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I'm dancing, but it's not the double jerk off dance.

That Donald Trump does. By the way, he did it again last night when he got his participation

trophy from Mike Johnson. So embarrassing. We're going to show it to you. Good morning, Texas.

Good morning, everybody. Let me know where you are. Hit the like and the thumbs up. You

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my wedding ring. Tim's going to call me and say, where is your wedding, man? Anyways,

hello. Now, I am in a good mood probably because I had coffee and coffee is not always good

for me caffeine because it makes me jittery. It makes me crazy. Like alcohol doesn't affect me as

much as coffee does. Coffee for some reason. Not like, yeah, it makes me jittery and

raring to go. So good morning, elimination. I'm so glad that you're here. We have a lot to talk

about. Hey, Andy, can you just put up this? We've got this quad box that we call of live pictures.

New York City. This is where their Maduro is. And there are folks here who are saying free

Maduro. And then we've got Tel Aviv where there's been fighting in Israel at least bombing. They've

been lobbying back and forth. Iran and Israel, the war is still going on. It's been going on forever.

I don't know why we're in this quagmire. And then we have Beirut again, bombings happening there.

And then we've got the instigator, the home of the instigator, the home of the person who has pulled

us into a quagmire in the Middle East. And I want to say Dennis, thank you so much for your

support of independent news journalists. The work that Don Lemon does is so many and so many

others is so important now than ever. Thank you, Dennis. Be guys, I think you need to look at

the look at this. Leave this up for a while because this is really important. It is true.

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we stay streaming is through your generosity and through support. We had a great talk about

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We were all at dinner last night with a one of the huge television giant attorneys agents

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it was all talking about what's happening in the media. And this huge giant in the media and

Ari, by the way, Ari, I think is a really great candidate to become the next independent media

streaming star, a person who comes over if he decides. So he has this MS now contract. So Ari's

good. But Ari Melber. So I mean, he has gone within six months. This giant industry entertainment,

lawyer agent has done a 180 on streaming and podcasting. He's like, streaming and podcasting

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of Kate Patterson, five people get to become members of the elimination. Okay. So on to the show.

So good morning, everyone. So maybe you went to as I have been speaking to people, maybe you

went to fill up your tank this week. I don't maybe you went to the grocery store. But you went to

fill up your tank and you did a double take you like, wait, what? As my mom says, American dollars.

Maybe you said something that you can't say on television, definitely, but here on streaming,

you probably could say it like, what the, right? That's what you would say. What the, are you

kidding me? And then you're like, I'm not feeling this thing all the way. I'm not feeling this B

all the way up. We're going to have to go by on a half a tank or a quarter of a tank because we

need to see if this shit comes down, right? I know how it is, right? I know how it is. I've been

there. So maybe you said something again that you can't say, you know, maybe you yelled out a

four letter word and you are not alone. Maybe you just said what WTF, as we said, not alone.

Gas prices now have climbed for 10 consecutive weeks. Yeah. When we say Donald Trump is losing,

then we, that's what we mean. Donald Trump is losing and the set losing on as we were talking,

as we talked about in our editorial meeting, losing on the war, losing on the economy,

losing on gas prices, losing on a government shutdown governing. He's losing on, he's losing

on public polling, approval ratings, and he's just losing it. He is unhinged. And I'm not just saying

it. Some of the mega loyalists are saying the same thing. I'm going to show you later where,

I feel like I'm watching myself when I hear some of these guys who are, do you channel Trump

supporters? And they are right wing, far right wing conspiracy theorists. I'm like, wait a minute.

Have these guys become like, you know, centrist or independence or even liberals?

This is the longest streak of increases since early 2022. And remember that's when we were coming

out of COVID because Donald Trump screwed us with the economy. COVID's not real. It's like the

flu. It's a pandemic. The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline has hit $3.96.

What do we just go? I mean, you know, if you, you know, round up the math class, if it's $3.96,

that's it's $4. If it's $3.96, that means it's $4, right? Especially when you get past the five,

right? You round up to the next thing. Let's just say it's $4. So if you happen to live on the

West Coast, you're likely already paying north of $5. I was just there last week. Remember at the

gas station, I was at six bucks. Now it has gone up even beyond that. So they're paying $5 or more

at the pump. Economists say what you're feeling at the pump is just the beginning, okay?

And so this is from K8 PMG chief economist Diane Swank. She put it very plainly. And this is a

quote that she said, this is extremely worsen, especially for those who have the least ability to

weather the storm. Now I want to, we have people say zoom out. Okay. I know it's fun, but technically

it's zoom in and pull out. That's like the technical term. And now it's probably it's become the

thing to say. And it's okay. But before people would always correct me and say, no, Don,

you zoom in and you pull out. You don't zoom out. So now let's zoom out or pull out because the

gas prices don't exist in a vacuum. They're the capstone on an economy that is showing real signs

of strain. It's a stress test. And you know, the rubber band is stretching, right? The US

economy created just 116,000 jobs for all of 2025. And they actually lost 92,000 jobs in February.

The Dow, the Dow, the Dow, the Dow is not at 50,000. What is a Dow, right? The Dow, the Dow is at 46,500.

The Dow has been taking a beating. It's barely up today, point 17%. So just, you know, holding

steady. Stocks have fallen more than 5% since the war began. That's billions of dollars in economic

value. So much for the, the Dow, being at 50,000, Pam Bondi, the Dow, how embarrassing was that?

I wish we had, do we have the Dow? Andy, you don't have a handy, do you? We should have had a

that Dow. So to sum up, sum this up, prices are up, jobs are down, stock market is sliding, consumer

competence, cratering, his job approval ratings. And that is the backdrop for what happened in

Washington just last week. Because last night, while TSA agents were reportedly waiting on

paychecks from partial government shutdown, while families were staring down $4 gas prices and

wondering, you know, how are we going to make this work? Watching the Republicans through themselves

a lavish dinner. Oh, it was fabulous. I don't know if it's probably, what do you think the choices

were? I don't know. Now, now for the fancy folks, it's usually three choices, because I've been to

a lot of these things. So sometimes you just have, if it's like, look, fixed menu, what do you have?

Basic, this is where we're going to give you. We're going to, they're going to get the chicken,

or they'll get a veggie plate, like an alternative veggie plate, and that is, you know,

or you're going to get the fish. So sometimes when it's fancy, you get steak or chicken or fish,

or you get a veggie, right? So they had themselves a fancy little gala. House Republicans held their

annual National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser at the Union Station in the Washington

D.C. And before Donald Trump took the stage, the House Speaker Mike Johnson had a very special

surprise for him. Do you know, remember, he's a child. He may as well be like a millennial or a

Gen Z, because, you know, participation trophy. Johnson announced the inaugural quote, America first

award. What the actual, you know what? What the actual come on, people?

America first award is quote, the token of appreciation for the president's leadership,

a golden statue. Look at that. Oh my gosh, an eagle appropriate for a golden era.

You genuinely, we cannot make this shit up. Look at that ugly ass thing. What do you, I mean,

what do you do with that? Can you have a wear on earth? Would you put that, that bird is like, oh,

Lord, get this man up my back. I'm ready to soar. Where would you put that shit? Come on now. He

is such a child. And they're like, let's give him a trophy. Let's do this. Now, this is, remember,

FIFA invited invented something that was called the FIFA Peace Prize. Remember that specifically

for Donald Trump, because you complained about not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. So we have a

made up FIFA prize. Now a made up congressional prize. And the man is collecting participation

trophies faster than most kids collect Halloween candy. Or what do you call it? I mean, is it still

at the Labubu? Is that still a thing right now? So this is from last night. Are you guys ready for

for the last night? By the way, like and thumbs up, please. Fexy algorithm. More people will

come aware of our channel. Okay. So make sure you hit that gun and producers, make sure it's in

the top of the chat. Have you hit it yet? Have you hit the like or the thumbs up? So here's Mike

Johnson giving Donald Trump announcing and giving him his participation trophy.

The president has done so much for the American people and we want to honor him in some small

way, some token of our appreciation for his leadership. And so tonight we have created a new award.

We have, we're going to do something we've never done before. We're going to honor him with a new

award that we'll present annually from this point forward. But he is the suitable and fitting

recipient of the first ever America first award. We can think of no better title for what that is.

That's this beautiful golden statue here, appropriate for the new golden era in America.

And we want to let you know before we being the president out

I mean, luckily, I did need breakfast yet because it might be all over this computer

in front of me. Luckily, I did not have breakfast yet. This is so gross and so embarrassing.

A child for, I mean, you got to be. And then Donald Trump proceeded to take the stage and to

ramble fresh like someone who is fresh out of the psych ward. Take a listen.

We've seen anything like we're doing in the Middle East with Iran. And they are negotiating,

by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they're afraid to say it because they

figure they'll be killed by their own people. They're also afraid they'll be killed by us.

There's never been a head of a country that wanted that job less than being the head of Iran.

I don't want it. We listen to some of the things they say, we are very clearly. They say,

I don't want it. I'd like to make you the next supreme leader. No, thank you. I don't want it.

Okay.

I don't, y'all help me because every day I get tired of talking about this man,

but he is the president and he is a child. And I don't understand that. I don't even understand

the his, I don't understand his approval rating. Look, look, this is his approval rating. Let me

put this up. This is his approval rating. It is at its lowest point since he returned office.

60% over 60% of Americans say that they disapprove of the job that he's doing. That they

disapprove of the job that he's doing. Now, as far as this participation trophy,

I'm not the only one that's talking crap about it. They're talking shit about it all over

the news. And you know, remember the more, the MJ, the morning Joe, people, they said, hey,

look, we got to talk to him. Remember, they went down. They took their track down the Mar-a-Lago

and they said, we got to, you know, we need to be able to communicate and talk with the president.

Okay. And now, even they are like, what the actual, you know what, roll it.

We want to honor him in some small way, some token of our appreciation for his leadership.

And so tonight, we have created a new award. We have, we're going to do something we've never done

before. We're going to honor him with a new award that we'll present annually from this point

forward. But he is the suitable and fitting recipient of the first ever America first award. We

can think of no better title for what that is. That's this beautiful golden statue here.

Appropriate for the new golden era in America. Stopped. They did not make up another award.

They did. They did. Yeah. Well, and you know, it's because they did make up the prize on work.

It's going so well with you. I mean, with you, a lot of conservatives criticized Barack Obama.

I may have been one of them, not Obama, but did Nobel prize committee for giving him the

peace prize. I think Barack Obama kind of. Yeah. It's creating a ham sandwich, right?

But did you see how he ate the ham sandwich? Right. So now, though, we have all these years later,

all these prizes being given, like, first of all, that he's a peace prize.

We just mentioned that, Joe. We just mentioned all his reign down. Yes. Like never. Yeah.

Yeah. He's a peace prize before Venezuela. Oh, my gosh.

Yes. Boston Brian. We're called to find not just in the past going years,

to find for a century as politicians in America who do not go to war, right?

Who focused at home and said, so now they're giving another award. This is like giving me

the brevity is the soul of liberty. It just doesn't fit. Oh, my gosh. It's crazy. We're watching

Speaker Johnson there. Wait, let me let me hear what? Let me hear what Willie has.

Many times over the last decade, we've asked how do these guys go home at night and you catch

that glimpse of yourself in the mirror? Maybe look your children in the eye. Yeah.

And you go, I've given away everything that I said I stood for to give this guy a trophy of prize.

And they're kind of, you know, forgive me. They're infantilizing him a little bit.

Here's a trophy. Here's an iPad to watch bombs exploding in Iran to color your view

of how the war is going. They treat him like a child. If I were him, I would be offended by it,

but I don't think he loves it. He should be offended. But anyway, okay, you can pause it.

Nikki Peter Andy. I mean, I did not see this clip. And I said the same thing. I mean,

did I mean, am I wrong? Guys, because you guys just sent this to me, right?

You made him. And I think everybody's kind of feeling the same. It's kind of crazy.

And in the midst of this, again, let's show this is his approval rating since he returned to office.

More than 60% of Americans are saying that they disapprove of the job that he is doing.

Because he promised big things in his campaign. And we are going to discuss

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But you're doing it for two reasons. No, number one is they want to deflect

from all of the tremendous success that we're having in this military operation. I won't use the

word work because they say if you use the word word, that's maybe not a good thing to do. They don't

like the word war because you're supposed to get approval. So I'll use the word military operation

which is really what it is. It's a called a military decimation. But they don't like the good

publicity. They don't like to see a succeed. They want to see our country fail.

Okay. And then he talks about it. We went into this little excursion and it should be

incursion. Michael Gold is a congressional reporter for the New York Times and he is a friend of

the show now. We love that he joins us to break all this down. Michael, thank you for joining us.

I mean, it is ridiculous. We've gone from the participation trophy for our, you know, the people

around me are telling me I can't say it's a war. But it just shows kind of the ridiculousness of

what's going on because it's a war, but it's not a war. It's an excursion, but the actual

term is incursion. It's not about regime change, but it's about regime change. It is,

we have obliterated their complete, their nuclear capabilities, except we haven't obliterated. That's

why we had to go over there. We don't need help from our allies. We do need help from our allies.

We don't need the UK to send us aircraft carriers, but we do need them. We've won the war,

but we need more money to keep fighting the war. So, like, what is it? And are people in DC

lawmakers just as confused and flummoxed about what exactly we are doing in and with Iran?

Yeah. I see. And I'll see you next week.

Right. Yeah. I would say there's been a lot of discussion of what's happening in Iran and you can

hear members of Congress give shifting language. Sometimes they call it a war. Sometimes they call

it a conflict. Sometimes they call it an operation. And, you know, from my perch on the hill,

that actually matters because Congress is supposed to have power over authorizing more than

something questioned over whether this is authorized or not. So, there is a lot of discussion.

I think a lot of people here are very curious about where this goes. There's been long sort of

awaited requests from the Pentagon for more money and without knowing the full scale of what

the administration is doing in Iran and what they plan to do in Iran. I think a lot of people on

both sides of the aisle are really skeptical about improving more funding without a clear understanding

what the objectives are here. What the objective is, especially with so much turmoil about what is

happening in this country and about what is going on when I go out quite frankly to speak to people,

Michael, most people don't want this war. Very few people are like, oh, I'm okay with it. I

went out yesterday and I think it was like one person who said that he approved of it because

pardon me, because he's Persian and, you know, it's sort of close to home for him and he doesn't

really like what Iran has been doing to Persian people, etc. But most people are like, no.

And even if we, you know, even if they agree that the regime should be toppled there,

there should be some changes. They don't understand why we're here or there because there was no

imminent threat. And we have lots of things that need to be tended to, you know, in the United States,

especially looking at the lines and airports and the gas prices. So are they aware of that? Are

they just in a bubble in Washington, DC because their constituents, I'm sure, are not supporting this

war that the polling doesn't show it? I think members are very sensitive to that and they're very

sensitive to gas prices more than anything else, which is partially because the president made

that such a major issue in 2024. So they can't ignore the fact that voters are sensitive to gas

prices and sensitive to the cost of this war. I think the dynamic, especially in Congress,

is that Democrats have really put Republicans on a back foot when it comes to talking about

affordability when it comes to talking about cost of living. And I think with a lot of Democrats

kind of say, hey, there are a lot of things that people are worried about here at home. They

can't pay their bills. Electricity's getting high and I just made gas more expensive. Why are you

asking us to support this military incursion or excursion or operation or conflict? I don't know

which word they want to use. But I think there is sensitivity to that. I think the website of that

is there are Senate Republicans, especially who are hawks on Iran and they want to see more

action. They like what the president is doing. They are broadly. But without knowing what the plan

is to get out of it or how long this will stretch on, I think you're going to see a lot more skepticism.

And a lot more open skepticism because there's a lot of private skepticism, but not necessarily public

from the Republicans. Yeah, but what does then what does that mean then? Because that means skepticism

that's almost like Michael, it's almost like Susan Collins, like I'm very concerned. And so she's

always very concerned, but then there is no passion or commitment to it. Yeah, I don't know where

this takes us. I mean, I'm sure you saw today that Republicans are talking about putting money

for military operations into a bill that they can push through on their own using a special

budget process called reconciliation that we don't have time to really get into the weeds of. But

I think the fact that they're considering putting war funding in a party line bill suggests that

they notice going to be a lot of position. Yeah, I just want to just check in a little bit, Michael,

once you know, there's a cabinet meeting this morning, right? And the cabinet meeting. Yeah,

there's a cabinet meeting this morning and it's live. I just want to hear what he's saying real quick

will dip in and then we'll back to Michael in a second. Just give a second. Let's listen.

Well, actually, if you look at, they love sanctuary cities, which is a sanctuary for criminals.

They want to make sure they're taken care of. That's what we're fighting about. That's really what

they're fighting about. They don't talk about that, but that's what they're fighting about.

They want to protect criminals. In many cases, 11,888 murders, many of them, I will say,

are gone now because of us. We got them out. But still have some left. Should have never happened,

should have never been allowed to come into our country. But we're not going to let it happen.

We're not going to let the Democrats get away with this stuff. And people are wise to them,

so they need to end the shutdown immediately or we'll have to take some very drastic measures.

This morning, I want to give an update on the Operation Epic Fury, which is an appropriate name

because we are absolutely obliterating them. Over the past three weeks, we've been

hitting a ranch military capabilities at a level that few people have ever seen before.

People never knew there was such a capability with the strongest military anywhere in the world

by far. I built it during my first administration, and I used it during my second administration.

Unfortunately, because I'd rather not have to use it. But it's a display of force and precision

and skill, like nothing the world has really witnessed, although you get a pretty good

with this thing of it in Venezuela also. That was a smaller version of what we're doing now.

We're crushing their missiles and drone stockpiles destroying the defense and dust your base.

We've wiped out their navy. Okay, Michael looks like he's going to give the same thing

that Pete Hexet has been saying that he's been saying, so spring him down just a little bit.

So, Michael, look, I think that what he says in the beginning where he talked about what Democrats want

as far as this partial government shutdown, kind of a red herring. I don't think anybody wants

people to die, and I don't think this is over sanctuary cities. That's not what this is about, is it?

That's right. I think that what you've seen is there are members of Congress who supported,

for example, the Lake and Riley Actu supported tougher border security, tougher immigration

enforcement at the time, who have said, look what happened in Minneapolis. This has gone too far.

We need to rein this in. And I think the Democrats have been very clear that this is about what

ICE is doing. This is about how federal immigration officers are behaving, and they support

some level of stronger border policies, broadly as a party. They have really kept the focus on how

ICE officers behave, that they think ICE officers should not be wearing masks, that they think ICE

officers should be required to get warrants. And honestly, this week, as it seems like a deal might

be somewhere closer than it's been, the President has really ramped up the claim that he just made,

that this is about sanctuary cities and the legal aliens running everywhere to use his words.

And this is the same kind of language he used in 2024, when he was trying to drum up fear in

the electorate. He seems to be referring back to that, as he often does when he's

defensive about things like this. Is there before we get back to the President, is there any end

insight to this partial government shutdown? Is there a deal anywhere that might get done?

Because no Democrats have been trying to do it for a while, even John Kennedy from Louisiana

said that this is on the Senate side, that he and Ted Cruz that come up with something to get it

back open. But Donald Trump says, nope, no deals. He doesn't want any negotiating a bargaining with

the Democrats. Yeah, so here's what I would say about that. When you talk about congressional

negotiations, there's like the paper, there's the text that goes back and forth, and there's the vibes.

And right now, the paper is pretty far apart. It seems like Democrats and Republicans are still

sort of talking past each other. But it does seem like there's positive developments,

that people are talking in a way they haven't been for the last five weeks. People seem really

eager to get to a deal. For those of us who don't cover Congress, they were supposed to leave

tomorrow for a two week recess. And John Thune, who's the Senate Majority Leader, has said,

we're not leaving if you guys can't get something done. And that has actually added to the pressure

here. But at the same time, they have to sell Trump on any deal. And especially when you think

about the House, like Mike Johnson has a very, very narrow majority. And so when you've had big

bills like this, they've needed the president to kind of come in and twist some arms, right?

And so if they can't get him on board with a deal, there will be no deal. So I don't know. The

answer is I don't know. I think it's trending positive, but everything is really delicate. And

you know, based on what he said in that cabinet meeting, it seems like it might start to move in

the other direction. By the way, Michael, you know this whole idea of taking over airport security

in the TSA, that's in Project 2025, right? You know that, right? So I covered the campaign

in 2024. So I'm familiar with Project 2025. So that's maybe this is part of the agenda.

Okay. Michael Gold, congressional reporter for the New York Times. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it.

Thanks. I appreciate it. Thank you. Good to see you. So look, we'll bring it back up. We'll show

you what's happening around the country. You see there's a New York City, Maduro is going to be

appearing in a courtroom. And there are people outside, free Maduro, and then we've got what's

happening in the Middle East. There are Beirut, and then the White House, where Donald Trump is

there now. I think he's in the East Room. I'm not exactly sure that he's in the cabinet, but

he's the oldest hostess cabinet meetings. And he is giving us an update on what's happening in

Iran. We'll listen in just for a moment. Air Force is gone. They're anti-aircraft and communications

saying the same shit.

dismantled. And one of the problems they do have when they deal with us is we deal with people

and that people aren't able to communicate with anybody else. You know, because all of their

leadership has been gone. The first level is gone, and they met to pick a new level and they're

gone. They're all gone because they didn't make a deal and because they're sick people. They're

really sick. They're really sinister sick people. And if anybody thinks it was okay to have

a group of people like this to have nuclear capability, nuclear weapons, and if we didn't

attack with the B-2 bombers, they would have had a nuclear weapon. Okay, pot it down just a

little bit, Andy. So here's the thing. Donald Trump is always calling people sick and evil and

mean and scumbags, whatever. And it's really, I mean, he's telling on himself because every

accusation is a confession and how he thinks that somehow an insult. But when he says it so much,

it just becomes, it just, it just sounds like background noise. And then he's saying the same

thing over and over about what we've obliterated and what we've done. Now, we've heard, we heard

yesterday from people who are around the president, according to the reports that he only wants to hear

good news about the operation of the war in Iran or just about anything. So that's what they feed

him. So he is really regurgitating what they're telling him. And he doesn't know the actual facts

of what's going on. So if you are winning a war, you don't keep touting about how you're

bombing or you're blittering or whatever, you win through diplomacy. Not as Pete Hegseth says

that we negotiate with bombs and we're loitering over the blah, blah, blah. That's not really how

it works. So this is all an exercise in buffunary and bullshittery that you're listening to now.

But I think it's important for you to hear it. So here it is.

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miles. They supposedly didn't have a missile like that. They had no missile with that capability.

But they shot the now famous Ireland, the island that the UK was very

afraid to give us because they didn't want to get dragged in. But we don't want to get dragged

into their wars. One thing we're very disappointed. I'll say it publicly. We're very disappointed with

NATO because NATO has done absolutely nothing. And I've always said that. It's interesting that he's

saying NATO has done absolutely nothing and he's very disappointed. But then he says we don't

need your help. I said 25 years ago. So then why if you don't need NATO's help, then why are you

disappointed? It's like, you know what? Let them do their thing. We don't need their help.

When we need their help, we'll call on them. But he's very disappointed in them, but he

doesn't need their help. We've won the war, but we need more help. We've won the war, but we need

more money. We'd love to send ships. Actually, here it is. Listen. Listen, listen, listen.

We want to get involved when the war is over. No, it's supposed to get involved when the war's

beginning. Or even before it begins, we had the UK say that we'll send, this is three weeks ago,

we'll send our aircraft carriers, which I don't understand, craft carriers, by the way.

See, it's good. Why would they send our aircraft carrier when the war's over? I said,

oh, that's wonderful. Thank you very much. We don't bother. We don't need it. And we don't need

them. We estimated it would take approximately four to six weeks to achieve our mission.

And we're way ahead of schedule. If you look at what we've done in terms of the destruction of

that country, I mean, we're way ahead. Think of it. They have no navy. And they had good ships.

154 ships have been shot down and are resting very nicely at the bottom of the sea.

And we did that in a matter of less than a week. So we have the greatest military in the world

by far. Nobody even close. So we estimated it would take approximately four to six weeks

to achieve our mission. 26 days in. Okay, so extremely four weeks. It's 27 days in, by the way.

And regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated. We're on day 27.

It's scripted for him, but he keeps going off and rambling. So he's making this much longer

and much more painful than it really has to be if he would just read the script.

And then, but he's trying to convince, not only is he trying to convince you, he's trying to

convince himself. Listen. Seize the towns and destroy all of their crazy nuclear weapons and

missiles and drones that they're building. And we're doing that. They now have a chance to make

a deal, but that's up to them. And they'll tell you we're not negotiating. We will not

negotiate. Of course, they're negotiating. And they've been obliterated. Who wouldn't negotiate?

They are begging to make a deal. We'll see if we can make the right deal.

Yeah. And they make a deal. How long have they been begging to make a deal?

Then the straight will open up. Armaged straight will open up.

And even now, we don't know if there are any mines. You know, we they have 22 mine,

they call mine droppers. Think of it. Who would have 22 mine droppers? This is about the drops of

mines. Who is 22 mine droppers? Except for people with very evil intention. So

if you are, mine droppers has been struck. Okay. The same weapon we use to.

So look, I'm not, look, it's good that Iran, Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. We know that

Iran has done some really horrible things, but who is mine droppers? If you're going over there and

you want to take Carg Island, you know that they're going to try to, they're going to do whatever

they can to stop you. So I mean, can you blame them for that? Can you blame them for defending

themselves? I say that knowing that it would be great if there was actually regime change in Iran.

But the regime change that we have seen that is public, that is at least the leaders who are saying

it. They're more hard line than the people they got rid of. Let's listen.

The Zondas boats is very brave or doesn't watch television. But we're drugs coming in by sea,

coming in by water are 98% down. And now we'll stop the drugs coming in by land. The land is

easy one. You had to stop the water. A lot of it came into the water now, the toll pinched.

And these people are trying to come in by land. And we will, that's, that's the easy one.

But we had to take care of the water for us. Nobody's, nobody's coming in. Very virtually nothing is

coming in anymore. It was hundreds of millions of dollars a week were coming in by water.

Okay. I got it. We're going to continue to monitor this. But I just want to tell you,

if anything comes out of it, promise, I promise you we will get it. The producers are monitoring

this in the background. And I'll keep an eye on it as well. But also I want to show you what is

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droning on and on and on in the cabinet meeting right now. And you know what it sounds like to me.

Remember when you were a kid and you were first learning how to read and you had to read out loud

in class. And at first, you were very enthusiastic about it. And then after a while, you kind of get

lost in your words and you just start reading. And at first, you're like, and the dog was in

the dog house. And then he ran out of the dog house and then he just kind of sent a drone on.

That's what he's doing. Again, we're monitoring. Now, look, Donald Trump can't even find his

way out of a war with Iran. That is both unpopular and driving up prices everywhere.

Now, I want you to hear more. This is Donald Trump because he's talking about this war in Iran now.

But this is Donald Trump specifically on prices. Roll it.

So as we rebuild, it's going to come back very quickly. It's already back. I mean, it's back.

I went down a little bit. I actually thought when I went through this excursion, as I call it,

excursion into hell, excursion into a terrible place. When I went on to do something that for

47 years should have been done by any of the other presidents. And you heard numerous of them said

they wished they did it, but they didn't have the guts to do it. We had no choice. But I thought

it was pretty much worse. I thought that the energy prices or price would go up higher.

I thought the stock market would go somewhat lower. But it didn't matter to me. It's short term.

What we had to do is get rid of the cancer. We had to cut out the cancer. The cancer

was Iran with a nuclear weapon. Now we've cut it out. Now we're going to finish it off.

Okay. Again, that's him. And this is here's the president, all but admitting that his advisors

are telling him about the war. Well, I think I played that, right? What his advisors are

telling him about the war. I think I played it where he said it's not a war. Yeah, we played that.

Where he says they're telling me it's not a war that it is this little excursion and then this

little operation. And then so he played that. But this is what I really want you guys to hear.

Are you curious about how MAGA is reacting to all of this? Now I'm not necessarily the people

in the streets that die hearts, but the MAGA, the folks who have platforms and the people who

carried his water. I just want to play this clip for you. It's, it's on the longer side, okay?

But I have to warn you, okay, about this. This guy's name is Owen Shroyer. You may have heard of him.

You may not have heard of him, but he is, he was Alex Jones, you know, his longtime sidekick

from Info Wars. He is as MAGA as it comes. And I want to play his take on the state of the country,

the state of the Trump administration. And he sounds almost like a liberal, okay? A little bit

long, but please play attention. Roll it. This guy is off of his rocker. Folks, I'm telling you,

I'm telling you, if the Democrats, you watch, don't doubt me on this. If the Democrats win the house

and or the Senate, you know they're going to impeach Trump. I'm telling you, the majority of people

in this country will beg for Trump to be removed from office. They will beg. They will beg. It's not

going to be like some unhinged liberal left broken mind, broken soul cringe fest of fraud to get

Trump out of office. Americans will be begging to get this orange makeup caked phony traitor

out of the White House. They will be begging. And you can sit here and say, well, what about Biden?

What about Biden? No, don't you understand? That's why. Don't you understand why that's so,

why this is so bad? We're still dealing with Biden, Harris fatigue. That's why this is so,

this is why this is so much worse. Trump was supposed to be the breath of fresh air. Trump was

supposed to give us a relief from this clown world. Now he's just adding to it. Now he's just worse.

So yeah, people will beg. They will be begging anyone but Trump. Please. We are sick of this man.

And they'll have legitimate reasons to impeach him. And he has been set up by everyone around him for

this. They all set him up and you're going to see it. You're going to see all of it happen.

And there's no amount of low IQ Trump cheerleading cult members that can stop this from happening.

I don't care how many times they go on their their show, their podcasts, whatever it is, their

social media. I don't care how many times that they try to claim that they're winning. I don't

care how many different Trump impressions they do. I don't care how many different Trump memes they

make. I don't care how many times they want to attack everybody else. None of it is going to stop

this. You guys have no influence. You don't even live in reality. This man nobody can stand him

anymore. I know people with truck tattoos that are sick of this guy. Oh, Pete, he just loves war.

Are you listening to this guy? Are you even listening to him? You watch. There will be such an

appetite. There will be such a desperate thirst for an impeachment of Trump. If the Democrats

win in the midterms, you watch. I guarantee it. And, and, and this is what's going to be unfortunate

for Trump. He's not going to have the likes of me defending him anymore. All the people that

were actually willing to step in the fray. All the willing, all the people that were willing to

get into the crossfire. All the people that were willing to climb the barbed wire for Donald

Trump to defend him and defend his honor and his presidency in the last go around. We're all gone.

We're all out. Okay, pause, please. Now, this is where again, if you're watching, you're just

tuning in. This is that you don't get more mega than this man. Okay. You don't get because

he'd this guy own a story or that you're listening to right now. It was Alex Jones's sidekick.

A long time sidekick of Alex Jones. And this is what they are saying that they're sick of him.

And they're saying that he's loony tunes. Now, you know, I always say that, you know,

we're living in Donald Trump's psychosis neurosis. You know, I don't know. I'm not,

I'm not a therapist nor a psychiatrist or a psychologist or any of those things.

But something is going and there's nothing logical about what he's saying and doing. This guy

who is a mega influencer is saying the same thing. That's why I'm playing it.

So that you can understand, it's not just people who are who want to have

go back to the traditions of America to go back to the Constitution. It's not just us,

logical people. It's people who now have figured it out. He said that he was an orange,

like a fraud or something that he said. Basically saying that Donald Trump is a grifter.

Keep going. You didn't do what you said. You betrayed us and then you insulted us on top of it.

So we are not going to be there. If Donald Trump thinks Lindsey Graham is going to move mountains

for him, if Donald Trump thinks, thinks the likes of these low tier nothings, these cult members

that do memes and impressions of him, if he thinks for one second, any single one of them is going

to step into the fray or take some crossfire for him. He's got another thing coming. They will

disappear. They will completely disappear. None of them are going to come to your defense,

Trump. You wrote, you chose to ride with the cucks. You decided to ride with the cucks and with the

slaves. The strong Americans, the American patriots, the winter warriors, you insulted us. You

betrayed us. We are, we are not going to be there for you. As soon as the sun sets and the weather

gets cold, all of these people that clean your balls every day and wipe your butt every day and

polish your shoes every day, the minute the weather gets bad, none of them will show up, President

Trump. And I actually feel bad. I actually feel bad in this. Wow. Pause. The

clean your balls and wipe your, oh my God. How much longer is left in this Andy? 40 seconds.

Let's, let's, let's hear the man out. I'm going to be there for you.

And there will be a serious appetite to get you the hell out of the White House because you know,

and it's not all your fault. It is still the Biden fatigue. It is still the like we were hoping

it would be better than Biden Harris. But we're now it's just like your six of this.

He's lost now on this part. And we want somebody that's going to be the president of this country.

And we want somebody that's going to follow through on their promises. And we're sick and tired

of press conference after press conference after press conference being all about war.

Instead of about the things that our people care about and that our country need and that you ran on.

Well, there you go.

Interesting to listen to to hear. And that is again from a former Maga faithful.

Marco Rubio was just glazing the president just moments ago in the cabinet meeting and then

Donald Trump is going to speak again and let's see if he said there's going to glaze him who's

going to be the next glazer in all of this. So we'll stand by. We're watching that. Now look,

I played that clip for you for I played this clip for you. They're going to play next.

Because again, you know, I go out and I do my man on the street interviews. I do a lot of

those interviews and more and more people are expressing feelings like this gentleman. The language

is a little, you know, a little salty. But I think you get the point and kind of saying not kind

of saying he's saying exactly what the former Maga influencer was saying in the clip before. Here it

is. You want the C span clip or the guy in the red hat? This is the red hat. Got you.

All the Trumpers. I just got a question. I know niggas don't want to talk politics. But

it's cool. Y'all didn't get a wall. You didn't get the swamp drained and didn't get affordable

health care. You didn't get eliminated national national debt. You didn't get a new infrastructure.

You didn't get Hillary Clinton locked up. You didn't get Epstein accountability. You didn't get

a 5K doge check. You didn't get the two case stimulus check man. You didn't get lower grocery

prices. You didn't get help buying a home or affordable home prices that going up. You did not

get America first and you did not get peace. We have war right now. What the fuck did you get?

What did all y'all get? Mr. I'm from the Save America. And what did y'all get? I didn't get

shit. Higher groceries. Higher groceries. He said the groceries was going down. He said the

homes are going to be more affordable. They didn't turn around and say oh you're too lazy to

own a home. You don't deserve home. You're trying to jack the prices up some more. Yeah.

So those two people are on different sides of the aisle and they are basically saying the same

thing. Now meanwhile I want to show you some of the other things that are happening in the news.

But as we are talking about this and Donald Trump is talking about they are ready to negotiate.

Donald Trump thinks that he can end the war. He can't just unilaterally declare that this war is

over. He can't just do it. The Israeli government is making it clear that they will continue this war

regardless of how Americans feel. Regardless of how Donald Trump feels. Benjamin Netanyahu

and the Israeli government and the idea they are dog walking Donald Trump. The BBC is reporting

on how Israel wants the war to continue. Roll it. But this is, it's very hard as you suggest to

get any kind of yardstick on where we are with the course of this conflict. But from inside

Israel there seems to be the further implementation of a simple strategy which is to weaken Iran

and its allies like Hezbollah and southern Lebanon. Yeah.

possible before this war ends. That is what is being reported in Israeli media. And that is

what you detect from Israeli ministers. It seems as well have very little input to America's

proposed peace plan. But we've just had claims here that they have killed the commander of the

Iranian navy and in further missile attacks. We're getting told about the deeper attacks over

knife on Iranian targets on missile factories, regime, headquarters. So there really is no

letting up despite the political rackets surrounding this war. James I wonder though with these

negotiations underway, according to President Trump, where does Israel fit into all of this?

And assuming that their war aims, that's the US and Israel's on not the same.

Well, again, Israel is calling the shots. And speaking of Israel, I just want,

I want to turn to something that is truly insane. This is an insane moment yesterday. Are you

guys ready for this? Gather around please. Let me know. Hit the thumbs up. Let me know if you're

ready. Let me know. Benjamin Netanyahu and his associates silencing an American journalist,

you guys know Richard Engel from the NBC News. They did it yesterday at a press conference. They

literally muted his mic. At first, I'm going to play the exchange and then you're going to listen

to Richard Engel react to what happened to him. Okay. So here it is, muting his mic and then

you're going to hear from him. Roll it. Next question from Richard Engel from NBC News.

That's them, not us. They muted. And they muted it for like three minutes.

So it's just produces, this is just three minutes of silence here, right? The audio does not

come back. Does it? It's about to come back. It's about to come back. Okay. Let's listen.

Well, I think we have concrete goals. How to do it? How do we want it? As I said,

decimate the ballistic. So here's the thing. That's how you know is that when his question starts,

they muted him, his question. And then as soon as Benjamin Netanyahu starts to speak again,

all of a sudden the mic, the sound magically appears. This is a fucked-up shit, man. This is,

I mean, that's a deep, a little bit long. Listen what Richard Engel says. He's going to explain it to you.

My question. Why don't this is a war and peace here? The handlers, they took the microphone away

from me. And I'm not done yet. We only had a tiny bit of notification. We had to get there,

and we had to come now. We go there and go through the security. And I was told that I would get

a question. So they sat me in the front row. Many Americans do believe that Israel dragged the

United States in this war and is now pulling the rest of the world along with it. How do you see

this ending? Well, I think we have concrete goals, how to do it, how to end it. We wanted, as I said,

decimate the ballistic missile program which we're doing, decimate the nuclear program which we're

doing. This canart that we dragged the United States into it is not just a canart, it's ridiculous.

He was really kind of talking you through why Israel went in, what its objectives are,

which frankly are different to the objectives of the Americans. It's funny, you mentioned that,

because I believe the reason he called this small gathering of foreign reporters was to address

this topic specifically, because the general consensus was building that this was Israel's idea,

that this was Netanyahu's personal idea, and he wanted to say, no, no, no, no, no, this was

something that President Trump wanted to do, and we are an ally, and he didn't take convincing.

I got in a second question, and you'll hear a little bit about this as well, because after I asked

my question, the handlers, they took the microphone away from me, and I'm not done yet. I didn't

exactly ask, however, why the Israel's, no, no, I think I only heard it, this is a serious subject,

this is a serious, my question, why don't, this is a war in peace here, there are oil fields

around the world that are burning, gas prices are going up, the war is popular here in Israel,

it is not popular with many Americans, pause, pause, pause, pause please,

okay, I want you guys to listen to me, Richard Angle is the real deal,

the way that he is handling this with Benjamin Netanyahu is the way that reporters should be

handling Trump, and what's her name, Caroline Levit, or Pete Hegseth, or anyone, do not stop,

continue to ask your question, don't give the thing, let him do the answer, like, let him lie,

or whatever, or go on to the next reporter, he's like, this is war in peace, this is a series,

and then they're like talking, he's just like, keep, just keep asking them the question,

so that's how you do it, reporters, White House correspondents, do it like that, there's very little,

even the pushback that everyone's like, oh my god, they push back, it's, no, it's still meek,

it's still not enough, especially in this area, you gotta be tougher and harder, just like this,

Andy, do you have the ability to back that up a little bit so people can see that again,

this is how you do it, just like this, not done yet, I didn't exactly ask, however,

why the Israel's, no, no, I think I only fair enough, this is a serious subject, this is a

serious, my question, why don't, this is a war in peace here, there are oil fields around

the world that are burning, gas prices are going up, the war is popular here in Israel,

it is not popular with, with many Americans, so my question was, how do you see this ending,

not why, not even when, what do you imagine the day after will look like?

Well, we have achievable goals, once we achieve our goals, then I have argued,

I think, and Americans understand this very well, because we're real partners,

I think that what has to be done is to have alternative routes, instead of going through the choke

points of the, of the, of the Hormuz Straits and the Babel Mandib Straits in order to have the

flow of oil, just have oil pipelines going west through the Arabian Peninsula, right up to Israel,

right up to our Mediterranean ports, and you've just done away with the choke points for,

forever, that is definitely possible. So there you go, that's how it's done, everyone,

what the actual, you know what, and y'all know what I'm talking about, what the actual,

what is going on? I mean, they literally, this is not, they literally censored him, they tried,

not tried to silence him, they silenced him for the things that went out to everybody,

luckily his own camera people were recording it so that it could get out, but it did not as many

people I believe as if they were listening to this live. This is crazy, and in the meantime,

you still have, as this is going on, you got people on the streets of New York about Maduro,

they're like, even though they did not like Maduro, they still think that this is a distraction

and America should not be doing this. And then you've got lines and lines and lines of people in

the airport, and you have got TSA agents, excuse me, ice goons walking around doing what,

the handing out water or whatever, they're not helping with the line, they're supposed to be there

to help facilitate people going through the lines and to expedite the situation, and that is not

happening, and your tax dollars are paying for it. And by the way, they are these, these ice goons

are making 200 plus thousand dollars a year, and the TSA agents are not getting paid.

And then you've got the war, and now you have Donald Trump lying at a cabinet meeting,

and then people like Pete Hegseth, who's speaking now, glazing him. And that's where we are right now.

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