00:00:00.000President Trump's America First is about America being strong at home and in the world.
00:00:05.000And President Trump remains America First.
00:00:07.000He spent his weekend warning Iran not to screw with the United States or our allies, or there would be consequences.
00:00:13.000And his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, spent his weekend working the phones to help destroy the Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.0.67
00:00:21.000Meanwhile, however, Vice President JD Vance spent the weekend looking weak in front of the Qataris, the Pakistanis, and most of all, the Iranians.
00:00:28.000In fact, I've never seen a weaker look from a Republican politician.
00:00:31.000That is not peace through strength, it is war through weakness.
00:00:34.000Get the amateurs back on the bench, get the professionals back in the game.
00:00:47.000So, President Trump spent the weekend trying to reestablish American deterrence, peace through strength.
00:00:51.000You know, the stuff he's been pushing for literally decades.
00:00:54.000And his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, spent the weekend trying to end the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah over in Lebanon because that's part of peace through strength.
00:01:02.000Listen, I want the war in Iran to end.
00:01:04.000I have said that for months with victory because it is not worth waging wars if you don't win those wars.0.73
00:01:11.000And the ends were spelled out by the administration from the outset no nuclear enrichment.
00:01:26.000And even if we pretend those are not the goals, those are still the goals.
00:01:29.000And listen, I get that we want the Strait of Hormuz open more than anything, that the administration wants the oil prices to go down, that the administration is concerned about the economic impact of oil prices going into the midterms.1.00
00:01:40.000The only way to get the Strait of Hormuz durably open is through strength, because otherwise the Iranians will jerk us around.1.00
00:01:49.000As they have been doing for 50 years.1.00
00:01:52.000Now, President Trump over the weekend appeared to know that.
00:01:57.000Listen, for America, I would love for the vice president to do well abroad.
00:02:01.000I would love the whole administration to do well.
00:02:02.000I would love every administration and every politician in every administration to do well by representing American power through peace, through strength.
00:02:12.000However, the lack of American strength that was present in the room in Switzerland over the weekend was devastating.
00:02:18.000When America has the most dominant military on the entire globe, there is simply no excuse.
00:02:25.000So, got to start with the contrast between what President Trump was doing over the weekend and the Secretary of State, what he was doing over the weekend, and what the vice president was doing in a highly publicized confab over in Switzerland over the weekend.0.89
00:02:37.000So, over the weekend, the president became highly annoyed with the Iranians.0.60
00:02:40.000Well, because they keep threatening to shut the Strait of Hormuz and because they keep activating their friends in the terrorist group Hezbollah to attack Israeli troops.0.96
00:02:47.000Again, the goal, as I said last week, for Iran sensing weakness in the United States was to ratchet up conflict in Lebanon.0.63
00:02:55.000By activating its terror group Hezbollah to attack the Israelis in the hope that the Israelis would then retaliate.0.72
00:03:00.000And then Iran would say they're shutting the Strait of Hormuz and it's all the Israelis' fault.
00:03:04.000And they would hope that President Trump would then yell at the Israelis.0.92
00:03:07.000And so that's a win win for the Iranians because either they end up with an Israel that is just having to take casualties in Lebanon and in Israel, or they end up with the administration pressuring the Israelis and the Israelis refusing, and then alienation between the United States and Israel, which is what, of course, Iran wants.0.95
00:03:27.000Well, the president had enough of it over the weekend.
00:03:28.000So, on Sunday, according to Fox News, Fox News is now reporting that over the weekend, President Trump said in an interview he had spoken with Iranian officials on Saturday night and warned them not to close the strait.
00:03:39.000Quote, quote, quote, you close it and you won't have a country.
00:03:42.000You won't even make it back to your effing country if you close the strait.0.71
00:03:47.000And then on Sunday morning, the president put out a truth that was similar in nature quote, Iran must immediately stop their highly paid proxies in Lebanon from causing trouble.0.93
00:03:56.000If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder.0.54
00:05:12.000The president of the United States also was ripping on the New York Times over the weekend because the New York Times was claiming that nothing had changed after the military destruction of much of Iran's war machine.
00:05:24.000The president put out a statement on Truth Social The headline in the corrupt and failing New York Times What changed after almost four months of war?
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00:07:02.000He's not been talking about the MOU, in my belief, because the MOU is poorly written and because the Vice President did a bad job of negotiating it.
00:07:09.000Again, it's on the President that he signed it.
00:07:11.000But I can't imagine that the Secretary of State, if you looked at that presser last Friday, didn't look very happy about the memorandum of understanding, the non deal.
00:07:20.000Was asked about what the Secretary of State was doing.
00:07:23.000And Rubio was actively in talks with the Lebanese and the Israelis about what to do about Hezbollah.
00:07:27.000Again, remember, the whole goal in Lebanon.
00:07:30.000You're sitting there thinking to yourself, what the hell does Lebanon have to do with Iran?
00:07:33.000They're 1,000 miles away from each other.
00:07:35.000And the answer is nothing, except for the fact that there is an Iranian terror group that populates the south part of Lebanon and fires on Israel, into Israel, on Israeli civilians, and then on Israeli troops trying to defend Israeli civilians and threatens the Lebanese government on the regular.0.61
00:07:50.000That is why Lebanon has become part of this conversation, because Iran understands that the Lebanese government and the Israeli government are on the same side in terms of getting rid of the Iranian proxy group.0.58
00:08:00.000And so Iran is trying to leverage the Strait of Hormuz to save its terrorist friends in Lebanon.
00:08:05.000Well, Marco Rubio is actively attempting to put together a coalition against Hezbollah between Israel and the Lebanese, not including Syria, by the way.
00:08:14.000That's a silly idea by Ambassador Tom Barak over in Turkey.0.95
00:08:17.000The Turks, of course, are a nefarious force in the region.0.93
00:08:20.000They're trying to use their proxy group in Syria.0.95
00:08:23.000They're talking about them going into Lebanon.1.00
00:08:25.000By the way, the Syrians are like, we want no part of that.1.00
00:08:27.000We are not interested in the slightest.1.00
00:08:28.000We occupied Lebanon between 1970 and 2005, not doing it again.
00:08:31.000So, in other words, Marco Rubio is being a pro.
00:08:34.000Vice President pointed out that Marco Rubio is actively managing the situation in Lebanon.
00:08:40.000Marco and the entire team have been actively managing what's going on in Lebanon despite the headlines.
00:08:46.000Things are actually getting better there.
00:08:51.000It's going to be something we're just going to have to continue to manage to ensure that Israel and Lebanon are both safe and secure.
00:09:01.000That's what's going to do the global business to make the whole region safe and secure.
00:09:06.000The big problem is that you have somebody will do and then somebody will respond, and you kind of have a chicken and egg problem where you've just got to.
00:09:17.000Okay, so again, the idea here is that Rubio's being a pro.
00:09:20.000However, there was one member of the administration who was doing something that, frankly, was pretty humiliating to the United States over the weekend, and that was the vice president.
00:09:27.000So, quick hypothetical again, I don't care about the names.
00:09:30.000I don't care about the names in these situations.
00:11:16.000Vice President Vance spent the weekend getting dunked on like Frederick Weiss in front of Vince Carter.
00:11:21.000For people my age, that's a reference, you'll understand.
00:11:23.000Okay, so this whole thing began with Mohammed Khalibaf, who is the Iranian parliament speaker and an IRGC member, showing up to the negotiations alongside Abbas Arahi, the foreign minister.0.67
00:11:34.000Both of them, again, are representatives of a terrorist state that shouts death to America, that is part of their actual mission.0.61
00:11:41.000And they showed up wearing a pin that said on it Minab.0.82
00:11:44.000Minab is a reference to the school that was filled with girls that was hit at the very beginning of the war mistakenly.0.56
00:11:51.000And the Iranians, trying to pretend that they are somehow the victims in all of this, The reason there was even a conflict with Iran is because Iran spent the beginning of the year mowing down protesters by the tens of thousands, suggesting that somehow Iran is the humanitarian group here.
00:12:05.000They showed up in a plane, literally a plane, that was marked with Minab.0.66
00:12:13.000Okay, so again, they showed up to dunk on the Americans.0.99
00:12:19.000And then on Saturday, right before they arrived, they announced their plans to close Hormuz.
00:12:23.000So again, you have to understand to understand the dunk.
00:12:25.000You know, the vice president's poor performance over the weekend.
00:12:28.000You have to understand what Iran was trying to do.0.65
00:12:29.000And the answer was dunk repeatedly on the vice president and the United States publicly.
00:12:35.000On Saturday, Politico reported that Iran was again planning to close the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Iranian consulate and reports from Iranian state owned media, and just giving the United States the runaround.
00:12:45.000And then Khalibaf arrived in the plane with Manab 168 painted on it.
00:12:49.000168 was a reference to the 168 schoolgirls who were allegedly killed in that school.
00:12:56.000And he tweeted out, Khalibaf tweeted out, I consider the innocent children of Manab and all the martyrs of dear Iran to be watching over my every action and behavior at every moment.
00:13:05.000Does this seem very much like a regime that is looking forward to a cooperative relationship with the United States?
00:13:11.000Quote, God forbid I should ever bring shame to the innocent martyrs and the people of Iran, and that I should join my companions with a clear conscience, companions for whose reunion I eagerly await.
00:13:19.000Again, he is literally saying he wants to die as a martyr.
00:13:22.000That is literally what he wants to say.
00:13:23.000Meanwhile, the Iranian president, Pzeszkian, spent his Sunday saying that they would not give up enrichment.
00:13:29.000Again, this was during the negotiations.
00:13:32.000The Iranian president said, We will not give up enrichment.
00:13:34.000And Trump, he said, Has basically cucked on this issue.
00:13:37.000Again, that's the Iranian president saying this.0.64
00:13:44.000We will not give up our right to enrichment, and they too will be forced to accept it.0.77
00:13:49.000You all know what the so called president of the United States was saying.
00:13:52.000He has made a complete 180 degree turn.
00:13:55.000He was saying that Iran must surrender unconditionally.
00:13:58.000Iran has no right to do this, it has no right to do that.0.79
00:14:01.000Then he gave a speech and said that Iran has the right to do this, it has the right to possess this.0.69
00:14:06.000In other words, he has reversed himself by 180 degrees compared to his previous positions and has accepted that they cannot ignore our rights.0.83
00:14:16.000Again, the Iranians just dunking on the Trump administration in the lead up to this pseudo summit.0.53
00:14:22.000And then, Tosnim News Agency, which again is an Iranian outlet, they said, quote, the Strait of Hormuz would not be reopened as long as a ceasefire in Lebanon was not respected.
00:14:32.000Meanwhile, what is Iran doing with those dissidents?
00:14:34.000They're hanging them, they've escalated the rate of hanging them.
00:14:37.000Quote, this is the Wall Street Journal.
00:14:43.000Tehran has pushed to strengthen its internal hold on power as it starts talks with the United States.
00:14:47.000Now, remember that tweet from President Trump and that comment from President Trump saying that they need to stop backing terrorist groups or we're going to hit them?
00:14:54.000They need to open the strait or we're going to hit them?
00:14:56.000Well, Iranian negotiators then did a high profile walkout at these negotiations on Sunday.
00:15:02.000According to the New York Post, the talks were abandoned after just 80 minutes when the discussions entered a difficult phase following an insulting message by the United States president.
00:15:13.000Mohammed Khalibaf, the Iranian parliament leader, he said, Don't they realize that if their threats worked, they wouldn't be this desperate now?
00:15:22.000Our armed forces are ready to respond differently.
00:15:23.000Whatever they say, we are the ones who act.
00:15:27.000So that was the backdrop to the vice president's performance an Iranian regime that is emboldened, an Iranian regime that they have the upper hand, an Iranian regime that believes that they are able to basically twist out of the United States what they want.
00:15:39.000And a president, on the other hand, who is saying, You don't get to do any of that.
00:15:42.000And if you keep backing tariffs, we'll hit you.
00:15:44.000And if you shut the straight, we'll hit you.0.99
00:15:48.000We don't need a presentation of weakness in front of these folks.
00:15:51.000Unfortunately, that is precisely what the vice president did.
00:15:54.000All righty, coming up, a photo op between the vice president of the United States and a bunch of people who kind of wanted to dunk on him, pretty obvious.
00:16:01.000First, people spending a lot of time talking about bringing manufacturing back to America.
00:16:05.000Well, that's good, but it's also worth noting that there are a bunch of industries here in the United States that never actually left in the first place.
00:16:13.000One great example, America's beverage companies.
00:16:15.000You know, the drinks that people have grown up with for generations, sodas, sparkling waters, teas, sports drinks, the companies that make them have continued making those products here in the United States the entire time.
00:16:25.000Behind all of that are 275,000 men and women across all 50 states showing up every single day doing real work.
00:16:31.000These are good paying jobs, distribution, manufacturing, trucking, production, the kinds of jobs that support families and local communities.
00:16:37.000For more than a century, America's beverage companies have continued investing here, building here, employing American workers in American hometowns.
00:16:44.000In an economy where so many industries actually moved operations overseas, that matters.
00:16:48.000Learn more about how they're keeping America strong at WeDeliverForAmerica.org.
00:16:52.000Again, America's beverage industries, they're still here.
00:16:55.000They're still making American products, American jobs.
00:17:12.000But it was the United States that apparently wanted a joint photo.
00:17:16.000And according to Iran International, the Iranian negotiating team refused to take part in a planned joint photo opportunity with the U.S. delegation before talks in Geneva.
00:17:24.000The source said U.S. officials and organizers had planned a handshake and group photo between the two sides.
00:17:28.000The Iranian delegation declined to participate.
00:17:33.000Following the objection, the live broadcast and photo session went ahead without the Iranian team, which entered the venue afterwards.
00:17:38.000So, again, normally when it comes to protocol, the people who want it more show up early.0.99
00:17:45.000The people who are sort of the big dog, they show up late.
00:17:48.000The United States was there waiting around.1.00
00:17:49.000The vice president was waiting around for the Iranians to show up, and they sniffed them on a photo up, and then they showed up late.
00:17:56.000Okay, then there is video footage that is going around in which the vice president is waiting around in the press room.
00:18:06.000And the negotiators from Qatar literally walk right by him.
00:18:09.000Now, they're claiming that this is because they didn't need to re greet him, but that's weird because they just greet their Pakistani friends.
00:20:27.000Pakistan is, shall we say, an erstwhile American ally.0.53
00:20:32.000When I say an American ally, what I really mean is that Pakistan is an Islamist state with nuclear weapons allied with the Chinese government that helped Taito Sam bin Laden for years.1.00
00:20:41.000So, they're not an amazing ally, the Pakistanis.0.96
00:20:44.000So, you had a Chinese cutout, an Iranian cutout, and the Iranians here.1.00
00:21:34.000To his field marshal in Pakistan, Asim Maneer, I will say that since Field Marshal Maneer welcomed us with the Prime Minister in Islamabad, I have joked that I have two very, very important people in my life an Indian and a Pakistani.
00:21:49.000The Indian is my wife, and the Pakistani is Field Marshal Maneer.
00:21:53.000And I've probably talked to Field Marshal Maneer more than I've talked to anybody else over the last three months.
00:23:18.000As I think a lot of you appreciate, peace is never easy.
00:23:21.000Peace always requires a little bit of work, it always requires a little bit of give and take.
00:23:25.000But the President of the United States is committed, not just to peace between the United States and Iran, the President is committed to a regional peace, which is why we're here working so hard to settle our issues.
00:23:43.000The vice president was asked about Lebanon.
00:23:46.000The reporter is obviously a friend to the Iranian and suggested that Israel is committing genocide in Lebanon, which is actively untrue.0.99
00:24:23.000Well, ma'am, I think that the President of the United States and the United States of America have done more to stop the conflict in Lebanon than any government anywhere in the world over the last few months.
00:24:33.000We're going to keep on working towards it.
00:24:55.000And then, by the way, he drops an absolute whopper about the Iranian terrorist group Hezbollah.
00:25:03.000When you guys engage in what us millennials might call trash talk, you can't expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record.
00:25:12.000So when they say things that aren't true, The president is going to respond to it.
00:25:19.000When they make threats that aren't rooted in reality, they have to accept that the president of the United States is actually going to set the record straight.
00:25:28.000So, yes, there was a little bit of threatening, there was a little bit of whining, but at the end of the day, the talks continued and we made great progress.
00:26:04.000The deconfliction mechanism achieved by the vice president does not include the parties.
00:26:09.000It instead includes Qatar, an Iranian cutout, Pakistan, a Chinese cutout, and Iran.
00:26:15.000None of those countries, zero of those countries border Lebanon or literally have anything to do with Lebanon.
00:26:21.000Why are they even a part of this conversation?
00:26:23.000Here was the vice president explaining his magical deconfliction mechanism.
00:26:27.000And this is the sort of Obama esque language that the Trump administration should not be humoring.
00:26:34.000We've been, I think, very good at setting up what we're calling a deconfliction mechanism.
00:26:39.000But what it really is, is to say that when things happen, the sides are actually talking to one another.
00:26:45.000Sometimes, you know, you've got a bit of a chicken and egg problem that you've got a junior guy who fires a drone that didn't have approval from the high command.0.62
00:26:54.000Okay, of course, Israel has to respond to that.
00:26:57.000But then sometimes that response, we could actually have a better and more peaceful situation if Israel responds in the context of a conversation that's ongoing between Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel, and other partners in the region.
00:27:11.000There really hasn't been a mechanism to have those discussions until basically around 4 p.m. yesterday, Bergenstock time, when we set that up.
00:27:19.000So what we're trying to do is to say, first of all, Israel and every other nation in the region has the right of self defense, but we want to make sure that everybody has that right of self-defense in the background where we're talking about how to de-escalate these conflicts rather than spiraling out of control.
00:27:37.000Okay, first of all, that is such, I mean, let's just go back to what he says right there.
00:27:41.000You know, low-level junior guy from Hezbollah without the approval of high command fires a drone.
00:27:45.000Is that what he thinks is going on?1.00
00:27:47.000If he thinks that that's what's going on, he's a fool.0.99
00:27:49.000That's clearly not what's going on.0.99
00:27:51.000Hezbollah ramped up its violence over the course of the weekend because of perceived weakness.
00:28:21.000The problem is are you going to exert pressure on the Iranians to stop their terror group from destroying Lebanon?0.74
00:28:26.000That's what's actually happening right now.
00:28:29.000So, a deconfliction mechanism again, we should point out at this point that the deconfliction mechanism that is being touted by the vice president, Qatar, Pakistan, and Iran does not include Israel.
00:29:30.000They've spent the last several days talking about shutting down the strait and reopening the strait and shutting down the strait and incentivizing their terrorist friends to kill people.
00:29:38.000And it looks like we are unfreezing assets, apparently.
00:29:41.000Well, here was the Vice President suggesting that actually it's a big win.0.62
00:29:45.000If we unfreeze Iranian assets, And they will go to somehow soybean farmers or something.
00:29:53.000I've seen some misreporting about frozen or unfrozen Iranian assets.
00:29:58.000One of the other things that we wanted to do, and you know, wasn't as high of a priority for us for obvious reasons, but we wanted to make sure that we set up a process where if, if we ever unfreeze Iranian assets, we can ensure that those, that that money, that Iranian money goes to help the people of Iran and not to fund terrorism.
00:30:17.000So, Jared Kushner actually came up with a very interesting solution with the Qataris, where basically, again, if there is any frozen Iranian assets that are unfrozen, then we have approval over that process.
00:30:33.000The Qataris have approval over that process.
00:30:36.000And then the money would actually go to buy American soy, American corn, and American wheat for the benefit of the Iranian people.0.54
00:30:46.000So, in other words, I'm just going to point out it's now apparently good for us to unfreeze.0.73
00:30:51.000Assets so Iran can then essentially do oil for food, which is precisely what Saddam Hussein did when he was avoiding sanctions back in the 90s.0.89
00:31:01.000According to the text of the Memorandum of Understanding, signed by the president, quote, such funds, whether retained in the original account or transferred, shall be made fully usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
00:31:18.000Do we really think that we are going to unfreeze their funds and they're going to use it?
00:31:26.000The other big win, supposedly delivered by the vice president, is he keeps quoting this notion that we are going to, we have achieved the signal feat of allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, back into Iran.
00:31:40.000This is the big win that's coming out of this conference, apparently.
00:31:46.000And this is probably what we're most excited about as Americans.
00:31:49.000The Iranians have agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back into their.
00:31:54.000That is a major milestone for the American people and the first step in permanently denuclearizing or permanently ending a nuclear weapons program in Iran.0.62
00:32:05.000And that's exactly what we wanted to do.0.72
00:32:07.000That's exactly what we asked to happen.
00:32:43.000Also, the much hated JCPOA, which was a pile of trash from the Obama administration, says, The IAEA will be requested to monitor and verify the voluntary nuclear related measures as detailed in this JCPOA.
00:32:59.000The IAEA will be requested to provide regular updates to the Board of Governors as provided for in this JCPOA to the UN Security Council.
00:33:06.000The IAEA is mentioned 117 times in the JCPOA.
00:33:11.000Oh, and by the way, you know, it was in the JCPOA, and now the vice president is saying it's an amazing thing, and the Iranians say it's not even happening.
00:33:19.000Quote The entry of inspectors from the IAEA into Iran contradicts the understanding agreement and may cause significant damage.
00:33:26.000Until now, the issue of granting approval for the entry of agency inspectors into Iran has not been approved by the Iranian negotiation team.
00:33:33.000That is what Tasnim, the Iranian news agency, is saying.
00:33:36.000Also, by the way, we have now released openly billions of dollars in oil money to go to the Iranians.
00:34:23.000It was released by the Qataris, not by the Americans, by the Qataris.
00:34:31.000It is the vice president on a computer being corrected in his typing by Alfani.
00:34:37.000Alfani is the negotiator for the Qataris.
00:34:41.000So you literally have the Qataris, for a cutout for the Iranians, dictating to the stenographer, vice president of the United States, as he types in this picture.
00:34:50.000That is what is happening in this picture.
00:34:52.000In the background, Jared Kushner is looking on.
00:34:53.000Jared, of course, has a long and abiding relationship with the Qatar Investment Authority with regard to sort of his private investments.0.79
00:35:01.000So you literally have Al Thani, who is an Iranian cutout, telling the vice president what to type.0.74
00:35:10.000There is a reason the vice president did not put out this photo, but Al Thani did.1.00
00:35:50.000The only good things that will happen here is if the credible threat of force is reestablished by the president, because otherwise, Iran is just going to keep turning on and off the straight.0.95
00:35:59.000The president is talking one set of priorities.
00:36:02.000The secretary of state is talking the president's set of priorities.0.94
00:36:04.000And the vice president is over in Switzerland talking about how much he loves a bunch of cutouts for the Iranians and Chinese, and then taking pictures in which he is being bossed around by Al Fani.0.85
00:36:16.000While the Iranians are dunking on him openly, openly, the Iranians are saying they will not get rid of their nuclear program.0.87
00:36:22.000The Iranians are saying they will control the Strait of Hormuz when all of this is over.0.79
00:36:26.000The Iranians are saying openly that they will control Lebanon when this is over.0.71
00:36:32.000The perception of American weakness is the worst thing to come out of what is currently going on.
00:36:36.000If you want America to win, If you want America to win, we need to look as strong as we are.
00:36:45.000I'm sorry, being given the runaround by a bunch of tin pot dictator politicians from some of the worst regimes on planet Earth certainly does not demonstrate American strength.
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