00:00:00.000Well, in between the Super Bowl halftime show and Epstein and the Winter Olympics, most Americans probably weren't aware that we are on the verge of a massive regional war in the Middle East, if not a third world war.
00:00:12.040We are. The largest movement of American military hardware is since 2003, the Iraq invasion, is now in or steaming toward the Persian Gulf off Iran, preparatory to what could be the aforementioned war.
00:00:33.260Now, most people, once again, probably didn't know this. Those who did know it weren't for it.
00:00:39.340Recent polls on this question, are you for a war with Iran? It's about one in five Americans support it.
00:00:46.380The rest are probably asking, war with Iran? Why would we have a war with Iran? They said no idea.
00:00:51.300The president did address it last night in a State of the Union and at a press conference.
00:00:55.880And he said in public what he basically says in private, Trump being one of those rare public figures who's pretty much the same behind closed doors as he is on stage, says pretty much the same stuff.
00:01:07.940It's a little funnier in private, but basically he's not a different guy. He's the same guy.
00:01:12.160And he's been saying the same thing about Iran for a long time. Really two things.
00:01:16.680One, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. He says it again and again. He really means it.
00:01:22.840That's not a talking point. It's completely sincere. And two, I would prefer a negotiated settlement.
00:01:28.420I would prefer peace rather than war. And that's obviously true.
00:01:33.200So to bottom line, where we are right now at the end of February 2026 on this looming Iran war, seems likely.
00:01:42.660I have all those aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, planes ready, missiles ready.
00:01:46.860But it's not certain because the president hasn't decided to do it.
00:01:50.940And you may not get that impression either from watching the news.
00:01:55.760There is the sense that it's inevitable. And that's kind of a psyop actually designed to make you think there's nothing you can do about it.
00:02:02.040No, Trump has not decided to do this again. Seems likely all the momentum is in that direction.
00:02:07.220But the president's the sole decider on this question.
00:02:11.160He's the commander in chief and he's showing no obvious signs of enthusiasm.
00:02:15.240And why would he? There are a lot of reasons not to do this.
00:02:20.020The first being the one just mentioned, which is most Americans don't want it.
00:02:24.520And though it's not a direct democracy, it's a form of democracy.
00:02:27.120And you probably shouldn't commit history changing acts without the support of your people.
00:04:27.140But current estimates suggest that the United States is so low on some munitions, partly because we've used them in the defense of Israel already in the last 12 months.
00:04:38.180But whatever the cause, the United States is so low on certain kinds of munitions that were we to have even a brief but intense engagement with Iran, our military would not be ready for like 10 years to fight a real war against a peer or near-peer adversary.
00:04:57.940So out the window would go any hope of defending Taiwan, whether or not it's a good idea is kind of up to you to decide.
00:05:06.100But that would not even be on the table because we wouldn't be able to.
00:05:09.060We would be much weakened by this because we don't have the stockpiles and we don't have the necessary industrial capacity to replace them quickly.
00:05:19.100So we are not in a position to have a lengthy engagement.
00:05:23.460And everyone at the Pentagon who's gaming this out understands that.
00:05:27.620And again, this has been reported publicly, though, not necessarily in The New York Times or The Washington Post, at least not on the front page, but it's widely known.
00:05:55.400And there's Israel, our ally, which is probably a little more vulnerable than we pretend it is to conventional attacks from ballistic missiles.
00:06:03.420Do the math on how many missiles Iran is believed to have versus how many anti-ballistic missiles Israel has or we have to defend Israel.
00:06:26.080To be clear, as if tonight, there is no Israeli plan for what comes the day after we depose the Ayatollah, knock out the leadership of the country.
00:08:14.100But what if Iran decides better to die on your feet than on your knees and just unleashes its conventional arsenal against American assets in the region, against Israel, and, critically, against energy infrastructure in the Gulf?
00:08:50.800What would happen to liquefied natural gas, which goes to both Europe and China?
00:08:56.420What would happen to Europe if you disrupted the flow of LNG from the Gulf to Europe?
00:09:02.440What would happen if you closed the Straits of Hormuz?
00:09:04.560The choke point at the end of the Persian Gulf, whew, I mean, wouldn't destroy the world forever, probably, but it would tank the economy in the meantime, for sure.
00:10:11.880Because the Gulf states, the six Arab oil-producing states, called the GCC in the region, are, along with Iran, one of the main impediments to Israel's regional hegemony.
00:12:00.420And it was probably no coincidence that the prime minister of India, Prime Minister Modi, spoke to Knesset today about the ancient ties between Israel and India.
00:12:12.540Bottom line, yes, Israel is moving on from the United States at some point, probably sooner rather than later, to India.
00:12:21.640And so weakening the United States in a war with Iran is not all bad.
00:13:43.240And 23 years later, we know exactly how right he was.
00:13:46.120That war, which lasted 20 years, waged on behalf of our ally Israel, didn't help the United States.
00:13:53.580It helped to impoverish the United States and sink this country deeper into debt, to weaken the dollar and destroy a generation of young men.
00:14:03.720Mostly from the flyover states, the most decent and patriotic among us, destroyed.
00:14:09.960So from an American perspective, Iraq was a true disaster, and Trump was the first big political candidate to say that out loud.
00:14:41.940Well, most likely, the Iranians would strike Israel and then potentially strike American assets in the Gulf and then potentially strike energy facilities in the Gulf.
00:14:49.860And the United States would be, by definition, drawn in.
00:14:52.820So it's possible that the U.S. government, while not anxious to go to war with Iran, is trying to find a way to contain the behavior of its closest ally, Israel.
00:15:08.000Rather than sit back and wait for Bibi to do something that we have to clean up, that we're implicated in and then sucked into, it's possible that the U.S. government is attempting to steer this in a less destructive direction.
00:15:25.180None of this, of course, is filtered down to people paying attention because the few who are paying attention to this, because all the noise has been about Iran's nuclear weapons.
00:15:38.000They're on the verge of building a nuclear weapon any day now.
00:15:41.360Now, if you're semi-awake, you may remember that it was only about eight months ago, back in June of last year, during the short but hot 12-day war against Iran, that the United States took out nuclear processing facilities deep underground and then announced we have ended the Iranian nuclear threat.
00:16:03.080And then without you noticing, well, you were on summer vacation or going to your kids' graduation or bringing them back to school or watching the Super Bowl halftime show with your jaw slack, well, you were not tuned in.
00:16:15.900All of a sudden, that threat out of nowhere reemerged.
00:16:19.320And there's Benjamin Netanyahu on television or at the White House for a seventh time in a single year making the case that we're right on the verge of a nuclear holocaust.
00:16:28.460Any day now, the Iranian government will have a nuclear weapon.
00:16:34.860And by the way, as noted, the president does not want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
00:16:40.560That is one thing that he takes very, very seriously.
00:17:11.920So the only people who've really been out there speaking in public about Iran's nuclear program basically are Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and his many accolades and paid shills in the United States.
00:17:29.080You may have seen this tape before, but in case you haven't, it's worth watching again, because it reminds us that Benjamin Netanyahu has been saying exactly the same thing about Iran.
00:17:38.620They're actually going to have a nuclear weapon any minute since at least 1996.
00:17:48.420Now they're well into the second stage, and by next spring, at most, by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and move on to the final stage.
00:18:05.560From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.
00:18:39.760The two nations that are vying, competing with each other, who will be the first to achieve nuclear weapons is Iraq and Iran.
00:18:47.060And Iran, by the way, is also outpacing Iraq in the development of ballistic missile systems that they hope will reach the eastern seaboard of the United States within 15 years.
00:18:57.740The most dangerous of these regimes is Iran, that has wed a cruel despotism to a fanatic militancy.
00:19:06.120If this regime or its despotic neighbor, Iraq, were to acquire nuclear weapons, this could presage catastrophic consequences, not only for my country and not only for the Middle East, but for all of mankind.
00:19:24.040I believe that only the United States can lead this vital international effort to stop the nuclearization of terrorist states.
00:19:32.340But the deadline for attaining this goal is getting extremely close.
00:19:37.200You can see why the government of Israel has such contempt for the United States, while they're totally happy to tank our economy, stretch our military to its limit, degrade us in public.
00:20:17.560And by the way, it's not just the claim that Iran is seconds away from a nuclear weapon that they're recycling here.
00:20:23.420It's maybe the oldest lie in American foreign policy you heard in those clips, too, which is, we need to do this because it's a despotic regime that is oppressing its own people.
00:20:37.420Now, this line is older than you may know.
00:20:41.460And the reason it's so distressing, it's so cynical, is because it plays upon Americans' best quality, which is decency.
00:20:55.320They believe freedom is granted them and all people by God.
00:21:00.100And so a regime that oppresses its own people is inherently illegitimate.
00:21:04.720Americans are born believing that, and God willing, they always will believe that because it's true.
00:21:08.520So if you're trying to sell an illegitimate war, wage for reasons that had nothing to do with human rights at all, you would use that line, wouldn't you?
00:21:36.820Here's Lyndon Johnson, 1965, in a speech at Johns Hopkins, explaining that the war in Vietnam, which was just getting intense then, so three years from Tet, from the height, he said this.
00:21:50.320Tonight, Americans and Asians are dying for a world where each people may choose its own path to change.
00:21:57.300So really, we're doing this for the Vietnamese people.
00:22:32.460But he said it anyway, and so did Dick Cheney, by the way.
00:22:35.700My belief, he said, in the lead-up to the Iraq war, is that we will be greeted as liberators.
00:22:40.860The vast majority of Iraqis would respond favorably to an effort to rid the country of Saddam's regime.
00:22:46.440Well, someone who happened to be in Baghdad in December of 2003, the day we caught Saddam at Decreet, I can attest to what you already know, which is that's where the insurrection started.
00:22:59.040But Barack Obama, even, three years after getting elected president, having been thoroughly briefed on how to lie, in 2011, said this about the bombing of Libya and the murder of our sometime ally and CIA asset, Muammar Gaddafi.
00:23:17.900Quote, this is a plea for help from the Libyan people themselves.
00:23:24.040Regime change in Libya, said Barack Obama, would serve America's, quote, broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.
00:25:31.320What's so amazing is that Israel, which at least is acting in what it perceives to be its own national interest, is joined by its shills in the United States, of course.
00:25:42.980But really, its only other ally in this is the American news media, whose job it is to tell you the truth and inform you as to what's happening, to tell you, hey, wake up.
00:25:54.060The world could be changing and it's going to affect you and your family.
00:25:59.060And instead, they've been lulling you to sleep with the same variety of transparent lies and propaganda.
00:26:06.140And so just for fun, we decided we would pick a cross-section and not just from a liberal media or right-wing media, but from all media, because it's not a left-right question.
00:26:18.020Chuck Schumer is every bit as much in favor of an invasion of Iran, a regime change war in Iran, as, I don't know, pick a brain-dead Republican senator, which is almost all of them.
00:26:30.020They're all for it, and so are all the Democrats.
00:26:33.460You don't see Alexandria Cazio-Cortez making a real case against it.
00:26:37.920She's like a pro forma case because she knows that all of her constituents hate it.
00:26:42.140But is she really working to stop this?
00:26:51.740Now, it goes without saying that the Wall Street Journal, owned by the Murdoch family, has been by far the most egregious and the most stealthy, because starting new regime change wars on behalf of Israel is, like, the whole reason to have the Wall Street Journal now, apparently.
00:28:20.920And if you blow it up into constituent parts and inside a civil war, there are going to be downstream effects of that.
00:28:28.900Again, like refugee crises into Europe and the Gulf states, probably the United States, too.
00:28:35.120Since it is the iron law of American foreign policy that once you start bombing people, you have to let all their angry kids into your country.
00:28:42.560And that's how, by the way, we got the Boston Marathon bombing and many other acts of terror.
00:28:49.320John Bolton still exists, writing for the Wall Street Journal.
00:28:53.440The Gaza ceasefire has diverted Western attention from the real threat, Tehran and its surrogates.
00:29:02.320You'd really have to be John Bolton to think that Tehran and its surrogates are even in the top hundred issues Americans are worried about at the moment.
00:34:29.860In other words, except on the issues that actually matter, that drive history, that determine whether or not your children thrive in this country or not.
00:34:36.200On those issues, they're one and the same.
00:34:45.460Three different pieces he's written on this question.
00:34:47.600He's obviously a man with a great deal of credibility and authority on regime change wars, having advocated for all of them, none of which has worked.
00:35:35.300If you don't regret supporting the Iraq war, if that support occasioned no soul searching in you, then you, my friend, have a spiritual problem.
00:35:49.480As someone who supported the Iraq war, I can attest to that personally.
00:35:52.460So the acid test is not do you make mistakes.
00:35:55.940The acid test is do you admit that you did and do you apologize?
00:36:00.000But if you refuse to do either one of those things and instead 20 years later are still bragging about the greatest disaster in modern American history as if it's a badge of honor, hard to know if we have anything in common as people.
00:36:10.420Because that's contemptible because that's contemptible and scary.
00:36:13.880It's never occurred to you the Iraq war was a mistake.
00:37:06.160And so Fox has really driven this war, and if it occurs, you can thank Fox, more than any other media organization, more than any other lobbyist, more honestly than any government, more than the government of Israel.
00:37:21.800However, its owners personally have pushed for it, personally, and, of course, its employees on the channel have pushed for it with such aggression and unanimity that, as of tonight, there is not a single on-air Fox personality who is going to question going to war with Iran.
00:37:41.880There are some who may have reservations.
00:37:45.300There was one on a weekend show who very bravely spoke up and said, is this a good idea?
00:37:50.700That was the last time this topic was discussed on that weekend show.
00:37:54.560Because the order has gone down to Fox employees, we are in favor of this war.
00:37:59.240And that is very obvious if you watch it.
00:38:05.560Now, one of the main cheerleaders for an invasion of Iraq and every other invasion and every other instance of shedding of human blood, just a killing in general, would, of course, be Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
00:38:21.060Now, if you don't watch Fox, you may have no idea what he actually says when he goes on Fox, which is all the time.
00:38:25.480So we want to play you a short montage of Lindsey Graham and watch, as you watch this, his eyes.
00:38:32.060And you can see that he is, maybe for the first time that day, feeling elevated and light and happy, but also tantalized.
00:38:40.240You can almost watch his mouth fill with saliva.
00:38:44.700Some people feel this way in strip bars, others in bakeries.
00:39:38.780There are risks associated with any operation.
00:39:41.500They join the military to keep their country safe and to make the world a better place.
00:39:45.820And taking on the Ayatollah does both.
00:39:48.620If I were you, Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people.
00:39:52.980And to the Ayatollahs, you need to understand, if you keep killing your people who are demanding a better life, Donald J. Trump is going to kill you.
00:40:01.800I mean, now you can look at that and say, you know, this guy's risking his soul talking like this.
00:40:15.320This guy's clearly a buffoon with some kind of psychosexual problems that we're not qualified to diagnose, but that are totally evident.
00:40:23.160But you should also keep in mind, as you watch Lindsey Graham, he's taken very seriously by his colleagues in the Senate, not just the Republicans, but also the Democrats.
00:40:31.420And he's taken very seriously by Republicans in Washington more broadly.
00:40:41.660And that effect could get us into, you know, certainly the worst war in 23 years.
00:40:50.140So the idea is to flood the zone, the information zone, to make sure that no Republican in Washington hears anything but that.
00:41:00.000And the proponents of this war are very intent on that.
00:41:03.580They made no effort to convince you it's a good idea.
00:41:05.800They are staying up night and day convincing the decision makers it's a good idea.
00:41:10.500And they're trying, by the way, to shout down and threaten and defame and slander and exclude anybody who has a contrary view, who might pipe up and say, wait a second, are we sure this is a good idea?
00:41:24.160What would happen if the energy trade gets shut down in the Persian Gulf?
00:41:28.880What would happen if Iran lobbed, successfully lobbed some sort of armament into a U.S. aircraft carrier and Americans died?
00:41:35.540What would happen if Israel felt threatened enough to use nuclear weapons against Iran, which is a possibility, despite what they tell you?
00:42:35.260And by the way, in his speeches, when he starts rolling and ad-libbing and all that, the weave, as he calls it, he'll often say, I talk to this guy.
00:42:40.940And like, he actually kind of listens to people.
00:42:42.320But people around Donald Trump have been intimidated, understandably, by the level of pure aggression aimed at anybody who raises totally reasonable points about the downsides of a war with Iran.
00:43:01.580So keep in mind, and by the way, this is a message to anyone who knows Donald Trump, has a good relationship with him, likes him, loves the United States.
00:43:09.760Now's the time to maybe call and say, whoa, whoa, wait a second, have some concerns here.
00:43:14.240Now is the time, right now, because the decision has not yet been made.
00:43:20.300But it's not just aggression, it's also lying.
00:43:24.160So I'm going to play one last clip before we go to Clayton Morris, who's spent many years in the U.S. media and has a, I think, more tactile sense of what's going on here in information world.
00:43:36.980But one last clip, and this is from, I think, two days ago.
00:43:41.420And this is from a man at Fox, a weekend show host called Mark Levin.
00:43:45.000And really nobody has elevated his own visibility to a greater extent or worked harder to get the United States into war with Iran than Mark Levin has.
00:43:55.380And he's done it not through brilliant argument, incisive analysis, basically through screaming.
00:44:02.220But as we get closer and closer and closer to the time where this war could actually start, Levin has decided to just make stuff up.
00:44:09.160And the clip you're about to hear is from his podcast, I believe, and you can check it, two days ago.
00:44:16.040And it is grounds for dismissal from Fox News, immediate grounds for dismissal.
00:44:20.860And it's also, at the very least, grounds for, like, questions to him, like, what are you doing?
00:44:26.960What are you doing saying something like this?
00:44:28.620This is Mark Levin telling his listeners, such as they are, that Iran has nuclear-tipped ICBMs aimed at the United States.
00:45:26.340If you wake up in a world where Mark Levin is publicly identified with, quote, civilization, you are an upside-down world.
00:45:34.940Civilization begins with the acknowledgement that human life is sacred, that God created each person as an individual, that identity politics is therefore wrong,
00:45:44.840and that telling the truth matters because truth is absolute.
00:45:48.680You may get it wrong, but the idea that nothing is true is a form of nihilism, and that attitude is the enemy of civilization.
00:45:56.160And yet that's exactly what you just saw.
00:45:57.960Iran does not have nuclear-tipped ICBMs.
00:46:01.620And they're not aimed at the United States.
00:47:41.180Tell Americans, tell the Congress, tell the White House that the country we want you to spend your money and your lives to overthrow
00:47:52.640so we can have a greater degree of control or hegemony in our region that that country is a threat to you because they have weapons of mass destruction.
01:02:44.040We, we even, I think we even sell a t-shirt on our store that says conspiracy knower, you know, and our pronouns are, our pronouns are, I told you so.
01:02:58.720Whether it's COVID or what was going on in Ukraine, the child trafficking operations, whatever it is that we've been covering on our show, I have yet to have anyone come on our show and say, you need to correct that mistake.
01:03:26.280They're not covering it at all and not even not covering it.
01:03:31.200They're refusing to have voices on their air who could actually provide real value, real source material.
01:03:37.900I'm speaking to a source today, actually.
01:03:42.040And who just, who's recently been to Epstein Island.
01:03:45.280And on Epstein Island, there's still papers, Jeffrey Epstein's papers scattered all over his books, materials everywhere, just laying there, not gathered up by the FBI, not gathered up and being investigated.
01:04:03.040But where is this information in the mainstream media?
01:04:05.680Where are any deeper questions about Epstein's murder?
01:04:09.240And all of the inconsistencies that have, that appeared that day at the prison.
01:04:13.120And where are these, they're not in the mainstream media at all.
01:04:16.280And even like Fox News coverage of Pam Bondi's hearing was mysteriously absent.
01:04:20.960I don't know if you noticed that, but Fox News loves to go wall to wall with, you know, whoever, whatever member of the cabinet is going to be there.
01:04:28.880They love to go wall to wall coverage.
01:04:32.040You know, he's testifying before Congress today about what the FBI is doing.
01:04:35.880Great. Spend an hour, two hours, senators, members of, you know, have representatives asking questions, House Judiciary Committee and otherwise.
01:04:57.920But Fox News, like why, why do they, why do they not want to show Pam Bondi being questioned about the Epstein files?
01:05:04.880Normally they'd be covering that wall to wall.
01:05:06.600So there is a dereliction of duty happening in the mainstream media.
01:05:10.960And I know from sources who have sent material to like News Nation, the New York Times and other major publications, and they've ignored it.
01:05:19.720They've ignored it and won't publish it.
01:06:00.560And I'm, you know, is it because, and certain sources who have told me that it is because how this hits just about everyone, the major power players.
01:06:12.100I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene admitted that President Trump called her and asked her to not vote for the, what am I saying?
01:06:25.920And of course, the Epstein Transparency Act, in her words, quoting her, she said, President told me that too many of my friends would be hurt.
01:06:34.540And I think that's at the heart of it.
01:06:35.920And I think the money, and there's a reason also, I think, that we haven't seen any of the financial information yet.
01:06:40.940So, you know, when you and I spoke a few years ago on the show, we talked about, like, Operation Gladio and NATO.
01:06:50.240And there's a strategy that they have, which is, you know, the strategy of tension that Colonel Towner Watkins, she's very eloquent on this point.
01:06:57.420And it's a strategy to keep us in this chaos, right?
01:07:00.820And it's also like a drip feed of information.
01:07:02.860So we get sort of disparate pieces of emails, but no financial information, no transactions that connect point A to point B.
01:07:15.180Peter Atiyah said, I can't tell everyone about you.
01:07:18.880You know, you're my friend, but man, you're kind of dirty.
01:07:22.180We get Russian models with Bill Gates emails.
01:07:25.120We get random pieces of Pizzagate and all of these other things.
01:07:29.080But do we get financial connections, financial transactions, which the DOJ is sitting on, by the way?
01:07:36.520Like, why don't we see any of that information?
01:07:39.300And, you know, to your point with the New York Times or these different publications covering this up, I, you know, I don't know.
01:07:47.280But they were actively involved in this.
01:07:51.460I mean, you have Landon Thomas, for instance, right, whose name shows up as part of the Epstein investigation.
01:07:59.480He was writing about the Epstein from the New York Times, financial reporter writing about Epstein back during his first arrest.
01:08:06.280And then you have Nellie Bowles, who is, of course, the partner of, wife of Barry Weiss, who gets assigned by the New York Times as a tech reporter to go and do a profile piece on Jeffrey Epstein.
01:08:24.400And it's in the files where she claims, oh, my newsroom basically, you know, they told me it was or it later came out in her piece why she justified it, that she could go and be with Epstein, that I'd be safe.
01:08:37.720Like, so wait, the New York Times put you up to going to a known pedophile sex traffickers house?
01:08:45.580Like, yeah, you should, you, you girl, you just run along to a known sex trafficking and pedophiles house and write a profile piece as a tech reporter.
01:08:52.680Like, look, I covered technology for years, love it, and I know all those people in the tech world, if you call it, like, there's no way somebody from, like, The Verge or the tech reporter for The Wall Street Journal would be assigned to go do, like, a criminal profile piece, like, on financial crimes and sex trafficking or what, it just wouldn't make any sense.
01:09:14.320It's like Bob Woodward being chosen to cover Watergate, you know, like, as a CIA asset or Intel, you know, adjacent asset.
01:12:06.940They're not allowing, for instance, Congressman Massey to appear on television.
01:12:11.660I know for a fact that he hasn't, Fox News has not had him on in, I think, about a year, if I'm not mistaken.
01:12:20.580The guy responsible, along with Ro Khanna, for the Epstein Transparency Act, but Fox News won't allow Congressman Massey to appear on their airwaves?
01:12:30.620Like, is there some sort of gatekeeping going on by Susie Wiles inside the White House to keep these people from getting this message out on their favorite network?
01:14:24.380It's whatever the superstructure above governments is.
01:14:27.480And that's very obvious in the Epstein emails and texts is that, you know, he's part of some informal structure that's, I don't know, shorting the global financial crisis and knows that Gaddafi is going to be killed before Hillary Clinton does or whatever.
01:14:59.800When you understand that there's this global cultist network, pedophiles, Satanists who are, you know, responsible for the COVID cabal and all of it, this supra government, whatever you want to call it, at the heart of everything, then you understand that, like, Trump is just a small piece of this.
01:15:18.700And you understand also that Epstein is just a small piece of this.
01:15:22.460So, a window into it, in my opinion, and they're very scared.
01:15:28.220It's like circling the wagons to kind of protect this globalist network, however it operates at many, many different levels.
01:15:34.900You know, you get glimpses into it, like with the Bilderberg Group and, you know, when you see all these people at Davos telling us how they're going to control our lives in the next few years with AI, you know, chips inserted into our brains and moving past information warfare.
01:15:53.480Now they're just going to have total control of us in all of it.
01:15:57.520So, I think that Rupert Murdoch and these guys, these oligarchs, these tech oligarchs who are at the top, they're way more powerful than President Trump and they're really running the show.
01:16:09.220I mean, when you see that we're going to have, you know, massive biometric scanning and 6G networks rolled out and digital IDs and CBDCs and all of this digital tracking, it's all about control.
01:16:24.680Kevin Shipp, former CIA whistleblower told me, you know, 17 years at the CIA and he said, he said, Clayton, you have to understand that when I, when I got to the CIA, the, the, you know, the number one goal at the CIA is if they can, if they know your thoughts, then they've won.
01:16:45.380And that's the number one goal of the intelligence state is for them to know your thoughts and to be able to have that control.
01:16:51.860And we're not there yet, but we're, we're damn close.
01:16:55.620And I think those are the, those are the dark forces that are really running all of it.
01:16:59.660And I think Trump is a small piece of this, but I think those power players that run all of these media networks and all of it, you know, the Jeff Bezos is of the world and all of this have far more control than President Trump does.
01:17:15.900I, as I was thinking about this story today, both about the looming war and about Epstein and how few people have stood up to say, wait a second, you know, what is this?
01:17:27.140Um, and I, I grew up in a country where people would routinely stand up and say, Hey, what is this?
01:17:52.420Maybe I don't, I don't see a lot of this fear and, and I, you know, maybe I should be standing out there with like a sandwich board trying to say it.
01:18:01.720I mean, I, I see the people in our chat room who watch our live show who are saying, I'm, I'm terrified of what's about to happen.
01:18:07.980Where are the people who are denouncing this, trying to get this, trying to stop it.
01:18:12.080But of course they're all being drowned out and the main, and the media is a, is complicit in this.
01:18:17.580They're a huge piece of this salesmanship of it.
01:18:22.100And when you just watch like local news, like I'm in Colorado, you just like flip on the local news for a few minutes to get maybe some, some weather updates.
01:19:25.560You just get this nice little thing in cellophane and sold to you on the nightly news.
01:19:29.300And then you go back to your taking your daughters to dance class.
01:19:32.520I wonder if people who do see it, who are paid to notice this stuff, you, for example, and, and other podcasters, that, that's, that's really where truth is being told right now.
01:19:43.780I'm grateful to be in this business unexpectedly because I feel like there's so many great people in it.
01:19:49.160But it really is the only place at this point, it'll change, but as of right now, it's digital media, social media, and podcasts.
01:19:58.280I mean, that's where people are telling the truth.
01:20:00.020And there are lots of crazies too, and lots of liars.
01:20:02.820But, but that's really where most of the truth is being told.
01:20:08.760I mean, it feels like there has to be some kind of dramatic free speech crackdown because what the government is doing at every level is too far from what the public wants.
01:20:19.280The, the distance is, it's never perfect.
01:20:21.260Like the government's always doing stuff people don't want.
01:20:23.160But if every big thing the government is doing is, you know, an 80, 20 against issue with the public, that's not sustainable.
01:20:30.740You have to do something or you're going to have a kind of revolution, right?
01:20:34.300So don't you have to shut down free speech?
01:20:36.200I mean, that's exactly why we got rid of TikTok, right?
01:20:40.820I mean, that's, you're going to see this consolidation of these independent voices and others will pop up and whether or not they're as successful or not.
01:20:47.760I mean, who, who knows at the end of the day.
01:20:50.780But of course, you're going to have this consolidation and sale and, and censorship.
01:20:54.780And that's, I mean, we've seen it on YouTube and you've seen it on these other platforms.
01:21:01.800And so you saw it during COVID and you saw, you know, Elon Musk still hasn't answered the question.
01:21:09.660And I think it's still there, which is that backdoor access for Twitter.