Speaker 1: And hello, Welcome one and all to the Big Podcast
on this Monday. Today is the twentieth day of July,
Year of Our Lord twenty twenty six. My name is
Tom Sullivan. And busy Monday as we get back to work.
We have the Democratic Socialists of America are I don't
they're just I don't want to say they're entertaining. They're
almost kind of scary. But we'll get you up to
date on some of the things that they're up to.
The war in Iran is expanding. We have the numbers
are two different numbers, three or four additional service members
who have been killed ICE. Protest against ICE took place
in New York City at the Federal off one of
the Federal office buildings this morning. Somebody lit up a
small explosion. They've got the guy under arrest. New prime
minister and no, no, no, this is the seventh new
prime minister in the UK in the last ten years.
I mean, that's never good when you see an operation
of business whatever, a government agency where they keep switching
the people at the top. But they got a new
one there, and then the Mayor of New York wants
to arrest Benjamin net Yow so let's let's get into it.
Let's get start with the war because it is growing
and there is more military striking going on. Let me
start with General Keith Kellogg, who has this analysis of
where we are in that war with Iran.
Speaker 2: Look, before we.
Speaker 3: Even start, our hearts and our prayers go out to
those family members and the soldiers we lost just this
last weekend, so we always should have them in the
forefront of our mind. Look, there's about five things we
ought to be doing right now because the war has
changed right now in Iran. One on negotiations, I would
change out of a negotiations team. You do not reh
or need real estate guys to be talking about negotiation
during the middle of a war. And when you do
bring a negotiations team back, it ought to be a
real hardcore son of a bitch that are just sitting
on the ground and it can really do it well.
And I don't think we have that right now. The
second thing in the president's doing this right now on
decapitation exercises, just taking out certain targets, he should continue
to do it and make them really afraid of their
life and stay in with the revolutionary Guards and the
leadership Iran. And the third thing I would do is
I would seize Carg Island and it sees rac Island.
Why because Carg Island actually produces about ninety percent of
the energy and Raq Island, more to the east, is
really their command and control center for the straight Will
there be risk, of course there are. It's called war,
and that'll happen and they'll accept that. But we need
to understand why something that needs to be Something like
that needs to be done. It gives a president's leverage,
leverage he doesn't currently have because aer strikes alone are
not going to win this war. You're going to need
ground troops to do something. That doesn't mean they go
all the way to Tehran that I'm not advocating that
at all, but you can take a couple of key
strategic targets that gives the president leverage and it controls
their economy. And the fourth is this is one of
those you reach out to the agency or somebody like
that and you say, we need to come up with
a way to provide support to the renting revolutionaries that
can overthrow this government, and that needs to be done
sort of like we did originally in Afghanistan are putting
special operations through on the ground. They can do it
and do that well. And the fact the last thing
I would do I tell you the President, look sir,
you need to go to the American people. They'll follow you.
Bring them along. You are the constitutional commander in chief.
Article two, Section two is very clear. You're the leader
and they will follow you once you explain it to him.
You are absolutely correct. We cannot afford to have a
nuclear ran. They will totally destabilize the Middle East because
then the Saudis will get one, the UAE will get one,
the Barantans will get one, and then the place goes
out of control. And you're doing it not for you
and not for me. We're doing it for our kids
and our grandkids. And if you explain that to the
American people, I guarantee you they're going to come online.
There's going to be critics there always are. Just ignore them,
just to continue to do what you've been doing, which
is really leading from the front.
Speaker 1: Well, General Tellogg, by the way, the way he got
to be a general was he led a number of
battles in Afghanistan and also in a that were very
successful and achieved more than achieved their missions. So that's
why he got noticed, and that's why he became a
bunch of stars on his shoulder. But listen to what
he talked about. He talked about, you don't want a
couple of real estate guys over there negotiating. You won
some sobs, some tough guys, not somebody negotiating a real
estate deal. That is I agree with General Kellogg. That
is the problem. We're trying to negotiate with people that
are not You can't negotiate with this is not somebody
that owns a high rise building. They have an ideology
and you can't break through it with at a negotiation table.
He also talked about, you can't win this war by
airstrikes alone. Thank you, General. How many times have you
heard me say that you will never win a war
by just dropping bombs. You're going to have to do troops,
boots on the ground, and where they go in he said,
maybe he kind of apologize a little bit about all
the way into Tehran, but that's what you do. You
go and you take the capitol, and you take the
leaders and you arrest them. And one other thing he
noticed was he said, you need to go to the
agency he was talking about. He obviously was talking about
the CIA or some other clandestine group that we that
we used. That the army has won a bunch of them,
and you go in there to basically stir up the
overthrow of the government.
Speaker 2: So I'm.
Speaker 1: Right there with General Kellogg. Seemed like a very nice man,
but he is a tough warrior, and so is General Keane.
Speaker 4: Well, certainly, yes, look at what taking a restock on
what's happened here. First of all, we went to a
ceasefire on April seventh, after thirty nine days of military operations,
and the reality was we went into a diplomatic phase
that lasted almost and out of that we did get
a signed document, the Memorandum Understanding, and what was in
there was one agreement, and there then sixty days of
negotiations to get to the tough future agreements. But that
one agreement was the straits of a Moose, and the
President of Iran and the President of the United States
both signed the agreement. We have said many times on
this broadcast, you can't trust the Iranians. They lie about
what they intend to do, and even if they sign
a deal, they likely will not comply with it. But
the fact is, even what they did this time, three
or four days after signing the deal, they violated the
deal with their president's signature on it by disrupting the
Straits of the Moves, when what they were supposed to
do is make an announcement that the stration of Moves
is open. There's no restrictions being imposed on it whatsoever.
There's no tolls, there's no insurance fees, nothing, it's international waterways,
and none of that took place. And obviously we have
been retaliating against that violation of that deal ever since.
And what are we doing. We're doing what we couldn't
get done diplomatically. We removed our blockade as part of
the deal, but they maintained control. So now we're conducting
the battle of the straits of a Mouse to forcibly
open the straits, secure it, and eventually control it. That
is what has taken place, and huge progress is being made,
and as we are taking casualties in doing this. Casualties
are a part of war, and our heart goes out
to the loss of life here and three losses of
life has taken place, one non combatant that are potentially
a fourth add that to the list of thousands that
the Runnians have killed Americans since nineteen eighty three. And
that's what we're dealing with in this barbaric regime. So
this is going to still take some time to be
able to achieve that objective. The president is given to
to his military commanders. But that's the path we're on.
What is the fuss all about with the Straits of Moves?
From Iran's perspective, this is a strategic asset that exceeds
the nuclear deal in terms of their enterprise. Why because
their enterprise is largely under a mountain of rubble. But
this is a means for them to have influence in
the region and control the distribution of oil, something they
have always wanted to have, and look, they're wanting to
fight for it.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope the president's listening to these generals. I
really do hope that, because I'll repeat over again, I'm
not pro war, but Iran is a problem that's just
going to big, a bigger problem down the road. And
like General Kellogg said, if not for you and me,
how about for our children and our grandchildren. This is
something they are going to try to kill Americans once
they get nukes, and certainly israelis That's another whole story
about Israel and about the Democrat Party and whether or
not they are they're basically split. Depends upon your age.
The younger you are, the more you hate Israel. The
older you are, the more you support Israel. And so
there are just some goofy people out there that are
trying to lead the Dsay the Democrat Socialists of America. Well,
I've always thought Bernie Sanders was entertaining, but I also
thought he was kind of a crackpot.
Speaker 2: I still do.
Speaker 1: But he's still out there doing his thing, and there's
a bunch of young people that are jumping up and down.
This guy was on with Martha McCallum the other day.
I wanted to play this for you. His name is
Gustavo Cordillo and he is one of the leaders of
the Democrat Socialists of America. Listen, listen to this genius.
Speaker 5: Landlords in New York have been making a twelve percent
return on their investment for on average.
Speaker 2: They may what's fair for the landlord to make.
Speaker 5: If you don't like twelve, they're complaining that twelve is
not enough, and we don't think that anyone should have
a constitutional right to double digit returns on their investment.
That's why we've implemented no one should have.
Speaker 2: A right to a double digit return on their investment.
Speaker 5: No one has a right. That's not nobody, No one's
in the that's not in the constitution.
Speaker 1: Where does he get where do these Where does this
guy get his ideas that? I mean that, there's no
there's nothing in the constitution about you get a twelve
percent return on your investment. Nobody is guaranteed any kind
of return on their investment other than trys rebond or
something like that. Bill Maher is going crazy. He's the
big lefty and he thinks these Democratic socialists are hurting
the Democrat Party. So does Van Jones, the big Democrat.
Speaker 6: I am tired, tired, tired of a set of people
on the very far left in the Democratic Party, my
party telling us then, in order for us to be progressive,
we now have to believe ideas and support ideas that
are completely nuts. These are terrible ideas, These are awful ideas.
Where do these ideas even come from?
Speaker 1: Yeah, good old Van Jones a pretty smart guy, but
he thinks he's just exasperated. Ari Fleischer, Well he has
these thoughts about the democrat socialists of America.
Speaker 7: Well, that's right. It's not in the constitution. It's in
human nature. It's even beyond the constitution. And this is
why socialism is wrong, because it tries to undo human
nature and replace it with something from the top down
that dictates how much success anybody is entitled to have.
It's the old adage about are you going to redistribute
people's grades? So if you get an A that needs
to go to the F student and now everybody in
society should be average a C student, how is that
good for society?
Speaker 2: How is that good for creation? How is that good
for growth? How's that for invention or innovation? It kills
it all, it suppresses it all. And that's what socialism
has always done. So that's why I say it's human nature. Progress, growth,
innovation is human nature. Socialism suppresses all that and fails.
That's why it's so insidious. That's why we all have
a stake in defeating these socialists, because they have taken
every economy they've ever tried to send down to poverty
where shared poverty except for the people in power. The
people in power are the ones like Bernie Sanders now
with the three houses and multimillions.
Speaker 1: That's what socialism does with power that you've heard that before,
It is true. Bernie has three homes, beautiful homes, and
he's a multimillionaire, and so it's yeah, I guess there
has to be This is a I think a problem
with the education system that they did not really educate
the various general rations that have come through our schools
about the history of socialism. It has never worked except
for those at the very very top. Let me while
we'll put we played a couple of general let me
get the Navy in here. How about Admiral Robert Harward
about what's going on in the world today.
Speaker 2: Excellent.
Speaker 8: It reinforces that the administration can do whatever they want,
and not only detracting from their ability to do anything
in the golf, but to reinforce how weak they are
and the ire to sye. So the big unknown is
to see what does Iran do next, and that will
dictate the strategy going forward. Are we go further escalate?
And I think we should, But that's all in the
president's hands. He can do anything he wants to Iran
to force them to capitulate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a military guy, no question about it. But
he's got a lot of experience. He knows what our
military can do. And he was asked about well, well, well,
well what do you think about the real estate? Guys
that are negotiating with the Iranians.
Speaker 8: Very effective, and that's the tell tale. Everyone's really still curious.
What do they have left in missile the drones with
the continuous strikes, and it's shown it's been diminished considerably.
When there is no response, then we know we've really
got them in. We can do whatever we want. But
I think more importantly, behind the scenes, what's happening financially
and what's happening domestically or diplomatically. Are the partners now
contributing and we're seeing more and more and as the
blockade and other measures go strangle them financially to bring
them to the table. So it's a very dynamic.
Speaker 1: It is very dynamic period. And the president seems to
be willing to actually use the military, and the Admiral
goes through what the military can be used to do.
Speaker 8: And I think that's the end state. So double down
on that. Let's take a dish, let's shut down their airspace.
Let's close all their borders so nothing happened. Add that,
and then reinforce the military targets you know they can't respond.
Then turn on the IRG itself user targeting to go
after the third and the fourth, the most tactical level,
and then I think you'll really force them into capitulation.
But their lack of response some word.
Speaker 9: Well long do you think that's a well, if.
Speaker 8: It depends, if you tie all that together, then you
shorten the period. So I well be hypothetical, but if
we bring all those efforts together, you will accelerate it
quickly and without any money, any access to the outside world.
If they take those steps, you could accelerate the very dramatically.
Speaker 1: And that's been my point all along again, is that
use all you got, use the mighty military that we
have to not twiddle around, and it will just extend
and extend and extend, and you will have a forever war.
Use everything you got, go in there, defeat them. You
didn't hear the admiral talking about to get them to
the negotiating table. He talked about capitulation. Have them literally surrender.
Nothing short of that that will save the people of Iran.
That will save Israel, that will save us and get
the people that are these number one sponsor of terrorism
have killed thousands, if not tens, maybe hundreds of thousands
over the years, and I'll hold them accountable, just like
they did in Nuremberg after.
Speaker 8: World War Two.
Speaker 1: Well, there is one guy from Israel that would be
the Prime Minister be being at Nyahu Zoran Mamdani is
big Democrats, socialists, and so he's talking again about the
fact that you know, the United Nations Building is in
New York City in Manhattan, been there since I don't
know you went started early nineteen fifties, and world leaders
come every September and it's it's always a nightmare because
you got all these tin horned potentaes running around town.
But there are the biggest leaders in the world come
to the UN General Assembly. It's always in September, and
in that group you've got the worst of the worst.
The Iranian presidents have all been able to come to
New York no problem and attend the UN General Assembly.
But now, ma'am Donnie says, if net Yaw who comes,
I'm going to arrest him.
Speaker 10: I believe that pri mister Netanya who belongs in the Hague.
He's a war criminal who has been charged by the
International Criminal Court, and never the law allows me to
do in New York City.
Speaker 2: That's what we will do, but we won't be writing
our own laws to that end.
Speaker 10: That's an active conversation with our legal department and seeing
what the prospects, sorry, we have here in our municipality.
Speaker 1: So the first time ever, the New York City mayor
is threatening world leaders who come to the UN for
the UN General Assembly. It's not sovereign territory. It is
part of the United States. It's right along the East River,
it's in New York. He's the mayor. Vicky Palladino is
a member of the New York City Council. Let's see
what she think.
Speaker 11: No, this is an act of soft, act of insurrection.
He's really pushing his luck here tremendously. He doesn't know
what he's talking about, but unfortunately he thinks that he
is above it all. He is the mayor of the
City of New York. He has got no right to
do what he's going to do. But listen, let's not
take this lightly. You know, this is not a joke.
The idea that a mayor of New York City or
any city, actually thinks he has power over and above
what he does, and he wants to come across like
this King, let's just say, or the superior leader of us.
All is absolute nonsense. And you know, I hope, I
really do hope, because this could be just what we
need to get this communist out. He's pushing it. But
the biggest thing for me is, I don't want anybody
to take this lightly. Do not take this lightly. His
moves are calculated. He's not going to get away with it.
But the fact remains is that a mayor thirty four
years old, no experience whatsoever at all, and the people
he surrounds himself with, he's sitting and he believes net
yaou should be in the hob.
Speaker 1: Give me a break, A spoken like a like a
true New York City council woman. Well, let's go to
the former mayor, Eric Adams. What and No, he's no
friend of the right, that's for sure. But here's what
the former mayor had to say.
Speaker 12: First of all, it doesn't take corporation count soon weeks
and months to tell him he has no legal means.
He knows that and did he speak with the police commissioner,
because who's going to actually do the arrest or is
he in partnership with the federal authorities.
Speaker 8: And so we have to think about.
Speaker 12: How this rhetoric is. First of all, it's bad to do,
but it's also dangerous for Americans abroad. You know, since
being out of office, I've traveled to different countries. You
cannot send a signal that right here in America, we're
not going to respect a Solomon leader of a country
and you're going to talk about as a local mayor
rest in the individual. This is just bad to even
put that statement out.
Speaker 1: Well, Eric Adams doesn't have any love loss for Mam
Donnie either. But now we'll see what happens. I mean,
September will be here quickly. And Benjaminette Yahoo, I don't
know if he's missed in the years. He's usually one
of the world leaders that shows up for the UN
General Assembly. Speaking of New York, there was an ice protest,
a one man ice protest this morning. If you get
the video. If you see the video of this, it
doesn't look all that big, but this guy who has
anti ice bumper stickers all over his car, he wore
a hat that's anti ice. He has a T shirt
that's anti ice, and so he gets a bunch of
firecrackers and he puts him in a grocery cart and
he walks up to the main entrance of one of
the federal buildings where ICE offices are located in New
York City, and also immigration courts are in that same building.
A lot of federal FBI office for New York is
in this building. And so the guy has this grocery
cart and all these fireworks and he's weren't all this
anti ice stuff? And he goes up to the front
door of this building. It's a typical high rise building,
but he he likes it, uh, and then throws some
gaslin down. He had a whole bunch of different things
he was doing. I don't know what he got. He
got a big bonfire going, that's for sure, but it was.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 1: It was weird, to say the very least. Paul Morale,
former NYPD guy, weighs in.
Speaker 13: So one of the things that jumped out at me
is that the JTTF has to lead on the investigation.
You and I were discussing the mental charges here. That
tells me we are firmly in a terrorism charge territory.
There are, you know it, some of these charges federal charges.
They are terrorism sort of in name. But really what
it comes down to is he used this weapon of
mass destruction. That's the thing that's going to get them.
That's the aperture to get the heavier charges that you want.
And so I think they're probably looking at a couple
of different charges relative to that. They're of course going
to look to see if there's any connection to a
foreign power, but as of now, it's very much like
a domestic thing. And I just, you know, we were
talking operationally. The way it went so far, it looks
like he shot the air gun first, then he used
the fireworks, then he does the gasoline after he looks
like he might be confronted. So he really was all in.
But to take a step back from the sort of
narrative of the operational response here, let's remember that the
larger context is what we just heard from Secretary of
State Rubil last week when he had those sixty nations
convene in Washington to say, guys, I know that we
have our international counter terrorism apparatus configured for the post
nine to eleven world. It's twenty five years ago, doesn't
mean it's gone away that threat. But we have a
very a vast emerging threat that we ignore at our
own peril, and that threat doesn't really pay attention to boundaries.
It's not just our problem, it's your problem as well.
So we can't take for granted that he doesn't have
any foreign connections, because I can tell you that in
situations like this, where we've had let's say anard riots
or civil disturbance here in New York, very often when
you get the pedigrees and you're doing the arrest processing,
you see people from all over the world, particularly Europe,
and you always come back to how did they get here?
Who paid for that Karen feeding, how'd they get the flights?
And so they're maybe more here than we see right now.
But as it now looks very much like the domestic
terrorism situation, in my estimation, he'll be charged federally. JTTF
has the lead. Sounds like they got a good handle
on what went on here and they're just going to
make sure there's know what the pieces out here out
there running around in New York that could hurt somebody.
Speaker 1: That also brings up back to the DSA and the
fact that the Democrats Socialism of America. They want to
get rid of borders, they want to get rid of police,
they want to get rid of jails, they want to
get rid of courts, they want to get rid of
the Senate. I mean, there's a long list of things.
They want basically to destroy everything that we have in
this country. They don't like it. That's fine, they don't
like it, okay, but we're not going to let you
destroy it. So Tom Holman was asked about all this
anti ICE stuff going on and especially in New York now,
and especially in New York because Hakeem Jeffries and Mayor
Moondani are very much denigrating everything that has to be
said about ICE.
Speaker 14: Well, first of all, I appreciate the comments from Mandami
and Jeffries, but too little, too late. They spent a
year attacking ICE, comparing ICE, So let's abolished ICE. Clear
fascists ICE or Nazis. ICE are racist. ICE is a
secret police. ICE isn't a real law enforcement agency. Fail
to comply with ICE. I see the signs of every protest resists.
So look there they have educated people that they can
resist ICE and the hateful rhetic continues, which we've had
some tragedies recently because people didn't want to comply with ICE.
So this is yet another example. Today, what happened in
front of the Federal billing is another example of attacking ICE.
And I'm sure if you ask that person why he
did it, he shn repeat the talking points. I just
said that you hear from Democratic members of Congress, the
Democratic mayors and governors who simply want ICE to go away.
Speaker 1: What he was referring to was the fact that both
man Donnie and Jeffries they have nothing good to say
about ICE. But today with the guy who built his
explosive bonfire in front the front door of the federal
one of the federal buildings, they both condemned it, said,
oh no, no, no, you don't do that. So I
don't know, they don't want ICE around, but they don't
want anybody to I guess build a bonfire at the
front door. A big change in UK, the seventh prime
minister in ten years. That is a bad sign. I
don't care if you're if you're ajax cleaning, you just
changing CEOs all the time is a bad sign for
corporate America. I don't know actually making that up. But
when it comes to the UK, there's no making up
the fact that this is the new, brand new Prime
Minister of Great Britain. His name it's Andy Burham. He's
a British politician. He's been the mayor of Greater Manchester
for about the last ten years, so he's been around.
He's a big leader now in the Labor Party and
so he was installed. He was no the people of
Great Britain did not get to vote. He was installed
by the Labor Party as the new Prime Minister. So
his first cracket things is to basically go after everything
that Margaret Thatcher put together back in the eighties. He
said that that was all a big mistake. Here's Andy Burham.
Speaker 15: In the nineteen eighties, Britain took some wrong turns. Political
power was centralized, economic power privatized, large parts of the
country be industrialized, and they still haven't recovered. We will
take power out of here and carry it into every
postcode in the land so that they can do more.
Speaker 1: I was going to interesting to see how long this
guy lasts, because the rest of them haven't. And he
was born in nineteen seventy. Margaret Thatcher. I didn't look
it up, but she came to power about nineteen eighty.
Great Britain was absolutely collapsing economically and she took away
a lot of the government entities that were and privatized them,
the railroad, the utilities. You did a lot of that
and it saved Great Britain from economic collapse. So this
guy was ten years old when she did that. So
his recognition recognition of what was going on in the
seventies was he was just a child. So we'll see
how he does. Niles Gardner, who used to work for
that your head this to say.
Speaker 9: Great to see you, Greetings from London, and I have
to say that you know, Andy Burnham's attacks on Margaret
Thatcher are absolutely horrible, their nasty. This is the new
start for the new British Prime Minister, who hasn't been elected.
I might add, actually he's simply replacing kostarm of course,
who was an absolute disaster. But Andy Burnham I think
will be even worse actually than Kostarmer. He's more left wing.
He has already lost a serious of attacks on my
former boss Margaret Thatcher, condemning her record in the nineteen
eighties and Margaret Thatcher, of course, literally saved Britain from
socialist decline, destruction and despair. And you have the new
labor Prime Minister in Britain who's already attacking Margaret Thatcher's legacy,
talking about renationalizing British industries, taking Britain back to the
dark days of the nineteen seventies, of course, when the
socialists literally took Britain to its knees, to the verge
of bankruptcy in the ninety seventies. And so we have
a new hard left prime minister. I think the outlook
is extremely grim actually for the United Kingdom. We need
to see a general election here in Britain for the
British field to have an actual say in who leads
the country. And Burnham is not elected. He's been appointed
by the labor Soviet style Pollit Bureau without any democratic
mandate at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how well history was taught to this,
Andy Burnham. But if you take any I read any
history about Great Britain in the nineteen sixties and seventies,
America was booming after post World War two and the
Baby Boom generation, and in Great Britain they socialized everything
and the country was collapsing. I don't know, maybe he
never studied that era. Nigel Peraj is a big conservative
leader in Great Britain.
Speaker 16: The any certain thing about him is we going to
get more of the same, but they'll go further to
the left than they all ready are. He says he
wants to have the biggest change of direction in politics
in forty years outside of twenty five thousand vosas in Makerfield.
He has literally no mandate for this at all.
Speaker 1: So I suspect that President Trump is not going to
get along well with this guy, but I'm sure he'll
be cordial when he has to. Another thing about Andy Burham,
he is absolutely for continuing a ban on North Sea
exploration licenses. They are blessed with lots of oil and
gas right off the North Sea just north of Great Britain,
and they have a ban on going after it and
it's the people. Well, we'll leave it to the people
of the UK to decide what they want to do.
But keep an eye on what this new guy is
going to do. And I'll take bets now on how
long he's going to last Wall Street today. Well as
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