The Great America Show - Trump gives Iran CHILLING ULTIMATUM as War breaks out among America First!

00:00:00.000 hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us

00:00:06.300 another interesting day for the united states iran and israel president trump at the white

00:00:12.660 house earlier today where he was there for the installation of two new big beautiful american

00:00:18.560 flags on the white house lawn which he's paying for out of his own pocket president trump was

00:00:23.360 asked by the media when he plans on striking iran imagine that someone was dumb enough to ask a

00:00:30.640 question thinking president trump was gonna let them in on some sort of secret well it wouldn't

00:00:35.880 be a secret it would be big news to break take a listen about uh whether you are moving closer

00:00:41.680 you believe the u.s is moving closer to striking iranian nuclear facilities where's your mindset

00:00:46.640 on that i can't say that right you don't seriously think i'm going to answer that question will you

00:00:51.700 strike the iranian nuclear component and what time exactly sir sir would you strike it would you

00:00:59.220 please inform us so we can be there and watch i mean you don't know that i'm going to even do it

00:01:03.840 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

00:01:08.040 this that um iran's got a lot of trouble and they want to negotiate and i said why didn't you negotiate

00:01:16.180 with me before all this death and destruction why didn't you negate i said to the people why

00:01:21.640 didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago you could have done fine you would have had a country

00:01:27.340 it's very sad to watch this i mean i've never i've never seen anything like it it's so you know

00:01:33.720 everyone thought it was going to be the reverse i didn't i didn't think so and i was telling them

00:01:37.580 you gotta you gotta do something you gotta negotiate and at the end last minute they said no we're not

00:01:43.340 going to do that and they got hit remember 60 days and then came the 60 61 is going to become a very

00:01:49.500 famous number that was one hell of a hit that first hit that was one hell of a hit not sustainable

00:01:54.500 to be honest that's where it ended it ended on the first night yes is it too late though do you think

00:01:59.620 it's too late to now really nothing's too late the only thing too late is powell powell's too late too

00:02:05.720 late powell too late powell talking about jerome powell decided not to change any sort of uh rates today

00:02:14.900 um holding steady president trump in the beginning of administration when it was a little bit rocky

00:02:20.560 with the tariffs everything had uh sought to have them lower rates to try to stimulate the economy a

00:02:26.020 little bit and powell of course didn't want to play ball because he's very upset that kamala harris

00:02:32.060 didn't win the election so president trump made those remarks uh just shortly after uh ayatollah

00:02:38.540 sending out a slew of tweets today on a tweet storm no pun intended saying quote the u.s president

00:02:45.900 threatens us with his absurd rhetoric he demands that the iranian people surrender to him they should 0.97

00:02:52.460 make threats against those who are afraid of being threatened the iranian nation isn't frightened by

00:02:57.220 such threats it isn't wise to tell iranian the iranian nation to surrender what should the iranian

00:03:03.780 nation surrender to we will never surrender in response to the attacks of anyone

00:03:07.580 this is the logic of the iranian nation this is the spirit of the iranian nation

00:03:13.020 now the kamini also sending out a tweet saying the harm the u.s that the u.s will suffer

00:03:18.540 will be definitely irreparable if they enter this conflict militarily

00:03:23.260 i don't know if he's provoking donald trump to try to get into this war or not

00:03:28.460 but americans don't live by any threats we never have so making such an inflammatory threat

00:03:35.860 that really does you no good it really does nobody good you threatened israel and israel

00:03:41.780 let all hell break loose on you what do you think is going to happen if you're going to make a move

00:03:47.400 towards america you think it's going to be as nice as what israel did no i'm not advocating for that 0.98

00:03:53.380 but inflammatory remarks like that sort of provokes what you may be thinking or what can come next

00:04:01.000 now president trump was also asked about the threat of iran and and and their intentions

00:04:05.800 no they had bad intentions you know the for 40 years they've been saying death to america death to

00:04:11.660 israel death to anybody else that they didn't like they were bullies they were schoolyard bullies 1.00

00:04:18.720 and now they're not bullies anymore but we'll see what happens look nothing's finished until it's

00:04:24.320 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

00:04:29.860 i wouldn't say that we won anything yet i would say that uh we sure as hell made a lot of progress and

00:04:36.660 we'll see the next week is going to be very big maybe less than a week maybe less but is there

00:04:42.320 anybody here that said it would be okay to have to have a hostile uh very you know zealots really but

00:04:49.600 to have a hostile country have a nuclear weapon that could destroy 25 miles but much more than that

00:04:57.780 could destroy other nations just by the breeze blowing the dust you know that dust blows to other

00:05:03.020 nations and they get decimated this is just not a threat you can have and we've been threatened by

00:05:08.320 iran for many years you know if you go back and look at my history if you go back 15 years i was

00:05:13.620 saying we cannot let iran get a nuclear weapon i've been saying it for a long time and i mean it more now

00:05:19.720 than i ever meant and it's true iran's the only nation who sits there and readily threats with

00:05:25.520 the exception of north korea but that was taken care of and stifled down they're the only nation 0.99

00:05:29.820 who comes out here and threatens anybody to use that nuclear weapon although there's other many other

00:05:33.880 countries that have nuclear weapons so what happens next i guess we have to all just wait for the

00:05:39.900 ticking clock uh but this all this comes as america has bombers and fighter jets positioned off the coast

00:05:47.900 in diego garcia within striking distance of iran will president trump strike i'm not sure i'm not

00:05:55.860 entirely sold he's going to um but the possibility is there what will israel do next uh we go each day

00:06:05.440 and each night and continue to wait and see as this thing continues to progress and how it will

00:06:11.360 progress and will america get involved i i hope it doesn't come to the point where america will have

00:06:16.180 to get involved uh nobody wants our troops our children our loved ones uh fighting a senseless war

00:06:23.700 once again another senseless war in the middle east you often hear me say on this show we have a war

00:06:28.540 to fight here at home on our southern border we have a wide open border with uh illegals pouring 1.00

00:06:34.740 through it drugs pouring through it human trafficking children trafficking human smuggling all of it

00:06:40.320 that's a war that we need troops at that's a war that we we could fight and win on our southern border

00:06:47.020 the endless wars in the middle east is something the american people don't want

00:06:52.900 so iran has a choice here and it's either to uh become a normalized country and stop making your

00:07:03.500 threats that you're going to level everybody who doesn't like you or agree with you or they continue

00:07:09.080 to fight this war and they have their country absolutely leveled and decimated because if you notice not

00:07:15.620 one country in their region has come to their rescue or even help them a country that's worth a while

00:07:22.760 of course they have their proxies that are spread out all along the middle east over in

00:07:27.500 lebanon and around israel but not one developed nation has come to their rescue to to offer any

00:07:34.540 sort of help pakistan closed their borders uh to iran chuck down their borders the only people who

00:07:41.640 are allowed through are pakistanian citizens this is your neighbor so it's telling to see who wants 1.00

00:07:49.080 to deal with you and who doesn't want to deal with you and who wants to deal with america and and who

00:07:53.160 doesn't want to deal with american president trump was just over in the middle east a few weeks ago

00:07:57.500 negotiating deals where we had a stabilized middle east iran didn't want to play ball and this is what

00:08:06.200 it's come to it's very unfortunate for iran the iranian people who are hostages in that country because

00:08:12.080 they don't want this a lot of them are happy that this is going on that that this terrorist of a leader

00:08:18.300 may soon be ousted possibly terrible terrible situation folks our guest today is a good friend

00:08:26.580 of mine john bachman he's the host of john bachman now each and every day 12 to 2 on newsmax too he's

00:08:32.400 also got a new book coming out which ties into all of this one of our great presidents ronald reagan

00:08:38.020 the book is turning point how reagan liberated granada and won the cold war there's so much parallels

00:08:43.960 between this and what's going on right now today as we speak over in the middle east as president

00:08:49.360 trump now has a decision to make as i said does he enter this thing does he sit on the sidelines

00:08:53.860 how does he help israel does he help israel so many questions so many answers to we're going to see if

00:09:00.660 john bachman could give us some answers to those questions uh and uh give us a little update on what's

00:09:06.280 going on and and tell us about his book turning point how reagan liberated granada and won the cold war

00:09:12.180 john as always it's great to talk with you on the great america show you've got a new book coming

00:09:21.720 out talks about war we're going to get to that and plenty more much more today but first i want to get

00:09:27.080 your sense on what the heck is going on in the world right now two weeks ago we had a fallout from

00:09:32.240 elon musk we thought that was probably the worst thing that could happen in this presidency in this

00:09:36.540 time now we've got possible war with iran what's going on in the world well apparently if you listen

00:09:43.820 to some people iran is on the brink of having nuclear weapons which you and i both know is

00:09:48.320 something we've been hearing for a very long time um but the difference is now and the reason why i'm

00:09:55.640 inclined to lean in a little closer to to and believe that is because of what president trump is

00:10:01.580 saying i mean he has given iran an ultimatum basically uh he talked about that today from

00:10:06.920 the white house he had they gave he gave them 60 days to get to the negotiating table they refused

00:10:10.620 to do so and so you know he he greenlit and uh signed off on israel's uh attacks of iran uh the

00:10:17.440 other thing that he might know that we we don't know is how weakened iran has become uh after israel has

00:10:23.540 has uh you know almost decapitated hamas and and hezbollah is weakened in fact we have lebanese

00:10:29.360 government coming in and telling hezbollah they better not do anything um and what we've seen

00:10:35.360 is obviously a very aggressive response from from iran firing these rockets into israel we've seen

00:10:40.320 civilian deaths in israel but we see that waning almost on a nightly basis and we we've we've heard

00:10:45.880 about uh the iranian and uh with with with american planes the air superiority they have trying to take

00:10:53.320 out the last remaining uh missile sites and so you know the question remains is is iran serious about

00:11:00.720 existing is is the regime serious about existing there's i know you've you've heard these reports

00:11:05.560 that there are iranian officials who are apparently headed to oman and willing to sit down we'll see

00:11:11.020 what that means and you know are they going to relinquish their nuclear weapons program that's kind of

00:11:16.900 the the red line that the rest of the world realizes iran cannot have nuclear weapons they've proven

00:11:21.200 that they are not responsible enough to really honestly have a nuclear energy program um so if

00:11:27.540 they are willing to relinquish their nuclear weapons program and allow the access to inspections like

00:11:33.020 they should then hopefully we can we can avert a u.s uh direct u.s attack on iran yeah and we find out

00:11:40.880 now in this last week or so that they have this massive facility and i you know i i could see this

00:11:46.440 thing from both sides and that's why i'm so like torn in the middle and i think so many of us

00:11:50.120 uh the america firsters are torn on this issue because the truth of the matter is is iran is a

00:11:55.960 a bad nation the people aren't bad but they're run by bad people and you look at some of the human

00:12:01.600 rights issues that those people have been dealing with in that country for some time under this this

00:12:06.400 terrorist of a leader because that's exactly what he is uh and their conditions are not good so the

00:12:12.060 people there are dealing with the brunt just like the rest of the world is dealing with the wrath of

00:12:16.100 iran and i think it speaks measures john that not one of their neighboring countries wants anything

00:12:21.240 to do with them right now yeah pakistan wants nothing to do with them they have nuclear weapons 0.94

00:12:25.740 of their own uh saudi arabia wants nothing to do with them uh those three countries qatar president

00:12:31.720 trump just got back with none of them want anything to do with their regime because i think people

00:12:37.340 realize that they've been stuck in the stone age for some time and their threats are just getting

00:12:41.500 tiring and people ask me all the time john well why should america have nukes and why should they

00:12:47.060 have nukes but iran can't last i checked none of us have ever threatened to use them none of us have

00:12:52.980 ever been a threat to use them you don't hear any blowback from pakistan having them or whoever else

00:12:58.200 having them india having them because nobody's threatened to use them and it's a it's a mutual

00:13:03.760 understanding that even north korea john out of all people we thought rocket man was going to do

00:13:09.620 something crazy have even toned it down because they realized that once you use a nuke john it's

00:13:15.260 over for the world yeah north korea has really kind of outsourced a lot of their nuclear technology to

00:13:21.600 iran and what we've seen with some of these other countries is they wanted iran to be kind of their

00:13:26.460 bully and then and in turn iran has also outsourced a lot of their bad actors to uh different countries

00:13:32.920 think about the houthis in yemen they're an offshoot of iran um and i you know i will just say this you

00:13:38.580 know with with pakistan they've always kind of used their nuclear program as an extortion ploy 1.00

00:13:43.720 uh to to gain a lot of aid uh you know we'll behave with our nukes as long as you guys are 0.88

00:13:49.060 supporting us in other ways what what really we want and this is you know one of the things that

00:13:54.420 always inspired me one of the reasons why i wanted to write the book um is what ronald reagan wanted was

00:13:59.380 zero nukes anywhere in the world he wanted to get rid he wanted russia to get rid of their nukes he 0.84

00:14:03.660 wanted the united states to get rid of our nukes but he's not insane and we can't unilaterally

00:14:07.760 disarm our nuclear program while we have others and russia still has more nuclear weapons than

00:14:13.160 anybody uh and then if you know if this can be a step back from more nukes in this world if we can

00:14:20.040 prevent iran from getting nukes uh we can do it hopefully in a diplomatic way then you can open up

00:14:25.220 the discussion and donald trump can go to vladimir putin and say maybe we can actually you know do what

00:14:30.260 we all said we were going to do once upon a time and that was you know start to disarm together

00:14:35.020 and get to a position where we don't have this nuclear guillotine hanging over our heads

00:14:40.760 so now let me ask you now this is not me speaking this is hypothetically speaking what do you say to

00:14:45.240 the people who say well you look at what america's done in the middle east you look at what they've

00:14:50.440 done to afghanistan you look at what they've done to iran you've looked at what they've done to 0.99

00:14:53.760 syria they've they've destabilized three countries we lost billions of dollars in afghanistan people 0.82

00:14:58.820 were killed when they should not have been killed uh and you look at we've destabilized syria and

00:15:04.080 you look at these countries and say russia comes to the table or china comes to the table and says

00:15:08.880 well how do we trust you america because we know that you've went into these countries you've

00:15:13.020 destabilized these countries you went into iraq knowing there was no weapons of mass destruction

00:15:17.840 uh how do we trust that you're going to be a good faith actor yeah no i think i think it's a

00:15:24.180 perfectly fair question i i will say you know you alluded to this before um iran is a much more

00:15:30.900 developed country internally uh they have much more commerce they have a population that is uh you know

00:15:36.160 if it weren't for the regime would be more western friendly and you hope that this can be done in a way

00:15:40.860 um that uh doesn't lead to a complete collapse you know and you hope that the lessons that we learned

00:15:49.680 the hard way from iraq could be uh you know not be repeated here no one wants to see a situation where

00:15:56.460 we have yet another country uh we're already going to have to pay to rebuild ukraine we don't need 0.99

00:16:00.840 another country that we have to rebuild so maybe you can you know if it's one strike uh that you know

00:16:07.300 at the ferdo nuclear site with one of those bunker buster bombs that then leads to a position where

00:16:13.740 where iran feels like they have nowhere else to go and they're already so weakened at this point

00:16:19.040 um in this in this uh in this conflict that they have very little leverage to you know so if they do

00:16:27.500 have i mean the alternative too john is what what what do we do if iran does have a nuclear weapon that

00:16:32.120 is a risk that nobody wants to take we cannot allow iran to have a nuclear weapon because if they do

00:16:36.880 then that's obviously the worst case scenario so what i say to those people is your your concerns

00:16:42.400 are valid and the united states does not have a track record of success when it comes to this

00:16:46.880 the iranian situation is different in many ways and in this situation we're not the one

00:16:52.180 you know we all know invading iraq was the wrong country to invade um but we know iran is a bad actor

00:16:58.940 we know they have designs on a nuclear program and stopping them from doing that as donald trump said

00:17:06.040 is america first preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon is america first and you got to

00:17:10.740 listen to the guy that you know recreated the whole idea of of america first donald trump yeah i trust

00:17:16.300 donald trump because i know he doesn't want to ruin his legacy he's spoken been so outspoken about iraq

00:17:20.960 that i know he doesn't want to ruin his legacy but we talk about iran like it's some just shithole 0.65

00:17:25.540 of a country they have a half a trillion dollar gdp of their country similar to our society um and you

00:17:32.500 know you think about what iran was before the iranian revolution the uh the islamic revolution

00:17:38.240 and it was a bustling place and you american companies operated there uh british companies

00:17:43.020 operated there you know they and look before the iranian revolution there you know the british really

00:17:49.300 kind of strong-armed the government into installing what they wanted and foreign intervention isn't

00:17:55.040 great but we've seen this before where the iranian population has has has risen up against the

00:18:01.180 regime um unfortunately it wasn't supported by barack obama back in i think it was 2012 when we

00:18:06.800 had one of these uh green revolutions and the desire is there within the country uh for the people to be

00:18:13.920 to have more of an open society i think only like 20 percent of the country is actually uh practicing

00:18:18.780 muslims like by choice the rest are kind of forced to you know a lot of the country identifies uh as

00:18:24.260 persian and not iranian so um you know all 92 million people thank you ted cruz for that little piece of

00:18:30.640 information we all learned um you know i think a lot of them oh i've seen video it's not verified but

00:18:37.360 a lot of the iranian people are cheering on uh these these uh israeli airstrikes exactly more open

00:18:43.380 society but so that that's all good points john but at the end of the day and i see where you're

00:18:48.400 coming from it has nothing to do with us right if they don't want to westernize their society if they

00:18:52.360 want women to wear hijabs even donald trump commented on this some years ago who gives a shit it's not 0.78

00:18:58.120 our business if they want to uh treat people a certain way in there that's on them if they don't

00:19:03.800 want to develop their country that's on them it's when you get to the war side and when you start

00:19:08.400 threatening other people that's when it becomes our problem so you had mentioned ted cruz and this is

00:19:13.640 the issue so this is like the first divide i think we've seen inside the maga america first and and

00:19:19.760 everybody else tucker carlson has come out recently and he's very against america taking part in in this war

00:19:26.640 as a proxy to israel he sat down with ted cruz earlier today let's take a listen to their conversation

00:19:31.820 how many people living around by the way i don't know the population at all no i don't know the

00:19:36.960 population you don't know the population in the country you seek to topple how many people living

00:19:43.340 around 92 million okay yeah how could you not know that i i don't sit around memorizing population

00:19:50.960 tables well it's kind of relevant because you're calling for the overthrow of the government

00:19:54.640 why is it relevant whether it's 90 million or 80 million or 100 million why is that if you don't

00:19:59.880 know anything about the country i didn't say i don't know anything about okay what's the ethnic

00:20:02.780 mix of iran they are persians and predominantly shia okay this is no it's not even you don't know

00:20:10.180 anything about iran so okay i am not the tucker carlson expert on iran you're a senator who's

00:20:16.620 calling you're the one who claims you're the one who claims about the country no you don't know

00:20:20.920 anything about the country you're the one who claims they're not trying to murder donald trump

00:20:24.440 you're the one who can't figure out if it was a good idea to kill general soleimani and you said

00:20:29.260 it was bad they're trying to murder trump yes i do because you're not calling for military strikes

00:20:33.360 against them in retaliation and if you really believe that carrying out military strikes today

00:20:37.520 you said israel was right with our help i'm said we israel is leading them but we're supporting them

00:20:43.300 well this you're breaking news here because the u.s government last night denied the national security

00:20:47.820 council spokesman alex pfeiffer denied on behalf of trump that we were acting on israel's behalf in

00:20:53.440 any offensive capacity we're not bombing them israel's bombing them you just said we were 0.64

00:20:57.100 we are supporting israelis you're a senator if you're saying the united states government is

00:21:02.440 worth a run right now people are listening very good points from tucker and for tucker to get ted

00:21:08.660 cruz tongue-tied it's very hard to do ted cruz is the smartest man make no mistake in the senate

00:21:13.840 very very very smart man but people will watch and say tucker's pompous ass but at the same time john

00:21:22.020 how do you want to overthrow a country and you know nothing about it's so easy for us to just say

00:21:27.520 things right but words do have consequences if someone comes out and say we're gonna bomb your

00:21:33.520 country that's a threat to the homeland that can spark a international situation so i understand where

00:21:41.720 tucker's coming from that we should not be getting america into any new wars and i understand where

00:21:46.180 ted is coming from where we have to defend america at home this is a crazy divide right now i i mean i

00:21:54.140 think it's a healthy divide honestly john um it's a divide you wouldn't see in the democratic party where

00:21:58.640 you can have this open debate um i think again the difference now uh than last year or uh even before

00:22:09.980 president trump is you have a guy in the white house who has proven to avoid these entanglements

00:22:16.280 uh in the in the long term and i think ted cruz can say whatever he wants but donald trump is talking

00:22:21.460 directly and steve whitkoff are talking directly to the iranians and i don't know how much tucker

00:22:26.620 carlson's interview of ted cruz is going to weigh into the grand scheme of things it is a good indicator

00:22:31.540 of the uh divide between uh the people who are concerned about america first and pretty much america

00:22:37.700 only and i certainly understand that i mean when you you can drive any city in america you can drive

00:22:43.840 20 miles and find a shithole town that definitely needs more attention than a town in ukraine um i 1.00

00:22:50.260 think what presents itself now especially with israel's leadership maybe leadership is not the

00:22:56.260 right word but they're you know them being the ones that are actually flying the planes them being the

00:23:00.820 ones who are inserting massad agents inside tehran and inside uh iran which which allowed for these

00:23:08.160 attacks them being the ones that orchestrated the pager attacks they have the capabilities to do a lot

00:23:14.480 of this stuff without our help we can sit back and support them morally we can sit back there and

00:23:19.920 support them rhetorically um and you know having you know moving our military assets into the region

00:23:26.780 the nimitz is is going there that only increases our leverage at the negotiating table in which

00:23:32.740 donald trump has made it very clear that is where this needs to happen at the negotiating table and

00:23:37.780 when he real when he says and he's been saying this for years when he knows and when his intelligence

00:23:42.680 assessment shows him that iran is going to have a nuclear weapon he will act that is the best

00:23:48.320 the best deterrent to iran actually getting a nuclear weapon if if if iran believes we're never like if if iran

00:23:55.740 if if tucker carlson's foreign policy was donald trump's foreign policy and they knew that he was

00:24:00.860 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 0.81

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 0.75

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 0.79

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 0.80

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 0.95

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 1.00

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 0.86

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 1.00

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 0.97

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 0.93

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 0.53

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 1.00

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 1.00

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 1.00

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

00:46:55.520 uh it's uh nuclear weapons i don't think at this time but i think there will be some sort of

00:47:00.300 diplomatic hold on this thing and uh everything comes to a stop and we just start all over again

00:47:05.820 what's your take i think you're right i think um in that situation iran's going to have to open up

00:47:12.840 its nuclear facilities to like real inspections from the iaea which is problematic it's part of the

00:47:19.320 united nations so that's always a little troublesome um but there's going to have to be a willingness

00:47:24.100 for open for for real transparency inside iran and and you know i i really i i'm not going to sit

00:47:31.060 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

00:47:35.400 a prediction on this front but what i do what i will do is draw back on history like i said and the

00:47:41.640 what we've seen from president trump before is his ability to keep us out of an iraq or an afghanistan

00:47:48.780 and actually you know i mean he made the decision to keep 2500 troops in afghanistan um he didn't like

00:47:56.080 to make that decision but we saw what happens when you don't and so i i give him credit and i uh feel

00:48:02.460 like he's gonna he's gonna ensure and the steps he's taking today are going to ensure that the

00:48:07.080 iranians do wind up at the negotiating table hopefully that'll open up to inspections and we

00:48:11.740 can prevent iran from getting bombed and we can prevent ourselves from getting uh drawn into another

00:48:18.000 foreign war yeah yeah i'm sure right the only reason i like i said i like to be on one side

00:48:22.240 or the other i don't want to sit here and then something happens i told you so because there's so

00:48:28.320 many people out here uh i'm gonna just keep it pg but there's so many people out there just

00:48:33.940 fluff themselves up that i told you this i told you that and most namely is the iraq wars how many

00:48:40.880 people said they were against it but they were really for it uh a total mess john bachman he's

00:48:45.540 the host of john bachman now 12 to 2 each and every day on newsmax too you can catch john wherever

00:48:50.460 you guys watch newsmax uh we recommend the show to you highly john sell some books folks that the name

00:48:56.340 of the book john go ahead turning point how reagan uh liberated grenada and won the cold war

00:49:02.360 it is available october 7th also craig shirley who is a one of the predominant reagan historians

00:49:08.160 out there maybe knows more about ronald reagan than anybody else he is the editor of the book and

00:49:11.960 fact checked all my all my research so it is vetted uh and it is great it's a great story and uh very

00:49:19.140 excited for the release date can i can't wait to hold it in my hands uh can't wait very excited about

00:49:24.020 that my first uh yeah well uh folks get your copies pre-order them now october 7th john we'll see you

00:49:30.960 soon be well my friend all right thank you very much john always great to see you thanks everybody

00:49:35.360 for being with us today here on the great america show we hope you'll join us back here tomorrow for

00:49:38.640 the great america show where our quest for truth justice and the american way continues i'll meet

00:49:43.420 you here folks same time same place tomorrow until then may god bless you may god bless america and may

00:49:48.100 god bless the great blue dobs have a wonderful night everybody

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The Great America Show - June 18, 2025

Trump gives Iran CHILLING ULTIMATUM as War breaks out among America First!

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