The Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, joins the program as we discuss Israel and Iran, and why Dad is mad. That's right, I explained later in the show, why the President is mad about Iran's nuclear program.
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00:02:03.000Of course, we tried to do it diplomatically, but the Iranians were not willing to play ball.
00:02:07.000But he also wanted us to be in a very narrow, very defined operation where once we solved the problem, he wanted to get the hell out and not have to deal with the Middle East anymore.
00:02:19.000And I think that's what you saw here is you saw bold decisive action, but you also saw a willingness to sort of press the brakes on both the Iranians and the Israelis.
00:02:28.000What happened, I think it was very interesting.
00:02:30.000I came into the Oval Office on Monday morning, and we had just received calls from both the Israelis, but also from the Iranians.
00:02:39.000And from the Israelis, they were basically saying, look, we're exhausted.
00:02:57.000They basically telegraphed exactly what they were going to do so that we could maximize our ability to save the lives and the health of our troops.
00:03:06.000And so what the president basically said is, let's figure out what the Iranians are actually doing.
00:03:11.000Let's obviously do everything that we can to save our troops.
00:03:15.000And then after the attack, let's reconvene and see where we are.
00:03:20.000And so we went to the Oval Office around three o'clock or so yesterday afternoon.
00:03:24.000The president kind of gathered up the senior team and said, look, the Iranians clearly didn't mean to kill anybody because they told us exactly where they were going to attack.
00:03:32.000The Israelis are telling us they've achieved their objectives and they don't want to do a long, protracted war.
00:03:40.000And then three hours later, that's exactly what we had accomplished.
00:03:43.000And hilariously, we were working on confirming and coordinating the details of this as I was on the way to do an interview with Brett Baer.
00:03:52.000And then I think the president got this over the finish line literally while I was on air.
00:03:56.000And then it was read to me right before we actually started recording the interview.
00:04:00.000So a really big day for America, a really big day, I think, for Israel and Iran, but just a big day for world peace, Charlie.
00:04:08.000I mean, I can't emphasize how big of a deal it is that we took the Iranian nuclear program, we destroyed it without losing a single American life and without getting the United States involved in some protracted Middle Eastern conflict.
00:04:23.000It's kind of a win-win-win all around.
00:04:25.000And so, Mr. Vice President, I've known the president for about 10 years.
00:04:30.000I have never seen him this mad publicly, where he dropped basically the F-bomb herd around the world at both Israel and Iran.
00:04:43.000His driving force is peace, not war, which is such a sea change versus the prior Republican Party.
00:04:49.000Can you comment on President Trump this morning as he was demanding an end to all conflict and it worked, please?
00:04:56.000Yeah, so I mean, look, ceasefires are always a little bit of mess, Charlie, and we don't even know fully exactly what happened.
00:05:03.000I mean, our understanding is that, you know, the Israelis obviously tried to ramp up their campaign towards the very end.
00:05:10.000The Iranians took a lot of shots at the Israelis at the very end.
00:05:15.000You know, there's some concerns here because, you know, even after the senior leaders agree to a ceasefire, it takes some time for that message to get down to the commanders in the field.
00:05:24.000You know, even if the leadership of Iran, for example, says, yes, okay, we'll stop shooting, it's totally possible that there's a guy they can't reach who doesn't realize that.
00:05:33.000And so it's not even clear totally what happened, but there appears to be one errant rocket that the Israelis perceived was fired at them.
00:06:05.000This stupid shit tit for tat is unacceptable.
00:06:07.000And I'm just going to go out there and I'm going to make it very clear to each party that this needs to stop.
00:06:12.000And obviously, you know, it's an amazing thing to have an American president who just goes out there and says, this is what's in America's best interest.
00:06:21.000The parties should choose the smart path and not the dumb path.
00:06:25.000And he said it so forcefully that I actually think it meaningfully changed the trajectory of this morning, Charlie.
00:06:30.000I mean, just take you through my own psychology.
00:06:32.000At around 6.30 this morning, which is I think right around the time the president was going out, I was worried that this ceasefire would fall apart.
00:07:13.000I said, I'm just going to trust the Lord and trust Trump, who I think has the hand of God on him to settle this thing.
00:07:18.000So, Mr. Vice President, I want to ask you, the complexity of being able to have no nuclear program for Iran, to have no troops on the ground, no nation building, and no U.S. troops, I mean, that's pitching a perfect game.
00:07:32.000I hope everyone in the audience understands how unique and rare this is.
00:07:36.000Mr. Vice President, can you add more detail to that?
00:07:39.000Because to have all those no's, no troops on the ground, no permanent war, no quagmire, no U.S. troops dead, and no nukes for Iran.
00:07:54.000I think a lot of people in our generation assume that every single time we do anything in the Middle East, that is necessarily going to lead to some protracted quagmire.
00:08:04.000And the president was just not interested in that.
00:08:06.000And I think that, you know, yes, the president deserves great credit for destroying the nuclear program and pressing the reset on the Iranian nuke program.
00:08:13.000But I actually think he pressed the reset button on a generation of failed American foreign policy.
00:08:19.000He basically said it is actually possible for Americans to go and do important things in the American interest and then to get out.
00:08:28.000And that is something that is really profound.
00:08:30.000Our generation understandably has a ton of skepticism.
00:08:33.000We think of Middle East long, expensive.
00:09:08.000And that basic idea that you can go and do great things, the American military is incredibly powerful.
00:09:14.000I mean, what these B-2 bombers accomplished, Charlie, is really extraordinary.
00:09:18.000They flew halfway across the world, dropped 30,000-pound bombs, 12 of them, on ventilation shafts that were literally the size of a washing machine, and then got out without ever landing.
00:09:47.000And now he's moving on, I think, to build more peace and more prosperity all across the Middle East.
00:09:52.000I think he showed the Iranians that they're not nearly as tough as they might think that they are.
00:09:57.000I think that he showed the Israelis that we're willing to use American power for our interests, but we're not going to get involved in another Middle East quagmire.
00:10:05.000And I think that that combined message is going to hopefully lead to a period of great peace and prosperity in the Middle East, which of course will be great for the United States.
00:10:15.000That'll mean, you know, more investment, more prosperity, more people building businesses in the Middle East is great for America.
00:10:42.000Walk us through the marching orders for this audience so that we can really put the thrust and the energy and the velocity here domestically.
00:10:49.000Yeah, of course, we have our big legislative priority, which is no taxes on TIPS, no taxes on overtime, but also a massive amount of funding for the border wall and for other immigration enforcement.
00:10:59.000It's impossible, I think, really to do mass deportations unless you get some more money into border patrol, resources that have been really depleted under the Biden administration and not reinvested in our own security.
00:11:10.000As you know, Charlie, I think the most important domestic policy issue, the reason why Donald J. Trump is the 47th president of the United States, is the need to, one, stop the mass invasion and two, deport the people who were let in during Biden's mass invasion.
00:11:26.000The president's very committed to that.
00:11:28.000And the number that really matters, Charlie, is net migration numbers.
00:11:32.000If you look for the first time in a very long time, we have fewer people coming into the country than we are getting out of the country.
00:11:40.000That shows that we've stopped the flow of illegal immigration and we're starting the deportations.
00:11:45.000And that, to me, is the most important thing.
00:11:48.000It's the metric by which we'll be judged.
00:11:50.000Obviously, you've seen the courts try to stop this stuff, but we're starting to get enough wins in courts that I think if we get the big, beautiful bill passed, you're going to see an accelerating approach to deportations as we implement that most important part of the agenda.
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00:14:58.000I did name-call Lindsey Graham and James Langford.
00:15:00.000Besides that, it's been very nasty online, if you haven't noticed, you know, people hurling insults and all this stuff after each other.
00:15:07.000But I think that there is a moment of reconciliation.
00:15:11.000J.D. Vance was not a Trump supporter originally, and that was actually the argument I made to the president as to why I think J.D. Vance would make a great vice president.
00:15:20.000It shows that there can be reconciliation and that people can come on board.
00:15:24.000We want former people that weren't Trump supporters to become Trump supporters.
00:15:27.000I mean, look at that shot right there.
00:17:26.000J.D. Vance, tell us about how great everything is and Donald Trump's terrible and explain to us why white working class people are in such a revolt.
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00:20:07.000And just to understand the profundity of all this, President Donald Trump was able to get no nukes for Iran, no troops on the ground, no nation building, no quagmire, no endless wars, and the kicker, no U.S. troops dead.
00:20:30.000It has been fully agreed that there is a ceasefire.
00:20:32.000So here's where people got a little confused.
00:20:34.000In approximately six hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in-progress final missions for 12 hours, at which point the war will be considered ended.
00:20:43.000Officially, Iran will start the ceasefire upon the 12th hour, and Israel will start the ceasefire upon the 24th hour, an official end to the 12-day war.
00:20:51.000Okay, so people were kind of confused about the timing.
00:20:54.000President Donald Trump worked very hard alongside J.D. Vance to get this deal done.
00:21:54.000A lot of people are going to be asking about that in the coming days.
00:21:57.000But what I am interested in, what I think is very important, is you don't mess with President Trump.
00:22:01.000And President Trump was very mad this morning, early.
00:22:06.000President Donald Trump had an early launch to NATO.
00:22:09.000I don't think I've ever heard him this mad, this public, as president to the press.
00:22:13.000Not even, think about this, during his two impeachments, through his indictments, through facing 700 years in federal prison, not even after he got shot, did we see President Trump this mad, where President Donald Trump went right to the sticks and he said, these guys have been fighting so hard, they don't know what the F they are doing.
00:22:36.000And this was the cuss heard around the world.
00:22:38.000And that was, hey, everybody, dad didn't get any sleep last night.
00:23:03.000I am beyond ticked at both of you guys.
00:23:05.000And yes, he said that to Israel as well, equally with Iran, because Israel was playing a little games with, you know, just kind of the timing and all that.
00:23:15.000And Trump said, I have done everything I possibly could do.
00:23:19.000We flew B-2 bombers from Missouri around the world to drop bunker busters, to make sure a nuclear program did not exist for our own self-interest, and also make sure that you guys do not have a nuke dropped on you.
00:23:37.000Israel just started unloading huge strikes on Iran, like emptying the clip.
00:23:40.000And you could tell that was not exactly what President Trump heard when he was negotiating the ceasefire.
00:25:25.000There's nothing that he could have said on some phone call, the BB or Iran, that would have been as powerful as right on the sticks at 6.30 in the morning, the F-bomb was heard around the world.
00:25:36.000President Donald Trump was calling the shots, and all of a sudden you see that there's this major payload being dropped.
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00:30:14.000And he signed it, which is pretty awesome.
00:30:16.000And then he also signed another one that I will put up here.
00:30:19.000Yeah, he said to post it, so we're putting it up live on air.
00:30:22.000And here's the other one, which is zero U.S. casualties, zero Iranian missiles hit U.S. bases, zero need for the U.S. to retaliate as of now.
00:30:30.000A large international and regional coalition mobilized to shoot down Iranian missiles.
00:30:34.000This is clearly an extremely positive outcome for America and President Trump.
00:30:37.000Take the W and off-ramp the de-escalation.
00:31:34.000But imagine, putting that one aside, if President Trump can solve the Ukrainian-Russian one, boy, imagine right now you got these, but just to understand, these NATO operators, these are like German professors.
00:32:00.000I'm telling you right now, President Donald Trump, he is going to be a sight to see at NATO.
00:32:05.000He is going to come right off Air Force One and he's going to be like, you need to pay more and you need to pay more and you're a waste of time.
00:35:14.000We want Trump the, you know how long that this peacemaking process would have happened through normal diplomatic State Department channels?
00:35:45.000I think the reason we're here is because those pilots, those B2 pilots, did an unbelievable job.
00:35:51.000And, you know, the fake news, like CNN in particular, they're trying to, you know, they're trying to say, well, I agree that it was destroyed, but maybe not that destroyed.
00:38:10.000President Donald Trump on Truth Social.
00:38:12.000He's had quite a morning on Truth Social.
00:38:14.000Now that we have made peace abroad, we must finish the job here at home by passing the great big beautiful bill and getting the bill to my desk, ASAP.
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00:38:34.000To my friends in the Senate, lock yourself in a room if you must and don't go home.