GOP gets Instant Karma over Trump’s Disaster War!!
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1:45Republican leaders are panicking as a shock poll has just been released by Ipsos Reuters
1:52showing that only 25 to 27 % of Americans or so actually support this unlawful
2:01war against Iran. And right now, the top Google searches in the United States are
2:07war authorization, Donald Trump's approval, did Donald Trump get approval of Congress, in addition, by
2:15the way, to Epstein. And so now Donald Trump has sent out his MAGA sycophants
2:21and stooges to tell the American people that we are not at war.
2:27There is no war taking place.
2:30What's occurring is just strategic strikes, not war.
2:35Now, Donald Trump previously said we're at war.
2:39I mean, in one of those bizarre and deranged videos he did at Mar -a
2:43-Lago, since he couldn't bother to go to Washington, D .C.
2:46when doing this unlawful war, he said, yeah, it is a war.
2:51Others in the Trump regimes have referred to it, we're in a war right now.
2:55And stop freaking gaslighting us by saying that we're not in a war right now.
2:59That's absolutely absurd. So Democratic Congress members have pushed back and they're working with some
3:05Republican Congress members like Thomas Massey and others to force a vote for a war
3:12powers resolution to prohibit Donald Trump's war against Iran without congressional approval.
3:20I mean, it is already unlawful and MAGA Mike Johnson and all these MAGA Republicans
3:26now are fighting tooth and nail.
3:28And they're trying to whip up all of the support amongst every Republican to try
3:35to block any attempt to restrain Donald Trump's unlawful war against Iran, where we've already
3:42had a number of service members who have been killed and seriously injured.
3:48Now, this also comes when Donald Trump has told members of the media like Jonathan
3:54Karl at ABC and others that one of the main reasons we've gone to war
3:59is because in his paranoia, he says the Ayatollah was going to kill me, so
4:05I killed him first. OK, and also Donald Trump said, expect this war to last
4:11this war to last many, many, many weeks and expect.
4:16He says that the Pentagon predictions are that there will be a lot of casualties.
4:21A lot of Americans are going to die.
4:24A lot of American service members will die.
4:27That's what the Pentagon's telling Donald Trump.
4:29But what Donald Trump said is, look, it is what it is like.
4:33This is just what happens in war and this is what it is.
4:37And there will be lots of deaths from American service members.
4:39So then you have people like Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz,
4:47who's like, in response to the service members who died yesterday, Ambassador Waltz, I hate
4:54to call him an ambassador.
4:55He was like, freedom is never free.
4:58And then you have other kind of Trump sycophants, Bill Ackman and others are like,
5:03this is the most glorious way to die.
5:06Dying in Iran is the most glorious form of death.
5:10And then you have. Lindsey Graham saying, this would be an honor.
5:14I had direct quotes. Lindsey Graham's like, it would be an honor, an honor for
5:19you to die in Iran.
5:21This is the highest form of patriotism.
5:24And so now we have the Epstein class, Donald Trump and his whole cabal covering
5:31up the files, sending our service members to die in a potentially never ending war
5:37that's already spiraling out of control.
5:40That's what's actually going on.
5:42So I want to bring the receipts for you.
5:44I want to share with you what these MAGA Republican Congress members are saying.
5:48I want to show you what the Democratic Congress members and senators, MAGA Congress members
5:53and senators, Democratic senators and congressmen, what they're saying right now.
5:57I want to bring you the receipts.
5:58The first data point I want to show you though, is what Brian Stelter had
6:03to say about the Google Trends right now that everybody's searching, you know, for Trump
6:10approval. Trump, did he get permission?
6:14Play this clip. You know, Caitlin, if you look at Google Trends data right now
6:19for the word Trump, look at the rising searches.
6:20You'll see the number one rising search in the last 24 hours is a question.
6:24The question is, did Trump get congressional approval?
6:26The answer is no. The number one rising search in the last four hours, really
6:29interesting, it's Trump addresses his nation.
6:32So in other words, people are literally searching online, looking, trying to find out if
6:36the president is addressing the nation.
6:37They want to see him explain and justify these strikes.
6:40And if you look at the word Trump, but just the last hour, the number
6:43one rising search in the last hour is Trump approval rating.
6:46And of course, all of those searches, they're all related, right?
6:49They're all from Americans trying to find out more information about this military effort.
6:53We should also keep in mind the Pentagon has severely restricted the flow of information
6:57to the press this year, actually in the past 14 months.
7:01A lot less information coming out of the Pentagon about these strikes as well, Caitlin.
7:04All right. Now let me bring for you the other receipts right now.
7:07So the first clip I want to show you here is Anna Paulina Luna.
7:12And Anna Paulina Luna says the following when she is asked about the war with
7:17Iran. Here's what she says.
7:19Let's play this clip. About is that we will not put boots on the ground
7:23there, period. Case closed. We will not vote on having a war with Iran because
7:28as of right now, according to the plan, which I won't say too much on
7:31television, but according to the three objectives that this administration outlined, everything is going according
7:37to plan. Now, she says the plan is so secret that we're not allowed to
7:42know what it is. It's a secretive plan.
7:45No one can know, but it's all going according to plan.
7:49The hell does that mean?
7:50What's the plan? What are the objectives?
7:52What are we trying to achieve?
7:53What's happening? This was originally about uranium enrichment.
7:57Now it's about regime change, but now it's Donald Trump is also saying that actually
8:03we don't need to change the regime.
8:05This would write Donald Trump said, what we should be doing is very similar to
8:09what happened in Venezuela, where someone else in the Maduro regime took over.
8:14So Donald Trump saying, when it comes to Iran, at this point, we should just
8:17have another Ayatollah who was close to Khamenei, the Ayatollah Khamenei, find someone there from
8:24the Islamic Republic that maybe is a little bit nicer to Donald Trump.
8:27That's a direct quote. He says, Venezuela is the good template.
8:31Okay. More from Anna Paulina Luna here, where she says, strategic strikes are not wars.
8:37Here, play this clip. Members, there are multiple wounded.
8:40And again, it is not the intention of the US government to invade.
8:44That is not what is happening.
8:45These are isolated, strategic, large -scale attacks.
8:48But again, there are negotiations that will take place, or at least open communication with
8:53the White House as soon as the president decides that he is willing, or ready
8:57to talk. And that has developed in the last couple of hours.
9:00So that update will come hopefully later on this evening.
9:03I'm sorry, you say it's not the intention of the US government to invade?
9:07Did we not just invade?
9:08We are not invading. Are you seeing, are you seeing boots on the ground there?
9:11Because I'm not. And I've been told directly by the State Department and the White
9:14House that that's not the intention.
9:15I mean, we just killed the leader of the country.
9:18That's what an invasion is.
9:18That's not. Okay. Targeted strategic military strikes and invasions are two totally different things, according
9:25to military terminology. They're calling it a war.
9:26The president has called it a war.
9:29And targeted airstrikes have. Strategic strikes.
9:33Strategic strikes. And according to the White House, and I just talked to them, and
9:37talked to the Secretary of State, strategic strikes are not war.
9:41Really? So if someone bombed America, that wouldn't be war?
9:44Do you see boots on the ground?
9:46Oh, wait, that makes no sense.
9:48You're saying it has three boots on the ground?
9:50According to your own, according to your own definition, the regime of Iran has killed
9:55thousands of Americans and murdered them.
9:57So by definition, they've already declared war in the United States.
9:59No, I've had missiles raining down on me, too.
10:03I know how terrible the Iranian regime is.
10:06We're not. We are not debating that they are a truly terrible regime.
10:12What we're talking about is the standard for the commander in chief to commit our
10:17sons and daughters in the military to war and going to war when it is
10:22in the national interest in making that case to America and going to Congress and
10:26getting approval for war. So you are saying this is a limited mission that is
10:31only bomb strikes. So there is no congressional authorization necessary.
10:37How is this different from When Joe Biden bombed the Houthi rebels in Yemen without
10:43congressional authorization and you oppose that.
10:46Now, this is something that was echoed by MAGA Republican Senator and Trump sycophant, Mark
10:53Wayne Mullen. Wolf Blitzer says, so are you OK with the losses and the fact
10:59that if this war drags on and more members of our military die, are you
11:04OK with our members of our military dying in a war?
11:07And then Mark Wayne Mullen's like, I'm going to have to push back at you,
11:11Wolf. We're not at war.
11:13This is not a war.
11:14Here, play this clip. In his announcement about this military operation, President Trump warned Americans
11:19to prepare for possible troop deaths.
11:22If this war drags on for weeks or longer, for that matter, and U .S.
11:26casualties mount, are you confident that the American public will consider this a noble mission
11:31and tolerate growing U .S.
11:33military losses? Well, first of all, I'm going to push back.
11:38This isn't a war. We haven't declared war on Iran.
11:41We're not at war with Iranian people.
11:44We had to remove a murderous regime that's been attacking the United States for 47
11:49years. Him and his murderous thugs have killed thousands and murdered thousands of Americans for
11:55literally 47 years. You heard the president's announcement.
11:58He went through all the attacks that they've had through multiple presidents.
12:02And the straw that I would say that broke the camel's back or the final
12:07straw is we're never going to allow the number one world sponsor of terror to
12:12be able to get a nuclear weapon.
12:14There was no doubt that they were building delivery systems to affect our interest and
12:19our assets all around that region.
12:21There was no there's no question they were trying to develop a weapon that would
12:26reach the United States. And at that case, it wouldn't have been a matter of
12:29if, it'd be a matter of when.
12:31And so after 9 -11, America had a resolve that said, we will never do
12:37this again, meaning never again.
12:38We'll never be caught flat -footed.
12:40We're going to be proactive and go after those that threaten us.
12:42And President Trump finally had the backbone that other presidents haven't to finally try diplomacy
12:48and try diplomacy by saying, you're not going to get a nuclear weapon.
12:52We're not going to negotiate with you.
12:53We're not going to allow you to enrich because you can't be trusted.
12:56You're not going to have, uh, the nuclear capability.
12:59And if you do, then, uh, you're going to pay the ultimate price.
13:02So. And then you have Nancy Mace seeming to say thanks to Donald Trump for
13:09the deaths of U .S.
13:10soldiers. Here, play this clip.
13:12Right off the bat, your reaction to three U .S.
13:14service members being killed in the early stages of these combat operations.
13:17The president saying their sacrifice was worth it for this greater mission.
13:21And he's also preparing the American people maybe for more deaths by saying it's likely
13:26more service members could die.
13:28What do you make of the first 48 hours or so of this mission?
13:32And what questions do you have for the administration moving forward?
13:35They're expected to brief you, uh, and others in Congress on Tuesday, as I understand
13:39it. What's going through your mind tonight?
13:41Well, number one, I want to thank president Trump for his speech today, acknowledging those
13:46who sacrifice these warriors, lay down their lives for our enemy, fighting and protecting American
13:52citizens here and abroad because terrorism isn't just in Iran.
13:55It's everywhere around the world.
13:56As we, as we've seen in the last 24 hours, it's something to take seriously
14:00head on a swivel, as they sometimes say, number one, number two, I believe president
14:04Trump will go down as the most consequential president in American history during one of
14:09the most consequential times in world history.
14:12And he took out someone that no one thought this could ever happen, taking out
14:17the leader of the number one state sponsor of terrorism, the Ayatollah Omni.
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16:21So then you have Lindsey Graham, who had always been talking about regime change.
16:25Now he says the goal of this operation is not regime change.
16:28Okay, Lindsey, let's play this clip.
16:30The goal of this operation is to change the threat, not the regime.
16:35When this operation is over, no matter who takes over in Iran, they will not
16:39have ballistic missiles to hurt us, Israel or the region.
16:43They will not have the capability to be the largest state sponsor of terrorism, whether
16:48it's a cleric or a group of representative of the country where there's an election.
16:55It doesn't matter right now.
16:56Then you have Lindsey Graham saying what happens next in Iran.
17:01I hope that it's better, but it's ultimately their decision to make.
17:07We are not going to own rebuilding Iran.
17:10So we're just going to do the destroying.
17:13We're not going to own the rebuilding.
17:15And it's not about what the hell are y 'all talking about?
17:18I truly don't know. I don't support regime change wars.
17:23I also have no clue what that, what are we doing?
17:26Like for what the hell are we doing there?
17:29Play this clip of Lindsey Graham.
17:31What comes next? I hope and pray it's better.
17:33I believe it will be.
17:35But I know this. Iran can't hurt us today like they could yesterday.
17:39And this operation was about taking those threats off the table.
17:44I will be glad to help to the extent I can.
17:48New people in Iran, but we're not going to own rebuilding Iran.
17:53That's up to the Iranians.
17:55We can be helpful, but it's their decision to make.
17:58This is not Iraq. This is not Germany.
18:01This is not Japan. Well, how about MAGA Republican Senator who chairs the Senate Intelligence
18:07Committee, Tom Cotton? And when Cotton was asked, do you believe the American people are
18:12owed some explanation by the commander in chief about what the hell is happening?
18:18What is going on right now?
18:20Tom Cotton's like, he posted on Truth Social.
18:23He did a Truth Social post.
18:26So he did an eight minute truth video.
18:29So what else do you want him to do?
18:31Not a Truth Social video?
18:33Actually address the American people?
18:35Describe the intelligence? Explain what the hell is going on?
18:38We know that Donald Trump's own regime briefers, right?
18:43People who briefed Congress, they told Congress that actually, Iran never posed an imminent threat
18:50against the United States regarding any direct strikes and that Iran would only strike if
18:56Israel attacked first. That's the only way Iran would say they would attack our bases.
19:01That's what Trump's own regime briefer told Congress.
19:05But go on, Tom Cotton.
19:07Go on, Tom Cotton. Here, play this clip.
19:09According to CBS polling, 74 % of Americans said that Trump would need approval from
19:15Congress for military action against Iran.
19:18He did not seek that.
19:19If this operation takes weeks, which is how you described it, do you believe the
19:24administration has effectively made its case to the American public to expect casualties to support
19:31this action? Margaret, I thought the president's eight minute video yesterday was outstanding.
19:38It laid out Iran's 47 year campaign of terror and revolutionary violence against the United
19:44States and our people and really the civilized world.
19:46I'm sure the president will speak more in the coming days.
19:5047 years. He did not describe imminence or justify that in that video.
19:54Do you believe that the American public is owed something more than a Twitter video?
20:00Well, Margaret, I think an eight minute address to the American people, whether the president
20:05posted on social media or whether it happens on your network, is in keeping with
20:09presidential custom of addressing the American people.
20:12Again, I'm sure that he's going to be speaking more in coming days.
20:15The administration will be briefing Congress and we're going to have a vote in the
20:20Congress. The Democrats are forcing a vote.
20:22I expect there'll be overwhelming Republican support for our troops, for the for our troops
20:27and for the president's decision to finally eliminate the threat of Iran.
20:31And or how about, you know, this is why none of these people in the
20:35Republican Party are moderate, right?
20:37You had Mike Turner, Mike Turner claim that he was this moderate guy.
20:41And, you know, I'm here just to be, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm the sensible
20:46Republican, but here he is.
20:49And he says, the reason he said, the reason we invaded Iran, he says, is
20:54because while they didn't have the capability to do nuclear weapons, they had the intent
21:01to do it one day.
21:03So now the United States invades, if we believe that you have an intent, not
21:10if you do it, we, we, we just perceive intent and then we invade you.
21:15Here, play this clip. Inventory, they had continued as has had been declared to pursue
21:23their intention of nuclear enrichment.
21:28They had continued. Rubio said they weren't enriching.
21:31They had continued their intention to pursue nuclear.
21:34enrichment they had had said and declared that they were going to do that their
21:38their programs had not been completely abolished and their intention had not been abolished they
21:44remained a threat and the fact that we had the ability um to to intervene
21:51that eminence is incredibly important now more from tom cotton here let's play it a
21:58key part of president trump's campaign and it included it in his inaugural address was
22:03no more wars and there are a number of republicans who think that this is
22:08the opposite of what they voted for that the president is breaking that promise uh
22:13tucker carlson told abc the president's decision to strike iran is quote absolutely disgusting and
22:18evil what do you say to members of the maga base who say this is
22:22not what we voted for well dana i've been on the campaign trail all across
22:28arkansas for the last two days visiting with hundreds of republicans i haven't heard a
22:33single arkansan express anything but unqualified support for president trump and for his decision to
22:40finally put america's foot down and end 47 years of terror and revolutionary violence by
22:47the islamic republic against the united states and our citizens and i suspect you'll see
22:53overwhelming support from elected republicans in the congress who are answerable to our voters in
22:59places like arkansas and states all across the country when we're back in uh the
23:03capital later this week one of the things i want to point out as well
23:08is in the atlantic wrote about this last night there's a good scoop over there
23:13although it's kind of obvious too now donald trump says we're going to invade cuba
23:18part of this plan is cuba next donald trump's already getting bored of iran he's
23:25bored of this he thinks we already he thinks we've won we achieved victory so
23:29now he's moving over to cuba to do a cuba invasion next and here's what
23:35uh democratic senator warner had to say about the intelligence that he was aware of
23:42before the strike on iran here play this clip you heard chairman cotton say that
23:48the president's decision is completely justified what do you think i think the president has
23:56started a war of choice there was no imminent threat to the united states so
24:05the decision to put our service members in harm's way and bases around the region
24:12in harm's way was entirely based upon the president's decision not an imminent threat to
24:20america i think it is incumbent that the president united states comes before the american
24:25people and the congress and makes the case of why he has chosen to go
24:29to war at this point then you have democratic congress member and veteran uh ryan
24:35here's what he has to say let's play it off just on the deaths of
24:39these three service members obviously that's three families that are getting a devastating call tonight
24:44uh to tell them about what happened to their loved ones what do you make
24:47of that it's horrific i still wear this bracelet with the names of my fellow
24:52soldiers i lost in my my two deployments and uh for the president to not
24:57answer those questions to have nothing to say to those family members is pathetic it's
25:04pathetic and it's because he doesn't have answers there's not a plan here or if
25:08it is he's not sharing it with american people and this certainly rhymes with past
25:15ill -conceived half -baked regime change wars that sound good until they start and then
25:23all of a sudden no one knows what the heck is going on and it's
25:26young american men and women that that pay the price and that pisses me off
25:30more from democratic congress member ryan here you see the difference between what these republicans
25:35are saying and what these democrats are saying here play this clip meanwhile putin she
25:41i believe the the prc is our greatest enemy they're watching this seeing us bogged
25:47down with two carrier strike groups depleting our our munition stocks and i think that
25:52puts us in a less safe position and i don't want to say that i
25:55don't say it lightly well and on munitions you make a good point because we
25:58know from reporting which the president disputed that the joint chief's chairman general dan kane
26:03was worried about an extended operation and what exactly that could look like and by
26:07the way here's what the pentagon briefers ended up saying let me play this clip
26:12yeah caitlin just like most of the administration's explanations for why now why was this
26:18operation against iran launched now this briefing happened in private but we're told that pentagon
26:24briefers did make a stark acknowledgement and that was that no there was no indication
26:28that iran was preparing to preemptively strike u .s bases in the region in anticipation
26:33of some sort of an attack from american and israeli forces and that's something that
26:38senior administration officials had said on saturday that they believed was true and that was
26:43something that contributed to the timing of this operation so raising more questions still as
26:49the president has we haven't heard from him about his reasoning his justification and his
26:53plan going forward as this military operation continues then finally i'll share with you a
26:59democratic congress member adam smith had to say He is the ranking member of the
27:04Intelligence Committee for Democrats. He says this is the most cavalier, most arrogant, most unconstitutional
27:12and unlawful way a president in the history of the United States has gone to
27:17war, has dealt with Congress.
27:19Listen to what he has to say.
27:21Play this clip. It sure looks like President Trump made a knee -jerk decision without
27:26taking into account all the warnings.
27:28And by the way, everything that has played out, people were saying this was the
27:31problem with launching a regime change operation at Iran in the first place, that Iran
27:36would strike throughout the region.
27:37We would lose service members.
27:39We would begin to stress our amount of ammunition to keep this fight going.
27:44And it was highly unlikely that the Iranian regime would simply collapse.
27:49All of this was known.
27:51The risks were known. And the president, and this is the most cavalier manner that
27:56any president has ever gone to war in the history of this country.
27:58I mean, he does an eight -minute truth social post at two o 'clock in
28:02the morning, then basically drops the mic and walks away and lets the war go.
28:08I, as the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, still have not heard
28:12from anybody from the Department of Defense, nor has Chairman Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman
28:17of my committee, or in the Senate.
28:19You know, they're launching this war without a clear explanation of why or what they're
28:23trying to do, and then saying, meh, yeah, some people are going to get killed.
28:27I mean, you have to take much more responsibility for placing the lives of the
28:32men and women who serve our country on the line than that.