Trump NUKES Israel & Iran over Ceasefire Fiasco | Guest: Steve Bannon | 6/24/25
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Host of Bannon's War Room, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. Welcome to the program, Steve. How are you? Hey, Glenn. Thanks for having me. You bet. This is like, Stu and I were just saying, this is like Fast and Furious. I can't keep up with all of the action that's going on.

Looks like the ceasefire has fallen apart. Donald Trump is not happy about it. In case you missed what he said headed to the helicopter this morning. Can we play that, Sarah? Do we have it? The edited version, please.

They violated, but Israel violated it too. Are you questioning if Israel is committing? Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, OK, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them.

I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because the one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the they're doing. Do you understand that?

Yes, Mr. President, I think we understand where you're coming from. What are your thoughts, Steve?

Well, Glenn, you know the president as well as anybody. And you can tell he's put a lot of his spirit into this, a lot of his focus. And he has worked up. I mean, I have never seen, quite frankly, this man on any topic. He's really worked up. And I think he, you know, really went over time, worked with the Qataris, I think also UAE, you know, MBZ, and got to work at the ceasefire. He wants everybody to put down their guns.

And of course they're both slugging it out. And I think that what, you know, Mark Caputo over at Axios was reporting even more than that display going to Marine one to head to NATO. I think he had a phone call with, with Netanyahu and really got on him about this. So, you know, this thing is very tenuous, but the president has gone the extra yard to make sure everybody, you know, puts down their guns and, and have both sides try to figure this out. You know, I saw a tweet from him this morning saying,

that said Israel do not you know follow through on these bombs uh and he's he I've never seen him do this before uh do not do it Donald J Trump president of the United States I you know for anybody who ever says that you know oh Donald Trump's being led by those Jews uh and Israel's telling him no no Donald Trump is clearly the one in charge here would you agree with that

Well, I think let's discuss that. But I think on this right here, people should take that as a papal bull. You know, he I've never seen him actually ever do that, even in the Ukraine situation. Things we got the CCP, the Russians, even some of the toughest situations with Soleimani and others before in the first term. This is some of those true social posts were pretty blunt. And like I say, when President Trump is

is worked up like this, particularly when he has put so much time and he's working for peace. He must already put the guns down. People should take this as a papal bull. I mean, it's that serious.

I want to come back to what you said, let's discuss that, and I do want to discuss that. But before we do, let me just follow up here. You keep saying that he spends so much time on. I think he has risked more in this last week with his own base than...

I've seen him put... I mean, he put all of the chips on the table. I mean, this could have been an absolute disaster. Who knows? Maybe it is in the end. Maybe it's not. Maybe it's a Nobel Prize that he should... Another one that he should win. But the base is so divided on this. And...

I think that's part of the frustration too is he put all of the chips on the table. Can we just get people to do what they say they're going to do? Would you agree with that? I would agree, and I think it's even beyond the politics of the base. I mean, Glenn, you know better than anybody how torn particularly the non-interventors are on this topic. But it's actually, you know, as

as commander in chief and and and the resources and the assets and the men and women in harm's way and and particularly as i've argued we're already at the beginning of the kinetic part of the third world war hell we got two million if you look at 1939 to 1914 or 41 when the vermark went to russia from poland to russia there's you know we've got

Two million people dead or wounded in Ukraine, a million on the side. I mean, look at the Houthis in the Red Sea. I mean, this is much. We're already in the kinetic part of the Third World War and president. And now this arc of instability, you've got Kashmir, Pakistan, President Trump is going out of his way to try to be a peacemaker here. And that bring this thing to a conclusion so people can start to negotiate. You saw the beginnings of that or what he did in the Middle East trip.

So it's definitely politics and internal politics and the MAGA movement. You're as familiar with that as anybody. But I think it's far deeper than that. And he put it all on the table. And we got to, I think we have to question why the hell we're even here right now. You know, why on the 24th of June in the year of 2025, we're in this situation with, you know, 10 million illegal alien invaders on Biden's watch that we got to deport from the country. These neo-Confederates,

running California, the sanctuary cities, the big, beautiful bill, which has got so many huge issues we have to address. We haven't spent a second talking about this in weeks, so many things going on. And this is just, it's sucked up all this time as a active shooting war. Well, so, uh, you know, cause I've been listening to you and I think we agree on a lot of stuff here. Uh, neither one of us wanted, uh, him to drop the bombs. Um,

you're stronger on that than I am. But, uh, you know, now that it's been dropped, now we just have to deal with whatever we're going to deal with. Um, but I, I, I think we both stand in the same place on, I, I mean,

My support, when I read in the scriptures, you know, those who will bless Israel, I will bless those who curse Israel. That doesn't mean I go down every path that Israel wants. I don't have to agree with them. I don't have to do anything. The way I believe I'm to bless them is to say they have a right to exist and

Let's not do another holocaust and allow them to use their own power for self-defense. They've demonstrated they can do that.

We don't have to get involved in everything that they're doing. Would you agree that that is a reasonable stance or where's the nuance? I'd even take it a little further. I mean, I'm not just personally, but the war, we're adamant supporters of Israel and the state of Israel. And particularly given, I mean, you think from October 7th,

You know, if you look at Israel in Gaza, which is messy, we've been a big supporter of what they're doing against Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. Our only message has been, you know, when you've got to go through hell, go through it as quickly as possible. Let's get it done. Correct.

in Judea and Samaria. What they've done with Hezbollah is monumental because Hezbollah, as you know, Glenn, was considered, I guess, one of the best light infantry in the world. What they've done in southern Syria, the Israelis have done militarily, I think, and geopolitically,

extraordinary work since the surprise attack. But there's just so many questions about this and so many questions about why we're so tangled up in this thing right now that, and I think they just have to be answered. I think they've got to be answered for because to continue to support Israel, and look, the support to date really, we don't have a formal alliance. We have a special relationship. They're essentially a protectorate of the United States. And if that's the case, and we

And we should not be in the protectorate business. We shouldn't Europe going to NATO right now because they finally guaranteed to pay 5%. I mean, think of this huge, as you remember, Glenn, they would, they laughed at us for paying 2%, which they agreed to in president Trump's first term. And one of the points was we can't have Western Europe in the elites in Western Europe as a protecting the United States. We just can't afford it anymore. He's making huge moves there. And that's why I think in this situation, we really have to go through and,

and see exactly how this came about. And I think it will illuminate how we go forward to sort this mess out.

So do you think we would have dropped the bomb if Israel could have dropped that bomb? I mean, that bomb was made for that particular run. And we have been rehearsing that run for 15 plus years specifically. And nobody else has a weapon that was built for those for that particular drop.

If Israel could have had it, do you think Donald Trump would have gotten involved? Because I don't think he would have. Let me take a slightly different direction. In...

uh 79 my destroyer i was in the pacific fleet and we were going for our second west pack to the you know turn over to the seventh fleet and we got the call on november 4th uh we were in des ron 23 the little beavers the famous arleigh burke destroyer squadron we got the call that the hostage has been taken and it took us a couple months to get there but we were one of the first we went with one of the first battle groups ever to get to the north arabian sea and we were there uh

I think we rotated out a month before the assault, but we practiced the assault every day. And Glenn, you could tell at the time, this is like, you're not in Kansas anymore.

I mean, it is the scale of the place is so big. It's so forbidding. You know, the ocean and you never see the sun. And it's just it's so complicated. As you know, that one was a complete abject failure. And I think every junior officer and non-commissioned officer on any of the ships in the battle group could have told you 90 days before the launch that it was going to be a disaster, just given the logistics of it.

This is the tell to me and this was the Tomahawk missiles that went to the third site and destroyed it above ground. I mean, essentially Israel had done nothing to take out any of the nuclear facilities. And let's go back to where I think we have to get to the heart of it is why did this happen? Why did this come out of nowhere? The intelligence and we're told that the intelligence is different. And this has been said now by Marco Ruby and other people that the intelligence is different

than the intelligence that the IC community had. And today they're going to have classified hearings with Tulsi Gabbard and Ratcliffe

And my understanding is Radcliffe and the CIA presented additional intelligence that said this was absolutely emergency, it had to happen. And that's why the strike had to happen last Thursday, although it shouldn't be lost on anybody that the strike itself didn't look like it was so much to take out the nuclear facilities. It was essentially a decapitation strike to the senior military, maybe not to the religious that run the state.

And I thought that was just very suspicious, including the fact that President Trump had a negotiating meeting set for Sunday. Now, it wasn't going well. He felt like he was getting tapped along. But the first thing we heard is that Ratcliffe, I mean, Witkoff couldn't have a meeting because all the negotiators had been killed. Now, it turned out later one of the senior guys was not. But I think we've got to find out that, like, what was the emergency? Why did this actually have to happen? What was the intel that said,

that they were going to get a bomb shortly because BD went on Brett Baier on Sunday night and said, he was again, so they're 12 to 13 months away.

which is what he's traditionally said. If that was the case, that's a very different... We had not gone up to escalatory scale and coercive diplomacy. We certainly hadn't gone to economic warfare, particularly, Glenn, as you know, cutting off, not allowing to ship oil to the Chinese Communist Party, which I think is 60% of their cash flow. There's so many things up the escalatory ladder. And if you want regime change,

And I always think the best way to do it is through economic warfare, where President Trump got so tough with him when he dropped out of the JCPOA. And that's why in 22, you had the first time I think they had a major revolt in the streets. That only lasted for a couple of weeks. But that was the big part. That was because of the sanctions President Trump put in.

Then we get to the situation after the bombing run. And what's concerning about the bombing run is why is that? Why are Los Angeles class submarines hitting them with 30 tomahawks on a facility that's above ground? And I would like to see the bomb damage report. Now, President Trump, I believe that we obliterated it.

But I haven't seen any ballistic missile capability that could get to the United States tomorrow, San Francisco tomorrow. I think this whole thing was from the beginning. And I think if you look at Fox News, which I really fault here, this was clearly about regime change. I think the Netanyahu government saw an opportunity to do regime change. And until I see otherwise and see information otherwise, there was an absolute emergency and had to happen. That's the reason I was really against any type of military engagement. Now, it turns out

magnificent logistics and people don't realize how complicated that was and how incredible. But President Trump, I think it's it's it's one and done. And now he's got to cease fire. And he's very specific. I think he came out today. I think Bloomberg put out and said there's no regime change. So but my point is the opportunity cost is this is going to suck us into if not open combat. This is going to suck us in just now.

the mindshare of President Trump to have to engage here when we have so many other pressing, massive problems besides the new war in the Middle East. I want to get into that, but I have two things. I've got to take a break, and then I come back with two things. Sure. First of all, I think this is why President Trump was so angry today. He sees that Israel is going for regime change, and I don't think he's going to get involved in anything regarding regime change. He knows that could be an absolute disaster. It could be great, but...

could be an absolute disaster and more likely an absolute disaster. And maybe that's why he is so angry with that. But I want to come back and ask you a couple of questions. One, so is this deep state or is it Israel? And I'd love to hear your opinion on Israel and how they might be. I'm gathering your thinking that they're kind of leading us by the nose.

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I have a hard time believing that he's going to be duped by the deep state. Do you think he is being duped or just, just being moved around by the deep state? I don't think I, and first of all, I don't think it's Israel. I'm a huge supporter. Okay, good. Okay, good, good, good. But, but there, but, but I know that I didn't mean to imply anything differently, but here's, here's, I don't think it's, or here's, here's my concern.

My concern, and I have recommended just like when President Reagan, listen, why did the hostage crisis fail? One of the reasons Jimmy Carter being an engineer just had one source of information. He got one source of information from the apparatus. They made they had horrible groupthink and they made epic, fundamental bad decisions that led to a catastrophe and really hurt America for decades afterwards and led to Carter's failed presidency.

What did President Reagan do when he first got in? Bill Casey and people around him, pretty street smart, savvy people, said we need to set up a Team B. We can't just rely upon the apparatuses, given such fair as particularly the fact they were quite critical of Nixon and Kissinger and even Detente and Rapport Shaman and everything. Remember, this plan was eventually going to lead to taking down the Eagle Empire. How did that start?

It started with the team B to make sure that you had a fresh set of eyes that could go through the analysis. And just like you go to a doctor to get a second opinion, it's the old measure twice and cut once.

And I think President Trump's not being manipulated. I'm just not so sure that all the information that's coming to him is the information. Just like I say, let's see where the chips fall. I may be wrong, but I would like to – I think it's incumbent that John Ratcliffe and the CIA come for whatever this emergency – this emergency they're going to break out, have a bomb, have a weapon against us. Of course, listen –

The Mulas and the Alatola are bad guys. Remember in the search, they talk about a guy gets shot in the back and they admit he deserves shooting. Hey, these guys are as bad as they get. There's no, you can't make a scene. But once you get into regime change, you're talking about all, we're non-interventionists for a reason. Right. Back in just a minute more with Steve Bannon. This is Glenn Beck. I want to play something for you that will...

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Miss a moment of the show? Tune in on the podcast. Get it at glennbeck.com. Steve Bannon is on the program. Well, this is his first appearance on the program. Steve and I have not always agreed on everything, but he was gracious enough. I don't know, maybe...

maybe it's been as long as a year or eight months ago, he asked to meet with me and we met privately and he spoke from the heart about how concerned he was with, you know, the trouble that is coming, you know, with the people who believe in America. And, you know, we've stood together for a long time and everything that he said in that meeting is beginning to come to fruition and,

We both care about our country a great deal and do not want to do anything more to divide. And he has been working hard to try to keep people together. Let me talk to Steve about the opposition to involvement here. Some of it, I mean, some of it is very reasonable. Some of it is...

beyond reason. I mean, it seems like on both sides we've just lost all reason and faith, and I don't know where we go from here, Steve.

I think it's about information. And clearly we got Fox that's taken one position and kind of a neocon interventionist. And I think that's, look, the MAGA movement is growing. We're adding, you know, African-American men now at record rates, Hispanics. We're building a coalition like 1932. We can't let this stop our momentum.

I believe the more information we get out, and that's where I think you guys get to Obama, everything that happened here. I think more information, people become more reasonable. I think one of the reasons you see

Some unreason is that there's just not enough information out there. I think the more information, the more we push it out, the more we discuss it, the more we answer the hard questions and help President Trump go forward on what are going to be a ton of tough decisions. As we're now in the kinetic part, I think, of a third world war on a broad basis. And hopefully it won't expand to the South China Sea and Taiwan, but it's clearly on the streets.

of our cities and these sanctuary cities. So we have a ton of work to do. And I think the way we get the, you know, some of the people you would say would be unreasonable is let's get more information out there. And I think it's incumbent upon us. I got a lot of respect for you, always have. And I think it's now incumbent upon us to do that.

So let's talk about this, the war on the streets. I am extraordinarily concerned. Everything I put up on the chalkboard about communists, Islamists, socialists, anarchists will all come together and work together to first destroy Israel, then Europe, it'll spread here, and the Western way of life will be on the ropes. All of that is happening on our streets right now, and it is...

It's a little terrifying to watch because I don't think people are awake yet. I mean, even in Europe, they should be wide awake on what is happening. You see some of the stuff that's going on with the Islamists on the streets all over Europe. That's not going to last long. And we have the same thing. How do we stand up against this, Steve?

Well, I think you see with Stephen Miller, first off, I think the number one is we got to look, you're seeing, as you know, the merger of the red green alliance, right? The radical jihadists with this neo-Marxist movement. You're seeing the streets all over. This is what L.A. was. I think we got to get back and make sure that we're putting forward not not having all of our shows totally, totally dedicated to.

to what's going on in the Middle East, you have to talk about, I think, the major front, which is to get mass deportations of at least the 10 million that came in on Biden's watch immediately. And if we don't do it, that's not going to happen easily. You saw in Los Angeles, and President Trump's got more troops that we now have. The Supreme Court looked like backing us a little more, but Stephen Miller...

I'd like to see Stephen Miller more on TV in the A blocks than now in the D blocks. And that's where we are. And I think that's got to be emphasis. Also, the debt and everything that's going to happen with this tax bill, spending all of it, which is remember with the clocks ticking on imploding financially here. So the issues before us couldn't be higher. Now you're seeing the converging of all these issues. Trump came down the golden escalator.

10 years ago, you know, a Sunday a week ago. And I say for all the triumphs and tragedies and victories and defeats and good days and horrible days, that's just the preamble to the next couple of hundred days where you're seeing a convergence of crises. And that's why we don't need one that just kind of develops out of nowhere. The United States, we're America first. America has to make the decisions for America. And Americans have to know what that information is. So I think we've got a real opportunity

We have a real job as people in media and people that know President Trump to make sure that we get everything out and make sure that our coalition only grows, that it doesn't split because the radical left and the established order want nothing more than us to turn on each other.

Steve, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I'm sorry for holding you longer than you had time for. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much, Steve Bannon. Glenn, thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. You've got a host of Bannon's War Room, a former White House chief strategist. I think he's right, especially about the last things that he was talking about. And I'm so glad there are more people that are talking about

And, you know, Steve is on it. I'm on it. Others are on it. We have to spread the message. I talk to people all the time who are living in this dream world that think that, you know, we can continue the debt. We can continue to have wars. We can continue to do all of these other things. And we can't. You can't turn a blind eye on what is in our streets and what is in our neighborhoods. I mean, one of the worst things about this is

with Iran is, you know, they're going to do it anyway. I mean, they hate us. Death to America. I don't know if you've heard the catchy little chant, but they do it all the time and have been doing it since 1979. They are a direct threat, but we have let thousands of people...

Joe Biden and the Democrats in the last administration left thousands, thousands of sleeper cells into the United States. And I know our FBI and our DHS, I imagine our CIA is involved in this. Hmm, strange. But I know they are looking for these sleeper cells to the rate that

where I'm not sure we can look for all the cells outside of our own borders right now. It's a little overwhelming.

That, again, goes to what we told you beginning in 2008 was the overall plan to gather all of these like-minded people that hate the United States, want to destroy the United States, and then overwhelm the system. That's the Cloward and Piven strategy. And we are at the overwhelming of the system as well as top-down, bottom-up, inside-out. Everything that we've talked about, if you've listened to this program for, you know,

Long enough, you know what these things are. You know who Cloward and Piven are. If you don't, make sure you look them up. You know top-down, bottom-up, inside-out. You know what the color revolution is. You know all of these things. Most people do not. And this is why I am shifting gears coming in January.

And it's probably the biggest shift I have made since I left Fox and started Blaze. And I'm shifting gears because Steve is absolutely right. It is all about education. And if we don't educate ourselves, if we don't figure out what's important and put first principles back into place and know what's going on, too many people are tuning out the news. And I understand that. I don't want to watch the news.

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as a gift to all of the gays in the Middle East and all of the gays and lesbians and transgender and the two-spirited people, all of them in Iran, this is our gift to you for Pride Parade. We're going to try to make sure that you're...

Your people that are throwing you off of rooftops are weakened. This is our pride parade. Wow, that would be powerful. A powerful statement. Maybe we can start putting rainbow fireworks inside the missiles so when they hit their targets, we get a nice little beautiful rainbow-colored explosion. I think then the left would have to support it. I really think... I think he should...

I think he should do this. I think he should come out and say, this is just my salute to Pride Month. I'm just trying to help the gays over in the Middle East. I don't think he... Taking off the... What? You don't think so? No, probably not a great idea. Probably not the direction he should go in. But if he thinks it'll troll the right person, he'll do it. So we'll see how that could go well. It could be fun.

What do you think about this? What if he is just getting into the flag selling business? Okay. You know what I'm saying? No. Everybody had the gay pride flags and he's like, you know, everybody's got those and everybody's concentrating on that. I need to sell more flags. And so he started scooping people up in the middle of the night, you know, unconstitutionally, of course. So people had to go out and buy Mexican flags to protest.

And then, you know, dropping the bomb, he's like, I need to sell some Palestinian flags. I've got these Iranian flags. They've got to go. I bought too many of those Iranian flags.

Nobody's buying them. What do I do? So you think there's a previously unknown branch of the Trump organization that is a flag sales company? Trump flags. Trump flags. I mean, you know, you wouldn't have questioned this if Hunter Biden was doing it. Why do you question it? Because it's your guy.

Because it's your guy. Huh. Yeah, that's an interesting thought. You know, you're right. I hadn't really considered the possibility of Trump flags. Is that... There you go. Nor did you consider the possibility of turning this whole thing around into a celebration of Pride Month.

I really hadn't. I hadn't really considered that at all. You know, I spent a lot of time, I felt like, watching the news yesterday and trying to dissect what the hell was actually going on. You never had those thoughts, did you? No, no. You know what? I didn't come to any conclusion. I had no idea. It was just, I feel like, wasted several hours just trying to figure out what was going on.

I kind of wish I just landed on the pride flag thing earlier because I think that might be the best idea. I didn't have to watch anything. I knew what was going on. I'm like, this is big flag. This is big flag. And if Trump wants to cover his tracks with big flag...

He should do the Pride Month thing. Well, I mean, he's got the phone thing coming out now, right? He's got the Trump phone. We've got lots of Trump crypto. You could get that. You can get the Trump collectibles. Why not do the flags? Because he could do both sides of it, right? Like he could do. That's right. He sells the American flag. Is it a coincidence that he just put up not one, but two flagpoles?

At the White House. He had some enormous flags. He had to move. He just put the flagpoles up. Now everybody wants one. Now everybody's like, I got to have a flagpole like that, and I got to have a flag. I think you're mocking this idea, but it will probably be in the Daily Beast by the end of the day now that you said it. Oh my gosh. Can I tell you something? Yeah.

I see crazier things now. I see crazier things. You know, when the peace treaty was announced yesterday, it was like you had killed the anchor's children in front of them all of a sudden. They wanted this to go out of control so they could blame Trump for it. That seems to be the goal of many in the news. I mean, you could be kind and say...

wait a minute, I just flew all the way over here to the Middle East to do this thing. I put my whole life on hold. I'm eating hummus. And now it's over? Come on. I mean, you could give them the benefit of the doubt that they had already made the commitment to be there. And so they were like, I'm going to be here for a month. And they were disappointed. They thought, ah, we could get some big ratings on our Trump hatred.

And then he cuts the heart out of it. You know, they're like, oh, crap. And that's the best way of thinking about it. They just were selfish enough to they didn't want to travel and they wanted higher ratings. That's the best possible outcome. Right. Instead, they're just selfish enough to think that their opinion is the absolute right opinion. And the president is just a boob and nothing will stop them from saying he's a boob.

No. I mean, honestly, if this thing was perfectly patched up and, like, you know, Gaddafi was having, you know, dinner with Netanyahu at Applebee's in three months, they'd still say it was terrible. They'd still say it was a horrible outcome. Well, it might be terrible if it was Gaddafi seeing that he's been dead. Kamini, sorry. I knew I went down the wrong... Sorry. I don't get that opportunity to do that to you. So...

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And I looked at her because we had just been saying earlier in the morning, she's, she lives up here by the ranch. And, and we were just talking about it. And I said, you know, what's really strange is I'm not getting any sense of real trouble from,

And I know trouble has to be just over the horizon. And I don't know, maybe God's not talking to me anymore. And she's like, no, I feel the same way. And she said, in fact, I feel a real sense of peace. And I said, yeah, I think I do too. And I don't understand it because the world is on fire. What is the warning that we should be giving? What should we be doing? And then we're driving and we hear that, you know, peace. And it shocks both of us. Ceasefire.

Between Iran and Israel? Are you kidding me? That's the first real diplomatic breakthrough in a war that has been edging towards the abyss forever and, you know, will be the final battle, I believe, in the end. And who brokered it? Donald J. Trump. Not NATO, not the UN, not the Globe, not a round table of seasoned diplomats sipping espresso in Brussels. Trump. And he announced it via social media, naturally.

He said both parties had agreed to an end to the hostilities and it would be 24 hours. I think Iran had to behave itself for the first 12 hours and then Israel could join and behave itself for the next 12 hours. And then after that, everything stops. Iran said they would stop missile launchers. The stakes on this have been massive. You know it and I know it. 48 hours earlier,

You know, the Israelis had flattened the Iranian Revolutionary Guard positions. They had, in response, Iran had just leveled sections of Tel Aviv. 200 people wounded in Israel, black smoke over Damascus, missiles intercepted over Amman. The region was on fire, but the fire paused briefly and then it didn't.

I get up this morning and here's what the president says as he's heading for Marine One. We have edited and you'll understand why we edited the president's words when you hear it. If you haven't heard it yet, listen. They.

They violated it, but Israel violated it too. -Are you questioning if Israel is committed to -- -Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when I say, "Okay, now you have 12 hours," you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them. So I'm not happy with them.

I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land. I'm not happy about that. You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing. Do you understand that? I think everybody did, Mr. President.

Then he took to social media. Israel, do not drop those bombs. Bring your pilots home now. Donald J. Trump, president of the United States. I don't think I've ever seen him like this before. Now, let that sink in here for a second. The U.S. president publicly telling Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, stop your retaliation.

Damage was done. Israel had already, you know, resumed the airstrikes, this time with a vengeance. The Israeli defense minister didn't mince words. He blamed Iran for breaking the truce, launching missiles at civilian targets again in Israel. And, of course, you know, Iran denied everything. They always do. Play the sot here of...

of Iran saying how they won the war. This is from Iranian TV yesterday. Listen to this. Yesterday, the people conducted a signet operation.

And they heard the Israelis say that there were over 500 casualties in our attacks yesterday, in addition to 300 people that are still missing. And they are stuck under the rubble. And more than 200 people were injured, more than 200. So our operation yesterday alone, more than a thousand people were killed or injured or are still missing.

Perhaps America has joined the war because we're very, very close to annihilating Israel. We were in the closing stages. No, not really. But did you notice, is that the way we would have reported that story in the West?

If we were the ones that were sending the missiles over, would we say, hey, you know, in just the open, we did 300 people. We killed 300 people. And then there were like 200 casualties, maybe as many as 500 casualties. And then, you know, just in the last two days, we've killed 1,000 people. Is that the way we would have reported that? That should tell you everything you need to know about, you know, choose life, choose death, which side is on the side of life and which side is on the side of death. They're talking about...

A thousand people dying. Not military targets. A thousand people dying. Okay, so Iran is denying reality. Multiple sources, U.S. intelligence, IDF radar, eyewitnesses on the ground in Jerusalem confirm rockets were fired from Iranian proxies in Syria and southern Lebanon within hours of the truce. So does that mean that peace was just a mirage? Well...

Here's what I think it means. It means behind the headlines and the diplomatic smiles and everything else, the truth about Iran remains. It's the only thing we know for true. They don't negotiate in good faith. They never have. They're liars. They don't actually want peace. They want to dominate the Middle East and they want Israel gone. And they also want America humiliated. So the ceasefire was a test and Iran failed. And yet the coverage, who's the villain here?

If you watch the coverage, the villain was Israel or Donald Trump. The mainstream anchors last night, I don't know if you saw this, I mean, it looked like somebody was killing their children. When they found out that there was a ceasefire, it looked like, oh my gosh, no, no. But they were, I mean, when they announced the collapse, you know, they couldn't blame Trump the night before for war.

And their glee was almost reckless. I mean, they were just so happy. They had stunned silence the night before when it was good news. And then when it was bad news, they're like, ah, see, we told you. Here's the thing. Trump's pressure campaign worked. His unpredictability worked. Iran blinked. Now they tried to cheat the ceasefire quietly. They got caught. Israel responded because we would too. So now what?

Trump is on the plane now heading over to NATO, not as the wild card, but the man who came this close to brokering an impossible peace between two mortal enemies. He has, and you know, the peace might be back on by the time he lands. The world really needs to face this question. What if Donald Trump is right?

What if boldness, not a bunch of pencil pushers, not a bunch of politicians, what if boldness is what keeps the war from boiling over? What if the thing the world hates the most, mocks the most, was the thing that's holding back the flood?

Yeah, the ceasefire collapsed last night. But I think history is going to remember this moment not as a failure, but as a reveal. A spotlight shined on the real motives behind the Iranian regime, in case you didn't get it yet. It was a spotlight on the media last night. So invested in failure of this, they couldn't even fake relief when peace arrived. Couldn't fake it. I think what Donald Trump did is, you know, I said last night, maybe it was just to a friend, I

This is why I would make a very bad president. Because when the fate of the world is at stake, I would be like, I can't make that decision. I can't make. And you have to have somebody who can make the decisions. And I just don't think I could do it. I really don't. Could you have done what Donald Trump did? Stu, could you have done what Donald Trump did in the last week? If you were the president and you had to stand there all by yourself, your own base was turning, everybody was turning on you. And you said, nope.

I believe this is the right thing to do. With what was at stake and what is at stake, could you have done it? I mean, those are two, I think, two separate questions. I think I would be able to take a stand for something when my base disagreed with me. I mean, that type of stuff we do. It's very difficult. When the world is at stake. Doing everything that he did over the past. I mean, the guy...

seemingly has no shortage of energy. I don't know if there was a fountain of youth situation. I don't know if there was just like, I mean, if he just loves Red Bull. Really good genetics. Really good genetics. That's what it is. Great genetics. All right. But yeah, there's been a lot for him to do. I mean, there's,

i mean he's got still got the bill going on i mean when's the last time we even mentioned the big beautiful bill that is going through the senate right now and is a massive part of what he has to deal with not to mention he's going over to uh these meetings in europe right now the the topic isn't even israel and iran it's ukraine and russia

And 5%. And the funding for NATO. I mean, that is crazy. It's a lot. We couldn't get him to 1.5%. He finally got him to 2%. Now he's like, 5%. You're going to have to cough up 5%, each of you. Which is what they were supposed to be doing anyway. And I think that's fantastic. Right. But it looks like it might happen this time.

You got that look on your face like, yeah, a lot of things might happen. And you're right. A lot of things might happen. Yeah. Anything could happen. And a lot of things might happen. Yeah. There's a part of me that's concerned about encouraging Germany to spend more money on defense. Like, that's the only hesitation I keep coming up with in this one. It's like, maybe them spending 2% is more than they need to spend, honestly. Because when they get a lot of big defense going in Germany...

And things don't always turn out so well. But I do understand, and that is their agreement. They're supposed to be spending 5% on their defense. That's part of their arrangement. So I agree with you. It's just a lot of stuff going on. So no, I could definitely not handle all the things that he's doing right now. I don't think it's possible for most Cubans to do it. Are we closer to peace than we were yesterday? Yeah. Yeah.

I think so. I mean, we don't know if this thing's going to hold up, right? Like, we don't know if this arrangement holds up. But if we can get to a place where what we have is even what we had, you know, three or four weeks ago, where these countries still hated each other and were sort of on the verge of war all the time, which is what the situation has been for as long as I can remember with Israel and Iran. Except for the fact that many targets have been taken out in Iran and their nuclear weapons

program has been diminished significantly and a lot of their military leadership has been knocked out and you know and on and on and on and on all the things that israel has achieved during this past couple weeks even if it just bounces back to where it was iran is in a much worse position and that's i think a real positive frankly so i mean i think yeah i think we're in a better position now and and the best case scenario here is maybe this thing does hold

I mean, I don't think the Applebee's situation is going to happen anytime soon where they all just kind of we all get together and they they share a margarita at the bar. I don't think that's going to happen. I think it's unlikely, though. I mean, it's not maybe maybe Trump can make that happen. That being said, I feel like we're going to be in a better position, largely because the worst actor in this situation is weaker.

That's good. Yes. Yes. Yeah, I agree. And by the way, your Applebee's thing will never happen. It's not kosher, nor is it halal. So not going to happen, Stu. I think they could make that happen. If they can give you four dinners for $9, I think they could make it happen. I don't know how exactly, but...

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All right, let me play a couple of things that have happened since we last met yesterday. Here's Akeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill yesterday. Cut one. Donald Trump and his actions, which do not appear to be consistent with the United States Constitution, takes unilateral offensive military action without...

the approval of the United States Congress. Bring that up to Obama. The use of military force, which is offensive in nature, must be approved by the House and the Senate. That's according to the Constitution. It's not optional, Donald. It's not. Very big respect there. You remember when anybody called Barack Obama, Obama, and the left was like, he is the president of

He is the president. You say Mr. President. They don't really care about that. They also don't care that this is the precedent that they have set. I mean, I don't know how you're going to win this one when you have been doing this over and over again. If you really cared about the Constitution, you would have actually done something when it was your president. And I personally would like to see this...

straightened out and made very, very clear. I don't think the president took us into war. I think he did a surgical strike. And, you know, we didn't have this one. Remember when Barack Obama was using drones to kill American citizens overseas? Yeah, you probably don't remember. You do, but your friends probably don't remember that. Yeah, that actually happened. And nobody was saying, he can't do that. He's got to consult with Congress. No, no, no, uh-uh.

No. Why is it? You know, I was on with Piers Morgan yesterday and I asked him, I said, you know, Piers, let me if this if Hamas would have attacked England the way they did on October 7th. Do you think the the United States would be having this conversation about, you know, England is just controlling us right now and look at what England is doing. We would be bombing the snot out of them.

We would be standing by England's side immediately. Immediately. If it happened in Canada, all right, maybe not Canada. It would have happened someplace else. We would have been standing by their side. Of course we would with Canada. Why is it that Israel, the strongest ally we have, at least in the Middle East, and quite honestly, the strongest one we have. I mean, do you want to go to war with France? No.

By your side? Because I would rather go to war with Israel by my side, although I don't think they'd join us. I'd rather go to war with them. Don't mess with the Israelis. The French? Yeah. Yeah, they're really frightening. They're terrifying. And look at what they're doing to their own people. Same with England. Look at what they're doing to their own people. I just don't understand it. Now, Chuck Schumer said there was no strategy and no explanation. Here's Chuck Schumer. Cut to.

As I said Saturday night, Congress and the American people are owed answers. No president should be allowed to unilaterally march this nation into war with erratic threats, no strategy, no explanation. That's why I've called on Leader Thune to hold a vote immediately to enforce the War Powers Resolution.

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Placed dozens of anonymous phone calls to top Iranian generals earlier. It was last week. Warning them, now is the time to get out. You got to get out right now. Quote, I can advise you now. You have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child. Otherwise, you're on our list.

And we'll hit you. We'll hit your family with your children. Everybody will, we'll knock you into the dirt. So they made 20 of these phone calls. And then they said, you know, if you don't get out within 12 hours, you don't have anybody to blame, but yourself, we are closer to you than your own neck vein. Put this in your head and may God protect you. Well, wait a minute. What do I do? Well, do you want to be one of them?

Do you want to be the next one on the list? Do you want to destroy your wife and child? No, right? So what should you do? I love this. What should you do? You should make a video denouncing the Iranian regime and send it via Telegram, an encrypted messaging and social media app, within 12 hours. No word on whether they made that app. Can you imagine? You're not making that app. You're not making that video. You making that video, Stu?

No, probably not. No. Because you're dead either way. You're dead either way. You know what I mean? Dead either way. He's going to run and hide and I guess, I don't know. I mean, I suppose if you're standing, if you feel you're standing up for your country, you're not going to do those things. But you should be real. After seeing what Israel has been able to achieve militarily over the past year, year and a half, you'd have to believe it. It wouldn't just feel like an empty threat. Last year and a half. How about the last week and a half?

I mean, they took out all the, they knew right where these guys were and convinced them to all gather together. Some of them, you know, you guys should get together and have a little party. You guys should get, you know, what? And they did it. They pulled it off. I mean, it is amazing what they have done. Yeah. And it's so hard to kind of decipher what is going on from minute to minute, honestly, at this point. I spent hours and hours trying

watching this as the news was breaking of the of the ceasefire and then all of the immediate reporting you know of officials seemingly in both countries saying actually no we don't have an agreement yet and then bombs continuing to drop and then donald trump getting angry at both of them and it's just so hard to know what is actually going on do you have a theory as to what what the yeah i i maybe i've misread the ceasefire

But what I read is there's a 12-hour period that Iran has, and then Israel has a 12-hour period. But at the end of the 24 hours, that's it.

And so it was kind of like, you know, do your worst, Iran. You got 12 hours, and then, you know. This is the plot of The Purge, I believe. I know, I know. But wasn't that your understanding of it? Yeah, it was weird. It was the two 12-hour periods, and then at the 24-hour period, which ended at 7 a.m. Israel time, you know, those bombs they dropped were at 3 o'clock in the morning. Yeah, it's weird because usually—

There is a time period to stop it. And I guess the theory being, hey, you need to be able to get word to all of your friends.

You know, all the people at the missile stands who are ready to fire in 30 seconds. So you're trying to give a little bit of a window so that you can say those whatever weapons get fired in that period are not violations of the ceasefire. I've never seen one before that I can remember where one party in the ceasefire had a longer period or a different period to fire than...

the other country did. Like, hey, you guys get 14 hours and you guys get 11. Like, I've never seen that before or I've never seen a period where you guys aren't allowed to fire for their 12 hours and then you get to fire for your 12 hours and they can't respond or whatever that was was very complicated and strange. And I saw this... It was the purge. It was the purge. Yeah, it's weird. I think we should...

let's say, for future agreements where we have ceasefires of no period where you just get to keep firing. I feel like, you know, I can understand back in like the 1700s where you needed to get to your generals on the field and let them know, hey, don't go to war anymore. I feel like

Truth social. Most people know what he posts there. My guess is most of the people who are important enough to get the information, they're not supposed to fire missiles, get it pretty quickly these days. Let's just stop. Like, I feel like let's just give it a whirl. Maybe we have a generalized understanding that if something flies up the next 40 minutes, you know, let's try to ignore that one.

It seems to be a very strange way of doing things. And it allows for others. So Donald Trump doesn't, he clearly didn't read it this way because he was, he's very upset. He's very upset at Iran and Israel for both violating it. But I don't know. I mean, is the ceasefire actually off? Because I don't think it is. They've not violated it. 7 a.m. is when it was supposed to happen. That was what?

I don't know. I'll stop my head. I don't remember. 1 a.m., I think, our time.

So he was obviously very angry about weapons being fired outside of the windows that he approved, or at least was of the understanding. And that's what I was. Another thing I struggled with yesterday of what actually happened. Right. Like, because I think there's an argument to be made and a believable one. Right. That that there was an agreement fully agreed to by both parties and, you know, Donald Trump and I guess Cutter overseeing it.

And then Iran flaked on the deal and fired anyway. Like, totally believable to me. Absolutely could have been the case. That's what they... I mean, you know, the ceasefire without an unconditional surrender, you know, that is a...

That's an interesting thing because, I mean, that's what Hamas does. That's what Hezbollah does. That's what Iran does all the time. Yeah, we're not going to do that. Definitely, we're not going to do that. And then they do it. Right. So wait a minute. You just said, no, but that was special. That was part of Ramadan, maybe? Yeah.

It's part of Pride Month, as you mentioned earlier. That's right. So, like, option A, totally believable. Everyone comes up with an agreement and Iran flakes. Okay. Option B, everyone comes up with an agreement and Israel flakes. Okay.

Less believable to me, but especially... But possible. But possible. Possible. It's less believable largely considering how important the relationship is between Israel and Donald Trump from Israel's perspective. Like they have gone out of their way over and over and over again to make sure that they're not...

They're not infuriating Donald Trump on a multitude of issues, even things like tariffs. They're just like, okay, we're lowering ours to zero, and it's fine that you're keeping yours higher. That was their point on tariffs before even Liberation Day happened. This is an existential threat to Israel. Right. So we don't understand it the way they do. And I think the—

Iran broke the treaty first. They launched missiles. And then Israel responded. And I think, honestly, that I could see Donald Trump saying, you're coming to the table. You're coming to the table. And they're like, we are so close. We are this close to completely decapitating them. We're not going to stop right now. You're going to stop right now. And they made, okay, fine, knowing that –

Iran is going to violate and then they'll just they'll just go and finish the job. I think personally, that's most likely what happened because Donald Trump, I don't think even though he said it last week, I don't think he wants regime change because it's risky. It's really, really risky. And so he sees this way to go to a kind of a stalemate. And he's happier with that now that he's pushed the the nuclear weapon possibility back a few years.

Okay. So I think that's possible. By the way, on regime change, I feel like it's something I'm rooting for but don't want to do. Yes, me too. I say the same thing about me getting into shape. I'm rooting for it, but I'm not going to do it. It's that type of thing where I don't necessarily want to be involved in the process of getting into shape, but I root for it to happen. But if some miracle occurs. If somebody will do it for me, I'm all in. I'm all in on that.

So that's option two. I have to think, I have to admit that I had an option three in my head as well, which was... I think I know what it is. You told me. I bet you it's the same as mine. I bet you it's the same. So my option three was Israel and Iran, they had some talks. They were pretty close, maybe.

Kind of near an agreement. Maybe some things have been floated. It looked good. Trump was a little worried that it might fall through. So he just went public with it and said it was done. And was like, I'm going on truth social right now. It is done. Both have agreed, period. Knowing that it would put both of them in a very difficult position because if they kept firing, they'd look like they were the ones violating an agreement that had been announced.

And I have to say that part of me thought maybe there wasn't a real agreement and he was just wishing it into existence and at the same time putting all sorts of leverage on both parties. So I think, you know, it did cross my mind because that's exactly what I thought too. Crossed my mind because of Norman Vincent Peale. Yes.

He went to Norman Vincent Peale's church as a kid. I mean, he grew up listening to the power of positive thinking. That's why he's always speaking. This is going to be the greatest thing ever. Nobody's ever seen it. He speaks everything into existence, and he actually believes.

He believes in the power. So do I, but he believes in the power of positive thinking. He believes in the power of just speaking things into existence. And so there is a possibility. They were very, very close. And he's like,

We got a deal. We got a deal. They're like, wait, what? Because that's the way everybody reacted to it when he did it. Everyone was like, oh my gosh. And they were celebrating it. And then you started seeing reports out of like, from like the mouths of Iranian officials being like, we haven't even been sent an agreement yet. Right? Like they were saying that on the record.

And it's like, I don't know. Iran could just be lying about it completely. Like they could be saying they could have already signed it or that guy didn't know. There's other possibilities there. But I think a large one is just that Trump was like, we're doing this. Right. Let me give you probably a closer guess than where we've been. Okay.

I got them on the phone. I at least talked to each of them. We didn't come up. We're doing a peace deal. Okay. That's kind of where we are. I think what probably could have happened is we did all of the work.

We had all of the phone calls, but nobody had signed. And Trump is like, I'm going to lock them into this before they have a chance to change their mind. I'm just announcing it. I think that's a possibility. Highly possible, I think. And, you know, I go back and forth on this because, you know, Donald Trump's real job is,

Okay. Is to come up with the best outcome in God only knows how many situations he's dealing with at any given time. Right. And so the best outcome for America, America first would be this war to end. Right. And, you know, no flaring up of violence. And that's what he's pursuing. And he wants that to happen. And so he is oftentimes negotiating publicly to the ends that he wants to achieve. And of course, his job is actually to achieve those ends. That being said,

It does put us as American citizens in a situation where it is wise to take what he says publicly as not necessarily completely factual and literal. And it's weird to be in a situation where you have to recognize, hey, he might be, instead of trying to tell me the truth as a citizen, what he's trying to do is influence the situation and negotiating to what might be a great end.

But it puts us in a weird position where we're chasing around trying to figure out what's actually occurring. And we can't necessarily, and I mean this, I'm trying to like set this up in a way because I don't want it to sound like the insult that it might sound like. But like we are in a position as American citizens where we really just can't trust what he says as the truth.

And I think that is for... Let me rephrase that. Let me rephrase that. I think that is, just to finish, leading towards good ends. I don't think it means... It's not because he's lying to us because he wants to lie to us. It's because he's trying to influence these situations in a positive direction, which

but it's weird to be in that situation where he says it is a, there is a ceasefire sign and we can't just say there is a ceasefire signed because we don't know that that's true yet. We have to kind of go through other layers of weight. What is actually happening here before we can land in that position? So I would say it this way. We cannot trust that what is happening in front of us is finished. What we have to ask ourself is,

Are we still in the final stages of negotiation? Because everything about Donald Trump is negotiation. Everything is. Yeah. Everything.

And he is, you know, it's like, I'm going to, you know, little boy, fat man and little boy over there in North Korea. I'm going to bomb the snot out of him. And then next he's his best friend. That was all negotiation. I shouldn't have taken a word he said seriously. That was negotiation to get North Korea to behave properly.

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I think we're all at that time where sometimes I was watching the news yesterday for multiple hours trying to figure out exactly what was going on. And I thought to myself, am I just completely wasting my time? I trying to figure all of this out. I'm just going to wait till tomorrow and then maybe we'll have a better idea, frankly, because sometimes I think you can just get so obsessed with this stuff and it twists and turns you in so many ways. Spend some time with your freaking kids, you know, enjoy your life a little bit tomorrow. The news will still be there.

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Delivered. So I saw something the other day, and I just want to take two and a half minutes and just play something. This is an older guy, World War II veteran. This was from a couple of weeks ago on V-Day, V-E Day. And he was talking about how it felt, V-E Day, felt now 80 years later. Listen to this.

Hello! Today is May 8th, the anniversary of the victory in Europe. When I found out the war was over, I was already out of the service. I got out on April 13th, the day after President Roosevelt died. I was 22 when I went home.

After seven years of service, of course I joined with my cousin Chick when we were 15 in 1938. Time just goes by and the next thing I knew the world was celebrating victory in Europe. Here I am at home with my mother and my dad and they announced the war was over in Europe.

Hitler was dead. His troops have given up turning all their arms. All their ships were being confiscated. What an elation. No way I'm going back. I'm discharged already. But the release anyway. After all those years I was in the service and especially three years overseas and it's over now? It's crazy. It's hard to think you're free.

It's a different life. Yes, there were a few beers drunk that day and a lot of other liquor, of course. But some settled with handshakes and glad it's over. That's what I did. I stood by my mother and gave her a hug. Says I'm not going back. I got to remind you guys, I'm here because a whole bunch of my friends gave their life

so that I could make it here. It's hard to realize that I came through to the end of the war without a scratch. How can you land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and get through that minefield without a scratch? If you could take the time today or tomorrow or every day

for just an instant. Have a little visit with those guys that gave their life. So we're winners. That's the reason we're free today is because these guys gave their life. I think he is fantastic. He has an Instagram page called story time with Papa Jake. And I saw that the other day and it just makes me all soupy. Um,

the innocence and the sweetness of a guy who's lived his life. I'm sure he's lived a hard life. I mean, landing on Omaha beach. I don't know. There's just a, there's something about people who lived back then that is just different. And I wonder if we can ever get back there or if we want to, I don't know. I do. I don't want to, I don't want the troubles that they had back then. I don't want the, you know, the bigotry and everything else that they had back then. But I, I, do you think we'll ever get back to a place to where we,

A few beers were drunk that day, I'll tell you. Some handshakes. Congratulations, it's over. I mean, who speaks like that anymore? I talked to Steve Bannon earlier today. Both of us are very concerned. We don't agree on everything. And we've been at odds at times in our careers. But we both love our country. And we're both concerned about people hammering each other. There's

There's something happening with the right right now. And look, we can disagree. It's healthy. I think actually what we've gone through is really, really healthy in some ways. Having the conversations about the control of deep state, the control of foreign countries. I mean, you know, if we get to sit and say to people, you know, Israel's

You know, Israel's just controlling us. No, no, no, they're not. Well, they're lying to us. Well, of course they are. Of course they are. You don't think we've ever lied to other countries? You know, it's that country's job, that president or prime minister's job, to do what's right for his country. Just like, you know, we're discovering now or rediscovering, that's exactly the job of the president, to do what's right for our country. And, you know, when our...

When our interests align 100%, there's no reason to shade things. But if you are somebody who needs the other side, yeah, you're going to say, you know, this is really good for you too. And if they buy it, they buy it. You got to do what's right for your country. And it's, you know, you shouldn't be mad. If our presidents are ever duped by another country, why are you mad at the other country for trying to dupe us?

We should be mad at our own politicians who have been duped. So one thing I like about President Trump is I don't think he's duping or being duped, you know. I think he is, well, America first. Make America great again. That should be the slogan for every country, not build back better. Why the hell is that even? God, that's the dumbest, dumbest phrase I've ever heard. Wouldn't you love it if England was going to make England great again?

I was going to say, wouldn't you love it if Germany... No, no. I didn't have to think about it. You couldn't even get it out of my head. I was thinking it. Wouldn't it be great, the next one, wouldn't it be great if Germany was... No, it really... No, uh-uh. Because I'm not sure they define it the same way. Wouldn't it be great if Sweden and Holland, they were great again? France, Italy? I mean, Italy's still pretty great, but... Wouldn't it be great if we took pride in things again? Not some garish pride, not some hateful pride, not...

But just, yeah, I'm proud of my country. I'm proud of us. I'm proud of what we do. I'm going to share something with you tomorrow. A little bit more information on things I've been telling you as I'm working on. And you'll understand in time why I'm dribs and drabs of things. But I'm going to share some more information with you tomorrow. And I did a lot of thinking about this audience. I've done a lot of thinking about you and how grateful I am for you.

But tomorrow I'm going to share some things, some stats about you that you don't know, I didn't know. Some things that are just remarkable. And it's not a boastful pride to say, I'm proud of the people that listen to me. I'm proud of being part of this group. You're amazing. What's wrong with saying that about your country? Listen to this. Play Cut 9. This is the UK MP.

who's talking this is during a reform uk rally last february in essex his name is rupert lowe listen to what he says watching trump and the americans it has made me even more determined than ever to restore our unique country through a great repeal act when labor falls at the next election i don't particularly care if we're liked by the rest of the world

I care if we're respected because right now Britain is a joke and it has been for some time. I want the British government to put the British people at the top of the agenda. We should make no apologies for that.

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brutally cracked down on crime and plenty more. Let's make Great Britain great again. Thank you. I love that. No, that's not going to go necessarily with all of our interests, you know, but I love that. Make Britain great again.

And I really don't understand, with the exception of a couple of things, I don't understand how you could disagree with a lot of what he just said. I mean, you might say, oh, I don't agree with the wokeism thing. What did he call it? Wokery? I love that. I swear, if you're English, you just sound smarter. If I said, you know, none of this wokery stuff, it'd sound like a hick. But I don't know, when you say it in a bullish wokery, it just sounds smart, doesn't it?

Well, it's not. They're no smarter than us. Anyway, I hope this is a trend. I would love to be the old man that I played for you here just a few minutes ago. I'd love to be his age, Papa Jake, sitting in a chair, 100 years old, still have that bright attitude, still have love of country and love of one another, and for as much trouble as the country is in,

He didn't give that off. He just gave this, I don't know how to do this, but he just gave off this love of country and countrymen without being brash or angry. I'd urge you today to try to be a little bit more, maybe, like Papa Jake, or strive that maybe someday you can be like him. And maybe on that day, oh, there might be a few beers left

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Let me ask you one thing, Glenn, about the way this has developed over the past couple of weeks as ties into what you were just talking about. Part of the opposition to us being involved in this at all has been, I think, really well considered, right? Like we've been involved in these situations before. They've spun out of control. We should really take that seriously. Part of it has been, I think, sort of...

nonsensical, you know, some of its anti-Semitism, you know, I mean, there's a lot of other factors. But one thing that has, outside of that, that has bothered me as far as the opposition is there's an undercurrent of just America kind of sucks.

There's this undercurrent of like, we're actually not that much better than Iran. I mean, we kill people, they kill people. We kill people, Russia kills people. There's this sort of like, I don't know, we've always... I've understood America as being a great place. The first video you played of victory in Europe day, right? That's what I... Yeah, like his...

While as you have pointed out many times we've made many mistakes that is the America I believe in And I feel like to create and want to create Do you think that? Especially particularly on the right is there too much of this? I mean certainly on the left that they don't think America is great But is it creeping into the right as well? Yeah, I think it is I think we are you know, this is why one of the reasons why I keep asking if you don't believe Donald Trump and

Who do you believe? Who do you believe? If you don't, if you supported him and now like, I can't support him. What do you support? Stop telling me what you don't support. Tell me what you do support.

Because, you know, you might have to be that person that steps up that others can support. I don't know what the answer is. I just know you just can't eliminate things. You can only eliminate so many things before you're only left with you in a room going, well, I finally have everybody in this room that I agree with, you know? And so I think we're having that. But at the same time,

That's decaying because the left is decaying to a point to where we have a democratic socialist. That is basically a communist. That's just a fancy way of saying, a softer way of saying communist. He might be elected as the democratic nominee for mayor today in New York City. A democratic socialist. Wow. And by the way, he threw his weight behind Hamas. Okay.

Okay. I mean, that says something. That's how far the other side is. We don't want to be where they were six years ago.

Because look where that led. We've got to chart our own course the other direction. Because I think, and I can say this confidently, and I think you can as well, but I don't know that everyone can these days. America is still a really good influence on the world. Without it, I don't know what the world would look like. It would be a much, much worse place. Can you imagine what it would be like without this administration?

If we wouldn't have won this election for all of its flaws, whatever you want to say about it, if we wouldn't have won this election, do you know what America and the rest of the world would look like today? Massive difference. Massive difference. Massive difference. We're very fortunate. And, you know, we need to start counting our blessings instead of looking at all of the problems and then start really defining in your own personal life what

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a sense of a little bit on the right that you know america isn't the positive influence i guess in the world that i've always considered it to be you know there's certain wait wait wait wait wait can i can can i take this as we go can i ask you questions yes you can i'll allow it okay so we are we are thank you so we are well i don't want to interrupt your right but um i have to just i have to understand what you're saying here because

we are not necessarily the positive influence that we used to be. We are still a positive influence, especially lately. I think when we were shoveling DEI and everything else and transgender everything for aid, I don't think that was a very positive thing. But we still are a very positive nation. We just can be better at it.

Yeah, I think that's true. We have our problems, certainly. No one would deny that. I still, though, even in our darker periods, it's like, I mean, I think you could point to certain nations and find instances. Like you could say Argentina is potentially a better influence than us right now fiscally. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You could find examples of certain things, but like still, you know.

There's not a massive flow of migrants out of this country into Mexico, you know, or anywhere else, frankly. I mean, it's just... No, we're still the greatest place for freedom in...

In the world. That doesn't mean that it's fixed or it's, you know, fabulous or what it should be, but we still are the greatest place. People still want to come here. Yeah. You know, the problem is now that this balance of, of us having more knowledge about the things that we have done and are still doing, you know, USA ID or the CIA. I don't trust the CIA. I don't trust. I mean, I didn't trust them before, but I really don't trust them.

in the intelligence community at all. I mean, I don't trust them Assad, but I don't trust us either, you know? Yeah, I think that's an appropriate, like you'd be skeptical, but I think recognizing that it's not like there's like a bunch of amazing agencies that compared to our agencies that you'd be like, I wish we could import them. Oh, no, there's not one that I would rather have. In many cases, at least that's the... So what I came back to a little bit when I was thinking about this is,

Selena Zito, our favorite reporter in Pennsylvania, talked back in the day about taking Donald Trump seriously, but not literally. His supporters view him and take what he says seriously, but they don't necessarily always take it literally. And I was thinking about that as it applies to like his main slogan, right? Make America great again.

And how I take that and how maybe others take it, I really take that one seriously, but not literally. In that, like, I don't think that all of American greatness was gone when Donald Trump was not in office. I think we were in a worse position and going the wrong direction. And the hope of Donald Trump or a conservative candidate of another name would be to

bring this country back to its potential and maybe exceed that potential, right? Correct. Where if you take it literally, you might take it as we were good at one time and now we're bad and we need to go back to being good.

And I don't, some people I think maybe on the right. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I think there are people on the left that do believe that though. Oh, I think people on the left. On the left. They do believe that. I don't, I think the only problem with that on the left is that they, you know, America, they don't see as great. They maybe never was great. It started out as slavery. I mean, look at the, what was the project from the New York Times? Right.

1619 project. Thank you. I was thinking 1719 project. 1619 project basically aligns that world, right? Like we are a bad place. We were born in badness. We've been bad the entire time. We're still bad. That is the view of the left.

Where typically what I think the appropriate measure of America has been is we've been generally good, born out of good things with some problems. We've corrected a lot of those problems. We've created some new ones, but we're still generally a good influence. And the return of a conservative candidate would bring us closer to our potential and maybe achieve even more that we've achieved in the past.

where I think some on the right, and I've seen it mostly on this, you know, many people who are completely against any intervention in some of these worlds is like, we're actually kind of bad. Like everything we get involved in, we ruin it. We're a terrible influence. We're going over there. We're killing all these innocent people. You know, it's bloodlust. It's just for neocons and corporations. And like, that's the talk I remember from the left for many, many years. Yeah.

And I hear more of it from the right. And I don't know if it's just a passion thing or a lost in translation thing, or maybe I'm just overstating it. I think it is a loss of nuance. That's what's happening. We have lost all nuance. Look, these wars, these foreign wars, they have been horrible, horrible wars.

They haven't worked out the way we wanted. I think it makes our position in the world worse. I do believe there were people with nefarious feelings on, you know, we've got to control. I shouldn't say that. I think there were some that were nefarious, right?

that just want to control everything. I think there were some that were of that policy that really believed this was the right thing to do. I would put myself in that category. I really believed that we could intervene in other places where there was injustice and we could bring justice to the world. I didn't like the role of the policeman, but I thought nobody else is going to do it. And we have to stand up for what is right with military action.

Um, and, and then I think there are those who, you know, just knew the whole time. This is really, this is a bad idea. This is not going to work. Um, I was not one of those. Uh, I bought into the progressive lie. This was the Republican side of progressivism, uh, which was interventionalism and, uh, and spreading of, you know, democracy and, and the Republic. Um, no, we shouldn't do that. So, um,

for us to recognize now and say, yeah, we really did some horrible things. You know, we, we, we, we, you know, when you're involved in ghost planing people, et cetera, et cetera, you know, we don't, we don't ever torture. No, we just pick you up in a ghost plane and take you to a really bad country that does torture on our behalf. That doesn't clean. There's no clean hands. Hello, Pontius pilot. Uh, you know, it's not gonna, it's not helping. That's not helping. Um,

But what's lost here is the nuance of, yeah, there is a deep state. Yeah, there are people that are really conflicted right now about wanting to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear bomb. But also, they don't want to get involved in a foreign entanglement. And they're not sure who to trust anymore.

Who can I trust? Who has come clean and said, okay, we made mistakes and we're not going to make those mistakes again? And who has been, like Donald Trump, he never bought into the foreign war thing, ever. I've never, I've watched him since the 1980s. I've never heard him for foreign wars, ever. So he's pretty clear on that.

But then how do you deal with if in this world of no nuance, how do you say I am for Donald Trump and I believe Donald Trump? However, I think maybe we, you know, should be involved at least in dropping the bomb. I'm saying before he was talking about doing that.

I think we should maybe drop the bomb because I believe they shouldn't. How do you balance that? You, you can't even have the conversation now because there's no nuance. You are either for killing and destroying and drinking the blood of, of Christian babies along with them Jews, you know, uh,

you know, and you're a warmonger or you just have no, you have no place at the table because America is just a horrible place and we shouldn't be doing anything. We should blow up our whole country. Neither of those are right. Neither of those are right. And this is what has been so frustrating for me to watch over the end. You know, Stu, I mean,

Were you here last week when I kind of blew a gasket? More specific. Because some things had been, you know. Thank you. Thank you for that. See, nuance matters. Too many examples. There was somebody that came out who was a friend. I've always thought was a friend. And they were bashing me because they said, you know, I'm just in with the Jews or whatever. And I just, I started to blow a gasket. And I apologized immediately. I was like, no, no, I don't want to be a part of this.

It's really hard because we're all being pushed into tribes right now. We're all being called names right now on all sides, on all sides. And it takes real strength to say, no, you know what? These are my friends. I have now spent the last 25 years, you know, isolating myself from half the country,

Because honestly, a third of the country has gone bat crap crazy and they hate the nation. They want to see us fail. They, you know, they're voting possibly for a honest to God communist president.

In New York City. I can't. I can have respect for you having different opinion, but that is not America. You're a part of something that is not making America great again. You're part of make America into something completely different.

And I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater. But everybody else, you know, is my friend, my ally. Even though we might be arguing with each other. We have to have these conversations. I think this conversation, if it would have been ratcheted down, I think this conversation that we've had on the right is really, really good. It's really good.

Yeah, it can be constructive. I think at times it's been destructive, but it can't. The conversation should happen. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Yeah, let me say, I said the conversation is really, really good. The way we've done it is not. And that has to stop.

Yeah, I mean, because really what you're talking about is what is the line of us getting involved in these situations? I mean, right. Previous, at least to very recent history, I think most people would say, hey, you know, we should be, you know, involved against the Nazis after Pearl Harbor or whatever. You know, we debated that. But we even debated that almost didn't go in. Yeah. And it's almost didn't go in. And it's, of course, the the ability to look back and say, hey, this turned out for the

for the better is, is a nice, you know, obviously that, that in retrospect is a lot easier to make those decisions. But still, I think, you know, you could universally look at this mostly and say, Hey, who's the right side? Who's the wrong side of, of that conflict? Yes. Yes. But like, you know, I think too, like we have to look at it. You mentioned nuance. Like, let me give you an example of, of, of, of peace of, of us jumping into these situations around the world that I'm really proud of, which is missile defense.

There's no way we'd be having a ceasefire if right now Israel and Iran were just kept firing at each other. The fact that Iran can fire at a base in Qatar and Qatar can step up and knock down those missiles so that no one knows the fact. I mean, that's largely our technology. Possibly some of these countries could have done it on their own. But us...

using those, using our abilities for good in these situations, I think has taken this war that could have spiraled into something much, much worse and given us an opportunity for Donald Trump to make that announcement on truth. So, so, and let me, let me go one more step on it to bring it back to make America great again. The, the, the nuance here that I think I would like to share on make America great again. I don't want to make America great the way it was, but,

Because I think that was great for the day and it was the best we could do then. But I think we are much, much better than where we were. And we can be much more. You know, we are much more, I hope, more enlightened. We understand our own flaws and our own country a little bit better than we did 25 years ago. I think we make America better today.

than we were. And, you know, so make America great again, sounds to me again, all nuance sounds to me about, you know, like going back and, and that's not what he means. I know that's not what he means. And that's not what the average Trump supporter means, but you know, the people who are not mega, mega, you know, might be, might be helped along a little bit. If we said, we're not, we're not, we're not saying let's go back to, you know, leave it to beaver days.

Because there was a lot of bad stuff. We can be much better. Let's just not... Let's recognize that America is and can be a tremendously positive force. And let's work together to...

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