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Just visit 24 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.000 simply safe dot com slash crooked. That's half off at 25 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:05.799 simply safe dot com slash crooked. There's no safe like 26 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:30.560 simply safe. Welcome to Pod Save America. 27 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:32.879 I'm Jon Favreau and I'm Alex Wagner. 28 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:34.079 Two weeks in a row. 29 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:37.439 Baby. You know, I'm really glad when you said I 30 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:40.680 want to do a special NIXT focused episode. 31 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:41.680 Of todd that is what I said. 32 00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:43.840 I was like, who will even know where we're going 33 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:46.599 to be, But it turns out very fortuitous. Happy to 34 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:48.640 just talk about the NIXT on this podcast. Thanks for 35 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:53.040 inviting me, John, Congratulations. That was something to do. 36 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.079 I had. I had some excellent timing because I put 37 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:59.120 the boys to bed, and then I went downstairs and 38 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.560 I turned the game on at the beginning of the 39 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:02.239 fourth quarter. 40 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:06.280 When the runt pussy with your Pacific Standard time. 41 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.919 Oh, it's watching sports West Coast time. Not that I 42 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:12.360 ever do, because I have two young children. 43 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.680 I know, but is the best it is the It's 44 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.319 You're so lucky. I had put my I let them 45 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.039 stay up a little bit late. And we saw the 46 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.280 first quarter and it was like, we can turn this 47 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.240 off now. They were like My eight year old started 48 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:26.240 like kind of crying and he was like, I hate 49 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:28.360 the next and I said, you need to manifest positivity 50 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.520 and put them to bed, and then they he woke 51 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:32.759 me up at seven o'clock. I know, I slept in 52 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.639 and he was like, momy one and then we watched Hylight. 53 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:39.039 I was slightly concerned that Trump had cursed them for 54 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:42.000 the rest of the series, but it turns out it's 55 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.639 just about him actually physically being there. 56 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.919 True. And also, smart Knicks fans burned a bunch of 57 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:51.000 stage in front of the garden yesterday because we know 58 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.879 how to clear bad collaborations. 59 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:55.840 Clear the Trump stink out of vent. 60 00:02:56.039 --> 00:02:58.520 Yeah, it hangs in the air, especially in this weather. 61 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:02.599 But listen, well, there we go, there we go. 62 00:03:02.759 --> 00:03:05.560 That's it. Thanks for joining us. Make sure to subscribe 63 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:06.960 to Plaze America. 64 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.400 We got lots to talk about on today's show. We're 65 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.919 going to talk about Trump saying we're on the verge 66 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.360 of a deal with Iran for the thirty ninth time 67 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.400 since the war began a little over one hundred days ago. 68 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.599 Who knows this could be the big one. We'll also 69 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:26.639 cover the president's latest inflation gaff spoiler he loves it, 70 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.360 and his attempt to quiet Republican fure over Bill Poulty 71 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:33.439 by announcing his long term pick for DNI. There's also 72 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.159 a new reporting that the knives are out in trump Land, 73 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.000 which is perfectly illustrated by an explosive news story from 74 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.199 Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about how these morons bumble 75 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:45.039 their way through the Epstein crisis. And finally you will 76 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:47.240 hear my conversation with our pal Ron Brownstein, one of 77 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:49.560 the best political analysts out there, about the mid term 78 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.479 state of play, his take on the gram Platner saga, 79 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.240 the House map, the Senate map, and much more. But 80 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.400 before we start, please consider subscribing to Cricket and become 81 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.000 a Friend of the Pod. Get ad free episodes of 82 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.120 Pods of America and all your favorite Crookeet pods. 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Thank you, Alex, wh 93 00:04:35.839 --> 00:04:36.519 I go for one. 94 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:38.720 Don't clip your own wings? 95 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:41.759 All right? I want five friends from everyone here we go? 96 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:44.560 All right, Alex, stop me if you've heard this one 97 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:49.160 before the ceasefire with iron broke down, missiles started flying again. 98 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:51.360 Trump threatened to bomb the shit out of the entire country, 99 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.199 and then at the last minute announced with great fanfare 100 00:04:54.199 --> 00:04:56.959 that he's calling off the strikes because a deal is 101 00:04:57.040 --> 00:04:59.879 finally at hand. Is this an episode from six we 102 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.959 weeks ago, three weeks ago, last week, next week, ten 103 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.360 weeks from now, all of the above? 104 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.600 You know, John, I've come to the Chris Nolan theory 105 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:15.160 of time that it's a dimension and so it's always happening. 106 00:05:15.720 --> 00:05:18.439 We're always at war and a deal is always imminent. 107 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:21.879 We're always at war with its omnipresent. We live in 108 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:26.720 the dimension of it. Yeah, we're never not about it 109 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.279 will go on forever it has been happens. 110 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.839 I guess it is just it's we're going to be 111 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:37.199 talking about this for eternity, Like it's like, all right, 112 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:40.279 let's talk about the latest almost deal with Iran, and 113 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:43.240 then we'll talk about the inflation gaff and then we're off. 114 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:50.040 I I think I've been thinking a lot about this, 115 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:52.839 and I wonder if it's time for the press to 116 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:55.920 stop asking him anything about the war, because it's so 117 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:02.160 it's like asking like perhaps a mentally ill person about 118 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:06.279 stock tips, Like there's no use in doing that. They'll 119 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:07.639 tell you some things. 120 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:10.160 Now, I will. I will say he's pretty good at 121 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.360 that because of all the insider information which he trades 122 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:17.439 off of one. Yeah, that's he's quite quite adept at 123 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.800 doing that. So that the latest US strikes hit targets 124 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:25.959 across Iran, including apparently drinking water infrastructure, which would likely 125 00:06:25.959 --> 00:06:28.800 be a war crime. And after Trump threatened to take 126 00:06:28.839 --> 00:06:32.160 carg Island and assume quote total control of Iran's oil, 127 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.920 he backed down with the post claiming quote final points 128 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.279 have been in both concept and great detail approved by 129 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.519 all parties involved, and then listed ten countries. Iran was 130 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:46.199 not one of them. As I mentioned CNN has tallied 131 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:48.199 this up for US. It's the at least the thirty 132 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:50.160 ninth time that Trump has claimed the deal is imminent. 133 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.639 And you know, he did take some questions on the 134 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.399 deal in the oval, but like you said, it was 135 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.879 all the same questions and all the same crazy answers. 136 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.680 We thought it was much more interesting to play a 137 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:04.720 super cut from his his colent to Fox and Friends 138 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:09.040 this morning, between when he threatened to destroy the country 139 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:12.240 and he announced an almost deal. He was he was 140 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:16.120 there to ostensibly discuss Iran, but that only barely happened. 141 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:17.399 Here are some of the highlights. 142 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:21.160 I mean, I'd like to get a deal now, less 143 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.279 than three or four weeks ago, because you know, once 144 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.600 you do this, it's I just you could just go 145 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.079 a step further. But I don't know that America has 146 00:07:30.120 --> 00:07:33.560 the appetite to do what I would really much prefer doing. 147 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.399 But we were in Vietnam nineteen years. If it were me, 148 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:38.680 I would have had that war done in three months. 149 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:40.759 But we did great. In twenty twenty, I was a 150 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:44.000 rigged election and you saw it in California. Very interesting. 151 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:46.720 If I could just havevert he said, all of a sudden, this, oh, 152 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.079 we have a surprise. Steve Hilton won. But it's a 153 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:54.959 rigged election. But just go back, you know, but let's 154 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:57.079 get back. Let's get back. I was. I just want 155 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:59.759 to say to the public, it's a rigged election. We 156 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:03.120 need to save America Act, period, got it. Okay, let's 157 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.959 get back to Iran much simpler. Iron is very good 158 00:08:05.959 --> 00:08:09.680 at publicity, but they're not good at fighting. So I 159 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:13.800 took a look, and I must tell you, if they 160 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.639 can't believe the press, they get it, they can't even 161 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.800 believe it. And they told me, they said, it's amazing 162 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:21.680 how well we're doing in the papers. We're not doing 163 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.000 so well. They're negotiating with us to make a deal. 164 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:28.519 It's like they did an editorial today about we're not 165 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:31.120 hitting them hard enough. I mean, it's just not hitting 166 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.240 them hard enough. We dropped two hundred and fifty million 167 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:35.279 dollars worth of bombs on them last night. You know, 168 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:37.919 the whole thing is crazy. Part of the problem is 169 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:39.919 that they read the fake news. I mean, because Fox 170 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:43.600 is greater. But all the anchors on Fox have been fantastic, 171 00:08:43.639 --> 00:08:48.240 from Sean to Jesse Laura. I mean, they've all been great. Everybody, 172 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:51.679 every single anchor it's been great. You guys have been amazing. 173 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:53.360 Excellent. 174 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:54.639 It seems like he's locked in. 175 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.480 Huh dude, okay, I mean, like, where do we even 176 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:00.840 begin with us? First of all, there's so many things 177 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:04.039 to call attention to the fact that he had to 178 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:05.759 in the middle of all of this go off on 179 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:08.120 the twenty twenty election, and Brian kill Meat is like, 180 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.320 I shouldn't have brought that up. I shouldn't have brought 181 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:10.720 that up. 182 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.279 And he says, Iran, it's my fault. Though, it's my 183 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:17.120 fault I took us off topic, and then Trump says. 184 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:22.440 Let's get back to Iran, a much simpler situation. He 185 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:27.879 sounds like an old, angry person who's not yet even 186 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:29.240 stood up from bed. 187 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:29.679 You know. 188 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:32.919 He has that kind of the throaty congestion of someone 189 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:39.360 who's just ranting from bed, like and it's just obviously 190 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:42.799 it's just association at this point, just word salads. None 191 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:45.159 of it makes sense. The fact that he keeps bringing 192 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:50.120 up Vietnam as like a comparison should not make any 193 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:53.960 member of the American public feel assured that they have 194 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:55.960 their hands on the wheel here, that they got their 195 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:58.799 arms around this thing. Well, look at Vietnam that took 196 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:00.919 so long. You know, dude, we don't want to do 197 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:01.399 that again. 198 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.679 Also his whole thing about you know, I do what 199 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.639 I want to do, but the American people might not 200 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:09.559 have the stomach for it. Like he's like, he wants 201 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.080 to do this big war. He wants to keep going 202 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:13.720 with the war. He wants to just he wants he 203 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.039 wants more war, harder war. 204 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.120 His message. At one point, he's pressed to give his 205 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.000 message to the Iranian people, and Trump says, and this 206 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.519 is a quote. My message to the Iranian people is 207 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:28.960 they're afraid because they have no guns and the other 208 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.440 side has guns. That's not a message to the Iranian people. 209 00:10:32.440 --> 00:10:33.159 I don't think is that. 210 00:10:33.399 --> 00:10:35.600 Is not a message to the Every time somebody's asked 211 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.120 about this whole war, though, he confuses it feels like 212 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:43.600 intentionally now the Iranian people with the regime, and so 213 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:45.559 everyone's like, what about the Iranian people, And he's like, 214 00:10:45.559 --> 00:10:47.879 they're running scared, that's what they're doing. And it's like 215 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.360 they some people are specifically mentioning the Iranian people, and 216 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:53.200 he of course does not give a shit about them, 217 00:10:53.399 --> 00:10:55.879 even though that was, uh, you know, that was one 218 00:10:55.919 --> 00:10:57.960 excuse for why we were doing this in the first place. 219 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.320 I also love the new that the Iranian regime that 220 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:05.519 Moshtaba Aremini, who has not been seen in public since 221 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:08.879 this began, is calling Trump to be like, it's amazing, 222 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:10.200 how well we're doing in the papers. 223 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:10.799 The papers. 224 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:15.360 That's I grabbed the New York Times here the other 225 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:16.000 I grabbed the. 226 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.120 Post this morning. You should have seen the wood on 227 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:24.200 the post. Amazing. I'm getting amazing press. They put the 228 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:26.480 knicks on the back page that I was right there 229 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.759 in the front, and. 230 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:32.320 That was a great game, mister president. He also starts 231 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:34.799 talking at some point about Tianaman Square and how it 232 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:38.919 takes a It starts the drivers of the tanks and 233 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.360 Tienaman Square who mowed down citizens, at which point he's 234 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.200 cut off and they're like, we only have a minute, 235 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:45.799 mister president. They literally cut him off on Fox and 236 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:48.600 Fronts because he's so out of Can I say, though, seriously, John, 237 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:51.120 I mean because you mentioned and I think very importantly, 238 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:54.000 and he certainly wasn't being asked about this on the 239 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.320 Fox and Fronts broadcast. They may have bombed water infrastructure, 240 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:02.960 which would be a war crime, and the story of 241 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:06.159 whenever this ends or maybe it never ends because time 242 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:09.360 is a dimension, but when it theoretically comes to a conclusion, 243 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:13.080 the story of American war crimes in Iran will live 244 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:18.000 with us as our legacy for decades. And we on 245 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:23.639 Runaway Country had talked to a retired Master sergeant at 246 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.720 the what is it called the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, 247 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:29.600 which was a department in the DoD which was set 248 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:34.399 up to mitigate and prevent civilian deaths like, for example, 249 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:39.039 bombing a girls' school or bombing water infrastructure, and Pete 250 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.840 Hegseth wrote in and dismantled it effectively like civilian deaths 251 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:47.320 are not beside the point. I mean, I think terrorizing people, 252 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:52.000 especially brown people the world over is the point. And we, 253 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:58.559 I mean, this administration owns these civilian deaths, and we 254 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:00.960 don't have a good tally of them because there's so 255 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:03.960 much opacity with regards to this roar, even as it 256 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.960 concerns American deaths, and we have a free press. But 257 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:08.720 at some point the numbers are going to come out 258 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:11.480 and Donald Trump will own every single one of those 259 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:16.080 deaths for a deal that looks like it will be 260 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:19.159 nothing on par with the JCPOI. 261 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:21.799 Also one thing he said there, And the clip that 262 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:23.759 we played is, you know, he's talking about the Wall 263 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:28.080 Street Journal editorial board, saying that he's not bombing hard enough, 264 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:30.919 he's not doing enough right because they're hawks over there. 265 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:32.879 He also calls them, He's like, I know that you 266 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:35.639 guys own them, but they're trash, he said to the 267 00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:40.720 Fox people, referring to Murdoch, and he's like, you, what 268 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:42.759 do they want from me? We just dropped two hundred 269 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.480 and fifty million dollars worth of bombs on them last night. 270 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:47.919 So now he is bragging to the American people about 271 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:52.360 using their tax dollars to drop bombs on Iran that 272 00:13:52.519 --> 00:13:57.399 hit water infrastructure that could potentially cause civilian death. So 273 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:00.679 now he's telling people's like, hey, you want for me? 274 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.039 I spent your money killing people in Iran for no 275 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:04.039 reason last night. 276 00:14:04.279 --> 00:14:06.440 It's the first time we've also gotten any kind of 277 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:09.240 price tag from him. I mean, it's so embarrassing that 278 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.440 this is like the braggadocio about killing civilians is the 279 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:16.000 only way we get some transparency about the from this 280 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.480 White House, about what the damage and the sort of 281 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:21.759 collateral on the table is. It's it's like horrifying you know. 282 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.679 The question is you know, we'll we'll will Lucy yank 283 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.120 the football away yet again, or is this finally Charlie 284 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:32.440 Brown's moment. It seems like the it's still just a 285 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:35.879 memorandum of understanding. So that's Trump said that in the oval, 286 00:14:36.039 --> 00:14:37.960 which means it's the sort of the same deal as 287 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:45.799 before deal. The Israelis are apparently surprised and they said 288 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:49.000 they're not part of this deal at all. So no 289 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.240 matter what the deal is, it's not it's not solving 290 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:55.080 the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. Trump said that the 291 00:14:55.120 --> 00:15:01.000 Ayatola has agreed already, Aron is not saying that there's 292 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.639 an Arounia News agency said there's a high chancement the 293 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.840 agreement will be approved, so like, you know, maybe we're 294 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:08.360 going to get there, but it feels like we're right 295 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:11.559 back to if it does get approved. What it is 296 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:15.720 is uh the end of the naval blockade, uh reopening 297 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.600 of the straight and then kicking all the nuclear issues 298 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:22.159 down the road for more negotiations that I'm sure will 299 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:23.720 not go anywhere else, but. 300 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:26.279 I don't And there's there's definitely going to be some 301 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.919 sweetening to the tune of I mean Marco Rubio on 302 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.200 the Hill said they were not going to trade sanctions 303 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:36.799 relief for reopening the Straight. But and Nahaltuzi has like 304 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.799 a breakdown of this in Politico today. There's definitely ways 305 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:44.360 that they can make sure money flows to Iran basically 306 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.879 to fill back up the coffers and pay them for 307 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.200 reopening pay them to reopen the Straight. We are going 308 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.559 to buy any kind of resolution that happens here. We 309 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.000 may not know about it as American taxpayers, but it 310 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:57.720 is certainly there is going to be a shell game 311 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:01.000 going on, uh inside the the bowels of the federal 312 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.200 government to ensure that money goes to the Iranian regime, 313 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:05.679 because otherwise why would they do any of this? 314 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.759 No, of course, and what happens, what will happen is 315 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.759 some intrepid reporters will find out what the shell game 316 00:16:12.879 --> 00:16:15.399 is and report it in a in a great story, 317 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:17.080 and then someone asked the White House ablo out it, 318 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:19.639 and they'll basically say, fuck you, fake news, and then 319 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:21.080 everyone will go on to the next thing. 320 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:23.519 But but don't don't take it from us, take it 321 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:27.000 from Brian Kilmead who said, mister President, you're like an 322 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:31.639 anaconda squeezing the life that was out of the enemy, 323 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:35.240 slowly squeezing them to death. He said it like four times. 324 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:37.279 Yeah, he was really happy with his analogy, and he 325 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:38.320 just came He was like, but did. 326 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:40.639 You hear the anaconda trying to make it work? Shopping it? 327 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:43.200 Yeah? Before we move on, what did you make of 328 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:46.080 his rant about the California election? Did you did you 329 00:16:46.120 --> 00:16:49.399 realize that Steve Hilton won because Donald Trump complained about 330 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:50.440 Spencer Pratt losing? 331 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:53.480 Yeah? What do you say about Spencer Brad? He was like, 332 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:54.799 the kid got shafted. 333 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.799 He got shafted. But then I said something. I said something, 334 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.480 and now now we got Steve Hilton. Now he made 335 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:00.919 it through. 336 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.799 Yeah, it was happening to Steve Hilton too, but now 337 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:06.880 I mean, it's it's good that someone's got their eyes 338 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.200 on California. Guys. We know how you operate, and it's 339 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.319 a complicated you know. Con Right, you think, oh, well, 340 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.599 the gubernatorial race matters more, But no, what this is 341 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:18.400 is about singular and discreete races that are stolen for 342 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:21.359 no apparent reason but just to throw you off the scent. 343 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.039 Yes, it's about It's about the LA mayor, the incumbent 344 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.079 who much wanted to face Spencer Pratt much more than 345 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:34.079 she wanted to face a progressive challenger, and yet did 346 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.240 her best to rig the election so that she could 347 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.000 get that progressive challenger and not Spencer Pratt. 348 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:42.880 That is, yeah, a double cross of a double cross, 349 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:48.160 John Untangle, that cat's cradle, buddy, Man, these people, but Lake, 350 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:51.720 can I just say, yeah, the election fraud and going 351 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:54.599 back to twenty twenty is like so much more animates 352 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:57.559 this dude than actually Iran. I mean, he's both incompetent 353 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.200 and incoherent on Iran, but he's also bored of it, 354 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.640 Like he doesn't really have like he would much rather, 355 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:05.319 he wants to talk about the Same America Act. He 356 00:18:05.359 --> 00:18:07.960 wants to talk about raw power and the stealing of 357 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:11.839 elections and getting his election deniers, you know, having them 358 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:14.119 act with the full force of the federal government. That's 359 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:15.480 what really gets this guy. 360 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:15.920 Up in the morning. 361 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:18.640 Yes, as you can tell from the tone in his voice. 362 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.480 Pod Save America is brought to you by Neutrifol. 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