00:00:23.000President Trump's ceasefire is a win-win.
00:00:26.000Either it's going to work or it's not going to work.
00:00:29.000And either way, America will end up Winning because President Trump is going to solidify his legacy as the greatest foreign policy president in modern American history.
00:01:44.000A revitalized vision of America as the global leader, the strongest power on earth, which means two things.
00:01:50.000One, America as the free leader of the world.
00:01:54.000Robust free speech, a strong social fabric, a booming economy filled with innovation.
00:01:59.000And second, the leader of the free world, a dominant military power capable of deterring threats and ensuring freedom of trade and American security and the security of our allies across the planet.
00:02:35.000We're bloated and we're falling apart.1.00
00:02:36.000And that the best American future actually looks like France declining, pathetic, amoral, addicted to welfare programs, importing mass labor from third world countries thanks to a ridiculously flabby welfare state, a social fabric that is no longer workable.0.98
00:02:53.000These are the people who seem to think that the best global future looks like a future where China and Russia run two thirds of the planet.0.99
00:03:00.000I mean, that's the only reason you end up running propaganda for all the worst regimes on the planet while proclaiming the Baghdad Bob, like Baghdad Bob, that America is losing, or playing a fresh version of Jane Fonda standing with the Viet Cong.
00:03:14.000Again, this isn't about people asking honest questions about what President Trump is doing.0.75
00:03:18.000There are all sorts of questions that can be asked about what President Trump is doing, and all those questions deserve answers.
00:03:23.000It is about people who are actively rooting for America to lose and openly say so, and openly, openly say so.
00:03:34.000Over the course of the last several weeks, Iran has been brought low.
00:03:38.000This notion that Iran is bestriding the Middle East like a colossus because they have the capacity to fire some drones at shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is asinine.
00:04:04.000Brad Cooper giving an update yesterday.
00:04:07.000Hi, I'm Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command.
00:04:10.000Less than six weeks ago, more than 50,000 of America's sons and daughters in uniform launched Operation Epic Fury and embarked on a mission of profound consequence.
00:04:21.000We set out to dismantle the Iranian regime's ability to project power beyond its own borders, and we clearly accomplished this task.0.87
00:04:30.000Iran has suffered a generational military defeat.0.87
00:04:33.000The United States and Israel systematically destroyed Iran's ability to conduct Large scale military operations for years to come.1.00
00:04:44.000General Dan Razen Kane described the extent of the Iranian defeat yesterday.
00:04:50.000Since the beginning of major combat operations, the United States Joint Force has struck more than 13,000 targets, including in that 13,000, more than 4,000 dynamic targets that popped up on the battlefield and were immediately addressed, thanks to the exceptional command and control system and intelligence acumen and agility of our Joint Force.
00:05:12.000CENTCOM forces destroyed approximately 80% of Iran's air defense systems.
00:05:17.000Striking more than 1,500 air defense targets, more than 450 ballistic missile storage facilities, 800 one way attack drones for storage facilities.
00:05:29.000We've devastated Iran's command and control and logistical networks, destroying more than 2,000 command and control nodes and degrading their ability to target U.S. and friendly forces.
00:05:44.000So you may recall that I've been saying for weeks that no matter how the war ended, Iran had been significantly crippled.
00:05:53.000Okay, that's been my going theory for a while here because it happens to be the truth.0.99
00:05:58.000And all this talk about how Iran barely surviving, which is what is going on right now, basically, them having to exert pressure on the Strait of Hormuz, that is not, by the way, a sign of Iranian strength.0.99
00:06:08.000That's a sign of Iranian weakness.0.78
00:06:10.000They could have done this crap any time over the past 20 years.0.91
00:06:13.000The reason they didn't do it is because they understood it was basically the last gasp of a dying regime.
00:06:18.000The reason that you try to seize global trading and alienate all the Gulf allies, and by the way, also China, which receives oil, From the Strait of Hormuz is because you are weak, not because you are strong.
00:06:29.000It is a last gasp attempt to grab some sort of leverage.0.85
00:06:34.000Okay, so this raises the question of President Trump's ceasefire.
00:06:38.000So, as you recall, it was right before Passover for me, the last couple of days of Passover, and literally right before Passover it came in, the president announced a ceasefire.
00:06:46.000So he put out a statement on Truth Social where he said, based on conversations with Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asin Munir of Pakistan, And we're in.
00:06:55.000They requested that I hold off the destruction force being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
00:07:04.000I agreed to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.0.67
00:07:08.000This will be a double sided ceasefire.0.54
00:07:10.000The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded our military objectives and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long form peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East.
00:07:19.000We received a 10 point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.
00:07:23.000Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran.
00:07:27.000But a two week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.
00:07:31.000On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the countries of the Middle East, it is an honor to have this long form problem close to resolution.
00:07:38.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:07:42.000Let's say that that were all true and that what the president had been assured by his negotiator, who it appears was the vice president, JD Vance, on this particular matter.
00:07:50.000So you'll have to take it up with him if the president got the wrong story.
00:07:54.000If what the president says is true, Iran had agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and outstanding issues, which of course include nuclear development, were basically being negotiated.
00:08:04.000In just a moment, we'll get to Iran's response to the declared ceasefire first.
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00:09:26.000So the Iranians put out their own statement.
00:09:28.000This was the Foreign Minister Abbas Araki.
00:09:32.000He said, On behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I express gratitude and appreciation for my dear brothers in Pakistan.
00:09:39.000In response to the brotherly request of Prime Minister Sharif in his tweet, and considering the request by the United States for negotiation based on its 15 point proposal, as well as announcements by the president about acceptance.
00:09:52.000Of the general framework of Iran's 10 point proposal as a basis for negotiation, I hereby declare on behalf of Iran's Supreme National Security Council if attacks against Iran are halted, our powerful armed forces will cease their defensive operations.
00:10:06.000And the propaganda from these people, my goodness.
00:10:08.000For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's armed forces and with the consideration of technical limitations.
00:10:15.000Okay, so what you read from him is basically confirmation of what Trump said.
00:10:20.000Okay, right, that the Strait of Hormuz is going to open and also.
00:10:24.000That they were considering the 15 point proposal the United States had put forward.
00:10:28.000Now, you have to understand, the original 10 point proposal put forward by Iran is total trash.0.97
00:10:34.000It included America abandoning all bases in the Middle East.
00:10:37.000It included the United States paying reparations for the damage in the war.
00:10:41.000It included full scale nuclear development by Iran and full scale ballistic missile development by Iran.
00:10:46.000So it wasn't a basis for negotiation.0.96
00:10:48.000It was a dream list, it was a secret diary list from the Iranians.0.99
00:10:52.000Trump was never going to say okay to that.1.00
00:10:54.000So, the reaction of the markets is precisely what you think that it would be.
00:10:58.000The price of a barrel of Brent crude had spiked into the 115 range prior to the president's announcement of the ceasefire, and then it dived below 100 again immediately upon the announcement of the ceasefire.
00:11:20.000Wednesday morning, the president put forward another statement on Truth Social where he said, the United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive regime change.
00:11:29.000Again, it is totally unclear who he's talking to at this point.
00:11:31.000I mean, it is regime change in the sense that the same people aren't talking to you, but if they are the same people's deputies who are saying the same things, it's not full regime change.
00:11:40.000So he says, there will be no enrichment of uranium.
00:11:43.000The United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried nuclear dust.
00:11:48.000It is now and has been under very exacting satellite surveillance.
00:11:51.000Nothing has been touched from the date of attack.
00:11:53.000We are and will be talking tariff and sanctions relief with Iran.
00:11:56.000Many of the 15 points have already been agreed to.
00:11:58.000Thank you for your attention to this matter.
00:11:59.000Okay, so if, again, the president received from Iran an actual deal in which the nuclear program goes bye bye and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, that is the end of the conflict.
00:12:13.000That's been the president's case for a long time here.0.78
00:12:16.000Okay, because we have degraded their ballistic missile facilities, we have killed all the heads of the IRGC, we killed the Ayatollah.
00:12:22.000His son, Mashtaba Khamenei, is missing a leg and is in a coma.
00:12:27.000Because their Air Force is gone, their Navy is gone, their military has been heavily bombarded.
00:12:32.000Okay, so that's why you end up with the ceasefire.
00:12:36.000So, when I say that this is a win win, here is what I mean.
00:12:40.000There are a few good reasons why you do the ceasefire.
00:12:42.000First of all, you show goodwill that if the Strait were to reopen and Iran were to negotiate an end to its nuclear program, that would be the end of the war, which is what Trump has said literally from the beginning.0.69
00:13:25.000Pakistan is basically a Chinese proxy at this point, period.
00:13:30.000China was begging the United States to stop here because China has been deprived of some 37% of the oil that is coming through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:13:39.000They are the largest single recipient of all oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
00:13:43.00033% of all of their oil imports come directly from the Strait of Hormuz.
00:13:50.000China's not getting its oil right now, which harms China significantly more than it harms the United States.
00:13:54.000So the United States, as a goodwill gesture to China, is offering Iran a path out.
00:14:01.000Now, if Iran doesn't show the goodwill to take it, what is China going to do?0.85
00:14:04.000Is China going to be super happy with the Iranians for continuing to choke off the Strait of Hormuz as their only methodology for attaining power?0.72
00:14:12.000Because again, they don't have a fully functional nuclear program.0.82
00:14:15.000It seems as though the Iranian government is trying to turn itself into a hermit state like North Korea.0.76
00:14:20.000Basically, they're saying, okay, we have no economy.
00:14:23.000Okay, our country's trashed, but we will hang on to power by exerting leverage.0.90
00:14:27.000They don't have a nuclear weapon the way that North Korea does.0.86
00:14:30.000That's the thing we've been trying to stop.0.93
00:14:32.000Because if they got a nuclear weapon, not only would they hand it off to their terror proxies, they would also threaten everybody with it.0.71
00:14:38.000Right now, they're using the Strait of Hormuz to threaten everybody.0.77
00:14:41.000The reason they won't give up control of the Strait is because they have no leverage if they give up control of the Strait.
00:14:47.000Again, this could all be over tomorrow if they give up their nukes and control of the Strait.
00:14:50.000The question is whether they're going to do that.
00:14:52.000Trump is offering them an off ramp to do that.
00:14:57.000Also, by the way, this does allow for military replenishment.
00:15:00.000We've been flying continuous sorties for a month, so it's not a terrible time to do maintenance.
00:15:04.000And repair and some planning for whatever the next step is going to be, if in fact the negotiations go sideways.
00:15:10.000So, the people who are all over Trump here, who believe that he's just going to give up the ghost, that he's going to leave without achieving some status change in Iran's nuclear approach, or that the control of the Straits is going to be left completely to the behest of the Iranians, it beggars imagination.
00:15:27.000It doesn't make any sense because it cuts directly against the purpose of President Trump doing this, which is a stronger America.
00:15:37.000If Iran were able to just maintain complete control over the strait and no deal took place and the U.S. just walked away, yes, they would be greatly weakened, but it would send some pretty bad messages.0.52
00:15:46.000Like, for example, that any country could talk the United States into abandoning core national interests over shutting down serious trade routes.
00:15:55.000China might take notice of that, for example, because the Taiwan Strait, which, you know, like it's called the Taiwan Strait because it passes right by Taiwan, it carries 20% of all global maritime trade.
00:16:07.000It carries something like 90% of the world's largest ships by tonnage.
00:16:10.000So, if China takes away the lesson that shutting off a trade corridor is leverage against the United States sufficient to deter us from our core national interests, that's a problem.
00:16:19.000It would also mean, because China's way stronger than Iran, that any country with a few drones and ballistic missiles and some geographic proximity to a choke point could wave off the most powerful force on planet Earth.0.62
00:16:32.000And it would be very bad for President Trump's legacy, because again, two years from now, three years from now, Iran could theoretically rebuild and then claim real victory over President Trump.0.96
00:16:41.000Unless, again, unless the reality here is that either way this goes, no matter what happens here, the Iranian government has already been hit so hard that they are going to fall apart anyway, which, by the way, is certainly possible.0.81
00:16:56.000They are a wounded animal that's had one leg removed, not unlike the new Ayatollah Khomeini.0.93
00:17:01.000They are crawling away into the woods.
00:17:06.000Because they are still bleeding, because their infrastructure no longer exists in the same way, because all of their ballistic missile facilities have been destroyed, because their steel mills have been destroyed, because Their gas fields in South Pars were hit because their chemical factories were hit because everything was hit.
00:17:24.000So that's where things currently stand.
00:17:26.000This is why people who are saying, oh, catastrophe, end of the world.
00:17:51.000They could activate their terrorist proxies and it would drive everybody off the ball.
00:17:54.000Two, that they could directly fire at energy facilities in Saudi and UAE and Bahrain, and all of those countries would pressure the United States into stopping.
00:18:12.000Two of those have been completely wiped off the map.0.78
00:18:14.000Their terrorist proxies are not going to deter anybody, and their strikes on Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi have driven the Gulf states, our Gulf allies, into alliance with Israel, not into weakness vis a vis Iran.0.51
00:18:28.000So that left them with one choke point and one choke point only, and that's the Strait of Hormuz.0.81
00:18:31.000If they give that up, then basically they become a hermit state without even a nuclear weapon.
00:18:36.000And then they are unbelievably vulnerable internally.0.71
00:18:39.000And don't pay attention to all the reporting suggesting that there is nothing roiling under the surface in Iran.
00:18:44.000Again, there were millions of people in the streets before this war.
00:18:47.000What do you think is going to happen when all of this is over?
00:18:49.000You think everybody's just going to go back to sleep?
00:18:52.000When the IRGC is in the weakest position it has likely ever been?
00:18:56.000When the Iranian army, the Artesh, and the IRGC are not exactly on the same page?0.66
00:19:02.000The IRGC, by the way, again, they're doing things that a last gasp regime does right now.
00:19:07.000They're declaring dead people their leaders.
00:19:10.000Moshtaba Khomeini is not the actual leader of Iran.
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00:20:35.000Okay, so Iran immediately started backtracking on the ceasefire deal.0.69
00:20:41.000So, what they're trying to do now is manipulate public opinion.0.90
00:20:44.000Again, this has been sort of the reason why President Trump is pissed off at Podcastistan is because they're buying into every piece of regime propaganda from the Iranians they possibly can, and they have been for weeks.0.92
00:20:56.000They've been buying into Russian propaganda and Iranian propaganda, and they've been mirroring all of it.0.76
00:21:00.000And this is why they say dumb things like the president was leveraged into this by the Israelis.0.52
00:21:54.000So they're looking for an excuse and a way to blame Israel for continuing to maintain control of the strait.
00:21:59.000So what they did is they decided they were going to blame Israel, of course, for maintaining control of the strait.0.72
00:22:05.000So let's start with this Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy.
00:22:09.000Hezbollah has launched 6,400 rockets against Israel over the course of the last month.
00:22:14.000Hezbollah has been greatly damaged since 2024.
00:22:18.000That is when the Israelis did the famous Beeper operation, Operation Grim Beeper, where they took out a bunch of Hezbollah people and then they did an invasion of southern Lebanon and they cleared a lot of that territory.0.89
00:22:29.000Well, since then, Hezbollah has been attempting to reconstitute.0.56
00:22:32.000And so Hezbollah started firing in solidarity with Iran because they are an Iranian proxy terror group.
00:22:38.000They started firing rockets over the border into northern Israel by the thousands.
00:22:43.000And so Israel decided they'd had enough and they walked over the border and they bombed the living hell out of southern Lebanon and they moved all the population.0.85
00:22:51.000That is not Christian, by the way, up past the Latani River, which is about 100 kilometers into the country.0.65
00:22:57.000And then, because Hezbollah had increased its launches, Israel decided that it was going to just end Hezbollah entirely.0.76
00:23:07.000They decided that they were going to just bomb the living hell out of them over the course of Wednesday and Thursday.
00:23:12.000There are also rumors that Hezbollah was going to attempt some sort of action against the very weak Lebanese government to try and create another pressure point for Iran on behalf of Iran.
00:23:22.000So Israel goes in, they hit the Iranian terrorist group Hezbollah extremely hard.
00:23:27.000So Iran immediately claims that the ceasefire was violated, which is weird because nothing in the ceasefire had to do with Israel and Lebanon, which is quite far away.
00:23:34.000It turns out that Lebanon is a separate country from Iran.0.60
00:23:37.000And if the idea is that any ceasefire, With Iran means that Israel can no longer defend itself against terrorist groups.0.57
00:23:44.000That is not a ceasefire that Israel would have ever agreed to or that the United States ever should agree to because that's stupid.0.72
00:23:50.000It would mean that by grabbing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran could create the basis for terror attacks all across the region.0.75
00:24:15.000So, what Iran is doing is they're now attempting to reflex that terrorist muscle, right?
00:24:19.000Remember, I said three points of leverage terrorist groups, direct attacks on America's allies and energy resources in the region, and Strait of Hormuz.0.57
00:24:39.000Okay, so Iran immediately claimed that there's a violation of the ceasefire in some way.
00:24:46.000They put out A message on Wednesday afternoon suggesting that there was a noncompliance with the first clause of the 10 point proposal regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon.
00:24:56.000Okay, and the United States immediately came out and they were like, no, actually, that is not how any of this works.
00:25:05.000We never agreed, the United States never agreed that Iran got to basically activate terror groups across the region without any consequence because there's a ceasefire over the Strait of Hormuz.
00:25:14.000Here's Caroline Levitt at the White House denying this.
00:25:18.000The Iranians originally put forward a 10 point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded.
00:25:25.000It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team.
00:25:31.000Many outlets in this room have falsely reported on that plan as being acceptable to the United States, and that is false.0.51
00:25:38.000With the President's deadline fast approaching and the United States military completely decimating Iran with each passing hour, the regime acknowledged reality to the negotiating team.
00:25:48.000They put forward a more reasonable and entirely different plan.0.50
00:25:51.000And condensed plan to the president and his team.
00:25:54.000President Trump and the team determined the new modified plan was a workable basis on which to negotiate and to align it with our own 15 point proposal.
00:26:04.000The president's red lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have not changed.
00:26:11.000And the idea that President Trump would ever accept an Iranian wish list as a deal is completely absurd.0.67
00:26:20.000Now, again, this is the op that Iran is running.
00:26:22.000They're trying to say that there was an agreement and the Israelis violated the agreement.
00:26:25.000And Trump's team is saying that was never part of the agreement.
00:26:28.000You're just lying now, which, by the way, is the Iranian way in negotiation under the revolutionary regime.
00:26:35.000It's why the JCPOA was an idiotic idea.
00:26:38.000There is no agreement they make that is worth the paper upon which it is printed.
00:26:42.000The president put out his own statement on Truth Social saying this.
00:26:44.000Numerous agreements, lists, and letters are being sent out by people that have absolutely nothing to do with the USA Iran negotiation.
00:26:50.000In many cases, they are total fraudsters, charlatans, and worse.
00:26:53.000They will be rapidly exposed after our federal investigation is completed.
00:26:56.000There's only one group of meaningful points that are acceptable to the United States, and we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these negotiations.
00:27:03.000These are the points that are the basis on which we agreed to a ceasefire.
00:27:06.000It is something that is reasonable and can be easily dispensed with.
00:27:09.000It's very much like fake news CNN last night headlining a source that had no power or authority to write a letter claiming great authority, President Trump.
00:27:15.000Okay, so he is saying that the Iranians are putting out a 10 point plan that is not the 10 point plan that was the basis for negotiations.
00:27:24.000Who, again, we will find out about his negotiating acumen, I suppose, throughout this process.
00:27:28.000He's been put in the loop with regards to this negotiation.
00:27:31.000He was apparently on the cutting edge of negotiating this ceasefire.
00:27:35.000And he says that the people on the fringes of the Iranian system are trying to create propaganda here about this supposed 10 point plan that would basically have the United States surrendering.
00:27:45.000What's happening on the ground in Iran is that you have clearly the position of the government, which is to negotiate with the United States of America.
00:27:52.000You have the position of the President of the United States, which is to send the negotiators to Pakistan.
00:27:56.000And engage in this good faith negotiation.
00:27:59.000And then, yes, you have some crazy people at the fringes of the Iranian system who are leaking anonymously, either for propaganda purposes or because they're embarrassed or because they don't like what happened.0.52
00:28:12.000Okay, so again, he is saying the same thing that Trump is saying, same thing that Caroline Levitt is saying, same thing the Israelis are saying, which is that this never included Lebanon.
00:28:19.000It didn't suggest that they get to keep their nukes or their ballistic missiles or anything like that.
00:28:24.000Vance continued, again, this is on Wednesday.0.81
00:28:27.000Saying the United States has the leverage here, which of course is true.
00:28:29.000It turns out you have the leverage when you have the world's most powerful military.
00:28:34.000The President of the United States has made very clear that the United States has a lot of leverage here.
00:28:39.000We have economic leverage, we've got military leverage.
00:28:41.000What he's trying to do is make sure the American people are safe and strike a deal that's good for the American people.
00:28:49.000And Ban said that the ceasefire never included Lebanon.
00:28:53.000I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.
00:28:56.000I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't.
00:29:03.000We never indicated that was going to be the case.
00:29:05.000What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran, and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
00:29:14.000Okay, so first of all, I should point out there's no such thing as a legitimate misunderstanding here.
00:29:20.000Every ceasefire to include regional domination, and the United States does not, it'll be interesting to see whether that gap is bridged in any way.
00:29:28.000It's not a legitimate misunderstanding.
00:29:29.000That is the entire gap in negotiations.
00:29:31.000Does Iran, are they willing to give up control of the Strait of Hormuz?0.52
00:29:35.000And are they willing to get rid of their nuclear program?0.91
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00:30:47.000Meanwhile, at the White House, Caroline Lovett says that our red lines have not moved.
00:30:55.000Has Iran given the administration any indication that it would simply turn over the enriched uranium, or is this an expectation the president has that he would have to send in ground troops in order to do that?
00:31:08.000This is on the top of the priority list for the president and his negotiating team as they head into this next round of discussions.
00:31:14.000And as I said in my opener, that is a red line that the president is not going to back away from, and he's committed to ensuring that takes place.
00:31:33.000I don't know how many times he has to say, quote, all U.S. ships, aircraft, and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded enemy will remain in place and around Iran until such time as the real agreement reached is fully complied with.
00:31:51.000If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the shooting starts bigger and better and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.0.72
00:31:57.000It was agreed a long time ago, and despite all the fake rhetoric to the contrary, No nuclear weapons, and the Strait of Hormuz will be open and safe.
00:32:03.000Again, same conditions over and over and over.
00:32:05.000This notion that Trump has just abandoned his conditions here, based on what?
00:32:12.000Again, the purpose here is to negotiate some sort of end state.
00:32:15.000Maybe Iran is, it's possible they're lying publicly.
00:32:18.000It's possible that they're lying to Trump.
00:32:20.000It is possible that nothing gets done, or it's possible that eventually they give up the ghost here because they don't have a lot of choices.
00:32:27.000Iran, for its part, keeps insisting that Lebanon is part of the ceasefire.
00:32:30.000Clearly it is not, since they are still negotiating.
00:32:34.000Who apparently is on the do not kill list for the United States and Israel because I guess this is the guy they're negotiating with?
00:32:39.000He said Lebanon and the entire resistance access as Iran's allies form an inseparable part of the ceasefire.
00:32:44.000So apparently, Khalibab is claiming that in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Iran should have complete regional domination via its axis of terror.
00:32:58.000Okay, the Ayatollah Mashtabet Khamenei, who is tweeting from the grave, I mean, he's literally not conscious, but his Twitter account is very live, much more alive than he is, put out the following statements.
00:33:10.000We will definitely take the management of the Strait of Hormuz to a new phase.
00:33:13.000I mean, he needs to take his IV to a new phase, it sounds like.
00:33:17.000All must know that by Almighty God's will, we definitely won't allow the criminal aggressors who attacked our country to go on punishment.
00:33:22.000They just keep threatening and threatening and threatening.
00:33:55.000Targeted strikes on specific buildings in Lebanon is a genocide now.
00:33:59.000Killing 32,000 people in the streets because they oppose the regime, not a genocide.
00:34:04.000A full scale invasion of your neighbor and wiping civilians off the planet deliberately, not as collateral damage on October 7th, not an attempted genocide.0.68
00:34:13.000Genocide is anytime anything bad happens to a radical Muslim somewhere.0.76
00:34:44.000It could be them posturing publicly in order to make some sort of excuse for the fact that they got their asses absolutely handed to them.0.93
00:34:51.000And by them, I mean Iran and its proxies and its stand ins.
00:34:55.000Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the prime minister of Israel announced negotiations.
00:34:59.000He said, In light of Lebanon's repeated request to open direct negotiations with Israel, I instructed at the government meeting yesterday to open direct negotiations with Lebanon.
00:35:06.000As soon as possible, the negotiation will focus on the disarmament of Hezbollah and the establishment of peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon.
00:35:13.000Remember, there's a thing called the Lebanese government.
00:35:15.000The Lebanese government is not, in fact, Hezbollah, and the Lebanese government does not want Iran running it.
00:35:21.000In fact, according to Al Monitor, which again is an Arabian outlet, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salaam said on Thursday that his government alone is responsible for negotiating an end to Israeli hostilities.
00:35:32.000Negotiations must be conducted solely by the Lebanese state, so it's not up to Hezbollah.
00:35:37.000Okay, meanwhile, the president on Thursday night made clear that there will be no tolling in the Strait, no fees.
00:35:42.000There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers through the Hormuz Strait.
00:35:45.000They better not be, and if they are, they better stop now.
00:35:49.000Quote He tweets out The Wall Street Journal, one of the worst and most inaccurate editorial boards in the world, stated, I declared a premature victory in Iran.
00:35:58.000Actually, it is a victory, and there's nothing premature about it.
00:36:01.000Because of me, Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and very quickly, you'll see oil start flowing with or without the help of Iran.0.83
00:36:06.000And to me, it makes no difference either way.
00:36:08.000The Wall Street Journal will, as usual, live to eat their words.
00:36:11.000He says, we're going to disarm Iran and you'll see the oil flowing, essentially.
00:36:15.000And then he says, listen, our agreement is not shutting the strait.0.66
00:36:18.000The strait has remained closed, by the way.
00:36:20.000So the ceasefire was supposed to reopen the strait.
00:36:54.000Not all in equal measure, some countries more than others.
00:36:57.000The UK and France being at the top of the list.
00:37:00.000So the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, the EC, the European Council, and Japan put out a statement on Wednesday, April 8th.0.95
00:37:08.000We welcome the two week ceasefire concluded between the United States and Iran today, and we thank Pakistan.
00:37:13.000And they say we strongly encourage quick progress toward a substantive negotiated settlement.
00:37:19.000We call upon all sides to implement the ceasefire, including in Lebanon.
00:37:22.000So basically, they just want Iran to get its way.0.64
00:37:28.000The United States may still have an interest in deterring Russia from taking over parts of Europe because we don't like the Russians having more power, because the Russians are worse than the Europeans.0.91
00:37:36.000But the Europeans are truly pathetic.0.89
00:38:03.000The disappointment with NATO is quite real.
00:38:06.000There's been talk, by the way, about punishing NATO countries by moving our bases away from NATO member countries deemed unhelpful to our current war efforts.
00:38:16.000This is according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:38:18.000And instead, stationing them in countries.
00:38:52.000He is clearly disappointed with many NATO allies, and I can see his point.
00:38:59.000But at the same time, I was also able to point to the fact that the large majority of European nations has been helpful with basing, with logistics, with overflights, with making sure that they lift up to the commitments.
00:39:16.000And there is also widespread support for the fact that degrading the nuclear.0.81
00:39:23.000And the ballistic missile capacity from Iran was really crucial.0.73
00:39:27.000And that only the US was able at this point to do that.
00:39:33.000Okay, so he is right that some nations have been better than others.
00:39:36.000Apparently, Poland and the Baltic states, particularly, are ticked off.
00:39:40.000I mean, if you look at a map of NATO, which nations have been friendly to the United States using their military bases, our military bases on their land?
00:39:48.000It turns out all the ones that border Russia, Poland, all the Baltic states, which ones have been unfriendly?1.00
00:39:54.000France, Spain, Italy, initially the UK, the ones that are further away from Russia, those pathetic dullards, truly, truly pathetic people.1.00
00:40:02.000Probably, Make America Great Again could also become.0.90
00:40:49.000But the way that he speaks of the United States government in contrast with a fundamentalist, fascist theocracy that shoots dissidents in the streets by the tens of thousands should boggle the mind a little bit.
00:41:04.000Here is Jimmy Kimmel over the course of the last couple of days How is this negotiation even going to work?
00:41:10.000This is a government of religious fanatics who don't believe in democracy and they use domestic security forces to terrorize their own citizens.
00:41:18.000And now we expect Iran to negotiate with them?0.75
00:42:26.000You could disagree with Iran and what their point of view is, but it's the fact that they have a deep belief in something that's unthoughtful.0.99
00:42:55.000They're literally on MSNL praising people standing outside of nuclear power plants who are probably being forced to do so at point of gun or who work for the regime.
00:43:05.000This is what they've been reduced to at this point.
00:43:07.000Meanwhile, Michigan Democrats may be about to nominate a Senate candidate named El Sayed, who is full scale in sympathy with radical Islamists because his fans in Dearborn are.
00:43:22.000He actually stood alongside Hassan Piker, who, again, the fact that Hassan Piker is considered a well respected member of the left. Is truly crazy, truly, truly insane.
00:43:32.000And this person has never found an Islamist dictator or terrorist group that he can't find some sympathy for.
00:43:40.000The guy traveled to China to talk about how wonderful China is and Cuba to talk about how wonderful Cuba is.
00:43:44.000And there he is campaigning with Abdul El Sayed, this Michigan Senate candidate.
00:43:49.000And this Michigan Senate candidate was asked about the Temple Israel attack, which of course sprang from Dearborn, a terrorist attack from a Hezbollah activist, a Hezbollah aligned person.
00:44:01.000And he said, Hurt people, hurt people.
00:44:11.000The guy who went and tried to attack literal Jewish toddlers at a temple, that guy was a Hezbollah terrorist whose brothers had been killed in Lebanon because they were members of Hezbollah.
00:44:24.000And you have a man running for high office in Michigan who says that that person was just a hurt person who hurt people.
00:45:36.000Trump is standing for a stronger America.
00:45:39.000Hakeem Jeffries is standing for a weaker America, period.
00:45:43.000Donald Trump has failed America, failed the NATO alliance, and failed the free world.
00:45:51.000And he seems to confuse friend with foe.
00:45:55.000And the fact that Vice President Vance is over in Eastern Europe right now supporting an authoritarian dictator is extraordinary.
00:46:05.000The fact that Donald Trump and Republicans Continue to play footsie with Vladimir Putin and Russia, sworn enemies of the United States of America, is extraordinary.
00:46:16.000And the fact that Donald Trump continues to attack our allies, whether it's Canada, Mexico, or NATO, is extraordinary.
00:46:26.000Something is really wrong with this guy.
00:46:31.000I mean, there's something wrong with that guy.
00:46:53.000That's the only way forward for the United States, according to these people, which is why they openly, again, it's not me saying that attributing to them views they don't speak for themselves.
00:47:01.000They openly say the world will be a better place.
00:47:03.000With China and Russia in charge of large swaths of it.
00:47:07.000I'm just going to remember, because we're going to get to President Trump's big tweet last night in which he went after, in order, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, and Alex Jones.
00:47:17.000The reason he is going after these people is because these people have revealed themselves for who they are people who do not actually want to make America great again.
00:47:24.000They believe America is weak and ought to remain weak.
00:47:27.000Remember, it was just a few days ago that Tucker Carlson, in all of his newfound insanity, was calling President Trump a war criminal.
00:47:35.000Yesterday at the White House, they all show up in the middle of Christian Holy Week, four days before Easter.0.63
00:47:43.000And not just the fringe Christian Zionist, John Higgy, or these strange people, but the big guys.0.56
00:47:51.000Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday to pray over the president so he will have wisdom and restraint.0.58
00:47:59.000No, to endorse the murder of civilians.
00:48:06.000Which is a war crime, but more important, it's a moral crime.
00:48:12.000You can't kill people who have committed no crime, who did nothing wrong.0.54
00:48:46.000But whether it is mental illness or mental break or whether it is a just deeply horrific view of America and the world, it doesn't really matter.0.97
00:48:54.000Bottom line is that Tucker is a demoralization agent.
00:49:28.000Everyone knows that Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot.1.00
00:49:31.000From the time she was tweeting about the Jewish space lasers through her inability to distinguish the Gestapo from Gaspacho, Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the dumbest people in American politics.0.94
00:49:43.000The great tragedy is that President Trump didn't defenestrate her earlier and that he was hanging around with her.0.69
00:49:49.000Marjorie Taylor Greene, unsurprisingly, since she has left Congress because she was not going to win her seat again, she now says that Christians must speak out against Trump because Trump is busy, you know, taking out an Islamist dictatorship.0.51
00:50:05.000And I really have to call out the speaker, Mike Johnson, who calls himself a Christian.
00:50:10.000I don't know how he can stand by those words.
00:50:14.000Any, any Christian serving in Congress or serving in the Senate and serving in the administration really needs to take pause and ask themselves, as a Christian, do you really support the president calling for the annihilation, calling to wipe out an entire civilization of people?
00:50:33.000And I don't think you should because that's not what Jesus said and that's not what Christianity is all about.
00:50:39.000And so I think that, yeah, I'm probably one of the few.
00:50:43.000It was me, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and a few others that are willing to call it out and speak out against this because we're willing to be honest.
00:50:54.000CNN is so excited for Marjorie Taylor Greene being there.
00:50:58.000And, you know, again, I will let Christians speak to her take on Christianity.0.72
00:51:02.000I will say that from all the Christians that I know, and I know an awful lot of Christians, that is a deeply flawed take.
00:51:07.000I also do have questions about Marjorie Taylor Greene as a Christian icon.
00:51:13.000Controversial conspiracy Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene cheated on her husband with a polyamorous tantric sex guru, DailyMail.com has learned.
00:51:20.000Then, after ending her affair with him, the mom of three moved on to a gym manager behind her husband's back.
00:51:28.000She also said that the Republican Party should be ended.
00:51:31.000Again, if you think that these people are standing up for the greatness of America by saying the Republican Party ought to be, they want to hand it to the Democrats.
00:51:38.000Does that sound like America First to you?
00:51:42.000We have to be realistic about the Republican Party.0.79
00:51:45.000The Republican Party needs burned to the ground.
00:52:15.000This notion that AIPAC is running the American government is total trash.
00:52:18.000But again, she's speaking to Alex Jones, one of the great conspiracy theorists of our time.
00:52:22.000One of the problems with the Republican Party over the last 10 years or so, and probably earlier, is that it let in a bunch of grifters who don't know anything and then brought them in to spew conspiracy theories because they were part of the quote unquote anti left coalition.0.54
00:52:36.000And then it turns out that when you allow the big tent to be really, really, really big, you end up with a lot of clowns in there.
00:52:44.000And Alex Jones sitting along for all of this.
00:52:46.000Alex Jones is the guy who had to pay out a bajillion dollar settlement because he was lying about dead kids at Sandy Hook.
00:53:57.000September to October, October to November, November to December, December to January, January to February, February to March, March to April.
00:54:02.000We are seven months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
00:54:06.000And this delightful human being still will not say that Candace Owens and her conspiracy laden crap about Erica Kirk is morally wrong.
00:54:32.000You can tell she's passionate because she curses a lot more than she used to.
00:54:34.000That's how you know she really believes the things she's saying, because she drops four letter words a lot and also makes insulting comments about the genitalia of her political opponents.
00:54:45.000I'm old enough to remember when she was asking President Trump about doing that in 2015.
00:55:51.000Again, none of these people, Tucker doesn't think it, Candace doesn't think it, Megan doesn't think it.
00:55:56.000None of these people think that Trump was going to nuke Iran.
00:56:00.000The sudden pearl clutching from all the people who know for a fact that Trump is not going to nuke Iran and wipe out the entire civilian population is truly an astonishing thing.
00:56:37.000So President Trump finally had enough of all of this.
00:56:39.000And he put out a statement last night.
00:56:41.000And listen, folks, if you had listened to my show for a few years, you would have been early on this one.0.76
00:56:47.000He put out a statement I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact they think it is wonderful for Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, to have a nuclear weapon.0.73
00:56:58.000Because they have one thing in common low IQs.
00:57:18.000Now they think they get some clicks because they have third rate podcasts, but nobody's talking about them.
00:57:22.000Their views are the opposite of MAGA, or I wouldn't have won the presidential election in a landslide.
00:57:27.000MAGA agrees with me, says the president, and just gave CNN a 100% approval rating of Trump, not hand flailing fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn't even finish college.
00:57:35.000He was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he's never been the same.
00:57:38.000Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist.
00:57:40.000Or Megyn Kelly, who nastily asked me the now famous only Rosie O'Donnell question, or crazy Candace Owens, who accuses the highly respected First Lady of France of being a man when she is not and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit.0.55
00:57:52.000Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace.
00:57:58.000Or bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax.
00:58:07.000These so called pundits are losers, and they will always be.
00:58:09.000Now, fake news CNN, the failing New York Times, and all the other radical left news organizations are hailing them and giving them positive press for the first time in their lives.
00:58:17.000They're not MAGA, they're losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA.
00:58:20.000As president, I could get them on my side anytime I want to.
00:58:23.000But when they call, I don't return their calls because I'm too busy on world and country affairs.
00:58:27.000And after a few times, they go nasty, just like Marjorie Trader Brown.
00:58:30.000But I no longer care about that stuff.
00:58:32.000I only care about doing right for our country.
00:58:34.000MAGA is about winning and strength in not allowing Iran to have nuclear weapons.
00:58:37.000MAGA is about making America great again.
00:58:40.000And these people have no idea how to do that.
00:58:42.000But I do because the United States is now the hottest country anywhere in the world, President Donald J. Trump.
00:58:47.000So, again, is the president wrong about that?
00:58:55.000Because the reality is, once again, the president of the United States is facing down people who fairly openly are rooting for American weakness and are willing to buy into any trash conspiracy theory in order to bolster their own ratings and in order to get the clicks.
00:59:10.000And by the way, they'll pretty much admit it.
00:59:11.000They'll just brag about their clicks as a defense mechanism.
00:59:14.000You point out what they're doing is wrong and immoral, and they point out that what you're doing gets lower ratings, which last I checked is not a defense to wrong and immoral and untrue.
00:59:24.000All right, meanwhile, the other big news of the day is that Melania apparently gave a speech denouncing Jeffrey Epstein and talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
00:59:31.000And people are going crazy over this Melania speech on Jeffrey Epstein.
00:59:35.000Honestly, I'm not sure what prompted her to do this, but she denied ties to him.
00:59:40.000She called on Congress, told the hearing for survivors.
00:59:42.000Here's what she had to say To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell.
01:00:33.000But, you know, the reality is that the reason that she's doing that, I would assume, is because the propaganda has ramped into high gear on Epstein, specifically because there are a lot of bot farms out there that push this kind of stuff on X and on TikTok in the middle of a war with Iran.
01:01:02.000Is a comedian who is occasionally funny.
01:01:06.000She was on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, which, oh my gosh, I can't, speaking of things that should not have ratings in a sane world.
01:01:14.000In any case, she described how she thinks it's hot when her husband sleeps with other women, which, you know, I, okay, I mean, seems weird, seems like you got some problems in your life, but I mean, you could have told that by the fact that she's a comedian.
01:01:33.000I will say that the comedians are not famous for having.
01:03:42.000She has a brand new series called This Is Reagan Conrad.
01:03:45.000You can find it over right now on YouTube, where she hosts deep dives, interviews, and mini documentaries about the issues she cares most about.
01:03:51.000And her first episode is apparently on something called Kratom, which is, I've heard about this, but it's kind of a shocking thing.
01:03:57.000Reagan, thanks so much for taking the time.
01:04:14.000Yeah, so Kratom, it's originally a leaf in Southeast Asia, and it came over to the States.
01:04:19.000And recently, over the past couple of years, it's become this phenomenon of sorts because chemists got involved with this derivative that's actually in the leaf called 70H.
01:04:27.000It's becoming super popular, kids are getting addicted to it.
01:04:30.000Adults are getting addicted, people are getting involved, and they didn't even know it's a drug, and now it essentially acts like an opiate.
01:04:35.000And so it's causing a lot of concern for people across the country.
01:04:40.000And it's just kind of operated in like a gray area for a long time.
01:04:43.000And so people haven't understood what this thing is.
01:04:45.000And so we wanted to deep dive and understand what is this?
01:04:49.000Why are people going to rehab for a drug that they didn't even know was a drug?
01:04:51.000And that's what our first deep dive was on.
01:05:11.000I believe it's just kind of sold over the counter, like normal stores, correct?
01:05:14.000Yeah, you can get it at like a gas station.
01:05:16.000People are finding it at gas stations, they're going to smoke shops.
01:05:18.000And again, what I think is so nefarious about it is it is targeting people who are former addicts, which makes it so much more evil.
01:05:25.000You know, people that have had sobriety issues in the past, they're getting re addicted, thinking they're in the clear, and then they're going back to rehab.
01:05:32.000So I've heard so many stories since we released it of people reaching out saying, hey, thanks for talking about this.
01:05:37.000My brother's addicted, we don't know what to do, and this is just, I mean, it's a huge thing that no one's talking about, which I think at the very least, people need to be aware of it before we discuss what to do about it.
01:05:46.000Well, the retailer of Kratom actually sent a cease and desist after Reagan's very first episode based on this.
01:05:54.000They just, what, wanted you to take down the episode?
01:05:57.000Yeah, people aren't happy to be talking about it.
01:06:00.000And I think that's only kind of reinvigorates the idea of, like, then there is an issue here.
01:06:04.000There is a gray area that, again, people have been operating in.
01:06:07.000And now they don't want it brought to light.
01:06:09.000And that's kind of the whole point of the show we want to be bringing these issues to light.
01:06:13.000And whether they're going to be, people are going to be angry about it or not, that's kind of the whole point, you know, is to keep exposing it.
01:06:38.000We've been doing it for months, kind of building these up.
01:06:40.000But our first one that's going to be coming out, well, we had the Kratom one.0.76
01:06:43.000On Saturday, we have our big episodes that launch.0.81
01:06:45.000And the one that's coming up this weekend is about the education system, the failures that are happening, why we are such a great country, and yet we have a failing education system.
01:06:53.000And I interview a filmmaker who did a deep dive for about a decade to understand what is going so wrong.
01:06:59.000He found himself at the NEA, corruption on so many levels, teachers praising the Satanic Temple.
01:07:05.000I mean, it was the most insane deep dive that he did.
01:07:07.000So we talked to him about it and show a lot of those clips.
01:07:10.000And he has a documentary that's going to be coming out about that or that is out now in Angel Studios called The Death of Recess.
01:07:38.000And folks, you can go check that out over at YouTube.
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