00:00:10.000There 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.
00:00:20.000And then there are the liars who literally craft stories out of nothing in order to undermine America.
00:00:27.000And 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.
00:00:38.000That coalition is coming together, but it's not going to win because President Trump is going to win this war.
00:00:46.000These 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.
00:00:53.000So, for example, they're really, really mad that international law, ooh, international law, the precious gugaw of the pseudo-intellectuals, has been somehow violated.
00:01:03.000Yes, 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.
00:01:28.000And if we don't have their approval, the mullahs must remain immune.
00:01:31.000Here, for example, is the pathetic Mark Carney of Canada.
00:01:36.000The current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order.
00:01:42.000Despite 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.
00:01:57.000And now, the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada.
00:02:13.000My favorite part of that, I think, is where Mark Carney suggests international, we've had decades of the IAEA being thwarted.
00:02:19.000We've had decades of UN resolutions being ignored.
00:02:22.000And now the United States and Israel won't even go to the UN.
00:02:25.000So you literally just said why they shouldn't.
00:02:28.000You explained why those organizations are trash and do nothing.
00:02:32.000And 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.
00:02:46.000So if you don't go to Canada to Canada, what?
00:02:49.000Are we dropping maple syrup on the Iranians right now?
00:02:53.000Or 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.
00:03:06.000Mr. Mayor, do you think Iran is better off without the Ayatollah?
00:03:12.000You 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.
00:03:32.000And 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.
00:03:47.000By the way, the answer there should be yes.
00:03:49.000And even if you have questions about what comes next, the answer should be yes.
00:03:52.000Yes, Iran is better off without Ayatollah Khomeini'i.
00:03:55.000But according to Mamdani, the important thing is saying that the Ayatollah is bad, like really bad.
00:04:00.000But the minute anybody does anything, that is so much worse.
00:04:03.000We 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.
00:04:24.000The 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.
00:04:35.000The 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.
00:04:45.000That was the part that went wrong, by the way.
00:04:47.000The first three weeks of the Iraq war was by every available metric, a win for the United States.
00:04:51.000It was what came after that was a problem.
00:04:53.000Do you think that Trump is going to engage in Bushian, neoconservative nationbuilding in Iran?
00:04:59.000Is that your actual thought at this point?
00:05:02.000But of course, this is the argument of the cowards and also the liars.
00:05:06.000Then 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.
00:05:13.000So Gavin Newsom, who is absolutely slimy, I mean, truly slimy, taking every position he could possibly take.
00:05:19.000As I've said before, the man takes more positions on politics than the Kama Sutra.
00:05:24.000Gavin 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.
00:05:48.000Huge percentage of Israeli doctors are Arab Muslim.
00:05:51.000They're in every area of Israeli society.
00:05:54.000It is not apartheid for Israel to actually have delegated certain parts of land to, for example, the Palestinian Authority, a terror supporting group.
00:06:04.000But 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.
00:06:15.000So here's Gavin Newsom telling lies and being a coward.
00:06:38.000They couldn't even, I mean, we're talking about regime change.
00:06:41.000For two years, they haven't even been able to solve the Hamas question.
00:06:44.000Rethinking our military support for Israel.
00:06:47.000It 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.
00:06:57.000I 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.
00:07:08.000The fact that we are in this now regional war, all these proxies.
00:07:16.000I 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.
00:07:25.000Yair Lapid, who is on the left, center left, he agrees with Netanyahu on this.
00:07:29.000Now, Tali Bennett, the chief rival to Netanyahu, agrees on this.
00:07:33.000Even Yair Golan, far, far, far to the left, can't openly say he disagrees with what's going on.
00:07:40.000But again, when you are a coward and you are afraid of your own party, you have to start lying.
00:07:44.000And then there are the actual liars, the people who are making actual stories up out of nothing.
00:07:49.000Stories they know aren't true, but they push them anyway.
00:07:52.000So 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.
00:08:00.000Senator 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.
00:08:10.000Now, does he mean that there might be special operators on the ground?
00:08:14.000Because 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.
00:08:35.000And again, it's astonishing to watch this while he is wearing the American flag, Ukraine flag pin on his lapel.
00:08:45.000I 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.
00:09:14.000Senator 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.
00:09:28.000I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here's what I can say.
00:10:57.000All 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.
00:11:05.000I mean, like unbelievable stuff here from Jimmy Kimmel.
00:11:08.000He once watched a Robertson-Yero movie, Wag the Dog, and now thinks that that's real life.
00:11:15.000Trump 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.
00:11:27.000Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate.
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00:14:40.000That 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.
00:14:50.000So 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.
00:14:59.000Piers 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.
00:15:08.000He 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.
00:15:47.000It 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.
00:16:03.000I'm sorry, but you hate the country if you say America is the worst terrorist organization in the world.
00:16:09.000To 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.
00:16:33.000Now, 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.
00:16:43.000I don't debate with trolls who claim that America is the biggest terrorist state in the world because that is idiotic.
00:16:49.000I didn't debate the Lyndon LaRouche followers who sat in Harvard Square carrying anti-war cardboard signs back in the day.
00:16:55.000And 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.
00:17:08.000Dave 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.
00:17:23.000If you would like to hear a complete dismantling of Dave Smith, I highly recommend Coleman Hughes' interview with Smith over at the Free Press.
00:17:31.000And 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.
00:17:40.000You're promoting lies directly mirroring those of the Iranian terrorist government in direct contravention of truth and of the Trump administration's own words.
00:17:48.000So, Senator Jeff Markley, you've never heard of him?
00:17:53.000Here he was suggesting that basically Israel is leading America around, meaning the Jews are leading Trump around like a leash, like a leashed puppy.
00:18:03.000This is a senator sitting in the United States Senate.
00:18:07.000That is a profoundly disturbing explanation.
00:18:10.000First, Netanyahu came and asked for American support for an Israeli action, indicating that they wouldn't be acting unless America supported it.
00:18:18.000So that just violates what Rubio just said, that somehow we didn't have any agency in this conversation.
00:18:56.000Or 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.
00:19:07.000Points to Jeffrey Sachs for saying it out loud.
00:19:15.000It had nothing to do with nuclear weapons all this time.
00:19:18.000The Iranians reached out constantly to negotiate.
00:19:22.000And 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.
00:19:39.000And it put Iran strictly under UN supervision in the International Atomic Energy Agency.
00:19:47.000B.B. Netanyahu had a fit because he wanted to overthrow the government.
00:19:53.000He did not want peaceful relations with a non-nuclear Iran.
00:19:58.000So Donald Trump, who is a puppet of our CIA, Mossad, and Miriam Adelson and the rest, ripped up the JCPOA in 2018.
00:20:13.000Jeffrey Sachs, it should be noted, is a World Economic Forum globalist show, true globalist show.
00:20:20.000It 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.
00:20:59.000And we have great negotiators, great people, people that do this very successfully and have done it all their lives very successfully.
00:21:07.000And based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first.
00:21:13.000Okay, and meanwhile, Marco Rubio, who, again, was taken out of context for the past 48 hours.
00:21:19.000I played you both clips yesterday of what Rubio actually said.
00:21:22.000Rubio 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.
00:21:34.000And 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.
00:21:43.000So those are two separate questions, the why and the why now.
00:21:45.000And that was immediately taken by truly dishonest people to suggest that actually it was Israel who forced the Trump administration into war.
00:21:53.000Here was Marco Rubio pointing out that everyone was lying yesterday.
00:21:58.000Yeah, but I had a very specific question from that gentleman, right?
00:22:02.000The president said, hold on one second.
00:22:19.000We are not going to put Americans' troops in harm's way.
00:22:21.000If 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.
00:22:28.000That's what the president will always do.
00:22:38.000In addition to that, I would argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones.
00:22:44.000They 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.
00:22:49.000And there is no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's watch.
00:22:57.000And Rubio, by the way, happens to be correct about the missile stockpiles.
00:23:01.000We actually have a chart showing the Iranian missile stockpile versus U.S. interceptor capacity.
00:23:06.000And 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.
00:23:16.000Rubio was also asked by the press about the fact that they had cut up his statement.
00:23:20.000Here he was chastising them yesterday.
00:23:23.000Once 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.
00:23:33.000That's what I said yesterday, and you guys need to play it.
00:23:35.000And 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?
00:23:44.000Now, there are, of course, again, for the thousandth time, legitimate questions to be asked about any military operation, goals, costs, strategy, risks.
00:24:25.000Should the president do what he is doing?
00:24:27.000And two, does going after Iran somehow inhibit us from pursuing whatever other goal it is that you are stating?
00:24:34.000So for example, going after Iran, does that somehow inhibit us from doing deportations?
00:24:39.000Now, 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.
00:26:01.000Donald Trump said that 46 years ago, 46 years ago.
00:26:06.000And he's making the same argument today.
00:26:08.000So then the question becomes, is somehow going into Iran inhibiting our ability to deport illegal immigrants or pay for health care or whatever else?
00:26:18.000If 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.
00:26:31.000And 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?
00:26:44.000And the answer is those are two, or are the police officers being redirected from the medical care they normally provide?
00:26:51.000In 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.
00:27:00.000And 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.
00:27:11.000So 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.
00:27:18.000But now you find yourself tempted to argue that deploying our military to take out the world's leading terrorist regime is just too expensive.
00:27:26.000Now, let me suggest why that is wildly disingenuous.
00:27:30.000This war, this war will cost far less, far less, because necessarily it will.
00:27:35.000It's going to be a lot shorter and a lot more contained.
00:27:36.000This war will cost a lot less than Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:27:40.000And neither of those two was the major driver of our debt.
00:27:43.000According to the Defense Department and Congressional Research Service, the United States spent roughly $1.6 trillion to $2.1 trillion on Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:27:52.000During 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.
00:28:04.000If you want to make the argument the action in Iran is not in our national interest, then go ahead and make the argument.
00:28:09.000But 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.
00:28:55.000And as you know, 49 people were taken out in the first hit.
00:28:58.000And I guess there was another hit today on the new leadership.
00:29:02.000And it looks like that was pretty substantial also.
00:29:08.000So, yes, actually, the United States and Israeli militaries are doing extraordinary work.
00:29:14.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:29:40.000The so-called governing council that might have selected a successor, dead, missing, or cowering in bunkers, too terrified to even occupy the same room.
00:29:50.000Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks, they can't talk or communicate, let alone mount a coordinated and sustained offensive.
00:30:38.000In 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.
00:30:46.000Again, he put out a statement on Truth Social about that yesterday.
00:30:48.000He 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.
00:31:00.000This will be available to all shipping lines.
00:31:02.000If necessary, the U.S. Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible.
00:31:06.000No matter what, the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world.
00:31:10.000United States economic and military might is the greatest on earth.
00:31:28.000The 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.
00:31:36.000They're kind of like passenger airliners.
00:31:48.000Starting 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.
00:32:02.000I hope all the folks watching understand what uncontested airspace and complete control means.
00:32:09.000It 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.
00:32:25.000Flying 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.
00:32:44.000Hegseth 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.
00:33:02.000Well, here's Pete Hegseth saying that the guy who was behind all of that is now dead.
00:33:07.000We've known for a long time that Iran had intentions on trying to kill President Trump and or other U.S. officials.
00:33:15.000And 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.
00:33:28.000It wasn't the beginning of the effort.
00:33:31.000We were focused on missiles and launchers, and that's the focus.
00:33:34.000But ultimately, if we had the opportunity to get at those who are trying to get at Americans specifically, we would.
00:33:40.000And so we eventually had the opportunity to do that from the air.
00:33:46.000That person's name is Rahman Mokadam, who's head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Special Operations Division.
00:33:52.000As far as status of the war, U.S. NCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper explains the status of the operation.
00:33:58.000More 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.
00:34:08.000These forces bring a massive amount of firepower, representing the largest buildup by the U.S. in the Middle East in a generation.
00:34:16.000In the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. Central Command Forces, together with Israel, delivered overwhelming and unprecedented strikes into Iran.
00:34:25.000Many of you may remember the shock and awe strikes of 2003.
00:34:29.000The 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.
00:34:40.000Now we're less than 100 hours into this operation, and we've already struck nearly 2,000 targets with more than 2,000 munitions.
00:34:48.000We have severely degraded Iran's air defenses and destroyed hundreds of Iran's ballistic missiles, launchers, and drones.
00:34:55.000And in simple terms, we're focused on shooting all the things that can shoot at us.
00:35:00.000Our B-2 bombers and B-1 bombers have executed uncontested surgical strikes against multiple missile facilities deep inside Iran.
00:35:07.000And then just last night, a B-52 bomber force struck ballistic missile in command and control posts.
00:35:13.000We are also sinking the Iranian Navy, the entire Navy.
00:35:18.000Thus far, we've destroyed 17 Iranian ships, including the most operational Iranian submarine that now has a hole in its side.
00:35:25.000For decades, the Iranian regime has harassed international shipping.
00:35:29.000Today, there's not a single Iranian ship underway in the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, or Gulf of Oman.
00:35:55.000I'll explain what the hell he's talking about because it's actually really funny.
00:36:00.000What'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.
00:36:06.000You'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.
00:36:28.000When he says unleash Chiang, you know what that means.
00:36:29.000Okay, 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.
00:36:43.000Okay, that became a sort of meme pushed by George H.W. Bush when he was president of the United States.
00:36:50.000Apparently, 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.
00:37:01.000And that was then picked up by Jeb, exclamation point Jeb, former governor of Florida, who would use that phrase all the time, Unleash Chang.
00:37:09.000And when he was the governor of Florida and Marco Rubio was the senator from Florida, he gave him a sword that he called Chang.
00:37:18.000And he described Chang as a mythical conservative warrior.
00:37:21.000So that's where Unleash Chang comes from.
00:37:26.000And meanwhile, the Iranians are basically relegated to firing desultory ballistic missile attacks, most of which are being shot down, and drones.
00:37:57.000So Qatar, which has always played this sort of middle ground between the United States and Iran.
00:38:02.000Well, now they are turning on the IRGC and actually arresting members of the IRGC in Qatar.
00:38:07.000Remember, this is the country that housed Hamas.
00:38:09.00010 suspects, according to Al Jazeera, were arrested in these terrorist cells, according to Qatar news agencies.
00:38:15.000Seven had been assigned to spy on vital and military facilities in Qatar.
00:38:19.000Three were tasked with carrying out sabotage operations.
00:38:22.000Hardest hit, Tucker Carlson, who, of course, has been standing for the Ayatollahs.
00:38:26.000And now his friends in Qatar, for whom he has been running interference, they're our greatest ally, of course.
00:38:31.000Well, now they're actually acting like allies and arresting members of the IRGC.
00:38:35.000The 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.
00:38:48.000Our missiles to intercept them cost between $500,000 and $4 million.
00:38:51.000Uh-oh, they have tons of drones, and we are starting to run low on FAD and Patriot missiles.
00:38:55.000We spent 25% of them defending Israel in June.
00:38:58.000And 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.
00:39:06.000But in any case, Chenk Uyghur, he's making a point that it happens not to be true.
00:39:12.000The 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.
00:39:22.000F-15s and F-16s, for example, shot down more than 80 drones in one night in April 2024 when Iran attacked Israel.
00:39:57.000They can manufacture a lot of drones and we can shoot down a lot of drones.
00:40:00.000Plus, they're not going to have a command and control center to even deploy drones in the very near future.
00:40:04.000President 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.
00:40:12.000As was stated to me today, we have a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons.
00:40:15.000Wars can be fought forever and very successfully using just these supplies, which are better than other countries' finest arms.
00:40:21.000At the highest end, we have a good supply, but not where we want to be.
00:40:24.000Much additional high-grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries.
00:40:27.000Sleepy 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.
00:40:33.000And while he gave so much of the super high-end away for free, he didn't bother to replace it.
00:40:37.000Fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term and continue to do so.
00:40:40.000The United States is stocked and ready to win big.
00:40:42.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:40:44.000So while I disagree with his characterization of Ukraine and Zelensky, the reality is that we do have significant stockpiles.
00:40:50.000And again, the munitions we are using to shoot down the drones, that is not actually the FAD and Patriots for the most part.
00:40:58.000Now, President Trump is also making the point that the Iranians are running out of missile launchers.
00:41:15.000If they fire all their missile launchers, they're toast, and they know this.
00:41:17.000So, 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.
00:41:32.000So, President Trump says that defense companies are under emergency orders.
00:42:16.000So, 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.
00:43:38.000The chances are Republicans don't do great.
00:43:40.000Economic issues are the main voter concerns.
00:43:44.000At 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.
00:43:53.000Now, how about, again, the impact of the war?
00:43:56.000According to this new CBS poll, asked whether they approve or disapprove of the actual military operation.
00:44:06.000The question is answered by the duration of the war.
00:45:24.000As 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%.
00:45:38.000That is the gap between approve and disapprove.
00:45:40.000That means it's like 84 to 16, if I am doing my mental math correctly here.
00:45:49.000Among a wide variety of groups, it is overwater.
00:45:53.000That 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.
00:46:24.000And 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.
00:46:34.000It turns out the military is quite conservative and hawkish when it comes to actual effectuation of American foreign policy.
00:46:41.000So that's part of the electoral story.
00:46:51.000It faced John Cornyn, the incumbent senator from Texas, against Ken Paxton.
00:46:57.000Ken Paxton is the attorney general of Texas and Wesley Hunt, congressman.
00:47:02.000And 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.
00:47:08.000So, worst case scenario seems to be materializing for the Republicans.
00:47:12.000What 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.
00:47:19.000However, 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.
00:47:44.000Unclear if Hunt is going to turn around and endorse Paxton or something.
00:47:48.000Meanwhile, Tallarico beat Jasmine Crockett, who I think performed shockingly well for a person who probably should be in a psych ward somewhere.
00:47:57.000So Jasmine Crockett won 46% of the Democrat vote.
00:48:00.000Tallarico, 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.
00:48:12.000And 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.
00:48:18.000And Tallarico is going to sit there and just wait for whatever happens next.
00:48:21.000Now, normally that would be great for Tallarico.
00:48:23.000However, there is a lot of tape of Tallarico coming out, demonstrating that he is indeed far too left for the Texas population.
00:48:32.000So Tallarico, here's Tallarico on economics.
00:48:35.000He 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.
00:48:44.000The 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.
00:48:54.000Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.
00:48:57.000He's about to make more money than every elementary school teacher in America combined.
00:49:04.000Do we really believe one man is worth more than every elementary school teacher?
00:49:10.000Why do we have a trillionaire when there are kids without enough to eat?
00:49:15.000Why do we have a trillionaire when cancer patients are going bankrupt?
00:49:20.000Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping out on the street?
00:49:25.000I'm all for success, but this is not success.
00:49:58.000But again, that is the least of the Tallarico radical left sins.
00:50:02.000A clip has now emerged of Tallarico arguing that God is non-binary.
00:50:06.000Yes, he's gender non-binary, as it turns out.
00:50:10.000My 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.
00:50:17.000They start talking about God as though God is a rainbow-haired lesbian.