00:02:19.300He will be the millionaire billionaire that's the enemy of the people.
00:02:22.480If I may just go back to the Khomeini's tweet and not to disagree with Khomeini, but there's a difference between a collapse and a contraction.
00:02:31.220And some people might say, you know, the Roman Empire might have done some good to contract before it collapsed because you spread yourself too thin.
00:02:38.320That's how you lead to the collapse of the Roman Empire.
00:02:40.460A contraction of the U.S., put it in quotes, empire might not be a bad thing.
00:02:44.460It might actually be describing in a different way what America first is saying.
00:02:48.320don't waste this money this time overseas in middle eastern countries with bases across the
00:02:52.460world contract a little bit focus on home set up good defenses protect your own first and but you
00:02:57.660really think that's what it all boils down to an isolationist argument because for me listen here
00:03:01.280i would love to have an honest conversation if i could theoretically with every american person
00:03:04.960say what would it take what would it take would it take us pulling out of iran completely would
00:03:09.960it take us giving no more money at all to israel for some reason no one cares about the billions
00:03:13.520we give to jordan and egypt because if that's what it takes hallelujah i think that's an easy
00:03:17.540fix let's decouple let's do everything you're saying it's not going to solve the problems within
00:03:21.920the country i don't believe it will i well i think you could you could err on the side of trying it's
00:03:26.280like rfk jr said when he ran when he initially ran you know a nation at war abroad will never
00:03:30.260be at peace at home and it makes total sense the issue is what's the solution i mean what's your
00:03:36.040goal imagine imagine okay so let's just say theoretically imagine we do that and imagine
00:03:39.540there is a nuclear iran a nuclear saudi arabia there's a nuclear north there's a nuclear north
00:03:44.480fundamentally different as someone whose own family escaped iraq there is a fundamental difference
00:03:48.660between a country that has self-preservation which has a desire for expansion versus one
00:03:53.780that is based on religious extremist ideology they are fundamentally you have ayatollahs going0.84
00:03:58.860up and praying to the 12th imam for the upcoming armageddon and this is how they want to achieve it
00:04:03.940it is a different i'm not scared of north korea as much as are you scared of pakistan and india0.77
00:04:08.380having nuclear bombs why haven't they done that because that's a stalemate wait wait wait pakistan
00:04:13.220in india aren't doing things like in the rest of the world they have a stalemate together which is0.61
00:04:18.820basically kept it that way i mean that's the whole that's the whole foundation of of what
00:04:31.380people to say i got six you got seven but we're both dead and so all of a sudden everybody kind
00:04:35.640of backs up a little bit and is calm that's india pakistan so viva on that one and i know you know
00:04:41.000No, but he's asking why would that not happen between Israel and Iran?0.77
00:04:44.740Well, what I'm saying is it would create an explosion of every country for that desire for self-preservation to develop nuclear weapons.0.90
00:04:52.200Do you want a nuclear Saudi Arabia?0.99
00:04:54.220Do you want the potential of Wahhabi Sunni Salafis having nuclear weapons?0.84
00:04:58.740No, but I guess the first question is this was not an argument for a nuclear Iran.
00:05:02.160This was an argument for gauging and reassessing foreign policy to achieve certain results.
00:05:06.800And then the question is going to be also, is what was done now going to deter Iran and a future other country from having nuclear aspirations or enhance it?
00:05:21.780And we spend, I don't know, a billion dollars on SNAP, a trillion dollars on SNAP, on entitlement, food entitlement, all these other things that we give away.0.99
00:05:29.380But let's just say we don't do anything with Israel.0.93
00:07:05.760It's like, okay, well, had we gauged things differently?
00:07:07.360Had Marco Rubio not come out and said, yeah, we struck Iran because Israel was going to do it anyhow.0.58
00:07:11.080You don't put yourself in a position where you have to take a radical redirection to say to appease the people have now had enough of this ostensible foreign nation dictating domestic policy.0.55
00:07:21.740He's asking everything you want, if it stops, does it stop the problems in America?
00:07:26.300Well, oddly enough, I think cutting $4 billion in military aid to Israel, I don't think it'll change a thing because they'll figure out a way to either get the arms that they need from another nation or get the aid from another nation or they'll do it themselves.
00:07:38.980But so then that doesn't solve the problem of the frustration towards Israel, right?
00:07:43.100No, but that's because it's different frustrations and it's ones that – there's a difference between aid to a foreign country and what is perceptibly that foreign country's influence in your national and international policy.
00:08:16.060We don't hear about Qatar, and if you chart up here about where Qatar is investing in American colleges and things, think tanks and stuff, it's significant.
00:08:23.480But it's not out there in the popular view.
00:08:25.180You and I are down in the weeds of a lot of things.
00:08:27.980We have our fingers on a lot of pulses.
00:08:29.400But to your point, you don't hear about Qatar.0.70
00:08:31.160Well, okay, perhaps, playing devil's advocate,
00:08:34.140one of the reasons is you don't see Qatari officials giving speeches in front of Congress.0.94
00:08:38.260You do see them buying the president.0.97
00:09:07.740And I'm at the point, I really mean this, where I think it is best for the country to take a step away from Israel.0.98
00:09:13.240I don't think it will change anything.0.80
00:09:14.700But I think there, as I said earlier, is a mass psychosis where every single grievance is now being blamed.
00:09:20.620So let's take it out of the out of the equation.0.86
00:09:22.300But you say mass psychosis to undermine the legitimate criticism and not because bottom line, if you were to ever see a Qatari official go in front of Congress and basically give a speech to Congress, you would expect outrage and it would come from everyone and it would be universal.0.90
00:09:37.640I think the fundamental relationship with Israel, and if you look at the nature of the relationship, it is not so controversial that they've done that.
00:09:46.100And, again, I think there is legitimate criticism of Israel that can be made.
00:09:50.880When that criticism becomes a grievance point to be the solution to all our problems, and we stop people from voting because that's all they want to talk about, and a vote becomes an Israel-first vote, then that becomes the doorway, the Trojan horse, for what we see today.
00:10:04.620So, again, I am okay with no longer—I was very happy when I saw that Trump put that out.
00:10:08.980That said, I'm not going to fund Israel anymore.
00:10:10.340I think that rhetoric has to push back.
00:10:12.040It's not going to even appease these people.
00:10:14.160That's my—nothing will appease them.