Trump gives Iran CHILLING ULTIMATUM as War breaks out among America First!
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Pres. Trump at the White House. Iran's leader Ayatollah Ahmad Karajan tweets about the U.S. striking Iran's nuclear facilities. Iran's prime minister says they will never surrender to the United States.
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hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us
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another interesting day for the united states iran and israel president trump at the white
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house earlier today where he was there for the installation of two new big beautiful american
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flags on the white house lawn which he's paying for out of his own pocket president trump was
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asked by the media when he plans on striking iran imagine that someone was dumb enough to ask a
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question thinking president trump was gonna let them in on some sort of secret well it wouldn't
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be a secret it would be big news to break take a listen about uh whether you are moving closer
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you believe the u.s is moving closer to striking iranian nuclear facilities where's your mindset
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on that i can't say that right you don't seriously think i'm going to answer that question will you
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strike the iranian nuclear component and what time exactly sir sir would you strike it would you
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please inform us so we can be there and watch i mean you don't know that i'm going to even do it
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you don't know i may do it i may not do it i mean nobody knows what i'm going to do i can tell you
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this that um iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate and i said why didn't you negotiate
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with me before all this death and destruction why didn't you negate i said to the people why
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didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago you could have done fine you would have had a country
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it's very sad to watch this i mean i've never i've never seen anything like it it's so you know
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everyone thought it was going to be the reverse i didn't i didn't think so and i was telling them
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you gotta you gotta do something you gotta negotiate and at the end last minute they said no we're not
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going to do that and they got hit remember 60 days and then came the 60 61 is going to become a very
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famous number that was one hell of a hit that first hit that was one hell of a hit not sustainable
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to be honest that's where it ended it ended on the first night yes is it too late though do you think
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it's too late to now really nothing's too late the only thing too late is powell powell's too late too
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late powell too late powell talking about jerome powell decided not to change any sort of uh rates today
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um holding steady president trump in the beginning of administration when it was a little bit rocky
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with the tariffs everything had uh sought to have them lower rates to try to stimulate the economy a
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little bit and powell of course didn't want to play ball because he's very upset that kamala harris
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didn't win the election so president trump made those remarks uh just shortly after uh ayatollah
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sending out a slew of tweets today on a tweet storm no pun intended saying quote the u.s president
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threatens us with his absurd rhetoric he demands that the iranian people surrender to him they should
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make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened the iranian nation isn't frightened by
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such threats it isn't wise to tell iranian the iranian nation to surrender what should the iranian
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nation surrender to we will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone
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this is the logic of the iranian nation this is the spirit of the iranian nation
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now the kamini also sending out a tweet saying the harm the u.s that the u.s will suffer
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will be definitely irreparable if they enter this conflict militarily
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i don't know if he's provoking donald trump to try to get into this war or not
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but americans don't live by any threats we never have so making such an inflammatory threat
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that really does you no good it really does nobody good you threatened israel and israel
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let all hell break loose on you what do you think is going to happen if you're going to make a move
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towards america you think it's going to be as nice as what israel did no i'm not advocating for that
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but inflammatory remarks like that sort of provokes what you may be thinking or what can come next
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now president trump was also asked about the threat of iran and and and their intentions
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no they had bad intentions you know the for 40 years they've been saying death to america death to
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israel death to anybody else that they didn't like they were bullies they were schoolyard bullies
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and now they're not bullies anymore but we'll see what happens look nothing's finished until it's
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finished you know war is very complex a lot of bad things can happen a lot of turns are made so i don't know
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i wouldn't say that we won anything yet i would say that uh we sure as hell made a lot of progress and
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we'll see the next week is going to be very big maybe less than a week maybe less but is there
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anybody here that said it would be okay to have to have a hostile uh very you know zealots really but
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to have a hostile country have a nuclear weapon that could destroy 25 miles but much more than that
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could destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust you know that dust blows to other
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nations and they get decimated this is just not a threat you can have and we've been threatened by
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iran for many years you know if you go back and look at my history if you go back 15 years i was
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saying we cannot let iran get a nuclear weapon i've been saying it for a long time and i mean it more now
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than i ever meant and it's true iran's the only nation who sits there and readily threats with
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the exception of north korea but that was taken care of and stifled down they're the only nation
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who comes out here and threatens anybody to use that nuclear weapon although there's other many other
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countries that have nuclear weapons so what happens next i guess we have to all just wait for the
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ticking clock uh but this all this comes as america has bombers and fighter jets positioned off the coast
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in diego garcia within striking distance of iran will president trump strike i'm not sure i'm not
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entirely sold he's going to um but the possibility is there what will israel do next uh we go each day
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and each night and continue to wait and see as this thing continues to progress and how it will
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progress and will america get involved i i hope it doesn't come to the point where america will have
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to get involved uh nobody wants our troops our children our loved ones uh fighting a senseless war
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once again another senseless war in the middle east you often hear me say on this show we have a war
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to fight here at home on our southern border we have a wide open border with uh illegals pouring
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through it drugs pouring through it human trafficking children trafficking human smuggling all of it
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that's a war that we need troops at that's a war that we we could fight and win on our southern border
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the endless wars in the middle east is something the american people don't want
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so iran has a choice here and it's either to uh become a normalized country and stop making your
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threats that you're going to level everybody who doesn't like you or agree with you or they continue
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to fight this war and they have their country absolutely leveled and decimated because if you notice not
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one country in their region has come to their rescue or even help them a country that's worth a while
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of course they have their proxies that are spread out all along the middle east over in
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lebanon and around israel but not one developed nation has come to their rescue to to offer any
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sort of help pakistan closed their borders uh to iran chuck down their borders the only people who
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are allowed through are pakistanian citizens this is your neighbor so it's telling to see who wants
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to deal with you and who doesn't want to deal with you and who wants to deal with america and and who
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doesn't want to deal with american president trump was just over in the middle east a few weeks ago
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negotiating deals where we had a stabilized middle east iran didn't want to play ball and this is what
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it's come to it's very unfortunate for iran the iranian people who are hostages in that country because
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they don't want this a lot of them are happy that this is going on that that this terrorist of a leader
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may soon be ousted possibly terrible terrible situation folks our guest today is a good friend
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of mine john bachman he's the host of john bachman now each and every day 12 to 2 on newsmax too he's
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also got a new book coming out which ties into all of this one of our great presidents ronald reagan
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the book is turning point how reagan liberated granada and won the cold war there's so much parallels
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between this and what's going on right now today as we speak over in the middle east as president
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trump now has a decision to make as i said does he enter this thing does he sit on the sidelines
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how does he help israel does he help israel so many questions so many answers to we're going to see if
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john bachman could give us some answers to those questions uh and uh give us a little update on what's
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going on and and tell us about his book turning point how reagan liberated granada and won the cold war
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john as always it's great to talk with you on the great america show you've got a new book coming
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out talks about war we're going to get to that and plenty more much more today but first i want to get
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your sense on what the heck is going on in the world right now two weeks ago we had a fallout from
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elon musk we thought that was probably the worst thing that could happen in this presidency in this
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time now we've got possible war with iran what's going on in the world well apparently if you listen
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to some people iran is on the brink of having nuclear weapons which you and i both know is
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something we've been hearing for a very long time um but the difference is now and the reason why i'm
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inclined to lean in a little closer to to and believe that is because of what president trump is
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saying i mean he has given iran an ultimatum basically uh he talked about that today from
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the white house he had they gave he gave them 60 days to get to the negotiating table they refused
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to do so and so you know he he greenlit and uh signed off on israel's uh attacks of iran uh the
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other thing that he might know that we we don't know is how weakened iran has become uh after israel has
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has uh you know almost decapitated hamas and and hezbollah is weakened in fact we have lebanese
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government coming in and telling hezbollah they better not do anything um and what we've seen
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is obviously a very aggressive response from from iran firing these rockets into israel we've seen
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civilian deaths in israel but we see that waning almost on a nightly basis and we we've we've heard
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about uh the iranian and uh with with with american planes the air superiority they have trying to take
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out the last remaining uh missile sites and so you know the question remains is is iran serious about
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existing is is the regime serious about existing there's i know you've you've heard these reports
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that there are iranian officials who are apparently headed to oman and willing to sit down we'll see
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what that means and you know are they going to relinquish their nuclear weapons program that's kind of
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the the red line that the rest of the world realizes iran cannot have nuclear weapons they've proven
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that they are not responsible enough to really honestly have a nuclear energy program um so if
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they are willing to relinquish their nuclear weapons program and allow the access to inspections like
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they should then hopefully we can we can avert a u.s uh direct u.s attack on iran yeah and we find out
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now in this last week or so that they have this massive facility and i you know i i could see this
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thing from both sides and that's why i'm so like torn in the middle and i think so many of us
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uh the america firsters are torn on this issue because the truth of the matter is is iran is a
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a bad nation the people aren't bad but they're run by bad people and you look at some of the human
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rights issues that those people have been dealing with in that country for some time under this this
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terrorist of a leader because that's exactly what he is uh and their conditions are not good so the
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people there are dealing with the brunt just like the rest of the world is dealing with the wrath of
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iran and i think it speaks measures john that not one of their neighboring countries wants anything
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to do with them right now yeah pakistan wants nothing to do with them they have nuclear weapons
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of their own uh saudi arabia wants nothing to do with them uh those three countries qatar president
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trump just got back with none of them want anything to do with their regime because i think people
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realize that they've been stuck in the stone age for some time and their threats are just getting
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tiring and people ask me all the time john well why should america have nukes and why should they
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have nukes but iran can't last i checked none of us have ever threatened to use them none of us have
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ever been a threat to use them you don't hear any blowback from pakistan having them or whoever else
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having them india having them because nobody's threatened to use them and it's a it's a mutual
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understanding that even north korea john out of all people we thought rocket man was going to do
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something crazy have even toned it down because they realized that once you use a nuke john it's
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over for the world yeah north korea has really kind of outsourced a lot of their nuclear technology to
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iran and what we've seen with some of these other countries is they wanted iran to be kind of their
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bully and then and in turn iran has also outsourced a lot of their bad actors to uh different countries
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think about the houthis in yemen they're an offshoot of iran um and i you know i will just say this you
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know with with pakistan they've always kind of used their nuclear program as an extortion ploy
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uh to to gain a lot of aid uh you know we'll behave with our nukes as long as you guys are
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supporting us in other ways what what really we want and this is you know one of the things that
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always inspired me one of the reasons why i wanted to write the book um is what ronald reagan wanted was
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zero nukes anywhere in the world he wanted to get rid he wanted russia to get rid of their nukes he
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wanted the united states to get rid of our nukes but he's not insane and we can't unilaterally
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disarm our nuclear program while we have others and russia still has more nuclear weapons than
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anybody uh and then if you know if this can be a step back from more nukes in this world if we can
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prevent iran from getting nukes uh we can do it hopefully in a diplomatic way then you can open up
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the discussion and donald trump can go to vladimir putin and say maybe we can actually you know do what
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we all said we were going to do once upon a time and that was you know start to disarm together
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and get to a position where we don't have this nuclear guillotine hanging over our heads
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so now let me ask you now this is not me speaking this is hypothetically speaking what do you say to
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the people who say well you look at what america's done in the middle east you look at what they've
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done to afghanistan you look at what they've done to iran you've looked at what they've done to
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syria they've they've destabilized three countries we lost billions of dollars in afghanistan people
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were killed when they should not have been killed uh and you look at we've destabilized syria and
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you look at these countries and say russia comes to the table or china comes to the table and says
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well how do we trust you america because we know that you've went into these countries you've
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destabilized these countries you went into iraq knowing there was no weapons of mass destruction
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uh how do we trust that you're going to be a good faith actor yeah no i think i think it's a
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perfectly fair question i i will say you know you alluded to this before um iran is a much more
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developed country internally uh they have much more commerce they have a population that is uh you know
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if it weren't for the regime would be more western friendly and you hope that this can be done in a way
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um that uh doesn't lead to a complete collapse you know and you hope that the lessons that we learned
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the hard way from iraq could be uh you know not be repeated here no one wants to see a situation where
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we have yet another country uh we're already going to have to pay to rebuild ukraine we don't need
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another country that we have to rebuild so maybe you can you know if it's one strike uh that you know
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at the ferdo nuclear site with one of those bunker buster bombs that then leads to a position where
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where iran feels like they have nowhere else to go and they're already so weakened at this point
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um in this in this uh in this conflict that they have very little leverage to you know so if they do
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have i mean the alternative too john is what what what do we do if iran does have a nuclear weapon that
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is a risk that nobody wants to take we cannot allow iran to have a nuclear weapon because if they do
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then that's obviously the worst case scenario so what i say to those people is your your concerns
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are valid and the united states does not have a track record of success when it comes to this
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the iranian situation is different in many ways and in this situation we're not the one
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you know we all know invading iraq was the wrong country to invade um but we know iran is a bad actor
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we know they have designs on a nuclear program and stopping them from doing that as donald trump said
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is america first preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon is america first and you got to
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listen to the guy that you know recreated the whole idea of of america first donald trump yeah i trust
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donald trump because i know he doesn't want to ruin his legacy he's spoken been so outspoken about iraq
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that i know he doesn't want to ruin his legacy but we talk about iran like it's some just shithole
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of a country they have a half a trillion dollar gdp of their country similar to our society um and you
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know you think about what iran was before the iranian revolution the uh the islamic revolution
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and it was a bustling place and you american companies operated there uh british companies
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operated there you know they and look before the iranian revolution there you know the british really
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kind of strong-armed the government into installing what they wanted and foreign intervention isn't
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great but we've seen this before where the iranian population has has has risen up against the
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regime um unfortunately it wasn't supported by barack obama back in i think it was 2012 when we
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had one of these uh green revolutions and the desire is there within the country uh for the people to be
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to have more of an open society i think only like 20 percent of the country is actually uh practicing
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muslims like by choice the rest are kind of forced to you know a lot of the country identifies uh as
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persian and not iranian so um you know all 92 million people thank you ted cruz for that little piece of
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information we all learned um you know i think a lot of them oh i've seen video it's not verified but
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a lot of the iranian people are cheering on uh these these uh israeli airstrikes exactly more open
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society but so that that's all good points john but at the end of the day and i see where you're
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coming from it has nothing to do with us right if they don't want to westernize their society if they
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want women to wear hijabs even donald trump commented on this some years ago who gives a shit it's not
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our business if they want to uh treat people a certain way in there that's on them if they don't
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want to develop their country that's on them it's when you get to the war side and when you start
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threatening other people that's when it becomes our problem so you had mentioned ted cruz and this is
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the issue so this is like the first divide i think we've seen inside the maga america first and and
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everybody else tucker carlson has come out recently and he's very against america taking part in in this war
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as a proxy to israel he sat down with ted cruz earlier today let's take a listen to their conversation
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how many people living around by the way i don't know the population at all no i don't know the
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population you don't know the population in the country you seek to topple how many people living
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around 92 million okay yeah how could you not know that i i don't sit around memorizing population
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tables well it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the government
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why is it relevant whether it's 90 million or 80 million or 100 million why is that if you don't
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know anything about the country i didn't say i don't know anything about okay what's the ethnic
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mix of iran they are persians and predominantly shia okay this is no it's not even you don't know
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anything about iran so okay i am not the tucker carlson expert on iran you're a senator who's
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calling you're the one who claims you're the one who claims about the country no you don't know
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anything about the country you're the one who claims they're not trying to murder donald trump
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you're the one who can't figure out if it was a good idea to kill general soleimani and you said
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it was bad they're trying to murder trump yes i do because you're not calling for military strikes
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against them in retaliation and if you really believe that carrying out military strikes today
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you said israel was right with our help i'm said we israel is leading them but we're supporting them
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well this you're breaking news here because the u.s government last night denied the national security
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council spokesman alex pfeiffer denied on behalf of trump that we were acting on israel's behalf in
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any offensive capacity we're not bombing them israel's bombing them you just said we were
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we are supporting israelis you're a senator if you're saying the united states government is
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worth a run right now people are listening very good points from tucker and for tucker to get ted
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cruz tongue-tied it's very hard to do ted cruz is the smartest man make no mistake in the senate
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very very very smart man but people will watch and say tucker's pompous ass but at the same time john
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how do you want to overthrow a country and you know nothing about it's so easy for us to just say
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things right but words do have consequences if someone comes out and say we're gonna bomb your
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country that's a threat to the homeland that can spark a international situation so i understand where
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tucker's coming from that we should not be getting america into any new wars and i understand where
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ted is coming from where we have to defend america at home this is a crazy divide right now i i mean i
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think it's a healthy divide honestly john um it's a divide you wouldn't see in the democratic party where
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you can have this open debate um i think again the difference now uh than last year or uh even before
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president trump is you have a guy in the white house who has proven to avoid these entanglements
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uh in the in the long term and i think ted cruz can say whatever he wants but donald trump is talking
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directly and steve whitkoff are talking directly to the iranians and i don't know how much tucker
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carlson's interview of ted cruz is going to weigh into the grand scheme of things it is a good indicator
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of the uh divide between uh the people who are concerned about america first and pretty much america
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only and i certainly understand that i mean when you you can drive any city in america you can drive
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20 miles and find a shithole town that definitely needs more attention than a town in ukraine um i
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think what presents itself now especially with israel's leadership maybe leadership is not the
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right word but they're you know them being the ones that are actually flying the planes them being the
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ones who are inserting massad agents inside tehran and inside uh iran which which allowed for these
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attacks them being the ones that orchestrated the pager attacks they have the capabilities to do a lot
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of this stuff without our help we can sit back and support them morally we can sit back there and
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support them rhetorically um and you know having you know moving our military assets into the region
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the nimitz is is going there that only increases our leverage at the negotiating table in which
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donald trump has made it very clear that is where this needs to happen at the negotiating table and
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when he real when he says and he's been saying this for years when he knows and when his intelligence
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assessment shows him that iran is going to have a nuclear weapon he will act that is the best
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the best deterrent to iran actually getting a nuclear weapon if if if iran believes we're never like if if iran
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if if tucker carlson's foreign policy was donald trump's foreign policy and they knew that he was
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never going to go in or he was so reluctant to go in they're only going to continue in the way they've
00:24:05.440
been acting for so long the reason why we've seen iran weakened and iran even willing to negotiate is
00:24:11.420
because they know that donald trump means what he says uh by dropping the moab on uh fordo that nuclear
00:24:19.520
facility and the only way you make them believe that is you move your b2 bombers into position to do that
00:24:24.780
at diego garcia the air force base where all this stuff is happening you move the nimitz carrier
00:24:29.280
group into the arabian sea there to make sure that they know you're serious the red sea to know
00:24:34.600
you're serious about actually attacking them if you don't do those things they're not going to take
00:24:38.960
you serious and they're not going to negotiate no you're absolutely right but from the aspect of
00:24:45.140
tucker it the divide you see if you spend time on twitter and i spend way too much time on twitter
00:24:49.360
it's like if you and even donald trump came out and i don't agree with what he said about tucker
00:24:54.880
being kooky i mean but he's a counter puncher and you know he said he tucker said something that donald
00:24:59.920
trump doesn't agree with so he called him kooky and like you and i've been at this long enough to know
00:25:04.060
that that doesn't that's not like you know a death sentence for tucker and uh i think i think also
00:25:09.240
one of the problems with this whole conversation is that twitter does exist now and it's become the place
00:25:15.380
where you and i go to get our information but there's i mean it's easy to get go down a rabbit
00:25:20.380
hole and talk about what tucker is saying and what candace owens is saying uh but what's more
00:25:25.340
important is when you talk to your actual uh reliable sources inside the trump administration
00:25:30.120
and what they will tell you off the record is way more important yeah those those petty arguments like
00:25:34.600
the bullshit between you know candace owens is saying whatever tucker is saying i mean my favorite part
00:25:39.860
about this whole tucker thing is is the memes that have come out of it today you can see the one about
00:25:43.980
do you know the muffin man and ted cruz is like yes you know the muffin man he's like how can you
00:25:49.580
talk about drury lane when you don't know who the muffin man is or the other one where it's the it's
00:25:53.720
it's the uh gilby cartoon of uh uh tucker carlson interviewing luke skywalker how many people live on
00:26:00.380
the death star yes you know like that is really i mean that's really no different than the argument
00:26:05.980
about oh tucker's right and and and we're going to get into this we don't know if we're going to get
00:26:09.900
into a prolonged war yet got to give based on his record and donald trump's ability to prevent
00:26:15.840
you know getting us bogging us down into conflicts you've got to give him enough leash here to make
00:26:21.760
those decisions without thinking oh i know what's going to happen we don't know what's going to
00:26:26.140
happen no you're absolutely right it's just crazy to me to see just this massive divide it's like
00:26:30.760
if you don't support this you're a rhino you're america lasts you're never trumper what i mean like
00:26:36.660
i mean it's it's just crazy to see like mark levin is just going absolutely and you see you see fox
00:26:43.080
news i do not watch fox news i only watch news max if i watch tv but you see fox news and you see
00:26:50.580
lindsey graham and and tucker's got such a good point here lindsey graham is on every single
00:26:55.900
yeah it is concerning to me to see how giddy some of these guys get they love it they're talking about
00:27:04.220
when they don't really have any skin in the game when they're not you know lindsey graham isn't going
00:27:08.580
to be stationed on the front lines he's not going to have to be inserted into terran so that does
00:27:13.960
concern me and it is it does harken back to the same way i felt when we were talking about invading
00:27:19.500
iraq you know you're all excited for it uh but you remember what happened and you remember you know
00:27:24.580
you and i both know people who served in iraq and served in afghanistan and talk about the
00:27:29.220
they had to put up with and came back with the wounds of war so i that's not lost on me but again
00:27:34.240
you know you think about that too we do have a lot of people in congress now who have experienced war
00:27:39.540
firsthand and i and i particularly you know respect them and want to hear their voices on this whole
00:27:46.300
entire thing i'm not so much concerned about what lindsey graham has to say because you know
00:27:49.620
at the same time john they should all shut their mouths and let president trump do his job it doesn't
00:27:54.440
help that lindsey graham was over in ukraine doing whatever he was doing two weeks ago it doesn't
00:27:59.200
help that mike pompeo who's not a registered foreign agent was over there it doesn't help
00:28:04.100
when you've got people going out here saying tucker carlson's an agent of qatar it doesn't help when
00:28:09.420
you got members of congress calling uh congressman randy finder took over matt gates to see it doesn't
00:28:14.560
help when when he's out there tweeting out uh we're going to level this we're going to level that it
00:28:19.120
doesn't help when you're out there calling people anti-semitic because they don't agree with sending
00:28:23.080
americans to war it's all this inflammatory stuff yeah my my charge to your audience and my audience
00:28:29.560
too is to you know listen to that stuff of course but realize like none of that really matters like
00:28:35.020
these people are not in the situation room with president god thank god and i think you know
00:28:41.700
president trump has surrounded himself with really smart people and i you know again like i don't want
00:28:47.540
to sound like a trump fanboy but i have faith in him to make the right decision based on the
00:28:52.860
decisions he's made in the past to keep us out of these types of conflicts
00:28:55.980
does it scare you to think that there's members of congress who are sitting there right now
00:29:05.400
who would vote to put boots on the ground in iran tomorrow yeah it does it really does um
00:29:11.300
you know these decisions can never be made lightly especially um when when we have a you know what is
00:29:17.160
it 37 trillion dollars in debt right now um and like you know just if you think about another
00:29:23.280
nation building operation in a in a middle eastern country that's gone so well uh it just it just oh
00:29:31.100
just makes me so angry to to think about that that would even be a thing um so yeah i i does concern me
00:29:37.880
that any member of congress is that excited about the prospect of you know bombing iran without actually
00:29:43.560
talking about what what is it going to require on the back end you know if you if you do begin a
00:29:47.620
bombing campaign you know this you actually do have to have boots on the ground beforehand so they can
00:29:51.080
target this i don't know if that's the case with the bunker busters since we already know exactly
00:29:54.980
where they are but a real prolonged uh you know airstrike campaign requires boots on the ground
00:30:00.700
um and so yeah i that does concern me that there are members of congress that are so excited about
00:30:06.140
the prospect of uh another you know foreign military adventure we've got i gotta work on something it
00:30:13.940
brings up such a good point put something together to start calling out and and letting everyone know
00:30:19.300
where these people get their money the influence in politics john and the outside money is just so
00:30:25.180
damn disgusting about how much money lockheed martin's given so and so or how much money apac's given so
00:30:31.100
and so or how much money these people are giving so and so i don't think the american people really
00:30:35.820
realize you know you often hear people say they should be wearing nascar jackets as a half joke
00:30:39.680
but it should be these people are getting millions and millions and millions of dollars it's the
00:30:43.520
reason why lindsey graham will never lose his seat in south carolina i mean the information is
00:30:49.580
mostly public i mean there are of course there's dark money in the game it's regulated and when you
00:30:54.480
see in the past you know you think about the mccain feingold act that just created a different beast
00:31:00.740
where it actually created the dark money um you know if you're going to take that position i think
00:31:07.160
you know we've got to call on voters to be and it's all online it just takes a google search to find
00:31:13.360
out where their money comes from all their stock trades are available online but 30 days later not
00:31:18.360
not by the minute okay well maybe by the minute but you know i still think i still think it falls more
00:31:24.680
on us to be more informed for sure and you know people call for for for term limits and all that
00:31:30.380
stuff and that's great they have term limits in california look how california is doing it takes
00:31:34.960
an informed and educated and engaged electorate to actually make these changes it's never the solution
00:31:40.680
is never going to come from more legislation in washington it's only going to come from a
00:31:43.900
grassroots effort outside of washington to change the game and so you know i do agree with you the money
00:31:48.880
in politics is disgusting but at the same time you know we still have the best and most transparent
00:31:55.580
you know system in the world and uh well i'd argue after 2020 uh you know i'm so transparent or
00:32:04.800
honest now you're getting some some some uh we'll leave it we'll leave it at that but a lot of people
00:32:10.500
will argue that uh there are and you know i'm not saying machines i'm just saying generally speaking
00:32:15.460
you saw what cash patel put out yesterday he sent to the judiciary committee about china enrolling
00:32:20.680
people for driver's license here for mail-in ballots this is not hyperbole this is all stuff that that's
00:32:25.840
been reported yeah and i i think the calls for what you have in other countries like you know you think
00:32:31.380
about argentina and italy where they had these massive changeover elections we knew the results in
00:32:36.680
one day yeah a controversial result where you had you threw out one political party i mean there is no
00:32:41.700
reason why we can't have this i live in florida we have very clean elections here you it's a paper
00:32:46.800
ballot uh and and you know it used to be it went from being the laughing stock of the united states
00:32:51.720
to being one of the best if not the best run election state in the entire country it can be done
00:32:57.540
here but it requires people to elect people who want to get it done and that's what we have here in
00:33:02.820
florida and just uh you know by the way florida's full everyone don't come down here
00:33:06.880
listen you might be able to get some houses on fire sales now with uh the way things are going
00:33:13.180
far has gotten so damn expensive man for yeah i think the real estate market has actually
00:33:19.260
moderated now it's like normal um but still still a great place to live oh there's no doubt about that
00:33:25.600
speaking of politicians who aren't exactly uh good people ilhan omar uh has some inflammatory things to
00:33:34.740
say about america the place that made her and her brother her husband i mean uh take a listen
00:33:39.900
uh in in in a dictatorship and i don't even remember ever witnessing anything like that
00:33:47.480
to have a democracy a pecan of hope for the world to to now be turned into uh one of the you know one of
00:33:57.840
the worst countries where where where the military are in our streets um without any regard for people's
00:34:05.600
constitutional rights uh while our president spending millions of dollars prompting himself
00:34:11.260
up um like a failed dictator with a military parade
00:34:15.340
tick tock nails so simple chalkboard oh take your shit pack it up and get the hell out yeah
00:34:26.040
yeah yeah that that show democracy now is is really something else um i i i saw today i i didn't get
00:34:34.920
to verify this independently but i think her her father was some sort of high-ranking colonel in the
00:34:40.740
somali military or something before she came over it's not like she came you know it's not she grew up in
00:34:44.720
some like remote village and you know was was some poor tired uh immigrant that came to this country
00:34:51.520
she's had every advantage that america can offer she's a sitting member of congress and i think
00:34:57.060
your point is is the same point that i made on my show today if you don't like it here get the hell
00:35:02.160
out of here like this this is this is still the best country in the world you don't have to be here
00:35:06.640
you can go back to somalia where you came from stop trying to make you know minneapolis little somalia
00:35:12.380
and just take all take all your people that want to see that want to benefit from everything we have
00:35:16.640
in this country the schools the hospitals the infrastructure take those people and go build
00:35:23.040
that in your own country if if what you if you don't like what's happening here bye-bye i've had
00:35:28.080
the fortune john of travel in the world and i still do and you know i go to everywhere i spend time in
00:35:34.760
asia i spend time in south america uh just earlier this year i was over in marrakesh where you can't
00:35:40.460
walk into a place and order bacon where you can't go into certain places and drink alcohol
00:35:44.620
where you can't in certain places i'm a single man can't be seen with some of the women there you
00:35:49.560
can't be having a drink with some of the women there america is the only place in the world john
00:35:54.260
where you can say whatever you want you can even burn the american flag if you want to be that big
00:35:59.040
of a low-life dirt bag and it's everything's okay these people don't understand right what life is
00:36:06.200
like half of these people john i've never left their front stoop they don't know what it's like
00:36:10.860
to leave this country that was the hilarity about these no kings protests it's like you're not
00:36:16.920
allowed to have a no kings protest in a country with an actual king um you know and i thought
00:36:22.780
carolyn levitt was just so spot on last week when someone one of the reporters asked her is president
00:36:28.800
trump okay with peaceful protests and she's like of course he is that's a stupid question this is
00:36:33.300
america we have the first amendment which doesn't exist anywhere else in the world it doesn't even exist
00:36:37.880
in canada you see what's happening in the uk where you're getting arrested and put in prison for
00:36:42.280
thought crimes i mean she's she's just i i it's just like i don't know i try not to get physically
00:36:50.140
or you know angry about this type of stuff but like that's why i go to the gym every day to lift
00:36:55.880
weights and not think about people like alan omar next time i'm down there i'm gonna bring some head
00:37:01.100
gear and we'll do some boxing and whoever wins buys the beers um no it's so it's so inflammatory and it
00:37:07.320
really annoys me john that's there's very few things it's hard to get me mad but when people
00:37:11.440
hate this country who does every john it's the only place in the world you can go to with not a pot to
00:37:17.160
piss in and you can make it you can become a millionaire the american dream is not just some
00:37:22.680
made-up thing my father came from absolutely nothing was dirt poor john paid for his own high
00:37:27.340
school paid for his own college and lived the american dream was the chief financial officer of the
00:37:32.440
seventh largest bank in this country okay so the the notion immigrants they come to this country john
00:37:38.980
i i grew up on a street with with a guy who came here from albania john went out of pot to piss in
00:37:44.180
he now lives in the house that was owned by gangster paul castellano that's now being sold
00:37:48.280
for 20 million dollars yeah it's the only place john in the world where you can do things where you have
00:37:53.480
free markets to do whatever you want yet these people take it for granted and they just it's all
00:37:58.720
bullshit because they know that they can't get away with this in somalia or haiti or yeah i mean
00:38:02.860
it's i ran into that john it's the victim mentality that it that is perpetuated perpetuates through all
00:38:09.960
aspects of society but when people succumb to the victim mentality they are only limiting themselves when
00:38:15.780
you believe that you can you can strive and succeed and you know there's nowhere else like you said
00:38:22.620
where you can do that unlike like america you're going to do so i you know you talk about your dad
00:38:28.580
the guy that used to cut my hair ezio italian immigrant came here when he was 17 years old
00:38:33.840
he had about 12 in his pocket he and his brother came and he would talk all the time about how in
00:38:40.580
italy to do anything you had to bribe everyone to get ahead and he said you know he came here opened a
00:38:45.760
barbershop and grew it into a business raised four kids four daughters and you know this is the only
00:38:53.460
place you can do that and the other ironic thing of course is why do all these immigrants want to
00:38:59.240
come here yeah why do they want to why do they want to leave their own countries to come to this
00:39:03.200
place if it is such a bad place nowhere else in the world do people try to come to immigrate to uh
00:39:08.980
like they try to come to the united states yeah well you got some in europe but uh that's because
00:39:13.840
there's no other place to go you go south that's because they because they have free health care that
00:39:17.560
they can't afford and they have you know all these all these government handouts that uh they've
00:39:21.680
offered that uh that somebody else who has a job has to work for um hopefully you know we can avoid
00:39:29.580
all that stuff even though the last administration really tried to put us on the same track yeah i like
00:39:34.640
you said before we wrap up this i have full trust and confidence in donald trump and it's so simple
00:39:39.520
if you don't like this place you don't like what it affords you it's so free john that you can leave
00:39:43.900
and come back it's a nice thing so you gotta they'll give you a thousand dollars to leave if
00:39:49.540
you're here illegally uh we can come back the right way by the way john this is the first month i believe
00:39:55.480
we've had a zero it was a zeroed out number at the border and this is going to be the first time in
00:40:01.080
50 years or the history of this country i forget i read so much that i forget uh where we've um
00:40:07.240
um um had negative numbers of immigrants in this country i mean that's what americans voted for we
00:40:15.980
didn't vote for wars we voted for peace and we voted for secure borders but we've we've rambled
00:40:20.820
on enough about that you've got a new booking out turning point how reagan liberated granada and won
00:40:26.200
the cold war uh let's talk a little bit about this because uh it all ties in it all ties together
00:40:32.400
the book is available now for pre-order go to amazon.com i pre-ordered my copy before we brought
00:40:37.460
john on here today the great lou dobbs taught me the way to support your friends is to support them
00:40:43.120
whatever they're doing you know how many people come out with books and they say i'll give you a
00:40:47.020
copy no it's not about that it's about supporting your friends and believing in what they're believing
00:40:51.540
in what they're doing john tell us a little bit about the book and what made you write this book
00:40:56.080
well i there was a story a guy named sal russo who used to work for ronald reagan he actually worked
00:41:01.040
with him driving around california reagan didn't like to fly in planes and when he worked for general
00:41:05.280
electric he would go around and give these talks to people and sal knew him from that time uh when
00:41:11.620
he was uh on his staff and he was the governor but he told me a story about one time that you know
00:41:17.160
after ronald reagan got shot he was kind of in a different level than than the rest of people he
00:41:21.480
never got bogged down in petty arguments didn't get emotional about things but the one time he saw him
00:41:25.840
emotional was when reagan knew he had to go into grenada to save the americans who were on the
00:41:32.660
island there was a medical school called saint george's medical school and it was so they were
00:41:37.160
so concerned about the communist regime in grenada taking the americans hostage they didn't tell
00:41:43.540
anybody they didn't invite the press margaret thatcher knew that reagan was going in but he didn't tell
00:41:48.740
her exactly when because that's how concerned they were about the situation and sal told me the story
00:41:53.360
about how reagan was really concerned that he was going to violate his friendship with thatcher
00:41:57.340
but from that i i did the research on on the book and you really learn that in the late 1970s and
00:42:04.160
early 1980s everything that was happening then is happening now you see the encroachment of communism
00:42:08.680
in our own backyard um and grenada was the one place where reagan said enough is enough everyone
00:42:13.680
talks about the fact that reagan won the cold war without firing a shot well that's not true because
00:42:18.500
grenada was a real war it only lasted four days but 19 americans died in that conflict uh and reagan
00:42:24.780
wrestled with that decision but knew it was the right one and another reason why it relates to
00:42:28.860
today i also tell a story about the beirut bombing in 1983 reagan made the decision to go into grenada
00:42:35.000
he was actually playing golf at augusta national on a little vacation jealous when when the beirut lebanon
00:42:40.900
bombing happened at the same time he learned about the assassination of the more moderate
00:42:44.800
grenadian leader maurice bishop he was assassinated by his more communist more hardcore marxist rival
00:42:50.800
bernard coward and at that point reagan realized that i need to go into grenada and save the americans
00:42:56.080
at the same time his relationship with thatcher taught him you know he listened to her because
00:43:01.180
he was getting a lot of pressure to go in and do a full school full-scale war in lebanon in fact many
00:43:06.260
of the um military personnel that were being deployed to grenada thought they were going to lebanon for war
00:43:11.780
before they actually got to see the maps and so i tell that story about the success that was grenada
00:43:16.820
it's the last war we really won where we didn't have to go back in and clean it up um the people
00:43:21.340
still celebrate october 25th as liberation day they call it thanksgiving day in honor of the americans
00:43:26.800
that freed them from the communist regime they had their own elections afterwards where they elected a
00:43:31.900
democratic government um and it's a tropical paradise today for tourists now there is more communists
00:43:38.840
and chinese influence on that on that island and in our own backyard um the organization of american
00:43:44.500
states now is being co-opted by the chinese believe it or not i don't get into that in the book but the
00:43:49.300
lessons learned you know lesson i learned from writing this book are applicable to to today and i encourage
00:43:55.400
everyone to read it because it's a fascinating story about leadership and knowing where the line is how to
00:44:00.620
protect american interests without getting bogged in the story the book also talks about the initial kind of
00:44:07.360
division between the so-called rhinos and the reagan conservatives who were american first a lot of
00:44:13.460
you know donald trump you know co-opted make america great again from ronald reagan the policies are so
00:44:19.040
similar the military um the the foreign policy and uh donald trump and ronald reagan are so similar
00:44:26.180
it's just really fascinating i don't ever mention donald trump's name once in the book but anyone who
00:44:30.220
studies and understands donald trump's foreign policy will read the book and be like holy cow this is
00:44:35.400
just sounds a lot like donald trump and um you know there's a lot of books written about ronald reagan
00:44:40.780
but there are not very many books that focus on this and the the heroic actions of the military
00:44:46.060
uh in grenada again it was only a four-day war but it was a real war cubans and the grenadians and um
00:44:52.900
there were even some soviets there fought back um and it was it was hell war is hell and this is an
00:44:57.840
example of that so the combat stories are intense uh there's a lot of heroes in the book as well and we
00:45:03.620
lost 19 great men in that conflict and i wanted to honor them as well with this book that's beautiful
00:45:08.460
four-day war that's how war should be fought the the long war doctrine i'm sure you've heard of that
00:45:12.980
well i mean it it could have been over in about an hour if you know there's there like every war the
00:45:20.020
pentagon and you know the the chairman the joint chiefs made some calls they weren't on the ground it's
00:45:25.460
another lesson too that the suits need to listen to the boots on the ground um norman schwarzkopf was a
00:45:30.760
general in this conflict everyone remembers him from the gulf war uh but he he took some heroic
00:45:35.440
actions and also uh admiral metcalf was the navy commander and schwarzkopf and metcalf two completely
00:45:41.000
different guys in almost every single way philosophical physical differences um but they
00:45:46.000
work together and really if if if the joint chiefs had listened to them on the ground this thing would
00:45:51.340
have gone a lot smoother so yeah a lot of lessons to be learned the problem is john is history repeats
00:45:57.520
itself and nobody ever learns their lesson because there's money involved in everything and you're
00:46:01.100
absolutely right nobody knows it it's like going to a car mechanic john the car salesman doesn't tell
00:46:05.840
the car mechanic how to fix the car he wears a nice suit he sells the car but he doesn't know how to fix
00:46:10.420
it he doesn't know how to change the brakes or the tires and and we often get lost in that
00:46:14.020
because some people seem to think that they're higher than other people or not but it really never uh
00:46:20.240
seems to work out um before we wrap up i i like to be either be right or wrong i don't like to be in the
00:46:26.000
middle and i like to give an assessment so i want to get yours i'm going to give you mine first though
00:46:30.220
so maybe it'll make you feel a tight way i want to i want to get your take on how this whole thing
00:46:35.340
wraps up in iran the way i look at it is i don't think america gets involved per se with our own
00:46:42.240
tanks with our own planes maybe they continue to support israel with supplies and and bombs as needed
00:46:49.200
but i think the thing ultimate ultimately works out diplomatically doesn't include iran giving up its
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uh it's uh nuclear weapons i don't think at this time but i think there will be some sort of
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diplomatic hold on this thing and uh everything comes to a stop and we just start all over again
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what's your take i think you're right i think um in that situation iran's going to have to open up
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its nuclear facilities to like real inspections from the iaea which is problematic it's part of the
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united nations so that's always a little troublesome um but there's going to have to be a willingness
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for open for for real transparency inside iran and and you know i i really i i'm not going to sit
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here and pretend like i know john that's like kind of none of us do that's and i you know i hate to make
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a prediction on this front but what i do what i will do is draw back on history like i said and the
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what we've seen from president trump before is his ability to keep us out of an iraq or an afghanistan
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and actually you know i mean he made the decision to keep 2500 troops in afghanistan um he didn't like
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to make that decision but we saw what happens when you don't and so i i give him credit and i uh feel
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like he's gonna he's gonna ensure and the steps he's taking today are going to ensure that the
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iranians do wind up at the negotiating table hopefully that'll open up to inspections and we
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can prevent iran from getting bombed and we can prevent ourselves from getting uh drawn into another
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foreign war yeah yeah i'm sure right the only reason i like i said i like to be on one side
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or the other i don't want to sit here and then something happens i told you so because there's so
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many people out here uh i'm gonna just keep it pg but there's so many people out there just
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fluff themselves up that i told you this i told you that and most namely is the iraq wars how many
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people said they were against it but they were really for it uh a total mess john bachman he's
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the host of john bachman now 12 to 2 each and every day on newsmax too you can catch john wherever
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you guys watch newsmax uh we recommend the show to you highly john sell some books folks that the name
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of the book john go ahead turning point how reagan uh liberated grenada and won the cold war
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it is available october 7th also craig shirley who is a one of the predominant reagan historians
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out there maybe knows more about ronald reagan than anybody else he is the editor of the book and
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fact checked all my all my research so it is vetted uh and it is great it's a great story and uh very
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excited for the release date can i can't wait to hold it in my hands uh can't wait very excited about
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that my first uh yeah well uh folks get your copies pre-order them now october 7th john we'll see you
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soon be well my friend all right thank you very much john always great to see you thanks everybody
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