Valuetainment - March 26, 2026


“This War WILL Continue” - Iran REJECTS Ceasefire After Netanyahu WARNS Of Prolonged War


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15 minutes

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207

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In this episode, we discuss the latest in the Iran situation, including the latest comments from MBS and the reaction from President Trump. We also discuss the impact on the Middle East, including Iran and its threats to strike back at the United States.

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00:00:00.000 This is one of the Iranian officials listing their demands for a ceasefire.
00:00:04.500 This is when?
00:00:05.500 This was earlier this week, I believe Monday or Tuesday.
00:00:08.180 Go ahead.
00:00:09.060 Until all our damages are recovered, until all economic sanctions are lifted,
00:00:14.280 and until we obtain an international legal guarantee against Iran's,
00:00:19.600 against America's interference in Iran's affairs, this war will continue.
00:00:24.640 And I'll explain why such a decision has been made by our nation, our leader, and our armed forces.
00:00:30.060 I will state in the interview that whether our conflict with America is just a 12-day war and a Ramadan war,
00:00:36.740 or rather a 47-year saga that we must bring to an end right here and now.
00:00:42.200 Okay, so that's that on what he's saying.
00:00:45.200 Similar request to what I just read.
00:00:47.260 Okay, MBS comes out.
00:00:48.600 I have the comments here where he says he fears if Trump retreats now,
00:00:53.240 Saudi Arabia and the rest of the region will be left to face angry Iran.
00:00:57.420 I think he told us to, is this the interview, Rob, or?
00:01:01.580 I'm looking for the clip.
00:01:02.780 I found this clip.
00:01:03.600 I'm not sure if it's him, though.
00:01:04.580 Yeah, angry Iran.
00:01:05.920 He told us to New York Times.
00:01:07.160 Then yesterday, when the president is being interviewed, they asked the president.
00:01:11.800 I don't know if you saw that clip, Rob.
00:01:13.200 They're asking him, hey, I just texted it to you, Rob.
00:01:16.760 I'm sorry, I texted it to myself.
00:01:18.560 Reporter asks the president, is MBS encouraging you to do certain things related to Iran?
00:01:26.320 And here's what the president had to say.
00:01:27.880 Go forward.
00:01:28.900 What do you hear with Saudi Arabia?
00:01:31.000 I'm just hearing that you've been talking and that he has been encouraging you to do certain things related to Iran.
00:01:36.080 Can you share that?
00:01:36.900 He's a warrior.
00:01:37.740 He does?
00:01:38.300 Yeah, he's a warrior.
00:01:39.100 He's fighting with us, by the way.
00:01:40.520 Saudi Arabia has been excellent.
00:01:42.380 And UAE, excellent.
00:01:46.080 And I will tell you, Qatar, incredible.
00:01:49.060 Saudi Arabia, what do you hear with Saudi Arabia?
00:01:50.740 Yeah, so there you have it.
00:01:51.980 So he's responding the way he is.
00:01:53.440 And, Rob, I don't know if there was an interview with him or not.
00:01:55.560 It was just like a face-to-face interview.
00:01:59.160 Barry, you make a good point because, you know, when you think about this,
00:02:03.040 is he putting out the 15 points to give a little bit more time
00:02:07.360 because he got an update that USS Tripoli needs four more days,
00:02:10.420 needs five more days?
00:02:11.380 Because I got a quote here, very weird quote,
00:02:14.320 and I don't know if I like this quote, but let me read this quote to you from Netanyahu.
00:02:18.640 Here's what Netanyahu just said, okay?
00:02:20.920 Look what his quote is.
00:02:22.720 Netanyahu just said, when asked how long do you think this is going to last,
00:02:28.580 he told Fox News, may take some time, but it's not going to take years.
00:02:34.100 He vowed to keep striking Iran's enemies and help topple its regime.
00:02:39.520 After missile attacks, he called Iran's behavior threatening the entire world.
00:02:44.180 So there's two different problems.
00:02:46.920 There's the Israel problem.
00:02:48.320 There's the world problem.
00:02:49.480 There's the America problem.
00:02:51.220 The Israel problem is what?
00:02:53.140 You just attack these guys.
00:02:54.580 Guess what, Tom, with the Israel problem.
00:02:56.640 They are furious with you right now.
00:02:58.900 They're not happy with you with what you have going on.
00:03:01.880 And Israel has to sit there and say, dude, if we don't finish this off right now,
00:03:05.980 you think they're going to let us go?
00:03:07.420 They're going to come back and take us out?
00:03:09.200 Then you have a world problem.
00:03:11.100 Did this even make the world a safer place?
00:03:13.540 Did it make Gulf states feel better?
00:03:15.860 Did it make them feel more comfortable?
00:03:17.980 Are Europeans and NATO allies feeling more comfortable about this?
00:03:21.440 Then the last one is what?
00:03:22.520 Trump the president.
00:03:24.700 How is this sitting in America?
00:03:27.540 How is America reacting to this?
00:03:29.900 Is America sitting there?
00:03:30.920 Because we just had a Democrat that won in Palm Beach.
00:03:35.640 Is it Palm Beach?
00:03:36.380 Emily, I don't know what her last name is.
00:03:37.920 Emily Gregory.
00:03:38.960 Emily Gregory, who just won in Palm Beach.
00:03:41.040 and Democrat flips Florida State House District
00:03:44.980 that includes Trump's Mar-a-Lago, okay?
00:03:47.880 I mean, that's his house.
00:03:49.220 So what are they saying?
00:03:50.240 Tom, you made a good point earlier that, you know,
00:03:52.860 we've talked about this for the last four or five years.
00:03:55.260 If there's one thing we've been consistent about,
00:03:57.700 don't worry about Democrats and Republicans
00:03:59.580 who runs America's independents, okay?
00:04:02.780 That's who runs American elections.
00:04:04.480 If independents are kind of going like this,
00:04:07.580 you know, it's like, hey, we're not fully with this.
00:04:11.040 your base may be with you
00:04:13.700 this may be with you
00:04:14.980 but us independents
00:04:16.120 we're kind of leaning this way
00:04:17.180 do you see that pattern
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00:05:19.240 Yeah, this is a flip of a district.
00:05:21.500 This was a Republican.
00:05:22.700 This was a GOP district.
00:05:24.220 And now Gregory has won it, the special election.
00:05:27.420 And so now you look at it and say, okay, what does this say?
00:05:30.660 A couple hundred votes, by the way.
00:05:31.820 And the Boca guy won by like 13, 14 votes.
00:05:34.100 And then under audit, it went down to three votes and even one vote in Boca.
00:05:37.500 So, yeah, that was debated back and forth right on the edge of a knife.
00:05:42.080 So what this says is that the independents in Florida are basically not saying, hey, overnight I became liberal.
00:05:52.800 But what they're saying is I don't like what's going on and this is the way I'm leaning.
00:05:56.660 And it doesn't take much to move that, especially in the lavender districts.
00:06:02.420 Miami, Broward County is blue.
00:06:05.420 Miami is blue, but lighter blue than it's been.
00:06:09.580 And it goes lavender certain times.
00:06:12.480 I'm sorry, I just wanted to say the point that Pat made is very true,
00:06:16.780 is that the America problem has this issue in a, by the way,
00:06:22.360 there's just a canary in the coal mine for the midterm elections as well.
00:06:25.500 And that's the bigger issue that has to be contemplated.
00:06:29.200 And so the public opinion right now does not favor what's going on for the most part.
00:06:37.000 Maybe they're looking at it short term.
00:06:38.380 Maybe they're feeling what's going on with gasoline prices, and they just don't have a distaste for it.
00:06:43.680 I don't know if they're thinking about the bigger picture.
00:06:45.520 Like you had mentioned, this is an opportunity for a bigger picture here.
00:06:48.400 But it has to be balanced as far as what are you willing to sacrifice for.
00:06:52.220 It's a really tough situation to be in.
00:06:54.580 There's not really a narrative either.
00:06:55.920 Normally you have a narrative behind a war of like, oh, we have to do this because of this reason, like 9-11.
00:07:00.400 It was revenge.
00:07:01.860 Sometimes there's an imminent threat, but they don't really have a narrative to capture that tolerance.
00:07:06.800 So I think that's part of it, too.
00:07:08.840 Got it.
00:07:09.400 Rob, what is this?
00:07:10.700 This is the president.
00:07:11.680 Yesterday in the Oval Office, he talks about receiving a gift from Iran,
00:07:15.980 and it shows that the United States is now dealing with the right people in the regime.
00:07:19.840 Let's hear it.
00:07:20.740 Make a deal.
00:07:21.500 They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually.
00:07:24.020 they gave us a present and the president arrived today it was a very big present worth a tremendous
00:07:32.100 amount of money and i'm not going to tell you what that present is but it was a very significant
00:07:41.380 prize and they gave it to us and they said they were going to give it so that meant
00:07:45.860 one thing to me would deal with the right people no it wasn't nuclear related it was oil and gas
00:07:51.940 related and it was a very nice thing they did but what it showed me is that we're dealing with the
00:07:56.820 right people because you know you don't know because the leadership was killed all gone
00:08:02.420 khomeini all gone as the expression goes the past supreme leader and then the new supreme leader was
00:08:10.980 racked up at a minimum racked up pretty good and everyone else was gone and then many of the people
00:08:17.620 People in the third tier are gone, but we're dealing with a group of people that I think
00:08:22.440 had turned out, and the present, the gift they made to us was very significant, and
00:08:28.080 they said they were going to do it, and it happened, and they're the only ones that could
00:08:32.220 have done it.
00:08:32.740 So much fog of war right now.
00:08:34.660 You're hearing everything to sit there and say, what is really going on?
00:08:37.960 What is really being said?
00:08:39.160 Is politics being played?
00:08:40.820 Who's he talking to?
00:08:42.020 Is it games?
00:08:42.800 Is it not games?
00:08:43.620 Or is the other side sitting there saying, what the hell is he talking about?
00:08:46.880 We didn't give you anything.
00:08:47.800 There's so much that's going on right now.
00:08:49.580 But, Pat, you think about it, wouldn't that be like the perfect scenario for the U.S.
00:08:54.020 if the regime in kind of like safe face is there,
00:08:57.520 but those who are in charge of the regime are not as radical?
00:09:01.000 I don't know if that's a possibility.
00:09:02.400 Oh, no way.
00:09:03.340 No, no, no.
00:09:03.820 Okay, so let me ask you.
00:09:06.060 Um, how long, if you spend 10 years with Lucky Luciano, okay, how long do you need to spend
00:09:19.660 every second of the day with Lucky to become like Lucky?
00:09:24.760 How long?
00:09:25.360 What do you think the timeline is?
00:09:26.640 How long do you need to spend with, uh, uh, the cartel from Mexico?
00:09:31.640 Give me one of the heavyweights cartels of Mexico.
00:09:33.460 Name any one of them.
00:09:34.440 El Chapo.
00:09:34.600 How long do I need to spend with El Chapo to become El Chapo?
00:09:37.520 How long do I need to spend with, you know, the Mansons?
00:09:41.160 How long do I need to spend with these guys to become them?
00:09:43.700 What do you think that timeline is?
00:09:44.840 Not long.
00:09:45.560 What do you think that's?
00:09:46.340 Honestly, it's a very good question because how long do you think that is?
00:09:49.040 Three months, six months, 12 months, two years, three years?
00:09:51.420 Not long.
00:09:52.180 No, not long at all.
00:09:53.100 We have a case study.
00:09:53.940 What would you say?
00:09:54.680 What would you say it is?
00:09:55.480 I think a thousand hours.
00:09:56.780 You think it's a thousand hours?
00:09:57.800 To be just like them?
00:09:58.680 I, you know, if you're going into it and you're manipulatable, you know, three weeks.
00:10:07.660 I mean, we saw what happened in history when Patty Hearst was kidnapped.
00:10:13.200 And then she basically went from, they say psychologically, she went from Stockholm syndrome, where you kind of start to lean with the feelings of your captors,
00:10:24.060 to actually participating with the Symbianese Liberation Army in a bank hit.
00:10:31.420 How long did that take?
00:10:32.520 F. Lee Bailey was her lawyer, by the way.
00:10:34.160 Right.
00:10:34.640 She was only 19 years old.
00:10:36.160 She was very impressionable.
00:10:37.480 It was only like 30 days.
00:10:38.760 Okay.
00:10:38.960 So here's the question.
00:10:40.780 How many people have spent 1,000-plus hours with the current regime,
00:10:47.320 Khamenei, Pezashkian, any of those guys, to be true believers?
00:10:51.660 How many?
00:10:51.980 They all are.
00:10:52.960 They all are.
00:10:53.400 A couple hundred.
00:10:53.660 They all have.
00:10:55.080 The point I'm making is that if the president's saying we're talking to the right people,
00:10:59.320 is there some sort of a shift or a tone change?
00:11:01.640 I have no idea.
00:11:02.360 I don't know who he's talking to.
00:11:03.980 Or is he softening us up that the regime's not going to change?
00:11:07.900 No, I think it is.
00:11:11.180 I think, look, if you—here's what the debate was.
00:11:16.140 The first debate was, should we or should we not?
00:11:19.120 Right.
00:11:19.340 OK, so then the president says, Iranian people, we have your back.
00:11:24.620 OK, then Iranian people are becoming bolder to go out there.
00:11:28.820 So now the president's position is what?
00:11:31.260 We have your back.
00:11:32.320 That's a statement being made from the most powerful person in the world.
00:11:35.220 And I'm warning you guys, don't hang anybody.
00:11:37.360 Don't execute.
00:11:38.200 Right.
00:11:38.720 But they kept doing it.
00:11:39.920 Right.
00:11:40.280 And they kept and they're turning off the Internet.
00:11:42.000 And we saw the numbers that came up, 31,000, 33,000, 70,000.
00:11:45.920 And then they came back and said, no, no, we didn't kill 30,000 of our people.
00:11:49.480 We only killed 3,117 of our own people.
00:11:52.700 Rob, can you find that clip that where, that's the clip I was trying to find with Adagachi,
00:11:56.620 where he said, we didn't kill 31,000 people.
00:11:58.700 That's incorrect.
00:11:59.340 We killed only 3,117 of our own people.
00:12:02.680 As if like he's trying to say, look, we're nice people.
00:12:05.260 So then from there, everyone's now debating.
00:12:09.580 Don't do it, do it.
00:12:10.720 Do it, don't do it.
00:12:11.560 Do it, don't do it.
00:12:12.180 We're not in, we're out.
00:12:13.300 And then who makes the decision?
00:12:15.020 The president.
00:12:15.920 Now we're in.
00:12:16.880 Why are we going in?
00:12:18.260 Regime collapse, regime change.
00:12:20.840 So now at the end, it's a nuclear.
00:12:24.040 I don't know if I buy the fact that.
00:12:26.500 So if now it ends and you claim the war is done,
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00:12:32.540 If you're talking to Bibi, hey, listen, here's what we're doing.
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