Speaker 1: Will President Donald Trump take to the well of the
Speaker 1: Senate to personally debate Democrats on voter id His former
Speaker 1: chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has pointed to a little
Speaker 1: known Senate rule that would actually allow it to happen.
Speaker 1: He joins me at the top of the show to explain.
Speaker 1: Plus Ace strategist Matt Brainerd is here to help explain
Speaker 1: how he's advising Republican candidates to talk on the campaign
Speaker 1: trail about the war with Iran. There's a big update
Speaker 1: in the Somali fraud prosecutions. Some of the brothers actually
Speaker 1: tried to bribe a juror. Minnesota Senate candidate Royce White
Speaker 1: will sound off. We'll check in with Dave DeCamp of
Speaker 1: Anti War News and head to the Paul Meadow States
Speaker 1: campaign trail with Paul Dan's it's all next to the
Speaker 1: Matt Gates Show.
Speaker 2: Let's do this shaking up Washington, d C. We're breaking
Speaker 2: the fever. Do you haven't watch this guy on television.
Speaker 3: It's like a machine.
Speaker 2: He's great.
Speaker 3: Matt Gates.
Speaker 1: As we join you this evening, President Trump's former chief
Speaker 1: of staff Mark Meadows is turning the political screws on
Speaker 1: Republican US Senators refusing to do what is necessary to
Speaker 1: pass the Save America Act, and in a political world
Speaker 1: where we seem to look to President Trump to do
Speaker 1: literally everything, now Meadows says President Trump can go to
Speaker 1: the Senate floor and command the room.
Speaker 2: What a site it would be.
Speaker 1: The Save America Act is the last chance for a
Speaker 1: big policy win passed by Congress before the midterms. To
Speaker 1: use a football metaphor, the clock is winding down and
Speaker 1: our option on four and three is to either punt
Speaker 1: or go for it. And the United States Senate loves
Speaker 1: to punt, but President Trump isn't making it easy on
Speaker 1: them to do so. He said he wants the bill
Speaker 1: before any other and that has elections experts like Kleida
Speaker 1: Mitchell encouraged.
Speaker 4: Some of these ball bulls in the Senate who aren't
Speaker 4: used to having to actually do any work are starting
Speaker 4: to feel the pressure and the President is not letting up.
Speaker 4: I think he should just say, you guys don't have
Speaker 4: anything else to do, so tech all the time.
Speaker 5: You want, have the filibuster, make.
Speaker 4: The Democrats debate because I'm not signing anything else. You
Speaker 4: guys have all summer, get on with it. So I
Speaker 4: think that President's doing great.
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows leads the Conservative Partnership Institute. Now he put
Speaker 1: up a social media post that calls out the Senators
Speaker 1: who haven't backed to standing filibuster, which would force the
Speaker 1: Democrats to actually debate the legislation if they want.
Speaker 2: To block it.
Speaker 1: This is a long list. Take a look and see
Speaker 1: if you can find your senator. If so, give him
Speaker 1: a ring and ask why Democrats should be able to
Speaker 1: block voter ID and proof of citizenship without even making
Speaker 1: them work for it. Earlier today, Senate Leader John Thun
Speaker 1: announced that he's bringing the Save America Act to the
Speaker 1: floor for debate next week.
Speaker 2: Tick a listen.
Speaker 6: Next week, I will be bringing the Save America Act
Speaker 6: to the floor and we will be having a full
Speaker 6: and robust debate that we are going to put Democrats
Speaker 6: on the record, that they will be forced to defend
Speaker 6: their outrageous positions on these issues and explain to the
Speaker 6: American people why common Sense and the Democratic Party have
Speaker 6: parted ways.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that sounds exciting, but the game you're watching
Speaker 1: may not be the game that is actually being played.
Speaker 1: You heard Thuon say there would be robust debate and
Speaker 1: as much as we hate to be the bearer of
Speaker 1: bad news. What he's really saying is that you could
Speaker 1: be watching political theater, not lawmaking. Typically, you need sixty
Speaker 1: votes to advance a bill in the Senate. Leader Thun
Speaker 1: knows he doesn't have that, But there are a few
Speaker 1: legislative maneuvers he could use, not just to have robust debate,
Speaker 1: but to actually pass the bill, including the standing filibuster,
Speaker 1: which would force Democrats to physically exhaust themselves by talking
Speaker 1: to block this vote.
Speaker 2: And he could also do another thing.
Speaker 1: Leader Thune could fire the Senate Parliamentarian and put the
Speaker 1: Save America Act in a reconciliation bill, which only requires
Speaker 1: as simple Kleta. Mitchell weighed in on that possibility earlier
Speaker 1: this week, and she doesn't seem to think fun is.
Speaker 2: Up to the task.
Speaker 1: Do you think right now Leader Thun is actually having
Speaker 1: to face the very practical question, are his actions going
Speaker 1: to fire the Senate Parliamentarian or fire Senator Cornyn?
Speaker 5: Well, that's a really.
Speaker 4: Good question, I mean, and he's apparently this business of
Speaker 4: having to make tough decisions is not necessarily in his wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: Mark Meadows is encouraging President Trump to directly address the
Speaker 1: Senate next week when the Save America Act is considered.
Speaker 7: The former president can address the Senate at any time
Speaker 7: on demand. And that's exactly what I would love to see.
Speaker 7: I'd love to see the Save America Act be brought
Speaker 7: to the Senate floor and let our current president and yes,
Speaker 7: the former president, my friend and boss, address the Senate
Speaker 7: and the American people on the importance of the Save
Speaker 7: America Act. No one could communicate it better.
Speaker 1: So we looked into it, and yes, Senate rules require
Speaker 1: the Senate to allow former presidents to address the Senate
Speaker 1: on demand.
Speaker 2: I had no idea that George W.
Speaker 1: Bush or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton could just wander
Speaker 1: into the Senate and be in charge as a former president,
Speaker 1: or at least in charge of being able to offer
Speaker 1: their own thoughts and debate. Now, Senate Rule nineteen, paragraph
Speaker 1: a is what's operative here. It says, quote, former presidents
Speaker 1: of the United States shall be entitled to address the
Speaker 1: Senate upon appropriate notice the Presiding Officer, who should thereupon
Speaker 1: make the necessary arrangements. It's mandatory, obligatory that they get
Speaker 1: this opportunity. Talk about must see TV with ratings machine,
Speaker 1: President Trump, President Americans would see Democrats trying to explain
Speaker 1: to the country that voter ID is racist, but that
Speaker 1: it isn't racist to ask for that same ID when
Speaker 1: someone wants to pick up a rental car, or board
Speaker 1: an airplane, or buy a lottery ticket in a disposable vape.
Speaker 1: I had to show my ID at the post office
Speaker 1: this morning to pick up a package. Not a single
Speaker 1: person there thought it was racist or even intended to
Speaker 1: discourage package pickup. So there's a realistic path to passing
Speaker 1: the most consequential election legislation and possibly a decade. The
Speaker 1: only question is if Senator Thun is willing to deliver.
Speaker 1: Joining us now is senior partner at the Conservative Partnership
Speaker 1: Institute and former chief of staff to President Trump. Former
Speaker 1: North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows, Mark, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: I've put up that Senate rule for our audience that
Speaker 1: would allow a former president to command the floor of
Speaker 1: the Senate, as you suggested.
Speaker 2: How do you think that would go?
Speaker 7: Hey, let me just tell you it would be must
Speaker 7: watch TV, Matt, you know, and I know that it
Speaker 7: would just melt the Internet down. I think the president
Speaker 7: should do that. I think if he goes on the
Speaker 7: floor of the Senate. It will have more action on
Speaker 7: the floor of the Senate than they've seen in decades,
Speaker 7: primarily because he actually means what he says.
Speaker 1: So Leader Thun has said he will bring this bill
Speaker 1: to the floor, but explain how that doesn't really mean
Speaker 1: he's doing everything possible to pass the bill.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Matt, Probably the biggest thing is is I want
Speaker 7: to say thank you Leader Thune for bringing it to
Speaker 7: the floor, but don't file cloture. Let's make the Democrat speak,
Speaker 7: Let's make sure that they hold the floor, and if
Speaker 7: they can't hold the floor, then let's pass it with
Speaker 7: a fifty vote threshold. And candidly, you and I have
Speaker 7: served in Congress, we know how this goes. There's what
Speaker 7: we call the robust whip and the soft whip. The
Speaker 7: soft whip is so that they can tell everybody, hey,
Speaker 7: we've whipped it. There's not the votes there. The robust
Speaker 7: whip is what they do on anything that generally is
Speaker 7: not what the American people want, or at least it's
Speaker 7: what k Street wants. They'll go robustly about that. And
Speaker 7: so we need him to do a robust wind it
Speaker 7: with these senators and say get on board. And let's
Speaker 7: pass the Save America Act. The American people don't understand
Speaker 7: what is the big deal, and especially when you've got
Speaker 7: Schumer's and Schumer and others pushing back against it.
Speaker 1: Matt, Yeah, so you and I have both spent plenty
Speaker 1: of time on the wrong end of the robust whip
Speaker 1: during our time in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 2: Together.
Speaker 1: It just gives me, like the creepy Crawleys to think
Speaker 1: about the Paul Ryan speakership. But I want to get
Speaker 1: to some of the tools that would make that happen.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 1: That's not a phone call requesting that these senators you've
Speaker 1: named come on board. That's things like withholding appropriations. That's
Speaker 1: things like committee assignments or chairmanships. Walk us through the
Speaker 1: robust whip you want to see in the United States Senate.
Speaker 7: Yeah, listen, Senators, as you know, both in the House
Speaker 7: and in the Senate, but particularly in the Senate, you
Speaker 7: don't get elected or re elected without the big coffers
Speaker 7: coming in for your behalf. It's so hard to get
Speaker 7: rid of a sitting senator, primarily because hundreds of millions,
Speaker 7: not tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars get
Speaker 7: spent on their behalf, so you can withhold that. You say, listen,
Speaker 7: we understand you're a majority maker, but you need us
Speaker 7: to get re elected. So go first to those people
Speaker 7: that are in cycle. Listen, Senators like Tom Tillis who
Speaker 7: are going out. You're not going to convince him to
Speaker 7: do it. But go to the others that actually want
Speaker 7: to come back and do that. There's also the potential
Speaker 7: with committee assignments. Listen. I think Donald Trump said this
Speaker 7: best the other day. He's the leader of the Senate.
Speaker 2: He needs to.
Speaker 7: Lead and get these people on board. And I will
Speaker 7: say we've seen some real action in the last twenty
Speaker 7: four hours, based not in just in the fact that
Speaker 7: so many Americans that are tuned in watching us here
Speaker 7: have lit up the witchboards and the social media to
Speaker 7: say we want this bill passed. Well.
Speaker 1: Leader Thune said that the people calling for an end
Speaker 1: of the talking filibuster were just paid influencers. Did you
Speaker 1: ever think you'd be so cool as to be deemed
Speaker 1: to paid influencer?
Speaker 7: Mark Meadows, Well, well, I'm waiting for that first paid check,
Speaker 7: and they paid influencer. So I can tell you that
Speaker 7: literally what this is is a grassroots support the influencers
Speaker 7: that are out there. They're coming along, but they're not
Speaker 7: getting paid to move this motivation and go forward. It's
Speaker 7: eighty five percent issue. Why is there such a problem.
Speaker 1: Who is the special interest out there paying influencers for
Speaker 1: voter ID. If there was some massive special interest out
Speaker 1: there paying influencers on voter ID, we probably would have
Speaker 1: gotten done before now because of the popularity.
Speaker 2: You explained now.
Speaker 1: When you and I were in Congress together, we lived
Speaker 1: under the tyranny of a person called the Senate parliamentarian
Speaker 1: because they got to decide what was considered under a
Speaker 1: lower threshold than sixty votes. Our friends like Chip Roy
Speaker 1: and Scott Perry were pushing really hard to get this
Speaker 1: Save America Act into the last Reconciliation bill. The Senate
Speaker 1: parliamentarian hired by like Harry Reid many moons ago said no,
Speaker 1: why won't Leader Thun just fire the Senate parliamentaryman like
Speaker 1: make Cleida Mitchell the Senate parliamentarian for a week and
Speaker 1: a half and we saved the country.
Speaker 7: Well, their heads would explode if Cleida Mitchell became the
Speaker 7: Senate parliamentarian. I can tell you that, But you're exactly right.
Speaker 7: What happens is is you've got this parliamentarian and it's
Speaker 7: almost as if Matt, they just want to lose, but
Speaker 7: want to lose in a gentleman or lady like fashion.
Speaker 7: And I can tell you the donor class, even the
Speaker 7: donor class, have taken notice of this. If they don't
Speaker 7: get the Save America Act passed and to the President's desk,
Speaker 7: there will be a problem. Listen, they passed out of
Speaker 7: the Senate today a housing bill that has a real
Speaker 7: rocky road coming to the House. I don't think the
Speaker 7: House will take it up, nor should they take it
Speaker 7: up until the Save America Act is in the Oval
Speaker 7: Office for the President's signature.
Speaker 1: It'll be an interesting one to watch. Thank you for
Speaker 1: leading on this fight. Mark Meadows, the senior partner of
Speaker 1: the Conservative Partnership Institute, former Congressman, former chief of staff
Speaker 1: to President Trump.
Speaker 2: Always going to be in the fight with you, my friend.
Speaker 7: Great to be with you, Matt. Thanks for taking the
Speaker 7: message to the American people.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: And to coming up, We've got Matt Brainerd from LUK
Speaker 1: ahead to America to talk about how he's advising candidates
Speaker 1: dealing with this question about the Iran war. How to
Speaker 1: talk about it, how to put themselves in the best
Speaker 1: position to succeed. Plus, we've got a big update on
Speaker 1: the Minnesota fraud case. Actually, some of the Somali fraud
Speaker 1: fezers have tried to bribe Adjuror Royce White is running
Speaker 1: for the United States Senate and minute he'll explain what happened.
Speaker 2: Coming up.
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Speaker 1: We return to our coverage of the political consequences of
Speaker 1: the war between the United States and Iran. Here at home,
Speaker 1: Republican candidates and competitive House and Senate races are using
Speaker 1: carefully calibrated messages on this war. The pattern has three
Speaker 1: main components that we've been tracking. First, most Republican candidates
Speaker 1: avoid sounding eager for a long war. Instead, they emphasize
Speaker 1: national security and deterrence. They point to the fact that
Speaker 1: Iran has been a destabilizing force in the Middle East,
Speaker 1: which is undeniably true, but some might say they haven't
Speaker 1: become a more stabilizing force this month. Second, there's a
Speaker 1: clear understanding that explanation will be required as voters here
Speaker 1: at home experience higher prices as a consequence of the war.
Speaker 1: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt addressed these rising prices
Speaker 1: as temporary.
Speaker 10: Recent increase in oil and gas prices is temporary, and
Speaker 10: this operation will result in lower gas prices in the
Speaker 10: long term. Once the national security objectives of Operation Epic
Speaker 10: Fury are fully achieved, Americans will see oil and gas
Speaker 10: prices drop rapidly, potentially even lower than they were prior
Speaker 10: to the start of the operation.
Speaker 1: Third, Republicans are trying to pivot to broader security themes.
Speaker 1: They rightly claim credit for making the country safer with
Speaker 1: a secure border that's actually quite smart. Voters give Republicans
Speaker 1: a big edge on immigration enforcement. Candidates are always worried
Speaker 1: about saying something in the present that will come back
Speaker 1: to haunt them in the future. Maybe I should have
Speaker 1: been more worried about those things during my time in politics.
Speaker 1: But frankly, it's why so many politicians sound like a
Speaker 1: response to the most boring.
Speaker 2: Chat shept prompt you've ever heard.
Speaker 1: We wanted to dig into how strategists are advising candidates
Speaker 1: to talk about this war as it continues to develop.
Speaker 1: The newest polling on the war with Iran shows a
Speaker 1: country that is cautious, divided, and quite uncertain about where
Speaker 1: the conflict is headed. A Washington Post national survey released
Speaker 1: today finds that only thirty four percent of Americans support
Speaker 1: continuing US strikes on Iran, while forty two percent want
Speaker 1: the attacks halted and twenty four percent remain undecided. The
Speaker 1: divide becomes sharper when you look at who supports the campaign. Republicans,
Speaker 1: older voters, and women show the highest levels of backing
Speaker 1: for continuing strikes. Meanwhile, Democrats, independents, and younger Americans are
Speaker 1: more skeptical, creating one of the largest partisan gaps in
Speaker 1: foreign policy opinion in recent years. Among major themes in
Speaker 1: this polling are this Americans do not feel they fully
Speaker 1: understand the objective of the war. Nearly two thirds say
Speaker 1: the administration has not clearly explained the goals of the campaign,
Speaker 1: and more than sixty percent say current US casualties are
Speaker 1: already unacceptable this early in the conflict. Separate national polling
Speaker 1: released this week shows a similar caution about escalation of
Speaker 1: Quinnipiac survey finds fifty three percent of voters oppose US
Speaker 1: military action overall, and an overwhelming seventy four percent of
Speaker 1: Americans a pose sending ground troops to Iran. Perhaps most
Speaker 1: striking is how Americans see the future of this war.
Speaker 1: Six and ten believe the conflict will stretch on for
Speaker 1: a long period, suggesting the public expects a drawn out
Speaker 1: fight rather than the quick victory that I think would
Speaker 1: be most politically expedient. Put together, the numbers paint a
Speaker 1: clear picture. Americans remain wary of deeper involvement. Support exists,
Speaker 1: but it's limited, highly partisan, very boomer and heavily conditioned
Speaker 1: on the conflict, staying short to avoid a large US
Speaker 1: troop deployment. Joining US now, Executive director of look Ahead America,
Speaker 1: Matt Brainerd, Matt, thanks for joining us. How are you
Speaker 1: advising candidates in a republic in primary to talk about
Speaker 1: the war between the United States and Iran?
Speaker 5: My advice. And that's funny you ask, is a striting
Speaker 5: a statement about that today to help on candidate out.
Speaker 1: I can only imagine that that would be something you
Speaker 1: would be working on today, my friend.
Speaker 5: Well, look, I think first to remember a few things.
Speaker 5: Number one is that this operation is on a clock.
Speaker 5: He's got about forty five days under the understanding of
Speaker 5: the current war power zac, which he seems to be
Speaker 5: abiding by, before he has to get Congress involved. So
Speaker 5: that's the time frame that I think that they're hoping
Speaker 5: to complete the mission that they've set out to accomplish.
Speaker 5: My message is that none of very few members of Congress,
Speaker 5: and certainly no candidates, have access to the kind of
Speaker 5: intelligence that the president has that led him to make
Speaker 5: this decision. So my advice to candidates is to encourage
Speaker 5: a swift and decisive resolution of this conflict, and to
Speaker 5: pray for the safety and well being of our troops,
Speaker 5: and to trust a president that I think is more
Speaker 5: deserving a trust on foreign policy stage than any president
Speaker 5: of my lifetime, who has always steered us right, who
Speaker 5: has kept us out of long engagement, who has not
Speaker 5: gotten this bogged down in any forever wars like so
Speaker 5: many of the people who are criticizing him for now
Speaker 5: are the same people who voted US to go to
Speaker 5: war in Iraq and Afghanistan in an endless cycle of
Speaker 5: nation building. This is a president who flipped Venezuela almost
Speaker 5: instantly for us. He kept us out of any wars
Speaker 5: in his first term, and his actions and foreign for
Speaker 5: policy and the second term have been brief, decisive, and
Speaker 5: with minimum loss to American lives. So we have to
Speaker 5: trust because neither you nor I have access to the
Speaker 5: intelligence that led them to make this decision. I have
Speaker 5: to trust him and pray for a quick resolution, and
Speaker 5: ideally we'll have that.
Speaker 1: I wonder if how candidates talk about this changes whether
Speaker 1: or not their dispositive elections in a primary or a general.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's different talking about this to a
Speaker 1: general election audience than to a primary audience.
Speaker 5: That's a really good question. I think that the Republican
Speaker 5: audience in a primary is much more likely to give
Speaker 5: the president leeway and some room to maneuver in these
Speaker 5: types of conflicts. In a general election, I think it's
Speaker 5: a little bit of a different concern because we've got
Speaker 5: the calendar issue. I expect this conflict to be in
Speaker 5: our rearview mirror in any way that could be perceived
Speaker 5: as negative. Probably around May, and that's also about the
Speaker 5: time we're going to have a new Federal Reserve chairman
Speaker 5: who is likely going to be more supportive of lower rates.
Speaker 5: So by the time we'll get to the voting season
Speaker 5: October November, I don't expect this to be an issue
Speaker 5: at the forefront. So my general message is saying, look,
Speaker 5: let's just pray for the safe return of our troops
Speaker 5: and for a quick and decisive victory to rid the
Speaker 5: world of a regime that has been killing Americans, thousands
Speaker 5: of them for longer than I've been alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that regime doesn't be going anywhere, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not advising any candidates to say that the war
Speaker 1: must continue until the regime is gone, are you.
Speaker 5: I think that the regime threat to the United States
Speaker 5: and to our allies calling for signing the need to
Speaker 5: neutralize a serious threat which apparently it was posing, is
Speaker 5: a worthwhile goal, particularly if it's minimum loss of American life,
Speaker 5: if it's not a boots on the ground, if it's
Speaker 5: not a true you know, you recall in Afghanistan and Iraq,
Speaker 5: we were sending MFAs people with masters and fine arts
Speaker 5: to go over there and try to change the culture
Speaker 5: and teach them creative writing classes. Nobody in the Trump
Speaker 5: administration is suggesting anything like that type of regime change
Speaker 5: or nation building anything like that. Here's here's basically how
Speaker 5: Trump was.
Speaker 1: They have suggested regime change. Here's there's Differently, by executing
Speaker 1: a supreme leader.
Speaker 5: I think that by executing or taking captives some premem leader,
Speaker 5: you give the nation a chance to pick another another ruler,
Speaker 5: and either that person is going to be cooperative to
Speaker 5: the United States, they blew up.
Speaker 1: Or their meaning about that, Matt, they meant to get
Speaker 1: a new Supreme leader.
Speaker 2: We literally dropped a bomb on the meeting.
Speaker 5: I don't know how long he's going to be around,
Speaker 5: and maybe we just get the next leader and keep
Speaker 5: going until we get in the leader that's willing to
Speaker 5: be cooperative.
Speaker 2: That goes right. That's what you just said.
Speaker 1: You just said that what we need is a quick
Speaker 1: and decisive resolution of this Politically, I completely that's why
Speaker 1: do you think that.
Speaker 5: The next comani is going to live for until the
Speaker 5: forty five day period is up?
Speaker 2: What I know is it took US.
Speaker 1: It took us twenty years to trade the Taliban for
Speaker 1: the Taliban, and it took US nine days to trade
Speaker 1: one komane for another komane. So I guess we're getting
Speaker 1: more efficient in that regard and not endeavoring upon.
Speaker 5: Look this as a president who is very critical of
Speaker 5: how that operation was conducted from the beginning to the end,
Speaker 5: both in Afghanistan and the much longer time we spent
Speaker 5: in Iraq than we needed to. This is a very
Speaker 5: different way of conducting war. And there's been you know,
Speaker 5: he's spoken repeatedly, we're not really trying to change the culture.
Speaker 5: We just want to neutralize threats to the United States.
Speaker 5: And that's the responsible action to take because every administration
Speaker 5: is always talking about the great threat that Iran his
Speaker 5: post while they've killed thousands of Americans and just said, look,
Speaker 5: we'll just tolerate, we'll tolerate. And you had Obama who said,
Speaker 5: let's just give them cash and maybe they'll be nice
Speaker 5: or try to ignore a problem like you ignore a cancer.
Speaker 5: But everyone knows that doesn't work. So having a president
Speaker 5: that is willing to risk the political capital put his
Speaker 5: entire administration on the line because he says Look, right
Speaker 5: now it might not be popular, but in ten or
Speaker 5: fifteen years it will have been a genius move that
Speaker 5: saves American lives and brings the.
Speaker 1: Vality of Well, let's get specific on that point. How
Speaker 1: long do you think it takes before this war is popular?
Speaker 5: I'll go back to my original antswer how long it
Speaker 5: takes till the war becomes popular?
Speaker 1: Because you say, in fifteen years, we're going to look
Speaker 1: back on this word, it's going to be popular.
Speaker 2: Right now, all the data suggests the wars underwater.
Speaker 5: I understand that, But in terms of how long this
Speaker 5: conflict is likely to take, he's basically got a forty
Speaker 5: five day window to do what he can, and he
Speaker 5: knew that before this started. He knew that if you
Speaker 5: go beyond that, you're going to have to earn popular
Speaker 5: support and get it through Congress, which is extremely difficult. Look,
Speaker 5: there are popular things like the say back, they can't
Speaker 5: get through Congress either. So operating within this window to
Speaker 5: do what he can in this limited time, they had
Speaker 5: the intelligence to make that decision. You and I didn't.
Speaker 5: And look, I'm going to trust the isn't it? And
Speaker 5: That's what I'm encouraging candidates say, and that's what I
Speaker 5: say to voters, and then when we get to a
Speaker 5: later stage, if it's a bigger problem, you know, to
Speaker 5: slow the spread.
Speaker 1: So I hope you're right. I hope you're right. I
Speaker 1: think that probably would be the best political Look, we.
Speaker 5: Can't have a complete access to every bit of intelligence
Speaker 5: that the president uses to make a decision.
Speaker 2: We used to have a class.
Speaker 1: It's not that I don't trust the president. I don't
Speaker 1: trust some of the people giving him that intelligence. Like
Speaker 1: the argument you're making right now, Matt, and I do
Speaker 1: appreciate you going through the exercise of debating it with
Speaker 1: me because our candidates are going to have to go
Speaker 1: through this, and I think this is an instructive discussion.
Speaker 1: But like, that's all the same stuff that was said
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three. We could have literally taken
Speaker 1: what you just said, and it could have come out
Speaker 1: of the mouth of Carl Rove.
Speaker 5: It wasn't just said in two thousand and three. It
Speaker 5: was said throughout the entire history of our country and
Speaker 5: all of our foreign engagements where we trusted the president.
Speaker 5: Politics stop through the water's edge, and if any president,
Speaker 5: look we can agree on this, if any president that
Speaker 5: has ever been elected in years of my lifetime, we're
Speaker 5: to undertake this operation? Is there anyone you trust more
Speaker 5: than Trump to have undertaken it?
Speaker 2: Really? Bush?
Speaker 5: Obama, Clinton, Reagan. There's only one present that I actually
Speaker 5: would fully trust to do this because he's earned it
Speaker 5: through his time in offices, records, He's established so forth
Speaker 5: at being extremely limited in his use of American force overseas.
Speaker 5: So if we can't trust him now, I mean, what
Speaker 5: are we doing here?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's more about trusting Iran than trusting him,
Speaker 1: and in Iran I have considerably less trust. I want
Speaker 1: to ask you one more question before you go about Texas.
Speaker 1: This Senate race is getting weird. I mean, we are
Speaker 1: big enthusiastic supporters of Ken Paxton. You know Texas very well,
Speaker 1: you do a lot of political work there. I mean,
Speaker 1: if this thing goes on, and if there's some more
Speaker 1: like damaging information that comes out about Senator Cornyn on
Speaker 1: some rumors that are floating around, do you think that
Speaker 1: this is in play with Jasmine Crockett losing tallar Rico
Speaker 1: as the Democratic nominee.
Speaker 5: Do you mean in play for Paxton to winner, No.
Speaker 1: For the Democrats to win I worry that what we
Speaker 1: see going on on the Republican side could actually get
Speaker 1: Democrats to lock in their lips over Texas.
Speaker 5: You know, one of the nice things about Texas primaries
Speaker 5: is that they happen in March, so whatever the outcome is,
Speaker 5: you have a lot of time to heal. Look after
Speaker 5: a primary, if you take a poll, all of our
Speaker 5: candidates are going to look into they're in terrible shape
Speaker 5: after this primary. I'm sure whatever pole you take after
Speaker 5: this social resolve, whether the packs win corn wins, it's
Speaker 5: going to be they're either gonna be under or really close. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: we have this nice period to kind of unify. Emotions
Speaker 5: will be, We'll have time to calm down, We'll have
Speaker 5: unity events and look, I expect by the ends. I
Speaker 5: expect by the end. I hate to say this because
Speaker 5: people hate this, but this happens every presidentially because we
Speaker 5: have these tough presidential fights, right but almost everybody comes
Speaker 5: together at the end because they do not whether you're
Speaker 5: a corner fan or packs event, or whether you can
Speaker 5: corn In or packs in personally, neither of you wants
Speaker 5: to see the seat really follow the Democrats. So if
Speaker 5: Packson prevails, by the time we get to election day,
Speaker 5: I expect him to do a unity event with cornn
Speaker 5: and the other way around. That's the only civilized way.
Speaker 5: That's that's how we have to operate as Republicans. We
Speaker 5: need to pressure whoever the loser is here to do
Speaker 5: the right thing and unify, and that will give us time,
Speaker 5: unlike say Washington State primaries, where we have violent primaries
Speaker 5: and then six weeks later you're voting in the general.
Speaker 3: And got.
Speaker 1: A really smart point about the opportunity to come together.
Speaker 1: Matt Brainerd, executive director of look Ahead America, Thanks is
Speaker 1: always for coming on and discussing these issues.
Speaker 2: Happy to be here and coming up.
Speaker 1: We've got breaking news in the Minnesota fraud case. There
Speaker 1: was actually an attempt to bribe adjuror Royce White will react,
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Americans have recently been confronted with a harsh reality the
Speaker 1: systems built to serve the needy, the vulnerable, the dying.
Speaker 1: They're often systems mechanized for industrial scale fraud. But the
Speaker 1: good news is that we have renewed focus on this
Speaker 1: fraud and accountability is at least reaching some of the crooks.
Speaker 1: The seventy ninth person has just been charged in the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Feeding Our Future fraud scheme. Fifty of those charged
Speaker 1: have pled guilty. Several have been convicted a trial. The
Speaker 1: Feeding Our Future fraud and network involved claiming that children
Speaker 1: were being fed who weren't and it diverted so much
Speaker 1: federal money about two hundred and fifty to three hundred
Speaker 1: million in food eight was stolen. Here's the breaking news.
Speaker 1: Within the last twenty four hours, the Somali's on trial
Speaker 1: for the Feeding Our Future fraud actually got sentenced to
Speaker 1: trying to.
Speaker 2: Bribe a jury. Here's what happened.
Speaker 1: Seven people were on trial for their roles in the
Speaker 1: fraud two of them were brothers. They had a third brother,
Speaker 1: Abdul Kareem Farah, aged twenty five, target a juror and
Speaker 1: deliver that juror a bag full of cash as a bribe.
Speaker 1: Fara and co defendant Laddan Ali picked the jur they
Speaker 1: wanted to bribe. They followed that juror to their home.
Speaker 1: They delivered a bag with one hundred and twenty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in cash inside, and they said there would be
Speaker 1: more cash for the juror if they voted to acquit.
Speaker 1: They filmed themselves doing it and then deleted signal from
Speaker 1: their phones. Apparently these bandits picked the wrong juror because
Speaker 1: that person immediately reported the bribe to the court.
Speaker 2: The judge knew right away.
Speaker 1: Far Up pled guilty to bribing the jur it'll serve
Speaker 1: almost five years in prison. Authorities have discovered this problem
Speaker 1: is way bigger than a single charity. Investigators are now
Speaker 1: examining fraud in multiple programs, including child nutrition, medicaid, autism, housing, hospice.
Speaker 1: Some estimates suggest billions in federal funds across fourteen programs
Speaker 1: may have been vulnerable to this fraud since twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: and that's just Minnesota joining us now candidate for the
Speaker 1: United States Senate and Minnesota former NBA lottery pick the
Speaker 1: only person running for the United States Senate that you
Speaker 1: definitely couldn't get a rebound on.
Speaker 2: Royce Wade, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 1: And I just this story about the bribing of a jur, like,
Speaker 1: is the new chapter in this like Somali fraud case,
Speaker 1: that there's no shame that like they can get caught
Speaker 1: stealing from hungry children and then have absolutely no qualms
Speaker 1: about trying to go bribe a jury to get off.
Speaker 11: Yeah. No, I would appear that the Democrats and the
Speaker 11: entire liberal machine have no shame whatsoever and how they
Speaker 11: fence the Minnesota fraud story. But politics more broadly, right,
Speaker 11: I mean, we could see the correlation between the war
Speaker 11: that's broken out and all of these Free Palestine folks
Speaker 11: here that were in the streets during the anti Ice
Speaker 11: raids and they'll turn around and vote for Amy Klobasharna
Speaker 11: heartbeat even though she's so well funded and supported by APEX.
Speaker 11: I mean, these people have no logical coherence left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm eager to get to the campaign and the war,
Speaker 1: But just on this bribe matter, like, what does it
Speaker 1: say that even after having been busted, these guys had
Speaker 1: had like one hundred and fifty grand in cash to
Speaker 1: go put in a bag.
Speaker 11: Well, it says that they've they've gotten real comfortable with
Speaker 11: the you know, with the with the rule of law.
Speaker 1: I guess I guess if Mike doesn't make right, maybe
Speaker 1: Green does. Now there have been seventy nine arrests and
Speaker 1: they are working to flip people. From your standpoint, as
Speaker 1: in minnesotaan, what do you think is a satisfactory resolution
Speaker 1: to all this fraud that's been uncovered and these prosecutions
Speaker 1: that are underway.
Speaker 11: Well, I think people who are here on refugee status
Speaker 11: who are involved in this fraud should be deported. That's
Speaker 11: just my opinion. And I think there you know, I
Speaker 11: don't think there will be deportations, but there certainly should be.
Speaker 11: That would be my hope.
Speaker 2: I wonder if what we are seeing is changing minds.
Speaker 1: I mean, if if the stealing from taxpayers doesn't get you,
Speaker 1: if the diverting money away from needy children doesn't get you, Like,
Speaker 1: I wonder if the bags of cash bribing jurors might
Speaker 1: convinced Democrats who've never voted for a Republican to vote
Speaker 1: for someone like you.
Speaker 11: You would hope so, you would hope so. But we'll see.
Speaker 11: At the end of the day, Minnesota, Minnesota Knights has
Speaker 11: become a pervasive cultural identity, and people tend to make
Speaker 11: concessions around certain issues, and obviously being frauded by your
Speaker 11: state government and other actors doesn't reach the top of
Speaker 11: the list. But hopefully that changes. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk to you about the campaign
Speaker 1: and this war that's going on. You really have been
Speaker 1: a very prominent voice in what I would consider the
Speaker 1: foreign policy realism space. We've talked about these issues a
Speaker 1: number of times together. How is this war impacting your
Speaker 1: campaign for the United States Senate?
Speaker 11: Well, it puts us in a peculiar position, because you
Speaker 11: would think that we would find some alignment with our
Speaker 11: counterparts on the left, who are obviously, at least publicly,
Speaker 11: very loudly against this particular war. They're not against all war.
Speaker 11: They're certainly for the war there in the Bloodlins between
Speaker 11: Ukraine and Russia, but they're not for any war that
Speaker 11: aids Israel, which now we find ourselves in some strange alignment.
Speaker 11: And even I see on the right, certain people are
Speaker 11: running for office or they commentating on politics, and they're like, hey,
Speaker 11: we kind of agree with those people on the left.
Speaker 11: But at the end of the day, the people on
Speaker 11: the left openly reject God, and they openly mock God,
Speaker 11: and they openly mocked Christian So the math doesn't square
Speaker 11: by joining hands with those people because we can it
Speaker 11: would be anti Christian by definition. So it's putting us
Speaker 11: in a peculiar situation. And I think, you know, an
Speaker 11: old saying is never never interrupt your enemies while they're
Speaker 11: making a mistake. The Minnesota fraud, the anti ice protests,
Speaker 11: where our enemies making a mistake, And now I think
Speaker 11: that we've interrupted our enemies while they were making a mistake,
Speaker 11: a big mistake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such an interesting point that so much of
Speaker 1: the national discussion was around this fraud. And I really
Speaker 1: did believe, I still do believe if that's presented to
Speaker 1: swing voters or even left wing voters, they can't be
Speaker 1: for that. And now all of the headlines, a lot
Speaker 1: of what we talk about on this program is geared
Speaker 1: toward this war that's going on. You know, is that
Speaker 1: something you could see negatively impacting Republicans in a lot
Speaker 1: of these different swing Senate races around the country.
Speaker 11: Oh absolutely, I mean it's already negatively impact in the races,
Speaker 11: whether we see it or measure it or not. You know,
Speaker 11: the proof is the proof is all but the writings
Speaker 11: on the wall. And I'll give this you know this
Speaker 11: thought and the City of God. Saint Augustine said, a
Speaker 11: brief and true definition of virtue is rightly ordered love,
Speaker 11: and that rightly ordered love and rightly ordered charity are
Speaker 11: first in the center with God and then expanding in
Speaker 11: concentric circles outward yourself, your family, your immediate family, your
Speaker 11: loved ones, your community, and then everything else. There is
Speaker 11: nothing rightly ordered about this war. There's nothing rightly ordered
Speaker 11: about the charity that we've displayed in our fraud, you know,
Speaker 11: in our NNGO nonprofit global institutions or global agencies, as
Speaker 11: well as the military industrial complex. Wrongly ordered love, and
Speaker 11: there are consequences.
Speaker 1: Final issue I want to address with you is this
Speaker 1: big debate going on in the Senate right now about
Speaker 1: how to deal with the Save America Act that's passed
Speaker 1: from the House. Their number of Republican senators saying they
Speaker 1: don't believe in a talking filibuster. They don't believe that
Speaker 1: Democrats should have to hold the floor to block consideration
Speaker 1: of the legislation. I've long contended that you're one of
Speaker 1: the people running for the Senate who, just by your
Speaker 1: mere presence there would have a very profound effect on
Speaker 1: the institution, which is probably why a lot of the
Speaker 1: establishment don't want to see you there. But what would
Speaker 1: Royce White be doing in the United States Senate right
Speaker 1: now to get the Save America Act to President Trump?
Speaker 11: I'd be calling out the people who are trying to
Speaker 11: block it behind the scenes that doesn't get talked about publicly.
Speaker 11: We see some of their faces, but not all of them.
Speaker 11: Some people are pretending they're for the Act when they're
Speaker 11: really not. And I would stand there and do a
Speaker 11: talking filibuster by myself for sixty days straight if need,
Speaker 11: be harkening back to our founding fathers. And that's just
Speaker 11: the type of toughness and grit that we've lost in
Speaker 11: this country. And you know, Mitch McConnell, John Thune, John Cornyon,
Speaker 11: they're all running dogs for the CCP, and it's obvious,
Speaker 11: it's becoming obvious who our real enemies are inside the
Speaker 11: wire and I hope that the electorate, you know, shows
Speaker 11: that in the next time they're up for reelection, if
Speaker 11: they even come up for reelection. When it comes to
Speaker 11: Thune in corner, the referendum is going to be in Texas.
Speaker 11: Now we'll see when John Thune comes up next as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly that race in Texas is going to be
Speaker 1: a big one. They would probably take some exception with
Speaker 1: the characterization that they're doing this for the CCP, but
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine who they're doing it for because
Speaker 1: they're certainly.
Speaker 11: I'll say this, I'll say this back to our point
Speaker 11: about the Iranian war. At the end of the day,
Speaker 11: even if we win, and I'm not saying whether or
Speaker 11: not we need to fight this war, President Trump's commander
Speaker 11: in chief. He has to make those decisions, and I
Speaker 11: hope he's getting good advice. But ultimately, in the long run,
Speaker 11: from a geopolitical standpoint, we know that the Muslims in
Speaker 11: the Arabs favor the Chinese, and the Europeans favored the
Speaker 11: Muslims in the Arabs. So what are we actually doing
Speaker 11: there long term?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a lot of Muslims fighting against the
Speaker 1: Chinese in some places in you know where there's a
Speaker 1: lot of conflict between Pakistan and China, but we'll.
Speaker 2: See how it all resolves.
Speaker 1: Royce White, Republican candidate for the United States Senate and Minnesota,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us, Thank you, sir, And coming up,
Speaker 1: Dave DeCamp from Anti War News will break down what
Speaker 1: we're learning about the new Ayahtola, his plans, his statements,
Speaker 1: and we'll also hit the campaign trail in South Carolina
Speaker 1: with Paul Dan's who's running against Lindsey Graham, who is
Speaker 1: enthusiastically telling you he wants to send your children to
Speaker 1: war and draft your daughters.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about all of it next.
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Speaker 1: Iran's new Supreme leader has issued his first statements in
Speaker 1: stepping in to succession in the place of his dead father.
Speaker 2: And while the.
Speaker 1: United States is demanding capitulation and Israel appears to be
Speaker 1: seeking total political and societal collapse in Iran, Iyatola Moshtaba
Speaker 1: Komani has other plans. In a Thursday decree, the Iatola
Speaker 1: vowed to continue enforcing Iran's blockade of the all important
Speaker 1: Straits of Hormuz to global energy markets just today.
Speaker 2: Earlier on Wednesday, a tai.
Speaker 1: Flagged oil tanker was struck by a projectile while passing
Speaker 1: through the strait.
Speaker 2: And there's a harsh reality we have to contend with here.
Speaker 1: Iran has been able to impact global energy markets. It
Speaker 1: doesn't take much. Even if a handful of ships are attacked.
Speaker 1: Insurance companies start refusing to cover vessels passing through the
Speaker 1: Straits of Hormuz. And if insurers won't cover the cargo,
Speaker 1: a nearly twenty percent of the world's oil supply can't
Speaker 1: reach its destination. And oil isn't the only thing going
Speaker 1: through the straits. A lot of important components of fertilizer,
Speaker 1: a lot of cargo. If it doesn't get insured it
Speaker 1: doesn't move. At the same time, Iran's tightening grip on
Speaker 1: the street has actually allowed it to increase its own
Speaker 1: oil exports. This allows the regime to profit from the
Speaker 1: higher prices caused by the reduced global supply. Iran might
Speaker 1: actually be making money on this war. With that math
Speaker 1: right now, the clock appears that it could be working
Speaker 1: in Iran's favor. The new Ayahtola also vowed retaliation for
Speaker 1: his father, promising retribution for every Iranian killed by the
Speaker 1: United States and Israel, and he specifically referenced revenge for
Speaker 1: the blood of our children. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson
Speaker 1: had strong views on that strike.
Speaker 8: They're in negotiations with us le jay and they came.
Speaker 8: They were saying on Thursday before the attack came, Hey,
Speaker 8: these we really made progress. We're looking forward to it.
Speaker 8: Oman who had broke her to said hey, this is
Speaker 8: the best progress we made and then boom, out of
Speaker 8: the blue, we attacked them. We kill one hundred and
Speaker 8: seventy five girls, young girls ages six to twelve. And
Speaker 8: how do we know it because we can see you
Speaker 8: still frame the missile that's coming into that school. It's
Speaker 8: a Tomahawk.
Speaker 1: Thousands of Iranians turned out for the funeral. A photo
Speaker 1: verified by The New York Times shows massive crowds and attendance.
Speaker 1: What was supposed to be a destabilizing regime change war
Speaker 1: may actually be having the opposite effect, because it turns
Speaker 1: out when a foreign power kills the children of a
Speaker 1: nation and its religious leader during Ramadan, the people tend
Speaker 1: to unite in opposition.
Speaker 2: Who possibly could have predicted that?
Speaker 1: Joining US now news editor at anti war dot Com
Speaker 1: and host of Anti War News Dave de Camp, Dave,
Speaker 1: what are you watching with the new Supreme Leader?
Speaker 12: Well, today we got the first statement from him, and
Speaker 12: he hasn't made any public appearances yet, I'm sure because
Speaker 12: he assumes that the US or Israel would target him
Speaker 12: if he did that. But he put out a statement
Speaker 12: that was read on air by Iranian state media and
Speaker 12: it was kind of what I expected, you know. It
Speaker 12: was a defiant tone in the face of this US
Speaker 12: Israeli bombing campaign. And he is saying that they will
Speaker 12: keep the Strait of Hormuz closed and that they will
Speaker 12: continue attacks on US bases across the region. And we
Speaker 12: are seeing that just last night in Herbal in Iraqi, Kurdistan,
Speaker 12: base housing US troops was hit with a lot of
Speaker 12: drones and there's reports from British media that US troops
Speaker 12: were injured.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to.
Speaker 12: The new Kommenee, the younger Kamene, you know, it seems
Speaker 12: like they're digging in the Islamic government. And his father
Speaker 12: was killed, you know, in the opening hours of this war.
Speaker 12: But not just his father, also his mother, his wife,
Speaker 12: and his sister were killed in that strike and other
Speaker 12: family members. So we have a younger Kamenee who is
Speaker 12: more radicalized, who's taking control here. In the day that
Speaker 12: he was announced to be the new leader, we saw
Speaker 12: a massive rallies in Tehran and in other major cities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dave, we've seen some reports that he's injured or
Speaker 1: he may be in some temporary role. Do you see
Speaker 1: him consolidating power and holding onto the position.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean that's that's what it looks like right now.
Speaker 12: I mean, essentially, at the moment, the ier GC is
Speaker 12: in charge. You know, they're they're calling the shots, they're
Speaker 12: they're controlling the military response. And as I understand, he's
Speaker 12: has very close ties to the ier GC, So I
Speaker 12: think he is who they want in power.
Speaker 1: You've got a new piece out at anti war dot
Speaker 1: Com that walks through Iran's energy export strategy while the
Speaker 1: straits of our MOUs are under this this pinch walk
Speaker 1: us through it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 12: Well, according to the tracking you know, the tanker tracking data,
Speaker 12: Iran actually exported more oil over the past week than
Speaker 12: it was before the war. And so essentially now they
Speaker 12: have control of the Strait of horm Moose and we
Speaker 12: have seen at least ten tankers have been hit with drones.
Speaker 12: Just last night, so more were hit. And you know,
Speaker 12: you see President Trump talking about them mining the strait.
Speaker 12: I don't know if there's evidence that they've actually done that,
Speaker 12: but people just need to understand that, you know, the
Speaker 12: Strait of Hormoose, this is Iran's territory. It's right off
Speaker 12: their coast, and they don't need you know, advanced ballistic
Speaker 12: missiles to hit ships there or anything. They just could
Speaker 12: use short range missiles, rockets, and these drones that they
Speaker 12: seem to have a you know, these very cheaply made drones.
Speaker 12: So they're in a position to really control what goes
Speaker 12: in and out of there. And the question is, you know,
Speaker 12: we see President Trump. Secretary Beston said today that there's
Speaker 12: some sort of plan for the US military to escort
Speaker 12: tankers through this strait. And now US Navy warships, especially destroyers,
Speaker 12: have very advanced air defense systems. But the fact is
Speaker 12: this is right off Iran's coast and they could blanket
Speaker 12: the place with these drones. And I think that's why
Speaker 12: we're not seeing them them try that yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and some of those air defense systems require some time.
Speaker 1: They become more effective the longer arrange the shot is fired,
Speaker 1: when you're right there on top of the ships. That
Speaker 1: can that can limit some of the defensive techniques that
Speaker 1: are typically used. What do you expect Iran to do
Speaker 1: in the in the coming days, Dave?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Well, what we're more of what we're seeing. You know,
Speaker 12: the the drone and missile attacks are continuing across the region.
Speaker 12: They say it's at a you know, a lower rate,
Speaker 12: but they're certainly getting hit.
Speaker 2: It's tough to does that change? Sorry, I've only got
Speaker 2: a little bit of time left.
Speaker 1: Do you think do you think they will ratchet up
Speaker 1: or do you think they're They've been degraded to the
Speaker 1: point where this is now max effort we're seeing out
Speaker 1: of Iran.
Speaker 12: Now, I think it's going to be steady. I don't
Speaker 12: know if it's going to really increase, but I think
Speaker 12: it'll be steady. I think they have a lot more
Speaker 12: in their arsenal than what you know the US might expect,
Speaker 12: And really the drones are kind of the big their
Speaker 12: big weapon here. What the US military has admitted they're
Speaker 12: having trouble intercepting and the other potential escalation. We've still
Speaker 12: seen the Houthis in Yemen. As far as I understand,
Speaker 12: they haven't entered the war. So that's another escalation option
Speaker 12: for Iran is to get start hitting.
Speaker 1: You would think all the proxies would be activated already,
Speaker 1: so maybe that'll happen down the road.
Speaker 2: I sure hope it doesn't. Dave DeCamp, anti war dot Com,
Speaker 2: Anti War News, thanks so much for joining us. As always,
Speaker 2: Thanks Matt and.
Speaker 1: Coming up with the campaign trail with Paul Dan's who's
Speaker 1: in South Carolina running a spirited campaign against Lindsey Graham,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest cheerleaders of this war.
Speaker 2: Will break down how that race is going next.
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Speaker 1: Ever, at times, we want to understand this war between
Speaker 1: the United States and Iran through the eyes of its
Speaker 1: biggest cheerleaders. As you can tell, we have questions have
Speaker 1: lived through these wars in the Middle East that have
Speaker 1: produced so much death and chaos and damage to people's
Speaker 1: lives Here in the United States.
Speaker 2: The biggest cheerleader.
Speaker 1: By far for attacking almost any country you can throw
Speaker 1: a dart at a map and hit has been Republican
Speaker 1: United States Senator from South Carolina, Lindsay Graham. He's been
Speaker 1: loud and proud about these views. It makes us wonder
Speaker 1: how people in South Carolina are feeling about them, and
Speaker 1: we're going to get a good sense of what that's like.
Speaker 2: Joining us now is.
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five, architect and candidate for the United
Speaker 1: States Senate in South Carolina, challenging Senator Graham Paul Dan's So, Paul,
Speaker 1: I really want to understand from you how voters in
Speaker 1: South Carolina are reacting to their senator being very eager
Speaker 1: to have the United States embroiled in another Middle East
Speaker 1: regime change of war.
Speaker 13: Well, we're very supportive of President Trump. Great to be
Speaker 13: with you, Matt, and we voted him to be our
Speaker 13: commander and chief if he's our president, not Lindsay Graham.
Speaker 13: But you know, Lindsay, he's gone full retard. There's no
Speaker 13: question he's out there calling to send the daughters of
Speaker 13: South Carolina to die in combat in the Middle East.
Speaker 13: That is outrageous. He supports women in combat, and our
Speaker 13: daughters they're going to be going to church and ballet
Speaker 13: here in South Carolina. We are not sending him to
Speaker 13: go kill Christians in Lebanon. So the man, you know,
Speaker 13: I wish you could just blame it on one cosmopolitan
Speaker 13: too many, but he's in a megalomaniac meltdown.
Speaker 1: Well, we don't like name calling here. We prefer to
Speaker 1: look at people's ideas. But I tend to agree with
Speaker 1: you that people aren't exactly walking out of debutante balls
Speaker 1: in South Carolina, eager to be drafted by the United
Speaker 1: States military, as perhaps some of these foreign engagements would require.
Speaker 1: Sentagram also made news by indicating whose side he's on
Speaker 1: when it comes to Israel versus people who have concerns
Speaker 1: these engagements.
Speaker 13: To listen to all the isolations, I don't believe forget it.
Speaker 5: I'm not with you.
Speaker 3: I'm with Israel. I will be with Israel to our
Speaker 3: dying day.
Speaker 2: What do you think he means by that?
Speaker 3: You know, the we again, we.
Speaker 13: Elected President Trump to make these international policy decisions, and
Speaker 13: Lindsay's essentially going around the state implying that he's the
Speaker 13: president of the United States, that he sits in the.
Speaker 2: Era of the president.
Speaker 13: Look, the man left South Carolina thirty two years ago.
Speaker 13: He's lost all charted of where he's from. And you know, he's,
Speaker 13: like he said, he spends every other weekend in Israel,
Speaker 13: whether he needs to or not. I am focused on
Speaker 13: South Carolina. And that's really what this whole race is about.
Speaker 13: People here are really just done with Lindsay. And you know,
Speaker 13: the imputation here is that he's kind of actually soft
Speaker 13: on China. At the end of the day, we're.
Speaker 1: Did you find a country he doesn't want to invade?
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to invade China.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean I think if he ever, that's a
Speaker 13: weird thing. You know, he's been there thirty two years
Speaker 13: and China's the least of the hawk is things he's
Speaker 13: talks about. You know, right now, they're literally moving missile
Speaker 13: batteries out of South Korea to move them to Middle East.
Speaker 13: And that's really dispariting because that's where the ballance of
Speaker 13: the twenty first century is going. But it's actually here
Speaker 13: at home in South Carolina. Believe it or not, there's
Speaker 13: one hundred and forty four thousand acres of farmland owned
Speaker 13: by the Chinese. I'm right here tonight in Manic South Carolina,
Speaker 13: and it's one of the biggest is.
Speaker 2: What are they doing with it?
Speaker 13: Paul, Well, you know, they're getting right by the bases,
Speaker 13: they're right in our food system. This is when I
Speaker 13: get to the US Senate, I'm going to rip that
Speaker 13: property back. We're going to declare that critical infrastructure and
Speaker 13: put it back in the hands of South Carolinians. And
Speaker 13: you know too, we're going to take back Smithfield ham this.
Speaker 13: They should not be in our food chain. We don't
Speaker 13: get to go over to China and on farmland, or
Speaker 13: should they be able to do it here. But we
Speaker 13: need to focus on ourselves for a change. You know,
Speaker 13: these foreign escapades, and we put President Trump in there
Speaker 13: because of the Trump doctrine. It's hit it and quit it.
Speaker 1: We've been Yeah, it doesn't always go that way. Some
Speaker 1: people have the hit it and quitted aspiration and it
Speaker 1: stays around a little longer, Paul. But I want to
Speaker 1: get to the way that this is breaking out by age,
Speaker 1: because we are seeing a lot of younger voters, Republican
Speaker 1: and Democrat, have very different views on this war than
Speaker 1: older voters. Are you making a direct appeal to those
Speaker 1: younger voters who are concerned about this.
Speaker 13: Absolutely. Younger voters want to be able to get out
Speaker 13: of their parents' house. They want to know that they're
Speaker 13: going to have a job in five years after AI.
Speaker 13: This is like they had their friends from high school
Speaker 13: die of opioids that we're talking about. You know, people,
Speaker 13: there's been a mass killing here, a real kind of
Speaker 13: like almost a war on the white population of rural
Speaker 13: South Carolina. So that's what the young folks are They
Speaker 13: do not want to go over and die in the
Speaker 13: Middle East, and the last thing people want to do
Speaker 13: is go kill Christians there, so you know there is
Speaker 13: a great But even older folks begin to say, you know,
Speaker 13: Lindsay's been there too.
Speaker 2: Long, wit who are you alleging is killing Christians?
Speaker 13: Well, Lindsey wants to start bombing Lebanon, and that's the
Speaker 13: most Christian country in the Middle East, So you know
Speaker 13: you're gonna start killing people. We already saw that with
Speaker 13: a parish priest. But when you start, you know, advancing,
Speaker 13: expanding this theater, which is what he wants, this is
Speaker 13: going to very quickly devolve into a religious war.
Speaker 1: Paul Dan's, Republican candidate for the United States Senate, challenging
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham.
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