.000 And even if you have questions about what comes next, the answer should be yes.
00:03:52.000 Yes, Iran is better off without Ayatollah Khomeini'i.
00:03:55.000 But according to Mamdani, the important thing is saying that the Ayatollah is bad, like really bad.
00:04:00.000 But the minute anybody does anything, that is so much worse.
00:04:03.000 We have to make sure that he stays in place because, you know, after all, the Iraq war, and again, this Iraq war syndrome nonsense that has been promoted by the left and then the horseshoe right together, that every war is Iraq, every single intervention is Iraq, is so ahistorical and absurd. 0.67
00:04:18.000 It is ahistorical.
00:04:20.000 It is just tripe.
00:04:22.000 It is nincompoopery.
00:04:24.000 The president of the United States ran in 2015-2016 on the platform that the Iraq war was bad, which was a controversial opinion inside the Republican Party at the time, lest people forget.
00:04:35.000 The idea that he is now going to engage in a new, long-lasting occupation, not like the first three weeks of the Iraq war, where the United States kicked the living hell out of Saddam Hussein and ended his regime.
00:04:44.000 But what came after?
00:04:45.000 That was the part that went wrong, by the way.
00:04:47.000 The first three weeks of the Iraq war was by every available metric, a win for the United States. 1.00
00:04:51.000 It was what came after that was a problem.
00:04:53.000 Do you think that Trump is going to engage in Bushian, neoconservative nationbuilding in Iran?
00:04:59.000 Is that your actual thought at this point? 0.98
00:05:02.000 But of course, this is the argument of the cowards and also the liars. 0.96
00:05:06.000 Then there are the cowards who slander Israel in order to somehow imply that Israel is the bad guy in the conflict between Israel and Iran. 0.97
00:05:13.000 So Gavin Newsom, who is absolutely slimy, I mean, truly slimy, taking every position he could possibly take.
00:05:19.000 As I've said before, the man takes more positions on politics than the Kama Sutra.
00:05:24.000 Gavin Newsom, who in an interview with me admitted freely that Israel had not committed genocide in Gaza, now he goes on with the Pod Save bros, and he knows he has to please. 0.99
00:05:35.000 They're Israel-hating asses. 0.98
00:05:36.000 And so he immediately comes out and starts talking about how Israel is an apartheid state. 1.00
00:05:41.000 False, 20% of the Israeli population is Arab Muslim.
00:05:45.000 They're on the Supreme Court.
00:05:47.000 They are in the medical system.
00:05:48.000 Huge percentage of Israeli doctors are Arab Muslim.
00:05:51.000 They're in every area of Israeli society.
00:05:54.000 It is not apartheid for Israel to actually have delegated certain parts of land to, for example, the Palestinian Authority, a terror supporting group.
00:06:04.000 But Gavin Newsom knows he has to mouth the platitudes to his far-left friends if he wants the nomination because the Democratic Party, as Senator John Fetterman said yesterday on the show, is moving dramatically away from Israel. 0.93
00:06:15.000 So here's Gavin Newsom telling lies and being a coward.
00:06:19.000 He's got his own domestic issues. 0.98
00:06:21.000 He's trying to stay out of jail.
00:06:24.000 He's got an election coming up.
00:06:27.000 He's potentially on the ropes.
00:06:29.000 He's got folks, the hard line, that want to annex the West, the West Bank.
00:06:33.000 I mean, Freeman and others are talking about it appropriately.
00:06:35.000 It's sort of an apartheid state.
00:06:38.000 They couldn't even, I mean, we're talking about regime change.
00:06:41.000 For two years, they haven't even been able to solve the Hamas question. 0.77
00:06:44.000 Rethinking our military support for Israel.
00:06:47.000 It breaks my heart because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path, where I don't think you have a choice but that consideration.
00:06:57.000 I mean, to say this is in America's interest at a time when affordability is at crisis levels, where you had an administration that literally got elected saying this is exactly opposite of what they would ever consider doing.
00:07:08.000 The fact that we are in this now regional war, all these proxies. 1.00
00:07:13.000 He is a coward and he is a liar. 1.00
00:07:15.000 My goodness. 0.99
00:07:16.000 I mean, the fact of the matter is that blaming it on Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, there is complete solidarity in Israel from left to right on agreement on what Israel is doing right now.
00:07:25.000 Yair Lapid, who is on the left, center left, he agrees with Netanyahu on this.
00:07:29.000 Now, Tali Bennett, the chief rival to Netanyahu, agrees on this.
00:07:33.000 Even Yair Golan, far, far, far to the left, can't openly say he disagrees with what's going on.
00:07:39.000 So this is just nonsense. 0.98
00:07:40.000 But again, when you are a coward and you are afraid of your own party, you have to start lying. 0.99
00:07:44.000 And then there are the actual liars, the people who are making actual stories up out of nothing. 0.96
00:07:49.000 Stories they know aren't true, but they push them anyway.
00:07:52.000 So the catastrophists who aren't actually worried about World War III or a long-standing boots on the ground occupation, but try to lie to Americans that they are.
00:08:00.000 Senator Richard Blumenthal, who has had his own shady history with the truth, when it comes to his purported military service, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, he says, you know, he's worried that we're going to put boots on the ground.
00:08:10.000 Now, does he mean that there might be special operators on the ground?
00:08:14.000 Because if we're talking about special operators on the ground, welcome to the real world where the United States has special operators on the ground all over the world, everywhere from Asia to Africa to the Middle East.
00:08:23.000 But that's not what he is implying.
00:08:24.000 He is implying a gigantic airlift of hundreds of thousands of troops, gigantic boots on the ground footprint.
00:08:32.000 It's, again, it's a lie.
00:08:34.000 It is untrue.
00:08:35.000 And again, it's astonishing to watch this while he is wearing the American flag, Ukraine flag pin on his lapel.
00:08:45.000 I am more fearful than ever after this briefing that we may be putting boots on the ground and that troops from the United States may be necessary to accomplish objectives that the administration seems to have, but I also am no more clear on what the priorities are going to be of the administration going forward.
00:09:12.000 I mean, these are lies.
00:09:13.000 It's not true.
00:09:14.000 Senator Elizabeth Warren, directly from the Native American Reservation, from her teepee, she says that there is no plan, and she would know, because after all, she is a military leader, an expert.
00:09:28.000 I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here's what I can say.
00:09:33.000 It is so much worse than you thought.
00:09:35.000 You are right to be worried.
00:09:37.000 Trump administration has no plan in Iran.
00:09:40.000 This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation.
00:09:47.000 Donald Trump still hasn't given a single clear reason for this war, and he seems to have no plan for how to end it either.
00:09:55.000 Like a lot of you, I am really angry.
00:09:58.000 I am angry at what Donald Trump is doing, and I feel grief for those already killed in this unnecessary conflict.
00:10:07.000 And I will keep doing everything I can to fight to end this war. 0.99
00:10:14.000 What a liar she is. 1.00
00:10:16.000 What a true liar. 1.00
00:10:17.000 President Trump hasn't explained it. 0.98
00:10:19.000 What's been happening for the past, you know, 50 years?
00:10:23.000 This notion that no one knows why.
00:10:25.000 It's just a mystery.
00:10:26.000 It came out of the blue what happened here.
00:10:28.000 No one believes that.
00:10:29.000 No one.
00:10:30.000 Or the idea that there's no plan here, as we'll get to in a little bit.
00:10:33.000 Yeah, there actually is a plan here, and the military is laying it out. 0.89
00:10:37.000 But the liars are going to lie. 0.66
00:10:38.000 That, of course, includes Jimmy Kimmel, the worst late night host. 0.72
00:10:42.000 That's saying a lot because Stephen Colbert is still tragically on the air.
00:10:45.000 Jimmy Kimmel, when's the last time this dude told a joke?
00:10:48.000 Well, he says that President Trump launched this war to distract from Jeffrey Epstein.
00:10:52.000 Yeah, that's sure.
00:10:53.000 Sure.
00:10:54.000 That must be it.
00:10:54.000 It must be Wag the Dog.
00:10:57.000 All these people who pretend they know anything about foreign policy or politics, these late night hosts who know nothing, doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. 0.98
00:11:05.000 I mean, like unbelievable stuff here from Jimmy Kimmel. 0.97
00:11:08.000 He once watched a Robertson-Yero movie, Wag the Dog, and now thinks that that's real life.
00:11:13.000 Now, here's Kimmel.
00:11:15.000 Trump is suddenly all about toppling regimes, which is interesting because I remember a time when the idea that a president would start a war because he couldn't make a deal was seen by some as a negative.
00:11:27.000 Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. 0.88
00:11:34.000 He's weak and he's ineffective. 0.92
00:11:36.000 Look at that. 0.99
00:11:37.000 Another prediction he got right. 0.99
00:11:38.000 That's Nostra dumbasses done it again. 1.00
00:11:43.000 But hey, you know what? 0.99
00:11:45.000 When your best friend was a pedophile and you're losing Big Lee in the swing states with an election coming up, what do you do?
00:11:51.000 I'll tell you what you do. 0.81
00:11:52.000 You fire the weapons of mass distraction.
00:11:57.000 I mean, so much, so much joking. 1.00
00:11:57.000 What an idiot. 1.00
00:12:00.000 Oh, the lies. 1.00
00:12:01.000 Oh, the lies.
00:12:01.000 We'll get to the America haters in a moment.
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00:14:04.000 Finally, there are the America haters. 0.99
00:14:06.000 We've talked about the cowards and the liars. 0.97
00:14:08.000 And then there are the people who really, truly hate America. 0.95
00:14:10.000 And yes, there are a lot of people who live in America who truly hate America.
00:14:13.000 Now, there's an easy way to tell who hates America.
00:14:17.000 They kind of say it.
00:14:19.000 If you call America a terrorist organization for killing one of the world's most evil dictators, for example, I'm not a you hate America.
00:14:27.000 That doesn't seem that controversial to me. 0.69
00:14:29.000 Call me crazy, but if you say that the United States is the worst terror organization in the world, you don't like America, period.
00:14:38.000 Because that is such an overt lie.
00:14:40.000 That is such a moral calumny that there can only be one explanation, and it is your deep and abiding hatred for America's role in the world.
00:14:50.000 So last night on Piers Morgan, which is the Jerry Springer of political television, where people gather to throw chairs at one another and determine paternity.
00:14:59.000 Piers Morgan, who has sort of made a mockery of the entire industry by putting on screen whatever dregs are still willing to go on screen with Piers Morgan.
00:15:08.000 He had on Dave Smith, who has, you know, apparently his job is never to tell jokes, but to instead give poorly informed foreign policy takes.
00:15:18.000 And also to hate America.
00:15:19.000 Here we go. 0.97
00:15:20.000 The IDF is the worst terrorist organization in the region. 0.80
00:15:23.000 Let's get real. 0.99
00:15:24.000 The United States of America is arguably the worst terrorist organization in the world.
00:15:28.000 If you want to look over the last 25 years, how many innocent civilians we have slaughtered?
00:15:32.000 You're getting us, you're getting us into the neocon. 0.96
00:15:36.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:15:37.000 You're getting us into the neocon seventh war.
00:15:42.000 Ben Ferguson rightly notes at that point that he might want to take down the American flag behind him.
00:15:46.000 That is right.
00:15:47.000 It doesn't matter, it turns out, how many times you appear on Joe Rogan's show or how many times you hide behind your title of comedian who holds the Guinness Book of World Records for fewest jokes told, or how many times you spew puerile analogies that demonstrate nothing but unbelievable, willful ignorance of the nature of war.
00:16:03.000 I'm sorry, but you hate the country if you say America is the worst terrorist organization in the world.
00:16:08.000 You just do.
00:16:09.000 To make that argument, you have to deliberately obscure the difference between actual terrorists who actually are seeking deliberately to kill innocent people in the name of politics, not collateral damage, deliberately seeking to kill innocent people, and nation states who are seeking to avoid civilian casualties, often while fighting those actual terrorists, which of course is the point for people who hate America, to reduce America to the level of its enemies in order to uphold those enemies.
00:16:32.000 That is the goal.
00:16:33.000 Now, I know that Dave Smith is super duper excited that his name was mentioned here, and he's sitting there shouting at his TV screen in his basement, debate me, bro.
00:16:41.000 To which I answer, nah. 1.00
00:16:43.000 I don't debate with trolls who claim that America is the biggest terrorist state in the world because that is idiotic. 0.99
00:16:49.000 I didn't debate the Lyndon LaRouche followers who sat in Harvard Square carrying anti-war cardboard signs back in the day. 0.99
00:16:55.000 And I feel no necessity to debate, debate a completely intellectually dishonest interlocutor who spends his days cribbing Noam Chomsky and then immediately retreats to his pose of ignorant comedian every time he is confronted with a fact.
00:17:08.000 Dave Smith is the kind of fellow who says that Donald Trump should be in jail for life as a war criminal, legitimizes every single scurrilous figure on the internet from Nick Fuentes to Candace Owens, and then demands that everyone treat him as though he is some sort of honest, worthy intellectual opponent.
00:17:22.000 He's not.
00:17:23.000 If you would like to hear a complete dismantling of Dave Smith, I highly recommend Coleman Hughes' interview with Smith over at the Free Press.
00:17:29.000 Just go check that out.
00:17:30.000 Save yourself some time.
00:17:31.000 And by the way, you also hate America if you claim that the president of the United States is merely a tool of foreign interests without any evidence whatsoever, like none.
00:17:40.000 You're promoting lies directly mirroring those of the Iranian terrorist government in direct contravention of truth and of the Trump administration's own words.
00:17:48.000 So, Senator Jeff Markley, you've never heard of him?
00:17:50.000 He's irrelevant.
00:17:51.000 He's a Democrat from Oregon.
00:17:53.000 Here he was suggesting that basically Israel is leading America around, meaning the Jews are leading Trump around like a leash, like a leashed puppy.
00:18:03.000 This is a senator sitting in the United States Senate.
00:18:05.000 My goodness.
00:18:07.000 That is a profoundly disturbing explanation.
00:18:10.000 First, Netanyahu came and asked for American support for an Israeli action, indicating that they wouldn't be acting unless America supported it.
00:18:18.000 So that just violates what Rubio just said, that somehow we didn't have any agency in this conversation.
00:18:26.000 And in fact, think about this.
00:18:27.000 What essentially he's saying is that Netanyahu was leading Trump around by a nose ring.
00:18:33.000 This is like, basically, we're like, we're the puppy on the leash, and Netanyahu yanks the leash, and we have to act.
00:18:43.000 That is horrific.
00:18:44.000 What's happened to this great United States of America that Netanyahu decides what we do and we have no influence over what Israel does?
00:18:52.000 I don't take that explanation for a moment. 0.93
00:18:55.000 Ridiculous. 0.90
00:18:56.000 Or Jeffrey Sachs, frequent Tucker Carlson guest and Chinese frontman, who apparently appears only on horseshoe right shows to explain that President Trump is actually a puppet of Messiah. 0.95
00:19:07.000 Points to Jeffrey Sachs for saying it out loud.
00:19:07.000 You know what?
00:19:10.000 All of his buddies who have him on won't say it.
00:19:11.000 So Jeffrey Sachs has it for them.
00:19:15.000 It had nothing to do with nuclear weapons all this time.
00:19:18.000 The Iranians reached out constantly to negotiate.
00:19:22.000 And in 2015, they concluded an agreement with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany, the P5 countries plus one called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
00:19:39.000 And it put Iran strictly under UN supervision in the International Atomic Energy Agency.
00:19:47.000 B.B. Netanyahu had a fit because he wanted to overthrow the government.
00:19:53.000 He did not want peaceful relations with a non-nuclear Iran. 0.72
00:19:58.000 So Donald Trump, who is a puppet of our CIA, Mossad, and Miriam Adelson and the rest, ripped up the JCPOA in 2018.
00:20:13.000 Jeffrey Sachs, it should be noted, is a World Economic Forum globalist show, true globalist show.
00:20:20.000 It believes thoroughly in China, which is why he is constantly a guest on all of the programs of all the people who really kind of despise the country.
00:20:28.000 And by the way, again, this is a lie.
00:20:29.000 Here was President Trump being asked directly whether it was Israel who was leading him around here.
00:20:34.000 And here's Trump's response.
00:20:36.000 Mr. President, did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes against Iran?
00:20:40.000 Did that go and pull the United States into this war?
00:20:43.000 No, I might have forced their hand. 0.89
00:20:45.000 You see, we were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first. 0.98
00:20:53.000 They were going to attack. 0.97
00:20:54.000 If we didn't do it, they were going to attack first.
00:20:57.000 I felt strongly about that.
00:20:59.000 And we have great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successfully.
00:21:07.000 And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first.
00:21:13.000 Okay, and meanwhile, Marco Rubio, who, again, was taken out of context for the past 48 hours.
00:21:19.000 I played you both clips yesterday of what Rubio actually said.
00:21:22.000 Rubio actually said is that the Iranians were building hardened facilities for their ballistic missiles and nuclear, and that over the course of the next year, it would be impossible to actually take out those facilities.
00:21:34.000 And so that would likely cause Israel to launch some sort of strike, and that would drive some sort of action by Iran against American bases in the region.
00:21:43.000 So those are two separate questions, the why and the why now.
00:21:45.000 And that was immediately taken by truly dishonest people to suggest that actually it was Israel who forced the Trump administration into war.
00:21:53.000 Here was Marco Rubio pointing out that everyone was lying yesterday.
00:21:58.000 Yeah, but I had a very specific question from that gentleman, right?
00:22:02.000 The president said, hold on one second.
00:22:03.000 I asked the Air Force Israelis. 0.51
00:22:05.000 Okay, but let me answer because this is my press conference.
00:22:07.000 Okay.
00:22:08.000 You asked me, I was asked a very specific question.
00:22:10.000 So you guys can misrepresent it, but I was asked a very specific question yesterday.
00:22:14.000 The bottom line is this.
00:22:15.000 The president determined we were not going to get hit first.
00:22:18.000 It's that simple, guys.
00:22:19.000 We are not going to put Americans' troops in harm's way.
00:22:21.000 If you tell the President of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first.
00:22:28.000 That's what the president will always do.
00:22:28.000 That's what he did.
00:22:30.000 He will always put the safety and security of our men and women in uniform and of all Americans before anything else.
00:22:35.000 He's always going to do that.
00:22:36.000 And that's what he did here.
00:22:38.000 In addition to that, I would argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones. 0.99
00:22:44.000 They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program. 0.83
00:22:49.000 And there is no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's watch.
00:22:57.000 And Rubio, by the way, happens to be correct about the missile stockpiles.
00:23:01.000 We actually have a chart showing the Iranian missile stockpile versus U.S. interceptor capacity.
00:23:06.000 And the basic idea here is that Iran was rapidly ramping up its missile supply in order to overcome the response capacity of allied nations in the region.
00:23:16.000 Rubio was also asked by the press about the fact that they had cut up his statement.
00:23:20.000 Here he was chastising them yesterday.
00:23:23.000 Once the president made a decision that negotiations were not going to work, that they were playing us on the negotiations and that this was a threat that was untenable, the decision was made to strike them.
00:23:33.000 That's what I said yesterday, and you guys need to play it.
00:23:35.000 And if you're going to play these statements, you need to play the whole statement, not flip it, to reach a narrative that you want to do, all right?
00:23:42.000 He is right about all of that.
00:23:44.000 Now, there are, of course, again, for the thousandth time, legitimate questions to be asked about any military operation, goals, costs, strategy, risks.
00:23:53.000 All of that isn't just legitimate.
00:23:55.000 It is necessary.
00:23:56.000 So let's take one question that's been posed a lot by our listeners and others.
00:24:00.000 Why don't we solve all our problems at home before solving any problems abroad?
00:24:04.000 Very often, this is expressed as, what are we doing in Iran when we haven't deported all the illegals?
00:24:09.000 Or why are we bombing Iran when we haven't paid for prescription drug coverage?
00:24:13.000 Or something like that.
00:24:14.000 Okay, this is sort of an intellectually dishonest question in a way, because it's actually two questions that are weirdly linked.
00:24:21.000 One is, should we go after Iran? 0.80
00:24:23.000 That's a yes or no question.
00:24:25.000 Should the president do what he is doing?
00:24:27.000 And two, does going after Iran somehow inhibit us from pursuing whatever other goal it is that you are stating?
00:24:34.000 So for example, going after Iran, does that somehow inhibit us from doing deportations?
00:24:39.000 Now, when we ask the question like that, the answers become a lot clearer because the essence of the federal government when it comes to national defense and domestic priorities is to walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:24:51.000 Should we go after Iran? 0.99
00:24:52.000 That's a legitimate question.
00:24:53.000 We've been dealing with it all week.
00:24:56.000 And again, I've been spending years explaining why Iran is a threat to the United States. 1.00
00:25:00.000 This has been true for legitimately decades.
00:25:02.000 I mean, decades, decades, decades.
00:25:04.000 In fact, here is a man named Donald Trump in 1980 explaining why Iran is a threat. 0.94
00:25:09.000 That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. 0.73
00:25:17.000 That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages, to my way of thinking, is a horror. 0.99
00:25:26.000 And I don't think they'll do it with other countries.
00:25:29.000 I honestly don't think they'll do it with other countries.
00:25:31.000 Obviously, you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out.
00:25:36.000 I absolutely feel that, yes.
00:25:38.000 I don't think there's any question and there's no question in my mind.
00:25:41.000 I think right now we'd be an oil-rich nation.
00:25:44.000 And I believe that we should have done it.
00:25:46.000 And I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it.
00:25:49.000 And I don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance.
00:25:52.000 I don't think anybody would have been angry with us.
00:25:55.000 And we had every right to do it at the time.
00:25:57.000 I think we've lost the opportunity.
00:26:01.000 Donald Trump said that 46 years ago, 46 years ago.
00:26:06.000 And he's making the same argument today.
00:26:08.000 So then the question becomes, is somehow going into Iran inhibiting our ability to deport illegal immigrants or pay for health care or whatever else?
00:26:16.000 The answer here is no.
00:26:18.000 If you ask the Borders Art Tom Homan whether the effort in Iran has somehow redeployed our border patrol to Iran or the Middle East, the answer is quite obviously, no, DHS is not redeploying from Minneapolis to Iran.
00:26:31.000 And this sort of asinine suggestion that all areas of the government are the same is sort of like saying that if you staff up the police to police crime in a city, are you somehow taking money away from your hospitals?
00:26:44.000 And the answer is those are two, or are the police officers being redirected from the medical care they normally provide? 0.61
00:26:50.000 What in the world?
00:26:51.000 In fact, if you wish to have a secure country in the future, getting rid of regimes that support global terrorism is, in fact, an excellent way to help secure the homeland.
00:27:00.000 And listen, if you're worried we're spending too much money on the operation in Iran and that somehow we can't pay for our social welfare programs right now, let me remind you, we couldn't pay for them before and we are living on debt.
00:27:11.000 So I really don't kind of want to hear from you if you haven't been making the argument to dramatically cut domestic spending before the attack on Iran.
00:27:18.000 But now you find yourself tempted to argue that deploying our military to take out the world's leading terrorist regime is just too expensive.
00:27:26.000 Now, let me suggest why that is wildly disingenuous.
00:27:29.000 Here is the reality.
00:27:30.000 This war, this war will cost far less, far less, because necessarily it will.
00:27:35.000 It's going to be a lot shorter and a lot more contained.
00:27:36.000 This war will cost a lot less than Iraq and Afghanistan. 0.81
00:27:40.000 And neither of those two was the major driver of our debt.
00:27:43.000 According to the Defense Department and Congressional Research Service, the United States spent roughly $1.6 trillion to $2.1 trillion on Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:27:52.000 During that exact same period, we spent over $18 trillion on Social Security, $15 trillion on Medicare and Medicaid, trillions more on social welfare programs like SNAP.
00:28:04.000 If you want to make the argument the action in Iran is not in our national interest, then go ahead and make the argument. 0.99
00:28:09.000 But people who are suggesting that this is a spending problem when in reality they just don't like the action against Iran, that's a misdirect.
00:28:16.000 So what comes next?
00:28:17.000 Well, the president explained the state of play this morning.
00:28:20.000 Here's what the president had to say.
00:28:23.000 They have no Navy.
00:28:24.000 It's been knocked out.
00:28:25.000 They have no Air Force.
00:28:26.000 It's been knocked out.
00:28:28.000 They have no air detection that's been knocked out.
00:28:30.000 Their radar has been knocked out.
00:28:33.000 And just about everything's been knocked out.
00:28:37.000 They're going to be in for a lot of hurt.
00:28:38.000 These are bad people.
00:28:39.000 These are people that killed.
00:28:40.000 I guess it's 35,000.
00:28:41.000 It's coming out.
00:28:42.000 35,000 over the last three weeks, protesters, 35,000 violently killed.
00:28:49.000 So these are bad people.
00:28:52.000 And the leader of the pack is gone.
00:28:55.000 And as you know, 49 people were taken out in the first hit.
00:28:58.000 And I guess there was another hit today on the new leadership.
00:29:02.000 And it looks like that was pretty substantial also.
00:29:08.000 So, yes, actually, the United States and Israeli militaries are doing extraordinary work.
00:29:14.000 Meanwhile, Pete Hegseph, the Secretary of War, he said the Iranian Air Force is trash, which, by the way, first actual kind of dogfight between a plane from the Iranian Air Force and an Israeli F-35.
00:29:25.000 I will let you guess who won that.
00:29:27.000 Spoiler alert, it was not the Iranian Air Force.
00:29:30.000 Here's Pete Hegseph explaining.
00:29:31.000 The Iranian Navy is in trouble.
00:29:33.000 The Iranian Air Force is basically by planes at this point.
00:29:36.000 Here he is.
00:29:37.000 Iran's senior leaders are dead.
00:29:40.000 The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.
00:29:50.000 Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive.
00:29:58.000 That's not great for morale.
00:30:01.000 The Iranian Air Force is no more.
00:30:04.000 Built for 1996, destroyed in 2026.
00:30:09.000 The Iranian Navy rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
00:30:13.000 Combat ineffective, decimated, destroyed, defeated.
00:30:17.000 Pick your adjective.
00:30:18.000 In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship, the Solomani.
00:30:24.000 Looks like POTUS got him twice.
00:30:28.000 Their Navy, not a factor.
00:30:29.000 Pick your adjective.
00:30:31.000 It is no more.
00:30:34.000 Again, they've been declaring the RGC that they shut the Straits of Hormuz.
00:30:37.000 That's not true.
00:30:38.000 In fact, it is so not true that the president of the United States is actually offering to ensure shipping going through the Strait of Hormuz just to get the shipping going.
00:30:46.000 Again, he put out a statement on Truth Social about that yesterday.
00:30:48.000 He said, effective immediately, I've ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation to provide at a very reasonable price political risk insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy traveling through the Gulf.
00:31:00.000 This will be available to all shipping lines.
00:31:02.000 If necessary, the U.S. Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible.
00:31:06.000 No matter what, the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world.
00:31:10.000 United States economic and military might is the greatest on earth.
00:31:12.000 More actions to come.
00:31:13.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:31:15.000 Again, that is a good move.
00:31:16.000 That's a good move by the president because, again, there are a lot of people who are worried by the Iranian propaganda.
00:31:20.000 He's saying, listen, we're willing to put our money where our mouth is.
00:31:23.000 Meanwhile, Hegseph says that very, very soon there will be complete control of the skies.
00:31:23.000 And that is right.
00:31:27.000 Effectively, there already is.
00:31:28.000 The United States has been flying not B-2s, which is a stealth aircraft, B-52s, which are just gigantic, gigantic planes that don't move all that fast.
00:31:36.000 They're kind of like passenger airliners.
00:31:38.000 They move like 650 miles an hour.
00:31:40.000 We're flying those over Iran right now.
00:31:43.000 It's basically a blimp in the sky, and nobody can touch it.
00:31:46.000 Here's Hegseth this morning.
00:31:48.000 Starting last night and to be completed in a few days, in under a week, the two most powerful air forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace. 0.73
00:32:02.000 I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means.
00:32:09.000 It means we will fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing, and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders. 0.67
00:32:25.000 Flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital, flying over the IRGC, Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli air power.
00:32:43.000 That is right.
00:32:44.000 Hegseth also pointed out that actually the IRGC Special Operations Commander who was in charge of trying to kill President Trump in 2024, and yes, there was an assassination attempt on President, actually two separate assassination attempts on Trump that were in the planning stages when those Iranian agents were arrested.
00:33:02.000 Well, here's Pete Hegseth saying that the guy who was behind all of that is now dead.
00:33:07.000 We've known for a long time that Iran had intentions on trying to kill President Trump and or other U.S. officials.
00:33:15.000 And while that was not the focus of the effort by any stretch of the imagination, in fact, never raised by the president or anybody else, I ensured and others ensured that those who were responsible for that were eventually part of the target list.
00:33:28.000 It wasn't the beginning of the effort.
00:33:31.000 We were focused on missiles and launchers, and that's the focus.
00:33:34.000 But ultimately, if we had the opportunity to get at those who are trying to get at Americans specifically, we would.
00:33:40.000 And so we eventually had the opportunity to do that from the air.
00:33:46.000 That person's name is Rahman Mokadam, who's head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Special Operations Division.
00:33:52.000 As far as status of the war, U.S. NCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper explains the status of the operation.
00:33:58.000 More than 50,000 troops, 200 fighters, two aircraft carriers, and bombers from the United States are participating in this operation, and more capability is on the way.
00:34:08.000 These forces bring a massive amount of firepower, representing the largest buildup by the U.S. in the Middle East in a generation.
00:34:16.000 In the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command Forces, together with Israel, delivered overwhelming and unprecedented strikes into Iran.
00:34:25.000 Many of you may remember the shock and awe strikes of 2003.
00:34:29.000 The first 24 hours of this operation were nearly double the scale, and we continue with 24-7 strikes into Iran from seabed to space and cyberspace.
00:34:40.000 Now we're less than 100 hours into this operation, and we've already struck nearly 2,000 targets with more than 2,000 munitions.
00:34:48.000 We have severely degraded Iran's air defenses and destroyed hundreds of Iran's ballistic missiles, launchers, and drones.
00:34:55.000 And in simple terms, we're focused on shooting all the things that can shoot at us.
00:35:00.000 Our B-2 bombers and B-1 bombers have executed uncontested surgical strikes against multiple missile facilities deep inside Iran.
00:35:07.000 And then just last night, a B-52 bomber force struck ballistic missile in command and control posts.
00:35:13.000 We are also sinking the Iranian Navy, the entire Navy. 1.00
00:35:18.000 Thus far, we've destroyed 17 Iranian ships, including the most operational Iranian submarine that now has a hole in its side.
00:35:25.000 For decades, the Iranian regime has harassed international shipping.
00:35:29.000 Today, there's not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, or Gulf of Oman.
00:35:36.000 And we will not stop.
00:35:40.000 Well, that's a pretty good synopsis of where we are.
00:35:43.000 But by the way, it's just the beginning.
00:35:45.000 Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday, he dropped a phrase that has a storied history, which I'll explain in a moment.
00:35:50.000 He said that we are about to unleash Chiang on Iran. 0.75
00:35:54.000 Like there's a lot more to come.
00:35:55.000 I'll explain what the hell he's talking about because it's actually really funny.
00:36:00.000 What's about to, you know, you're about to see, you know, we're going to unleash Chang on these people in the next few hours and days.
00:36:06.000 You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks as, frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime and defang it and take away its ability to threaten its neighbors or hide behind a zone of immunity that allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions.
00:36:26.000 So this is legitimately hilarious.
00:36:28.000 When he says unleash Chiang, you know what that means. 1.00
00:36:29.000 Okay, so if you go back to the 50s, when China had been taken over by Mao and Shanghai-shek had moved over to Taiwan, there was a conservative point of view that we should allow and fund the reinvasion of China from Taiwan.
00:36:42.000 So that was Unleash Chang.
00:36:43.000 Okay, that became a sort of meme pushed by George H.W. Bush when he was president of the United States.
00:36:50.000 Apparently, when he was playing tennis, or I guess this is even, you know, when he was VP, when he was playing tennis and he had a really weak serve, he would yell, Unleash Chang before hitting the serve.
00:37:01.000 And that was then picked up by Jeb, exclamation point Jeb, former governor of Florida, who would use that phrase all the time, Unleash Chang.
00:37:09.000 And when he was the governor of Florida and Marco Rubio was the senator from Florida, he gave him a sword that he called Chang.
00:37:18.000 And he described Chang as a mythical conservative warrior.
00:37:21.000 So that's where Unleash Chang comes from.
00:37:23.000 Okay, it's a little funny.
00:37:24.000 Just admit it.
00:37:25.000 It's funny.
00:37:26.000 And meanwhile, the Iranians are basically relegated to firing desultory ballistic missile attacks, most of which are being shot down, and drones.
00:37:34.000 So they are firing successfully.
00:37:36.000 Some drones, drones are able to escape some missile defense systems because they move so slowly.
00:37:41.000 So moving so slowly that people actually in the radar sensors think they're birds or other aerial objects.
00:37:47.000 And so here was some footage of the U.S. consulate in Dubai, which was hit by an Iranian drone.
00:37:52.000 There was no one there at the time.
00:37:54.000 How do you know that Iran is really losing?
00:37:56.000 Because Qatar has turned. 0.76
00:37:57.000 So Qatar, which has always played this sort of middle ground between the United States and Iran.
00:38:02.000 Well, now they are turning on the IRGC and actually arresting members of the IRGC in Qatar.
00:38:07.000 Remember, this is the country that housed Hamas. 0.97
00:38:09.000 10 suspects, according to Al Jazeera, were arrested in these terrorist cells, according to Qatar news agencies.
00:38:15.000 Seven had been assigned to spy on vital and military facilities in Qatar.
00:38:19.000 Three were tasked with carrying out sabotage operations.
00:38:22.000 Hardest hit, Tucker Carlson, who, of course, has been standing for the Ayatollahs. 0.85
00:38:26.000 And now his friends in Qatar, for whom he has been running interference, they're our greatest ally, of course.
00:38:31.000 Well, now they're actually acting like allies and arresting members of the IRGC.
00:38:35.000 The desperate counter-arguments right now that Iran somehow is going to pull off some sort of military miracle here, being led by the repulsive Chenk Uyghur, who says, quote, Iranian drones cost $35,000. 0.87
00:38:48.000 Our missiles to intercept them cost between $500,000 and $4 million.
00:38:51.000 Uh-oh, they have tons of drones, and we are starting to run low on FAD and Patriot missiles.
00:38:55.000 We spent 25% of them defending Israel in June. 0.97
00:38:58.000 And then, of course, he calls out Glenn Greenwald, who is most famous for sucking the toes of male prostitutes and wearing bizarre lingerie and then taping it. 0.96
00:39:06.000 But in any case, Chenk Uyghur, he's making a point that it happens not to be true. 0.92
00:39:12.000 The vast majority of Iranian drones are not being shot down by FAD, that is the terminal high-altitude area defense or Patriot batteries, but actual American and Israeli aircraft.
00:39:22.000 F-15s and F-16s, for example, shot down more than 80 drones in one night in April 2024 when Iran attacked Israel.
00:39:29.000 F-35s, F-A-18s do the same thing.
00:39:32.000 Pilots are generally using 70-millimeter laser-guided rockets, which cost about 25 grand, about the same as one of the drones.
00:39:38.000 And you know who's going to run out of $25,000 iterations more and faster?
00:39:44.000 The U.S. or the Pisspoor Iranians? 1.00
00:39:47.000 We have a lot of $25,000 missiles that we can spend, like munitions that we can spend, actually.
00:39:51.000 If we get into spending war with Iran, Iran don't have no money.
00:39:55.000 It is a problem for them.
00:39:57.000 They can manufacture a lot of drones and we can shoot down a lot of drones.
00:40:00.000 Plus, they're not going to have a command and control center to even deploy drones in the very near future.
00:40:04.000 President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social, quote, the United States munitions stockpiles have at the medium and upper medium grade never been higher or better.
00:40:12.000 As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.
00:40:15.000 Wars can be fought forever and very successfully using just these supplies, which are better than other countries' finest arms.
00:40:21.000 At the highest end, we have a good supply, but not where we want to be.
00:40:24.000 Much additional high-grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries.
00:40:27.000 Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time and our country's money giving everything to PT Barnum-Zelensky of Ukraine, hundreds of billions of dollars worth.
00:40:33.000 And while he gave so much of the super high-end away for free, he didn't bother to replace it.
00:40:37.000 Fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so.
00:40:40.000 The United States is stocked and ready to win big.
00:40:42.000 Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:40:44.000 So while I disagree with his characterization of Ukraine and Zelensky, the reality is that we do have significant stockpiles.
00:40:50.000 And again, the munitions we are using to shoot down the drones, that is not actually the FAD and Patriots for the most part.
00:40:58.000 Now, President Trump is also making the point that the Iranians are running out of missile launchers.
00:41:03.000 It's a major issue for the Iranians.
00:41:04.000 So, the Iranian pace of fire has slowed dramatically in terms of their ballistic missile launches.
00:41:09.000 Well, because they're basically trying to drip and drop their way to exhausting the Americans. 0.75
00:41:09.000 Why? 0.75
00:41:15.000 If they fire all their missile launchers, they're toast, and they know this.
00:41:17.000 So, instead of shooting off hundreds at one time, which are then immediately destroyed by the United States and the Israelis, instead, they're firing off two, three at a time, hoping to basically make it last like a kid eating a cookie really, really slowly. 0.81
00:41:32.000 So, President Trump says that defense companies are under emergency orders.
00:41:36.000 We're making it fast. 1.00
00:41:37.000 We have Unlimited, as stupid as former President Joe Biden was, he didn't use it. 0.99
00:41:42.000 So, again, the status is pretty good. 0.99
00:41:45.000 Things are moving pretty well.
00:41:48.000 So, what is coming next for the Iranians? 1.00
00:41:50.000 Well, apparently, they're planning to name Ali Khamenahi's son, Moshtaba, Iran's new supreme leader, which is pretty amazing.
00:42:00.000 Pretty amazing.
00:42:01.000 So, their move is not to select someone who might be more moderate to negotiate with the Americans. 0.87
00:42:05.000 Instead, they're selecting someone who apparently is even crazier than his dad.
00:42:10.000 And we'll see how that works out for them.
00:42:12.000 The Israelis have already said that dude's on the target list.
00:42:15.000 Unsurprising. 0.94
00:42:16.000 So, one of the games that the coalition of scavengers is playing here with regard to President Trump, the people who are the liars and the cowards, and the people who just don't like America very much, is that somehow President Trump, what he's doing right now, is wildly unpopular with the American people. 0.89
00:42:31.000 Okay, let's start with Republicans. 0.94
00:42:32.000 You've seen a ton of headlines, many, many headlines.
00:42:35.000 The war inside the Republican Party.
00:42:37.000 And then it's the same people who are always cited, the same clown crew, the same clown car, the same exact people, always.
00:42:43.000 It is Tucker Carlson, it is Megan Kelly, it is Candace Owens.
00:42:47.000 It's the same group of people, always and forever.
00:42:50.000 How many Republicans do they actually represent?
00:42:52.000 Well, fortunately, we have numbers on this.
00:42:54.000 According to CBS News, 85% of Republicans support the president's strikes on Iran.
00:43:00.000 According to Fox News, 84% of Republicans support the strikes on Iran.
00:43:04.000 According to the Washington Post, 81% of Republicans support the strike on Iran.
00:43:09.000 According to Reuters Ipsos, 82% of Republicans support the strikes on Iran.
00:43:13.000 So it doesn't sound like a gigantic split inside the Republican Party, actually.
00:43:16.000 It just sounds like a bunch of podcast hosts who are programming into the algorithm.
00:43:21.000 And that's the most, I would say, generous view of what they are doing.
00:43:26.000 Well, how are people feeling about the midterms?
00:43:28.000 Right now, there's about a 50-50 split.
00:43:30.000 This pre-Iran strike, Harvard Harris said there's a 50-50 split on the midterms.
00:43:34.000 So it's not clear Republicans are going to get shellacked.
00:43:36.000 Obviously, it's an off-year election.
00:43:38.000 The chances are Republicans don't do great.
00:43:40.000 Economic issues are the main voter concerns.
00:43:44.000 At the same time, 53% trust President Trump to manage the economy, and there's large-scale support for Trump's policy proposals at the State of the Union.
00:43:53.000 Now, how about, again, the impact of the war?
00:43:56.000 According to this new CBS poll, asked whether they approve or disapprove of the actual military operation.
00:44:06.000 The question is answered by the duration of the war.
00:44:09.000 I told you this.
00:44:10.000 I said this.
00:44:10.000 Americans don't mind short military actions that are successful.
00:44:13.000 They don't like long, long military actions that are unsuccessful.
00:44:17.000 So if it lasts days or weeks, days or weeks, which is what it's going to last, it's not going to be a months-long thing.
00:44:24.000 It certainly will not be a years-long thing.
00:44:26.000 Days or weeks, 76% approval rating.
00:44:30.000 That's not Republicans.
00:44:31.000 That is all Americans.
00:44:33.000 76% approval rating if the conflict lasts days or weeks.
00:44:37.000 24% disapproval rating.
00:44:38.000 So this idea, this is sinking Trump.
00:44:40.000 The American people can't stand it.
00:44:42.000 They're at their breaking point.
00:44:43.000 It's not true. 0.56
00:44:43.000 It's nonsense. 0.56
00:44:44.000 If it lasts for months, there is still 46% approval rating.
00:44:49.000 Hey, not months, like five weeks, like months.
00:44:52.000 That's if it lasts for two months, three months, four months.
00:44:56.000 Then it has a 54% disapproval rating.
00:44:59.000 And years, obviously, 87% disapproval rating.
00:45:02.000 So the question is completely reliant, as Ben Dominich, our opinion editor, said yesterday.
00:45:07.000 Just another reason you should go subscribe over at Daily Wire because he's ahead of the game.
00:45:12.000 It turns out that if this is a short, successful war, Americans like it.
00:45:16.000 And if it is a long, unsuccessful war, then Americans don't like it.
00:45:19.000 I know, crazy talk.
00:45:21.000 Utterly predictable, obviously.
00:45:24.000 As far as sort of general approval of the current U.S. military action against Iran, approve or disapprove, net approval in the GOP, according to Fox News, 68%.
00:45:36.000 That is net.
00:45:36.000 That's not 68% approve.
00:45:38.000 That is the gap between approve and disapprove.
00:45:40.000 That means it's like 84 to 16, if I am doing my mental math correctly here.
00:45:49.000 Among a wide variety of groups, it is overwater.
00:45:53.000 That includes white voters, people with no degree, people aged over 45, men, white evangelicals, Catholics, Protestants, rural voters, union households, and remember all these people out there who are saying they speak for the military households.
00:46:08.000 They speak for the military, right?
00:46:10.000 These are the people who say, well, you know, no foreign wars.
00:46:13.000 American boys and girls are going to die abroad.
00:46:15.000 Military households approve of the current action against Iran by a 20-point margin, meaning 60-40 they approve.
00:46:22.000 That's military households.
00:46:24.000 And one of the great ironies of all the people on the left and the horseshoe right who claim to speak in the name of the military is that they very rarely actually talk to people who are in the military.
00:46:34.000 It turns out the military is quite conservative and hawkish when it comes to actual effectuation of American foreign policy.
00:46:41.000 So that's part of the electoral story.
00:46:43.000 And then you get to the midterms.
00:46:45.000 Okay, so yesterday there were some big primaries over in Texas.
00:46:48.000 There was a Texas Senate primary.
00:46:51.000 It faced John Cornyn, the incumbent senator from Texas, against Ken Paxton.
00:46:57.000 Ken Paxton is the attorney general of Texas and Wesley Hunt, congressman.
00:47:02.000 And the way that it works in Texas is that if you do not get 50% in a primary, then you have to run in a runoff.
00:47:08.000 So, worst case scenario seems to be materializing for the Republicans.
00:47:12.000 What Republicans don't want in Texas, and maybe it won't matter because James Tallarico, who we'll get to in a moment on the other side, is very, very, very much to the left.
00:47:19.000 However, if you were to game this out, the worst case scenario for Republicans, the riskiest, shall we say, scenario electorally for Republicans is Ken Paxton versus James Tallarico.
00:47:29.000 That is the most risky scenario.
00:47:32.000 So in the primaries last night, Cornyn slightly, like very, very, very slightly beat Ken Paxton, 42% to 41%.
00:47:40.000 Wesley Hunt came in at 13.5%.
00:47:44.000 Unclear if Hunt is going to turn around and endorse Paxton or something.
00:47:48.000 Meanwhile, Tallarico beat Jasmine Crockett, who I think performed shockingly well for a person who probably should be in a psych ward somewhere.
00:47:57.000 So Jasmine Crockett won 46% of the Democrat vote. 1.00
00:48:00.000 Tallarico, who is, again, the new Beto O Cruz, the darling of the late night talk show hosts and some of the coastal donors, he won 53% of the vote.
00:48:08.000 So Tallarico got a majority.
00:48:10.000 That means he's the nominee.
00:48:12.000 And meanwhile, Republicans are going to have a runoff, which means that Cornyn and Paxton are going to beat the living hell out of each other.
00:48:18.000 And Tallarico is going to sit there and just wait for whatever happens next.
00:48:21.000 Now, normally that would be great for Tallarico.
00:48:23.000 However, there is a lot of tape of Tallarico coming out, demonstrating that he is indeed far too left for the Texas population.
00:48:32.000 So Tallarico, here's Tallarico on economics. 0.95
00:48:35.000 He says that the reason rich people exist is because they're taking money from poor people, which is, I'm, this is just so ignorant.
00:48:44.000 The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth is not because we can't feed the poor, it's because we can't satisfy the rich.
00:48:54.000 Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.
00:48:57.000 He's about to make more money than every elementary school teacher in America combined.
00:49:04.000 Do we really believe one man is worth more than every elementary school teacher?
00:49:10.000 Why do we have a trillionaire when there are kids without enough to eat? 0.98
00:49:15.000 Why do we have a trillionaire when cancer patients are going bankrupt?
00:49:20.000 Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping out on the street? 1.00
00:49:25.000 I'm all for success, but this is not success.
00:49:29.000 This is hoarding.
00:49:32.000 What the hell?
00:49:33.000 I mean, Elon Musk is not only enriching an enormous number of people and also basically running our space program at this point.
00:49:41.000 This notion that rich people get rich by somehow taking from the poor, that is a very feudal notion.
00:49:46.000 That is going back to middle ages England, basically.
00:49:50.000 Rich people do not get rich by taking things from the poor.
00:49:53.000 Rich people get rich by providing better goods and services to tons of people who want them.
00:49:56.000 That's how they get rich.
00:49:58.000 But again, that is the least of the Tallarico radical left sins.
00:50:02.000 A clip has now emerged of Tallarico arguing that God is non-binary.
00:50:06.000 Yes, he's gender non-binary, as it turns out.
00:50:10.000 My favorite part when Democrats like Pete Buttigieg or Tallarico talk about God is they can't just shut up about God, which would be the smart move. 0.97
00:50:17.000 They start talking about God as though God is a rainbow-haired lesbian. 0.98
00:50:22.000 Why? 0.98
00:50:23.000 It's bizarre a world.
00:50:24.000 Why you have you?
00:50:25.000 No one's making you do this, dude.
00:50:27.000 But here he was.
00:50:29.000 The first two lines of the Bible, the first two lines in Genesis, use two different Hebrew words to describe God.
00:50:41.000 One is the masculine Hebrew noun for divinity.
00:50:46.000 The second is the feminine Hebrew noun for spirit.
00:50:51.000 God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between.
00:50:58.000 God is non-binary. 0.95
00:51:02.000 What in the world?
00:51:05.000 What in the world?
00:51:05.000 I think using gender categories for God is a real weird move there.
00:51:09.000 And no one's making you do it except that, again, this is part of Tallarico's entirely weird recapitulation of religion.
00:51:18.000 Tallarico, by the way, also says the border should be welcoming.
00:51:23.000 Maybe the Republicans are overconfident in Texas because they're running against howdy-duty over here.
00:51:29.000 LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign advocate howdy duty, who has a very weird take on the bibble. 0.71
00:51:37.000 Here we go.
00:51:39.000 Our southern border should be like our front porch.
00:51:42.000 There should be a giant welcome mat out front.
00:51:47.000 Hmm.
00:51:51.000 Then, of course, after declaring God is non-binary, he says America is not a Christian nation. 0.64
00:51:56.000 So here he was.
00:51:58.000 I guess Texas, I suppose, might vote for him, but I don't really see why.
00:52:05.000 America is not a Christian nation. 0.52
00:52:07.000 It is a nation where you are free to be a Christian or any of those other faiths or no faith at all. 0.99
00:52:15.000 Hmm.
00:52:16.000 I mean, of course, you're free to be any of those things.
00:52:18.000 I'm a Jew.
00:52:19.000 I'm pretty happy that I get to be a Jew in the United States.
00:52:22.000 Pretty great. 1.00
00:52:23.000 But to suggest that America is not historically a Christian nation is also ignorant and silly. 0.99
00:52:29.000 So will Texas move in this direction? 0.99
00:52:31.000 I have some doubts.
00:52:32.000 I have some doubts.
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