Ep. 2378 - BREAKING: Trump DEVASTATES Iranian Defenses, Iran Attacks EVERYONE

0:00Rinse knows that greatness takes time, but so does laundry. So rinse will take your laundry and hand-deliver it to your door, expertly cleaned. And you can take the time pursuing your passions. Time one spent sorting and waiting, folding and queuing, now spent challenging and innovating and pushing your way to greatness. So pick up the Irish flute or those calligraphy pens, or that daunting beef Wellington recipe card, and leave the laundry to us. Rinse, it's time to be great! Well, we are in day three of President Trump's military operation in Iran. It's the most courageous military decision of my lifetime, and we are kicking ass. The United States military, the Israeli military, working in tandem, are kicking the hell out of the Iranian government. How are they planning on fighting back? Well, they have friends. They're counting on pathetic muleing Europeans. They're ridiculous, sad, sad Democrats just hate Trump. And don't care about America winning. And most of all, they're counting on vicious, parasitical, horse shoe, right wing isolation, somehow whine the President into leaving the battlefield.

1:00If you wish to follow a movement led by closeted and not so closeted homosexuals, then I guess you could do that, or perhaps these people are maybe worth ignoring. Because President Trump's strength here has truly exposed the peddlers of horse on all sides. Now folks, we've been covering this live all weekend long. We'll bring you soup to nuts coverage, the experts, the analysis you want, all of it. You need to go to dailywire.com right now and subscribe so we can continue to do that sort of stuff and bring you the content you love dailywire.com. Thanks for your help. And I want to start by just reiterating why we are doing this in the first place. The President has made that very clear. But there are a bunch of reasons why we are doing this. Typically, there are a few reasons why you end up pursuing military action directed at the top of regime. One is that there's a direct attack from that regime upon you. Now did Iran attack us? The answer is that since 1979, the number of American deaths that have been caused by Iran and by its proxy terrorist groups, at least 1,000 dead, plus a couple of attempts at assassinations on the president of the United States.

2:04We are talking military personnel. We are talking diplomats. If you're including Afghanistan, where Iran was shipping IEDs into Afghanistan to help the Taliban, you're talking about at least 1,500 deaths. But if you go all the way back to 1979 when the Ayatollahs took over during the Iranian revolution, you'll remember the first thing that students did is they proceeded to take American hostages at the embassy and hold them for over 400 days. Then in 1983, Khizbalah, which was the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group, Khizbalah attacked the U.S. embassy. They attacked also the Marine barracks in Lebanon. The total dead in those two attacks alone, 258. It was just in 1983 going all the way back. Then you move forward to 1988 and harassment of shipping in the waterways around Iran of American shipping led the United States in operation, praying mantis to sink the entire Iranian navy. Then throughout the 1990s, Iran pursued a nuclear weapon.

3:07They started their pursuit back then. They were unsuccessful in actually obtaining one, but they were starting that pursuit at that time and they were spreading their terror tentacles all over the Middle East. They were building up their terror proxy groups all over the Middle East. The United States at that point had a dual containment policy toward Iran and Iraq because Iraq, of course, was run by the tyrant Saddam Hussein and Iran was being run by the Ayatollahs. And the basic idea was they hated one another. They had engaged in a decade long war in the 1980s, in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed. The United States's policy was trying to keep both of those contained. It was only semi-successful. In 1996, the Kobar Towers bombing by the Iranian-supported Khizbalah in Saudi Arabia killed 19 Americans in 2000, the bombing of the USS Cole off of Yemen, by al-Qaeda supported largely by Iran, 17 killed, and then of course from 2003 to 2011, after the breakdown of the Iraqi government, after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, Iranian-backed militias took over large swaths of Iraq

4:10or at least resisted American rule of Iraq and killed somewhere between 600 and 1,100 American soldiers. And then of course, this whole time Iran was seeking nuclear weapons, spreading its terror tentacles to Lebanon, to Syria, to Gaza, which culminated on October 7th, when of course Hamas and Iranian-sponsored terror group killed 1200 Israeli citizens and took 250 hostage and prompted a seven front war on Israel, which ended with Israel basically destroying many of the proxy arms of the Iranian government. All of that finally culminated in President Trump in 2025. You'll recall the 12-day war just last year, when there was a direct attack by the Israelis on the Iranians following multiple rounds of missiles shot by Iran directly at Israel. Israel went in to try to take out their nuclear facilities, as well as their ballistic missile facilities, and in 12 days established air dominance destroyed pretty much the entire

5:12air system, air defense system for Iran, and then the very end President Trump authorized Operation Midnight Hammer to strike the Fordo nuclear facility and take out their nuclear weapons. Why exactly is it all that happened again? Because Iran has been unendingly, unceasingly antagonistic toward the United States since 1979, as well as the allies of the United States not limited, of course, to Israel, but also including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain. And you can see that in what has been going on over the course of the first couple of days of this war, where Iran has fired off material at a wide variety of countries, pretty much every country in the Middle East, actually, because it turns out that Iran is a threat to the Middle East. This is a point that President Trump made. He made a speech yesterday morning, and Sunday morning, where he explained that Iran has waged war on civilization. We pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen, and sadly,

6:15there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is, likely be more, but we'll do everything possible, where that won't be the case. But America will avenge their deaths and deliver the most punishing blow to the terrorists who have waged war against basically civilization. They have waged war against civilization itself. The President of the United States not wrong about this. So what is the purpose? What is the goal of this war? So really, it's a two step. Step one basically has been achieved already. And really, in the first three days, and certainly by the end of this week, step one will have been largely achieved. One, destroying the ability of the Iranian regime to pose an external threat of threat to other countries and to American interests abroad and to spread its terror tentacles into South America, into Latin America, into Europe. That is the goal. The goal, number one, destroyed the ability of Iran to project power. So that came in two steps.

7:18First, decapitate the regime. That was the very first thing that the United States along with Israel did, an extraordinary feat of intelligence and military might. The United States apparently the CIA working in coordination with the Israeli Air Force found the place and time at which Ayatollah Khameini was meeting with a bevy of his top generals, including the chief of staff of the IRGC. That's the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. That's basically the Praetorian Guard for the regime. So there's the Iranian Army, which is kind of a normal army. And then you have the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the terrorist apparatus. You'll remember that the head of the IRGC, the terror sponsor of the IRGC, Kasem Salimani was killed by President Trump at the very tail end of his first term in office. Well, this strike basically decapitated the top levels of the regime. So successful there. And that decapitation goes on. Top members of the IRGC are being targeted. Top members of the Iranian government are being targeted, including former top members of the

8:18Iranian government. I don't know where Columbia University is going to go to get speakers anymore because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed in the first couple of days of this war. You'll remember the former Iranian president who had threatened to wipe Israel off the map and then welcome to Columbia University to speak. Well, unfortunately, Columbia is going to have to look to other speakers bureau other than the Tehran speakers bureau. Secondarily, after decapitating the regime or while doing so, destroying the forward capacity for Iran to make war, that is the other thing that the Trump administration is pursuing. And that means targeting not only its nuclear facilities and it's possible future nuclear development, but also its ballistic missile facilities and it's possibility of firing ballistic missiles capable of hitting a large part of the Middle East. One of the most amazing things and we'll go through the operation as the as the show goes on. One of the most incredible things is the lack of full scale capacity by Iran to retaliate unmask. Realistically speaking, what we are watching right now is one of the most competent military operations in all of human history, truly. Because Iran had literally thousands of missiles,

9:21it had hundreds of ballistic missiles. And in the opening salvo, the Israeli Air Force, the American Air Force, working jointly, destroyed a huge swath up to 50% of all ballistic missile capacity in Iran. In fact, the air dominance in the Middle East by the Americans and the Israelis over Iran right now is so complete that it's very difficult for the Iranians to even fire up their ballistic missile launchers. It takes a moment for them to heat up and you can see the heat signature. And before those things are heating up, the Americans are blowing them out of the water. It's absolutely incredible. So destroying the Iranians forward capacity to make war, that is a massive, massive feat. Now again, that had really started in the aftermath of October 7th when the Israeli military took it to Khizbollah in Lebanon, took it to Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And then during the 12-day war, took it to Iran directly. But remember, it's been a Yemeni Iranian-backed Houthi terror group that has been harassing shipping in the Suez Canal.

10:22Destroying Iran's forward capacity will greatly move the entire region to our prosperity and peace. So we're going to get into everything that's currently going on on the ground. Plus, we're going to talk about what Iran is doing to try to counter the United States. The answer is they're counting on some very specific Americans. We get to all that in a moment first. If you're trying to protect yourself when it comes to your data, there's only one choice. Express VPN. I use Express VPN all the time. It's literally on my phone. It's on my computer. It means that people cannot get my data because I'm encrypting my data. That is what Express VPN does. It's an app that roots all your online activity through secure encrypted servers. Without it, your internet provider can log everything you do. In the United States, they can even sell that data. Well, now with Express VPN, I use it every time I travel. Again, I travel all the time. Hell, I use it at home as well. Public Wi-Fi, like airports, coffee shops. That's a total disaster zone for hackers. You got a bunch of random people sitting around who have transparency into your computer. Unless you've got Express VPN and encrypt your connection, protect your passwords, credit cards, personal info. It even

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12:24of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across many countries. Last night, all over Iran, the voices of the Iranian people could be heard cheering and celebrating in the streets when his death was announced. The entire military command is gone as well and many of them want to surrender into saving their lives. They want immunity. They're calling by the thousands. Combat operations continue at this time in full force and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives. They could have done something two weeks ago, but they just couldn't get there. Okay, well, what he says right now, President Trump, many people are asking, why attack now? Why do it now? And the answer is opportunity.

13:28The fact is the Iranians were apparently rapidly reskilling their ballistic missile capacity. Now, a lot of people talk about the Iranians gaining a nuclear weapon. Obviously, that would have been disastrous, not just because Iran has made clear its intent to use nuclear weapons against the Jewish state, but also because once you have a nuclear weapon, as we now notice with North Korea, it is almost impossible to take forward action to stop the militants of a regime, particularly a regime as poisonous as the Iranian regime. And once you have a nuclear weapon, basically, you can now say to all of your terrorist groups, go to town because of any retaliation and you can threaten a nuclear fire. This has been one of the big problems, for example, in the Russia Ukraine more, is the fear that if we go too hard against Russia, Russia will fire in the news. The best you can hope for is a standstill lever of victory because of the destruction of the air defense systems provided by Russia and China in the 12-day war. Well, this was a unique opportunity. And that unique opportunity became even more unique after

14:28the mass protests began in December by the Iranian people against the regime. President Trump saw a window of opportunity. And again, I'm sort of astonished by folks who are arguing that the best policy when you see a window of opportunity is to go to sleep. One of the beautiful things about being an isolationist is that you always get the counterfactual on your side. You always got to say a military intervention went wrong, but it turns out there are lots of counterfactuals in which actual preemptive war-making might have forced thorn, might have stopped true genocidal intent. There are so many instances of this throughout history that boggles the mind, whether you're talking about the rise of the Russian revolutionaries in the aftermath of the fall of the Tsar in 1917. What would have happened if the West had had these stones enough to actually stop the rise of the Bolsheviks in Russia? Totally different map for an entire century essentially. Probably World War II doesn't happen. What would have happened if the West had had the

15:31strength to actually stop the rearmament of Hitler? What would have actually happened? If the West had, for example, taken out Osama bin Laden in the aftermath of the USS colon instead of jacking around, it turns out that coherent, solid action. We're not talking here gigantic wars. We are talking about operations like this one targeted action can provide serious upside and limited downside. That's what we are talking about right here. That is the counterfactual that we should be looking at right now. Turns out the only counterfactual is not a rock or Vietnam. Sometimes there are other counterfactuals to examine as well. That is what President Trump was saying yesterday he said that the goal here is to ensure security for generations. That is indeed the burden of the United States. We're undertaking this massive operation not merely to ensure security for our own time in place, but for our children and their children just as our ancestors have done for us

16:37many, many years ago. This is the duty and the burden of a free people. These actions are right and they are necessary to ensure that Americans will never have to face a radical bloodthirsty terrorist regime armed with nuclear weapons and lots of threats. For almost 50 years these wicked extremists have been attacking the United States while chanting the slogan death to America or death to Israel or both. They are the world's number one state sponsor of terror. We are the world's greatest and most powerful nation so we can do something about what they do. I mean, can't say about that President of the United States spot on again. What he's doing right now is the most courageous thing I have ever seen a President do. He is stepping into the breach. He is smartly recognizing opportunity when it arises and he is taking strong

17:37steps to protect America's future and not only the future of our allies, but the future of the globe because let's also be real. Want to talk counterfactuals? If the United States does nothing after the President draws a red line, if Iran continues to rebuild its facilities, if Iran continues to act as the linkage, both in terms of oil and weaponry between China and Russia. If that happens, the chances that America's enemies go on the offensive are so much higher than when they look in America and realize you don't screw around with the President of the United States. As the point the President was making when he said to the IRGC, listen, it's time for you guys to surrender or die. Those would be your choices. I once again urge the revolutionary guard, the Iranian military, the police, to lay down your arms and receive full immunity or face certain death. It will be certain death. Won't be pretty. I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this moment, to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take back your country. America

18:40is with you. I made a promise to you, and I fulfilled that promise. The rest will be up to you. Alrighty, so that brings us to step two. Okay, so step one was prevent the external threats from the regime. Turns out decapitating the regime is a great way to do that, and so is destroying its forward capacity to make war. And then you get to the second step, the replacement of the regime. So replacement of the regime, what's going to happen next? That's the big question everybody has what comes next. Okay, well, first of all, as Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War said this morning, he said, listen, this is not an endless war. It boggles my mind that we are talking about an endless war right now. Can I just say that people who are saying that this is an endless war, and we are three days in, stop being children, stop being children, three days, three days, from this administration. Now listen, I don't think anyone has an obligation to quote unquote

19:43trust Trump or trust the president or anything like that. We're citizens. We're not subjects. With that said, if you look at President Trump's record of military interventionism, do you truly believe that this president is going to get sucked into a war involving hundreds of thousands of American troops on the ground if you do you are a moron or a liar? That is the reality. If there's one thing above all, this president does not want, that is an endless war. Let's let's face it. Iran has been waging an endless war on the United States for some five decades, but the United States basically did very little four or five decades. President Trump is changing that. The notion that we are talking endless war three days in. My God, that the purile, are we there yet? Of the online chattering class insane, insane. Here's Pete Hegseth bashing people over this correctly. To the media outlets and political left screaming endless wars, stop. This is not Iraq. This is not endless. I was there for both.

20:44Our generation knows better and so does this president. He called the last 20 years of nation building wars dumb and he's right. This is the opposite. This operation is a clear, devastating, decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the Navy, no nooks. Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners, as we've said since the beginning, capable partners are good partners. Unlike so many of our traditional allies who ring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force. That's right. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth saying it right on the mark. So what does that look like? First of all, prevent the consolidation of a force to stop a people's revolution. So one of the big things that drove all of this, you'll recall if you own a calendar, is that at the end of December, mass protests broke out across Iran because Iran's economy

21:46has been totally shellacked by the Trump sanctions and also by the fact that, you know, they are in Islamist hellhole run by radical Shia clerics. And so because of that, the Iranian Riyal was worthless. When you're talking about wheelbarrow money, like a wheelbarrow filled with the Iranian Riyal would not buy you a toilet paper roll. I mean, that's how bad it was over there. So people were out in the streets protesting the regime. And so one of the goals here is to prevent the consolidation of a force or re-consolidation of a force that would stop a people's uprising. And so what you are seeing militarily from both the American Air Force as well as the Israeli Air Force is strikes directed at IRGC facilities that would allow for consolidation points so that they could go out and shoot protesters in the street on mass again. That would be one of the goals. And that of course involves Steppe hitting the leadership over and over and over again. Prevent that consolidation. And by the way, the Iranians are already admitting that it's been effective. The Iranian foreign minister went on national TV and basically said that they have lost control of large swaths of their own military. The foreign minister Abbas Arakhi, here he was saying

22:53that the military is effectively independent and isolated. Here he was talking to Al Jazeera, which of course, Al Jazeera is itself an Islamist outlet. What happened in Oman was not our choice. We have already told our army armed forces to be careful about the targets that they choose. As a matter of fact, our military units are now, in fact, independent and somehow isolated. And they are acting based on instructions given to them in advance. That is a tacit admission that the entire line of communication with the top levels is gone because the top level is gone. As President Trump said, the people who we thought we would be negotiating with, those people are also dead. That is not him lamenting that somehow the wrong people were killed. That's him saying that three layers deep, the Iranian government is in serious trouble. And so basically the IRGC has been relegated to a series of regional state level

23:58actors at this point, meaning not federal and consolidated under the domain of a centralized commanding presence. But instead, it's basically a bunch of independent military forces roaming around. I mean, when they're admitting that and they are two days into the war, two and a half days into the war, that is a pretty shocking admission. And as Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina, said on NBC, it is not the job of the United States to pick the next Iranian government. It's up to a run to pick your leader. It's not my job, it's not President Trump's job, we're not going to occupy the country. We're going to give the people a run a chance to do something they've ever had before, chart their own destiny. We're going to take away from any future regime, the ability, any future government, the ability to have a ballistic missile program, a nuclear program, or support terrorism. Well, that brings us to the current status of the operations. In general, Dan Raisincane, he gave a presser a little bit earlier today with Pete Hagset, the Secretary of War. And here's what he had to say about where we are right now.

24:59This operation was highly classified so that at H hour, the enemy would see one thing, speed, surprise, and violence of action. The first movers were US cybercom and US spacecom, layering non-kinetic effects, disrupting and degrading and blinding Iran's ability to see, communicate and respond. At H hour, the beginning of major combat operations, 0-1-15 local eastern daylight time, 9.45 local AM, Tehran time, as dawn crept up across the central command AOR, disguised search to life, more than a hundred aircraft launched from land, sea, fighters, tankers, airborne early warning, electronic attack, bombers from the states and unmanned platforms, forming a single synchronized wave. This was a daylight strike based on a trigger event conducted by the Israeli Defense Forces, enabled by the US intelligence community.

26:02The first shooters at sea were Tomahawks unleashed by the United States Navy, closed in on Iranian naval forces, and began to conduct strikes across the southern flank in Iran. On the ground, forces fired precision, standoff weapons, measured, deliberate, precise, and lethal. This was a massive, overwhelming attack across all domains of warfare, striking more than a thousand targets in the first 24 hours. Now, obviously, we have seen some American casualties that thus far we have seen four Americans who are killed in a missile falling in Kuwait, shot by the Iranians. Of course, are another four American soldiers who were injured in that fall. Obviously, our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the wounded and to the families of those killed in action. These are the best among us. These are the heroes who are there to do the dirty work. They are heroes. And the attempt by some to turn the brave fighting men and women of the armed services into victims

27:05of some sort, like victims of America or victims of bad decision making, or that's not what they are. They are heroes who are willing to do the hard things. No one else is willing to do. And not only did they deserve, obviously, the full measure of our support, but they deserve the full measure of our respect and honor because they're doing something that I didn't do that a huge percentage of Americans did not do. They're the ones who are doing the thing. Here's President Trump paying homage to them. But the only reason we enjoy the quality of life that we do and the freedom and security is we have done things that others are unable to do. But it's because of warriors who are willing to lay down their lives to do battle with our enemies. And they do battle better than anybody. An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be a dire threat to every American. We cannot allow a nation that raises terrorist armies to

28:10possess such weapons that would allow them to extort the world to their evil will. Not going to let it happen. We're not happening to us and we're not going to let it happen to others. Now, meanwhile, three American F-15s were shot down, but not by the Iranians. They were shot down by mistake by the air defense system in Kuwait. All of the pilots are fine. There is footage of these jets sort of almost floating down from the sky. You can sort of see them as they fall down from the sky. The pilots did eject. The pilots are okay. Again, that's a friendly fire incident. As it is worth noting, friendly fire incidents, unfortunately, are a common theme of war. They do happen fairly frequently. It also happens to be true that in terms of the military campaign that is currently being waged, if anyone had suggested that the United States would have established complete air dominance over Iran and taken out the entire top echelon of the Iranian military, as well as Ayatollah Khameini, that the United States would have been completely dominant

29:11in terms of destroying pretty much all the ballistic missile launchers available, ballistic missile facilities, nuclear facilities, and that the total casualty list for the United States would be Fort Ed and Fort Wounded. That would have been an astonishing success of a military operation. Now, undoubtedly, this is going to be a longer operation. Certainly, I'd be shocked if more soldiers are not wounded or killed, because that's the nature of military operations that are inherently dangerous. But that's exactly why we ought to be paying them homage. That's exactly why we ought to be honoring the men and women of the armed services who are doing the hard work that needs to be done. By the way, here is a map since February 28th of strikes on Iran. Pretty astonishing stuff here. You can see these strikes on Iran all over the country, all over the country. The vast population of Iran tends to be in its west, not in its east, which is why you're seeing fewer attacks toward that portion of Iran. Now, the more important map, in terms of what Iran is trying to do, is where they're firing a retaliation. And the answer is pretty much everywhere. They're desperate, and you can see they're desperate. They're attacking Dubai, UAE, Qatar Bahrain, Kuwait, Riyadh, Tel Aviv,

30:16attacked in Jordan, in Frank missiles at Cyprus. They're basically trying desperately, desperately, desperately to get someone to tell the combined forces of the United States and Israel into allies to stop. That's really the strategy here. When it comes to what comes next, I know everyone wants to know what comes next. First of all, again, let the president cook. We're three days in. That's first of all, but Neil Ferguson, the historian, he has a great piece over at the free press today. In which he says, contrary to the criticism already being aired on both the left and the right, Trump is not reverting to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's regime-changed playbook. Regime alteration is the practical consequence of the approach laid out in Trump's national security strategy published late last year. The strategy rules out the deployment of American ground forces other than special forces. It requires a short time frame for military operations. It will disappoint those who want to fast-track Venezuela and Iran to democracy, but the lesson of Iraq has not been lost on Trump. That's why it misses the point to say Trump claims to be an isolationist and he's starting another forever war. One thing says Neil Ferguson, I can confidently promise

31:19about the U.S. Israeli war against the Islamic Republic. It will not last long. That, of course, is exactly right. That's exactly right. President Trump says, by the way, he told the Atlantic that there's still conversations ongoing. Of course, the idea is that he needs to find somebody to negotiate with and that person has to have authority so as to surrender. That is basically what needs to happen. The president says people wanted to do it for 47 years that killed people for 47 years now to reverse on them. Now, one of the concerns here is about the munitions, obviously. And the United States has a limited supply of certain munitions. The Wall Street Journal has a piece on this today. But the point they're making is that actually, again, when I say opportunity arrived, Iran's capacity was greatly diminished by the 12-day war last year, which means that the United States is having to expend less material, particularly when it comes to anti-patriots and bads, then it normally would have to do. The Wall Street Journal points out Iran's retaliation on Saturday has been more ragged than in the 12-day war when it fired more than 500 missiles and

32:24many more attack drones. Israel's announcement that Iran's supreme leader Aitola Ali Khameini was killed in an air strike could also hasten an end to the conflict. So, again, all of this unfolding in real time, Iran, meanwhile, has announced a three-member transitional council. It turns out that their meetings are getting kind of small. No one wants to come to the in-person meetings because a bomb might fall on their head. So they've announced a formation according to Al Jazeera of a three-member transitional council to handle state duties. Following Aitola Khameini's death, Aitola Ali Reza Arrafi, member of a powerful constitutional watchdog according to Al Jazeera was appointed on Sunday to the temporary council. Two other members are President Masud Pizeshkin, who you remember from his warm interview with Tucker Carlson, and Supreme Court Justice Chief Kholam Hossein Mosseini Ahey. So, what exactly is Iran's strategy? He talks about what the U.S. is doing, what's Iran's strategy? The answer is they are desperately trying to get someone to call off the dogs. That's what they are doing. They're trying to attack everyone as far as they can see to try to get them to whine to President Trump to stop. That's what

33:28this is. They don't want to cry. They don't want to cry. Uncle, they're calling for mommy. They're hoping that mommy stops daddy from doing the thing. That's what's happening right now, which is why they have not just attacked Israel, right, which of course, launched the joint attack with the United States. They attacked Saudi, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Oman, which was a negotiating center, Syria, and Cyprus. And on Cyprus, they're attacking not just the resources of the United States. They're attacking the resources of France, Italy and the UK. What they are counting on is that the world will be stupid enough to take the side of the Iranian regime. And they know there's almost stop at almost end. Because again, international law is written by the most isolated of international institutions, a wretched hive of scum and villainy led by some of the worst people on earth, including the UN Chief Antonio Guadieras, who condemned the attack. Truly amazing. The UN, which can't bring itself to condemn pretty much anything that Islamic terrorists and radicals do, they came out full-scale and condemned this. Who gives that?

34:29Who gives it? Honestly, I hope that as one of President Trump's actions over the course of the next three years, defund the damned organization. The UN is a trashy, but should be defunded. We should kick those assholes off American soil. Just tell them they can take their diplomatic community and shove it and take over that very, very wealthy tear. You know what? Fine. Give it to Zorn Mondani and build affordable housing where the UN currently stands. I don't even care. Just get those, what a trash organization this is. Here's Antonio Guadieras representing this trash organization. National law and international humanitarian law must always be respected. That is why since this morning, I have condemned the massive military strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran. Wow. Well, with that condemnation, can I also get five dollars in a cup of coffee? Who cares? Who cares? I know President Trump doesn't care. So the Iranians are also counting on the Europeans who are such pansies. I mean, honest to God, thank God for President Trump

35:30seriously. The only thing that has injected any spine in them at all is President Trump telling them that they need to man up when it comes to Ukraine because I mean, the spineless codfish that is Kira Starmer. I mean, that dude, that dude is a soggy wet sponge of a human being, Kira Starmer. What a pathetic specimen he is, the prime minister of the UK. So British resources are being attacked in the Mediterranean by the Iranians. And Starmer is like, we don't like that. We don't like that. They're attacking us, but we also don't like that it's an attack taking place. But also, we had told the Americans they can't use our bases. But now we think that maybe the Americans can use our bases, but we'll, but we'll get them a little while they do it. And we won't give them tea. We won't give them any tea and there'll be no crumpets. Here's the UK's pathetic Kira Starmer who can't be out of office soon enough. I want to be very clear. We all remember the mistakes of Iraq and we have learned those lessons. We were not involved in the initial strikes on Iran

36:33and we will not join offensive action now. But Iran is pursuing a scorched earth strategy. So we are supporting the collective self-defense of our allies and our people in the region. So we won't allow the United States to use our bases to strike at missile centers in Iran, but we'll allow them to shoot down stuff coming the other way. We won't hit the actual place they're firing from, which is in Iran. We'll just stand here and wait for it to be fired at us because that's what bravery requires. What I, what a doof that one is. Oh, but don't worry. There's still the French. So the French can count on them to be very French. Their tanks have four gears, three in reverse and one for forward motion in case they're attacked from the rear. Emmanuel Macron put out a statement. The outbreak of war between the United States Israel and Iran carries grave consequences for international peace and security. At this decisive

37:33moment, every measure is being taken to ensure the security of our national territory, our citizens and our interests in the Middle East. France also stands ready to deploy the necessary resources to protect its closest partners should they request it. The ongoing escalation is dangerous for all it must stop. The Iranian regime must understand it now has no other option but to engage in good faith and negotiations to end its nuclear and ballistic program as well as its regional destabilization activities. This is absolutely necessary for the security of all in the Middle East. So in other words, the very last paragraph of that he says and then he has the Iranian people must also be able to freely build their future. The massacres committed by the Islamic regime disqualify it and demand the voice be returned to the people the sooner the better. What a what a sad sack bag a horse crappy is my goodness. So what is he calling for? Iran to come to the table on ballistics and nuclear and to stop its terrorism support and also for the people to be free. But we don't want anyone to do anything to Iran. It would increase the chances of international instability. But this is what the Iranians can they can always count on the cowardice of the

38:35French and the British. It was your great stuff happening there. So unbelievably enough truly unbelievably enough the people who are the most committed to the war here are the Arab countries in the Middle East. You understand what's happening how transformational what's happening right now on one side you have Iran on the other side you have the United States Israel Saudi UAE that's astonishing can just recall back in history back to the first Gulf War you recall that in the first Gulf War the strategy of Saddam Hussein to escape the wrath of the United States and its allies was fire scud missiles at Israel. My wife is in Israel at the time we choose a small child. She remembers having to put on gas masks to await the missiles coming and HW Bush told the Israelis do not fire back because if you fire back then it might break up the coalition the Saudis might say hey we're not going to fight alongside the Israelis in an anti-Sanam coalition. It's a bad move by HW you should have forced it but that's not what's

39:36happening right now what's happening right now is that an American Israeli led expedition to end the threat of Iran is being joined by the Arab countries. According to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia contends and announces in strongest terms the blatant Iranian aggression and flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the UAE Kingdom of Bahrain, state of Qatar, state of Kuwait and Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Kingdom of firms is full solidarity with an unwavering support for the brotherly countries its readiness to place all its capabilities at their disposal in support of any measures they may undertake any measures so if they decide to go offensive they're behind it. So again the strategy here was what if they fire at the Saudis and the Saudis go to America and they yell at President Trump or wine to President Trump and he stop ain't happening UAE ain't happening Bahrain ain't happening Qatar they can try but no one's listening to them since they're half Iranian proxy anyway remember that time there were our greatest ally in the Middle East and then we couldn't use their air bases to launch attacks into Iran yeah I remember that too. Okay so what is the final Iranian strategy in the end the final Iranian strategy

40:41in the end is count on the American left and the horse shoe right to join and mirror the principles of the Iranians which is why Ali Ladijani who is seen by many as the sort of temperate leader of Iran is now taking to X to tweet quote Trump has betrayed America first to adopt Israel first who is that addressed at who's that addressed at is not addressed at Iranians is not arrested Saudis it's addressed at Americans and particularly the American horse shoe right he is hoping that Tucker Carlson and all of his ridiculous cohorts go to the president and claim that it's not America first to take out America's top enemy in the Middle East for the last five decades who have tried to assassinate the president that's what in the end there's only one ally that the Iranian regime can count on and it's the American left and the horse shoe right that is their true ally those are the people they are truly counting on which presumably is why chunk weger put out one of the

41:41most insane tweets of all time truly quote I criticized Iran's supreme leader Ali Hamani a thousand times he was oppressing his own people and preventing democracy but there's one thing you can't take away from him he died on his own two feet instead of kneeling to Israel that took courage he didn't bow I mean we're now doing the like actual ex joke right we're just doing memes now you got a hand it to Hitler like that that's where we are now with chunk weger sure he was a horrific human being who murdered tens of thousands of his own citizens and reduced them to poverty and spread terrorism all over the region against Arabs Jews and Christians alike but he did hate Jews an awful lot chunk by by the way how many times a chunk weger ever tweeted about Ali Hamani ever zero meanwhile again they know that they can count on the New York Times the New York Times obituary the New York Times obituary for Ali Hamani honestly the obituary is for Scott Adams from these publications are so much harsher than the obituary's for you know like the mass murdering

42:44terror leader quote with his spectacles Palestinian Khatia long robes and silver beard Ayatollah Hamani cast himself as a religious scholar as well as a writer and translator of works on Islam he affected an avancular and magnanimous aloofness running the country from a perch above the jousting of daily politics wow but don't worry the Washington Post obituary way worse you ready it turns out Ayatollah Hamani is santa he's gonna come down at your chimney with a collision a cough quote with his bushy white beard an easy smile wow bushy white beard an easy smile and like and his sexy dad bod I mean this is like what what what what the hell is wrong with you Washington Post is his bushy white beard an easy smile was that Tinder description Ayatollah Hamani cut a more avancular figure in public and his perpetually scaling but much more revered mentor he was known to be fond of Persian poetry classic western novels especially Victor Hugo's ladies mr. ob as well as long walks on the beach and what the what the hell what

43:48is wrong with you people what is wrong with you and count on the left wing media to do the work of the Ayatollahs that is that is the most bizarre description of a true piece of human shit that I've ever I mean truly amazing stuff there from the Washington Post well done obit writers wow wow Adam Schiff the senator from California also helping out he jumps and he says don't worry the Ayatollah post no imminent threat no imminent there okay so I'm just gonna point out again the Ayatollah spread terrorism all over the world the Ayatollah was not just an imminent threat to Israel's imminent threats to Saudi Arabia to Jordan to Lebanon to UAE I mean like you know I love that imminent threat now comes to mean that basically unless that everything has to be an episode of 24 then unless the Ayatollah has planted a bomb at the base of the empire state building and keep for Sutherland's gonna charge against five seconds to stop the detonation

44:49there's no imminent threat Adam Schiff how this guy failed up into the Senate well California's California no you're right about the Ayatollah he was a brutal dictator this is a murderous regime but at the same time it posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States he was brutal he was terrible but you know it's sad that he's gone get over it guys get over it but don't worry it's not just of course the left it is of course the horse shoe right don't worry Tucker Carlson a true true coward true coward because he won't go directly up against president Trump ever he goes and he pretends to be his friend needs to cross from in the old office and he tries to weatel him and then he goes out and he just undercuts every aspect of his foreign policy and rips on him basically is the tool of the Jews and that's essentially Tucker Carlson is doing Jonathan Carl reported yesterday quote he told me the president's decision is quote

45:55absolutely disgusting and evil well at least I know maybe the president will figure out which side Tucker Carlson is on it turns out it is not the side of the Trump administration and given his proclivities with other countries I hope he enjoys his home in Qatar Marjorie Taylor Greene came out and said maybe this is all a play to cancel the midterms again why we pretend that this is a human with anything relevant to say is beyond me truly beyond me she came to this is a problem on the right it's really a problem on the right here's how the right was anytime the left responds to a person purportedly on the right by criticizing that person the right immediately valorizes that person and tries to turn that person into a hero so the left originally pointed out the Marjorie Taylor Greene's moron because she's a moron but also because she wasn't left wing and the right went well if they're calling her a moron she must be a genius nope nope she's just a moron

46:55but at least you know she'll have more time to go to the gym that's the most important thing Tucker Carlson guest list complete with many people very upset with the president of the United States and rotate the alleged rapist and sex trafficker who was treated to a very warm episode on Tucker's show tweet out nobody wants this war why do we care what you have to say Medude like okay I mean it turns out the Iranian people want the Iranian regime to go away it turns out that many people around the Middle East would like it to stop it turns out that many Americans actually would like for the Iranian regime to stopping a threat to the United States and our citizens or maybe you're just Milo Yanapolis another Tucker Carlson guest an ambulatory psychotic who put out a tweet in Arabic saying quote oh Allah preserve Ayatollah Khameini oh Allah indeed we place you in their throats and we seek refuge in you refuge in you from their evils Milo who is a long time flamboyantly gay man is cosplaying right now as a as a newfound Christian

47:59while tweeting to Allah for the health of Ayatollah Khameini the clown show Horseshoe right man and of course no Horseshoe right would be complete without Nazi lover Nick Flentes here he was calling for open resistance to president Trump we need in 2026 for this administration to be shut the down what does this administration do other than cover up the Epstein files embezzle money through government contracts and bring us to war for Israel this administration needs to be shut down immediately do not vote in the midterms and if you do vote for Democrats this well you know if you wish to follow a movement led by people who are escapees from a psych ward and or closeted and not so closeted homosexuals then I guess you could do that I guess that could be or perhaps these people are maybe worth ignoring perhaps

49:03now part of the Iranian strategy obviously is to threaten Americans with the possibility of terrorism there was a shooting attack on American soil that happened over the weekend a Senegalese national and naturalized U.S. citizen living in Fluegraville, Texas shot up a bar he killed two Americans he wounded 13 others he was wearing a sweatshirt that said property of Allah and a shirt underneath with an Iranian flag theme that is what we know at this point he did have multiple posts defending people like Candace Owens on his ex account not a gigantic shotgun of course he's very upset with what was going on in Iran presumably which speaks to the fact that we really should not let people like this in our country and we are idiots for having done so in the first place but yes obviously when we talk about the spread of Islamic radicalism and terrorism it turns out that Iran exporting inside ideology all over the world has not been a boon for the globe. The all new 2026 Toyota RAV4 is here building on

50:03everything drivers know and love about Toyota with a redesigned look and modern tech that makes life behind the wheel easier than ever the new RAV4 comes standard as a hybrid providing smooth efficient performance for both city streets and longer journeys enjoy the legendary reliability Toyota is known for in the all new 2026 RAV4 learn and shop more at toyota.com Toyota let's go places join me on the line is senator Ted Cruz of Texas senator Cruz of course a big supporter of the president's particularly when it comes to the current policy with regard to Iran senator Cruz thanks so much for the time to really appreciate it. Ben good to be with you. So you are being briefed obviously on the situation on the ground in Iran how is the operation going so far? Well we're just over 50 hours into it so far it has been a spectacular success tragically for services members American service members have lost their lives for others have been seriously injured we grieve for that we we pray for their families and and and the loss of

51:08life but but this action was taken the president ordered this strike because Iran for 47 years has been the leading state sponsor of terrorism they have been the number one funder 90 percent of the funding from Hamas comes from Iran 90 percent of the funding of Hezbollah comes from Iran 90 percent of the funding of the Houthis come from Iran over the last 47 years the Iranian regime is responsible for murdering nearly 1000 Americans and so president Trump made a clear-eyed decision as commander in chief that this ongoing threat for decades Iran has been actively trying to acquire nuclear weapons I believe they were trying to acquire nuclear weapons because they intended to use nuclear weapons last year the president acted decisively to take out Iran's nuclear weapons facilities but this is now the next stage which is removing the threat in the opening minutes of this conflict the Ayatollah lost his life and we have seen systematically the senior military

52:13leadership of the Iranian regime removed I think America is already safer today and when we see a government in Iran that is not controlled by radical Islamists that does not have as its beguiding principle death to America that will be a much better outcome for the people of Iran for the Middle East but most especially for the United States of America. Yes Senator Cruz I've heard two chief criticisms that have been leveled against the the operation thus far one I think is absolutely nonsensical as you say we are 50 hours into a war and you're already hearing people scream forever war I'm not sure what their definition of forever is but it usually does not constitute what is three days into a major military operation the president has suggested will last no longer than a month and if current rates of victory as they are piling up continue on the battlefield my guess it will be a lot shorter than that well what do you make of the the criticism that that we are about to engage in a forever war in the Middle East also we should

53:13mention here that Iran has been engaged in a 50 year forever war with the United States well look I think it's nonsense and there is a fringe of isolationists but it is a very small part of the right it is a very small part of conservatives or the Republican Party there are some loudmouths you and I have both engaged with Tucker Carlson who I think is the loudest of the loud who is right now relentlessly attacking president trump vilifying president trump he has spent this entire past year year plus of the president trump's second term attacking the president's foreign policy relentlessly now he's too much of a coward to actually say president trump's name so so he attacks the policy instead but what is amazing is Tucker Carlson's foreign policy is identical to Barack Obama's and Kamala Harris all three of them believe in weakness they believe in appeasement all three of them put out statements lamenting how horrible it was

54:16that Iran that that the ayatola is no longer with us I for one I'm glad the ayatola has gone to meet his 72 virgins it couldn't have happened a a a a second too soon and and I don't know I take it kind of personally when psychopaths chant death to Israel and death to america and then they follow through look this ayatola hired hitman trying to murder Donald J trump and president trump takes it seriously when when hostile regimes are killing americans and and and the isolationist fringe Tucker Carlson at all they are a small slice of america president trump never campaigned as an isolationist he is not let's take for example Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela Nicholas Nicholas Maduro led a communist regime in Venezuela oppressed his people brought misery to his people but was one of the biggest narco traffickers in the world he trafficked tons

55:17of deadly drugs into the united states that killed thousands and thousands of americans and Kamala Harris just like Barack Obama just like Tucker Carlson all wanted to roll over and say we should continue to let Nicholas Maduro murder americans president trump is not interested in that weakness or appeasement so he sent in the delta force he arrested Maduro and Maduro will now die in a federal prison now that is not an endless war that entire operation took just over two hours but it is decisive leadership from the commander in chief the same thing is happening in Iran this is going to take longer than two hours but we're not going to see sustained ground presence over years we're not going to see hundreds of thousands of troops we're not going to see continually escalating casualties what we will see is very directed force and an objective which is removing the threat that is killing americans Donald trump puts protecting americans as his number one priority is commander and chief he is

56:18exactly right you know bend the day president trump ordered this attack was on friday i spent that entire day with president trump i was on air force one with him flying from dc to texas i was then in the beast with him one on one he he and i were the only two in the car we spent the entire time discussing Iran he was asking my view and my view was you should act now you should act decisively the regime is weaker than it has ever been and if we miss this opportunity america will be less safe and and i i'm proud i think the president is behaving as a strong and effective commander and chief and that's exactly what he should be doing now senator cruise i've said it's the most courageous political decision probably i've ever seen on foreign policy in my lifetime what what the president is doing right now the left of course is opposing him wholeheartedly it's amazing to watch so many of them lament the the operation well simultaneously saying that they're not big fans of the itola they're glad he's dead but you know this is really quite terrible so well i

57:21i think that in order to get to the itola is dead you probably are going to have to actually do the kinds of things the president trump is doing rather than doing is barok obama did and try to hand him pallets of cash and a promise that in ten years he could go nuclear you're exactly right and i understand the the the misguided world view of the left metastasize so barok obama flew over one point seven billion dollars in midnight pallets of cash that was horrific but i got to say Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took it to the next level they took it from one point seven billion to under Biden and Harris they flowed over one hundred billion dollars to Iran they quite literally funded the itola that money in turn went directly to Hamas ninety percent of their funding came from Iran and it quite literally funded october 7th it funded the desquads the Biden

58:22Harris administration by the way with the acquiescence if not support of just about every single democrat in congress they flooded cash to the itola you know what you don't get to say i abhor the itola while you're sending him a hundred billion dollars in cash actions speak louder than words there is a reason why uh most serious national security and foreign policy analysts to look at at at the middle east describe Iran as the head of the snake because it is a Iran that is spreading their maligned poison and to give a sense of the reach of it one of the reasons we took out Maduro is Maduro opened up Venezuela to Iran and Hezbollah to terror cells here in the western hemisphere and tragically we saw late Saturday night early Sunday morning in austin uh the kind of risks we have what appears to be a terrorist attack it's still being investigated but two two people in austin shot at a bar thirteen people wounded two people killed

59:23thirteen people wounded by an immigrant from Senegal wearing a sweater that said property of a la wearing a shirt with an Iranian flag on it with a Quran in his car it certainly appears to be a terrorist act and and that threat that's what president trump is taking seriously i spoke yesterday to cash patel the director of the FBI and they're going through all the communications all the social media they're searching as residents and and they are on guard for more terrorism by the way i will say it is particularly shocking that at a time when we know there's an enhanced risk for terrorist attack in the united states the democrats have continued to shut down the department of homeland security the department that is charged with stopping terrorist attacks i assume we're going to vote again this week on funding the department of homeland security and my prediction is the democrats party line will say no we are not going to pay the salaries of the of

1:00:24the agents and officers charged with stopping terror attacks instead we're going to lament the loss of the itola that that really is a sign of an ideology that is lost its way the center crews the other big critique that's been leveled at the operation has been these sort of what comes after a critique and the president has made clear the what comes after is up to the Iranian people i think that you know whenever you go into a conflict in which the top of the regime is decapitated which is what's happening right now no one knows sort of the answers to what comes next but i think one of the big points here is that whatever comes next is going to be better than the consolidated control of the worst regime on planet earth and and even worth things to devolve unfortunately to some sort of civil conflict inside of Iran that would certainly hamper the Iranians ability as a as a totality as a government to threaten surrounding actors with with weapons nuclear biological or otherwise well look that is a very reasonable question to ask and it's a reasonable concern to to have what comes next because it is not going

1:01:28to be rosy and simple we know that from experience and and part of that question comes from america's experience in Iraq i was not a fan of the Iraq war if you go back and look at the 2016 presidential campaign if you set Rand Paul to the side as having a a fringe foreign policy view of the 16 remaining Republicans on that stage there were only two Donald Trump and me who opposed the Iraq war i think the Iraq war was a mistake why because we took Saddam Hussein who was who was a tyrant dictator but he was killing terrorists he was not attacking america he was killing terrorists and we toppled him and in his place the terrorists took over and began killing americans and so i think that objectively made america less safe i think we did the same thing in libya kadafi again was a monster we came in and toppled him and again the terrorists took over and began killing americans my test for whether it is a good national security step or bad one

1:02:29is does it protect americans or does it put americans in greater danger the reason this is justified and different i believe from a rack different from libya is the ayatola was actively murdering americans and trying to murder americans each and every day and he was using the resources of a nation state to do so and that threat i think is intolerable the objective we just saw a pentagon press briefing in which they focused on many many of the military objectives like taking out missiles like taking out anti aircraft weaponry i think all of those are important but i think the broad objective should be remove the threat and the threat is a government led by radical islamis whose objective is death to america now what comes next i don't know i i would hope we would see uh an election and a leader elected in aran who wants to be friends with america that would be a great outcome that is certainly not guaranteed you know there are competing uh groups among diaspora groups in terms of who would

1:03:33lead aran some internally in aran some external to aran my view that's a decision for the people of aran i i don't want to see america with a long-term presence in aran i don't want to see us try to be the government of aran our objective should be focused on as president trump puts it america first removing the threat removing the governmental leaders who are trying to murder americans and once we do so as president trump has said it's up to the people of aran to figure out their leadership and to go forward from there that senator ted cruise i know you have a busy day senator really appreciate the time in the insight thank you man already guys coming up we will be joined by i meet segal from israel's report on the situation there and what the goals of israel are in this war remember in order to watch you have to be a member if you're not a member you can member use code chaperra check out for two months free on all annual plans click that link in the description and join us legal sent this list of everything we're not allowed to do in season two we're gonna do

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