The Dan Bongino Show - Why Now? (Ep. 2464)

Episode Date: March 3, 2026

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All America all the time. Sit down, buckle up, and get ready for the Dan Bongino show. Leadership, folks. Leadership. I discussed this the early days back on the air that real leadership involves making challenging and extremely difficult level 10 decisions where unfortunately the content. the entire context of that decision, the entire context of that decision, you can't explain. So what happens? What happens is people who just hate you in advance of whatever you're going

to do because they don't have the full context and don't want it, take advantage of that information black hole and impugn your character by telling people what you did without even knowing why you did it. You're seeing it today with both Trump and Rubio. People who, if you caught them in a corner and confronted them on it and said, tell me how you know what went into that decision. They would have to admit they have no freaking idea. And yet they're the loudest mouse out there. And I'm always want to be clear. I'm not talking about censoring anybody's opinion. I'm not even talking about telling them not to have it to be. Have whatever opinion you want.

This is an opinion show too. But can you at least acknowledge that your opinion is relatively uninformed next to people who have an informed data set to make a different choice on? I'm going to show you what I mean in a second. Folks, I got to tell you, after watching yesterday, I cannot believe how the freaking doomers, and gloomers and the black pillars, they're talking about Forever Wars.

It's not even a week. It's not even a half a week. What's forever? No one's spoken out against extended presence and nation building of the U.S. military more than me. I actually ran for office on it.

You can go look. A lot of these shit talkers never did a damn thing. It's not even been a few days. Holy Moses. I really, I really, I can't believe it. I'm saying,

folks, I'm not abandoning the president, you know, two, three, four days in to one of the most consequential military decisions of all time

where he made a decision based on a data set you and I don't have. I did have. I don't have now. I've been out two months. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it.

For what? For some cheap clicks and bullshit? I'm not doing it. I said, Listen, I'm not asking you to trust anyone. So please stop saying stupid shit. Forever wars.

You're asking me to trust them. Nobody's asking you to do it. What part of that do you not understand? It's not a forever war. It hasn't even been a week. And a week isn't forever. Second, this is totally different than Iraq. In quality, quantity, everything.

And third, nobody's asking you to trust anyone. I'm asking you to trust results, not a person. If you don't like the results, after the data set is complete, then you can say, I didn't like the inputs. And here's my output. It's,

folks, I'm telling you, I've never seen anything like it. No matter what this guy, his administration, his cabinet, his team does, no matter what he does, within seconds,

someone's got something to say about it. Borders at zero illegal migrants. It should be negative. That's really not possible. It doesn't matter. I want to make the guy look at it. It's freaking unbelievable. I'm going to play in a second

this video I play when I first came back on leadership. Someone sent it to me because President Trump and his team cannot listen to me, folks, and I'm sorry, I really, really am not attempting in any way to patronize anyone. I'm not. I'm just stating a fairly obvious fact. President Trump and his team

are privy to a data set of intelligence that we are not. I'm not anymore. but having lived through it for a year, he can't tell you everything. I thought that was obvious. Apparently isn't. Some people out there in the media space think they're better informed than the president. Great, great.

I'm glad you think that. You're just factually wrong. I'm going to get to that in a second because it's folks that I've just experienced it myself. I'm extra sympathetic to what he's going through because there are things we had to do. we just couldn't explain. And you get Twitter people out there, I know what's going. You don't know shit, man.

You don't know a damn thing. Imagine the decisions the president has to make. You'd be crapping in your diaper, man. Your mommy'd have to get the wipeies out, clean you up, you slob. You don't even have the balls. I didn't see half these people stepping up or volunteering for anything. You feel so passionately about the issue?

Why not go in the administration? take an assistant secretary of defense position assistant secretary or something over at dhs you got the access you guys talk about it all the time why don't you do it it's exhausting listen to the domers i'm dumb with i told you i don't want you here i'm not interested you guys can go there are a thousand shows out there on the left and a and a few pocket on the right where all it is is doom and gloom this ain't that show I'm going to get to that video. I want you to watch it. It's short, but you need to see it.

Because if you're going to go and take a leadership position, an organization or anyone else, what do they say? Die a hero or live long enough to be the villain, right? That's what happens because there are always people out there who want to chop you down. And you're going to have to make level 10 decisions. And level 10 decisions always piss someone off because there's a shit call and a shittier call.

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It's short, but this matters right now, given all the armchair critics of President Trump, which is fine. However, we're not even a week in. Maybe wait for the movie to end before you say, the movie sucks. Just a thought, check this out. You can't ignore the cost of leadership. Great leaders are willing to accept those costs. And I want to share quickly three of those things. Three of the costs that are plastered on my desk right behind it that kind of caught me between the eyes last week. Number one, you will have to make hard decisions that negatively affect

people you care about. Number two, you will be disliked. despite your best attempt to do the best for the most. And number three, you will be misunderstood and won't always have the opportunity to defend yourself. Those are three costs that come from being a great leader. Folks, that's one of the best videos. You should print that up and keep it on your desk too. I should probably put it right there. I saw it myself.

I can't explain everything because I can't. I know it, but I can't explain it because I can't. I was paid by the taxpayer to keep custody of certain pieces of information. And so is the president. I'm not telling you you can't have an opinion on the movie. I can't be clear about this. But can you just wait for the movie to end? Maybe the movie sucks the whole time and then at the end, boom,

you've got this little cliffhanger turn of events. You're like, wow, that was the greatest movie ever. I thought that movie was going to suck. but maybe you should wait for it to end. Was that the sixth sense? Maybe you're like, ah, this Bruce Willis psychiatrist character is really annoying. Oh my gosh, he's dead? Sorry if I blew the ending, the movie's like 50 years old.

If you haven't seen it yet, he's dead. Can you just wait to the end? Leadership is making decisions that you know are going to be unpopular with a lot of people, making them for the right reasons, but the right reasons you can't always explain. And he can't explain. Here, let me give you an example, and I'll show you what I mean,

because this would happen all the time. I'm just giving you my isolated example. The president's dealing with 100x more. But we dealt with a lot. We had overwatch and everything. And by the way, this is a totally random fabricated example. Don't attribute this to anything. I mean it.

I'm just making this up so it makes sense. to you. The president makes this decision, why now, as they titled the show, why now? Why did he do this attack on Iran now in conjunction with the IDF? Let's say there was, and again, I'm just making this up. There was some weapon X out there. I'm not talking about Wolverine. Some weapon X, the flux capacitor, whatever. There's a source telling you about weapon X that say the Iranians may have. It's one of maybe, less than 50 people who know about weapon X. The president has to do something

because he knows if weapon X makes the next step it's going to be hard to stop. So they go and they do something. But they can't talk about weapon X because then the people creating weapon X can isolate down to a pocket of 50 people who knew about it and either torture them or polygraphed them or beat the shit out of them, whatever they got to do.

Which one of them was the source that gave up Weapon X? to the United States and other intelligence agencies. He can't tell you that. That's a fabricated example. However, it's based on probably, I don't know, a thousand different pieces of intel that we had consumed over time. Things you just can't say.

Now, in spite of that, in spite of that, this administration is doing its best to explain to the American people why this is in Iraq. And not only I saw it was it Philip Klein at National Review, who, you know, they're not huge fans about it, but I don't really care. It makes a good point. I'll bring it up later, but it's not about you're confusing two questions,

like why versus why right now. Well, the administration's trying to explain within a certain perimeter of what they can and can't say. they're trying to explain to you why now. But some people are doing an ad, da, da, da, da, da, earmuffs. Remember old school earmuffs? They're doing, they just don't want to hear it.

By the way, you're in no way obligated. I have a lot of respect for some of these people, not all, but some of them a lot. You're entitled to an opinion. You're an American. You're also entitled to bullshit people, and some of you are. They're trying to explain.

Here's Steve Whitkoff, one of the president's lead negotiators on this issue, here's Whitkoff on Fox last night talking about a tidbit of information that was not in a public domain before. That's kind of interesting. Check this out. The percent materials, Sean,

can be brought to 90 percent. That's weapon grade, weapons grade, in roughly one week, maybe 10 days at the outside. The 20 percent can be brought to weapons grade inside of three to four weeks. And let me say this, because I forgot this small little detail. in that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with, you know, no shame,

that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60 percent, and they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs, and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance. So that's, they were, they were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs. Now you got people playing word games with this, too. Oh, I thought we said the whole thing was destroyed and obliterate. Yes, they did say that.

That doesn't mean their capacity to try to rebuild it, and every single portion of it from the supply chain up and down was forever destroyed forever, and they could never start again. I mean, you know, it's like saying we destroyed a battleship and then they rebuilt the battleship, and they're like, what do you said it was destroyed? rebuilding the battleship. I mean, what's hard to understand.

This has been going on for 47 years, longer than that, actually. When you take in context, the whole crisis in this region, they've already killed Americans. Again, I think back to me, this is not the first strike, the second strike, and all the arguments against it without them, you know, I saw someone in who just said, someone in chat said, the movie sucks. You're a, you're a douchebag.

The movie's not over. You're actually proving how freaking stupid you are. It's not even over. You're just a dumer asshole clogging up the chat, showing everyone in the chat how freaking stupid you are. I wish I would have stopped the chat. You are, you're advertising what a moron you are. The movie's not over.

If you think it sucks, I'll tell you what, just give it two weeks and then come back and have it a pin. Fair? I don't even think that's reasonable. However, it's been a few days. And then the Dumares yesterday on Rubio, I can't believe it. Rubio said we went to war for Israel. He actually said the opposite.

Did you hear the entire answer in context? Folks, I'll play the answer in case you think I'm making this up. He said we went to war for Israel. They asked him the question. He says, no. We go on a war for Israel? He says no, and then goes on to explain what exactly he means by no, but how we did work with Israel on this strike.

He says no. And then the first thing people do is run out. Again, the doomer and gloomer class. Oh my gosh, I can't believe he said, you can't be this dumb. There are some really smart people who you can't possibly be this stupid. that Donald, I just want to be clear what you're suggesting. And I'm asking,

I'm not trying to impart upon you an idea that's foreign to you or impugn your character. I'm not. I'm really not. Are you suggesting that Donald Trump is so weak of a human being and a president

that Donald Trump's getting dog walked around by a foreign government making him do what he doesn't want to do? Because if you are, have the moose balls and just say it. I told you in one of my first tweets when I got out that you were going to see this.

People who don't have the balls to take on the president. They don't. They just don't have the spine, the steel nerves, or the balls to do it. They hate the president. They don't have the balls taking on.

They dance around the issue. Who's we? The United States military is led by the commander-in-chief. The U.S. president, civilian-led leadership. Do you not know that? Who's we? So the president's getting dog-walked around by the Israelis?

Just say it then, if that's how you feel. Stop being about it. They do the same thing. They dance around. And they never get to the point because they don't want to get confronted on it. Here's Rubio yesterday, our Secretary of State. He's asked a question while briefing the Hill and keeping everyone in the loop as much as he can. he's asked a question about, hey, did we doing this for Israel?

I want you to listen to the first word out of his mouth. No. That was conveniently left out of a lot of the context yesterday. Now you see what I'm talking about? People have an agenda and it ain't yours. Check this out. Force to strike because of an invading Israeli action? No, first, well, let me two things I would say.

Number one is, no matter what, ultimately this operation needed to happen. That's the question of why now. But this operation needed to happen because Iran in about a year or a year and a half would cross the line of immunity, meaning they would have so many short-range missiles, so many drones, that no one could do anything about it, because they could hold a whole world hostage. Look at the damage they're doing now. And this is a weakened Iran. Imagine a year from now.

So that had to happen. Obviously, we were aware of Israeli intentions and understood what that would mean for us, and we had to be prepared to act as a result of it. But this had to happen no matter what. So the administration right now knows a hundred things, okay? I'm just pulling a number out, round numbers, right? Despite the fact that because he's the commander-in-chief and we elected him in a constitutional republic,

he can make these decisions. He runs our military, his civilian leadership. He doesn't have to go to a bunch of Twitter people or podcasters, radio people like me or anyone else, and ask our advice. He doesn't, correct? You don't like it? can, if he was not in his second term, you can vote him out in four years. That's how it works, right?

That's how it works. Despite the fact that he knows a hundred things, doesn't have to tell us any. He chooses to tell you about 80 of them through his people. Just making up the number. But you get the point based on the context of things I've seen. He sends Whitkoff out there, sends Rubio out there. Rubio clearly says, no, we're not doing this because Israel like made up. us do this. We're doing it. It'd have to happen, how to happen now. Now think about it in terms of what they are telling you. There was clearly an effort, which they've been very public about, on the death to America Iranian crowd. I think there may have been a thought in policy circles in D.C. that after the destruction of the nuclear sites months ago, after Midnight Hammer,

that these Islamo fanatic Shia mullahs may change their mind and come back with a reasonable deal. They did not. Game theory, if then, equations, then they had to do something else. They are trying to rebuild. Whitkoff clearly explains the gravity of the situation. Rubio then layers on another reason giving us another piece of the hundred pieces of information, which they're not obligated to share, but they do. But they do, because this is the most transparent administration in history.

The guy's in front of the camera, him and his team all the time. Oh, we haven't heard from him in an hour. That's like a big complaint. Joe Biden, you never heard from him ever. He goes out and says, not only are they trying to rebuild, i.e. what Wickoff said, but they're trying to shield the program through conventional weapons like ballistic missiles and a reconstructed and very powerful, by the way, low-cost drone program,

which would make this very difficult to take out. But Rubio is clear, they're not there yet. They're rebuilding it. And he's pretty clear, why would we wait for them to rebuild the shield to hit the shield with a sword to see if the shield works? Get him and hit him with the sword

before they have the shield done. I don't understand why people are playing stupid. I don't care what they're talking about. President Trump keeps changing his mind. He's never changed his mind any. I don't know what you're talking about. Guys, skip ahead a minute. Those DOJ releases, pull those up.

Here's another one. We're going to debunk all the stupid faux ignorance right now. I don't know, man. I don't know. President Trump says the other day to ABC News that they tried to get me. I got them first. Now you've got it.

some of the same, I hate to say podcast bros and others, keep this up a second, Guy, who were telling us, trying to convince us, despite any evidence in some cases that foreign and Iranians were trying to kill President Trump in one case, now trying to tell you that, oh, that's all BS. You said it wasn't BS, except you just have the case wrong. No one's trying to kill President Trump from Iran. Did you guys miss this? Department of Justice press release, 20, 25. I wasn't even there.

Pakistani National with ties to Iran charged in connection would foil plot to assassinate a politician or U.S. government official. I thought,

Gee, I thought they said there was no Iranian plot. Didn't they suggest it? They said that, right? The bros out there? They're just making that, making that up. What could they...

That's a good point, Guy. He's reading this Department of Justice headline. By the way, Not the Department of Justice I even worked in. This is 2024. What could they possibly mean by Pakistani National with ties to Iran

charged in connection with foil plot to assassinate a politician or U.S. government official? Look, I don't know, Guy. It was really confusing. I don't know. That's a good question. Didn't we have to put the definition up the other day? There was that Florida lawmaker. Charlie Kirk was not assassinate.

Really? That's incredible. Well, he wasn't? What happened? And you're like, okay. All right. the Iranians via Pakistani intermediary tried, tried to kill President Trump and some others and some other stuff that happened.

Whatever. It's only one time. Oh, look, he says there's another one. Holy Moses, where'd you find that, Guy? Where'd you get that? I said it. I totally forgot. So much happened this morning.

Wait, leave this one up. These guys are lying to you about everything. Rubio said we went to off for Israel. He actually said, no. Go listen to the clip. Here's another one. Justice Department. This is November of 2024. Again, I wasn't even there.

So, oh, he's just trying to pat himself. I'm patting anything. I wasn't even there. This is my work. We had a follow up on it. DOJ announces murder for hire and related charges against IRGC asset and two local operatives. Gee's like, oh, Dan, this is just a press release by the same guy. No, it's actually a different, different guy.

And another guy. That's like three guys. Gee said it again. What could they possibly mean? I don't know, Guy. I don't know. What could they probably? There it is. Definition of assassination. Premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretly,

or secretly, especially a prominent person. What could they possibly mean? Murder the crime of unlawfully and unjustifiably killing a person. It does. It's so unclear. It's so unclear. Okay, so now we've established that, yes, in fact, IRGC units have multiple times tried to,

to kill prominent U.S. officials, including the president. You've had podcast and hosts of content. I don't mean that. I like podcast. I'm a podcast. Saying two opposite stories. When they want to argue that the government's hiding from the someone on one assassination case, they're like, man, it was foreign governments of all.

Like, well, we don't really have any evidence of that. And then when there's an actual foreign plot, they're like, well, that didn't happen. Folks, I'm getting a little exhausted with the bullshit around Trump. If you want to say Trump has no agency, okay? And he's getting dog walked around by all these people and his circle and the Israelis and the evil Jews and whatever and all this stuff, then just come out and say it and have the balls. Stop with the euphemisms and the stupidity and the word games and pretending like, oh, I don't know. I don't know what they were talking about.

Well, he just said it, Rubio. You just had Whitkoff on there. And a lot of this is the Israelis taking their own. action against Target State. Here's another. Just happened this morning just before we got in here. You got that Trey Yinks thing from Foxy. This just happened maybe 25, 30 minutes ago.

There was a meeting of the Iranian Leadership Council to pick new leadership. Gee, they're going to have a problem picking new leadership. Why is that? Because they're now dead. I don't, it's war is an ugly thing. It's just true. Play that clip from Fox this morning. The scene of one of these cluster ammunition impacts just outside of Tel Aviv. But I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering

where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader. This is a significant development and again speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war. They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where, what's left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new supreme leader. The Iranians are continuing their attacks against Israel. Right now we are in the community of Benabrock. It's a religious community outside of Tel Aviv. And you can see where the police and first responders.

Thank you, Lynn and Jeff in the chat and others. I'm just reading some of your comments. Here's yow ming in the chat. Trump doesn't answer. to anyone, not BB or any other leader. Corn, length, dusted, yeah, they're not going to be picking a new leadership team because the leadership council to pick the team is dead. Folks, you know, again, I can't emphasize enough as a, I think the proof is into putting.

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I hope that I have a lot of concerns going forward, too. A lot of concerns, as many of you do. But stop with the bullshit. The president's unclear about what the directives are. The president speaks discursively. You know that. He has had his people out there in an absolutely crystal clear manner laying out the objectives. Matter of fact, he did it himself.

I'm going to take a quick break on this. I'm going to play for you yesterday. The president's own words. I don't understand his rationale or his objectives. Did you miss this yesterday? He said it. Don't say he didn't say it. You could say, and if you don't like it, go ahead and run with it.

I don't like these objectives, but he said, here are the objectives. Don't tell me you didn't say, that you're just advertising your own stupidity. I don't know what the objectives. Then maybe don't go on the air until you do some homework. People rely on you for information. Be honest about it. Then I saw one thing like, oh, my gosh, people just now waking up to the, I rent that. Really? Really.

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I am going to play for you video of Donald Trump yesterday telling you a little. again what the objectives are. So now you can stop saying if you're watching the show you don't know what the objectives are. You disagree with him, but stop saying he hasn't been clear on it. He has. This is Donald Trump back in 1980. I want you to get back into his mindset, too, about how he processes these inputs and came to these objectives. Here he is back in 1980 talking about a situation that if you were alive when I was alive, I was just a kid when this happened. The Iran crisis, the hostage crisis that I ran when they raided our embassy and took our people hostage, I want you to listen to how Donald Trump felt about this back when it happened.

This was a huge scar on America. Check this out. When you get the respect of the other countries, then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do. And you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows country, such as Iran, to hold our hostages. to my way of thinking is a horror.

And I don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries. Obviously, you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops, et cetera, and brought our boys out. I absolutely feel that, yes. I don't think there's any question. And there's no question in my mind. I think right now would be an oil rich nation.

And I believe that we should have done it. And I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it. And I don't think anybody would have held us. in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us. And we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity. For those of you who weren't alive when this happened, we have a really young audience and that's great. We love having it. I don't care who listens, what age, what dem, it doesn't matter to me. But if you were alive when this happened, the 400-plus days that our people were held hostage by the Iranians, this was a, I was a young, young kid.

I'm not going to lie to it. It's not like I was like intensely involved in geopolitics. It was the news story every night. It basically destroyed Jimmy Carter because it made him look weak. This was the story. This impacted so many people, Donald Trump, obviously being older than me, who were adults at the time, who basically never forgave the Iranians. I'm not telling you that's what incentivized to do this.

I'm setting up why he did it by telling you what the objectives are. But I want you to see what's in his mindset about what happens when weak people like Carter and others allow this stuff to go on like Biden's evacuation of Afghanistan prematurely and tactically and efficiently, how it incentivizes more behavior by scumbags who want to kill us. Trump has never changed. He doesn't want to send the message of weakness. Here's Donald Trump, this next one. This is Donald Trump on how. For those you say, oh my gosh, Donald Trump, he's getting us into another Iraq. Really? Donald Trump was so bothered by how we extended the operation in Iraq without a clear metric, I think, for success

or an exit strategy, that the wounded warriors would come home bother him so much. He would talk about it all the time. Here's Donald Trump on this. Check this out. Nobody talks about the soldiers that are coming back with no arms and no legs. And I saw at Marlago on Mondays, I make Maralago, my club that you know about it. In Palm Beach. I make that twice now on a Monday. I let returning Iraqi injured soldiers come to the premises. The most beautiful people I've ever seen, but they're missing arms and legs. They're with their wives. Sometimes they're with their girlfriends, and the tears are coming down,

the faces of these people. I mean, the thousands and maybe hundreds of thousands, and the Iraqis that have been just maimed and killed, this war is a horrible thing. Now, President Bush says he's religious. And yet 400,000 people, the way I count it, have died and probably millions have been badly maimed and injured. What's going on?

Folks, he's never changed. You see him back in 1980 discussing the humiliation we had to endure when these scum Islamo fanatic radicals, you know, took our people hostage for over a year, humiliated the entire nation, how it scarred him. and he understands this invites further attacks. However, he's also been impacted by the Iraq war. He's talked about it all the time. How, one, it wasn't conducted right.

We should have taken custody of the oil. How if we were going to do it, we should have been in and out. It should not have been an extended way. He's run on that too. The guy hasn't really changed. I was talking about this before. He was clear on his objectives at the White House yesterday. He laid them out.

Again, you could talk all you want. clear. He was clear. Disagre with them or not. Here they are. Check this out. Objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Aran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked out already 10 ships. They're at the bottom of the sea. Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon. I said that from the beginning. They're never going to have a nuclear weapon. They were in the road to getting

one legitimately through a deal that was signed foolishly by our country. And finally, we're ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders. So he's been clear on what? the objectives are. He just laid them out. He literally said, here are the objectives. Here are the objectives. Missile capacity. Making sure their ballistic missiles can't threaten the entire region. And folks, acting like the region doesn't matter to us when a good portion of the world's oil that powers your life, your ability to like not freeze to death in the freaking winter, acting like that stuff doesn't matter is total bullshit and complete naivete.

got to get rid of their missile capacity because they've already told you and shown that they're going to use it. Second, we've got to get rid of their Navy and their ability to stop the traffic from exiting the Strait of Hormuz and a lot of the oil making its way around them. You've got to get rid of their Navy. You don't want them to mine the place. So here's some video, by the way, of some of the destruction of their naval assets, upwards of 11 Iranian ships taken out. They can't have nuclear weapons because we don't want nuclear blackmail to happen in them to kill us. and we have to basically crush support for these terror proxies.

Now, a lot of these people are acting, after a lot of these results, by the way, have already been met. They're acting like they don't know what's going on, playing stupid. Just here's the problem. Here's how I see it. People aren't used to D.C. politicians. Donald Trump's a politician like anyone else, obviously ran for office. People are not used to the D.C. political class actually doing stuff.

They're just not. They're used to like roundabout rhetoric and constant bullshit. And when stuff happens and happens fast like this, they almost don't know how to respond. So they process it as chaos when in fact it's just results and results quickly. They're used to people talking. They're just not used to people actually doing stuff. You've heard Democrats and other prominent Democrats run in the past on, man, you know, we're going to have to do something eventually about the Iranian nuclear program.

Okay, he did it. He did it. You just don't like the fact that it happened quickly. Here's Brett Barry yesterday on Fox saying he spoke to Donald Trump, and they're actually all stunned at the degree and how quickly this stuff happened. They were expecting a lot of this decapitation of the leadership and the destruction of a lot of these programs and facilities take up to four weeks. Some of it happened in a day.

They're just not comfortable with the speed and the results. Check this out. He's got off the phone with the president. He is very pleased with how things are going, obviously, is disheartened about the loss of life, and there may be more, he said, along the way. But as far as the progress, he said they are ahead of where they thought they 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. The intelligence, the level of intelligence that they've had up into this point is truly amazing. I asked, so what you're saying is that you know there is somebody on the ground in Iran that is going to eyes up. Quote, yeah, I feel there is. I feel that, and some of them are no longer with us, to be honest, because it was 49 leaders that were taken out. That was going to take four weeks, we thought, to get rid of the Iranian leadership. And it's always, you know, if they hide, it's a lot longer than four weeks. And they would have been hiding. We were shocked when we heard what was going on. We knew exactly what was happening and where, 49 leaders. And, you know, they're talking about using

people now that nobody ever heard of, even though they don't know. They're using people, studying people to be the leader that even they don't know who they are. There it is, folks. He's been pretty clear. Hey, I thought this would take up to four weeks. We've already passed most of the metrics for success. He does not, I think it really bothers people that he doesn't plan on a forever war. And they don't know how to respond. So you're seeing this again, extinction burst of crazies. He's not telling us. us what the objectives are. Here are the objectives. Well, I don't like the objective. Which one don't you like? Regime change. Well, he killed people who were chanting death to America.

That's part of the regime. Was regime change the goal? Maybe in the sense that we wanted the regime in charge now that was threatening us to die, but regime change in context of nation building, like we were going to sit there and change and fertilize and water the regime like we tried in a wreck. He's clearly not going to do that. He's, been crystal clear about it. Do you see this commentator yesterday to the, by the way, the embarrassing, humiliating defeat of the Iranian military? Embarrassing.

Their goal was basically the Iranian military, one thing. Anyone telling you that we're going to try to project force outside of proxies, outside of Iran is full of shit? Their goal is one thing. Preservation of the regime that are now dead. They couldn't even do that. The destruction was so quick. and rapid, the people complaining about, oh, my gosh, it's chaotic.

I don't know. It's not chaotic. You just not used to processing so many results so quickly. You're just not used to be used to ship talking all the time. I saw this online as a military analyst, a Jake Bro, I think it's real Jake Bro and X. But just like a minute of how bad and humiliating the performance by the Iranian military was. And yet three days in, again, you got a bunch of Dumers already complaining about. about it. Give it. The movie's not even over. Check this out. And as far as the active fighting in the war, Iran's already lost. This war has been going on for less than 48 hours. And in my opinion, Iran's military is already defeated. If they were going to score any serious hits against

anyone, they probably would have done it in the first 12 hours. But Israel and the United States now control the skies over Iran, they're eliminating targets at will. All the most dangerous and highest priority targets have been already destroyed. If Iran was going to destroy like a battleship or an aircraft carrier, they would have done it by now. And Iran's response has been pretty embarrassing. The Iranian regime has fired missiles at nine countries, Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and the UAE. The sporadic and uncoordinated nature of the attacks on a wide number of different targets has resulted in minimal damage being caused, despite such a large number of missiles being employed.

SC Edmonds in the chat. Precision targets are not chaotic. They know what they're doing. This took planning. A lot of planning. Yes. Yes, sir. Or, ma'am, yes, he did.

You don't like us being there? fine. It's a republic. Opinions are everywhere. That doesn't mean they're good ones. What part of the mission exactly now bothers you? People clamoring about how they show strongly object to regime change. You want the Ayatollah back? I don't understand. This is something. I think you're confusing, again, nation building with regime change.

Yes, of course they wanted to take out and decapitate the leadership. that was planning to rebuild the nuclear program and shield it so they could blackmail the world with it. You know, folks, a lot of these regimes, they learned a lot from both Libya and the Iraq War. After we decimated what was thought to be, if you remember the original Gulf War I and two, Saddam Hussein's army was thought to be perilous, I mean, really like a relatively strong army for the region. They got destroyed. They got humiliated. forget a friend of mine when I was an agent telling me he was a tow missile operator how pathetic

the performance of the Iraqi military was there were foreign heads of state that hate us that watched that and said gosh if we don't go nuclear we don't stand the chance that's what the Iranians were trying to do and Dems are basically admitting now too this is where the folks everything has a purpose in the show purpose purpose purpose the Democrats are basically in their analyst admitting now too that you know what we're going to paint this as kind of chaotic it's not chaotic it's just a series of results it's like taking four or five finals on the same day you're still going to take your finals in college and get a score but yeah it's going to be busy because you're taking them all in the same day this guy moves fast as president he doesn't want finals over the course of six

weeks he wants them all in the same day because i told you he's transactional i worked for him I know him. He wants results, and he don't want to wait. Here is Dan Turrentine, an analyst with Sean Spicer, who will be back. Supposed me on today. We'll have him back at some point. They're now admitting the pace of the results.

Chaotic is going to be like kind of their message going forward. I want you to watch this clip. And I'm not knocking this guy specifically, but watch how you start to see this word going forward. You're going to say, Dan wasn't kidding. Chaos. You're going to hear the world chaos going. They don't mean chaos.

They just mean they're uncomfortable with the results because it makes Donald Trump look good. Check this out. The party is all over the place right now. So, I mean, those are two separate questions. I think one thing that I just, and this is just anecdotal found stunning, was just the number of people I know who are apolitical or even Trump supporters who are like, I don't like this. Now, to Sean's point, they're kind of hoping that this works. But go back to what's Trump's weakness right now, not just in Iran, but everywhere, extreme and chaotic.

Right. Those are the frame that Minnesota, just even the Venezuela thing. While it got more popular, people were like, whoa, I woke up to we went into Venezuela. Now to Sean's point, it was over within four hours, literally. And within eight hours, he was in New York or 12 hours, right? I do think there are a lot of people who are like, holy cow, we went. I mean, on Tuesday, he gave a state of the union. I think it was three and a half minutes on Iran. And on Wednesday, we were talking about whether people stood or not on immigration. And we are now talking about a regional war in the Middle East. So I think Sean is right. If this comes to a quick, if Iran capitulates, we get a new government that wants to work with us and there's peace. Trump's going to almost be on Mount Rushmore to some extent, right? That he pulled this off. The reason I put this Dan Turinine gentleman up in this clip is because at least he's fairly honest about it.

I mean, I don't have no hatred in my heart for anyone who's got a D in front of their name. But he's honest. If this results in the decapitation of the Iranian debt to America class, and they can get even some semblance of a government that they're going to build. We're not building. We're not nation building. President Trump has said now four or five times the Iranian people, this is your chance.

You blow it. It's on you. He said that, correct? Sorry, I don't have the clip. But you've heard him saying, I just, you know, I usually bring the receipts, but I'll throw it in a maybe tomorrow show. He's already said it multiple times. This guy's fairly honest about it.

You're going to see the word chaos thrown out there now every day. It does not mean chaos. He's saying to you right now, yeah, Democrats are all over the place. It looks chaotic. But the results, if they pan out, which I can almost guarantee you they will, if the results pan out, you're going to have to put this guy on Mount Rushmore. At least he's honest about it, Dan Turinteen. I'm happy to have him on too.

It's an interesting debate to have. Folks, as I said, it is ridiculous to tell everyone how much you hate a movie where you're not even to, remember back in the old days? No one hears as old as me, but they used to have intermissions in movies. Remember that? You used to go ahead and get popcorn. We're not even at the intermission from the 70s and 80s yet. And you already think the movie sucks. It's just, I don't know, folks.

I just find it fairly disingenuous. It's not over. Here's a very quick CNN clip of they're saying what Donald Trump apparently spoke to Jake Tapper and told them, guys, ladies, this mission we're engaged in, it's not even close to over here. Remember the whole, everybody hold. The big stuff hasn't even happened yet. Check this out. I told my colleague Jake Tapper that the big,

wave is yet to come. So clearly things are going to be escalating, not de-escalating in the future. Reuters, Trump tells CNN, the big wave in war with Iran is yet to come. Again, you think he's lying? I don't understand. And when has he lied to you before? He warned Maduro, don't screw around. He did.

Now he's in a U.S. prison. He warned the Ayatollah since 2016. We're going to wind up bombing you if you don't try to bomb us and kill us first. and now he's dead. The Iranians are just, I don't know what they're waiting for, like for the entire, like the leadership council's dead. The leadership's dead.

Now, the Iranians have big issues going forward, huge issues. Number one, so much of their leadership hierarchy, they're down from like the CEO to like a floor manager in the mailroom. Folks, these leaders have not been vetted for leadership qualities. And I don't mean that in a qualitatively good way. A lot of these fanatics, she have fanatics over there, want to kill you.

It doesn't matter for them in the mailroom or not. But think about it. It's a hyperbolic but necessary example. You have a company like, I don't know, IBM. You've got the chairman, you've got the CEO and you got board members who've got 50, 60 years of leadership experience in some cases. Some of these guys have been around forever. It's a lot of experience.

If you wipe out the board, the CEO, the CFO, the CIO, the CSO, the upper level managers, and the mid-level managers, and then you're down to, like I said, the guy sorting mail in the mailroom. How do you vet this guy for leadership qualities? He hasn't done it yet. He's in the mailroom. In other words, he's giving the opportunity to the Iranian people now that there is a big power vacuum to go and take their country back. and he's telling him, you're not going to get another shot like this. We're not going to do it for you. The second problem they're going to have, obviously communications is an issue for them.

Every time they seem to communicate, they all seem to die. The problem is, folks, they don't know how they can talk, what they can talk on, where they can meet. If you can't talk and communicate, command, control, communications, it is impossible to lead a country. It is impossible to lead a country that large. Third, there's going to be infighting. Think about it. You wipe out the entire hierarchy from the CEO down to middle management. They're not that far yet, but say they wipe out upper level management and the C-suite.

You're going to get infighting from people who never expected to be in charge. Joey Bag of Donuts going to say, wait, I think I should be in charge. No, no, it's my turn. Because there's no hierarchy because the entire hierarchy or chain of command has been wiped out. No one anticipated the mailroom guy. These are real problems now. That's why he's telling the Iranian people, we can't build this for you. It's yours.

Take it. Take it now. Ladies and gentlemen, if they don't, it is on them. The only play left now for the mailroom guys run in this place is to drive a wedge between us and regional partners in the area. That's their only play. You see it with this just indiscriminate launching of missiles, of drones. The Iranians don't know. They're engaged in a classic extinction burst.

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So their only play right now, as they said, is to drive a wedge. They thought they were going to drive a wedge there. Let's just bomb everyone in the region. Everyone's going to freak out and blame the United States. It's not what happened. So now they're just unleashing everything they have. And they don't have a lot left after we've hit a lot of their launchers and their storage sites for ballistic missiles. This is an excellent analyst and a good friend, Jim Hanson.

He was on Fox explaining exactly this, that they're trying to drive a wedge and it's just not working. It's actually having the opposite effect. Check this out. The retaliation strikes hit a bunch of Arab states. Doesn't sound like a very strategic response. Why would they do that? Are they going after U.S. bases? It wasn't so much the U.S. bases. I think they were trying to drive a wedge between the Gulf states and the U.S. and get them to blame us for the fact that they're taking incoming fire. And I think that was a major miscalculation. You know, they may have actually taken the Abraham Accords, which was an agreement in theory mostly, and turned it into the Abraham Alliance of people who are all united against the Islamic Republic and wishing it to meet its demise.

so there can be prosperity and security in the region. Yes, well said, amigo. That is exactly what they're trying to do. Drive this wedge and the opposite happened. All of these regional players from the Qataris, the folks in Bahrain, the leadership in Bahrain, and the Saudis are really getting pissed off now and not at us at the freaking Iranians.

Qatar carried out strikes in Iran. Saudi Arabia to soon follow Israeli reports. Here, look at this video of this Iranian oil facility. You think this is making the Saudis happy regardless of your feelings about any of these governments, whatever they intended to happen, is not happening. The opposite is happening.

So you're seeing this classic extinction birds. This video is meant to be funny. I saw this. I've had this bookmarked for a couple of days because I send my daughter, my youngest daughter. I send her these dog videos of doodles sometimes. So, you know, then it pops up on your 4U page. Also, this one popped up.

And it's meant to be kind of a cute video of a dog, if you listen on Apple or Spotify, pressing this little thing for treats. And usually it presses the button, and you'll see now it gets a treat. And the thing must run out of treats or something. And the dog is freaking out. This is what I talk about all the time.

In psychology, which is known as an instinction burst of behavior. You engage in an operant behavior, dressing a lever and you expect to get whatever, a can of Coke after you put a dollar in. And the Coke doesn't come out. Every single organism that thinks, that thinks, I'm not talking about self-aware, but things, engages in this extinction burst of behavior where they start to freak out. You see the dog doing it now. Maybe it's a timeline cleanse, maybe not.

But this is exactly what it looks like. This is what the Iranians are doing right now. This is what the mailroom guys are doing now. They're freaking out because they thought they would get a response. Everybody's going to come to our defense. We can't believe you're bombing us. This has all got to stop. And that's not what happened at all.

Folks, in the beginning of the show, I discussed, as I've discussed often, that level 10 decisions like Donald Trump, President Trump is making now, you're not always going to be able to explain every single input. If there's 100 inputs that went into a decision, we are going to take out the Iranian ballistic missile facilities, their Navy and their decapitate the leadership over there, they're not going to be able to explain everything. Level 10 decisions are really hard.

All you can ask is that the people in charge think clearly explain what they can explain and that later on over time when a lot of the stuff is declassified and does come out, then maybe everyone will be able to see all the inputs that went into it and the output will make more sense. But I can tell you, having people in charge who are clear-eyed about what the threat is

is absolutely a necessity. And you did not have that before, folks. I've been getting questions even yesterday. I addressed it yesterday on the show. You know, what do you feel the threat of sleeper cells in the United States are? Folks, there's always going to be a threat of a terror attack by an organizer group in the United States. There are a lot of people that want to kill us. It's not a mystery.

However, in the past year, in this body full of briefings, I can just tell you everything is being done to disrupt any possible organized plot. I am equally afraid of self-radicalized people. doing insane and crazy things, as we've seen, who just used what happened in Iran as kind of a, you know, a mark to go crazy and shoot a place up. Because those are hard to stop. They're self-radicalized.

They're not part of a larger comms network where they leave investigative breadcrumbs where we can go fine with some of the technology we have. However, I can assure you the people in charge right now, Donald Trump's team at DHS, at CIA, and at the FBI, have reprioritized threats away from the Biden era where those entities were completely looking at, in my opinion, the wrong things.

I always bring receipt, you know, to take my word for it. He was a ridiculous speech by Biden talking about how the biggest threat in the country is white supremacy. Listen, any kind of racially motivated violence is always going to be a threat and it has always existed. This is the biggest, to be clear, this is the biggest threat in the country. I'm going to tell you something in my year there in the past year. I saw no evidence whatsoever. This was the biggest, biggest threat. Zero that this was the biggest threat.

I'm going to tell you, I think they completely made this up. Because when I asked for evidence of it, it's a threat. The biggest threat? We're only argument on the margin here. I saw no evidence of that at all. Check this out. I don't ignore what our intelligence agency have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today.

white supremacy is terrorism. I, folks, I'm just telling you, listen to me. I'm talking to the liberals, too. I know you hate my guts. Listen, I know we don't like each other, feelings mutual, okay? But I had to work for you too. Obviously, I wasn't paid to be, you know, a political FBI deputy. I was paid to be the FBI deputy for everybody.

I'm telling you that's bullshit. It is a threat. It is not any racially motivated violence is a threat. you see it coming from all angles the biggest threat are that's insane right exactly right look at these with the masks in the back that's a good point jester can you sit still out of if you're listening on apple and spotify go to uh what do we an hour and seven minutes in look at Pelosi Pelosi with the blue mask Kamala with the mask with the mask in the back I'm telling you I saw no evidence that that statement is true at all folks results matter

He's got a different team in there now. And there's very little dispute that the, I'm never going to tell you any of this mission accomplished bullshit. It's never accomplished. People want to kill us every single day. We've seen some of it. And the possibility that someone may be successful at some point because we don't live in a surveillance state.

You trade your liberty for security, as has been said, many times you will have neither. And I do not support a surveillance state, didn't in my prior role either. that always creates a situation where someone can slip through the cracks. And they're always going to be cracks because we don't have a surveillance blanket on everyone all the time. There's an assumption of innocence in the United States, even when you're charged with a crime. But there is no question the people he has in charge now are not screwing around.

And that the world is a safer, not totally safe, but a safer place because we didn't screw around. And we understood the threat and didn't play political games like, I was the biggest threat? Oh my gosh, with the masks on and the background. I put this tweet up yesterday. I thought it was important just to remind people who constantly tell you between the liberal media folks, oh, nothing's happening.

And the domer's nothing's happening. Really? This is just kind of a short montage of headlines. Trump calls Khomeini's death justice for the American people. U.S. overdones, when fentanyl fell. Inflation rate fell in November, defying expectations. FBI opens grand conspiracy probe on weaponization, opening door to special prosecutor.

Fed seized $15 billion in Bitcoin, biggest seizure ever. Patel fires corrupt FBI agents in Arctic Frost. ousted Venezuelan president, Maduro, reigned in U.S. court. I mean, it's just, whatever, I don't know what the city is. You get the point. You can look at it on Twitter. I just sent it to them to remind everyone out there that the team in charge is serious. The stuff takes time.

we are not totally safe. We'll never be totally safe. But we are safer because we don't have people like spaghetti brains, the last president spouting off nonsense with no evidence to back it up. Folks, this attack was structured methodically. He has smart people around him, the president, who know what they're doing. Ratcliffe, Hegset, Hegset, cash, the security team,

they know what they're doing. This was structured this, way for a reason. Notice how they got Maduro first. Energy, if you cannot power your war machine, it's going to be really difficult to start the World War III we keep hearing about. The Duma's out there. Everything's going to be World War III. Thank the Lord it hasn't happened yet. And we hope it doesn't. But can we all agree? Fair enough that if you are going to start, quote, World War III, you are going to need power to do it. Nuclear, coal, natural gas, oil, correct? diesel. I'm not crazy, right? You're not going to start it on a bunch of wooden flotilla boats

like the Vikings, right? Can we all just start with that premise? President Trump and his team understands that. You can't power a war machine without power. So they go and get Maduro first and they secure regional, basically petrochemical dominance because the United States is one of the world's largest producers of energy. Venezuela is up there too. Venezuela. Venezuela, Venezuela, the America hating Maduro, is now in a U.S. prison. So now we've iced out where some of our enemies were getting their power to power their war machine, try to follow, Libs, from this Venezuelan dipshit who's now in a U.S. prison. So now he's locked off the Venezuelan supplies.

Look at his tweet by, what is it, Peter Hassan? Now all of a sudden, with the Iranian leadership being decapitated, looks like they're going to have a problem power in their war machine from Iran, too. Politico, President Donald Trump's latest attack in Iran takes a big economic bite out of one of America's chief rivals. China. There's a chart here about Iranian and Venezuelan exports, how they export most of their crude oil to where?

China. Why am I bringing this up? Now, watch. Watch the euphemisms guys and the other ones playing ignorant. What are you saying? This is a war for oil? No. I'm saying it is a military action meant to ice out another world war that requires power to fuel a war machine where they're icing out the power so there's no war machine for a world war.

There's an economics show I really like. I watch a lot of the clips on a number of different platforms. You know Peter St. Ange, you've heard him many times. Here he is talking about, it's about a minute clip, exactly this, too, how China all of a sudden is going to be suffering some kind of. I'm not telling you it's going to be a catastrophic energy crisis, but it's enough to make them think twice about their war machine if they can't get the assets to power it. Check this out.

But what happens in Iran does not say in Iran because of the millions of barrels of oil, Iran was exporting 90% of which was going to China, even higher than the 70% of Venezuela oil that was going to China. And none of it was being paid in U.S. dollars since both Venezuela and Iran are sanctioned on the swift dollar payment system. Now this is raising questions whether Iran was actually a strategic strike against China, who was already reeling from a real estate crisis and massive overcapacity in manufacturing,

which is exacerbated by Trump's trade war. The background is China has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Ukraine war, gobbling up Russian oil and gas that used to go to Europe and getting it at a fat, since it is sanctioned. This turned Russia into China's biggest oil and gas provider, and China now buys nearly half of Russian oil, which is about double its pre-war share. China was doing the same with Iran and Venezuela, buying their sanctioned oil at a fat discount, essentially buying shoplifted groceries on the street instead of going into Walmart and paying like everybody else, which gave it a big cost advantage.

Again, another one of those inputs, Donald Trump and his security, team, President Trump had, and the details of it, many of it, that's kind of an overview. The intricate details, many of them are probably classified. There was a war going on on the dollar. There was a war going on in the petrochemical energy market. You think this was just some half-ass, you know, ham sandwiched decision on a Sunday night, let's just go bomb around. Like, no one had thought this through.

This was, a lot of this was strategy to intercept. this cabal of American hating countries that both wanted nuclear weapons and had them, all feeding off each other's teat to make sure they engaged in a long-term strategy to make sure that the United States was going to be brought to its knees. This was not figured out on a weekend over tea and crumpets. This has been thought out over time. I know. I was there.

This whole strategy, it's not just one piece. They were trying to destroy our currency, too. You see Donald Trump, you saw his true social post about bricks, right? Brazil, Russian, like trying to use alternate currencies and things like that to destroy the dollar. Remember, every time a transaction in the energy markets is conducted, it's conducted in dollars. That's basically like a free loan to the U.S. economy. Now, sometimes that's not great because we can borrow a lot of money and the Democrats and some weak need Republicans do. However, we're in what we're in now. And if the dollar is the reserve currency of the world

were to fall apart tomorrow, which I sincerely doubt, but in exchange for Chinese currency instead, folks, interest rates would be like 20%. The whole economy would collapse. I'm just trying to make the point that this stuff is really complicated, level 10 decision making. And Kirby Smart was right. a lot of times leadership involves making really challenging and hard decisions where you can't explain every single input. You just can't. And you just got to let people sometimes just kick you in the teeth. And it sucks because you know they just don't know anything.

They just don't. And the left wing bullshit media, by the way, knows absolutely nothing. Them I want you to completely disregard. I want to show you these two clips. Just nail home my point. these people in the left wing media infrastructure, the doomers latch on to this too. You talk about, oh, Donald Trump can't get his story straight.

I said to you in the beginning of the show, he got his story straight. He asked you what the, they asked what the objectives were. He said, here are my objectives. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. The left wing media can't get their story straight. Here's a clip from ABC.

This is just the other day. And I want you to pay very close attention to the answer this young lady gives here about the intelligence and how Iranians may have been, you know, years and years away from doing, somehow magically she has more information than Rubio? That's, that's incredibly. He's the Secretary of State.

National Security Vice probably has a thousand other jobs too. You know more than Rubio? I don't understand. How do you know that? I'm just saying the lady in the club, I don't even know her name, I don't even care at ABC. Serious question. Have you been in on any intelligence briefings?

The PDB in the morning? Do you know? I mean, you sound very confident in your answer. How do you know that? You have Middle Eastern intel sources that you're not telling the government about? Are you a foreign agent? We don't know. I don't understand how you know that. Amazing how we're supposed to respect this person's opinion. When they know absolutely nothing, check this out.

Defense Secretary focused on this 47 years of violence covering from the Iranian regime. Declined to lay out what the imminent threat was here. He talked about the nuclear weapons. Those were set back last year. He talked about the ballistic missiles, according to our defense intelligence agency. Iran was about 10 years away from developing any kind of a missile that could hit the United States. Yeah, Georgia back nine years away is what U.S. intelligence had concluded. Okay, that's their story, you know, nine years away.

Again, the president doesn't tell you everything he sees and he's not obligated to. He's obviously very transparent. That's just an objective fact, given the amount of media appearances he does relative to other presidents. yet again, he was Jen Saki, White House Press Secretary, just a few years ago, saying the exact opposite. It's like they can't even, by the way, she's at MSNOW now. Sorry, that's always me at this time where Haley always wears in the name. Here's sake saying the exact opposite. Check this out.

Iran has rapidly accelerated its nuclear program and reduced cooperation with international inspectors. their breakout period is down from about a year, which is what we knew it was during the deal, to just a few weeks or less. Big hat tip, Maze Moore, as always, you know, we love the Masemore account on X. Sorry if I missed the hat tip earlier. I hate that. Got to credit these creators, they worked their butts off at M-A-Z-E-M-O-O-R-E on X, a great account. These guys worked their butts off, folks.

So, pulling all these videos. And that was MRC, the one before. Folks, Pete Hegseth has done an incredible job as our Secretary of War. He has. There were a lot of doubters. I mean, Pete's accountable like everyone else, just like me. Of course, everyone's open to criticism. I'm sure everybody can find something.

But there's no doubt the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, was dealt the shit sandwich when he went in there. Every single person of any partisan persuasion whatsoever should and can or else you're lying. acknowledge a fact that we absolutely adore our warfighters, but that a lot of the leadership at the Pentagon was getting overly bureaucratic and out of control. Out of control, meaning processes were broken, acquisitions were broken, leadership was too layered, it was really hard to make decisions. The Secretary of War was dealing with a lot.

After the Maduro Ops, Midnight Hammer, and this, he has got a CV resume under his belt, where again, you're going to argue results. It's going to be hard to knock this guy. He's done an incredible job. But he said something yesterday, I really want to make sure you tattoo on your brain right now. He said what I've been hinted at the whole show.

See how the show has an arc to it? It's like the laffer curve. We always wind up back at the same spot. Tell people what you're going to tell them, tell them what you told them. Leadership sometimes involves making decisions where you can't tell people all of the inputs. You just can't.

Pete's asked the question about ground troops. He answers the question, and then he says something you really need to hear, that, hey, I'm not going to tell you everything. Because if I tell you everything, I'd be broadcasting it to the world, and we basically be putting our troops in danger. Even if that not telling you anything,

by the everything, makes us look bad. That's what leadership's about. Check this out. Are currently any American boots on the ground in Iran? No, but we're not going to go into the exercise of what we will or will not do. I think it's one of those fallacies for a long time that this department or presidents or others should tell the American people, and our enemies, by the way, here's exactly what we'll do. Here's exactly how long we'll go.

Here's exactly how far we'll go. Here's what we're willing to do and not do. It's foolishness. And so President Trump ensures that our enemies understand we'll go as far. as we need to go to advanced American interests. But we're not dumb about it. You don't have to roll 200,000 people in there and stay for 20 years. Folks, I'm going to tell you some.

I fought really hard during my time on the radio and the podcast before I left. I fought really hard for Pete. And I had to tell you, I'm really proud of that. I'm really proud of that because he has done an incredible job. incredible job he is dealing with a lot a lot of stuff he can't tell you a lot of stuff that bled over into our stuff i'm not talking about i mean bureaucratized decision making entirely exclerotic environments it's just it's really really their budget ours was you know 12 billion theirs forget it that's like a tip in a restaurant for the for the secretary of war he's dealing with a lot

And I got to tell you, I don't think, I don't want to speak for Pete Baines. I'm pretty sure knowing Pete a long time. Neither one of us expected that. I was just sitting in my office one day watching a movie falling asleep on a Sunday night. It was late. And I got a call from the president asking me to, if I was interested. And I said, yeah, hell yeah. I'm pretty sure Pete, you know, was kind of surprised by a lot of it too.

but he stepped up and he deserves our support and he's 100% correct and yet here's the other side you would think they would have learned something from the vietnam era you know jane fonda bullshit they tried back then believe it or not hanoi jane is back i'm not kidding i may have to cut this off early the beginning of the show we go through the clips to make sure it's the right sound and video and they're playing this. And, gee, did I not? I'm like, I can't, I can't listen. I don't know how much of this.

I know, I got two seconds into it, two, maybe three. I don't know how much of this I'm going to subject you to. But I want you to be, there's actually a strategic part of me putting it on the show. I want you to expose their strategy. Their strategy is to paint this as a forever war, regime change, nation building, despite Donald Trump categorically denying the nation building and the forever war component because they know,

sensibly so that Americans don't want their kids, and I don't either, involved in foreign interventions without a proper exit plan. Remember Fox Conner's rules of war. Don't go to war alone. Don't go to war for long. Don't go to war unless you really have to.

Here's Hanoi Jane with the Vietnam comparisons and all this other. And I'm going to tell you why, again, why she's wrong based on facts, if that's your kind of thing, You're a liberal watch and check this out. Now parents are pulling their children out of the rubble.

This dangerous and insane war against Iran not only violates international law and our constitution, but risks exploding into a vast war of mass proportion, taking the lives of many, including U.S. service people. It is yet again another war based on false information. and I can't help but think back to the Vietnam War. Here's a Sergeant Major McGroin in the chat. At least she's been consistent since 69. You're correct.

Consistently stupid. You were absolutely right, but good point. You see the comparisons they're trying to make? So I'm going to give you the fact-based ammunition you need to fight this rhetorical fight against stupid leftists in your life. I thought we're not doing Forever Wars. Forever, it's not even a week.

What do you mean forever? Well, it's going to go on forever. Has it? What are you, the Stygian witches? You can predict a few. Give me the eye. You have some ability to predict the future. I don't know about that.

It's great. What stock should I be bet in on? So you don't know that, correct? So we can just shut that down because you have no idea what's going to happen. It hasn't been a week. It's just like Iraq. And Vietnam.

It is. Really? Put up that Wall Street Journal piece by uh, need. Trump tries to avoid the Iraq trap. He then goes on to make the case in the peace, which is excellent, that this is nothing like Iraq. We don't have ground troops there, as you heard Secretary Hengseth just say.

A little bit different than Iraq, correct? Iraq, ground troops. Iran, no ground troops. Guys, if I'm saying anything wrong, please correct me in the chat. I'm just going by what the secretary just said. They're ground troops Iraq, no ground troops are in. But they're the same. They're not the same.

You just heard me. You're just lying. Second, Iraq, they made the mistake of early on not going into Baghdad. I only say mistake because then they went back if that was your target, which it was later. We should have just done it the first time. However, they didn't make that mistake this time. They went in. They wanted to turn the nation over to the Iranians to build their own, build their own.

their own, build their own. That's not skipping. That's me saying it through. Build their own nation. And the leadership, including the it atollahs, what's decapitated, unlike what happened with Saddam Hussein, where it went on for years and years. So they're not the same. They're not even close to the same. That doesn't mean crazy Jane Fonda and everyone's crazy as she is, is not entitled to an opinion on it. Of course she is. I'm just asking you to process facts. They're not the same. That's just bullshit. And then you're going to hear the other. Oh, this is universally unpopular. Donald Trump's going to lose every. Oh, my gosh, it's over, folks. It's over. I had this, I'm not going to say who I had this conversation with last night, but you know,

you're listening right now. I get a text message last night. Ah, man, all these people are turning on Donald Trump. You know how many times I've heard this, folks? Do you have any idea? I've been in the MAGA camp with Donald Trump since 2016, okay? I was not the earliest adopter. I've been candid about that, but I was a pretty early adopter. Do you have any idea? Tell me in the chat how many times you heard it.

We got them this time. This is it. The Republicans definitely there. But it never happens. The political graveyard is littered with people who said, oh, we're going to take out Trump from the Republican side. It never happens. I've heard this a thousand times.

I texted the guy back. Please stop the insanity. Do you have any idea how many freaking times I've heard this? Here's a tweet I saw from a polling site about Trump's approval rating. Political polls. New, Trump approval. Now, to be fair, it's the last week. Approval.

50% disapproval, 46%. If this drops in the same poll to like 36%, then maybe you got a point. It won't. It won't. Well, definitely can Republican. congressional approval is going to tank on this too. Okay, well, new generic ballot poll, March 2nd, Republicans, 50%, Democrats, 50%.

I don't we're getting killed. I don't we get killed. I don't we get killed. Congressional Republic is going to get destroyed. That poll result was March 2nd. We'll see. I'm a fax guy. We'll see.

Polls come out. By the one, I'm going to see fair polling, not liberal polling. Polls come out. And Donald Trump takes a 20. point dropping a pro okay maybe you've got a point but i'll make the point again that even if that were the case and i'm positive that's not going to happen that sometimes leadership is about making really unpopular decisions by the way leave it to politico for their this is this the first republicans pounce we've done since i've been back on the air you know republicans pounce when left wing outlets

democrats like politico they never want to talk about democrats dumb decision making so when the democrats do something stupid they make it about the republican reaction Republicans pounce. Here, look at this one. Republicans use Iran strikes to pressure Dems and DHS funding fight. So just to be clear, Democrats shut off DHS funding in a time of national crisis. There's like a bombing campaign going on with the debt to America crowd. The Democrats don't want to pay the Department of Homeland Security, their literal name. And instead of political calling out the Democrats, they do the Republicans pounce. Republicans use Iran strikes. Once you see it, you'll never unsee it. All right, folks. We covered a lot of them.

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