Speaker 1: And welcome back to The Michael Cone Show on our
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Speaker 1: the chaos, it's not stopping now. Yesterday, Israel Ramas. This
Speaker 1: is great. They agree to the first phase of the
Speaker 1: peace plan. I couldn't be happier now. While this is
Speaker 1: a great step in the right direction, this deal, it
Speaker 1: still must be signed off by Israel's wark cabinet, and
Speaker 1: we also, at the same time must remember that Trump's
Speaker 1: peace efforts domestically important are nonexistent. Let's go over the
Speaker 1: irony of it all. Last night, Trump goes on and
Speaker 1: he posts this on truth Social announcing that a deal
Speaker 1: had been made. Let me show it to you. In it,
Speaker 1: he turns on and says, I'm very proud to announce
Speaker 1: that Israel and Ramas have both signed off on the
Speaker 1: first phase of our peace plan. This means that all
Speaker 1: the hostages will be released very soon and Israel will
Speaker 1: withdraw their troops to an agreed uponline as the first
Speaker 1: steps towards a strong, durable and everlasting peace. All parties
Speaker 1: will be treated fairly. This is a great day. For
Speaker 1: the Arab and Muslim world, Israel and all surrounding nations,
Speaker 1: and the United States of America. And we thank the
Speaker 1: mediators from Kutter, Egypt and Turkey who worked with us
Speaker 1: to make this historic and unprecedented event happen. Blessed are
Speaker 1: the peacemakers. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States
Speaker 1: of America. Now you may ask, how did such a
Speaker 1: thing end up coming to our attention. Well, Trump called
Speaker 1: into Fox as well, saying that Gaza will be safer,
Speaker 1: more peaceful place. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: Well, Gaza is going to be a peaceful, much safer place.
Speaker 2: Obviously it's been blown to pieces. And this is just
Speaker 2: not by Israel. This is over years and years and years.
Speaker 2: It's been heartache for many years. A lot of people
Speaker 2: say this is a deal for three thousand years though,
Speaker 2: whether you say five hundred, because some people say five
Speaker 2: hundred based on events, but other people say this is
Speaker 2: something historic for three thousand years. There's nothing ever going
Speaker 2: to be bigger than this.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's right, Maybe he's right. Since the beginning of time,
Speaker 1: literally three thousand years, there's been chaos and death for
Speaker 1: no reason at all. But he also said that he
Speaker 1: just spoke with bb Net in Yahoo, who was excited
Speaker 1: that people in Israel like him again. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: It's brought the whole world together. It's amazing. I've never
Speaker 2: seen anything. And it's so good for Israel. I spoke
Speaker 2: to bb net and Yahoo just a little while ago.
Speaker 2: He called. He said, I can't believe it. He said,
Speaker 2: everybody's liking me now. They're meaning him, he said, And
Speaker 2: I said that more importantly, they're loving Israel again. And
Speaker 2: they really are. It's I said, Israel cannot fight the world.
Speaker 2: Maybe they can't fight the world. And he understands that
Speaker 2: very well. So huh.
Speaker 1: Things get a little bit crazier in the conversation where
Speaker 1: Trump goes on and he makes this claim that tariffs
Speaker 1: are saving millions of lives. Play that clip.
Speaker 2: At least five of the seven that we've done so far,
Speaker 2: it was through trade. That we're not going to deal
Speaker 2: with people that fight, We're not going to deal, and
Speaker 2: we're going to put tariffs on you. We're not going
Speaker 2: to let you deal in the United States, We'll put
Speaker 2: tariffs on you. And without that, without the tariffs, I
Speaker 2: mean far more than even the money that we're taking it,
Speaker 2: which is trillions of dollars, essentially trillions of dollars, far
Speaker 2: much more important. It gives you a tremendous road to
Speaker 2: piece and the saving of millions of lives, just millions
Speaker 2: and millions of lives. You look at India and Pakistan
Speaker 2: and I said, well, we're not going to do business
Speaker 2: with either of you if you don't, if you don't
Speaker 2: put it together. These are two nuclear nations that were
Speaker 2: seven planes were shot down, as you know, and they
Speaker 2: were really at it. They were going to and I said,
Speaker 2: we're not going to do any business with you. We're
Speaker 2: not going to have anything to do with you. We're
Speaker 2: going to put massive tariffs on you, both in both cases.
Speaker 2: And they said, well, we've got to start talking about this.
Speaker 2: This is tremendous amounts of money and power we're dealing with.
Speaker 2: And within twenty four hours I had a piece deal
Speaker 2: they made they stopped, they stopped the fighting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The interesting thing is that neither of the two
Speaker 1: prime ministers of those countries acknowledge what he's saying, and
Speaker 1: yet we keep hearing the same repetitive comments about taking
Speaker 1: in trillions and trillions, that this is done as a
Speaker 1: result of tariffs. In fact, in fact, if you go
Speaker 1: ahead and you take a look. What have people done.
Speaker 1: They flock to places like China in order to get
Speaker 1: the goods that they're no longer getting from America. Now
Speaker 1: I want to go to this morning, because again, the
Speaker 1: chaos is not going to stop. This morning, Trump posted
Speaker 1: this on truth Social calling out a MAGA representative. Let
Speaker 1: me show you what he says in it. He writes,
Speaker 1: I'd like to thank Republican Congressman Brian Mass of Florida
Speaker 1: for his brilliant words and analysis on the return of
Speaker 1: the hostages and peace in the Middle East this morning
Speaker 1: on Fox and Friends. Thank you, Brian. President DJT. Now,
Speaker 1: let me go back and remind each and every one
Speaker 1: of you, all right that hostages have not been released yet.
Speaker 1: You still need the war Cabinet. There are many things
Speaker 1: Hamas could actually despite the fact that they allegedly agreed
Speaker 1: to everything they can and do what they've done before
Speaker 1: so many times, just absolutely ignore whatever the deal was.
Speaker 1: In fact, just so you understand what Brian Mass said,
Speaker 1: let me show you the clip of his comment. Play it.
Speaker 3: This is monumental. Everybody's been talking about. Will he get
Speaker 3: the Nobel Peace Prize? Those groups of academics and elites
Speaker 3: sitting in Norway, that board of people that decides this,
Speaker 3: they need to give President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize
Speaker 3: for his efforts on this, India, Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbijan, Democratic
Speaker 3: Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. The list goes on and on.
Speaker 3: He's done more in ten months to make it actually
Speaker 3: mean something when people say the full weight and force
Speaker 3: of the United States of America. He's done more to
Speaker 3: make that mean something in ten months than what's been
Speaker 3: done over the last five years. And that is bringing
Speaker 3: peace through strength. I'm not certain that the board in
Speaker 3: Norway that looks at this believes in peace through strength.
Speaker 3: I think they believe in peace through pandering. But just
Speaker 3: thank God for the work that President Trump, his envoy
Speaker 3: Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, his son in law, that they
Speaker 3: have been doing on this means so much to the world,
Speaker 3: peace throughout the Middle East, and for all of those families.
Speaker 1: I think all those boards and commissions, if they don't
Speaker 1: give it to them, I think they essentially lost all credibility.
Speaker 4: If this is in peace, I don't know what is.
Speaker 1: I'm curious. Yeah, again, these two couldn't be parroting the
Speaker 1: Republican talking points on this issue any better if they
Speaker 1: were reading it off of the script. Oh shit, they
Speaker 1: probably were. Now let me be clear about something. I
Speaker 1: know Donald Trump. I know him better than both of
Speaker 1: these two idiots combined by a multiple of maybe a thousand.
Speaker 1: I work for him for fifteen years. I know how
Speaker 1: badly he wants to be remembered as the man who
Speaker 1: did what no one else could, and that's to etch
Speaker 1: his name into history as a peacemaker. In this moment,
Speaker 1: whether it's out of ego or whether it's actually a
Speaker 1: genuine drive, Donald Trump actually achieved something real, something truly historic.
Speaker 1: And if, and I'm going to say that again, if
Speaker 1: the agreement holds, it will be one of the most
Speaker 1: consequential diplomatic wins in decades. But here, my friends, is
Speaker 1: where the danger comes in. See nobody's talking about this.
Speaker 1: Trump is besking in praise, like from these two idiots
Speaker 1: about what he's done abroad. He's taking a darker turn
Speaker 1: right here at home. So even as he announces this
Speaker 1: ceasefire in Gaza, Trump is right this moment he's deploying
Speaker 1: US military forces into Chicago. Five hundred National Guard members,
Speaker 1: some flown from Illinois in, some flown in from Texas, others,
Speaker 1: you know, again from the Illinois area. They've all been mobilized,
Speaker 1: despite despite the fierce opposition from the state's own governor.
Speaker 1: Governor Pritzker has actually called it exactly what it is,
Speaker 1: and that, my friends, is an invasion. I mean, the
Speaker 1: irony of this whole situation is that, you know, while
Speaker 1: Trump's Lackey's a complaining and they're campaigning for Trump to
Speaker 1: receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump, as I just said,
Speaker 1: is declaring war, but here on our own soil. During
Speaker 1: an Antifa round table yesterday, I mean again, we could
Speaker 1: go into Antifa for hours. Antifa is an idea, it's
Speaker 1: not an organization. Trump spoke about Portland, saying that it
Speaker 1: looks like a movie set with fires everywhere and things
Speaker 1: being destroyed. Somewhere along the line, I think he's confused.
Speaker 1: I think maybe he's confusing Portland with Gaza. Play the clip.
Speaker 5: The amazing thing is you look at Portland and you
Speaker 5: see fires all over the place, you see fights, and
Speaker 5: I mean just violence. It's just so crazy. And then
Speaker 5: you talk to the governor and she's actually like everything
Speaker 5: is totally normal.
Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong.
Speaker 5: It's almost like are you waking up from a dream
Speaker 5: or something. You see it on your network, you see
Speaker 5: it all over the place, and it's so bad. It's
Speaker 5: so crazy. It's like the movies you see for the kids.
Speaker 5: I guess not only the kids, adults also where you
Speaker 5: have these bombed out cities and he's bombed out people.
Speaker 5: It's like worse than that. I don't think they could
Speaker 5: make a movie as bad.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, seriously, seriously. Trump then also said that
Speaker 1: DC serves Washington. DC serves as an example of what
Speaker 1: can happen when you bring in the National Guard.
Speaker 2: Play that clip the town, and so we're very proud
Speaker 2: of DC, and it serves as a catalyst, and it
Speaker 2: serves as really an example of what can be done.
Speaker 2: But to do that, you have to bring people in
Speaker 2: to do it. You can't have woke police, people that
Speaker 2: aren't suited to be police. You can't have the kind
Speaker 2: of problems that we have that is, I mean almost
Speaker 2: in all cases it's Democrat run cities. So you can't
Speaker 2: do that. So we're very proud of Washington. It's a
Speaker 2: safe place and everybody should you want to see some
Speaker 2: beautiful things in Washington. You go and you go there
Speaker 2: right now, you probably your biggest problem is going to
Speaker 2: be you're probably not going to be able to get
Speaker 2: into a restaurant. They're back and they're booming again.
Speaker 1: I want to be very clear about what this actually
Speaker 1: and truly means. When the president uses the military not
Speaker 1: to defend against foreign enemies, but to intimidate and to
Speaker 1: punish domestic political opponents, democracy itself is on life support.
Speaker 1: I want to be clear. This is not i'll say
Speaker 1: it again, not law enforcement. This is not, i'll say
Speaker 1: it again, not about public safety. This is about the
Speaker 1: raw exercise of unchecked power. Now, yesterday Trump also said
Speaker 1: that he took away the freedom of speech. I know
Speaker 1: what that's all about. I mean not sure that removing
Speaker 1: the First Amendment is going to get you the Nobel
Speaker 1: Peace price. Let me show you what he meant. Play
Speaker 1: the clip.
Speaker 5: Flag burning mob, and we've made it one year penalty
Speaker 5: for inciting riots. We took the freedom of speech away
Speaker 5: because that's been through the courts and the court said
Speaker 5: you have freedom of speech. But what has happened is
Speaker 5: when they burn a flag, it agitates and irritates crowds
Speaker 5: I've never seen anything like it on both sides and
Speaker 5: you end up with riots. So we're going on that basis.
Speaker 5: We're looking at it from the freedom of speech, which
Speaker 5: I always felt strongly about but never passed the courts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it didn't pass the courts because it's illegal and unconstitutional. Now,
Speaker 1: during that roundtable, the Attorney General Pam Bondi, she said
Speaker 1: that she would be going after Antifa the same way
Speaker 1: that they go after cartels. First thing I thought of
Speaker 1: when she said it was does that mean that they're
Speaker 1: going to start attacking us fishing boats with drones or
Speaker 1: maybe cars play the clippers.
Speaker 4: We're not going to stop just arresting the violent criminals
Speaker 4: we can see in the streets. Finding crime is more
Speaker 4: than just getting the bad guy off the streets. It's
Speaker 4: breaking down the organisation brick by brick. Just like we
Speaker 4: did with cartels. We're going to take this same approach,
Speaker 4: President Trump with Antifa, destroy the entire organization from top
Speaker 4: to bottom. We're going to take them apart. Thanks to
Speaker 4: your bold leadership and the designation of Antifa as a
Speaker 4: terrorist organization, which is exactly what they are, Americans will
Speaker 4: no longer tolerate their unhinged violence. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Except the problem again, Antifa is not an organization. It
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. There is no president, vice president, treasurer, or secretary.
Speaker 1: There's no headquarters. It's a concept. It's just short for
Speaker 1: anti fascism. And finally, Maga, Mike Johnson, he went on
Speaker 1: c Spend this morning and people called in to speak
Speaker 1: with him. You could imagine seriously how poorly it went.
Speaker 1: But I want to show you one clip of someone
Speaker 1: asking about the exact irony in this video. Play the clip.
Speaker 6: We've just I guess resolved Israel and Gaza with the
Speaker 6: war between them. What about the war that is being
Speaker 6: caused here in America when our president tells the military
Speaker 6: to shoot Americans use the cities as war zones. We
Speaker 6: have to before we throw stones at another country. We
Speaker 6: got to look at our own country, the chaos that
Speaker 6: we're in now. And Representative Johnson, I've heard you say
Speaker 6: that President Trump wants to open the government back up.
Speaker 6: When your words are different from his, when he says
Speaker 6: this is his opportune time to fire people, to close
Speaker 6: up different organizations and things that have been able to
Speaker 6: help people. Please explain that to me.
Speaker 7: You gave me a lot to work with therapists, Patt
Speaker 7: and I wish I had about thirty minutes, so let
Speaker 7: me do it real quick. What you talked about. There's
Speaker 7: President Trump's been accused of saying he wants to have
Speaker 7: a war on American citizens. I have no idea where
Speaker 7: that comes from. It's obviously a misleading talking point. With
Speaker 7: the per asid it said, is he wants to do
Speaker 7: in the big cities we have major crime crises. What
Speaker 7: we've done in DC they deployed National Guard troops here
Speaker 7: and everyone is safe again. People can walk to and
Speaker 7: from My young staffers can walk from their car to
Speaker 7: the building to work and not have their purses stolen
Speaker 7: in their cars. Jacket was a crisis in DC, and
Speaker 7: the liberal Democrat mayor of d C has applauded the
Speaker 7: effort and said thank you President Trump for the reinforcements.
Speaker 5: The President did say in that speech to military leaders
Speaker 5: that he wanted to use cities as training grounds for
Speaker 5: the US military.
Speaker 7: Of course, national Guard troops they drill once a month
Speaker 7: so they can be trained. Put them in the cities
Speaker 7: to where it's a win win win. I've talked to
Speaker 7: the National Guard troops in DC they're enjoying what they're doing.
Speaker 1: There, No, they're not. It's a lie and you're lying.
Speaker 1: And let me be very clear, the fragile experiment of
Speaker 1: American democracy is also on the line. That's what I
Speaker 1: talk about in my sub stack Gaza comms as Domestic
Speaker 1: storm erupts and as always, thanks for listening. Hey everyone,
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