WEBVTT 1 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.320 And welcome one and all. 2 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:29.879 Hi, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast on 3 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.799 this Tuesday. Today is the seventh day of April, Year 4 00:00:33.880 --> 00:00:36.119 of Our Lord twenty twenty six. 5 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:41.359 My name is Tom Sullivan. And well, I would love 6 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:45.439 to I looked over everything and it's just wall to 7 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:51.399 wall war, and I would love to do some other things. 8 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:55.359 I've got a little bit about Artemis two and they've 9 00:00:55.359 --> 00:00:58.039 done the fly by past the Moon. We'll find out 10 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:02.320 what the latest is with them. Uh, we'll get you updated. Oh, Kalshi, 11 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:06.319 the prediction market, that's we haven't talked about that, but 12 00:01:06.359 --> 00:01:07.879 I do want to try to get to that too. 13 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:11.159 But first let me start. Let me start with what 14 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.560 is the big news story today, and that is the 15 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:20.359 President put out on Truth's Social a post which is 16 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:28.200 basically yet another deadline. Now he has five deadlines in 17 00:01:28.239 --> 00:01:32.599 a row that have been imposed but haven't come to fruition. 18 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:37.159 So now everybody's talking about the water cooler here is 19 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:39.280 talking about well is he going to do it? Is 20 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:40.760 he going to do it? Do you think it's going 21 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:42.280 to happen? Do you think he's going to bomb him? 22 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:43.560 Do you think he's not going to bomb You think 23 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:45.439 he's going to be a taco trade. What do you think? 24 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:47.920 So let me read that. Let me read the Social 25 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:51.840 Truth Social post to you. We'll start there and then 26 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:56.359 we'll start getting some opinions about what's going to happen tonight. 27 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:03.280 The Truth Social says the full a whole civilization will 28 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.000 die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't 29 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:12.000 want this to happen, but it probably will. However, now 30 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:17.319 that we have complete and total regime change where different, 31 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:24.000 smarter and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionary, wonderful 32 00:02:24.319 --> 00:02:28.039 can happen. Who knows. We will find out tonight one 33 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.560 of the most important moments in the long and complex 34 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.840 history of the world. Forty seven years of extortion, corruption 35 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:40.439 and death will finally end. God bless the great people 36 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:44.840 of Iran. That's what Donald Trump posted on True Social 37 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:50.759 this morning. First of all, I don't want I would 38 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:52.879 like for them to capitulate. I would like for them 39 00:02:52.919 --> 00:02:56.560 to throw in the towel and go away. But I mean, 40 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:00.439 I just don't agree with the President on this. Assay 41 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:04.159 is now that we have complete and total regime change 42 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:08.360 where different, smarter and less radicalized minds prevailed, They're they're 43 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:14.400 they're pulling his leg. In my humble opinion, you can't 44 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:17.199 take what happened after the end of World War Two. 45 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:22.879 We didn't take the Third Reich top officers and put 46 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:27.439 them in charge. No, we all all of the the 47 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:33.719 US military along when we split Germany up into four sections, US, Soviet, 48 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:40.039 UK and France, and we are military stepped in and ran. 49 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:44.800 That went on for four years where foreign victors were 50 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:49.840 the ones who ran the country, that was the one 51 00:03:49.919 --> 00:03:54.080 that caused the war, and the German officers, the top 52 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:57.680 ranks of the German officers were put on trial in Nurremberg. 53 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:00.800 A lot of them saw the d of a hanging 54 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:04.639 rope go to Japan into World War two. What happened. 55 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.280 Did we turn everything over to the Japanese authorities? No? 56 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:09.000 Not. 57 00:04:09.199 --> 00:04:14.439 For six years, General Douglas MacArthur was in charge of 58 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:19.560 basically setting up the new government of Japan. And what 59 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:23.000 we did, we said, see this, this is called a constitution. 60 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:26.040 Why don't you do something like this? And they put 61 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:28.680 together a constitution which was a copy job off of 62 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:33.560 ours mostly. But in Germany for four years the victors 63 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:38.480 ran the country. In Japan, six years, the victors ran 64 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:41.879 the country I don't understand this turning it over to 65 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:45.560 people that were part of that are part of the regime. 66 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.920 And again, the Supreme leader is still there, we think somewhere. 67 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.240 So I'm sorry. I'm looking at this and going this. 68 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.279 You can't negotiate with these people. You're going to have 69 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:01.360 to replace them. We're going to have to go in 70 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.879 and take over the government and set it up and 71 00:05:05.399 --> 00:05:08.759 put people in charge. But it will take a few years. 72 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:13.600 I know people are in a big hurry. Well, Katie McFarlane, 73 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.879 I'm going kt a long time. She was the deputy 74 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:25.040 National security officer for President Trump. In one point. Oh, 75 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:26.720 let's see what kat has to say. 76 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.600 Yeah, I think that what President Trump's haid yesterday when 77 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:32.639 he said we're negotiating with new people, and then then 78 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.319 the truth social post what you've just read. He said, 79 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:38.519 we're negotiating with a new regime, a change regime. That 80 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:41.480 means that they're pretty active negotiations going on. And then 81 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.920 the attack this morning was just a few minutes ago. 82 00:05:43.959 --> 00:05:47.639 In Krk Island. Kirk Island does two things. It's in 83 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.800 the middle of the Strait of Ramous and it has 84 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.800 military facilities on the site on the island and it 85 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.240 has where all the oil gets offloaded from Iran pipelines 86 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.800 and then onto tankers. So what President Trump is just 87 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:03.199 is he's taken out the military capability to all the facilities, 88 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:07.319 the naval facilities and others on carg Island, and all 89 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.759 he has to do is turn the guns just a 90 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:13.120 few miles and he could take out their entire entered 91 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.759 oil expert industry. And you've just talked about this is 92 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:20.399 like fifty percent of their GMP. This is the IRGC's piggybank. 93 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.519 This is how they make the money. And so President 94 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:25.560 Trump is saying to these new leaders that he's now 95 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:29.000 negotiating with, see what I can do, and in twelve hours, 96 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.839 if you don't exceed, if you don't agree to Mike demands, 97 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.519 then we could blow up the whole thing. And that 98 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:38.439 really will set Aron's economy back, as infrastructure back. It 99 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.199 could be rebuilt, and it could be rebuilt with American help, 100 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:44.439 but it will put around at a just a devastating position. 101 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.279 So this is going to be the most baranock on 102 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:49.240 twelve hours you have ever experienced. 103 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.439 Well, I like KT, but she's falling into the same 104 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.879 trap that we're talking to somebody, some new people. Yes 105 00:06:56.920 --> 00:06:58.920 they're not the same people. I agree with that, but 106 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:03.079 they're part of the regime and they will start the 107 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:07.839 very next day working on rebuilding everything they can for 108 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:12.639 taking care of getting a nuclear bomb, wiping out Israel, 109 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.399 and attacking the United States. They're going to try to 110 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.040 do that. You got to get rid of all of 111 00:07:19.079 --> 00:07:23.040 those people. They cannot be kept in place. So the 112 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:27.439 deadline eight o'clock Eastern time tonight, just for your time zone. 113 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:32.519 But well, I can ask you, I can't I can't 114 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:36.079 hear the answer, but I got to tell you something. 115 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:39.279 I I'll go through a bunch of these people that 116 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.199 are highly informed. But I don't think this whole thing, 117 00:07:44.319 --> 00:07:49.160 about a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be 118 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:52.399 brought back again. I don't think so. First of all, 119 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:54.920 because he's still talking to the regime. Secondly, I just 120 00:07:56.199 --> 00:07:58.560 I think he's done. Like I said, he's done this 121 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:01.920 five times, and at the end of the fifth deadline 122 00:08:02.279 --> 00:08:07.519 he comes up with some alternative plan, and I think 123 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.839 that's what he's going to all of a sudden, they're 124 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:12.560 going to have some deal. They're not going to do 125 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:18.120 a deal until the last minute, anyway, and secondly President 126 00:08:18.480 --> 00:08:22.240 even said in his statement, I don't want this to happen. 127 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:28.040 So that's not the talk of somebody who is absolutely 128 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:30.839 we're going to do this. And thirdly, you don't tell 129 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:35.879 the enemy when you're coming, do You never broadcast to 130 00:08:35.960 --> 00:08:38.559 the enemy this is when we're going to be there 131 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:43.559 between eight pm and midnight Eastern time. So he might 132 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:49.320 bomb a bridge or two, or blow up some remote 133 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:51.639 power plant somewhere, but he's not going to do a 134 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:55.600 full scale what he called him back to the stone 135 00:08:55.639 --> 00:08:58.159 age that he's been saying a couple times this past week. 136 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.919 How about Paula Hancock, She is in Abu Dhabi, United 137 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.320 Arab Emirates. What's going on there, Paula? 138 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:08.799 Well, okay, we haven't had response at this point to 139 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.759 the most recent posts from Iran, but we certainly had 140 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:15.960 some response to the threats that the US President was 141 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:19.879 giving on Monday about the power plants, the bridges will 142 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:24.879 be impacted. We heard from one senior Iranian security official 143 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:27.840 saying that Aran, as far as their concerns, believes that 144 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:32.039 they have dealt a strategic victory, saying that they believe 145 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:35.639 the US president has lost control of this war. We 146 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.679 also heard from the Revolutionary Guard saying that they believe 147 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:42.960 Trump's threats are baseless and delusional, so a real rejection 148 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:47.120 from these threats. And in any war, you do have 149 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.600 this parallel propaganda battle, of course, But as we are 150 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:55.320 hearing this escalation by the US President, by the Trump administration, 151 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.679 Iranian officials are matching it and they are right there 152 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:02.159 with them. In fact, we from an Iranian deputy minister 153 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:06.840 that he had called for the youth in Iran to 154 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.639 actually form a human chain around power plants to try 155 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:14.360 and protect them. So we are hearing as well from 156 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:17.000 the President Masu Pezeshkian, who is considered to be one 157 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.279 of the more reasonable members of this regime, saying that 158 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:24.440 there's more than forteen million people within the country that 159 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:29.240 are willing to die to protect the Islamic regime. So 160 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.840 we are not hearing any backing down when it comes 161 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.600 to Iranian officials, at least not in rhetoric. And people 162 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.639 here in the Gulf region I'm in Abadabi in the UAE, 163 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:43.639 they are on tenter hooks. They are concerned that this deadline, 164 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:46.679 even though we have seen them being pushed in the past, 165 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.200 may actually be the deadline that sticks because they know 166 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:54.639 that if there are these attacks against the energy infrastructure, 167 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:58.360 the civilian infrastructure in Iran, that will be reciprocated to 168 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:02.279 US interests, and that will be these countries here in 169 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.360 the golf that will have to bear the brunt. We've 170 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.879 already seen a number of pieces of energy infrastructure being 171 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:14.000 impacted in Kata. We know it one of their LNG facilities, 172 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.399 for example. It'll take five years to get back and 173 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:21.360 dam it and create solutions to fix the damage. We 174 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.039 know here in the UAE there have been oil fields, 175 00:11:24.080 --> 00:11:26.960 there have been gas fields, fuel tanks at airports are 176 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:32.759 being targeted. So there is a recognition that any retaliation 177 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.120 from Iran will go towards Israel, but it will also 178 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:39.279 be these countries here that will be impacted. So there 179 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:42.480 is definitely a feeling of limbo, a feeling of weight 180 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.279 and see and hoping that it doesn't get to that, 181 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:49.240 but also a feeling of helplessness. These leaders in this 182 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:53.320 region know that they can't convince the US President to 183 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.159 pull back. They did try and convince him not to 184 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:59.639 start this war in the first place, but were unable to. 185 00:11:59.840 --> 00:12:05.360 So there is definitely concern that this deadline is fast approaching. 186 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.639 Did you hear what she said about the fact that 187 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.440 the president of Iran wants the people to go out 188 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:16.639 and surround basically a human shield around the power plants, 189 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:20.240 around train stations, around places that are going to be attacked. 190 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.360 And she didn't say it, but the word coming out 191 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:27.960 of Iran is he wants children, children to go out. 192 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:32.879 And Trump thinks he's negotiating wisdom. What did he call them, 193 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:38.720 smarter less radicalized minds. No, they're just as crazy. They're 194 00:12:38.919 --> 00:12:42.600 just as radical. He wants children to go out and 195 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:47.440 surround the power plants so that the Americans won't attack. 196 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.919 And this is a technique. By the way, if you 197 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:54.720 go back to the Iran Iraq war lasted for ten years, 198 00:12:55.480 --> 00:12:59.720 what Iran would do is they would put children to 199 00:12:59.759 --> 00:13:07.879 go out onto a field to find any land mines. Yeah, 200 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:11.840 children to go find go after little little child and 201 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:16.759 find the land mines. They didn't. They don't care about 202 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:23.000 their people, They don't care about the life of their citizens. 203 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:27.480 They only care about their own regime. I got to 204 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:30.000 tell you, I want to play this for you. Remember 205 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:34.840 the story about Quizam Solimani. He was the head of 206 00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:41.399 the Islamic Revolutionary guard coorep IRGC. He was responsible for 207 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:47.840 killing many Americans. Donald Trump used the CIA and he 208 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:52.360 was visiting Baghdad and poof a missile hit his car 209 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.639 and he was gone. Well, Iran has been furious about 210 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:04.559 it ever since. So we find yesterday that Solomoni's family 211 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.600 is living in this country. They're in different places, but 212 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:11.919 there are some of the young young women that were 213 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:16.639 his I guess nieces or daughters living in Los Angeles, 214 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.679 Beverly Hills living large. There is a woman by the 215 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:25.200 name of Shila Nazarian. She is a physician in La 216 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:30.600 She and her family had to run for their lives 217 00:14:31.039 --> 00:14:36.000 to get out from underneath the regime of the Ayatola. 218 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:40.799 Listen to what she talks about regarding how many of 219 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:45.279 this and she says, these relatives of Solomoni are just 220 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:50.519 a handful compared to thousands of people from Iran that 221 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:56.440 are in this country promoting the regime's violence. If you will. 222 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.200 These women are posting in bikinis on yachts, they are 223 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:06.440 wearing v neck dresses down to their belly buttons. They 224 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:10.879 are want to be Instagram influencers. All on the blood 225 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:15.080 money money that was embezzled stolen from the Iranian people, 226 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.720 and there's thousands of them just too. There's thousands in 227 00:15:18.759 --> 00:15:22.879 the US, in Canada and in London, and they are 228 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.279 such hypocrites. You can show a few strands of hair 229 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:31.200 in Iran, get seventy four lashes. I've seen women kicked 230 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.840 to the ground, kicked in their heads while on the 231 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:39.120 ground for violating the hijab policy in Iran. Women have 232 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:42.519 been raped, women have been killed for showing their hair, 233 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:45.399 much less these women showing, like if you look at 234 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:49.320 their Instagram, it's infuriating. They're on yachts, they're on helicopters, 235 00:15:49.480 --> 00:15:54.360 they're shopping on rodeo drive half naked, and it's almost like, 236 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.399 you know, rules for thee but not for me in 237 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:57.519 full display. 238 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.440 Yeah, So they're showing a lot of skin, they're not 239 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:06.120 wearing a hjab. They are living big time on stolen money, 240 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:10.480 and they're living the large life in the US, but 241 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:15.120 at the same time promoting death to America, all pro 242 00:16:15.320 --> 00:16:16.440 Iranian regime. 243 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:20.679 We see that all the time. Unfortunately, not just with 244 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:24.960 these Iranian elites daughters, but we see it in the 245 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:28.919 Somali community as well. My family claimed asylum and came 246 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:32.200 here in nineteen eighty six, and we have never returned 247 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:35.480 because if we do, we will get killed. Meanwhile, you 248 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:40.879 see these Iranians or these Somali's vacation in the country 249 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:44.000 that they're claiming asylum from. That is not a real 250 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.759 asylum claim. If they were really afraid for their lives, 251 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.080 they would not be vacationing in their home countries. 252 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:53.240 You can't be afraid of leaving your old country if 253 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:56.919 you go back there on vacation. Apparently Solimani's daughters do 254 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.639 that on a regular basis. Another item that has been 255 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:05.039 lost in all of this is France recently got two 256 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:09.000 of their citizens released. They were in prison in the 257 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:11.640 Iran for the last couple of years, and all of 258 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:16.720 a sudden, these French prisoners were released. And doctor Nazarian 259 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:19.359 has some suspicions about that. 260 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:23.559 Yeah, and I want to address the two French prisoners 261 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.680 that were released. Perhaps that wasn't a good faith thing. 262 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:32.119 Perhaps that was because France denied Israeli airspace to transport 263 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:34.839 US weapons and that was the deal they made with Iran. 264 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:38.880 There is no good faith negotiations with this regime. This 265 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:41.920 regime has shown for forty seven years that they use 266 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:46.279 negotiations as a stall tactic, as a delay tactic, and 267 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:49.519 a tool in their armamentarium to do whatever it is 268 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:53.599 that they want in secret there. Unfortunately, and I hate 269 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.160 to say it, I hate war, I hate death, I 270 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.440 hate killing. I'm a physician, but with this regime, they 271 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.920 understand no other language but force, and they are willing 272 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.039 to sacrifice their most vulnerable. They told the children to 273 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:10.119 go stand in front of the targets that Trump claimed 274 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:12.839 he was going to bomb tonight. So they don't care 275 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:15.880 about their people. All they care about is power, money, 276 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:20.000 and a worldwide califate. And they understand no other language 277 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.720 other than force. And if that's the language they want 278 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:24.519 us to speak, we will speak it. 279 00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:27.519 So did you hear what she said? Is so true? 280 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:30.440 I mean, I'm no diplomat, but I know that they 281 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:36.680 use negotiations for stall tactics to basically wait and hold 282 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.680 everybody off so they can continue to keep building their 283 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:42.039 nuclear bombs or whatever it's been that they've been trying 284 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:44.759 to stall off it. But she was right, and I 285 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:49.559 hope the president hears her that you can't negotiate with 286 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:52.599 this regime or anybody that's been part of the regime 287 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:56.200 and the President says that they're in their negotiating with them, 288 00:18:56.839 --> 00:19:00.599 So that's not I hope there's somebody at the White 289 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:07.000 House who knows this. It's very, very frustrating. Senator Ron Johnson, 290 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.160 the Republican from Wisconsin, He's going, oh, I don't know 291 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.359 if we should do anything. Yours his comment. 292 00:19:13.720 --> 00:19:16.880 I am hoping in praying the President Trump is this 293 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:20.519 really is blustered. I do not want to see us 294 00:19:20.559 --> 00:19:23.920 start blowing up civilian infrastructure. I do not want to 295 00:19:23.960 --> 00:19:28.000 see that we are not at war with Uranian people. Yeah, 296 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:30.599 we are trying to liberate them, that is. 297 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:35.200 True, but you can't separate out the citizens of the 298 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:39.400 country versus their leaders. Mike Lawler, congressman from New York, 299 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:41.279 had this response. 300 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:44.359 Ye, I don't disagree with what Ron Johnson said there, 301 00:19:44.400 --> 00:19:46.400 and I think if you look at the President's statement, 302 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:48.920 he doesn't want to do that. He doesn't want to 303 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:51.720 be in a position to have to take that action. 304 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:54.720 But obviously you are dealing with the regime that has 305 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:59.519 not negotiated in good faith for decades and inclusive of 306 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:03.359 the last few weeks, and so ultimately, when they are 307 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:08.079 talking about having children surround a power plant, the Iranian 308 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:11.480 regime on state TV is calling for children to go 309 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.680 surround power plants. This is the depraved indifference you're talking 310 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:20.599 about with this regime, and so ultimately, if you have 311 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:26.680 to take necessary action to curtail their capabilities. Obviously, their 312 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.200 oil trade is a big component of that ninety percent 313 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.799 you talk about ninety percent being delivered through carg Island. 314 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:37.440 Ninety percent of Iran's oil is purchased by who China. 315 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:40.960 China is the biggest purchaser of Iranian petroleum. That is 316 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:45.359 what is financed their entire illicit activity over these past 317 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:49.200 many decades. So the President is putting on the table 318 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:55.240 taking action against their energy facilities, against their infrastructure, because 319 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:59.400 that will cripple the regime. Is it something we want 320 00:20:59.440 --> 00:21:02.680 to do, No, of course, but we want this regime 321 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:04.440 to finally negotiate in good faith. 322 00:21:05.319 --> 00:21:08.200 I don't understand what's wrong with these people. They're supposed 323 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:10.000 to be the best and the brightest to the leaders 324 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.920 of our country, and they keep talking about that you 325 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.960 can't negotiate with this regime. But we need to negotiate 326 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:19.759 with this regime and do it in good faith. We're 327 00:21:19.799 --> 00:21:22.440 doing it in good faith. If they're not they never have, 328 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:27.240 they never will. You're going to have to replace the regime. 329 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:31.680 And the problem with that is Americans don't want boots 330 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:35.200 on the ground, But you can't replace the regime without 331 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:41.240 occupying the country and occupying their government offices. So I'm 332 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:44.440 sorry we're in this pickle, but this is the pickle 333 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:49.000 that I see. Dan Hoffman, former CIA station chief, let's 334 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:50.200 see what he thinks. 335 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:53.200 Well, I think there's three ways this could play out. 336 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:55.400 One is that we do nothing. I certainly don't see 337 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:58.240 that happening. The second option is that we either have 338 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:02.160 a deal or significant progress towards a deal. And the 339 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:04.359 third option is that we don't get any of that 340 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.440 progress and the President decides to start launching these strikes. 341 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:12.160 This is a clear statement from the President of warning 342 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:15.400 Iran that we would take action like this, and US 343 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:16.680 credibility is at stake. 344 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:18.240 So I have no doubt. 345 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:20.880 That we've got our bombers warmed up in the bullpen 346 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:24.359 ready to take action if Iran doesn't proceed to negotiate 347 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:27.279 in good faith. These things are never decided, it appears, 348 00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:29.400 at least with Iran until the last minute. 349 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:33.880 Again, the President, I mean, that's his wheelhouse, right negotiating. 350 00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:37.240 But this is a different group. You're the people on 351 00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:39.440 the other side of the table are not like anybody 352 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:43.519 he's negotiated with ever in his life. And everybody from 353 00:22:43.799 --> 00:22:46.240 everybody all the way down the list, the Congressman Mike 354 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:51.559 Lawler to Ron Johnson to Katie McFarlane, they're all thinking 355 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:54.480 that we need to negotiate with these people like they're 356 00:22:54.519 --> 00:23:00.200 normal people. They're not. And so a lot of the 357 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:05.920 former bad people we have eliminated, right we bombed their smithereens. 358 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:09.440 They're gone. So we got this new group the President 359 00:23:09.559 --> 00:23:12.599 is talking about. And the new group is saying, send 360 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.680 children to surround the power plans in the train stations. 361 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:23.200 That's how twisted these people are. This is the new 362 00:23:24.279 --> 00:23:27.599 What did the President call them, different, smarter and less 363 00:23:27.720 --> 00:23:31.039 radicalized leaders. I don't think so. 364 00:23:31.759 --> 00:23:36.000 Back to Dan Hoffman, I think those strikes were designed 365 00:23:36.440 --> 00:23:38.880 to push Iran in the right direction and let them 366 00:23:38.920 --> 00:23:42.880 know that we're serious about launching strikes tonight if Iran 367 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.880 doesn't meet the eight pm deadline. We have the capability 368 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:51.400 and we have clearly the willpower to launch serious strikes 369 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:54.079 on Iran, and I think that's what was behind some 370 00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:56.200 of these strikes. It's worth noting that Israel has been 371 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:01.599 striking Iran's critical infrastructure, petrochemical industry, and their steel industry 372 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:04.640 as well, all along as well as key leadership targets, 373 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:05.240 as you noted. 374 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:08.599 And so we hit Carg Island, but they have some 375 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:13.200 military facilities on the island, that's what we hit overnight. 376 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:17.880 But the oil infrastructure there at Carg Island was not touched. 377 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:22.000 That's what the president is threatening. Yeah, so listen. 378 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:25.200 I think yesterday's press conference where we saw Director of 379 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:29.359 CI John Ratcliffe standing beside President Trump, was really a 380 00:24:29.400 --> 00:24:33.000 window into the extraordinary cooperation we see from the intelligence 381 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:38.000 community informing the president and other key policymakers so they 382 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:40.759 can make the best decisions. And of course we saw 383 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:43.440 that with the rescue of our airmen and then post 384 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:46.440 facto on that strike against the F fifteen. Where did 385 00:24:46.440 --> 00:24:48.920 that manpad come from? The extent to which China or 386 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:52.319 Russia is not just providing Iran with financial assistance, but 387 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:55.960 arming them as well and giving them the intelligence Iran 388 00:24:56.039 --> 00:24:59.119 needs to strike our military assets, these are all things 389 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:01.920 that the intelligence community, I think is very much focused on. 390 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:07.359 Man Pack is LINGO for the shoulder fired heat seeking 391 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:11.880 missile that brought down that F fifteen. So one more 392 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:16.759 from Dan Hoffman, Well, does he think there's going to 393 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:20.480 be bombs flying after eight pm or a deal with 394 00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:25.720 I keep the deal will be with these people that 395 00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:27.680 are not right in the head. But let's hear what 396 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:28.559 Dan has to say. 397 00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:31.839 I think there's just a lot happening behind the scenes, 398 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:34.319 and I wouldn't be surprised if even the CIA is 399 00:25:34.359 --> 00:25:38.440 reaching out clandestinely to their contacts inside Iran and in 400 00:25:38.480 --> 00:25:42.200 the region. We honestly may not see much. We might 401 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:45.079