Join us live from the Bitcoin studio as we discuss the No Kings protest, the Iran war, and what it means from a historical perspective. Recorded in Los Angeles, CA at the Center for American Progress (CAPP).
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00:01:33.000They weren't doing no kings protests when the most authoritarian thing of all happened in our country the last 30 years, when the entire nation was locked down by Democrat governors and we were forced to take an mRNA gene-altering vaccine against our will, and I was not allowed to visit the city of New York or Los Angeles without, show me your papers, a vaccine passport.
00:02:00.000American military members were kicked out of the U.S. military because they would not take the COVID shot.
00:02:08.000The same party that selected and appointed Kamala Harris as the candidate with no election, no process like a Zoom call, thinks Trump is a king.
00:02:19.000The same party that prevented Bernie Sanders from becoming the nominee in 2016 and partially 2020 thinks that Trump is a king.
00:02:29.000Now, no honest person looks at the situation and thinks that Trump is a dictator unless, of course, you are part of the resist AARP crowd.
00:04:03.000I'm an independent journalist, boots-on-the-ground journalist, and yeah, I speak to people on the street and just get to know what's really going on in this country.
00:04:10.000And so you were at the No Kings protest, and you started, you did this very powerful video that I hope we have queued up somewhere.
00:04:19.000Where, let's play it, 296, where you identified some of these protesters do this for a living.
00:05:55.000So when I went to the Takedown Tesla protest, almost immediately upon getting there, an older woman comes up to me and has a right-wing troll arrow and follows me around the protest.
00:06:07.000Now, I hadn't even interviewed anyone up until that point.
00:06:10.000You know, I had asked someone for an interview, but I wasn't granted one yet.
00:06:14.000And then she comes along and she follows me and asks everyone I speak to to not talk to me.
00:06:20.000And that same arrow is at the No Kings protest, the printed the exact same way.
00:06:26.000And so the original older woman that I spoke to at the Tesla protest, I found her at, you know, 20, 30 different protests.
00:09:26.000And I really just felt very passionate about having those conversations because polls are one thing, you know, but it doesn't give the country an idea of why are people voting for certain people.
00:09:37.000So I figured if I just let people talk, then people will make up their own minds of what's the best person to vote for.
00:10:29.000It tells the truth about our history, how our nation was formed on biblical principles, and the importance of protecting our Judeo-Christian foundations as we move forward.
00:10:38.000God has given us an assignment to bring our faith into our world today, and here's the catch.
00:10:43.000It starts with focusing on our own attitudes.
00:10:45.000When you take time to understand how God has consistently blessed America, pouring His grace and mercy on us over and over again, it will give you hope for the days ahead.
00:10:54.000We cannot afford to forget our past, good and bad, or we will forfeit the best opportunities of our future.
00:13:34.000So unfortunately, so for example, when Trump Tower was occupied, I asked a question and I asked one of the leaders of the protest.
00:13:45.000First of all, oftentimes I'll try to speak to someone and they'll say, go and speak to our media person.
00:13:50.000They won't think independently for themselves.
00:13:52.000They'll just tell me to go speak to another person.
00:13:54.000So I speak to a person and I say, you know, is Trump a dictator?
00:13:58.000And they refuse to answer because they know that if Trump were a dictator, they wouldn't let a mass amount of people occupy his wife and son's home, right?
00:14:10.000They start to recognize me, and I see this woman who works for this company called Jewish Currents, which is a magazine company that often works with Jewish Voices for Peace, which is a far-left radical group, does not speak for the Jewish people, very anti-Zionist, and actually celebrated October 7th.
00:14:30.000And you can see that it's paid for because this woman who's the leader of this protest, the only one that I'm qualified to speak to, so-called, she is working for this Jewish Currents.
00:14:39.000It's magazine, and she's just there in the middle of the day, right?
00:14:42.000So that's just an example of what sort of happens.
00:14:46.000And also, I went to a protest recently, one of those anti-ice ones, and these guys in cafeas, you know, they're masked up, sunglasses, everything, and they walk up to me.
00:14:56.000They take a photo of my press ID, and I say, do you want to ask me anything?
00:15:03.000And they just take photos of me and walk away.
00:15:05.000So, yeah, it's not nice to have guys with cafeas walk up to you and take photos of your press ID, but that's what I'm willing to risk when I'm out there in the field.
00:15:12.000And so, in closing here, you as a young man, I'm guessing you're Jewish, is that correct?
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00:19:52.000Well, I don't remember hearing about Saddam Hussein.
00:19:55.000I do remember, and it's a running thing on TikTok that everyone my age has memories of not knowing who Osama bin Laden was, but being somewhere and your parents freaking out that Osama bin Laden was killed.
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00:21:39.000They do have other minorities, very small, but it is mostly Shia.
00:21:43.000Now what that means is they often are in conflict with all the other countries in the Middle East because they have religious differences with them.
00:21:49.000And they just have somewhat different beliefs.
00:21:51.000They're in conflict with the other Muslim countries.
00:22:34.000And they also have a very interesting belief.
00:22:36.000You'll hear them called the Twelver Shias.
00:22:38.000So they believe there were a series of imams.
00:22:41.000That's like a chief, kind of an Islamic teacher.
00:22:43.000You'll hear imam used to just describe a normalismic cleric, but this is like a kind of super imam, basically.
00:22:49.000And they believe that there were 12 of them, so there were 11 who kind of, there have been 12 historically, and then the 12th one died, but they kind of, I believe the belief is they think he's like in hiding, like he's still alive and he will return.
00:25:33.000So yes, that was the big thing in the Middle East.
00:25:37.000In fact, that was the biggest story in America, if you were around in 1980, was the hostages in Iran.
00:25:43.000I wasn't around, but I've heard of it.
00:25:44.000So what happened was, Iran had a monarchy, they overthrew him, and he was replaced by this Islamic government.
00:25:51.000They're led by a guy called the Ayatollah.
00:25:53.000And Ayatollah is kind of just a supreme Islamic cleric title.
00:25:58.000Do have Israel and Iran also had a long history of conflict, or it's just the nuclear threat, the weapon threat that is making Israel wants to go after Iran?
00:26:09.000As you can see, if you look at them, they don't border each other.
00:26:11.000So between them, there's Jordan, then Iraq, then Iran.
00:26:14.000So they're several hundred miles away.
00:26:15.000So there's not a lot of ability to directly fight each other.
00:27:44.000China doesn't care as much about that.
00:27:46.000So they're willing to have trade with Iran.
00:27:49.000And maybe to the extent that they see Iran as our rival, they might even support them a bit as, oh, you know, America's hostile to us, the enemy of my enemy.
00:27:58.000But they're not an ally in the way, like, the U.S. and Israel are allies, where there's a lot of direct assistance.
00:28:08.000I don't know if we'll have time to get to them both in this segment, but one...
00:28:26.000So I want you to explain that a little bit more.
00:28:29.000But secondly, when Israel chooses to go after Iran, is there anyone specific that they're worried about retaliating against them on behalf of Iran or just these militaristic groups?
00:29:12.000So there's been concern, oh, Iran might try to get nukes or WMDs, weapons of mass destruction.
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00:31:31.000I want to say about 2013, 2014, you started getting a lot more agitation, certainly from Netanyahu's and on Israel's end, where they're saying, we have intelligence.
00:31:43.000Iran is trying to build a nuclear bomb.
00:31:47.000And this is one of the reasons there's so much debate about this, is he did frequently frame it in this, They would call this the breakout period where they would get so close like we couldn't stop them from getting the bomb.
00:32:02.000So people who are skeptical of a war with Iran, one reason they're skeptical is they'll say, oh, we keep hearing these warnings that Iran's close to a bomb, but we've heard that before.
00:32:12.000Like the Israel who cried wolf about a Iran situation.
00:32:16.000I mean, their argument is like, So when they were doing the strikes, they were saying we had evidence they were, you know, days or weeks away from being able to build a nuclear bomb, send it at Israel.
00:32:29.000Okay, so I briefed this question in the last segment.
00:32:35.000Is there, when Israel, you've been telling me that Israel's been talking about this for years, that there is a threat from Iran, and when Israel chose to do the strike, Is there any country or, what you've been telling me, military groups in specific that they were worried would retaliate specifically against Israel?
00:32:57.000Well, the specific one they'd worry the most about is Iran.
00:33:00.000So those proxy groups that I mentioned, they've already had a lot of conflict with Israel.
00:33:05.000So Hezbollah, they've fought them before.
00:33:08.000they haven't they've done a little bit of skirmishing even just since 10-7 for example there would be some worry that So far, they haven't.
00:33:21.000I think a big reason they haven't is Israel has shown they're far more gung-ho about they're willing to take out a lot of people.
00:33:46.000And so there are places that are allied with Iran, but they won't necessarily want to think, I am ready to kill myself to show solidarity with Iran.
00:33:55.000And if it looks like the U.S. and Israel are, well, I should say Israel and possibly the U.S. are saying, this time we're serious about it, we're taking out this regime, or at least hitting them very hard, they can think, I would rather stand aside from this one.
00:34:10.000Do you think, we briefly touched on this about how Israel has, some people would say that Israel has been talking about this threat for so long that they never thought it was going to actualize and Israel's actually going to do something about it.
00:34:22.000Do you think that Iran felt that way, that Israel would never actually...
00:34:27.000They've been talking about this since 2013.
00:35:42.000I'm not understanding how they're, and we only have a minute left, I'm not understanding how people are at the No Kings protests against Trump, against ICE, and it used to be, like, last year, Americans were so proudly pro-Gaza.
00:35:59.000Now it seems all of a sudden, and I don't know if it's just because they don't have enough information or it's just what they're told to support now they're They support Iran.
00:36:09.000They want Iran to be able to do whatever they want.
00:36:10.000I'm not sure how that's connecting with the no-kings protest.