Valuetainment - “Iran War Hawk” - Lindsey Graham PUSHES Boots On Ground To Seize Kharg Island

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00:00:30.000 Here's Lindsey Graham. Guys, not a lot of people do I go to their desk where they have like 40 0.99

00:00:37.360 different pictures of an individual. Typically you'll go to Tom's desk. Like Tom has pictures

00:00:42.260 of some interesting people there, right? In his office. Very, very interesting people in his

00:00:47.300 office. But you go to Vinny's desk. I don't know if it's 40, maybe it's 50 pictures of Lindsey

00:00:53.120 Graham, John Bolton, some of his favorite people in the world. Now the pictures may be upside down

00:00:57.380 or put up in a different thing, and he prays for them.

00:01:00.200 He prays for them a lot.

00:01:01.700 Here's Lindsey Graham, what he said should happen, okay?

00:01:05.920 And you tell me how you feel about this.

00:01:07.820 Go ahead, Rob.

00:01:08.700 They're running out of money, so here's what I'd tell President Trump.

00:01:12.200 Keep it up for a few more weeks.

00:01:14.040 Take Carg Island, where all of the resources they have to produce oil.

00:01:18.260 Control that island.

00:01:19.640 Let this regime down a vine.

00:01:21.540 Is this going to, though, take Carg Island?

00:01:23.380 Is it going to involve U.S. troops on the ground?

00:01:25.320 Let me just read you something from The Atlantic.

00:01:27.060 does an assessment on that. They say U.S. troops may well take Cargill, and we believe their 0.94

00:01:31.020 ability to do so, but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, petrochemical

00:01:35.780 smoke, all without a reliable means of obtaining logistical support. The result could be a grinding

00:01:41.280 war of attrition. They talk about how far away they would be from resupply. I'm sort of tired

00:01:45.880 of all this armchair quarterback, and this has been an amazing military operation. God bless the

00:01:51.420 fallen. But it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground. I trust the Marines,

00:01:56.260 not that guy. I trust DOD. We got two Marine expeditionary units sailing to this island.

00:02:02.960 We did Iwo Jima. We can do this. The Marines, my money is always on the Marines. I don't know if

00:02:08.520 you take the island or you blockade the island, but I know this. The day we control that island,

00:02:13.660 this regime, this terrorist regime has been weakened. It will die on a vine. And here's 0.70

00:02:18.580 what I want to do. I want to get with Chris. I want to sprint to peace. As the war winds down,

00:02:23.160 I want peace to ramp up. The reason we don't have Saudi Arabia and Israel making peace 0.65

00:02:28.280 is October the 7th, 2023, Iran through Hamas attacked Israel, stopping normalization.

00:02:35.260 I want to take up and complete what Biden started. As soon as we get Iran defanged so they can never 0.87

00:02:43.140 do another October 7th. I want to

00:02:45.140 start up peace talks between Saudi and

00:02:47.060 Israel. This year, I want a peace

00:02:49.180 deal between Saudi and Israel, normalizing,

00:02:51.860 ending the Arab-Israeli 0.97

00:02:53.000 conflict.

00:02:54.080 Tell me he is not the

00:02:57.200 biggest bloodthirsty cheerleader

00:02:59.160 right now. Just FYI for people,

00:03:01.720 in the Battle of Iwo Jima, Tom,

00:03:03.080 do you know how many Marines we lost?

00:03:04.960 6,000 approximately? 6,800

00:03:06.680 Marines. Almost 7,000. Almost 7,000

00:03:09.460 Marines and over 20,000 were

00:03:11.060 injured by the way when you talk about the like this is the problem that with everything that's

00:03:17.840 happening with the war and israel and this and that these are the type of people that they should 1.00

00:03:21.400 just tell as an as an administration shut up like what i said about when israel like you know what 0.57

00:03:27.080 israel that israel just um rabbi shmuley he should never speak about anything about israel it turns

00:03:33.660 people off and it makes people hate you okay this is the same guy on that i i condone that oh he's

00:03:39.740 the worst by the way lindsey graham's the same guy that said i'm gonna go back to south carolina

00:03:43.700 and i'm asking them to send their sons and daughters to the middle east of course because 0.53

00:03:48.540 it's not his kids okay and when talking about gaza he said and i quote just flatten it we

00:03:53.680 flattened berlin we flattened tokyo we flattened germany we flattened japan that tells you everything

00:03:58.620 you need to know about this guy okay he has no kids he's pleading for everybody else's sons and

00:04:03.160 daughters to go out there to die and i think that's when people need to stop and think okay

00:04:07.780 By the way, you know he bragged.

00:04:09.300 There's a video, Rob.

00:04:09.880 He bragged.

00:04:10.240 He's like, I go to Israel every two weeks.

00:04:12.540 I'm there every two weeks whether I need to be or not.

00:04:14.940 And Wall Street Journal had a report that came out that said he was in the president's ear for weeks, and this is how he knows how to work Trump.

00:04:21.060 He was talking about legacy and how Roosevelt was remembered, okay?

00:04:25.280 You have to think about that.

00:04:26.100 And then he was coaching, apparently, in this article on BB on how to speak to the president about pushing this type of stuff.

00:04:31.920 I do not like Lindsey Graham as one of these war-hungry war hawks, 1.00

00:04:36.440 and I don't like the fact that he's that close.

00:04:39.040 He's on Air Force One, whispering in the presidency,

00:04:41.340 you're always pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing.

00:04:43.120 He has no children, okay?

00:04:45.000 If anybody is going to die, it's not going to be yours.

00:04:47.580 None of your blood is going to be spilled out there,

00:04:50.000 and I'm disgusted with Lindsey Graham. 1.00

00:04:51.740 I don't like this guy at all.

00:04:53.840 I listen very closely to what he was saying.

00:04:55.620 I agree with you.

00:04:56.800 I don't want boots on the ground.

00:04:59.160 He does.

00:04:59.880 Iran is not Venezuela.

00:05:01.200 They weren't going to get in and out, but I wanted in and out as much as possible.

00:05:05.340 And I'm not happy about this additional $200 billion.

00:05:07.760 I'm not happy about where it is, but we've got to finish it,

00:05:09.940 and we can't make a reverse extraction here and have it be ham-handed.

00:05:16.120 What Lindsey Graham was talking about, was listening to it,

00:05:18.140 because he gets the security briefings.

00:05:20.180 Did you hear what he said?

00:05:21.640 Two Marine Corps expeditionary forces.

00:05:24.860 He says, I'll tell you where they are.

00:05:26.700 The 31st Marine Corps expeditionary force is on the USS Tripoli.

00:05:29.720 The 11th Marine Corps Expeditionary Force is on the USS Boxer that left San Diego last week and is halfway to the theater of operations.

00:05:38.020 And I believe that this deadline that got extended gives time for the Tripoli to get in position to go, and it gets position for the Boxer to be just days behind it.

00:05:51.500 Now then, that first, that clip that they were showing on there on the news, what it was written there, they were saying, you can't do this, this, this, and you don't have support and you won't have this.

00:06:01.120 You know why that's wrong?

00:06:03.000 Because that's exactly what the Tripoli is going to do.

00:06:06.840 It's exactly what it's supposed to do.

00:06:09.600 And, you know, that's not what I want.

00:06:11.780 You know, I really don't want to.

00:06:13.780 I want them to be able to back off.

00:06:15.340 will the presence of the Tripoli

00:06:17.760 make it so that they'll be like

00:06:19.760 okay if they take Cargillin it cuts off

00:06:21.860 all of our money this is really really bad

00:06:23.520 but I'm not with Lindsey Graham

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00:06:55.680 I don't mind it.

00:06:59.160 Why don't I not mind it?

00:07:00.680 Because it's not just him saying this.

00:07:02.500 There's other Iran hawks who understand what it's like to be Iran.

00:07:07.440 You can put at the top of that list Lindsey Graham. 0.94

00:07:09.820 But right next to him, you can put Marco Rubio,

00:07:12.000 who I believe is the frontrunner for 2028.

00:07:13.500 2028 you could also put ted cruz in there obviously john bolton we know where he stands

00:07:17.560 but then you have the iran doves right you have this joe kent guy who just came up out of nowhere

00:07:22.760 you have the chuck schumers of the world allegedly tulsi uh tucker camp so what i know about trump

00:07:29.960 is this he believes in a team of rivals don't you think so pat absolutely okay absolutely so

00:07:37.580 like let's just give an example ready you want to do the big event for the vault not gonna reveal

00:07:44.360 anything yes tom has one obviously party he'd like to do yeah i have a different party that

00:07:51.600 i would recommend vinny doesn't drink doesn't want to party we're all telling yeah i know but i'm not

00:07:57.560 i'm not yeah yeah i get that let's see if you can you know which one you know which one tom would

00:08:01.040 pick yeah you know which one i would pick yeah you know which one maybe vinny would pick tom

00:08:05.240 wants way newton sales i'll put that out of course i want to go to the playboy mansion we all get it

00:08:09.540 but then you say what do you think what do you think what do you think like you always do

00:08:12.840 and we all give you our opinion but then when i go you know what pat i'm actually with tom on this

00:08:20.020 one you go oh didn't see that one coming i go yeah actually can see why that would be a better event

00:08:26.860 what you're doing is filter out all the different opinions you don't think that trump knows that

00:08:31.660 Lindsey Graham's pretty aggressive. 1.00

00:08:33.400 You also don't think that he knows that someone like Tulsi Gabbard

00:08:35.700 is sort of dovish on Iran.

00:08:37.440 He wants all perspectives.

00:08:39.480 So Lindsey Graham is playing his role as the aggressive war hawk. 0.98

00:08:42.840 I get it.

00:08:44.360 You know, bad metaphor with Iwo Jima.

00:08:46.900 I get it.

00:08:47.740 But at the same time, he's willing to hear all different sort of opinions.

00:08:51.440 You're giving credit to the president.

00:08:53.000 I'm giving credit to the president, yes.

00:08:54.580 But do you think it's right?

00:08:56.160 Do you think?

00:08:56.800 No, Vinny!

00:08:57.840 I just felt like yelling you for a second.

00:08:59.300 I'm just saying, what was your initial thing that you said?

00:09:01.520 You should have listened harder, boy.

00:09:02.780 No, no, it doesn't bother you that he's saying—

00:09:05.220 It doesn't bother me because that's who he is.

00:09:08.100 A leper doesn't change his stripes.

00:09:09.740 He's been an Iran hawk.

00:09:10.960 He's not going to stop being an Iran hawk.

00:09:12.500 And now that we have our foot on their neck, you think he's going to be soft on Iran?

00:09:15.860 No, no, but does it bother you that this guy brags about going to Israel all the time?

00:09:21.560 It talks to another leader of another country of how to persuade our president,

00:09:26.200 tries to persuade our president by saying, hey, what would Roosevelt do?

00:09:29.100 to try and then now he's saying hey boots on the ground send the troops and guess what i pray for

00:09:35.640 the fallen but he adam do you think he gives a damn if we lose 10 000 american soldiers because 0.66

00:09:41.120 i would like to think that a sitting senator would mind if we lost 10 000 look at me i don't

00:09:48.020 think okay well that's your opinion that like by the way so people of south carolina they know him

00:09:53.520 for the last 30 years he's been in congress will probably have a different say on that oh he's

00:09:57.720 He's asking South Carolinians to send 0.97

00:09:59.980 their sons and daughters.

00:10:01.640 Why do they keep voting for him? They know him a little bit better

00:10:04.000 than us. I think we're being

00:10:06.020 a little hyperbolic. Let me ask you a question.

00:10:07.700 Do you think he's America first or Israel first? 0.71

00:10:10.620 Honestly. What? Lindsey Graham. 0.99

00:10:12.300 Okay, Vinny, do me a favor.

00:10:14.080 Lindsey Graham is an American senator. 0.99

00:10:15.980 Tell me what that even means.

00:10:17.580 What do you mean? Why would Lindsey Graham

00:10:19.420 be Israel first?

00:10:21.820 Genuinely, explain that to me. I'm not being an athlete.

00:10:23.640 Adam, he flies there every two weeks whether

00:10:25.520 he has to or not he's pushing for wars he's so he's very very pro-israel i hear more about israel

00:10:31.480 than i in regard to him than america you remember the hurricane that happened there was a hurricane

00:10:36.260 i forgot the name of it pat do you remember what he said he came on on camera and he was like hey

00:10:40.040 i know that people we lost like 49 people rob you have that clip yep look this is america 49

00:10:45.060 americans just died look at what lindsey graham says you know i've been going all over south

00:10:52.520 carolina like most people hadn't slept much but look what's going on in israel our friends in 0.94

00:10:56.980 israel surrounded by people that want to kill them destroy them a second holocaust in the making 0.95

00:11:02.020 and biden says be proportional this is during a united states hurricane that just happened he goes

00:11:07.020 hey i know americans are dead so but we're israel's right now come on bro okay come on

00:11:13.220 let me just say this uh if the people of south carolina yeah felt the way that you felt they

00:11:20.360 would have voted him out 10 times over why do they keep voting for him when's the maybe they

00:11:24.180 know him when's the last time it's every four years vinny okay so guess what sorry every let's

00:11:27.620 senator senators every six years anyway the the next question is what does that even mean israel

00:11:35.000 first or america first he's born and raised in america he's american you can be two things at

00:11:39.400 once who do you love more your mom or your brother there i love them equally bingo yeah so you can do

00:11:45.860 a couple different things at once pat who do you love more the people of america or the people of

00:11:49.820 wrong you love them both the point is no doesn't have to be one or the other am i america first

00:11:55.220 or my israel first america to me is like my mom and israel is like my grandma if i had to choose

00:12:01.820 i'm gonna pick my mom but that doesn't mean i don't love my grandma this whole like elementary

00:12:07.740 are you america first or are you america first or israel first you're able to do a couple different

00:12:12.340 did you follow it sorry grandma oh my god i love my grandma when you take that angle i mean you

00:12:18.540 create like right now you know what's going to happen with mom and brother oh they're all they're

00:12:22.160 watching you realize that said we just lost his mom to watch let me tell you something you pick

00:12:26.100 your mother i i am listen vick you've been a great time buddy they're about to get here

00:12:31.480 i mean i i don't want to put you on the spot are you america first are you iran first or are you

00:12:36.920 able to do both no i can't do both i am america first period bingo okay so i'm not even kidding

00:12:42.800 are you iran second i don't even think that way yeah you can't i don't even think that way let

00:12:48.760 me tell you what i'm for uh uh like i've never answered this question but i will comfortably say

00:12:56.540 nothing is above america and it's not even close i agree with you when i tell you it's not even

00:13:02.460 close it's not even close now uh uh there's there's four places that have a place in my heart

00:13:09.860 i'm armenian my mother's armenian okay she's officially in florida which is very exciting

00:13:15.220 finally finally she moved here she's in florida we're happy to have her here

00:13:19.100 it was great going and seeing her the other day and they landed at 2 a.m in the morning

00:13:23.240 it's the first time where everybody is now officially within a half a mile radius we've

00:13:26.520 never had this in our entire life the last time the entire family lived within a half a mile of

00:13:30.380 about each other was 1989 when we lived in the same house in Iran this has never happened so

00:13:34.800 it has happened like this for a while so Armenian Assyrian my dad I'm a very proud son of Gabriel

00:13:40.660 but David I admire him I love him I want to make sure so I have a very close pride in the Assyrian

00:13:48.300 community I was born and raised in Iran and the Iranian people are some of the most incredible

00:13:52.360 people in the world I love them they're fantastic but the greatest country in the world that gave

00:13:59.620 me the greatest gifts I have is America, period.

00:14:03.780 And it ain't even close.

00:14:04.880 When I tell you it ain't even close, it ain't even close.

00:14:06.600 Now, this doesn't mean anything with Lindsey Graham and your breakdown the way when you

00:14:10.800 went through it.

00:14:12.620 You know, I don't know if I subscribe to that.

00:14:14.340 I don't subscribe to that.

00:14:15.440 To me, it's very different.

00:14:17.020 But the part that you made a very good point, Adam, is the following.

00:14:21.000 This is what I love about it.

00:14:23.160 You know how hard it is to lead a team of rivals?

00:14:27.240 You know how hard it is to lead a team of rivals?

00:14:30.100 And knowing what people are going to say, Tom, and who they're going to be siding with and where they're going to be at, it is so hard to do that.

00:14:38.820 So hard to do that, to lead a team of rivals, and that's what he's doing.

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Valuetainment - March 23, 2026

“Iran War Hawk” - Lindsey Graham PUSHES Boots On Ground To Seize Kharg Island

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