The Glenn Beck Program - Glenn Explains Trump's REAL Goal with Iran Strikes ｜ Guests： Jonathan Conricus & Jack Carr

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00:02:40.320 Hello, America.

00:02:41.920 I have been studying and been in prayer all weekend for today's show.

00:02:52.900 I understand where we are as a society, where you may be, where many of your friends may be, and how divided we are.

00:03:03.160 And, you know, every time I would turn on television and I would watch, I would see somebody who was saying, on one side or the other, you're a traitor if you don't believe this.

00:03:15.140 You're a traitor if you don't believe that.

00:03:17.120 And I didn't find that useful at all.

00:03:19.120 And I didn't find that useful at all.

00:03:21.160 Um, so I'm not going to put you in that position where you're a traitor if you don't agree with me.

00:03:27.920 Um, I, I want to answer a few things today for me, but I want to show you how I thought about these things.

00:03:38.600 So you can then do your own homework and you can decide.

00:03:42.480 I do not want to convince you one way or another, because quite honestly, I don't know how this is going to end.

00:03:49.080 Nobody does.

00:03:49.960 God does, but I don't.

00:03:52.080 Uh, and so I'm not, I don't think we should do anything like this because, yeah, our side, whatever.

00:04:00.480 Okay.

00:04:00.760 Um, I wanted to answer a couple of questions, actually four of them.

00:04:04.420 One, is this a just war using the just war theory is, does this even fit the category?

00:04:12.840 More importantly, actually, what should be number one is, is this America first?

00:04:18.020 Okay.

00:04:19.280 Then is it a just war?

00:04:22.340 One of my principles is I am not for these forever wars.

00:04:26.000 I don't think this is a good idea.

00:04:28.080 I don't want to get involved in everybody else's business that ties to the first two.

00:04:34.300 And then the last one, is this, is this a distraction or is this big vision?

00:04:40.920 What is this all about?

00:04:42.740 Really?

00:04:43.960 I want to try to answer those four questions.

00:04:48.040 We also are going to take you, uh, to the middle East with Jack Carr and see if Jack can give us any kind of perspective on what he sees and what happened.

00:04:57.420 And also, uh, want to talk to, uh, the former spokesperson for the IDF because there's some amazing claims coming out.

00:05:04.760 I don't know if they're true or not.

00:05:06.620 Uh, I don't know if you heard about the dentists that put tracking devices in some of their teeth.

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00:05:51.360 Uh, we're going to start with a kind of a tick tock rundown on what happened this weekend and what is still going on.

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00:07:25.760 Let me bring Jason Buttrell in, who is the host of our Behind the Scenes Insider podcast,

00:07:37.580 which coincides with this show, to give more information.

00:07:41.660 And today you're going to be really busy today in breaks because we can't get to all the information we've just spent about 90 minutes talking about in highlight form.

00:07:52.080 So, Jason, I want to take us bit by bit.

00:07:58.040 First, let me see if I can take us through kind of a tick-tock on what happened.

00:08:02.240 We all found out Saturday.

00:08:04.280 The president was here in West Palm.

00:08:06.740 Uh, and all of this was conducted here at Mar-a-Lago.

00:08:12.260 Um, and he gave a speech early in the morning where he said, we have launched an attack.

00:08:18.860 Um, and we struck 500 plus targets across Iran, uh, including missile sites and command centers.

00:08:26.260 Uh, the, the Supreme leader, the Ayatollah, uh, Khamenei was killed in that air, uh, campaign.

00:08:34.000 We didn't find out until later on Saturday.

00:08:36.180 They didn't verify that, but he and 40 leaders in a, in something that should tell you, man, there is no place to hide.

00:08:44.280 And we knew exactly where this guy was, the CIA did, and we gave the information to Israel and said, you want to go get that guy, go get that guy.

00:08:53.820 And they bombed precision.

00:08:56.020 And, uh, it, it was remarkable what happened.

00:09:00.440 Um, the other thing that people are talking about is the primary school in Southern Iran.

00:09:05.760 It was hit in the attacks and scores of children were killed.

00:09:10.920 Um, that just heightens, you know, the crime, you know, these are war crimes.

00:09:15.600 Well, no, I mean, accidents do happen.

00:09:18.380 There's nobody that is trying to avoid those things.

00:09:21.120 I mean, look at the precision strikes we're making.

00:09:23.680 Do you really think that we actually targeted a school?

00:09:29.080 I mean, just think this through gang, what would our motive be for that to be the pariah of the world?

00:09:36.360 I mean, even if, even if we had evil in our hearts and we're like, yeah, and then we're going to kill all the children.

00:09:42.040 You would never do that.

00:09:43.860 You'd never do that openly, especially on the first day.

00:09:46.960 And that's assuming you had evil in their hearts.

00:09:49.500 Our military does not have evil in our hearts.

00:09:51.480 We're not targeting schools.

00:09:53.260 This is war.

00:09:54.340 And the way this is being fought is for the very first time in my lifetime, um, we have a president, uh, and you can disagree with all of this and the way he's fighting, but we have a president who knows how to carry a very big stick.

00:10:11.200 He is, I have always believed, I was explaining to Ricky today about the fuel air bomb.

00:10:18.120 Fuel air bomb is one of the most devastating things we have.

00:10:21.940 Um, it sprays a mist of fuel over the battlefield.

00:10:26.880 Okay.

00:10:27.700 And then it's lit on fire.

00:10:30.080 And what that does, you know, if you're standing on the battlefield, you look up suddenly and the whole sky is on fire.

00:10:35.720 But what that does is it takes the oxygen out, literally out of the lungs of every soldier on the battlefield.

00:10:44.460 So you suffocate and then burn to death.

00:10:47.540 Okay.

00:10:48.860 Um, and I have always felt, I mean, that's such a horrible thing, but I have always felt that, um, metaphorically, that's the way you have to fight war.

00:10:59.420 If you're going to fight war, there is no such thing as a fair fight.

00:11:04.320 You want to make it as unfair and lopsided as possible.

00:11:07.900 If you're going to do it, overwhelm.

00:11:10.600 And the fastest way to get through war is to have every person on the planet go, take the air out of their lungs.

00:11:18.860 Oh my gosh.

00:11:19.880 Don't ever mess with them.

00:11:22.300 That's how you keep the peace.

00:11:23.880 But you don't keep the peace by intentionally killing children in school houses.

00:11:32.100 Uh, so that's pretty much what happened on Saturday.

00:11:36.020 You want to give me some color and play by play here on this, uh, Jason?

00:11:41.000 Yes.

00:11:41.520 We know.

00:11:41.820 So as everyone knows, we've been watching this military buildup for quite a while now.

00:11:46.340 And just to get some context on some of that military buildup, producer Matt, throw this up super quick, um, for everyone to see.

00:11:51.960 This is a breakdown that was done of all the military hardware that was put in theater.

00:11:56.760 It's absolutely insane.

00:11:58.520 Uh, what would you consider?

00:12:00.240 By the way, if you, if you're just listening, we'll try to describe it on radio, but today is the day you should have torch, uh, glenbeck.com slash torch.

00:12:07.760 Cause we're going to be showing you a lot of stuff that is a little overwhelming when you see it.

00:12:12.600 Um, all right, go ahead.

00:12:13.620 Um, and, and to put that even to even more context, producer Matt, throw this map up there.

00:12:17.800 This shows the firepower of that entire arsenal when in terms of missiles, uh, combat aircraft, it is significant more than we've seen in a very, very long time.

00:12:30.920 And you haven't to say that Jason is one thing.

00:12:34.220 Do you have, because I don't think we saw this in Iraq.

00:12:38.140 Did we, we, we, we did, uh, for the, for the invasion that it's, it's very similar to, at least in terms of air power and naval power.

00:12:46.780 Um, what we're missing here is the ground combat element.

00:12:49.380 I would not be surprised though.

00:12:50.340 If there is some kind of special forces, uh, element that are on the ground, we won't get confirmation of that.

00:12:55.660 I'm sure.

00:12:56.000 But, but that would not, may I say when anybody says we won't have anybody on the ground, just hear this.

00:13:03.220 I find that, um, highly unlikely because if there is nuclear material, we are going to have to get it out.

00:13:12.560 You don't just leave that there.

00:13:14.960 If there is nuclear material, if there are, um, any kind of missile material that is left,

00:13:22.140 we will have to send ground troops in just to secure it and to get it out of there.

00:13:28.660 Not necessarily to fight, but to secure the nuclear, uh, facilities.

00:13:33.520 And hopefully if there are any centrifuges left to secure all of those and either destroy them or get them out.

00:13:41.100 Go ahead.

00:13:42.100 There's also the matter of just how air, uh, air to ground combat works usually.

00:13:47.260 And we saw this the last time when Israel and the United States struck the nuclear targets, uh, you know,

00:13:52.860 a few months ago, they had Israeli special forces on the ground, picking targets out.

00:13:57.880 I would assume there's something similar to that, but we also, Glenn, I don't know how much time you,

00:14:01.680 do you have a 12 hour radio show today?

00:14:03.780 Uh, wait, there's also the idea of what happens to a lot of these radicals as they try to flee out of the area.

00:14:09.720 My guess is they're probably going to go to Iraq and that's a whole nother discussion of what happens in the fallout.

00:14:17.520 Iraq could become the next Iran.

00:14:20.320 I mean, we may just, I mean, this is why anybody who was definitively saying this is the greatest thing ever,

00:14:30.380 or definitively saying this is the worst thing ever, they're fools.

00:14:35.800 Do not listen to them.

00:14:37.460 This could be really, really good.

00:14:40.340 This could be really, really bad.

00:14:42.920 What you have to ask is, do you trust the person who is in command of this?

00:14:49.620 For me, and I'll explain this later.

00:14:51.800 I happen to believe the president has earned my trust that he is not a forever war guy.

00:14:57.400 He knows how to handle, uh, the military in a very effective way and use it quickly, deadly, and get the hell out of there,

00:15:08.300 which is the way I want our military to be used.

00:15:10.680 So I'll, I'll get into this later, but he has bought the credibility, at least from me.

00:15:15.680 You, maybe not you, but I think you should look at that.

00:15:18.880 That's what you should be looking at.

00:15:21.000 Does the president have credibility enough?

00:15:23.660 Has he bought enough credibility to, at least for you to say, I'm not in the situation room.

00:15:30.560 I don't know all of the information, but I trust this guy has the best intention.

00:15:37.440 If you believe that, then you have to just let go of the outcome for a little while, at least, and say, let him do his job.

00:15:46.580 We hired him to do this job.

00:15:50.140 He, to me has proven he can do this job and it's a much bigger picture.

00:15:56.180 So relax, but also don't write a blank check of support because things could go bad.

00:16:04.440 And that would mean things have got to change.

00:16:07.540 Remember we went into Iraq and it was looking really good and then it got horrible and they never changed strategy.

00:16:15.380 And it turned into that nightmare.

00:16:17.960 So, you know, this could turn into a nightmare, but it also could turn into something good.

00:16:22.920 Look for the principles and then take it one day at a time.

00:16:29.800 There's no reason to write a check to support or to be against anything other than right now.

00:16:38.460 What am I feeling right now?

00:16:40.920 How is this going without floating principles?

00:16:45.640 Your principles have to be locked in, but your support does not have to be, or your being against does not have to be.

00:16:54.640 It, that changes with the conditions on the ground, but your principles must never change.

00:16:59.800 And I'll outline those, uh, here in a little while.

00:17:02.400 Um, but let's go back to Jason here.

00:17:04.840 Give me 60 seconds.

00:17:05.760 We'll go back to Jason so he can show us some more of what happened.

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00:18:40.120 All right, Jason, pick it back up.

00:18:49.400 Where do we go next?

00:18:50.840 So I want to, I want to throw this map up to show where the, the assault started and where we're likely to go to next.

00:18:56.300 Purser, Matt, throw this map up really quick.

00:18:57.960 So this was the initial attack.

00:18:59.500 As you can see, it was the strike on the Supreme Leader's compound.

00:19:02.580 Now that was an operational dictate depending on, you know, new information that happened at the time.

00:19:07.760 I don't feel like they wanted to strike at the moment, but they found an opportunity that they really could not pass up.

00:19:14.280 And that was a multitude of large officials meeting at the Supreme Leader's house.

00:19:19.340 So it started there.

00:19:20.200 But as you can see, some of these other squares that were popping up, these are IRGC locations, command and control type areas within Tehran.

00:19:29.080 Now, this area right here, this little oval is very, very familiar to people that military analysts have been watching this for a while.

00:19:37.940 This is one of the most heavily guarded areas in the world.

00:19:40.840 Uh, if it's not named Moscow or Beijing, um, these, and we can go into the actual military hardware and equipment later if you want.

00:19:49.700 But, um, all of these areas really should not, they were deemed unable to be hit by a lot of people in the world.

00:19:58.800 And for good reason, cause they were heavily fortified, but the attack started there.

00:20:02.540 But I want to show you this map and this is from the New York times.

00:20:05.960 Uh, this was where it, the entire operation expanded to targets all over Iran.

00:20:12.400 And I want to show you, these are, uh, basically twice, twice the size of Texas.

00:20:17.960 Is it not?

00:20:19.280 I mean, it's a massive landmass, massive landmass.

00:20:23.060 And that's a lot of areas where, that have hidden missile, uh, bunkers, places that they, that the regime can use to counterattack, hit places like Israel, hit places like the Straits of Hormuz, our Navy.

00:20:34.660 Uh, you know, and on that point, I want to give this context because you will not hear this from the mainstream media.

00:20:39.540 I want to show you, producer Matt, throw this back up really quick.

00:20:42.420 This is the Southern area where that school, um, was reportedly hit.

00:20:46.920 And I don't know the situation of everything surrounded there with, whether it was a mistake, whether it's some of this is propaganda.

00:20:52.580 I don't know, but look at the location of where that's at.

00:20:56.540 That's kind of a strategic area.

00:20:58.660 If you want to know why that area is being targeted in multiple different spots, that's right at the Strait of Hormuz.

00:21:05.820 Yeah.

00:21:06.340 That's where you choke it off.

00:21:07.900 That's where we, the military, uh, our military is sinking their Navy right now.

00:21:13.620 They, yesterday, Trump said they sunk nine ships.

00:21:16.200 They have dozens of ships, um, and you really have to sink them all.

00:21:20.060 But that is exactly at the point where that is on the edge and the coast there.

00:21:25.520 That is the place where you would lay mines.

00:21:29.100 Uh, and I know we are going after their ships in that area.

00:21:32.220 And we are also looking for the, the, the smaller boats that are laying mines.

00:21:36.720 So there's a lot of activity, most likely happening right there on both sides.

00:21:43.680 A hundred percent.

00:21:44.800 And where the operation is right now is the United States and Israel are attempting to grain, gain air superiority over the entire battle space.

00:21:52.560 They're also trying to attempt to knock out their ability to respond to other countries within the Middle East, to Israel, or to our, our bases.

00:22:01.460 So that is going to happen for a while.

00:22:03.600 I would say at least one to two weeks.

00:22:06.240 I do not think you will see any ground element.

00:22:09.820 And let's, when I say ground element, I mean, protesters out in the streets that are starting to take over and rebel against the Iranian regime.

00:22:16.520 Although we did see some of that this weekend, they preemptively came out and they were cheering for the death of the Supreme leader, but I do not think you'll see them come out until that initial phase happens.

00:22:27.420 So I'm saying at least, maybe as soon as next week, maybe two weeks from now, that's when the air superiority portion will be complete.

00:22:34.920 And that's when they'll move on to phase two.

00:22:37.880 And, uh, that's when I will tell you, that's, that's where the president said over the weekend, stay inside your houses.

00:22:44.620 Yeah.

00:22:45.200 It's very, very dangerous.

00:22:46.980 Do not go outside.

00:22:48.740 It's too dangerous right now.

00:22:50.680 Um, he hasn't really, he has said, this is going to be up to you.

00:22:53.960 And thank God, because we're not going to nation build.

00:22:56.340 I will go against this thing so fast.

00:22:58.400 If we start nation building, um, we, we don't nation build that's for them to do.

00:23:03.380 You can give people the opportunity to open the door of freedom, but you can't force them to walk through it.

00:23:09.880 It's up to them to do it and that will be coming, I think in the next few days.

00:23:15.160 Also, I want to talk to Jason about what, what does this mean with Russia and China far as their defense systems failed again?

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00:24:31.760 Do you think the U.S. strikes on Iran's regime were America first?

00:24:40.040 Torch insiders can vote in this poll now.

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00:24:59.120 Jason, you have any more charts to show us here?

00:25:01.760 So I've got what it took in the Venezuela compound.

00:25:07.640 And it's really interesting when you think about what the kind of hardware that was used to harden Venezuela and Maduro versus later an upgraded version of that for Iran.

00:25:18.860 I want you to take a look at this.

00:25:20.060 Producer Matt, throw this up really quick.

00:25:21.940 I think this goes to my point on a bigger vision.

00:25:27.380 What is Trump's bigger vision?

00:25:29.320 And that is Crink.

00:25:32.400 China, Russia, Iran, North Korea.

00:25:36.060 Crink.

00:25:36.940 And when you understand his bigger vision of building a more peaceful, robust West and reducing the power of Crink,

00:25:49.600 this strike over the weekend really makes an impact.

00:25:55.340 And this is just one of the impacts shown what happened in North Korea, then how they upgraded everything in Iran and how well that worked.

00:26:03.480 I think you meant Venezuela, not North Korea, but in Venezuela.

00:26:06.940 Yeah, Venezuela.

00:26:07.740 Sorry.

00:26:08.020 Yeah.

00:26:08.220 Venezuela.

00:26:09.040 So this is – so in Venezuela, they had – so we were just talking about this, the insiders and I were about – this is one of those areas that was considered –

00:26:15.880 producer Matt, throw that back up really quick – this is one of those areas that was supposed to be so hardened that it was basically untouchable.

00:26:21.900 Now, they did this, the Venezuelans, they hardened it.

00:26:24.660 It's a surgical strike.

00:26:25.700 It's not a shock and awe.

00:26:27.620 We're just taking out everything.

00:26:28.940 It's very specific.

00:26:29.880 Now, they did this or the Venezuelans tried to repel something like this with Chinese, a serviced Arab missile system called the HQ-9 and the Russian S-300 system.

00:26:42.120 Now, they're specifically designed to thwart stealth technology.

00:26:47.120 That's the entire reason that you get them is because of that.

00:26:50.320 Well, that was proven ineffective.

00:26:52.020 So the Iranians, what they decided to do was – and I'll throw this back up again – was to harden this unhittable area with upgraded versions of what was in Venezuela.

00:27:03.240 So they got the HQ-9B from China.

00:27:06.820 They got the S-400 system from the Russians.

00:27:10.300 These were supposedly designed to go after stealth aircraft and to make their area the hardened of hard areas to where you cannot do anything about.

00:27:19.760 Well, now we have seen both models of that, and this stuff is – it's being sold and used all over the world as completely ineffective, completely ineffective.

00:27:31.200 So now everybody all across the world is wondering what an actual guarantee of safety from nations like China and Russia – what the heck does that even mean this morning?

00:27:42.260 Pretty much nothing.

00:27:43.000 I think that's why you are seeing the typical fence-sitters, the people who are friends but not friends.

00:27:53.660 And they kind of play – India is one of them.

00:27:56.120 They kind of play the middle ground.

00:27:57.640 They play us off of Russia, et cetera, et cetera.

00:27:59.640 I think just militarily speaking – and there's a lot of other reasons for it – but just militarily speaking, we have, through Donald Trump and his use of the military and Pete Hegseth and the way he has put this together with our Joint Chiefs of Staff,

00:28:14.120 they have demonstrated the U.S. military has prowess over the rest of the world unlike anything I think we have had, well, since World War II.

00:28:27.460 And I think we might have been – we are more ahead than we were in World War II from the rest of the world.

00:28:34.040 The only thing that put us way ahead was a nuclear weapon.

00:28:38.260 We had to use that twice, and that was just so deadly.

00:28:40.760 That's not what's putting us ahead, not some big deadly weapon, although we may have one of those.

00:28:46.620 It's the way we're skirting around everyone else's technology that is making us a mofo, and the world is figuring that out.

00:28:59.080 And that's got to be freaking the people in Russia and China out just for the sales.

00:29:07.820 Imagine being a rep that is going to these big defense seminars and these big conventions where people are selling national defense.

00:29:17.920 And imagine the U.S. booth and then the China and Russia booth that is selling all the stuff we've just defeated in two different places.

00:29:26.260 I mean, spectacularly defeated.

00:29:29.240 I don't think we need anything except just a little screen behind us showing what has happened in Venezuela and Iran.

00:29:38.760 Can you imagine trying to sell that stuff against us?

00:29:42.840 I mean, there's no guarantee of any of that, any of that.

00:29:46.040 I want to take you through this list.

00:29:50.400 Thank you, Jason.

00:29:51.360 I want to take you through this list of things that I went through this weekend.

00:29:57.720 You know, is this America first?

00:30:01.840 Is this a just war?

00:30:03.840 Is this part of a bigger strategy?

00:30:06.740 What do we have to look out for if things go well?

00:30:12.060 And what do we have to look out for if things go horribly?

00:30:17.900 And, you know, the things that even if it goes well, we saw what's going to happen.

00:30:22.300 We are going to have things like we had in Austin yesterday, a shooter who is just was just a crazy man.

00:30:28.180 But, you know, he gave his life to Allah and enjoy those virgins, buddy.

00:30:33.840 Enjoy those virgins.

00:30:35.980 But he gave his life for Allah and killed three people yesterday in Austin, Texas.

00:30:41.940 Those people are here and we have to have a conversation with that.

00:30:46.280 We also need to see, you know, what's happening with our own Congress.

00:30:52.940 You know, Congress has shut off the funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

00:30:57.240 That means TSA.

00:30:59.980 It means lines are going to get longer.

00:31:02.960 It means that scanning will go down.

00:31:07.740 There will be holes in the system because we're not paying the people.

00:31:11.360 And if they don't show up, they don't show up because they're having to work for free.

00:31:15.220 And I don't know if you've noticed this, but those aren't the rich people in our in our society.

00:31:19.400 The people who are working there are clearly being paid a livable wage.

00:31:23.780 And that's about it.

00:31:24.740 And for them to work without income is asking an awful lot.

00:31:30.020 But what are you going to do?

00:31:32.360 The Democrats don't want to fund it.

00:31:34.300 The Democrats should the first thing they should do when they return to town.

00:31:38.400 I think on Wednesday, they're not even working today when they when they return to town.

00:31:43.960 The first thing they should do is fund the Department of Homeland Security because agree or disagree with the war.

00:31:50.860 This is going to make us very vulnerable.

00:31:53.200 And we need all hands on deck right now, by the way, it also defunds the Coast Guard.

00:31:59.120 So don't worry, but nothing comes nothing comes in on our beaches, nothing at all.

00:32:06.180 But let me take you through one thing of this long list of mine, and that is what does a win look like?

00:32:12.920 Because that's where you have to start.

00:32:14.680 You don't take any action unless you say, OK, well, what does it look like?

00:32:19.520 We do all this stuff.

00:32:20.700 Before we even start planning it, before I ask any other questions, what does it look like in the end if we if we win?

00:32:28.860 I don't have a grandiose version of of what it looks like if we win.

00:32:34.860 I mean, I guess I guess I guess I guess I do in some ways.

00:32:38.260 It's stable and free and supports the West.

00:32:41.720 OK, that would be nice if it returned to, you know, the Iran of 1975 and it was stable and Western.

00:32:49.760 And the intellectuals were there and it became a powerhouse.

00:32:53.480 That would be utopia.

00:32:55.200 Be great.

00:32:56.340 That's not I'm not expecting that.

00:32:58.900 I'm not expecting that.

00:33:00.660 I would settle for a couple of things.

00:33:02.680 And I've got I've got three different versions of what a win looks like.

00:33:06.880 Best, better or or.

00:33:10.040 Yeah, best, better, best.

00:33:13.200 Right.

00:33:13.760 No, I don't remember.

00:33:14.800 How is that?

00:33:15.300 How is that phrase?

00:33:16.040 It's do you know what I'm talking about?

00:33:17.720 Good, great, greatest.

00:33:18.960 It may be.

00:33:19.900 I don't remember.

00:33:20.560 Anyway, here's the greatest that it would be stable.

00:33:23.940 It would free and it would be Western and they would be our allies and they would they'd start to rebuild themselves.

00:33:30.700 We're not there rebuilding it.

00:33:32.420 Uh, and they unleash this pent up intellectual power and they become the Persian people and the Iranian people that they've always been, uh, you know, without the oppression.

00:33:43.520 Okay.

00:33:44.000 That would be great, but I will take a stable and more free non-hostile, but what each of these must include.

00:33:54.380 When I say, what does a win look like?

00:33:57.000 No nuclear program, none, period.

00:34:01.200 We take all of the, um, uh, uh, uh, cascading, what do you call those things where there's enriching uranium.

00:34:10.740 I just talked about it a minute ago.

00:34:12.360 Um, we take and we get rid of those and we destroy them.

00:34:15.840 Okay.

00:34:16.300 So they don't have, they cannot enrich in uranium.

00:34:19.320 We take away all of their ability to produce missiles and enrich uranium and make a bomb.

00:34:25.620 That is, if we can't get that in the end, then we've completely lost, uh, no nukes.

00:34:32.780 This isn't still in my, the best version, stable, free, non-hostile, no nuke capability, no oil to China, no drones to Russia.

00:34:45.440 And no terror proxies that's, I would walk away going, wow, what a success it's stable.

00:34:53.920 It's free or free ish, maybe not America, but in their own interpretation of that, it's standing on its own two feet, no oil to China, no drones to Russia, no nukes and no terror proxies.

00:35:06.620 That's an absolute slam dunk, but I would take stable and more free.

00:35:13.940 But still, uh, I mean, uh, an Islamic state, I guess if we have to, but no nuclear program and reduced terror proxies.

00:35:26.140 But all of this also has to happen with something else.

00:35:33.280 And this was Donald Trump's bigger vision.

00:35:35.300 I think this is why, you know, when I was looking into, is this a just war and looking at the just war theory, you, you have to have a plan of success and peace.

00:35:47.160 And part, so that's what has to happen in, uh, Iran, but you also have to have a more united Middle East.

00:35:59.760 Donald Trump, you remember when he, you know, put his thing out with all the hotels and the golf courses and you're like, you're going to make a Trump resort out of Gaza.

00:36:07.240 What do you, that wasn't about that.

00:36:09.720 What that was, was to show the Middle East, look, you can either keep bombing.

00:36:15.240 You can either keep fighting.

00:36:16.600 You can either keep pouring money and lives down the drain, or we can show you how to make this very, very prosperous.

00:36:24.720 And we don't even really have to show you, you've already done it.

00:36:27.720 You've done it in, you know, the UAE, you've done it in, uh, Dubai, uh, you've done it in Saudi Arabia.

00:36:35.020 You know how to be prosperous.

00:36:36.260 And what happens when your country is prosperous?

00:36:39.580 It's prosperous because it's stable.

00:36:42.020 If you make this a stable region, Egypt, UAE, Saudi Arabia, all of you, all of you can actually be wealthy and prosperous.

00:36:53.600 And your people can get out of this cycle of death, adding Iran to that and actually having this coalition actually hold together is a huge, huge win.

00:37:07.060 Okay.

00:37:08.500 You also will still have, you'll still have, uh, Qatar.

00:37:13.620 I don't care what anybody says.

00:37:15.600 Qatar is not our friend.

00:37:17.340 And soon within, I predict within six to eight months, you're going to see some stuff come out about Qatar.

00:37:23.600 That will make that so clear.

00:37:25.880 Anybody who is trying to tell you now, Qatar is good.

00:37:28.960 You won't have to worry about them.

00:37:30.340 Um, because it, it's going to be so clear to every American, how bad Qatar actually is to us here in America.

00:37:39.040 Um, but you'll have Qatar, Iraq, that's going to be real trouble, but hopefully a win looks to me that you have now made this more united Middle East to where they're policing their own area.

00:37:53.340 We don't have to be the policemen.

00:37:54.940 It's not us.

00:37:55.640 And we're not nation building.

00:37:58.800 That's to me, that's a win.

00:38:01.940 It doesn't have to be perfect, but it can't involve nukes.

00:38:06.480 It, we have to reduce the terror proxies.

00:38:09.720 And we also have to unite the Middle East enough to where they're taking care of and policing their own area.

00:38:17.440 So we don't have to, because I don't want to be there for more than a few weeks and I don't want any troops on the ground.

00:38:24.620 And I don't want a nation build.

00:38:26.360 That's not, that's not America first.

00:38:28.940 This would be America first, which goes to answer that second question.

00:38:33.720 Is this America first?

00:38:35.140 Yes.

00:38:35.540 For these reasons and others as well.

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00:40:36.080 So some of the questions coming in from some of the insiders are, Glenn, what do you mean

00:40:39.680 by a more free-ish, you know, a more free nation?

00:40:44.340 What does that mean?

00:40:44.960 I think you're seeing this indicated by President Trump.

00:40:48.640 He is not necessarily saying regime change.

00:40:52.980 You have to not be an Islamic republic.

00:40:55.540 He is saying no nukes and stop killing your people.

00:41:02.240 He's not saying you can't be an Islamic country.

00:41:05.220 And so when I say, for me, it would be perfect to have them, you know, adopt the American Bill

00:41:13.460 of Rights, and everybody has the Bill of Rights, but we're the only country with the Bill

00:41:17.560 of Rights in the world that has that.

00:41:20.320 So I don't expect them to adopt all of our freedoms.

00:41:23.760 However, I think it's unacceptable to at least to claim a win if you can still be killed

00:41:32.100 because you're homosexual.

00:41:33.600 You're killed because you're a Christian.

00:41:35.980 You're killed because you wouldn't wear the burqa.

00:41:39.400 That's not a win.

00:41:41.400 That's not a win.

00:41:42.080 If they go back to that, that's not a win.

00:41:46.240 So that's what I mean by more free.

00:41:48.460 I don't expect them to be America.

00:41:50.320 I would love them to be free like they used to be free before this nightmare started.

00:41:55.520 But I don't know what the odds are, and I don't say that is the absolute.

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00:44:06.020 i am so confused because i i thought we were taking marching orders from israel and then i heard

00:44:15.900 today that uh saudi arabia was the one who finally convinced donald trump to go in and conduct this he

00:44:24.480 was the one who said please just go in i'm not going to support you publicly at front but go in

00:44:29.880 and do it and so i guess we're taking wow we're taking marching orders from saudi arabia or is

00:44:35.020 it israel or does the president have a mind of his own and sometimes things line up

00:44:42.920 uh we're going to tell you how this happened and some of the amazing things uh that are going on

00:44:48.440 and also some of the things we should be paying attention to and worried about because there are

00:44:53.780 you know this even no matter how well this goes you still have millions of people that are like

00:45:01.480 12ers that believe they have to wash the world in blood to be able to hasten the return of the

00:45:06.980 promised one and usher in the end times i mean they're scary scary religious zealots uh and there

00:45:14.200 are millions of them that believe this so it's this is not an easy thing and i don't want to try to

00:45:20.760 convince you one way or another i just want you to use critical thinking and principles and say

00:45:29.060 this is where we're at today is this right is this wrong uh and not marry into i'm not going to tell

00:45:36.380 you that this is the greatest thing ever and this is you know you know what this is going to work out

00:45:40.680 fine because i have no idea i hope it does and i trust the leaders but i'm not writing anybody a blank

00:45:48.160 check on this nor should you all right we're going to talk to a former israeli defense force spokesperson

00:45:53.640 uh on some of the things that happened this weekend what it all means and some of the technology that

00:46:00.660 i'm hearing we have or israel has that we used because again it was almost like venezuela all of

00:46:07.500 their defenses failed what is going on and how did we know exactly where the 40 leaders were going to

00:46:14.160 be when some of them came to the table blindfolded because the ayatollah was so freaked out about leaks

00:46:21.520 that he wanted everybody to show up blindfolded how did we know this we'll get some of those uh

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00:48:00.160 Jonathan Conricus welcome to the uh welcome to the program what is your first take uh on this weekend

00:48:07.560 and what you saw well thanks for having me on Glenn always a pleasure and i in i really enjoy the intro

00:48:14.740 music first time i hear it it is impressive uh and now to uh two more serious matters uh i just came out

00:48:22.460 of a bomb shelter a few hours ago. So it's a very, you know, real environment here. We are

00:48:27.980 at war again. My take is as follows. I am very happy we are doing this together, the US and

00:48:34.820 Israel. I think it is much better that we are attacking the Iranian regime together. That is

00:48:41.300 more than twice the firepower, the intel and the coordination. And I think that's a very positive

00:48:47.400 thing. And I think that's a stabilizing factor. That's one. Two, initial success, quite high

00:48:53.900 in terms of personnel. You touched on it in the intro, almost the entire command and most

00:49:02.660 of the defense establishment senior figureheads in Iran were wiped out, including the supreme

00:49:09.260 leader himself, which was quite an establishment and a really positive thing. Three, we are

00:49:16.800 on our third day of the war. And yes, we've been down in shelters many times and countless

00:49:22.680 alarms. We've had 11 civilian civilians killed. But when I compare that to June 25, the previous

00:49:33.180 round with Iran, I can see that the Iranians are firing less missiles and they're struggling

00:49:39.820 to deliver in. And we are surprised with the amount that they're actually getting away.

00:49:46.360 We anticipated more. And that could be because they're either calculating and trying to run

00:49:55.320 an economic number here and not to run out of missiles, or that they're simply not able

00:50:02.940 to because US and Israeli planes are taking out the missile launchers. Whatever the reason,

00:50:09.120 it's a relatively positive thing. Four, last thing, this is widening and the Iranian regime is escalating

00:50:17.780 and it is now regional. Iran has fired more than 500 ballistic, sorry, more than 150 ballistic

00:50:25.640 missiles at the United Arab Emirates, dozens at Saudi Arabia, including oil facilities at Qatar,

00:50:32.680 at Kuwait, at Bahrain, at Jordan, at Cyprus, an EU country. So Iran is lashing out, and they're doing

00:50:41.320 it sooner than what I thought they would, which I interpret as a sign of despair, and perhaps panic.

00:50:49.880 And when your enemy is panicking, that's usually an indication that good things are happening,

00:50:55.520 which tells me, really floor it and keep the pressure on. And that is how we will achieve the

00:51:04.100 goals of this operation.

00:51:06.400 How much did the Mossad infiltrate the regime? And there's claims, and I don't know if they're true,

00:51:12.880 but claims going around this weekend that Mossad agents were posing as dentists

00:51:17.260 and they were implanting miniature... Is there any truth to that?

00:51:25.180 You know, after the beeper operation, I read that tweet. Yeah, I read the tweet a few days and a half

00:51:33.020 ago and I chuckled at it. But I mean, after the beeper operation, nothing seems outlandish anymore

00:51:40.600 because of how high-tech and, you know, James Bondy the beeper operation was. And then people,

00:51:46.480 you know, can think that it's reasonable that the Mossad was able to infiltrate to such an extent.

00:51:53.020 I actually checked when I read it with a friend in the Mossad, and he chuckled well, and he said,

00:51:58.960 you know, that's a nice idea. We'll cultivate that for the future, for the next enemy.

00:52:03.180 Okay. But, uh, but I don't think that's the case. Um, yeah, I heard that the CIA was the one that gave

00:52:10.800 the coordinates, uh, to your airplanes because it was your airplanes that actually took out,

00:52:17.640 um, the Ayatollah. Um, the thing I walk away with is there, you know, the people who say I'm going

00:52:26.760 to go off grid. Cause I've always thought that, well, I'll just go off grid. There is no off grid

00:52:30.160 anymore. If we want to find you and kill you, we will, we will find you and kill you. That's not

00:52:35.260 a good thing, but that's true. No, it's a great thing. If you are a person, well, it's a great

00:52:41.220 thing. Yes. Yeah. As long as it doesn't fall into the wrong hands, it's exactly. But the issue here

00:52:48.360 is, you know, the, the, the compounded effects of the two intelligence agencies, CIA and Mossad,

00:52:55.100 coupled with visual intelligence from IDF and from various us, uh, uh, satellites and other visual

00:53:02.480 assets. And then the X factor is personnel on the ground, the human component, human intelligence

00:53:09.200 and agents. And I can say that, you know, the Mossad has spent a lot of years investing in building

00:53:16.200 infrastructure on the ground networks and, um, people that they have recruited, uh, who are providing

00:53:23.760 the, you know, the real X factor, the real golden nugget in the specific time that it's needed.

00:53:30.500 And I understand that this is what made it all possible here. It's a fusion of American Intel and

00:53:36.960 Israeli Intel, and then delivered this case specifically Israeli plane or Israeli pilots

00:53:42.960 flying American planes, American made planes, but the Israeli planes, uh, and delivering those weapons

00:53:49.560 at the time that they were supposed to be delivered and the location. And I think it's a very good

00:53:55.140 example of how Intel and targeting and counter-terrorism is supposed to be done.

00:54:01.840 So there's a couple of things that I've heard for the last 25 years, and I'm sick of hearing it.

00:54:07.040 Um, one, they had weapons of mass destruction, and that's why we had to go in right now because

00:54:12.220 they have weapons of mass destruction. When you show me the pictures, I'll believe the weapons of mass

00:54:15.900 destruction thing. Um, uh, you know, I, I do know that they would use them. I do know they were

00:54:21.580 enriching radium, but I have heard we're days away for 25 years. Uh, so, you know, uh, I'll believe

00:54:28.780 it when I see it. Um, the, um, the second thing that I've heard is we'll be welcomed as liberators.

00:54:35.720 Now people are saying we don't have any information at all about what the people on the ground want.

00:54:40.560 Well, I find it hard to believe that we can track the leadership and we know where everybody is,

00:54:44.680 but we have no clue as to what people want it. This can, we, we cannot, this can't turn into Iran

00:54:51.580 or Afghanistan. The people have to take it at some point and build their own nation. We're not nation

00:54:59.360 building any idea, the likelihood of the people standing up and being able to take this into a

00:55:06.700 peaceful direction. I think your skepticism of, um, government issued information is well in place

00:55:16.680 and deserved. Um, I looking at Iran and with the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, I think it's,

00:55:25.280 we're, we're starting in a good location because the president has said, and so has the prime minister

00:55:30.380 that this isn't about, you know, uh, repeating mistakes of the past. And it's very clear that

00:55:39.040 the future of the, of Iran will be determined by the Iranian people. But also equally clear is that

00:55:48.280 we've had tens of millions of Iranians marching on the street in various cities of Iran calling for

00:55:55.860 the demise of the dictator. Death to the dictator was the most popular chant and, uh, trying to get

00:56:02.460 free from the, the tyranny of that dictatorship. Uh, unfortunately they were gunned down brutally.

00:56:08.120 As the president also mentioned, more than 32,000 were murdered by the regime, uh, yet they continue

00:56:14.600 to go out in numbers. And only a week and a half ago, we had, uh, dozens of protests around the country

00:56:21.520 in different universities, uh, again, facing mortal danger, but they were still out on the street. So

00:56:28.080 I think that there's authentic will to, uh, by, by Iranians, by tens of millions of Iranians.

00:56:36.740 Granted, there are people in Iran who are diehard regime supporters, who are religious fundamentalists,

00:56:42.580 who are people who want and believe that the regime is, uh, how they want their country to be

00:56:48.580 governed. I don't think anybody can tell us and give, you know, an empiric number of how many they

00:56:54.660 are versus how many freedom or revolutionary Iranians there are, but it looks as if the people

00:57:00.980 who want change are the overwhelming and vast majority, uh, but time will have to tell. Uh, but

00:57:07.040 at the end of the day, you know, there won't be American boots on the ground. Definitely won't be

00:57:11.440 Israeli boots on the ground. There might be, uh, Israeli agents behind, you know, Mossad, et cetera,

00:57:16.980 maybe CIA, but, uh, in terms of, you know, doing things that like happened in Iraq, I don't think

00:57:23.960 we're in that situation at all. And I'm happy that that isn't the scenario. Bottom line, the Iranian

00:57:29.700 people will have to move forward and they will have to chart the future. If you ask me, honestly,

00:57:36.120 is it going to be benign and peaceful? I doubt it because the Iranian regime has spent significant

00:57:43.660 efforts at, uh, cementing their control over the Iranian people and building very robust, uh,

00:57:50.860 oppression, oppressive infrastructure. By the way, some of that infrastructure is now being unraveled by

00:57:56.680 Israeli airplanes. That is there were bombing, uh, those headquarters, the Basij, IRGC, uh, internal

00:58:04.180 police, and they're called the so-called judiciary, uh, and they're being, uh, targeted as we speak.

00:58:09.940 Um, and, and the objective here is to pave the way, but change will only come. The regime will

00:58:15.420 only fall if the Iranian people rises up and seizes the opportunity very much like what the

00:58:20.260 president said. Are you seeing difference? You know, the one thing that is different now between

00:58:25.400 Iraq and Afghanistan is we went in with this utopian view. Um, and I don't think there was a real plan

00:58:32.200 for how peace was really going to work and without us. Um, and, um, and this time it seems as though

00:58:41.100 Trump started even in his last, uh, term with the, um, you know, the Abrahamic cords, um, and, and the,

00:58:51.340 you know, council of peace and everything else that he's been doing. It seems as though he's tried to

00:58:56.480 knit together a coalition of nations that are not necessarily run by us, but, but by them, he's

00:59:03.600 looks like he's tried to convince people, look, you can be prosperous and safe and it'll change your

00:59:08.840 world for the better. And they seem to be, you know, making friends with Israel and wanting to

00:59:15.560 coexist, et cetera, et cetera. It, it, uh, is it different in the middle East with Saudi Arabia and

00:59:22.920 Egypt and, uh, and UAE and everybody else? Is this different than it has been in the past?

00:59:30.160 I would say so. And I think that the region, um, the various Arab and Muslim leaders and people

00:59:37.360 are responding to president's Trump leadership and his style of leadership. I think it resonates

00:59:44.680 and it's clear it's relatable, understandable for people in the area and they get what he's saying

00:59:50.480 and they get what he's doing. Uh, it's, it's not, you know, uh, fancy words and lofty statements and

00:59:58.100 a lot of stuff, you know, about democracy and values, et cetera. It's very clear. Uh, the man says

01:00:03.800 exactly what he means. And, uh, then he usually follows up with action that is, uh, uh, that is

01:00:09.560 correspondent with what he said he would do. And that's, that's relatable people here in the middle

01:00:14.280 East, uh, understand, I think. And, uh, you could see that, uh, countries leaders and, and, and

01:00:20.720 organizations, they, they align with that. So I, I, it's still early days, you know, when you look at

01:00:26.160 the big picture, uh, in the, in the region under now president Trump, where would the board of peace

01:00:31.740 go and what will the situation in Gaza be? But I think that the move here is, it looks to be,

01:00:38.040 you know, like legacy defining for, for the president. And I think that it's a very bold move,

01:00:43.860 very bold move by the president to put his, uh, legacy on the line and say, I'm going to go for

01:00:50.100 it. I'm going to go for making sure once and for all that Iran won't have nuclear weapons,

01:00:56.280 that they're not going to be a regional menace. They're not going to be a future threat to America.

01:01:01.200 Currently, they're a threat to American interest in the region in the future. They could become a

01:01:05.620 threat to domestic, uh, the, to, to, to continental us. Uh, and, um, he's, uh, stopping that on his

01:01:13.480 watch. So it's a, it's a very brave move. Thank you very much, Jonathan. I appreciate it. God

01:01:19.060 bless you. Thank you. Stay safe. You too. Thank you. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan, uh,

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01:03:18.640 So, uh, we're going to talk to Jack here in just a second. Um, Ricky, any news come out of that

01:03:37.500 conversation here? And Jason, I would ask you the same thing. You learn anything from that last

01:03:42.580 conversation with Conricus? I thought he was a little too coy on the dentist question.

01:03:51.660 I thought he was, I thought he was saying clearly, no, no, but you know, why not? Why not let people

01:03:58.540 believe Jason? What'd you get from that? Yeah, I, I don't think, I actually absolutely think that

01:04:04.380 Colonel Conricus is still tapped in to a lot of different areas. I don't think they're going to

01:04:09.120 give away too much of what, you know, they did or didn't do in that, but I'm sure it's a lot and

01:04:13.940 it's still happening. Yeah. Yeah. It, it, it, uh, it has to be because there's a lot of other bad

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01:06:18.780 Jack Carr is with us. Uh, Jack is a military operator himself, uh, best-selling author of the

01:06:33.400 Terminal List series. You can also, he's also the executive producer of that series on TV. If you've

01:06:39.900 never watched it, you've never read the Terminal List, you need to. Um, but he is also, uh, the author

01:06:44.400 of a book, a nonfiction book called, uh, targeted Beirut. And he came out with this and this is, uh,

01:06:51.880 really kind of the genesis of how all of the, how we got here. And I wanted to talk to Jack about,

01:06:58.820 you know, the operation, uh, that happened this weekend and is still going on. Donald Trump just said

01:07:04.460 the big wave is yet to come in war with Iran. Um, what he thinks about what's happening, uh, you know,

01:07:13.740 uh, what the things that happened maybe this weekend that the average person might've, um, missed

01:07:19.540 and also ask him as a fiction writer, the most likely way this ends. But first let me talk to him

01:07:25.640 about, you know, the setup. Why is this happening? You know, if you look at targeted Beirut, Jack,

01:07:30.740 um, explain this situation in that context. Well, Beirut really was in our response to what

01:07:38.700 happened in Beirut in 1983 was so pivotal to everything that was going to happen afterward.

01:07:43.420 Meaning we had an attack on our embassy in April of 1983, killed 63 people, 17 Americans. And then

01:07:50.720 that led to the October, uh, bombing of the barracks and headquarters building of our Marines there who

01:07:56.120 were there as peacekeepers that killed 241 servicemen. Now it taught Iran a couple of things

01:08:01.700 in particular. It taught them one, that terrorism works and two, that it works even better through

01:08:06.980 proxies because in the aftermath of that event, the Reagan administration did a lot of tough talk,

01:08:12.220 but then in early 1984, they left the region. So that taught not just Iran, but, and not just the

01:08:19.220 region really, but the world, uh, that terrorism works. So how do we responded differently back then?

01:08:24.280 Um, the, the history moving forward from 1983 would have been vastly different because there

01:08:30.980 is a direct line between that and September 11th, 2001, but I was not surprised to wake up

01:08:36.820 on Saturday morning to a host of text messages, uh, letting me know that, uh, military operations

01:08:42.500 had started against Iran. And, uh, my first thought was really one of, of sadness. Well, it wasn't,

01:08:48.820 it wasn't unexpected of course, because the, uh, the maximum pressure campaign against Iran was

01:08:55.160 really never going to work because the three things that were non-negotiable, uh, Iran acquiring

01:09:00.280 nuclear weapons, the ballistic missile program, and their support of terrorist organizations through

01:09:04.520 proxies, any, any acquiescence, uh, to any of those would make the regime look weak. And they've really

01:09:12.020 been in power since 1979 through coercion, fear, threat of violence and actual violence

01:09:18.360 on any protests. And we saw that most recently here in January. So, uh, it made me sad because

01:09:24.160 diplomacy had failed also covert action had failed. So any covert action we'd attempted over the last

01:09:29.400 year or through in previous administrations over the past decades that has failed also. And now we're

01:09:35.200 in a full scale, uh, military engagement with Iran. So, you know, I, I, I saw these people and I would

01:09:41.360 love it if, you know, if, if we could have all come to the negotiating table and work something out,

01:09:45.860 but I saw people say, you got to give negotiation a chance 49 years, Jack. Right. And, and it's the,

01:09:52.480 you know, the, the, the exact definition of insanity. Follow me. Jimmy Carter said, this can't stand.

01:09:59.440 They got to stop. Ronald Reagan said, they got to stop. This can't stand HW Bush. They can't,

01:10:04.240 it's got to stop. We've got to get to the negotiating table. Clinton said that W Bush said

01:10:09.120 that Obama said that Trump said that in the first term, Biden said that, I mean, at some point you're

01:10:15.140 like, this is insane. We've tried giving them billions of dollars. We've tried holding money

01:10:21.320 back. We've tried carrots and sticks and nothing works. It's just that this president is the first

01:10:27.820 one to say, I'm not kicking the can down to the next president. It's over. Exactly. So each of those,

01:10:33.520 each of those administrations from both parties have had the, the same red line. They've had the

01:10:38.960 same policy pillar of our foreign policy in regards to Iran, the same one, they just had different ways

01:10:44.720 of dealing with it. And none of them effective. Some of them actually helped Iran get either more

01:10:52.520 powerful or gave them more options when it came to, to building up these different weapons programs

01:10:58.520 to, to crushing any popular uprising or protests. So it is, it, I'm not surprised that we got to this

01:11:08.040 point. And we should have learned from Al Qaeda. When someone declares war on you, pay attention.

01:11:14.800 Al Qaeda did it in 1996, 1998, attacked the USS Cole, of course. And none of those things made us treat

01:11:22.860 that terrorist organization as anything other than a, uh, uh, essentially a criminal enterprise.

01:11:29.020 And only after September 11th, 2001, where our hand was essentially forced to treat it as a military

01:11:33.840 problem. When people declare war on you and tell you that they want to destroy you, uh, you probably

01:11:39.020 don't want that person to have a nuclear weapon or to have options, uh, that can, uh, can lead to your

01:11:43.800 demise. So, um, you know, you, you look at, uh, you look at everything that has been going on and,

01:11:52.700 you know, everybody's trying to make it about, they were close to a nuclear weapon. I've heard that

01:11:55.960 for 30 years. I'll believe it when I see that. Um, I think this is, I think, um, that this is much

01:12:04.980 bigger than that. This is about Trump redesigning the entire world, uh, and going after, uh, crank,

01:12:13.960 um, to take the eye, you know, there is no eye in team. Well, the access team is crank and he's

01:12:21.420 taking the eye out of that, which hurts, uh, oil, uh, for, uh, China hurts money through the oil for

01:12:29.520 Russia. Also, you know, they've been, Iran's been giving them all the drones, et cetera, et cetera.

01:12:34.980 I mean, it really starts to break crank apart. Um, and I think this is much, I think to look at

01:12:42.280 this just as Iran, I think is, you'll never understand why we did this. Do you believe

01:12:48.580 that's true or am I wrong? Oh, I think you're a hundred percent sure. And I've been, uh, up before

01:12:53.100 dawn on shows and, uh, the last couple of days just been going all day. So I haven't been able to,

01:12:57.340 uh, to look at or listen to or read your analysis. So I was really excited to hear your analysis of what's

01:13:02.960 been going on, but you're absolutely right. Um, with China buying so much oil from Iran, getting

01:13:09.060 around sanctions from the United States, uh, from other allied countries. And then there's this $400

01:13:14.940 billion investment that China has in Iran. And part of that is technological, meaning they are

01:13:20.800 sharing at, well, selling, uh, the, the apparatus by which they control their populace in China

01:13:26.380 to the Iranians. Um, and that's really been propping up this regime. So without, uh, without

01:13:33.780 that in play, and, uh, it really allows us now, well, we'll see how this plays out, but, uh, to

01:13:40.920 focus on the Pacific, on China, on Taiwan, on the semiconductors that are built in, in Taiwan, uh,

01:13:47.520 and then the Russian side as well. So you're exactly right. This is not just about Iran. I would be

01:13:53.460 surprised if, uh, if, uh, we read something in the future that, uh, where someone makes that,

01:13:57.900 that argument down the line, because right out of the gate here, I'm not seeing that this is

01:14:02.460 definitely a reshuffling of the world order, uh, and really putting Russia and China on, on, uh,

01:14:09.920 uh, we'll bring, we'll bring them into this, into this fold, realigning some of these alliances

01:14:15.400 and allowing us to focus on Russia, China, and Iran, not just the Middle East as we have for the

01:14:21.340 previous 25 plus years. Jack, we've talked to each other for years and I, I've always loved talking

01:14:26.440 to fiction writers because you can be honest, you're not playing politics. You have to come up

01:14:31.060 with a scenario that in the end may be more believable than actual reality because fiction

01:14:37.660 has got to make sense. Um, and so you look at things, um, and you're like, what makes the most

01:14:43.160 sense? What is most likely to happen if this, this, and this happened, have you had time to noodle

01:14:50.000 this on what is the most likely outcome of all of this? I have, and, uh, it's really becomes down

01:14:57.120 to cope is not a course of action. Hope is not a good strategy. And what we're seeing right now,

01:15:02.180 uh, and I'm going to be very curious as to how this plays out in the weeks, months, and even,

01:15:06.220 even years ahead is that if this is a decapitation, a regime decapitation, if this is a, uh, regime

01:15:12.800 alteration or the hope of a regime alteration that, uh, brings Iran into the U S camp and away from the

01:15:18.520 China and Russia camp. Um, if we had, or the, uh, Israelis had, or some other entity had a primary,

01:15:26.540 a secondary, a tertiary person that we've been back channeling with who has the support of the

01:15:32.560 military, who can purge that military and intelligence apparatus of those loyal to the regime

01:15:37.700 and bring then Iran into the U S camp. Um, I would think we've done that. And I would think that

01:15:44.660 we've learned from the past, uh, 20 years in Afghanistan and all our years in Iraq, because

01:15:49.680 we have people in the administration who fought at the tactical level in those countries. Uh, but

01:15:55.380 once again, I don't know. And like you, I've, uh, I am, we've, we've heard so much about regime change

01:16:00.840 and weapons of mass destruction and all of these things. So I'll be very curious to know what lessons

01:16:06.040 they took from Iraq and Afghanistan and applied to this present problem set. So, uh, is there someone

01:16:12.080 waiting in the wings that is going to bring Iran into the U S camp or not, or are they just hoping

01:16:18.300 that someone's going to step up? I'm very curious as to, uh, as to that, you know, we have defunded,

01:16:25.460 the Democrats have defunded DHS. That means TSA TSA, I think ran out of money this weekend.

01:16:31.960 Um, that means the coast guard. Uh, and, uh, you know, I can't imagine if I were in Congress,

01:16:38.200 I don't care if I agreed with this war or disagreed with this war, I would be worried

01:16:41.380 that we were going to be hit in internally because we have so many people inside, you know,

01:16:46.280 we already saw the crazy guy, you know, wearing the, you know, owned by Allah t-shirt and the

01:16:52.820 Iranian flag underneath, uh, that shirt. Um, we saw shooters because of this action up in Canada

01:17:00.800 over the weekend. Uh, how likely is it? What should we be preparing for here in the mainland?

01:17:07.340 Because honestly, Jack, I have to tell you, I could come up with a thousand scenarios that about

01:17:12.780 25 people could do that would put us on our knees within a week. And I'm shocked that nobody has done

01:17:19.120 them. Um, I know how, how, I know how, why hasn't that happened and how, how likely is it to now

01:17:27.620 happen because of stuff like this? Well, it's, it is, uh, it certainly takes the, the attention of

01:17:33.520 people out there, um, that are just looking for a reason to lash out. So there's, there's different

01:17:38.380 categories here, but, uh, the sleeper cells are the ones that we typically talk about. Um, and, uh,

01:17:43.840 that's certainly possible, especially with the wide open borders of the, the previous years. So we

01:17:49.220 have that to think about something that's really thought through, um, that hits multiple targets,

01:17:54.020 um, uh, at any given time across the United States, or you have that lone wolf type person

01:18:01.120 that's radicalized online. Like, uh, maybe like we saw with, with a Charlie Kirk, just someone who

01:18:05.360 wants to lash out and, and it's been made acceptable for them to do so because of the, uh, the insane

01:18:11.420 rhetoric that's floating around out there on these platforms that really democratized, uh, free speech,

01:18:16.800 meaning you don't have to invest anything in what you say anymore. You can just say it,

01:18:21.880 or a bot can say it, or an algorithm can feed it to you. Um, so we're in a very dangerous time.

01:18:27.360 You have to invest nothing in order to, uh, destroy or degrade what was once an extremely

01:18:33.720 proud country, the United States of America. So it's, uh, I don't have a good answer on that front.

01:18:39.880 It just, uh, it makes me sad for the future, but these platforms are tools and any tool is a weapon.

01:18:45.820 So, uh, I would definitely say that, uh, we need to remain vigilant, but not just because of what's

01:18:50.660 happening in Iran. Uh, these things can happen at any given time for any reason. So, uh, people

01:18:56.240 really need to, to take, take, uh, responsibility for, uh, for their really their own protection

01:19:01.340 and that of their families. Somebody said on TV, you know, they, they had enough material

01:19:05.900 to make a dirty nuke and get it into the U S how difficult is that? Uh, not as difficult

01:19:12.060 as one would think, uh, because it's really just, uh, a normal explosive that one can, uh,

01:19:17.660 can make with, uh, material on the open market. And that's just placed near, uh, whether it's,

01:19:24.180 uh, uh, uh, nuclear debris, uh, waste, whatever there's, there's all sorts of ways to do it

01:19:32.320 at all sorts of different scales. So, um, at that end, but you probably kill more people

01:19:37.400 in a bunch of other different ways. That one just really uses the imagination of the public.

01:19:41.520 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jack, thank you. Appreciate it. God bless you. We'll talk again. You bet.

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01:23:09.000 saying, so Glenn, are you for this or are you against this? I mean, I don't understand where you stand.

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01:26:06.780 Well, hello, America. Welcome to the Glenn Beck program. Uh, I want to spend the hour

01:26:11.260 talking to you about how I look at this, uh, this operation, um, our attack on Iraq. What

01:26:23.820 does it mean? What, what, I'm sorry, Iran. What does it mean? Why are we doing it? What

01:26:32.580 do we expect a win to look like? And I can't answer any of those questions except from my

01:26:38.980 point of view. And so I want to take you through the things that I asked myself this weekend.

01:26:45.660 And I'll give you the conclusions I came up with. I'm not trying to convince you that this is right

01:26:49.960 or wrong. I just want to show you how I thought about it and maybe we'll help you think it through

01:26:55.420 as well. But I took in a couple of things. What does a win look like? What is the just war theory?

01:27:02.220 Um, is this a just war? Um, is this America first and also crink? And I will explain all of those

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01:28:25.360 you, uh, I come to you today. Um, and I want you to hear me clearly. I am not trying to sell you on

01:28:34.440 anything. Uh, I have been down this road so many times over the last 30 years, and I have seen things

01:28:41.920 that I absolutely believed were happening that we're not. I think we have been betrayed by our

01:28:46.600 government over and over again. Um, and I believe too many people I shouldn't have. Um, I, I started

01:28:55.720 this weekend with why would I give my trust to Donald Trump? Donald Trump is not the Donald Trump of 2016.

01:29:03.280 Uh, Donald Trump did not do this in 2016, but Donald Trump ran and said, no more of these wars.

01:29:11.460 Okay. So I want to get into that here in a second, but when I say Donald Trump is not the Donald Trump

01:29:16.440 of 2016, Donald Trump came in and he just kind of, you know, he's got such a good gut on him. He was

01:29:23.120 like shooting from the gut and he's like, I want to do this and I'm going to do that. What Donald Trump

01:29:27.600 has done in the last year has been remarkably coordinated and consistent. Now you may not agree

01:29:35.360 with it and that's fine. You may not like it. Um, and that's fine, but you should understand it

01:29:41.740 before you make a judgment on it. And I have, it's my job to try to figure out what the hell

01:29:49.420 is happening and then tell you my opinion on it. I'm not going to give you, well, I guess I will give

01:29:55.760 you my opinion because I'm going to show you how I thought of this, but I don't want to give you my

01:29:59.420 opinion. So you follow my opinion. That's not my goal. My goal is to help you think this through

01:30:05.720 because we all, you cannot just glob onto somebody else's opinion. Okay. You're going to get lost.

01:30:11.920 If you do that, you're going to, if you do that and you do this about feelings or winning or my team

01:30:18.340 versus their team, you're going to get lost and you cannot afford to get lost. So let me start

01:30:23.700 with principle. Number one, can you hate war and still fight one?

01:30:32.160 Yes. And in fact, I believe that is the only moral way to fight a war. I despise war,

01:30:40.860 but this must be done. Okay. There is a difference between loving war and accepting that sometimes

01:30:48.940 you have to fight a war. And I'm not saying this is one of those times I'm just explaining.

01:30:53.720 Can you hate war and fight one? Yes. A surgeon does not have to love the knife or cutting people

01:31:00.760 up, but he does it because he has to. Any, a nation doesn't love war. If it does, it is already

01:31:08.180 become something dark and evil, but a nation that refuses to act when evil calcifies into permanence

01:31:16.000 is not peaceful. That's not, that makes you peaceful. That makes you negligent. So yes,

01:31:21.300 being pro peace and being willing to fight can coexist. In fact, I believe they must. And I saw

01:31:29.680 that everywhere. I thought you were pro peace. I thought you were against war. I am. I am. Can we be

01:31:36.060 adults and have an adult conversation? The deeper question is not, are you for war? The question is,

01:31:46.000 what kind of peace are you trying to secure? And there, there, there are, there are places where

01:31:53.320 you go, I'm going to accept that peace. And maybe this for you is one of those places,

01:31:58.980 but you can't jump to conclusions instead of just reacting. Like I saw everybody on TV this weekend

01:32:08.640 reacting. Can we think like an adult for a second? First, what is the objective? This kind of goes

01:32:16.440 into the just war theory. And I spent a lot of time on the just war theory. I want to know, is this

01:32:21.360 just, is this right? When do we have to step in and when do we not, why do we step in here and not in

01:32:28.840 Sudan? Okay. First is the objective conquest? No. Is it regime change? Not sure. Is it humiliation?

01:32:40.220 No. Is the objective, the removal of a destabilizing terror sponsored nuclear seeking

01:32:46.880 command structure that has choked its own people and threatened an entire region? Yes,

01:32:52.400 I believe that's it, but not only that. And that's really important. If the aim is limited and

01:33:01.500 strategic, disable the head of the system that fuels regional chaos, then it is categorically

01:33:09.360 different from marching divisions into a country to rebuild that country in our image.

01:33:14.640 Iraq was nation building. Okay. This appears at this point to be decapitation and deterrence.

01:33:24.100 You'll notice that he has not dictated that this will not be an Islamic state. Did you notice that?

01:33:32.980 These, this is not the same as Iraq. I'm not saying it's better or that you have to agree with it.

01:33:39.240 I'm just, please understand. I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm just trying to help

01:33:43.940 you think it through. And I imagine there's going to be a lot of people that disagree with me and

01:33:48.100 that's okay. My job is to help you think it through, not agree with me. Second thing was peace attempted

01:33:55.600 first. This one matters enormously. You can't just rush into war. Uh, and in the past we have rushed

01:34:04.760 into military action without creating a regional structure capable of sustaining peace afterward.

01:34:10.260 Okay. And maybe we haven't exhausted the, uh, the road to peace. So this one is different. First of

01:34:20.480 all, beginning at Jimmy Carter, we have exhausted peace. I mean, 49 years of peace talks. Okay. Um,

01:34:28.860 and what's different, why I believe Donald Trump did not take this on the first time

01:34:34.500 is because he hadn't done the work. He had done the Abraham Accords, but he had not done the rest of

01:34:41.760 the work that is needed. The Abraham Accords fundamentally altered the United, the, um,

01:34:48.160 Middle East diplomacy. It brought key Arab States into open normalization with Israel. And for the first

01:34:55.400 time, major Sunni powers publicly aligned around coexistence rather than we got to wipe Israel off the face of

01:35:04.440 the map. So they kind of joined the Western world and went, we can kind of coexist here.

01:35:10.520 Also Hamas's military capacity severely degraded since October 7th attacks and the, also the war in

01:35:18.320 Gaza that shifted the strategic balance in the region. Also Sarah, uh, several Arab nations and

01:35:25.540 governments have become stakeholders in stability rather than chaos. They're no longer standing on the

01:35:31.480 sidelines. They are now saying we want peace. Okay. That's not a small shift. That is a tectonic

01:35:39.500 shift. Here's what we have done in the past. We have gone in and said, we're going to bring peace.

01:35:45.040 We're a freedoms on the March and we're going to bring freedom to these people. You cannot bring

01:35:49.440 freedom to these people. I thought we could in Afghanistan. I even kind of thought we could in Iraq.

01:35:54.620 That's absolutely idiot, idiocy to think you can bring people freedom. They must fight for it

01:36:01.360 themselves. They must want it themselves. So if we were going into nation build, I'm absolutely dead set

01:36:07.860 against it. If you remove a destabilizing regime after regional powers are economically and politically

01:36:16.440 invested in peace, the odds of a vacuum of chaos shrink dramatically. They don't go away. It still could

01:36:25.200 become horrible in the end. This doesn't guarantee success, but it changes the probability curve. Okay.

01:36:34.740 Third thing I asked myself,

01:36:36.700 can you be anti-war and still use force effectively? Yes. Look at Donald Trump. This one,

01:36:45.680 this one is key. This is not, can you fight a war and be anti-war? This is, can you be against war

01:36:51.760 and fight it effectively? During Donald Trump is not pro-war. I don't care what any of the other

01:36:59.540 pundits say that are now turned on Donald Trump. And I am not here to shovel garbage for,

01:37:05.440 I'm not carrying any weight, any water for Donald Trump. He's a big boy. He can handle himself. Okay.

01:37:12.420 I'm here just to tell you how I think about things and what I have noticed. During his first term,

01:37:19.420 Donald Trump authorized this, uh, the, uh, strike that killed, uh, Soleimani. Okay. That was,

01:37:26.160 this is the guy that was the architect of the Iran regional proxy war. This is the guy who was

01:37:31.620 responsible for killing many U S soldiers. Okay. When he did it, people said, going to set the whole

01:37:38.280 Middle East on fire, but it didn't. Then ISIS, ISIS, we Barack Obama tried to fight ISIS for two terms.

01:37:49.960 Couldn't fight it. Couldn't fight it. Couldn't fight it. Hillary Clinton goes over. She actually

01:37:53.800 helps create it, make it more powerful. I mean, it was horrible. Remember ISIS was burning

01:37:59.400 Christians in cages and we did nothing about it. Donald Trump, they were killing our soldiers.

01:38:06.120 And Donald Trump said, we got to do this. And all the generals said, it's going to take us two years.

01:38:11.060 And he said, bull crap. It's going to take us two years. Is there anybody who has less than a two

01:38:15.260 year plan? That's what he found raising cane. General cane came in and said, I can get it done in four

01:38:21.000 weeks. And he explained the plan. And Donald Trump said, you're either crazy or you're my guy.

01:38:28.180 Uh, and he convinced him he wasn't crazy. And what happened? We wiped ISIS out. The control of ISIS

01:38:35.840 collapsed almost overnight. Okay. Far, far, far faster than even the most optimistic people

01:38:42.560 predicted possible because Donald Trump started to surround himself with the people who knew what

01:38:47.820 they were doing, weren't part of the system of bull crap and were fighting to win. Okay. And that's when

01:38:57.560 the message was sent by him. It was clear. Restraint does not mean weakness. There is a pattern here.

01:39:08.080 He disdains prolonged occupation paired with a willingness to use unrelenting, overwhelming,

01:39:18.980 precise force with a great strategy. That's not neocon nation building. Okay. That is completely

01:39:27.620 different than what we've did. This is coercive leverage.

01:39:31.340 Fourth question, the capability that we have, does that matter morally? Yes, it does. I don't

01:39:44.160 believe in a fair fight when it comes to war. I don't want a fair fight when it comes to war. I want

01:39:48.580 to be so overwhelmingly powerful that it takes the oxygen out of the lungs of our enemies all over the

01:39:56.440 world. And they go, Oh my gosh, don't ever mess with them. That's the way to fight war. Now, one of

01:40:03.200 the just war criteria is the probability of success. If you launch a war that you cannot win, you are not

01:40:12.760 moral. You are reckless. If this president had demonstrated that when he uses force, it's

01:40:22.000 targeted short duration, strategically defined, followed by negotiation. Then the moral calculus

01:40:30.880 shifts, a limited strike backed by regional diplomatic architecture is not the same species of action

01:40:38.180 as open-ended occupation boots on the ground. But in that, how we all get into all these foreign

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01:42:10.860 Okay. So what about four forever wars?

01:42:27.520 Every American carries Iraq and Afghanistan in their bones. Now we always will. No one wants 20

01:42:33.580 more years of ambiguity drift and defeat and asking yourself, what the hell was that all about?

01:42:40.860 But here's the question that we have to model. Honestly is refusing to act even when action

01:42:49.400 might prevent something larger, actually be the safer path. If a regime funds proxies across

01:42:57.640 Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, if it arms militias, threatens choke points for maritime, uh, travel, uh,

01:43:05.860 pursues advanced weapons capability, you know, like ballistic missiles. And I am discounting all

01:43:13.440 the nuclear talks. I've heard that for 30 years. What, at what point does our inaction create the

01:43:20.240 very forever war we fear? I come at this differently. So, you know, so when you're trying to make your

01:43:26.580 decision, you understand mine, I believe we're already in world war three, I believe we are going

01:43:32.320 to be fighting the armies of Islam, uh, in the future. And, uh, the head of that snake, a very

01:43:41.480 dangerous, dangerous head of that snake are the 12ers that were running, uh, Iran. They are the most

01:43:49.220 dangerous of any Islamic cult. Okay. And sometimes refusing to act early guarantees a bigger conflict

01:43:57.180 later, but it's, this is not a, Oh, yep. I know this is it, but peace is not being passive. Peace

01:44:04.820 is stability enforced. Okay. Also, we have the people that were killed on the streets, but yeah,

01:44:13.820 but what, why not Sudan then this one I wrestled with this weekend, and this is so uncomfortable

01:44:19.480 because thousands have been slaughtered in Sudan just for being Christian. Okay. Christians

01:44:26.520 persecuted horrors everywhere. So why not, why not take that on? This is a really nasty thing,

01:44:37.200 but this has to be said. We have to understand this. A nation cannot survive and act purely on moral

01:44:46.280 horror. Okay. We can't, or we would be everywhere. Strategic impact, regional domino effects,

01:44:55.880 alliance commitments, nuclear proliferation risks, direct threats to our citizens. What makes this

01:45:05.780 different than the Sudan is Iran sits at the center of multiple global global pressure points

01:45:11.920 simultaneously entered energy shipping lanes, proxy networks, nuclear ambition, terrorism, uh, and

01:45:18.680 crink, which I'll get into in a little while, which is so important. If you miss crank, you don't

01:45:23.460 understand what he's doing at all. Sudan is tragic, horrific, and tragic. Iran is systemic.

01:45:33.100 That doesn't make the suffering unequal in value at all. It just makes the geopolitical stakes

01:45:41.260 unequal in scale. And that is not hypocrisy. It is States craft. Okay. So is this different?

01:45:52.140 It may be, and not because war is good, but because peace groundwork, I believe was laid first. If you

01:46:04.440 look at what he's trying to do in the middle East, regional players were brought into the ownership,

01:46:10.040 like I've never seen before. The strike appears to be limited and precise. There is no declared ambition

01:46:16.820 for occupation. We don't want to be there. The president has a record of preferring leverage

01:46:22.060 over quagmire. This could end badly. Zealots are patient. Retaliation likely. Sleeper networks are

01:46:30.120 real. But it is equally possible that removing the head of this regime while surrounding it with

01:46:36.940 economic normalization will produce a collapse inward rather than an explosion outward. And that

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01:48:27.880 I have prayed all weekend that I could serve you in a way that would be helpful. And I am trying

01:48:37.800 really hard to not tell you what to think because this is war and people are going to die and some

01:48:47.880 of our own people will die. And this could go horribly. This could go great. This could cause

01:48:53.080 terror strikes in our own country that would be horrific. And you cannot make your decision based

01:49:00.640 on somebody else's opinion. Okay. You have to do what I did this weekend and stop listening to

01:49:08.960 everybody else and start looking at your principles. I am somebody who does not like these endless wars.

01:49:16.200 I'm absolutely against these endless wars. So how could I be for this one? If I am, I am, uh,

01:49:22.020 absolutely wanting to get out of the Middle East. So how could you possibly be for this one?

01:49:26.420 Um, I, I don't want to nation build. So how could you possibly be for this one? I worry about the

01:49:33.600 people in Sudan. So why aren't we in Sudan? Uh, all of these things. Okay. And, and we have to make

01:49:41.960 sure that we've answered all of those questions. So I tried to give you the framework on how I was

01:49:46.100 looking at that, just not to convince you, but just so you can think about it yourself. So you can

01:49:53.020 decide you must be the person that makes the decision. This opinion must be yours. Nobody else's. Okay.

01:50:01.240 So what I came to in conclusion, uh, this weekend was I can celebrate that so far, very few Americans

01:50:10.920 have been hurt, um, or killed, and I can also mourn them. Um, I can also acknowledge the stunning

01:50:21.660 capability of the U S military. I can feel genuine hope for the Iranian women and the dissidents,

01:50:30.600 uh, you know, the homosexuals that have been thrown off rooftops by this administration. Um,

01:50:38.880 the children, the girls under nine, many multiples. Everybody talks about the kids that U S

01:50:45.560 accidentally bombed in a school and they thought, and that is a horrible, horrible, horrible tragedy.

01:50:53.200 But why are you not looking at the many multiples of girls who are married to old men in Iran at the

01:51:02.160 age of nine, 10 or 11, and their lives are completely destroyed. Why don't you care about those girls?

01:51:08.400 Now that can't be the only reason you say we can go, but it is a real reason, but it can't be the

01:51:17.240 only reason. Otherwise we'd be in Sudan and every place else. I can feel this hope. And at the same

01:51:25.640 time I can simultaneously say, I don't have any idea how this ends, but I believe this is just

01:51:37.180 but is that the end of the story? No, no, because if you're only making this about Iran, you're only

01:51:50.480 seeing a small picture. The thing that people don't understand with Donald Trump is he is a big vision

01:51:57.320 guy. Look, you don't build, you don't build what he has built. He's an empire builder. Okay. And

01:52:04.000 businessman. He builds empires. You don't have that kind of vision. And then look at everything

01:52:10.720 as a one-off. And in 2020, when he lost, he completely, he had time to go out to the wilderness

01:52:17.760 and he re-imagined what he was facing and then also what the country is facing. So his vision is

01:52:26.880 enormous. So you can look at Iran and you can say, okay, well that's causing terror in the Middle East and

01:52:33.480 well, that's why we're doing because of Israel. Is it, is it, is it, or is he also trying to get us

01:52:40.860 out of the Middle East? And that's why he's making all these peace deals there. And this, if it works,

01:52:47.680 could help bring and stabilize the Middle East even more and make the Middle East rely on themselves.

01:52:53.820 Exactly what he's asking the Germans and the French and the Italians and everybody else to do

01:52:58.780 in NATO, we're not going to be there for you. We cannot afford to do it. Middle East,

01:53:05.160 we cannot afford to do this. We're not going to be there for you. You must police your own

01:53:09.700 neighborhoods without leaving a vacuum. You saw what happened when we just left Afghanistan.

01:53:15.940 That's what vacuums do. So he is trying to get out of these places without leaving a vacuum and

01:53:22.180 building a framework for it to fall into that they can run. Okay. That's just one part of it.

01:53:31.560 The other part is cranks. There used to be the axis and allies powers and the axis powers were Germany

01:53:39.680 and Japan and Italy and all those that fought for, you know, the axis powers of, of Hitler. Okay.

01:53:47.500 That axis is now called crink and it crink C China, R Russia, I Iran and NK North Korea crink. Okay.

01:54:00.160 And that is this authoritarian group of States, um, and scholars and strategists and everything else

01:54:08.880 that are growing this anti-Western coordination and they have shared interests. They're not working

01:54:16.160 all in lockstep, but they work together. It's not a formal alliance like NATO or the Warsaw Pact,

01:54:21.460 but it is shorthand to understand who is on the opposing side of the West. Okay.

01:54:32.900 Now, why is this relevant? Because as we look to Iran in this conflict, what is he doing?

01:54:40.800 Well, by taking out Iran, China loses all of that oil that they must have. They're also sending, um,

01:54:55.920 they're sending tech to Iran, which will help Iran even slave more people. Um, but also they are

01:55:03.000 sending supersonic missile technology and they're working with Iran on that. Okay. You've got to stop that.

01:55:10.120 So you've hurt Iran with its financial, with its energy, with its oil, Russia, they, um, they need the

01:55:20.940 Russian oil for money. They sell their oil. They also work with Iran to get all of that oil, uh, to, uh, China.

01:55:31.900 But more importantly with Russia, they build all of Russia's drones. So when you look at the Russian

01:55:39.820 drones, knowing that they're all coming from Iran, this takes that out, which helps then the war in

01:55:47.660 Ukraine. Dugan just said, think of this Dugan just said, Alexander Dugan, he's, he was called Putin's

01:55:58.020 brain for a while. He just said that, um, if, if Iran falls, Russia falls as well.

01:56:10.440 Now, in a way, I hope that's not true because I don't want more destabilization, but I do want

01:56:15.300 the teeth pulled out of that tiger. Okay. So by hurting Iran, you are also trying to solve that.

01:56:25.160 You don't think he's going to have more leverage. You know, that Putin called Trump this weekend and

01:56:29.560 said, Hey, let's sit back down on the table and talk about Ukraine. Okay. It's already starting to

01:56:34.300 happen. This guy is like a nuclear chain reaction. He does one thing and all of these other things

01:56:41.240 happen because of that, all these dominoes start to fall. And if you don't, you can disagree with

01:56:48.140 that, but not that that is happening. You can disagree with, I don't think that's the right

01:56:53.040 thing to do, or I don't think it's going to work out, whatever, but you cannot deny that all of these

01:56:58.720 things are connected or you're just, you're, you're not worth talking to because you're not thinking

01:57:04.280 deeply enough. Okay. Just last week, we found out that India was switching. It's always been,

01:57:11.680 it's always played this middle ground, you know, Hey, I'm friends with Russia. Oh, Russia. I'm

01:57:16.100 friends with the United States. And they've played us back and forth for a long time. Trump just got

01:57:20.640 them to come into our camp. Now, why is that important? Because you've been hearing the dollar

01:57:26.280 is going to fall and China and Russia and the BRICS nations are trying to, uh, create their own

01:57:33.660 currency to collapse the American dollar. It's to have it stop being the world's reserve currency.

01:57:40.020 Who is the one that started BRICS? It's the I in BRICS, India. They're now on our side.

01:57:50.220 Plus you look at Venezuela. What did he do in Venezuela? What, what did he just say about Cuba?

01:57:56.760 It looks like Cuba is in so much trouble. They may just say, Hey, can we make a deal with the United

01:58:01.680 States that takes Cuba and Venezuela out of the China and the Russia camp? Are you beginning to

01:58:09.280 see how this is all connected? Plus all of the Iranian terrorist proxies are in Venezuela and Cuba

01:58:18.080 and also on our shores because they're being sent and trained in places like Venezuela.

01:58:24.320 So once you have all of this, then you begin to see the whole picture and you can come to the

01:58:32.480 conclusion being anti-war does not mean being anti-strength. We have to be strong. Being pro-peace

01:58:39.480 does not mean tolerating endless destabilization. Sometimes the most peaceful leader is the one

01:58:48.440 most willing to use force decisively, quickly force that does not become perpetual force.

01:58:56.440 Again, that takes the air out of people who are your enemies, it takes the air out of their lungs.

01:59:01.820 They go, Oh my gosh, don't ever do that again. Okay.

01:59:04.740 The test is going to be, does this shorten conflict or seed the next generation of conflict? And only

01:59:15.100 history can have no pundit. No, not me. Nobody else can say, can answer that. They all have their

01:59:21.160 opinions. You don't know what this is going to cause. And I said to the TV all weekend long, neither

01:59:25.920 do you, Jack, neither do you right now. Our job is to think clearly enough that when history does have

01:59:34.480 the answer, we recognize why. So after a whole weekend of prayer and study and thought, I came to

01:59:43.040 four conclusions and here they are. Most importantly, I trust God. I know one way or another, it's going

01:59:55.980 to work out the way he deems it. That does not mean I take my hands off the steering wheel in my own life

02:00:02.920 or in our country. It means I trust him. I remember the 2020 election. If that hadn't have happened,

02:00:13.480 we wouldn't have the president we have today. Like it or not, he's a different man.

02:00:20.080 Two, we have to search these things out. We have to be led by the spirit. We have to

02:00:27.260 use our own brain because it's required. We have to soul search, but soul search without politics.

02:00:38.940 Is this moral and just? Is this in our national interest? Is this America first? What does that

02:00:45.800 even mean? And for more reasons than I outlined here, I wrestled with this and I came up with,

02:00:54.280 yes, this is America first. Yes, this is a just war. That's my conclusion. Your conclusion may be

02:01:00.940 different and do not take my opinion as gospel. Third thing, this is not Donald Trump of 2016.

02:01:09.260 This president has made bold moves beginning with the moving of the embassy to Jerusalem,

02:01:15.240 which remember would set the world on fire, probably start World War III. That's what they said.

02:01:18.900 Killing of ISIS in less than four weeks. Best mindset couldn't be done in less than two years.

02:01:23.900 Then the killing of, uh, Solomay, whatever his name is world. What's his name? Solomany.

02:01:30.720 Solomany. Um, it was going to start World War III. Again, didn't then strike on the nuke plants in

02:01:36.660 Iran, start World War III. It didn't Venezuela can't be done. Look at the results. Now this prove this

02:01:41.820 president has proven to me that he understands peace through strength. And the best way to defend

02:01:47.480 enemies is with overwhelming force. He has proven to me that he does not like war, but he will act

02:01:53.900 when he believes it's in the nation's best interest for me. He has earned my respect enough to give him

02:02:01.740 the benefit of the doubt, not a blank check to nation build, but instead to stop the global threat

02:02:08.980 once and for all, give the people Iran a chance to rule themselves, take on China and Russia and

02:02:15.220 everything else and give our country a chance for a future. And four, while all of this, I believe

02:02:25.860 is true today, it still may end up in a way that is not to our liking, which brings me back to point

02:02:35.540 number one. I believe in God and all of it is going to end the way it is supposed to end. Just do your

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02:04:46.340 So the president is giving a speech right now. He's saying that we are going to easily prevail

02:05:04.740 in war with Iran. Um, once we get control of the airspace, which is nice because you know,

02:05:12.180 they've protected the airspace with, I can't believe Russian and China, the best technology

02:05:17.140 they have. And we have just decimated it yet again. I mean, the military is so unbelievably

02:05:27.060 we have gone from running and looking like a joke with men in dresses, leaving Afghanistan

02:05:36.180 to this in one president. I tell you, it's why I worry about who's going to be the next president

02:05:44.100 because it can change as dramatically.

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