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Speaker 1: a Tuesday morning, June twenty four. Quick word about this Saturday,
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Speaker 1: you there. Now. The decision to attack Iran we're talking
Speaker 1: about by the United States was made, of course by
Speaker 1: the president, and we now know when it was made
Speaker 1: specifically and where it was made specifically. So President Trump
Speaker 1: goes every weekend to one of his golf courses and
Speaker 1: his resorts. He takes a weekend off and he is
Speaker 1: flying over all these great houses. That neighbor is New
Speaker 1: Jersey Golf Club. This was Saturday when he made his decision.
Speaker 1: It was a board Marine one is where he did this.
Speaker 1: So he's going He's on Marine one and he's going
Speaker 1: to an airport near I think it's New Bedford, and
Speaker 1: he receives a call from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and
Speaker 1: Hexseith's it's time to make a final decision. Either you
Speaker 1: move forward with the US strikes on Iran or abort
Speaker 1: the mission. And he decided right there a board Marine one.
Speaker 1: He had grown convinced that diplomacy alone was not going
Speaker 1: to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. He gives
Speaker 1: heccess the green light and says, you do it. It's
Speaker 1: not the president orders. The president orders the Defense Secretary
Speaker 1: to go forward. That's the same thing when the president
Speaker 1: orders the bomb to be dropped. It's not like he
Speaker 1: presses a button. He tells the Defense Secretary, who then
Speaker 1: informs the Chief of Staff, and it goes through the military.
Speaker 1: There are a couple of three levels of dropping the
Speaker 1: big one, so it does go through levels. And so
Speaker 1: hours later after we made the decision, the B two
Speaker 1: bombers took off from their base in Missouri, thirty six
Speaker 1: hour flight back and forth. Yeah, it's you know, where
Speaker 1: do the pilots pee? Is there a bathroom aboard the
Speaker 1: B two? There is, yeah, and many fridges and a microwave.
Speaker 1: Do they sleep? I think there are only two pilots.
Speaker 1: Do they take turns? You can't go thirty six hours straight?
Speaker 1: I don't know that they must. Yeah, they have to
Speaker 1: in the meantime. And they go there, and they go
Speaker 1: over the target and drop the bomb, and you're done
Speaker 1: and goodbye. And this was the culmination of a week
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes double ration deliberations. And we know
Speaker 1: what happened as a result of the bombing, And now
Speaker 1: we don't know how much destruction. How much damage was
Speaker 1: done to those nuclear facilities in Iran. The president has
Speaker 1: said it was completely they were completely destroyed. CNN questioned
Speaker 1: whether they were completely destroyed, saying, we really don't know.
Speaker 1: The analysis hasn't come back. I don't know if Aran
Speaker 1: will ever admit how much damage was done to those
Speaker 1: underground facilities. The President this morning. I was watching this
Speaker 1: live as he was boarding Marine one to go to
Speaker 1: Andrews to get up board Air Force one to fly
Speaker 1: to over to NATO, which is on the plane right now.
Speaker 1: Laid into CNN for questioning his statements about total destruction,
Speaker 1: I mean laid into CNN. And he laid into both
Speaker 1: the Iraq and Israel in terms of the violation of
Speaker 1: the quote truce that has been put into place, and
Speaker 1: it is I've never seen him that mad. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was screaming and reference to Israel and Iran, he said,
Speaker 1: they don't know what the f they're doing saying it.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, he's not happy at all with any
Speaker 1: of it right now, and he's insisting on peace. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna win. I think he's gonna he is
Speaker 1: going to prevail on this one. And then the issue is,
Speaker 1: and this is the Democrats and Massey and a few
Speaker 1: others saying we should not get involved in foreign wars.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, you know, we have to. We're America first.
Speaker 1: Trump ran on, we're America first, and we are not
Speaker 1: going to be engaged in any foreign controversy, certainly in
Speaker 1: any foreign conflict. But what they're saying Adam Schiff, who
Speaker 1: is a California centator right now, said we saw no
Speaker 1: evidence that Iran had made the decision to build a
Speaker 1: bomb or was actually affirmatively building the mechanism, which takes time,
Speaker 1: you know, ignoring the fact that they have been processing
Speaker 1: uranium for years, and what the intelligence says is they
Speaker 1: have reached the point that it's sixty percent pure. It
Speaker 1: has to be ninety percent pure to create a bomb,
Speaker 1: and they were just within days or weeks of successfully
Speaker 1: doing that with the centrifuges that were particularly in fod
Speaker 1: Row photo. I always get that screwed up, and it
Speaker 1: was the only reason you would go to that kind
Speaker 1: of purity. Even sixty percent purity is on the way
Speaker 1: to make a bomb. There is no other reason. Iran
Speaker 1: insists that it's all for peaceful purposes. You need two
Speaker 1: to three percent purity of uranium to use in reactors
Speaker 1: for peaceful purposes. There is no other reason. And Shiff
Speaker 1: is saying they haven't yet decided that they were going
Speaker 1: to physically put together the pieces, not just start manufacturing
Speaker 1: the pieces, just put together the pieces. What the hell
Speaker 1: are you talking about? Really? You know, this looks like
Speaker 1: a nuclear duck. It walks like a nuclear duck, and
Speaker 1: it certainly is a nuclear duck. And these people are saying, oh, no,
Speaker 1: the decision hasn't been made, we should not get involved.
Speaker 1: Now there is a constitutional issue. Did the president have
Speaker 1: the power under the War Powers Act? And should the
Speaker 1: president have gone to Congress to ask permission? And presidents
Speaker 1: have and have not over the years. It's interesting that
Speaker 1: Adam Schiff and the other Democrats are not laying into
Speaker 1: Obama for having made a decision without going to Congress.
Speaker 1: But hey, since it's a Republican why they hell not.
Speaker 1: But the point is that Trump, and I think right,
Speaker 1: he has said we cannot, under any circumstances let Iran
Speaker 1: have a nuclear weapon, and Netanyahu has been pushing and
Speaker 1: pushing and pushing for that and saying exactly the same thing. Now,
Speaker 1: during this whole course, as it was hemming and hauling
Speaker 1: and we didn't know which way Trump was going to go,
Speaker 1: he was already in touch with Natanyahu. They were already
Speaker 1: on the way behind the scenes. Do they serve lunch
Speaker 1: on Marine One? I think I think they serve they
Speaker 1: can serve a box lunch, because I don't think you know,
Speaker 1: there's a they can cook up food. They can't on
Speaker 1: air Force One just occurred to me, Okay, decided to
Speaker 1: go there coming up. Uh, the biggest tool that Iran
Speaker 1: has is not the bomb. No, there's something else. What
Speaker 1: if it shuts down global oil? How does it do that? Well,
Speaker 1: you've heard about the Strait of Horror Moves. And if
Speaker 1: you look at a map, a world map, you will
Speaker 1: see this little strait in which it is sort of
Speaker 1: the water curves the ocean curves. North is Iran, the
Speaker 1: south of it is Oman and the Emirates. And this
Speaker 1: corridor of water is about thirty one miles wide and
Speaker 1: that's it. That's where the world. Twenty percent of the
Speaker 1: world's oil flows through it, and it's deep enough for
Speaker 1: the biggest oil tankers in the world. In the first
Speaker 1: half of twenty twenty three, twenty million barrels of oil
Speaker 1: went through the Straits of Horror Moves per day, twenty
Speaker 1: million barrels. And the oil comes from not only Iran,
Speaker 1: but from a rock Kuwait cutter, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates.
Speaker 1: And what's the worst case scenario If Iran does decide
Speaker 1: that's going to do something pretty serious. If the attacks continue,
Speaker 1: which right now look pretty good, although the truth is
Speaker 1: very tentative at this point. Well, the head of I
Speaker 1: six told the BBC there's the worst case scenario and
Speaker 1: that is the blockade of the Strait by Iran, which
Speaker 1: could blockade now it hasn't and it never has because
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it puts the world in an
Speaker 1: economic turmoil and at that point the Western world becomes
Speaker 1: an enemy of Iran. That is a big, big move.
Speaker 1: Would they do that maybe as a last resort Israel,
Speaker 1: for example, which has no oil. And this is where
Speaker 1: one of the issues where you know, God and the
Speaker 1: chosen people. I've always questioned God choosing the Israelites because
Speaker 1: as Moses leaves Egypt leading the Jewish people, God has
Speaker 1: Moses turn left to where there is no oil instead
Speaker 1: of turning right where it's full of oil. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine the Jews having oil and controlling the world market
Speaker 1: for oil. It would be a different world, it really would, Okay,
Speaker 1: I digress. In the meantime, if Iran were to try
Speaker 1: and block three thousand ships go through the Straits every month,
Speaker 1: and they can do it. All they have to do
Speaker 1: is mine the straits only thirty one miles and you
Speaker 1: can easily mine those straits. I mean, Ron has a
Speaker 1: very sophisticated navy. These are fast boats that it has.
Speaker 1: They have anti ship missiles, they have a range of service,
Speaker 1: surface vessels, submersible craft, submarines. You know Israel has a
Speaker 1: submarine fleet. Did you know that out in the Mediterranean
Speaker 1: they have six subs? Just thought I tell you that,
Speaker 1: And it is you know, the authorities, those people know
Speaker 1: are thinking that this is would be so devastating. By
Speaker 1: the way, Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the Strait
Speaker 1: of Hormuz in past conflicts, but it never has followed
Speaker 1: through because it knows what would happen if it did.
Speaker 1: So what has happened as a result of their threats
Speaker 1: over and over again, oil exporting countries in that entire
Speaker 1: region are developing alternative export roots pipelines actually that move
Speaker 1: the oil. But the pipelines don't come close to the
Speaker 1: number of ships or the of oil that can be
Speaker 1: produced and moved. It is is it going to happen?
Speaker 1: Only last resort. But one of the things about the Iranians,
Speaker 1: and they have a history of this, and one of
Speaker 1: the things that Iran in declaring victory over this war,
Speaker 1: declaring victory over the United States and over Israel. Of course,
Speaker 1: because they've won the war is that there has not
Speaker 1: been an inch of Iranian land taken from the country
Speaker 1: in all of the wars in recent history. Therefore, between
Speaker 1: that and the truce, what does that mean they've won
Speaker 1: the war. They've already announced that on television State run TV.
Speaker 1: We have succeeded. We have forced the Israelis into a
Speaker 1: truce because we have complete victory. Okay, sure, why not
Speaker 1: now that happens on a regular basis. Nineteen sixty seven,
Speaker 1: the sixty seven war, six Day War, the the Egyptians
Speaker 1: said that they have taken out the Israeli air force,
Speaker 1: and their planes were in the air and successfully fighting
Speaker 1: off the Israeli air force coming in and attacking. There
Speaker 1: was not one Egyptian plane that made it off the runway.
Speaker 1: Every one of them were destroyed by the air force.
Speaker 1: But in the Arab world, we win, you know, our
Speaker 1: army is wiped out, our air force is wiped out.
Speaker 1: Iran has its nuclear facilities decimated, its anti missile all
Speaker 1: of its defenses gone. Israel has complete superiority on the air,
Speaker 1: can bomb anything it wants and it can't be stopped.
Speaker 1: But Iran has won. They've declared victory. Man, don't you
Speaker 1: love it? Okay? Now, one of the things about immigration,
Speaker 1: the Ice folks, is they're picking up people like crazyationally.
Speaker 1: The announcement from the president was it went from We're
Speaker 1: going to deport eleven million people. Okay, how's that for possible?
Speaker 1: And then only the bad guys. Only people were looking
Speaker 1: for the criminals, the real bad guys. Stephen Miller, who
Speaker 1: is a real conservative and an advisor to the president,
Speaker 1: is a big fan of picking up as many people
Speaker 1: as possible, and he wanted three thousand people a day
Speaker 1: picked up. Well, bad guys. You have to look for
Speaker 1: the people at car washes. You just go there and
Speaker 1: pick them up. The folks at home depot, those casual labors,
Speaker 1: those Hispanic guys who simply want to work for moderate
Speaker 1: wages and do casual labor. That's easy to pick up.
Speaker 1: And that's what's going on. And these really aggressive immigration raids,
Speaker 1: and the federal agents are masked, they're using unmarked vehicles.
Speaker 1: Big problems for both law enforcement local law enforcement, and
Speaker 1: how is that. Well, local law enforcement has been working
Speaker 1: and dealing with local communities and trying to put together
Speaker 1: a relationship. And because some of these ice agents have
Speaker 1: police written on the back of their jackets, people are
Speaker 1: conflating them and all of a sudden, it's the local
Speaker 1: police that are picking people up, and they don't know.
Speaker 1: No one knows the difference. In Bell last week, mass
Speaker 1: men arrive at a car wash and begin detaining workers.
Speaker 1: They're in a confrontation with residents and rights advocates, immigration
Speaker 1: rights advocates. They were forced to leave the immigration folks.
Speaker 1: I mean they were driving over curbs and islands to
Speaker 1: get out. Pasadena last week, a man steps out of
Speaker 1: his unmarked car at an intersection, takes out his pistol,
Speaker 1: aims it at a group of pedestrians before returning to
Speaker 1: the car. And then he turns on the red and
Speaker 1: blue emergency lights emergency lights on his car, and off
Speaker 1: he goes. And there was video of that, and so
Speaker 1: people got his driver's license is a license plate A
Speaker 1: let's find out. Well, guess what couple things. Federal agents
Speaker 1: are not subject to the same controls as local police.
Speaker 1: A policeman harasses you and arrests you without probable cause.
Speaker 1: I mean that cop is in trouble. A federal agent
Speaker 1: is immune can basically do whatever the hell he or
Speaker 1: she wants. By the way, they track down that license
Speaker 1: plate and you know what they found. It was a
Speaker 1: cold plate. Is does that mean it's untraceable and typically
Speaker 1: used by law enforcement in undercover criminal operations. You can't
Speaker 1: trace it, and that's what the Feds are using. There
Speaker 1: is effectively what people are saying. As these federal agents
Speaker 1: show up as who are these guys, they're not clearly delineated.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, they don't show warrants. They just
Speaker 1: pick up people, detain them, question them, forget about probable cause.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine local cops stopping someone simply because the
Speaker 1: color of his or her skin. They're immune, and so
Speaker 1: people are pretty upset about it. To say the least,
Speaker 1: they wear vests. That's very funny. Karen Bess, is something
Speaker 1: really interesting about the vests that a lot of them
Speaker 1: were wearing the bulletproof vests said, these look like you
Speaker 1: can buy these on Amazon. They're so cheesy. So we're
Speaker 1: going to see we have gone from let's arrest and
Speaker 1: deport the bad guys to well, if you are hispanic,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people I mean you look
Speaker 1: at look at the parking lots of the home depots,
Speaker 1: look at the car washes, and see how many people
Speaker 1: are there and not showing up to work. A story
Speaker 1: of food that I want to bring Neil into and
Speaker 1: that is there is a state that did not grow
Speaker 1: tomatoes which is now growing tomatoes, Florida. And why are
Speaker 1: the Florida tomatoes becoming more and more prevalent. Well because
Speaker 1: a twenty one percent tariff into against Mexican tomatoes start.
Speaker 1: It's July four, and so here is Florida's tomato industry.
Speaker 1: The guy who owns Litman Family Farms, one of the
Speaker 1: largest growers of tomatoes in the United States, even he
Speaker 1: admits the mediocrity of Florida feel grown tomatoes. Don't expect
Speaker 1: the red, ripened, the vine ripe and tomatoes our grandparents grew.
Speaker 1: We've got to get tomato from i Milaukee, Florida to
Speaker 1: Saint Louis and your grandma's tomato wouldn't make it. So
Speaker 1: you got to make choices. So that means breeding tomatoes
Speaker 1: not for flavor, but for survivability against disease insects, shipping
Speaker 1: Florida weather, heat, and another thing that some tomatoes are
Speaker 1: bread for just to fit that hamburger patty perfectly. So Neil,
Speaker 1: I have eaten tomatoes that are grown locally off of farms,
Speaker 1: and it is a world of difference. Why why do
Speaker 1: people put up with that kind of crap?
Speaker 2: You know, the points that you made are so American
Speaker 2: that we're breeding them not for flavor, because keep in mind,
Speaker 2: sugar is something that attracts bacteria, So when they're creating
Speaker 2: these tomatoes and breeding them, they're pulling out things like
Speaker 2: sugar so they don't attract the bugs, which changes the flavor,
Speaker 2: the sweetness and all of those things. They also, like
Speaker 2: you pointed out, want them to be able to travel.
Speaker 2: So the more that you start tinkering with these things,
Speaker 2: the more you are changing, you know, soils, you're genetically
Speaker 2: modifying these things. You just get something that looks like
Speaker 2: a tomato and that's it, basically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not very flavorful. That rich tomato flavor you don't
Speaker 1: get from tomatoes. How about the vine ripen tomatoes that
Speaker 1: you get in the store with the little you know,
Speaker 1: the vine part of it.
Speaker 2: I still think they're garbage personally, So you are better off.
Speaker 2: And I tell people this on the fork port all
Speaker 2: the time. You're better off getting a canned tomato that
Speaker 2: was came from somewhere else, that was picked at its
Speaker 2: prime and put into a can. Then you are getting
Speaker 2: what looks like a fresh tomato on the vine that
Speaker 2: is basically tasteless or maybe even mealy or something like that.
Speaker 2: I can't stand the flavorless tomatoes that are out there,
Speaker 2: and they used to be more seasonal. So now what
Speaker 2: they're trying to do is keep them in season. And
Speaker 2: you're throwing a lot of a lot of You're putting
Speaker 2: a lot of boxes that need to be checked travel pesticides,
Speaker 2: the appearance to keep the skins them looking good. You're
Speaker 2: substituting that for flavor.
Speaker 1: Hey, let me ask you talk about cant tomatoes, which
Speaker 1: I've ever done. Don't they get mushy? Uh? Where you're
Speaker 1: getting like a real mush tomato.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not something you're gonna slice and put on
Speaker 2: a you know, it's not something you're gonna put on
Speaker 2: a sand burger, okay, or even a burger. But for
Speaker 2: making a sauce, absolutely okay. You you uh, the Italian
Speaker 2: tomatoes are going to be just wonderful in a can
Speaker 2: and the ones that you're getting the on vine and
Speaker 2: all that stuff there, A lot of them are just garbage.
Speaker 1: Well, how about when you buy tomato sauce or a
Speaker 1: pizza sauce or you know, just a pasta sauce. Well
Speaker 1: kind of tomatoes are used in.
Speaker 2: Those sand marzano the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know whatever, ragu or no, that's that's that
Speaker 3: You're going to uh A a traditional Italian tomato.
Speaker 2: Like the sand barzana there.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the tomato itself. That is the one
Speaker 1: you want. Yes, all right, So if I buy a
Speaker 1: cheap bottle of prey Go tomato sauce, am I getting
Speaker 1: good tomatoes?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know exactly what's in there, but
Speaker 2: there's so many preservatives and salt and all this other
Speaker 2: stuff in there. But yes, any true Italian sauce or gravy,
Speaker 2: if you will, is going to be those traditional tomatoes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now I was looking.
Speaker 2: You can find them on Amazon, I get you know,
Speaker 2: if you can't find them in your grocer, you can
Speaker 2: find them at a local Italian shop or on Amazon.
Speaker 1: Even I was looking forward today to a tomato sandwich
Speaker 1: with lettuce and mayonnaise on wonderbread. There's just something about that.
Speaker 1: A Florida tomato sandwich. We'll be back. Heirloom.
Speaker 2: You go to your local farmer's market, get a good tomato.
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