Robert F. Kennedy announces he s running for president as an independent. Glenn Beck and Pat Buchanan react to the news and discuss the possibility of a possible run. They also discuss Alex Jones' interview with the late Robert Kennedy and how he should have handled it.
00:00:00.000So, wow, we hit a lot today from, you know, putting your investment money into food to the Antichrist and the return of the Ark of the Covenant.
00:00:13.200But other than that, there's nothing on the show.
00:09:28.280You set for the – you marinate in that opinion and wait for it to challenge you again and let's see how hard you hold that line.
00:09:35.300Well, I'd be – like, this is outside of who he is as a person and the things that I don't like about him.
00:09:43.220But it's like anybody, I think, that is a rational request.
00:09:46.900Like, if a massive change in all of your opinions happened within the last presidential cycle, I don't know, maybe wait one more presidential cycle before you're the president.
00:10:42.880Because if you trust, I thought there were things that, you know, kind of overlapped that – and I ended up liking him, but I don't trust him.
00:10:54.780And that just comes, I think, from time, like you were saying.
00:10:57.360You know, I have no idea if that's real or not.
00:11:59.820I heard this this morning on a podcast, and they were like, oh, well, the Republicans couldn't get their act together to overturn this law.
00:12:05.440It's like, well, maybe the act they want to get together is not killing children.
00:12:09.040Maybe that's the act they're trying to accomplish.
00:16:31.880So what's happened now, all of the trouble that's happening in the region is a direct result of the head of the snake, as you very correctly said, which is Iran, right?
00:16:41.260So this is happening because the Iranian regime is not only deeply unpopular with their own population.
00:16:47.080They need to externalize conflict in order to stay in power.
00:16:50.680People that are familiar with the policy of President Trump know that his policy was exactly, exactly the worst nightmare for the regime because he was using maximum pressure to cripple the regime by robbing them of the funds they use to spread terror at home and abroad, right?
00:17:06.020So this regime, when you understand the history of it, that it came into power in a whirlwind in 1979, it's based on terror, and it's based on ruling through fear.
00:17:15.120And they had to externalize conflict in order to keep hold.
00:17:18.380So we would be remiss not to be students of history and actually understand that for this regime to maintain power, they have to externalize conflict, and they have to create manufactured crisis for people to rally around the flag.
00:17:32.760The highest population of Jewish people outside of Israel in the Middle East are in Iran.
00:17:36.260There is no natural animosity between the Iranian people and the Israeli people or Jews in general.
00:17:42.740This is a manufactured crisis by the Islamic regime and power in Iran, and it's one of many that they need to try to distract and keep hold of power.
00:17:51.660You know, it's one of the only countries that I look at a lot like we should have looked at Russia when it was the Soviet Union, that the people were not the government at all.
00:18:03.800And in fact, I think the United States is starting to be like that way now, that our government is doing things overseas and, you know, fighting wars and forcing people to live under our, you know, our, quote, values all over the world.
00:18:19.320And we're getting a bad name around the world.
00:18:21.860And it's like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:18:27.060And exactly the same as it was in the Soviet Union.
00:18:30.200And that's different than most places.
00:18:32.460That's different than, for instance, in Gaza, where most of the people are, you know, they really do believe that, you know, the Israelis need to be killed.
00:18:44.100And America is the great Satan, et cetera, et cetera.
00:18:48.380So in Iran, the population is vastly pro-American, right?
00:18:52.640So you have a very pro-American population.
00:18:55.100And if you recall, prior to 1979, things like the hijab or the mandatory hair scarf were not around.
00:19:01.680So you have a population or, you know, an age group that's my age or younger that remembers, hey, their mom didn't have to do this.
00:19:08.760You know, their ancestors didn't have to do this.
00:19:11.420This is manufactured restrictions from this regime.
00:19:14.660So you have a very pro-Western, pro-American population.
00:19:18.240When the regime, you know, paints the American flag or the Israeli flag on the ground, the population will walk around it.
00:19:23.720This is a population that under President Trump, you know, was chanting his name.
00:19:27.560And people wrote Trump 2020 on IRGC basis.
00:19:30.580This is a very brave population that is very pro-American, that believes in the values of America, believes in the dream of America, and, you know, wants to emulate that.
00:19:40.660It's their regime that's counter to it.
00:19:42.480So if we don't understand that and we don't capitalize that as Americans, we're remiss and we're going to keep making the same mistakes.
00:19:49.360Why are we funding an anti-American regime through non-enforcement of sanctions, through, you know, these horrible hostage deals that you're just promoting the more taking of hostages?
00:19:58.980And then wondering why the policy is a failure.
00:20:01.700You know, had a working policy under President Trump and Joe Biden completely reversed that policy back to a failed Obama era JCPOA appeasement stature.
00:20:10.880And then we're wondering why it's not working.
00:20:13.140Well, let's have some strategic smart policy.
00:20:15.360You support the will of the people and you put maximum pressure on the regime.
00:20:18.520Support the people that love you and you put pressure on the people that hate you.
00:20:21.540Okay, so what should, because as I look at Israel and, you know, their response, which they say is coming, but probably, you know, after Passover, I look at this and I think to myself, as an American, oh, no, please, I don't want another thing on fire.
00:20:55.820Yeah, so from the Israeli perspective, they're between a rock and a hard place, right?
00:20:59.180It's impossible to fight on every single front.
00:21:01.560And of course, you know, when you're attacked, any country has the right to have a response.
00:21:06.000My point is, be strategic, because you cannot get into a war with Iran and expect a good result.
00:21:11.840And you don't even want to do that, not just because the U.S., you know, is under a certain type of leadership that is probably not going to, you know, help you out to the degree that you'd want to be helped out.
00:21:22.700But even beyond that, accepting the reality of the situation is, why would you want to make an enemy of the Iranian people who are already on your side and re-solidify the regime, right?
00:21:32.400The regime, when it came into power in 79, was very unstable.
00:21:35.100It was the Iran-Iraq war and Saddam's invasion that allowed them to have people rally around the flag and solidify themselves through a power grab.
00:22:16.120I think a strategic response is, you know, totally within their calculus to decide on what they want to do and not do.
00:22:22.460From my perspective, I think the less casualty or loss you have to innocent civilian lives, the better position you are.
00:22:29.380Because the more that happens, as they've seen, the more of a PR nightmare it is for them and more of a nightmare it is on an international scale.
00:23:43.840And you can't allow this type of infiltration of our country of nefarious actors because the regime does have a long arm and they are sending people in.
00:23:52.860And, you know, it's been publicized in the press when I worked in the prior administration.
00:23:56.540They were trying to target administration officials back under President Trump, let alone what they're trying to do now.
00:24:01.700So, you know, there's former officials I work with that have, you know, pretty heavy full time security.
00:24:06.880There's journalists that work for, you know, VOA and other stations that had pretty serious attempts on their life.
00:24:15.180And, you know, allowing this sort of open loophole to come in through, you know, any border, any entry, no questions asked, is going to be exploited by nefarious actors like the regime.
00:24:28.680So do the does anybody in the State Department ever take the leadership's view of, you know, end of days and 12th, the mom and all of this crap?
00:24:44.520You know, they'll look at somebody who is, you know, saying a prayer, you know, someplace in America in a Christian church.
00:24:51.020They'll be like, that's a religious zealot.
00:24:52.760They're going to tear the country apart.
00:24:54.540And then they'll dismiss these people who say in speeches, oh, Allah, you know, give me the strength to hasten the return of the promised one, which is really terrifying.
00:25:10.040There's a big of cognitive dissonance here.
00:25:12.760And it's, you know, when you have discussions with people that, you know, might be working in departments and have a different point of view, there is a tendency to sort of say, oh, well, that's not what they mean.
00:25:28.580It's the sort of waving off that is just an unserious position to take.
00:25:33.380And there's, I mean, it's not a secret that there's a lot of Iranian regime, pro-regime lobbyists in this country who purposely push this narrative and purposely provide false information to try to sort of wave off the crazy statements that are made and the really, you know, damaging statements that are made.
00:25:49.700And sort of say, oh, that's just hyperbole.
00:25:51.860That's just, you know, lost in translation.
00:26:04.060It's really terrifying when you look at the history of Hamas and the grand mufti, you know, from the 1920s and 30s that was a huge Hitler supporter.
00:26:17.960And and what those seeds that were planted and then in the new Islamic Republic, the leadership there, they mean it when they say, you know, we'll kill the Jews and, you know, Israel will burn in the the flames of the Islamic fury.
00:27:06.140So these people are not, you know, saying things that they don't mean.
00:27:12.380They mean them and they want to be strategic to maintain control of power and maintain control of a population that is not supported by them.
00:27:20.980They're deeply, deeply unpopular with their own population, let alone externally.
00:27:25.520But they they have to create a boogeyman.
00:27:27.420And they have to create this externalized conflict to sort of distract from the plethora of problems they have at home.
00:27:32.900So, you know, you've got to take them to a certain degree at face value, but also understand that there are political and strategic and real goals at the end of, you know, the pretty crazy statements.
00:27:42.340You know, there's there doesn't seem to be any love of the Palestinian movement from the neighbors of Israel.
00:27:56.280And it seems to be the same thing with the administration of Iran.
00:28:02.160But the Middle Eastern countries, I think, like the conflict with the with the Palestinians.
00:28:10.140I don't know what it serves, but they they seem to like it and they don't like Iran, but they seem to pussyfoot around all of the advances that Trump made in pulling that coalition together.
00:28:23.480Egypt and and and Saudi Arabia and really building a coalition with Israel to stand against Iran.
00:28:36.980I mean, I can give you a nicer answer, but I mean, in a lot of ways, there's been a lot of damage done to a lot of the coalition building.
00:28:44.020I mean, the Abraham Accords were wildly successful.
00:28:46.700That was a great President Trump initiative.
00:28:48.320And frankly, I mean, talk about the Nobel Peace Prizes in some years have been handed out willy nilly.
00:28:53.720President Trump should have gotten a Nobel Peace Prize for that.
00:28:55.840Right. So that was groundbreaking for Middle East peace is to have the Abraham Accords.
00:28:59.540And frankly, we're sitting in a position now where a lot of that work has been unwound and has been backtracked.
00:29:05.440And again, the United States needs to be a stable, reliable ally and a stable, reliable foe, an adversary for those that that challenge us.
00:29:13.380You can't have this flip flop of foreign policy from administration to administration and expect to have the credibility that we once did in the world.
00:29:21.900Right. So there has to be, you know, some sort of adults in the room, which, you know, the Biden administration claimed to be, but clearly are not.
00:29:30.220And, you know, understanding that, hey, maybe we have policy differences with with our predecessor.
00:29:34.680But these policies worked and these politics are these policies were strategic and effective.
00:29:38.600And perhaps we shouldn't unwind them just for the sake of, you know, pacifying a base in the U.S.
00:29:44.180and saying we undid everything he did, you know, have some some clear eyes and say that, hey, the Abraham Accords were a good thing.
00:29:49.960Stability in the Middle East and no new wars was a good thing.
00:30:07.520She is the former assistant secretary of state for consular affairs under Donald Trump and a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council.
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00:31:00.380I mean, I try to keep all of my theology in this solar system.
00:31:04.940So, you know, so I try to be that way.
00:31:07.840And, you know, and you said yesterday that sometimes, you know, what we think is going we're looking for is not necessarily going to happen the way we think it's going to happen.
00:31:31.660The disciples see this and they're coming back down the mountain and they're puzzled because they ask him, hey, we thought that the well, the prophecy teachers of the day told us that Elijah would come first.
00:32:35.980And that is very important, I believe, in going forward.
00:32:39.780And, you know, when we see all these things happening in the world.
00:32:42.840So I often have thought if you were alive during Hitler's reign, especially if you were, you know, had a front row seat to it, you had to have thought Jesus is coming soon.
00:32:55.320But there were a lot of things that had not been accomplished.
00:32:59.180For instance, the reestablishment of Israel and then the gathering of Israel.
00:33:04.240And so, you know, if you knew your scriptures, you would go, well, no, I don't think so.
00:33:12.900But now a lot of really big things have happened.
00:33:18.040What big prophecies have been fulfilled and what is still out there that we should be watching for?
00:33:25.120Well, you mentioned the reestablishment of the nation of Israel in 48, the capturing of the old city and the reunification of Jerusalem in 67, which at that point gave Jews access to the Temple Mount, although temporarily.
00:33:40.860So the regathering of Israel is a big one.
00:33:44.800And I might say that that one is still ongoing.
00:33:56.720Well, very long story short, because of transgression, because of rebellion, because of all these different sins, Israel was exiled.
00:34:06.680And to this day, a lot of Israel is still scattered through the nations.
00:34:10.600And so there are these multiple prophecies of how in the last days God will gather all of Israel into the land to the point, and this is the way Jeremiah puts it, that they will no longer talk about the exodus out of Egypt, but they'll talk about the exodus from all these different nations.
00:34:27.540And because we aren't talking in those terms just yet, that tells me it has not yet come to its ultimate fulfillment.
00:34:34.140Because we're going to talk about in just a couple of days how God brought his people out of Egypt.
00:34:59.200I'm not going to make the prediction, but it has the potential to lead into other things.
00:35:03.240The attack the other night by Iran was said to be at least, you know, affiliated with, you know, what's going on in Gaza and these kinds of things.
00:35:13.740So there are things going on right now that do set the stage potentially for some things to happen.
00:35:21.260And that makes our day a little different right now.
00:35:27.420What you're saying that Gaza could turn into, what are you referring to?
00:35:33.620Well, again, there are different prophecies about Gaza, how it's going to be, you know, destroyed, basically.
00:35:44.720But here is the thing that jumps out at me.
00:35:47.720It's the fact that Hamas has played such a big role.
00:35:55.020There are prophecies against Edom and Esau, and it says, because of the Hamas that you've committed against your brother Jacob, which is translated violence, I'm going to deal with you.
00:36:04.920And Obadiah, it says, because you committed Hamas against your brother Jacob, I'm going to deal with you.
00:36:11.820In Genesis, before the days of Noah leading up to the flood, it says that Hamas filled the earth.
00:36:17.100So I do not believe that that is just some cosmic coincidence.
00:36:21.080That's God way before any of this, you know, we were even thought of.
00:36:25.920God's already telling us things in the beginning to be on the lookout in the end.
00:36:29.660So the fact that Hamas has been the instigator, the primary instigator, as it relates to what's going on in the Gaza war right now, to me, is something that's very, very important.
00:36:40.820And that means that it has the potential to expand into other things, other prophecies.
00:36:45.520They talk about the destruction of Damascus and it leading all the way up to, you know, what a lot of people are looking for, the War of Gog and Magog.
00:36:54.740So all that is on the table as a possibility.
00:37:01.000There are things that are happening that could lead to these more dramatic events.
00:37:08.740So anyway, that's what I mean by the Gazan thing.
00:37:12.600The destruction in Syria, Damascus, could happen overnight.
00:37:17.840The return of the Jews to Israel, you would think that would be almost impossible.
00:37:25.020But, you know, one of the things I've been thinking lately, you know, disconnected from, you know, end time stuff is if I were a Jew today and I saw the whole world starting to heat up like this, there would come a time when I'd be like, you know, I'm going to just I'm going to Israel because I at least going to stand with my own people because it's the only place where I may not be persecuted, you know, without a shot of standing up.
00:37:49.260Well, and I think that this is going to sound maybe a little bizarre, but God's way is to put pressure on people to move them into the place that he wants them to be.
00:38:03.800I mean, that's just a plain, simple fact.
00:38:05.520So I don't I don't discount that at all.
00:38:08.760I think that as you know, these things begin to unfold, it's going to become increasingly unpopular in the world to be Jewish, to be associated with Israel, to stand with Israel.
00:38:19.660But at the same time, you know, God uses that pressure to kind of put people in the position that he wants them to be to kind of force his will.
00:38:27.860And it's always going to be for the best interests of his people, but it doesn't feel very good at the time when you're being subjected to all that pressure.
00:38:36.980Do Iran and Russia and their alliance play a role in prophecy?
00:38:45.500And based primarily in what you're reading, Ezekiel 38 and 9, this is the war I mentioned briefly a moment ago, the war of Gog and Magog, right?
00:38:53.280So and so if you think if you read the prophecy, we don't have time to do that today.
00:38:59.180But if you think that Russia is the land of Magog, then I'd say yes.
00:39:02.860In fact, that prophecy talks about how this chief prince, this this ruler over the land of Magog is going to come from the far north.
00:39:12.520Well, if you start in Israel and go north, if you go to the far north, you're in Russia.
00:39:16.820So it seems like that Russia would be involved.
00:39:20.460And of course, the old Soviet Union was never a friend to Israel.
00:39:24.560It was always aligned with Israel's enemies.
00:39:27.400If I were Netanyahu, I wouldn't trust Putin as far as I can spit.
00:39:30.900So, you know, Russia is, you know, not a good guy in this regard.
00:39:34.760And then when you read that prophecy, Ezekiel 38 and 9, you'll see that among the Confederates, the first one is mentioned is Persia, which is, of course, the ancient name for Iran.
00:39:45.620And just as kind of a sidebar here, interesting to me, anyway, the name Iran or the modern name Iran is derived from the word Arian.