Iran, What's Next? (Ep. 2463)

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Holy Moses, what a weekend.

My gosh, been back on the air now, the beginning of week five.

This has been, do you believe like the US hockey team won a gold medal, was it a week ago?

Feels like it was like the 1980 miracle on ice.

I don't mean the miracle, I mean the time.

Feels like it happened 30, 40 years ago.

I can't help but think of that line again.

I forgive me, I forget the quote, but sometimes decades go by and nothing happens and

in days go by and decades happens.

That's every day.

You know, I'm reading this morning, I get up early and I'm doing my Monday morning

workout, beating up my legs on Monday for a knee that doesn't work.

And I'm reading political playbook, The Bible of the Left, of course, but I read it to see

what's going on on like left ease.

I like to see what both sides thinking, not just the, you know, the numb nuts on the

left, which is what they do.

That's why they live in a freaking bubble.

And they brought up a pretty darn good point.

I must say credit where credits do that Donald Trump has cleaned up.

Think about this.

Stop it.

Stop what you're doing right now.

No.

I'm as serious as a freaking heart attack.

Please just for a second, no matter what you're doing because I know sometimes part of

the audience, you watch this show like passively tune in tune out.

Just stop what you're doing and listen to this.

Although it was in playbook, Politico, this is an amazing point in barely a year in office.

Donald Trump has cleaned up decades of unfinished but necessary business.

Presidents from both parties have failed to just focus on the Republican party just for

a moment.

Leave the Democrats out for just for a second, just for the sake of argument.

Folks, let's be clear, I'm, I'm, I love Ronald Reagan, you know, not so much of a fan

of at least the policies of George W and some others.

Obviously, we had some issues with prior presidents, prior to that as well, Nixon and others.

However, the threat from the Iranians is one of probably 10 or 15 examples of generation

traditional problems the Republican party's had.

Issues we've tried to solve, Roe v Wade, Trump fixes it by his appointees, Venezuela,

Chavez, Maduro, Communism in our sphere.

I'm not telling you the problem solved.

This is it's a mission accomplished moment.

I'm just telling you like Maduro's no more, no more in Venezuela, he's riding in a U.S.

prison.

People have talked about cutting government forever.

We're going to cut government.

The federal workforce is now down 10%.

I've never seen anything like it.

I'm not telling you to love it or hate it folks, you're all independent beings.

We're not freaking automaton's in this party.

You are perfectly entitled and your opinion is welcome in the chat if you hate everything

that happened.

But you cannot deny the fact that a generations have been threatened, generations of U.S.

citizens, U.S. soldiers, U.S. law enforcement personnel have been threatened by the Iranians.

And now the entire leadership of the Death to America party is dead, dead decades have

happened in days.

Folks, the history books when written with clearer eyes, when the TDS hopefully trumped

the arrangement syndrome wears off just a little bit.

Any honest telling of history is going to read that this was the most transformative

president in 50 plus years, maybe more.

You call it whatever you want, but you know what I just told you was true.

Decades of unfinished business less than a year.

Now do you see why again, I can't bring some of how people who have secreted themselves

in our movement and their constant attacks on Donald Trump, they don't even give the

guy time already the attacks have started.

We're not even three, four days a week in to this decapitation mission.

We're not even a weekend is already people calling them a traitor and peach him.

Oh, it's out there.

I'm not even going to they haven't earned my time to talk about who they are.

It doesn't even matter.

You haven't earned my time while my audience is time trader.

You realize the Iranians and their proxies have been responsible for the deaths of thousands

of Americans in theater, in terror attacks.

You understand that correct?

You know one of the great ironies and I don't mean great good.

I mean great in measure.

Some of these same people, whether it was assassination attempts on president and Trump

are have made all these like foreign connections and then the minute this happens to go they

haven't done nothing any of those foreign connections.

Well, you can't have it both ways, can you?

It's your argument.

Now, my I'm just telling you to go back in and listen, at least we give you the truth.

I'm going to talk about a lot today.

I've been getting hit up by every media entity on the planet about sleeper cells and

things.

Where are you going to get to all of it?

I got a really, really loaded show for you today, obviously a ton going on.

So stay tuned.

I the language on the Friday show, by the way, just a quick I get it, but it was a passionate

show.

If you missed it, I'm not just go back and watch the beginning.

It was an important moment and it relates to what happened over the weekend as well.

Right?

Because not all this criticism of President Trump is honest.

I promise.

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So decades, decades of unfinished business, solved by this president, solved.

I don't want to say the problem of the Iranian Ayatollas, that problem's been solved because

they're dead.

However, there are some problems that are wrong going and I want to be clear.

I know.

Get to this a little more later.

I am not asking you to blindly trust anybody ever.

Trust but verify.

Wait for results and then judge it.

That's all I'm asking.

But you may be asking fairly enough.

This is the question I know many people had.

Okay.

Well, why now?

Why did President Trump, he is the CIC commander-in-chief, why engage in this decapitation exercise

for the entire upper level hierarchy of the Iranian death to America leadership, why

now?

I want to play a Fox clip from when this first broke, it's quick, and I want you to notice

here that this was targeted very, very deliberately at specific places in the beginning stages.

It'll make sense in a second, but listen to Jennifer Griffin on Fox talk about the specifics

of the attack early on.

Check this out.

I just received a list of some of the early targets that have been attacked inside Iran.

Let me read to you from that.

There have been attacks on the Iranian parliament, the National Supreme Council, the Ministry

of Intelligence, the Iranian Atomic Energy Agency, and also cyber attacks on news agencies

such as Erna.

Leadership was targeted immediately because once you destroy the command and control operation

in the upper level hierarchy, the problem with the Iranians is they're not as sophisticated

a military even closest to the United States.

The Iranian military was designed for one thing, anyone telling you otherwise is full

of shit.

They were designed for regime preservation.

The Iranian military's ability to project force outside of their territory, that territory

being the Middle East, they've had some luck through proxies and elsewhere, but to project

force wider than that is is nil and almost nonexistent.

Anyone with weapons is dangerous.

They were designed to preserve the regime.

What am I getting at?

Folks in the chat.

Where am I going with this?

Guy make up or tell me where I'm going with this.

If the freaking military was almost solely designed to preserve the regime and Guy, what's wrong

with the regime now?

They're dead.

Yes, correct.

What does that tell you about their capacity?

No bueno.

He speaks Spanish all of a sudden.

They can't even do that.

So why now?

Folks, obviously I have to be careful.

You paid me to do a job in the FBI.

So I have to speak within what's in the public domain.

I think you all understand that about paid to go out there and divulge the nation's national

security secrets.

But some of this stuff you've seen in open source reporting and some of it's been a persistent

problem.

That's not classified because it already happened.

Why now?

First, folks, the persistent lethal plotting against political figures in the United States.

After Baghdaddi, Soleimani and others, the lethal targeted attempts at assassinations

in the United States, not just of political figures.

I want to be clear about this.

But also of Iranian dissidents, there's a case going on right now about this.

It's an FBI DOJ case, obviously.

The targeting of Iranian dissidents on our soil, along with political leaders and folks

who were involved in targeted strikes in Iran, is unacceptable.

We cannot have this.

You cannot have President Trump hook Pompeo and others.

You cannot have them out there being the persistent targets of an Iranian lethal plotting effort

and allow it to happen.

It's going to make it really difficult for the United States government to act if the

Iranians are given free reign on our soil.

We've already seen this.

This, at some point, this has to stop.

You have to tell them any, you touch any of our people.

There's going to be a 10x death return on what we do to you.

Think about like an investment, but an investment in death.

Every death you try or think you're going to try, or get, we're going to give you a 10x

death return.

It is the only way to mitigate this stuff, the persistent assassination plotting and lethal

plotting against people in the United States, who they just don't like, has to stop.

As Donald Trump said to ABC News, in what may be the quote of the week, they tried

to get me, but I got them first.

Second thing, and I'll dress this with Commander Kirk Lippall.

He was a commander of the USS Cole tragic terror attack there back in 2000, and there was

a lot about the military, obviously, we'll dress this with them later.

This is not new, the Iranians, do you ever see that scene in the movies?

Some of all fears, movies not that great, it's one of those Jack Ryan movies, whatever.

But we used to put the quote on the radio show all the time, where there's an exchange of

attacks by the Russians in the U.S. and the guys arguing about a first strike, you guys

there's already been a first strike, they already hit us, folks, there has already been

a series of strikes over the course of decades against the United States.

You know I am not a traditional kind of interventionist hawk.

I think you know that, I ran for office in Maryland against basically the sustained presence

in a wreck, I didn't think it was a great idea, that's on the record, that's documented,

I put my name on a ball and ran on it in a blue state, because I did not think that

forever wars were the option, but this is not forever, it's not even a freaking week.

We don't have a sustained long-term military presence in Venezuela, folks, every single

thing that was told to us about Donald Trump's interventions, I'll go into this again

in a little bit, from the Abraham Accords to the moving of the embassy to Jerusalem from

Tel Aviv to getting Maduro every single time, Andrew, am I right?

World War Three, World War Three, what, it's not happened yet.

So clearly someone's wrong and someone's right, because it's already happened, and on

the Iranians, there has already been a first strike and a second strike and a third strike.

IEDs overseas and war theaters, and war theaters designed by Iranian proxies, the Beirut

Barracks, targeting on US soil of foreign ambassadors, it's already happened.

Linda Judd, all these kids, it's already happened.

What I'm getting at is you are perfectly entitled in the Chaden elsewhere.

I welcome it to say, I don't like the attacks and here's why I want to hear it, bring

it on, let everyone in the chat argue it out, we're a republic.

I love your opinion and value it, but what's not open for debate are simple facts about

historical events that have already happened.

You can't say, well, we shouldn't have attacked them because they've never attacked us.

They have attacked us.

These Iranian proxy groups, there is a documented objective link financially and ideologically

and hierarchically through the Iranian heads of state and Iran, excuse me, of Iran, and the Mollis.

The Iranians have already killed Americans.

That part is not open for debate.

Discuss it all you want, the debate is over.

So first, why now, persistent lethal plotting and attempted assassinations.

Second, decades of terror attacks against our soldiers and US citizens.

Third, again, I've read this in open source just like many of you did, there was a briefing

that happened, apparently there was an imminent ballistic missile threat against bases in our region.

I'm attributed to open sourcing based on some briefings that have happened, but folks,

what are we going to do?

Are we going to wait for the Iranians with a stockpile of ballistic missiles and the ability

to produce upwards of a hundred of them a month to fire ballistic missiles at our bases and kill

more? We've already had multiple US casualties in death. You're just going to wait for them,

let them kill people and then respond back.

So the third reason, imminent threats right now that require executive leadership and President

Trump had the most balls to do something about it. Instead of this dilly dallying around,

licking his fingers, seeing where the winds are going, I'm just going to play in the press

and elsewhere. Again, there's already been a first and a second and a third strike.

There's that VO played before it is voice over. But you see that some video of some Tomahawk missiles

that were launched. Also, you see some of this footage from the IDF. Obviously, we did this

operation in conjunction with our Israeli partners who had exquisite intelligence in the region.

You're seeing some of this folks, they just don't have the Iranians, the military capabilities

to deal with either the Israeli military, the IDF or our military. They just don't.

We completely own the skies over their country. They're Russian air defense system and everything

else is just totally failed. Here's another component of this. I don't want you to forget. Think

about this. Think about the brilliance of how President Trump structured this attack.

First, he takes out Maduro grabs him. He's sitting in a US prison.

Maduro was a problem for a number of reasons. However, one of the big reasons is they are an

enormous Venezuela. That is obviously they are an enormous supplier of petrochemicals and oil

and energy energy to enemies. They control a good portion of the US's you excuse me of the world

of petrochemicals supply. They would try and agrab more from other countries in the region as well.

Water-based assets. So what is President Trump to? Takes out Maduro and does whatever he can

to secure the energy supply in that region first so it doesn't go off to our enemies. See where

I'm going with this? Who's one of the major energy suppliers, petrochemicals, oil to China,

our biggest threat on the globe. Yeah, the Iranians. China is in real trouble now.

You think he did that by accident? Secure hemispheric petrochemical supplies first in Venezuela.

Then ice out China from Iran's oil as well by deposing the regime. None of this is by accident.

This was as much a message to China that you better think twice about causing World War Three.

I don't know the World War Three. He's trying to stop World War Three from China jumping

this straight in Taiwan by ice and outdoor energy supplies. Everybody forgetting about that?

You don't think China is thinking twice right now? Shit, what do we do now? We need some oil and stuff.

I want to bring up another point.

There are understandably, listen to me, understandably. I'm not here to attack people on our side.

That's not my job on our side. Not people faking on our side like the doomer class. They're not on

our side at all. Never happened. They've gotten agenda and I promise it ain't yours.

But there are a lot of people I respect. So one of them posed about, you know, trust Trump is not

a good idea or something like that. I want to be clear. I'm not asking you to trust anybody.

I'm asking you to trust results. We're only a couple of days into this operation.

There have been casualties. There has been death. There's been a more death on their side.

Thank the good Lord. The Iranian regime in the hierarchy has been almost entirely decapitated.

Where is that going to go? We're going to see. But folks, making comparisons to nation building

forever wars and what's known as the pottery barn theory, which I've cited many times,

are not accurate at this stage. We're not there. We have not occupied Iran.

The pottery barn theory is a colon powell generated theory that is dominated, you know,

geopolitics and warfare for the last two decades plus. It's the idea that after what happened in

Iraq and a number of the failures afterwards, we tried to nation build that if you break it,

the IE pottery barn, you won't it. In other words, you attack you won't it no matter what happens

after me. President Trump is testing that. He's testing that now by saying, we don't want to own

anything. He said it pretty clearly. Secretary War Hegg said, just got off the air in an amazing

press conference. He did a great job with Dan Kane. They did an incredible job. And he was very

clear. He said, did you hear me? When they asked about, well, we're going to be occupying

discouraged for something like that, you know, Iraq war analogies. We are taking out a regime that

wants to kill us had the ability to do it has killed our people in the past is trying to develop

a nuclear weapon to kill more of us. And we got rid of them.

The pottery barn theory is going to be put to the test because President Trump doesn't want to

own it. He's been clear. It is scared people off from isolated military actions in the past.

We're going to see. Folks, as I said before, we've already tried a number of different

approaches to Republican and Democratic presidents and leadership in the past in this country,

including the don't approach. The don't approach, which Guy got all excited about,

meeting in the show. I'm going to get to that in a second. Let me just take a quick break here.

I want to get back to that and show you how there's only a couple of honest sources of truth in

this. You have conservative leading cable news channels. You have conservative ballots. The

liberal media changes their mind on Iran every 10 minutes. It's an existential threat. It's not

an existential threat, depending on what Trump does. I'm going to show you the videos. Hat tip may

be more for some great ones. We'll get back to that in a second. A big show a lot more to talk

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bongino. Thanks, American financing. We appreciate it. Folks, we already tried a number of approaches

with Iranians who just Iranian leadership. The people are a separate story. I think we've been

clear on that in the past and I will be right now. We've tried all of these approaches before.

I don't know where we saw this one, but what is it? Wall Street names. Wall Street names have

tips to you. We got a hat tip. This is a comparison of what you saw with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden

with the weakness approach that just incentivizes further terror strikes and attacks against US

citizens and military members, right? Versus the Donald Trump approach. That's why I said,

just give the guy some time. Check this out. It's the message to Iran. Don't.

It's a price to Iran in this moment. Don't. I'm going to bomb the shit out of them. It's true.

I don't care. I don't care.

I play that clip for a couple of reasons. As Guy knows, well, I actually sent that Donald

Trump clip. I'm going to bomb the shit out of them, which is from 2016, separate earlier in

the show. And then I saw that clip. Wall Street names had that clip up. And I thought it's even

better embedded between the this Democrat sandwich of idiots, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.

It's even better because there are people out there now claiming, again, you are fair to have

whatever opinion you want on the military strikes in Iran. Period. Chime away in the chat.

But you can't deny the fact because I've heard this often. And it's I think that clip immediately.

I don't think I know immediately discredited. Well, Donald Trump didn't run on this stuff.

Folks, that's from 2016. Don't tell me like you were taken by surprise.

He ran against forever wars. But he senses a persistent acute threat against the United States

of America. He's given them folks. It's 2026. Just by simple math. It's been 10 years since 2016.

He's given them 10 years. There was the Biden period in between. I understand. However, it's been 10

years. It's not like the Iranian regime, even they were there's no way they could have been caught

off guard. I mean, yeah, they were probably at the timing of the attack. But there's no way they

didn't understand that they were under serious threat from this guy. And they still did this.

Double barrel middle finger. I want you to understand that the Iranian regime was giving zero

material concessions whatsoever on their nuclear program. Do you understand that? They said,

you can't enrich past this percentage because once you hit that percentage, you can develop a

nuclear weapon like that. The Iranian said, go yourself. Also, centrifuges, they wanted centrifuges.

Well, we're not going to let you have those centrifuges because they'll help you build a

nuclear weapon. We want them anyway. Then the Iranians were like, well, we want a civilian nuclear

program. So the United States, Donald Trump's administration, Wake Off and others went over and

said, okay, how about we talk about a civilian program? We can even like assist you in the development.

We're just not going to let you develop a weapon. They were like, no, we still want to develop a weapon.

It's not like the Iranians did a damn thing to make this problem go away. President Trump,

I used to drive home on the Long Island Expressway in New York, Exit 62. He gave them 62 freaking

exits to get off the highway and they said, go yourself. Let me just throw this in there quick

because I got to tell you something. If you're the Cuban regime, I would be sitting there in a

soil diaper right now too, even the hell picked up on this one. If you're the Cuban higher-ups,

ah, listen, I'm just telling you, Laura Kelly, the hell Cuba faces zero hours. Trump Rubio put

the squeeze on the regime there. You're the Cubans. I don't know, man. I'm making sure I got my,

one of those adult diapers in depends or something. You better depend on those depends.

This guy's not screwing around. I think he's been crystal clear. He's given these people who are

a threat to us both in the hemisphere now and option. You can stop effing around or here's what's

going to happen and it happened and now they're dead. They didn't have to be dead. They could have

negotiated in good faith. They chose not to. One of the purposes of this show early on has been to

give you some objective truth whether you like it or not. Then we can talk it out on our side,

fair enough. But folks, relying on left-wing media for analysis, it is a total waste of time.

These scumbags in the liberal media lie to you. I get it. Hello, Captain Obvious. However,

it's important you understand this because we have some Democrats who watch this show. I know I get

their hate mail and sometimes we actually convert them. It happens. I always bring receipts.

The media can't get their message straight. You're going to see people like, you know,

Jen Socki who it's hilarious. I go back to my show. The liberal media loses their mind. I can't

believe it. I was the deputy director of the FBI. I sent back to when he's show. One, I promised

me a year, crushed it over the year, did what we had to do, came back to my show. They don't care

that Jen Socki's over there at MSNOW. By the way, here's a clip of Jen Socki when she was the White

House press secretary talking about how immediate the Iranian threat is. Watch MSNOW change

their perspective on it now only because it's Donald Trump who engaged in this military action

as the commander-in-chief. Check this out.

As rapidly accelerated nuclear program and reduced cooperation with international inspectors,

their breakout period is down from about a year, which is what we knew it was during the deal,

to just a few weeks or a last.

Hat tip again, the great maze more on X for Poland now one. What is it?

They can't get their message straight. This one's even better, another maze clip here.

This is Aaron Bernad in a series of three separate clips if you're listening on Apple and

Spotify. It's three separate cuts from three separate times where the Iranians are an imminent

threat. They're not an imminent threat. The nuclear program has been taken care of. They'll never

give you the straight story. I absolutely adore the fact that I have an audience that is always

skeptical and says don't trust anybody. Trust results. I adore that. Me included. I love that.

Blibs, no such thing. A bunch of stupid, morgue-like automaton-like robots who think with a hive mind

who can't get their freaking story straight. You want perspective and you're going to them,

you get nothing but bullshit. Check this out.

Timeline of Iran being a few weeks away from a nuclear bomb is in direct contradiction to CNN's

reporting. According to US intelligence assessments, Iran is three years away from being able to

produce a nuclear weapon if they wanted to. So the facts on Iran getting a nuclear weapon

do not bear out the claim at the heart of what has put the world on the verge of world war.

Iran's uranium may still be intact and in Iranian control. 408 kilograms of it.

Now, enough theoretically according to experts to make nine nuclear weapons.

Only set back the Iranian nuclear program by months. We got to call it like it is. It's a big deal.

Sources tell CNN there is no US intelligence that Iran is building missiles that could

soon hit the United States. That's a really big deal.

Folks, it's exhausting, frankly, keeping up with this. And I know it's a persistent theme of my show

finding honest sources and calling out this honest brokers of bullshit. However,

it's important we do that because I don't want you to mistakenly tune into one of these channels

one of these days and think you're getting some objective truth. I've given you the upsides,

the downsides. I'm going to give you more in a couple minutes. I have concerns. Look,

they're right here in the book. Concerns. Legitimate concerns about going forward. What could happen?

And I think the president would be candid about you and tell you we share the same concerns.

I know Peach has said the same thing. But if you're going to these people to get any objective

truth, I'm telling you this, having seen classified briefings and satin them for a year behind

the scenes, these people don't know shit. They don't know anything. Zero.

They have this, I used to know this journalist guy. I wrote about it in one of my books.

And they have this thing where they go out and they see quote machines. I saw this watched in

Times Piece earlier. It's Kerry Pickett piece. I hope I get to it. It's the same thing.

You have a pre-ordained conclusion and you go to someone who's going to tell you what you already

want to write rather than going someone to give you the objective truth. They're called quote machines.

They do this all the time. Hey, Trump took out the Iranian leadership. We need to frame this

as being shitty. You got someone? Let's go to this guy. He's already told someone else is shitty.

What about someone else who has an alternate perspective? Let's leave that out.

These people don't know shit. I don't understand why if you call yourself a journalist,

you're supposed to be put on some objective truth based pedestal because you've

titled yourself that? These people don't know anything. Zero. It's all opinion-based bullshit

where they seek out people to verify their priors. Trust results. If this goes badly,

if this breaks bad over the course of the next four to five years because it's going to take

an enormous amount of time to judge in total what happened here. There's going to be a thousand white

papers and academics and bullshit media people who are going to have a thousand different opinions

on this thing and you're going to hear about it. It's a free country. It's only been a couple of days.

Folks, I mentioned this earlier in this show. Predictions at this stage of the anti-Trump TDS

crowd and the doomers where everything sucks all the time have been wrong.

Call me crazy. Am I right or am I right? I went through it. Let's just go through a couple.

Maduro and Venezuela. This timeline is four or five years long. We'll gauge what happened there.

Success or failure. So I'm very clear on this. I'm not willing to say, oh, absolutely totally

that mission accomplished. I'm not saying any of that. I'm just saying we're now a couple of

months past it. It was the last thing that happened when I in my prior jobs my day, the weekend I

left. That was the last thing I dealt with. We go and grab Maduro. The anti-Trump crowd told you,

oh, my gosh, regional instability. World War three. What a none of that's happened yet.

None of that's happening. So you were wrong up to this point, correct?

Think about what happened in the Middle East. We moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

in Trump 45. Oh my gosh, the threats of World War two, the global apocalypse, nuclear annihilation.

Folks, none of that happened. None of that happened. I think we have a fair timeline now

to gauge that. None of that happened either. Trump is crazy. I can't believe he moved the embassy.

Even Republican presidents didn't want to do it. Yeah, because a lot of them didn't have the

balls. They just didn't. Trump wrapped up their business. And now we are on that four to five

year timeline. We can pretty much say your predictions about that particular incident were freaking

wrong. Just be honest. Trump takes out Soleimani. Al Baghdad, World War three. That didn't happen either.

It said, tell me I'm wrong. Did I miss something? Was there a war I missed?

Midnight hammer. They're taking out of the Iranian nuclear enterprise.

I thought that was going to result in World War three too. What happened there?

With the Abraham Accords, we can't we can't sign trade agreements with Middle Eastern partners

in Israel. It'll be responsible for referee and that. The United States will be a terror attack.

That didn't happen either. Give the man a chance. I'm not asking you. I cannot be clear about this

to trust anybody. I'm asking you to trust results. And when you say A's when A happens, move the

embassy B is going to happen. World War three. And that doesn't happen. Your stated results

didn't happen. You were wrong. Folks, a lot of these people don't know shit. They don't.

Now, I do have some very serious concerns going forward. And I'm sure that these are shared

by people in the law enforcement and military infrastructure of the United States government.

Folks, one of them we're living in a different world now. It is now very asymmetrically cheap

for enemies of the United States via drone warfare, explosives technology to engage in, you know,

financial asymmetric terror warfare against the United States. I say financial because you can put

on a $500 drone explosives that takes $100,000 missile sometimes to take out. The technology

is getting better, getting better, and we're getting there. But the availability of cheap drone

technology is going to change warfare going forward. And that's why I say to you, give it some time.

We're going to see what happens. Look at what happened in the the airport in Kuwait.

The Iranians just did and basically an extinction, an extinction burst of behavior.

This is what they they they know they they were extinguished. The Iranian leadership is now dead.

So they said basically screw it. We're just going to go bomb everyone all the time everywhere.

You see the aftermath there. Here's another thing that was it's just a airport in Kuwait had to

apply to a network via X. You can check that out yourself.

What worries me here is when it comes to the purchase of explosives traditional explosives

and explosive precursors. There are well-defined global trip wires. If someone goes in and tries to

purchase a large quantity of explosive precursors, there are a number of very sophisticated

programs and trip wires where people will generally notify. And especially if it's a buyer they

haven't seen before. I think it's fairly obvious. Folks with drones, that's more difficult.

We're going to have to work on that moving forward is developing a global information network on

drones where we respect civil liberties in the United States. But also we you know we kind of

heightened our alert towards suspicious purchases because this is going to create a real problem going

forward. You saw this strike in Dubai with these Iranian Iranian drones. This is this is not that

expensive to cause this type of chaos. But it is expensive to interdict it. You have that video

this is Dubai. I mean Dubai insurance costs in Dubai now we're going to get really expensive

really quick in the UAE because they were you know building out what they thought was a business

safe environment for folks. Now you got this stuff going on. The Iranians know what they're doing.

They're going to cause chaos. If they're going to go down everybody's going down with them total

extinction birds. You see this video in Bahrain. The Iranians know exactly what they're doing.

So my biggest concern out of this is the growing evolving drone warfare environment that involves

financial difficulties, technological problems and a life cycle. You know missile technology is

slow to develop. Drone technology two weeks to a month they figure out new ways to do it.

You interdict one method they jump to another one. Another concern I want to bring up

and this directly involves you know the my prior experience in both jobs.

Folks obviously the Iranians are going to do whatever they can to make sure not just their

middle eastern co-located countries suffer too. Bahrain cutter and elsewhere because they want

to bring everyone in this. They're going to try to do their best obviously to incentivize attacks on

US soil. I got a ton of questions this weekend about things like sleeper cells. I'll address what I

can here. I just want to play this segment quick. This is David Spont on Fox about cash the director

of the FBI obviously putting out a statement about how the FBI is on alert. I'll explain to you

by open source wise what that means. I'm not trying to I don't want to say put anyone at ease but

I want to just reduce everybody's anxiety a little bit on how this actually works. Check this out.

While Secretary Hegseth and Secretary Rubio in the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and others

have been briefing the president here at Marlago in Palm Beach FBI director Cash Patel putting

the counterintelligence teams with the bureau on high alert across the country. Patel along with

A.G. Pam Bondi and D.H.S. Secretary Kristi Nome updating the senior leadership at the White House

on matters keeping our homeland safe. Now what Patel did means that according to a law enforcement

source the bureau has increased surveillance of priority suspects FBI director Patel posting

online. We ask everyone to please report anything that may seem suspicious to law enforcement. You

can call 1-800-CALL-FBI or submit a tip at tips.fbi.gov. Thank you to all the military service members,

federal partners and law enforcement who continue to put mission first.

So again I'm not trying to in any way downplay the threat. I just told you that it is a very

real threat. However, what I consider to be in addition to the possibility of sleep or cell

elements a co-equal threat is the threat of incidents like this our decapitation of the Iranian

regime encouraging lunatics who are here who don't share our values who may have been brought to

the country some legally self radicalizing. We've seen this over and over in a number of terror

attacks. I call it the bourbon street problem. I used to bring this up with FBI leadership all the

time. All they probably they probably got tired like I get it the bourbon street problem. I'll

explain you what I mean in a second. But I'm going to give you both sides. There is obviously so

one side there is a threat and it's a very real threat that self radicalized lunatics will use

this event. We'll have the bourbon street problem also with sleeper cells. I'm going to talk about

that in a second. But these things are threats. But I want to give you the good news for us. We

have a couple of things working for us in our favor. I'm not telling you it eliminates all the

threat. But this is the stuff that happened when I was there that's now in the open arena and you

can read about it yourself. Folks the summer heat violent crime initiative where we locked up tens

of thousands of criminals violent criminals may say what does that have to do with the counter

terror threat in the Iranians folks criminals tend to hang out with other criminals. It's not a

mystery. It's not you don't have to watch a bunch of Netflix spy stories to figure that out.

Criminals don't hang out in choir groups. They don't hang out with the the top aware club.

Criminals whether terrorists or not have to they have to work with other criminals whether

their cells are otherwise and in an enhanced surveillance technology environment. It is not as

easy as it was 10 or 15 years ago to coordinate attacks anymore. It's not by any means impossible.

I'm not diminishing the possibility of any organized group. But as you saw with the breakup of that

operation out in California, we were involved in a couple of months. I think it was like three,

four months ago when I was there. I was up late on a weekend night with that one. It's not easy

to coordinate this stuff anymore. Not impossible, but not easy. I bring up summer heat because we

locked up so many violent criminals and did so many briefings whether it was through summer heat

whether it was through the deportation initiatives and our cooperation and emergency removal

operations of illegals. A lot of these were interviews as well and a lot of good solid intelligence

was developed that would not have been there if you didn't speak to bad guys. You arrested who

knew about other bad guys. You get what I'm saying? President Trump's order to go get these

shitheads off the street. These violent criminals produced an incredible body of intelligence. We

would not have had under Biden's FBI. That happened. I know. I was there. We have that going for us.

Second, the prior leadership of the FBI had focused on a lot of this agave and I'm not telling you

again that there isn't a real threat from folks who were out. They had definitely misallocated

resources in an opportunity failed opportunity cost manner towards threats that I believe were

exaggerated on their end in lieu of threats that are very real. Islamophascist radicals

left wing motivated terror groups. We threw that out folks. Again, I know the bullshit. Nothing's

happening. I didn't go with yourself. You don't know what you're talking about. You didn't live it.

You didn't do shit. All you did is talk on Twitter. We were there every single day a new reform was

initiated in the national security division space between counter intelligence and counter terror.

That's why arrests were up so dramatically in the counter espionage space and elsewhere.

I'm not telling you this is going to solve all the problems. I'm just telling you the FBI now,

now as it stands, under this director and this president is focused on threats in a properly

triaged way. The third thing we have going for us, President Trump has locked down the border.

That is an indisputable fact. Folks, this is what this is kind of the good news bad news story.

The good news is the border is secure. It is very difficult to secrete into the country, bad actors,

a lot more difficult than it was under the open border policies of President Joe Biden.

The downside is Biden's open border led in probably anywhere from 15 to 20 million people

into the country. As I said on Laura Ingram's show on was at Saturday night. I did a hit on Fox

at a tie on, which was kind of weird. I was at a charity event, but still managed to get the hidden.

Folks, when you let 15, 20 million people into the country, it is the old rumsfeld unknown,

unknown, unknown that bothers me. You don't know who's here if they've got a ways because they got

away. You don't know. So I'm not going to be the one to tell you, oh, that threat of cells is

non-existent. I'm just telling you that we were on it. We had shaken every tree. And there is a,

let's say a laundry list of things that happen that are planned out in advance when fire alarms

get pulled. Does that make sense? I came in and I think week one or so. I said, you know,

what happens if there isn't, you know, a threat of an imminent terror strike? What's the go-by list

of items? I want to see every single thing and go through it. There is a laundry list of things

that happen when the commander-in-chief makes the call. That stuff is happening now. Now,

I said I would mention the bourbon street problem because I want to talk about my concerns as well.

The attack in New Orleans on bourbon street, guy turns his vehicle down the street,

mose down people. You know about it. It was a really, what was it? It was a bowl game happening.

It was just a disastrous tragedy. I brought up the bourbon street problem probably every day I was

there. And the bourbon street problem is this. Yes, the idea of a cell in the United States is

always something. The FBI is going to be concerned about everyone. The president is one. We talked

about it all the time. What bothers me as much are individual actors who use something like this

to radicalize themselves. And then they go and make a, you know, right or left turn down a street

like bourbon street and they kill a bunch of people. What's the answer to that? The answer to that

is you can't make right turns illegal or left turns illegal. You can't make vehicles illegal.

And it's the same way the bourbon street problem applies to drones too. Drones are here. They're

never going away. They're the transportation vehicles of the future for people, logistics,

everything else. They're not going away. So if you can't make them illegal and they're going to

be used as a tax, a vehicles for attack, just like regular land base for real vehicles cars,

automobiles will be them. What do you do? Can't make cars illegal. Can't make right turns illegal.

Can't make drones illegal either. Folks, the only answer is information warfare.

And I promise you during our time there, not a day one by we did not have some meeting about this.

How to within constitutional guidelines. That's number one. You trade liberty for security,

you will have neither. And that is a fact. And I promise you that liberty component was involved

as the first thing in every meeting. However, the enemy has communication tools and technologies

right now that we were forced to adapt and adapt quickly. And in my opinion, the Biden-led FBI

had not done that. A lot of the agents pushed for it and met were met with a number of different

obstacles. Information warfare is the only way. If you don't intercept this plot before it happens,

you can't make a right turn on bourbon street. You can't make it illegal. It's you missed.

You see that with drones. So I'm very worried about the self-radicalization problem.

So I'm going to be talking about I'm going to be on a Hannity tonight. I'll be talking about a

lot of this during the week, obviously within proper boundaries. I just want to assure you I'm not

telling you to lower your guard or anything like that. There is a battle plan going forward.

And a lot of these scenarios about what ifs have already been discussed. Thank you to the 87,000

people here. This is why I bring up all the time folks. I am very concerned about the dumerism.

Not so much the welcome analytical process within our party. Again, disregard the left,

I showed you the Aaron Burnettian, Saki Clip. They're just lying to you all the time. I welcome the

analytical process within our party where people question a lot of this stuff. It's okay. It's good.

It's welcome. That's what our party is. We're not freaking robots.

What bothers me is the dumer class within agenda that I promise you. If this did not involve

Israel, Middle Eastern partners, and elsewhere, it would be a totally different debate.

We're less than a week into this. We're not even a couple of days into this. And already you've

got the dumer class. Look it up folks. You think I'm making this up? Trump's a traitor. We should

impeach Trump. You don't know it. Are you serious? By the way, look at the resumes of some of

these idiots commenting on that. They have absolutely no experience in law enforcement, intel,

the military, the G, elsewhere. They have zero experience. They know shit. Why would you take

their advice on anything? And I get really ticked off with the dumer class too on everything that's

happened during our time at the FBI, where cash and I spent the basically the entire year preparing

for moments like this. Here's Wall Street Journal piece again. You know, are you guys going to

measure results? Are you just going to comment on like cash patillas testing FBI norms?

There are articles, another ridiculous piece about how like, hey man, listen, cash didn't

where he wore a hoodie once overseas. This is like in the piece. Are you even remotely concerned

about what's going on at the FBI? Results wise? Wait, bring that back in a second, the other

one. I just want to talk about this piece. Are you concerned about that at all?

Total complete distraction stuff. Use the Washington Times to carry picket piece.

Where again, I don't understand. Like, she writes two separate things. It seems all the time.

Term oil and FBI amid firings by Patel, whistleblower action Olympics. Now you're upset about cash

firing people who are not aligned with the mission. I thought he wasn't firing enough people.

What freaking story is it? I don't understand like the doom and gloom crowd. What story is it? What

bothers you more that he's firing people who he believes did not meet FBI standards for employment

or that he ain't firing up people because you see these folks seem to write the complete opposite

story on any given day. It's almost like they have an agenda and the quote machines they use

are completely biased folks who are Ray Comey era people who were just pissed off and don't like

this guy in his pace of change, Patel. It's such freaking bullshit. I'm going to tell you something.

I get I just get freaking furious dealing with the whole thing because if it's all bad all the time

and you're never going to discuss the results and you're just going to engage an endless

subjective opinion about I don't like the sweatery or anything like that. How are you going to give

people the proper inputs to gauge an output and give them the ability to form a well-reasoned

decision on outputs and what you think of the people who are doing the job now.

I want to get to a couple more things. There's a lot going on. I got the Commander Kirk Lippold,

Commander of the USS Cole, which was the subject of a tragic terror attack back in October

of 2000. I remember it well. I was I got up in early morning. I was headed into work,

was sitting on a treadmill and I couldn't believe the news. So he is a really brilliant military

analyst coming up in a little bit. We're going to talk about a lot of this a lot of what happened

over the weekend. But I had a couple more things I wanted to get to as well. There were a lot more

news items that peaked over the course of the weekend and on Friday. And I don't want to leave

him on the table because there is a lot going on. There were really important things. We still

got things like the Save Act. Well, we have voter fraud issues. So this happened this past week

while we're on the subject of the Save Act and voter fraud. You know, I thought, again,

the liberal media who can't get their story straight on what's going on with the Iranians and

the nuclear threat. I thought they told us that voter fraud was a non-issue. Did you miss this

story out of Alabama now? Not only will the liberal media lunatics, the same ones I just played

for you tell you that voter fraud is a fairy tale. The degree of it is overstated. It's almost

never decided a race. Really? Is that is that a fact? Because this story happened in Alabama. And

I'm not going to let you miss it on a Monday, even though we got a lot going on because I'm getting

tired of hearing from these lunatics. How voter fraud's not a thing, you know, mail-in ballots are

in an issue even though the New York Times in 2012 wrote a whole article about mail-in ballots being

in an issue. This happened out in Alabama. Can someone on the left please explain to me how this

happened? The voter fraud is not a thing. Check this out. Four documents filed today in Munro

County, reveal a grand jury and dotted 67-year-old Sharon Dinson, 46-year-old Samantha Kiles,

and 59-year-old Sarah Bennett for illegally filling out and submitting ballots during the Frisco

City Municipal Election in August of 2025. Those same records show Dinson changed seven people's

ballots. Kiles altered four people's ballots and Bennett changed nine people's ballots.

The criminal charges follow a civil lawsuit that was filed last September by former Frisco City

Mayor Alan Lang, who lost the August election. In it, Lang is challenging the vote count,

saying 131 illegal absentee ballots were counted, which changed the results.

I thought that never happened. I thought that never happened.

Can you explain to me again why we shouldn't be concerned about the Save Act and voter ID and

voter fraud and voter integrity measures when you're telling us it doesn't happen in a New

report, Alabama. Does it happen again? Here's another one for you. Here's the Michigan

Secretary of State. Now, listen, a little disclaimer, it's not a language disclaimer.

Guy is a perfectionist with the audio because some of you listen on Apple and Spotify audio only,

so if you're not watching the lips, it's hard to hear. So it's not the greatest audio ever.

If you're watching on Rumble, you shouldn't have any problems. However, here's the Michigan

Secretary of State. Ask the simple question about illegals on the ballot, basically non-citizens.

Why can't you just answer the question if it's not a problem, then it's not a problem. Check this out.

I don't understand. All you need to know if the audio with the audio is not great there. We

understand that. However, I want to put that in there because if there's none on the voter

world, you clean up, then just answer the question. Why can't you answer the question?

Folks, you combine these two things. Two things I'm about to talk about here quickly.

And the MAGA movement will dominate US politics for the next two decades.

Because we're on the right side of it. The SAV Act, which will implement voter integrity

measures and voter ID, which will prevent cheating like you just saw, although the Democrats tell you

it didn't happen. And a rebalancing of the media environment. The media environment right now,

which I showed you, especially on the left, is hapless. I absolutely,

resolutely support freedom of speech, free press. You're free to say what you want.

But you're also free to have an opinion and the media opinion space and the opinion space

and media, which is most of it on the left is dominated by liberal lunatics who never tell you

the truth. That's why they're freaking out over this over at CNN about the acquisition by a

non-liberal lunatic. And this, you know, this Warner Paramount potential symbiotic business

relationship, CNN people are freaking out. Because Larry Ellison may get control of CNN and he is

not a liberal lunatic. Why are they freaking out? Because they don't want to rebalancing of the media.

You combine a rebalancing of the media ecosystem with the implementation of the SAV Act. The Democrats

have a tough time winning an election anytime going forward because their bullshit will be exposed.

Remember, by the way, the meltdown when Elon bought X, you remember that one?

Why was there a meltdown? Because the left had used X under Dorsey's leadership in the past

to segregate and silo out conservative ideas and make sure that they isolated you from the truth.

So you'd never see the truth. So a lot of numb nuts continue to vote Democrat because they never

got the other side of the argument. Here's a quick clip from when Elon bought X and the freak out

that happened there to check this out. But there will no longer enforce the policy designed to

counteract COVID misinformation on this platform. Doctors suggest to the Washington Post that the

change is a huge step backwards and will lead to more deaths. So now Twitter is going to be flooded

with COVID disinformation. Yeah, you don't have rules. You don't, you don't, you don't have rules.

And that's just the way it is. And therefore you're not in trouble if you don't find it. And that's

more problematic when it comes to child safety or child pornography content and things like that.

And that's where it gets concerning, I think, and COVID misinformation. Twitter is now

purged everyone in charge of protecting children and child abuse content. And then in the

delusional world, which musk appears obsessed with placating and pleasing planet Q, you've got

this fictional fantasy world of pedophiles. When in the real world Elon Musk is making Twitter

far more hospitable of them. What's going on? I find Elon Musk reprehensible. And frankly, the

advertisers can have the last service. You can't, you can't have a major brand in this country

and be putting your ads on platforms like this that are unsafe for children that are spreading

misinformation about COVID. It's actually killing people.

The killing people stuff. They are so freaked out in a rebalancing of the media ecosystem

in conjunction with the Save Act because their bullshit is going to be exposed.

They've also fed you a number of bullshit lines about the folks they are working with. Listen

to me here. I should have put this in the last segment about the FBI with the freaking doomers who

drive me crazy. They drive me freaking bananas because they're just full of shit. They're constantly

telling you nothing is happening and then something happens and then you move on to the next thing

they tell you didn't happen. And then that happens too. Remember the Minnesota when they burst

into the church that Don Lemon crowd. They burst into the church. All these innocent folks were in

their praying getting accosted by a bunch of crazed lunatics trying to interrupt their freedom,

their constitutional freedom to practice their religion. Remember when they told you nothing's

going to happen. The doomers and the liberators. Nothing's going to happen. Nothing's going to happen.

Oh look now something happened and all of a sudden they move on to the next thing they say is

not going to happen. You ever notice that? How the doomer class no matter what happens they always

have to shit on the administration. I don't know if you missed this on Friday but the thing you said

didn't happen actually happened. Any corrections for any of that stuff? Check this out. The DOJ has

put together a superseding indictment modifying this case. Emma is now legal affairs reporter Fallen

Gallagher is here with us. What are the details Fallen? Yeah, we have very few details at this point

because this indictment remains under seal but we know that the DOJ has to return a new super

seating indictment in the case involving Don Lemon because the DOJ filed a motion asking the judge

to unseal that. So we have yet to see the contents of this indictment. So we can't speak specifically

how it's changed yet but we have a few hints. We can see online that the DOJ has changed. The case

name has changed from USV Levy Armstrong of course that first co-defendant in the case

to USV sealed and so that implies that there may be a number of new co-defendants who have been

arrested in connection to that church protest who are added to this case. We don't know if the

charges have changed but we would imagine that this case should be unsealed very soon. What's

interesting here is that our affiliate care in Minneapolis is reporting that nine new people

have been arrested in connection to that church protest so it could be that they're adding those

nine new defendants to this case but at this point you know we don't know what's really notable

here though is that this new superseding indictment comes after the judge denied the government's

request to make this a complex case because there were so many co-defendants there are nine

original defendants in this case so if they add nine new additional defendants that makes

this very thorny. I thought I thought nothing was going to I don't understand I don't know what was

going to happen. You see why these bullshit doomer pieces they're only meant to put a black cloud

over the mega movement because some of these people whether pseudo journalists or other bullshit

artists I'm telling you they have an agenda they are not out there searching for truth they have

a pre-existing narrative in their head I want to make sure in 2028 certain people have no chance

at an avenue to the presidency I want my person in there so what I have to do is I have to implant

early a black cloud mentality that nothing is happening so that we can use it against said people

later it's clear as day once you see it you'll never unsee it because there's no search for truth

at all nothing's going to happen in Minnesota well actually what are 39 now indictments and

a bureau investigation with the DOJ man oh that well okay that happened well nothing else

going to happen tomorrow and then when the other thing happens tomorrow because the justice process

takes time then they just move on to the next thing that doesn't strike you as odd there's never any

walk back there's never any hey okay well I got to be accountable too maybe I should correct

what I said before it is not of that here's the tell the tells I watched in times article I told

you about where the same people will write about one issue in two different ways depending on the day

some of the same folks out there in this whole media space they'll attack the leadership of the

the bureau or the Trump administration for not moving fast enough and then when they move they'll

call someone to go hey can you find a way to shit on them for moving too fast yeah sure no problem

which one's true moving too fast moving too slow what is it

just tell the truth man nothing's ever happened it happens and then they move on

I'm going to take a break in a minute and I'm going to get to commander the USS Cole Kirk with

all we're going to talk about again what happened over the weekend but folks a couple of things I

just want to make sure you know you don't forget I am not asking you listen to me beam in please

I am not asking you to trust anybody stop stop saying that our government was not built on trust

it was built on accountability and results that's what a representative democracy is we are a

republic we choose representatives in the executive legislative branch we choose them and they go

and act our popular will if we vote and they do what we say or what we want if you have that

ability to do that sometimes we lose elections and we lose that ability because the psychos take over

but in this representative democracy we don't build it around trust I'm not asking you that

I'm telling you that president trump has finished business that has been going on in the united

states to republican and democrat presidents since I was I was I was born in 1974 since I'm a little boy

since to take over the iranian embassy you know 47 years ago he stopped it he put these people to death

using the most powerful military in the world I am not asking you to trust anything I'm just saying

to you the responsible thing to do is to give it some time it's a longer horizon but even in the

short term give it two or three weeks we see what happens and we reevaluate just like the president's

doing he is not a pottery barn theory guy he's throwing that out the window he does not subscribe to

this theory that we have to own anything he knows the world changes in moments like that and would

you rather have the death to america guy in charge or take your chances with someone else before

they have their finger on a nuclear button as they try to rebuild their nuclear program

even playbook recognize that this morning political roe v. Wade trump's appointees

embassy being moved to uh Jerusalem trump Abraham accords trump maduro win a prison trump

the ayatola dead trump give it some time give it some time

all right quick break here and then i've got some great analysis coming up for you here you're

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really honored to have on the show today the commander of the USS Cole which uh

suffered a tragic terror attack i remember well all too well in october of 2000

Kirk lipled uh sir thank you very much for spending some time with us we appreciate it

thank you damn wonderful to be on the show uh sir we were chatting a little bit uh earlier

about what we were going to discuss on the program and you had mentioned not only

where you the commander of the column when it was tragically attacked uh but also

uh for those out there saying about the Iran strikes you know that the that the preemption

or the predication wasn't properly there you have some also additional tragic experience in

bay route where an iranian proxy group killed hundreds of us soldiers something this generation i

i hope remembers i know i do absolutely i graduated from the naval academy in 1981 and in early 1983

i was on a tank landing ship supporting the marine artillery battery above the bay route airport

as we were part of the multinational peacekeeping force and i went downtown for a tour with the

marines and was exchanged money in the embassy that was only a few days before hezbollah blew the

face off killing 17 Americans and numbered dear to my heart on USS Cole and then tragically that fall

i lost an able academy classmate Dave Nairn in the bay route barracks bombing so iran has been

killing americans for decades and for those that sit there and say we didn't have justification

for doing this we shouldn't have done it how about all the ied's in afghanistan in iraq that killed hundreds

of americans there and my only question to people like senator cane and others that are trying to

carry this banner about the constitution what's the number seriously what's the number how many

americans have to die before you're going to be willing to do something about it well guess what

the time is now and president trump is doing he has he has been the first president in the

generation i started off the show today talking about uh sir how president trump has cleaned up

decades of unfinished business whether politically on the roe v wade side it's not the subject of this

conversation uh whether it was dealing with chavez and maduro and the communist regime in our

hemisphere whether it was dealing with the ayatola uh and their constant death to america not

only threats but action as you precisely indicated he has cleaned up just decades of unfinished

business from leaders and both parties who weren't able to get it done that's that's exactly

accurate uh i wanted to get to this because you have uh you were uh obviously the as i said

commander of the uss coal what does it look like walk our audience through kind of the behind the

scenes you're on the forward or the link in uh whether in the mad or or right off in the gulf

and you're you're sitting there for three weeks to a month under the c ic commander in chief

so orders you you have a battle plan it's obviously not ad hoc and you know what's going to happen

but what happens the moment go time when you get that order from the commander in chief on down

it's time to go walk us what that walk us through with that looks like from the naval perspective

well the naval perspective i think like it's anyone that's going to go into combat

you're you're anticipating you are leaning forward you have trained you're ready for it but you

also have that cold pit near stomach because you're about to go risk your life and when that moment

comes what happens is you calm down it's almost like you become focused because you realize okay

it's now a mission i need to go executed to the best of my abilities yes i am willing to sacrifice

my life for the sake of my fellow americans and the national security interests of my country

and it's amazing you you become somewhat calm you're focused and you know that you've got a job

to do and your total being focuses on those moments when you're out there doing that job because

it is your life on the line and you want to make sure that you do it well and when you

trap aboard the aircraft carrier or you finish with whatever mission you have

there's a sense of satisfaction and then guess what you get ready for the next mission

you get briefed and you build that focus back up again to go do that sort of risk your life but

know that you're doing it for the right reason and best of all you're doing it for our fellow

americans give us an idea comparison wise our navy is obviously the finest in the world that's

objective statement of truth based on power weaponry ships ship capacity technology we all

understand that every enemy's dangerous as long as you have one gun left on a boat you can still

kill people fairly obvious the iranians have done a lot of damage with swift boats and some explosives

however the iranian navy which we did significant damage to is authority threatening and iranian

terror terror leaders over there are threatening to mine the straight to basically disrupt world

you know world traffic through via water but give us an idea the iranian navy compared to the

us navy you know this is this is obviously night and day not to diminish the threat but comparisons

and objective truth do matter so navy specifically designed for regional power projection the

iranians for decades have practiced what they needed to do that should they be attacked their job

is now to block the straight of hormones and cut off the world's oil supply coming from the

middle east so when we go in there number one first thing we want to do is degrade if not take out

their complete command and control structure next to what we're doing target the leadership that

can actually order the deployment of those forces and do what we were doing starting yesterday

and we'll continue for the next several days and that's going to be take out the vessels that

can actually get underway take out the iranian's ability to project power anywhere coming off of

their shore that might threaten the shipping in the state of war moves or elsewhere in the

Persian Gulf Gulf or the Gulf of Oman we're talking to the former commander of the USS Cole

Kirk lip ulcer you know when when I entered into duty early on as an agent the secret service

had responsibility for a lot of the electronic crimes that we had the task force and things

like that and obviously with the experience in the FBI decades later cyber warfare is evolved even

from the time you know you were patriotically serving your country in the United States Navy as

commander of the Cole but those cyber weapons now the United States is a world leader now we have

rivals obviously with China and Russia who are not to be slept on at all however the United

States technological capacities leaves ahead of everyone else we're at the stage of warfare now

aren't we where I don't know 10 15 20% of the battle is going to be determined before the first

Tomahawk is even launched or the first sortie due to cyber's ability to shut down command control

and communication correct absolutely and that's what we want to leverage to our advantage is to

be able to minimize the amount of defenses that are going to be coming against our forces who

we go in whether they're aircraft Tomahawk missiles you want to make sure that their air defense

systems are confused because what you're trying to do is create that small gap in time that is

now going to allow us to get in and strike first before they have an opportunity to perceive what's

going on to be able to react to it and then by then let's hope the bomb's gone off and that's

what we do so it's it's trying to build that small space in time that allows our forces to strike

first and eliminate the threat talking to Kirk lip old former commander the USS Cole sir this

this is a test I had mentioned this earlier in the show the the colon Powell pottery barn theory

which is I've addressed many times in my show which is dominated geopolitics and warfare in the

United States for a long time the idea if you go into a country and quote break it you own it like

you know where the party bar comes from however this is a real test that Donald Trump does not

subscribe to that is foreign policy is not about forever wars it's not about you know sitting

there and taking over country trying to build democracies he's a he's a he's a transactional guy

you know they want to kill us death to America we're going to kill you first Maduro is you know

wants to kill us and wants to dominate in our hemisphere via communism well you're going to go

and we're going to go get you this is a real test of that moment though correct I mean if that

that is dominated our politics for a long time but Donald Trump is definitely not a pottery barn guy

he doesn't plan on anything long term he's been pretty clear on this absolutely Dan when you

really look at it what President Trump did is before we even started to build up a forces over

there we already worked with the Israelis had people on the ground for example we were flowing

sat or the satellite connections to be able to give the you know the starlink terminals

for the Iranian people to have an outside source of interest from information so that they would

not be able to do it we had agents on the ground that were trying to give us hey where are

their forces located where are they hiding a weaponry in tunnels etc so he created the conditions

that when this build up finally came to a point that we would execute we were going to be able to

do so and like he said the Iranian people stay safe do not go out the time is not now but at some

point what he's done is create the conditions so that when the time does come the government is

no longer going to be in power the military knows that if they resist they will be destroyed

and the Iranian people some of the most educated and wonderful people in the Middle East

are going to be able to step into that vacuum and be able to take over their government

their military and then begin to truly build the destiny for their country for the future

sir I've watched a lot of your commentary to you have known you for gosh over a well over a decade

at this point since I lived in Maryland I think I've been through about the seven different

lifetime since so we originally met we were a lot younger in some of the pictures I still have on

my phone but that's for another time however Dan I'll just tell you and y'all to remember with

some folks gray hair is a choice with men it's always bad lighting yeah bad light that's right and

you would just ask me that for a shock I you look great you look great considering what we've

what we've been through it you know everything seems to be going all right for us but

when you look at the naval picture in the assets over there in the region I've been watching a lot

of really insightful commentary both on on X and platforms and on cable TV I noticed that there's

a heavy build up in the med too off hypha and elsewhere in the forward I believe is out there

and then you've got the link it and other assets in the region it looks like what they've done

is they've created kind of a a pitch and catch scenario where you're going to pitch the offensive

weaponry obviously closer to Iran near the Gulf region with assets there like the Lincoln and anything

that comes the other way in a potential counter strike towards our allies Israel and elsewhere

looks like they have catch mechanism set up there as well with the forward and elsewhere pretty

you know brilliant strategy when you look at it is a way to kind of intercept any effective

counter strike absolutely when you when you see the positioning of forces let's take a larger

strategic view all of the gold countries did not want this fight but they also knew the threat

that Iran represented to the region because it was a destabilizing force between Hamas Palestinian

Islamic jihad, Hezbollah for decades the Houthi rebels they were destabilizing so to find a

way to be able to take Iran off the map when you look at what Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE are all doing

they want to build the Middle East as a destination point where businesses are willing to invest where

people are willing to come do tourism and now that Iran is no longer going to represent a threat

well people need to fear for their lives that that region literally has the opportunity to flourish

when you look at the placement of forces and why they're there it truly is to be able to react to

what we were expecting a larger response by Iran it's still a deadly threat even with the ballistic

missiles being shot but when you look at it those initial strikes going in have been extremely

effective given the limited response that Iran has done are they going to be able to continue

absolutely we should be prepared for that unfortunately we may lose a little more lives as a result

but at the end of the day degrading that capability from a strategic perspective is the priority

and when you get in close to the tactical how we position the forces who are conducting those strikes

that is what's really going to make the difference in this weeks long to come campaign

now now i agree uh Kirk one last question up china obviously an enormous threat an enemy like we

haven't seen before and you know we could argue about the Soviets obviously we're very prominent

still you know we have the Russian threat out there now however an economy of that size with

that many people given current technology develops and whether it's quantum computing material

sciences you know merged missiles nuclear capacity fusion all the stuff you know you see emerging

this is a this is a serious existential threat having said that this was as much a strike on

China's interests as it was almost on Iran because Iran is the energy supplier for China

you can't ignore that in this calculus president trump was very tactical in the way he structured this

get rid of Maduro first in Venezuela so we can secure energy supplies from that region that may

have been diverted to our enemies brilliant he even though we're still dealing with a lot in

Venezuela problems not solved he's he's ice that portion of it out then move on take out the

Iranian leadership that's the oil supplier to our enemies and now you pretty much you know ice

them out they have Russia and others however but it's going to complicate China's territorial

ambitions as well and their their navy is something to be concerned about especially the pace at

which they're building absolutely the one thing we have to worry about with china as with any

military you really need they three things you need capability in what your forces were able to

do in the technological superiority that we can bring to the table but you also have to have it

into in the quantities that you need so that it can be placed at around the world to be able to

respond China is really beating us when it comes to the quantity we still have that qualitative edge

but at the end of the day the one thing you also have to have and president trump is demonstrating

you have to have the credibility that you're willing to exercise both the quantity and the capability

in order to safeguard US national security interests so while China may be threatening Taiwan

oil supplies may be disrupted I would ask people take a step back because China is no longer

a competitor or an adversary they are the enemy and while decoupling may take time we have to

begin that process to safeguard it and we start with making sure that let's up let's stop

educating Chinese students in our universities but more importantly in the south china sea

they are continuing to militarize islands throughout the south china sea and claim that as

that's their territorial waters when international law only recognizes 12 miles so at the end of the

day China they may get Taiwan we as the United States needs to ensure that we take out

every one of those militarized islands because then the world is able to have safe flow of economies

through the south china sea and around the world and that's what's going to be the larger strategic

picture when we took out Maduro yeah it was Venezuela the drugs and oil supplies but it was also a

more important signal to shine bomb in Mexico stop the flow of drugs through Mexico and we will

help you and if you don't then we will take care of the problem taking out Iran is the signal to China

you may push the edge of the envelope when it comes to a free nation like Taiwan they may have

their own internal conflicts but at the end of the day don't think for one minute that we're going

to allow you to take over the south china sea without a fight Kirk Lippell folks commander of the

USS Cole been through a lot in his life as you can see just a brilliant and insightful analysis

I'm so glad we got you on the show today of course you're welcome back anytime sir thank you so

much for your time we really appreciate it thank you damn great to reconnect no fantastic thank you

sir indeed Kirk Lippell I've known him a really long time folks and this was a big show today there's

a lot going on obviously this weekend I you know I woke up to a lot of this like you do you know it

always seems like you know the world is kind of in in in in turmoil but the the hard reality is

Donald Trump as I said to you in the beginning of the show is cleaning up the turmoil that decades

of shit leadership have left us with they just have and you're seeing a lot of it cleaned up very

quickly now do you see why and I just appeal to you passionately I am all about objective fact

based analysis and accountability no one's asking you to trust anyone I'm not asking you to trust

Trump to trust Rubio to trust he said to trust me to trust but I'm just asking you to trust the

results just give this action time to bear fruit and see what happens and if it doesn't they'll be

a thousand white papers written about it and we can all as talking heads and I'll criticize later

but we don't even know the results she had we're not even a couple of days in

I experienced it from the other side too with the Duma class or matter what you do

nothing's happening then something's happening and don't agree with it and they don't

agree with it before the thing that happened even had the opportunity to produce the fruit that

they said was going to happen just give it some time give it some time as I said this weekend

let the man cook a little bit and we'll see what happens and if you don't like the results

that's in the republic you're absolute and welcome right to do so to criticize it

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