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00:00:30.000In your mind's eye, you imagine the American empire ending someday, probably in like a conflagration, in some sort of conflict with another great power.
00:00:40.040And if you had to pick one, you would imagine the end might come in a dispute over Taiwan, formerly Formosa, the island off mainland China that China considers part of its country.
00:00:52.500There's been a dispute about this for almost 80 years.
00:00:56.220and the United States has sort of informally suggested
00:01:00.000that it would defend Taiwan's sovereignty
00:01:01.860and periodically that part of the world,
00:01:19.140destroying American power over Taiwan.
00:01:24.040But you probably never imagined that the end of American empire would come in a little over a hundred day conflict with a little rogue state on the Persian Gulf that has the 34th largest economy in the world, a country called Iran, which generations of Americans have been raised to believe is crazy and dangerous, but basically irrelevant and certainly not civilized and in no way capable of affecting America's place in the world.
00:04:10.500Okay, so that's the first paragraph of the agreement. Israel is not mentioned, but Lebanon is mentioned three times. Lebanon? What does Lebanon have to do with this war? Well, strictly speaking, nothing. And when it began on February 28th, we were told by the administration this was purely about disarming Iran and preventing this rogue terror state from getting a nuclear weapon, which would be prima facie, a threat to the world.
00:04:33.680but very shortly after this war commenced Israel decided oh wait we're going to take this
00:04:40.840opportunity not to achieve the goals that they convinced President Trump to tell our nation
00:04:45.900about but instead to do something we've wanted to do for a long time which is steal southern Lebanon
00:04:50.300and so very shortly after this war began Israel started a new war with American weapons paid for
00:04:57.820by American taxpayers designed to take land from Lebanon,
00:05:02.040all the land south of the Latani River,
00:05:04.280which kind of bisects the country diagonally,
00:05:06.840and then starts hitting Beirut on the Mediterranean,
00:05:19.700while the United States was occupied, tied down really,
00:05:24.540both fighting this war that Israel inspired
00:05:27.940We followed Israel's lead into the war, according to the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
00:05:32.620and tied up defending mainland Israel from the response to that war from Iran.
00:05:37.860And Israel takes this opportunity to use our money to start a new war to steal land.
00:05:43.260So this agreement addresses that in the very first paragraph.
00:05:48.380So while a lot of people in America didn't even notice what was happening, Iran focused on it.
00:05:52.360And so in order to get everything else that follows in this agreement,
00:05:55.200The United States will have to restrain Israel, pull back from Lebanon, stop killing civilians in Lebanon, and give back the land that you stole while the rest of us were paying attention to the Iran war.
00:06:11.420And apparently the U.S. is going to sign this.
00:06:13.800Paragraph two, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in one another's affairs.
00:06:25.200internal affairs. Why is this significant? Well, because the United States is addressing the
00:06:32.540Islamic Republic of Iran not as a rogue terror state, the Third Reich reconstituted in the
00:06:39.080Middle East, but as a normal country. In fact, as a powerful sovereign country whose internal
00:06:45.140affairs will be, as a matter of record and agreement treaty, unmolested. Because you don't
00:06:51.860interfere in the internal affairs in powerful countries. And so basically this is acknowledging
00:07:01.600paragraph two, before we even get to the straight and four moves and the nuclear program and all
00:07:05.320the rest, this document is acknowledging that Iran is not a rogue terror state. Iran is a
00:07:10.560sovereign nation, in fact, a great power because it's negotiating with the world's greatest power,
00:07:14.740the United States. And the United States is acknowledging that, hey, you have a right to
00:07:18.480run your country as you like. And so that means almost 50 years of watching reports on television
00:07:25.560about how Iran is an out-of-control theocracy that murders gays for being gay and prevents women from
00:07:30.420getting educated or whatever they've been telling you. We're okay with that now because you're a
00:07:35.500great power. And if you want to throw gays off buildings, it's not really our business.
00:07:40.960Well, that's quite a change, whatever you think of it. Paragraph four, immediately upon signing
00:07:46.060this MOU, the United States of America will begin the removal of its naval blockade and any
00:07:50.720disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran and will fully end the naval
00:07:56.420blockade within 30 days. Retreat. Pull your troops out. Get your warships out of this area.
00:08:04.360Stop hassling us. That's not a victory. That's a surrender. That's retreat. It's pullback.
00:08:11.720Just a fact, whether you like it or not. And to be clear, this is better than the alternative,
00:13:18.780Now, you could make the case that the people being killed deserve it, I guess, but you can't claim it's anything other than an act of war.
00:13:27.920But Americans, for generations, have not had to face that reality.
00:13:32.340And occasionally, you'll see some report from some liberal and international group, sanctions kill, and everyone, except liberals in the United States, everyone sort of dutifully ignores it.
00:13:41.560sanctions seem like a really easy, low-cost, non-violent way to impose our will in other
00:13:49.440countries. And we always do them under the pretext of like a moral crusade. You're getting sanctions
00:13:55.760because you're like Hitler. And if we didn't impose sanctions, we'd be like Chamberlain.
00:13:59.960And we don't want to be appeasers. We want to be like Churchill and strong and morally clear. We
00:14:04.780want to be the right side of history. We're good people. That's why we're sanctioning you.
00:14:07.740and americans have the congress has used that justification to sanction a whole bunch of
00:14:13.420different countries and in no case have those sanctions helped the united states at all in
00:14:20.380fact they've done more than anything else to weaken the u.s dollar long term they were impoverished
00:14:25.420the united states those sanctions there's no question about that that's been acknowledged
00:14:29.320for a long time but they've continued because no one has really pushed back because no one could
00:14:34.520and now iran apparently has successfully and if it happens it'll be the first time
00:14:41.100at this scale that it's ever happened has pushed the u.s to roll back those sanctions now
00:14:47.760there is you know a long distance between putting that in paragraph seven of the mou which not even
00:14:55.860signed yet and actually happening apparently it's gonna have to go through the congress will that
00:14:59.600work? Hard to know. Hard to believe. But the fact that it's even up for discussion and that the
00:15:05.700current administration is eager to agree to it tells you that this is the biggest change
00:15:11.420diplomatically, well, in memory, at least. It's incredible that they actually wrote this down.
00:15:20.480Paragraph eight. They wait till the eighth paragraph out of 14. The Islamic Republic of
00:15:24.700Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons.
00:15:30.280Now, keep in mind, the whole point of this, we were told, was to stop their nuclear weapons
00:24:33.840So, at a certain point, you can have whatever intention you want, but if you can't defend yourself against ballistic missiles or even drone attacks,
00:24:45.640and you can't defend your allies in the region from those attacks, you can't continue.
00:24:53.540We have reached the limit of our industrial capacity. The United States actually can't
00:24:58.040defend itself as of right now in a major conflict. We're assuming this is a less than major conflict.
00:25:04.760It is Iran after all. It's not China. It's not Russia. But the United States will be unable to
00:25:11.140defend itself despite having a $1.5 billion a year Pentagon budget because it doesn't have
00:25:17.200the industrial capacity to replenish those stocks. So we are very vulnerable at this moment. And with
00:25:23.880every passing day, become more vulnerable. Okay. That's the first thing to know. The second thing
00:25:27.900to know is that gas prices have gone up a lot, six bucks for 93 octane in a lot of places,
00:25:34.260more than that for non-ethanol, for the privilege of using non-ethanol gasoline that doesn't wreck
00:25:39.000your motor. It could go a lot higher than that. Rent crude prices, as the president said the
00:25:46.060other day, have actually not skyrocketed. Well, one of the reasons they haven't is because the
00:25:50.380United States and other countries, especially China, have massive oil reserves. Ours is called
00:25:55.080the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And the U.S. government draws down on that in order to keep
00:26:00.820prices from going crazy, from spiking, because that's politically scary. And by the way, it's
00:26:04.940real as an economic factor. It can spur real inflation. Our strategic petroleum reserve
00:26:10.880is at its lowest point since 1983 in 43 years right now. So we are running out of oil and we're
00:26:22.840running out of weapons. And it's not because we were beaten in some sort of broadside artillery
00:26:28.820exchange between aircraft carriers. We famously destroyed their Navy and their Air Force, which
00:26:33.480most people didn't know existed, but it doesn't matter. Because the kind of conflict that is
00:26:39.280actually taking place is asymmetrical. And we have reached the limit of our ability to fight it,
00:26:47.660short of using weapons of mass destruction against Iran, which no normal person wants.
00:26:55.400Many people on television want, but no normal person wants that. Not just because it's the
00:27:00.060most immoral thing you could do, but because the downstream consequences are unimaginable.
00:27:04.800So we actually don't have a choice. The Trump administration is boxed in. We lost in a
00:27:12.420meaningful way. And this is probably, while not great for the United States, in fact,
00:27:19.760devastating in some ways, less bad, less devastating than what would happen if we
00:27:25.140continued. And it's very clear that the Trump administration has understood this for a long
00:27:28.840time, within days of the beginning of the war back in February. Why? Because, as is now widely
00:27:36.580understood, the administration, the president, believed Israeli estimates about Iran's nuclear
00:27:44.240program, its strength, and critically, how it would respond to the decapitation of its leadership
00:27:49.320class. Kill the Ayatollah, kill the top 150 guys in charge of running the government and the
00:27:55.500military and the place will collapse and something good will happen. That was the pitch. And it
00:28:00.960turned out to be wildly comically wrong. The Iranians who are whatever else they are, not
00:28:06.280stupid, had thought this through and had created a system that was impervious to decapitation.
00:28:11.380You kill the first 150, another 150 rise up to take their place. Probably a little more radical
00:28:16.680than the ones you just killed, but certainly clear about what their task is. So there was never going
00:29:21.340He's not the president of the United States, but it's very clear that the U.S. president blamed Netanyahu for misleading him.
00:29:28.140And that's why, also very obvious in retrospect, he sent the secretary of state out within days to say publicly in a stairwell in the U.S. Congress that we followed Israel into this war.
00:46:17.380If pressing problems in the United States are ignored in favor of theoretical problems, ideological problems, or Israel's problems thousands of miles away, if your average senator is more concerned about Islamic jihad than homelessness or housing prices in America, and that is true, how are they an ally?
00:46:39.340if the israeli intelligence service had foreknowledge of 9-11 which they did according
00:46:46.360to the american fbi how is that an ally you know it's coming and you don't tell us
00:46:53.520that's what the fbi said that's not an anti-semitic conspiracy theory that's a provable fact because
00:46:59.460there are photographs from september 10th of massad operatives mocking the burning of the
00:47:05.620World Trade Centers. And you can look them up if you want. And Fox News at one point right after
00:47:10.8409-11 ran that package. Wouldn't do that now. The point is not to attack Israel. The point is to
00:47:17.820attack the idea that this is an ally. There's nothing allied about that. That's an opponent,
00:47:23.860a rival, a resentful, dependent nation. And of course, that shouldn't surprise anybody.
00:55:56.440ideologically or theologically, but like, tell me how that works. Well, I tried a version of
00:56:00.980that with him. Like, just explain what you're talking about. And the answer when you pressed
00:56:06.700was shut up, Nazi. That's not an answer, of course. And it doesn't in the end stain the
00:56:16.000person who at whom it's aimed. It stains the person who throws it, who says something like
00:56:21.720that. It diminishes the accuser, not the accused. And it's not just Mike Huckabee, of course,
00:56:29.420it's almost every defender of the indefensible, which would be the behavior of the state of Israel
00:56:34.540over the past two years. Almost every single one of them has gotten to that place where rather than
00:56:42.140answer the question in a rational way, even if you disagree, but like, here's my case.
00:56:46.180If you press them on the details, whether it's pick one, Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz or any of them, Mark Levin, the answer pretty quickly is shut up, Nazi.
00:57:00.500And we know from the short but awful reign of terror by 50-year-old liberal white ladies a couple of years ago during BLM, you know, these things burn bright but then burn out because there's nothing underneath them.
00:57:14.320You can scream racist at someone and it works for the first six months or a year, but it doesn't work for 10 years because that's not an answer.
00:57:22.500In this latest round of identity politics and liberal divorced lady politics has gotten us into the single least helpful war and maybe most momentously bad war the United States has ever been involved in ever.
00:58:40.760you hate all Jews. It's totally irrational and wrong, and it does nothing but inspire the
00:58:49.240anti-Semitism they claim to hate. Maybe they're trying to inspire it. Who knows what their motive
00:58:53.540is? It's having the opposite of the supposedly intended effect. But you know they're losing
00:58:59.400control because rather than train their fire on long-term, sincere critics of Israel,
00:59:09.200They have started, as all religious fanatics do in the end, they have started reserving their harshest criticism for apostates, for people who are on their side or sort of on their side, have always kind of been on their side, but who may differ on one minor detail.
00:59:29.360I believe in the resurrection, but this transubstantiation thing, that's tough for me.
00:59:36.520And they're doing it because they are religious nuts.
00:59:39.200Not because they believe in Torah Judaism, they clearly don't, but because the crazed, irrational religious impulse has run away with them.
00:59:50.260By the way, the irony of them calling the Iranians theocratic fascists is not lost on the world.
00:59:58.860When Mark Levin calls you an extremist, it doesn't hurt.
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01:02:52.860Well, it was also news to me, Tucker, I have to say.
01:02:55.060Not often you wake up and discover you were actually a member of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, but that appears to be what Mark Levin thinks I am.
01:03:05.560Yeah, I mean, the guy, I don't really know Mark Levin. You know him better than I do.
01:03:09.940I've watched his work. He seems to resort to ad hominem attacks on anyone that dares stand up to this particular Israeli government,
01:03:18.420which I think is an interesting strategy because most people I talk to of any political persuasion
01:03:25.020right now are pretty critical of this Israeli government. And in the same way that Ben Shapiro
01:03:30.580and others have, I think, really caused themselves enormous reputational damage over this Iran war
01:03:37.480in particular, it comes down to their refusal to countenance any criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu,
01:03:45.320even when he's doing things which most people think are completely wrong.
01:03:50.760And I don't understand why they think that's a winning strategy.
01:03:54.220It seems from the dwindling viewers that both of them have that viewers don't like it.
01:04:00.520I'm not quite sure who they're doing this for other than their own egos.
01:04:07.940And obviously, I'm not a member of the Nazi party and never had been.
01:04:11.860And I don't equate criticizing this very hardline Israeli government with, in my view, complete psychopaths like Ben Gavir and Smodredge saying and doing things which are utterly repellent.
01:04:27.460You know, I just think the idea that criticism of that kind of thing, meaning that you become a member of the woke Reich, is patently ridiculous.
01:04:37.900Well, it's also weird considering that the people being targeted, and honestly, I would
01:04:41.900include myself in this, are the more moderate people.
01:04:44.820Certainly, you have been, I just want to say it again, a consistent and pretty loyal defender
01:04:51.320of Israel ever since I noticed your public career.
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01:17:20.440It seems like the biggest loser, and I hate to agree with Mark Levin on this, but is Israel.
01:17:26.920I mean, Israel did not defend itself during this war. The United States spent many billions
01:17:33.160defending Israel, much more than Israel spent defending itself. And Israel used this war,
01:17:38.400which it inspired to start another war in Lebanon.
01:18:05.700So Israel, and I just want to ask you, since you live in a world where, you know, of a lot of sort of center-right, center-left, but Israel-supporting people in the media, do you feel a change in what people are saying out loud about Israel?
01:18:20.240It feels like they've lost massive support.
01:18:48.540There's always been a majority support for Israel.
01:18:51.180This is the real-time damage that I believe Netanyahu, fuelled by ministers like Ben
01:18:57.080Givir and Smodrich, have been causing.
01:18:58.840and you know netanyahu i'm afraid i'm very cynical about his motivations for all this
01:19:04.800warmongering he knows that the warmongering is popular internally in israel far makes him far
01:19:12.040more popular than anything else does in fact the rest of it makes him unpopular so this is a
01:19:17.160politician a canny politician you know he's very skilled at it but he's facing his own political
01:19:23.640future and his own liberty is at stake because he's obviously at the moment able to use all
01:19:29.380the warmongering as an excuse as he has been to keep delaying this criminal prosecution against
01:19:35.920him, which if he's found guilty of the charges, he'll go to prison. So this is a guy fighting for
01:19:40.880his political future. And this is a career politician who loves and craves power. And he's
01:19:46.360fighting for his actual liberty. And both of these things seem to me to be predicated on him
01:19:52.060continuing to attack other countries, whether it's Iran, whether it's southern Lebanon,
01:19:58.540wherever it may be. He is using this, I think, from a personally, I'm cynical about it,
01:20:05.920I think that there's a personal upside for Netanyahu in continuing to do these things.
01:20:10.520And I think in the case of Ben Gavir and Smodrich, their agenda is even more insidious. I think it's
01:20:16.680It's pretty crystal clear now that what they want to do is kick all the Palestinians out
01:20:21.720of Gaza, out of the West Bank, and take over both of those territories completely, bring
01:20:27.120them into Israel, and do the same with southern Lebanon.
01:20:30.080I think they're pretty unashamed about it.
01:20:32.180These are people, Tucker, Ben Givir on his 50th birthday several weeks ago, his wife
01:20:37.460gave him a cake with a noose on it, and that video was put out.
01:20:41.560He's somebody that when detainees from a flotilla, which was behaving perfectly peacefully, whatever people think of it, when a female detainee was pretty well brutalized on camera, Ben Gavir posted it to his own ex-account proudly with him smirking and encouraging it in the background.
01:21:00.720And that was too far, even for Netanyahu, who had to condemn him for doing that.
01:21:06.080So there's a lot going on here, a lot of personal agendas, a lot of very big picture agendas.
01:21:12.400But the combined impact of all of this is that Israel is getting ever more unpopular.
01:21:18.220And I know from speaking to many of my Jewish friends around the world, whether it be London,
01:21:24.060New York, LA, or further afield, they're all very concerned about this.
01:21:29.020So this idea that Netanyahu represents what most Jewish people think, for example, I think
01:21:36.480I'm not aware of a single Nazi official who was as openly bloodthirsty as Ben Gavir,
01:21:41.600including Goebbels, who was a nutcase, in my opinion.
01:21:45.240And, you know, they, of course, were all executed.
01:21:47.260The ones who survived the war were executed at Nuremberg.
01:21:50.020We don't actually have visibility into what's happened in Gaza because they've murdered
01:21:54.860so many journalists and no one's allowed in to see it.
01:21:57.320But we know over 100,000 people have been killed, most of them noncombatants, tens of thousands of women and children.
01:22:02.380Like when all of that comes to light, which it will, I don't see how we go back to the kind of the status quo of even a year ago where normal people like me, including me, would say, no, I support Israel.