1 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: Well, look who's here. Yes, I made it to the 2 00:00:27,160 --> 00:00:31,239 podcast today. Welcome to the Big Podcast on this Wednesday. 3 00:00:31,399 --> 00:00:36,119 Today is the fourth day of March, Year of Our Lord, 4 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,479 two thousand and twenty six. My name is Tom Sullivan. 5 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,799 I start with apologies yesterday, and you may hear a 6 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:50,240 little nasally in my voice today, because man, I got 7 00:00:50,359 --> 00:00:55,280 walloped on Monday. I wasn't feeling good. I was feeling terrible, 8 00:00:55,719 --> 00:00:58,119 and I went downhill fast. I was I don't know, 9 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,560 I'd got some bug of some kind. But I'm seventy 10 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,319 five percent of the way back. But my voice may 11 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,680 sound a little nasily. But I realized yesterday that I 12 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,239 don't get sick very often. I'm pretty healthy guy. But 13 00:01:14,519 --> 00:01:19,040 I realized for the first time since I started this 14 00:01:19,159 --> 00:01:25,760 podcast back in June, that I didn't have anybody to 15 00:01:25,799 --> 00:01:29,920 call into to say, hey, I'm sick. I mean, my 16 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,959 whole working career has always been somebody to call at 17 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:38,280 the office and say, I'm not coming in today. But no, 18 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:41,519 I mean it's me and a whole series of computers 19 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:49,879 and a podcast platform, which again is no. I didn't 20 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,439 have anybody to call, So I apologize. I have to 21 00:01:53,439 --> 00:01:55,599 figure out a way where if I'm sick in the future, 22 00:01:55,599 --> 00:01:58,120 there's some way to notify you. They don't waste your 23 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,200 time trying to dial in. In any case, Well, anything 24 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:09,639 happened lately, Yeah, I mean, it's pretty interesting to watch 25 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,639 what's going on with As you would expect in this country, 26 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:18,080 you're going to have people that are raw raw, let's 27 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,080 go get them, and others that are going on. I 28 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:23,599 don't know about this. I'm a little bit worried, and 29 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:28,080 I've told you before, I'm it depends on what President 30 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,840 Trump does. Sometimes I agree with him, sometimes I don't. 31 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:38,560 On this, I couldn't agree more with his taking military 32 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:44,560 action against Iran in in kotes with Israel. The reason 33 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,680 I say this is for the longest time, I don't 34 00:02:48,759 --> 00:02:52,879 remember when I first heard. It must have been right 35 00:02:52,960 --> 00:03:00,280 after the Shah was overthrown and the Ayatola Komani came 36 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:06,800 into power back in nineteen seventy nine. And ever since then, 37 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,199 Iran and the Ayatola and the regime there has been 38 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:16,080 death to America. And we make, i mean, comedians make 39 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,759 little jokes about it, but they have been death to America. 40 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:21,680 And of course they want to wipe out Israel. And 41 00:03:21,719 --> 00:03:23,599 they said boyle, boy a boy when we we're going 42 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,879 to figure out how to make an atomic bomb a 43 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:28,000 nuke bomb, and what we're going to do is we're 44 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:34,680 going to completely annihilate Israel, wipe out everybody there and oh, 45 00:03:34,759 --> 00:03:38,280 by the way, death to America. You're next. And so 46 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:43,080 this has been going on for forty some years, almost 47 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:48,439 fifty years, and so along the way, Democrats and Republicans 48 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:51,159 have been presidents and they have all said the same 49 00:03:51,199 --> 00:03:53,719 thing that we're not going to let Iran have a 50 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,199 nuclear weapon. We're just not going to let them. And 51 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:00,560 I've finally got to the point, probably I don't know, 52 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:03,319 within the last ten years, where I've said, you know, 53 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:08,879 that's nice, but Iran is I was convinced Iran was 54 00:04:08,919 --> 00:04:12,639 going to get a nuclear weapon someday. And when that 55 00:04:12,759 --> 00:04:18,160 day came, well, all hell literally is going to break loose. 56 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,000 And the reason I thought that was because every president, 57 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,759 like I said, D's and ours, have all said the 58 00:04:24,759 --> 00:04:26,360 same thing, We're not going to let them have an 59 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,600 atomic bomb. Well what are you going to do that? 60 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:34,240 We had negotiators, we had treaties, we had everything you 61 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:36,639 can possibly imagine to try to get them to not 62 00:04:36,759 --> 00:04:43,720 have a nuclear weapon. The Israelis have used their counterintelligence 63 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,800 to go in and fry their centrifuges, and they've done 64 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,800 everything to try to delay them, to stop them, to 65 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,000 upset them, to keep them from getting a nuclear bomb. 66 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,360 But I never saw anybody doing anything about it. And 67 00:04:55,399 --> 00:04:58,079 I really did think someday they're going to get a 68 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,360 nuke and they are going to drop one right in 69 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:06,000 the heart of Israel and kill I don't know, thousands 70 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,319 of hundreds of millions of people. And then when they 71 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,680 figure out how to get an intercontinental ballistic missile, they'll 72 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:16,800 drop one in New York or Los Angeles or Chicago 73 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:21,319 or someplace and kill lots of Americans. They're crazy people. 74 00:05:21,879 --> 00:05:28,040 They're truly crazy people. And so that's why I look 75 00:05:28,079 --> 00:05:33,120 at what's going on and between last June when we, 76 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,560 along with Israel went in and tried to take out 77 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,680 their nuclear facilities, and I know, I know, I know 78 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,800 the presidents that we obliterated it. Well, we did a 79 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:49,079 lot of damage, but they have, according to the spies 80 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,399 in the sky, they have been trying to rebuild and 81 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,879 get started again. They're they're not going to stop. They're 82 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:58,360 like cockroaches. They're not going to stop. They were going 83 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:03,879 to rebuild their nuclear capabilit and they have enriched uranium underground, 84 00:06:04,079 --> 00:06:07,319 lots of it, more than enough to build plenty of 85 00:06:07,439 --> 00:06:10,600 nuclear weapons. And so it wasn't a matter of if, 86 00:06:10,639 --> 00:06:13,279 it was a matter of when. And so the question 87 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:17,319 I come to on this news of the of the 88 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:22,120 war in Iran is when was anybody going to do 89 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:26,439 anything about it? And because of what happened last June 90 00:06:27,199 --> 00:06:31,639 in taking out a lot of their nuclear facilities and 91 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:34,839 so forth, and a lot of the Israeli intelligence in 92 00:06:35,879 --> 00:06:40,040 the taking out of Hamas and has below mostly both 93 00:06:40,079 --> 00:06:43,399 of them, we finally have them in a position of 94 00:06:43,439 --> 00:06:46,240 weakness that we've never had them in before, and if 95 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,839 we were truly going to match our actions with our 96 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:54,519 words of not letting them ever have a nuclear bomb, 97 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:00,560 And one group after another over the last i don't know, 98 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,680 ten years, twelve years have said, well, they're very close. 99 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,040 Oh they're really close. Oh you won't believe how close 100 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,279 they are. It'll be in and we heard that over 101 00:07:11,319 --> 00:07:15,120 and over again. So I assume that they were close 102 00:07:15,199 --> 00:07:17,360 to getting a nuclear bomb and that they were going 103 00:07:17,399 --> 00:07:21,800 to use it. And so the big opposition to this, 104 00:07:22,079 --> 00:07:25,160 I think is a couple of things. One of them 105 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:32,319 is there is a hangover from the Iraq War, a 106 00:07:32,439 --> 00:07:37,519 hangover from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, and 107 00:07:37,639 --> 00:07:41,439 George W. Bush went in there with guns blazing, and well, 108 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,279 we didn't find the weapons of mass destruction the way 109 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:47,680 we thought we would, and so that went on to 110 00:07:47,839 --> 00:07:51,079 nation building, and that cost us a lot of treasure 111 00:07:51,199 --> 00:07:54,199 and blood. And I think there's a lot of people 112 00:07:54,199 --> 00:08:00,839 in this country we don't want another failed Middle East 113 00:08:00,879 --> 00:08:03,160 war that we're involved in. And I've seen some of 114 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,879 the Democrats today saying failed Middle East war. Another one, 115 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,720 Tammy Duckworth, who was injured, almost lost her life in 116 00:08:12,759 --> 00:08:15,519 that war. She came out today and said, yeah, I 117 00:08:15,519 --> 00:08:20,759 don't want another failed Middle East war. So I don't either. 118 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,279 I don't think you do either. But it seems as 119 00:08:25,319 --> 00:08:30,120 if this is a totally different situation. And again, I 120 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:34,720 think that that shadow of the Iraq War is haunting 121 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:39,720 a lot of people, Democrats and some Republicans that are 122 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:42,519 looking at this and going, I don't want anything to 123 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:46,080 do with this, because I remember it wasn't that long ago, 124 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:50,919 and I remember it wasn't good. So well, we'll see, 125 00:08:51,159 --> 00:08:56,000 we'll see. Let me go through some of the the 126 00:08:56,039 --> 00:09:01,519 statistics here, does this is a Fox News bowl? Does 127 00:09:01,919 --> 00:09:08,080 Iran pose a real national security threat? Well, sixty one 128 00:09:08,159 --> 00:09:11,919 percent said yes, thirty eight percent said no. So I 129 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:17,919 don't know, maybe thirty eight percent or just I'm more trusting. 130 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,879 I think they posed. They did pose a real national 131 00:09:22,919 --> 00:09:27,679 security threat. As far as supporting the current strikes on Iran, 132 00:09:29,799 --> 00:09:37,720 Republicans eighty four percent approve, Independents forty percent approve, Democrats 133 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:41,799 only twenty percent approve. And what's sad about this is 134 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:46,159 that it is because of the way that everything is 135 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,639 so political and because of Donald Trump. This is this 136 00:09:50,759 --> 00:09:56,200 is Trump derangement syndrome. They would rather say I'm against 137 00:09:56,240 --> 00:09:59,799 it because Trump's doing it, rather than looking at it 138 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,320 going is this really a problem, So then it's broken down. 139 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,519 Let me give you another little bit bit more from 140 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:08,960 the Fox News poll. As far as all the voters 141 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:15,600 are concerned, it's fifty to fifty fifty percent approve, fifty 142 00:10:15,639 --> 00:10:21,919 percent disapproved. Like I said, Democrats twenty percent approve, Independence, 143 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:28,519 forty percent approve, Republicans eighty four percent approve. So I 144 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:32,000 guess we'll just have to hope and pray that we 145 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:36,600 are successful in getting rid of that regime. That's the 146 00:10:36,639 --> 00:10:39,200 other thing a lot of Democrats are are saying, and 147 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:42,080 I think they have a decent point. Is what is 148 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:48,200 our objective? Well, the list, according to our government is 149 00:10:48,799 --> 00:10:55,639 destroy Iran's missile capabilities. All right, Well, so far, it 150 00:10:55,679 --> 00:11:00,600 looks like we're doing a pretty good job on that. Apparently, 151 00:11:00,639 --> 00:11:05,840 the missile strikes are down. The number of missiles they 152 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:09,960 first fired versus what they have doing today is that 153 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,799 the missiles that they're firing off towards whoever they want 154 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:15,639 to fire them off to are down eighty six percent. 155 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,279 Are they running out of missiles or are they preserving 156 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,399 their inventory to try and wait for the enemy to 157 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:30,480 get closer. Drone strikes are down seventy three percent. The 158 00:11:30,519 --> 00:11:36,240 penetration of missiles and drones is only ten percent, so 159 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:41,519 they're not getting through the defense networks that are out there. 160 00:11:42,519 --> 00:11:48,080 One of the other objectives annihilating their navy, Well, it 161 00:11:48,159 --> 00:11:50,799 sounds like they've hit a lot of their navy. I'm 162 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,279 not sure if it's all of it or not, but 163 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,320 it sounds like it. Another one ensuring Iran can never 164 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,120 obtain a nuclear weapon. Well, I think so, But we're 165 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:02,000 going to have to get a different type of regime 166 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,320 in there, because the current regime and their successors are 167 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,759 not going to stop. Like I said, they're like cockroaches. 168 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:10,240 They won't go away. They're going to keep as long 169 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:14,159 as they have some power. And then finally ensuring that 170 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:20,240 the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm and fund global terrorism. Well, again, 171 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:25,480 that takes a regime change. So everybody's afraid of saying 172 00:12:25,519 --> 00:12:28,960 they're in for regime change. But I'm going I don't know, 173 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:32,399 it seems pretty obvious that you got to change the regime. 174 00:12:33,759 --> 00:12:39,519 I mean, when we defeated Adolf Hitler, what do we 175 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,480 do with all of Hitler's people? We put him on 176 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,480 trial Nuremberg. Most of them went hanging by a rope. 177 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:52,879 Same in Japan. Otherwise, now we kind of leave everybody 178 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:57,960 in place. But as we record this podcast, the Senate 179 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:02,039 is going to hold a vote sometime today. They haven't 180 00:13:02,039 --> 00:13:03,799 done it yet. They say they're going to vote today, 181 00:13:03,799 --> 00:13:06,919 but probably knowing them, it'll be late tonight on whether 182 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:11,759 to give congressional approval. And the strange part about that 183 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:16,080 is does Congress need to give approval before we go 184 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,720 to war? Let me give you what the Constitution says 185 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,879 Article one, Section eight gives Congress the exclusive power to 186 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,320 declare war. Okay, that was the founders deliberately placed the 187 00:13:30,399 --> 00:13:34,159 power in the legislature to prevent a single person from 188 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:40,240 taking the country to war unilaterally. But in nineteen seventy three, 189 00:13:42,279 --> 00:13:45,480 this was after Vietnam, and Congress is trying to claw 190 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:50,399 back some authority. The War Powers Resolution of nineteen seventy 191 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:54,919 three requires the President notify Congress within forty eight hours 192 00:13:54,919 --> 00:13:59,399 of deploying troops into hostilities. Okay, well he did that. 193 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,159 I notified Congress within forty eight hours. And then it 194 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:08,159 goes on. It says it limits unauthorized military engagement to 195 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,919 sixty days plus thirty days for US to withdraw our 196 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:18,039 troops without congressional approval, So they still have military unauthorized 197 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,559 military engagement. With the sixty days, they still have fifty 198 00:14:21,759 --> 00:14:25,000 six days to go. So we'll see how this works out. Hopefully. 199 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 We don't know how long. That's the problem with war. 200 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,639 You don't know how long it's going to go. So 201 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:34,559 in practice, presidents have largely bypassed this. The US has 202 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:40,200 only formally declared war five times. The War of eighteen twelve, 203 00:14:40,639 --> 00:14:45,879 the Mexican American War, the Spanish American War, World War One, 204 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:54,080 and World War Two. Every president since Richard Nixon have 205 00:14:54,279 --> 00:14:58,679 argued that the War Powers Resolution is unconstitutional infringement upon 206 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:03,840 the commander in chief. Congress has often avoided a formal vote, 207 00:15:04,559 --> 00:15:09,879 So broad Authorizations for use of Military Force a WHIMS 208 00:15:09,919 --> 00:15:13,559 as they're called, passed one after nine to eleven in 209 00:15:13,559 --> 00:15:16,399 two thousand and one, and then they expanded it again 210 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:21,480 in two thousand and two two and so Congress eventually someday, 211 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:26,639 somehow may need to approve this, and hope and pray 212 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,320 that this is all going to be over before that 213 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:36,320 comes along. As far as kind of asking the Democrats 214 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,080 what they think, Bill Malushan, who's a reporter for Fox, 215 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,360 was asking Haakim Jeffries earlier today this question. 216 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 2: Back in twenty eleven, Nancy Pelosi. 217 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: Said that then President Obama didn't need Congressional approval to 218 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,919 Obama Libya. Now how Democrats say President Trump needs that 219 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:55,279 approval to Obama ron what's the difference. 220 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:59,399 Speaker 3: Well, obviously Libya and the circumstances connected to that were 221 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,519 very different. In the circumstance that we face an Iran 222 00:16:02,639 --> 00:16:04,960 right now, I mean, I don't even understand the genesis 223 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,080 or basis of that question, not suggesting that you're not 224 00:16:07,159 --> 00:16:08,120 asking it in good faith. 225 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: Libya went on, I'm just thing months while he did 226 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:15,120 not understand, because there isn't any difference pretty much. In fact, 227 00:16:15,159 --> 00:16:18,720 he talked about Pelosi. Here's here's Nancy Pelosi when she 228 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:20,879 was asked as Speaker of the House. 229 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,879 Speaker 3: Adam, Leader, you're saying that the president did not need 230 00:16:24,399 --> 00:16:29,679 alterization initially and still does not need any authorization from Congress. 231 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:34,759 Speaker 4: One Libya, Yes, thank you, thank you all very much. 232 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, she was short's waiting to the point, yes, and oh, 233 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:40,720 thank you very much, and tailed right out of that 234 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:48,440 news conference. Tim Kaine, the Senator from Virginia, is sponsoring 235 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:53,759 the war powers vote today in the Senate, and he 236 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:55,799 had these comments, well, look. 237 00:16:55,639 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 4: I think that that's a fair critique of what Congress 238 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,279 has done under presidents of both parties. But I haven't 239 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,279 when I came into the Senate twenty thirteen after having 240 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:08,920 been governor and watched my Virginia Guard deploye again and 241 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:12,079 again and again into Iraq and Afghanistan, and going to 242 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:16,079 the funerals and wakes and to the deployments and the homecomings. 243 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:18,519 I made a pledge when I came in I would 244 00:17:18,519 --> 00:17:21,559 stand up against any president trying to take us to 245 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,200 war without Congress, and especially if war in that circumstance 246 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:28,319 is a bad idea. And I've held the same standard 247 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:32,319 to President Obama, President Trump term one, President Biden, President 248 00:17:32,319 --> 00:17:35,880 Trump term two. We don't need another war in the 249 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:39,680 Middle East. My state, Virginia is very pro military. We're 250 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,640 probably the more most connected state to the military of 251 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:44,960 any in the country. I'm on the Armed Services Committee. 252 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,400 I have a kid in the military. I support our 253 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,279 troops and support our military. They served bravely, but they're 254 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:58,400 often betrayed or sacrificed by bad civilian decision making. That 255 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:01,920 was the lesson of Vietnam, was the lesson of Iraq. 256 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,359 We should have learned that lesson and we need to 257 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,920 avoid it. So if we've abdicated in the past, then 258 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:10,880 it's a muscle that is weak through not being used. 259 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,759 I'm forcing the muscle to exercise, and it'll get stronger 260 00:18:14,759 --> 00:18:18,279 with exercise. This is the sixth or seventh Warpowers vote 261 00:18:18,519 --> 00:18:20,759 that I forced in the last thirteen months, and I 262 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:23,160 can assure my colleagues I'm going to keep doing it, 263 00:18:23,759 --> 00:18:26,680 because this muscle that's grown weak through non use, I'm 264 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,200 going to try to exercise it so it'll grow strong again. 265 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: I'm no psychiatrists, but I swear a lot of this 266 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,799 is and he brought up Vietnam and Iraq. Is that 267 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:38,599 a lot of it is the shadow of both of 268 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:43,559 those wars that were not clear wild victories like World 269 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,240 War Two where we had celebrations in parades. I think 270 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:52,319 that's what's the hangover. So John Feerman, the Democrat Senator Pennsylvania, 271 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,279 has his own ideas well. 272 00:18:54,759 --> 00:18:57,319 Speaker 5: What I think it's very clear now It's like I 273 00:18:57,319 --> 00:19:01,640 don't really think Iran was able to to really engage 274 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,680 in any meaningful kinds of way. I mean, the only 275 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,759 thing that they've ever been to do is to create 276 00:19:06,759 --> 00:19:09,599 the kinds of chaos and fire these kinds of cheap 277 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,640 drones into Dubai and Kuwait another thing. But overall they 278 00:19:14,759 --> 00:19:17,480 never really put up any kind of a fight. They 279 00:19:17,559 --> 00:19:20,519 never had a shoot, they never had a shot to 280 00:19:20,559 --> 00:19:24,599 shoot threat that so clearly I remain just in the 281 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:29,400 same view where like, after they've eliminated their entire leadership 282 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,160 of one of the worst regimes in the world, and 283 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,880 I think this is a good thing. And now I 284 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,680 don't know why we all can agree that the world 285 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:40,759 is better, safer, and it's more just, and now there's 286 00:19:41,039 --> 00:19:44,319 could be real peace because if you have said we 287 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,119 can never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, well 288 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,960 now that's happened and now they can't ever have that now. 289 00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,000 And now on top of that, their entire most of 290 00:19:54,039 --> 00:19:58,240 their military has been dismantled, and that's probably going to 291 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:03,480 be finished off over the next days. I think that that, yes, 292 00:20:03,519 --> 00:20:05,880 it's been very successful and I can't why we can 293 00:20:06,039 --> 00:20:08,799 celebrate that so far. And this is not a boots 294 00:20:08,839 --> 00:20:11,720 on the ground thing, and neither of those kinds of 295 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:16,799 things about the War Powers resolution from nineteen seventy three, 296 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,200 they had the forty eight hours, and now we also 297 00:20:20,519 --> 00:20:25,200 have sixty days, sixty days, and now there's no boots 298 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,960 on the ground. So now if they have that today, 299 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,720 then I will vote no against that because overall there 300 00:20:31,799 --> 00:20:35,960 has been a successful strike and that has eliminated the leadership. 301 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,799 So I think it's a good thing right now, and 302 00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:40,279 I don't know why we as a Democrat just say 303 00:20:40,559 --> 00:20:42,839 I think I don't have to agree with parts of it, 304 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,359 but I think it's a positive reaction. And now where 305 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,119 we are. 306 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: Well, I like Vetterman, but I don't want them to 307 00:20:49,759 --> 00:20:53,319 count the chickens before the eggs are hatched. This it's 308 00:20:53,359 --> 00:20:57,680 not over. It's clearly the pivot point is I think 309 00:20:57,759 --> 00:21:01,279 way past. But at the same time, you don't count 310 00:21:01,279 --> 00:21:04,799 a victory in war until you truly have a total victory. 311 00:21:04,839 --> 00:21:08,240 By the way, they just held the vote in the 312 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,480 Senate for the War Powers Act. Yeah, they didn't wait 313 00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:15,480 until late tonight, and so far John Fetterman voted with 314 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:18,839 the Republicans and Ran Paul voted with the Democrats. So 315 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:21,640 that means that the War Powers Act will not pass. 316 00:21:23,319 --> 00:21:26,240 The motion that was put together by Tim Kaine will 317 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:29,400 not pass the Senate tomorrow. They do have a vote 318 00:21:30,039 --> 00:21:32,960 in the House of Representatives where things are very tight there, 319 00:21:33,599 --> 00:21:35,759 and there's a couple of Republicans that are saying they're 320 00:21:35,799 --> 00:21:40,000 not for the war, so that may add more congressional 321 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,839 drama to all of this. Some of the Democrats that 322 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,720 came to the microphone earlier today were all opposed. I 323 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:52,079 think it's mostly because of they just don't like Donald Trump. 324 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,079 But let's listen to their side. 325 00:21:55,319 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 4: I mean, the point is it was no immineent threat. 326 00:21:57,599 --> 00:21:59,200 There clearly was oming a threat. 327 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 6: We've seen Secretary of Ruvio bobbing and weaving so much 328 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,319 in the last forty eight hours and they can't make 329 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,559 up their mind why they took the action. 330 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,400 Speaker 7: I will give you my impression, which is that there 331 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,519 is still no evidence, none of an imminent threat that 332 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:20,240 would justify an attack on Iran. 333 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,200 Speaker 1: Now either I've been reading different books than they have, 334 00:22:23,519 --> 00:22:26,160 but it just like I said at the beginning, this 335 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,759 has been death to America and once we get that nuke, 336 00:22:29,799 --> 00:22:32,680 we're going to wipe out Israel. That's been their their message. 337 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,240 They've been very good and very consistent about putting that 338 00:22:36,279 --> 00:22:39,920 message out for decades. And the Democrats gator is no, no, no, 339 00:22:40,079 --> 00:22:43,680 we don't see any threat, no eminent threat. Well, what 340 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,160 are you going to wait for? You're going to wait 341 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,519 for themse Here's the other part behind it. One of 342 00:22:49,519 --> 00:22:52,880 the Rubio brought this up the other day. They are 343 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,200 building these ballistic missiles as fast as they can build them. 344 00:22:56,759 --> 00:23:00,920 They've got hundreds and hundreds of they've building a couple 345 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:05,720 hundred a month. What happens there comes a point where 346 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:10,519 they have so many ballistic missiles that no military ours Israel, 347 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,160 nobody could go in there and stop them from whatever 348 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,359 they want to do. So once they get to that point, 349 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:20,319 what they were doing was hoping to have enough ballistic 350 00:23:20,559 --> 00:23:23,920 missiles to cover them so that they can launch their 351 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:28,160 atomic nuclear weapon against US or against Israel, or both 352 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,920 at the time of their choosing. So you want to 353 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:36,440 wait until the first one explodes. I think that's what 354 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:39,640 they're saying. I don't think that's what they really mean, 355 00:23:39,759 --> 00:23:43,920 but that's what they're saying. Good old Senator John Kennedy 356 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:46,559 from Louisiana always has an interesting take. 357 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 8: I think the president's actions will be sustained. 358 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:54,279 Speaker 4: I think that. 359 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 8: I think that too many of my Democratic colleagues want 360 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,160 to quote Socrates we're in when we're in the middle 361 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,640 of a bar fight. I mean no disrespect in saying this, 362 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:15,160 but they are weak. They are weak in a dangerous 363 00:24:15,279 --> 00:24:20,039 world today. To fight our adversaries, you have to have 364 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,359 military power. We have that, but you have to have 365 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,480 political will. They don't have the political will. 366 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 4: Now. 367 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:36,680 Speaker 8: Look, I am in awe of the solemnity of where 368 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:43,119 we are. Uh we're fighting another country, powerful country, ninety 369 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:48,359 million people. But here's what I see. I see a 370 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,920 country that is run by Jack Nicholson in the shiny. 371 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,759 These are religious zealous. If you don't agree with their 372 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:02,680 version of Islam, you have to die. I see a 373 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,559 bunch of religious zelots who are determined to get a 374 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:12,440 nuclear warhead. They're never going to stop. I see religious 375 00:25:12,519 --> 00:25:17,160 zelots running a country that even after we bomb their 376 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,680 nuclear facilities in June, they've already started back and they've 377 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,279 lied about it. I see a powerful country that's amassing 378 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,799 anywhere from two hundred to six hundred missiles a month 379 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,240 a month, so that eventually they'll have enough missiles to 380 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:40,640 threaten the whole world and prevent us from doing something 381 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:46,000 about their nuclear capability. I see a powerful country of 382 00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,799 religious zelots at the leadership level, who, if they get 383 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:52,720 a nuclear weapon, will use it. I think that's what 384 00:25:53,079 --> 00:25:57,000 the American people see. I think that's what President Trump saw. 385 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,400 I think he did the right thing. I'm not saying 386 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,599 that because he's in my party. I'm not saying that 387 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,319 because he's scared of me or I'm scared of him. 388 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:13,160 If you had been in the classified briefing underneath the capital, 389 00:26:14,079 --> 00:26:17,279 you both know where we meet and heard Peach said 390 00:26:17,519 --> 00:26:23,559 Pete said Headseth, General Kane, Marco Rubio, John Radcliffe walk 391 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:28,359 us through this. You would agree with me, but unfortunately 392 00:26:28,359 --> 00:26:32,720 it's classified information. Well, many too many of my Democratic 393 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:35,400 friends are weak. Their weakest rot war. But it's not 394 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,200 just Democrats. I understand many of my Republican friends think 395 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,920 this is a mistake. They don't want another Iraq, neither 396 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,599 do I. But if they can see what I see 397 00:26:46,799 --> 00:26:50,279 in terms of the class that classified information, I think 398 00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:52,960 most of them would agree with me. Maybe not, but 399 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,400 they have the right to their opinion. 400 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 1: Mike Pompeo, our former Secretary of State, also one of 401 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,559 the people that was on a hit list. Everybody, the FBI, 402 00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:08,720 everybody's agreed that President Trump and John Bolton and Mike 403 00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:12,440 Pompeo were on a hit list that was put out 404 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:16,519 by the regime in Iran to kill all three of them. 405 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,039 So he has a reason to be happy that this 406 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:20,680 has taken place. Here's Pompeo. 407 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,279 Speaker 2: Look, I think she laid out precisely three things that 408 00:27:23,319 --> 00:27:26,559 are important. One, the reason for the President's efforts in 409 00:27:26,599 --> 00:27:29,039 Iran right forty seven years of Iran being at war 410 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,480 with US. Second, she talked about the reason for the 411 00:27:31,519 --> 00:27:34,720 timing of this, why now? And then finally she answered 412 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,559 that important question about what could President Trump have just 413 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,359 kicked the can down the road in the same way 414 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,039 that so many previous presidents had and that was just 415 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,680 unacceptable risks to the United States of America for him 416 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,839 to have done that. So he's done the right thing. 417 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,759 She spoke about the successes todate. No one's saying victory 418 00:27:50,839 --> 00:27:53,400 is at hand, but they've talked about the enormous successes 419 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,039 in the opening half a dozen days of this conflict. 420 00:27:56,319 --> 00:27:59,200 The Iranian regime is weaker today than it was five 421 00:27:59,279 --> 00:28:02,400 days ago. Moreover, the American people are far safer than 422 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:03,440 they were five days ago. 423 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:09,079 Speaker 1: So what about regime change? Talking about Iatola's son being 424 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:11,599 the next leader, they really haven't come up with a 425 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,160 name yet, but Pompeo has this reaction. 426 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,519 Speaker 2: Well, look, guys, for that particular individual, he's got blood 427 00:28:17,519 --> 00:28:20,599 on his hands as well. That seems a very difficult 428 00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:22,759 person for the West, who have swallowed once we've done 429 00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:25,160 all this hard work. I think the Israelis would likely 430 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,119 share that same view. And as for others, what the 431 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,119 United States is going to demand, no matter who ends 432 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,079 up in charge, is that they john they behave like 433 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,359 a normal nation, right, That's all we've ever asked of them. 434 00:28:36,519 --> 00:28:40,240 Don't build nuclear weapons, don't threaten Israel with ballistic missiles, 435 00:28:40,279 --> 00:28:43,079 don't now attack your Muslim brothers in the Gulf Arab States. 436 00:28:43,079 --> 00:28:45,920 Don't run a terror campaign all throughout the Middle East, 437 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,880 in Syria and Lebanon and Iraq and in Yemen. Those 438 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,319 are the things we're going to ask of the next 439 00:28:51,319 --> 00:28:53,799 set of leaders. The Uranian people will ultimately get to 440 00:28:53,799 --> 00:28:58,039 sort that out. The IRGC, right there, force that owns 441 00:28:58,079 --> 00:29:00,440 about a fifth of the Ranian economy, will have something 442 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,200 to say about this. They're not going to go quietly 443 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,119 into the night. But the pounding that they have already taken, 444 00:29:05,119 --> 00:29:06,799 and the pounding that I expect that they will take 445 00:29:06,799 --> 00:29:09,960 in the days ahead, will greatly diminish their capacity not 446 00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:13,039 only to terrorize the world but their own citizens inside 447 00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:13,720 of their country. 448 00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 1: Well, we got to get General Keenan here to give 449 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:20,119 his impression of so far. What does he think? 450 00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:23,279 Speaker 9: Well, I think the message is pretty clear. Everybody got it. 451 00:29:23,559 --> 00:29:28,200 How remarkable successful this operation truly is. I'm stunned by 452 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,680 how much we're able to accomplish pretty much on pace. 453 00:29:31,759 --> 00:29:35,640 I mean, I knew full well that at day three 454 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:40,440 we wanted to have reduced their retaliation capability by seventy 455 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,599 five percent in terms of ballistic missiles, and we hit 456 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,920 that mark, and now we're up to as reported eighty 457 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,160 six percent. It's truly remarkable here what we know about 458 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,440 the enemy, and because we have such exquisite knowledge about 459 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:59,599 them that we're able also to use our combat power 460 00:30:00,079 --> 00:30:04,640 and distributed so effectively and accomplished so much. And when 461 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,680 I first saw what we were attempting to achieve, I 462 00:30:07,759 --> 00:30:11,519 knew that these were ambitious goals to try to accomplish 463 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:14,680 so much in that period of time. And our people 464 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,079 are right on the mark here. The Navy is essentially gone, 465 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:21,039 and they did have an air force, but their major 466 00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:24,680 weapons systems, the ballistic missile is the focus that that's 467 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,440 their major conventional system. It can do the most harm 468 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,799 because of the lethality of the They have considerably more drones, 469 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,079 but they're not as lethal. And the fact that we've 470 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:37,480 got the drones now down to they can only at 471 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,000 seventy three percent retaliation. We reduced them that much. The 472 00:30:42,119 --> 00:30:45,599 drone penetration is around ten percent, which is what the 473 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:49,039 ballistic missile penetration is and you can see out there 474 00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:52,759 that the casualties are very light. We know full well 475 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,200 what Iron had planned. They had learned a lot of 476 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,279 things from a twelve day war, and from day one 477 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:03,039 they were expecting to unleash massive retaliation on a strike 478 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:06,680 at Israel and our US basis with missiles and with drones, 479 00:31:07,079 --> 00:31:09,119 and they were not even able to do that. Remember, 480 00:31:09,119 --> 00:31:12,039 on the first day the report out of the Central 481 00:31:12,039 --> 00:31:15,759 Command that the Israelis was a much more weakened response 482 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:18,359 than what they had anticipated, and that had to do 483 00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:23,440 with disrupting the chain of command and also us attacking 484 00:31:23,599 --> 00:31:27,200 so heavily on that first day against those very targets 485 00:31:27,559 --> 00:31:31,759 to reduce their capability to literally to return fire. So 486 00:31:32,319 --> 00:31:35,839 we're really on a very good pace here. The Israelis 487 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,440 are moving to another phase of the operation. We're going 488 00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:42,319 to continue taking away the weapons and when you see 489 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,960 us doing that, ballistic missiles, drones, the navy, and we're 490 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,960 also going to systematically take if you're manufacturing a weapons 491 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,079 system in Iran, that's a target, and we're going to 492 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,440 take down all of those targets. We don't want them 493 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:03,039 to have anything left at the end, not only in 494 00:32:03,119 --> 00:32:05,759 terms of the things that they have on hand to fire, 495 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:10,359 but they so they cannot manufacture anything. What the Israelis 496 00:32:10,359 --> 00:32:12,559 are going to do, they're going to still focus on 497 00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:15,759 some of those targets, but their primary focus is going 498 00:32:15,759 --> 00:32:19,480 to be on what it's the organization. They want to 499 00:32:19,519 --> 00:32:22,319 set the conditions for a regime collapse, and that is 500 00:32:22,359 --> 00:32:25,519 going to begin in earnest. They did a tremendous job 501 00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:30,039 obviously along with US and taking down leadership targets, and 502 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,039 those will continue, but systematically they're going to strip away 503 00:32:34,599 --> 00:32:39,400 what the IRGC and its capabilities. That's the people, the organization, 504 00:32:39,519 --> 00:32:43,240 and the facilities, the infrastructure that supports it, in other words, 505 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,119 their networks, the technology, the communication systems, all of it. 506 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,960 The same thing with Basil militia who repress the people, 507 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,359 the same thing with intelligence and security forces who repress 508 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,440 the people. The same thing with the police infrastructure that 509 00:32:56,519 --> 00:33:00,880 repress the people. Over a thousand munitions been hit into 510 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,359 Tehran in the last couple of days in doing that, 511 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,440 and hundreds more are coming in in the next twenty 512 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,920 four hours. But it's going out to all of the 513 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000 provinces as well, because in those provinces, as we have 514 00:33:13,119 --> 00:33:17,039 seen those protest movements. When they moved into those other cities, 515 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:21,079 there were security forces and police infrastructure that came out 516 00:33:21,119 --> 00:33:25,200 on the streets and mowed those people down. Those security 517 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,319 forces and infrastructure are going to be stripped away. This 518 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:33,279 is a systematic reduction of the entire infrastructure that does 519 00:33:33,319 --> 00:33:36,880 want it sustains the regime. It is likely going to 520 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:40,720 take more than a week or two just to do 521 00:33:40,799 --> 00:33:42,799 what I'm talking about. This is how much of a 522 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,400 focus this really is. In other words, at the end 523 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,680 of the day, this regime will not have much left 524 00:33:49,759 --> 00:33:52,680 to be able to govern or be able to repress 525 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:53,240 its people. 526 00:33:53,799 --> 00:33:57,240 Speaker 1: So now we wait and watch and see what the 527 00:33:57,279 --> 00:34:00,920 people do. See if they can take over their country, 528 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,079 See if the regime can be eliminated the people that 529 00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:06,319 have repressed the people for all this length of time. 530 00:34:06,839 --> 00:34:08,599 And how they're going to do that is going to 531 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:14,199 be the next chapter of this war. Wall Street. Well, 532 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,840 what can I say? It's been It's been absolute roller 533 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,159 coaster ever since this started. Today was no different, but 534 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,760 it finished on the upside. We started on a big 535 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:31,000 drop and worked our way back to a gain of 536 00:34:31,119 --> 00:34:34,559 two hundred and thirty eight points on the DOW up 537 00:34:34,559 --> 00:34:37,760 to forty eight thousand and seven, thirty nine, SMP up 538 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:43,440 fifty two NASDAC up two hundred and ninety, gold up 539 00:34:43,519 --> 00:34:46,639 twenty eight dollars to five thousand and one fifty one, 540 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:52,400 and oil yeah, it still is acting well. It's the 541 00:34:52,519 --> 00:34:54,800 high was seventy eight dollars a day, but it finished 542 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,000 up seventy six dollars a buck and a half for 543 00:34:59,079 --> 00:35:01,760 the day for a garrel of oil. So that's it 544 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,199 for today. Thank you for coming by. We will be 545 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,639 back again tomorrow. I hope to see you there.