Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joe Kent resigned, citing Iran as a "no imminent threat" to the United States. President Trump responded by saying that Kent was a "nice guy" and that it's a good thing that he's out considering how diametrically opposed to the administration's strategy he apparently is.
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00:00:25.360Well, tensions are really rising in Washington, D.C. after the sudden resignation of Joe Kent.
00:00:31.040Joe Kent was essentially the number two official at the Office of Defense Intelligence.
00:00:35.980He specifically headed the National Counterterrorism Center.
00:00:39.700He resigned, claiming he could not support the current conflict in Iran and saying that Iran posed, quote, no imminent threat to the United States.
00:00:48.860His comments drew immediate pushback from congressional leaders, but most importantly, his boss, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, released a statement saying that Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our president and commander in chief.
00:01:05.280As our Commander-in-Chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat and whether or not to take action he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people, and our country.
00:01:19.060The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is responsible for helping coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander-in-Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions.
00:01:31.200After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamic regime in Iran posed an imminent threat, and he took action based on that conclusion.
00:01:42.520Also, Speaker Mike Johnson, who sits on the highly classified gang of eight, those congressional leaders who get to see all classified intelligence, and he told a very different story.
00:01:53.100During a press conference in Washington, Speaker Johnson said,
00:01:55.460I got all the briefings. We all understood there clearly was an imminent threat. I don't know where Joe Kent is getting his information, but certainly wasn't in those briefings.
00:02:05.600President Trump commented on Joe Kent's remarks, saying that Earl Kent was a nice guy, a highly decorated veteran whose wife was also served. He lost his wife, tragically, killed by terrorists in the line of her duty.
00:02:19.140But the president noted that Joe Kent was very weak on security and said, well, it's a good thing that he's out considering how diametrically opposed the administration strategy he apparently is.
00:02:30.420This dispute comes as the Trump administration continues Operation Epic Fury, which is a series of military strikes targeting Iran's nuclear infrastructure and leadership networks.
00:02:40.840Kent, who is a retired Green Beret and former CIA paramilitary officer, believes the conflict risks pulling the United States into another prolonged Middle Eastern war.
00:02:50.320Kent is certainly entitled to his view, but so far the president has made it clear that he believes in the limited, strategic, yet lethal use of American power without committing ourselves to long, endless foreign wars, boots on the ground, hundreds of thousands of American casualties, and of course, billions in new defense contractors and spending.
00:03:12.540That is not what transpired in his first attack on Iran. It's not what transpired in Venezuela. It is not what is transpiring now. I think the president clearly understands that this conflict needs to be limited. That's why the president has used ramped up American power and moved, I think, in total concert with his national position.
00:03:34.020Anybody who knows Donald Trump knows that he has been crystal clear on the Iranian threat starting in the 1980s.
00:03:42.780This position of the president taking action in Iran is completely consistent with everything he has ever said on the issues.
00:03:50.140Confronting Iran now is far safer than allowing a hostile regime to threaten the United States and its allies with a nuclear capability.0.96
00:03:58.160So this fight, which appears to be dividing those in the MAGA base, I suspect this will resolve itself if the president and the secretary of war are correct and that this engagement is relatively short.
00:04:13.680What the American people don't want, of course, is endless foreign war.
00:04:16.980That has not been the policy of the Trump administration.
00:04:19.720Meanwhile, demonstrating further as to why the Save America Act, now before the U.S. Senate, must be enacted, new reports have shown that illegal immigrants have repeatedly voted in American elections.
00:04:32.300While it is known that illegals have voted in some election, recent cases uncovered by federal authorities suggest this issue may be far more widespread than once believed.
00:04:42.200According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice, Moritiana, a national Mahali Sacco, an illegal immigrant, ordered to be removed from the United States in 2002, allegedly voted in seven federal elections since 2008.
00:05:02.460Investigators say that Sacco falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen in order to register and cast bullets in Pennsylvania.
00:05:08.340Officials have also identified other such cases across the country.
00:05:11.920In North Carolina, for example, a Canadian national, Denise Beauchard,
00:05:16.080pleaded guilty to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship in order to vote in the 22 and 24 elections.
00:05:22.120In Michigan, they identified a Chinese national who's named Gao, a college student,
00:05:28.320who was charged with illegal voting in 2024 elections before reportedly fleeing the country.
00:05:33.060Meanwhile, Pennsylvania officials acknowledged a problem in the state's motor voter system
00:05:38.260that mistakenly allows roughly 100,000 non-citizens to register to vote.
00:05:42.720These incidents demonstrate precisely why stronger safeguards are needed
00:05:46.580and why the Save America Act is a no-brainer.
00:05:49.460Democrats don't want us to derail their fraud machine that has served them so well,
00:05:54.660particularly during the 2020 election steal.
00:05:57.880It's very hard for me to grasp who could possibly be against a simple requirement
00:06:02.520that one be a U.S. citizen before the one can vote in elections,
00:06:06.860as well as why one should have a simple photo ID.
00:06:10.620You need a photo ID to get out of an airplane.
00:06:12.960You need a photo ID to buy a pack of beer or a carton of cigarettes.
00:06:17.420You need a photo ID to register for welfare, to apply for welfare.
00:06:22.460Why would you not need a photo ID to vote?
00:06:25.760The idea that requiring a photo ID is somehow racist, that idea is racist, in my view.
00:06:31.820But we're sitting here in a situation in which there are 50 votes for the Save America Act, but because of the arcane traditions of the U.S. Senate, something called the filibuster rule, where you need 60 votes to move an issue to the floor, we're stuck.
00:06:51.060And therefore, I think it is time to dump the filibuster rule and to proceed to a vote.
00:06:56.420If there are 50 votes, Vice President J.D. Vance can break that tie.
00:07:01.360And I think that this will largely solve the issue of election integrity in this country.
00:07:06.080I think we might get too deep in the weeds here when we start arguing about mail-in ballots, early voting,
00:07:11.580whether these electronic voting machines are susceptible to being hacked and manipulated.
00:07:16.580I think all those things, by the way, are true.
00:07:18.620but the easiest way to solve this of course is to clean up the voter rolls and the easiest way to
00:07:24.540clean up the voter rolls is with the simple requirement that a person be registered be a
00:07:29.880pardon me be a u.s citizen in order to vote the democrats are very clear they want more illegals
00:07:35.480to vote in fact that's their key to long-term political success they want to replace us
00:07:39.500demographically it was never a conspiracy theory those who say it was are simply wrong the fight
00:07:44.380for mass deportation is an existential fight for this country. We need to pass the SAVE Act now
00:07:50.760and get every single one of these illegals out of the country, but let's start with those who have0.73
00:07:55.180criminal records, those who either have a record in their home country of origin or a record here
00:08:02.660in the United States. The president is pushing very hard on the Congress to pass the SAVE Act,
00:08:07.840a sweeping election integrity bill that, as I say, would simply require proof of citizenship and
00:08:12.640voter identification in federal elections. It is time to do away with the filibuster rules. If we
00:08:19.000don't, the Democrats will when they retake the Senate, and then you'll have a torrent of crazy
00:08:24.260left-wing legislation. So the time is now, although I already see that some Republicans like Lisa
00:08:30.700Murkowski of Alaska, for example, are refusing to go along. Again, we have the votes. It's time for
00:08:38.620the Senate Majority Leader, Mr. Thune, to call the vote. He can do that. We don't have to be
00:08:46.160bound by these arcane traditions of the Senate. It's the same type of tradition, the so-called
00:08:51.440blue slip, that keeps President Trump from having his own U.S. attorneys, his own federal prosecutors
00:08:56.920in every jurisdiction. It's time to do away with this filibuster bill and to give us honest
00:09:02.940elections. We have a unique opportunity to do that and to do it now. The president said lawmakers who
00:09:09.260vote against the SAVE Act should expect it to be used against them in their campaigns. That is a
00:09:14.260very key threat by the president because all the polling shows that he's extraordinarily popular
00:09:20.320among Republican voters. That's who votes in Republican primaries. And there's a clear
00:09:25.620challenge from the president that he is going to threaten the re-nomination, re-election of
00:09:31.480senators who vote against him on this crucially important bill. The bill, which is led in the
00:09:37.380Senate by Senator Mike Lee from Utah, requires individuals to register to vote in federal
00:09:41.960elections, providing proof of U.S. citizenship and identification when they do so. To me,
00:09:48.040it is just a common sense safeguard already supported by large majorities of the American
00:09:52.100people. Some, like the Democrats, like Dick Durbin from Illinois, argues it will make
00:09:56.660america is harder to register to vote that's a canard frequently used by opponents of any form
00:10:02.480of election integrity i'm roger stone i believe in honest fair elections and i believe the save
00:10:07.900act is the best way to get them you're listening to the stone zone right here on the red apple
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00:11:36.820Vice President J.D. Vance pushed back today against media attempts to divide the administration
00:11:43.280as the United States carries out military actions against Iran under Operation Epic Fury.
00:11:49.440Speaking in the Oval Office alongside the President, Vance correctly accused reporters
00:11:53.800of trying to manufacture conflict between him and the President. One reporter pressed Vance
00:11:58.900on whether he had reservations about the operation, pointing to his past criticism of prolonged
00:12:03.980foreign war. The vice president dismissed that suggestion, made clear that the administration
00:12:09.020is united. Vice President Vance said what the president has said consistently, going all the
00:12:13.960way back to 2015, is that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon. We've taken this action under
00:12:19.280the president's leadership and all Americans, Republicans, and Democrats alike should be
00:12:23.900praying for the success of our troops. The vice president also drew a sharp contrast with past
00:12:28.820administrations saying the difference today is strong leadership in the White House. The vice
00:12:34.000president says, and I agree with this totally, that he trusts President Trump to avoid the costly
00:12:38.260mistakes that defined earlier foreign conflicts. President Trump effusively praised Vance during
00:12:44.120the exchange, calling the vice president great and emphasizing that his goal remains peace
00:12:49.700through strength. President Trump said the operation against Iran is necessary to prevent0.75
00:12:54.560a far greater threat to the United States and its allies. The president's been completely
00:12:59.820consistent about this. I've been involved in his earlier exploratory efforts to look at the
00:13:07.620American presidency in 1988. We're certainly with him in 2000. He has always been a hardliner on
00:13:16.140the question of whether Iran should be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, and therefore nobody
00:13:20.480should be surprised this is completely consistent with his entire public record the president said
00:13:28.080we're going to have a much safer world when this is all wrapped up making it clear that the mission
00:13:32.640will conclude soon the president also brushed aside concerns about rising oil and gas prices
00:13:38.400following the operation arguing that economic fluctuations are insignificant compared with the
00:13:43.480danger of a nuclear-armed iran threatening america and the world it's clear that the president and the
00:13:50.220Vice President are on the same page, and any attempt to manufacture division with the
00:13:54.540administration will ultimately not be successful. I think we saw some of that in the interpretations
00:14:00.380of the resignation of Joe Kent as the National Director of the Center for Counterterrorism,
00:14:07.600but I think Tulsi Gabbard put that in the proper perspective when she said, look, the President
00:14:13.420makes the decisions. Our job is to give the President the best information we have, and we
00:14:18.840have done that. So she has closed ranks along the president and the vice president, and we all pray
00:14:24.780that this war will be brief. So far, it appears that way. Now, General Mike Flynn was on my show
00:14:33.280about a week ago, and he insisted that the U.S. Navy is more than capable of clearing the
00:14:40.920Straits of Hormuz and making sure that there is a lane there for commerce. The president has
00:14:47.940correctly called on our allies to share their burden since they all benefit from that. But of
00:14:53.940course, once again, the United States seems to be the only country that is stepping up. It is
00:15:00.540therefore, I think, absolutely clear that this administration is committed to peace through
00:15:09.840strength. Trump, unlike the neocons who went before him, is committed to the limited, targeted,
00:15:16.380finite but but extraordinarily lethal use of american power only when it is necessary therefore
00:15:25.140i stand with the president in this war as i think most americans do at the same time we know
00:15:31.100politically from history that the american people do not have the appetite for long drawn out foreign
00:15:37.340conflicts particularly if they don't see our inherent national interests later in the show
00:15:44.220Hamlet Yosef, who is a national security professional, former intelligence community
00:15:48.640official, and now today a venture capitalist specializing in defense and intelligence
00:15:53.020technologies. He knows more about Iran than probably almost anyone in America. He's going0.98
00:15:59.020to join us here in the Stone Zone to help us assess exactly what is going on there.
00:16:04.060Meanwhile, Mayor Mamdami, this guy never disappoints. He used today, St. Patrick's Day's
00:16:10.340event to accuse Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in outrageous remarks,
00:16:16.920remarks that were so outrageous. This is really what we've come to expect from a socialist Islamist1.00
00:16:22.760who was incomprehensibly elected to the position of mayor in New York City. Mamdami made his remarks
00:16:28.800today during a breakfast at Gracie Mansion where the city leaders gathered to celebrate Irish
00:16:34.540heritage and honor former Irish President Mary Robinson. But instead of focusing solely on the
00:16:41.160holiday, the president shifted the event towards the Middle Eastern politics, claiming the world0.91
00:16:46.000has remained silent while what he calls a genocide unfolds. Mamdami argued that the Irish experience
00:16:53.120with historical oppression gives him special connection to the Palestinians. Boy, there's a
00:16:58.520reach. He praised Robinson for speaking out on the issue and suggests that many people concerned
00:17:03.600with human rights have ignored the Palestinians suffering Robinson echoed broader concerns about
00:17:09.260global conflicts referencing war and instability in places like Gaza Ukraine Sudan and Iran
00:17:16.820she said many Irish people feel empathy for those facing displacement and violence around the world
00:17:22.580showing shamefully she's not particularly too far off from Mamdami's point of view she's a globalist
00:17:29.500Mamdami's comments are clearly inappropriate for a holiday meant to celebrate Irish culture and heritage.
00:17:35.600Mamdami shares no concern for any European other than to see them replaced and have their traditions blotted out by the refuse of the third world.1.00
00:17:45.240Mamdami injected this anti-colonial, anti-Western foreign policy agenda even into an event traditionally focused on unity, faith, and community.
00:17:55.760This, I'm sorry to say, is Mayor Mamdami's M.O.
00:17:59.740This is what he's known for, and he's just now getting started.
00:18:03.440Could we just celebrate St. Patrick's Day and do it in an appropriate way?
00:18:08.320This posted a great piece on St. Patrick, for those who don't know the history of this important holiday.
00:19:02.560To help us assess the situation in the Persian Gulf, we're joined now by Hamlet Youssef.
00:19:08.160He is a national security professional, a former intelligence community official, and now today a venture capitalist specializing in defense and intelligence technologies.
00:19:18.080Born to an Iranian family, he emigrated to America as a child after the 1979 revolution.
00:19:25.580Mr. Youssef holds degrees from Florida State University and Pepperdine University.
00:19:29.780But today he is the managing partner of Iron Gate Capital Advisors, a strategic partner at Tower Strategy Group, and an advisor on irregular warfare and geo-economic issues.
00:19:42.080With broad experience across all governmental and private sectors, he focuses specifically on national security questions as well as economic security issues, as well as the complex geopolitical challenges facing this country.
00:19:56.200We're very honored to have him. Mr. Youssef, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:20:01.100Yeah, thank you for having me. I have a bit of a passion, I guess, when it comes to Iran and have a unique perspective,
00:20:08.660having been born there, raised in the U.S., and having the pleasure of serving the federal government, but also the private sector.
00:20:15.940So the unique approach. And as you mentioned, my background, I definitely have my biases,
00:20:20.320having seen what the regime did in 1979,
00:20:24.760turning a very progressive, a very pro-West, pro-U.S.,
00:20:28.620pro-Europe, pro-Israel country, and turning it to what it is today.
00:20:32.360I, like many Iranians, have always thought that it would be great
00:20:36.580if we could ever have an opportunity to see that regime fall.
00:20:39.580I think for the first time in my lifetime, we're pretty close to seeing that.
00:20:42.380So I say that because I do have, like I said, my biases,
00:20:45.420and I try to remove my biases in fact.
00:20:47.600But all humans have their own kind of perspective.
00:21:18.020But I guess the most important question is this one, which is, did the regime pose an imminent threat to the United States when the president decided to attack them?
00:21:28.440That's a complicated and loaded question.
00:21:31.040So do I personally think they had an imminent threat?
00:21:34.280Is there a plan for the Iranians to strike the homeland?
00:25:55.340That in itself does not make a nuclear device because now I need two other things.
00:26:00.100I need a triggering mechanism, something that will create a nuclear reaction,
00:26:04.380and I need a delivery mechanism, something that I can deliver it into pick-your-cart, target country or region.
00:26:12.000The speculation, I think, was if they got to enriched uranium,
00:26:16.840they could always go and collaborate potentially with North Korea on the triggering mechanism.
00:26:22.480And unfortunately, one of the shortcomings of the Obama-era nuclear deal, JCPOA,
00:26:27.880and gave Iran a lot of latitude to continue to make advancements in their ballistic technology.
00:26:32.360So now you have a regime that became danger-close to having the ability to natively develop nuclear-grade processed uranium
00:26:41.960and could very easily, arguably, access and trigger the technology from another bad actor in North Korea
00:26:48.040and was already developing their ballistic infrastructure domestically.
00:26:50.980So to me, I think they were reaching very, very close to it.
00:26:53.640So for the Iranians to come back and say they had nowhere at 60%, I believe at face value,
00:26:59.000because I think they've been enriching for the better part of seven years since JCPO was taken off the table.
00:27:05.420There's no reason for them to enrich to this level unless they wanted to get to nuclear power.
00:27:10.340I'm sorry, for nuclear weapon material, because once they're at 60,
00:27:15.260which means they've more than enough processed uranium to feed any nuclear reactor
00:27:21.060that they need to develop for domestic energy consumption.
00:27:23.640consumption. So if you're enriching the 60, you're seeing a pretty clear message in terms of where
00:27:29.340you want to go for the weapons program, and that's my opinion. Folks, if you're just tuning in,
00:27:34.360we're talking to Hamlet Youssef. He is a national security professional, currently a managing
00:27:39.320partner at Iron Gate Capital Advisors, a strategic partner from the Tower Strategy Group, where he
00:27:45.620advises them on irregular warfare and other geo-economic issues. He has a vast background
00:27:53.000uh understanding the region uh mr yusuf i'm curious as to the current state of the regime
00:28:00.420obviously we killed the supreme leader and 40 of his top henchmen uh yet they continue to use
00:28:07.820drones uh and fire missiles uh at their at their arab neighbors clearly they may be wounded0.64
00:28:15.160but they don't seem to be completely decapitated at this point do you think that's a what do you
00:28:21.940think their current military state is? That's a great question. I think if you look at their
00:28:26.980capabilities from a conventional military standpoint, no doubt that it's been degraded
00:28:31.420significantly in terms of leadership, command and control, but also their conventional ability
00:28:37.140to wage war. For all intended purposes, it looks like all their air defenses have it for the most
00:28:42.260part taken care of, their conventional Navy for the most part taken care of, no air force to speak
00:28:46.880of. But these guys are not idiots. They've suspected
00:28:50.600they've been planning for this from day one. To me, I think there's
00:28:54.780a lot of credence to believe that these guys are spending a fortune building
00:28:58.860a drone arsenal, an unconventional rocket arsenal, where they can
00:29:02.220reach out and hit our neighbors and hit our forces throughout the region.
00:29:06.500So I think this conflict that we're seeing right now is going to very quickly change from a conventional conflict
00:29:10.760to a very irregular asymmetric conflict. And unfortunately,
00:29:14.700You touched on a drone, drone technology is a big piece of that.
00:29:18.880As an investor in this space, we saw this coming seven, eight years ago when we first started the fund.
00:29:23.980We thought it was important to invest in drone and counter-drone technologies
00:29:27.020because this is what was going to reshape the battlefield in the 21st century.
00:29:31.500So what's entirely plausible now is as a conventional missile and rocket technology becomes degraded,
00:29:38.860they are going to rely on these very crude, inexpensive Shahid drones that are literally one-way, $30,000, $40,000 flying lawnmowers
00:29:47.640that are cheap to make, easy to deploy, very easy to basically hide under a civilian infrastructure and launch against your adversaries.
00:29:56.120This now introduces where the future of warfare is going, which is a complete destruction of the economics of war.
00:30:01.620Because if I'm an Iranian and I'm launching, let's say, a thousand lawnmowers with motors and wings, and I say lawnmowers, it doesn't sound like they fly, but if I'm launching these cheap drones at U.S. forces, I'm putting billions of dollars of hardware at risk.
00:30:20.680And right now, the U.S.'s counter to that is to launch fighters and helicopters to knock down these assets.
00:30:28.600So we're spending millions and millions and billions of dollars to address a threat that's maybe a couple million dollars.
00:30:37.060And so I think Iran is going to be able to have a prolonged ability to make things very uncomfortable in the Middle East,1.00
00:30:44.280Everything from trying to disrupt commerce and trade in the Straits of Hormuz to attacking Arab infrastructure, civilian infrastructure, and also our targets and our locations throughout the Middle East.
00:30:55.100So the tenor and the conflict of this is changing.
00:30:58.340The third element that I think is starting to really impact and come to light is what we call cognitive warfare, which is basically messaging media, framing of what's happening.
00:31:09.400They want to continue, they being Iran, and I think to a certain extent backed by proxies from China and Russia, primarily China,0.89
00:31:17.080they want to make sure the message is this is a failed war.
00:31:20.220This is a horrible decision for the U.S.
00:31:23.180The Iranians are being unfairly treated and whatnot because they want to put as much pressure as they can on the administration and Israelis to stop this conflict.
00:31:32.500Like, the reason they're attacking the Middle East and their neighbors is, one, I don't want to fall down the pit of Shia Sunni divide,1.00
00:31:40.280but I think what they're trying to do is they're trying to turn sentiment in the Middle East against us.
00:31:45.500I think the reason you have not seen any major action against Iran in the past is we were always afraid, well, that's the Middle East thing.0.71
00:31:53.740Well, we're starting to see, we're starting to see actually the entire Middle East unified behind giving us support to take out Iran.0.96
00:32:00.260The reason they're doing that is the entire Middle East, the Arab world, they're not anti-Iran.
00:32:06.620I think the rest of the Middle East is, by many estimates, getting closer and closer to realizing there's a very bright future ahead based on secular unity and put all the secretarian BS behind them.
00:32:20.000And they view the number one challenge to that as being the Iranian regime.
00:32:23.860So this is going to turn very quickly, I think, from a very conventional conflict to a very unconventional conflict.
00:32:29.860steep in regular warfare and cognitive warfare and economic warfare. Let's turn for a few minutes
00:32:35.280to the Strait of Hormuz. As you know, a very substantial amount of the world's energy flows
00:32:40.640through there. The Iranians have said from the beginning if they were attacked, they would0.94
00:32:44.620close it down. Do they have the ability to sustain that? I mean, it appears to me that the U.S. Navy
00:32:50.300ought to be able to take care of that. Great point. Actually, I love the sub-statue roads
00:33:33.340And I think you're going to see some elements of that deployed over the next couple of weeks.
00:33:36.640But I don't think it's sustainable for a couple of reasons, because at the end of the day,
00:33:40.500some of that oil that's leaving the Straits is a lot of oil.
00:33:44.320They're going to need that income stream to continue to fuel those fights.1.00
00:33:48.420But at the same time, if you look at, I think, somewhere around 30 to 40, close to 50 percent of the oil that leaves the Gulf, whether it's Iranian or Arab, is going to China and India, two of the biggest economies out there.
00:34:02.060They're only going to stand for so long in terms of allowing this.
00:34:04.620When you look at overall global trade and what Europe has at stake, at some point, you're going to see the other powers to be either step in and block the U.S. from continuing this aggression, which I think is less likely to them stepping in and say, okay, you know what?
00:35:11.880President Trump was very vocal earlier this week, I think,
00:35:14.320and talked about how he's blown up every military asset on that island.
00:35:18.240That's a key statement because I don't think there's ever a scenario
00:35:22.080where you're going to have a military invasion force going into Iran.
00:35:26.640But if we can take Karg Island off of the map temporarily for the Iranians,1.00
00:35:31.600And again, it chokes off the regime's ability to fuel and fund Hezbollah, Hamas, their proxy networks, and their ability to buy weapons and materials from China and Russia and sustain this fight.
00:35:42.660And the reason I think we attack the military infrastructure and not the actual rural infrastructure is when and if there is regime change in the near term, we want to keep that entire infrastructure intact so we can hand it back to the Iranian people to rebuild their country like they should.
00:35:56.080Folks, if you're just tuning in, we're talking to Hamlet Youssef.
00:35:59.500He is an esteemed intelligence agency veteran who has served his country, but now works on Wall Street, an expert on what's going on in the Persian Gulf.
00:37:37.820is going to be a tremendous added level point for the West.
00:37:43.120I think it drives up all funds for Hezbollah and Hamas.
00:37:46.260It neuters Putin's ability to wage one Ukraine.0.72
00:37:48.380But more importantly, this is what it's all about,
00:37:50.600that significantly hinders Xi and the CCP.
00:37:53.300So I think there's no coincidence that this is happening a month before President Trump is set to start negotiating and engaging in Asia later this year.
00:38:03.040So I think there's a lot of dominoes that are set to fall.
00:38:06.760But I think it's been very constructive in terms of where things are going to at least want to be a regime and Iran is no longer in place.
00:38:34.920I'm calling the American people to rally behind him and behind the Secretary of War and the Secretary of State at this crucial time for the country.
00:38:42.700I want to thank you for joining us today, bringing your wealth of experience to the table.
00:38:47.120A lot of my listeners are still concerned about the war, not sure they're getting the straight story.