Trump’s War Begins

Welcome back everybody to the show, I hope you are well despite all things, an incredibly

dangerous and scary time in the world in the United States after our president decided

to unconstitutionally without an imminent threat launched us into an all-out full-scale war

with Iran.

I've been doing breaking news segments over the weekend which you can find under the videos

tab on YouTube if you missed them, but I'm going to try to catch everyone up and give

you the latest breaking news on what's happening now that we are at war.

A couple of reminders, as I said, an unconstitutional initiation of a war with still very little

justification, meaning attempts at justification.

Not to mention when they try, it making any sense, which it hasn't.

Three American soldiers, heroes are dead to which Trump responded, that's the way that

it is.

Dozens and dozens of civilians across numerous countries in the region are dead, a suspected

terrorist attack in Austin leaving two people dead and numerous injured severely and again

it's suspected to be a terrorist attack in response to the war.

We're waiting and begging.

Now you have Pete Hegseth coming out and trying to give an explanation, it's been completely

incoherent, lots of lies about what's happening, distortions about the premise of all this

committee, dead, the supreme leader, which good, he was a horrible human being, but the

regime still in place and we're going to talk about later to my point about what is

the plan here?

What's going on?

You have contradictory explanations and now it's seeming like Trump might be saying all

of this has to happen, but we're also going to leave the current regime in place within

what was all of this chaos and devastation for and again, American heroes lives lost.

Three US servicemembers killed in Operation Epic Fury, five seriously wounded before I

show you the interview that we're going to start with today that Trump did with Jake

Tapper where he breaks some scary news.

Just remember something that will not leave my head is this comment from Trump after announcing

the American lives that were lost.

Fallen and sadly there will likely be more before it ends that's the way it is likely

be more, but we'll do everything possible where that won't be the case.

That's the way it is, he says, which of course it didn't have to be, it doesn't have to

be, but you keep having him like this, Trump telling the New York Times that Pentagon projections

show US casualties in Iran could be quite a bit higher than the three troops killed, telling

us not just we can't really give you the plan, which was actually almost explicitly with

members of Congress who support Trump and Pete Hanks that have been saying, but we have

a plan and trust us, trust Trump, but more American lives are going to have to be lost,

not to mention all the civilians that will have their lives taken and saying, but trust

us.

Well, we don't.

We really, really don't.

And then here's CNN reporting on what media it called a bomb or blockbuster Iran report

from Jake Tapper.

Ambassador, can you just stick with me real quick?

You've got my colleague and anchor Jake Tapper on the line, he just spoke with President

Trump.

Jake, what can you tell us?

Hey there, so I just got up the phone with President Trump, it was a nine minute phone

interview and we talked just about the war in Iran.

I'm going to share some of it with you right now.

The President said, quote, we're knocking the crap out of them.

I think it's going very well.

It's very powerful.

We've got the greatest military in the world and we're using it.

I asked the President how long he thought this military operation or war might last.

He said, quote, I don't want to see it go on too long.

I always thought it would be four weeks and we're a little ahead of schedule.

I asked the President if US was doing more than these military strikes to help the Iranian

people regain control of Iran against the regime, to seize the country from the Iranian

regime.

He said, yes, the President said, yes, we are indeed.

But right now we want everyone staying inside.

It's not safe out there.

And then the President said, it's about to get even less safe.

He said, quote, we haven't even started hitting them hard.

The big wave hasn't even happened.

The big one is coming soon.

We have to remember.

So that's the blockbuster part of it, which is him saying the big attack hasn't even

started yet.

Now, let me explain again before going further.

When I talk about this contradiction of number one, some defenders of Trump and kind

of those, you think might be speaking on his behalf, we'll say we're not going to put

troops on the ground.

This isn't going to be a ground invasion that can lead to even more American casualties,

which then leads to what reportedly Trump is indicating, like here, Trump admitting

Micah says to his plan in Iran, being keeping the Islamic regime in power, what we did in

Venezuela, which was leaving the regime and then just coordinating with them.

So if we're not sending troops, which would actually be the way that you would over a long

period of time initiate a comprehensive regime change that would pull us into the very type

of prolonged war that everyone is saying, even members of the Trump administration that

we cannot afford and that would be devastating, but they're saying we're not going to do that,

but then also, if not that, then what are we doing?

Because we know it's not because of an imminent threat.

So then you're kind of alluding to like Trump said in that interview, it is regime change,

but that brings me back to the other point, which within you would have to do the very

thing you're saying we're not going to do, which is a bunch of booze on the ground.

And I don't think they know.

I really don't think they know.

We're going to talk about later, and Paulina Luna is saying, don't worry, it's going

to plan.

Can't tell you what the plan is, but it's going to plan.

Then here's Brad Bear, who also spoke to Trump.

And I just saw Trump came out as we hit Go Live to do a speech.

I have a couple of clips of that that we'll look at throughout today's show.

But other than that, a speech where maybe he'll take questions, I don't know yet.

He has been so limited in his engagements with the press, which is unlike him.

And I think gives you a sense of how timid he feels about defending his decisions here.

Of where they thought there would be, I want to read some of these quotes that I asked

him and how he answered.

He said that as far as a plan, they do have a plan, always had a plan of where they thought

there would be.

Yeah.

We got a plan.

We got a plan.

We have a plan.

Oh, what's the plan?

Can't tell you that.

The military operation, he said there is no greater military in the U.S. and he was

praising General Cain, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary of War Pete

Hegseth for the news conference that he'd just watched, cut and dry, as he said, central

casting and they have a job to do and they're getting it done.

Central casting.

We're going to look at clips from that press conference of General Cain and Pete Hegseth.

For Trump to even reference like, oh, they looked so like they were in a movie.

They looked like they were right out of Hollywood, Generals, shows you where his head's at.

And I'm going to say this again, we've learned this in the wars of the past and the administrations

choosing to engage in those wars and then kind of gaslighting people into supporting them.

Don't fall for the, if you don't want to risk American soldiers' lives, if you don't

want a prolonged, devastating, potentially causing ripple effects that are even more

dangerous for the United States in the long run, that that means you don't support the

military.

Right?

Don't let them link those two things as I make any sense.

Actually, I think if you support the military and you care about the lives involved, you would

be very cautious about such military interventions.

I myself have family members who could get pulled into this because of their participation

in the military and my love for them informs my opposition to this.

When they try to pair those, if you're patriotic and you love the military and you think

it's powerful, then of course you would support this is completely incoherent.

Then you have this.

He said there is a plan.

He points to Venezuela as a template, which means to me that going in, they had some sense

on the ground of what was coming next.

So if you're pointing to Venezuela as Brett Baer put it as a template, then as Norman

put it, oh, I see now knock off the leader, leave another autocrat in place to torture

the population and steal their oil.

They're contradicting themselves constantly because on one front, they say, oh, no, no,

we're just knocking out an imminent threat.

They were advancing a nuclear program, intercontinental ballistic missiles and we just had to knock

that out so they can't threaten us.

Oh, wait, then we learned that's a complete lie and there was no threat.

So then if you challenge them on that, they either just keep going at that lie or they

go, but look at how horrible this regime is and you go, okay, I agree, horrible regime.

Even by your logic, are you not by referencing Venezuela?

Just saying that while the top leader was taken out and a bunch of the other top leaders,

the underlying regime will still stay in place because otherwise you're talking about a

much longer term operation as I'll continue to repeat.

You see why there's no reason to trust the Trump administration when their explanations

are contradicting themselves.

And then you have Leslie Marshall saying Venezuela has the same regime it had when Maduro

was in office, 78.6% live in poverty, 7.9 million require humanitarian assistance to meet

their basic needs.

40% of the population experiences moderate to severe food insecurity.

The public health system has largely collapsed and that is where according to Trump, his

operation there ended was with the Maduro capture.

Is that what we're talking about here?

Because then once again, you don't seem to be staying consistent with yourself.

I referenced that a mass shooting that happened very close to us here in Austin, Texas is

suspected to be a terrorist attack linked to this war.

For into that mass shooting in Austin, Texas with some brand new information, I had mentioned

before three people killed, Fox confirmed the shooter who police killed was a naturalized

citizen from Senegal.

Those are now telling Fox the shooter was wearing clothing that said all on it and he had

on an undershirt with an Iranian flag on it.

The FBI has just announced they are investigating this as a possible act of terrorism.

They said maybe probably could be they're investigating it as such now, a possible act of terrorism.

We will update you with any.

And then you think this is one of the as horrific as this is and it's so horrific, it would

have been something that you're planning for and expecting when you launched this war.

And then does it call me at all that the person at the top of the FBI is Cash Patel who's

supposed to domestically be keeping us safe?

So you have Pete Hegseth and Trump who have our brothers and our sisters and our family

members lives in their hands right now for some indecernable reason that they're arguing

it's necessary.

And then domestically domestic backlash terrorist attacks were supposed to be protected

by Cash Patel's FBI does not make me feel much better.

You then have this news as well.

He waits, Minister of Defense says several US military aircraft crashed on Monday.

They have said that all crew have survived this video appears to show a pilot parachuting

to the ground after a fighter jet crashed, crashed near US base in the area.

CNN has reached out to US Central Command for comment.

St. Com has said that it strikes on Iran continue US press.

And this looked like it was an example of a Kuwait air defenses sort of friendly fire on

US jets luckily sounds like the pilots survived and ejected, but just chaos so much chaos.

And now we get to what Trump called the central casting press conference from general raisin

cane and Pete Hegseth, where wasn't wasn't very insightful.

I have to be honest.

Very excited.

Thank you.

Right and race with the daily caller.

Two questions for you.

The president said yesterday in his video message that we will leave Iran when we complete

all of our objectives.

What are our objectives and can you share more information on how the soldiers who were killed

were killed?

Well, I laid out the objectives.

As did the chairman.

They're completely nested.

I mean, Iran has an ability to project power against us and our allies in a ways that

we can't tolerate.

So whether that's ballistic missiles and drones, so offensive capabilities, effectively

they're Navy, which would attempt to set other terms and impose different costs, drone

capabilities, which we laid out there.

And ultimately, this is this is a word salad.

What they're Navy, different costs and different capabilities, you're just saying brand of

mumbo jumbo, aren't you?

They'll just tying it back to midnight hammer.

The president has been willing to make a deal.

You can't have a nuclear bomb.

Radical Islamists can't have a nuclear bomb that they wield against the world.

He gave them every single opportunity.

Then we precisely took it away.

And even then, after that, they didn't have that.

They didn't come to the table with the willingness to give it away.

So ultimately, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, what?

They didn't have that and they weren't willing to give away the thing they didn't have.

You just said you took it, whoa, you took it out, but now they won't give away the thing

that you took away.

That doesn't make sense, Pete.

Are you drunk?

That those nuclear ambitions, which never ceased, are something that had to be addressed

as well.

So that's a discrete sense of what's being addressed, or to be sure that they can't use

that conventional umbrella to continue a pursuit of nuclear.

How do you bomb their ambitions towards a nuclear weapon?

You just said that they want to give up their ambitions, but the program we know was not

even anywhere close to being any conception of a maybe possible threat.

So that couldn't have been it, but you think that you're going to bomb your way to them

not having a nuclear weapon.

But then you leave the regime in place.

And do you think the lesson they just learned was that they shouldn't try to attain something

that would be sort of a threat against anyone attacking them again?

I feel like this is going to fuel more ambitions to have the most powerful weapons possible

as opposed to the reverse.

Wait, what was the thing that Trump got out of that even set up this scenario in the

first place?

Oh, yeah, that nuclear agreement that didn't require us bombing their ambitions, whatever

that means.

Ambitions.

And then as it pertains to the US casualties, that particular incident was, you know,

you have air defenses and the lots coming in and you hit most of it.

And we absolutely do.

We have incredible air defenders.

It wants to, while you might have one, unfortunately, we call it a squirror that makes its way

through.

And in that particular case, it happened to hit a tactical operation.

Just none of this makes me feel good at all.

Call a squirror gets through occasionally that happens, but you know, we have good air

defenses.

It's just a level of detachment from the emotion of this that disturbs me.

And once again, in a moment like this, where the press is supposed to be asking you challenging

questions, of course, PTICS have lashes out at NBC for asking a very obvious question.

The ability that we have over there.

I heard the question about, about four weeks, it's the typical NBC sort of got you type

question.

President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it may or may

not take four weeks, two weeks, six weeks.

It could move up.

It could move back.

We're going to execute at his command the objectives we've set out to achieve.

And what he has shown ability to do that other presidents can't quite seem to have

the aperture to do.

Well, I mean, Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing is to look for opportunities

and off.

I do remember by an ending a war and not starting one, but okay, France and escalations

for the United States, the creates new opportunities to execute what we need on our own timeline.

So you can play games about four weeks, five weeks, he has all the latitude and I'm glad

he does because there's no better communicator than our president.

No.

No.

Well, if you thought he was trustworthy before that and how you have him saying Trump's

a better communicator than anyone before, I think that can sum up the credibility of

Pete Higgs out there.

And again, let me see to date, to this post quote, what he was saying there, typical

NBC sort of gotcha type question, President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk

about how long it may take or may not take four weeks, two weeks, six weeks, it could

move up.

It could move back.

We're going to execute his command the objectives we set out to achieve.

What he has shown an ability to do the other president can't quite seem to have the

apt turn to do Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing is to look for opportunities

and off ramps and escalations for the United States that creates new opportunities to execute

what we need on our own timeline.

So you can play games about four weeks, five weeks, he has all the latitude and I'm glad

he does because what do any of those words mean together?

I know what they mean individually, but he said he has a good look for off ramps and

escalations and he can look for opportunities within the context of an off ramp to then

flip around into an escalation.

He's just saying stuff.

I promise if they had such a coherent plan, they'd be able to explain it better.

For sure.

I have concepts of a plan.

Yeah, no joke.

All right.

Thank you all again for being here joining us live as I give you updates on the war

in Iran.

Once again, do be checking for those breaking news shorter updates on just in video form

on YouTube under the videos tab that I'll record when we're not doing our live stream.

I know that we've cultivated, hopefully not as a people who relies a little bit more

on the lightheartedness that we try to bring to this show today might not be that day.

I'm just going to warn you all this is all too heavy, but maybe on the bonus show today,

you can click the join button below.

We'll try to bring a little bit more fun energy because it's important no matter what's

going on to still have stress alleviating activities like laughing.

But with the headline news that we're covering today, I just don't know if there's any opportunities

for that.

One of the things I've talked about a lot with Lindsey Graham when I've covered him is

that whenever you look into his eyes, he has a deep, deep despair.

He almost never looks joyful.

It feels like the burden of giving up his soul for his loyalty to Trump weighs on him.

And we saw him seemingly drunk recently on television, very sad near tears often.

And now I have a clip for you where he looks happier than I've ever seen him.

For the first time in his life, he genuinely seems to be experiencing joy.

And that is whenever the topic of war comes up.

And the look in his eyes is so giddy, it's actually kind of strange.

I hate to sound like some of the less substantive commentators I've seen who go a little far

and calling everyone a warmonger.

But if we're going to call someone a warmonger, ladies and gentlemen, it's Lindsey Graham

who can't even get through a war with Iran before he's begging Trump to go to war with Cuba.

So watch him get notified of news of Hezbollah attacks and him smile.

Now welcome, Mr. Chairman.

I am hearing Hezbollah has joined this fight from the North firing missiles from Lebanon.

Is that true and how should we react to it?

Well, it would be like buying a ticket on the Titanic after you saw the movie.

Why was he giggling?

I don't know.

Why does he finally look happy?

I don't know.

And then he starts doing his typical gargling of Trump's manhood and is so grateful to

Trump for launching this war despite lying about the justification and contradicting himself

constantly.

Marju, I never, Marju, more than I do right now when it comes to Hezbollah seized the moment

here.

They picked this fight.

They joined the fight.

Make sure they pay a price.

Oh my gosh, it's so, look at this.

But Donald Trump has the guts, the balls and the vision to do things that nobody else will

do to every American.

Lindsey Graham is literally, that's a real clip, not AI, in the wake of a devastating

war starting, civilians dead.

The Trump administration lying about it, American lives loss.

He's talking about how Trump has the balls to do what's necessary.

Then he'd love this line of Trump.

You're now Reagan.

Blas, Blas, Blas.

This issue, the Donald J. Trump, you've just surpassed Ronald Reagan as the most consequential

Republican frozen, Vince Lincoln.

You're now the gold standard for modern Republican presents.

You're Reagan, Blas, Blas, Blas.

You remember whenever he used that line near Trump?

But you know, I will say this, I think I can say, what do you think, Lindsey?

My second term is blowing my first term away.

And my first term was really good, Reagan, Blas, Reagan, Blas, you, well, whatever.

Thank you very much, everybody.

No, no, why do you not like my Reagan plus?

Maybe I'll try Reagan plus, plus, plus.

Maybe he'll like plus, plus, plus, plus, plus, you got the balls, Mr. President.

You got balls, plus, they finished the job disturbing his whole vibe is freaking me out

of not even kidding.

Watch this.

He's like, I finally feel blood down in my nether regions.

And then he goes, now next Cuba is President Trump finished the job that President Reagan

failed to do.

I am a big admirer of Ronald Reagan, but I'm here to tell you a big admirer that Donald

Trump, in my opinion, is the gold standard for Republicans, maybe any president and when

it comes to foreign policy, Maduro, everybody talked about him.

Well, Donald Trump's got him in jail.

Cuba's next.

They're going to follow this communist dictatorship in Cuba.

Their days are numbered.

The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism is about to collapse.

The captain of the ship.

You literally have Trump telling Brett Baer that they're going to use the Venezuela model,

meaning leaving the regime in place despite dead leaders or captured leaders.

So no, the regime's not collapsing unless you're advocating for what would be a very

long term, very bloody boots on the ground regime change effort, which none of these

people want to admit that's what they're advocating for.

Maybe Lindsey would, honestly, maybe he would, he's just seems going home about whatever.

But can you imagine as an extremely unpopular war is beginning, almost no Americans want

this.

Lindsey Graham can't even stay on the subject of that war and he goes Cuba, Cuba next.

Then he gets asked in a different interview, is this war?

Because of course, if this is a war, which it is, as opposed to like a limited military

operation, then Congress would have to constitutionally approve of it.

They have the declaration of war powers and Lindsey Graham goes, I think it is.

But then he gets asked, so then do you think Congress should have to approve this?

And he goes, nay.

Senator, let me start with the big question, is the United States at war with Iran?

I think the I told it would say, yeah, I don't know if this is technically a war, but

where the, here's what I can say the headline is for me, Sunday.

The mothership of terrorism is sinking.

The captain is dead.

Okay.

He loves his little metaphors and he did on the Titanic after he watched the movie.

Bigger that one out.

But then here's him going, I think it is a war, but I don't know technically.

But if it is a war, I don't really care about the constitution because Trump can do whatever

he wants.

On as a member of the house, you voted to give, look at that smile.

I've never seen a smile like this before.

Why?

Look, yeah, zoom in on this.

Look, he is just a kid in a candy shop.

He's just a, he's just a Lindsay and a maelstrom club, I don't know, I don't know.

We did to give former president George W. Bush approval to go to war with Iraq back in 2002.

Does Congress now need to vote to approve this war with Iran?

No, I have no desire.

I think the War Powers Act is on constitutional.

What are we doing here?

We're going to have to give George Bush authorization to go to war with the war.

Because he come and ask.

He came and asked.

So does Trump need to ask?

They wanted the authority.

No, that's what I'm trying to tell you.

This is a military operation designed to eliminate threats that have existed against.

You just said the eye I told you would say it's a war.

This is a war.

That's what it is.

But okay, there's all these different elements, right?

You have the group of people who say, this is so good like Lindsay because we're

toppling the regime.

But then others who go, oh, we know what that would look like and that would literally

be the prolonged Middle East conflict repeat that everyone is not winning and that we know

is never gets the objectives we want, but leads to tons of devastation and sinking of

resources.

And so you have like this, wait, okay, there's a weird comment for prediction there.

Then you also have similarly this argument of like it's, yeah, Trump saying it's a war,

we're going to go win the war.

And then, oh, but it's not a war because we don't want to have to prove it congressional

because we don't want to have to have our names on the record as approving of this.

Lindsay would for sure, but other people don't want it.

So they want to say it's not a war so that they don't have to weigh in on it as a representative.

To every American, you're safer than I, because the eye I told us did.

You're safer than I, because the largest state sponsor of terrorism is on the run.

It's just not about a nuclear weapon.

They have been killing Americans either.

So that, see, someone else in the administration will say it's about the nuclear weapon imminent

threat because they're trying to think of a legal justification for going to war.

Oh, there's an imminent threat.

That's when the president can act.

But then he goes, oh, it's not just about that.

And I believe he's one of the people who has convinced Trump into this specifically when

they're golfing.

And it's been saying, Mr. President, you're Reagan plus right now, but you'd be Reagan plus

plus plus if you do this and plus, plus, plus, plus if you do Cuba, and blah, blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah, if you do wherever else, and he says we're safer tonight, well, we

saw a terrorist attack that could be linked to this.

Are we really safer than this?

Being forward in a social media post Sunday, President Trump wrote this quote, hopefully

the IRGC and police will peacefully merge with the Iranian patriots and work together

as a unit to bring back the country to the greatness it deserves.

Is hope the plan for the future of Iran?

No, the future of Iran is going to be determined by the Iranian people.

The new Iran, whatever it is, if for this a cleric or...

Is he doing an impersonation of himself?

Did you hear that?

The future of Iran, whatever it is, will be, hey, there's no each and will.

Okay.

No, the future of Iran is going to be determined by the Iranian people.

The new Iran, whatever it is, if for this a cleric or...

Oh, no, he said weather, never mind, not will.

What?

Wow.

Our representative democracy, our goal is to make sure it cannot become, again, the

largest state-sponsored terrorism.

That's a win for us.

But is there a plan to make sure that happens, Senator?

Is there a plan?

Is the president have a plan to guarantee that that happens?

No, it's not his job or my job to do this.

How many times do I have to tell you?

Our job is to make sure Iran is no longer the largest state-sponsored.

Dude, so the question is, how are you doing that with these strikes?

How are you doing it?

Just because a bunch of their leaders are dead, but more broadly, their regimes in place

and a bunch of things have been blown up, doesn't guarantee, at all, actually could stimulate

more ambitions for supporting terrorism.

But definitely doesn't guarantee the objective you're saying that it does.

So then the question from Chris and Walker, a good one is, all right, if that's what you're

saying this is for, let's set aside for a second the legality, you're saying this is

like a preemptive, whatever, whatever, then what's the plan to guarantee that happens?

And Lindsay literally says it's not Trump's job to have a plan on that.

We just have to bomb, bomb, bomb, and then hope it happens.

Terrorism.

To help the people reconstruct a new government, no boots on the ground.

We don't own, you know this side there, you break it, you own it.

I don't buy that one bit.

It's an America's interest to make sure the eye of toilet is dead.

He's dead.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, then he was like old and ill.

He was going to be dead soon anyways.

So okay, you moved up that timeline a little bit.

What else did you do aside from a bunch of things are blown up and a bunch of civilians

are dead and the American lives are lost?

And then he's going, we just have to make sure that we assist the people.

But how do you assist the people if you aren't putting boots on?

You can't just strike everything.

That's not how you do a regime change, even if that's what you're willing to do.

Which I don't know why you would given the history of our failed attempts at that.

But you don't just like use our air power and then that somehow leads to a flourishing

democracy.

So incoherent.

All right, moving forward, let's talk about this now.

I told you in a breaking news segment over the weekend about this phenomenon we saw throughout

the weekend, which was Trump literally bringing us to war, but not wanting to answer for

it, releasing little short edited videos, statements on social media, but not engaging

with the press.

And then what he normally does is whenever he's flying like from our logo to the White

House or wherever he'll talk with the press on Air Force one or he'll get off of Air Force

one, talk to the press in the tarmac.

He was not doing that.

He was running away from reporters as they were shouting questions at him.

And then we got this clip, which I'll show you in just a second, but first here's reporting

from Caitlin Collins.

As a White House reporter, it's pretty notable.

The president did not gaggle with reporters on Air Force one, typically on Sundays when

he's heading back from his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.

He will come back on the plane and speak with reporters, take their questions, especially

after such a notable moment as the major foreign policy decision that he made over the weekend.

For example, you'll remember after the capture of Maduro in Venezuela, we heard from the

president, the secretary of state and other top officials on their reasoning, on the

rationale, and what is going to happen.

So then you're thinking, well, shortly over the weekend, at some point he talked to the

press, oh wait, you're right, he did say this.

Oh, you didn't hear it.

Let me tell you, please take questions on Iran.

Was the question.

or the statement, Trump's response is unbelievable statues

in the Rose Garden that he's constructing.

This is somehow he found a way to create a worse moment

than them going, sir, how are you dealing

with the assassination of Charlie Kirk

and him going, yeah, yeah, yeah, look at the ballroom.

This ballroom's gonna be right here.

Now he has a worse moment where about war,

they go, please answer questions about Iran

and he talks about how there's new statues being constructed

in the Rose Garden at the White House.

And then walks away and he goes,

and he stands there to listen to what they're asking

like as if they're gonna go, really,

tell us about the statues.

And of course they keep bringing it around

and he walks away.

Now ads of when we're doing this show,

it looks like he is holding an event,

maybe he'll take questions, maybe he won't,

but this was one clip I pulled before we went live.

To that nice trace.

This is a Medal of Honor event.

At this event, as I'll show you later,

he says he always wanted to get the Medal of Honor.

You know, for soldiers who risk it all for our country,

he wanted that.

When that comes down right now,

you see a very, very deep hole,

but in about a year and a half from now,

you're gonna see a very, very beautiful building.

And there's your entrance to it, right there.

In fact, it looks so nice.

I don't think I'll even,

I think I'll save money on the doors

because it can't get more beautiful than that.

I picked those drapes in my first term.

I always like gold,

but I think we can save a lot of money.

I just saved, I just saved curtain.

He's talking about the drapes.

He's talking about the actual drapes.

Here, I showed you over the week in this clip.

An endo.

Pfft.

Pfft.

Pfft.

Pfft.

Pfft.

Wouldn't take questions there,

but he got to ask what your message for the families

of the fallen and walked away in this clip.

You can see there.

We don't have to watch it.

Pfft.

It's so loud of the helicopter.

So that's notable,

and I think it gets at his fear

of actually being pressed on the logic of this

because there really isn't much.

Anna Paulina Luna was willing to take questions.

That didn't go well.

She's a Republican Congresswoman.

About is that we will not put boots on the ground

their period.

Case closed.

We will not vote on having war with Iran

because as of right now,

according to the plan,

which I won't say too much on television,

but according to the three objectives

that this administration outlined,

everything is going according to plan.

And so if you are at...

Okay.

So she doesn't think that Congress should do its duty

in approving or not approving of going to war

because it's going to plan.

But she can't tell you what the plan is,

but there's three objectives.

I know this is a dark subject,

but this reminds me exactly of that office.

It's seen where he's doing an interview,

and he goes, they're interviewing this guy

to be the new manager of the office.

And he says,

Oh, I have a three point plan

to completely improve the effectiveness of your office

and whatever.

And then triple the revenue in one year.

And they're like, oh my gosh, what's the plan?

He goes, I can't share the plan with you.

I'll share it if you hire me.

And they're like,

but how do we even know you have a plan?

He goes, oh, I have a plan.

Okay, fine.

I'll give you a part of it.

Section 2B,

highlight by alphabetical order,

or something like that,

like restructure the filing system,

something so vague.

That's what it is.

He has a plan, it's a great plan,

but he can't tell you the plan than this.

Members, there are multiple wounded.

And again, it is not the intention of the US government

to invade.

That is not what is happening.

These are isolated strategic large-scale attacks.

But again, there are,

they're isolated large-scale attacks.

They're isolated and they're large-scale.

Oceations that will take place

are at least open communication with the White House.

As soon as the president decides

that he is willing, are ready to talk.

And that has developed in the last couple of hours.

So that update will come hopefully later on this evening.

I'm sorry, you say it's not the intention

of the US government to invade.

Did we not just invade?

We are not invading.

Are you seeing?

But it's on the ground there, because I'm not.

And I went to a directly by the state department

and they didn't have to.

That's what we're intention.

I mean, we just killed that we're invading.

That's not, okay.

Targeting strategic military strikes

and invasions are two totally different things.

They're calling it a war.

The president has called it a war.

And targeted air strike.

Strategic, strategic strikes.

Did they say they've hit 2000 targets?

2000 targets.

Is that isolated, limited military operation?

Now, again, if you, I know this is repetitive,

but since this will be broken,

I'm going to say I'm going to repeat all this.

Some of it.

If this is a no boots on the ground situation, I hope

then what is Lindsey Graham going on about

with regime change?

Because you're not going to accomplish that

just through striking everything.

That doesn't, that doesn't make any sense.

But if you put boots on the ground

to facilitate the very complicated process

of completely uprooting an entire government

and replacing it with another U.S.-backed government,

then now we're just in the whole quagmire.

Everyone knows that we can't get in.

Strategic strikes and according to the White House,

and I just talked to them and talked to the Secretary of State.

Strategic strikes are not war.

Really?

So if someone bombed a mayor.

But Trump said people there are casualties in war.

Why do you say that?

Erica, do you see boots on the ground?

Oh, wait, that makes no sense.

I'm saying it has to be boots on the ground.

According to your own, so that's your standard.

So you say Ron has killed thousands of Americans

and murdered them.

So by definition, they've already declared war

in the United States.

I know, I've heard, I've heard, I've heard,

and this was raining down on me too.

I know how terrible Ron and the regime is.

We're not debating that they are a truly terrible regime.

What we're talking about is the standard

for the commander-in-chief to commit our sons

and daughters in the military to war.

And going to war when it is in the national interest

and making that case to America

and going to Congress and getting approval for war.

So you are saying this is a limited mission

that is only bomb strikes.

So there is no congressional authorization necessary.

How is this different from when Joe Biden bombed

the hoothy rebels in Yemen

without congressional authorization?

And you oppose that.

Oh, and then the clip cuts off.

Ooh, but you get the point.

Yeah, I don't even know why they're arguing this

when Trump are to use the word war

and has justified casualties by saying

that's what happens in war.

But then there's the real reasons

they don't want to have to be on the record supporting it

or not, because they want to see what happens.

People who don't have any courage or moral backbone

want to see how this all turns out.

And then retroactively go, I supported it

or I was very skeptical.

But if you actually have to vote in Congress on the issue,

then that can be brought up whenever, forever.

Scott Jennings posted senior Trump administration officials

telling me that credible intelligence indicated

a Ron planned preemptive missile strikes

against US military targets in the region

and against civilian targets as well,

failure to act would have resulted in mass US casualties

and that was immediately debunked

by the network that he works for.

Yeah, Caitlin, just like most of the administration's

explanations for why now?

Why was this operation against a Ron launch now?

This briefing happened in private,

but we're told that Pentagon briefers

didn't make a stark acknowledgement.

And that was that no, there was no indication

that Iran was preparing to preemptively strike US bases

in the region in anticipation of some sort of an attack

from American and Israeli forces.

And that's something that senior administration official

had said on Saturday that that was immediately contradicted

again, just one lie after another.

And then I saw this clip circulating,

do you remember whenever Zelensky was asked

why he hasn't had an election?

And it's because Ukrainians, the Ukraine,

uh, because Ukraine's constitution

doesn't allow for elections during wartime

and Trump, despite us having a different constitution

that does require elections even during wartime

when, hmm, no elections during wartime.

That sounds pretty nice.

Come on, peace.

God willing, we get peace.

Are you open to holding an election in your country?

Yes, of course, we are open for election, yes.

We have to do safety circumstances

and a little bit, we need to work in the parliament

because during the war you can't have elections,

but we can, we can do security.

We need, maybe, how to say,

we need a truth, yes, everywhere in the battlefield

in the sky, to see, yeah, to make possible for people

to, to, to do democratic, open legal legal elections.

So you say during the war, you can't have elections.

So let me just say three and a half years from now.

So you mean if we happen to be in a war with somebody,

no more elections.

Oh, I wonder what the failure lies, is it?

Funny, he's just being funny.

You know, today I literally looked over at the guys

and I went, well, it doesn't feel like an appropriate time

to talk about the ice team files.

And then all of us went, oh, not that that's what this was for,

but I know that Trump likes that all of the news

is being focused on something different.

I do think he likes that.

I'm not saying that's why this was happening,

but I do think he likes that as a bonus element to it.

Also, I saw the stock market going down,

the Dow below 50,000, and it leads one to ask,

does that mean now we can talk about the ice team files?

Pam Bondy.

All right, let's move quickly.

Let me just read a comment here.

Unicorn Summarine says Lindsey Graham used to giggle

during the Iraq War II.

And Unicorn Summarine has been a member for 12 months.

Yeah, something's messed up with him.

Set me free, said, we love beazly with the A capitalized.

So that's good because I'm A plus, plus, plus,

like how Trump is rigging bus, bus, bus.

As we were starting to record today's show,

we saw that Trump was holding a Medal of Honor event.

And I already played for you during the show,

him getting distracted,

like how when he was asked about the fallen soldiers

and during the Iran War that he's launched,

he started talking about how statues

are being put up in the Rose Garden.

Then you have here him pointing to drapes

as this Medal of Honor event is going on, plus him saying this.

Great.

It's a great honor.

There's no greater.

I tried for myself.

I've tried numerous times to get one by myself.

I keep getting shut down.

They say you can't do it, sir.

Bed protocol, very bad, I would say the worst.

But I'm only kidding.

You don't have to say I'm only kidding.

Otherwise, the press will come out with it.

Yeah, but you're obviously not

and you bring us up constantly that you want to give yourself

an award that is for the significant valor

of soldiers who risk everything for our country.

When you were called upon, you refused to do just that.

And whenever it's you who are called to serve,

you go, you come up with lies to justify not serving,

but whenever it's other people who die,

you say that's the way it is.

Quote unquote, that's the way it is.

So no, it's not really a joke, actually,

that you wish you could give yourself an award

that represents a level of bravery

that you've never experienced in your entire life.

Finally, we honor one more American soldier,

fallen warrior of world, of wars,

and really a really terror.

Staff Sergeant, I don't know what any of that meant.

Very confusing.

And he also slipped up and said that

as he's launched this war against Iran,

that we were under threat, right?

If we were being threatened,

like there was an imminent threat from Iran,

then you would have justification to attack them.

He slips up though and says the truth,

which is nearly, we were nearly under threat.

An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles

and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat

to the Middle East, but also to the American people.

Our country itself would be under threat,

and it was very nearly under threat.

It was nearly under threat, so it wasn't under threat.

Yeah, that's what we've been saying.

Okay, then we get to a different speech.

As of shortly before, he started the war with Iran,

and it was supposed to be a speech about energy production,

but it went very quickly off the rails.

Let's check it on that.

I have a policeman.

I tell the story, it's the same guy I mean,

but this wonderful, tough policeman from New York

is taking good care of us.

And he said, sir, it's so good.

My married life has gotten so much better.

Why?

My wife thought I was a loser financially.

I couldn't make any money,

because my 401k was dying for years.

And now she thinks I'm the smartest financial genius ever.

It's made my sex life good.

It's made my life good.

It's given me, it's given me a tremendous boost in life, sir.

This is a big tough cop.

He said, my wife treated me like a dog,

and now she admires my financial genius.

And I haven't done anything.

My 401k has gone through the roof.

Yeah, so obviously Biden had record-breaking

and very good stock market figures.

That story doesn't make any sense,

but Trump says it,

and then Fox News frames it this way.

Trump's economy, a boost in your bedroom.

Like, as if that's the lower third Kyron,

as if that's news, breaking news from Fox News,

the United States is revealed that the economy

could be a boost in your bedroom.

Do you want the Trumps getting the American economy ahead?

So you can get ahead.

Let's see, are there other ones?

Trump is...

All right, penetrating the growth.

So you can penetrate the most.

I don't know.

As I'm listening to those stories, this is my reaction.

All right, now with the preview of the president's speech,

let's bring in the Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.

He joins us now.

That's how I'm feeling.

I like the energy secretary, what?

And then Trump seems not to know that the Civil War

and Reconstruction are two different things related,

but he thinks it's the same thing.

All we've got to talk.

Good guys, they're all,

I hear doing really well.

We haven't seen the polls, but they're,

they're all winning, everybody I named is winning.

But every day, and you know, it's interesting,

the governor called me after the last election.

He said, you know, you did something

no Republican has ever done.

You won every border town and little border city,

but every border town, all the way up, but down,

all the way from one side to the other.

He said, first time it's ever happened since,

he used the word Reconstruction, right?

And I said, by Reconstruction,

are you saying the Civil Wars, that what you're saying?

That was a fancy way of saying the Civil War

is that that's the first time it's happened.

We won every single and largely Hispanic vote.

We love the history.

A lot of that story was incoherent, but, hmm.

Let's say, he goes, it's a fancy word for the Civil War.

Well, no, there are two distinct terms

for two distinct periods of time.

The Civil War, let's go through this,

was during the war.

Then after the war, you hear that word,

it kind of sounds like something

that would happen after the war,

was the Reconstruction.

So then the federal government had to go in

and bring back in the Confederate States into the Union

and facilitate the process of that re-merging back

into the country and having some level of authority

over governing for a while as they restructured things.

But to Trump, it's just the same, it's the same term.

Imagine if people called it that, the Reconstruction,

like for war, that would be very interesting.

And honestly, that's not surprising that he'd have that mix up

given that this is how he spoke of Gettysburg.

Where our union was saved by the immortal heroes

at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle

that was, the Battle of Gettysburg,

what an unbelievable, I mean, it was so much

and so interesting and so vicious and horrible

and it's so beautiful in so many different ways.

It represented such a big portion of that looks.

The success of this country, Gettysburg, wow,

I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch

and the statement of Robert E. Lee,

who's no longer in favor, did you ever notice that?

No longer in favor, never fight uphill in me boys,

never fight uphill, they were fighting uphill.

He said, wow, that was a big mistake.

He lost his great general

and they were fighting, never fight uphill in me boys,

but it was too late.

Yeah, and then we elected Trump after that clip, by the way.

It's so beautiful and so vicious

and I go just to see and to watch.

Like imagine, what is he watching

when he goes to Gettysburg?

They have things you can go to,

but that's very, that he says, Robert E. Lee said, wow,

they were fighting uphill and he said, wow.

Of Trump, Rx, and you'll see numbers,

you'll see numbers where, and I tell the story

of a friend of mine, very smart, very heavy guy,

very, I'm trying to be nice, never use the word fat,

very heavy, slightly obese,

but he takes the fat drug and it didn't work.

I just realized he's talking about himself.

I just figured it out.

This is the my girlfriend from Canada situation.

It doesn't exist.

He's telling a story about himself.

That would make a lot more sense.

He brings up the story at every single event

and every time there's someone in the crowd,

usually it's Lutnik going,

ah, but we've all heard it, a Brazilian times.

This was weird too.

Listen to it and then I'll explain why it's weird.

Congressman Tony Gonzalez is here.

Tony, congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations for being here.

What?

What is he saying?

Congratulations about because right now,

all of the coverage of Tony Gonzalez

is about how he's been accused of having an affair

with the staffer who then committed suicide

by lighting herself on fire

and he was pressuring her to send sexually explicit photos.

Been bolstered by the release of text messages

and interviews given by the late AIDS husband.

And then she took her own life and we don't know what's related

but he hasn't really answered for those.

So congratulations, Tony.

Congratulations on being here, disturbing.

And then this is an interesting argument

for Ted Cruz being on the Supreme Court,

which is that people don't like him in the Senate.

So instead of bugging 99 other senators,

you just have to bug eight over other justices.

They were in a race together, you know that, right?

A little bit of a race.

It's gonna be an interesting one, right?

They're both great people too.

Thank you both very much, we appreciate it.

Texas House Speaker, Dustin Burrows is here

doing a terrific job.

Hi, Dustin.

Thank you, Dustin.

Good job.

Like you much better than the last guy, Dustin.

And we have a senator who's really an amazing guy.

I'm thinking about putting him in the Supreme Court.

And now, no, I'm thinking because it's very hard,

you know, getting these nominations through is very tough.

But he's the only guy I know who get 100% of the Democrat vote,

100% of the Republican vote.

They want to get him out of there.

He is such a pain in the ass, but he's so good and so talented.

Ted Cruz.

So that's the advocacy for Ted Cruz being on the Supreme Court,

which is people would vote for him during the confirmation hearings

because they all want him to stop being around,

which is a weird way.

But stop attacking pedophiles.

Yeah, that is a quote from Daddy Cruz.

I don't know if he meant it.

All right, quickly let me just say to Ed Zill,

who's been a member for three months,

said, I wish this was really about the 40K civilians taken out

by the Iranian government for protesting

and not what this is really about.

I know it is, it's one of those situations

where they'll try to weaponize the truth

about how disgusting this regime is while using that

to distract from what they're actually doing

and not having any coherent plan for where this is going.

How is this going to make the world safer,

other than just kind of nice talking points about?

We took out a bad guy,

but no comprehensive explanation

as to how this won't turn into the exact debacles we've seen before

and now we already have more lives lost.

Jared Frank said he has concepts of a war.

Maybe that's what it is.

Maybe he used war loosely like an isolated large scale attack

to use animal, whatever.

It's the, what's that thing in the beginning of a book

before the first chapter?

Preface.

The preface or something.

Prologue.

It's the prologue of a war.

Matthew Thrasher said, I'll give Luke a bedroom boost.

Ayo.

Okay, let's leave it there, okay?

Apologies, this is just not a subject that's going to be too much fun.

On the bonus show, we're just going to talk about fun things.

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