The Culture War - Tim Pool - AOC DEMANDS Trump Be IMPEACHED Over Iran Strike, Thomas Massie Calls In Over Trump Post ft. Rep. Thomas Massie

00:00:00.000 From Axios, AOC floats Trump impeachment over Iran's strikes, saying in a shocking

00:00:07.960 declaration, one of the most high profile progressives, they say considerable inter-party

00:00:13.960 scorn has been heaped on Reps Shri Tenedar and Al Green for floating impeachment.

00:00:19.660 Drive the news, quote, the president's disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization

00:00:24.200 is a grave violation of the Constitution and congressional war powers.

00:00:27.840 He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.

00:00:33.500 It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment more soon.

00:00:37.780 Now, surprisingly, liberals are stunned to find that they agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene.

00:00:43.960 And of course, Donald Trump has called out Thomas Massey in a long worded post on Truth

00:00:49.760 Social.

00:00:50.900 And I'll try and read this one quickly so we can get the reaction from Rhett Massey himself.

00:00:54.960 He says, Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky is not MAGA, even though he likes to say he

00:00:59.620 is.

00:01:00.180 Actually, MAGA doesn't want him, doesn't know him, doesn't respect him.

00:01:02.720 He's a negative force who almost always votes no, no matter how good something may be.

00:01:06.040 He's a simple-minded grandstander who thinks it's good politics for Iran to have the highest 0.99

00:01:09.080 level of nuclear weapon, while at the same time yelling death to America at every chance

00:01:12.400 they get.

00:01:13.220 Iran has killed and maimed thousands of Americans and even took over the American embassy in

00:01:16.420 Tehran under the Carter administration.

00:01:18.080 With a spectacular military success yesterday, taking the bomb right out from their hands.

00:01:21.340 And they would use it if they could.

00:01:23.380 But as usual, and despite all the praise and accolades received, this lightweight congressman

00:01:27.380 is against what was so brilliantly achieved last night in Iran.

00:01:30.600 Massey is weak, ineffective, and votes no on virtually everything put before him.

00:01:35.120 Rand Paul Jr.

00:01:36.260 No matter how good something may be, he is disrespectful to our great military and all that they stand

00:01:41.140 for.

00:01:41.740 Not even acknowledging their brilliance and bravery in yesterday's attack, which was a total

00:01:46.140 and complete win.

00:01:46.900 Again, Massey should drop his fake act and start putting America first, but he doesn't

00:01:51.420 know how to get there.

00:01:52.380 He doesn't have a clue.

00:01:53.560 He'll undoubtedly vote against the great, big, beautiful bill, even though non-passage

00:01:57.580 means a 68% tax increase for everybody, and many things far worse than that. 0.99

00:02:02.200 MAGA should drop this pathetic loser, Tom Massey, like the plague. 0.97

00:02:05.700 The good news is that we will have a wonderful American patriot running against him in the Republican 0.99

00:02:08.900 primary, and I'll be out in Kentucky campaigning really hard.

00:02:12.000 Now, MAGA is not about lazy, grandstanding, non-productive politicians, of which Thomas

00:02:17.040 Massey is definitely one.

00:02:18.640 Thank you to our incredible military for the amazing job they did last night.

00:02:22.060 It was really special.

00:02:23.820 Make America great again.

00:02:25.820 Well, to address this directly, we are going to be joined by Rep.

00:02:30.620 Massey himself, and I think his perspective on this is particularly important right now.

00:02:36.660 So let's pull up this.

00:02:38.240 We're loading the interview.

00:02:39.360 Here we are.

00:02:41.220 We have a—

00:02:41.920 We'll go with that.

00:02:42.700 Rep. Massey, can you hear me?

00:02:44.100 I can hear you.

00:02:45.500 How are you doing?

00:02:47.360 I'm hanging in here like a hair in a biscuit.

00:02:49.700 Like a hair in a biscuit.

00:02:50.540 The president just truthed a very long post about you.

00:02:55.360 Before we address that directly, I'm curious if you want to lay out your thoughts on the

00:02:59.360 Iranian strike carried out by the Trump administration.

00:03:01.400 Well, he should have come to Congress first.

00:03:06.960 When we did the first Iraq war, they came to Congress.

00:03:10.300 We debated it.

00:03:11.440 I mean, I wasn't here at the time.

00:03:12.840 I listened to it on the radio.

00:03:14.200 I remember listening to the debate about whether to go to war in Iraq.

00:03:17.900 And the Congress gave the president at the time an AUMF, and then they did the same thing

00:03:24.560 for Afghanistan.

00:03:25.860 They did the same thing for the second Iraq war.

00:03:28.640 Now, I was here in 2013 when Obama wanted to go to war in Syria, and he said, I'm going

00:03:34.440 to go to Congress.

00:03:35.720 And we were getting all geared up to vote.

00:03:37.800 I was going to vote hell no.

00:03:39.240 And they pulled the vote because they didn't want to embarrass the president.

00:03:42.740 There weren't enough votes to go to war in Syria.

00:03:44.700 So I wish the president had done the same thing here, anticipating that he might strike

00:03:50.640 Iran three or four days before he did.

00:03:54.860 Ro Khanna and I introduced a war powers resolution to require Congress to vote on it.

00:04:00.820 And we may get a vote on that as early as July 14th.

00:04:04.940 Do you believe, as AOC has stated, this is impeachment worthy?

00:04:10.560 No, impeachment isn't a serious solution.

00:04:15.360 It doesn't solve anything here.

00:04:17.520 The attack has already been done.

00:04:20.720 I'm part of a coalition that I want to keep together.

00:04:23.840 It's a coalition inside of the Republican Party, who I would include J.D. Vance and Tulsi

00:04:29.940 Gabbard in it, frankly, who joined in support of this president because we didn't want another

00:04:36.840 regime change war in the Middle East.

00:04:39.220 And so to to go off about impeachment does no good whatsoever in this circumstance.

00:04:46.580 We have tools available to us to rein this back in here in Congress.

00:04:51.220 And that's called the War Powers Act.

00:04:53.480 So that's what I'm using.

00:04:55.200 Do you think this conflict will escalate?

00:04:57.600 And if so, how far do you think it goes?

00:05:01.160 Well, that's a good question.

00:05:02.800 And the three bomb sites to stop Iran may turn into the 2025 version of 14 days to slow the 0.99

00:05:13.420 spread.

00:05:15.360 You know, you just don't know where it's going to go next.

00:05:18.020 It's really up to Iran. 0.99

00:05:19.420 Iran has as much say in this now as anybody. 0.75

00:05:22.080 And it doesn't look like the regime is being toppled by the people at the moment.

00:05:28.240 So here's my question to the president or to his advisers.

00:05:33.640 Let's say the missile defense runs out in Israel.

00:05:37.020 They run out of anti-missile defense munitions.

00:05:42.740 And Tel Aviv starts getting pummeled with the president in that circumstance, try to engage

00:05:49.460 our military in the defense of Israel.

00:05:53.020 You know, that's a that's a tough question, I think.

00:05:55.400 What if they shut down the Strait of Hormuz and raise the price of oil?

00:06:02.300 Is is this the end of it?

00:06:05.720 And I'm and I'm worried that it's not.

00:06:07.720 And what if this regime just says it just goes underground and instead of allowing weapons

00:06:14.400 inspectors into their program, just says we're going to do a completely secret program like

00:06:19.020 North Korea and you'll have no idea how far along we are.

00:06:22.480 Or what if they go buy weapons from from Russia or North Korea?

00:06:26.320 Who knows where this goes?

00:06:27.580 But we shouldn't be a co-combatant in a hot war.

00:06:31.120 To say this is not an act of war is actually very laughable.

00:06:34.940 This is a hot war.

00:06:36.620 Two nations are exchanging blows every day.

00:06:40.160 And we stepped into the middle of it.

00:06:43.020 J.D. Vance said we're not at war with Iran.

00:06:45.240 We're at war with Iran's nuclear program. 0.79

00:06:48.560 And look, as much as I can respect, you know, J.D. Vance had been opposed to this from from

00:06:53.440 everything we've gathered.

00:06:54.460 That seems like an absurd statement to make.

00:06:57.640 You bomb a foreign country. 1.00

00:06:59.560 That's an act of war.

00:07:00.740 And you can try and claim, you know, obviously, in my opinion, that we are not at war.

00:07:05.700 But I think, as you mentioned, Iran's going to say, yes, we are.

00:07:08.740 So in that regard, you tweeted out this was not constitutional.

00:07:12.480 Can you explain why this is not constitutional?

00:07:16.000 Because it's an act of war.

00:07:17.680 And, you know, authorizing the president to wage war, not the act of waging war, but the

00:07:24.140 authorization to do it belongs to Congress.

00:07:26.360 The founding fathers put it there.

00:07:27.820 Congress doesn't pick the targets.

00:07:30.540 We don't pick the timing.

00:07:32.900 You know, I've heard arguments that say, well, you'd lose the element surprise if you go

00:07:37.580 talk to Congress and give them a briefing.

00:07:40.040 And yeah, I've got some colleagues who are absolute bozos.

00:07:43.280 I mean, they bring their purses into the briefings with their phones in them.

00:07:47.860 And then their phones start ringing.

00:07:49.360 And everybody looks at them like, all right, what are you doing?

00:07:52.900 And then they try to act like there's not a phone in their purse and it's ringing.

00:07:56.580 In any case, you can't brief Congress on everything.

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00:08:54.920 But the element of surprise can still be there, just like it was in both Iraq wars and the

00:09:01.520 Afghanistan war, and they could be briefing us.

00:09:04.700 And by the way, talk about another inconsistency here.

00:09:08.200 I saw Mike Johnson tweeted.

00:09:10.380 He said, hey, there was an imminent threat to America, and so the president had to act.

00:09:17.600 Well, why were we on recess?

00:09:19.460 By the way, I submitted my war powers resolution while we were on recess.

00:09:25.940 They do something called a pro forma session every three days where the House is open for

00:09:30.340 like five minutes, and you can jump in there and introduce legislation during those five

00:09:36.060 minutes.

00:09:36.760 And that's when I put the war powers resolution in the hopper.

00:09:39.560 But what really should have happened is Mike Johnson should have called all of us back,

00:09:43.900 and we should have all been in D.C.

00:09:45.300 receiving briefings and talking about what the next step should be.

00:09:48.900 What is your War Powers Act?

00:09:50.260 What does that do?

00:09:52.020 It's so it's a privileged resolution, which means unless Speaker Johnson does something

00:09:59.080 really funky and he could do some really funky things with the Rules Committee, unless he does

00:10:05.020 something really funky, the law requires him to bring up our resolution and have a vote

00:10:10.020 on whether this president is authorized to stay engaged in hostilities.

00:10:15.400 If my resolution succeeded, it would keep the president from going any further.

00:10:21.400 So basically, it wouldn't it wouldn't be a bad thing if he says he did three strikes and

00:10:25.900 that's it and he's done.

00:10:27.300 Why not be in favor of my resolution or at least agnostic to it?

00:10:32.620 Because it just says you have to withdraw from hostilities.

00:10:36.300 It doesn't it it doesn't, you know, impeach him or anything for some or even incriminate

00:10:42.500 him for something that he's already done.

00:10:44.580 And by the way, Tim, I hear people saying, oh, well, the Congress, you know, the president

00:10:49.680 had the authority to do this without Congress.

00:10:51.840 And they cite the War Powers Act, the very legislation that I'm using to bring this bill

00:10:56.280 to the floor.

00:10:57.440 Well, there is a situation in which the president doesn't need to come to Congress.

00:11:01.560 That's outlined in the War Powers Act.

00:11:04.780 It says if there's an imminent threat to America.

00:11:08.360 Now, there was no such imminent threat to America.

00:11:11.320 The reason they put that in there is they anticipated situations where they couldn't get Congress

00:11:15.920 assembled in time to respond to something or something was a kinetic situation that need

00:11:21.260 to be reacted to.

00:11:22.280 But even in that circumstance, Tim, guess what?

00:11:26.240 The War Powers Act requires within 60 days, the president stop all hostilities and come 0.68

00:11:32.520 to Congress for a vote.

00:11:33.800 He can get a 30 day extension.

00:11:36.140 But that's it.

00:11:37.200 There's going to be a vote on this.

00:11:39.520 And I'm going to lead that effort.

00:11:42.380 And even if it's not the the the process that I think could get me to the floor by July 14th,

00:11:49.660 there will be a vote on this.

00:11:51.160 But is there any do you have any real fear of Iran getting access to a nuclear weapon,

00:11:57.640 be it just a warhead to launch a missile or even dirty bombs and smaller, more disastrous

00:12:03.420 weapons?

00:12:06.140 Well, I mean, presumably they can buy one from North Korea or from one of the there's probably

00:12:14.060 some floating around from where the Soviet Union dissolved.

00:12:16.880 And maybe with enough money, you could pick one of those up on the black market.

00:12:21.280 I don't know how they would get one at this point.

00:12:24.460 But I am concerned that American troops and America in general is under a greater threat.

00:12:31.800 Iran doesn't have a ballistic missile that can reach the United States.

00:12:36.960 They could reach some of our bases.

00:12:38.440 They can reach Israel.

00:12:39.520 They can reach parts of Europe, parts of Eastern Africa, Russia, India, Pakistan.

00:12:44.760 But they their missiles don't go beyond that.

00:12:47.200 I'm not worried about a direct attack, if you will, from missiles.

00:12:50.620 But they could obviously hit one of our assets in the Middle East.

00:12:54.280 There's a report that Russia, a former president of Russia, said other nations are already lining

00:13:01.460 up to sell nuclear weapons or the means to make them to Iran because of this attack.

00:13:06.220 And there are some rumors that Iran may have met with Pakistan.

00:13:11.440 So it seems like additionally, Telegraph, as well as The New York Times have reported,

00:13:16.640 following the strike, the U.S. is not sure where the fissile material went.

00:13:20.360 Some 400 kilograms of enriched uranium was smuggled out days before the strike.

00:13:26.280 I'm curious your thoughts on this.

00:13:28.420 If Trump comes to Congress and says, here's the satellite imagery, they're dispersing weapons

00:13:35.160 grade uranium.

00:13:35.960 We have to stop them now.

00:13:37.880 Would you still say no to U.S. involvement?

00:13:41.020 Well, first of all, let me say this, and this should be obvious to everybody.

00:13:44.900 I don't want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

00:13:47.740 OK, that's obvious.

00:13:49.200 But is our policy going to be, over the next five or 10 years, we're going to bomb anybody

00:13:54.960 that has access or has acquired a nuclear or could acquire a nuclear weapon?

00:14:00.700 I'm concerned about artificial intelligence five years from now, where you put in the prompt,

00:14:06.040 hey, how can I make a nuclear weapon 10 times as quickly as it's been done in the past with

00:14:13.020 only these resources which are inside of my country?

00:14:15.960 Does that mean we're going to bomb everybody that has an AI that's smart enough to do that?

00:14:23.000 This is a never-ending chase.

00:14:25.300 I think we should bolster our own missile defense.

00:14:29.020 We've watched some lessons there, I think, in Israel.

00:14:33.280 Hopefully we've learned from that and our missile defense is better now than it was.

00:14:39.220 But I suspect ours isn't good enough and could be overwhelmed at some point with enough missiles.

00:14:44.500 And so we should be working on defensive strategies instead of just pretending we can blow up everybody

00:14:50.440 and every project that's a danger to the United States anywhere on the globe anytime we want.

00:14:55.640 So Trump put out this very long Truth Social post.

00:14:59.540 He called you weak.

00:15:00.980 He said MAGA should dump you. 0.94

00:15:02.520 You should be primaried.

00:15:03.920 And it's going to be working very, very hard to see that you lose your next election.

00:15:08.380 I'm curious your thoughts.

00:15:10.120 I assume you read it.

00:15:11.180 Can you put the post on the screen?

00:15:14.120 It's like a dissertation.

00:15:15.360 I know he went to Wharton, but I bet he never wrote a paper that long when he was at Wharton.

00:15:23.100 But it's amazing that the president of the United States, the guy who launched seven B-2 bombers 0.81

00:15:31.020 to the other side of the planet to bomb targets over there and return them,

00:15:37.000 he got up and spent 15 minutes writing a tweet about a Republican, not a Democrat, a Republican

00:15:44.120 congressman from Kentucky.

00:15:46.000 I responded to that tweet, actually quoted it.

00:15:50.100 And I just said, you know, President Trump's declared so much war on me in the last day that

00:15:56.200 it should require an act of Congress at this point.

00:15:58.900 Oh, with Rand Paul, even, and the big, beautiful bill, I know that you were both opponents of it

00:16:05.640 to varying degrees.

00:16:08.300 I know you agree with some of it, you disagree with some of it, you want changes.

00:16:11.780 Trump is going after Republicans on this one.

00:16:15.600 Is it because he doesn't feel like he can, you're not going to convince a Democrat?

00:16:20.060 So any Republican who breaks from the party line is a threat?

00:16:24.140 What is this about?

00:16:24.820 Well, I think he's going after me in particular to keep other Republicans from breaking, whether

00:16:30.500 it's, you know, his support for Israel's war, or whether it's his, you know, zeal for the

00:16:38.120 deal on the big, beautiful bill that has lots of issues with it.

00:16:43.960 When he sees me say something that's absolutely true about it, notice that the president has

00:16:50.360 never refuted any of the things that I've said.

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00:17:23.100 His press secretary does, but he hasn't.

00:17:28.220 And, you know, that just shows you that he's coming after me to show the other Republicans

00:17:34.720 in Congress, hey, that horse got out of the barn, and we're whipping that horse as hard

00:17:39.560 as we can.

00:17:40.640 You can't withstand that kind of whipping.

00:17:42.800 You better stay in the barn.

00:17:44.440 And I've had interactions with President Trump going all the way back to 2020.

00:17:49.880 Some of them been cordial.

00:17:51.300 Some of them been adversarial.

00:17:53.100 What he does know is I'm not changing my mind on this stuff.

00:17:58.560 Rand Paul said that he knows he's going to get a call from the president.

00:18:01.700 He's going to yell at him for an hour.

00:18:04.020 And, you know, Rand's going to say, here's what we need to make happen for the Big Beautiful

00:18:06.960 Bill.

00:18:07.340 But Rand did say that if it came down to it and he was the deciding vote, he would vote

00:18:10.920 in favor of it.

00:18:12.080 Would you do that for the Big Beautiful Bill?

00:18:13.520 Would you do the same thing?

00:18:15.080 No.

00:18:15.640 No, I won't.

00:18:16.260 And in fact, I would love to have that opportunity, because you know what happens if we take down

00:18:21.300 the Big Beautiful Bill?

00:18:22.900 We write a better, more beautiful bill that doesn't have the warts and canker sores that

00:18:30.660 this bill has, one that doesn't bankrupt the country.

00:18:35.220 Like, negotiations, Trump knows this.

00:18:37.460 Negotiations don't start until one side says no.

00:18:40.620 And the reason the blue state Republicans got what they wanted in the House version of

00:18:47.620 the bill and the Freedom Caucus did not is the Freedom Caucus wasn't willing to vote no.

00:18:54.000 They weren't willing to go against what they presumed President Trump wants.

00:18:58.920 But those blue state Republicans were willing to go no.

00:19:02.400 And so they got what they wanted.

00:19:03.780 Now, the Senate says they're taking that blue state giveaway that would, you know, enrich

00:19:11.040 actually sanctuary cities and states like California and New York.

00:19:16.520 The Senate says they're taking that out now.

00:19:18.880 So that'll set up an interesting dynamic when this bill comes back to the House.

00:19:22.800 That was the SALT, the state and local tax deductions?

00:19:25.900 Yeah.

00:19:26.460 The argument?

00:19:27.060 It means if you live in a sanctuary city that has super high real estate taxes and you're

00:19:34.320 affluent and you itemize your taxes, that you don't have to pay as much tax as somebody

00:19:40.920 who lives in Kentucky and has the same income but has lower property taxes.

00:19:47.640 Right.

00:19:48.380 So where are we at with that?

00:19:51.700 Is that coming up for a vote in a couple weeks?

00:19:54.480 Well, they're going to play brinksmanship with it.

00:19:58.260 Let's talk about that.

00:19:59.780 The Senate is, you know, they're taking their sweet time and they have every right to be

00:20:04.400 deliberative and go through this bill one by one.

00:20:07.080 And they actually might make it better.

00:20:09.380 I don't know if they can make it better enough that I would vote for it.

00:20:13.980 There's a possibility.

00:20:15.460 I'm not an absolute no on something I haven't read.

00:20:18.580 And it seems like they are making it a little bit better.

00:20:20.900 So when they send it back over, that could be something that I vote for.

00:20:24.700 But they're going to play brinksmanship with it.

00:20:27.360 Here in the House, we had just a few hours to read the big, beautiful bill before it passed.

00:20:34.180 And I think they're going to do the same thing.

00:20:36.880 But they're going to use the pressure of the debt limit expiring and having a default on

00:20:44.000 our national debt.

00:20:45.180 And they're going to try to use that pressure sometime in July when all that expires.

00:20:49.000 So I think they've picked a deadline and they're really just wasting time until we

00:20:53.340 get to that deadline so they can use that crisis to motivate even more votes for that

00:20:57.920 bill.

00:20:58.660 Well, Trump says in that post that tax is going to go up by 68 percent.

00:21:02.480 You know, there's a lot of Americans who see that short term tax relief, no tax on tips.

00:21:07.760 And then you got the gun rights people.

00:21:09.400 They love the the short and the hearing protection act in there.

00:21:12.400 What what what the issue of the deficit deficit spending and the debt is a bit more foreign

00:21:20.200 to the average person.

00:21:21.020 I don't understand how it's going to negatively impact them.

00:21:23.160 So what what is your concern with with those issues?

00:21:26.360 Well, first of all, I'm the chairman of the Second Amendment Caucus here in the House

00:21:29.740 of Representatives.

00:21:30.360 I couldn't be more excited that there won't be a tax on suppressors.

00:21:35.260 OK, that is excellent.

00:21:36.960 I would take it off of all of the NFA weapons.

00:21:40.440 I would take them all out of the registry.

00:21:42.840 I would repeal the 1934 NFA.

00:21:48.080 Wait, wait, wait.

00:21:48.500 Tell them you want that in the bill and you'll and you'll vote on it.

00:21:51.500 Yeah.

00:21:51.960 Right.

00:21:52.560 So, yeah, maybe we can get even sweeter here with that, with the gun provisions.

00:21:57.020 But I'm in favor of that.

00:21:58.160 And also as far as extending the the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, that wouldn't be a

00:22:04.960 hard vote for me.

00:22:05.680 I voted for the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act.

00:22:09.100 OK, but there's a reason all of those tax cuts expire this year, and that's because they

00:22:14.360 couldn't make the budget balance and keep those tax cuts going on forever.

00:22:18.100 So they set up a situation in 2025 where they knew this would be an issue.

00:22:24.520 Guess what they're doing inside of this bill again?

00:22:26.980 They're going to extend the Tax Cut and Jobs Act for 10 years.

00:22:30.360 But the no tax on tips, the tax break for seniors and the no tax on overtime is only going to

00:22:36.580 last three years.

00:22:38.440 And conveniently, that means when it when it all expires, Trump's not going to be president.

00:22:45.180 There will have been two Senate elections and two House elections between now and then.

00:22:49.900 So a lot of these people won't be around.

00:22:51.740 And the people who inherit this are going to call those expiring provisions a fiscal cliff.

00:22:59.020 And so they will renew those tax cuts.

00:23:01.500 There are also what will expire is there's $100 billion more of military spending in this

00:23:06.400 big, beautiful bill.

00:23:07.280 But it's all in the first three years.

00:23:09.440 And so when that expires, they're going to say, oh, my gosh, you're going to decimate

00:23:14.340 our military.

00:23:15.420 They'll call it a fiscal cliff.

00:23:18.020 And so those savings, the way they get these 10 year budgets to balance is they spend like

00:23:23.200 drunken sailors in the first five years.

00:23:25.040 They give everybody all the goodies they want the first five years.

00:23:27.800 And then in the second five years, they take the goodies away and they and they keep a lot

00:23:33.960 of this spending in and it never does balance.

00:23:37.920 I want to go back to to Iran, because there are a lot of people when Donald Trump was running

00:23:43.140 for his reelection, they said Trump is the no new wars president.

00:23:47.120 And I particularly appreciated that.

00:23:49.500 I did not vote to have strikes in Iran.

00:23:52.040 I'm not going to go so crazy and say Trump should be impeached like AOC or anything like

00:23:55.320 that.

00:23:55.560 I hope it works out for the best.

00:23:57.080 But there are a lot of people that are just immediately on board, many prominent personalities.

00:24:00.600 I'm curious your thoughts on on that phenomenon, where many people who touted this no new wars

00:24:06.520 are now saying Trump's doing it.

00:24:08.440 I trust Trump.

00:24:09.140 Great.

00:24:09.720 Let's go.

00:24:11.560 Well, some of them are my friends like J.D.

00:24:15.220 Vance.

00:24:16.040 He was very skeptical of the war in Ukraine.

00:24:18.900 He and I had, you know, private meetings over over a building near here about how to wind

00:24:25.500 down the war in Ukraine when he was a U.S.

00:24:27.680 Senator Tulsi Gabbard and I had a lot of conversations on the floor of the House about how we didn't

00:24:32.840 need to be at war in Syria and we shouldn't be doing the covert operations that were going

00:24:37.940 on there.

00:24:39.580 So I know that coalition still exists.

00:24:42.360 They cannot be as vocal now in the jobs they have as I think they would be otherwise.

00:24:48.420 Marjorie Taylor Greene is she's staying true to the course here on the MAGA promise of no

00:24:56.540 new wars, no regime change.

00:24:59.560 It's a lot of us are getting whiplash, though, because the president has changed course.

00:25:05.260 I think even some of his advisers and spokespeople, they go out one day and say this isn't about

00:25:10.820 regime change.

00:25:11.580 And then the next day he blows all that up with a tweet.

00:25:14.420 Yeah, that's always been what he does.

00:25:17.240 He put out that truth post saying regime change.

00:25:20.560 But it sounds like what he's saying.

00:25:22.280 I think J.D.

00:25:22.780 Vance asked about this.

00:25:24.060 He's saying internally they should remove their their government, not U.S.

00:25:29.260 boots on the ground.

00:25:31.260 How do you do that?

00:25:32.880 I mean, cross your fingers and make a wish.

00:25:35.420 Here's what else happens.

00:25:36.500 You take out a government, the country collapses and it devolves into anarchy and civil war.

00:25:42.500 And you've got all these adversarial ethnic groups inside of Iran, similar to Iraq, and

00:25:53.640 they'll be vying for power.

00:25:56.080 It won't be obvious what evolved from that.

00:26:00.540 And somebody has to step in and restore some kind of semblance of structure in the meantime.

00:26:09.180 And that's just that's where you get bogged down.

00:26:11.960 Then we've got to look the biggest.

00:26:14.320 Do you know what?

00:26:15.220 This isn't like a Tucker Carlson.

00:26:16.900 Do you know the population of Iran?

00:26:18.600 I'll give you the answer.

00:26:19.500 92 million.

00:26:20.340 Yes.

00:26:20.860 I'll give you the answer.

00:26:22.280 Guess where the biggest embassy in the world, not just the biggest U.S. embassy, the biggest

00:26:29.700 embassy in the world by acreage, by cost.

00:26:32.100 Um, it's in Iraq.

00:26:35.260 OK, like we're going to end up building a giant if we if there's like regime change in

00:26:41.960 Iran, we'll probably build, you know, a Taj Mahal embassy in Iran.

00:26:47.560 And then, you know, nobody wants to see on the evening news pictures of the embassy being

00:26:53.380 overrun like we saw in Libya.

00:26:55.560 Yeah.

00:26:55.960 So they build a really big one.

00:26:57.740 These are like anchors that keep us there forever.

00:27:00.380 That's that's what I'm concerned about.

00:27:02.180 That's if the the people who've been in charge in the deep state, you know, in the part of

00:27:08.860 the government that doesn't change when you have elections, if they have their way, we'll

00:27:13.140 be there forever.

00:27:14.640 And the military industrial complex is, you know, they're just going to be giddy that

00:27:19.380 we're blowing up all these missiles right now.

00:27:21.600 Well, last question, just real quick.

00:27:23.420 Um, you know, J.D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, they don't want war.

00:27:26.740 They they were.

00:27:27.540 Uh, I mean, even J.D. Vance was critical of hitting the Houthis.

00:27:31.500 Is this you know, Donald Trump has been saying for decades, Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.

00:27:37.060 Is this strike now a product of Donald Trump adamantly refusing the advice of those around

00:27:42.500 him?

00:27:43.420 Or is the deep state saying you got to do this?

00:27:45.860 Um, I think it's the deep state.

00:27:50.400 I think it's Israel, the lobbyists from Israel.

00:27:55.020 Um, I think it's the military industrial complex.

00:27:58.800 He may think in some way this helps the economy.

00:28:02.100 This also, you know, it may help his popularity rating.

00:28:06.880 Frankly, it's unpopular to be against a president who's at war.

00:28:11.640 Yeah, the founders knew this, and that's why they didn't want the executive to have

00:28:16.380 the, uh, authority to declare a war because, you know, the laurels go to the, to the commander

00:28:23.920 in chief.

00:28:25.360 So I'd say there are a lot of different reasons for it.

00:28:29.420 Uh, I, you know, I don't want to say he's insincere.

00:28:32.520 He probably does want to take out any nuclear capability of Iran.

00:28:36.940 It's just not clear that we're going to be able to do that and that we're not on a treadmill

00:28:41.040 now where every year you have to bomb something based on some report from some foreign government's

00:28:48.280 intelligence.

00:28:49.440 I think the media is going to be on board.

00:28:51.340 I think we might start seeing articles pop up saying Trump has never been more presidential.

00:28:55.460 Their ratings are going to skyrocket from this.

00:28:58.800 Look, that's, that's the irony.

00:29:00.900 All of the media who hates Trump is going to like him for this.

00:29:04.360 The, the Bushes and the Cheneys who have Trump derangement syndrome, he's like their favorite

00:29:09.400 president now.

00:29:10.780 Bolton praised him for doing this attack.

00:29:14.100 Uh, you've, I, there are people who, by the way, Liz Cheney max donated to my primary

00:29:19.880 opponent.

00:29:20.380 Uh, and, and now she's the happiest can be with Donald Trump.

00:29:26.600 And if I could, before we run out of time, I do want to say something about my next primary

00:29:31.500 with that.

00:29:32.680 But so I've been, you can't run to the right of me in Kentucky.

00:29:37.820 There is no room to the right of me.

00:29:40.480 So for three primaries in a row, people have tried running to the Trump of me.

00:29:44.820 They say I'm not Trump enough.

00:29:46.900 But the reality is when you dig down into it, I'm the original America first congressman.

00:29:51.920 That has always been my platform, even when it costs me in popularity.

00:29:56.800 And so over 12 years, I've developed that understanding with, with my constituents.

00:30:02.940 And so I think it's going to be hard to come at me from the right, but the president now

00:30:07.440 hit the, the cronies that are around him, the leeches that make money off of his political

00:30:12.960 enterprise.

00:30:13.940 They say they're starting a super PAC now whose sole purpose is to take me out of office.

00:30:18.860 And then you have, um, APAC, which is the Israeli lobby spent $400,000 against me last cycle.

00:30:26.320 I would say a lot of the money that those leeches that are around Trump are going to use is probably

00:30:31.520 going to be Israeli lobby money because what American would waste their money trying to

00:30:35.920 take out an America first congressman.

00:30:37.840 So that's what you're going to see.

00:30:40.240 It's going to be a hell of a fight.

00:30:42.680 I mean, I've never got less than 75% in any of my primaries.

00:30:46.160 I'm not saying that's going to be the case this time.

00:30:48.300 I'll probably have millions and millions of dollars spent against me.

00:30:51.220 They still haven't found a candidate yet who wants to try this.

00:30:54.580 And trust me, they're searching hard in my district. 0.95

00:30:56.800 Eventually they'll find some schmuck to, uh, be in the TV commercials who has no record 0.96

00:31:02.740 whatsoever and they'll try to make him out to be, you know, the next Ronald Reagan or 0.94

00:31:08.320 something, but I need money and I've been raising money every time the president attacks

00:31:14.240 me and trust me, I would prefer not to have the president attack me.

00:31:17.840 People are like, Oh, man, he's just doing this to raise money.

00:31:20.300 That is not a fact.

00:31:21.560 But once I get attacked, I have to raise money.

00:31:23.820 When Trump attacked me the first time this year, I raised almost 400,000.

00:31:29.060 The last time I raised 50,000 and in the last 24 hours, I've received a hundred thousand

00:31:34.780 dollars.

00:31:35.500 Wow.

00:31:36.260 Uh, and that's off Twitter.

00:31:38.120 I don't have campaign consultants that are doing a lot of work out there.

00:31:41.940 This is just people sending me money cause they know on exit I'm in trouble.

00:31:45.720 So, uh, I just wanted to point out that that's, that's how this works.

00:31:50.620 I'm not grifting.

00:31:51.940 I'm just trying to stay in office so I can promote the true America first agenda.

00:31:56.980 Where can people find more?

00:31:59.060 Well, since I'm in my congressional office, I am not going to, uh, give out my, uh, campaign

00:32:04.540 website because I got the capital back here.

00:32:07.760 Um, and people would love to catch me up on that one, but you can tell them after I get

00:32:12.840 off the screen.

00:32:14.480 They can follow your X account.

00:32:16.240 Can't they?

00:32:16.960 Yeah.

00:32:17.460 I've got an official and a campaign account.

00:32:19.760 So, uh, my official account is at rep Thomas Massey.

00:32:23.860 Follow me there for official news.

00:32:25.860 And, um, you know, that's my day job.

00:32:28.640 That's what I do to, to fight for the American people.

00:32:32.140 Well, uh, uh, representative Massey, I appreciate you joining me, explaining all of this.

00:32:35.760 Uh, thank you very much.

00:32:36.480 And we'll see you next time.

00:32:37.920 Thanks, Tim.

00:32:38.800 Take care.

00:32:39.180 That, of course, is representative Thomas Massey, who, uh, I think is the best, uh,

00:32:46.940 we have in Congress.

00:32:47.740 I'm a huge fan.

00:32:48.740 I think he's principled.

00:32:50.160 I think he does a good job.

00:32:51.560 I think Trump attacking him is not the apocalypse.

00:32:55.020 I don't see him losing and I, I don't completely agree with him.

00:32:58.140 Uh, I, I like Rand Paul as well.

00:33:00.280 Rand said, if he's the deciding vote on the bill, he's going to vote for it.

00:33:03.240 I think it's the right thing to do, but there are a lot of people that want to rag on Massey

00:33:08.120 because Trump's ragging on Massey, but Massey does a good job.

00:33:11.060 He's a man of honor and principle.

00:33:12.400 And I respect it even when I disagree with it.

00:33:14.660 And I hope that's what we get more of in Congress.

00:33:16.860 I don't actually know his website.

00:33:20.520 Uh, I mean, I can just probably search for it.

00:33:24.520 His campaign website.

00:33:27.500 Um, I don't know.

00:33:28.600 I Googled it.

00:33:29.100 It didn't pop up.

00:33:31.400 Sorry, right?

00:33:31.940 Massey.

00:33:32.240 I don't know.

00:33:33.000 Massey.house.gov.

00:33:34.040 You guys can learn more.

00:33:34.940 Maybe you disagree with him.

00:33:35.780 Maybe you agree with Trump.

00:33:36.500 That's fine.

00:33:37.320 Um, I was thinking it would be great to get his perspective on these things as they were

00:33:40.620 going.

00:33:40.880 So now we're going to get that raid for you guys and send you to hang out with,

00:33:44.660 Russell Brand, who is gearing up to go live right now.

00:33:48.880 Smash the like button.

00:33:50.300 Share the show with everyone you know.

00:33:51.360 You can follow me on X and Instagram at TimCast.

00:33:54.800 Thank you guys so much for hanging out.

00:33:56.900 And, uh, shout out to, uh, to Rep Massey.

00:33:58.900 And we had, uh, Senator Paul on, uh, last week.

00:34:01.520 It's been good hearing their perspectives.

00:34:04.400 I don't know, guys.

00:34:05.600 I'm, I'm fairly moderate.

00:34:07.120 I trust Trump in this regard.

00:34:08.640 I think, I think he knows things we don't.

00:34:11.600 I begrudgingly say okay to what's going on.

00:34:14.400 I don't like it.

00:34:15.220 I'm not for it.

00:34:15.880 I think it's a stain on his presidency.

00:34:17.400 I will, I will criticize it.

00:34:19.120 I will say, you know, what I can.

00:34:22.040 But I think Trump has done too good of a job.

00:34:25.080 He has done so many good things in his first term and a second term that I view it largely

00:34:31.480 as, uh, just good, just generally good.

00:34:35.220 Uh, I said the other day that I view this as, this, this, this brings his presidency into

00:34:39.160 a net negative territory.

00:34:40.620 Let me clarify that.

00:34:42.200 I'm saying if this goes beyond the scope of what we expect it to be right now, we're in

00:34:47.820 trouble.

00:34:48.220 We're in net negative territory.

00:34:49.300 As of right now, where we're at, we're, we're teetering on the line.

00:34:52.160 In my view, that's just me.

00:34:53.560 I don't know everything.

00:34:54.960 I'm just saying striking Iran could, could open the door to devastating price increases, 0.93

00:35:01.560 destabilization in the region, loss of human life.

00:35:05.840 American soldiers are at risk right now is such tremendous risks to this.

00:35:10.100 But I recognize, I don't know the real security ramifications of what happens if Iran is giving

00:35:15.460 out fissile material to lunatics.

00:35:17.740 That's why I say it's a rock and a hard place. 0.87

00:35:19.860 I would just vote.

00:35:20.860 No, prove it to me before we drop bombs in a foreign country without going to Congress.

00:35:26.180 Prove it to me.

00:35:26.800 I don't think they did that.

00:35:27.780 That's why I'm pissed.

00:35:29.000 I feel like we were misled, but we'll see my friends.

00:35:32.040 We've got more segments coming up.

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The Culture War - Tim Pool - June 23, 2025

AOC DEMANDS Trump Be IMPEACHED Over Iran Strike, Thomas Massie Calls In Over Trump Post ft. Rep. Thomas Massie

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