The Glenn Beck Program - January 08, 2020


Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Lara Logan & Rep. Chris Stewart ｜ 1⧸8⧸20


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

157.23172

Word Count

7,414

Sentence Count

476

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

62


Summary

Today, Laura Logan joins us to talk about what's going on on the ground in Iran and what we should do about it. Iran is a backward society that has destroyed the Persian culture and destroyed the people of Iran, and even those who were part of the revolution didn't want what they have.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey America, welcome to the program today. Big day for the podcast all about Iran and even at the end, both Stu and I agree. It was a good day. Good day for America. Today, things could change if there's a dirty bomb in Chicago or something like that. But it's been the best case scenario.
00:00:19.800 But the press just cannot admit that. Laura Logan is on with us and she'll talk about what's really happening on the ground over there. We talked to one of the guys who was probably in with the president last night talking about what to do next. We go over the president's address so much. Today, you don't want to miss a second of the podcast.
00:00:49.800 All right. I have been watching Iran for at least 15 years. Full disclosure, I was for the Iraqi war and I was for it because I believed it was an attempt to pop the head of the snake,
00:01:17.800 which is Iran. Iran is the real problem in the Middle East. It causes much of our problems. It is a backward society that has destroyed the Persian culture and has destroyed the people of Iran.
00:01:35.300 And even those who were part of the revolution didn't want what they have. Millions are marching in the streets, risking their lives. You don't see it because our press doesn't go to Iran.
00:01:52.640 Our press doesn't care to show it. Our press decides to go to Iran when there are millions of Americans or millions of Iranians shouting death to America.
00:02:05.300 Soleimani. Soleimani was a brutal hydric. He was a brutal mastermind of terror all over the Middle East, responsible for at least 600 deaths of U.S. soldiers.
00:02:28.300 But beyond that, he was a torturer. He was a madman. He was as sick as any of the Nazis were.
00:02:43.280 And so we killed him. Now, we call it an assassination. I guess the media does, because it was precision.
00:02:54.000 So we didn't blow up a lot of people. Oh, my gosh. Now we're assassinating. We were being precise.
00:03:03.860 Isn't that what the world begged us to do? Wasn't that the last problem? We just lob a missile over there, not even knowing who we're going to hit.
00:03:12.080 And we could hit innocent children and babies and puppy dogs.
00:03:15.940 And so we spent a ton of money to make sure that it hits the target we were looking for.
00:03:24.320 And that's not good enough now.
00:03:28.080 But it was the right thing to do.
00:03:31.120 Now, I since have come back on my position on Iraq.
00:03:38.060 Because that's not what we were trying to do.
00:03:42.240 We were trying to nation build.
00:03:44.400 And our nation building has got us into almost all of the trouble that we have, that we're experiencing right now.
00:03:52.000 I mean, when we were humble,
00:03:56.160 when we were a nation that was paying attention to just our problems,
00:04:01.820 the world loved us.
00:04:03.700 France gave us a giant present called the Statue of Liberty.
00:04:09.200 Do you see any nation in the world giving us a present like that today?
00:04:14.740 No.
00:04:16.280 Why?
00:04:20.700 The Statue of Liberty was to show them,
00:04:23.560 to show the people of Paris,
00:04:25.340 not America,
00:04:26.480 show the people of Paris
00:04:27.700 what could be done
00:04:29.560 if you get everybody into the boat.
00:04:31.580 That's the same thing with the
00:04:33.980 with the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting.
00:04:37.060 That was a German painting,
00:04:38.640 not meant for us.
00:04:40.320 We have the copy.
00:04:43.700 The original burned to the ground in World War II
00:04:46.920 as the Allies bombed Berlin.
00:04:49.500 When we pay attention
00:04:56.120 and we are humble
00:04:57.740 and we stay out of everybody's business,
00:05:00.560 we make a big impact
00:05:02.440 because we lead by example.
00:05:06.960 Teddy Roosevelt changed all of that.
00:05:10.020 And everything that Eisenhower told us
00:05:12.700 we should look out for,
00:05:15.300 we made a choice in the 1950s after the war.
00:05:18.300 We now have to have a standing army.
00:05:21.080 We never had one before World War II.
00:05:24.140 We have to have a standing army
00:05:25.760 because now the world could be vaporized overnight.
00:05:29.520 War happens too fast.
00:05:31.180 There's no chance to be prepared for it
00:05:33.820 if you're not prepared all the time.
00:05:37.260 But when they made that decision,
00:05:39.080 he warned us.
00:05:40.040 A military guy warned us.
00:05:42.000 There's just going to be a war machine now
00:05:45.520 that wants war.
00:05:47.320 There's going to be a war machine
00:05:48.740 in our Congress,
00:05:50.520 in our White House,
00:05:52.000 in our State Department.
00:05:54.780 And what's worse
00:05:56.020 is America is now going to start
00:05:58.300 funding our universities.
00:05:59.680 And so those universities
00:06:01.440 will also be indoctrination camps.
00:06:04.800 So he warned in 1959,
00:06:08.960 look out,
00:06:10.820 pay attention,
00:06:12.540 stay awake.
00:06:13.940 Well, we didn't.
00:06:16.460 And we have been on this foreign adventure forever.
00:06:19.960 And it's time for it to stop.
00:06:24.980 Now, how do I square this
00:06:26.680 with a long record on Iran?
00:06:29.900 Iran is filled with things
00:06:33.280 that people that are called Twelvers.
00:06:35.340 They were so crazy
00:06:36.800 that even the Ayatollah Khamenei
00:06:39.880 during the revolution
00:06:41.500 said, by the way,
00:06:42.700 we got to get rid of all the Twelvers
00:06:44.080 because they're nuts.
00:06:46.840 That's how nuts they are.
00:06:48.840 They were too nuts
00:06:50.040 for the Ayatollah Khamenei.
00:06:52.820 Now, those same Twelvers
00:06:55.100 are the ones that are leading
00:06:56.500 the Supreme Council.
00:06:57.660 They include people like Soleimani.
00:07:01.800 And they are true believers,
00:07:04.200 hardline believers,
00:07:06.020 of wash the world in blood.
00:07:11.020 Now, let me talk to you
00:07:13.100 about the Iranian people.
00:07:15.360 The Iranian people are no different
00:07:17.200 than the people here in America.
00:07:19.300 There are those
00:07:20.060 that are part of the hardline.
00:07:22.160 Those that believe that.
00:07:24.040 Those that last night were going,
00:07:25.680 wait, more, more, more.
00:07:27.660 But the vast majority
00:07:31.420 are the people who are saying,
00:07:34.160 wait a minute,
00:07:34.580 why are we on these foreign adventures?
00:07:36.340 They keep getting us into trouble.
00:07:38.020 If we would just mind our own business,
00:07:41.220 why are we spending
00:07:43.100 a billion dollars a month
00:07:44.600 on the Quds Force with Soleimani?
00:07:47.700 A billion dollars a month.
00:07:49.140 Bread is 70% higher
00:07:51.620 and more expensive
00:07:52.980 than it was
00:07:53.720 just a couple of months ago.
00:07:54.920 And you're sending
00:07:56.440 all of this money
00:07:57.500 for what?
00:08:02.460 So let's not lose sight
00:08:04.140 that people are people.
00:08:07.800 Let's not lose sight
00:08:09.020 for those of us
00:08:09.700 who are old enough
00:08:10.440 to remember
00:08:10.940 when the Iron Curtain
00:08:12.140 came down,
00:08:12.900 we found out
00:08:13.560 that the Russian people
00:08:14.860 were not our enemy.
00:08:16.780 It was the government.
00:08:18.120 And the government
00:08:20.120 was the enemy
00:08:21.060 of the people.
00:08:27.760 Last night,
00:08:29.400 the best case scenario
00:08:32.340 happened.
00:08:36.460 Iran attacked
00:08:37.820 our embassy.
00:08:40.160 We cannot allow people
00:08:44.900 to attack our embassies.
00:08:47.740 Iran, especially,
00:08:49.140 they have a history of it.
00:08:50.240 1979.
00:08:51.880 They took everybody hostage
00:08:53.480 for over a year.
00:08:58.360 And then coincidentally,
00:09:00.000 they were all released
00:09:02.640 the day Reagan
00:09:03.460 raised his hand
00:09:04.620 and took command.
00:09:05.560 Last night,
00:09:11.300 Iran responded
00:09:13.780 to us killing
00:09:15.300 Soleimani,
00:09:16.760 a guy who is
00:09:17.780 clearly
00:09:18.720 a very bad guy,
00:09:20.900 a guy that I would
00:09:21.820 compare to
00:09:22.780 to Heydrich
00:09:24.060 or Himmler.
00:09:28.560 We took him out
00:09:30.000 because he killed
00:09:30.920 at least 600
00:09:32.420 of our soldiers
00:09:33.300 and he has been
00:09:34.520 torturing his way
00:09:35.960 to success
00:09:36.900 all over the Middle East.
00:09:39.300 I know.
00:09:41.040 We were there.
00:09:42.920 We met with
00:09:44.060 some of the families
00:09:45.180 that his people,
00:09:46.720 his Kudzforce,
00:09:47.680 had killed
00:09:48.520 and tortured.
00:09:50.780 We met with
00:09:51.680 one family
00:09:52.380 whose mom
00:09:55.160 was killed
00:09:56.060 in front of
00:09:57.020 the two children
00:09:57.860 and the dad
00:09:58.620 and as if
00:09:59.360 that wasn't enough,
00:10:00.560 they took the
00:10:01.140 six-year-old boy
00:10:02.180 and took out
00:10:03.380 drills
00:10:04.260 and drilled
00:10:05.420 holes in
00:10:06.640 his legs.
00:10:07.920 He still
00:10:08.760 can't walk.
00:10:10.520 That's who
00:10:11.180 Soleimani was.
00:10:12.620 I have no problem
00:10:14.100 taking him out.
00:10:16.480 It was the right
00:10:17.700 thing to do.
00:10:19.860 But the press
00:10:21.180 and the left
00:10:22.160 just wring
00:10:24.120 their hands
00:10:25.080 all night.
00:10:25.640 Oh my gosh,
00:10:26.540 what's going to happen?
00:10:27.480 This is World War III.
00:10:28.940 There's going to be
00:10:29.500 a draft.
00:10:30.300 And I told you
00:10:33.860 Monday,
00:10:34.400 relax.
00:10:35.380 There's not going
00:10:36.020 to be a draft.
00:10:38.160 This could turn
00:10:39.280 into World War III,
00:10:40.400 but I don't think
00:10:41.080 so.
00:10:42.580 This is our best
00:10:43.760 option at this
00:10:44.780 point.
00:10:45.340 What happened
00:10:46.060 last night
00:10:46.780 was the best
00:10:47.920 case scenario.
00:10:50.640 They lobbed
00:10:51.620 missiles over.
00:10:53.140 They were not
00:10:53.740 cruise missiles.
00:10:55.680 Cruise missiles
00:10:56.880 are accurate.
00:10:58.660 Cruise missiles
00:10:59.420 get the job
00:11:00.500 done.
00:11:01.580 Cruise missiles,
00:11:02.660 as they used
00:11:04.200 in Saudi Arabia
00:11:05.680 to take out
00:11:06.400 their oil fields,
00:11:07.900 those cruise
00:11:08.620 missiles went
00:11:09.540 a lot farther
00:11:10.560 in Saudi Arabia.
00:11:12.180 They went from
00:11:12.880 Iran to Saudi
00:11:14.000 Arabia to the
00:11:14.820 oil fields,
00:11:15.500 and if you look
00:11:15.960 at the pictures,
00:11:16.980 they hit dead
00:11:18.180 center all of
00:11:19.220 their targets.
00:11:20.780 What they
00:11:21.080 launched last
00:11:23.000 night was a
00:11:24.100 missile.
00:11:25.240 What they
00:11:25.600 launched last
00:11:26.420 night was
00:11:28.100 not a threat.
00:11:29.760 I don't even
00:11:30.660 think they
00:11:31.180 were fully
00:11:31.640 loaded.
00:11:34.880 Several
00:11:35.480 duds, and
00:11:37.220 none of them
00:11:38.000 hit their
00:11:38.420 target.
00:11:41.020 Now, why
00:11:41.840 is that?
00:11:42.640 Are they just
00:11:43.200 incompetent?
00:11:44.740 Are we so
00:11:45.840 arrogant to
00:11:46.500 think that
00:11:46.900 they're so far
00:11:47.780 behind us that
00:11:49.260 they can't even
00:11:50.120 hit across their
00:11:51.760 own border
00:11:52.460 accurately?
00:11:54.100 Of course
00:11:55.040 they can.
00:11:56.420 Of course
00:11:57.340 they can.
00:11:58.720 This was
00:11:59.400 them trying
00:12:00.200 to save
00:12:00.880 face last
00:12:01.880 night with
00:12:02.760 their hardliners.
00:12:04.060 Now, I'll
00:12:04.320 tell you more
00:12:05.340 as we go.
00:12:06.060 This isn't
00:12:06.500 going to
00:12:06.760 work, but
00:12:09.120 that's what
00:12:09.640 they did, and
00:12:10.980 they immediately
00:12:12.040 went to the
00:12:12.820 U.N.
00:12:13.060 and said,
00:12:13.440 we're not
00:12:13.740 wanting war.
00:12:14.940 We just
00:12:15.200 wanted to
00:12:15.560 retaliate for
00:12:16.260 that strike
00:12:16.840 on Soleimani.
00:12:18.800 We're not
00:12:19.380 looking for
00:12:19.760 war.
00:12:20.420 They immediately
00:12:21.380 said a press
00:12:22.080 release, this
00:12:22.700 is it.
00:12:23.700 This is all
00:12:24.100 we're going
00:12:24.380 to do.
00:12:26.640 That's
00:12:27.120 signaling, we
00:12:28.840 just need to
00:12:29.420 save face, leave
00:12:30.460 us alone.
00:12:31.020 We're not
00:12:31.340 going to kill
00:12:31.760 any of your
00:12:32.180 people.
00:12:33.000 Now, luckily,
00:12:33.420 we have a
00:12:33.960 president who
00:12:35.140 no matter
00:12:35.500 what anyone
00:12:36.420 says, left
00:12:38.680 or right, is
00:12:40.040 not a
00:12:40.420 warmonger.
00:12:41.200 He's been
00:12:41.800 against these
00:12:42.540 wars his
00:12:43.660 whole life.
00:12:45.240 It's one
00:12:46.080 thing that he
00:12:46.960 really believes.
00:12:48.640 And his
00:12:49.360 doctrine, even
00:12:50.680 though it's
00:12:51.060 unspoken, is
00:12:52.000 if you
00:12:52.600 don't kill
00:12:53.040 any of
00:12:53.340 our guys, I'm
00:12:54.440 not going
00:12:54.920 to respond.
00:12:56.680 They took
00:12:57.120 down our
00:12:57.540 drone.
00:12:58.740 Many
00:12:59.120 presidents would
00:12:59.980 have responded.
00:13:00.920 He didn't.
00:13:02.620 Why would I
00:13:03.140 respond?
00:13:04.120 They didn't
00:13:04.520 kill any of
00:13:05.020 our people.
00:13:05.960 Taking a
00:13:06.680 drone out of
00:13:07.540 the sky, okay,
00:13:08.380 it's expensive,
00:13:09.220 but I'm not
00:13:09.560 going to kill
00:13:09.940 people for
00:13:10.980 that.
00:13:13.840 Donald Trump
00:13:14.620 doesn't want
00:13:15.320 war.
00:13:15.720 Donald Trump
00:13:16.160 wants to be
00:13:16.840 out of war.
00:13:18.960 Donald Trump
00:13:19.600 is an
00:13:19.960 American first.
00:13:22.000 like that or
00:13:23.460 hate that,
00:13:24.120 that's who
00:13:24.480 he is.
00:13:25.280 And it's
00:13:25.900 exactly the
00:13:26.760 right kind
00:13:27.280 of guy to
00:13:27.740 have in
00:13:28.240 today and
00:13:29.520 yesterday and
00:13:31.020 last week.
00:13:32.740 I don't know
00:13:33.540 if you watched
00:13:34.080 Fox News last
00:13:35.040 night, but it
00:13:35.700 was a horror
00:13:36.880 show.
00:13:38.740 If Donald
00:13:39.700 Trump listens
00:13:40.600 to the people
00:13:41.340 on Fox News,
00:13:43.140 if he listened
00:13:44.180 to them last
00:13:44.900 night, this
00:13:46.140 thing would, we
00:13:46.760 would be in
00:13:47.440 World War
00:13:47.880 Three today.
00:13:49.380 But he
00:13:50.060 didn't.
00:13:52.000 They were
00:13:53.040 calling for
00:13:53.780 crazy, take
00:13:55.460 out their
00:13:55.880 oil fields,
00:13:57.440 crazy stuff.
00:13:59.080 The minute we
00:14:00.160 heard that
00:14:01.160 there were no
00:14:01.920 casualties, go
00:14:04.340 to bed.
00:14:05.520 Go to bed.
00:14:13.460 Here's what
00:14:14.460 Trump has to
00:14:15.280 do.
00:14:15.560 Trump cannot
00:14:18.400 respond kinetically.
00:14:20.720 He cannot
00:14:21.220 respond with
00:14:22.140 military.
00:14:23.460 Cannot.
00:14:25.240 Donald Trump
00:14:26.360 cannot listen
00:14:27.480 to the voices
00:14:28.300 of the
00:14:29.720 hardliners on
00:14:31.340 Fox News.
00:14:32.840 He cannot.
00:14:36.620 Trump must
00:14:38.060 stick to his
00:14:38.860 red line of
00:14:40.080 American lives.
00:14:41.380 keep your
00:14:42.760 powder dry
00:14:43.740 and your
00:14:44.280 cyber weapons
00:14:45.940 dry as
00:14:46.760 well.
00:14:47.960 Continue to
00:14:48.780 weaken the
00:14:49.480 regime at
00:14:50.240 home in
00:14:50.880 Iraq.
00:14:51.700 Continue to
00:14:52.420 vocally support
00:14:53.700 the Iranian
00:14:54.340 people, the
00:14:56.340 ones who are
00:14:56.900 actually rising
00:14:57.920 up, and
00:15:00.060 then prepare
00:15:00.840 for a
00:15:01.360 non-military
00:15:02.140 strike on
00:15:02.920 U.S.
00:15:03.360 assets.
00:15:03.820 And I'll
00:15:04.040 explain that.
00:15:05.760 And the
00:15:07.120 hardliners in
00:15:08.620 both Iran
00:15:09.380 and the
00:15:10.220 hardliners,
00:15:11.420 including the
00:15:12.240 press and
00:15:12.900 the Democratic
00:15:13.480 Party, here
00:15:15.200 in America.
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00:15:38.520 Laura Logan
00:15:39.100 who is, I
00:15:41.700 think, in
00:15:43.920 my mind, an
00:15:44.560 icon of
00:15:46.660 reporting and
00:15:48.320 what a news
00:15:48.980 journalist should
00:15:50.100 be.
00:15:51.000 She was with
00:15:51.920 60 Minutes and
00:15:53.160 CBS for years
00:15:54.420 and years.
00:15:54.920 She's won all
00:15:55.460 kinds of awards,
00:15:56.420 including the
00:15:56.860 Edward R.
00:15:57.320 Murrow Award,
00:15:58.420 for her
00:15:59.220 reporting and
00:16:00.380 her journalistic
00:16:01.100 integrity.
00:16:02.560 You might also
00:16:03.660 remember that
00:16:04.460 she was in
00:16:05.460 the crowd as
00:16:06.920 Egypt overthrew
00:16:09.360 Mubarak, and
00:16:11.280 it was brutal
00:16:13.500 for her.
00:16:14.540 I wanted to
00:16:15.080 talk to her a
00:16:15.920 little bit about
00:16:16.680 how the media
00:16:17.760 is handling all
00:16:19.120 of this and
00:16:20.720 her thoughts
00:16:21.720 right off the
00:16:22.240 top of her
00:16:22.660 head about
00:16:23.600 last night.
00:16:24.480 Laura, welcome
00:16:25.000 to the program.
00:16:26.740 Hey, Glenn,
00:16:27.460 thank you so
00:16:28.080 much for having
00:16:28.860 me on, and
00:16:29.520 thank you for
00:16:30.860 your very, very
00:16:31.820 kind introduction.
00:16:33.800 Well, I mean
00:16:36.000 every word of
00:16:36.500 it, Laura.
00:16:38.100 Can you tell
00:16:38.840 me what your
00:16:39.360 thoughts are on
00:16:40.120 how this has
00:16:40.740 played off from
00:16:41.900 the embassy
00:16:42.700 riot, which
00:16:44.120 was reminiscent
00:16:44.760 of 1979 or
00:16:46.240 probably closer
00:16:46.980 to Benghazi, to
00:16:48.720 killing Kassam,
00:16:50.600 to the response
00:16:51.440 last night?
00:16:53.940 Well, what's
00:16:54.700 very interesting
00:16:55.340 for me, you
00:16:56.000 know, having
00:16:56.320 spent many
00:16:57.260 years on the
00:16:58.280 ground in the
00:16:59.820 Palestinian
00:17:00.260 territories, in
00:17:01.140 Israel, in
00:17:01.880 Afghanistan, in
00:17:02.660 Syria, in
00:17:03.320 Jordan, five
00:17:04.020 years living
00:17:04.380 in Iraq, you
00:17:06.120 know, I've
00:17:06.360 traveled all
00:17:07.000 over Iraq, I've
00:17:09.600 been smuggled
00:17:10.160 into, you
00:17:10.880 know, insurgent
00:17:12.000 parts of Damascus
00:17:13.060 and all that
00:17:14.000 kind of stuff, and
00:17:14.780 so, you know,
00:17:16.180 what I'm always
00:17:18.040 struck by when I
00:17:20.280 see these events
00:17:22.360 unfolding is how
00:17:23.400 important the
00:17:24.500 context is for
00:17:26.320 the conversation,
00:17:27.280 because Persians,
00:17:28.640 if you spend any
00:17:29.340 time with Persians,
00:17:30.280 what you learn
00:17:31.020 about the
00:17:32.780 Persians and
00:17:33.420 Iran, you
00:17:34.300 know, Iranians
00:17:35.020 identify themselves
00:17:35.920 as Persians,
00:17:37.060 because it goes
00:17:37.720 back to the, you
00:17:38.500 know, the time of
00:17:40.320 the Persians, right,
00:17:41.220 when the Persians
00:17:41.800 ruled, and they
00:17:43.060 still see themselves
00:17:44.060 through that
00:17:44.500 prism, and what I
00:17:45.720 always try to do
00:17:46.460 is to look at the
00:17:47.280 world through their
00:17:48.480 eyes, so, you
00:17:49.720 know, same for the
00:17:50.580 Iraqis, same for
00:17:51.960 all the people in
00:17:52.820 the region who are
00:17:53.420 affected by this,
00:17:54.940 and the conversation
00:17:57.140 that's playing out in
00:17:57.920 the U.S.
00:17:58.680 seems, very often
00:17:59.900 feels like it's
00:18:00.600 devoid of that
00:18:01.560 kind of context,
00:18:02.620 right, because we
00:18:03.880 tend to look at
00:18:04.840 things only through
00:18:05.440 the prism of now,
00:18:07.080 and I've been, I've
00:18:09.180 been quite struck
00:18:10.360 for a long time by
00:18:12.940 the United States'
00:18:14.260 lack of action
00:18:15.320 towards Iran, you
00:18:16.480 know, when you're
00:18:16.900 on the Iraqi
00:18:18.400 battlefield year
00:18:19.460 after year after
00:18:20.240 year, and you see
00:18:21.560 Iran's role on the
00:18:23.680 battlefield escalating,
00:18:25.420 and the U.S.
00:18:26.060 not doing anything
00:18:27.100 over to counter it,
00:18:28.480 where all the U.S.
00:18:30.140 efforts to counter
00:18:31.320 Iran on the Iraqi
00:18:32.340 battlefield were
00:18:33.520 clandestine, right,
00:18:34.780 they were more
00:18:35.220 covert, and so
00:18:37.100 there's an inherent
00:18:37.940 dishonesty in all of
00:18:39.720 the reporting, because
00:18:40.840 we're still talking
00:18:41.540 about the Iraq wars,
00:18:42.760 if it was a war, you
00:18:44.040 know, between the U.S.
00:18:44.960 and Iraqi forces, but
00:18:46.700 who in this
00:18:47.620 conversation about
00:18:48.460 Qasem Soleimani is
00:18:49.380 asking why, why were
00:18:51.680 Iranian militias
00:18:52.680 killing American
00:18:53.440 soldiers on the
00:18:54.580 Iraqi battlefield?
00:18:55.960 Why were they there?
00:18:57.340 What was their
00:18:58.260 purpose?
00:18:59.080 What was their
00:18:59.500 justification?
00:19:00.760 What was their
00:19:01.320 motivation?
00:19:02.360 No one is asking
00:19:03.240 that.
00:19:03.860 No one's even
00:19:04.320 questioning that.
00:19:05.480 And no one is
00:19:05.980 talking about the
00:19:06.780 fact that the
00:19:08.040 Iraqis were
00:19:09.580 protesting, there
00:19:10.300 were mass protests
00:19:11.380 just a few weeks
00:19:12.220 ago, against the
00:19:13.820 Iranians that were
00:19:14.840 there.
00:19:15.340 The Iraqi people
00:19:16.200 do not want them
00:19:17.380 there.
00:19:20.040 All we hear about
00:19:21.100 is how they don't
00:19:21.660 want us there, but
00:19:23.380 we are protecting a
00:19:25.480 lot of the Iraqis
00:19:26.500 as well.
00:19:28.000 That's very true.
00:19:29.320 And of course, you
00:19:30.220 know, Iraq is a mix
00:19:31.340 of Sunni and of
00:19:32.880 Shia people, right?
00:19:34.000 And the Shia, you
00:19:35.280 know, like the
00:19:36.000 Iranians are Shia
00:19:36.920 right across the
00:19:37.580 border.
00:19:37.920 So there's their
00:19:38.780 loyalty and their
00:19:40.300 faith, you know, in
00:19:41.640 Shiite Islam, and
00:19:42.660 then there's their
00:19:43.320 national identity as
00:19:45.120 Iraqis.
00:19:45.700 And then, of course,
00:19:46.320 there are also
00:19:46.760 millions of Iraqis
00:19:47.820 who are mixed
00:19:48.640 Sunni and Shia,
00:19:49.700 right?
00:19:49.900 You might have a,
00:19:50.460 you know, a one
00:19:51.360 Sunni parent and one
00:19:52.420 Shiite parent.
00:19:53.300 And we act like
00:19:55.000 all of these people
00:19:55.700 are a monolithic
00:19:56.660 entity that all
00:19:57.580 agree with each
00:19:58.320 other.
00:19:58.600 And what we leave
00:19:59.700 out of this
00:20:00.260 conversation are,
00:20:01.260 for example, all
00:20:02.260 the Iraqis who
00:20:03.020 used to say to
00:20:03.640 me, this person
00:20:04.980 is not Iraqi.
00:20:06.060 And I used to
00:20:06.680 say, well, what do
00:20:07.140 you mean?
00:20:07.640 They're not Iraqi.
00:20:08.420 They're born in
00:20:08.960 Iraq.
00:20:09.600 They're Iraqi
00:20:10.180 citizens.
00:20:10.660 And they say,
00:20:11.380 yes, but they
00:20:12.260 have Iranian blood
00:20:13.620 running in their
00:20:14.300 veins, which was
00:20:14.980 the Iraqi way of
00:20:15.920 saying their real
00:20:17.340 loyalty is to Shiite
00:20:20.120 Iran across the
00:20:21.160 border.
00:20:21.720 And their real
00:20:22.760 loyalty is not to
00:20:24.020 us.
00:20:24.460 It's not to Iraq.
00:20:26.840 And that was very,
00:20:28.420 very interesting for
00:20:29.340 me because you look
00:20:30.200 at someone like
00:20:30.780 Qasem Soleimani, he
00:20:32.120 was Iraqi.
00:20:33.660 He was born in
00:20:34.400 Iraq.
00:20:35.700 Mohandas, the Iraqi
00:20:37.100 commander who died
00:20:37.940 with him, he's another
00:20:39.200 one that they said to
00:20:40.100 me has Iranian blood
00:20:41.060 in his veins.
00:20:42.500 You know, and Al-Amari,
00:20:44.620 the head of the
00:20:45.100 Barakor, who's now
00:20:45.820 replaced Mohandas, who's
00:20:48.440 now the most powerful
00:20:49.460 Iranian ally in Iraq.
00:20:52.260 He also, he fled
00:20:53.880 Iraq decades ago, and
00:20:55.580 he lived in Iran, and
00:20:57.500 really was trained by
00:20:58.700 Iran.
00:20:59.600 And when Saddam fell,
00:21:01.820 the Iranians sent him
00:21:02.700 back into Iraq, and he
00:21:04.300 was tasked by Qasem
00:21:06.080 Soleimani to hunt down
00:21:07.620 every Iraqi pilot and
00:21:09.720 significant, you know,
00:21:11.440 commander from the
00:21:12.320 Iran-Iraq war and
00:21:13.560 kill them.
00:21:14.460 And in fact, I sat
00:21:15.400 down in an interview
00:21:16.200 with him a few years
00:21:17.520 ago for 60 Minutes,
00:21:18.460 and I read to him
00:21:19.520 an American diplomatic
00:21:21.820 cable that was signed
00:21:23.500 off, altered and
00:21:24.480 signed off on by the
00:21:25.860 U.S.
00:21:26.220 Embassy and by the U.S.
00:21:27.340 Ambassador and sent to
00:21:28.420 Washington.
00:21:29.480 And, you know, I've
00:21:30.380 never forgotten what it
00:21:31.440 said, which was this,
00:21:34.760 you know, that the U.S.
00:21:37.400 Embassy and the military
00:21:39.440 believe that Al-Amari was
00:21:42.500 responsible for personally
00:21:44.420 murdering two and a half
00:21:46.560 thousand Iraqi Sunnis, and
00:21:49.260 that his preferred method
00:21:50.780 of killing was to
00:21:52.400 personally drill holes in
00:21:54.540 their heads while they
00:21:55.500 were still alive.
00:21:56.660 Okay, this is the man,
00:21:58.780 this is the man that was
00:22:00.500 trained by Iran, that is
00:22:02.260 one of their most important
00:22:03.840 lieutenants and allies
00:22:05.480 inside Iraq.
00:22:06.980 Okay, these are the people
00:22:08.160 that we're talking about.
00:22:09.240 So what about all the
00:22:10.720 funerals of all the people
00:22:12.800 who died at the hands of
00:22:14.360 Qasem Soleimani and his
00:22:15.800 proxy forces and his
00:22:16.900 commanders and under his
00:22:18.380 orders and with the
00:22:19.360 blessing and authority and
00:22:20.920 funding and training, right?
00:22:22.600 What about all those
00:22:23.820 people?
00:22:24.740 And what about the
00:22:25.920 Iraqis who were
00:22:26.640 celebrating his death?
00:22:28.140 What about Syrians who
00:22:29.240 were celebrating, Yemenis
00:22:30.760 who were celebrating?
00:22:31.860 An Iraqi I spoke to in
00:22:33.120 Baghdad, you know, a
00:22:34.260 couple times over the last
00:22:35.240 few days said to me that
00:22:36.740 every Iraqi in San
00:22:38.240 Diego who, you know, is
00:22:40.360 now able to vote in the
00:22:41.980 U.S. is voting for Trump
00:22:43.420 in the next election
00:22:44.560 because they're so happy
00:22:46.960 that he killed Qasem
00:22:48.340 Soleimani.
00:22:49.040 And that's just a voice.
00:22:51.420 It's one part of the
00:22:52.500 story that you're not
00:22:53.880 hearing a whole lot
00:22:55.720 about, sometimes not at
00:22:57.040 all.
00:22:57.440 Laurie, you're also not
00:22:58.860 hearing the voice of the
00:23:01.020 Iranians, the millions that
00:23:03.220 are risking their life to
00:23:04.540 stand up, and the millions
00:23:06.460 of people that are, I
00:23:08.660 think, in many ways, just
00:23:09.860 like Americans.
00:23:10.940 Their inflation has gone
00:23:13.200 through the roof, and
00:23:14.520 they're looking at a
00:23:15.680 billion dollars a month
00:23:16.820 going to the Quds
00:23:17.620 Force and the IRGC, and
00:23:20.280 they're saying, I don't
00:23:21.360 want any part of this
00:23:22.280 anymore.
00:23:23.260 This is just causing us
00:23:24.660 more trouble, and they
00:23:26.220 want out.
00:23:27.360 They want relief from
00:23:28.640 this.
00:23:29.320 And no media source that
00:23:31.040 I know of is covering
00:23:32.460 that.
00:23:33.000 That's, well, I would
00:23:35.380 agree with you on that,
00:23:37.220 that no media source is
00:23:38.520 covering that part of the
00:23:39.820 story, too.
00:23:40.400 Those people are
00:23:41.560 completely left out of
00:23:42.920 this conversation.
00:23:44.300 And not only that, but
00:23:46.920 some of those people,
00:23:47.920 their voices are left out
00:23:49.440 because they're dead,
00:23:51.140 right?
00:23:51.540 I mean, the Green
00:23:52.340 Movement, who remembers
00:23:53.340 the Green Movement?
00:23:54.640 There's been, you know,
00:23:55.860 really two significant
00:23:57.280 protest movements that have
00:23:59.320 risen up in Iran to the
00:24:01.060 level where they haven't
00:24:02.820 been able to hide their
00:24:04.100 existence, right?
00:24:05.140 Because we, you know, I'm
00:24:06.420 always very, very cautious
00:24:08.120 about speaking about what,
00:24:10.540 you know, Iranian people
00:24:11.600 and what they want and how
00:24:12.700 they feel and what the
00:24:13.640 situation is, because we
00:24:15.100 know so little, right?
00:24:16.680 It's very hard to function
00:24:18.400 and operate in Iran.
00:24:20.440 You do not get access to
00:24:22.120 that country as a journalist
00:24:23.400 or as an outsider unless the
00:24:26.040 regime, you know,
00:24:27.340 authorized, specifically
00:24:28.500 authorizes you to do so.
00:24:30.140 And when they do that,
00:24:31.700 they have a specific
00:24:32.780 purpose.
00:24:33.760 There's a reason they let
00:24:34.940 you come in.
00:24:35.780 And they control what you
00:24:36.920 see.
00:24:37.340 They control who you speak
00:24:38.460 to.
00:24:39.000 They control what people
00:24:40.140 say because people self-censor.
00:24:42.500 They're so afraid, they
00:24:43.580 self-censor.
00:24:44.300 So really accurate
00:24:45.600 assessments over, you know,
00:24:47.100 how the majority of people
00:24:50.140 feel.
00:24:50.720 I can tell you what
00:24:51.400 individuals feel because I
00:24:52.600 can, you know, I can from
00:24:53.740 time to time speak to
00:24:54.680 individuals and often in
00:24:56.900 situations where I can at
00:24:58.580 least have a high degree of
00:24:59.780 confidence that I'm not
00:25:00.780 being, you know, lied to,
00:25:02.380 right?
00:25:03.160 But what we're not hearing,
00:25:06.300 but what the Iranians could
00:25:07.420 not hide, they could not
00:25:08.780 hide the Green Movement.
00:25:10.000 They could not hide some of
00:25:11.260 these mass protests.
00:25:13.020 And what we do know is that
00:25:15.240 those protest movements were
00:25:16.720 brutally, brutally
00:25:18.560 suppressed.
00:25:19.800 I mean, you know, hundreds of
00:25:21.280 people were disappeared,
00:25:23.260 tortured, imprisoned,
00:25:24.920 murdered, right?
00:25:26.120 And who was responsible for
00:25:28.240 making that happen?
00:25:29.460 I mean, the IRGC, the
00:25:30.740 Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani,
00:25:32.500 these people, yes, he was
00:25:33.980 loved by many people in
00:25:35.660 Iran, but he was also
00:25:36.900 feared and he was also
00:25:38.380 hated.
00:25:39.360 And those voices are, you
00:25:41.720 know, they're completely and
00:25:43.460 utterly written out of the
00:25:45.720 current narrative.
00:25:47.380 Lara Logan, I'd like to
00:25:49.120 continue with you.
00:25:49.780 I'm going to take a quick
00:25:50.440 one-minute break and then I'd
00:25:51.600 like to come back and talk a
00:25:53.340 little bit about the media
00:25:55.180 coverage here on how
00:25:59.740 distorted it is and MSNBC last
00:26:02.680 night running the state
00:26:04.440 television from Iran and then
00:26:06.860 taking their word for how many
00:26:08.560 Americans had been killed,
00:26:10.120 which we now know is zero,
00:26:12.360 and what the motivation is.
00:26:14.560 What does the average
00:26:16.860 American take from this
00:26:20.060 media today?
00:26:22.140 Back in just a second with
00:26:23.980 Lara Logan.
00:26:26.260 Lara Logan is with us and I
00:26:30.740 don't want to dwell on this at
00:26:32.400 all, but I couldn't help but
00:26:34.100 see the ABC reporter in the
00:26:37.680 crowd in Iran, you know,
00:26:40.160 wearing her headscarf and
00:26:41.400 everything else and thinking
00:26:43.700 she's in real danger because
00:26:47.220 those crowds can change as you
00:26:49.020 found in in Egypt.
00:26:51.080 How much danger was she in
00:26:53.420 yesterday and what kind of deal
00:26:55.820 had to be made for her to have
00:26:59.320 that kind of coverage?
00:27:01.120 And is it responsible?
00:27:03.860 Well, you know, I think it's I
00:27:06.240 think it's unfair to ask if it's
00:27:08.220 responsible just in the sense
00:27:10.060 that, you know, our job as
00:27:11.760 reporters is to try to tell,
00:27:14.660 you know, every side of the
00:27:15.920 story.
00:27:16.400 And if I was still an evening
00:27:18.620 news reporter, you know, CBS
00:27:20.120 news, foreign news reporter, I
00:27:21.900 would have been I would have
00:27:23.520 loved to have been on the
00:27:24.600 ground in Iran and be in
00:27:25.780 Martha Raddatz's shoes and be
00:27:27.460 reporting from the ground.
00:27:28.440 And and I do have enormous
00:27:30.260 respect for Martha.
00:27:31.400 And I know her personally and
00:27:32.720 you know, I like her a lot.
00:27:34.080 But having said that, I mean,
00:27:36.460 I would say to you that you're
00:27:38.780 right in any crowd, in any
00:27:40.540 emotional situation like that,
00:27:42.040 there's always a risk.
00:27:43.340 Right.
00:27:43.660 No question about it.
00:27:45.040 But let's not forget that Iran
00:27:46.800 is not the average.
00:27:48.720 It's not the average country.
00:27:50.260 It's not like the U.S.
00:27:51.880 I mean, everything is very
00:27:54.700 carefully stage managed.
00:27:56.360 Now, you always have the risk
00:27:57.700 that, you know, you could be
00:27:58.580 caught up in the stampede.
00:27:59.800 Right.
00:28:00.240 Things can boil over like that.
00:28:02.380 But and there's always a risk
00:28:04.620 that if they that they allow
00:28:06.460 you to be targeted, but
00:28:08.140 things do not happen on the
00:28:09.880 ground in countries like that
00:28:11.120 most of the time without being
00:28:13.280 orchestrated.
00:28:14.380 So when the Iranian government
00:28:15.520 says, OK, yes, you're approved
00:28:17.040 and you can come in, you know,
00:28:18.400 you've got a minder with you
00:28:19.500 all the time.
00:28:20.760 This person is monitoring
00:28:21.880 every single thing you get.
00:28:23.160 You say there.
00:28:24.180 We call them minders.
00:28:25.100 But let's be honest.
00:28:25.880 They're a mohavarat
00:28:26.720 intelligence agents.
00:28:27.760 Right.
00:28:28.320 They're spies and they're
00:28:29.580 reporting on everything you say
00:28:30.880 and everything you do.
00:28:31.900 And every person you speak to,
00:28:33.500 every Iranian you interview
00:28:34.740 knows that that person
00:28:36.080 is standing right there.
00:28:37.340 Right.
00:28:38.060 So those and, you know,
00:28:39.760 sure, it was like that in Iraq
00:28:41.220 under Saddam Hussein.
00:28:42.140 I mean, it was like that in Syria
00:28:43.620 under Assad.
00:28:44.740 You know, I've done that many
00:28:45.780 times.
00:28:46.160 So I'm not criticizing
00:28:47.380 Martha for that.
00:28:48.520 What I would say is that
00:28:49.760 there's there's very little
00:28:51.360 context.
00:28:52.080 They're not giving any context
00:28:54.040 in the reporting.
00:28:55.500 And that's the problem
00:28:56.340 that I have with this.
00:28:57.640 I applaud her for being on
00:28:59.440 the ground and I applaud her
00:29:00.700 for being there.
00:29:01.620 And I would love to be
00:29:02.460 in her shoes.
00:29:04.020 But at the same time,
00:29:05.640 where is the you know,
00:29:06.860 where is the that little bit
00:29:08.220 of distance?
00:29:09.040 You know, what we have to do
00:29:09.940 is report is we have to be
00:29:11.440 right in that moment
00:29:12.700 and be emotional
00:29:13.960 and live it
00:29:15.000 and bring it to life
00:29:16.220 for the viewer.
00:29:16.760 Right.
00:29:16.960 And bring you right there.
00:29:18.080 But then we also have
00:29:19.040 another job.
00:29:19.880 Our other responsibility
00:29:20.840 is to take a little step
00:29:22.560 away from it and say,
00:29:23.640 OK, what's the broader
00:29:24.640 context?
00:29:25.200 And I used to argue
00:29:26.460 with U.S. soldiers
00:29:27.280 all the time.
00:29:27.980 Right.
00:29:28.120 Because I contrary
00:29:29.120 to what people say,
00:29:30.060 I didn't live with
00:29:30.880 U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
00:29:31.800 I lived with Iraqi people.
00:29:33.540 And when I would go
00:29:34.060 to the bases with them,
00:29:35.320 you know, and they would say,
00:29:36.700 well, you report is
00:29:37.340 never till I'll so.
00:29:38.120 You never do this.
00:29:38.820 You never do that.
00:29:39.540 You're so biased.
00:29:40.760 And I would say, look,
00:29:41.840 I mean, it's great
00:29:42.680 that you've employed
00:29:43.460 this, you know, 50 people
00:29:44.860 and you've built this well
00:29:45.780 and there's water
00:29:46.720 in the village.
00:29:47.300 But like, you know,
00:29:48.680 what has this done
00:29:49.980 to move the needle
00:29:50.620 for unemployment
00:29:51.220 in the country as a whole?
00:29:52.400 How many Iraqis today,
00:29:54.280 how many more have access
00:29:55.240 to clean drinking
00:29:55.780 than what it didn't before?
00:29:56.740 Oh, yes, they all
00:29:57.440 they did before.
00:29:58.520 In fact, you know,
00:29:59.440 the infrastructure
00:29:59.980 has been destroyed
00:30:00.640 and now fewer people
00:30:01.620 have it today.
00:30:02.660 You know, I used to explain
00:30:04.020 to them that there's
00:30:05.120 a context in which
00:30:06.180 you're operating
00:30:07.020 and I have dual
00:30:08.740 responsibilities to you,
00:30:10.460 to the Iraqis,
00:30:11.380 to the taxpayers back home,
00:30:12.980 to the government
00:30:13.480 that sent you here,
00:30:14.940 to the military
00:30:16.220 that's trying to manage
00:30:17.160 these operations.
00:30:18.260 All of these
00:30:18.840 responsibilities compete
00:30:20.300 and they're all equal.
00:30:21.640 And I have to be,
00:30:22.840 you know,
00:30:23.000 try to be fair
00:30:23.720 to, you know,
00:30:25.340 to everybody
00:30:26.000 so I don't just get
00:30:27.620 to tell your story
00:30:28.720 and not bother
00:30:29.660 about the context.
00:30:31.060 And that's what I feel
00:30:31.860 is happening
00:30:32.760 in some of the reporting
00:30:34.440 that I've seen
00:30:35.020 from the ground there.
00:30:35.960 It's all about
00:30:36.500 one perspective
00:30:37.660 and there's no real
00:30:39.100 distance to it.
00:30:40.200 There's no, like,
00:30:41.220 you know,
00:30:41.460 nobody's putting it
00:30:42.180 in context and saying,
00:30:43.160 hey, wait a minute,
00:30:43.900 you know,
00:30:44.600 wait a minute.
00:30:45.500 It's like,
00:30:46.160 they were chanting
00:30:47.460 death to America
00:30:48.180 before Qasem Soleimani
00:30:49.560 was there.
00:30:49.760 Right.
00:30:50.500 And I understand.
00:30:51.340 I understand Martha
00:30:53.160 not having to add
00:30:54.660 context while she's
00:30:55.720 on the ground.
00:30:56.500 But when I say
00:30:57.560 was it responsible,
00:30:58.980 I mean,
00:30:59.700 AB...
00:31:00.120 You should still put
00:31:00.220 some of that in there.
00:31:01.780 As much as she can
00:31:02.860 get away with,
00:31:03.580 yes.
00:31:04.440 But back home,
00:31:05.680 ABC should be saying,
00:31:07.640 look,
00:31:08.460 she's,
00:31:09.140 you know,
00:31:09.580 we made a deal.
00:31:13.200 She has minders.
00:31:14.140 She has people with her.
00:31:15.060 So she's bringing
00:31:16.200 a certain context
00:31:17.960 to the,
00:31:19.020 you know,
00:31:20.080 to the picture here.
00:31:21.000 But they're just
00:31:21.760 using it as straight
00:31:23.080 reporting.
00:31:23.720 Same thing with NBC
00:31:24.580 last night,
00:31:25.640 running state television
00:31:27.700 where they were
00:31:29.040 reporting 30 soldiers.
00:31:30.720 Yeah,
00:31:31.120 it's just stunning.
00:31:32.160 It's,
00:31:32.440 I mean,
00:31:32.900 that to me is just like,
00:31:33.760 well,
00:31:34.100 how about this,
00:31:35.080 Glenn?
00:31:35.440 Okay,
00:31:35.680 how about,
00:31:36.640 how do you know
00:31:37.240 that the pictures
00:31:38.040 they put on state TV
00:31:39.500 show what they say
00:31:41.360 they show?
00:31:42.040 Right.
00:31:42.160 How do you know that?
00:31:43.140 Like,
00:31:43.620 you know,
00:31:43.820 I was having conversations
00:31:44.800 with various people,
00:31:46.580 a couple of intelligence
00:31:47.340 people.
00:31:47.940 They were looking
00:31:49.240 and they were triangulating
00:31:50.560 the trajectory of the,
00:31:52.360 you know,
00:31:53.260 of the missiles in the air
00:31:54.500 with the moon
00:31:55.520 and looking at
00:31:56.880 where the moon was
00:31:58.000 in the path,
00:31:59.100 you know,
00:31:59.460 from Iran to Iraq
00:32:00.840 because,
00:32:01.880 yes,
00:32:02.060 there were missiles
00:32:02.700 that hit that base,
00:32:03.960 right?
00:32:04.300 But where were they fired
00:32:05.400 from?
00:32:05.760 Were they fired from Iran?
00:32:07.260 Were they fired from,
00:32:08.440 you know,
00:32:08.740 an Iranian proxy inside Iraq?
00:32:10.700 I mean,
00:32:11.060 were they fired that night?
00:32:12.060 Were those pictures
00:32:12.920 of the missiles being fired?
00:32:14.980 I mean,
00:32:15.120 maybe those pictures
00:32:15.740 were something else.
00:32:17.480 You know,
00:32:17.980 there's a lot of questions
00:32:19.640 about that
00:32:20.100 because Iranian,
00:32:21.540 the Iranian regime
00:32:22.800 frequently puts out
00:32:24.320 whatever it wants to.
00:32:26.100 I mean,
00:32:26.320 they're masters of propaganda.
00:32:28.340 And what is very obvious here
00:32:30.060 is,
00:32:30.860 you know,
00:32:31.040 when they put that out
00:32:32.140 and they did that quickly
00:32:33.060 and they had people
00:32:33.700 cheering there,
00:32:34.700 you know,
00:32:34.980 at the launch site,
00:32:36.080 that was for the people,
00:32:37.320 right?
00:32:37.480 That was to satisfy
00:32:38.300 because what has happened here?
00:32:40.240 This is the part that,
00:32:41.340 for me,
00:32:41.980 the most significant thing
00:32:43.040 that I think
00:32:43.680 is missing here
00:32:44.760 from the news coverage
00:32:45.760 where reporters
00:32:46.660 have really failed
00:32:48.180 in their duty
00:32:49.260 is that
00:32:50.140 the strength
00:32:51.320 of the reaction
00:32:52.300 to Qasem Soleimani's death
00:32:54.220 is absolute verification
00:32:56.400 of the significance
00:32:57.980 of the strike.
00:32:59.680 Because they,
00:33:00.300 you know,
00:33:00.740 the media here
00:33:01.600 seems to want us
00:33:02.460 to have it both ways
00:33:03.440 where they want to say
00:33:04.300 this achieved nothing.
00:33:05.680 This will not impact
00:33:06.880 Iran's capabilities
00:33:07.780 in any way.
00:33:08.760 You know,
00:33:10.000 it's not significant
00:33:10.940 at all.
00:33:11.540 And then on the other hand,
00:33:12.360 they want to say
00:33:12.900 this is so significant
00:33:14.400 that you have,
00:33:15.440 you've now put us
00:33:16.180 into World War III.
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00:33:56.000 A man who I wouldn't
00:33:57.000 be surprised
00:33:57.960 if he wasn't
00:33:58.580 in a council last night
00:34:00.340 trying to figure out
00:34:01.260 what was going on
00:34:02.220 and what the response
00:34:04.000 should be,
00:34:04.840 Congressman Chris Stewart,
00:34:07.140 a member of the
00:34:07.780 Intelligence Committee
00:34:09.140 in Congress.
00:34:10.140 Welcome,
00:34:10.880 Chris.
00:34:11.360 How are you?
00:34:12.900 I'm good, Glenn.
00:34:13.880 Boy,
00:34:14.080 our year started out
00:34:14.960 with a bang,
00:34:15.540 didn't it?
00:34:15.960 No pun intended.
00:34:16.920 I know.
00:34:17.420 It's crazy.
00:34:19.180 And I think
00:34:19.980 that this is,
00:34:21.680 if it continues
00:34:22.680 to play out this way,
00:34:23.720 and there's a caveat
00:34:24.340 on this or two,
00:34:25.300 but this was last night
00:34:27.200 the best case scenario
00:34:28.500 for a response
00:34:29.720 from Iran,
00:34:30.320 was it not?
00:34:31.460 Yeah,
00:34:31.880 it really was.
00:34:32.980 And when you look
00:34:33.600 at some of the statements
00:34:34.940 from their leadership
00:34:35.720 saying they thought
00:34:36.640 it was proportional,
00:34:37.500 they don't want
00:34:38.160 to accelerate
00:34:40.000 nor to,
00:34:41.080 you know,
00:34:41.360 make things worse,
00:34:42.680 it's pretty clear
00:34:43.280 the leadership
00:34:43.760 is signaling
00:34:44.400 that they themselves
00:34:45.660 are not going
00:34:46.520 to do anything further,
00:34:47.840 although I think
00:34:48.480 their proxies will.
00:34:49.560 They've been doing
00:34:50.060 that for 40 years,
00:34:50.980 but it really was
00:34:52.140 kind of the best case
00:34:53.140 that we could have
00:34:54.000 hoped for at this point.
00:34:55.700 So we had people
00:34:57.560 on television last night
00:34:58.780 that I thought
00:34:59.360 were crazy,
00:35:00.420 saying that we should
00:35:00.940 go after and bomb
00:35:02.120 their oil fields,
00:35:03.160 and I thought,
00:35:03.800 geez,
00:35:04.040 who is advising
00:35:04.740 the president?
00:35:06.300 His doctrine seems
00:35:07.800 to be his red line,
00:35:09.280 American lives.
00:35:10.640 And if no American
00:35:11.840 lives were lost,
00:35:13.120 then we're fine.
00:35:16.780 Go ahead.
00:35:17.700 I'm sorry, Glenn,
00:35:18.220 that's exactly right.
00:35:19.500 And you've hit upon
00:35:20.440 the key on that,
00:35:21.220 and it really has been
00:35:22.120 the president's red line,
00:35:23.180 and he's been very clear.
00:35:24.360 All through the summer
00:35:25.140 when they were
00:35:25.600 tanking our tankers,
00:35:27.000 when they're shooting
00:35:27.580 down our drones
00:35:28.640 in international airspace
00:35:30.300 that are operating
00:35:31.060 lawfully,
00:35:31.900 when he's attacking
00:35:32.660 the Saudi oil fields,
00:35:34.240 he always said,
00:35:35.240 and by the way,
00:35:35.820 I know they've been
00:35:36.620 signaling very,
00:35:37.560 very clearly
00:35:38.080 to the Iranian leadership,
00:35:39.800 if you kill Americans,
00:35:41.320 everything is different.
00:35:43.340 And through the late fall,
00:35:44.880 we began to see them
00:35:45.820 take actions
00:35:46.460 that would kill Americans
00:35:47.300 as they consistently
00:35:48.300 bombed facilities
00:35:49.320 where about half the people
00:35:50.620 there were Americans.
00:35:51.540 And the president
00:35:52.120 signaled again to them,
00:35:53.480 you're going to kill
00:35:54.500 some Americans
00:35:55.140 if you continue doing this.
00:35:56.480 And if you do,
00:35:57.300 everything is different.
00:35:58.260 And they did kill
00:35:59.100 some American citizen,
00:36:00.600 and things did change.
00:36:02.080 But hopefully,
00:36:04.260 and I'm actually
00:36:04.860 quite optimistic,
00:36:06.300 that this will now
00:36:07.440 settle down
00:36:08.260 and reframe their thinking,
00:36:10.580 and maybe we can even
00:36:11.600 get something positive
00:36:12.500 coming from this.
00:36:13.920 How do you mean?
00:36:14.380 What do you think
00:36:14.780 we could possibly get?
00:36:16.780 Well, you know,
00:36:17.760 our grand strategy
00:36:18.760 is not just to continue
00:36:20.140 with a 40-year
00:36:21.060 low-grade war with Iran.
00:36:22.640 Going back to the embassy
00:36:23.680 in 79,
00:36:24.580 and every incident,
00:36:25.620 and dozens of them,
00:36:26.600 and the hundreds of Americans
00:36:27.560 who've been killed
00:36:28.200 in the intervening time,
00:36:29.500 I mean, we can say,
00:36:30.480 well, that's just the way it is,
00:36:31.500 and we'll just accept it.
00:36:32.840 Or we could encourage it
00:36:33.860 like Barack Obama did
00:36:34.940 and said,
00:36:35.280 here's a boatload of money,
00:36:36.380 and here's prestige
00:36:37.800 and credibility
00:36:38.700 on the international stage,
00:36:40.020 and we now think
00:36:40.600 that you're just another nation
00:36:41.820 on par morally
00:36:43.320 and the way you treat
00:36:44.140 people like us.
00:36:45.400 Or we could say,
00:36:46.320 look,
00:36:46.960 you've got to change
00:36:47.740 your behavior,
00:36:48.340 but if you do,
00:36:48.920 we will welcome you back
00:36:50.020 into the international community.
00:36:51.480 We'll relieve
00:36:52.180 some of the sanctions.
00:36:53.000 We'll try to help
00:36:53.640 the Iranian people.
00:36:54.620 But you can't keep doing
00:36:55.980 what you've been doing
00:36:56.720 for 40 years.
00:36:57.400 And maybe,
00:36:58.040 I know it sounds crazy,
00:37:00.180 but just maybe
00:37:00.980 this is an opportunity
00:37:02.480 for Iranian leadership
00:37:03.460 to say,
00:37:04.480 you know,
00:37:05.000 this is enough.
00:37:05.860 We really could modify
00:37:06.940 some of the things
00:37:07.720 we've been doing.
00:37:09.040 Doubt they're going to do that.
00:37:10.960 No, probably not.
00:37:12.780 You know, hopefully.
00:37:14.260 If they would have a proxy,
00:37:17.220 so they have one,
00:37:18.860 you know,
00:37:19.420 one degree of separation
00:37:21.040 or more,
00:37:22.240 and they had a proxy,
00:37:24.260 go after an embassy
00:37:25.660 or go after a CIA station chief
00:37:28.300 as they've done before
00:37:29.700 or kidnap an official
00:37:32.600 someplace in the world.
00:37:35.360 How do we respond to that?
00:37:36.940 Does that take us
00:37:37.780 right back to
00:37:38.780 where we were?
00:37:42.000 Yeah, you know,
00:37:43.240 I hate to say it depends,
00:37:44.940 but it really does depend,
00:37:46.440 and it depends on just
00:37:47.240 an incredible number
00:37:48.280 of variables.
00:37:49.120 Obviously,
00:37:50.580 this I can say
00:37:51.600 with some certainty,
00:37:52.480 their proxies
00:37:53.220 are not a mystery to us.
00:37:55.100 When they operate
00:37:56.100 through their proxies,
00:37:57.000 we don't go,
00:37:57.740 boy, I wonder who did that
00:37:59.180 or on what authority
00:38:00.520 that took place.
00:38:01.360 We can draw these,
00:38:02.740 connect these dots,
00:38:03.560 and it's not a whole lot
00:38:05.260 of dots you have to connect.
00:38:06.440 So they can operate
00:38:07.260 through proxies,
00:38:08.000 but they can't do it
00:38:09.000 with impunity
00:38:09.580 and they can't do it
00:38:10.380 with anonymity.
00:38:11.260 We know that it's them,
00:38:12.400 and they know that
00:38:13.000 we know it's them.
00:38:14.240 And I guess, Glenn,
00:38:15.320 coming back to my point
00:38:16.140 about it does depend,
00:38:17.880 I mean,
00:38:18.260 there are so many
00:38:19.220 gray areas in that
00:38:20.760 of who did they capture,
00:38:22.280 or who did they kill,
00:38:23.180 under what circumstances,
00:38:24.260 and where.
00:38:25.800 And I think the best response
00:38:27.220 is to just say
00:38:28.260 it would be proportional
00:38:29.400 and it would be,
00:38:31.080 our response would be proportional
00:38:32.520 and it would be
00:38:33.560 to, you know,
00:38:35.120 reinvigorate this idea
00:38:36.640 that we,
00:38:37.520 that there's a defense
00:38:38.640 against this,
00:38:39.240 that we're going to not
00:38:40.100 incentivize them
00:38:40.980 for this behavior.
00:38:42.160 So I think the president
00:38:43.520 has a few groups of people,
00:38:46.460 five groups of people
00:38:47.460 that he just can't listen to.
00:38:49.620 And the Ayatollah
00:38:54.060 would be well advised
00:38:56.060 not to listen to them
00:38:57.120 as well.
00:38:58.040 Hezbollah and the hardliners.
00:39:00.020 This is not going to satisfy
00:39:01.100 the hardliners.
00:39:02.020 It's not going to satisfy
00:39:03.100 Hezbollah because those
00:39:04.600 are the diehards
00:39:05.580 that want death to America,
00:39:07.600 truly want death to America.
00:39:10.000 In the United States,
00:39:11.980 I would have to put
00:39:13.280 our GOP hardliners,
00:39:15.160 a lot of them were on TV
00:39:16.200 last night saying
00:39:16.840 we should bomb the oil fields
00:39:18.200 and everything else.
00:39:18.860 And I was thinking,
00:39:19.260 that's crazy.
00:39:20.660 That's just crazy.
00:39:22.640 So don't listen
00:39:23.520 to those hardliners.
00:39:24.480 But also,
00:39:25.740 the Democratic politicians
00:39:27.840 who are so eager
00:39:30.120 for failure here,
00:39:31.580 it is insane.
00:39:33.920 They were immediately saying
00:39:35.840 that this is the death spiral,
00:39:37.540 this is going to be
00:39:38.180 World War III.
00:39:39.120 the press was literally,
00:39:44.680 MSNBC,
00:39:45.920 literally taking
00:39:46.920 Iranian state television
00:39:48.680 and running it on the air
00:39:50.940 and letting it go unchecked.
00:39:54.840 I don't know
00:39:56.040 whose hardliners
00:39:57.000 and whose freaks
00:39:58.640 are worse.
00:40:00.440 Those in Iran
00:40:01.700 are those here.
00:40:04.280 Yeah, you said much,
00:40:05.520 and if I could respond
00:40:06.280 to just a couple things on that.
00:40:07.520 Number one is that I'm,
00:40:09.560 once again,
00:40:10.660 and this is not going
00:40:11.580 to shock anyone,
00:40:12.200 but I'm just so disappointed
00:40:14.080 with Nancy Pelosi,
00:40:15.040 and this is why,
00:40:15.700 and this is meaningful.
00:40:17.320 This isn't just politics
00:40:18.420 as normal.
00:40:19.180 Nancy Pelosi
00:40:19.880 had the opportunity
00:40:20.840 last night
00:40:22.040 to come and see
00:40:23.560 the intelligence,
00:40:24.860 which is irrefutable.
00:40:26.760 And yet she still
00:40:28.000 went out
00:40:28.580 and made this
00:40:29.140 highly partisan statement
00:40:30.440 about,
00:40:30.860 well,
00:40:31.000 this is implying
00:40:31.980 that this is
00:40:32.480 American aggression.
00:40:33.920 After seeing
00:40:34.580 this intelligence,
00:40:35.280 there's no way
00:40:35.920 anyone in the world
00:40:37.340 could honestly
00:40:38.320 come out
00:40:38.760 and say
00:40:39.060 this is anything
00:40:39.740 than what it was,
00:40:40.480 and that was
00:40:40.940 the president
00:40:41.600 protecting American lives.
00:40:43.780 That is very clear.
00:40:45.640 And the second thing
00:40:46.420 I would respond to,
00:40:47.580 Glenn,
00:40:47.800 is agreeing with you
00:40:48.540 and the fact
00:40:48.960 of the hardliners.
00:40:49.820 The good news is,
00:40:51.040 is you know
00:40:51.400 who agrees with you
00:40:52.280 is President Trump.
00:40:53.740 Right.
00:40:53.900 The last thing
00:40:54.500 in the world
00:40:55.040 he wants
00:40:55.840 is to get into
00:40:56.980 any meaningful war
00:40:58.220 or engagement
00:40:58.780 in the Middle East.
00:40:59.600 Again,
00:40:59.840 for heaven's sakes,
00:41:00.460 that's what he's
00:41:01.080 campaigned on,
00:41:02.100 and that's what
00:41:02.620 he's done since.
00:41:04.240 And he knows that.
00:41:05.400 And the second person,
00:41:06.780 or even more
00:41:07.560 than him actually,
00:41:08.500 who doesn't want
00:41:09.440 a war with Iran
00:41:11.260 is the Iranian leadership.
00:41:12.420 They know it would be suicide.
00:41:13.860 Yeah.
00:41:14.100 And I can't tell you
00:41:14.960 how many people
00:41:15.580 have asked me
00:41:16.120 over the last
00:41:16.500 three or four days,
00:41:17.140 I mean,
00:41:17.320 really worried,
00:41:18.360 hey,
00:41:18.540 do I need to go
00:41:19.100 get my kids
00:41:19.640 from college?
00:41:20.360 Are we going to war?
00:41:21.260 Was this?
00:41:21.760 And it's like,
00:41:22.180 no, no, no,
00:41:22.720 we are not going
00:41:23.640 to be in a major
00:41:24.980 international conflict
00:41:26.420 with Iran.
00:41:27.300 We don't want it
00:41:28.220 and they don't want it.
00:41:29.360 And it doesn't
00:41:29.840 have to be that way.
00:41:30.700 We can respond
00:41:32.460 appropriately
00:41:33.200 when they kill
00:41:33.840 American citizens
00:41:34.660 as we have to.
00:41:36.140 But that doesn't mean,
00:41:37.400 and I'm confident,
00:41:38.840 that we won't be
00:41:39.500 in a large-scale war
00:41:40.520 with them.
00:41:40.980 I just don't believe
00:41:41.700 that's in the cards
00:41:42.780 at all.
00:41:44.980 Chris,
00:41:46.000 have you ever seen,
00:41:50.480 I mean,
00:41:50.940 I just feel as though
00:41:53.000 between the media
00:41:54.160 and,
00:41:55.600 quite honestly,
00:41:56.220 the Democrats,
00:41:56.700 I understand
00:41:57.480 the Republican
00:41:58.440 hardliners
00:41:59.280 that just,
00:42:00.260 you know,
00:42:00.540 they just want
00:42:01.540 to regime change
00:42:03.340 and everything else.
00:42:04.400 We've got to stop
00:42:05.180 doing all of that stuff.
00:42:06.880 And I understand
00:42:08.020 who Iran is,
00:42:09.140 but this is not
00:42:09.880 the way to go.
00:42:11.720 I understand that,
00:42:13.400 but I honestly
00:42:14.320 do not understand.
00:42:15.560 I am very concerned
00:42:16.820 that the Democrats
00:42:18.100 and the media
00:42:22.100 are almost cheering
00:42:24.380 for Iran
00:42:26.560 over us,
00:42:28.500 which is,
00:42:29.560 it's suicide.
00:42:31.620 Is the divide
00:42:32.400 really that stark
00:42:35.100 now that even
00:42:36.260 in times
00:42:37.080 when American lives
00:42:38.160 are at stake,
00:42:39.600 they'll just,
00:42:40.400 they just hate
00:42:41.460 Donald Trump so much
00:42:42.520 they'll do
00:42:42.940 whatever it takes?
00:42:45.520 Well,
00:42:46.240 I mean,
00:42:46.560 the early indications
00:42:47.320 are that's exactly
00:42:48.220 the case.
00:42:48.760 And I'll go back
00:42:49.240 to my example
00:42:49.800 of Ms. Pelosi.
00:42:50.660 The responsible
00:42:51.420 thing for her to do
00:42:53.080 after seeing the intelligence
00:42:54.440 and having her questions
00:42:55.520 answered would have
00:42:56.220 come out and say
00:42:56.980 the president
00:42:57.700 did the appropriate thing.
00:42:58.980 He had no choice.
00:43:00.100 She could not bring
00:43:00.960 herself to do that.
00:43:02.380 And if she couldn't do it,
00:43:03.440 which stunningly,
00:43:04.560 we consider her
00:43:05.180 one of the more
00:43:05.720 responsible members
00:43:06.740 of the Democratic Party
00:43:07.960 now,
00:43:08.560 which is unbelievable
00:43:09.440 than me,
00:43:09.960 but compared to many
00:43:10.760 of the others,
00:43:11.340 she actually is.
00:43:12.680 If she can't do that,
00:43:13.620 then many of the others
00:43:14.380 will not either.
00:43:14.980 And the media
00:43:15.520 will not as well.
00:43:17.260 And I think it comes
00:43:18.200 back to what you said,
00:43:19.140 Glenn.
00:43:19.420 They're just so viscerally
00:43:21.060 opposed to this president.
00:43:22.160 And anyone who supports him,
00:43:24.660 his voters,
00:43:25.740 anyone who has
00:43:26.820 a kind word towards him
00:43:28.140 is just their mortal enemy,
00:43:29.460 it's as if they feel
00:43:30.320 that they would actually
00:43:32.500 have sympathetic feelings
00:43:34.900 towards General Soleimani,
00:43:37.120 who's responsible
00:43:37.760 for the deaths
00:43:39.460 of hundreds of Americans
00:43:40.540 and hundreds of thousands
00:43:42.000 of lives from Syria
00:43:43.600 through the Shia crescent.
00:43:46.060 And I hope this will pass.
00:43:49.260 I hope that they will,
00:43:50.180 you know,
00:43:50.800 that they'll come
00:43:51.320 to their senses
00:43:51.880 a little bit on this.
00:43:53.680 But the early indications
00:43:55.880 are is that,
00:43:56.800 as you said,
00:43:57.640 they just oppose
00:43:58.680 and hate this president
00:43:59.580 so badly,
00:44:00.100 they just can't think
00:44:00.860 clearly through these things.
00:44:02.240 One last question.
00:44:03.040 As a guy who's on
00:44:03.760 the Intelligence Committee,
00:44:05.600 a guy who's been
00:44:06.280 in the Air Force
00:44:07.640 and, you know,
00:44:09.060 high-ranking officer,
00:44:10.800 this letter
00:44:12.980 that was leaked
00:44:13.860 that said
00:44:15.700 we were pulling out,
00:44:16.560 that was unsigned,
00:44:17.480 that is one
00:44:19.980 of the most damaging things
00:44:21.640 to our policies
00:44:23.600 that could have
00:44:24.300 ever happened.
00:44:26.020 I mean,
00:44:26.500 you couldn't be
00:44:28.840 working for the other side
00:44:33.120 and have a better thing happen
00:44:35.640 than at that point say,
00:44:38.300 oh, we're going to pull out,
00:44:39.420 which forces the president
00:44:40.820 to say,
00:44:41.760 no, we're not,
00:44:42.740 which enables Iran
00:44:46.500 to say,
00:44:46.960 look, we're winning,
00:44:48.420 forces us to stay.
00:44:51.140 Is there going to be
00:44:52.120 any consequence
00:44:52.920 for this person?
00:44:53.860 Do you believe
00:44:54.460 that that was just
00:44:55.280 released accidentally?
00:44:59.040 I'm going to answer
00:44:59.960 that as honestly
00:45:00.540 as I can,
00:45:01.200 and that's just say,
00:45:01.760 Glenn, I don't know,
00:45:02.620 but we have to find out.
00:45:03.960 I mean,
00:45:04.240 it was a very troubling
00:45:07.240 communication
00:45:08.180 in the midst
00:45:09.200 of a time
00:45:10.740 when the communication
00:45:11.680 should have been
00:45:12.180 very concise
00:45:12.900 and very, very clear.
00:45:14.460 And it clearly
00:45:15.300 wasn't the president's policy.
00:45:17.000 It clearly wasn't
00:45:17.880 the administration's view
00:45:19.100 that, okay,
00:45:19.600 well, we're going to
00:45:20.140 cut tail and run.
00:45:21.200 And by the way,
00:45:21.680 that's exactly
00:45:22.300 what the Iranian regime
00:45:24.360 wants us to do
00:45:25.240 so that they can
00:45:25.880 rain blood and horror
00:45:26.880 through that area.
00:45:28.660 We need to,
00:45:29.900 as I've said
00:45:31.040 for several years now,
00:45:32.180 I think we need
00:45:33.640 to relook every place
00:45:34.700 we have American soldiers
00:45:35.720 over there
00:45:36.160 and ask the question,
00:45:37.140 is it essential?
00:45:37.900 Is it necessary?
00:45:38.700 What are we getting
00:45:39.240 for this?
00:45:40.300 But you can't do it
00:45:41.360 at this moment
00:45:42.860 and you can't give it
00:45:43.700 to the Shia militia
00:45:45.060 and to the Iranian regime
00:45:46.480 at this time.
00:45:48.000 So, yeah,
00:45:48.680 but at some point
00:45:49.480 we should look at
00:45:50.060 what are the purpose
00:45:51.380 of the U.S. troops
00:45:52.060 in Iraq
00:45:52.440 and how long
00:45:52.900 should they be there?
00:45:53.700 But for that communication
00:45:54.740 to have been leaked
00:45:55.620 deceptively like it was
00:45:57.000 and to send that
00:45:57.940 kind of message,
00:45:58.840 man,
00:45:59.260 we'd love to find out
00:45:59.940 who did that
00:46:00.460 and what they did.
00:46:01.060 Well,
00:46:01.200 wouldn't that be
00:46:01.600 pretty easy to find out?
00:46:02.840 I mean,
00:46:03.000 who wrote that?
00:46:03.660 Was that a low-level private
00:46:05.380 who just didn't know
00:46:06.140 what they were doing?
00:46:06.820 Or, I mean,
00:46:07.920 that had to have
00:46:08.680 some weight behind it.
00:46:09.860 Somebody who wrote that
00:46:11.680 we should be able to find
00:46:13.100 and they should be fired
00:46:14.160 at best.
00:46:15.480 Or, I mean,
00:46:15.740 sorry,
00:46:16.020 at least.
00:46:16.700 Well,
00:46:18.880 and I'm going to withhold
00:46:19.800 judgment on this
00:46:20.560 until I know more
00:46:21.340 because I don't want to
00:46:22.220 say something
00:46:23.500 without the facts.
00:46:24.580 But we need to find out.
00:46:25.760 And that's just
00:46:27.080 the bottom line.
00:46:27.680 We need to find out
00:46:28.400 who did it,
00:46:29.160 under what circumstances,
00:46:30.160 what they were thinking.
00:46:30.980 It just wasn't
00:46:31.760 what the president's policy,
00:46:33.600 it did not reflect
00:46:34.360 our policy.
00:46:35.260 And it could be, Glenn,
00:46:36.020 that it was just
00:46:36.600 misconstrued in the sense
00:46:37.680 that they were going
00:46:38.160 to reposition troops
00:46:39.320 and it might have been
00:46:40.340 poorly stated.
00:46:41.380 But if they're saying
00:46:42.000 we're going to reposition troops
00:46:43.180 to better defend ourselves,
00:46:44.740 that's very different
00:46:45.760 and we're going to
00:46:46.320 reposition troops
00:46:47.280 to prepare for a withdrawal.
00:46:49.340 Well, let me know
00:46:49.760 if you pursue it
00:46:50.520 because I'd like to know
00:46:51.280 the answer to that
00:46:52.180 because I think this was
00:46:53.140 really disturbing.
00:46:56.000 I've not seen that
00:46:56.700 happen before.
00:46:57.800 Chris Stewart,
00:46:58.320 thank you so much.
00:46:59.340 Appreciate it.
00:46:59.920 Congressman Chris Stewart
00:47:00.720 from the great state of Utah.
00:47:03.520 The Blaze Radio Network.
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