Why Now? (Ep. 2464)

0:00All America, all the time, sit down, buckle up and get ready for the Dan Bongino Show. Leadership folks, leadership. I discuss this the early days back on the air that real leadership involves making challenging and extremely difficult level 10 decisions where unfortunately the context, the entire context of that decision, the entire context of that decision, you can't explain. So what happens? What happens is people who just hate you in advance of whatever you're going to do, because they don't have the full context and don't want it, take advantage of that information black hole and impune your character by telling people what you did without even knowing

1:05why you did it. You're seeing it today with both Trump and Rubio. People who, if you caught them in a corner and confronted them on it and said, tell me how you know what went into that decision. They would have to admit they have no freaking idea. And yet they're the loudest mouse out there. And I'm always want to be clear, I'm not talking about censoring anybody's opinion. I'm not even talking about telling them not to have it a bit, have it, whatever opinion you want. This is an opinion show too. Or can you at least acknowledge that your opinion is relatively uninformed next to people who have an informed data set to make a different choice on? I'm going to show you what I mean in second folks. I got to tell you after watching yesterday, I cannot believe how the freaking doomers and

2:07gloomers and the black pillars, they're talking about forever wars. It's not even a week. It's not even a heavily, what's forever? No one's spoken out against extended presence and nation building of the U.S. military. More than me. I actually ran for office on it. You could go look. A lot of these shit talkers never did a damn thing. It's not even been a few days. Holy Moses. I really, I can't believe it. Folks, I'm not abandoning the president, you know, two, three, four days in to one of the most consequential military decisions of all time where he made a decision based on a data set. You and I don't have. I did have. I don't have now. I've been out two months. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. For what? For some cheap clicks and bullshit.

3:09I'm not doing it. I said, I'm not asking you to trust anyone. So please stop saying stupid shit. Forever wars. You're a community trust. If nobody's asking you to do it, what part of that do you not understand? It's not a forever war. It hasn't even been a week and a week isn't forever. Second, this is totally different than a rack. In quality, quantity, everything. And third, nobody's asking you to trust anyone. I'm asking you to trust results, not a person. If you don't like the results, after the data set is complete, then you can say, I didn't like the inputs. And here's my output. It's folks. I'm telling you, I've never seen anything like it. No matter what this guy, his administration, his cabinet, his team does. No matter what he does, within seconds, someone's got something to say about it. A border's at zero illegal migrants. It should be negative.

4:10That's really not possible. It doesn't matter. I want to make the guy look, it's freaking unbelievable. I'm going to play in a second, this video I played when I first came back on leadership. Someone sent it to me because President Trump and his team cannot listen to me, folks. And I'm sorry, I'm really, really, I'm not attempting in any way to patronize anyone. I'm not. I'm just stating a fairly obvious fact. Even Trump and his team are privy to a data set of intelligence that we are not. I'm not anymore. But having lived through it for a year, he can't tell you everything. I thought that was obvious. Apparently, isn't some people out there in the media space think they're better informed than the president. That's great. I'm glad you think that. You're just factually wrong. I'm going to get to that in a second because that's folks that I've just experienced it

5:15myself. I'm extra sympathetic to what he's going through because there were things we had to do. We just couldn't explain. And you get Twitter people out there, I know it's going, you don't know shit, man. You don't know a damn thing. Imagine the decisions the president has to make. You'd be crappin' in your diaper, man. You mommy'd have to get the wipies out, clean you up, you slump. You don't even have the balls. I didn't see if these people stepping up or volunteering for anything. You feel so passionately about the issue, why not go in the administration, take an assistant secretary of defense position, assistant secretary or something over at DHS. You got the access. You guys talk about it all the time. Why don't you do it? It's exhausting. Listen to the doomer. I'm dumb of that. I told you. I don't want you here. I'm not interested. You guys can go. There are a thousand shows out there on the left and a few pocket on the right where all

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8:17Fellas, let's go. I'm going to play this video, save it, bookmark it, go find it on rumble shorts or TikTok or whatever. This is a coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, Kirby Smart, and he's talking about leadership. And I want you to pay very close attention. It's short, but this matters right now, given all the armchair critics, a president Trump, which is fine. However, we're not even a week in. Maybe wait for the movie to end before you say the movie sucks. Just a thought. Check this out. You can't ignore the cost of leadership. Great leaders are willing to accept those costs. And I want to share quickly three of those things, three of the costs that are plastered on my desk right behind it that kind of caught me between the eyes last week. Number one, you will have to make hard decisions that negatively affect people you care about.

9:19Number two, you will be disliked despite your best attempt to do the best for the most. And number three, you will be misunderstood and won't always have the opportunity to defend yourself. Those are three costs that come from being a great leader. Folks, that's one of the best features. You should print that up and keep it on your desk too. I should probably put it right there. I saw it myself. I can't explain everything because I can't. I know it, but I can't explain it because I can't. I was paid by the taxpayer to keep custody of certain pieces of information. And so is the president. I'm not telling you you can't have an opinion on the movie. I can't be clear about this. But can you just wait for the movie to end? Maybe the movie sucks the whole time. And then at the end, boom, you've got this little cliffhanger turn of events. You're like, wow, that was the greatest movie ever.

10:19I thought that movie was going to suck. But maybe you should wait for it to end. Was that the sixth sense? Maybe you're like, ah, this Bruce Willis psychiatrist character is really annoying. Oh my gosh, he's dead. Sorry, if I blew the ending, the movie's like 50 years old. If you haven't seen it yet, he's dead. Can you just wait till the end? Leadership is making decisions that you know are going to be unpopular with a lot of people. Making them for the right reasons, but the right reasons you can't always explain. And he can't explain here. Let me give you an example and I'll show you what I mean, because this would happen all the time. I'm just giving you my isolated example, the president's dealing with 100x more. But we dealt with a lot. We had overwatching everything. And by the way, this is a totally random fabricated example. Don't attribute this to anything.

11:22I'm not, I mean it. I'm just making this up so it makes sense to you. The president makes this decision. Why now as a title to show why now? Why did he do this attack on Iran now in conjunction with the IDF? Let's say there was, again, I'm just making this up. There was some weapon X out there. I'm not talking about Wolverine, some weapon X, the flux capacitor, whatever. There's a source telling you about weapon X that say the Iranians may have. It's one of maybe less than 50 people who know about weapon X. The president has to do something because he knows if weapon X makes, and the next step, it's going to be hard to stop. So they go and they do something, but they can't talk about weapon X because end of people creating weapon X can isolate down to a pocket of 50 people who knew about it and either torture them or polygraph them or beat the shit out

12:22of them, whatever they got to do. Which one of them was the source that gave up weapon X to the United States and other intelligence agencies? He can't tell you that. That's a fabricated example. However, it's based on probably, I don't know, a thousand different pieces of intel that we had consumed over time. Things you just can't say. Now, in spite of that, in spite of that, this administration is doing its best to explain to the American people why this isn't Iraq. And not only I saw it was a Philip Klein at the National Review who, you know, they're not huge fans of it, but I don't really care. It makes a good point. I'll bring it up later, but it's not about you confusing two questions like why versus why right now? Well, the administration's trying to explain

13:22within a certain perimeter of what they can and can't say. They're trying to explain to you why now. But some people are doing it at your muffs. Remember old school ear muffs. They're doing, they just don't want to hear it. You, by the way, you don't, you're in no way obligated. I have a lot of respect for some of these people. Not all of them, but some of them a lot. You're entitled to an opinion. You're an American. You're also entitled to bullshit people in some of you are. They're trying to explain. Here's Steve Whitkopf, one of the presidents lead negotiators on this issue. Here's Whitkopf on Fox last night talking about a tidbit of information that was not in a public domain before. That's kind of interesting. Check this out. Materials show on can be brought to 90%. That's weapon grade, weapons grade in roughly one week, maybe 10 days at the outside. The 20% can be brought to weapons grade

14:22inside of three to four weeks. And let me say this because I forgot this small little detail. In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly with no shame that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60%. And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs. And that was the beginning of the negotiating stance. So they were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs. Now you got people playing word games with this too. Oh, I thought we said the whole thing was destroyed and obliterated. Yes, he did say that. That doesn't mean their capacity to try to rebuild it and every single portion of it from the supply chain up and down was forever destroyed forever. And they can never start again.

15:23I mean, what, you know, it's like saying we destroyed a battleship and then they rebuild the battleship. And they're like, what do you say it was destroyed? Yeah, they're rebuilding the battleship. I mean, what's hard to understand? This has been going on for 47 years. Longer than that. Actually, when you take in context the whole crisis in this region. They've already killed Americans. Again, I think back to it. This is not the first strike, the second strike, and all the arguments against it without them, you know, I saw someone in New Jersey. Someone in chat said, the movie sucks. You're a douchebag. The movie's not over. You're actually proving how freaking stupid you are. It's not even over. You're just a doomer asshole clogging up the chat, showing everyone in the chat how freaking stupid you are. I wish I would have stopped the chat. You are, you're advertising what a moron you are.

16:23The movie's not over. If you think it sucks, how'd they want? Just give it two weeks and then come back and have it a bit fair. I don't even think that's reasonable. However, it's been a few days. And then the doomer's yesterday on Rubio. Oh, I can't believe it. Rubio said we went to war for Israel. He actually said the opposite. Did you hear the entire answer in context? Folks, I'll play the answer in case you think I'm making this up. He said we went to war for Israel. They asked him the question. He says, no. We go on to war for Israel. He says no and then goes on to explain what exactly he means by no, but how we did work with Israel on this strike. He says no. And then the first thing people do is run out. Again, the doomer and gloomer class.

17:25Oh my gosh, I can't believe he said, you can't be this dumb. There are some really smart people who you can't possibly be this stupid. That Donald, just I just want to be clear what you're suggesting. I'm asking, I'm not trying to impart upon you an idea that's far into you or impugn your character. I'm not. I'm really not. Are you suggesting that Donald Trump is so weak of a human being and a president that Donald Trump's getting dog walked around by a foreign government making him do what he doesn't want to do because if you are, have the mousse balls and just say it. I told you in one of my first tweets when I got out that you were going to see this. People who don't have the balls to take on the president, they don't, they just don't have the spine, the steel nerves or the balls to do it. They hate the president. They don't have the ball statement. They dance around the issue.

18:26We're at war. Who's we? The United States military is led by the commander in chief, the US president, civilian led leadership. Do you not know that? Who's we? So the president's getting dog walked around by the Israelis? Just say it then if that's how you feel. Stop being about it. They do the same thing. They dance around and they never get to the point because they don't want to get confronted on it. Here's Rubio yesterday, our secretary of state. He's asked a question while briefing the hell and keeping everyone in the loop as much as he can. He's asked a question about, hey, did we do in this for Israel? I want you to listen the first word out of his mouth. No. That was conveniently left out of a lot of the context yesterday. Now you see what I'm talking about? People have an agenda and in any yours, check this out.

19:30The force to strike because of an Israeli action? No, first, well, let me two things I would say. Number one is, no matter what, ultimately this operation needed to happen. That's the question of why now. But this operation needed to happen because Iran in about a year or a year and a half would cross the line of immunity. Meaning they would have so many short-range missiles, so many drones that no one could do anything about it because they could hold the whole world hostage. Look at the damage they're doing now. And this is a weakened Iran. Imagine a year from now. So that had to happen. Obviously we were aware of Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it. But this had to happen no matter what. So the administration right now knows a hundred things, okay? I'm just pulling a number out, round numbers, right? Despite the fact that because he's the commander-in-chief and we elected him in a constitutional republic, he can make these decisions. He runs our military, his civilian leadership. He doesn't have to go to a bunch of Twitter people or podcasters, radio people like me or anyone else and ask our advice.

20:32He doesn't, correct? You don't like it. You can, if he was not in his second term, you can vote him out in four years. That's how it works, right? That's how it works. Despite the fact that he knows a hundred things, doesn't have to tell us any. He chooses to tell you about 80 of them through his people. Just making up the number. But you get the point. Based on the context of things I've seen. He sends Whit cough out there, sends Rubio out there. Rubio clearly says, no, we're not doing this because Israel made us do this. We're doing it. It had to happen now. Now think about it in terms of what they are telling you. There was clearly an effort which they've been very public about on the death to America, Iranian crowd. I think there may have been a thought in policy circles in DC that after the destruction of the nuclear sites months ago after Midnight Hammer that these Islamophonatics,

21:33Shia Mullahs may change their mind and come back with a reasonable deal. They did not. Game theory, if then equations, then they had to do something else. They are trying to rebuild. Whit cough clearly explains the gravity of the situation. Rubio then layers on another reason, giving us another piece of the hundred pieces of information which they're not obligated to share, but they do. But they do because this is the most transparent administration in history, the guy's in front of the camera, him and his team all the time. Oh, we haven't heard from him in an hour. That's like a big complaint. The Joe Biden you never heard from him ever. He goes out and says, not only are they trying to rebuild IE what Whit cough said, but they're trying to shield the program through conventional weapons like ballistic missiles and reconstructed and very powerful, by the way, low-cost drone program, which would make this very difficult to take out. But Rubio is clear.

22:34They're not there yet. They're rebuilding it. And he's pretty clear. Why would we wait for them to rebuild the shield, to hit the shield with a sword to see if the shield works? Get them and hit them with the sword before they have the shield done. Why, I don't understand why people are playing stupid. I don't get what they're talking about. President Trump keeps changes. He's never changes. Why, I don't know what you're talking about. Guys, skip ahead a minute. Those DOJ releases, pull those up. Here's another one. We're gonna debunk all the stupid, faux ignorance right now. Oh no, man. Oh no. President Trump says the other day to ABC News. And that they tried to get me. I got them first. Now you've got some of the same, I hate to say podcasts, bros, and others. Keep this up a second, Guy, who we're telling us trying to convince us, despite any evidence in some cases

23:37that foreign and Iranians were trying to kill President Trump in one case, now trying to tell you that, oh, that's all BS. You said it wasn't BS. Except you just have the case wrong. No one's trying to kill President Trump from Iran. Did you guys miss this? Department of Justice press release, 2024. I wasn't even there. Pakistani National with ties to Iran, charged in connection with FOIL plot to assassinate a politician or US government official. I thought, Guy, I thought they said there was no Iranian plot. Didn't they suggest that they said that, right? The bros out there. They're just making it, they're making that up. What could they, that's a good point, Guy. Guy's reading his Department of Justice headline. By the way, not the Department of Justice I even worked in, this is 2024. What could they possibly mean by Pakistani National with ties to Iran, charged in connection with FOIL plot

24:38to assassinate a politician or US government official? Look, I don't know, Guy, I don't know it's really confusing. I don't know, that's a good, didn't we have to put the definition up the other day? There was that Florida lawmaker. Charlie Kirk was not assassinated. Really, that's incredible. Well, he wasn't, what happened? And he was like, okay, all right, the Iranians via Pakistani intermediary tried to kill President Trump and some others and some other stuff that happened, whatever. It's only one time. Oh, look, he says there's another one. Holy Moses, where'd you find that, Guy? Where'd you get that? I said, I said it. I totally forgot. So much happened this morning. Wait, leave this one up. These guys are lying to you about everything. Rubio said we went to FOIL for Israel. He actually said no, go listen to the clip. Here's another one, Justice Department. This is November at 2024. Again, I wasn't even there.

25:38So don't have been, oh, he's just trying to pat himself and I was about patting anyone. Why's he even there? Is it my work? We had to follow up on it. DOJ announces murder for hire and related charges against IRGC asset and two local operatives. He's like, oh, damn, this is just a press release by the same guy. No, it's actually a different guy. And another guy. That's like three guys. Guy said it again. What could they possibly be? I don't know, Guy. I don't know. There it is, definition of assassination, premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretly, especially a prominent person. What could they possibly mean? Murder, the crime of unlawfully and unjustifiably killing a person. It does, it's so unclear. It's so unclear. Okay, so now we've established that, yes, in fact, IRGC units have multiple times tried to kill prominent US officials, including the president. You've had podcasts and hosts of content.

26:41I don't mean that. I like podcasts, I mean, saying two opposite stories. When they want to argue that the government's hiding from the someone, one assassination case, they're like, man, there was foreign governments, if I'm like, well, we don't really have any evidence of that. And then when there's an actual foreign plot, they're like, well, that didn't happen. Folks, I'm getting a little exhausted with the bullshit around Trump. If you want to say Trump has no agency, okay? And he's getting dog walked around by all these people and his circle and the Israelis and the evil Jews and whatever and all this stuff, then just come out and say it and have the balls. Stop with the euphemisms and the stupidity and the word games and pretending like, oh, I don't know. I don't know what they were talking about. Well, he just said it, Rubio. You just said Whitcalfe on there. And a lot of this is the Israelis taking their own action against target state.

27:42Here's another, just happened this morning just before we got in here. You got that trade yinx thing from FoxGee. This just happened maybe 25, 30 minutes ago. There was a meeting of the Iranian leadership council to pick new leadership. Guy, they're gonna have a problem picking new leadership. Why is that because they're now dead? I don't, it's war is an ugly thing, it's just true. Play that clip from Fox's morning. The scene of one of these cluster munition impacts just outside of Tel Aviv. But I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new Supreme leader. This is a significant development and again speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war. They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership was gathering

28:42to choose a new Supreme leader. The Iranians are continuing their attacks against Israel right now we are in the community of Banebrak. It's a religious community outside of Tel Aviv. And you can see where the police and first responders thank you Lynn and Jeff and the chat and others. I'm just reading some of your comments. Here's your, yeah, yeah, Ming and the chat. Trump doesn't answer to anyone, not BB or any other leader. Cornlink dusted, yeah. They're not gonna be picking a new leadership team because the leadership council and the pick the team is dead. Folks, again, I can't emphasize enough as I think the proof is in the pudding. My entire life, my investments, my passion has always been free speech. As long as you're not breaking the law

29:45or trafficking and whatever, disgusting material on the stuff that's gonna violate the TOS of a website, I am all about free speech. I can't go and commit a crime on some of these platforms. You were entitled to an opinion. All I ask is that you're honest about it. I was very clear yesterday. I hope that I have a lot of concerns going forward too. A lot of concerns as many of you do. But stop with the bullshit. President's unclear about what the directives are. The president speaks discursively, you know that. He has had his people out there in an absolutely crystal clear manner laying out the objectives. Objectives, matter of fact, he did it himself. I'm gonna take a quick break on this. I'm gonna play for you yesterday. The president's own words. I don't understand this rationale or his objectives. Did you miss this yesterday? He said it.

30:45Don't say he didn't say it. You could say, and if you don't like it, go ahead and run with it. I don't like these objectives, but he said, here are the objectives. Don't tell me you didn't say that you're just advertising your own stupidity. I don't know what the objective is. Then maybe don't come on the air till you do some homework. People rely on you for information. Be honest about it. Then I show one thing like, oh my gosh, people just now waking up to the rent, re-rented, really? Really? Quick break, and I'm gonna show you the president saying it himself. Think about this in 2006. $20,000 equated to roughly 33 ounces of gold at the spot price. At today's prices, those 33 ounces would be worth over $150,000. That would be quite an evaluation there. Smart Americans, I buy gold a lot.

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32:47Again, text my last name, Bungino, to the number 989898 today, message and data rate supply. Thanks, Birch Gold. Be appreciated. Now, there are people out there again, pretending they don't understand the president's objectives. Okay, I'm gonna learn you now. Here's a learning session. This is the edutainment educational portion of the edutainment at Tip Boogie Down Productions, right? Of the edutainment show. I am going to play for you video of Donald Trump yesterday, telling you again what the objectives are. So now you can stop saying, if you're watching the show, you don't know what the objectives are. You disagree with them, but stop saying he hasn't been clear on it. He has. This is Donald Trump back in 1980. I want you to get back into his mindset too, about how he processes these inputs and came to these objectives. Here he is back in 1980, talking about a situation that, if you were alive when I was alive, I was just a kid when this happened. The Iran crisis, the hostage crisis that I ran when they raided a embassy and took our people hostage. I want you to listen to how Donald Trump felt about this

33:50back when it happened. This was a huge scar on America. Check this out. When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do. And you can create the right attitudes. The Iranians' situation is a case in point that they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. This country sits back and allows country, such as Iran to hold our hostages. To my way of thinking is a horror. And I don't think they do it with other countries. I don't know if they think they do it with other countries. Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that, yes. I don't think there's any question and there's no question in my mind. I think right now would be an oil-rich nation. And I believe that we should have done it. And I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it. And I don't think anybody would have held us in a bane. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us.

34:50And we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity. For those of you who weren't alive when this happened, we have a really young audience, and that's great. We love having them. We don't care who listens. What age are you with? That doesn't matter to me. But if you were alive when this happened, the 400 plus days that our people were held hostage by the Iranians, this was a, I was a young, young kid. I'm not gonna lie to you. It's not like I was intensely involved in geopolitics. It was the news story every night. It basically destroyed Jimmy Carter because it made him look weak. This was the story. This impacted so many people, Donald Trump, obviously being older than me, who were adults at the time, who basically never forgave the Iranians. I'm not telling you that's what incentive I should do this. I'm setting up why he did it by telling you what the objectives are. But I want you to see what's in his mindset about what happens when weak people like Carter and others allow this stuff to go on, like Biden's evacuation of Afghanistan,

35:50prematurely and tactically and efficiently, how it incentivizes more behavior by scumbags who want to kill us. Trump has never changed. He doesn't want to send the message of weakness. Here's Donald Trump, this next one. This is Donald Trump on how, for those of you saying, oh my gosh, Donald Trump, he's getting us into another Iraq. Really? Donald Trump was so bothered by how we extended the operation in Iraq without a clear metric, I think, for a successor in exit strategy that the wounded warriors would come home, bother him so much. He would talk about it all the time. Here's Donald Trump on this. Check this out. Nobody talks about the soldiers that are coming back with no arms and no legs. And I saw at Mar-a-Lago on Mondays, I make Mar-a-Lago my club that you know about. In Poverty. I make that twice now on a Monday, I let returning Iraqi injured soldiers come to the premises. The most beautiful people I've ever seen, but they're missing arms and legs, they're with their wives, sometimes they're with their girlfriends,

36:51and the tears are coming down the faces of these people. I mean, the thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands, and the Iraqis that have been just maimed and killed, this war is a horrible thing. Now, President Bush says he's religious, and yet 400,000 people, the way I counted, have died, and probably millions have been badly maimed and injured. What's going on? Folks, he's never changed. You see him back in 1980, discussing the humiliation we had to endure when these scum Islamophonatic radicals, you know, took our people hostage, for over a year humiliated the entire nation, how it scarred him, and he understands this invites further attacks. However, he's also been impacted by the Iraq war, he's talked about it all the time. How one, it wasn't conducted right, we should have taken custody of the oil,

37:52how if we were going to do it, we should have been in an out, it should not have been an extended way, he's run on that too. The guy hasn't really changed. Now, he's talking about this before. He was clear on his objectives at the White House yesterday, he laid them out. Again, you can talk all you want, he wasn't clear. He was clear, disagree with them or not. Here they are, check this out. Objectives are clear. First, we're destroying our ends, missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis, on their capacity to produce brand new ones, and pretty good ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy, we've knocked out already 10 ships. They're at the bottom of the sea. Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon. I said that from the beginning, they're never going to have a nuclear weapon. They were in the road to getting one legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country.

38:54And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm fund and directors, armies outside of their borders. So he's been clear on what the objectives are. He just laid them out. He literally said, here are the objectives. Here are the objectives. Missile capacity, making sure their ballistic missiles can't threaten the entire region. And folks, acting like the region doesn't matter to us when a good portion of the world's oil, that powers your life, your ability to not freeze to death in the freaking winter. Acting like that stuff doesn't matter is total bullshit and complete naivete. Gotta get rid of their missile capacity because they've already told you when showing that they're going to use it. Second, we've got to get rid of their Navy and their ability to stop the traffic from exiting the Strait of Hormuz and a lot of the oil making its way around them. You've got to get rid of their Navy.

39:55You don't want them to mind the place. So here's some video, by the way, of some of the destruction of their naval assets, upwards of 11 Iranian ships taken out. They can't have nuclear weapons because we don't want nuclear blackmail to happen and them to kill us. And we have to basically crush support for these terror proxies. Now, a lot of these people are acting after a lot of these results, by the way, have already been met. They're acting like they don't know what's going on, playing stupid. Just here's the problem. Here's how I see it. People aren't used to DC politicians. I don't trump politicians like anyone else. Obviously we're in for office. People are not used to the DC political class actually doing stuff. They're just not. They're used to like round about rhetoric and constant bullshit. And when stuff happens and happens fast like this, they almost don't know how to respond. So they process it as chaos when in fact it's just results and results quickly. They're used to people talking. They're just not used to people actually doing stuff.

40:55You've heard Democrats and other prominent Democrats run in the past on, man, you know, we're going to have to do something eventually about the Iranian nuclear program. Okay, he did it. He did it. He just don't like the fact that it happened quickly. Here's Brett Barry yesterday in Fox, saying he spoke to Donald Trump and they're actually all stunned at the degree and how quickly this stuff happened. They were expecting a lot of this decapitation of the leadership and the destruction of a lot of these programs and facilities. Take up to four weeks. Some of it happened in a day. They just thought they're just not comfortable with the speed and the results. Check this out. Let's get off the phone with the president. He is very pleased with how things are going. Obviously is disheartened about the loss of life and there may be more. He said along the way, but as far as the progress, he said they are ahead of where they thought it would be. I want to read some of these quotes that I asked him and how he answered. He said that as far as a plan, they do have a plan. Always had a plan.

41:56The intelligence, the level of intelligence that they've had up into this point is truly amazing. I asked, so what you're saying is that you know there is somebody on the ground in Iran that is going to rise up. Quote, yeah, I feel there is. I feel that and some of them are no longer with us to be honest because it was 49 leaders that were taken out. That was going to take four weeks we thought to get rid of the Iranian leadership. And it's always, you know, if they hide, it's a lot longer than four weeks. And they would have been hiding. We were shocked when we heard what was going on. We knew exactly what was happening and where? 49 leaders. And you know, they're talking about using people now that nobody ever heard of, even though they don't know. They're using people, studying people to be the leader that even they don't know who they are. There it is, folks. He's been pretty clear. Hey, I thought this would take up to four weeks. We've already passed most of the metrics for success.

42:57He does not, I think it really bothers people that he doesn't plan on a forever war. And they don't know how to respond. So you're seeing this again, extinction burst of crazies. Oh, he's not telling us what the objectives are. He were the objectives. Well, I don't like the objective. Which one don't you like? Regime change. Well, he killed people who were chanting debt to America. That's part of the regime. Was regime change the goal? Maybe in the sense that we wanted the regime in charge now that was threatening us to die. But regime change in context of nation building, like we were gonna sit there and change and fertilize and water the regime, like we tried to wreck. He's clearly not gonna do that. He's been crystal clear about it. Do you see this commentator yesterday too, the, by the way, the embarrassing humiliating defeat of the Iranian military embarrassing. Their goal was basically the Iranian military one thing.

44:01Anyone telling you that we're gonna try to project force outside of proxies, outside of Iran is full of shit. Their goal is one thing. Preservation of the regime that are now dead. They couldn't even do that. The destruction was so quick and rapid. The people complaining about, oh my gosh, it's chaotic. I don't know. It's not chaotic. You just not used to processing so many results so quickly. You just not used to be used to ship talk in all the time. I saw this online as a military analyst. A Jake bro, I think it's real Jake bro, an ex. But just just like a minute of how bad and humiliating the performance by the Iranian military was. And yet three days in again, you got a bunch of tumors already complaining about it. Give it the movies not even over. Check this out. And as far as the active fighting on the war, Iran's already lost. This war has been going on for less than 48 hours.

45:02And in my opinion, Iran's military is already defeated. If they were going to score any serious hits against anyone, they probably would have done it in the first 12 hours. But Israel and the United States now control the skies over Iran. They're eliminating targets at will. All the most dangerous and highest priority targets have been already destroyed. If Iran was going to destroy like a battleship or an aircraft carrier, they would have done it by now. And Iran's response has been pretty embarrassing. The Iranian regime has fired missiles at nine countries. Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, QA, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE. The sporadic and uncoordinated nature of the attacks on a wide number of different targets has resulted in minimal damage being caused. Despite such a large number of missiles being employed.

46:03SC Edmonds in the chat, precision targets are not chaotic. They know what they're doing. This took planning, a lot of planning. Yes, yes, sir, or man, yes, he did. You don't like us being there? Fine. It's a republic. Opinions are everywhere. That doesn't mean they're good ones. What part of the mission exactly now bothers you? People clamoring about how they show strongly object to regime change. You want the ayatollah back? I don't know. I don't understand. I think you're confusing, again, nation-building with regime change. Yes, of course, they wanted to take out and decapitate the leadership that was planning to rebuild the nuclear program and shield it so they could blackmail the world with it. You know, folks, a lot of these regimes they learned a lot from both Libya and the Iraq war. After we decimated what was thought to be,

47:05if you remember the original Gulf War one and two, Saddam Hussein's army was thought to be perilous. I mean, really like a relatively strong army for the region. They got destroyed. They got humiliated. I'll never forget a friend of mine when I was an agent, telling me he was a toe missile operator, how pathetic the performance of the Iraqi military was. There were foreign heads of state that hate us, that watched that and said, gosh, if we don't go nuclear, we don't stand the chance. That's what the Iranians were trying to do. And Dems are basically admitting now, too. This is where the folks, everything has a purpose in the show, purpose, purpose, purpose. The Democrats are basically in their analysts admitting now, too, that you know what? We're going to paint this as kind of chaotic. It's not chaotic, it's just a series of results. It's like taking four or five finals on the same day. You're still going to take your finals in college and get a score, but yeah, it's going to be busy

48:06because you're taking them all on the same day. This guy moves fast, this president. He doesn't want finals over the course of six weeks. He wants them all on the same day, because I told you he's transactional. I worked for him, I know him. He wants results and he don't want to wait. Here is Dan Tarantine, an analyst with Sean Spicer, who'll be back, supposed to be on today, we'll have him back at some point. They're now admitting the pace of the results, chaotic is going to be like kind of their message going forward. I want you to watch this clip, and then I'm not knocking this guy specifically, but watch how you start to see this word going forward. You're going to say Dan wasn't kidding chaos. You're going to hear the world chaos going, they don't mean chaos. They just mean they're uncomfortable with the results because it makes Donald Trump look good. Check this out. My party is all over the place right now. So I mean, those are two separate questions. I think one thing that I just, and this is just anecdotal found stunning, was just the number of people I know who are apolitical or even Trump supporters who are like, I don't like this.

49:07Now, to Sean's point, they're kind of hoping that this works. But go back to what Trump's weakness right now, not just in Iran, but everywhere, extreme and chaotic, right? Those are the front that Minnesota, just even the Venezuela thing. While it got more popular, people were like, whoa, I woke up to, we went into Venezuela. Now, to Sean's point, it was over within four hours, literally, and within eight hours, he was in New York or 12 hours, right? I do think there are a lot of people who are like, holy cow, we went. I mean, on Tuesday, he gave a state of the union. I think it was three and a half minutes on Iran. And on Wednesday, we were talking about whether people stood or not on immigration. And we are now talking about a regional war in the Middle East. So I think Sean is right. If this comes to a quick, if Iran capitulates, we get a new government that wants to work with us and there's peace, Trump's gonna almost be on Mount Rushmore to some extent, right? Did he pull this off? I, the reason I put this a Danturrentine gentleman up

50:08and this clip is because at least he's fairly honest about it. I mean, I don't, I don't have no hatred in my heart for anyone who's got a D in front of their name. But he's honest, if this results in the decapitation of the Iranian debt to America class and they can get even some semblance of a government that they're gonna build. We're not building, we're not nation building. President Trump has said, now four or five times, the Iranian people, this is your chance. You blow it, it's on you. He said that, correct? Sorry, I don't have the clip, but you've heard him say it. I just, you know, I usually bring the receipts but I'll throw it in maybe in the marshal. He's already said it multiple times. This guy's fairly honest about it. You're gonna see the word chaos thrown out there now every day. It does not mean chaos. He's saying to you right now. Yeah, Democrats are all over the place and looks chaotic but the results, if they pan out, which I can almost guarantee you, they will.

51:09If the results pan out, you're gonna have to put this guy up Mount Rushmore. At least he's honest about it, Dan Turin teen. I'm happy to have him on too. It's an interesting debate to have. Folks, as I said, it is ridiculous to tell everyone how much you hate a movie where you're not, you're not even to, remember back in the old days, I know when he was this old as me, but they used to have intermissions in movies. Remember that, you just go ahead and get popcorn. We're not even at the intermission from the 70s and 80s yet. And you already think the movie sucks. It's just, I don't know folks, I just find it fairly disingenuous. It's not over. Here's a very quick CNN clip of, they're saying what Donald Trump apparently spoke to Jake Tapper and told them, guys, ladies, this mission we're engaged in, it's not even close to over here. Remember the whole whole, everybody home.

52:15The big stuff hasn't even happened yet. Check this out. My colleague, Jake Tapper, that the big wave is yet to come. So clearly things are going to be escalating, not de-escalating in the future. Reuters, Trump tells CNN, the big wave and more of the ran is yet to come. You think he's, again, you think he's lying? I don't understand you. And what is he lied to you before? He warned Maduro, don't screw around. He did, now he's in the US prison. He warned the Iatola since 2016. We're going to wind up bombing you if you don't try to bomb us and kill us first. And now he's dead. The Iranians are just, I don't know what they're waiting for, like for the entire, like the leadership council's dead, the leadership's dead. Now, the Iranians have big issues going forward. Huge issues. Number one, so much of their leadership hierarchy,

53:17they're down from like the CEO to like a floor manager in the mail room. Folks, these leaders have not been vetted for leadership qualities. And I don't mean that in a qualitatively good way. A lot of these fanatics, she has fanatics over there and want to kill you. Doesn't matter if they're in the mail room or not. But think about it. It's a hyperbolic but necessary example. You have a company like, I don't know, IBM. You've got the chairman, you've got the CEO and you've got board members who've got 50, 60 years of leadership experience in some cases. Some of these guys have been around forever. It's a lot of experience. If you wipe out the board, the CEO, the CFO, the CIO, the CSO, the upper level managers and the mid-level managers. And then you're down to like I said, the guy sorting mail in the mail room, how do you vet this guy for leadership qualities? He hasn't done it yet, he's in the mail room.

54:18In other words, he's giving the opportunity to the Iranian people. Now that there is a big power vacuum to go and take their country back and he's telling them you're not gonna get another shot like this. We're not gonna do it for you. The second problem they're gonna have, obviously communications and issue for them. Every time they seem to communicate, they all seem to die. The problem is folks, they don't know how they can talk, what they can talk on, where they can meet. If you can't talk and communicate, command, control, communications. It is impossible to lead a country. It is impossible to lead a country that large. Third, there's gonna be infighting. Think about it, you wipe out the entire hierarchy from the CEO down to middle management. They're not that far yet, but say they wipe out of upper level management and the C suite. You're gonna get infighting from people who never expected to be in charge.

55:20Joey Bagadona's gonna say, wait, I think I should be in charge. No, no, it's my turn. Because there's no hierarchy, because the entire hierarchy or chain of command has been wiped out. No one anticipated the mail room guy. These are real problems now. That's why he's telling the Iranian people, we can't build this for you. It's yours, take it, take it now. Ladies and gentlemen, if they don't, it is on them. The only play left now for the mail room guys running this place is to drive a wedge between us and regional partners in the area. That's their only play. You see it with this just indiscriminate launching of missiles, of drones. The Iranians don't know, they're engaged in a classic extinction burst. The Iranian mail room leadership thought, if we launch ballistic missiles and drones

56:22to Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi, we hit some oil fields that all of those regional players are going to say, oh my gosh, look at what's happening because of what the United States did. That's not what happened. So the Iranian mail room leadership didn't get the result they wanted. Now everybody's pissed off at them. The Iranians at it is the Saudis and everyone else. Now they're just engaged in a classic extinction burst of behavior. I'm gonna take my last break. I'm gonna get back to what I mean. You'll see what I mean in a second. I'll show you some video. And I'll show you what an extinction burst looks like. Jasmine's like, is this video a timeline cleanse? It's like a dog, I go, no, not at all. It may be, but it's not the intention. I'm gonna show you exactly what an extinction burst looks like when you don't get the reward you wanted. Folks losing weight, it's a pain, you know it. I've been there, you look in the mirror, you see those doughy areas, it sucks, but it doesn't have to be that way. I needed to lose, I had some bad arthritis in my knees. I didn't mind being bigger

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58:24promo code Dan, try lean today, L-E-A-N. These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. It's not intended to diagnose tree cure prevent any disease. It's not a substitute alternative for care from a healthcare provider. Check it out, folks, lean. Good product there. So they're only play right now as I said, is to drive a wedge. They thought they were gonna drive a wedge there, Rayna. Let's just bomb everyone in the region. Everyone's gonna freak out and blame the United States. It's not what happened. So now they're just unleashing everything they have. And they don't have a lot left after we've hit a lot of their launchers and their storage sites for ballistic missiles. This is an excellent analyst and a good friend, Jim Hanson. He was on Fox explaining exactly this, that they're trying to drive a wedge and it's just not working. It's actually having the opposite effect. Check this out. The retaliation strikes hit a bunch of Arab states. Doesn't sound like a very strategic response. Why would they do that? Are they going after US bases? It wasn't so much the US bases. I think they were trying to drive a wedge between the Gulf states and the US

59:25and get them to blame us for the fact that they're taking incoming fire. And I think that was a major miscalculation. They may have actually taken the Abraham Accords, which was an agreement in theory mostly and turned it into the Abraham alliance of people who are all united against the Islamic Republic and wishing it to meet its demise. So there can be prosperity and security in the region. Yes, well said Amigo. That is exactly what they're trying to do. Drive this wedge and the opposite happen. All of these regional players from the Qataris, the folks in Bahrain, the leadership in Bahrain and the Saudis are really getting pissed off now and not at us at the freaking Iranians. Qatar carried out strikes in Iran. Saudi Arabia to soon follow Israeli reports. Here, look at this video of this Iranian oil facility. You take this as making the Saudis happy regardless of your feelings about any of these governments,

1:00:26whatever they intended to happen, it's not happening. The opposite is happening. So you're seeing this classic extinction burst. This video is meant to be funny. I saw this, I've had this bookmarked for a couple of days because I sent my daughter, my youngest daughter. I send her these dog videos of doodles sometimes. So if you, then it pops up on your for you page also, this one popped up and it's meant to be kind of a cute video of a dog if you listen on Apple or Spotify. Pressing this little thing for treats and usually presses the button and you'll see now, it gets a treat and the thing must run out of treats or something and the dog is freaking out. This is what I talk about all the time in psychology, which is known as an extinction burst of hate. You engage in an operant behavior, pressing a lever and you expect to get whatever, a can of coke after you put a dollar in and the coke doesn't come out. Every single organism that thinks, that thinks, I'm not talking about self-aware,

1:01:27but thinks engages in this extinction burst of behavior where they start to freak out. You see the dog doing it now and maybe it's a timeline cleanse, maybe not, but this is exactly what it looks like. This is what the Iranians are doing right now. This is what the mail room guys are doing now. They're freaking out because they thought they would get a response. Everybody's gonna come to our defense. We can't believe you're bombing us. This is all gotta stop and that's not what happened at all. Folks, in the beginning of the show, I discussed, as I've discussed often, that level 10 decisions like Donald Trump, President Trump is making now. You're not always gonna be able to explain every single input. If there's 100 inputs that went into a decision, we are going to take out the Iranian ballistic missile facilities, they're Navy, and they're to capitate the leadership over there. They're not gonna be able to explain everything. Level 10 decisions are really hard. All you can ask is that the people in charge

1:02:27didn't clearly explain what they can explain and that later on over time when a lot of the stuff is declassified and does come out, then maybe everyone will be able to see all the inputs that went into it and the output will make more sense. But I can tell you, having people in charge who are clear right about what the threat is, is absolutely a necessity. And you did not have that before, folks. I've been getting questions even yesterday, dressed it yesterday on the show, you know, what do you feel the threat of sleeper cells in the United States are? Folks, there's always going to be a threat of a terror attack by an organizer group in the United States or a lot of people that want to kill us, it's not a mystery. However, in the past year and this body full of briefings, I can just tell you everything is being done to disrupt any possible organized plot. I am equally afraid of self-radicalized people doing insane and crazy things as we've seen who just use what happened in Iran as kind of a, you know, a mark to go crazy and shoot a place up because those are hard to stop.

1:03:27They're self-radicalized. They're not part of a larger comms network where they leave investigative breadcrumbs where we can go fine with some of the technology we have. However, I can assure you the people in charge right now, Donald Trump's team at DHS, at CIA, and at the FBI have reprioritized threats away from the Biden era where those entities were completely looking at, in my opinion, the wrong things. I always bring receipt, you have to take my word for it. He was a ridiculous speech by Biden, talking about how the biggest threat in a country is white supremacy. Listen, any kind of racially motivated violence is always going to be a threat as always existed. This is the biggest, to be clear, this is the biggest threat in a country. I'm going to tell you something in my year there in the past year. I saw no evidence whatsoever. This was the biggest threat, zero, that this was the biggest threat. I'm going to tell you, I think they completely made this up because when I asked for evidence of it,

1:04:28it's a threat, the biggest threat. We're only arguing on the margin here. I saw no evidence of that at all. Check this out and ignore what our intelligence agents have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to a homeland today. White supremacist terrorism. I folks, I'm just telling you, listen to me. I'm talking to the liberals too. I know you hate my gods. Listen, I know we don't like each other, feelings mutual, okay? But I had to work for you too, obviously. I wasn't paid to be, you know, a political FBI deputy. I was paid to be the FBI deputy for everybody. I'm telling you, that's bullshit. It is a threat. It is not any racially motivated violence as a threat. You see it coming from all angles. The biggest threat, that's insane. Right, exactly, right? I didn't even, look at these with the masks in the back.

1:05:28That's a good point, Justin. Can you say a lot of, if you're listening on Apple and Spotify, go to what do we, an hour and seven minutes in. Look at the Pelosi, Pelosi with the blue mask, Kamala with the mask in the back. I, I'm telling you, I saw no evidence that that statement is true at all. Folks, results matter. He's got a different team in there now. And there's very little dispute that the, I'm never gonna tell you, oh, any of this mission accomplished, bullshit. It's never accomplished. People want to kill us every single day. We've seen some of it and the possibility that someone may be successful at some point because we don't live in a surveillance state. You trade your liberty for security, as has been said, many times you will have neither. And I do not support a surveillance state, didn't in my prior role either. That always creates a situation where someone can slip through the cracks.

1:06:28And they're always gonna be cracks because we don't have a surveillance blanket on everyone all the time. There's an assumption of innocence in the United States even when you're charged with a crime. But there is no question that people he has in charge now are not screwing around. And that the world is a safer, not totally safe, but a safer place because we didn't screw around. And we understood the threat and didn't play political games like, I was the biggest threat, oh my gosh, with the masks on in the background. I put this tweet up yesterday. I thought it was important just to remind people who constantly tell you between the liberal media folks, oh, nothing's happening and the doomer's, nothing's happened. Really? This is just kind of a short montage of headlines. Trump calls Kamini's death, Dutch justice for the American people. US overdose, though in fentanyl fell. Inflation rate fell on November, defying expectations. FBI opens grand conspiracy probe on weaponization, opening door to special prosecutor.

1:07:30Fed sees 15 billion in Bitcoin, biggest seizure ever. Patel fires corrupt FBI agents and Arctic Frost. Austin, Venezuela, president, Maduro, reigned the US court. I mean, it's just, whatever, I don't see it. Look, say it, you get the point. You can look at it on Twitter. I just sent it to them to remind everyone out there that the team in charge is serious. The stuff takes time. We are not totally safe. We'll never be totally safe, but we are safer because we don't have people like spaghetti brains. The last president spouted off nonsense with no evidence to back it up. Folks, this attack was structured methodically. He has smart people around him, the president, who know what they're doing. Radcliffe, Hegseth, Hegseth, Cash, the security team. They know what they're doing. This was structured this way for a reason. Notice how they got Maduro first.

1:08:32Energy, if you cannot power your war machine, it's going to be really difficult to start the World War III, we keep hearing about. The doomer's out there. Everything's going to be World War III. Banked, the Lord, it hasn't happened yet. And we hope it doesn't. But can we all agree, fair enough, that if you were going to start, quote, World War III, you were going to need power to do it. Nuclear, coal, natural gas, oil, correct? Diesel, I'm not crazy, right? You're not gonna start it on a bunch of wooden flotilla boats, like the Vikings, right? Can we all just start with that premise? President Trump and his team understands that. You can't power a war machine without power. So they go and get Maduro first and they secure regional basically petrochemical dominance because the United States is one of the world's largest producers of energy. Venezuela is up there too. Venezuela, the America hating Maduro is now in a U.S. prison.

1:09:33So now we've iced out where some of our enemies were getting their power to power their war machine, try to follow Libs from this Venezuelan dipshit who's now in a U.S. prison. So now he's locked off the Venezuelan supplies. Look at his tweet by, what's it Peter is on. Now all of a sudden, with the Iranian leadership being decapitated, looks like they're gonna have a problem power in their war machine from Iran too. Politico, President Donald Trump's latest attack in Iran takes a big economic bite out of one of America's chief rivals. China. Here's a chart here about Iranian and Venezuelan exports. How they export most of their crude oil to where? China. Why am I bringing this up? Now watch, watch the euphemisms guys and the other ones playing in America. What are you saying? This is a war for oil? No, I'm saying it is a military action meant to ice out another world war

1:10:34that requires power to fuel the war machine where they're iceing out the power. So there's no war machine for a worried war. There's an economics show I really like. I watch a lot of the clips on a number of different platforms. You know, Peter St. Ange, you've heard him many times. Here he is talking about, it's about a minute clip, exactly this too. How China, all of a sudden, is gonna be suffering some kind of an, I'm not telling you, it's gonna be a catastrophic energy crisis, but it's enough to make them think twice about their war machine if they can't get the assets to power it. Check this out. But what happens in Iran does not say in Iran because of the millions of barrels of oil Iran was exporting 90% of which was going to China. Even higher than the 70% of Venezuela oil that was going to China. And none of it was being paid in US dollars since both Venezuela and Iran are sanctioned on the swift dollar payment system. And this is raising questions whether Iran

1:11:36was actually a strategic strike against China who's already reeling from a real estate crisis and massive over capacity and manufacturing which is exacerbated by Trump's trade war. The background is China has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Ukraine war. Gobbling up Russian oil and gas that used to go to Europe and getting it at a fat discount since it is sanctioned. This turned Russia into China's biggest oil and gas provider and China now buys nearly half of Russian oil which is about double its pre-war share. China was doing the same with Iran and Venezuela buying their sanctioned oil at a fat discount essentially buying shoplifted groceries on the street instead of going into Walmart and paying like everybody else which gave it a big cost advantage. Again, another one of those inputs Donald Trump and his security team president Trump had and the details of it many of it. That's kind of an overview.

1:12:37The intricate details many of them are probably classified. There was a war going on on the dollar. There was a war going on in the petrochemical energy market. You think this was just some half-ass ham sandwich decision on a Sunday and let's just go bomb around like no one had thought this through? This was a lot of this was strategy to intercept this cabal of American hating countries that both wanted nuclear weapons and had them all feeding off each other's teeth to make sure they engaged in a long-term strategy to make sure that the United States was going to be brought to its knees. This was not figured out on a weekend over tea and crumpets. This has been thought out over time. I know. I was there. This whole strategy, it's not just one piece. They were trying to destroy our currency too.

1:13:38You see, Donald Trump, you saw his true social post about bricks, right? Brazil, Russian, like trying to use alternate currencies and things like that to destroy the dollar. Remember, every time a transaction in the energy markets is conducted, it's conducted in dollars. That's basically like a free loan to the US economy. Now, sometimes that's not great because we can borrow a lot of money and the Democrats and some weak need Republicans to. However, we're in what we're in now. And if the dollar reserve currency of the world were to fall apart tomorrow, which I sincerely doubt, but in exchange for Chinese currency instead, folks interest rates would be like 20%. The whole economy would collapse. I'm just trying to make the point that this stuff is really complicated level 10 decision making. And Kirby Smart was right. A lot of times leadership involves making really challenging and hard decisions

1:14:39where you can't explain every single input. You just can't. And you just got to let people sometimes just kick in the teeth. And it sucks because you know they just don't know anything. They just don't. And the left wing bullshit media, by the way, knows absolutely nothing. Then I want you to completely disregard. I want to share these two clips. Just nail home my point. How these people in the left wing media infrastructure and the rumors latch on to this too. You talk about Donald Trump can't get his story straight. I said to you in the beginning of the show, he got his story straight. He asked you what they asked what the objectives were. He said, here are my objectives. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. The left wing media can't get their story straight. Here's a clip from ABC. This is just the other day. And I want you to pay very close attention to the answer. This young lady gives here about the intelligence and how Iranians may have been years and years away

1:15:40from doing somehow magically she has more information than Rubio. That's incredible. He's the Secretary of State. National Security, probably has a thousand other jobs too. You know more than Rubio, I don't understand. How do you know that? I'm just saying that the lady in the club, I don't even know her name, I don't even care at ABC. There's this question. Have you been in on any intelligence briefings, the PDB in the morning? Do you know? I mean, you sound very confident in your answer. How do you know that? You have Middle Eastern intel sources that you're not telling the government about. Are you a foreign agent? We don't know. I don't understand how you know that. Amazing how I was supposed to respect this person's opinion. When they know absolutely nothing, check this out. The Defense Secretary focused on this 47 years of violence covering from the Iranian regime. Decline to lay out what the imminent threat was here. He talked about the nuclear weapons. Those were set back last year. He talked about the ballistic missiles according to the Defense Intelligence Agency. It ran around about 10 years away from developing

1:16:40any kind of a missile they could hit the United States. Yeah, Georgia back nine years away is what US intelligence had concluded. Okay, that's their story. You know, nine years away. Again, the president doesn't tell you everything he sees. And he's not obligated to. He's obviously very transparent. That's just an objective fact given the amount of media appearances he does relative to other presidents. Yet again, he was Jen Saki White House press secretary. Just a few years ago saying the exact opposite. It's like they can't even she, by the way, she said MSNOW now. Sorry, that's always me at this time. Hey, we always wait for the day. Hey. Here's Saki saying the exact opposite. Check this out. Ron has rapidly accelerated its nuclear program and reduced cooperation with international inspectors. Their breakout period is down from about a year, which is what we knew it was during the deal

1:17:41to just a few weeks or less. Big hat tip maze more as always. You know, we love the maze more account on X. I'm sorry if I missed that tip earlier. I hate that. Gotta credit these creators. They worked their butts off at maze. M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E on X. A great account. These guys worked their butts off, folks. So pulling all these videos. And that was a MRC that one, the one before. Folks, Pete Hegseth has done an incredible job as our Secretary Award. He has. There were a lot of doubters. I mean, Pete's accountable like everyone else. Just like me. Of course, everyone's open to criticism. Everybody can find something. But there's no doubt the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, was dealt with shit sandwich when he went in there. Every single person of any partisan persuasion whatsoever should and can, or else you're lying. Acknowledge a fact that we absolutely adore our warfighters but that a lot of the leadership at the Pentagon

1:18:42was getting overly bureaucratic and out of control. Out of control meaning processes were broken. Acquisitions were broken. Leadership was too layered. It was really hard to make decisions. The Secretary of War was dealing with a lot. After the Maduro ops, Midnight Hammer, and this, he has got a CV resume under his belt where, again, you're going to argue results. It's going to be hard to knock this guy. He's done an incredible job. But he said something yesterday. I really want to make sure you tattoo on your brain right now. He said what I've been hinting at the whole show. You see how the show has an arc to it? It's like the Laffer curve. We always wind up back at the same spot. Tell people what you're going to tell them, tell them and tell them what you told them. Leadership sometimes involves making decisions where you can't tell people all of the inputs. You just can't. Pete's asked the question about ground troops.

1:19:42He answers the question. And he says something. You really need to hear that, hey, I'm not going to tell you everything. Because if I tell you everything, I'd be broadcasting it to the world and we basically be putting our troops in danger. Even if that not telling you anything by the way, everything makes us look bad, that's what leadership's about. Check this out. Are there currently any American boots on the ground in Iran? No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do. It's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people this and our enemies, by the way. Here's exactly what we'll do. Here's exactly how long we'll go. Here's exactly how far we'll go. Here's what we're willing to do and not do. It's foolishness. And so President Trump ensures that our enemies understand we'll go as far as we need to go to advanced American interests. But we're not dumb about it. You don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years.

1:20:42Folks, I'm going to tell you something. I fought really hard during my time on the radio and the podcast before I left. I fought really hard for Pete and I had to tell you, I'm really proud of that. I'm really proud of that because he has done an incredible job. Incredible job. He is dealing with a lot, a lot of stuff he can't tell you, a lot of stuff that bled over into our stuff. I'm not talking about it. I mean, bureaucratized decision making, entirely of sporadic environments. It's really, really, they're budget. Hours was $12 billion there. Forget it. That's like a tip in a restaurant for the Secretary of War. He's dealing with a lot. And I get to tell you, I don't think I don't want to speak for Pete bangs. I'm pretty sure no one peed a long time.

1:21:43Neither one of us expected that. I was just sitting in my office one day watching a movie falling asleep on a Sunday night. It was late and I got a call from the President asking me to if I was interested and I said, yeah, hell yeah. I'm pretty sure Pete was kind of surprised by a lot of it too. But he stepped up and he deserves our support. And he's 100% correct. And yet, here's the other side. You would think they would have learned something from the Vietnam era. You know, Jane Fonda bullshit. They tried back then. Believe it or not, Hanoi Jane is back. I'm not kidding. I may have to cut this off early. The beginning of the show, we go through the clips to make sure it's the right sound and video. And they're playing this and gay that I'm not. I'm like, I can't listen. I don't know how much of this. I know I got two seconds into it, two maybe three. I don't know how much of this. I'm gonna subject you to. But I want you to be. I want you to be.

1:22:43There's actually a strategic part of me putting this on the show. I want you to expose their strategy. Their strategy is to paint this as a forever war, regime change, nation building. Despite Donald Trump, categorically, the not only categorically denying the nation building and the forever war component, because they know sensibly so that Americans don't want their kids and I don't either involved in foreign interventions without a proper exit plan. Remember Fox Conner's Rules of War. Don't go to war alone. Don't go to war for long. Don't go to war unless you really have to. Here's Hanoi Jane with the Vietnam comparisons and all this. And I'm gonna tell you what again, why she's wrong based on facts. If that's your kind of thing, if you're a liberal watching, check this out. Now, parents are pulling their children out of the rubble, this dangerous and insane war against Iran,

1:23:44not only violates international law and our constitution, but risks exploding into a vast roar of mass proportion, taking the lives of many, including US service people. It is yet again another war based on false information. And I can't help but think back to the Vietnam War. Here's a sergeant major McGroin in the chat. At least she's been consistent since 69. You're correct, consistently stupid. You were absolutely right, but good boy. You see the comparisons are trying to make. So I'm going to give you the fact-based ammunition you need to fight this rhetorical fight against stupid leftists in your life. I thought we were not doing forever wars. Forever, it's not even a week. What do you mean forever? Well, it's gonna go on forever, has it? What do you, the Stigie and Witches? You can predict if you give me the eye. You have some ability to predict the future.

1:24:45I don't know, but that's great. What stocks should I be betting on? So you don't know that, correct? So we can just shut that down, because you have no idea what's going to happen, hasn't been a week. It's just like a rack. And Vietnam, it is. Really? Put up that Wall Street Journal piece by Mead. Trump tries to avoid the Iraq trap. He then goes on to make the case in the piece, which is excellent, that this is nothing like a rack. We don't have ground troops there, as you heard Secretary Hankseth just say. A little bit different than a rack, correct? A rack? Ground troops. A ran? No ground troops. Guys, if I'm saying anything wrong, please correct me in the chat. I'm just going by what the Secretary just said. They're ground troops, a rack. No ground troops are. But they're the same. They're not, they're not the same. You just heard me. You're just lying. Second, a rack. They made the mistake of early on not going into Baghdad.

1:25:48I only say mistake, because then they went back in. If you, that was your target, which it was later, we should have just done it the first time. However, they didn't make that mistake this time. They went in. They wanted to turn the nation over to the Iranians to build their own. Build their own. Build their own. That's not skipping. That's me saying it to you. Build their own nation. And the leadership, including the, I told, is what's the capitated. Unlike what happened with Saddam Hussein. We went on for years and years. So they're not the same. They're not even close to the same. That doesn't mean. Crazy Jane Fonda and everyone's crazy. She is. It's not entitled to an opinion on it. Of course she is. I'm just asking you to process facts. They're not the same. That's just bullshit. And then you can hear the other. Oh, this is universally unpopular. Donald Trump's going to lose everything. Oh, my gosh.

1:26:48It's over folks. It's over. I'm not going to say who I had this conversation with last night. But you know, you're listening right now. I get a text message last night. Oh, man. I mean, all these people are turning on Donald Trump. You know how many times I've heard this, folks? Do you have any idea? I've been in the MAGA camp with Donald Trump since 2016. Okay. I was not the earliest adopter. I've been candid about that. But I was a pretty early adopter. Do you have any idea? Tell me in the chat how many times we got him this time. This is it. The public is definitely there. But it never happens. The political graveyard is littered with people who said, oh, we're going to take out Trump from the Republican side. It never happens. I've heard this a thousand times. I texted the guy back. Please stop the insanity. Do you have any idea how many freaking times I've heard this? Here's a tweet I saw from a polling site about Trump's approval rating.

1:27:51Political polls. New Trump approval. Now this, to be fair, it's less approval. 50% this approval, 46%. If this drops in the same poll to like 36%, then maybe you got a point. It won't. It won't. Well, definitely Republican congressional approval is going to tank on this too. Okay. Well, New generic ballot poll. March 2nd. Republicans. 50%. Democrats. 50%. I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, President Trump's historically unpopular. Congressional Republican is going to get destroyed. That poll result was March 2nd. We'll see. I'm a facts guy. We'll see. Polls come, I, why don't I have a seat, fair polling, not liberal polling. Polls come out. And Donald Trump takes a 20 point drop and approach, okay, maybe you've got a point. But I'll make the point again that even if that were the case, and I'm positive that's not going to happen.

1:28:55And sometimes leadership is about making really unpopular decisions. By the way, leave it to Politico for there. This is just the first Republican's Pounds we've done since I've been back on the air. You know, Republicans Pounds, when left wing outlets, Democrats like Politico, they never want to talk about Democrats dumb decision-making. So when the Democrats do something stupid, they make it about the Republican reaction. Republicans Pounds here. Look at this one. Republicans use Iran strikes to pressure Dems and DHS funding fire. So just to be clear, Democrats shut off DHS funding in a time of national crisis. There's like a bombing campaign going on with the debt to America crown. The Democrats don't want to pay the Department of Homeland Security. They're literal name. And instead of Politico calling out the Democrats, they do the Republicans Pounds. Republicans use Iran strikes. Once you see it, you'll never unsee it. All right, folks, we covered a lot of material today.

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