1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:11,919 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. 4 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,039 Speaker 2: And if you want exclusive. 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 1: Content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my 6 00:00:16,879 --> 00:00:19,239 daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeteclendershow dot com. Make sure you hit the 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,719 smartphone or tablet, And again, thank you so much for 10 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,280 your support. I know I've been doing a lot of 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,079 Israel iron coverage in the last you know, well today 12 00:00:37,119 --> 00:00:40,039 and yesterday. I know, but I kind of feel like 13 00:00:40,079 --> 00:00:44,880 it's important, Like I think everybody thinks this is important. 14 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:48,520 I kind of feel like that. But uh, Trump gave 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,920 him a two week notice, so I feel like in 16 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,439 the next couple of days we'll it'll drift out of 17 00:00:54,439 --> 00:00:57,000 the news cycle except for some updates on you know, 18 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:00,880 what's happening over there. But we got a two week window. 19 00:01:01,039 --> 00:01:03,399 We'll see what happens. Will the Iranians take them up 20 00:01:03,399 --> 00:01:04,359 on the two week window? 21 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 3: Now? 22 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,359 Speaker 2: Just announced at a. 23 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: White House press conference that Donald Trump said he will 24 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:14,200 make a decision in two weeks. Within two weeks, he 25 00:01:14,239 --> 00:01:19,599 said so about whether or not to do anything, I'm 26 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,799 not sure. So you know, to give time for negotiations 27 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,400 or whatever. So I'm going to give them the two weeks, 28 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,200 and in the meantime, you know, you got Israel is 29 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:32,599 going to keep hammering away doing what they're doing. Iran 30 00:01:32,719 --> 00:01:34,640 has a decision to make, is to whether or not 31 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,319 they're going they're going to keep fighting and just let 32 00:01:37,359 --> 00:01:41,719 the two weeks expire and take their chances. You've got 33 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,239 the people of Iran, they got two weeks if they 34 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:45,560 want to try to mobilize. 35 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:47,599 Speaker 2: I mentioned last hour that. 36 00:01:47,519 --> 00:01:52,239 Speaker 1: Their UH state TV was hacked, taken over, and you know, 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,159 UH messages were being sent out via their state TV 38 00:01:56,319 --> 00:01:59,560 to rise up against their uh, their tyrannical government. 39 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: So we'll see if that happens. 40 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: There are a lot of people in around that are 41 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,920 not cool with their government, and they rose up before 42 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,639 a couple of times. The biggest one was under Obama's tenure, 43 00:02:11,719 --> 00:02:16,280 and he just let them all twist, didn't didn't do 44 00:02:16,319 --> 00:02:20,599 anything to help them. So, and I'm not advocating we 45 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,560 do right now, but maybe the ground is more fertile 46 00:02:24,719 --> 00:02:28,000 for them to make a change themselves. 47 00:02:28,479 --> 00:02:31,439 Speaker 2: But that's going to be their call. 48 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:36,439 Speaker 1: So against this backdrop, we have the this argument between 49 00:02:36,759 --> 00:02:38,719 It was built as an interview, but it really wasn't 50 00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:39,000 it was. 51 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:40,280 Speaker 2: It was just an argument. 52 00:02:40,319 --> 00:02:42,879 Speaker 1: It was a It was a fight between Ted Cruz 53 00:02:43,759 --> 00:02:49,599 and Tucker Carlson and go if you want to hear 54 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,599 more of this, I played. I focused more on this 55 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,039 in the first hour, played a couple of clips in 56 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,240 the second hour, and I've got just three more. 57 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 2: Clips here to get through. But this to me. 58 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: Crystallized really the problem inside magaworld Trump administration, and this 59 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:16,479 this rift between what people call the woke right among 60 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:23,759 the MAGA influencers, and people have been predicting this rift 61 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,319 coming for a while with the woke right because and 62 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:31,800 I've talked about this before. Any time you have a 63 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,759 movement or a group of people that you know, win election, 64 00:03:35,919 --> 00:03:40,599 they win power, there are i will call it, I'll 65 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:45,719 just say psychopaths, Okay, sociopaths, malignant narcissists. 66 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: So they will glom onto that movement. They will. 67 00:03:51,639 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: You see this by the way, in churches too, people 68 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,360 who are uh you know, they want power, they want control, 69 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:02,599 they want people to adore them. They will they will 70 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:05,759 seek these positions of power and so they try to 71 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:10,280 get close to power in order to elevate themselves and 72 00:04:09,759 --> 00:04:12,919 their own power, and in doing so, they will adopt 73 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,319 whatever arguments need to be adopted. And that's why people 74 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:21,000 on the left, and we've been talking about this for years, 75 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:27,399 the victim mentality, the use of weaponized empathy. They use 76 00:04:27,439 --> 00:04:30,800 your empathy against you in order to get you to 77 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:32,920 do what they want done, and a lot of it 78 00:04:32,959 --> 00:04:36,160 is about securing more control for them. So there's no 79 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,879 reason why the same thing wouldn't happen on the right. 80 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:44,000 People behave in these ways regardless of political affiliation or ideology. 81 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,959 In fact, psychopaths don't really have any ideology. They'll just 82 00:04:47,040 --> 00:04:49,759 adopt whatever they need to adopt in order to gain power. 83 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,240 So the problem here, to me crystallizes in this next 84 00:04:55,279 --> 00:05:00,360 exchange where Ted Cruz actually asks Tucker Carlson if he 85 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:02,680 supports because he started talking about you know, you know, 86 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,959 you're opposing Donald Trump and whatever, and Tucker's. 87 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: Like, I love Donald Trump. That's my Tuckle Carlson impression. 88 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 1: And so Cruz asked Carlson, well, do you have you 89 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:20,319 supported any any military action that's been taken by Donald Trump? Ever, 90 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:24,079 I would say it's really simple. I believe in self defense. 91 00:05:24,199 --> 00:05:27,360 That's why I keep firearms at home. I think it's 92 00:05:27,519 --> 00:05:33,079 morally justified to defend yourself, your family, your property, your nation, 93 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,199 and so to the extent that you can deter a 94 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,319 threat through violence, violence always being the least appealing choice, 95 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:44,279 violence always being if I can finish, always being a tragedy, 96 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,759 I think you can justify the use of violence and 97 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:48,920 self defense. That that is my personal view, and that 98 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,040 applies to me and to the country. 99 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 3: That I would know. 100 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:53,519 Speaker 4: Those are my views. That's not an isolation his view. 101 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:55,759 It's not any israel view. It's not anti Semitic view, 102 00:05:55,759 --> 00:05:58,720 with apologies, it is I think, a pretty common sense view. 103 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:02,800 But my problem is that lawmakers in Washington are light 104 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:05,680 on detail with these things, and they speak, as you do, 105 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:06,879 entirely in moral terms. 106 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:08,639 Speaker 2: These people are bad, These people are. 107 00:06:08,759 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 5: I'm not speaking entirely in moral terms, undest in killing 108 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,560 people who are trying to kill us if we had 109 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:15,160 that's different. 110 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,639 Speaker 1: He's exactly right by the way. He didn't say the 111 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:21,639 Mullas are bad. He didn't speak in moral terms. He 112 00:06:21,759 --> 00:06:24,920 spoke in terms of Iran is trying to get a 113 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:29,199 nuclear weapon that is a threat to US, Hence, according 114 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:32,680 to Tucker's own standard, that would be morally justified. 115 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 4: Or are you? Are you now? Because you told me 116 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,279 that the government of Iran is presently trying to assassinate 117 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,959 Donald Trump and then said the disputed there's literally no, 118 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,519 Then why don't you say military action right now against Iran? 119 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 3: We are engaged in military action right now. 120 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 4: Why don't you Why don't you support offensive military action. 121 00:06:56,399 --> 00:06:58,959 Speaker 5: We're bombing the crap out on Israelism, We're supporting them 122 00:06:59,079 --> 00:06:59,560 israel Is. 123 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 4: So why shouldn't the US military defend its own president. 124 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:06,879 I don't understand that. Look, now we should get those 125 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:08,720 back to because you don't really believe it's true. 126 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 5: That's why everyone nobody disputes it. Tucker on the Moon? 127 00:07:13,959 --> 00:07:16,000 What other conspiracy do you not believe? Was nine to 128 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:16,920 eleven in Inside Job? 129 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:19,560 Speaker 4: I mean, like, what? So what I've asked you the 130 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:20,439 names of these people? 131 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 3: I don't I know it? 132 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 5: Because the US military and the intelligence agencies have testified 133 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,279 before Congress or peaple what did they say, Iran is 134 00:07:29,319 --> 00:07:32,360 trying to murder Donald Trump and as hired hitmen. 135 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 3: Do I know the name of the hitmen? 136 00:07:33,959 --> 00:07:34,000 Speaker 1: No? 137 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,879 Speaker 5: I'm sorry we do either, because we would apprehend them 138 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:37,639 if we knew their names. 139 00:07:37,639 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 4: Then why take it seriously enough to support killing the 140 00:07:41,319 --> 00:07:43,879 Iyatola in response to protect our president? 141 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:44,959 Speaker 3: But you don't. 142 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,639 Speaker 4: This doesn't make even make any sense, and you're calling 143 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,639 me an isolationist. If I believed that was true, I 144 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,680 would support military action against the government of Iran. 145 00:07:54,839 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 5: Okay, that's interesting because there is literally kill our president 146 00:07:58,720 --> 00:07:59,120 all right. 147 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 3: At a five hundred and third thirty five members of Congress. 148 00:08:02,319 --> 00:08:05,839 Speaker 5: I am not aware of one who disputes that Iran 149 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:07,800 is trying to murder Donald J. 150 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 3: Trump. 151 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:11,279 Speaker 5: That's not even the loneius Democrat doesn't dispute that. So, 152 00:08:11,279 --> 00:08:15,720 so I don't you're saying if if you believed what, 153 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,079 what is I think a. 154 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:19,040 Speaker 4: Fact that they are trying you think it's a fact? 155 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,839 What is the fact exactly what they've hireded them in 156 00:08:21,879 --> 00:08:22,480 the United States? 157 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,639 Speaker 3: Yeah Americans. Yeah, he's not in a RAN, so they 158 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:27,600 haven't hired hit the hitman an American. I don't know. 159 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:28,279 Speaker 2: I do. 160 00:08:29,279 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 5: I'm telling you what And by the way, I'm not 161 00:08:31,839 --> 00:08:33,919 the CIA, I'm not I'm not the Department of Defense. 162 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 3: I'm telling you what they have told us. 163 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 4: I'm not disputing it. I'm merely saying we are. I'm 164 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,679 not I'm saying the logic train has a massive hole 165 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,039 in it. If you believe that's true, then you should 166 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,480 by definition, support killing the people trying to kill our president. 167 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:48,679 Speaker 3: But you don't support that now, Tuckery. 168 00:08:48,759 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 2: So I'm wondering what's going on here. So he's trying 169 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:51,840 to goad. 170 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:58,799 Speaker 1: Cruise into saying we need to attack Iran, we need 171 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:00,240 to drop a bomb on them, we need to do 172 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:02,279 whatever on like, we need to get involved because they 173 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:06,919 tried to kill Trump. But Cruise doesn't take the bait 174 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:12,399 because Israel's already doing this right by the way, Tucker 175 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:16,399 Carlson may not read the news, but in September twenty 176 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:22,360 twenty four from Politico, the Iranian government ordered an operative 177 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,320 to assassinate Donald Trump before the twenty twenty four election, 178 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:33,919 according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, not exactly Trump territory, 179 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:40,080 not exactly Maga territory or Maga country. As a juicy 180 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:46,000 smolet candate. I have the guy's name too. They charged 181 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,919 him with a murder for higher plot. His name is 182 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:57,200 Farhad Shakerri. He's in Iran. He actually gave a statement 183 00:09:57,279 --> 00:10:00,480 to them. But this may surprise you. We don't have 184 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:05,600 extradition agreements with Iran, so they're not sending him. 185 00:10:05,799 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 2: Yeah. 186 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:09,519 Speaker 1: Oh, I've got the story. It's quick Google search, Tucker, 187 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:15,080 and they've done more. Iran's done other things too. There 188 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,639 was an entire write up just the other day by 189 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:21,840 Jerry Dunlevy at justthnews dot com. All right, so spring 190 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:27,360 is here a time of renewal and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, 191 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:29,960 and the special days for mom and dad. Your family's 192 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,960 making memories that are going to last a lifetime. But 193 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,080 let me ask you, are all of those treasured moments 194 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,559 from days gone by? 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He is believed to be in Iran and 212 00:11:41,279 --> 00:11:44,200 remains at large again. 213 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 2: This was November. 214 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:50,320 Speaker 1: In addition to the plot to kill Trump, Shakerri and 215 00:11:50,399 --> 00:11:56,159 two other men, Carlyle Rivera and Jonathan Loadholt, were charged 216 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:59,159 with a separate attempted murder for higher scheme targeting a 217 00:11:59,279 --> 00:12:03,240 US citizen of Iranian origin who has publicly opposed the 218 00:12:03,279 --> 00:12:07,879 Iranian government. According to a criminal complaint unsealed in Manhattan 219 00:12:07,919 --> 00:12:11,559 Federal Court, Shakerri said during an FBI interview that in 220 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,240 September of twenty four he was directed by the Islamic 221 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:21,399 Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran to surveil and then kill Trump, 222 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,840 whom the charging papers identified as Victim four. When Shakri 223 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:30,399 told the Iranian Guard official that doing so would prove expensive, 224 00:12:30,799 --> 00:12:32,679 the official responded. 225 00:12:32,159 --> 00:12:35,159 Speaker 2: Quote, money is not an issue. 226 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,279 Speaker 1: I don't know why. That sounded kind of Russian, but 227 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,519 it was just, you know, on the fly. One month later, 228 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:48,039 October seventh, last year, according to prosecutors, the IRGC ordered 229 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:51,440 Shakerri to put forward a plan to assassinate Trump within 230 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:55,559 one week, and if that proved to be impossible, then 231 00:12:55,600 --> 00:13:01,320 to pause the plan until after election day because the 232 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:08,720 IRGC assumed Trump would lose, and if he lost, he'd 233 00:13:08,759 --> 00:13:14,679 be easier to kill. Sho Kerry is an Afghan national 234 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:20,399 who immigrated to the US as a child. According to 235 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,600 the complaint, he was deported in two thousand and eight 236 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,360 after serving fourteen years in New York State prisons after 237 00:13:28,399 --> 00:13:32,720 a nineteen ninety four conviction for robbery. The complaint described 238 00:13:32,759 --> 00:13:36,519 Sho Kerry as having developed and used a network of 239 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:40,919 criminal associates during his time in prison to quote supply 240 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:47,320 the IRGC with operatives to conduct surveillance and assassinations of 241 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:53,559 IRGC targets. That's who Carlisle Rivera and Jonathan Lodholt were 242 00:13:55,639 --> 00:14:02,000 In August last year, Brooklyn federal prosecutors charged the Pakistani 243 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,639 man suspected of plotting on behalf of Iran to kill 244 00:14:06,759 --> 00:14:11,399 high ranking US politicians or officials, including perhaps Donald Trump. 245 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,279 The man is accused of trying to hire hitmen to 246 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:15,399 carry out the plot. 247 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:22,639 Speaker 2: Those are two that we know of. That we know of. 248 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: And so when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked about 249 00:14:30,879 --> 00:14:34,840 two plots to assassinate Trump that originated out of Iran, 250 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,279 and Tucker Carlson, in this argument with Ted Cruz says, 251 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,440 are they I don't know. 252 00:14:41,399 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 2: Anything about these things? We don't know, then why don't 253 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:44,360 we just bomb them? 254 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: And Cruz does not have all this information at his fingertips. 255 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:53,639 But the idea that Carlson is advancing there is that 256 00:14:54,559 --> 00:14:58,960 Netanyahu is lying to us in order to get us 257 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,919 to fight his war. That's the narrative from the Wolk 258 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:10,639 right that Bibby wants Americans to die for Israel. That's 259 00:15:10,639 --> 00:15:17,159 what they've been saying. And because Carlson either actually is 260 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:22,559 ignorant of this information or he's pretending to be ignorant 261 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:28,799 of this information, he is now beating on Ted Cruz 262 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,840 to try to goad him into advocating boots on the ground, 263 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:42,399 direct offensive action against Iran. So if any world leader 264 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,840 or government attempts to assassinate or even just tries to 265 00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:51,000 set up a plan to assassinate our president Carlson, I 266 00:15:51,039 --> 00:15:53,480 guess what he just said there. We're supposed to believe 267 00:15:53,519 --> 00:15:57,559 that Carlson thinks we need to invade that country and 268 00:15:57,679 --> 00:16:02,960 kill their leadership. Now, and Cruz explained this also that 269 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:07,240 there has for a very long time been this sort 270 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:12,360 of understanding that we don't whack each other's heads of state. 271 00:16:13,279 --> 00:16:18,240 Except the Russians, they don't really abide by that, but 272 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,480 that's been sort of the deal. That's not to say 273 00:16:20,519 --> 00:16:24,840 that governments always followed that, but that's usually been the case. Right, 274 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:28,399 that these world leaders are not assassinated by other governments. 275 00:16:28,759 --> 00:16:31,080 It's like a gentleman's gentlemanly agreement. 276 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:31,399 Speaker 3: Right. 277 00:16:32,759 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: Trump has also been a target of Iran since January 278 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:38,799 of twenty twenty, when as president, he ordered a drone 279 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:44,960 strike that killed Kassan Solomani, then Iran's most powerful military general. 280 00:16:46,799 --> 00:16:53,399 So once again Cruz asks whether or not Tucker Carlson 281 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:59,840 has ever supported any military action that Donald Trump has 282 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,640 limited as they have been. And I listened to this 283 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:12,759 thing twice. Carlson never answers. He never answers. He pivots 284 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:16,799 to some other topic or question. He says he's about results, 285 00:17:17,519 --> 00:17:20,319 and then he turns it to the ISIS in Syria 286 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,160 and you must be fine with that. You're fine with 287 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,319 the ISIS leading Syria, and Cruz is like, I'm not 288 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,440 fine with that. But that's sort of a wait and 289 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,920 see kind of a thing, you know, Like we didn't 290 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:34,559 take out Bashar al Assad. He fell on his own. 291 00:17:34,599 --> 00:17:41,119 He fell after Hesbala was decapitated by Israel. He had 292 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:45,960 no support outside of Hesballah, and once they were decapitated, 293 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,839 they rose up against him and he was out. That's 294 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:50,599 not our fault. 295 00:17:50,799 --> 00:17:52,759 Speaker 2: We didn't do that. Trump didn't do that. 296 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: But somehow or another, because he gets deposed and some 297 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:02,559 ISIS guy takes over and he's letting Israel fly over 298 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:08,400 his airspace to take out the the Iranians, like we're 299 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:13,000 taking away and see approach. But I guess Carlson wants 300 00:18:13,039 --> 00:18:15,839 us to go invade Syria or something. 301 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 2: See what I mean? Like this, he's just he's. 302 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,319 Speaker 1: All over the place except he's very suspicious of Israel, 303 00:18:22,839 --> 00:18:27,000 like that's that's I just I cannot help but notice, 304 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,200 all right, if you're listening to this show, you know 305 00:18:29,279 --> 00:18:31,240 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 306 00:18:31,279 --> 00:18:33,359 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 307 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:37,440 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, 308 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,200 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 309 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:43,440 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, 310 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,839 and it's a website, and it combines news from around 311 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,279 the world in one place so you can compare coverage 312 00:18:49,519 --> 00:18:52,240 and verify information. 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Your subscription then not 323 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,119 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news 324 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,960 as they make the media landscape more transparent. I do 325 00:19:33,039 --> 00:19:34,920 have a bunch of emails I will get to, and 326 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,920 some tweets I will get to. I want to play 327 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:42,400 these last couple of clips though, from the Carlson Cruz argument, 328 00:19:45,599 --> 00:19:48,839 so Israel is taking out the threat of nuclear weapons. 329 00:19:50,359 --> 00:19:57,559 Ted Cruz challenges Tucker Carlson for you know, tell me 330 00:19:57,759 --> 00:20:00,920 you know, name me one military action that you supported 331 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,000 Trump on, and then he said that Carlson attacked Donald 332 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:09,640 Trump and called Trump complicit. That Carlson called Trump complicit 333 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,279 in the war in the Israeli actions, I. 334 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 4: Can tu, yes you have and and by the way, 335 00:20:18,079 --> 00:20:19,200 pained for Donald Trump. 336 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,599 Speaker 3: Yes, this is like after anti. 337 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,039 Speaker 4: Semitism, this is the last refuge. 338 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:26,200 Speaker 3: You're an antisemonin you hate Trump, Okay, I love Trump. 339 00:20:26,319 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 5: I will read you put out a whole newsletter saying 340 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,119 Trump rand in America first. 341 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:31,720 Speaker 3: And here's what Trump said in response. 342 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,839 Speaker 5: Well, considering that I'm the one that developed America first, 343 00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:37,319 and considering that the term wasn't used until I came along, 344 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:39,680 I think I'm the one who decides that for those 345 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,400 people who say they want peace, you can't have peace 346 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,680 if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of 347 00:20:44,759 --> 00:20:48,039 those wonderful people who don't want to do anything about 348 00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:50,440 Iran having a nuclear weapon, that's not peace. 349 00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:51,559 Speaker 3: That was directed at you. 350 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 1: Man. 351 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,799 Speaker 3: This is you got me busted. No, I'm just saying 352 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:56,519 he did. 353 00:20:56,559 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 2: Actually you are. 354 00:20:58,319 --> 00:21:01,880 Speaker 1: He did get you. You are, and your little smirky 355 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,559 dismissiveness about that does not negate that truth. He did. 356 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:10,960 He said you attacked Donald Trump. You said no, I did, 357 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,960 and I love Trump, I campaigned for him. But you 358 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:18,799 also wrote in your newsletter that Trump abandoned America First, 359 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:23,440 which prompted Trump to respond to you saying, I created 360 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:27,920 America First. I'm you know, the America First guy. I'm 361 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,720 the leader of this movement, not you, Tucker or any 362 00:21:30,759 --> 00:21:34,920 of these other Wolke Wright influencers. He didn't use the 363 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:39,640 term wolk right, but and so Tucker was in fact 364 00:21:39,759 --> 00:21:42,960 busted and had no explanation for this. 365 00:21:43,519 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm my views. 366 00:21:45,079 --> 00:21:46,559 Speaker 3: Look, I like Trump. 367 00:21:46,559 --> 00:21:48,119 Speaker 2: I can't paign for Trump. I know Trump. I talked 368 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:48,839 to him last night. 369 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,839 Speaker 3: Not against Trump, and you know that. I but you're 370 00:21:51,839 --> 00:21:52,640 against this football. 371 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:56,680 Speaker 4: I think that we should be very careful about entering 372 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,519 into more foreign wars that don't help us when our 373 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:05,279 country is dying. Is dying, all right, So there's another pivot. 374 00:22:06,319 --> 00:22:09,640 We should be very careful about entering into foreign wars. Again, 375 00:22:10,279 --> 00:22:12,920 Trump has not said we're going to war with Iran. 376 00:22:13,039 --> 00:22:17,880 He's not said that. He's he's supporting Israel in what 377 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:19,039 it's doing. 378 00:22:19,559 --> 00:22:24,400 Speaker 2: Through what words, but also. 379 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:32,279 Speaker 1: Replenishment of the munitions to shoot out of the sky 380 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:38,039 the incoming Iranian missiles. So is that going to war? 381 00:22:38,519 --> 00:22:42,799 We're selling them the bombs or the the the arrows 382 00:22:42,839 --> 00:22:46,319 in David's sling and the iron dome thing, right, because 383 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:51,720 they are running out because Iran is launching so many 384 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,039 of these missiles over into Israel, killing Israeli's they're targeting 385 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:02,000 residential sections of Israel. So that's what we have provided help. 386 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:06,960 We are sending uh we sent a carrier into the 387 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:12,519 area because because Israel is what is our ally right Again, 388 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:14,839 I said in the very beginning of the program, I said, 389 00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,720 if you want to make an argument that Israel should 390 00:23:17,759 --> 00:23:22,319 not be our ally, well that's a different argument. But 391 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,599 because we are allies, we are supporting them, but we 392 00:23:27,640 --> 00:23:29,680 are not We have not put boots on the ground, 393 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,160 we have not flown any combat missions over Iran. We 394 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,759 haven't done anything like that. Now that's going to be 395 00:23:36,759 --> 00:23:39,000 for Trump to decide whether or not we give them 396 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,319 one of these bunker bustin bombs and the B two 397 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,799 crew and the plane to fly over and actually do 398 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:49,480 the bombing run. That's a that's the second level question. 399 00:23:51,079 --> 00:23:54,000 The first level question is is it in our interest 400 00:23:54,559 --> 00:24:00,920 to make sure that their weapons program is eliminated? Right, 401 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,039 and Tucker lays out this false choice that we can 402 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:05,680 only do one thing or the other. 403 00:24:06,799 --> 00:24:07,279 Speaker 2: That's it. 404 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,839 Speaker 1: If you're if you're going to support Israel in their 405 00:24:11,039 --> 00:24:14,480 fight against Iran, then that means you can't focus on, 406 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,960 you know, cleaning up the streets in these left wing cities, 407 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,519 and that's that's not that's not the choice. There are 408 00:24:21,599 --> 00:24:24,319 way more options available. People can do more than one thing, 409 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:25,880 The government can do more than one thing. 410 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,559 Speaker 2: It's a false choice. I reject the line of argument 411 00:24:29,559 --> 00:24:30,119 that he's using. 412 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 5: I want to stop a lunatic who wants to murder 413 00:24:35,759 --> 00:24:38,839 us from getting nuclear weapon could kill millions of Americans. 414 00:24:39,519 --> 00:24:42,519 You say, I can't see how that benefits American anyway. 415 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:47,039 That is bizarre and by the way, isolationism. Your foreign 416 00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:49,599 policy is the foreign policy of Jimmy Carter and Barack 417 00:24:49,599 --> 00:24:50,440 Obama and. 418 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,359 Speaker 3: It doesn't work. Yeah, I'm a big leftist. 419 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 4: This is so silly. And now I'm Jimmy Carter and 420 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,920 Barack Obama. Okay, he didn't let me just see one 421 00:24:57,960 --> 00:24:58,319 less thing. 422 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 5: So how is your foreign policy different from Jimmy cartersh 423 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,880 that's what he said, seriously, please, but I mean I 424 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,039 asked that question seriously. 425 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:09,599 Speaker 3: I don't even know what you're talking about, Jimmy Carter. 426 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,559 So what century is this? 427 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,599 Speaker 2: I am? 428 00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 1: So he doesn't answer the question. Either he doesn't know 429 00:25:17,079 --> 00:25:20,160 Jimmy Carter's foreign policy, or he knows and he knows 430 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,839 that his is very similar, which is exactly what Ted 431 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:27,880 Cruz is saying. But he doesn't want that label, so 432 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,279 he just O, it's just, oh my god, Okay, that's 433 00:25:30,279 --> 00:25:30,759 so silly. 434 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 2: I'm not even going to answer it, which is an answer. 435 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 4: The product of the last twenty five years watching carefully 436 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,799 being involved in the periphery, and I see an unending 437 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,480 string of foreign policy disasters that have impoverished in. 438 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:44,640 Speaker 3: Her unending string. 439 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:49,519 Speaker 4: An unending string, they would include Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, 440 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:52,079 and our inability to stop the Hoothies by the way 441 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,160 in Yemen, which exposes us as we can I grieve 442 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,720 over that. So these are failures you help preside over 443 00:25:57,759 --> 00:26:00,200 some of them as a member of the Senate. Of 444 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,799 what failures for policy failures have I presided on? Well, 445 00:26:03,839 --> 00:26:06,119 we were unable to beat Russia in the war that 446 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,880 you supported against Russia. 447 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,279 Speaker 1: The war against Russia. Yeah, Ted Cruz initially supported the 448 00:26:13,319 --> 00:26:16,160 first round of funding and then has opposed every round since. 449 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,359 But he immediately then pivots to Russia, and then it 450 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,240 goes off on the Russia Ukraine thing. Here's a great idea. 451 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,119 How about making an escape to a really special and 452 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,359 secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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So doesn't make any sense taking 475 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:45,720 out a person after losing elections, but taking out because 476 00:27:45,759 --> 00:27:48,160 this is on solomony that the Iranian said, will wait 477 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,319 until after the election, he'll be easier to kill, and 478 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,559 this person is saying it doesn't make any sense to 479 00:27:53,599 --> 00:27:55,799 take him out after the election. It does because it's 480 00:27:55,839 --> 00:28:02,680 in retribution for whacking Solomoni Amy in Wonderland says, Tucker 481 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:05,440 just alienated the vast majority of his audience to pander 482 00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:07,880 to the lunatic fringe. I hope he enjoys his new 483 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:13,400 found obscurity. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe maybe he did, 484 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,480 maybe he didn't. I don't know what his audience, you know, 485 00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:20,839 looks like. Jim says, this is a peat meal. Jim says, 486 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:24,039 why can't the US lease the B two stealth bomber 487 00:28:24,079 --> 00:28:27,079 to Israel? Israel puts its name on the plane, flies 488 00:28:27,079 --> 00:28:29,359 it with its pilot and crew. The US sells the 489 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,720 bunk or buster bomb and devices to Israel. 490 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:32,640 Speaker 2: Done. 491 00:28:32,839 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 1: There must be something more to it that prevents the 492 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,440 US from doing this. Russia, China, et al sell their 493 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,000 military devices to other countries all the time. Jim that 494 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,359 that may be away. They go, I'm not sure they 495 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,680 would let the Israelis fly the B two. I think 496 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,880 that's something that our that our pilots need to fly, 497 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,960 you know, but maybe they can. Maybe they taken Israeli 498 00:28:56,519 --> 00:29:01,440 pilot crew up with them, right they and then so 499 00:29:01,519 --> 00:29:04,559 they fly it over and then they have the Israelis 500 00:29:04,599 --> 00:29:07,519 like take the controls just for the bombing part. I 501 00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:10,519 don't know, but no, I suggested this, suggested this the 502 00:29:10,559 --> 00:29:13,039 other day, like, hey, can we loan them the thing? 503 00:29:13,079 --> 00:29:14,640 I like, yeah, we could lease it to them. Get 504 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,799 some money from him. Dennis says, my voice impersonation of 505 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,799 Tucker Chatsworth Carlson is excellent. Thank you, Dennis. 506 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,359 Speaker 2: This is from Mark. Tucker is sharp. 507 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,599 Speaker 1: I don't always agree with him, but he's logical and 508 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,680 is well reasoned. Dude has done debates for decades, not 509 00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:40,519 just radio slash TV monologues. Okay, yeah, I don't know. 510 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:43,640 I don't know if that's a dig at me or not. 511 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,920 I think I'm pretty good at debates too. If that 512 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,880 was a dig at me, I mean I'm not awesome 513 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,440 at it. But as I said earlier in the first hour, 514 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:54,200 if you hadn't if you didn't listen to the first hour, 515 00:29:54,559 --> 00:29:57,599 I pointed out that Cruz is better when he's got 516 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,440 a clock or he's alone on a stage, and this 517 00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:03,240 was so this was not a good format for him. 518 00:30:03,319 --> 00:30:05,559 Part of that is his delivery as well. And he's 519 00:30:05,559 --> 00:30:07,079 a senator. He's been a senator for a long time, 520 00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:09,519 and you tend to start speaking in this Senate ease 521 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,880 kind of delivery, like John F. Kerry who served in Vietnam. 522 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:18,880 As I recall anyway, Number two, Mark says he knows 523 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,599 the answer before he asks the questions. I totally agree 524 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,839 with you on that. That's why they're all leading questions. 525 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,119 And when he says I'm just asking questions, he's not 526 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,799 just asking questions. He's trying to lead to a conclusion 527 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,839 for the Gatcha and Cruz won't play the game, and 528 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,839 that's why they started fighting. In the case of Cruz, 529 00:30:38,279 --> 00:30:41,559 he just wanted Cruz to state his view slash position 530 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,359 of why we attack slash support Israel like anyone else. 531 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:49,839 Cruz did say that again, the first order question is 532 00:30:50,599 --> 00:30:54,240 do we allow Israel or sorry, is it in our 533 00:30:54,319 --> 00:30:59,640 national interest to let Israel take out the nuclear program? 534 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:06,559 I say yes, Ted Cruz said yes. Tucker Carlson, I guess, 535 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:14,039 says no. I disagree. Ted Cruz made that perfectly clear. 536 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,480 We are not attacking. We are supporting Israel because it 537 00:31:17,599 --> 00:31:21,720 is our ally and Iran is our enemy. 538 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 2: Very clear. 539 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 1: They've been our enemy for a very long time now. 540 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:27,359 Maybe you don't want Iran to be our enemy, but 541 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,960 they really don't like us. As I mentioned, they sent 542 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:35,400 assassination teams into America to try to whack a number 543 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,720 of people, including Donald Trump. Finally, Cruse is also in 544 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:42,559 the neo con class liberty score of B. Not as 545 00:31:42,599 --> 00:31:45,400 bad as Lindsey Graham, but a lot of mouth. And 546 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,920 so this is the irony. Ted Cruz voted against the 547 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:51,039 Iraq War. He was or didn't vote against it. He 548 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:56,880 opposed the Iraq War along with Donald Trump and Ran 549 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,480 Paul they were the candidates in twenty fifteen. 550 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:00,240 Speaker 2: That's dead. 551 00:32:00,559 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: They opposed the Iraq War. And now he's a neocon. 552 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,039 But Carlson who supported the Iraq War and now says 553 00:32:08,039 --> 00:32:13,440 that was a mistake, he's not an eocon. My two cents, personally, 554 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,480 I would lend them the bunk or busters and planes 555 00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:18,440 needed to fly them if needed, and let them cook. 556 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 3: Right. 557 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, Like this seems to be the obvious answer that 558 00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:24,079 I keep getting is why don't we just let Israel 559 00:32:24,119 --> 00:32:26,559 borrow the plane in the bomb or just or rent 560 00:32:26,599 --> 00:32:28,599 it or sell it to them and let them do it. 561 00:32:29,039 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 2: And maybe that's where this goes. I don't know. 562 00:32:33,319 --> 00:32:35,799 Speaker 1: Bill says, I don't have Twitter, so it's not a 563 00:32:35,839 --> 00:32:39,000 pete tweet it's a peat meal. I know you've talked 564 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,599 about it, but where are all the folks that need 565 00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,200 to be talking about Obama and Biden setting this up. 566 00:32:43,359 --> 00:32:47,920 Cruz did actually go in depth on that during this interview, 567 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,839 specifically enabling the Iranians to be where they are, and 568 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,480 has anybody asked Joe or Barack or their folks people 569 00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:56,160 what they think about all of this, by the way, 570 00:32:56,279 --> 00:32:57,759 or they are posed they want us to go back 571 00:32:57,799 --> 00:33:02,079 to the JCPOA. We need to rein reinstitute the deal 572 00:33:02,119 --> 00:33:06,279 with the Iranians because it works so well according to them. 573 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:09,480 By the way, I listen to your podcast every morning 574 00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:11,480 on my walk to catch up on the pieces that 575 00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:12,119 I may have missed. 576 00:33:12,119 --> 00:33:14,119 Speaker 2: Well, thank you, I appreciate that. Bill. 577 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,240 Speaker 1: We are available on all of the podcasting platforms, even 578 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,839 the ones that aren't around anymore. Seth says, I wouldn't 579 00:33:22,839 --> 00:33:25,759 be surprised if the delay happening right now with Trump's 580 00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:28,640 stance is due to the thousands of Iranians that came 581 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:33,359 across the border where the gate was welded open. The 582 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,440 bill oh that Bill Malugin from Fox News found at 583 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,079 the southern border, there will already sleeper sales here that 584 00:33:39,119 --> 00:33:43,359 they need to neutralize first. That's a very a that's 585 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,039 a rational theory, right. We don't know who has come in. 586 00:33:47,119 --> 00:33:49,400 Tom Holman has talked about this. You have so many 587 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:50,680 people that came across the border. 588 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:51,319 Speaker 2: We don't know. 589 00:33:52,279 --> 00:33:54,759 Speaker 1: We don't know if there are sleeper cells. We have 590 00:33:54,799 --> 00:33:59,720 to assume there are. John wants to know if Tucker 591 00:33:59,759 --> 00:34:02,799 carl And graduated from the Michael Moore School of insinuation. 592 00:34:06,359 --> 00:34:08,280 Thomas says, let me go on record, I love your show, 593 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,880 but don't always agree with you. That's totally fine, Tom. 594 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,519 It may be eighty five percent to fifteen percent. I 595 00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:17,400 don't know if that's agree or disagree. But anyway, as 596 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,239 you know, many in DC have changed their opinion slash 597 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,039 appreciation of Trump. Power and money always has a way 598 00:34:23,079 --> 00:34:25,599 of changing things. But we know that Israel has a 599 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:28,800 lot of influence with people like Cruise. See again, you 600 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,639 don't know that Ted Cruz had these beliefs before he 601 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:38,559 came to office. So to make that kind of assertion, 602 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,480 show me where he changed his views. 603 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,679 Speaker 2: He didn't. He's always he came in with these views. 604 00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:50,840 Speaker 1: Carlson may be asking the questions we need to ask 605 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,880 before we go off blindly off to war. I don't 606 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,480 think anybody's doing that. We seem to have time before 607 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,920 we get involved. For twenty five years and billions of dollars, 608 00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,880 we have been hearing that Iran is working towards a 609 00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:03,440 let's ask questions. No, I'm saying, you can ask questions, 610 00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,960 but you can't. You can't ignore the answers when you 611 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,599 ask them. And I went over this yesterday, the idea 612 00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:11,920 that like, oh, they've been saying that they're close to 613 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:16,280 a nuke for twenty years. Yes, they have been, and 614 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,639 the IAEA just centered them like two weeks ago. So 615 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,480 the reason why they haven't achieved it yet is because 616 00:35:22,559 --> 00:35:25,000 Israel keeps knocking them out, but they keep making more 617 00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:28,000 and more progress, and so they saw their shot and 618 00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:28,679 they're taking it. 619 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,800 Speaker 2: That's the answer to your question. All right, that'll do 620 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,000 it for this episode. 621 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,079 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 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