The Ben Shapiro Show - June 22, 2026


JD Vance's Weekend Was Worse Than You Think

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The contrast between what President Trump and his Vice President JD Vance did over the weekend, and what Vice President Mike Pence did on the weekend in Switzerland, is truly striking. President Trump's America First is about America being strong at home and in the world, and President Trump remains America First. He spent his weekend warning Iran not to screw with the United States or our allies, or there would be consequences. Meanwhile, Vice President Vance spent the weekend looking weak in front of the Qataris, the Pakistanis, and the Iranians. That is not peace through strength, it is war through weakness.

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00:00:00.000 President Trump's America First is about America being strong at home and in the world.
00:00:05.000 And President Trump remains America First.
00:00:07.000 He spent his weekend warning Iran not to screw with the United States or our allies, or there would be consequences.
00:00:13.000 And his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, spent his weekend working the phones to help destroy the Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. 0.67
00:00:21.000 Meanwhile, however, Vice President JD Vance spent the weekend looking weak in front of the Qataris, the Pakistanis, and most of all, the Iranians.
00:00:28.000 In fact, I've never seen a weaker look from a Republican politician.
00:00:31.000 That is not peace through strength, it is war through weakness.
00:00:34.000 Get the amateurs back on the bench, get the professionals back in the game.
00:00:38.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:47.000 So, President Trump spent the weekend trying to reestablish American deterrence, peace through strength.
00:00:51.000 You know, the stuff he's been pushing for literally decades.
00:00:54.000 And 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.
00:01:02.000 Listen, I want the war in Iran to end.
00:01:04.000 I have said that for months with victory because it is not worth waging wars if you don't win those wars. 0.73
00:01:11.000 And the ends were spelled out by the administration from the outset no nuclear enrichment.
00:01:17.000 No ballistic missiles.
00:01:19.000 No support of terrorism.
00:01:20.000 The Strait of Hormuz open. 1.00
00:01:22.000 Those are the goals.
00:01:23.000 Those were the goals.
00:01:25.000 Those are still the goals.
00:01:26.000 And even if we pretend those are not the goals, those are still the goals.
00:01:29.000 And 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
00:01:40.000 The only way to get the Strait of Hormuz durably open is through strength, because otherwise the Iranians will jerk us around. 1.00
00:01:49.000 As they have been doing for 50 years. 1.00
00:01:52.000 Now, President Trump over the weekend appeared to know that.
00:01:54.000 Vice President Vance, not so much.
00:01:57.000 Listen, for America, I would love for the vice president to do well abroad.
00:02:01.000 I would love the whole administration to do well.
00:02:02.000 I would love every administration and every politician in every administration to do well by representing American power through peace, through strength.
00:02:12.000 However, the lack of American strength that was present in the room in Switzerland over the weekend was devastating.
00:02:18.000 When America has the most dominant military on the entire globe, there is simply no excuse.
00:02:24.000 For American weakness.
00:02:25.000 So, 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
00:02:37.000 So, over the weekend, the president became highly annoyed with the Iranians. 0.60
00:02:40.000 Why? 0.96
00:02:40.000 Well, 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
00:02:47.000 Again, the goal, as I said last week, for Iran sensing weakness in the United States was to ratchet up conflict in Lebanon. 0.63
00:02:55.000 By activating its terror group Hezbollah to attack the Israelis in the hope that the Israelis would then retaliate. 0.72
00:03:00.000 And then Iran would say they're shutting the Strait of Hormuz and it's all the Israelis' fault.
00:03:04.000 And they would hope that President Trump would then yell at the Israelis. 0.92
00:03:07.000 And 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
00:03:23.000 That is the entire game. 0.81
00:03:24.000 It is not a complex game.
00:03:25.000 It's a very simple game.
00:03:27.000 Well, the president had enough of it over the weekend.
00:03:28.000 So, 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.
00:03:39.000 Quote, quote, quote, you close it and you won't have a country.
00:03:42.000 You won't even make it back to your effing country if you close the strait. 0.71
00:03:47.000 And 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
00:03:56.000 If they don't, we'll hit Iran very hard again, just like we did last week, only harder. 0.54
00:03:59.000 President Trump.
00:04:01.000 Again, this is the Trumpian foreign policy.
00:04:05.000 If you screw with us, if you screw with our allies, you get hit.
00:04:08.000 If you interfere with American interests in the Strait of Hormuz, you get hit.
00:04:12.000 We are not going to just hand you things to hand you things.
00:04:16.000 Apparently, he spent four and a half hours with Senator Lindsey Graham, who, of course, is quite hawkish on the Middle East.
00:04:21.000 Senator Graham from South Carolina was then on Face the Nation on Sunday.
00:04:24.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:04:27.000 I spent four and a half hours with President Trump.
00:04:29.000 Friday, here's what I think will happen next.
00:04:32.000 If this deal fails, President Trump is going to take the Strait of Hormuz over by force.
00:04:38.000 The United States will control the Strait of Hormuz.
00:04:40.000 We'll charge a fee for all those who go through to pay for the operation. 0.94
00:04:45.000 And we're going to expand the Abraham Accords in calendar year 2026. 0.73
00:04:50.000 We're going to get Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords, which is the biggest change in 5,000 years in the Mideast. 0.91
00:04:58.000 And if Iran contests control of the Strait of Hormuz by the United States, we will obliterate them. 0.91
00:05:03.000 Okay, again, that is a peace through strength policy. 0.84
00:05:08.000 And he said that after spending four and a half hours with.
00:05:11.000 The president of the United States.
00:05:12.000 The 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.
00:05:24.000 The 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?
00:05:29.000 Analysts say not much.
00:05:30.000 Really?
00:05:31.000 Their military is done.
00:05:32.000 Their air force is gone.
00:05:32.000 Their navy is gone.
00:05:33.000 Their launching pads, missiles, drones, and manufacturing of same is almost gone.
00:05:37.000 Their two top sets of leaders are gone.
00:05:38.000 Their inflation is at 250%.
00:05:40.000 Their economy is broken.
00:05:41.000 Their soldiers aren't being paid.
00:05:42.000 The Hormuz Strait is open.
00:05:43.000 The oil is gushing.
00:05:44.000 The U.S. stock market and jobs are at record highs. 0.98
00:05:46.000 That's what changed you corrupt and unethical cowards and more. 0.86
00:05:48.000 And then he threatened to sue the New York Times for their reporting. 0.95
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00:06:58.000 Meanwhile, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has been active.
00:07:01.000 You know, he's been very quiet.
00:07:02.000 He'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.
00:07:09.000 Again, it's on the President that he signed it.
00:07:11.000 But 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.
00:07:18.000 Well, the Vice President.
00:07:20.000 Was asked about what the Secretary of State was doing.
00:07:23.000 And Rubio was actively in talks with the Lebanese and the Israelis about what to do about Hezbollah.
00:07:27.000 Again, remember, the whole goal in Lebanon.
00:07:30.000 You're sitting there thinking to yourself, what the hell does Lebanon have to do with Iran?
00:07:33.000 They're 1,000 miles away from each other.
00:07:35.000 And 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
00:07:50.000 That 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
00:08:00.000 And so Iran is trying to leverage the Strait of Hormuz to save its terrorist friends in Lebanon.
00:08:04.000 That's the actual story.
00:08:05.000 Well, Marco Rubio is actively attempting to put together a coalition against Hezbollah between Israel and the Lebanese, not including Syria, by the way.
00:08:14.000 That's a silly idea by Ambassador Tom Barak over in Turkey. 0.95
00:08:17.000 The Turks, of course, are a nefarious force in the region. 0.93
00:08:20.000 They're trying to use their proxy group in Syria. 0.95
00:08:23.000 They're talking about them going into Lebanon. 1.00
00:08:25.000 By the way, the Syrians are like, we want no part of that. 1.00
00:08:27.000 We are not interested in the slightest. 1.00
00:08:28.000 We occupied Lebanon between 1970 and 2005, not doing it again.
00:08:31.000 So, in other words, Marco Rubio is being a pro.
00:08:34.000 Vice President pointed out that Marco Rubio is actively managing the situation in Lebanon.
00:08:40.000 Marco and the entire team have been actively managing what's going on in Lebanon despite the headlines.
00:08:46.000 Things are actually getting better there.
00:08:49.000 Things have fallen down a little bit.
00:08:51.000 It'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.
00:09:01.000 That's what's going to do the global business to make the whole region safe and secure.
00:09:06.000 The 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.
00:09:17.000 Okay, so again, the idea here is that Rubio's being a pro.
00:09:20.000 However, 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.
00:09:27.000 So, quick hypothetical again, I don't care about the names.
00:09:30.000 I don't care about the names in these situations.
00:09:32.000 I just care about the policy.
00:09:34.000 I want America to be strong.
00:09:36.000 I want America to achieve her interests in the Middle East. 0.71
00:09:38.000 I want an open Strait of Hormuz. 0.97
00:09:40.000 I want Iran to fenestrate it. 0.99
00:09:42.000 As an actual military threat to the United States, her allies, and her interests. 1.00
00:09:45.000 That's what I want. 0.96
00:09:46.000 So I don't care who the person is who's doing the dumb thing. 0.99
00:09:49.000 If they're doing a dumb thing, they should be called out for doing a dumb and weak thing. 0.98
00:09:52.000 So here's the hypothetical. 0.97
00:09:53.000 I'm just going to switch the names.
00:09:55.000 Vice President Kamala Harris heads on over to Switzerland for negotiations with Iran.
00:09:59.000 There she says that she loves Pakistan.
00:10:01.000 Literally, she says, I love Pakistan or we love Pakistan. 0.92
00:10:04.000 She then takes a picture being given orders by an Iranian cutout.
00:10:10.000 Then she emerges from negotiations with a deconfliction cell.
00:10:14.000 That actually doesn't de escalate anything and doesn't include any of the parties to the actual conflict.
00:10:20.000 But hey, at least she also got stiffed on camera by a bunch of foreign politicians. 0.65
00:10:24.000 Okay, so that didn't happen to Kamala Harris.
00:10:25.000 Wouldn't be surprising if it did.
00:10:27.000 It did happen, but it happened to Vice President Vance over the weekend, which makes it like a thousand times worse.
00:10:31.000 Why?
00:10:32.000 Well, because I vote for Kamala Harris, right? 1.00
00:10:34.000 Kamala Harris is a Democrat. 1.00
00:10:37.000 It would not be surprising for Kamala Harris to be weak. 1.00
00:10:39.000 It would not be surprising for Kamala Harris to look as though she was being given the runaround by America's enemies. 0.69
00:10:46.000 But I would not expect this from Donald Trump's vice president.
00:10:50.000 You would also expect this kind of weakness from Democrats desperate to avoid any sort of conflict with the Iranians.
00:10:55.000 But we just spent months destroying Iran's Air Force, Navy, ballistic missile facilities, nuclear facilities, and army. 0.63
00:11:03.000 This is like going to a meeting with the Japanese and bowing before them between Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 0.97
00:11:12.000 Like we already clocked the hell out of them. 1.00
00:11:14.000 What are we doing here?
00:11:16.000 Vice President Vance spent the weekend getting dunked on like Frederick Weiss in front of Vince Carter.
00:11:21.000 For people my age, that's a reference, you'll understand.
00:11:23.000 Okay, 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
00:11:34.000 Both of them, again, are representatives of a terrorist state that shouts death to America, that is part of their actual mission. 0.61
00:11:41.000 And they showed up wearing a pin that said on it Minab. 0.82
00:11:44.000 Minab is a reference to the school that was filled with girls that was hit at the very beginning of the war mistakenly. 0.56
00:11:51.000 And 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.
00:12:05.000 They showed up in a plane, literally a plane, that was marked with Minab. 0.66
00:12:13.000 Okay, so again, they showed up to dunk on the Americans. 0.99
00:12:17.000 That is what they did. 0.93
00:12:19.000 And then on Saturday, right before they arrived, they announced their plans to close Hormuz.
00:12:23.000 So again, you have to understand to understand the dunk.
00:12:25.000 You know, the vice president's poor performance over the weekend.
00:12:28.000 You have to understand what Iran was trying to do. 0.65
00:12:29.000 And the answer was dunk repeatedly on the vice president and the United States publicly.
00:12:35.000 On 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.
00:12:45.000 And then Khalibaf arrived in the plane with Manab 168 painted on it.
00:12:49.000 168 was a reference to the 168 schoolgirls who were allegedly killed in that school.
00:12:56.000 And 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.
00:13:03.000 They see us and expect things of us.
00:13:05.000 Does this seem very much like a regime that is looking forward to a cooperative relationship with the United States?
00:13:11.000 Quote, 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.
00:13:19.000 Again, he is literally saying he wants to die as a martyr.
00:13:22.000 That is literally what he wants to say.
00:13:23.000 Meanwhile, the Iranian president, Pzeszkian, spent his Sunday saying that they would not give up enrichment.
00:13:29.000 Again, this was during the negotiations.
00:13:32.000 The Iranian president said, We will not give up enrichment.
00:13:34.000 And Trump, he said, Has basically cucked on this issue.
00:13:37.000 Again, that's the Iranian president saying this. 0.64
00:13:44.000 We will not give up our right to enrichment, and they too will be forced to accept it. 0.77
00:13:49.000 You all know what the so called president of the United States was saying.
00:13:52.000 He has made a complete 180 degree turn.
00:13:55.000 He was saying that Iran must surrender unconditionally.
00:13:58.000 Iran has no right to do this, it has no right to do that. 0.79
00:14:01.000 Then he gave a speech and said that Iran has the right to do this, it has the right to possess this. 0.69
00:14:06.000 In 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
00:14:16.000 Again, the Iranians just dunking on the Trump administration in the lead up to this pseudo summit. 0.53
00:14:22.000 And 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.
00:14:32.000 Meanwhile, what is Iran doing with those dissidents?
00:14:34.000 They're hanging them, they've escalated the rate of hanging them.
00:14:37.000 Quote, this is the Wall Street Journal.
00:14:40.000 The regime is still firmly in charge.
00:14:41.000 Dissent will not be tolerated.
00:14:43.000 Tehran has pushed to strengthen its internal hold on power as it starts talks with the United States.
00:14:47.000 Now, 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?
00:14:54.000 They need to open the strait or we're going to hit them?
00:14:56.000 Well, Iranian negotiators then did a high profile walkout at these negotiations on Sunday.
00:15:02.000 According 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.
00:15:13.000 Mohammed Khalibaf, the Iranian parliament leader, he said, Don't they realize that if their threats worked, they wouldn't be this desperate now?
00:15:19.000 We don't count on U.S. threats.
00:15:20.000 They'd better watch their words.
00:15:22.000 Our armed forces are ready to respond differently.
00:15:23.000 Whatever they say, we are the ones who act.
00:15:27.000 So 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.
00:15:39.000 And a president, on the other hand, who is saying, You don't get to do any of that.
00:15:42.000 And if you keep backing tariffs, we'll hit you.
00:15:44.000 And if you shut the straight, we'll hit you. 0.99
00:15:45.000 That was the backdrop.
00:15:47.000 So, you know what we don't need?
00:15:48.000 We don't need a presentation of weakness in front of these folks.
00:15:51.000 Unfortunately, that is precisely what the vice president did.
00:15:54.000 All 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.
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00:17:03.000 So, first of all, the Iranian delegation refused a joint photo with the United States team.
00:17:08.000 So, again, we should have refused a joint photo with them. 1.00
00:17:10.000 They're murderers. 0.88
00:17:12.000 But it was the United States that apparently wanted a joint photo.
00:17:16.000 And 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.
00:17:24.000 The source said U.S. officials and organizers had planned a handshake and group photo between the two sides.
00:17:28.000 The Iranian delegation declined to participate.
00:17:33.000 Following the objection, the live broadcast and photo session went ahead without the Iranian team, which entered the venue afterwards.
00:17:38.000 So, again, normally when it comes to protocol, the people who want it more show up early. 0.99
00:17:45.000 The people who are sort of the big dog, they show up late.
00:17:48.000 The United States was there waiting around. 1.00
00:17:49.000 The 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.
00:17:56.000 Okay, then there is video footage that is going around in which the vice president is waiting around in the press room.
00:18:06.000 And the negotiators from Qatar literally walk right by him.
00:18:09.000 Now, 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.
00:18:15.000 They go right around him. 0.87
00:18:16.000 Again, footage is worth more than talk.
00:18:19.000 Here's what the footage looked like from Lake Lucerne.
00:18:24.000 So you can see the vice president is standing there.
00:18:25.000 He is standing next to the field marshal of Pakistan.
00:18:28.000 And they'll come in, and then the vice president will give some remarks, and then we'll take a couple questions.
00:18:40.000 And you can see the vice president sort of shifting foot to foot, the field marshal standing right there.
00:18:44.000 Here comes Al Thani, who's the negotiator for Qatar, goes right over to the Pakistani foreign minister.
00:18:49.000 The vice president clearly just kind of standing there, and the Qatari goes right by him, right by him.
00:18:56.000 Not an amazing look. 0.99
00:18:57.000 Again, huge deal, not a huge deal, except as part of a broader show of weakness.
00:19:03.000 Then Khalibaf and Araki walked in.
00:19:05.000 Khalibaf, again, is the Iranian parliament leader, and Abbas Araki is the foreign minister.
00:19:09.000 Here's them walking through the press room.
00:19:12.000 Here they come.
00:19:25.000 They're walking through.
00:19:28.000 You know, so they're just walking right through.
00:19:29.000 Again, no photo op with the United States, nothing like that. 0.98
00:19:33.000 The Iranians refused to shake hands. 0.95
00:19:35.000 Here was the vice president afterward. 0.57
00:19:38.000 The vice president is in the background over there.
00:19:42.000 And he's walking over and he's talking with the Pakistani field marshal.
00:19:49.000 By the way, that field marshal is a person who said Israel ought to be wiped off the map.
00:19:53.000 And he's talking with the Pakistani foreign minister.
00:19:59.000 Not great.
00:20:00.000 Not great, Bob.
00:20:02.000 But don't worry, it also got worse. 0.92
00:20:05.000 So the parties at Lake Lucerne, at this summit that was supposed to decide the Iran war, were Qatar. 0.83
00:20:12.000 Qatar is a cutout for Iran. 0.88
00:20:14.000 They were hand in glove with Iran.
00:20:15.000 They share oil fields with Iran, and so they feel indebted to the Iranians and are constantly doing their work. 0.69
00:20:19.000 That is the reason why Hamas was stationed in Qatar for literally a decade. 0.89
00:20:25.000 So, Qatar is one party. 0.91
00:20:26.000 Pakistan is another party.
00:20:27.000 Pakistan is, shall we say, an erstwhile American ally. 0.53
00:20:32.000 When 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
00:20:41.000 So, they're not an amazing ally, the Pakistanis. 0.96
00:20:44.000 So, you had a Chinese cutout, an Iranian cutout, and the Iranians here. 1.00
00:20:44.000 And, of course, Iran. 1.00
00:20:49.000 And the vice president.
00:20:52.000 Did a press conference in which he bragged about how much Pakistan was awesome.
00:20:58.000 Which, again, if a Democrat said this, we would all be screaming.
00:21:01.000 Here he was talking about how awesome Pakistan, they're just the best. 1.00
00:21:05.000 They're a Chinese cutout gang. 1.00
00:21:07.000 Pakistan is in the negotiations because the Chinese wanted them there. 1.00
00:21:11.000 They're an Islamist dictatorship. 1.00
00:21:14.000 This is ridiculous. 1.00
00:21:19.000 About the Pakistani role, especially. 1.00
00:21:21.000 We love Pakistan.
00:21:21.000 Very good.
00:21:22.000 Thank you.
00:21:25.000 We love Pakistan.
00:21:26.000 He says as he walks through them, we love Pakistan, do we? 0.54
00:21:29.000 Do we love Pakistan? 0.92
00:21:30.000 Here he was praising the Pakistanis.
00:21:34.000 To 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.
00:21:49.000 The Indian is my wife, and the Pakistani is Field Marshal Maneer.
00:21:53.000 And I've probably talked to Field Marshal Maneer more than I've talked to anybody else over the last three months.
00:21:58.000 That's magical.
00:21:59.000 Isn't that nice?
00:22:00.000 Isn't that wonderful? 0.99
00:22:01.000 No, it's weak and ridiculous. 0.94
00:22:02.000 That field marshal has literally called for the destruction of the state of Israel, which is our ally in this war, unless you forgot. 0.91
00:22:08.000 The ones who are actually dropping bombs alongside the United States.
00:22:12.000 Man, does he love that? 0.68
00:22:13.000 That is a dude who loves Pakistan, apparently.
00:22:16.000 And then the vice president said, you know, the real question is whether we turn over a new leaf or go back to the.
00:22:21.000 Again, not a single word that he said for the entire weekend would have been foreign coming out of the mouth of Barack Obama.
00:22:26.000 It's weird coming from a Republican.
00:22:30.000 The question before us now is how much more can we accomplish together?
00:22:34.000 Can we turn over a new leaf? 0.83
00:22:35.000 Can we change relations in the Middle East permanently?
00:22:39.000 Or do we go back to doing things the old way, which is not our preference, but it's certainly very much something that can't happen?
00:22:47.000 A new leaf.
00:22:48.000 We're turning over a new leaf. 1.00
00:22:49.000 It turns out the old way actually is cucking to the Iranians. 1.00
00:22:52.000 That's actually the old way. 1.00
00:22:53.000 Democrats did it for literally decades, Republicans too.
00:22:56.000 President Trump changed all that, and it changed the nature of the Middle East.
00:22:59.000 It's why you ended up with Abraham Accords.
00:23:01.000 It's why you ended up with strong allies like UAE, like Bahrain, like Saudi Arabia.
00:23:06.000 That's why.
00:23:06.000 Okay, then Vice President Vance talked about peace requires a little give and take.
00:23:12.000 You know, we'll just dance.
00:23:13.000 That's what peace requires.
00:23:18.000 As I think a lot of you appreciate, peace is never easy.
00:23:21.000 Peace always requires a little bit of work, it always requires a little bit of give and take.
00:23:25.000 But 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.
00:23:37.000 Wow, that sounds magical.
00:23:39.000 Peace requires a little bit of give and take.
00:23:41.000 How about a lot of giving from the vice president?
00:23:42.000 How about that?
00:23:43.000 The vice president was asked about Lebanon.
00:23:46.000 The reporter is obviously a friend to the Iranian and suggested that Israel is committing genocide in Lebanon, which is actively untrue. 0.99
00:23:54.000 It is foolish and ridiculous. 0.93
00:23:55.000 The president, as per his usual arrangement, doesn't bother to debunk any of that. 1.00
00:23:59.000 He just goes right over the top of it.
00:24:03.000 But I actually feel great about where we are in Lebanon.
00:24:05.000 There's still some additional wood to chop, but we're going to keep on working at it.
00:24:08.000 I know you had a question over here. 0.61
00:24:11.000 Are you leading to a slap genocide in Lebanon?
00:24:14.000 Lebanon.
00:24:14.000 As you know, your alignment, Israel, has something like genocide in Lebanon.
00:24:20.000 The main issue is stopping this. 0.51
00:24:23.000 Well, 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.
00:24:33.000 We're going to keep on working towards it.
00:24:36.000 I'm sorry, that's just ridiculous.
00:24:37.000 The Vice President of the United States saying nothing as repeatedly an ally of the United States accused of genocide. 0.99
00:24:43.000 Is a ridiculous, ridiculous thing. 0.86
00:24:45.000 So the vice president then continued by suggesting that, you know, the talks continued. 1.00
00:24:51.000 There was some trash talk, there was some whining, but the talks continued.
00:24:53.000 You know, that's no big deal. 0.98
00:24:55.000 And then, by the way, he drops an absolute whopper about the Iranian terrorist group Hezbollah.
00:25:03.000 When 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.
00:25:12.000 So when they say things that aren't true, The president is going to respond to it.
00:25:16.000 I'm going to respond to it.
00:25:17.000 Americans are going to respond to it.
00:25:19.000 When 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.
00:25:27.000 That's all that happened.
00:25:28.000 So, 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.
00:25:36.000 Oh, that's so nice.
00:25:37.000 That's so nice. 0.66
00:25:38.000 By the way, you understand what he's saying there, actually, is that the president doesn't mean to do anything, it's just trash talk.
00:25:43.000 That's what he is saying in that clip.
00:25:45.000 Hey, so what were his big deliverable wins, the vice president?
00:25:48.000 The vice president said that he had achieved a deconfliction mechanism for Lebanon and Israel.
00:25:53.000 Deconfliction mechanism.
00:25:54.000 Now, you might note that the parties in Lebanon and Israel in any negotiation would be Lebanon and Israel.
00:26:02.000 That's how negotiations work.
00:26:04.000 The deconfliction mechanism achieved by the vice president does not include the parties.
00:26:09.000 It instead includes Qatar, an Iranian cutout, Pakistan, a Chinese cutout, and Iran.
00:26:15.000 None of those countries, zero of those countries border Lebanon or literally have anything to do with Lebanon.
00:26:21.000 Why are they even a part of this conversation?
00:26:23.000 Here was the vice president explaining his magical deconfliction mechanism.
00:26:27.000 And this is the sort of Obama esque language that the Trump administration should not be humoring.
00:26:34.000 We've been, I think, very good at setting up what we're calling a deconfliction mechanism.
00:26:39.000 But what it really is, is to say that when things happen, the sides are actually talking to one another.
00:26:45.000 Sometimes, 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
00:26:54.000 Okay, of course, Israel has to respond to that.
00:26:57.000 But 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.
00:27:11.000 There really hasn't been a mechanism to have those discussions until basically around 4 p.m. yesterday, Bergenstock time, when we set that up.
00:27:19.000 So 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.
00:27:37.000 Okay, first of all, that is such, I mean, let's just go back to what he says right there.
00:27:41.000 You know, low-level junior guy from Hezbollah without the approval of high command fires a drone.
00:27:45.000 Is that what he thinks is going on? 1.00
00:27:47.000 If he thinks that that's what's going on, he's a fool. 0.99
00:27:49.000 That's clearly not what's going on. 0.99
00:27:51.000 Hezbollah ramped up its violence over the course of the weekend because of perceived weakness.
00:27:56.000 Iran told Hezbollah to do it.
00:27:58.000 The president knows that.
00:27:59.000 The president tweeted that out.
00:28:01.000 A low level, what does he think?
00:28:02.000 There's some rogue low level guy with a drone who just magically hits Israeli soldiers.
00:28:06.000 That's what happens over there.
00:28:07.000 And then it all has to happen in the context of a conversation.
00:28:11.000 Okay, so you don't need a mechanism for that.
00:28:13.000 We have these things.
00:28:14.000 They're magical.
00:28:15.000 They're called phones.
00:28:15.000 They've been around since Alexander Graham Bell.
00:28:18.000 People can call each other.
00:28:20.000 That ain't the problem. 0.86
00:28:21.000 The problem is are you going to exert pressure on the Iranians to stop their terror group from destroying Lebanon? 0.74
00:28:26.000 That's what's actually happening right now.
00:28:29.000 So, 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.
00:28:42.000 Now, I don't know about you.
00:28:44.000 I have never signed a contract that binds a third party who is not involved in the actual negotiations.
00:28:50.000 As I pointed out last week, you can't do contracts that way.
00:28:53.000 I can't buy a house and sign your name on the mortgage.
00:28:58.000 If I do that, you are not bound by the mortgage.
00:29:00.000 That is not how any of that works.
00:29:02.000 Why in the world is Qatar involved in a deconfliction mechanism in Lebanon?
00:29:07.000 The hell do they have to do with Lebanon? 0.97
00:29:10.000 Again, this is only doing what the Iranians are seeking. 1.00
00:29:13.000 That is all. 1.00
00:29:14.000 And then.
00:29:15.000 There are apparently two specific big wins that Vice President Vance is bragging about.
00:29:19.000 One, he's suggesting that unfrozen assets are going to go to American farmers. 0.52
00:29:23.000 First of all, I was told that there wouldn't be any assets unfrozen until the Iranians started performing.
00:29:29.000 Where's the performance? 0.99
00:29:30.000 They'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.
00:29:38.000 And it looks like we are unfreezing assets, apparently.
00:29:41.000 Well, here was the Vice President suggesting that actually it's a big win. 0.62
00:29:45.000 If we unfreeze Iranian assets, And they will go to somehow soybean farmers or something.
00:29:53.000 I've seen some misreporting about frozen or unfrozen Iranian assets.
00:29:58.000 One 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.
00:30:17.000 So, 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.
00:30:33.000 The Qataris have approval over that process.
00:30:36.000 And then the money would actually go to buy American soy, American corn, and American wheat for the benefit of the Iranian people. 0.54
00:30:46.000 So, in other words, I'm just going to point out it's now apparently good for us to unfreeze. 0.73
00:30:51.000 Assets 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
00:30:59.000 Genius level stuff. 0.57
00:31:00.000 By the way, it's not even true.
00:31:01.000 According 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.
00:31:18.000 Do we really think that we are going to unfreeze their funds and they're going to use it?
00:31:22.000 To buy grain from us.
00:31:24.000 That's the idea here.
00:31:26.000 The 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.
00:31:40.000 This is the big win that's coming out of this conference, apparently.
00:31:46.000 And this is probably what we're most excited about as Americans.
00:31:49.000 The Iranians have agreed to invite IAEA inspectors back into their.
00:31:53.000 country. 0.59
00:31:54.000 That 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
00:32:05.000 And that's exactly what we wanted to do. 0.72
00:32:07.000 That's exactly what we asked to happen.
00:32:10.000 Watch it.
00:32:11.000 You see how he corrected himself right there, by the way?
00:32:13.000 He says denuclearizing, which would mean no nuclear program.
00:32:16.000 And instead, he corrects himself to say no nuclear weapon, which means they will retain a nuclear program.
00:32:20.000 Again, that was not what these talks were started to do.
00:32:21.000 By the way, so this is going all over the Twitter sphere this morning.
00:32:26.000 Is this idea that this is a magical, whoa, whoa, Iran is going to re allow the IAEA back in?
00:32:33.000 So, first of all, we should point out Iran allowing the IAEA back in so that they can have coordinated visits.
00:32:41.000 Is Iran giving people the runaround?
00:32:43.000 Also, 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.
00:32:59.000 The IAEA will be requested to provide regular updates to the Board of Governors as provided for in this JCPOA to the UN Security Council.
00:33:06.000 The IAEA is mentioned 117 times in the JCPOA.
00:33:11.000 Oh, 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.
00:33:19.000 Quote The entry of inspectors from the IAEA into Iran contradicts the understanding agreement and may cause significant damage.
00:33:26.000 Until now, the issue of granting approval for the entry of agency inspectors into Iran has not been approved by the Iranian negotiation team.
00:33:33.000 That is what Tasnim, the Iranian news agency, is saying.
00:33:36.000 Also, by the way, we have now released openly billions of dollars in oil money to go to the Iranians.
00:33:42.000 In frozen funds.
00:33:43.000 So things are going great.
00:33:44.000 This is not an accomplishment.
00:33:46.000 It is not.
00:33:47.000 Iran's saying, sure, come on in.
00:33:48.000 We'll allow you to look at the things we allow you to look at. 0.53
00:33:50.000 And then we won't allow you to look at the things we don't allow you to look at.
00:33:53.000 And also, we'll rebuild our ballistic missiles, which are not part of the negotiations.
00:33:57.000 And we'll rebuild our terror support, which is not part of the negotiations.
00:34:00.000 And yeah, we'll keep tolling the Strait of Hormuz.
00:34:02.000 Like, what are we even doing here?
00:34:04.000 What are we even doing here? 0.98
00:34:05.000 The idea that some sort of win has been achieved here is unbelievably silly.
00:34:09.000 Not only has it not been achieved in these negotiations, the vice president looked extraordinarily weak.
00:34:16.000 The optics were extraordinary.
00:34:17.000 I mean, here's the one I saved this one for last because it actually is pretty infuriating.
00:34:22.000 This is a picture. 0.84
00:34:23.000 It was released by the Qataris, not by the Americans, by the Qataris.
00:34:31.000 It is the vice president on a computer being corrected in his typing by Alfani.
00:34:37.000 Alfani is the negotiator for the Qataris.
00:34:41.000 So 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.
00:34:50.000 That is what is happening in this picture.
00:34:52.000 In the background, Jared Kushner is looking on.
00:34:53.000 Jared, of course, has a long and abiding relationship with the Qatar Investment Authority with regard to sort of his private investments. 0.79
00:35:01.000 So you literally have Al Thani, who is an Iranian cutout, telling the vice president what to type. 0.74
00:35:10.000 There is a reason the vice president did not put out this photo, but Al Thani did. 1.00
00:35:15.000 There is a reason for that.
00:35:16.000 Is this what America First looks like?
00:35:18.000 Seriously.
00:35:18.000 This is what American strength looks like.
00:35:20.000 We love Pakistan. 1.00
00:35:22.000 The Iranians, sure, they're helping terrorists. 0.95
00:35:24.000 But, you know, the really important thing is that we have a deconfliction mechanism that doesn't include our allies. 0.94
00:35:29.000 American strength does not look like Al Thani sitting there dictating terms to the VP as he types like a secretary.
00:35:37.000 That is not a good look.
00:35:39.000 Now, again, good things can be happening in the negotiations.
00:35:42.000 They ain't happening in Switzerland.
00:35:44.000 The good things that are happening are being led by Marco Rubio in Lebanon.
00:35:48.000 Those talks are progressing. 0.88
00:35:50.000 The 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
00:35:58.000 At will. 0.93
00:35:59.000 The president is talking one set of priorities.
00:36:02.000 The secretary of state is talking the president's set of priorities. 0.94
00:36:04.000 And 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
00:36:16.000 While the Iranians are dunking on him openly, openly, the Iranians are saying they will not get rid of their nuclear program. 0.87
00:36:22.000 The Iranians are saying they will control the Strait of Hormuz when all of this is over. 0.79
00:36:26.000 The Iranians are saying openly that they will control Lebanon when this is over. 0.71
00:36:32.000 The perception of American weakness is the worst thing to come out of what is currently going on.
00:36:36.000 If you want America to win, If you want America to win, we need to look as strong as we are.
00:36:43.000 We cannot look weak.
00:36:45.000 I'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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