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1:51The war in Iran that Donald Trump launched, an unlawful, disastrous war, it is escalating

1:58and Donald Trump is trying to find a way to escape, but there is no

2:04escape. He rants and raves like a lunatic on his social media platform.

2:09All caps messages attacking our NATO allies, begging for help from our NATO allies, praising

2:18Netanyahu and saying that actually Netanyahu did this operation alone where he hit the South

2:26Pars gas field in Iran.

2:28We didn't do it. And that was after Iran retaliated by striking the main Qatar

2:35oil field, the liquefied natural gas field in the north there.

2:40The Ras Lafan facility, where 20 % of the world's LNG, liquefied natural gas comes

2:48from. And then Iran struck Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2:51And Donald Trump posts, you're watching right there, the video of Iran striking Riyadh, Saudi

2:56Arabia. And in Riyadh, they say, actually, there wasn't a strike.

2:59It was just debris. I mean, dude, I'm watching a mushroom cloud right now in

3:05Riyadh. And as the Riyadh facilities were hit, as the Qatari facilities were hit, we

3:11previously talked about how the Bahrain facilities were hit.

3:15And Iran threatened because Netanyahu and Trump attacked our facilities, the South Pars gas field,

3:23we're going to hit these targets.

3:25And they did. And they did hit the targets.

3:27And then in response, Donald Trump made a social media post that said it was

3:31actually all Netanyahu's fault. We weren't consulted about this at all.

3:35When we know that Donald Trump and Netanyahu did that together, it's what's referred to

3:41in the military as escalation dominance.

3:45And it is really sad and pathetic as an American to see Donald Trump getting

3:51so utterly and thoroughly dominated by Iran.

3:55Iran is firing more Shahids and ballistics right now.

3:59They are hitting more per shot than during the first days of the conflict.

4:04They shot down an F -35 today.

4:07Fortunately, at least from what we're hearing now, the pilot was able to make it

4:11back safely. As Donald Trump says, Iran doesn't have the ballistic missile capabilities or anti

4:18-aircraft capabilities. And we're flying over Iran with impunity.

4:21There's no doubt that the United States and Israel have hit Iran very hard.

4:28They've also hit civilian targets in Iran.

4:31We talked about the 150 little girls, 165 little girls who were massacred by the

4:38Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime in Iran.

4:44You see what's going on in Lebanon right now, where Israel says it's going after

4:50Hezbollah. But we're seeing so many civilians who are killed in Lebanon, in Beirut, where

4:58the suburbs there have just been like blown up.

5:01I mean, just utterly destroyed.

5:02I'll show you this video clip in a little bit.

5:05But now you have Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, saying, actually, I don't

5:12think that we're going to be able to do regime change in Iran anymore.

5:16We see cracks, but we're not going to see regime change.

5:20What you are going to see, though, is you now have brought in a more

5:26extreme Ayatollah. You've gotten the people of Iran to rally around a new Ayatollah.

5:32You killed the former national security advisor, Ali Laranjani.

5:38In his place, you're going to bring in people who are more extreme.

5:42You have Iran emboldened. Not only right now have they blocked the Strait of Hormuz,

5:48they are now charging toll passage fees, $2 million to get through to preferred countries.

5:57They are profiting off of it.

5:59And then this morning, Donald Trump's treasury secretary, Scott Besant, is talking about lifting sanctions

6:08on Iranian oil. What? You're lifting the sanctions?

6:16You're rewarding Iran right now?

6:19And you see the Trump regime panicking because oil prices are going through the roof.

6:27Right now, $120 a barrel today.

6:31Lots of people say we shouldn't be shocked now if that hits $200 per barrel.

6:38You saw the price of diesel over $5 a gallon.

6:41The price of gas basically over $4 a gallon right now.

6:48Everything's falling apart. You have the Trump regime lifting the sanctions on oil of Iran,

6:56or they're talking about lifting the sanctions oil of oil of Iran.

6:59Iran solidifying its control. And then you had Donald Trump doing this press conference with

7:06the Japanese Prime Minister Takeishi, and Donald Trump's doing Pearl Harbor jokes.

7:13He's saying, yeah, you know, we surprised you, Japan, but why didn't you give me

7:20a call about Pearl Harbor?

7:21Or you should have called me and gave me a heads up on Pearl Harbor.

7:27I mean, that's what you're saying in the Oval Office as you're trying to shake

7:33down Prime Minister Takeishi into helping secure the Strait of Hormuz.

7:41And we heard from the Italy defense minister today who, you know, I guess Trump

7:47got the U .K. to write this kind of vague and ambiguous message that almost

7:52made it seem that European countries would be helping secure the Strait of Hormuz.

7:57And they put out this message.

7:58It was a little bit confusing.

8:00And then immediately after, and it was inconsistent with what the U .K.

8:03Prime Minister Kierre Starmer said.

8:05Kierre Starmer said, only in a defensive posture will we help.

8:09You know, we're not committing troops to Iran.

8:11We're not committing troops to the Strait of Hormuz.

8:13So I read this statement.

8:15It was a little bit confusing.

8:16The Italy defense minister and all the European countries then came out and said, no,

8:20no, no. Once this war ends, we are committed to working within the region using

8:28diplomacy, of course, in order to be helpful in the Strait of Hormuz.

8:32But we're not helping with any type of naval mission.

8:36We're not sending our soldiers to die for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.

8:42You go and do that yourself, United States of America.

8:46Now, you know how much this is costing?

8:50This is costing billions of dollars every single day.

8:54The cost already is probably 50 billion, maybe more.

9:01We're not getting accurate numbers.

9:03I wouldn't be shocked if we've already spent 100 billion dollars.

9:06The United States national debt just hit 39 trillion dollars.

9:12And what, a few months ago, it was 38 trillion.

9:15A few months before that, it was 37 trillion.

9:17Remember, during Donald Trump's first term, he added more debt than anyone.

9:2330 % of the national debt came from Donald Trump.

9:27You remember that? And I predicted before Donald Trump's term started, I said, it's going

9:34to be like 10x that.

9:36Remember the videos where I said that and I predicted that?

9:38And it doesn't take me to be Notre Damas to be able to predict that.

9:45The guy's a crazy guy.

9:47The guy's a lunatic. The guy bankrupted all of his casinos.

9:51The guy's a lifelong loser.

9:53He's been a piece of trash his entire life.

9:56I mean, here's the whole thing.

9:57His whole thing was being a con artist his whole damn life and being a

10:02freaking loser. To me, when I would convey that, it was never a political message

10:08for me to say these things at all.

10:10Just look at the guy's background.

10:12He bankrupted this casino, then that casino, then this casino, then this company, then that

10:18company, then this company. And so the Arab nations who thought they were buying some

10:25sort of pay for play scheme with Donald Trump that they would pay by Trump

10:31towers in their country, right?

10:33I mean, they view if we have a Trump tower in Riyadh or if we

10:37have a Trump tower in Doha or Abu Dhabi or Abu Dhabi or Abu Dhabi

10:39or Abu Dhabi or Abu Dhabi.

10:39then he's more likely to protect us because he has his own buildings there.

10:44And if we buy him a jet for $450 million and we can get billion

10:48-dollar radar systems, that seems to be a good pay -for -play scheme.

10:52So let's just give Donald Trump and his crypto scams and his schemes.

10:56So let's just give him money because that's how Donald Trump is.

11:00He's trying to get his pay -for -play.

11:02Now you're learning what Donald Trump's creditors felt like with his casinos and what his

11:08contractors felt like with his casinos.

11:11He just screws you all over.

11:12You paid and now you get deranged social media posts saying, Iran, you're being naughty.

11:20You need to stop. Netanyahu did that.

11:23I didn't do that. And you have Iran actually pursuing a strategy, both in terms

11:30of their propaganda and in terms of their scorched -earth military retaliatory strikes and the

11:38United States is trapped. Now Donald Trump and Pete Hexer today are saying that they

11:44need $200 billion more for this war.

11:51$200 billion more for this disastrous war.

11:56Do you remember when they said that $30 billion was way too much money in

12:03order to ensure at least an extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies?

12:08They didn't have $30 billion for that.

12:12They don't have money for housing.

12:13They don't have money for mental health.

12:18They don't have money for better education.

12:20They don't have money for actually building the infrastructure in the United States.

12:27They don't have money for all of that.

12:28But when it comes to dropping bombs in a quagmire with Netanyahu, Donald Trump finds

12:39$200 billion, $200 billion that should be spent on Americans and bettering Americans' lives.

12:50Remember, by the way, now add this, $200 billion as a supplemental.

12:56What do you think we've already spent?

12:58Let's just estimate $150 billion so far.

13:02$350 billion, right? What's the ICE budget?

13:07$200 billion, right? So right there, I just found over $500 billion.

13:13Our military budget is over a trillion dollars.

13:19And our military, as we're all seeing right now, is not adapted to the modern

13:27warfare environment. What we had 11 of our Reaper drones shot out of the sky.

13:32We have these huge systems that are unable to really deal with the drones and

13:39to deal with the sea drones and the FPV drones that are in the sky,

13:44those first -person vision drones.

13:46We could have watched what was happening in Ukraine and how Ukraine amassed a huge

13:54drone army of its own and drone interceptors to deal with the Shahids from Iran

14:00and to deal with Russia.

14:01Remember, Russia brought in their conventional army.

14:04One of the ways Ukraine repelled the drones, sea drones, unmanned vessels, right?

14:10So then Russia had to basically subcontract the war out to Iran and to North

14:17Korea and to others. And Iran helped Russia with the drones, and they developed this

14:24drone program together. Did you know this?

14:26This week, NATO ran five simulations of NATO versus Ukraine in a war, in a

14:39sea battle. NATO's frigates versus Ukraine.

14:43They did a simulation. And do you know what happened in the simulation?

14:50Ukraine won all five times in five different simulations in the war.

14:56Ukraine won every single time.

15:00Why? Because NATO's equipment is not able to deal with the drones.

15:09It's not able to. And we're seeing what plays out right now.

15:13So, let's just go through some of the receipts, as we always bring you here

15:18on the Midas Touch Network.

15:19Let's bring receipt after receipt after receipt.

15:23First, I want to show you Pete Hegseth from earlier today.

15:27And Pete Hegseth was saying that this war is going to cost about $200 billion

15:32more, but that's a small price to pay when it comes to killing the bad

15:37guys. Here's what Pete Hegseth said earlier.

15:40Let's play it. Both what happened with Midnight Hammer and what happened with that as

15:44well. As far as $200 billion, I think that number could move, obviously.

15:50It takes money to kill bad guys.

15:53So, we're going back to Congress and our folks there to ensure that we're properly

15:58funded for what's been done, for what we may have to do in the future,

16:03ensure that our ammunition is, everything's refilled.

16:07Not just refilled, but above and beyond.

16:08I mean, President Trump, as he said, rebuilt the military in his first term, didn't

16:12think he'd use it as dynamically in his second, but he had.

16:15So thank goodness he did that.

16:16And an investment like this is meant to say, hey, we'll replace anything that was

16:20spent. And now that we're reviving our defense industrial base and rebuilding the arsenal of

16:24freedom and cutting deals like our great deputy secretary here is doing.

16:29You heard that right there.

16:30Let's take a look at what Hegg says about our European allies and how ungrateful

16:37he says they are. Here, let's play this clip.

16:40The world, the Middle East, our ungrateful allies in Europe, even segments of our own

16:48press should be saying one thing to President Trump.

16:51Thank you. Really? What has Donald Trump been posting today?

16:58Donald Trump has been posting photos of Trump sneakers, rare Trump sneakers listed for $180

17:07,000 at sneaker con in Riyadh.

17:12You believe that there is a sneaker con in Riyadh right now while it's under

17:17attack from Iran as a result of Saudi Arabia helping the United States?

17:22You think that that's what's happening?

17:26I mean, just think about how offensive this is.

17:28Like, imagine you're Saudi Arabia, you're MBS.

17:31You've given Donald Trump personally huge amounts of money.

17:36You've, you know, believe you're in all these pay for play schemes, right?

17:41You're Saudi Arabia, you're Qatar, you're UAE, right?

17:45And this is what you thought you were paying for?

17:48Before Donald Trump embroils your country in a massive regional war, he basically destroys your

17:59country's future, right? Who the hell is going to Abu Dhabi?

18:03Who the hell is going to be going to Doha?

18:06Who the hell is going to be doing a tourist trip right now to Dubai,

18:11right? That ain't happening. And so while all these countries have tried to modernize and

18:17to diversify from not just being oil kind of rich countries, because they knew that

18:23there wasn't always a future in that, they developed all these other industries.

18:28And then they thought they were paying for protection by Donald Trump.

18:31And what do they get instead?

18:34Rare Trump sneakers listed for 180 ,000 at SneakerCon in Riyadh.

18:41That was Donald Trump's post.

18:42Or today, Donald Trump posting about windmills.

18:46From Douglas McKinnon, this is a photo yesterday on the drive from L .A.

18:51to Palm Springs. Hundreds and hundreds of these pieces of junk windmills.

18:56No surprise to the president, but only 10 % of them working as we drove

19:01past. Eagle and bird killers, which suck the taxpayers dry.

19:06My best to the president.

19:07Now, how deranged can you be when you're in a war that now has been

19:13the biggest shock to oil supply, to liquefy natural gas, to fertilizers, to helium generationally,

19:23right? And you are also spending your time attacking other forms of energy, which would

19:31be actually useful during a war where there is an oil shock.

19:36So you attack the windmills.

19:38And you don't even understand.

19:39Just because, and they're so moronic.

19:42I've driven by that windmill farm quite frequently.

19:45Just because you don't see the windmills turning, do you know the way energy works?

19:52That doesn't mean that they're not working the way they're supposed to work.

19:57You're just visualizing them and saying only 10 % of them look like they are

20:01spinning. And then Donald Trump reposts that during a war while you have bases in

20:07Saudi Arabia, while you have oil fields and energy fields in Qatar and Saudi Arabia

20:16being targeted right now. That is what you are doing right now.

20:21I want to bring you to this Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump and Prime

20:27Minister Takeishi of Japan, right?

20:30You have Prime Minister Takeishi.

20:32Look at her face. Just look at her as Donald Trump is out there saying

20:36the most deranged things imaginable during this war.

20:42So a reporter asked Donald Trump, why didn't you tell the allies about the war

20:49before attacking Iran? Why didn't you tell Japan?

20:53Why didn't you tell your allies the Arab nations?

20:56Why didn't you tell NATO?

20:57Why did you just do this, you and Netanyahu?

21:01Because you seem like you need the help of allies soon.

21:05Here's what Donald Trump said.

21:07Let's play it. Of course, no, Japan and the U .S.

21:12are very good friends. But one question, why didn't you tell U .S.

21:18allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran?

21:24So we are very confused about the Japanese citizens.

21:28Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much.

21:30You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn't tell

21:34anybody. about it because we wanted surprise who knows better about surprise in japan okay

21:41why didn't you tell me about pearl harbor okay right he's asking me uh do

21:49you believe in surprise i think much more so than us and uh we had

21:54a surprise and we did and because of that surprise we knocked out the first

21:59two days we probably knocked out 50 of what we and much more than we

22:04anticipated doing so if i go and tell everybody about it there's no longer a

22:09surprise right okay what the beep what the the more i watch that the worse

22:22it gets on every level and by the way takaishi is trying to be supportive

22:29of donald trump there also i was hearing how uh in on japanese tv we

22:36have a lot of japanese fans on the midas touch network and how when they

22:42were doing the translation the translator literally froze and didn't know am i supposed to

22:50translate that like what do i even do the translator was stunned and couldn't even

22:57repeat those words you know i've had people text message me and say what even

23:04is this war what is even happening right here how is this possibly happening where

23:13you have the most deranged human beings in donald trump and pete hegseth who are

23:22completely and utterly tearing the united states apart piece by piece let me just show

23:30you this one jeremy i want to show what treasury secretary scott besson said this

23:36is their plan their plan now in a war against iran what do you think

23:44the trump's plan is right we're at war against iran trump and netanyahu launched this

23:49unlawful war our service members are being killed iran now controls the strait of hormuz

23:56with an iron fist more than it did before it's now demanding two million dollars

24:01to pass if you are allied with iran they see more control than ever america's

24:07stuck no nato countries want to help donald trump because he didn't tell he went

24:12it alone and then he claimed that he didn't need the help so what do

24:16you think the stupidest most dangerous thing that can possibly be said by treasury secretary

24:21scott besson right now let's play what he said effort we had a break the

24:28glass uh plan across the administration and at treasury we unsanctioned russian oil we knew

24:36that there were about 130 million barrels on the water and you know we created

24:40supply that is beyond the straits of hermos so we anticipated this we knew that

24:48the there could be a temporary and i want to emphasize temporary choke point there

24:53and there was 130 million barrels of floating storage in the coming days uh we

25:01may unsanction the iranian oil that's on the water it's about 140 million barrels so

25:07depending on how you count it that's 10 days to two weeks of supply that

25:12the iranians had been pushing out that would have all gone to china in essence

25:17we will be using the iranian barrels against the iranians to keep the price down

25:23you know for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign so

25:30all right i want to take our first you know we're going to remove sanctions

25:34from iran right now that's the game plan we we map this out so brilliantly

25:38go to war against iran let them rally the support of their people remove the

25:47sanctions against iran and russia allow china iran and russia to get much stronger completely

25:56weaken america's what was left of america's alliances that's the game plan that's what the

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29:39Welcome back, everybody. How's my audio, everybody?

29:43I know there was like an audio issue before.

29:46As you may have seen, just we'll check now with the audio.

29:49So I was in Austin where I brought the family and we were up for

29:54the iHeart News Podcast of the Year Award.

30:00And so we were so honored.

30:04The Midas Touch Network won that incredible award news podcast of the year.

30:09We beat Megyn Kelly. I made that part of my acceptance speech.

30:14We also, we're in a category with like the New York Times and NPR and

30:19PBS and a lot of, you know, other than Megyn Kelly, a lot of really

30:23great shows. And it was pretty incredible to be named the podcast, news podcast of

30:30the year. And I want to, good, audio sounds good.

30:33Everybody's saying that's good. I get, you know, so after we won that, it's my

30:38spring break right now. And so, you know, fortunately I have the family at my

30:43house right now and they allowed me and my wife to, to, to go out

30:46while they're at the house.

30:47And so we were able to make it out here to San Diego.

30:52And so, um, we just, we took a little trip over here.

30:55And so that's where I'm recording from.

30:57In case you're wondering, you know, where are you even right now?

30:59We were in Austin now in San Diego and, uh, you know, and we fixed

31:04the last audio issue, you know, and it's, so it's a little bit difficult when

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31:12a beach or something and just, uh, whatever.

31:15All right. Enough, enough of me talking about myself.

31:17All right, let's jump back in.

31:18Let's jump back into the news.

31:20Um, let's talk about, I just want to show you what Netanyahu said earlier, because

31:25after Netanyahu saying regime change, and this is what we're going to do.

31:29Let me just show you what he just said.

31:31He said that, uh, while there's, well, he believes there are signs of cracks in

31:36the Iranian regime. He says that, uh, it's possible that the regime will indeed survive

31:43the ongoing war. I want to show this to you.

31:46Then I want to talk to you about this in a moment.

31:48Let's play this clip. Uh, what do we see?

31:51Uh, what happens if the, uh, are there any signs that the Iranian regime is

31:56cracking? A lot of signs, a lot of signs.

31:58I wish I could divulge all of them, but I see that.

32:02But will I tell you, will I commit right now that it's going to collapse?

32:05Uh, I can tell you that we're working to create the conditions for it to

32:09collapse, but it may, it may survive.

32:12It may not. If it's, it may survive.

32:15It may not. Oh, so what do you, you and Donald Trump went into this

32:22thing on regime change and that this would be easy and that there was going

32:27to be all these people out in the street, apparently who were going to be

32:30holding Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu billboards in the street and saying, oh, we're so

32:36honored that you are here.

32:38We're so honored. We want the people in the United States who are covering up

32:43the Epstein files and the people who have demolished Gaza and the people who have

32:48demolished Beirut come and talk.

32:50Welcome. Welcome. That's what you said was going to happen, that you would be welcomed

32:56like heroes. And then you said, just wait for it.

33:00The people are going to rise up.

33:01And all we saw in Iran were quite the contrary, were huge protests that were

33:08at least out there. And you can say, ah, it was Iranian propaganda purposes, whatever

33:12you want to say. The only big protests that we've seen in Iran, whether they

33:17were propaganda or otherwise, were supporting the new Ayatollah and were against and were for

33:25remembrance of their old Ayatollah who they now view as a martyr.

33:30Someone who had cancer, who was 86 years old, who was growing unpopular.

33:35You turned into a martyr within the Shiite community right there.

33:40That became a rallying call for the people.

33:42Then you blew up an elementary school and killed little girls.

33:48As in the United States, you're covering up the sexual predation of little girls.

33:53Then you go to war and you kill little girls as the first act of

33:56the war. You start attacking desalination plants and oil depots.

34:00And you think that's a way to build popular support in a country of 90

34:06million people that's far bigger than Iraq?

34:09You think that's the way to do regime change?

34:12And now you just, just how cavalierly they go, well, no, maybe we don't do

34:18it. Maybe we have regime change.

34:20Maybe we don't. Excuse me?

34:23Excuse me? Because the last time I checked, over a dozen American service members have

34:28been killed. Many are seriously wounded.

34:31There are civilians who are dead in Beirut and Lebanon and in, and in Iran,

34:37in these elementary schools and in these other civilian areas as well, there are still

34:42murders happening every day in Gaza right now.

34:45When y 'all did a fake ceasefire claim, oh, it's a fake ceasefire.

34:50Been a thousand plus innocent people who have been killed in Gaza since they announced

34:54there was a ceasefire. I'm like, there's no ceasefire.

34:56What are you even talking about?

34:58We see. And by the way, did you see the British journalist who was targeted

35:04by Israel today? It, while his reporting was criticizing Israel for targeting journalists, right?

35:14And then Israel targets him while he's reporting on it.

35:19I think we have the video of it while he's in Beirut here.

35:22Play this clip. Further rocket attacks were reported against Nahariya and admitted.

35:39Fucking hell. Yeah. Now don't gaslight me and say, oh, the target.

35:44What were you targeting there?

35:46It looks like you were targeting the journalist.

35:47Okay. I can believe my own eyes.

35:50Okay. I can, I can look at what's actually happening, whether it's look at what's

35:56happening in Gaza. I can look at what's happening in Beirut.

36:00I can look at what is happening in Iran.

36:03And do I think Iran is a terrorist regime?

36:06Yes. Do I think Hamas is a terrorist group?

36:10Yes. Do I think Hezbollah is a terrorist group?

36:13Yes. Do I think that gives a Netanyahu regime and a Trump regime carte blanche

36:19authority to kill innocent people en masse?

36:23Absolutely not. Don't even have that.

36:24It's not a debate. It's not the way we exist as human beings.

36:28What the hell are you doing?

36:29What are we even talking about here?

36:32And by the way, I don't even want to play more of that Pete Hegseth

36:34bizarre press conference this morning.

36:36But if you want to look at where the theocracy is, I mean, did you

36:40hear Pete Hegseth and gee, the whole, the whole speech when he was like, Jesus

36:44Christ has told me this and the church and the God and church and Jesus,

36:50it's like, what can you just stop it?

36:52Stop using the church and Jesus and all of these things to engage in your

36:57unlawful wars and your coverup of the Epstein files.

37:00And you're ripping away of healthcare from people.

37:03And now hundreds of billions of dollars being spent in this stupid, disastrous, dangerous, unlawful

37:10war that will forever be one of the biggest stains in the history of the

37:15United States of America. If we can get through this damn thing while you have

37:20China, just it's a gift for Russia.

37:25What a gift for Iran.

37:28They're more powerful than before.

37:31And what's the US going to do?

37:34What's the game plan? Is the game plan you escalate?

37:38You put boots on the ground and the Karg Island that you put boots on

37:42the ground in the coast of Iran?

37:44Is that your game plan, Donald?

37:46What's the game plan? Is it to write social media posts in all caps?

37:51Do something, do something. That's that that's your game plan.

37:56Every three hours, another stupid bit.

37:57social media post is your game plan.

38:01You have the prime minister of Japan and then you start attacking NATO.

38:05NATO doesn't want to help us with the straight and they're the ones that need

38:10it. But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude.

38:15But now they're too late.

38:17What do you even mean by any of these things?

38:19What nonsense is spewing from your stupid mouth?

38:22Here, play this clip of him saying that NATO doesn't want to help us defend

38:29the straight of her muse.

38:33But we think of it, we don't use the straight.

38:37We're defending the straight for everybody else.

38:40And then in the case of NATO, they don't want to help us defend the

38:44straight and they're the ones that need it.

38:47But now they're getting much nicer because they're seeing my attitude.

38:50They're getting much nicer. But as far as I'm concerned, it's too late.

38:55You know, UK wants to send aircraft carriers now.

39:00And I said, I want the aircraft carriers before the war.

39:04I don't want them after the war is won.

39:06They want to send me aircraft carriers after the war.

39:09There's practically nobody to shoot at them.

39:11You know, their missile count is down.

39:13Maybe you could discuss it by about 90 something percent.

39:17The drones are way down and the factories are being demolished.

39:21Maybe, sir. Missile missiles being shot are down over 90 percent since the beginning.

39:27One way attack drones down 90 percent since the beginning, which is a reflection of

39:31overwhelming firepower. But you mentioned the most important part, Mr.

39:34President, their defense industrial base.

39:36If you can't make more of it in the future, then you have a limited

39:39supply. And so we're going after all of their defense contractors that make all of

39:43their exquisite weapons and ensuring that even if they wanted to rebuild more launchers or

39:48more missiles, they couldn't in the future.

39:50And that's a level of devastation for their military that they've never seen before.

39:54So we have literally just saying stupid words like your words are stupid.

40:02Devastation, lethality, exquisite. Their new word, their new.

40:07Have you heard that they're all using this word exquisite?

40:11Exquisite. This is exquisite. That is exquisite.

40:17Exquisitely exquisite? What a stupid word to use.

40:21What's exquisite about this? Right?

40:25This is the single dumbest propaganda campaign as well, by the way.

40:30What's the propaganda campaign just to go and see how many people will hate you

40:35and how dumb you could possibly?

40:37Lethality. I mean, we have actual data.

40:41Why don't we just even not look at the data?

40:44Why don't we just look at images of the Rosloffin liquefied natural gas facility in

40:51Qatar, Byrd? Do we have the B -roll of that?

40:55Yeah. This is Iran said we're going to target the LNG facility in Qatar, right?

41:02Because the Southpars energy facility of Iran that was hit by Trump and Netanyahu is

41:06actually connected to the Northern facility within Qatar right there.

41:12So that right there, that sure seems like Iran is degraded or what Donald and

41:19Pete Hegseth, am I looking at AI?

41:21Am I looking at AI right here when I see a giant freaking mushroom cloud

41:26in Riyadh hitting energy centers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as well?

41:32Am I looking at AI when I see the FPV drones just flying around with

41:39impunity in the green zone in Baghdad?

41:42Am I looking at AI when the U .S.

41:45embassy in Iran, Baghdad, and basically everywhere in the Middle East says, evacuate right now,

41:51get the hell out right now?

41:53That's what Trump says to it.

41:55This is all AI. This is not AI.

41:58But, but now let's look at the data.

42:01What the data actually reflects as the war goes on, Iran and Andreas Larson post

42:08this data, Iran is firing more and they are hitting more per shot than during

42:14the first day of the conflict.

42:16And look, when Iran's Southpars energy field was hit two days ago, they specifically said,

42:27okay, here's where we're going to hit.

42:29They told the people who were working in those facilities to leave and then they

42:34hit it right away. Why if you've demolished and obliterated and decimated Iran, are you

42:43now moving the THAAD and Patriot missile systems from South Korea to the Middle East?

42:49Oh, probably because Iran's been able to successfully strike your radars and your THAAD systems

42:55and your Patriot systems. Maybe, maybe that's why.

43:00Maybe that's why. And then going through, again, this disastrous press conference between Donald Trump

43:08and Prime Minister Taka, Taka Ishii.

43:11I mean, there was also just some other moments that are worth mentioning as well.

43:15Like when Donald Trump is talking about the cost of this war.

43:21First, let me show you what he said about Japan.

43:23I expect Japan to step up.

43:25because, you know, we have that kind of relationship.

43:28We just have that kind of relationship.

43:30Here's what Donald Trump says.

43:31Let's play it. This looks like one of your people.

43:35Thank you. Is he good or bad?

43:38Is he a good reporter or bad?

43:39Don't you know? So -so.

43:43All right. It looks like a nice guy.

43:45Go ahead. Mr. President, you just mentioned Japan is stepping up.

43:51What kind of support do you expect from Japan?

43:55In the future? Look, I expect Japan to step up because, you know, we have

44:01that kind of relationship. And we step up with Japan.

44:04We have 45 ,000 soldiers in Japan.

44:07We have -we spend a lot of money on Japan, so -and we've had that

44:11kind of relationship. So I expect -I'm not surprised that they would step up.

44:16We don't need much. We don't need anything.

44:18I mean, honestly, we don't need anything from Japan or from anyone else.

44:21But I think it's appropriate that people step up.

44:24In the case of Japan, I hear they get more than 90 % of their

44:28oil through the strait. So that's a big reason to step up.

44:34I mean, we've -we've demolished.

44:37That country is close to demolished.

44:39The only thing is the strait.

44:41It's very hard. You could take two people and they could drop little bombs in

44:44the water and they're holding things up.

44:47We don't want that to happen.

44:48But honestly, Japan, China, Europe, parts of Europe.

44:56Yeah, I mean, we don't need them to do anything, but we want you to

45:00step up. And by the way, even his interaction with the reporter was so inappropriate.

45:06He looked at a Japanese guy and then he said, he looks like he's like

45:10one of yours or he looks like he's one of your people.

45:13Why? He's a Japanese guy.

45:14Hey, is he good? Is he a good one?

45:19And then the guy asked the question, what do you expect from Japan?

45:22Then Donald Trump says, we don't need you, but we want you to step up.

45:30He is not articulating things, frankly, at even a child level.

45:36He's not speaking in ways that are even coherent, yet alone reflecting a coherent policy.

45:44He's not speaking coherently. What about the $200 billion, Donald?

45:50The $200 billion Pentagon request.

45:52Let's play this. Sophisticated rockets.

45:55Every single one of them was shot down.

45:58With our equipment, all our equipment.

46:00It's amazing, actually, how good it is.

46:01So we want to be sure, and it's a small price to pay to make

46:05sure that we stay tippy top.

46:06Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr.

46:08President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr.

46:08President, Tippy top, that's our policy.

46:11We need to make sure that we stay tippy top.

46:14Then Donald Trump says, everything was going great in our country.

46:19The economy, things were booming.

46:21He said, so because things were so good, he goes, I decided, let me go

46:26on an excursion in Iran.

46:28That's why I did this, because the Dow was doing great.

46:32Everything was amazing. So I figured, excursion times.

46:36Literally, listen to what he's saying here and how deranged it is.

46:39Here, play this clip. It's all done.

46:41Everything was going great. The economy was great.

46:44Oil prices were very low.

46:45Gasoline was dropping to, I mean, we had $1 .99, $1 .85.

46:51We had great everything, and I saw what was happening in Iran, and I said,

46:56I hate to make this excursion, but we're going to have to do it.

47:00And I actually thought the numbers would be worse.

47:02I thought that it would go up more than it did.

47:05But we're doing this excursion, and when it's completed, we're going to have a much

47:10safer world. And the prime minister agrees with me on this.

47:13He considers it to be terrible what Iran did.

47:16I think every country does.

47:17Just about every country does.

47:18Iran is a serious threat to the world, to the Middle East and to the

47:22world. And everybody agrees with me.

47:25I think virtually every country agrees with me on that.

47:29So I wanted to put out that fire.

47:32And I said, you know, if I do that, oil prices will go up.

47:35The economy will go down a little bit.

47:37I thought it would be worse, much worse, actually.

47:40I thought there was a chance it could be much worse.

47:42It's not bad, and it's going to be over with pretty soon.

47:45What do you mean it's not bad?

47:47You thought it was going to be worse?

47:50Let's just assume you actually thought it was going to be worse than $120 per

47:56barrel with a facility that supplies 20 % of LNG throughout the entire world being

48:04about 20 % decimated, meaning for the next five years, the world just lost about

48:105 % of its overall LNG.

48:12In addition to oil prices going up, we haven't even talked about fertilizers, helium, other

48:20things that come from the Middle East, where now our farmers need another bailout right

48:26now. And they're saying we need at least $12, maybe $15 billion more in a

48:31bailout because we can't afford our fertilizer.

48:33There was already China depriving us of the soybean market when Donald Trump did his

48:39trade war against the world.

48:40The input costs for farmers were crushing, so there was already a bailout with the

48:45farmers. By the way, Donald Trump helping the cattle industry in Argentina, and Donald Trump

48:50giving monies to farmers. This is the invece system.

48:53Thank you. in Argentina and screwing over our farmers here.

48:55But now our farmers are screwed.

48:57But let's just assume Donald Trump knew that it was going to be this bad.

49:01And in fact, he believed it was going to be much worse.

49:05But he wanted to go on an excursion.

49:07Just assume that that's the case.

49:10You should be arrested. There's a lot of other things that, frankly, you should be

49:14arrested for, thrown in prison for.

49:17You deserve to be in prison already.

49:19I mean, you're a sicko and your entire regime is covering up the Epstein files

49:23right now. And I don't want to ever neglect that fact right there.

49:27So you knew you were just going to destroy everything and you don't even do

49:30an address. You don't even tell the people that your excursion would cause this level

49:35of pain. In fact, you thought it was going to be worse.

49:38You don't think that, again, I don't care what political party you're from.

49:41You don't think that that's something that you should tell the people?

49:44No, you just don't do that.

49:45You just do an invasion.

49:47And then you do some social media post on Truth Social about your sneakers, about

49:53your ugly gold sneakers selling for $180 ,000.

49:56That's the way you message this.

49:59I mean, in my opinion, it's just so treasonous and traitorous.

50:02I just don't know how anybody looks at that unless your brain is literally rotten

50:07to a pulp. That's even an expression, how you support this madness.

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54:54seen the haifa energy facility in israel burning it was struck by a drone it's

55:03their biggest uh energy facility there in the haifa region and that was recently hit

55:11by iran lots of the diplomatic sources are saying that the u .s continues to

55:18try to reach out to iran's foreign minister iraqi in order to try to have

55:25some sort of ceasefire or see if iran will let off a little bit in

55:30the strait of hormuz but all of the sourcing that we and others have had

55:34so far is that iran has been ignoring this and they don't want to speak

55:39with the united states right now i i just truly don't know how you can

55:46even negotiate with donald trump whether you're iran or anybody the moment i mean and

55:51and set aside what set aside what iran says let's just let's just agree to

55:58this for a second let's do this let's agree everything iran says is bs and

56:03let's agree everything that trump says is bs push it aside right so how do

56:09we get out the truth if we're a network like ours how do we try

56:12to understand which side is telling us the truth where let's just say we believe

56:16both sides are lying right so the first thing i want to look at is

56:20who is the mediator in the room and who selected the mediator a mediator is

56:25a neutral party that's supposed to try to negotiate resolutions between the two sides so

56:31i go okay it was a foreign minister of oman a very well respected individual

56:37and he was selected by the united states to be the negotiator so the u

56:43.s picked this guy from oman so what is he saying well he says that

56:50there was a deal on the table on that fateful night in late february where

56:55there were huge strides to make a deal with iran that the uh that the

56:59deal was even stronger than obama's nuclear deal with iran that there were technical details

57:06that needed to be worked out on that following monday and that everybody was prepared

57:11for another working session that monday so a neutral party is telling us that there

57:17were that there was progress in the negotiation by the way in the economist that

57:22foreign minister of oman had just he just wrote an article in the past 48

57:27hours saying now the u .s is trapped even though oman has been hit by

57:33iran or at least groups linked by iran he says the way the u .s

57:38has fought this war it was the only possible outcome right now because when you

57:44say you're going to decapitate a regime regime the regime that you're going to decapitate

57:49is going to do everything it can to stay alive so the oman foreign minister

57:53said i understand although we certainly don't like it we certainly deplore that iran striking

57:59the arab nations where there are american interests when it becomes a matter of existential

58:04survival for a regime that they're going to have to do things they're doing everything

58:08they can to survive and survival is the win when you have trump and netanyahu

58:14at least originally saying this was about regime change right then you also have the

58:20national security advisor for the united kingdom who was in the room as well and

58:25he also describes the event as or the mediation as that there was a resolution

58:31that was there stronger than the obama deal we didn't need to be in a

58:35war it would have been a big win for donald trump but then trump and

58:38netanyahu rushed into this war and the british national security advisor like the oman foreign

58:45minister both essentially said and i'm not making this a direct quote but that whitkoff

58:50and kushner were compromised by netanyahu and they were basically serving as agents of israel

58:57and again i'm not using specific language and i'm being a little bit uh they

59:04they didn't use that those specific words but essentially that was in my opinion what

59:10they were basically implying that they were going to do whatever israel wanted to do

59:16which is why the british sent somebody in the first place the national security advisor

59:21to try to monitor this um what was happening and to try to um you

59:29know uh create at least some intellectual guard rails on what was taking place apparently

59:35at the mediation you had whitkoff and kushner continuing to just talk about their florenstein

59:41shoes you know how donald trump buys these people these florenstein shoes he guesses your

59:47shoe size and And regardless of if it's your actual shoe size, he makes you

59:51wear the shoes of whatever size.

59:53So if you're a 10 and he guesses you're a 12, he buys you a

59:5712 Florensheim shoe and you have to wear it.

1:00:00So he's like has Rubio and Whitcoff and Kushner.

1:00:02It's all everybody wears these shoes.

1:00:04And so they were like joking with the Iranian diplomats about the Florensheim shoes.

1:00:09That's what people in the room were saying, you know, it took place and everybody

1:00:12believed that there was going to be this Monday session to dig into some of

1:00:18the technical details. Well, why am I bringing all this up again?

1:00:21Because how would Iran even go about negotiating with Trump or Whitcoff or Kushner right

1:00:29now? Like, how would you do it?

1:00:30If you wanted to do it, how would you do it?

1:00:32Because any negotiation will just be used as a way to try to kill you,

1:00:37right? Like if we were in a mediation and every time there was a mediation,

1:00:42I don't want to make it deeply personal.

1:00:44If someone was in a mediation with someone and every time you showed up in

1:00:47the room, somebody tried to shoot you, you just wouldn't show up in the room

1:00:51anymore, right? Like where would you even have the mediation?

1:00:55Like if you're the foreign minister and you go to a location, don't you think

1:01:00that Netanyahu is probably just going to blow it up?

1:01:02Like if you even return the phone call, don't you think that it'll just be

1:01:06used as a way of bugging your location to find out where you are and

1:01:10then blow up the entire building where you are, regardless of if a hundred or

1:01:13a thousand civilians die? Like, don't you think that that's what, so I don't even

1:01:17know how you, how you can even have discussions with the United States on, on

1:01:24anything. And this is what I was saying a year ago, plus about Donald Trump's

1:01:27tariffs against the world, right?

1:01:29I mean, Donald Trump will negotiate, well, he doesn't negotiate anything, but he took NAFTA

1:01:34and then he made it into the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement in like 2018,

1:01:382019, a free trade agreement.

1:01:41And then he says that USMCA is the stupidest deal ever.

1:01:45And it's like, well, that was your updated version of NAFTA because you just wanted

1:01:49to say that, you know, put your name on it basically.

1:01:52And there are all these videos of you saying the USMCA, what a beautiful name

1:01:56during your first term. And now you say that that's not even a deal.

1:01:59I mean, you did free trade deals with Japan and others in Asia, then you

1:02:03just rip it apart. He's not a rational actor.

1:02:06He is a fraud, like he's been his entire life and he's covering up the

1:02:12Epstein files. And I don't want to lose sight of his coverup of the Epstein

1:02:16files, because I know that there's a lot of news taking place, but there are

1:02:19some major developments in the Epstein files that I think are important to mention, obviously,

1:02:24you know, to include in this episode, because we know Trump wants to distract from

1:02:28that. So one of the things that Trump has ordered Todd Blanche, his deputy AG,

1:02:34to do is to block a DEA, the drug enforcement agency's report that they did

1:02:44jointly with the DOJ as part of this group called the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement

1:02:50Task Force, which has since been basically, you know, removed from the DOJ.

1:02:55Um, but there's this 69 page target profile of Epstein's money laundering and drug trafficking

1:03:05ring that went alongside his sex trafficking ring.

1:03:09And there's 12 other people in two businesses that were identified as being a part

1:03:13of this billion dollar money laundering scheme by Epstein.

1:03:17So we now learn that Todd Blanche has concealed that document, that document the DOJ

1:03:24is refusing to release. One of the things that is deeply concerning, among other things,

1:03:32regarding kind of Donald Trump's Epstein relationship, in addition to, you know, obviously all of

1:03:39the coverup of Epstein sex trafficking ring by the DOJ right now is when Donald

1:03:46Trump acquired this property and a foreclosure sale in West Palm Beach that Epstein was

1:03:51going to bid on. And Trump sold it to a Russian oligarch four years later

1:03:55for $95 million and double the money.

1:03:58And Epstein was calling Donald Trump out for financial shenanigans.

1:04:03And I'm putting shenanigans there.

1:04:05Uh, you, you can describe it however you want to describe it, but that's what

1:04:09they're falling out was about.

1:04:10Remember during Bill Clinton's deposition, Bill Clinton said that Donald Trump told him the fallout

1:04:15was over this real estate deal.

1:04:16It was over this West Palm beach property that Trump sold for two X the

1:04:20value to a Russian oligarch.

1:04:22And there were questions, you know, was that Russia moving their money here?

1:04:26What was happening? Why did this?

1:04:28And by the way, the Russian guy demolished the place a few years, uh, a

1:04:32few years later. So, you know, the fact that there's a money laundering report and

1:04:37report about drug trafficking with many people, and that's not being produced.

1:04:42I mean, that's deeply alarming.

1:04:43And then yesterday I did a whole report on this.

1:04:45You should go watch the report.

1:04:46Pam Bondi gave 24 hours notice that she was going to voluntarily appear before the

1:04:52house oversight committee as a way of her trying to avoid her congressional testimony.

1:04:57She's been subpoenaed for mid April where she has her deposition supposed to be taken

1:05:02by, um, the house oversight committee.

1:05:05And I was like, all right, they, you know, the fact that they had to

1:05:08subpoena her shows that she wasn't voluntarily showing up.

1:05:13And I was like, okay, what's, what scheme are they going to pull to try?

1:05:16All right. Thank you. to get her out of it.

1:05:16Like what's James Comer's game plan here?

1:05:19And their game plan was they have her show up voluntarily.

1:05:22And she wanted to give like an update on the Epstein files, but it was

1:05:26some like scripted BS. And the Democrats like, we really don't care about this.

1:05:30We just want to know, are you going to show up and testify under oath

1:05:33on April 14th? And she wouldn't commit to that.

1:05:36So the Democrats stormed out because they're like, we're not taking place.

1:05:40We're not taking part in this crap.

1:05:42You're going to show up pursuant to a subpoena and you're going to testify under

1:05:46oath. We're not going to give you cover for what you're doing here, which is

1:05:51obviously you're going to say, well, I briefed the house oversight committee.

1:05:54Don't have to show up in April because I just showed up.

1:05:57Why would you need me to show up?

1:05:59So she was using this as a way to then object to the subpoena.

1:06:04And the Democrats smartly said, we're leaving because if they stayed, they would be giving

1:06:10credence to what she was going to say about why she didn't have to show

1:06:14up. That was their plan.

1:06:16Right. And she would say, oh, I already briefed them.

1:06:18So now the subpoena is inappropriate.

1:06:21And why'd she only give 24 hours notice to the Democrats?

1:06:25Because the Democrats would not have been okay with showing up if there was actually

1:06:29thorough notice. And the Democrats could ask, well, why are you showing up?

1:06:34Because she wanted to use the existence of this fake sham hearing to then make

1:06:40a legal battle against the subpoena.

1:06:43Democrats saw what was happening.

1:06:44I got to give credit to Congress member Garcia because he has been very aggressive

1:06:50and he did not fall victim to that trap.

1:06:53And he just said to the Democrats, get out.

1:06:55And the Republicans were like, well, this is what the Democrats wanted all along.

1:07:00They just want to storm out.

1:07:01She was trying to be helpful.

1:07:02They just want to do this for the media.

1:07:04And it was like, boom, you smoked out so good because that was their plan

1:07:08the whole time. And don't you dare invoke the name of the victims while you're

1:07:12covering up all of these reports and 3 million documents still have not been.

1:07:16How dare you invoke the name of the survivors and the victims?

1:07:20You disgusting pieces of trash.

1:07:22You, we know exactly what you all are up to.

1:07:25Don't you dare even say the word victims or survivors.

1:07:28You sick predator cover -uppers.

1:07:30You gross, grotesque species, grotesque invasive species.

1:07:36And then there was this document right here that I'll share with you.

1:07:40That was the redactions were removed by Democratic Congress member Dan Goldman.

1:07:46So hat tip to him right here.

1:07:49So remember that document that people were saying that involved an email from Jeffrey Epstein

1:07:55to Ghislaine Maxwell. And they were forwarding a message that Donald Trump's lawyer had sent,

1:08:02but this whole document was redacted.

1:08:04Well, here it is. It's dated October 14th, 2009.

1:08:07And you'll see it's from Jeffrey Epstein to Ghislaine Maxwell.

1:08:11And then there is a forward of a notes from a conversation with Alan Garten,

1:08:20Trump's attorney. So what did Alan Garten say?

1:08:22Alan Garten was asked, was Jeffrey Epstein ever expelled from Mar -a -Lago?

1:08:29Trump's attorney responds, no, he was not a member, may have been a guest, never

1:08:35asked to leave. What do you know about was Trump ever at Epstein's house?

1:08:43I may have been there with my wife.

1:08:45Then it goes on to say, any young girls there, no, may have been a

1:08:49children of guests, but that's it right there.

1:08:53And then Trump specifically asked Garten to advise us of the interview.

1:08:58Brad had also previously talked to manager of Mar -a -Lago, Bort Kempke.

1:09:04Kempke confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein was never asked to leave Mar -a -Lago.

1:09:09So remember all of Trump saying, I kicked him out of Mar -a -Lago.

1:09:13Remember what the Republicans said?

1:09:14I kicked him out of Mar -a -Lago.

1:09:16Well, now the document, one of the ones that they were covering up that Dan

1:09:20Goldman just exposed, and you got to give him credit for exposing the document.

1:09:23That's an important document, right?

1:09:25Donald Trump's own lawyer, you saw for yourself.

1:09:29What did he say? He said, Donald Trump never kicked him out.

1:09:33I'm just reading you what the document says.

1:09:35So then I'm like, oh, Donald Trump kicked him out.

1:09:37No, he didn't. No, he didn't.

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