From EU Excuses to Cuba Blackouts: Freedom Is Trending

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This is the Rob Carson Show hour number two. It's St. Patrick's Day.

What are you doing tonight, kids? You going out? I'm just going to go home and chill myself,

watch a little TV or not. You know, all of that stuff. So, but I hope you have a

glorious St. Patrick's Day today. All right, so we got a lot of stuff we wanted to

on the radio program. And, you know, top of mind, this last hour has been the Joe Kent

resigning from the Trump administration. No longer going to work with Tulsi Gabbard.

Two weeks into a successful military mission. And it is it is honestly remarkable to me because

we went through 20 years in Afghanistan. And we've never seen the kind of nonsense that we have

seen against our military. As we have seen in the last in the last two weeks for God's sake,

just two weeks into this mission. But I am not going to let it damper my enthusiasm for our

military and the amazing job they're doing. Not one little bit. Nope, be no, be new. Not

going to do it. And you know, I know that we're on the right side of history because, for instance,

the EU is not on our side. NATO is not on our side. The world's globally leaps are not on side.

The the the countries that have allowed their borders to open to radical Islam and are on the

verge of collapse like England. By the way, England is kind of the right that difficults toes into

being complete toast. And they're wrong about everything. They're the globally leaps you see.

They are the global leaps. The EU says they have no appetite to expend its mid-east naval mission

to the strait of Hormuz. And the reason being is because they want America to do all the heavy

lifting. And then after that happens, then they can move in and be our buddies. That's the you

know, you've ever had those kind of friends. You know, I think I saw last night. And I don't know,

he was talking about last night. It's like having a friend, you know, who has a lot of money. And

we're at the bar, you know, you can just drink on them. But when they're when they're gone, you know,

you're toast. That's kind of what's going on with the with the EU with with Great Britain. They

don't have they don't have a lot of test, testicular fortitude. I'll just put it that way. Here's a

little montage of Kierstarmer, the weak need Prime Minister of Great Britain and Donald Trump.

90. Our priority is always the national interest. We will protect our people in the region

while taking the necessary action to defend ourselves and our allies. We will not be drawn

into the wider war. And I hear the UK, which we sort of considered the Rolls Royce of Allies,

right? When you say they were the oil workers and they were going to be there. And I say it would

be really helpful if you'd send over a couple of ships. And if you have some mind sweepers,

which they do, be very helpful. And the Prime Minister is a nice man. I say, well, I'd like to

ask my team. I said, you don't have to worry about a team. You don't have a team. You get the

Prime Minister. You can make a decision. It's very disappointing. Yeah. In the meantime,

Israel says it said it's killed a top Iranian intelligence chief Ali Lerajani. Now Lerajani

apparently was taunting Donald Trump walking around the streets of Tehran about a week ago.

He didn't walk any more. He's flat like cardboard, Iatola. This is new from Jim Gasser on the

Rob Carson show. Another supreme leader was taken out today. The is really air force. Always

gets their way. We keep losing. We keep losing more men. Our losses are insane. We would surrender

if we had half a brain. Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust.

And another one's gone. And another one's gone. Another one bites the dust soon. There will be

no one left. Another one bites the dust. Ali Lerajani is with us no more. He's toast. He just

bit the dust like coal made before or maybe has been destroyed. Our army will be too. We face

obliteration. But what else is new? Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust.

And another one's gone. And another one's gone. Another one bites the dust.

We are dropping just like flies. I'm about to bite the dust.

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Here's Donald Trump yesterday talking about Iran and why he pulled the trigger despite

people like Marjorie Taylor Green and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson saying we didn't need to.

I had an obligation to do this. I didn't want to I called it an excursion. I didn't want to make

this journey. We had the highest stock market in history, but that's a very small thing compared

to allowing them to have you want to see a stock market go down, start letting them hit you with

nukes. If they had that bomb at either time five years ago or seven months ago, if they had that

bomb, that bomb would have been used almost immediately. Again, you know you're on the right side

of history when things like this are set. For instance, whenever the we're over the target,

what does MS now used to be MSNBC or CNN? What do they what do they do? What label do they pin

on you when you are when you are winning when you're on the right side of history, whether it be

voter ID, whether it be a conflict with Iran? What is the thing that they say? What is the thing

that the I get right? They say it's racist. MSNBC now is now saying that Operation Epic Fury

is racist. Really disturbing and the messaging around the war recently at Aminite. I really want

your thoughts on this in particular is some of the language and the description of their opponent.

Sort of the way they seem to create this image of the Iranians and all of their sort of proxies or

allies. Not just the the terrible people that have been in charge for 47 years and committed all

the acts of terror and everything. The sort of imagery that they conjure up. And I think that it

takes a certain amount of arrogance and I'm also going to say it a bit of racism to constantly

talk about people like they are Septus. That is a word that we have heard. Okay, see because

there are Iranian people who are not members of the regime who maybe are expats who live around

the world. We're not calling them those words. We are calling the people in charge of Iran the

savages because they are. Okay, because they are. Honestly, this is this is the the Democrat party.

Once again, you know, they would have complained when Hitler committed suicide. They would have

said, look what you did. You caused Hitler to kill his girlfriend and then kill himself. Hitler

was, you know, or they would have said something like, you know, Germany is not a threat. Germany

is not a threat to Europe. I mean, just because they invaded Poland and stuff. Honestly, they're not

a threat. We don't need to be involved. That's where your Democrat party up today would say about

Operation Epicfaring. There you go. Meanwhile, as Iranian proxies who have been led into our

country over the last four years because Joe Biden opened the southern border to our country's

enemies without a doubt did that. Intentionally, the the the DHS has been defunded and the TSA

consequently is, you know, TSA employees are working without a paycheck among other things.

Many of them are having to quit their jobs. The TSA now, by the way, and this is backfiring on

Democrats, accusing Democrats and their shutdown for absurdly long security lines. The official

account for the DHS reposted a video on Sunday noting that there are security lines out the door.

Americans are now missing their flights because of the Democrat shutdown of the DHS. Now,

generally government employees don't usually side with with Republicans. They don't they they vote

almost wholesale 90 plus percent in the favor of Democrats. But look, this isn't working for Democrats.

Quote, their political studies forcing patriotic TSA officers to work without pay, leading to

financial hardship absences, crippling staff shortages, enough is enough. Democrats must fund

DHS now. Here is a TSA a spokesman talking about the difficulties the Democrat party is putting

them through. Requiring employees to work without pay is unconstitutional. And the financial

consequences of this shutdown, damage credit, mispayments, and lost housing will ever will remain

ever after the government reopens. This is not a partisan issue. TSA employees do not cause this

shutdown. Yet they are bearing the burden of congressional inaction. So be quiet Frank, officers are

**** off. Yeah. And we're not just talking about here and then we're talking about nationwide.

The officers are **** off. They want this to end. They're ready to give back to their some some

some normalcy or some consistency within their lives. There have been has been an uptick in officers

taken on other make trying to find other ways to make their ants meet. Whether it's Uber,

Instacard, Lyft, or whatever that may be. That's hell. It's hell. I mean, it really has an and

the thing is completely unavoidable or a completely avoidable. The Democrat party wants to keep

illegals in the country. The reason they did that is because they they flooded the country with

the illegals because they realized that that people were leaving Democrat run states. And they

needed to keep the voter rolls full. They needed to keep the census full representation would remain

even though California and other states have a bled their population. Did you know that every

state that Kamala Harris won in 2024 has no voter ID? Did you know that? You know, you got to kind

of wonder. No, you don't. The reason why is because the Democrat party expects illegals to vote

and loads them up with all sorts of largest. This is Byron York talking about how the failed

immigration policy of Joe Biden has left our country filled with its enemies. This is a huge

failure of US immigration policy. We have essentially imported some of the world's worst

conflicts to play out in the streets of the United States. And then on some occasions, we give

naturalized citizenship to people who are headed to commit terrorist crimes. The old dominion

killer naturalized citizens from Sierra Leone, the attacker at the Michigan synagogue,

naturalized citizen from Lebanon, the Austin, Texas. Who would have seen this comment? Oh yeah,

you and I the last four years when Joe Biden was the president. Shooter naturalized citizen from

Senegal. This is crazy. And by the way, the old dominion killer after he was naturalized was

tried and convicted for material support of ISIS and not removed from the United States. Yeah,

we said this was happening. I said that a Trojan horse had been stuffed with our country's enemies.

They allowed military males to come across this other morning. Military age males from all sorts of

late, not brown skinned people coming across to pick lettuce. Okay. Which is what Democrats

always say. No, no, this was wholesale invasion of our country by our nation's enemies. And that

has brought us to this point. You know, what was different about the Biden influx was that people

who crossed illegally into the United States over the US, Mexico border were not just from Mexico.

They were not just from Central America or even South America. They were from all over the world.

And large numbers of them were allowed to stay unvetted. Now, if you remember the 2020 Democratic

primary race, it was essentially a bidding contest over who would be softest on immigration.

And Joe Biden won that contest. And I do think that that's going to be a real, real issue to watch

in the 2028 Democratic primaries to see how candidates will reckon with what happened under Biden

and Val not to make it happen again. All right. We're going to take a break and come back. This is

the Rob Carson show. The media and our friends and the Democrat party kept saying we needed new

legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really

needed was a new president. There you go. And we were screaming at the top of our lungs

that they were flying illegals into the country. They were bringing them across the southern border.

Remember when there were like tens of thousands of them under overpasses in Texas? Do you remember

that? Do you remember the bodies being left along the trail of tears coming up from for through

the Darian gap? The buzzards were so well fed they became fat. I mean, this is all real. I followed

this day by day screaming, why are they doing this to us? Why are they doing this to us? And now we

know they were trying to tear down the country and destroy the country. And now our country is

full of its enemies, by the way. Big time. It's full of its enemies right now. This is why

you've got the call to prayer, the Islamist call to prayer in Times Square. This is why you have

an Islamist as the mayor of New York City. This is why you have these the Sharia law attempting to

pop it up in places like Dearborn Michigan. This 25 years after 9, 11, 25 years after 9, 11,

this is Jason Chaffetz talking about what needs to happen now with people because our country,

remember when he used to be, you came to this country to assimilate and be a part of this incredible

incredible nation. This incredible injured of individual and economic liberty. Now the

dregs of the world come here. Donald Trump warned about this in his first term and they called it

Islamophobic and they called it this phobia. You can't call bleephole countries. Yeah, there's a lot

of bleephole countries around the world. And now our country has allowed these people to become

naturalized citizens, swearing no allegiance to America and not promising to live the American dream.

But to either enrich themselves off the largest of our charity or move in to take over our country

and overrun our constitution. And I gotta tell you, I ain't gonna let that happen in my lifetime.

Are you Jason Chaffetz? We can be exceptionally stupid and we can be ignorant and the left has

wanted this. They poured millions of people into this country that illegally. But a lot of this

legal immigration is also problematic. How can you not remember what happened at the Boston

bombers, at the Boston Marathon? We totally forget that. It's a sonar of brothers came here.

They came because they were going to be refugees. But then they went back to their country.

Obviously they weren't refugees. But nobody followed up. Nobody connected the dots. And so the

worst terrorist attacks we've had in this country were because we didn't vet these people one at

time, tied together the loose ends and then kicked the people out of this country that weren't telling

the truth. They were lying to us. And when you lie to the immigration facilities, the personnel,

they should be kicked out of the country. Absolutely 100% denaturalized and removed from the country.

Here's Marco Rubio with his thoughts on radical Islam. Ultimately all radical Islamic movements in

the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil

on the earth. And every chance to have the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable

with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not born out by history. Radical

Islam. Remember when 9-11 happened and there were so many people who said radical Islam will take

decades. It will bite its time, move in and take decades. It's been two and a half decades and

look what's happened. Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the

world and be happy with their own little caliphate. They want to expand. It is a revolutionary in

its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people. And radical Islam has

designs openly on the West. On the United States, on Europe, we've seen that progress there as well

and they're prepared to conduct acts of terrorism. In the case of Iran, nation-state actions,

assassinations, murders, you name it. Whatever it takes for them to gain their influence and ultimately

their domination of different cultures and societies. That's a clear and imminent threat to it.

Yeah, 100% true. Rob Finnerty last night on Newsmax had a brilliant take on this.

You know, we've had four pretty big terrorist attacks. One thwarted pretty well, thankfully,

at Old Dominion University and at a synagogue in Michigan. Here is Rob Finnerty on how the media

is treating those. Donald Trump attacked Iran with Israel 17 days ago. As a result of those attacks,

Muslim fanatics, radical Islamic terrorists are trying to kill Americans in America and the

left want to pretend that it's not happening. Of course. And they're doing this by covering all

of these stories like they are individual events and not talking about the bigger picture and

there is a bigger picture. The Sunday shows yesterday, all about gas prices, we just showed you

Martha Raditz. They are not talking about the rise of radical Islamic terrorism in this country.

So much of it, in fact, it is difficult to keep track of, isn't it? Since the war with Iran began,

a Muslim terrorist in Austin, Texas opened fire at a bar killing three people injuring 18 others

in New York City, two Muslim terrorists, drove from Pennsylvania and through IEDs or homemade

bombs at innocent protesters and police officers outside Zoran Mandami's house. Here's what

that looked like. When CNN described what happened, they claimed, quote, two teenagers crossed

into New York City Saturday morning, for what could have been a normal day and joining the city

during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change

as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs. We're in the thick of this right now,

guys. And people like Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and now Alex Jones,

their abandoning ship, two and a half weeks into a successful mission, two and a half weeks

in due, turning around a global caliphate, which is what Donald Trump wants to do.

Peace is coming to the Middle East. It's going to happen in the Middle East. Persia will be free

and they will celebrate with their Israeli brothers and sisters. But anti-Semites like Tucker Carlson,

they are not going to go, they're not going to wind up on the wrong side of history.

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On after 10 years of us talking about this stuff, I think we could safely come to one cold

and incontrovertible fact that if it's good for Trump and they're for good for the country,

legacy media will reflexively be against it. I mean, let's quote Pete Hexat today, the Secretary of

War. He told reporters this, you cheer against Trump so hard. It's in your DNA and in your blood.

You take half-truths, spun information, leaked information to cause doubt and manipulate the

public mind. I mean, it's really hard to argue with that argument. Yeah, 100% and by the way,

since Donald Trump was sworn in as president, the Democrat party has one platform in that is to be

contrary and of Donald Trump, no matter what it is, no matter how good it is, whether it be taking

out narco drugboat captains and calling them innocent fishermen or complaining that Maduro was

removed from Venezuela or the Ayatola was vaporized. Honestly, it is breath-taking and it

has happened so quickly. On the first day of Operation Epic Fury, they called it a disaster.

The Chris Murphy called it a disaster. Remarkable times we live in and strong people,

we need. One of those strong-willed people is the one and only KT McFarland and she joins us on

the Newsmax hotline right now. KT, great to hear from you today. How are you today?

Oh, I'm terrific. I'm good to be with you.

Have you ever seen anything this breath-taking? I know that we had the, when we were in Afghanistan and

in Iraq, Dick Durbin started saying that the mission was lost when George Bush was the president,

but that took years. We were in Afghanistan for 20 years. We've never seen this kind of anti-war

nonsense, but when Donald Trump is in office, two weeks into an enormously successful mission.

The Democrat Party and the liberal media are doing everything they can to demean and take down

what our military is doing. Yeah, I mean, I'm going to say I was one of the people extremely critical

of the Afghan and Iraq wars, but that was several years into it when it's pretty clear we

weren't going to win it and it's going to be forever worse. So I was very much against it by about

2005 and ran for the Senate in 2006 in opposition to it. However, this is quite different.

And this is, you know, we're on track and of succeeding. And I guess I would say for the people

who want to retry the forever wars of the George W. Bush or even Barack Obama administration,

this is quite different. We're not in this building. We're not trying to make them in our own

image. We want them to stop their new program. We want them to stop their Intercontinental

and ballistic missile program. We want them to open up the straight-of-form moves, although

that's a less, that's further down on the list of priorities. And for the people, the America

firsters who say, well, we can't have another war. So the critics on the right, I would say,

well, you know, America first, there's nothing more essential to preserving the United States and

protecting that, you know, making sure that we preempt anybody from having a nuclear capability

against us. And then, you know what? On the left, you say, well, Trump's not smart enough. He doesn't

understand what he's doing. He didn't answer the calls. He's just not a very bright guy.

Come on, guys, this is there. So I can go through the 12 sequential steps that have taken us to

this point. I can talk to you about what the objectives are. And it is very well followed out.

And I think it's ambitious. But at the same time, if President Trump decides that we've achieved

our objectives, in other words, we've taken out their nuclear program, we've taken out their

missile program, we've taken out their ability to terrorize American interests in the region.

We could walk home tomorrow. Now, would they build it? Would they do that? Yeah, of course they would.

But then we could go back in ten years and do it again.

Fine. Yeah.

Inquities trying to do now is can you solve this once and for all? It never is a country of around

this now. The regime has never been as weak. If it's ever going to topple and change direction,

it's now. But we're not in this forever. And the people who somehow think that it was a brilliant

or that Barack Obama was brilliant, Biden was brilliant and Donald Trump just isn't smart enough.

I think that they maybe look a little more closely. What's going on?

Well, I have too many friends. I have too many friends. I know charities that were created

from George Bush getting us involved in a rock and a Afghanistan for young men who came home,

quadriplegic, paraplegic, missing limbs, PTSD, all of this. And look what that happened. And of

course Joe Biden uncereboniously withdrawing us and returning us to 910, 2001. This is a completely

different ballgame. What did you think today when Joe Kent decided two and a half weeks into this

to resign as the director of the National Counterterrorism Center? What did you think about him

joining the ranks of Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens?

Well, I mean, he's his own guy. He can make up his own mind. He can make his own decisions.

He can leave him the way that's up to him. But the sentiment that he thinks that he's

purporting to tap into, which is this America first, that the America that Trump promised no more

foreign wars. And that this is all about Israel getting us involved in a foreign war.

First of all, it's President Trump's decision to do it. And I think that the conclusion

President Trump reached several weeks ago when he was still hoping to negotiate with Iran.

When it was pretty clear that the Iranian negotiator said, look, we're not even going to talk

about our enriched uranium and getting rid of it. We have enough for 11 nuclear weapons.

And that's that. So here we go. And there was negotiations. We're not going to make a difference.

And then the idea that he bombed the nuclear sites six months ago. And that was very effective.

And we thought, well, that's good. We bought some time. But the Iranians immediately

the day after started rebuilding. So there are two things you draw from that. You can't negotiate

the solution to this. And number two, the Iran will keep them. Even if they don't have bread to

feed their children, they will try to get nuclear weapons to destroy America. So how do you do it

and deal with it once and for all? Again, I think it's America first to say protect the United

States from nuclear weapons. Well, that and also, Katie. And then one of the best quotes I've heard

in the last couple of weeks is this is in Donald Trump starting in a war with Iran. This is Donald

Trump's ending war that Iran started 47 years ago. And that's what this has been. Iran is not

a force for good in the world. They are a force of pure evil in the world. They exist only

to spread chaos. They imprison their own people. They use their own people. And they are nothing

more than a radical Islamist like tick on the blood filled tick on the back of the rest of the

world. And Donald Trump looked at this opportunity. And without, you know, I want to know this,

Katie, where is this? This Israel is is forcing Trump's hand coming from because we didn't

drop a single bomb on Hamas. Israel did it all on their own. We did not. So why are they saying

that Israel somehow forced our hand on this? I think they're playing tapping into the anti-Semitism

and the Democrat Party. Yes. And the anti-Semitism certainly in Europe. And maybe the anti-Semitism

on the far right. That somehow, if you say, if you blame Israel for everything, it gives you,

I guess, a cudgel with which to be Donald Trump. You know, again, I keep going back to all those

things you said is true. These are, you know, terrible people. They've killed a lot of Americans.

They've never had to answer for it. They've been doing evil things throughout the world. Yeah,

I get all that. And I think all that's quite true. But what's in the national, what preserves the

existential existence of the United States? I mean, what's an existential threat to us? What

could end us as a society? Nuclear war, nuclear weapons. And that's where I keep going back to

that Iran was going to get nuclear weapons and either blackmail the world into doing what it wanted

or they're just crazy enough to use nuclear weapons. And the minute they were to use nuclear weapons

in the Middle East or wherever they thought they were going to use them, then we are all in a

nuclear war. Yeah, yeah. Kate T. McFarlane, can you hold through the break? I'd love to know your

thoughts when Cuba and what has happened on the last 24 hours with Cuba. I greatly appreciate your

expertise. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show.

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has suffered a complete and total collapse. This is according to the country's power operator.

It's the first nationwide blackout since the US effectively shut off the flow of oil to Cuba.

There you go. That is the latest news out of Cuba. And it's something we all expected.

Donald Trump playing 3D chess with Venezuela and with Iran. And now Cuba doesn't have any power.

And it looks like Cuba has a good chance of falling without a single shot being fired.

And it's interesting. KT McFarland, by the way, Twitter at Real KT McFarland, if Donald Trump

was so much into regime change, don't you suppose he would have installed someone in Venezuela

would have somebody ready to install in Iran and have somebody ready to install in Cuba.

He said nothing about those things, has he?

It's open. I mean, with regard to Venezuela, he eliminated, you know, got rid of that leader,

Maduro, who's facing justice in the American court systems, Maduro and his wife.

And then President Trump, prior to that action and then after that action, had worked with existing

government officials in Venezuela. So before they took Maduro, they were already talking to

leaders in Venezuela, leaders of an opposition movement, leaders within the military and the

regime in Venezuela. So that by the time it happened, they had a pretty good idea of who

they could work with. Now, did they choose that person in advance? No, they were talking to Delphi

Rodriguez, who was the vice president, who wanted to talk to them before. They were talking to

Maria Machado, who was the Nobel laureate from Venezuela. Before and she wanted to go in and lead,

but President Trump didn't really think that she had a lot of support within the country,

or the capability to know exactly how to run the place. I mean, by running the place, I mean,

how to keep the water filtration system on. How to get the taxes paid. Oh, the sort of day-to-day

stuff was we wanted nothing to do with. Now in Cuba, the interesting thing is that when President

Obama went to Cuba to recognize Cuba, he was happy with the communist. He didn't. Of course.

You know, they were great, right? Look at his guys. Yeah. And when President Marco Rubio,

when President Obama did recognize the communist government of Cuba,

Marco Rubio came on my Fox show at the time called Death Country. And we talked about Cuba and

why it was an mistake for Obama to do that. And Marco Rubio really staked out the ground,

and this was 15 years ago, of why we should put continuous pressure on Cuba and hope for a different

regime. So what's happened that's for today? We have been talking to maybe not the caretaker

president of Cuba who doesn't seem to want to change. I mean, he still wants to come in this

government. But we've been talking at unofficial levels with a lot of people in Cuba, and most

particularly, and this has been reported widely in the press, that Marco Rubio is talking to

Ralph Castro's grandson, beloved grandson, who has no official role, but is part of the

Castro royal family, and that he and Marco Rubio are having very friendly, number of very

friendly talks with each other about what Cuba could do and look like in a post-communist regime.

What are we doing with Iran? I'm assuming we're doing a lot of the same things, maybe not

officially, maybe not the CNN can report on it, but that we have identified who we can talk to,

who we can work with, because President Trump does not want to run these countries. He wants to

make sure that whoever is running them, though, is able to work with us in doing the things that

we like, and also to not be a threat to the United States in the case of Iran.

In typical EU fashion, the EU has said they're not going to help us out in the

strait of support mues. Not a big surprise, they're the globally elite, and I think they're going

to regret their choices to be quite honest. I think Donald Trump has been very deliberate. He

hasn't said anything terrible about, like, Kier Starmer, he said, he's always an okay guy,

but I think the EU, I think NATO countries are going to really regret not supporting the United

States, because I think freedom from Iran is coming, freedom from Cuba is coming, and the rest of

the world are going to be standing back watching. I just believe this. I feel that freedom and

patriotism is spreading around the world. What are your thoughts on that, Katie?

What makes me the maddestrop is that the Europeans, who benefit from what we're doing in Iran.

Yes. This is not, the strait of support mues is not American ships and American.

It's a trade that goes between the Middle East to Asia to Europe. It's that, that route. So

Europe, Middle East, Asia, those are the ships. Those are the countries which ship their, they

transit their manufactured goods. They may transit their oil throughout the strait of

support mues. It's not us. So when we say to them, well, would you help us to open the strait

of support mues? They say, oh, no, no, no, no, no, not our fight, not our fight. What you

do to do it, America? Indeed, when some of them are reported to try and to be cut separate deals

with Iran, with families, so that their ships can cut through. I think it's the

highest hypocrisy. Now, we will get to the strait of support mues, President Trump will get there.

But it's not the first time our priority list. We have other things that we're doing now that

we're finishing up, and maybe we get to support mues in a week or two weeks time.

What is your prediction on, what is your prediction on the epic theory, and when is it going to end,

do you suppose? Oh, you know, I'm not reading the intelligence. I've got a situation where

I wouldn't talk to you about it. Yes, of course. I mean, I think that this is something that's

it doesn't matter, you know, weeks and months. I don't think I don't think we're going to be having

this conversation in six months. I couldn't agree with you. I don't think we're going to have this

conversation in three weeks, Kate, Team McFarlane. But that's just my gut speaking, you know.

But I really appreciate you being on today. I appreciate watching you. I hope you don't mind

me texting you when I see you on television and saying, Hey, you're on TV. I look.

I just really appreciate. I appreciate knowing you and I appreciate your expertise.

Kate, Team McFarlane, have a glorious, glorious day. God bless you. We'll talk soon. Okay.

Happy St. Patrick's Day. No, you too. Oh, by the way, by the way, are you your Scottish survivors?

Scottish. We need to go. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. All right.

All right. Take care. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show.

I think you might as in its own way if you know, tourism and everything else. It's a beautiful

island. Great weather. They're not in a hurricane zone, which is nice for a change, you know.

They won't be asking us for money for hurricanes every week. But, but I think you can see the end.

You know, all my life I've been hearing about the United States and Cuba. Yeah. When will the United

States do it? I do believe I'll be the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba. Come on.

That'd be good. That's a big honor. You know, this is the thing we were witnessing

history in a most profound fashion. We've never dreamed of, for instance, Iran falling, the

Ayatollah falling. We in my entire adult life, you know, I was in junior high when the Ayatollah took

over. The Cuba has always been communist as long as I've been alive. And we are witnessing profound

gigantic change. 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. I was right out of college when that happened.

And the left and the and the powers of evil in this country are doing their level best

to take our joy and our hope away from us. And it's not going to happen, right?

I'm celebrating with the people of Persia. I'm celebrating with the Kurds. I'm celebrating

with the people of Cuba. Cuba, Libre baby. As soon as Cuba's free, I'm going to Cuba on vacation.

I'm going to get a big ol' fat money. Christ on number three. I'm going to smoke it on the beach.

There you go. One of my favorite cigars. Monat, Christ on number three. Torpedo. Thank you very much.

Cuban made. I'm going to smoke it on the beach. You bet your butt I'm going to do that away

from a whole life to do it. So don't let them get you down. They will regret. Like the people who

stood in through rocks and cast aspersions on Noah as he built the ark. And I'm not saying Donald

Trump is a holy figure, but it's the same pay those. The people who sit back and let the heavy

to be lifting be done by somebody else. And when their world turns to crap, they come back to the

United States and go, please help us. Please help us. It's not going to work. It's not going to work.

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