Aiden Bozzetti joins us to talk about the latest in the ongoing saga of the Golden Dome, the Iran situation, the Ukraine crisis, and much, much more. Plus, Jake Tapper is out doing his best to cover his own butt for all the years of him not reporting on how terribly Joe Biden's health has become.
00:02:10.000There's information about Trump's new position on the war in Ukraine, and he says, it's not my problem.
00:02:16.000Donald Trump had a phone call with Vladimir Putin, and we're going to get into the details of that.
00:02:21.000Which brings up the topic of the Golden Dome.
00:02:27.000So Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth were talking from the Oval Office about a game-changer to protect the American homeland, so we'll bring that up tonight.
00:02:36.000Trump has been talking to the House Republicans saying, don't F around with Medicaid in the latest big, beautiful bill drama.
00:02:44.000There's a lot of things to talk about with that.
00:02:45.000There's the SALT issue, there's issues with some of the NFA stuff, which...
00:02:49.000Everyone knows that I'm going to be bringing up.
00:02:52.000And there's the fact that it doesn't actually cut any spending.
00:02:54.000And Republicans are in a position where they've got control of the House, loosely have control of the House and control of the Senate.
00:03:00.000So we'll have some conversation on that.
00:03:06.000Hawking his book and doing his best to cover his own butt for all the years of him not reporting on how terribly Joe Biden's health had become.
00:05:06.000I run an organization in D.C. called the Bull Moose Project, where I've been pushing President's Trump agenda, actually since the 2020 election, or the aftermath.
00:05:15.000And we're making sure that Republicans in D.C. stay true.
00:05:19.000To what he wants, stay true to his agenda, and keep racking up those wins.
00:05:28.000This is his first time on IRL, so it's funny that Aiden's here because many moons ago, I was actually an attendee at his Bull Moose Project Summit, so it's pretty cool to be here.
00:05:57.000New intelligence suggests Israel is preparing possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, U.S. officials say.
00:06:05.000The U.S. has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
00:06:11.000Even as the Trump administration has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Tehran, multiple U.S. officials familiar with the latest intelligence told CNN.
00:06:21.000Such a strike would be a brazen break with President Donald Trump, U.S. officials said.
00:06:26.000It could also risk tipping off a broader regional conflict in the Middle East, something the U.S. has sought to avoid since the war in Gaza inflamed tensions beginning in 2023.
00:06:35.000Officials caution, it is not clear that Israeli leaders have made a final decision.
00:06:45.000Now, I've heard information that Tehran is basically saying they don't expect the talks to be fruitful.
00:07:02.000Personally, I don't expect the talks to be fruitful.
00:07:05.000I know Donald Trump is adamant about being, you know, Peace through strength, but he doesn't want a war.
00:07:11.000He doesn't want to see a bunch of people dying.
00:07:14.000But I just feel like the goal for Tehran is to get a nuclear weapon, and I don't think that they're going to be dissuaded by talks.
00:07:23.000So I guess as the resident Jew, I think the take here really is that there are some so-called isolationist types, I guess, working in the administration, and they are leaking classified information from us spying on Israel.
00:07:38.000Israel spies on us as well, so let's not get too upset about that, but they're trying to undermine...
00:07:43.000Everybody spies on everybody, but I guess the position of these U.S. officials is trying to leak to CNN to try to undermine Israel trying to...
00:07:53.000Look, Israel preparing to strike Iran is nothing new.
00:07:57.000I just think it's kind of rich that there's some in the administration trying to do this now, given how a week or so or two Trump was saying that he wanted to strike them himself.
00:08:05.000So we'll see how the rest of these Iran nuclear deals kind of plays out and the negotiations play out.
00:08:11.000I don't think Iran wants to go to complete denuclearization, which has been the standard.
00:08:16.000I don't think Trump wants to get himself into another so-called JCPOA because he ran so harshly against that.
00:09:07.000I mean, for me, it looks like Iran and Israel, they engage in this.
00:09:11.000This happens all the time where the U.S., when we are negotiating the Abraham Accords, Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah, being an Iranian proxy, launches an attack to blow up the Abraham Accords.
00:09:23.000And likewise, this does to me seem like...
00:09:25.000It could be a situation where Israel knows that there's a nuclear deal potentially getting closer to being signed, and they're trying to posture with Iran maybe inflame that again to see if Iran will walk away from the negotiating table.
00:09:35.000I do think Trump is liable to sign a relatively bad deal and spin it as a good deal because he wants to stack up accomplishments.
00:09:43.000Things are going very sluggishly in the Ukraine-Russia war that he promised to end as soon as he came into office but wasn't able to.
00:09:50.000He promised on ending the war in Israel and Gaza that's actually just flamed up even more recently.
00:10:08.000I mean, the State Department has been kind of challenging Israel publicly on the war in Gaza right now.
00:10:18.000There 100% is a dynamic in the Trump administration where there are more isolationist types that want to make sure that nothing blows up.
00:10:28.000And they may actually be concerned that Israel is going to do something.
00:10:30.000And I do think that it's plausible that Israel may try to goad Iran into walking away from the deal so they can try and coerce the U.S. to continue supporting what they're doing in Gaza, even though Rubio and Trump have kind of been calling for that.
00:10:49.000I ultimately think that with Israel and Iran and Trump, I mean, even the previous relationship with Iran under the Trump first term, and even with Biden, Iran will always go and say something super inflammatory, so will Israel,
00:11:05.000and at the end of the day, nobody actually wants a war there, because I think we all recognize that it would be complete hell.
00:11:12.000Well, I mean, abroad war, I think you're right.
00:11:14.000This may seem a little counterintuitive, but I think that if Israel were to strike Iran on its own, without the U.S., especially if the U.S. is looking to broker a deal or is looking to talk, regardless of the likelihood of that deal actually bearing fruit or Iran sticking to the deal,
00:11:33.000if Israel strikes Iran without the U.S. blessing, I think that that's more likely to inflame the Middle East because the U.S. You know, overwhelming military power.
00:11:44.000If the U.S. strikes or if the U.S. is backing an Israeli strike, then the rest of the region is like, well, you know, the U.S. is kind of standing there saying don't do anything back.
00:11:55.000But if the U.S. is at odds with Israel and Israel strikes, then the rest of the region might be like, well, there's some daylight between the two.
00:12:07.000Making a significantly worse decision to go it on their own, and it's far more volatile for the rest of the Middle East.
00:12:15.000I think Israel says they'd go at it on their own, but I don't think they'd actually have the capability to.
00:12:21.000And if they did ever want to have a successful attack on Iran's nuclear sites, I think they'd have to have the blessing and support from the United States.
00:12:29.000I don't think they just have enough armament to do it, and they can't get on the bad side of the United States.
00:12:33.000I love how the United States, they have their plausible deniability with it.
00:12:36.000It's like, oh, no, we had no, you know, oh, it's just the Israelis.
00:12:40.000Not like we arm them to the teeth and literally are spying on them and have all the information.
00:12:55.000When you say isolationists, are you talking about people like J.D. Vance?
00:12:59.000Are you talking about America First people?
00:13:00.000Or are you talking about people that actually are more...
00:13:14.000I think this is coming from a camp of people who don't want United States involved in the Middle East one way or another in striking Iran or supporting countries financially.
00:13:36.000I guess the reason I ask is because I disagree with the idea of people like J.D. Vance.
00:13:44.000I think that he's just, he is the quintessential America first guy.
00:13:47.000And I mean, if you're an America first person, and I mean, I'd love to hear your thoughts, Aiden.
00:13:52.000If you're an America first person, you know, that doesn't mean you want to, or at least my understanding when you hear these people talk about it, it's not that they're talking about the U.S. withdrawing from the rest of the world.
00:14:02.000It's just the U.S. doesn't need to be active in every military action in a place that the U.S. has, you know, has an interest.
00:14:17.000It can make the decisions that it wants.
00:14:20.000However, again, the United States does fund, provide significant support to Israel before the military and other programs.
00:14:29.000So that might make them more resistant to actually going at it alone.
00:14:32.000As far as the component in D.C., I think...
00:14:36.000There is a growing group of people in D.C. that I wouldn't call them isolationists.
00:14:42.000I would call them foreign policy realists.
00:14:44.000The idea that we cannot – we should not get involved in every single conflict in the world.
00:14:51.000We shouldn't commit all of our resources everywhere in the world whenever an ally of ours has some kind of problem.
00:14:58.000Now, again, the situation in Israel is very complex, but even – and I know we'll get to this in a little bit, but even when – JD Vance started being very vocally critical of the war in Ukraine.
00:15:09.000He was saying, why are we sending all of our...
00:15:12.000We're not going to be able – we don't have enough munitions to actively counter China if for whatever reason we end up starting a hot war with China.
00:15:20.000So I think that there are people that – they want the US to be strong.
00:15:36.000And Elbridge Colby, who's at DOD, he's always been arguing that Taiwan – I mean,
00:15:57.000look, it's a strong argument that the most important...
00:16:01.000You know, strategic location for the U.S. that's not in the U.S. is Taiwan.
00:16:06.000Because the entire modern world runs on the chips that Taiwan...
00:16:09.000I guess I feel like this is all very connected, though, and that's why if you're concerned about addressing China, it's worth addressing Russia as well, because China, I think it was last year or so...
00:16:17.000We haven't even got to Russia yet, though.
00:16:18.000They said they had an endless relationship between the Chinese and the Russians, and the Chinese are getting cheap oil from the Russians right now.
00:16:28.000Iran is sending the drones that they have to use in Russia.
00:16:32.000North Koreans are fighting against Ukrainians in Ukraine right now.
00:16:38.000So I think all this stuff is connected, and there's a united front that's against U.S. hegemony, and I think it's worth not just focusing on one part, although I'm extremely hungry.
00:16:53.000Well, I believe in peace through strength, and I think it's a worthwhile endeavor to protect, because I think once we pull out, the less involved the United States is in geopolitical affairs, unfortunately, the more stuff breaks down.
00:17:06.000If the United States stopped being interested in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, more conflict would break out in all these regions, because I think the United States acts as a stabilizing force through the strength of our military power.
00:17:22.000What you're saying, I think, is most likely true, but it sounds really similar to the whole axis of evil speech from post-911, which got us into a lot of problems.
00:17:32.000Ultimately, I think I agree with your broader point, but I will say I don't think the U.S. has been a stabilizing force, especially in Africa.
00:17:42.000Everything with the Wagner group, Russia has been running wild in Africa.
00:17:50.000The French African countries, they screwed everything up in Africa.
00:17:56.000And then the U.S. had to step in, but the U.S. wasn't prepared to do that, and so the Russians went wild.
00:18:01.000And ultimately, that is the fault of the French.
00:18:05.000And I think it goes back to, yeah, the U.S. has a lot of different security priorities.
00:18:10.000We need to make sure those are accomplished.
00:18:12.000We need to be able to make sure we have the munitions and the agreements to maintain that.
00:18:18.000But we're always going to fail at it if our allies don't.
00:18:23.000And I think in the context of Israel, now who knows what the actual situation behind this article is, but the U.S.-Israel relationship, although very strong, is very much push and pull right now.
00:18:38.000And it's totally within Israel's prerogative to do so because, again, they have their own strategic interests.
00:18:46.000Iran and Trump are actually serious about a deal, and there is one that's going to come through.
00:18:51.000It is not in Israel's interest for that to happen.
00:18:53.000But again, I don't think that they would ultimately make that decision for the same reason that Trump and Vance go to Europe and they criticize the European Union, and what can they actually do?
00:19:04.000Nothing, really, because they're not strong.
00:19:07.000They still rely on U.S. security guarantees, and its function is a drain.
00:19:13.000I think that part of the work of Trump and J.D. and Rubio in particular as Secretary of State has been to pull back our commitments in areas where it really doesn't matter.
00:19:25.000I don't think that our efforts in Africa have been very fruitful.
00:19:29.000There's a good argument for some of the humanitarian programs, I think, but ultimately we have never had a good relationship with...
00:19:38.000African countries, especially now not with South Africa, and the Chinese and the Russians have been running wild.
00:19:42.000Well, let me just say, I'll just say, too, like, last year I backpacked Africa.
00:20:51.000And everywhere you go, you're going to see Mandarin.
00:20:53.000The Chinese are heavily involved in Tanzania.
00:20:55.000They're setting up massive mines, setting up massive oil rigs.
00:20:58.000So there's a huge geopolitical advantage there, but it's more of a long-term play.
00:21:02.000And that's sort of been the problem with the United States is we're not thinking long-term.
00:21:06.000We're thinking election to election versus the Chinese and the Russians.
00:21:09.000They can think in terms of generations.
00:21:12.000All right, well, I say we should move on to this next story, seeing as we were talking about Russia a little bit.
00:21:20.000The New York Times reports, Trump's new position on the war in Ukraine, not my problem.
00:21:26.000In a reversal, President Trump appears to have backed off joining a European push for new sanctions on Russia, seemingly eager to move on to do business deals with it.
00:21:36.000For months, President Trump has been threatening to simply walk away from the frustrating negotiations for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.
00:21:43.000After a phone call on Monday between Mr. Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia that appears to be exactly what the American president is doing.
00:21:51.000The deeper question now is whether he is also abandoning America's three-year-long project to support Ukraine, a nascent democracy that he has frequently blamed for being illegally invaded.
00:23:34.000And so long as Putin isn't playing ball, they're just getting frustrated.
00:23:36.000And it seems like frustrating President Trump is working, getting him to walk away and not send more arms to these guys.
00:23:43.000And that's crucial to apply pressure on Putin.
00:23:46.000So long as he doesn't do that, Putin has no reason to play ball.
00:23:49.000And then I'd just try to wait him out if I'm Vladimir Putin and continue trying to take as much of Ukraine as I can.
00:23:56.000Without U.S. arms and military support and cyber support and all of our intel, we provide them with a ton of their different coordinates and everything that they use as coordinates to attack.
00:24:09.000Without that support from us, Ukraine isn't going to be very...
00:24:14.000Much of a worthy opponent to the Russians, and they'd be able to trample over them very quickly.
00:24:18.000So my plan, if I were Putin, would just be wait this out, continue raising up more soldiers.
00:24:24.000Russians historically don't care about throwing hundreds of thousands of people into the meat grinder so long as they fulfill their irredentist dreams, which I do believe Putin and different people in his administration do have.
00:24:35.000They want all of Ukraine, and if the United States walks away, I think they have a fair chance of getting it.
00:24:42.000It could be that they won over Ukraine, but we have seen that that front line has crystallized and hasn't really moved over the last 18 months, basically.
00:24:50.000And so there's something to be said of waiting out the clock.
00:24:53.000That probably is their goal, considering they haven't made a huge offensive in, what, nine months?
00:24:59.000I also don't blame Americans for being sick of sending arms and support to the Ukrainians with not much to show for it after doing so for...
00:26:12.000You see this situation where the way the left thinks is they can't analyze anything beyond a certain point where they just see big country attacking small country.
00:27:29.000Yeah, their entire worldview is shaped by American media.
00:27:33.000Yeah, I mean, well, not only that, but if you look at all of leftist philosophers, all of the people that were writing books, Right before post-modernism became in vogue, right?
00:27:46.000So in the late 30s, 40s, 50s and stuff, when the writers were people like Marc Hughes and stuff they were writing, it's all about power dynamics.
00:27:54.000It's all about who's got power and who doesn't have power.
00:27:56.000And if you don't have power and you're resisting people that do have power, that makes you morally good.
00:28:01.000It doesn't matter if you're blowing up babies or if you're a terrorist or if you're killing people.
00:28:06.000If you're killing people that are in power...
00:28:26.000Yeah, and there's something that Aiden hit on earlier, which was important with the back and forth of the law.
00:28:29.000It was like sort of conceptualizing Iran, China, and Russia as this united, access to united front against American hegemony.
00:28:37.000I don't think that tracks, because Russia and China are, like, historically, they would be rivals, considering China has aspirations.
00:28:45.000They see the east of Russia from Vladivostok all the way to, like, you know, was it Tanatuva, whatever the region is, to the left of Mongolia.
00:29:51.000They use this to take a shot at boomers.
00:29:53.000They're like, oh, you know, they still view Russia as the Soviet Union.
00:29:56.000I do want to say, like, if you grew up going to school, hiding under desks, like, it's hard to get that out of your mind that there's this adversary.
00:30:20.000Yeah, I mean, I've been to Russia multiple times.
00:30:23.000While it's a different place, it doesn't strike me as the Soviet Union.
00:30:29.000When I think of what I saw as a kid in movies and stuff like that, or the way it was portrayed, and granted, Hollywood is just portraying Hollywood, and so there was a certain amount of theatrics to what I saw.
00:30:44.000When I actually went to Russia, it could have been any other European city, to be honest with you.
00:30:53.000Vladimir Putin does think it is still the Soviet Union, or at least should be.
00:30:57.000And that's kind of what's pushing the claims.
00:32:10.000There are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men.
00:32:17.000They've lost or maimed an entire generation.
00:32:22.000People have massively fed the country, especially the women, and it's going to be really tough to recover from that if they do still exist at the end of the war.
00:32:38.000From the prisons to go fight because they obviously don't care if their convicts die, but it's also partially to hide the brutality of the war in Russian society.
00:32:49.000And ultimately, I do think that there will be a deal of some kind.
00:32:54.000Maybe Putin is trying to wait Trump out, but I...
00:32:58.000For as much as Trump and Vance criticize the war and criticize the European Union for not upholding its security obligations, there is still interest in Russia not taking over the whole of Ukraine.
00:33:13.000I think where a lot of America First conservatives and regular Americans have this aversion is...
00:33:21.000The immediate European rhetoric is let's go put boots on the ground in Ukraine, and the Americans think why would we do that?
00:33:30.000We just got out of a war, and the war in Ukraine is – I mean it's trench warfare.
00:34:12.000I think that there is probably some internal pressure that isn't public.
00:34:32.000And maybe, you know, just maybe Trump will actually...
00:34:38.000Follow through on some kind of commitment.
00:34:40.000And that's why they're trying to ink the Critical Mineral deal.
00:34:42.000This is not a situation where America says, hey, we're going to give you everything we have.
00:34:52.000And we just want you to be our friend and be nice, because every single time we've done that, we've gotten screwed over by civilian governments that don't fulfill their obligations, whatever they are, especially when we were trying and failing to nation-build in the Middle East, but even among other countries,
00:35:07.000even in our hemisphere, that have taken a bunch of Chinese money and don't follow the actual interests of their country and or our lead.
00:35:33.000Well, I mean, if this New York Times piece is accurate, it doesn't sound like there will be any kind of mineral deal coming out of Ukraine either.
00:35:50.000I don't see, you know, companies wanting to go into Ukraine and actually do any kind of infrastructure work that would take to actually do mining or to get the...
00:36:03.000Then I would maybe say to them, find a different deal you're willing to make.
00:36:08.000I mean, it's the same concept with the Houthis, and I've talked to other people about that issue.
00:36:13.000It's, okay, the U.S. is the only—I think there was an article recently saying how the U.S. is the only country with the capability to strike the Houthis, and that France and the other European countries can't.
00:36:24.000They can't even defend an area, a geographic area that is most important to them.
00:36:50.000Financial and militaristic support and contributions from the European countries to NATO and Ukraine, I think is the real issue at hand.
00:36:58.000The fact that we're subsidizing the Ukraine war more than any of the Europeans, when this is more of their problem than it is ours, given just straight up geography, is kind of outlandish.
00:37:11.000France is barely, I mean, I don't think many of these countries even give their allotted percent of GDP to NATO.
00:37:20.000Yeah, and Aiden, I wanted to follow up on something you said, talking with Phil about, like, what Russian ambitions are here.
00:37:28.000I think it's the whole of Ukraine, and I think Putin would be willing even to put Americans and Europeans in a tough position down the line by challenging NATO, because, like, you know, if he were to invade, I don't know,
00:39:45.000The situation you're talking about, in my mind, happens on these terms.
00:39:49.000We exhaust ourselves on other second- and third-order national security commitments, and we're not prepared for when China comes.
00:39:58.000When China comes and we're distracted and scrambling is when they try to step in.
00:40:03.000I think, ultimately, and we can argue all day about whether or not this is 4D chess or 8D chess from President Trump.
00:40:11.000Everything that Trump is doing, even though he is actively hostile to the European countries right now, is in an effort to get them to man up, basically.
00:40:20.000And I think the ideal world is, even if we're exhausted and we still have to go deal with China, and that's when Russia decides to do something again, ideally the European countries would be ready.
00:40:32.000I don't think the US will leave NATO anytime soon.
00:40:37.000I don't think it's realistic because it is still a useful tool for American foreign policy, regardless if somebody is an isolationist or not.
00:40:44.000Ideally, the isolationist would use NATO to force other countries to pay up, right?
00:41:15.000I think Russia doesn't end up doing anything because we have pressured our European allies to actually...
00:41:25.000Make themselves stronger and more defensible.
00:41:55.000Yes, but it's going to be a really tough sell, I think.
00:41:59.000I think if China does make a move on Taiwan the way things are, we're going to have some pretty heavy losses early on.
00:42:07.000And given the way that Americans usually react to heavy losses, there's going to be a lot of people that are going to go and say, let's just...
00:42:22.000So listen, we're going to move on to this next story right here.
00:42:26.000Fox News is reporting that Trump Hegseth announced Golden Dome, a game changer to protect American homeland.
00:42:34.000They've been alluding to this for a bit, but Fox says President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. will soon begin construction of a Golden Dome missile defense system they say will be a next-generation game-changer protecting the American homeland from outside adversaries.
00:42:50.000A similar system, the Iron Dome, has already been developed in Israel with U.S. assistance and has proven effective in repelling missile attacks.
00:42:57.000Now, Trump says a bigger, more technologically advanced multi-layered dome system will soon be installed in America.
00:43:03.000The president announced the one big, beautiful bill being discussed in Congress will include $25 billion in initial funding for the project, which he expects will cost $175 billion overall.
00:43:15.000He said he expects a major phase of the dome will be complete in under three years and that it will be fully operational before the end of my term.
00:43:22.000He noted there's significant support for the project in Congress, quipping, it's amazing how easy this one is to fund.
00:43:32.000The technology is there to actually intercept ICBMs or, you know, delivery systems, entry, re-entry vehicles, because you're talking about...
00:45:08.000Because I think the missiles that China or Russia would be trying to shoot would be a lot better and probably get through most of our air missile defenses.
00:45:18.000Because it's harder to shoot down a missile than it is to shoot a missile at somebody, a lot harder, probably hundreds of times as hard, and you could overwhelm the system.
00:45:26.000So, like, they were comparing it to the Iron Dome, and the Iron Dome is effective because Hamas and Hezbollah and Israel's, you know, relatively weak regional enemies, they were able to defend against.
00:45:36.000But, like, once you get past a certain threshold, I don't think it's a weapon that it's...
00:45:40.000A defense system that's, like, necessary.
00:45:42.000What I'm asking you is, is it just like, well, I don't think because I assume that China and Russia are...
00:45:49.000Russia and China have a lot better rockets and many more of them.
00:45:54.000But they're not rockets, they're missiles.
00:47:43.000Because right now, our missile defense systems, because of the Cold War and all that, they're geared towards going over the Arctic with the USSR.
00:47:50.000Unfortunately, I can't talk about—I don't know much about the actual mechanics, but there was an article about how the Chinese are trying to test out missiles that can go to the South Pole and return to China.
00:48:02.000And I don't think that our missile defense systems are geared towards that kind of entry point.
00:48:07.000So that would be—if that is actually correct— This article I think was at least within the last year or so.
00:48:15.000If that is correct, I think that's a good reason to try it.
00:48:18.000Phil, I don't think the missile defense system is the deterrent.
00:48:21.000I think the nuclear strikeback is the deterrent, just so we're...
00:48:25.000If you don't have the capacity to strike the U.S. and take out U.S. silos and U.S. missiles before...
00:48:37.000They launch, and you're never going to be able to take out submarines, right?
00:48:41.000But if you don't have the capacity to take out ground-based missile silos and take out the airfields where planes take off from, like, if you render your strikes, the U.S. renders the strikes totally useless.
00:52:21.000The very first thing I said is you doubt whether or not the technology exists to do what it says.
00:52:27.000I'm saying if the Golden Dome can do what it says, if they can stop...
00:52:33.000The incoming entry vehicles to deliver missile systems, to deliver warheads, then that's the premise that I'm going on.
00:52:43.000We're going to go to listen to this and see what Donald Trump said about it here.
00:52:46.000I am pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors.
00:53:01.000And Canada has called us and they want to be a part of it.
00:53:08.000So as usual, we help Canada do the best we can.
00:53:12.000This design for the Golden Dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities and should be fully operational before the end of my term.
00:53:21.000So we'll have it done in about three years.
00:53:24.000Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles, even if they are launched from other sides of the world, and even if they are launched from space.
00:53:36.000And we will have the best system ever built.
00:53:39.000As you know, we helped Israel with theirs, and it was very successful.
00:53:44.000And now we have technology that's even far advanced from that.
00:53:50.000Hypersonic missiles, ballistic missiles, and advanced cruise missiles, all of them will be knocked out of the air.
00:53:57.000We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever ending the missile threat to the American homeland, and the success rate is very close to 100%, which is incredible.
00:54:10.000When you think of it, you're shooting bullets out of the air.
00:54:13.000I'm also pleased to report that the one big, beautiful bill will include $25 billion for the Golden Dome.
00:54:20.000To help construction get underway, that's the initial sort of a down posit.
00:54:26.000And we have probably, you're talking about, General, we're talking about $175 billion total cost of this when it's completed.
00:54:37.000So $175 billion, the U.S. has something on the order of, let me see one second, has something on the order of, let's see, one, four?
00:54:51.000Squadrons of F-22s, and each F-22 costs something on the order of, what, 143?
00:54:59.000This is like 150 that are available at any time to scramble.
00:55:05.000150 planes are available at any time to scramble, but it says that there's, I think just the last tab you had to open right here was the number of squadrons was like 24 aircraft.
00:55:15.000And so that means that you're actually spending more money on F-22s just to buy them, never mind maintenance and cost of weaponry, than they are the Golden Dome.
00:55:29.000Now, the point that I'm only trying to make is I'm trying to get you to be clear about what your argument is.
00:55:36.000If you think that the technology won't work as advertised, then that's a perfectly reasonable argument.
00:55:48.000Israel's been using similar systems for years and it's overcepted over 5,000 rockets at a 90% success rate.
00:55:55.000I don't want to be putting a false lulled sense of security over this.
00:56:00.000I think nuclear submarines off of either of our coasts would be able to shoot missiles at us, and an amount of them that would overwhelm our systems better than we'd be able to defend ourselves.
00:56:46.000Do you think that this kind of expenditure is actually worth it?
00:56:51.000You know, I mean, out of the Pentagon's budget, which is a trillion dollars a year, you know, almost 20% of it on one weapon system, but if it works as advertised, and we're going to go on the premise that it does work as advertised,
00:57:36.000A little while ago talking about the concept of letters of mark, which is in the Constitution, Congress is able to give letters of mark to private companies or whatever to go after adversaries, right?
00:57:49.000And I think space, although technically it is demilitarized right now because of some international treaties, is going to be one of the massive...
00:57:58.000For the future, for multiple reasons, but mostly because of satellites.
00:58:03.000We rely on satellites for just about everything, including GPS, our emergency alert systems.
00:58:10.000If somebody's able to take those down, forget about the prepper apocalypse.
00:59:44.000Compared to the technology in the 80s, all the stuff that we have now is all the stuff that I dreamt about when I was a kid and I saw in movies when I was a kid.
00:59:56.000My car, I can afford a car that drives me wherever I want to go.
01:00:01.000I just tell it where to go and it drives me.
01:00:03.000The idea that the US could design a...
01:00:10.000Missile system that could intercept missiles, especially when you—if a missile launches, an ICBM launches on the other side of the world, you know within—the U.S. knows within five minutes where it's going, right?
01:00:25.000They get enough information to tell where the trajectory is going to have it.
01:00:30.000So, you know, I forget the name of the— Of the lady that wrote a book about it, and I just read the book like six months ago or something like that, but she was talking about it.
01:00:38.000What happens when a nuclear strike is initiated?
01:00:42.000And look, if the U.S. can tell that there is a nuclear missile heading towards the U.S. within five minutes and that it'll land in the U.S. in 25 minutes later, if we have the ability to design a capable nuclear missile shield,
01:01:03.000If it is capable of intercepting missiles, I imagine that it's likely that it could be retrofitted to do something about incoming large asteroids, or at least it wouldn't be a significant leap, and those are real threats as well.
01:01:20.000So I think that the usefulness of this on its face, it may seem like, oh, maybe, you know, that's just silly or whatever, but the more you actually think about it, and...
01:01:31.000And brainstorm the possible applications.
01:01:34.000It actually is more than just, oh, hey, what if someone shoots a missile at you?
01:01:39.000Well, the missile thing doesn't even worry me as much as when Ada hit on with the drone situation.
01:01:44.000I mean, we couldn't even shoot down the weather balloon that was floating over New Jersey.
01:01:47.000So it's like, okay, yeah, missiles, that's nice to have that little insurance.
01:01:51.000But the drone warfare videos, nightmare fuel.
01:02:17.000The federal contracting system, especially with defense, as I'm sure you would point out.
01:02:21.000So if they're actually able to deliver even on half of what Trump was saying, then I think it's well worth it.
01:02:27.000I would say that when it comes to military spending and military capability, sometimes it takes a minute for the capability to catch up with the promises.
01:02:42.000But if there is anything the government is actually good at doing...
01:02:46.000It is at figuring out ways to blow stuff up.
01:02:50.000And, you know, eventually the military tech generally, not every single weapon system, but generally military tech catches up to the promises because the U.S. has an endless money pit.
01:03:04.000They can just keep throwing money at it.
01:03:06.000If the promises are kept for what this missile defense system, what Reagan dreamed of, what his Star Wars program dreamed of, would actually be effective, it would completely shift the landscape of geopolitics as a result.
01:03:19.000It would throw out the mad doctrine if countries were able to shoot down each other's ballistic nuclear weapons.
01:03:25.000And also, the way that would play in is that we stop countries from trying to acquire nuclear weapons now on the basis, on the premise that we wouldn't be able to shoot down those missiles.
01:03:35.000It would completely change the game of how we allowed or what weapons we would potentially allow and the leeway for more countries if we knew we could defend ourselves against them.
01:03:44.000Again, I think it's a crazy promise to, you know, you only need to get one nuclear weapon through to be completely screwed and it wouldn't be ballistic missiles shot from the other side of the country.
01:03:52.000It would be a ballistic missile shot off the coast of California or something from a submarine.
01:03:58.000But hey, I'm sure the military contractors are really happy they're getting all of this coin.
01:04:02.000If you want to talk about problems with the military-industrial complex, it's over-promising and under-delivering.
01:04:08.000All of these people's pockets are getting lined.
01:04:09.000I guess good for those math and science students and different engineers.
01:04:14.000All right, we're going to jump to this next story here.
01:04:16.000Trump warns House Republicans don't F around with Medicaid in the latest Big Beautiful Bill drama.
01:04:24.000New York Post is reporting from Washington.
01:04:27.000President Trump warned House Republicans don't F around with Medicaid during a closed-door meeting Tuesday as he sought to rally support for his big, beautiful bill.
01:04:35.000The R-rated remark confirmed to the Post by a Republican member of Congress and another person in the room came as Trump tries to convince fiscal hawks to deliver on a bundle of top campaign pledges, including extending his 2017 tax cuts while eliminating levies on tips,
01:04:54.000I can't believe they got rid of the Oxford comma there.
01:04:59.000Before entering the meeting with House Republicans, Trump defended planned changes to Medicaid, which he called crackdown on fraud.
01:05:06.000We're not doing any cutting of anything meaningful, the president said.
01:05:10.000The only thing we're cutting is waste, fraud, and abuse.
01:05:12.000But skeptical Republicans such as Chip Roy of Texas have demanded that more conservative reforms to Medicaid be tacked onto the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including an earlier imposition of work requirements for able-bodied Americans to use the entitlement.
01:05:26.000He paints with some colorful phrases, maybe that we hear more often here than we do in South Dakota.
01:06:26.000If the fiscal house is not in order, you're going to start seeing serious cuts that are going to come whether we like it or not.
01:06:33.000The only way that the U.S. is going to be able to get out of it is by either blowing up the dollar or they're going to have to use austerity measures.
01:06:46.000Well, as a young person, I am very concerned about the long-term fiscal health.
01:06:54.000But I will say, you know, my organization, the Bulma's Project, we have supported the One Big Beautiful Bill for multiple reasons, you know, without – and there's a million different things in it.
01:07:31.000But the other provisions in the bill included things like R&D expensing.
01:07:36.000So when the bill expires, if they don't pass a new one...
01:07:39.000All of these businesses that spend millions of dollars doing R&D in the United States, they're no longer able to write it all off the same year.
01:07:48.000They have to amortize it over five years, which means functionally that we're not going to be innovating the same, or that these massive companies that have created so many products, especially pharmaceuticals, it's one of the biggest R&D expenses in the United States,
01:08:08.000And you can be against big pharma and all that, but ultimately this would affect a lot of businesses that are trying to make American companies...
01:08:16.000And so we lined up behind it because we do believe that people should have a tax cut.
01:08:21.000We do believe that businesses should not be penalized for doing investment in the United States.
01:08:27.000But it is going to be a huge challenge.
01:08:30.000And I think part of the reason, well, probably the big reason why they don't, why they made changes to Social Security and why they're very wary about touching entitlements is because the Republican base now is...
01:08:43.000Low propensity voters, a lot of whom rely on some kind of entitlement, and then also seniors.
01:09:12.000Middle to upper class, the white-collar jobs, urban.
01:09:16.000And they go out and they go vote more than the working class people do.
01:09:20.000And they also want to preserve a lot of these social programs.
01:09:25.000So we're kind of in between a rock and a hard place here.
01:09:27.000So there's someone in the chat said, if we stop sending our money to Israel, Ukraine, and other countries, we would have more than enough tax money to fix our country, enough to take care of our people.
01:14:05.000And I personally, I don't want to pay into a system and not receive anything.
01:14:12.000And look, I have absolutely no problem supporting— A lot of those people do need help, and I'm more than happy to pay into a social safety net to support people who need it, especially people who are working class and don't have the same kind of career opportunities as me.
01:14:32.000However, I want the ability to take that money and put it somewhere else, or at least be able to take some portion of it, right?
01:14:42.000Because if I know that I'm not going to have the same system, Why would it exist?
01:14:49.000I think a lot of the – I don't think the political dynamics are there, and that's what we're really running into.
01:14:55.000Massey and Rand Paul and Chip Roy, I mean, yeah, they're very hard fiscal conservatives, and I think I have some very strong disagreements with them on some things, not all things.
01:15:07.000But they are right that something has to be done.
01:15:09.000I just think that it was an early mistake of the first term.
01:15:15.000We shouldn't even be having this fight right now, in my opinion.
01:15:19.000And I think that if a lot of these provisions, the important ones that we support with R&D and the actual tax cuts, weren't expiring, there would be more room to consider those changes.
01:15:33.000But as it stands, I don't think that Trump and other national leaders...
01:15:40.000I guess Republican leaders in this instance are going to look at our current coalition and say, let's go cut Social Security.
01:15:47.000Let's go cut all these health programs because we will 100% lose the next election.
01:15:53.000And like I was saying earlier, it's...
01:15:57.000I mean the situation is if they do make any kind of cuts, then the people that are the most likely to vote are going to consider themselves lied to.
01:16:08.000They're going to say, look, you hurt us.
01:16:10.000You hurt our entitlements or whatever.
01:16:48.000I do think that there is something to what Secretary Besant says.
01:16:52.000And some people made fun of this on social media, but the goal is to invigorate the U.S. economy so that for however much longer, it's not a big problem, right?
01:17:04.000Get more investment, get more growth in the United States.
01:17:06.000We're also in a slightly different position where the U.S. dollar is kind of the backbone of the world.
01:17:20.000I do think that at some point things are going to have to change.
01:17:23.000I just don't think that, realistically speaking, those cuts are going to happen this term, probably not next term, not until, you know, the...
01:17:33.000There are actual real demographic changes in the United States.
01:17:36.000Given our political landscape and our political system, I guess how people get elected, I just don't foresee people making big enough cuts to these programs that will continue to get them elected.
01:17:49.000So what I'm saying is it's political suicide.
01:17:51.000If you're voting to cut Medicaid, Medicare, or any of these programs, you will likely get voted out.
01:17:57.000So you'd have to be a very altruistic politician, something exceptionally rare among them nowadays, to do that.
01:18:02.000So if you want to keep your seat and continue doing your job in office, you are not gonna make these cuts and continue down the spiral.
01:18:08.000I don't know how this is going to play out.
01:21:25.000If you're in your 60s, in your late 50s, in your early 50s, and you're getting close to the age where you're supposed to see these benefits, you will vote against people.
01:21:35.000Who are saying they want to curtail those benefits and entitlements?
01:21:38.000And I think that's a perfectly natural, rational response from these voters.
01:21:43.000It's the perverse incentives that's the issue here.
01:21:45.000If there was reverse Social Security, I'd vote for it.
01:21:47.000The old give to me, I'd be like, yeah, sign me up.
01:21:49.000Yeah, I mean, I think that's what having two parents is.
01:23:10.000Jake Tapper admits to Megyn Kelly he didn't press Biden on health.
01:23:14.000CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared today on The Megyn Kelly Show in a candid and at times confrontational interview where he acknowledged key failures in his coverage of former President Joe Biden's health.
01:23:26.000Joined by Axios reporter Alex Thompson to promote their new book, Original Sin, Tapper directly addressed criticisms from the former Fox News host on her Sirius XM show.
01:23:35.000Tapper admitted that he and others in the press ignored visible signs of Biden's decline.
01:23:41.000Published on Tuesday, Original Sin, President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, alleges that Biden's inner circle, including his family and top aides, orchestrated a comprehensive effort to obscure the president's deteriorating condition from the public, donors, and even members of his own cabinet.
01:24:21.000You're complaining about a cover-up about Joe Biden's mental acuity that failed, that right-wing pundits saw, the right-wing in general saw, that independent media saw and reported on, and that was no mystery even to left-wing and so-called mainstream reporters who were not fooled.
01:24:40.000But chose willful blindness instead of honest reporting and that you were part of it.
01:24:52.000I would say that Alex and I, after Election Day, interviewed more than 200 people, 200 mostly Democratic insiders, and almost all of these interviews were after the election.
01:25:09.000They justified to themselves what they had done in terms of misrepresenting how the president was, not just to me and Alex and other reporters, but also just to each other and to the world and to Democrats and to the cabinet, etc.,
01:25:24.000by saying that there was this existential threat of Donald Trump and only Joe Biden could beat Donald Trump, and that justified everything in their minds.
01:25:31.000After that existential threat was over, because the election was over and Donald Trump won, they were, we found, Alex and myself, Remarkably willing to talk to us, either off the record or on background, or in some cases on the record, about what they saw.
01:25:47.000One of the things that emerged was that there were two Bidens.
01:25:52.000One was the fine Biden, serviceable, adequate, and the other one is a non-functioning Biden.
01:25:59.000And that's the one we saw the night of the debate.
01:26:01.000And that's the one we saw some clips of here and there that you just showed.
01:26:05.000And that non-functioning Biden, the one that lost his train of thought, In a significant way, not in the way just that every human loses their train of thought, but in a way that shows that he's having trouble articulating his very views.
01:26:18.000And the one who forgot the name of close aides, who was not able to come up with George Clooney's name, didn't seem to recognize him, all that sort of thing.
01:26:29.000That non-functioning Biden was, according to our reporting, showed up as far back as 2015.
01:26:45.000So Tapper goes on to blame the tragedies in Joe Biden's life as to why Joe Biden continued to deteriorate.
01:27:53.000I do think that—I'm willing to give a little bit of grace to some of the more, like, deluded Democrats who genuinely thought it was some kind of right-wing op.
01:28:03.000Maybe if they didn't have access to Biden.
01:28:06.000Maybe if they didn't go to the White House regularly.
01:28:08.000I'm more than willing to believe that a lot of these grassroots Democrats— I mean,
01:28:35.000they probably would have lost even more.
01:29:11.000I think as far as the aides and those close to him goes, I think it warrants an investigation, maybe through the House, maybe through the FBI, or exactly who was doing what and to what degree they were protecting or not telling others about the deterioration of Joe Biden.
01:29:29.000This is especially relevant because it...
01:29:32.000It begs the question of who's really making these decisions?
01:29:35.000If he is so senile where he can't remember, I think there was another quote where he forgot when he was VP and then forgetting the dates of the death of his son.
01:29:46.000I mean, we probably don't even know the worst of it, but I do think it is worth an investigation because this guy did a lot of very significant things towards the end of his administration and throughout.
01:29:57.000And there's also a big question about this auto pen stuff where it's not him literally signing.
01:30:01.000And I usually hate sounding conspiratorial, but who was really in charge?
01:30:10.000Who was really running the show when Joe Biden wasn't taking any questions from anybody at the White House?
01:30:14.000And he was surrounded by these aides who knew what was going on materially.
01:30:19.000And, you know, throughout the cabinet, it seems like nobody really knew what was going on.
01:30:24.000Nobody was really in touch with each other.
01:30:26.000Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was even under the knife and unconscious.
01:30:38.000Who knew what with the aides and the people around him?
01:30:41.000And did anybody break the law while doing this?
01:30:44.000And I think it's really important questions that we have answered here.
01:30:47.000If anyone were to make any kind of executive decisions without him, that's breaking the law.
01:30:58.000I think it just demonstrates how partisan the media is because it's like if Trump orders a Diet Coke without a lemon, it's like on the front page of Newsweek.
01:31:08.000You're telling me that not a single aide went to the press once through the four years of Joe Biden to like casually mention, hey, by the way, this guy's mind slipping.
01:31:16.000We don't even know what the cancer thing that might have been on their radar.
01:31:20.000Not a single – like I don't – we wouldn't see a – because it would never make the front page.
01:31:23.000So to demonstrate his senility a little bit more, I'm not a movie buff.
01:31:28.000I actually don't like watching movies, but I still know what George Clooney looks like.
01:31:31.000And Joe Biden has been friends with George Clooney for decades, given his involvement in Democrat politics.
01:31:36.000There was this infamous fundraiser now that Joe Biden goes to.
01:31:39.000He doesn't recognize who George Clooney is and has to be nudged by his aide to tell him who Clooney is.
01:31:46.000So, like, you know, the fact that he's forgetting these, like, one of the most famous people on Earth, he was allegedly forgetting the names and who his aides were.
01:33:31.000And Woodrow Wilson had a stroke and his wife, like the first lady basically, kind of ran the government.
01:33:37.000And it's kind of widely known now, but this is a lot different than that, I think, because this is somebody who may have been senile when he got elected or at the very least rapidly deteriorated afterward.
01:33:52.000And if nobody in the cabinet knew what was going on, if you believe them, then seriously, who was running the government?
01:34:34.000I hate going into this conspiratorial stuff without any hard evidence, but it's really hard to believe that a former president, Joe Biden, one of the most important people on the planet at the time, wasn't getting enough health monitoring at Walter Reed to figure out...
01:34:54.000There was an aide going to the press today and they said his last prostate exam was in 2014, which is just...
01:35:10.000Well, if I understand correctly, at 70, they stop doing the prostate exams or testing for prostate cancer because the cancer is so slow-moving generally that if you get it, by the time it actually develops into cancer, you're likely going to be out the door anyways.
01:35:51.000President Biden had never been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
01:35:53.000A spokesperson for Biden insisted on Tuesday.
01:35:56.000It added that Biden did not have the test done to check for prostate problems since 2014.
01:36:03.000The statement came after President Donald Trump repeated on Monday conspiracies that Biden knew he had a cancer for a long time and that hiding the diagnosis was part of the team's cover-up of his health decline while in office.
01:36:14.000I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage nine, that's a long time, Trump said.
01:36:21.000Biden's office revealed on Sunday that the former president has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has metastasized and spread to his bones.
01:36:28.000The former president received an outpouring of support, including from Trump and the First Lady.
01:36:34.000Yeah, I don't know that they didn't know he had it.
01:37:49.000Yeah, the skin cancer, but I don't know.
01:37:51.000Maybe there was something there, maybe not.
01:37:53.000Pollution doesn't generally give you skin cancer.
01:37:56.000What makes this so surreal is like, like Aiden was hitting on, you know, you think of these historic conspiracies that we all discuss and you hear on these podcasts, you know, JFK, RFK.
01:39:15.000It's actually stage 4. I don't know why I was thinking 5, maybe because he said 9. But late to the game.
01:39:21.000This is an aside, and it's unconfirmed.
01:39:24.000It's from a Twitter account that I don't know is particularly reliable, but I'm going to talk about it.
01:39:32.000There is rumors that there were staffers that were using the auto pen in exchange for...
01:39:39.000We're pardoning people in exchange for payoffs.
01:39:42.000So that's something that if it turns out to be true, I think there should be investigations of all of the people that were in the Biden White House that had access to that, anyone that could get into the Oval Office.
01:39:52.000It shouldn't be too hard to be able to look at all the people that had access to the Oval Office.
01:39:57.000If that's true, there's a smoking gun very easily accessible.
01:40:25.000I would love to be proven wrong, but...
01:40:28.000Unfortunately, you can rely on them being unreliable.
01:40:33.000Alright, we're going to go to Super Chat.
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01:40:44.000I'm not sure what we're talking about on the after show, but we'll figure something out.
01:40:48.000But right now, we're going to go to your Super Chats.
01:44:10.000And we're hoping that it's going to protect women online, it's going to make the internet a safer, better place, and that, you know, like, I would not want somebody to make a video of that of my wife or daughter.
01:44:21.000Like, I think someone should get prosecuted for that.
01:44:23.000So I think this is a huge win, and that's why, you know, Melania was behind it.
01:44:28.000The idea, too, of it doesn't even need to be a quote-unquote, like, real nude to still do a ton of damage to somebody is something to reckon with.
01:44:38.000And I think this is the first law that I know of.
01:44:42.000I'm sure there are other laws on the books that really deals with the consequences of AI.
01:44:45.000And it's exciting, exciting might not be the right word, to see how our lawyers, our lawmakers and laws keep up with this emerging technology.
01:44:54.000Yeah, I mean, the only thing that makes me a little apprehensive is if, you know, there is a person or there's an AI picture that looks like a person, but the person wasn't the actual...
01:45:09.000Because if you look at AI, AI goes into basically the internet and grabs a bunch of pictures and generates a composite.
01:45:22.000What happens if there's one that's close enough where it's like, oh, this is harming me?
01:45:29.000But I suppose taking that down wouldn't really hurt anyone.
01:45:34.000If you had a situation where someone generated a picture and it wasn't intending to be of an actual person, that actual person says, oh, this is me, and then that person gets arrested for generating a picture that it didn't intend to take someone's likeness,
01:45:51.000but it actually did because of the AI.
01:45:54.000I think in that situation, if someone genuinely did not intend for that, then they'll take it down.
01:46:01.000Well, they'll take it down, but they might have to deal with legal repercussions though, right?
01:46:05.000But I think that's like an individual choice, right?
01:46:09.000So this bill creates a prerogative for the individuals to go to the platform and say, take this down as representative of me.
01:46:16.000I think if there's like a genuine misunderstanding, it's like let's say there's somebody out there that looks like an adult film star, right?
01:46:36.000My concern isn't whether or not – isn't about taking down the material in the question.
01:46:42.000It's are there legal ramifications that people that use AI are going to have to worry about, right?
01:46:49.000So if you were to generate an image and say, okay, I didn't – Actually use any individual AI generated it, but it is too close to someone.
01:48:31.000If you just, like, make a song and it sounds like someone else's song, well, they're just like, all right, we'll take this down or, you know, this is a bad thing.
01:48:39.000You're not going to make money off it or whatever.
01:48:41.000But my concern isn't about those kind of issues.
01:48:45.000My concern is, is it a situation where someone could be wrongly accused and end up having to go to prison or having to worry about...
01:49:23.000If I'm remembering the language correctly, it is more geared towards people who are actively creating and distributing it, targeting a specific person.
01:49:31.000So I think that's a really interesting question.
01:49:34.000I would have to look at the specifics, but I imagine that if that is a situation that it will get taken to court, which is… Like the only – really the only recourse you have in any situation where somebody is suing.
01:49:46.000People have been suing porn websites for years to just take down actual content that they've consented to, and that's being litigated through.
01:49:54.000But I think the ultimate – you're not against the bill.
01:49:57.000You're for these protections, and so am I. And I think that's something we're just going to have to see the actual effects of the bill and maybe go back and tweak it if it gets confused like that.
01:50:11.000And then there's questions of, like, abuse of the system.
01:50:16.000There's a 48-hour time period, I believe, where the social media platforms have to act.
01:50:21.000So, hypothetically, the system can be abused, and that doesn't mean what they're trying to do is wrong, but, you know, how it's put in place.
01:51:03.000It's like Hezbollah, it's not comparable because China, Russia, if they're going, that's the saying, if you take a swing at the king, you best not miss.
01:51:41.000Remember, blowing up the MIRV and preventing the nuclear explosion from going off is totally different than blowing up a rocket that has a conventional payload.
01:53:20.000He says that the U.S. would exhaust its reservoir of missiles in eight days.
01:53:27.000If there were a full-on war with China.
01:53:31.000Now, whether or not that is enough to cripple the Chinese military, maybe it is.
01:53:39.000But China has the ability to change their entire economy on a dime.
01:53:44.000The U.S. just doesn't have that command economy.
01:53:47.000So, like, all of Chinese shipbuilding capacity...
01:53:52.000Is, like, every ship is built to military standards.
01:53:55.000So, like, all of their yachts, all of their stuff, everything that, all their fishing boats are built, their demands that they can't be built unless they can be retrofitted and commandeered by the Chinese, you know, the people's party or whatever.
01:54:11.000I mean, we do have, like, the merchant marines who are trained.
01:54:16.000They are trained to some degree in case of, you know, a major conflict that we could tap into.
01:54:22.000Yeah, I mean, the Chinese, the military, it's like Hoi 4 with the civilian to military factory conversions.
01:54:30.000Yeah, so, I mean, we do, I do, like, there's a lot of people that would give me grief for saying that I think that we actually need to increase military spending, but I honestly do think that we need to increase military spending because the threat that China poses, it's not about whether or not we should ever want to actually use.
01:54:51.000But right now, the threat the Chinese military poses is something I'm not sure that the U.S. could handle.
01:55:02.000They're snapping together aircraft carriers at record rates.
01:55:04.000We've produced, what, one in the last year?
01:55:06.000Not only that, but you look at the drone warfare that goes on in Ukraine.
01:55:25.000I mean, well, a drone swarm with, you know, some kind of explosive payload, it's not going to take out a U.S. aircraft carrier, but it can kill a lot of people on the aircraft carrier.
01:55:39.000And I don't know that the, you know, the aircraft carriers have the capacity to stop.
01:55:58.000And we just found out recently that a lot of the solar equipment that we have been getting is actually has unregistered Chinese communications equipment in it.
01:56:12.000Now we're using Chinese drones for law enforcement.
01:56:15.000I think there was some kind of scandal recently where we accidentally used Chinese-built drones for military purposes.
01:56:23.000They just announced a huge factory in Ohio.
01:56:28.000These new startup defense companies are on our side, and they are very pro-America, and it's important for us to invest in those because China is outproducing us.
01:56:42.000They're testing their drones in Ukraine right now.
01:56:44.000I think that's something that we didn't talk about earlier.
01:56:46.000They're getting all this combat experience and they're able to iterate their technology faster because they're figuring out what works and what doesn't work.
01:56:55.000We're kind of stuck on the sidelines right now.
01:56:59.000And not that I want to see any kind of conflict, but the U.S. The idea of China winning is something that the American people should really be concerned with.
01:57:18.000And I'm not sure that enough people are, because I think Americans have it in their head that to have any kind of competition will lead us to more forever wars.
01:57:29.000And I think that it's the exact opposite.
01:58:37.000Audacity says, in order for enemies to defeat our intercept capabilities, they would have to defeat our vast satellite and radar-based information systems.
01:58:45.000An F-22 can carry musicians that can be guided to target via SATCOM directions.
01:58:50.000I mean, again, the US, like, we have the technology that...
01:58:56.000Outclasses every other military and it's not close.
01:58:59.000I think that our biggest problem is actually inventory.
01:59:02.000Like, we don't have the ability to sustain a military engagement the way that we need to, especially when it comes to a country like China.
01:59:31.000I genuinely do, but I just don't know if it's true, and I hope we're not getting too high on our own supply with thinking how great we are and kind of drop the ball here, if you know what I mean.
01:59:41.000Every submarine, I guess it'd only take one missile to get through for this to be a big issue, but let's just...
01:59:48.000I don't believe that China or Russia have the capacity to monitor the US in a similar fashion to which the US has the capacity to monitor them.
01:59:57.000And part of the reason, I think the evidence is the way that, I mean, look, if the United States were to roll into a country with a comparable military to Ukraine, the result would have been Iraq.
02:00:11.000Iraq had the third largest military in the world when the United States decided to take Iraq out, and they did it in 100 days.
02:00:20.000The United States military is, there is no peer, right?
02:00:26.000Like, I'm not saying the U.S. is undefeatable, but the U.S. military loses because of the politics, not engagements.
02:00:35.000The U.S. doesn't lose engagements, and there's just no military on Earth that can compare.
02:01:19.000It would be nice if our young unemployed people could get jobs working in, I don't know, munitions factories.
02:01:25.000Honestly, it's not only munitions factory.
02:01:27.000Frankly, a lot of the most advanced jobs are in engineering, technology, science, and mathematics related to make some of these extremely advanced systems.
02:01:35.000These different satellites, this Golden Dome system is going to be some of the most world-class technology we have.
02:02:17.000The results politically in a lot of the military engagements that we have gotten into in the last 20 or maybe even 50 years, I think that's actually skewed people's opinions about the U.S. capabilities when it comes to military.
02:02:32.000The Vietnam War, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, these are wars.
02:02:39.000That people will say the U.S. lost, but the U.S. lost those because of the politics, not because of the military engagements.
02:02:47.000The military engagements, the United States killed a whole lot more Vietnamese than the Vietnamese killed Americans.
02:02:54.000The United States absolutely destroyed the Iraq Army in Desert Storm 1, and then they...
02:03:06.000The U.S. policy is a bad policy, and it's unsustainable.
02:03:20.000But when it comes to actual engagements, the U.S. is unmatched.
02:04:37.000I know you guys did, but even I missed Tim.
02:04:39.000Stick around for the after show, and we'll see you guys tomorrow.
02:09:12.000Breaking just at 9 p.m. tonight, or no, 9.56, so 10 o 'clock, DOJ opens investigation into Andrew Cuomo over New York nursing home deaths.
02:09:26.000New York Post is reporting, the Justice Department has reportedly opened a criminal investigation into former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for allegedly lying to Congress about the nursing home deaths in the Empire State during the COVID-19 pandemic.
02:09:41.000The probe into the Washington City mayoral frontrunner was launched about a month ago by the Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney's Office, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter.
02:09:53.000The office was led at the time by Ed Martin, who was replaced earlier this month by Janine Pirro.
02:10:00.000The Republican-led panel asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to pursue criminal charges against Cuomo.
02:10:05.000A Democrat for making criminally false statements during a June 11, 2024 interview with the House COVID subcommittee.
02:10:12.000Do you guys have the sense that anything is going to happen?
02:10:16.000I hope not, because if you've seen the other mayoral candidates in New York, they're literally psychopaths.
02:10:23.000So Cuomo is like the devil I know, and I would rather have him as a New York exile.
02:10:28.000Elad, you're a New York denzin still, right?
02:10:31.000Yeah, I mean, he's better than a communist, right?
02:10:34.000Which famous conservative was it who said, I want to support the most right-wing person in the election that could win?
02:12:29.000Because of Wall Street, the mayor will try to do things that will actually harm the whole economy, and the whole country is going to be like...
02:15:56.000And that's why using that populist rhetoric, because I'm actually usually very critical of populists because I feel like their rhetoric is purposefully divisive or going to perceived against perceived elites that I don't think pans out.
02:16:11.000But like that populist message I think would work.
02:17:13.000There's a far-left communist angle, but there's also still that slightly more moderate wing that is, I think, I don't know if we got to the story on the last one with the influencer operation.