00:16:44.720I don't do a very good Trump impersonation.
00:16:46.800But he, by force of will, changed the focus to China considerably.
00:16:54.480And I will say, in the Republican Party, that made a real difference.
00:16:58.240But then secondly, what really changed it was COVID.
00:17:02.520And COVID, the Chinese Communist government's complicity in covering up COVID.
00:17:08.580And now the overwhelming evidence suggests complicity in COVID likely being released from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan.
00:17:17.840And the very real possibility that it was the Chinese Communist government that developed COVID through gain-of-function research.
00:17:25.300And that culpability in something that has taken so many lives in America and across the world that has destroyed trillions of dollars in jobs and productivity and savings.
00:17:41.320That has changed the fundamental view of the Chinese Communist here at home and abroad.
00:17:50.400Now, as long as the government in the U.S. is controlled by Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi, they're not going to do a damn thing about China.
00:17:56.680But I'm hopeful when the election happens in November and we see new Republican leadership in the House and Senate, we'll see, I hope, leaders willing to stand up and take on China directly.
00:18:09.640And then in 2024, we need a strong Republican president who's willing to take on China because it's not going to happen from today's Democratic Party.
00:18:17.500So you've got the China issue seems clear enough, at least today.
00:18:21.160Republicans against China, Democrats, very pro-China, really bought and paid for by China.
00:18:27.300Then there's another issue, which is Iran.
00:18:30.820And for a much longer time, Republicans have opposed Iran and Iran's attempts to get a nuclear weapon and Iran's attempts to grow.
00:18:38.660And the Democrats just keep coming back to Iran.
00:18:42.420Barack Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal.
00:18:44.900Donald Trump comes into office, rips up that deal.
00:18:47.740Now, again, Joe Biden seems to be trying to revive it, as far as I can tell, without any input from the U.S. Senate.
00:18:54.080Yeah, no, it really is incredibly dangerous.
00:18:58.560And it is a story, the Democrats' history in Iran is horrific.
00:19:02.740You go back to Jimmy Carter, where, you know, the Shah of Iran was a U.S. ally, supported America.
00:19:09.400And then they had an Islamist revolution led by the Ayatollah Khomeini, which, among other things, took Americans hostage and held our Americans hostage for 444 days.
00:19:24.760And Jimmy Carter, who had undermined our ally, the Shah, and then sat there helplessly while the revolution that displaced the Shah held Americans hostage.
00:19:35.680Now, Jimmy Carter was even worse than sitting there helplessly.
00:19:39.020He sent a rescue team in to try to rescue the hostages.
00:19:42.980This is before you were alive, Michael.
00:20:09.000And by the way, the Ayatollah Khomeini released the hostages the day that Ronald Reagan was sworn in.
00:20:17.700Literally, as Reagan put his hand on the Bible, raised his hand on the oath, January 20, 1981, is when the Ayatollah released the hostages.
00:20:26.700Because he understood there was a new sheriff in town, and Reagan was going to blow the crap out of them if they didn't let the Americans go.
00:20:34.720You couldn't ask for a better demonstration of weakness and appeasement versus peace through strength.
00:20:53.960Obama's second term major agenda was a nuclear deal with Iran.
00:21:00.300And in fact, Ben Rhodes, who was the deputy national security advisor in the Obama White House, he described an Iran nuclear deal as the Obamacare of the second term, which I think he meant as a compliment.
00:22:52.520Secondly, while John Kerry and the State Department were negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, the Ayatollah was leading mobs in Iran chanting death to America.
00:23:04.100They actually have every year they celebrate death to America Day.
00:23:08.160And it's the anniversary of the revolutionaries taking Americans hostage.
00:23:14.780And there's a great political cartoon that came out about that time.
00:23:18.400I think it was 2015 that had the Ayatollah and it had John Kerry.
00:23:23.000And it had the Ayatollah saying death to America.
00:23:26.660And it had John Kerry saying, can we meet you halfway?
00:23:30.840Could we just be mortally wounded in some way?
00:23:33.680Well, so this is what the left says, because if you look at the facts on the face, it seems absurd that the left would continue.
00:23:40.720And Democrats specifically and Kerry and Biden specifically would try to get this deal.
00:23:45.600But what they have said is, look, forget about that.
00:26:04.120Like the fact that they directed that epithet to him was not surprising in the slightest for anyone who watched how they treated them.
00:26:11.780What was interesting in that that same, quote, senior Obama White House official said, the good thing is, and I'm paraphrasing, but this is pretty accurate.
00:26:20.740The good thing is, we've delayed Israel from acting for so long that they're no longer capable, militarily capable, of acting to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear arsenal.
00:26:37.900And those are chilling words where, listen, I think Obama and Biden, they're leftists, that it's the same.
00:26:45.960We were talking a minute ago with respect to China about the anti-Americanism of the left.
00:26:51.600They view American leadership in the world as illegitimate.
00:27:53.000This does not pose an existential threat to the United States.
00:27:56.360I think these are people that do not understand evil and they don't understand – if history teaches anything, it is that if somebody tells you they want to kill you, you should believe them.
00:28:11.980The so-called father of the Iranian nuclear program, an Iranian scientist who has since gone to meet his maker, many say at the hands of the Israeli Mossad, he had written in his last will and testament that he wanted the following words written on his tombstone.
00:28:29.440Here lies a man who sought the annihilation of Israel.
00:28:33.960Not loving father, you know, good husband, no, no, just soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, no, no, it's – think about just how much hatred you have to have.
00:28:48.040That's what you wanted to be remembered for.
00:28:50.180I want to murder as many people as possible.
00:28:53.640That's like I'm a vicious, racist bigot who wants to commit mass murder.
00:28:58.980And look, you talked about North Korea.
00:29:01.200North Korea with nukes is incredibly dangerous.
00:29:03.960Kim Jong-un is a megalomaniacal, narcissistic dictator.
00:29:09.600It was a catastrophic mistake for the Clinton administration to screw up and allow him to develop nuclear weapons.
00:29:18.240Now that he has them, there is some chance possibly of something resembling rational deterrence because the one thing that Kim wants is to stay in power.
00:29:28.240And he does know if he used a nuclear weapon that that would be the end of his regime.
00:29:32.220That the imbalance of power, he would be destroyed.
00:29:37.080The danger with the Ayatollah, and this is where religion is particularly dangerous, is that he's a theocratic zealot.
00:29:44.640It's not just – if he were an ordinary dictator, you may be able to have some real cost-benefit analysis.
00:29:51.380But when you have a zealot who embraces death and suicide, it's like the math of suicide bombers.
00:29:58.940When you have people that are willing to strap dynamite to their chest and walk into a bus or walk into a shopping mall, ordinary deterrence doesn't work if they're willing to blow themselves up.
00:30:08.560The Ayatollah knows if he detonated a nuclear weapon that the consequences would be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Iranians killed in a war.
00:30:19.160I mean the consequences would be devastating.
00:30:20.860The danger for a religious zealot is that he just might be willing to make that cost-benefit analysis.
00:30:29.740If I get to murder, he might say millions of Jews, it's worth it, that I will be rewarded with 72 virgins.
00:30:37.320What they didn't mention were that the virgins were Gomer Pyle, but that's different.
00:30:43.940Yeah, you don't – they don't put it in the fine print.
00:31:33.220They'll all want nukes to defend themselves against the Iranians.
00:31:36.280It's actually one of the ironies I joked that amazingly enough, Barack Obama inadvertently deserved the Nobel Peace Prize they gave him because he actually brought the Arabs and the Israelis together.
00:31:50.980All he had to do was negotiate a deal that would give the Iranians nuclear weapons and the Arabs and Israelis said, are you frigging nuts?
00:32:18.600And on top of that, if Iran is willing to fund terrorists murdering Americans across the world today without nuclear weapons, how aggressive do you think they would be with nuclear weapons where they feel they have impunity?
00:32:34.980And by the way, that's the best case scenario.
00:34:30.120So I brought together a group of 33 senators, wrote a letter to Biden making clear that under a law that we passed that was the Iran review legislation,
00:34:43.100that no deal can have force without being submitted to Congress, first of all, for review and a vote.
00:34:50.800The Biden administration is going to ignore that law.
00:34:54.060And by the way, the right way to do any deal is submit a treaty that takes two-thirds of the Senate to ratify, but they can't get the vote.
00:35:00.620So they're going to ram through a bad deal.
00:36:15.980Or number two, the typical way for an international agreement is a treaty negotiated and signed by the president and ratified by two-thirds of the Senate.
00:36:24.380Those are the two ways America can give our word that are binding.
00:36:28.280This deal was neither, and we made absolutely clear to Obama that the Senate rejected it.
00:36:36.720And thankfully, Trump ended up agreeing with me.
00:36:42.580He overruled his own Secretary of State and his own Secretary of Defense and ended the deal.
00:36:47.820And it was the most important foreign policy decision.
00:36:53.700The reports are they're close to a deal.
00:36:56.140The one thing that saves us from a deal so far is the Iranians are so extreme.
00:37:00.060They see so much weakness with Biden that they're demanding an even bigger sweetheart deal than Obama gave them.
00:37:06.360Their unreasonableness may delay this a little bit.
00:37:09.740But what the Ayatollah is holding out for is he's saying to Biden, what I want is a commitment that will last and will last beyond this administration.
00:37:18.100And what I've said repeatedly is Joe Biden can't give you that because the next Republican president who comes in is going to rip this deal up just like the last Republican president is.
00:37:30.940This is disastrous, but Biden wants to sign it anyway.
00:37:34.520Well, speaking of acts of violence, I think our listeners are going to commit acts of violence potentially with nuclear weapons on me if we don't get to at least one mailbag question.
00:37:42.440So I want to get to that before we go.
00:37:45.420There were a number of great questions that came in.
00:37:48.160This one, though, is completely out of left field, and it ties in with a little bit of a news story.
00:38:01.560I've been a fan from episode one, and it ties into the news because Joe Biden might not be able to give us very much in this economy, but he is promising to give out free crack pipes.
00:38:13.620So it's a topic at the top of people's minds.
00:38:17.540It's a great question, but let me stop, Michael.
00:38:19.760How is that not a headline from the Babylon Bee?
00:38:22.580It literally is the case that the Biden administration is giving out free crack pipes because this will be good for America.
00:38:28.780If everyone's smoking crack, you know, talk about a great crime policy.
00:38:32.800As many people on crack as possible, these are your Democrats.