Rep. Krishnamoorthi Discusses Trump’s Disastrous War

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3:03according to the FBI in retaliation against the Trump regimes. Invasion, the FBI is now warning police departments in California where I'm reporting from. That Iran could launch a retaliatory attack at the U.S. West Coast using drones. This according to the latest report by ABC. The alert said that the FBI recently acquired information of a potential surprise attack likely here in California. Iran aspired to do this using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of California. Targets are unspecified, but they are expected to be in California. A spokeswoman for the FBI office in Los Angeles declined to comment. This as oil prices are now up over 6% today. So Donald Trump is in Cincinnati right now and he was asked about the war. The fact that it's spiraling out of control.

4:04The fact that oil prices are surging. The fact that we're learning more about the men and women and the people of our service, armed services who are put in arms way. The service members who have been seriously wounded and injured. Here's what Donald Trump responded to Peter Ducey of state regime media, which calls itself Fox. When he asked Donald Trump, you said it's an excursion, but you're saying it's in a war. So is it an excursion or a war, Donald? Watch what he had to say here, play this clip. The association was great. When you're expensing, everyone loves it. And we did a little excursion. We had to take this little couple of weeks, a few weeks of excursion, but it's been incredible. My military is unbelievable, the job they're doing. I would say to put it mildly way ahead of schedule. We've knocked out their Navy, their military in all forms. We've knocked out just about everything. There is including their leadership twice. We've knocked out twice the leadership.

5:05And now they have a new group coming up. Let's see what happens to them. Now, in addition, Iran is saying that they are switching from reciprocal hits to continuous strikes. And they're warning that they will drive oil prices up to $200 per barrel according to Reuters. Details include the following. Iran says that the US will not be able to control oil prices. They said we won't allow even one leader of oil to reach the US, Israel and its partners. Now, Iran is actually exporting more oil than ever itself right now while preventing all the other countries from doing so without getting permission. Any vessel or tanker bound to them will be a legitimate target Iran says. And they appear to be shifting their military strategy as oil prices have temporarily declined. Although, as I mentioned, they're back up again based on everything that we are seeing today.

6:06You should also note that there were three major incidences in the Strait of Pramuz where a cargo ships that did not get Iran permission were struck by the Iran Navy. These three shipping boats were seriously damaged by Iran. Also, in Oman, their main oil depot there was hit as well by an Iranian drone. Let's show you that in a moment. Very serious things that are happening right now. But Donald Trump went on social media this morning to post the following. The Supreme Court really messed this up badly. I guess he's sharing text messages between himself and Senator Mike Lee. Donald Trump posting Trump right to visit the 2020 elections. Donald Trump also posting photographs of Harvard's History Department Chair. And Donald Trump saying that this individual should not be hired. She is a misfit.

7:06So while all these very serious things are going on, this is what Donald Trump is posting. Contrasted to what the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy chief is saying, were ships assured they could pass through the Strait of Pramuz, asked the crews of the ships the Mayori Nari, the express room, and the others today that trusted empty promises, ignored warnings, and intended to pass through the Strait they were caught. So moments ago, when Donald Trump was flying out to Cincinnati, he held a press conference where he told CEOs, keep doing it, try to get through the Strait of Pramuz, and then Iran has been able to strike those ships. But here's what Donald Trump said. You're playing this clip. How do you respond today? Are you talking to these CEOs of various oil companies encouraging them to use the Strait of Pramuz? Yeah, I think they should. I think they should. I think they should use a different mindset. How do you respond? Look, we took out just about all of their mindships in one night. We're up to vote number 60.

8:07I didn't realize that that big a Navy. I would say it was big and ineffective. But every one of this, you have just about all of the Navy is gone and bottom of this thing. How do you respond to the Strait of Pramuz? You said that's it, that's it, that's it. Any minds in the Strait of Pramuz? We don't think so. And Donald Trump in this pressur also says that America should stop doing trading with Spain. We're going to stop doing any trade with Spain. OK, here, play this flip. Who's Spain? No, they're not. I think they're not cooperating at all. Spain, I think they've been very bad. Very bad. Not good at all. We may cut it up. Brave with Spain. That's where we're going. We're going to cut it up. We're going to cut it up. We're going to cut it up. I don't know what Spain's doing. They've been very bad to NATO. They get protected. They don't want to pay their fair share. And they've been that way for many years. Donald Trump has asked about the new report from our military, which shows that, yes, indeed, as we've been reporting, the United States struck the elementary school in Iran

9:10and killed 150 little girls and more people. So what do you say about your own military report, Donald? He's like, I don't know anything about that. You're playing this clip. The report shows a new report says that the military in that state has found that the United States struck the school in Iran. At the Vandering Geek, you take responsibility for that. That is what? At the Vandering Geek, for what? For the strike on the school in Iran, a new report says the military in that state has found in the United States that struck the school. I don't know. I don't know. And then a reporter asked, Donald, can you declare victory, even if the new Ayatollah Mojave remains in place in terms like I can't answer any questions like that? Play the clip. You're going to have to do that. You're going to have to do that. Can you declare victory in this war with the supreme leader remains the Ayatollah son? I don't want to comment on that. I don't want to comment on that. But I will tell you, I just spoke with various countries and leaders

10:10of various countries you'll have a list. And they said they've never seen anything like it. We have, and I built it during my first term, and I used it. I didn't realize I was going to use it this month, but we have the greatest military in the world by far, nobody's going to have it. While that's all going on, the US Navy is actually refusing the near-daily requests. The requests from oil and shipping industries for military escorts through the strait of hermos since the start of Operation Epic Theory. So Trump's saying, do it. We're protecting you, but in reality, there is no protection. Let me show you right here. You can see for yourself this drone strike that hit the Oman Salala port. That's the main oil depot, the main oil rig that exists in Oman. Several drones struck the fuel storage tanks at the port of Salal and southern Oman, according to Omani security sources. Just watch the video for yourself of what went down. Here's just more footage that shows the massive fire after Iranian drones, struck Oman's largest oil depot.

11:14We'll take a look right here. What's going on in Northern Israel right now has bullet just fired, 100 rockets at once in Northern Israel. You can see the situation right here in Northern Israel amid the Hezbollah missile attacks. Just look at what you're seeing right now. The massive barrage right now. There's also some expectations that Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen are also going to get more involved than try to shut down any transport of oil in the Red Sea. So you have a Persian Gulf area, the strait of hermos, that's basically shut down. What about the Red Sea area? I think the Houthis are going to try to shut that down as well. As Iran said, our goal makes your oils over $200 barrel. Trump is asked, are you willing to withdraw the US from Iran, even if we don't stop the enrichment of the uranium which you promised occurred last time? Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play this clip. There is no doubt. Mr. President, are you willing to withdraw the US from Iran

12:16even if they have not heard of her? And allow the US to see their opinion. I'm not going to answer that. I'm not going to answer that. I'm not going to answer that. But we have hit them harder than virtually any country in history has been hit. And we're not finished yet. No, no, no, no. Now, here's what the President of Iran put out moments ago, put out a message that he's talking to the leaders of Russia and Pakistan reaffirming Iran's commitment to peace in the region. That's what he's, that's the statement. The part for you to realize is that he's speaking with Russia and Pakistan and they're allied with Russia, even though Donald Trump is trying to suck up to Putin. The only way to end this war ignited by the Zionist regime in the US, the President of Iran, Posseshkin says, is recognizing Iran's legitimate rights, payment of reparations, and firm international guarantees against future aggressions. In other words, this war is not ending anytime soon. Meanwhile, the national average price of diesel in the US has reached $4.81 per gallon.

13:19It's highest level since December 15, 2022. Earlier in the day, I spoke with Democratic Congress member Roger Krishnamorthy about everything that's going on. Let's bring in that interview with Congress member Krishnamorthy. I want to bring in Democratic Congress member Roger Krishnamorthy right now. It seems yet again that not only has Trump lied about what's going on in Iran, what's going on internationally, but with all things Trump, it seems far worse than even what many people expected. Worse case scenarios are, we're learning about Iran now putting these mines throughout these straight of her mose. We're learning about Reuters exclusive that there could be as many as 150 of our troops injured, wounded, maybe even more than that. These are normally things, Congressman, that in press conferences, even where we disagree with administrations, they would explain to us these things. And what we've just been seeing,

14:20whether it's Trump or Hegsif or Caroline Levitt, is this propaganda, and I said this on the show last night, it's not even good propaganda. And all propaganda to me is not good. Let me be clear, but it's like, it's so obviously like comic book level junk stuff that it's like, it's gross. I guess is what I'm trying to say, Congressman, what do you make of it all? I mean, that's a good characterization. I think that we're kind of in this kind of situation where obviously this was an illegal and constitutional war. And the reason why Trump did not come to Congress and the people as he should have is because he didn't have answers to basic questions. And he couldn't make a case for why it was time to strike Iran. There's no clear objective. One day, it's regime change. Both turns out the regime is actually getting worse. Another day, it's about obliterating the nuclear weapons program, which we supposedly obliterated last summer.

15:20And which is, to my knowledge, without giving away classified details, is very much in existence even today. And I wouldn't be surprised if they were accelerating. And we don't have a timeline. We don't have an exit strategy. All we know are the costs. And they're trying to mask the costs, as you said. They're not allowing us full transparency into the number of injured. We know seven have been killed. We do know one thing. We know the economic costs. And here in the Chicago area, we're seeing gas prices go up by 50 to 90 cents per gallon in one week. And there's no end in sight right now. And Trump keeps saying this is going to end very soon. Well, guess what, Mr. President, the Iranians have a say in that as well, unfortunately. And I'm not sure what their intentions are, but they're wreaking havoc throughout the Middle East today. And one of the things that we've seen as well is I looked at the UAE interceptor efficacy.

16:24And the amount of Iranian drones that are getting through now specifically today, as we're recording this, is like 20%, 25%, significantly higher. You look at the chart. And today is very different from these other days. And so it seems also that it's exposed. Yes, war, massive defects in the way the entire American military has been built. And frankly, rather than observing what's been happening in Ukraine, especially when Zelensky said, let me help you, Trump. Get some of the, we have the technology. Here's how you deal with the drones. And Trump was like, no, no, no, no, no. But we have all these weapons that cost billions of dollars. And we're using billions of dollars to strike at $20,000 drones. And we're depleting these resources. And it's being exposed, this asymmetrical warper, that if we just looked what was happening over there, you know, we should have known. And then you may say, I'm sorry, I'm rambling,

17:25but if you may say, well, then OK, well, then isn't that past administration's fault? You could go, yeah, it's systemic. It could be an issue. However, Trump randomly went to war all of a sudden without the preparation. So at least the other ones didn't do this. I mean, that's right. I mean, if you know that you're not prepared, then it's probably a good thing not to undertake the military strike and go to war. And that's what's happened here. We were not prepared. We were not prepared for the numerous strikes that Iran has made on our friends, partners, and allies in the Middle East, including on our US bases, including on airports. Remember, we have thousands of tourists. Americans were stranded in airports and hotels throughout the Middle East. They can't get back home. And guess what? They've become targets. And we weren't ready to defend them or to evacuate them. We're not ready for these drones. These are one-way attack drones known as Shaheed drones.

18:27Tens of thousands of them have been used in Ukraine. So we should have known what their capability was, their lethality, and how the Ukrainians defended against it. And yet we didn't seem to learn that lesson either. And now we're in a situation where they have thousands of these drones left. They have thousands of ballistic missiles left, including ones where they can put a one-ton warhead on those ballistic missiles, which they haven't done yet. And so it's basically adding up to me an unmitigated disaster. Epic fury has become Epic failure. And at this point, I think we should adopt the war powers resolution again. I think more Republicans will consider joining. And we just got to end these hostilities. You know, the part that shouldn't amaze me anymore, it's just when I observe these Trump press conferences or when I see his social media posts,

19:29I see the behavior. I mean, yesterday he was posting Trump prophecies and it's someone saying, and the Trump it said, let God rain down and make Donald Trump, because it's like some crazy stuff. And I'm watching him at the press conference joking about striking defenseless ships that were leaving parades in India and saying, we got him. We got him, we're gonna rain down death or any pivots to just saying, making noises. And it's strange. I don't get how anybody observes this behavior that we watch, just the way he can't speak in sentences and just say, yeah, this is the guy who, it's obvious to me in my opinion that we've got a guy with dementia or something very serious going on doing this. Like obvious, it's like red alert, red alert. And people are like, well, you can't say that. Like what else am I observing right now?

20:29I'm gaslighting me. That's exactly right. And I think, look, we have an unserious man for a serious job. We knew that, which is didn't necessarily anticipate so many military adventures for a guy who promised to his base that he would not enter into any more endless wars or military excursions. Now we've seen, I think eight countries, maybe I've gotten the number wrong, eight countries where he has either entered into war or has bombed them or taken away their leader. And I think this is not what even, I think, the mega base wanted. And you're seeing people like Tucker Carlson and of course, a Margie Taylor Green and others make an uproar about this as they should. And I think it's going to split his base. And it's evident to me, I have not yet met just an average person on the street who said, hey, don't deal with the pressing economic challenges

21:30that I'm facing, such as I can't afford my groceries or my rent or I can't afford to buy a home or get childcare or health care or an education for my kids. Let's go bombing, Ron. Let's do that instead. I have not yet met that person. And I think you've met the person who says, well, it's because they're covering up the Epstein files and because things are so bad here that they wanna change the conversation by doing the Neocon thing on steroids. I don't even think the Neocons could dream of this. This is like, I don't wanna go there, but it's worse. That then even the worst of the worst Neocon as a way to distract from the domestic conversation. So you're running for the United States and see that primary is actually coming up pretty soon in Illinois, but the domestic issues are what's top on people's mind. So before we go, talk to us about that because you're seeing people all across Illinois and what they're going through right now.

22:30Yeah, I mean, look, I'm regularly hearing from people about gas prices right now. I'm regularly hearing from people about utility costs, rising, not being able to afford rent or buying a home I'm hearing from people who talk about their healthcare going away because of these Medicaid cuts or the ACA tax credit's not being extended by Trump. And so you're absolutely right. He's distracting attention from these issues because he knows that he's on very, very poor ground on those domestic issues. The problem for him is they get worse. The more he distracts attention and doesn't really address them, they don't get better. And I think that my Republican colleagues are sensing that, are feeling that. And I'm not sure what they're going to do about it with their president, but certainly we Democrats have to stand up on principle against this war, against what's happening in numerous places

23:32around the world thanks to this president. And we have to stand up for our working families here. Congressman, where could people learn about your Senate campaign? www.rajaforil.com. Congressman Roger, Chris Nemorthy. He's been with the Midas touch since really day 300,000 subscribers. Before I was able to book a lot of guests, Congressman, Chris Nemorthy said, I want to be on that show. And I said, great, great, great, great to be on. So I'm an angel investor, I love him. Emotionally, emotionally. Thanks everybody for watching it. Hit subscribe, let's get to 7 million subscribe. Wanna stay plugged in? Become a subscriber for our substack at Midasplus.com. You'll get daily recaps from Ron Phil Kowski, add three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content, only available at Midasplus.com.

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