1 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,120 Speaker 1: And hello, Welcome to the Big Podcast on this Monday. 2 00:00:27,079 --> 00:00:31,000 Today is the second day of March, Year of Our Lord, 3 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,759 twenty twenty six. My name is Tom Sullivan. Forgive my 4 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,439 nasal ly. I went out and found myself a cold 5 00:00:41,079 --> 00:00:47,119 bug somewhere, so I'm suffering under a cold. But the 6 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:49,799 event today, it's all about the war. It's all about Iran, 7 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:52,679 it's all about what we're doing. It's all about what's 8 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:56,079 going on in the Middle East of various countries. And 9 00:00:56,159 --> 00:00:58,119 so I have a lot of people I'll play them 10 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,840 for you that have been asking throughout the day what 11 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:05,680 are our objectives? That the president keeps coming up with 12 00:01:05,719 --> 00:01:09,840 different objectives. One is to do regime change. Another one 13 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,079 is to get rid of their ballistic missiles. Another one 14 00:01:12,239 --> 00:01:15,400 is to you know, there's four or five different things 15 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,560 the president has said and people are going, well, what 16 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,959 does you want? And I found that the biggest objection 17 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:27,840 so far is not from the Democrats. Democrats, of course 18 00:01:27,879 --> 00:01:31,920 they're the loyal opposition to the president, but what they 19 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:37,159 are doing is they're being a little careful about being 20 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:41,760 too critical. It's interesting to watch, it's interesting to listen to. 21 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:49,400 But the real opposition to President Trump on this effort 22 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:54,239 to go after Iran. I've heard more criticism coming from 23 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:57,599 the right than from the left, and it makes me 24 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,879 wonder about the lot of people talking about a split 25 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:05,879 within the Maga Crown that mega. A lot of people 26 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:10,000 voted for Donald Trump because he said I want to 27 00:02:10,159 --> 00:02:14,400 end the endless wars, and he has been touting his 28 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,319 success of ending all these various wars since he'd been 29 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,560 back in the White House. So what's he doing getting 30 00:02:21,719 --> 00:02:26,560 is into this quagmire. I heard Meghan Kelly was complaining 31 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:33,039 the conservative Marjorie Taylor Green really upset about Donald Trump 32 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:39,000 and Colter, the big conservative writer, She's all upset about it. 33 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:41,280 I mean, it goes on and on and on. But 34 00:02:41,319 --> 00:02:44,199 I thought, I think I'll do this backwards today instead 35 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,039 of giving you the build up to the end. Mark 36 00:02:48,199 --> 00:02:52,719 Rubio just held not a news well, yeah, kind of 37 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:56,319 a news conference in the hallway of the Capital. He's 38 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:59,960 over at the Capitol briefing lawmakers on what's going on, 39 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,879 and so it's a little bit echoey, but it will 40 00:03:03,879 --> 00:03:09,039 be better than my nasally voice. Here's what Marco Rubio said. 41 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,960 This is late this afternoon, and I think he answered 42 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,120 a lot of the questions that a lot of the 43 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,159 complainers have had. Here's Marco. 44 00:03:16,319 --> 00:03:19,719 Speaker 2: He's conducted this operation with a third clear goal in mind. 45 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,680 I haven't got a chance to see a lot of reporting. 46 00:03:22,319 --> 00:03:24,840 I don't understand what the confusion is. Let me explain 47 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:26,439 it to you, and I'll do it once again as 48 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:27,319 clearly as possible. 49 00:03:27,319 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 3: Perhaps you'll report it that way. 50 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 2: The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the 51 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,879 threat of Iran's short range holistic missiles and the threat 52 00:03:35,919 --> 00:03:39,400 posed by their navy, particularly to naval assets. That is 53 00:03:39,439 --> 00:03:41,240 what it is focused on doing right now, and it's 54 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,159 doing quite successfully. I'll leave it to the Pentagon and 55 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:46,599 the Department of Ward to discussed the tactics behind that 56 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,879 and the progress that's being made. That is the clear 57 00:03:48,919 --> 00:03:51,639 objective of this mission. The second question I've been asked 58 00:03:51,719 --> 00:03:54,560 is why now. Well, there's two reasons why now. The 59 00:03:54,599 --> 00:03:57,280 first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came 60 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,840 under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, 61 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:03,879 they were going to respond and respond against the United States. 62 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:06,879 The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders. 63 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,960 It was automatic, and in fact it bared to be 64 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,039 true because in fact, within an hour of the initial 65 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:17,839 attack on the Leadership Compound, the missile forces in the 66 00:04:17,879 --> 00:04:20,120 South and in the North for that matter, had already 67 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,560 been activated to launch, in fact, those that already been prepositioned. 68 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:26,560 The third is the assessment that was made that if 69 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,959 we stood and waited for that attack to come first 70 00:04:29,319 --> 00:04:33,000 before we get them, we would suffer much higher casualties, 71 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,079 and so the President made the very wise decision. We 72 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,079 knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, 73 00:04:38,319 --> 00:04:41,439 We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, 74 00:04:41,639 --> 00:04:43,839 and we knew that if we didn't preemptibly go after 75 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:46,879 them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher 76 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,360 casualties and perhaps even those killed. And then we would 77 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,399 all be here answering questions about why we knew that 78 00:04:52,439 --> 00:04:55,959 and doing that. Going back to the purpose, the purpose 79 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,959 of this is to destroy that missile capability. Why does 80 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,240 Iron want that signicial capability? What they are trying to 81 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:03,800 do and have been trying to do for a very 82 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,560 long time, is build a conventional weapons capability as a 83 00:05:07,639 --> 00:05:11,120 shield where they can hide behind. Meaning there would come 84 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,759 a point where they have so many conventional missiles, so 85 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,720 many drones, and it can inflict so much damage that 86 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,920 no one can do anything about their nuclear program. That 87 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,160 is what they were trying to do is put themselves 88 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,120 in a place of immunity where the damage they can 89 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,480 inflict on the region would be so high that no 90 00:05:26,519 --> 00:05:29,160 one can do anything about their nuclear program or their 91 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,319 nuclear ambitions. They are producing, by some estimates, over one 92 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:36,160 hundred of these missiles a month. Compare that to the 93 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:38,439 six or seven interceptors that can be built a month. 94 00:05:38,519 --> 00:05:40,360 They can build one hundred of these a month, not 95 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:43,000 to mention the thousands of one way attack drones that 96 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,279 they also have. They've been doing this for a very 97 00:05:45,319 --> 00:05:46,680 long time, and by the way, they've been doing it 98 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:49,680 under sanction. Do you see the attacks they're conducting right now. 99 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,959 They're attacking airports, they're attacking hotels, They're hitting not just 100 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,040 military bases, they're attacking our embassies directly. They're attacking facilities 101 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,160 that have nothing to do with war or with military 102 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,439 And that's a weekend Iran, that's in Iran, despite years 103 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:03,879 of sanction. 104 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:06,079 Speaker 3: Imagine a year from now or a year and a 105 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:06,759 half from now. 106 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,199 Speaker 2: The capabilities they would have to instoot damage on us 107 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,199 it's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands of a 108 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,959 regime that's run by radical clerics. The Ayahtola is a 109 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,759 radical was a radical cleric. That entire regime is led 110 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,959 by radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions. 111 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 3: They make decisions on the basis. 112 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:28,759 Speaker 2: Of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic 113 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:31,480 one that has to be taken very seriously as well. 114 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,759 So that was the purpose for what this operation is 115 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,319 all about. That's what it's focused on. As the President 116 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,639 said earlier today, it is on or ahead of schedule. 117 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,519 I will defer to the Department of Order discuss the 118 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,959 progress being made at a tactical level. But it was 119 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,399 the right decision and an important decision for the safety 120 00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:47,519 and security of the world. 121 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:52,279 Speaker 3: Away does Hongress. 122 00:06:52,319 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 4: Hathaway is the President and as Congress. 123 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 3: In the rep. Did you found long leavers of yours 124 00:06:58,920 --> 00:06:59,360 in minute? 125 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 2: They're absolutely was an imminent threat, and the imminent threat 126 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,199 was that we knew that if Iran was attacked, and 127 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,720 we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately 128 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:08,639 come after us. And we were not going to sit 129 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:12,879 there and absorb a blow before we responded. Because the 130 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,680 Department of War As says that if we did that, 131 00:07:14,759 --> 00:07:16,680 if we waited for them to hit us first after 132 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,600 they were attacked and by someone else, Israel attacked them, 133 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:21,800 they hit us first, and we waited for them to 134 00:07:21,839 --> 00:07:24,480 hit us, we would suffer more casualties and more adjusts. 135 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,639 We went proactively in a defensive way to prevent them 136 00:07:27,639 --> 00:07:30,279 from inflicting higher damage. Have we not done so, there 137 00:07:30,279 --> 00:07:32,600 would have been hearings on Capitol Hill about how we 138 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,639 knew that this was going to happen and we didn't 139 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:37,480 act preemptively to prevent more casualties and more loss of life. 140 00:07:42,279 --> 00:07:45,800 Was forced to thrive because of it. Invent Israel natcha no. First, well, 141 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,399 let me two things I would say. Number one is, 142 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,000 no matter what ultimately, this operation needed to happen. That's 143 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,639 the question of why now for this operation needed to 144 00:07:52,639 --> 00:07:55,160 happen because Iran in about a year or a year 145 00:07:55,199 --> 00:07:57,160 and a half would cross the line of immunity, meaning 146 00:07:57,160 --> 00:07:59,399 they would have so many short range missiles, so many 147 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:01,720 drones that no one could do anything about it because 148 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:03,800 they could hold the whole world hostage. Look at the 149 00:08:03,879 --> 00:08:06,600 damage they're doing now and this is a weekned Iran 150 00:08:06,959 --> 00:08:08,040 imagine a year from now. 151 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 3: So that had to happen. 152 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:12,279 Speaker 2: Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions and understood what 153 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:13,680 that would mean for us, and we had to be 154 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:15,279 prepared to act as a result of it. 155 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 3: But this had to happen no matter what. 156 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:20,399 Speaker 5: It was. 157 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:22,759 Speaker 6: There a very President Trunk said overnight that his top 158 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:25,879 choices to now rope with Iran were killed in stress. 159 00:08:26,079 --> 00:08:28,480 Does the United States have a firm plan for how 160 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,639 they intend to handle this power back in Iran to 161 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,080 ensure that ironbok ward line. 162 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 5: It does not. 163 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 2: So two things and two things can be true. Number 164 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:38,440 one is our mission and our focus is the destruction 165 00:08:38,519 --> 00:08:41,759 of the ballistic missile capabilities and their ability to manufacture them, 166 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:43,879 as well as the threat posed by their navy to 167 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:44,720 global shipping. 168 00:08:44,759 --> 00:08:45,639 Speaker 3: That's their objective. 169 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,879 Speaker 2: That said, we would not mind, we would not be heartbroken, 170 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:52,120 and we hope that the Iranian people can overthrow this 171 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,200 government and establish a new future for that country and 172 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,600 would love for that to be possible. But the objective 173 00:08:56,639 --> 00:08:59,080 of this mission is the destruction of their ballistic missile 174 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,840 capabilities and of their naval kit. 175 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:05,639 Speaker 7: So are you saying that as on Matt, are you 176 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:09,039 saying that there is no responsibility, no band where the 177 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,480 US so at least play a role in whatever normal funds. 178 00:09:12,519 --> 00:09:14,519 Speaker 2: I mean, we might well see how circumstances play out. 179 00:09:14,519 --> 00:09:16,440 But you I'm telling you what the objectives of this 180 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,159 operation on the objectives of this operation are to destroy 181 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,120 their ballistic missile capability and make sure they can't rebuild it, 182 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,000 and make sure that they can't hide behind that to 183 00:09:25,039 --> 00:09:27,679 have a nuclear program. That's the objective of the mission. 184 00:09:27,919 --> 00:09:30,919 That said wundantly clear. We would love for there to 185 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,440 be in Iran that's not governed by radical Sheiah clerics. 186 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:38,360 As I've said myself repeatedly for years, the leadership of 187 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:40,360 that country does not reflect the people of Iran, and 188 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:42,360 I think that's been pretty apparent in the protests that 189 00:09:42,399 --> 00:09:44,399 you've seen. If there's something we can do to help 190 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:46,600 them down the road, we'd obviously be open to it. 191 00:09:46,639 --> 00:09:49,080 But that's not the objective. The objective of this mission 192 00:09:49,159 --> 00:09:51,480 is the destruction of their ballistic missile. 193 00:09:53,399 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 7: On will for the United States time now, regime change 194 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,639 is not not well from the United States for many, 195 00:09:58,679 --> 00:09:59,480 many decades. 196 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: How do you sure to be American. 197 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:03,080 Speaker 7: Of it that things will not get worse for the 198 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,000 next regime that runs the American places. 199 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,799 Speaker 2: Yet, well, we would love to see this regime be replaced, 200 00:10:08,039 --> 00:10:10,559 and ultimately, as the President has said, he cause no, no, 201 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,960 but let me finish my answer. As the President said, 202 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,399 he would love for the people of Iran to use 203 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:17,759 this as an opportunity to rise up and remove these leaks. 204 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,759 They've been wanting to remove them from a long time. 205 00:10:19,759 --> 00:10:22,639 We've seen successive waves of protests, and we've seen them 206 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:26,039 slaughter people. Okay, but the objective of this mission is 207 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:27,639 to make sure they don't have these weapons that can 208 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,799 threaten us in our allies in the region. That's why 209 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,919 we're doing what we're doing now. And while we would 210 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:34,039 love to see a new regime, the bottom line is, 211 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:36,159 no matter who governs that country a year from now, 212 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:38,240 they're not going to have these ballistic missiles and they're 213 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,159 not going to have these drones to threaten us. That's 214 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,440 the objective of this mission is to deny them the 215 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,879 ability to use ballistic missiles to threaten their neighbors, to 216 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,360 threaten our bases, to threaten our presence in the region, 217 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,200 and ultimately as a shield behind which they can do 218 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,240 whatever they want with their nuclear weapons. Ambition. We were 219 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:56,159 not going to let them hide behind that. And that's 220 00:10:56,159 --> 00:10:58,399 why this was such a critical mission to undertake now 221 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:00,519 while they were at the weakest point, and not a 222 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,080 year from now where they could inflict even more damage 223 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:07,759 and perhaps already be behind that point of immunity. 224 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 3: Are you and then you. 225 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:11,799 Speaker 4: Yes, If your pridings in Congress have said that that 226 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:13,480 they should have a role, they should be able to 227 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,559 weigh in year and there are going to be war 228 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:19,279 powers and resolutions votes Congress later this week, why not 229 00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:21,440 notified Congress ahead of this and just Congress. 230 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:21,879 Speaker 1: We did. 231 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 2: We notified Congress. I mean we notified the Gang of A. 232 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,720 We notified congressional leadership. There's no law that requires us 233 00:11:27,799 --> 00:11:29,480 to do that. The law says we have to notify 234 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:32,360 them forty eight hours after beginning hostilities. We've done that. 235 00:11:32,399 --> 00:11:35,080 I think the notification went today. But we did notify 236 00:11:35,159 --> 00:11:37,759 members of Congress in advance. But we can't notify five 237 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:41,919 hundred and thirty five members in Congress. The congressman vote 238 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:43,919 on whatever they want. But there's no law that requires 239 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,440 us to do that. And I want to say something 240 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,200 to because I see people on TV. Look, that's fine 241 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,960 if they want to take a war powers vote, they 242 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:50,440 can do that. They've done that, They've done that a 243 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:52,960 bunch of times. But there's no people keep saying that 244 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,080 we have there's no law that requires the president to 245 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:58,000 have done anything with regards to this to begin with. 246 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:01,559 No president's presidential a ministration has ever accepted the War 247 00:12:01,639 --> 00:12:05,519 Powers Act as constitutional. Not Republican presidents, not democratic presidents. 248 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,759 That said, we have followed a notification at forty eight hours, 249 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,639 we're here today. I've done more Gang of Eight briefings 250 00:12:12,039 --> 00:12:13,799 then I got in the four years that Biden was 251 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,559 president and I was a member of the Gang of Eight. 252 00:12:15,799 --> 00:12:18,039 All of that said, we've complied to the law one 253 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,320 hundred percent, and we're going to continue to comply with it. 254 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,080 We've done the notification, you know, and we're officially to Congress, 255 00:12:24,159 --> 00:12:26,360 but we did notified members of Congress. We just can't 256 00:12:26,399 --> 00:12:28,919 notify five hundred and thirty five people, that's not possible. 257 00:12:29,039 --> 00:12:31,240 But we did the Gang of Eight twice. I briefed 258 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:32,720 them last week and then I called them the night 259 00:12:32,759 --> 00:12:34,639 before the operation. 260 00:12:34,879 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 8: We'd sell us what united is the sector of the 261 00:12:36,639 --> 00:12:39,799 administration that was about the strike on the building in 262 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:40,519 Sulfing me wrong. 263 00:12:40,759 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 3: The Iritians siety was the school points of lawgeability flood. Yeah, 264 00:12:46,399 --> 00:12:47,360 I've seen those reports. 265 00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 2: I don't have I would refer you not because I'm 266 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:51,120 not trying to answer your question, but I don't want 267 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,000 to get it wrong. The Department of War would be 268 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:56,000 investigating that if that was our strike, and I would 269 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,879 refer your question to them, and I'll make sure they're 270 00:12:57,879 --> 00:12:59,840 aware that you have that question. But we'd like to 271 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:03,679 know American an American missile. Well, the United States would 272 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:07,399 not deliberately target a school. Our objectives are missiles, both 273 00:13:07,399 --> 00:13:09,399 of the ability to manufacture them and the ability to 274 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:11,480 launch them and the one way attract drones. That's what 275 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,360 would be our focus, and that's what we would be 276 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:15,559 focused on. We would have no interest and frankly, no 277 00:13:15,639 --> 00:13:20,399 incentive to target civilian infrastructure. The Iranians are, on the 278 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:22,120 other hand, targeting civilian infrastructure. 279 00:13:22,159 --> 00:13:23,639 Speaker 3: You guys have seen it. I'm sure you've seen it. 280 00:13:23,639 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 2: They're hitting hotels, they're hitting embassies, they're hitting airports, they're 281 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,240 hitting oil infrastructure. Geld you go, you'll well, it'd be 282 00:13:32,279 --> 00:13:34,840 very tragic. But I can't speak to the details behind 283 00:13:34,879 --> 00:13:36,679 it because I just don't have it, it would be 284 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:38,919 a tragic outcome of it's happened. I don't have the 285 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,679 details as to what led to it, but what is 286 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,279 clear that the United States whould not target deliberately target 287 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:43,799 a school. 288 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: So that was the news conference late this afternoon from 289 00:13:47,919 --> 00:13:51,080 Marco Rubio, and again it answered a lot of questions 290 00:13:51,279 --> 00:13:54,200 people have been asking all day long. Just to get 291 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,919 you up to date on statistics, we now are up 292 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:04,360 to six Americans have been killed, eighteen have been seriously wounded. 293 00:14:04,519 --> 00:14:08,639 The Iranians came out and said, not only are they 294 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:13,480 firing missiles at a number of Arab countries, they're they're 295 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:19,200 firing missiles at a number of friendly Arab nations. They 296 00:14:19,279 --> 00:14:27,600 have been hitting Doha and Dubai, Bahrain, Ri Odd the 297 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:34,080 UAE Kuwait Oman Sentcom says that US bases are under 298 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:39,000 constant fire, so they've yes if they're in a weakened state. 299 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:41,720 They had this all plotted out to be able to 300 00:14:41,759 --> 00:14:45,960 go after everybody and everything. Now a lot of analysts 301 00:14:45,960 --> 00:14:48,919 are saying that this is a mistake for them to 302 00:14:49,039 --> 00:14:53,799 fire missiles at Arab neighbors, because those Arab neighbors are 303 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,759 now definitely turning on Iran. They may have been maybe 304 00:14:58,799 --> 00:15:02,279 possibly supportive. Now no way are they going to do that. 305 00:15:04,159 --> 00:15:06,960 The run is also announced that the Strait of Horror 306 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,799 Moves has been closed, and they vow that they will 307 00:15:10,919 --> 00:15:15,080 hit any ship that tries to get through the Straight 308 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:19,440 of hor Moves. So oil prices there are seven to 309 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:21,840 well right now when I'm looking at the trading of 310 00:15:22,679 --> 00:15:27,000 West Texas Intermediate, seventy one dollars and some change. So 311 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:29,120 it did shoot up. It was up to seventy three 312 00:15:29,159 --> 00:15:32,720 a little maybe an hour or two ago, So seventy 313 00:15:32,759 --> 00:15:35,080 one dollars. And I suspect what this news about the 314 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:39,039 Straight of hor Moves, that those oil prices could go higher, 315 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:42,720 and you and I will see it at the gas 316 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,480 pump here within a few days, no question about it. 317 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,080 What about the analysis of what's going on, Dan Hoffman 318 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:55,200 Ili Kim, he's the former CIA station's chief. He knows 319 00:15:55,519 --> 00:16:00,279 where the bodies are buried, and I thought his action 320 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,120 to what's going on with this war was interesting here. 321 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:07,039 Speaker 9: Dan, absolutely, and listen. If there's one thing I learned 322 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,360 from having served in war zones overseas, it's the extent 323 00:16:11,399 --> 00:16:15,639 to which we've developed this extremely sophisticated trade craft at 324 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:19,080 CIA where we were able to find and fix and 325 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:26,519 with the US military's awesome precision kinetic strikes finish our targets, 326 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:30,000 whether they are terrorist targets or leadership targets in Iran. 327 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,480 In this case, I could say from experienced CIA probably 328 00:16:34,559 --> 00:16:39,399 had human sources as well as signals, intelligence and overhead reconnaissance. 329 00:16:39,799 --> 00:16:43,120 They produced the analysis that showed that there was going 330 00:16:43,159 --> 00:16:46,360 to be this gathering. Really awful trade craft on the 331 00:16:46,399 --> 00:16:49,480 part of the Iranians to meet in one location the 332 00:16:49,559 --> 00:16:52,919 presidential office. That's a high value target for US, one 333 00:16:52,919 --> 00:16:56,159 that we would have been watching anyway, and for the 334 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,480 Ayatola to be there and the head of the IRGC others, 335 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,839 that was just a bonanza for our targeters. And good 336 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:09,480 on the military and CIA for having this fused capability 337 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,799 that we've seen developed since nine to eleven with extraordinary results. 338 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, the deathcount from the headquarters in Iran, forty seven 339 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,920 of Iran's top leaders from the Iotola on down were 340 00:17:24,039 --> 00:17:27,119 killed in this attack. They knew where they were, they 341 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,880 had Dan said it was crazy for them to have 342 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:32,480 all those leaders in one room at the same time, 343 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:36,039 but they knew it, and we don't know how they 344 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:38,480 knew it, but they knew they would be there, and 345 00:17:38,799 --> 00:17:41,920 Capawi a little bit of a trick. I guess there's 346 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,200 a lot of people thought that the CIA only operates 347 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:47,880 under the cover of darkness. This was in the afternoon. 348 00:17:48,319 --> 00:17:49,920 Here's what Dan had to say about it. 349 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,039 Speaker 9: There's no rules for when we attack or don't attack 350 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,240 daytime rates, nighttime rates. Sure, we prefer to do things 351 00:17:56,319 --> 00:17:59,200 under the cover of darkness. But the two words I 352 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,519 heard at CIADAY most often, especially in war zone's work, 353 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:05,799 it depends and we'll roll with it. And in this case, 354 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:10,119 the benefit of launching those strikes, albeit a more difficult 355 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:16,200 strike during the daylight, was extremely just fantastic for the 356 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:20,640 war effort to decapitate so much of Iran's leadership with 357 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:24,279 this one strike. And the other thing that I would 358 00:18:24,319 --> 00:18:26,839 just highlight here is that Iran has typically relied on 359 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:31,519 Russia for strategic intelligence about the United States, and I 360 00:18:31,599 --> 00:18:34,559 just wonder if this case, whether the Iranians might not 361 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,880 be too pleased that the Russians didn't give them any 362 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:41,920 warnings about US capability and intentions to strike Iranian leadership. 363 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:44,799 Speaker 1: So Marco Rubio was talking about the fact that they've 364 00:18:44,839 --> 00:18:49,079 been building one hundred ballistic missiles a month and they 365 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:51,680 have a huge stockpile. They've been doing it for a year. 366 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,039 Dan was asked about, well, did you know about these things? 367 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,519 Speaker 9: This is another responsibility for the Intelligence Commune. It's not 368 00:19:00,599 --> 00:19:07,079 just sniping Iranian leadership targets, but it's also conducting inventory 369 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:12,359 of Iranian capability, whether it's ballistic missiles or enriched uranium. 370 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:15,279 And in this case, the US military is going to 371 00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:18,920 rely on those intelligence assessments about where the ballistic missiles 372 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:24,039 are located and then take appropriate action. Just for historical reference, 373 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,400 I would highlight the Gulf War back in nineteen ninety one. 374 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,279 We don't want to stop the conflict too soon and 375 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,519 allow Iran to retain the ballistic missiles that they could 376 00:19:34,599 --> 00:19:35,880 use to harm us down the road. 377 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:41,559 Speaker 1: CIA has almost like James Bond type of tricks up there, 378 00:19:41,559 --> 00:19:44,240 so they knew that the medium was going to take place, 379 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:48,039 and forty seven of the top leaders were killed in 380 00:19:48,079 --> 00:19:53,240 that raid. We have Brett McGirk, former National Security Advisor Guy, 381 00:19:54,319 --> 00:19:57,279 let's get him here to talk about what he thought 382 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:58,519 of this whole operation. 383 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:00,839 Speaker 10: Well, I took away from that b thing was actually 384 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,480 particularly General Kine, who I've worked with quite a bit 385 00:20:05,559 --> 00:20:09,680 over the years clarifying that the US military objective here 386 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,079 this is very important. You might remember, Kate, we talked 387 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:15,640 last week when we were on air about if a 388 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,519 president orders military action is not very clear in his 389 00:20:18,559 --> 00:20:20,279 own mind what he wants to achieve and how he 390 00:20:20,279 --> 00:20:22,440 wants to achieve it. That's how you get into mission 391 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,400 creep and kind of endless war scenario. And the President 392 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,079 has made all sorts of statements since this started. What 393 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:30,720 I saw that briefing do was that the US military 394 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:35,680 objectives is to degrade Iranian military capacity, particularly its missiles 395 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,359 and drones, its navy, it's ability to project power outside 396 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,799 his borders. That is a classic military objective, and more 397 00:20:41,799 --> 00:20:45,279 in the realm of an achievable objective, trying to orchestrate 398 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,960 political outcomes through military power, particularly air power, getting to 399 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,279 your point about boots on the ground is just almost 400 00:20:52,319 --> 00:20:55,680 an impossible task for the military. And that's what I 401 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,799 really heard particularly General Kin doing, like, look, the military 402 00:20:58,839 --> 00:21:03,319 objective is folks on Iranian military capacity. That's what Admiral Cooper, 403 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:05,720 the sen KONNK commander's focused on. And this is going 404 00:21:05,799 --> 00:21:08,640 to go on probably for some period of weeks, but 405 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:13,279 it is not a military campaign. You're promising some political 406 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:18,079 end state in Iran, which again, airpower really cannot cannot deliver. 407 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,359 Speaker 1: You know, I've heard I've heard a flag officer saying 408 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:25,279 that for years that you cannot win a war just 409 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,079 from the air. That's where the question comes down to, Well, 410 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,000 you've got to put boots on the ground. And that's 411 00:21:32,559 --> 00:21:34,920 the question that everybody's asking today is are you going 412 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,920 to put boots on the ground. The President said essentially no, 413 00:21:39,839 --> 00:21:42,519 but but if we need to, we will. 414 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:46,039 Speaker 10: Back to McGirk, I think of the last again, forty hours, 415 00:21:46,079 --> 00:21:48,519 not a long time, so it feels like a lot 416 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:51,359 has happened, and it has extraordinary I mean, the entire 417 00:21:51,519 --> 00:21:56,160 military leadership command structure, supremely run down, has been eliminated, 418 00:21:56,720 --> 00:22:00,799 and Iran has now is trying to demonstrate that its 419 00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:04,519 regime is resilient, disappointed in interm Council under its constitution, 420 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:07,759 is trying to re establish some command to control. Very 421 00:22:07,839 --> 00:22:12,640 unclear exactly what is happening inside Iran. I do think 422 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:17,000 strategic initiative air superiority, we have that over the skies, 423 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,880 but Iran is also demonstrating and it has medium range 424 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,359 missiles to hit Israel, and it has short range missiles 425 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,640 that can hit the golf and there, Kate, there's one 426 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,559 inflection point here that will play out over the next 427 00:22:27,599 --> 00:22:30,680 day or so. Because of those attacks into the golf, 428 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,680 the Golf States are now talking about acting in self 429 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,839 defense against Iran's missiles, as are the UK and France. 430 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,160 This has changed because this was just a US Israel 431 00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:44,359 military operation. The Golf States wanted to stay out of it, 432 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,839 the Europeans were on the sidelines. And now potentially because 433 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,160 Iran is launching these missiles just all over the place, 434 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,920 including out civilian areas, including at UK facilities in Cyprus. 435 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,079 This morning, Reform reports you might now have a kind 436 00:22:57,079 --> 00:22:59,839 of a broader coalition. I can focus on that more 437 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:04,319 narrow objective. So that's something I'm watching. Does what Iran 438 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,559 is trying to do is just wreck such Mayhem and 439 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,119 the golf with energy supplies and everything else that the 440 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,599 Gulf States and others start calling Washington saying, hey, you 441 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,960 have to stop this. So far it's having the opposite effect, 442 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,680 and you see this coalition emerging, but it's just too 443 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,160 early to We have to all have some humility here 444 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,640 of how this will unfold, George Kennon one of our 445 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,119 great diplomats, and wars have a momentum of its own. 446 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,680 Once they start, events happen and transpire, and that's why 447 00:23:31,039 --> 00:23:34,559 staying focused on core objectives is so important. I hope 448 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,920 the administration can do that, because the President has stated 449 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,880 a number of objectives here over the last couple of 450 00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,880 days since this started. 451 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:47,839 Speaker 1: So speaking of others supporting us, where is well, it's 452 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:52,519 not a NATO impact because Iran is not part of NATO, 453 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:58,200 but and neither is Israel. But our friends, the people 454 00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:03,240 that we count on to do things together. France is 455 00:24:03,279 --> 00:24:08,160 not an active participant in offensive strikes. They say they're 456 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:12,680 ready to take proportionate action to protect partners in the 457 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:17,720 Middle East, whatever that means Germany and the UK. They 458 00:24:17,759 --> 00:24:22,960 aim to prevent further Iranian missile and drone attacks, but 459 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:28,880 they're not doing anything offensive. No, there's no direct involvement 460 00:24:29,039 --> 00:24:34,319 in France or the UK or Germany. Here is the 461 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:39,160 Prime Minister of Great Britain, curious Darmer basically weasling out. 462 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,039 This is the Prime Minister answering questions in Parliament in 463 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:44,160 the House of Commons today. 464 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:48,599 Speaker 8: Thank you, mister Speaker, the Prime Minister's reaction at the 465 00:24:48,839 --> 00:24:51,359 end of last week compared to many to be both 466 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:55,599 anemic and disappointing, and of variance with the other five 467 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,400 I nationists. Will he read the analysis of the Shadow 468 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:05,000 Attorney the Noble and Learned case Lord Wolfson, which shows 469 00:25:05,319 --> 00:25:09,359 not only the British active engagement and support is within 470 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,799 international law, but that those who seek to use international 471 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,799 law to constrain us in these circumstances have the effect 472 00:25:17,839 --> 00:25:22,279 of leaving tyrants and murderers in place to continue perpetrating 473 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,680 their vile deeds of impunity. 474 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 11: Yeah, mister Speaker, we obviously coordinate with our Five Eyes partners. 475 00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:35,119 We were dealing with a specific request to take action 476 00:25:35,839 --> 00:25:38,440 and that was important that we applied the principles that 477 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,440 actually have been applied by successive governments, which is to 478 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:43,839 ask the question and get legal advice on the question, 479 00:25:44,319 --> 00:25:47,440 is there a lawful basis for what is proposed and 480 00:25:47,519 --> 00:25:49,599 does it have a viable thought through plan. 481 00:25:49,799 --> 00:25:51,319 Speaker 3: It's not a legal question. 482 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:56,200 Speaker 11: It's about exposed exposing our military personnel to action that 483 00:25:56,319 --> 00:26:00,240 risks their lives, making sure that it is lawful before 484 00:26:00,279 --> 00:26:02,079 we ask them to do that. I think that is 485 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,359 the duty of the Prime Minister's previous prime Minister's taken 486 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,000 exactly the same approach. I will, of course read the 487 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,480 Shadow Attorney's advice, but I'm very clear in the advice 488 00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:14,319 that I received and I will not commit. I will 489 00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:18,519 not commit our military personnel to unlawful action. That is, 490 00:26:18,799 --> 00:26:21,640 that is not what they would expect and deserve pay. 491 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,480 They are entitled to better than that, not. 492 00:26:25,519 --> 00:26:28,759 Speaker 8: All of them until there as as I've mentioned that 493 00:26:29,039 --> 00:26:30,799 from Iraq to. 494 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,759 Speaker 1: You heard them grumblin he said that he won't commit 495 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:40,519 his military people to this whatsoever. That the person that 496 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:44,440 stood up, obviously was from the opposition party and said 497 00:26:45,079 --> 00:26:49,960 that he's sounded a kneemic and weak. Here's Mark Mike 498 00:26:50,039 --> 00:26:54,440 Pompeo after hearing that, listening to that, it's pretty pathetic, 499 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,839 pretty weak. Not demonstrating the rear resolve. 500 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,519 Speaker 12: The fact that you're talking to attorneys instead of doing 501 00:27:00,559 --> 00:27:02,839 the hard work of making sure you defend your own 502 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,599 people and work alongside your partner, the Americans, is that 503 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,480 is most unfortunate. I think on the ground, I think 504 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,519 they're actually doing more than Prime Minister actually spoke to. 505 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:16,160 They know the seriousness with which this threatens their own 506 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,200 country threatens British folks who are sitting in a wouldabi 507 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,119 in Dubai in Kuwait City, they get it. But for 508 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,599 him to give this kind of political, merely mouth legal 509 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,240 response seems to me to actually embolden the Iranians at 510 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,960 a time when we should all be punishing them. 511 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,279 Speaker 1: So it just makes you wonder if we get in trouble, 512 00:27:32,279 --> 00:27:35,119 how many of them are going to come to our aid. 513 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:40,079 They don't want to put themselves in jeopardy. Meantime, the 514 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,000 concern here in our homeland is the fact that there 515 00:27:44,039 --> 00:27:48,400 are sleeper cells here, and they keep testifying that there 516 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:53,039 are in fact many sleeper cells from Iran that are here. 517 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,799 This goes back to last summer. Pam Bondi was testifying 518 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,839 before a committee in Congress and was asked about Iranian 519 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,000 sleeper cells. 520 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,920 Speaker 3: They have sleeper sales, we think here. 521 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 13: We have thus far arrested fifteen hundred illegal Iranians in 522 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:14,039 our country. That is something that I would like to 523 00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:16,759 talk about in a classified settingle But yes, have they 524 00:28:16,759 --> 00:28:19,440 invaded our country absolutely, So. 525 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,319 Speaker 1: That brings up the concern about are they going to 526 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:25,119 activate terror cells here in the US. While there was 527 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,759 a shooting over the weekend in Austin, Texas. It was 528 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,880 a very popular restaurant slash bar. People were sitting outside 529 00:28:35,519 --> 00:28:39,039 and this one guy that has had a white shirt 530 00:28:39,119 --> 00:28:42,519 on that said property of Allah, and he had a 531 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:47,039 T shirt underneath that had some symbols of Iran drove 532 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:53,599 up and shot and killed two people and fourteen were wounded. 533 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:57,799 Here's the head of the FBI in Austin, Texas. 534 00:28:58,279 --> 00:29:01,799 Speaker 5: Obviously it's still way too in the process to determine 535 00:29:01,839 --> 00:29:07,000 an exact motivation, but there were indicators that on the 536 00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:12,119 subject and in his vehicle that indicate potential nexus to terrorism. 537 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,279 In terms of specifically what type of terrorism, We're just 538 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,839 at this point prepared to say that it was potentially 539 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,559 an active terrorism all right. 540 00:29:19,599 --> 00:29:22,519 Speaker 1: So that's from the head of the FBI in Austin, Texas, 541 00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:26,680 Paul Morrow, former NYPD guy. It reacted to. 542 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,839 Speaker 14: This well, as we all said post nine to eleven, 543 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:30,720 you have to go about living your life right. 544 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: But let's break it down real quickly. 545 00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 14: It is essentially three large categories of how I rank 546 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,920 could come at us on the home front. The first 547 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,039 is that they deploy one of their own assets. That's 548 00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:42,759 the most worrisome, but the most difficult. That said, they've 549 00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:45,160 tried it in the past. A number of years ago, 550 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:48,240 using the cartels in our southern border, they tried to 551 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,240 get somebody into America to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador 552 00:29:52,519 --> 00:29:55,839 here in New York DEA and dedicted that through their 553 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,920 window into the cartels. It was great work. Kudos to them. 554 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:02,319 That's the kind of stuff that Iran has tried right now. However, 555 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,400 they don't have a lot of resources. It's like the 556 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,519 Russians with the sleeper cells and kind of stuff to 557 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:10,759 make the movies. Iran has their hands full of overseas 558 00:30:10,799 --> 00:30:14,599 as it is. I adjudge that more dangerous are the 559 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,680 last two categories, which is one of two things. Either 560 00:30:18,079 --> 00:30:20,359 they reach into the country to somebody that they are 561 00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:23,400 judged to be a friendly, either somebody who has come 562 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,000 in through our border in the past, or somebody that 563 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:28,799 they see online some of these characters on campus that 564 00:30:28,839 --> 00:30:31,640 we hear about that are in simply with Iran and 565 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,799 not America. Those are, to use the Leninist term, useful 566 00:30:34,839 --> 00:30:39,000 idiots for our adversaries. Or the last category, which is 567 00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:41,480 what I think we just saw in Austin, which is 568 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,279 somebody that has no contact with the regime, but is 569 00:30:44,359 --> 00:30:48,359 just inspired because they're like minded. That's very difficult in 570 00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:51,440 a First Amendment society to interdict. That's what we ran 571 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:55,359 against so heavily relative to isis because of the Internet. 572 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,359 These people are receiving these messages and they can pop 573 00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,119 off at any time. You're not tracking That's right, That's 574 00:31:01,119 --> 00:31:03,359 what I meant by a First Amendment society exactly if 575 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:06,240 you're not tracking them and you can't stop them from 576 00:31:06,279 --> 00:31:09,680 going online and receiving the kind of messaging that's out 577 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,400 there on various websites and various apps now as well, 578 00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:16,440 many of which are encrypted. It's got even more hard 579 00:31:16,799 --> 00:31:18,960 to do the kind of work that my people used 580 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,799 to do so effectively. It's even harder now because of 581 00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:25,599 the encrypted apps and all the other options that are 582 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,200 out there they'll use, for instance, these days gaming platforms. 583 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,240 We saw that actually in the Jarlie Kirk case, where 584 00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:35,279 there was a gaming platform that was reportedly used for messaging. 585 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,160 So it's a much wider, broader landscape. And you gotta 586 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,440 remember something else too, the open border matters. You have 587 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,599 the fact that we had Venezuela housing a lot of 588 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,640 these people, making it a node for Iran and people 589 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,920 like he below. The former vice president of Venezuela on 590 00:31:52,039 --> 00:31:54,880 the Maduro is a guy named Tarika Alasami. And if 591 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,480 that doesn't sound like a Spanish name to you, it's 592 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:57,039 because it's. 593 00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:57,799 Speaker 3: Not all right. 594 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,440 Speaker 14: So you have that, you have the Triborder Reachi, you 595 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:03,640 have HESBLO, very active down there. The good news is 596 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:07,480 that Donald Trump's administration has closed off the border to 597 00:32:07,559 --> 00:32:10,039 some extent flipped Venezuela, so it won't be that kind 598 00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:12,400 of a safe haven. So at least we've stopped the bleeding. 599 00:32:12,759 --> 00:32:15,680 But what's done is done, and we had four years 600 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,079 if these characters able to infiltrate us, and we don't 601 00:32:18,119 --> 00:32:18,880 know where they all. 602 00:32:18,759 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 1: Are, we certainly don't, so keep your fingers crossed and 603 00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:27,200 if you see something, say something. Meantime, Wall Street today 604 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,400 was well, it was ugly right out of the gate. 605 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,640 We had a weekend of all this activity, and so 606 00:32:32,799 --> 00:32:37,000 when we started trading, the Dow Jones industrials went down 607 00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:40,759 about five six hundred points. But when all was said 608 00:32:40,799 --> 00:32:45,519 and done, market looked around and said, okay, down seventy 609 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,480 three at the close, so recovered a lot from the 610 00:32:48,519 --> 00:32:51,480 early sell off down seventy three, the dow at forty 611 00:32:51,519 --> 00:32:55,839 eight thousand and nine oh four s and P. It 612 00:32:56,039 --> 00:32:58,160 was also a big sell off that came back to 613 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:02,359 a gain of two points. Deck same story came back 614 00:33:02,359 --> 00:33:06,880 to a gain of eighty points. Price of gold run 615 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,079 to safety up ninety five dollars to five thousand and 616 00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:14,559 three forty three, and oil was up to seventy three. Well, 617 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:18,880 there's two major quotations for oil. This is West Texas Intermediate, 618 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,279 which is the broadest measure. It was up on the 619 00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:25,599 On the other Brett Crude, it was up to eighty 620 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,480 dollars at one point, but it settled down. Oil on 621 00:33:29,559 --> 00:33:31,920 the West Texas Intermediate, which is the number I give 622 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,000 you every day, up four bucks to seventy one dollars 623 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:39,400 at the close. So that's it for today. Thank you 624 00:33:39,599 --> 00:33:43,000 for coming by. We will try this again tomorrow and 625 00:33:43,039 --> 00:33:44,200 I hope to see you then