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1:01I'm Ben Micellis, and this is your Breaking News.
1:05Moments ago, Donald Trump just posted the following after there was a lot of intelligence
1:12suggesting that a U .S.
1:14ground invasion of the Karg Island was imminent.
1:18Trump posted, as per Iranian government request, please let this statement serve to represent that
1:26I am pausing the period of energy plant destruction by 10 days to Monday, April
1:326, 2026 at 8 p .m.
1:35Eastern time. Talks are ongoing, and despite erroneous statements to the contrary by fake news
1:42media and others, they are going very well.
1:46Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J.
1:49Trump. Now, all the posts from Iranian leadership on Iranian media suggest quite the contrary
1:59situation taking place. Iran had stated that they were mobilizing one million fighters for a
2:09potential ground war with the United States.
2:12This was on Iranian state regime media, Tasneem, and they're saying they're getting ready for
2:18a ground battle there. That same Tasneem news agency has been posting memes like this
2:24to American soldiers, come closer, come closer.
2:29And whenever Donald Trump makes statements like that, or the Iranian regime makes statements like
2:36that, I just think it's important that we observe what is actually taking place, and
2:43we assess the facts, and we try to separate the propaganda from the facts.
2:48And the last time I checked, Iran still has firm control over the Strait of
2:57Hormuz, not allowing U .S.
3:01and U .S. allied ships through.
3:03Countries that are allied with Iran are able to traverse through the Strait of Hormuz,
3:10and countries that are paying Iran are able to do that.
3:15The Iranian regime in place right now is a more extreme version of the Iranian
3:24regime that had leadership positions at the end of February, when there was purportedly a
3:31deal in principle between the United States and Iran as negotiated by a mediator, the
3:39foreign minister of Oman. And one of the things that we have been learning about
3:47as well, Reuters report, that Iran hardliners, who are now in control, are ramping up
3:54calls for a nuclear bomb and to never agree to any form of removing the
4:03uranium enrichment process for purposes of bomb making.
4:08Reuters writes, the debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb
4:15in defiance of an escalating U .S.-Israeli attack is getting louder, more public and more
4:22insistent, sources in the country say.
4:25With the Revolutionary Guards now dominant following the killing of Ayatollah Khomeini at the start
4:32of the war, hardline views on Iran's nuclear approach are ascendant to Iranian sources, have
4:39been telling Reuters in the region and reporter Angus McDowell.
4:44An important thing to note is that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military apparatus,
4:52the military structure, has been able to assert a lot more power than the, I
4:59guess, the spiritual leader, the Assad.
5:02And people who have been reporting from inside or who know what's happening is that
5:09it's more akin to a military deal.
5:11dictatorship now asserting more authority than, say, when there were this decentralized mosaic leadership model
5:20where you had kind of a spiritual leader side, a domestic police force side, the
5:26Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps side that were all kind of having this independent but power
5:35with this kind of connective tissue with the Ayatollah at the top.
5:39The Times of Israel reported just hours before Donald Trump's statement that Donald Trump appeared
5:46to be leaning toward ordering a major ground operation against Iran involving the seizure of
5:52Iran's Karg Island in the northern Persian Gulf, with Washington convinced Tehran will buckle under
5:59such military pressure. An official from one of the countries mediating between the U .S.
6:05and Iran was telling the Times of Israel.
6:09And meanwhile, from N12 in Israel, a media outlet out there, in a leaked cabinet
6:16recording, Israel Chief of Staff Eyal Zemir warned that the IDF is nearing a breaking
6:22point after prolonged conflict. I am raising 10 red flags, Zemir told ministers, stressing the
6:30urgent need for new laws on conscription, reserves, and extended service.
6:36The reserves will not be able to hold out under these dramatic circumstances, he added,
6:42warning that it won't be long before the IDF is no longer fit for even
6:48routine security missions. One of the things that I think we need to focus on,
6:56too, is that earlier this week on Sunday, in order to manipulate the markets, Donald
7:02Trump said that in 48 hours, unless Iran left the Strait of Hormuz, the U
7:07.S. would commit the war crimes of attacking the energy infrastructure of Iran.
7:12Then the next day, Donald Trump, it's been referred to as a taco that Trump
7:17always chickens out, or whatever you want to call it.
7:20Donald Trump said, we've had excellent conversations with the Iranian leadership, and they're telling us
7:27that there's a productive deal that's happening.
7:30And then the markets which were crashing and the oil prices that were surging ended
7:35up rebounding towards a more manageable direction.
7:41And so now, as we head into the weekend, Donald Trump is saying there's this
7:4710 -day period. But as I said at the outset of this video, what we
7:52need to focus on is what's actually happening in the region.
7:55So as long as there are still strikes taking place, which there are, as long
8:00as Iran is still controlling the Strait of Hormuz, which they are, as long as
8:05the Houthis are saying, we're ready to take the Red Sea as soon as we
8:10get the command from Iran, as long as Iran has made clear that their requirements
8:17for any negotiation includes security guarantees that there won't be any Israel -U .S.
8:25strikes against them in the future, that there won't be any Israel strikes against Hezbollah
8:29in the future, or any Iranian proxy groups, whether it's in Lebanon like Hezbollah or
8:35Shiite militias in Iraq. Iran wants full reparations for the damages they sustained during the
8:43war. They want to be able to maintain their ballistic missile capabilities, and they want
8:48full control of the Strait of Hormuz and basically an apology from the United States
8:53and also U .S. leaving its military bases in the region.
8:58That's the Iranian threshold demands, which they've been reiterating publicly.
9:03On the other side, Donald Trump's been talking about, oh, we've obliterated them, we've crushed
9:08them, they don't exist anymore, you know, there's no leadership, but apparently we're negotiating with
9:14them, and they don't even exist anymore, and they've lost, we've won the war, we've
9:19won, well, if you've won the war, then why don't you control the Strait of
9:23Hormuz? You know, we could look at objective criteria.
9:26If you won, then apparently the Strait of Hormuz should be open.
9:30And so now, though, is the U .S.
9:32goal of all of this to open the Strait of Hormuz?
9:36Is that the end game here, which was open before Trump launched the invasion against
9:44Iran with Netanyahu back in late February?
9:47So that's what the goal is.
9:49The Islamic Republic, the regime stays in power.
9:52It's a more extreme version of the prior regime.
9:55They control the Strait of Hormuz, and what the only win would be the status
10:02quo of the Strait of Hormuz with the more extreme Iran after.
10:06That's the American security umbrella.
10:08We also learned something deeply disturbing from a New York Times report.
10:12It was kind of reported matter -of -factly and casually, but like, what?
10:18Like, do you know that we have these 13 bases in the Middle East that
10:22have basically been abandoned by American soldiers?
10:26We have evacuated all of these bases because Iran's Shahid drones and other FPV, first
10:35-person viewing drones, have been the Hormuz.
10:39That's basically what we do here for today, so I think we will go in
10:39the middle of the March 1 on our screen.
10:39That's one of the most common thoughts we need to go in the middle of
10:39the able to strike these military bases with impunity.
10:44And America can't guard these bases anymore.
10:47So if you can't guard your own bases, how are you able to provide a
10:52security umbrella for other countries in the region?
10:56And now apparently our soldiers who were at those bases have now been staying in
11:02hotel rooms and have been working out of hotel rooms.
11:05And Iran is working with their network of spies and other insiders to try to
11:11identify which hotels are housing these American troops right now.
11:19You have Iran posting memes like this, as I said from the outset, two American
11:23soldiers come closer, come closer.
11:26Iranian cartoonists with memes like this, Trump, Iran sent me a very valuable gift.
11:31And it's a cartoon of an Iranian soldier kicking Donald Trump in the face.
11:35We've heard from Iranian leadership like Moshe and Razi, a senior military advisor to the
11:42new Ayatollah saying about the United States, if their air power, which is their main
11:47force, has not yielded results, what are they expecting from a ground operation?
11:51Are American soldiers really ready to die for Israel?
11:55I guess we'll see. Yesterday, foreign minister of Iran, Aragchi said, no nation in history
12:01has stood for nearly a month against the greatest nuclear armed power on earth and
12:05stopped them from achieving a single goal.
12:07This is a point of pride for all of humanity.
12:10And Aragchi said the following over and over again, there are no negotiations taking place.
12:16This was yesterday. So is it possible that there are negotiations taking place today?
12:20Is it possible Aragchi was lying?
12:23Sure, all possible. I'm just letting you know what's being said publicly, because I don't
12:28think that's being reported a lot in American media.
12:31There are no negotiations, Iran's foreign minister says.
12:34The fact that they are now talking about negotiations with us is an admission of
12:40defeat, is it not? Because they're saying unconditional surrender is the only option.
12:45So why are they mobilizing all of their highest officials to negotiate with us if
12:52we've been defeated? Does that make any sense to you?
12:55For countries we have identified as friends, we're allowing them to pass through the Strait
12:59of Hormuz, China, Russia, India, Iraq, and Pakistan, right?
13:03This war spread to Iraq, where the Iraqi government has authorized Shiite militias to attack
13:08American bases there. There is no reason to allow our enemy to pass through the
13:14Strait of Hormuz. The enemy must learn a lesson, never to dare attack again, and
13:19the damage to the Iranian people must be compensated.
13:22International guarantees are not 100 % guarantees.
13:25The intrinsic guarantee we have created ourselves means no one dares to go to war
13:33with the Iranian people anymore.
13:36And repeatedly saying, so far, no negotiations have taken place, and a ceasefire without guarantees
13:43is a vicious cycle that repeats the war right there.
13:48Earlier this morning, Donald Trump was attacking NATO, saying NATO nations have done absolutely nothing
13:53to help with the lunatic nation, now militarily decimated of Iran.
13:58The US needs nothing from NATO, but never forget, this is a very important point
14:03in time, and this is a very important point in time.
14:06Never forget, never forget, this as the Trump regime lifts sanctions on Putin and Putin's
14:11puppets, like Belarus, as Donald Trump sends J .D.
14:16Vance to meet with Viktor Orban next week at the same time, or it's a
14:21few days before Hungary's election is set to take place.
14:25And as we learn more details about the extent to which Russia is helping Iran
14:31target the United States, providing supplies to Iran, and working very carefully with Iran to
14:38destroy those American military bases.
14:41I want to talk right now about the No Kings protest, because it's coming up
14:47this weekend, right? If there wasn't this unlawful war taking place, which is crippling our
14:54country here in the United States, this No Kings would still be the highest stakes,
15:01peaceful protest in the history of our nation.
15:04Now with this unlawful war raging with Donald Trump's unpopularity at a all -time low
15:13right now, as Donald Trump has the worst popularity rating on the economy of any
15:19president, worst approval rating in history, Americans are livid from all political parties and people
15:26who aren't political. The last No Kings was huge, but this No Kings is going
15:31to be even bigger. I want to bring in Ezra Levin.
15:35Ezra, it's great to see you again, as always.
15:38Great to see you, Ben.
15:40Indivisible. Everybody knows Ezra. Double check Ezra.
15:43There may be a little echo right there.
15:44Turn it down a little bit.
15:45But I want to chat with Ezra about No Kings.
15:50Obviously, everybody knows individual. It's a leadership movement.
15:53It's a leaderless movement, though, with lots of people who are working together, you and
15:595051 and move on and so many great unions.
16:02We could spend the whole time talking about everybody who's involved and the local chapters
16:06and the local... local, local chapters.
16:08That's right. We deserve all the credit in the world.
16:10But Ezra, we've got a big audience here.
16:12Talk to us about No Kings coming up.
16:14Look, this is, as you said, going to be the largest protest in American history.
16:18To put it in some context, the first No Kings had 2 ,100 protests last
16:22June. The second No Kings had 2 ,700 protests last October.
16:26Right now, as I speak to you, Ben, there are 3 ,267 protests on the
16:32worldwide map this Saturday. 3 ,267.
16:3895 % of the US population lives within an hour or so of their local
16:44No Kings protests. Many people are minutes away.
16:47That's how big this is going to be.
16:49But there's something interesting happening this time, Ben.
16:51You saw it last time, what Republicans were doing in the lead up to No
16:54Kings 2. They couldn't shut up about it.
16:57Mike Johnson and all the other ones, they were calling us terrorists.
17:00They were calling us Antipa.
17:01They were saying it was going to be violent.
17:02They call that the National Guard in some states.
17:05And then, what was it?
17:06It was enormous. It was powerful.
17:08It was joyful. It was nonviolent.
17:10And look, the Republicans learned their lesson.
17:13They've adjusted. I challenge you to find one single National Republican who has said the
17:18words No Kings in the last month.
17:20You won't find them because they're hoping to deprive us of oxygen.
17:24They want less coverage of this because if there's less coverage, fewer people hear about
17:28it. If fewer people hear about it, they're not going to come.
17:31If they don't come, the protests are smaller.
17:33If they're smaller, then maybe this regime can hold on to power for a bit
17:37longer. So I think we've got to adjust our tactics, too.
17:40I know everybody watching this is going to go to their local protests.
17:42I challenge everybody, though, to think of somebody in their life, two or three people
17:47who agree with you that the state of the country is not good, but they're
17:50not protest types. They're not organizer types.
17:53They're not political types. You should give them the gift.
17:56And the gift is an invitation to hang with you this Saturday at the protest.
17:59That's how we build these to be enormous and historic.
18:03You know, Ezra, it's a great point.
18:04I was thinking about that as you were saying it.
18:07And I was like, you're right.
18:07I've never recently, I haven't heard a single Republican talk about it.
18:12And they clearly got their message.
18:14Don't bring it up. Pretend it doesn't exist.
18:17Let's not make it a bigger story.
18:20And then maybe it'll go away.
18:22But Ezra, I ultimately think that they may think that.
18:25But I believe that the people have been waiting for this since it was announced.
18:31And people are prepared to go out there.
18:33And this is an event that's now happens, you know, two or three times a
18:38year. People look forward to it because we can get out there and share our
18:44joy, our love of this country, our love for each other, spread positivity, and show
18:51in huge numbers to this country, to this regime, and to the world that Americans
18:58do not want this regime in power and that this regime does not represent the
19:04true values of America. Look, that is exactly right.
19:08A massive protest like this can send that message and can make people feel like
19:12they're not alone, like they're, they're part of a pro -democracy movement that is going
19:16to force democracy to reassert itself that this guy who wants to seem all powerful
19:21and inevitable and invincible, that he's actually a puny, weak president who's on the way
19:26out. And democracy itself will be here when he is gone.
19:31You mentioned that this is a massive coalition effort.
19:35And you're right. This is not the Ezra 11 protests or an indivisible protest.
19:40There are tons of national organizations doing outreach like Black Voters Matter and NAACP and
19:46Movement for Black Lives. Voto Latino, gosh, ACLU and Sunrise are doing incredible work with
19:51campuses to get feeder marches in coming from the campuses to the No Kings protests.
19:57But as important as all these big national organizations, it's the actual people on the
20:01ground. These aren't professional politicos.
20:03These are teachers and nurses and IT technicians.
20:05These are people who care about their community, who are looking at the conditions in
20:09this country and the world right now and saying, I got to do something about
20:13this. And one thing you can do is recruit your community out this Saturday.
20:17That does send this message you're talking about.
20:19And I think that's really important for Saturday.
20:21But wild success from No Kings is not just having the biggest protest in American
20:27history on Saturday. It's also then funneling all of these new people in to on
20:32the ground organizing work that we're going to need because we see what Trump is
20:36planning to do. He's planning to sabotage the midterm elections.
20:39And when that happens, we need people engaged on the ground to push back against.
20:44That's how we're not only going to win the midterms, we're going to protect the
20:47results. I'll ask everybody who's watching this live right now, throw a blue heart emoji
20:54if you will be attending and recommending to at least five people you know that
21:00they attend as well. So throw that blue emoji if not just you, but you're
21:06committed to bringing five people or at least telling five people that they need to
21:11show up. Ezra, before you go, tell people where they could learn more about the
21:15closest protest to them and anything else you think that they should know before heading
21:19into No Kings over this weekend.
21:21Look, you can go to nokings .org and look at that big old map and
21:26you will find a protest that's right near you.
21:28If you're not the protest type, if you've never done it before, it's okay.
21:32There are trainings there. There are resources there.
21:34I want you to know you are welcome.
21:37This is not just a protest for Democrats or Kamala Harris voters or people who
21:40are political obsessives. This is a welcoming protest for everybody who agrees on one basic
21:45thing, that 250 years ago, this country was founded on rejecting monarchical rule, on rejecting
21:51authoritarians. And we believe that if we don't exercise our First Amendment rights when there's
21:56an authoritarian out there menacing them, we don't have those rights.
21:58So now's the time to show up, meet your community, have some fun, feel your
22:02power, and let's build for the future together.
22:10Ezra Levin, co -founder of Indivisible.
22:12Thank you so much. You would think that after doing this every day, 15 times
22:16a day, I would know the mute button, but it's muscle memory, I guess.
22:20Ezra, thank you so much.
22:21And we're grateful for the work that you, that Indivisible does.
22:25Shout out to all the local chapters of Indivisible and the hard work that they
22:30put in. Thanks, Ezra. Thank you, Ben.
22:32And thanks to Midas for actually covering what's happening on the ground.
22:34We'll be there, of course, during the peaceful protests over the weekend, as always.
22:40We'll be streaming it. And always great to have Ezra on and always great to
22:46be able to amplify all the work of Indivisible and Move On and all on
22:525051 and to highlight the work of their local chapters.
22:56And it's always a true group effort.
23:00And, you know, the people who are out there passing water and the passing, you
23:04know, all those things are always, always evolve.
23:06Ezra's back. Ezra, let's start the interview.
23:11I'll see you, Ezra. What if we just kept on bringing Ezra back and just
23:15continue to do the interview?
23:17I'm always grateful to have Ezra on.
23:19I want to share as well, you know, Jeremy, with everybody, just a few points
23:26before taking our first quick break.
23:30I want to share at least what went down during the cabinet meeting.
23:34It was a completely deranged and unhinged cabinet meeting where Donald Trump's now saying we
23:41don't need the Strait of Hormuz.
23:43We don't need it. We don't need it at all.
23:45We're not affected by any of this.
23:47We're not affected by any of this.
23:50And, you know, they're affected.
23:51The amazing thing is we don't need the Hormuz Strait.
23:54We don't need it. We don't need it at all.
23:57We don't. We have so much oil.
23:59Our country is not affected by this.
24:01We have twice the amount of oil as Saudi Arabia or Russia, and soon it'll
24:09be three times the amount.
24:10Chris, do you want to speak to that?
24:12Okay. That's a ridiculous thing to say.
24:14When you say we don't need the Strait of Hormuz, what are we even doing
24:19there? If we don't need the Strait of Hormuz, if our goal is no longer
24:23regime change, if you claim you obliterated the nuclear weapons last June, why would we
24:33even be talking about it if it didn't matter?
24:36And, of course, I mean, so why are the oil – if we have all
24:39of the oil, then why are the prices going up?
24:43Because it's all connected, you idiot.
24:44Because the global – because we live in something called planet Earth, the world, and
24:54oil prices fluctuate based on supply and demand internationally.
25:00So, sure, if the U .S.
25:03is producing certain amounts of oil, yes, we have a certain supply here.
25:09But our ability to sell that oil is based on something called markets, and market
25:19forces are impacted by what happens in the Strait of Hormuz.
25:22I mean, the fact that the leader of the United States says that, and I
25:26know he's not really – I mean, he has that position, but he ain't leading,
25:31then why is our gas prices – if we controlled everything, why isn't gas free
25:36here, right? Because it obviously is impacting everything.
25:40Then Donald Trump says that all of this, all of his requests for NATO to
25:46help and allies, it was all part of a plan where Donald Trump was going
25:51to test NATO. This was a test, because that's what we do.
25:55We start wars with Netanyahu that are not authorized by Congress to test NATO.
26:04Here, play this clip. And nobody's a match for the United States, but they're not
26:11a match for the United States.
26:12It's a small potatoes. That's why I'm so disappointed in NATO, because this was a
26:17test for NATO. This was a test.
26:19You can help us. You don't have to, but if you don't have – if
26:23you don't do that, we're going to remember.
26:25Just remember. Remember this in a number of months from now.
26:29Remember my statements. Have an expression, a great expression.
26:36Never forget. Never forget. That's a great expression?
26:42What in the world are you talking about?
26:45It's a great expression? Then Donald Trump, again, he keeps on talking about this war
26:50as a detour. Everything was good, so we did a detour, everybody.
26:55Here, let's play it. Has been put into our country in the last year.
26:59And again, we had to take a little detour.
27:01Won't be long. gonna end soon we had to take a little detour go to
27:08iran and we had to put out a fire why what are you talking about
27:13what the hell is that we had to put out who talks like that just
27:16even the speech pattern we had to take a detour to iran to put out
27:22a fire and what the outcome is now they control the strait of ramos that's
27:27that a more extreme version of the islamic republic now rules the country by the
27:33way while donald trump's out there posting about a 10 -day extension right after making
27:40a 48 -hour ultimatum dude in iran they're just doing they're doing mocking memes like
27:46when hegs had said earlier today on iran for years they told the world their
27:51missiles could only range two kilometers surprise yet again iran lied you've got the head
27:58of the iranian parliament mb gollebuff doing like images like mocking images of like children
28:06looking at hegseth like he's stupid like that's what they're they are mocking all of
28:12this right now i mean you got donald like like you know i guess this
28:18is what it would be like it may be a screwed up example and so
28:21i haven't i haven't thought through this analogy so excuse me if it's a really
28:26bad one because it just popped into my head and do i go with the
28:29analogy no i'll go it we'll see what happens imagine if covid could talk and
28:35meme and mock donald trump so while donald trump was out there saying like a
28:40miracle it's all gonna go away everything is great inject yourself with bleach but covid
28:45was like a nation and they were posting memes to mock donald trump for saying
28:50that as the death toll continued to rise as things were getting worse basically iran
28:55is the nation that i'm creating right now and trump has manufactured his own version
29:01of covid in the form of ceding american authority internationally and making america look utterly
29:08weak and destroying our economy and frankly world economies as well while iran is out
29:15there like mocking the u .s every day with memes and photos and every day
29:19donald trump posts something else okay 10 days and by the way easter is coming
29:25up i forgot remember trump's whole thing with covid the whole thing aligns up crazy
29:31i didn't even just realize that we're right by remember trump's whole thing with easter
29:36we're gonna bend the curve right by easter i think by easter there's gonna be
29:40no like it lined up perfectly in his own demented mind with easter he's doing
29:44the easter thing again we're in the easter phase right that that's what this is
29:50so i actually think it was a good analogy is an analogy or is it
29:53a metaphor just a comparison i don't let me know which one what is that
29:58so i'll re i'll refine and i won't call it an analogy but i'll call
30:01it a metaphor if it's a metaphor or whatever or just an example but isn't
30:05that what he isn't that what he's isn't that what he's doing right now it's
30:08the same thing you know it's gonna go away by you're gonna go by it
30:12seems that what's gonna really happen is iran's gonna forever control these straight of her
30:17moves it's a whole different game there right at some point donald trump's gonna what
30:23he's gonna declare a victory what was he what what was the demented thing he
30:27said today uh he was like can i tell you what the gift was can
30:32i tell you the gift that they gave me i'll tell can i tell him
30:35scott scott can i tell him the gift okay the gift was they let me
30:41know we don't need the clip i'm i'm doing the clip i'm acting it out
30:45scott the the i i removed the clip from the stack so i can act
30:49it out eight ships eight ships moved through the straight of her moves eight of
30:56them and i saw it on fox i saw fox do it they played it
31:01for me and meanwhile there aren't eight ships what are you talking about the only
31:04ships that went through are iranian back ships with iranian escort that's that's all it
31:10was so it's making things up it's just it's again it's just deranged like why
31:15are you making this ridiculous stuff up that's not happening i i'm right now one
31:20of the things that i keep checking for is iran's response to donald trump claiming
31:25this 10 day thing but often when trump does 10 days five days he uses
31:30any type of period of time in order to then do the invasion so if
31:35you're iran why would you agree to any time period with trump when trump uses
31:40those time periods to to do invasion you know to to escalate and he never
31:45he never operates in good faith so what do you you know so so so
31:50where are we also i saw a report uh this morning uh talking about how
31:56it's expected a conservative estimate of uh not like the conservative part like a like
32:02a like a safe estimate i should say of where american inflation is going to
32:07be by the end of this year but probably sooner i think it's going to
32:11be way higher than this by the way personally like 4 .2 percent inflation is
32:16going to head up in the four so you're going to have to do interest
32:18rate hikes not decreases but i think my own prediction i'll just throw it out
32:22there i think inflation will hit closer to five percent um maybe more by the
32:29end maybe five five I don't know how it doesn't because I think that estimate
32:35factors in that things are going to magically get better and Trump will taco and
32:44things will become good again.
32:46I don't know what we're basing that on, especially when food supply has been crushed,
32:52helium supply has been crushed, liquefied natural gas supply has been crushed.
32:58Right? Obviously, crude supply has been crushed.
33:05So even if the war were to, let's just say the war ended tomorrow, what
33:11does that even look like?
33:12What does that even mean?
33:13The Islamic Republic has not been decimated.
33:16That's not what's happened. So what happens there?
33:21Do you think the Arab nations are going to be happy now to live with
33:23an emboldened Iran? What do you think happens?
33:27Right? Especially when the Iranian hardliners want – why would they negotiate right now for
33:37any thing other than get out and take your bases out and give us reparation?
33:46I mean, unless there's a security guarantee, what's going to – why would you do
33:50it? Just setting aside it's Iran, just if you're thinking logically – and I know
33:54Donald Trump and his regime probably think the Iranians aren't logical.
33:58Like they're probably have these biases and stereotype that the Iranians are illogical people and
34:03they're not things – but if you're Iran, you're probably thinking, well, any type of
34:07ceasefire, any type of anything to give the U .S.
34:11and Israel more time to build up where Israel's troops and morale and weapons are
34:17running very low. So the U .S.
34:20what depleted its stockpile of interceptors for a period of about maybe three to eight
34:25years. I understated it. U .S.
34:31interceptor stockpiles depleted by this war could take three to eight years to replenish.
34:37Right? So if you're Iran, why would you – why would you agree to –
34:45that's why it's just – I'm trying to study what's actually happening versus what's being
34:50said, and that's what we're going to continue to report here.
34:54Let me just – I'm going to take a look to see if Iran has
34:57responded, just to see if there's any – because I'm waiting.
35:01I'm waiting for that. No, they haven't got a response there.
35:04I mean, you saw the response from the GB Galiboff guy, the head of their
35:07parliament there. Let's take a look if there's any responses.
35:10I'm just trying to see on the various wires or the Tasman news if they've
35:15said anything there so far.
35:22As of eight minutes ago, Associated Press writes, Iran is tightening control over the Strait
35:27of Hormuz, forcing ships to share detailed data, reroute into its waters, and sometimes pay
35:36passage, creating what analysts are calling a toll booth.
35:40That's from the Associated Press.
35:42M .B. Galiboff posted that.
35:46Iranian President Musad Pazeshkian posted, President Putin's message and the support of the Russian people
35:54inspire us in this war.
35:56The resistance and courage of the Iranian people promises new bonds that will ensure the
36:01security of East Asia by countries of the region.
36:05On behalf of the people of Iran, I think the government and people of Russia
36:11makes me wonder – I don't know this for a fact, but just seeing that
36:15post happen – I wonder if it was Putin or a Putin proxy that's been
36:22speaking to either Donald Trump directly or someone in the Trump regime saying, don't do
36:29the electric grid, don't do the electric grid, because if you think about it, with
36:31all of the knowledge going out there that these 13 military bases have been evacuated,
36:37U .S. military bases, because Iran's precision FPV, first -person view drone strikes on these
36:45bases and the Shahid drone strikes, knowing the news that Russia's been giving them all
36:49of these supplies, Russia's announcing that they're doing it, Iran's saying that they're doing it,
36:52and we drop sanctions on Belarus and Russia, and Russia's making literally hundreds and billions
36:58of dollars to now fund their war efforts and to fund Iran against the United
37:05States and to fund its war and invasion against Ukraine.
37:09You know, this strategy, where Trump is moving everything to, really establishes Iranian dominance in
37:21the region, which really means China dominance and Russia dominance in the region as well.
37:26Look what's happening in the Caspian Sea.
37:30I know we don't talk about the Caspian Sea, just think about the Middle East,
37:34and then you have the, on the one hand, you have the Persian Gulf, Strait
37:39of Hormuz, on the other hand, you have the Red Sea, right, that's on the
37:44kind of opposite side, to the west, and then you have their own strait there,
37:50then kind of to the, what, to the northeast or so -ish, you have the
37:54Caspian Sea, and then that kind of connects Russia with Iran.
37:57on that Caspian Sea, that's where the weapons are coming into Iran from Russia.
38:03That's why you saw some Israeli strikes in the Caspian Sea on certain ships that
38:08were believed to be kind of Russian ships, bringing weapons, you know, in that area.
38:13So the war is kind of spreading in that direction as well.
38:17But with Russia supporting Iran, with Iran's President Pazeshkin now making that post, right, within
38:24the same timeframe that Trump is saying this, you know, 10 day, we're not going
38:29to commit the war crimes of blowing up your facilities.
38:33It makes me wonder, I just have to think logically, right?
38:38Who benefits the most from all of this?
38:41And to me, every glaring signal is Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin, Putin is the one
38:47benefiting this the most, right?
38:49And Iran, frankly, is benefiting.
38:51And China, that's, that's how I see it.
38:55Yeah, some people are saying Ukraine has also hit in the Caspian.
38:58Yeah, Ukraine has had successful strikes because Ukraine realizes, and this is what's so ridiculous,
39:04Ukraine's basically protecting the United States while Trump is mocking Zelensky, right?
39:10Ukraine's been striking in the Caspian, and Ukraine's been trying to knock out Russian oil
39:15facilities as well and energy facilities, which is a help to the U .S., while
39:21all Donald Trump does is attack Zelensky.
39:23The latest news that just came out also, and Trump admitted to it during the,
39:29during that deranged cabinet meeting, is that America's shifting its promised weapons from Ukraine to
39:35now go into the Middle East.
39:36So there's that other data point as well.
39:38Weapons promised to Zelensky are now being moved to the Middle East.
39:42We took weapons away from South Korea.
39:45We moved them into the Middle East.
39:47And then they're being targeted by Russia because they're open targets there, and Russia has
39:51the coordinates for them. Anyway, I've been talking a lot.
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45:10you some other data points as well.
45:13I thought it was fascinating.
45:14You've got this clip right here of a reporter asking Trump, so are you looking
45:19to take control of Iran's oil?
45:21And Donald Trump's like, before, it's like, I beat the shit out of him.
45:25I beat the shit. We can beat the shit out of him.
45:28Wait, Tony. Play this clip, and then let's talk about it.
45:32The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just beat the
45:36shit. Are you thinking of taking control of Iran's oil?
45:41It's an option. I mean, I wouldn't talk about it, but it's an option.
45:46Is that something you thought about?
45:47Well, in Venezuela, we've done very well working with Venezuela, and certainly we've taken in
45:53billions and billions of dollars.
45:55And by the way, Venezuela is doing better right now than they've ever done in
45:58the history of their country.
46:00Venezuela just appointed the chief torturer to be their defense minister.
46:06So basically the number two alongside Delcy Rodriguez was the chief torturer individual.
46:14But I'm just trying to be logical here.
46:19And that's, you know, I want to be clear.
46:24Iran has its propaganda machine, right?
46:27So anything they say, we have to still recognize it's propaganda.
46:33It's war, war propaganda. Trump regime, propaganda.
46:39I think like really juvenile and weird propaganda about like blowing things up, blow it
46:44up. Like the memes that they do with like video games and trying to gamify
46:48the war. But we have to try to sift through it and understand like strategy
46:55and what's happening here. And so when you're using language like that, okay, you know,
47:03we beat the shit out of them and they're destroyed and we're going to take
47:08their oil, okay? When you say those things, even if your intention is to do
47:15those things, okay, which we could have that conversation about, right?
47:20Because in the past you had a lot of American administrations getting us into never
47:29ending wars and pretending that it wasn't about beating the shit and oil, pretending it
47:35was about other things as propaganda, but getting us into never ending wars because it
47:40was actually about those things.
47:42I guess if there's something to say, well, at least he's saying it out loud,
47:47okay? He's saying it out loud.
47:49But also if you're saying those things out loud, if you're on the Iranian side
47:55of the equation, number one, don't you just clip what he's saying and then show
48:01your people and say, hey, look what they're saying about us in order to kind
48:06of rally support of people around the Ayatollah and around the regime?
48:12And then also how do you negotiate with people who talk about beating the shit
48:19out of you? Like if you and I were in a negotiation, although I don't
48:23know what setting it would be where there would be tension between them, but if
48:27we were in a negotiation, I've been, you know, when I was a lawyer, I
48:31did lots of deals, lots of negotiations.
48:35When I was a litigator, these glasses get so foggy.
48:38So I clean the glasses too, just so you know, it's not like I show
48:41up with dirty because like I wake up and I'm, I recognize that my glasses
48:45are dirty by the way.
48:46So I don't want you to think like, you know, it has been just do
48:49lives with dirty glasses. No, it just, it just, it.
48:53hogs up. I don't know if it's like a foggy room.
48:55Anyway, you have, I've had cases where they're litigation, right?
49:00We're in a trial. Then we do a mediation on the eve of trial, right?
49:05An informal discussion to try to resolve a dispute, right?
49:11If I were to go into a mediation, not a litigation, a mediation, and start
49:17saying, I'm going to beat the shit out of you.
49:20You can never accomplish any deal because the purpose of it is to reach a
49:27outcome that may be both sides leave something on the table, but that there's a
49:34path forward. That's why it's a settlement.
49:36If you want to do regime change and destruction and obliteration, you tried that.
49:42That obviously didn't work. You pretending it worked, but it didn't.
49:45So why do you care about negotiations if you've obliterated them in the first place?
49:50If they're obliterated, there should be no need for negotiations at all.
49:53You won. And if you won, we should have the straight of her moves and
49:56it's done and the war's over and everybody's happy and Arab nation should be happy
50:00and everybody's like, okay, we did it.
50:03Look at all that. Oil's down.
50:05But that's not what's happening.
50:06So you need to speak with them, obviously, because we didn't totally obliterate them and
50:11we're in negotiation. So I just, from a practical standpoint, this is just deranged behavior
50:17that won't result in an outcome.
50:19And if you're anyone, and look, I understand that in Iran, that the regime are
50:26extremist kind of religious zealots who behave a certain way, but so is the Trump
50:34regime, our religious zealots and who are, you know, who are out there saying horrific
50:39things and we're going to loiter over and kill you.
50:42And we negotiate with bombs.
50:44And, you know, one of the disheartening things to, you know, as I've observed is
50:49to watch an American administration speak and behave the way they've claimed the enemy has
50:58behaved. And when I watch the behavior of both, at least their public appearances and
51:04what they're saying publicly to see America behave that way and to talk about loitering
51:11over and killing you, you know, and again, blowing up elementary schools and killing 165
51:16little girls and Trump talking about war crimes and blowing up desalination, it's disheartening.
51:24And I don't know other than to describe it, it's painful physically, I think, to
51:29watch and observe that, but it's counterproductive to the deal.
51:33How are we going to get a deal done if that's how you talk?
51:38And then, like, throughout this cabinet thing, I don't know what we call it a
51:42cabinet meeting, the cabinet, you know, it's a version of the apprentice, right?
51:47He's just, do you realize that he's just doing the apprentice shtick?
51:50Like, that's what these cabinets are other than the firing part.
51:54He's doing the apprentice shtick.
51:57And, and it's deranged. And here he is talking about like the, the 25th amendment.
52:01Do we have the clip of the 25th amendment?
52:03Let's play it. Embarrassed. I don't want to embarrass you because I think you're off.
52:08I think she's a friendly reporter.
52:09So I'm sorry, but you know, I can't say what we're going to do because
52:13if I did, I wouldn't be sitting here for long.
52:16They'd probably, what is it called?
52:17The 25th amendment? That institute the 25th amendment, which they didn't do with Biden, which
52:26is shocking. And by the way, there you have Howard Lutnick, Mr.
52:32Epstein Island over there. And again, that's being used as propaganda by Iran as well.
52:39Iran saying, look at this, look at this crew of people.
52:42They're like all friends with Epstein.
52:45And that's what they're telling their people.
52:46They go, oh, you want, you want Epstein's friends to be the leaders here?
52:51You want them to pick the leadership?
52:54You want Epstein's team to, to be able to, you know, take our oil?
53:00That's what they're saying also over there.
53:03Then Donald Trump continues down this path where he starts saying, I don't want a
53:07person with a mental disability to be my president.
53:10Okay. Mr. Projection here, play it.
53:13I said, I have no problem with it, but I don't want a person with
53:16mental disability to be my president.
53:19I mean, you don't want to have a person with mental disability being a president.
53:26Okay. What are we even talking about there?
53:28Then Donald Trump goes on to say how he read a story about, I'm desperate
53:33to make, I'm not desperate.
53:35I'm not desperate to make, I read a story about it.
53:37Here, play this clip. It would be nice if like the fake news, New York
53:43times, which is so fake and the wall street journal is terrible, terrible.
53:47I mean, I read a story today that I'm desperate to make a deal.
53:50I'm not, I don't, if I was desperate, he'd be the first to know me.
53:54Let's get the hell out of it of desperate.
53:58I don't care. I want to know.
54:01In fact, we have other targets we want to hit before we leave.
54:05We're hitting them on a daily basis.
54:09I can't talk about specifics.
54:11A lot of people say that wouldn't matter.
54:13Maybe it does matter. Who knows?
54:14But I wouldn't talk. It's like the question of this young lady.
54:16Yes. Sorry about it. Embarrass.
54:18I don't want to embarrass you.
54:19Cause I think you're of an.
54:20I think she's a friendly reporter, so I'm sorry.
54:22But, you know, I can't say what we're going to do, because if I did,
54:26I wouldn't be sitting here for long.
54:28They'd probably, what is it called, the 25th of November?
54:32The 25th of November. And we just, I've been waiting for this moment just to,
54:37you know, to share with, I was like, okay, when's Iran going to respond?
54:41That what Trump's saying isn't real and it's just market manipulation.
54:44Well, now senior Iranian officials are telling DropSite News that Donald Trump was not being
54:51truthful in his post earlier on Truth Social, announcing an additional five -day pause on
54:58his threat to bomb Iranian energy infrastructure at the request of Iran, with the officials
55:03stating, Trump is not being truthful.
55:05We have not submitted any requests regarding potential U .S.
55:09attacks. It's just embarrassing. Like, I don't, it is truly a humiliation ritual, a humiliation
55:19ritual as an American to observe this behavior, to observe this behavior.
55:26And again, you can say, well, Ben, why would you trust what Iran's, maybe Trump
55:32is telling the truth. First off, Trump never tells the truth about anything.
55:37We know that he's never told, like literally, if there's a superpower, and I don't
55:42mean this in a complimentary way about superpower, I just mean his ability that every
55:50word out of his mouth is a lie.
55:52And it's an imaginary world that's not the real world.
55:55And every syllable, every sound is embedded with a lie.
56:00Even when he does that noise, right?
56:03It's a lie. Everything's a lie.
56:05I don't know how you do that without having some feeling like, it's so not
56:10every word. It's a made up.
56:12It's like a chat GPT dystopian script that just comes out of his mouth.
56:18That's just a made up fantasy world that results in Putin always benefiting in America,
56:24always getting screwed and weaker.
56:26Like that's kind of, in my opinion, what we see.
56:28But also, if Iran was saying these things, we would seem to have indications whether
56:39it was the Strait of Hormuz being opened, whether it was Iran stopping its strikes,
56:45whether it was Iranian leadership not engaging in certain behavior that would demonstrate escalation, or
56:57an understanding that they're not in any way backing down at all.
57:02If anything, things are getting more severe.
57:05So I can just evaluate, wait a minute, okay, are we in a ceasefire?
57:08No, the missiles are still being shot against each other.
57:12U .S. and Israel continue to bomb.
57:14Iran continues to strike back.
57:16Okay, we see all of that happening.
57:18Is there any change in the Strait of Hormuz?
57:21No, nothing, nothing there. The Houthis are saying they're ready to join the war in
57:25the Red Sea. So, okay, that's an escalation point.
57:27U .S. is basically abandoning all its bases in the Middle East.
57:32Okay, that seems to be a sign of, you know, things that are not going
57:35well. The Iraqi Shiite militias just got the green light go -ahead from the Iraqi
57:41government to target Arab nations nearby, as well as where there's U .S.
57:48military presence and the U .S.
57:50military base. And we're seeing Camp Victory and Erbil in other areas, in Anbar and
57:56other areas. These FPV drones from these Iranian Shiite -backed militias in Iraq, doing these
58:03drone swarms, flying around with impunity, striking Black Hawk helicopters and radar systems.
58:08I mean, we're seeing that.
58:10I can see the letters from Islam, from Arab nations, right?
58:17You have KSA, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Qatar and Bahrain.
58:22They posted a letter to Iraq and to Iraqi militias saying, can you please stop
58:28attacking us? Please. I mean, there it is right there, joint statement from these nations
58:34calling for Iraqi government to stop the militias from attacking.
58:38So I see these data points happening.
58:40They're not lining up with anything that Trump is saying.
58:44If I'm seeing it, Iran is seeing it, right?
58:49It's like I said before.
58:50I was like, Donald Trump was saying, well, nobody expected Iran would strike its neighbors.
58:57Nobody, nobody, not the experts predicted that.
59:02I was like, I've been saying that.
59:04I've been personally saying it.
59:06So, and I've been saying it for five, like four months, right?
59:10And I'm like, no offense to me and my dirty glasses, but if I've been
59:15saying it for five months, no one's telling Donald Trump this, right?
59:22Then we learned yesterday that they're doing a hype reel every day.
59:27Trump's not getting like real briefings.
59:28They put together like a music video of the U .S.
59:33and Israel blowing things up in Iran, and that's a daily montage that Donald Trump
59:39gets, and that's how he's getting news about the war.
59:43And that just tells you it's like a group of little kids.
59:48no offense to little kids, who are like playing with fireworks for the first time,
59:53right? They're playing with fireworks outside, a pop, pop, pop, the whoa, and they're playing
59:58with bigger fireworks, pop, pop, pop, pop, whoa, and it's like, that was loud.
1:00:04Yeah, it's a firework. It's loud.
1:00:06What, you're surprised that it's loud?
1:00:08Oh, that's dangerous. Yeah, it's dangerous.
1:00:10It's like kids playing with these toys.
1:00:13Again, no offense to kids playing with toys, so I don't want to drag kids
1:00:16into this, but you get the point, and they're so impressed with the strength of
1:00:23our military. I'll call power and power, power.
1:00:25We know that. We know we were the strongest military.
1:00:28We know that's not a shocker.
1:00:30It's not because you rebuilt it.
1:00:32It's because post -World War II, America was previously the leader of the free world,
1:00:38and lots of countries bought weapons from America.
1:00:41America was the economy that was the envy of the world, right?
1:00:46It was where countries put their money and parked it in our treasuries as safe
1:00:50investment and put their real estate here and invested in our companies here, and in
1:00:55response, we had these weapons where we were providing security umbrellas, and we didn't have
1:01:01to brag about how strong we were.
1:01:03We just had to have a readiness model where we would be able to help
1:01:08out in the event that other nations were under attack, working with our allies together.
1:01:13Biden didn't have to say, oh, we're so strong.
1:01:16I'm so strong. I'm so he could have, but it's a deranged way to behave
1:01:19because strong people don't behave that way, right?
1:01:22Whose strong people do you know run around?
1:01:24Oh, I'm so strong. The only people who do that are really weak people pretending
1:01:28to be strong, right? And that's been Donald Trump's whole life, pretending to be.
1:01:33What he is, is he got his daddy's money.
1:01:36If he didn't even put his money where he put it, he would be a
1:01:40very rich person because of his daddy's money.
1:01:43He's failed over and over.
1:01:45His daddy had to bail him out a ton of times.
1:01:48Trump's bankrupted casinos over and over and over again.
1:01:52He's destroyed companies over and over and over again because he's a loser, and he
1:01:57surrounds himself with losers. He's a lifelong loser.
1:02:00And all of these entities, whether it's the DOJ, it behaves the way his loser
1:02:05lawyers always behaved. Whether it's the way his treasury secretary and commerce secretary function, it's
1:02:12the way Trump always functioned with his own personal accountants and the losers he surrounded
1:02:17himself with. And Trump, whereas leaders sometimes recognize a problem, admit a fault, admit a
1:02:24mistake, right? Try to solve it.
1:02:27Trump continues to turn bad into worse, worse into catastrophic, catastrophic into bankruptcy.
1:02:35And then he tries to then blame and deflect and then do it again and
1:02:40find new marks in who he can con.
1:02:44And as I mentioned, I think the only difference here than COVID is that this
1:02:48is the other side, unlike COVID, it wasn't memeing.
1:02:55What wasn't out there saying, no, Donald, we're not going to go away by Easter.
1:03:01We're COVID. We're still here.
1:03:04While Iran's out there saying, we ain't going away.
1:03:06What are you talking about?
1:03:08Come closer. Come closer, right?
1:03:11This would be like COVID talking, which obviously is a ridiculous example.
1:03:16And again, which I don't even know if it's the right one to be using
1:03:18right now. But in any event, I think the point is made.
1:03:21We're heading into Easter, like a miracle.
1:03:24By Easter, it's going to go away, right?
1:03:26By May, by June, whatever.
1:03:29This has no end in sight.
1:03:31Trump has made up all of this stuff.
1:03:33And what he's able to do with his lies is he layers on other lie,
1:03:40like he creates the fictional universe.
1:03:42And then he has characters doing things in his fictional universe that aren't happening.
1:03:47And then they react to stimuli that isn't real.
1:03:52And there's this whole fantasy world that's contradictory.
1:03:54It makes no sense. But there's this other world that's invented that, you know, people
1:03:59are like, oh, well, that happened, that happened, that happened, that happened.
1:04:01The whole thing is freaking made up.
1:04:03None of this has happened.
1:04:04Trump goes, as per Iranian government requests, please let this statement serve to represent that
1:04:10I'm pausing the period of energy plant destruction by 10 days to Monday, April 6th.
1:04:15What do you think this is?
1:04:16Some freaking movie, some Hollywood thing?
1:04:19It would be the worst movie ever.
1:04:21And Iran's like, no. Iran goes, no, we're not doing any of this.
1:04:25What are you talking about?
1:04:26You're not being truthful. We've not submitted requests.
1:04:30We're not talking to you about these things.
1:04:32Cut it out. And how could you try to broker discussions if this is the
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1:04:58Just so I can say it the right way if I use that again.
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