WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.040 Good morning from South Dakota. Welcome back Dragon. I don't 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:04.919 know if Michael told you, but I was on vacation 3 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:07.919 last week. Also, everyone, have a great day. 4 00:00:08.759 --> 00:00:12.240 You're you're retired, aren't you. Aren't you always on vacation? 5 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:16.920 I mean, congratulations. If you were on vacation, I hope 6 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:18.960 you enjoyed it. But so every day. 7 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:23.160 My complain about our friend over there in the bad 8 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:29.079 Lands is that when he left for vacation, every day 9 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:33.039 we got a new talk back from well, now I'm 10 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:37.479 in you know, Amarillo, and now I'm in Oklahoma City 11 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:40.359 or Tulsa, and now I'm in I don't know, Nashville 12 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:43.079 or where the hell it was, and then went to silent, 13 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:45.159 and then all of a sudden, I was like, I'm 14 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:50.000 back home. Hmm, what were you doing in the meantime? 15 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:51.719 Secret missions? 16 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:52.520 Secret mission? 17 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:54.920 Yeah, which is happened to coincide with some of the 18 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.039 planning for this very true, you know, kind of wonder 19 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:05.159 kind of when what's going on? A quick recap of yesterday. 20 00:01:05.959 --> 00:01:10.280 So the Vice President JD. Vans appeared on both Meet 21 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:14.640 the Press and this Week Well George Stepanah love love Us. 22 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:19.239 He embodied the deliberate calm of a man who knows 23 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:24.480 that the world just shifted in America's favor. There's a 24 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:29.840 recalibration going on ever since news, ever since. You know, 25 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:35.840 it was funny because Saturday evening or frid sorry, Friday evening. Uh, 26 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.959 I'm kind of like, uh, I want to I want 27 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:42.480 to stay up and you know, because you know I 28 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.359 always go to Betterarly, I want to know what Trump says. 29 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:51.280 Three minutes and thirty five seconds. Bam bam, Thank you 30 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:56.239 ma'am Internet, Here's what we did. Good night, God bless America. 31 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:05.400 Van emphasized that the strike was not a prelude to war, 32 00:02:05.519 --> 00:02:09.680 but the opposite, that it was a calculated disruption of 33 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:16.000 a regime's most dangerous ambitions. He told Kristen Welker, I'll 34 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.400 meet the press that we are not at war with Iran. 35 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:23.560 We destroyed the Iranian nuclear program, and we did it 36 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.520 without endangering the lives of American pilots. 37 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:28.719 Now that's not bluster. 38 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:34.960 Again, that's the strategic precision that I'm so impressed with 39 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:40.439 the strikes. Seven B two stealth bombers operating under this 40 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.800 veil of operational silence so complete that not even the 41 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:48.919 seasoned analysts knew they left Missouri until after they had 42 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:53.680 reached Guam. Those that were going westward to be a decoy, 43 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.960 the target Ferdeaux Natans Isfahan. Those are the three crown 44 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.520 jewels of Ram's weapons program, all you know, embedded deep 45 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:09.199 within those mountains, and yet we hit them with surgical 46 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:14.719 accuracy using the GBU fifty seven AB massive ordnance penetrators, 47 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:16.240 the MOPS. 48 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:18.719 You know, I find it kind of interesting. 49 00:03:18.759 --> 00:03:22.199 We've got all this new language and I hear people 50 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:25.439 talking all the time. It was kind of funny because 51 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:28.240 I think maybe it was Saturday I use the term 52 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:32.719 bunker buster, and or maybe as I mean way it 53 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.280 was on the program, it was on X and only 54 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.680 people that don't know really what they are refer to 55 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:42.199 them as bunker busters. Well, you can find all sorts 56 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.639 of military people that refer to them as bunker busters. 57 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:47.280 But now we know they're GBU fifty seven A and 58 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:56.000 B also mops, massive ordnance penetrators insert sexual joke. There 59 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.759 no civilian casualties, no boots on the ground, no room 60 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.000 for Tehran to pretend that it was caught unaware. Vance 61 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:08.919 put it very plainly and simply, Iran had been playing 62 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:13.439 for time. They were hoping to bluff delay. They just 63 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:18.920 simply wanted to outlast another administration. But the Trump administration 64 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.160 Trump two point zero is not interested at all in 65 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:28.000 performative art diplomacy. Vance said, we didn't blow up the diplomacy. 66 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:31.600 The diplomacy was never given a real chance by the Iranians. 67 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:37.279 That is a factually true statement. Steve Whitcoff has been 68 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.480 over in Cutter or Oman or wherever these talks have 69 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:43.360 been going on, sitting around, waiting and waiting and waiting, 70 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:45.439 and you know, getting dragged along. In fact, he told Trump, 71 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:50.480 We're just they're just dragging us along. And then as 72 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:54.839 soon as the operation was over, Trump emphasized, would we'd 73 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.600 still like to negotiate? Of course, I know they won't. 74 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:05.319 But that thing diplomacy had failed, not because of lack 75 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:10.279 of American patients, but because of iragn and duplicity. And 76 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:12.800 that was echoed by Secretary of Saint Marco Rubio when 77 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.920 he went on Face the Nation and Sunday Morning Futures 78 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:21.839 with Maria Bartiromo. Iran had buried centrifuges beneath three hundred 79 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:28.879 feet of rock for a reason, and predictably, everything that 80 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:35.000 was discussed on face the nation. She tried, Margaret Brendan did. 81 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:39.360 She tried every which way she could to try to 82 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.680 convince her audience. I guess then, no, no, no, no, let's 83 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:47.360 not what happened at all. Oh that's precisely what happened. 84 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:49.000 Take a listen. 85 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:52.519 Are you saying there that the United States did not 86 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:57.879 see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization. 87 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:02.199 Order it I think that question being asked in the media, 88 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:03.319 that's any rolevant. 89 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.000 Question in US intelligence assessment. 90 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:09.800 You know it's not. Yes it was. I know that 91 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:11.399 better than you know that, and I know that that's 92 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:12.000 not the case. 93 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:17.560 But whether I love this, I have to say I 94 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:20.920 told Dragon, you know, we have to have those damn 95 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:24.120 pre production meetings again. Just drives me crazy. Oh my god, 96 00:06:24.399 --> 00:06:26.079 he came in here. You know you wanted to. He 97 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:28.079 wanted to sit and talk and chat, you know, tell 98 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.040 me about everything he does. Like, oh my god, just 99 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:37.399 shut up. But anyway, I said to him, Marco Rubio 100 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.759 has literally turned in to be I think one of 101 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:45.399 the best Secretary of States that this country has ever had. 102 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:48.759 Listen again, I love this. 103 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.519 Margaret Brennan is trying to make the argument that well, 104 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:55.360 wait a minute, what about weaponization? Well what does the 105 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:00.360 word weaponization mean? Which Rupio will go on to explain 106 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:05.759 why she's she's using language that doesn't mean anything. And 107 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:09.000 as he points out, when she says, well we know 108 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.360 he don't know. You do not know, and if you 109 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.360 do know, I want to know how you know, because 110 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.240 this is intelligence that I have that you do not have. 111 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:20.639 Are you saying there that the United States did not 112 00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:25.800 see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization order? 113 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:30.399 That's irrelevant. I think that question being asked in the media. 114 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.240 That's an irrelevant question me. 115 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:34.240 In US intelligence assessment. 116 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:36.720 You know, no, it's not. Yes, it was that political. 117 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:39.120 I know that better than you know that, and I 118 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.920 know that that's not the case. But no, it's not. 119 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.279 No, it's not No, I know that better than you do. 120 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:47.560 And I'm telling you know, it's not. 121 00:07:48.519 --> 00:07:50.720 Whether the order was given, and the people will say 122 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.240 that it doesn't matter the order was given. They have 123 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:55.879 everything they need to build nuclear weapons. Why would you bury? 124 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:58.199 Why would you bury things in a mountain three hundred 125 00:07:58.199 --> 00:08:00.560 feet under the ground. Why would you bury? Why do 126 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:02.920 they have sixty percent in rich uranium? You don't need 127 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:04.959 sixty percent and rich area. The only countries in the 128 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:08.000 world that have uranium at sixty percent are countries that 129 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.879 have nuclear weapons, because they can quickly make it ninety 130 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:12.360 they have all the elements they have. 131 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.120 Why are they why do they have a space program? 132 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:15.519 Is a ron going to go to the moon? No, 133 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:17.079 they're trying to build an ICBM. 134 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:17.959 But that's a question. 135 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.480 That's a question, that's a question of intent. And you 136 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:23.560 know in the intelligence assessment that it was that Iran 137 00:08:23.680 --> 00:08:26.720 wanted to be a threshold. See you use those I'm 138 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:28.800 talking on what the intelligence marches. 139 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:30.160 How do you know. 140 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:35.639 What the intelligence assessment says? You know, sometimes Margaret Brennan 141 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:39.840 I think is a maybe she's into S and M 142 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.759 or something, because she goes on and she just gets 143 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.559 beat ooh vestment. 144 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:48.200 And that's why I was asking you if you know 145 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:49.200 something more from it? 146 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:53.440 That's inaccurate representation of it. That's an accurate representation of it. 147 00:08:53.519 --> 00:08:56.279 That's not how intelligence is read, that's not how intelligence 148 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:58.759 is used. Here's what the whole world knows. I forget 149 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.360 about intelligence. But the IAEA knows they are enriching uranium 150 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.000 well beyond anything you need for. 151 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.799 A civil nuclear program. 152 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:11.200 So why would you enrich uranium at sixty percent, right, 153 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:12.759 if you don't intend to one day use it to 154 00:09:12.759 --> 00:09:13.679 take it to ninety and. 155 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:14.240 Build a weapon. 156 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:17.679 Why are you developing ICBMs. Why do you have eight 157 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.679 thousand short range missiles in two to three thousand long 158 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.440 mid range missiles that you continue to develop. 159 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:24.960 Why do you do all these things? 160 00:09:25.159 --> 00:09:27.240 I have to everything they need for a nuclear weapon. 161 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.120 They have the delivery mechanisms, they have the enrichment capability, 162 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:31.159 they have the highly. 163 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:32.240 Enriched uranium that is stored. 164 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.120 That's all we need to see, right, Well has the 165 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:38.639 regime that's already involved in terrorism and proxies and all 166 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:39.440 kinds of things around. 167 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:40.200 They are the source of all. 168 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.840 Yes, and no one's disputing. No one's disputing that. I'm 169 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:45.240 not doing that here. And they were censured at the 170 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:49.720 IAEA for that enrichment and for violating their non proliferation agreements. 171 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:52.759 I was simply asking if we had intelligence that there 172 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.399 was an order to weaponize, because you said weapon is 173 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:56.399 z See. 174 00:09:56.840 --> 00:09:58.240 She does not get it at all. 175 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.159 She's so focused on her talking that you know her 176 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.840 producers have put in front of her that she cannot 177 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.679 She's not listening to what he says, her question is 178 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:12.039 essentially this, how do you know that the Ayatola gave 179 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:17.000 the order to weaponize? And Rubio's pointing out, that's not 180 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:23.600 the question. It's not about an order to weaponize. They're weaponizing. 181 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:27.879 That's why they have uranium at sixty percent and in 182 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:30.480 just a day they can make it to ninety percent. 183 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:34.799 Why I love the fact about why are they building ICBMs? 184 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.080 Are they building rockets because they want to go to 185 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.879 the moon? No, because they want to put a warhead 186 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:44.639 on top of it. The order for if you want 187 00:10:44.679 --> 00:10:48.320 to play this kind of semantics, the order for weaponization 188 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:53.360 was done years ago when the Iatola said let's start up, 189 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:59.440 let's start a military nuclear weapons program. And so they 190 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:04.080 turned to North Korea to start getting advisors and getting help. 191 00:11:04.120 --> 00:11:06.519 And they build the program, and they start enriching the 192 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.879 ury uranium, they start building the rockets so that they 193 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.639 can deliver the warheads. They start doing all those things. 194 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:15.080 The order was given long long time ago. Sweet are 195 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:17.480 they if you want to argue that, But his point 196 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.240 is that's not how we assess things. We assess things 197 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.279 of Okay, they're doing this, this, this and this, and 198 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:26.080 when you add up this this, this. 199 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:26.360 And this. 200 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:33.039 It equals a military grade Nike your weapon. So that's 201 00:11:33.080 --> 00:11:36.879 all we need to know. Now, if she had asked, 202 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.039 did he give the order to launch? Might be an 203 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:46.399 entirely different question. It's just the media, the cabal is 204 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:48.399 just you know, for those that don't listen to them. 205 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:53.240 Remember I talked about on Friday and I talked about 206 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:57.759 it again on Saturday. How now, with artificial intelligence, it's 207 00:11:57.799 --> 00:12:00.639 just hard to believe anything that you not just read. 208 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.039 But now it's hard to believe almost anything that you see. Well, 209 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:11.639 it's not artificial intelligence in this case. But I don't know. 210 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:14.840 I mean, I understand why, because everybody inside the Beltway 211 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.200 wants to know who's on the Sunday shows and what 212 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:21.360 they say. And it's just it's just like a little sorority. 213 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.080 They just all have to say who's on today and 214 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:26.200 who's saying what? And you know, who's going to get 215 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:28.759 their hat handed to them. And this is the opportunity 216 00:12:28.759 --> 00:12:34.200 for the networks to really try to expose their biases. 217 00:12:34.279 --> 00:12:38.240 And that's precisely what she's doing here. She has no clue, 218 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:41.080 She truly has no clue what she's talking about because 219 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.000 she's so blinded by her ideology that she can't see that. Oh, 220 00:12:45.080 --> 00:12:48.960 there's a lot lot bigger picture going on here than 221 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:51.759 a technical question of whether or not the Iyatola has 222 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:55.320 given an order to weaponize. That's not even the question. 223 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:05.240 So go back to just well, let me just say this. Predictably, 224 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:10.320 the press is going to try to recast this operation 225 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:16.159 as an escalation on our part. But when you look 226 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:22.960 at the historical context, it's unambiguous. Every administration since Ronald 227 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:27.039 Reagan has tried to cajole Iran with carrots and avoid 228 00:13:27.080 --> 00:13:29.759 the stick. And what have we gotten as a result 229 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:36.320 of that? Now, don't closs over this. What have we 230 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:43.120 gotten from every president who has tried to cajole do 231 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:48.879 whatever they could beg Please borrow, bend over backwards, reach 232 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:51.639 down and bend over and grab your ankles everything. 233 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:52.799 What have we gotten? 234 00:13:54.200 --> 00:14:00.639 Hamas has the law, the hoothy militias, a shadow empire 235 00:14:00.679 --> 00:14:04.600 of terrorism that is all funded by Tehran, from the 236 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:09.399 all of Beirut to the marine barracks in Beirut to 237 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:14.120 the rocket pads in Gaza. Iran has never paid a 238 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:21.399 price for this conduct until now. So for me, Ruvio 239 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:25.559 was seasoned, He was sharp and he was unequivocal. They 240 00:14:25.600 --> 00:14:29.320 thought they could do with President Trump what they've done 241 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:31.559 with presidents in the past and get away with it. 242 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:36.120 And they found out last night that they cannot. So 243 00:14:36.200 --> 00:14:38.240 I kind of put the critics of the president in 244 00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:44.080 two very predictable camps. The first are the Beltway moralizers 245 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.519 who continue to pretend that Iran is just some misunderstood 246 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:52.320 power whose calls for genocide are just rhetorical. Go to 247 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:57.919 Israel sometime, watch the as I have watched the rockets 248 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.559 being launched from Gaza, and then tell me it's just rhetorical. 249 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:05.840 The second, which I think is even more cynical, is 250 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:15.559 a class of permanent Washington bureaucrats, politicos, k Street consultants, everybody, 251 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:21.480 who see every single military maneuver as an opportunity to 252 00:15:21.559 --> 00:15:25.759 somehow rehabilitate their own sagging legacies. And I think both 253 00:15:25.759 --> 00:15:30.519 groups are entirely wrong. Trump, unlike Bush or Obama, is 254 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:34.440 not nation building, and he's certainly not appeasing. What is 255 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:38.919 he doing. He's engaging in deterrence, and this deterrence is 256 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:43.399 not rhetorical and it is not conditional. And Vance drove 257 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:49.360 that point home when he appeared on Stephanopolopolis's program when 258 00:15:49.399 --> 00:15:51.799 he said, we did not attack the nation of Iran, 259 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:55.639 We did not attack any civilian targets, we did not 260 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:01.120 even attack military targets outside of the three nuclear webs facilities. 261 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:03.639 And that distinction matters. 262 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:10.200 It's the difference between just war, I don't mean just 263 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:14.480 just like just war, just simply war, and reckless engagement. 264 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.879 That's probably a hallmark of what you know. I refer 265 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.720 to Trump two point zero. Maybe we ought to refer 266 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:27.320 to Trump Doctrine two point zero. No nation building, no entanglements, 267 00:16:27.480 --> 00:16:29.600 but no appeasement, just results. 268 00:16:31.559 --> 00:16:32.720 And so what happens. 269 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.200 Next, well, Rubio pointed that out. That's going to depend 270 00:16:36.320 --> 00:16:38.519 well let me quote him. It will depend on what 271 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:43.720 Iran chooses to do next. It's up to them. And 272 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:46.799 the President has made clear that if ron wants diplomacy, 273 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:51.159 he's got that door wide open. And he's also said, 274 00:16:51.240 --> 00:16:54.399 but if you choose escalation, then we stand ready to 275 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:58.159 respond with the same degree of clarity and precision. 276 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:59.759 But to do what. 277 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:07.680 To protect our assets, to protect our people, our citizens, 278 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:12.759 and our military personnel. So if you choose to escalate 279 00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:16.720 and you come after us, they'll be holy hell to pay. 280 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:22.680 So don't ignore the broader strategic message, and that is 281 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.359 the strike reminds the world that the United States under 282 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.720 Trump does not negotiate with threats, doesn't tolerate regimes who 283 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.400 use diplomacy as a cover for uranium enrichment. And it 284 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:38.119 also reminds our allies Israel, George, Egypt in the oppolent 285 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:43.240 that American strength is once again credible, and it reminds 286 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:47.359 our adversaries that the air of multilateral drift is over. 287 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.079 I don't know why Democrats would be so upset about 288 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:53.920 Trump's actions with Iran look to me to be mostly 289 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:56.359 a peaceful bombing. 290 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:02.480 I love this audience. I forgot it. 291 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:06.519 I forget where I heard this, but I want you 292 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:12.279 to listen to This is from top Gun Maverick. Is 293 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:16.079 this life imitating art or art imitating life? 294 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:19.880 That's just creepy to me. That's just very, very creepy. 295 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:25.839 Somebody mentioned this at on the text line. 296 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:31.559 And I want to just thank everybody, and in particular God, 297 00:18:31.839 --> 00:18:34.279 I want to just say, we love you God, and 298 00:18:34.319 --> 00:18:38.559 we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the 299 00:18:38.599 --> 00:18:42.440 Middle East, God bless Israel, and God bless America. 300 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:46.559 Thank you very much, Thank you, boom short sweet to 301 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:47.279 the point. 302 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:51.640 Oh the US military carried out massive precision strikes on 303 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:58.119 the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Bordeaux, 304 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:05.400 Natance and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as 305 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:11.119 they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the 306 00:19:11.160 --> 00:19:16.200 destruction of iran nuclear and richment capacity and a stop 307 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:19.720 to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one 308 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:23.079 state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the 309 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:30.160 world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's 310 00:19:30.200 --> 00:19:35.920 key nuclear and richmond facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, 311 00:19:36.039 --> 00:19:39.039 the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. 312 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:42.400 If they do not, future attacks would be far greater 313 00:19:42.680 --> 00:19:46.160 and a lot easier. For forty years, Iran has been 314 00:19:46.200 --> 00:19:50.480 saying death to America, death to Israel. They have been 315 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:53.559 killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their 316 00:19:53.640 --> 00:19:58.079 legs with roadside bombs, that was their specialty. We lost 317 00:19:58.160 --> 00:20:01.880 over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the 318 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:04.920 Middle East and around the world have died as a 319 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.359 direct result of the hate. In particular, so many were 320 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:14.759 killed by their general Cassem Solmoni. I decided a long 321 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:17.319 time ago that I would not let this happen. 322 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:18.839 It will not continue. 323 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.920 I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister, bb Net 324 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:26.359 and Yahoo. We worked as a team like perhaps no 325 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.039 team has ever worked before, and we've gone a long 326 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:33.799 way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want 327 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:37.559 to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done. 328 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:41.200 And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American 329 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:45.720 patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of 330 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:49.039 the United States military on an operation the likes of 331 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:51.759 which the world has not seen in many, many decades. 332 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:56.519 Hopefully we will no longer need their services and this capacity. 333 00:20:56.920 --> 00:20:57.799 I hope that's. 334 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:08.160 So, and I believe now interestingly, conservatives, liberals inside the Beltway, 335 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:14.000 outside the Beltway, all across the political spectrum, is this 336 00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:22.319 raging debate about Congress has not declared war? Well, okay, 337 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:27.359 is that what you want? Do you want Congress to now? 338 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:30.880 I mean some have actually advocated we need to come 339 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.519 back and we need to exercise our constitutional duty to 340 00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:39.880 declare war. Now that was put in the Constitution to 341 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:45.240 put some limits on the executive. Do you think we're 342 00:21:45.279 --> 00:21:50.400 engaged in a war. You see, I don't. We'll get 343 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:55.599 to the the authorization for use of military force to 344 00:21:55.680 --> 00:22:01.039 AUMF in just a second. But I'm oh, not bewilders, 345 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:04.440 not the white right word. Nothing bewilders me anymore. I 346 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:10.240 guess I'm just fascinated by those that you would expect 347 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:16.039 to be Trump supporters, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon to be like, Okay, 348 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:18.599 this was very limited. This was you know, on point 349 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.079 and just in and out, and that's all. We did. 350 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.559 No civilians, not even I'm going to make an assumption 351 00:22:28.599 --> 00:22:33.519 that there were workers inside the facilities. The three that 352 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.920 we attacked and they brought, they've probably they've certainly been killed. 353 00:22:39.079 --> 00:22:43.400 But there was no attack on any military installations unless 354 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:47.519 you want to count these nuclear facilities as military installations. 355 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:51.279 But I'm talking about air bases or places where military 356 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:55.039 personnel are located, or any of their launchers or anything else. 357 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:59.519 It was just the nuclear sites and that was it. 358 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:05.759 Yet Bannon goes off the deep end. 359 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:08.960 We can listen and people on Fox, Oh, it's good 360 00:23:09.039 --> 00:23:09.799 versus evil. 361 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:11.200 It's good, Yo, dude. 362 00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:13.839 John Adams said, if you want to go, you know, 363 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:16.559 don't go abroad from monsters to say they're monsters all 364 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:21.519 over the world. We can do the good and evil everywhere, everywhere, everywhere? 365 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:22.720 Is that what we're gonna do? 366 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:24.160 It's good versus evil, let's go. 367 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:26.880 I would think if you're going to do good versus 368 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:29.400 evil and kind of weigh them up, maybe we should 369 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:30.480 be marching on Beijing. 370 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.400 Let's roll, let's do it. See. 371 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:39.440 I don't think that follows logically at all. Is Beijing 372 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:40.799 a strategic. 373 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:45.480 Threat to us? Yes, so is Russia, so is North Korea? 374 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:49.440 But are they doing anything and have they done anything 375 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:51.319 over the past forty years now? 376 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:52.440 Who knows? 377 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:58.079 Maybe some of the kind of strange accidents we have 378 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:02.720 with the power grid, certainly cyber attacks, so maybe we 379 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:07.200 are under attack in a you know, in an asymmetrical 380 00:24:07.240 --> 00:24:11.759 war with with the Chinese Communist Party. But nobody wants 381 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:15.680 to skill bomb Beijing. Nobody wants to do that. Nobody 382 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:19.000 wants to skill bomb Moscow, nobody wants to skill bomb Pyongyang. 383 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:23.119 I mean, we know, you know, Kim Jong nun, little rocketman, 384 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:25.720 is going to bitch and moan and make threats and 385 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:29.640 launch lobbs lobbs rockets into the South China Sea. He 386 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:33.839 may mess up someday and accidentally hit Japan. We might 387 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:38.720 have to do something. But that's a false equivalence. 388 00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:42.119 I don't hear any voices there for that. It's interesting. 389 00:24:42.680 --> 00:24:45.279 Is Labaijing not worthy of that? It's because they're Chinese 390 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:46.200 are not worthy of that? 391 00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:47.599 Is that? What it is? 392 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:47.799 Is that? 393 00:24:47.839 --> 00:24:49.759 What it is is that? What it is? 394 00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:50.440 No. 395 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:53.480 I think a major FARA investigation should take place in 396 00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:54.079 Fox News. 397 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:55.240 I believe that thoroughly. 398 00:24:55.680 --> 00:24:57.559 I think we need to see if they represent the 399 00:24:57.720 --> 00:24:59.359 foreign government. 400 00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:05.880 News needs to go register with the Foreign Agents Registration 401 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:10.240