The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway - Raging Moderates: A Shaky Ceasefire (ft. Rep. Jim Himes)
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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Scott Galloway.
And I'm Jessica Charloff.
Okay, Jess. In today's episode of Raging Moderates, we're discussing the aftermath of Trump strikes
in Iran and how we got to a ceasefire and then how we didn't. First, we're fortunate
to have Congressman Jim Himes, the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee,
joining us to break down the latest developments. Representative Himes, I very much appreciate you being here.
Welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
So why don't we just start off with your view of the state of play here? Can you break down
the latest developments in the Middle East for our listeners?
Yeah, well, we're in a real roller coaster ride, right? We heard of the ceasefire last
night and then apparently the ceasefire was violated and the president got very, very angry on social media and now we may or may
not be on a ceasefire. Look, a couple of big picture things that we shouldn't lose sight of.
Number one, we went into a war in the Middle East without any congressional deliberation
and that is not according to the law, either the constitution or the War Powers Act.
And it's also not very smart, right?
And an awful lot of people are saying,
well, presidents have done this forever.
And that, you know, fair enough.
That doesn't make it okay.
And I'm a big believer that Congress
ought to actually abide by the constitution.
But the other thing I would point out is that,
Bill Clinton sending limited cruise missile strikes
into Somalia or a president putting a few ground
forces on the ground in Syria is not playing anywhere near the order of magnitude of what
it means to take an offensive strike in an area where you have 40,000 troops, where if
things go wrong, gasoline prices could go to six or $7 a gallon.
This was an instance in which there should have been some consideration.
Now, where are we thank god that uh... it would
appear that from a tactical standpoint the military strike was successful in
as much as it created a lot of big explosions and everybody got home safe
what we don't know and this is the question of the day really is whether
this meaningfully set back iran's program. I can't get into details for obvious reasons,
but I see absolutely no evidence that this did anything
other than slow the Iranians' role a little bit, a little bit.
And so in the coming days and weeks,
we're going to grapple with the possibility
that the Iranians are still in a position
to do a pretty quick breakout for a nuclear weapon.
And what is going to be the Israeli response to that? And what is going to be the American response to that, The Iranians are still in a position to do a pretty quick breakout for a nuclear weapon.
And what is going to be the Israeli response to that and what is going to be the American
response to that, if in fact that turns out to be true?
Vice President JD Vance sat down with Brett Baer on Special Report on Monday night and
Brett asked him about this and said, well, aren't you concerned about the fact that they
were able to relocate the 60% enriched uranium that it could fit in?
I think it was 10 trunks
of cars. And because President Trump seemed to be telegraphing a lot of what was going
on that they were actually given enough time to be able to do that. And JD Vance basically
poo-pooed it and said that doesn't really matter. I assume your assessment is that it
does matter that they were able to get the uranium out and that they could Start their project over essentially
It's inconceivable to me that somebody with the brains of jd vance would say that if the iranians were able to get all of
Their 60% enriched uranium out that that wouldn't matter. That's just insane. Um
Obviously if they retain that 60% uranium they have have and some centrifuges, and it's very,
very unlikely that these raids obliterated, to use JD Vance's word, all of the centrifuges,
it's not hard for the Iranians to refine this to weapons grade.
And then it's not hard ultimately to cobble together a nuclear device.
So look, I am sad to see, but not surprised,
that JD Vance and senior members of this administration
are using words like obliterate,
which again, I have seen nothing to suggest
that that verb is in any way applicable here.
And again, that raises very serious questions
because what do the Israelis do if it turns out
that we simply move to the right a little bit, a month or
a week, the ability of the Iranians to break out a weapon if they choose to do that.
And by the way, what about the fact that now if you're an Iranian regime member, as awful
as you are, you're also smart enough to know, gosh, the whole negotiations thing was never
real.
And the president tore up the one thing that slowed the Iranians, the JCPOA, and he allowed the Israelis to start bombing in the middle of a negotiation. So
if you're an Iranian regime member, you say, okay, we tried that route. Now you know what
we're going to do? We're going to do what North Korea did. We're going to do what Pakistan
did is we're going to go underground and the world is going to learn about our progress
when we actually test a device. And at that point, guess what? There are not going to
be no more military attacks on Iran. That to me is the really kind of horrifying scenario here.
So representative, so if the president had come to Congress and sought congressional
approval and laid out exactly in very detailed plans what he was planning to do, the ordinance,
the armaments, the risks, the upside, the downside.
Would you have voted yes or no and why?
It's sort of hard to answer that hypothetical question because there would be all sorts of
other questions you would need to answer, like what we've been sort of alluding to.
Okay, we can make very big explosions in ventilation shafts in Fordo and Natanz. But what else, what else, what do we do
if the 60% uranium is in a warehouse somewhere,
as it may very well be?
But let me not try to entirely dance around that question,
and I'll tell you what my bias is.
All I've got is history to go on, right?
And the history of our military interventions in the region
in my lifetime is pretty darn bad,
right? We took out Muammar Gaddafi. Libya is now a chaotic dystopia. We know the story of Iraq,
where we empowered Iran and lost 4,400 troops in our efforts there. And of course, we don't need
to talk about Afghanistan to know that that's not something. So anyway, my point obviously is what
do I have to go on other than the history and the question of whether we have been successful in achieving our strategic
aims in the region? And the answer to that question is pretty much generally no. So let me just say,
facts matter, but I would have had a very, very strong bias based on our history of ending up
with outcomes that none of us would have either predicted or wanted when we get involved militarily
in the Middle East.
I understand, you know, we can't get in a time machine and we can't go back and do this
differently.
So we are where we are today.
And I saw former Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken was out in the New York Times with
an op-ed saying that he thought the strike was a mistake and he hopes it's a success.
Can you talk us through what you think a success looks like
at this point?
Do you think there is any chance at an Iranian
and Israeli lasting ceasefire?
And Donald Trump did float the idea of regime change
just over truth social a couple of days ago.
Do you think that that is still any part
of the conversation?
Well, yeah, I mean, your question is not too hard to answer.
And just because I'm concerned, yeah, I mean, your question is not too hard to answer. And
just because I'm concerned, as you might imagine, I can envision and even accept the possibility
that, yeah, you know, the Iranian people might finally do what the Argentine people did in
1982. And it turned out that the dictatorial generals that were govern them couldn't even
defend the Falkland Islands. And the Argentine people said, guess what, if you if you bunch
of generals can't even keep us safe
from a country that's 12,000 miles away, out you go.
So wouldn't that be amazing if the Iranian people
had the capacity and the will to finally overthrow
this truly evil regime?
Again, I'm not sure the United States should be
in the business of promoting that kind of regime change
because we don't have a very good track record,
but oh my God, what an amazing outcome that would be.
And look, it's possible, it's possible.
It would also be amazing if the administration
and the Israelis would say, okay, Iran,
you're probably in your weakest point in a generation,
let's now sit down at the negotiating table.
That's a little bit of a hard sell, right?
Because if you're an Iranian regime member,
you say, oh really, now we're gonna sit down
at the negotiating table, and if you don't like what you know, we get another B2 flight over our nation.
So that's a hard sell, but I wouldn't completely rule it out.
The problem is if we had two hours to do it, we could talk about gasoline prices at $6
about dead American soldiers and sailors, about missiles, about terrorist cells activated
in London and Rome.
We could talk about the possibility of destabilization in the region, and the fact that the Jordanian king,
who's really, really important to us,
sits atop a powder keg, and that real volatility
could result in regime changes in other places,
like Jordan, where it would be a catastrophe for us.
So anyway, let's acknowledge
that there could be a good outcome here.
It's just, you'd have to go and get the odds from a bookie. You know, how much do you bet on the best case scenario coming out of the Middle East?
Tom Bilyeu Representative, I worry that as someone who's
a Democrat and is committed to retaking the House and the White House, I worry that as
always we figure out a way to come across as incredibly weak. And that is, we're angry
that they didn't come to us as as you should have, for constitutional, bypass the constitution.
That now seems to be the norm, almost a given, and not enough conversation around whether
or not this was the right move.
And I want to applaud you for actually addressing the question, but let's steel man this a little
bit because you brought us some issues.
The price of oil, it looks as if right now the oil markets have yawned and don't believe
that this threatens
oil prices. If the Strait of Hormuz, if in fact it is compromised, it'll hurt India and
China more than it would hurt us. We're fairly energy self-sufficient. That Khomeini at 85
years of age leading a theocracy that has had its hands cut off is on the brink of collapse.
And this might tip it over into collapse
and that we are not planning as far as I can tell
to put boots on the ground.
We've just always remiss to take a victory lap.
We're kicking Russia's ass.
It feels like a runs air defenses are down
because of the brave work of the IDF.
And we have demonstrated that we spend $800 billion
for a reason and that we have armaments
that no one else has.
And that the capacity to get closer to a bomb,
we know they didn't get any closer.
We know that they're further away.
We just don't know how much they're further away.
Isn't this potentially or most likely even
something that will be looked back as America
exerting its power in a thoughtful way
and that the Democrats were more focused on procedure
than actual outcomes.
Yeah, well, you know, okay, fair point, Scott.
And, you know, I really like when we're talking
about military activity and war and our troops
to not collapse into a consideration
of the politics of this.
But you ask an interesting question
to which I would say these things can break either way.
You know, if we were having this conversation
in the early first decade of the 2000s
and talking to Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton says,
you know, we Democrats makes the argument that you just made.
We Democrats always end up looking weak.
So I'm voting yes to give George W. Bush the authority to go into Iraq.
Great analogy.
At that moment in time, I'm not sure Hillary Clinton thought to herself that it is that vote,
this hawkish vote, because I'm afraid of looking weak, that is probably going to be the single largest factor
that an unknown state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama is going to take me out as the
presidential candidate of 2008, right?
So I think these things can turn on a dime.
And look, let's not be silly about this.
If the best case scenario happens and the regime falls and the new regime or the new
government says we're never going to mess around with uranium or nuclear weapons again,
yeah, we will have gotten very lucky.
And I'll be sad because you say process.
You know, to me, abiding by the Constitution
is not just a reversion to process.
It's actually something that every two years
I raise my hand and swear to do.
So I'm sort of a little sad that I would say,
well, we're having a process argument
because I think the Constitution is worth defending.
But anyway, my larger point is that
in these sorts of situations, you're right, you know, there is a political implication. But again, if you were
thinking purely politically, would you have said, yeah, let's take that Gaddafi
guy out. Yeah, let's, let's, you know, try to nation-build in Afghanistan because
we've got the best capabilities everywhere. In retrospect, you would say,
boy, pretty ugly political position. I want to stay on the politics issue, but frame in in a little bit of a different way,
because it's been reported that Democrats were not briefed about the strike ahead of time,
including yourself and Senator Mark Warner, both the ranking members on the Intel Committee as members of the Gang of Eight.
That is something deeply concerning to me that the Republicans feel like they're just
going to go it alone.
Can you talk about whether that's true,
the implications of that, and if there is any chance
that we can make foreign policy, which has historically
been a space that could be fairly bipartisan,
return to the norm, or at least get a bit better
than it is right now?
Yeah, look, I'll absolutely acknowledge that there are, you know, issues with congressional
consultation, right?
I mean, Scott didn't ask this specifically, but implied it, which is, hey, what if we
have a four-week debate over this attack?
At that point, haven't the Iranians completely hidden all their uranium?
That's a fair point, right?
And we could have that argument.
And maybe you would think about things like informing
small numbers of members of Congress,
gang of eight, leadership, whatever you wanna do.
So there's a reasonable argument to have there,
but it does stop at the law, right?
Just because something is hard or inconvenient
doesn't mean that you can violate the law
or the Constitution.
I keep saying that, it's not just process, it's the law.
But yeah, I mean,
one thing is unambiguous, Jess, which is that letting Republicans, letting members of your
own party know, but not letting the opposition know is a sort of ugly innovation of the Trump
administration. And look, it's sort of dumb too, right? Because now if this thing goes
horribly wrong, which you could, politically
speaking, yeah, you, Mr. President, own this. And by the way, the four or five Republicans
you chose to reach out to own it as well. And, you know, we've got the political defense
of you didn't even, I read about this on Twitter, you know? So anyway, that's a pretty ugly
new innovation in this, from this administration.
Tom Bilyeu Representative Himes is the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee. You're just privy to
color in detail that the general public and the media isn't. And one of the things that struck me about this attack or
specifically the aftermath of the attack is whether it was Iraq or Afghanistan or expelling
Hussein from Kuwait, regardless of the success or lack thereof of those interventions. The next day, we had big nations with substantial armies wang in in support.
There was clearly a lot of groundwork laid to say that, all right, we support this.
It was clear that we're not acting alone, that we might be the leadership and have the
biggest military in the West, but we are in fact hand in hand with the West.
And one of the things that was so striking here
and so disappointing was that the only nations
that commented on this the next day
were the Chinese saying, there they go again,
making the world more unstable,
and Russia mocking us for not diminishing
their nuclear capabilities to the extent we were bragging.
The lack of alliances, the lack of support,
this go alone arrogance to me was so distressing
and something that the public didn't discuss.
As somebody who is obviously in conversation
with our allies, both in open formats
and behind closed doors, can you speak a little bit to,
one, do you buy the thesis that we don't have the support
we typically have, and and to what you're
seeing across our alliances around this type of activity?
Yeah, I mean, not surprised, right? We know that the Trump administration, you know, doesn't
put much, to put it mildly, value on our allies or about acting together, but these interventions that we've talked about,
some of which didn't go very well, almost always involved us working with our
allies just because practically that's a good thing and also because we care that
we speak as the West and not just as the US. So George H.W. Bush, when Saddam Hussein
invaded Kuwait, famously spent weeks working the phone
to put together the coalition that ultimately was successful
in removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait.
And the famous coalition of the willing
going into Iraq with us.
Again, I think we can look back on that and say,
gosh, that didn't work out quite the way we had hoped,
but George W. Bush did do the work
to get our NATO allies and others.
Even in Libya, we were operating under the auspices of NATO.
So that's generally a good idea.
It gives credibility and it gives us, to be fair, on the margin, some operational capacity
that we might not otherwise have on the margin.
So you know, when you take action like this, it's always a good idea for no other reason
than to hear what the Brits and the, you know, others have to say about how we can do this well. But this is not, of course, the way this administration thinks about taking action abroad.
in the Hague, he definitely wanted a big win coming in since everybody is pretty mad at him about
tariffs in the general state of the world. How do you think this is going to play out over the next couple of days? You know, I can't emphasize enough how much the facts on the ground matter
to the answer to that question. Again, on one extreme, maybe the Iranian people finally say
we've had enough and they, you know, have both the willingness and the capability to overthrow
this hideous regime, in which case we're all going to feel good. On the other extreme, of course,
is, you know, continued Israeli attacks on Iran, Iran claiming that they're violating the ceasefire,
and Israel would do that because they realized that we probably haven't significantly damaged
the nuclear capability.
And now we're back to a shooting war in the Middle East.
Or again, my worst case scenario is the quiet scenario.
It's not bombs going off or missiles landing in Bahrain.
It's the Iranians go dead quiet for six months
and seven months from now,
there's a test of a nuclear device.
So, you know, where we land on that spectrum of, you know,
magnificent to horrible is gonna have a lot to do with how,
you know, to Scott's point,
the domestic politics play here
and to the way the rest of the world thinks about it.
Now, let me make one last point here,
because I think those of us who are interested
in international affairs should be self-reflective. This is a point of humility. If you had told me two years ago that Israel was
going to be able to largely take out Hezbollah to assassinate Hamas leadership in downtown Tehran
and basically crush their leadership and disable the Iranian air defenses, whatever, 40, 50 percent, I
would have said that's overambitious.
And so let's not be overly biased towards the pessimistic here.
What the Israelis, whatever you think about its wisdom or its justice, what the Israelis
have accomplished since October 7th, and I set aside their activities in Gaza when I say this,
militarily against Hezbollah
and militarily against Hamas in Iran has been,
let's just say, nobody I think would have put a big bet
on that outcome.
Just along those lines, Representative,
if you think of us as having four enemies,
loosely China, North Korea, Iran, and Russia,
I would argue China's not an enemy,
it's the Americans when we have a competitor that gets too successful. We think of them as an enemy. I think of them as a competitor
So that leaves Russia North Korea and Iran. I
Mean we are quite frankly
Kind of kicking ass and taking names. I mean, I think Russia and Iran are just not in the same place
They were 24 months ago and I'll just not in the same place they were 24 months ago. And just a pointed question, hasn't the Ukrainian army and the IDF quite frankly been doing
the West's dirty work and kind of kicking ass and asking questions later?
Don't we owe, as someone who's on the Intelligence Committee, with exponentially more budget,
exponentially better equipment, haven't they demonstrated the kind of confidence and courage
that has advanced our objectives and made us safer?
Don't we owe the Ukrainian army and the IDF a huge debt of gratitude?
I would separate those two questions.
You know, everyone thought Ukraine was going down.
Yeah.
And what Ukraine has managed to pull off has been nothing short of epic,
especially in the context of our wavering support,
where we get sort of partial credit for helping the Ukrainians.
And the lesson that has come out of that war is hopefully being learned by dictators everywhere,
which is that when you're on someone else's land, even if you have overwhelming firepower,
you're gonna have a hard time.
A million casualties in Russia right now.
Now, Putin doesn't care about that, but hopefully the other dictators around the world who are
thinking about a Ukraine-like incursion are taking that a little bit more seriously.
And again, I won't repeat myself, but what the IDF achieved against Hezbollah, what the
IDF achieved against Hamas and Te, what the IDF achieved against Hamas
in Tehran and what they achieved against the Iranians is pretty spectacular. I'm putting an
asterisk on that because too much of what we see happening in Gaza right now should not be happening.
There's too much humanitarian suffering and civilian loss. And I do think that over time, the IDF will need to grapple with that.
But the last answer on your question about the IDF, Scott, is again, it really matters how this
ends. And Middle East experts will tell you, you sometimes don't know the answer to the famous
question, tell me how this ends in the Middle East for a couple of years. So again, I'm not going to
beat this dead horse too much,
but a regime change and a giving up of the nuclear weapons,
wow, incredible.
But there are a lot of other scenarios,
and until we know which door gets opened,
I think it's a little early to celebrate
or to say that the IDF has been doing our dirty work.
Look, again, let me just say it again.
If the Iranians give up their nuclear weapons
or let us all hope for regime change, remarkable,
but we're not there yet.
Congressman Himes, thank you so much for your time.
It's invaluable that you could join us.
Thanks a lot.
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, Congressman, thoughtful and direct,
you're in the right seat.
It makes us feel good that you've decided to do what you do.
And Scott rarely says that to anyone that we talk to.
So I'm just juggling because I'm not sure that thoughtful and direct is
actually in the job description of a member of Congress.
But OK, I'll take it. It should be.
Keep on keeping on. Right on. Thanks, Representative.
Thank you for your time. All right. Take care.
Thank you very much. OK, let's take a quick break.
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Welcome back.
Jess, what did you think of Representative Hines?
I loved him.
You loved him.
I'm a big fan of his,
and I appreciate also that he comes on Fox, which not every Democrat
does, but having the chance to hear from the ranking member on the Intel committee is really
special.
And I thought he did a lot of things that are different from how many members did, but
he was open to criticizing himself and the party.
He talked about moments of humility
and he was also able to, I think,
thoughtfully reflect on a best case scenario
coming out of this and then also to prepare us
for what he's afraid of.
I thought it was a very well-rounded approach
to a very fast moving situation
that carries a lot of danger to it, frankly.
What'd you think? The more I'm exposed, in the last 10 years, I had never, I don't think other
than occasionally, you know, when I took my sister to Washington, when she was in
college, and I would just walk into congressional offices and meet with some
aid, I had no exposure to elected representatives. And in the last 10 years,
I've had a lot, mostly because I want my money, to be honest.
And...
Yeah, money's nice.
Yeah, money's access.
And so I have access to a lot of elected representatives.
And I am consistently impressed by what thoughtful, intelligent, patriotic, committed people they
are.
And it bothers me how lazy people are to constantly shitpost our government, believing that everyone's
corrupt and nobody's
smart.
There's a lot of really, really impressive people who give up.
A guy like that could easily be running a private equity firm, clocking a shit ton of
money and at Bezos' wedding this weekend.
And instead, he chooses to be in DC trying to sort through this shit. So I'm, you know, I'm always impressed
or consistently impressed to the upside by these individuals.
So back to the issue at hand,
Trump announced what he called a complete
and total ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
The truce was supposed to be phased in over 24 hours,
but already it's showing signs of strain.
Israel reportedly struck a radar site near Tehran after claiming Iran violated
the ceasefire first. And behind the scenes, Trump is said to be furious with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu,
pressing him on a tense call on Tuesday morning.
So we went from bunker busters to a ceasefire in less than 48 hours, and now the ceasefire is already cracking.
Any sense for what changed
behind the scenes to make this deal happen in the first place and it's already falling apart?
I'm not sure how much of the deal was really together or how much it's fallen apart, actually.
A ceasefire is in a lot of ways, I know it sounds like a final thing, but it's a moving target
constantly and it ebbs and flows.
And I'm still hopeful that we will be able to get to one.
I don't know what that looks like in the long term,
because some people just can't be friends.
And I think Israel and Iran are two of those kinds
of some people, but I remain optimistic.
I think part of what got our hopes up is that we have
a truth, social, happy president that
feels that he can post through a foreign policy crisis.
And that has some benefits.
I think the transparency to some degree is good.
It has some negative effects, like the fact that we had to send a decoy fleet and the real fleet to try to throw Iran off the scent
because Donald Trump was posting through the entire thing.
And that's something that you don't want to see from the commander in chief.
But I went to bed very hopeful.
It was ceasefire news.
I woke up this morning, the ceasefire is off and maybe it's back on.
This was as President Trump was boarding to head to the Hague
for the NATO summit.
And I hope something good can come out of this.
But I was struck by, and it was interesting
that Congressman Himes has introduced this resolution.
He wants us to follow the Constitution.
And he did have a defense for why this was different
than actions past presidents have taken.
And also said past presidents shouldn't have done these kinds of things without authorization.
So at least it was a bit of a nuanced take. But I was struck by what German Chancellor
Mers said about it. And he said, there is no reason to criticize what America did at
the weekend. Yes, it is not without risk, but leaving things as they were was not an
option either. I think that that
speaks most accurately to how I'm feeling in my heart about what happened. I understand the
American intel community did not have the same assessment as the Israelis. The Israelis are
obviously closer to it, but I'm fundamentally concerned that it seems like Bibi Netanyahu is now our DNI.
That's a dangerous place to be in, but so is having Tulsi Gabbard as your DNI, also
dangerous.
But we know that past presidents have tried and failed to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions.
I know that they should have stayed in the JCPOA, that we were slowing their enrichment
development by a lot. that they should have stayed in the JCPOA, that we were slowing their enrichment development
by a lot. I also know we had to give them money that was used to fund terrorism, and
that's not a good outcome either. But Merz's comments really struck me, and I do feel it
was unsustainable to let things just keep going on as it were. And at this particular
moment, and I like that you brought it up to Congressman Himes, because of the work of the Israelis and the Ukrainians, the allies of the Iranians, the Russians, are
unable to help them. They have been so utterly decimated between going after Hamas and Hezbollah
and the Russians that we have an opportunity with a weak axis of evil to do something really important for the safety
of the region and the world. And that was the opportunity that I saw.
Yeah. I thought that was really well put. I mean, again, self-hating Americans, we can
never actually take credit or give credit where it's due. And that is, if Russia, specifically
the perception of Russia's fierce fighting force was intact,
I don't think we could have done this.
Or I don't think we would have the balls to do it because we would have been worried
they'd be arming their proxies in Syria with surface-to-air missiles that could take out
B-2 bombers.
One of those B-2s going down and then a bunch of Iranian kids jumping on the wings of B-2s
would be a really bad image for us.
And we would have been scared that Russia's long arms would be, you know,
within reach or this would have been within the grasp of Russia arming
Syrians or potentially arming or helping or supporting Iran.
And the way I see this is the following.
I'm very much in favor of this.
I've never understood how far-right Republicans
can be isolationist and then vote for a $200 billion
increase in the military budget from $800 billion
to a trillion such that we don't have a bigger budget
than the next 10 biggest nations, but the entire world.
It's like, well, what's the point?
Canada's not going to invade
Buffalo anytime soon. When you spend $800 billion on our military, you are making a decision to get
off of your heels and onto our toes and project power and deliver violence to other places in a
very imperialist aggressive way to represent our interests offensively and proactively. And
that's what this is. And I don't, I think we're looking at the wrong metric. I understand
that we want to diminish their nuclear capability. But for me, the outcome here is the following.
I think the IRGC or the Islamic Republic has been a cancer, an occupying force has very
little support amongst the Iranian people. I think two of the biggest unlocks as a dork,
I think one, overthrowing or nudging
the Venezuelan government over the edge
such that we're even more energy independent,
Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia,
and two, seeing the Islamic Republic come to an end.
I think that would be one of the most accretive actions
for the 45 million women in Iran that in terms of
actual if we really did give a flying fuck about human rights and stability in the region.
And I've always thought Iran and America could be incredible allies that, you know, I've
said this before, the Iranians I know are more American than Americans.
So I see this more as while they're kind of, quite frankly, down and out, to hopefully tip over the Iranian people
to give them the confidence to perhaps
not overthrow this regime,
but create their own regime change.
You can't create regime change from the outside.
You can potentially inspire it.
And that's what I'm hoping this was.
The other thing that comes out here for me or the
observation is, there's a reason that business people make such
shitty presidents. It's easy to believe that you call the two
CEOs of companies and you can do this and say, okay, hey, Steve
Jobs, it's Bill Gates. We're not going to hire each other's
employees. Stop it. I forget one of them called the other and
said, stop hiring my employees. Yeah, I remember the story, but I don't. It was Steve Jobs and,
maybe it was the guy from Google. Anyways, you're not supposed to do that, but they can call each
other and handshake and then send out an email to all the key people and boom, it's in place.
Ceasefires don't work that way. You've got to give it time. You've got to phase it in. You've got to
relay information to your service to air missile battery commanders. You've got to give it time, you've got to phase it in, you've got to relay information to your service to air missile battery commanders,
you've got to have checks and balances,
means of observation,
ensure that all the entire command chain
is on board with it, and you need to phase it in
over weeks, if not months sometimes.
But to believe that, oh, it's like a business deal,
and if I get the two top guys to agree to it
on the phone with me, it's going to happen, it's like a business deal. And if I get the two top guys to agree to it on the phone with me, it's going to happen.
It's just so incredibly naive that this thing was going to hold.
I don't think there's ever been a truce where someone has called and said,
Oh, agree to it. Okay. I got your agreement agreement.
And then you go out and announce it. That, that, that just it folks,
geopolitical truces don't work that way. There's too many moving parts.
There's too many. The. There's too many.
The IRGC right now isn't even able to communicate
with its different portions of its armed services right now
because they're afraid to use the internet for fear
that the IDF uses it as a signal code to drone strike them.
So for, again, for Donald Trump to think he can come in
and say, oh, you own the Plaza, I own the Hilton,
we're going to stop trying to poach each other's employees
and get the CEOs to agree.
That's not how this works in the Middle East.
And then the final observation is,
our director of national intelligence,
I mean, I see three legs of the stool here,
kinetic power, which we demonstrated in spades,
which I'm a fan of, two alliances, we fell down. It's embarrassing. And one thing I don't think
the media is observing is that Britain, France, even the kingdom didn't come out with direct
statements of support. Both Bushes would have made sure that would have happened. Obama
would have made sure that would happen. Biden would have made sure that happened such that
this was a move from the West and from democracy, not just from Trump. And then the third thing is competence. And
who the fuck are we supposed to believe here? We have a director of national intelligence
stating that they aren't any closer to Obama, and then Trump directly contradicting his
director of national intelligence. We have secretaries Hegseth and Rubio stating that we are not pursuing regime change.
And then we have Trump saying in all caps, make Iran great again and saying he's in favor of
regime change. No one knows what is going on here. Who on earth is actually going to report
on what has happened? Who has the credibility, what institution, what experts
are going to be able to put out any credible evidence,
one way or the other, of the level of damage
or lack thereof of these facilities,
because we now have the fucking bad news bears
running the government.
You don't even know who to believe.
They can't stay on message.
They're not consistent.
The military, thank God, still demonstrates more confidence than any organization in history. But we have a
president who does not understand this is not a business deal. The truces between warring
nations take weeks, if not months to implement, and there has to be a series of checks, and
they have to be wound down incrementally. They can't happen overnight.
And when you announce them, like you want to take a victory lap because it's some big
deal or something, you are setting yourself and the nation up for embarrassment and failure.
And the level of incompetence here is starting to seep into everything this guy does. Your
thoughts?
Well, it also speaks to why he tore up the nuclear deal in 2018 without a solution of
what we were going to do instead.
The numbers are staggering in terms of the increase in enriched uranium going from under
4% to 60% and adding an extra 100 kilograms at least to the stockpile.
We don't know what will happen with their nuclear stockpile and how
they'll rebuild.
And the timeline that Congressman Himes was giving was startling to me, where he said
six or seven months.
And so if the Intel community's assessment was that they hadn't made a final decision
as to whether they were trying to build a nuclear bomb, and I know that Jon Stewart
is a very funny guy, but he's also a very serious guy,
and everyone should check out the montage that he had on the show last week of Netanyahu saying,
the bomb is coming, the bomb is coming. And it's over the course of the last 20 years saying that
we're at that 90% level. Remember that graphic that he showed on the floor of the UN. And our
intel community says that that isn't the case.
That doesn't mean that Iran isn't a danger.
That doesn't mean that Iran isn't the largest state sponsor of terrorism.
That doesn't mean that Iran isn't responsible for killing innocents all over
the Middle East and also Americans.
When the IRGC threatened to activate sleeper cells in the United States, I
completely freaked out because I'm sure that they have them here.
And we could be in scenario.
I'm in Washington, D.C. right now as we're speaking, and I'm walking around thinking,
what could happen to any of us?
I live in New York City.
Great place to do a terrorist attack.
They've done it before.
So all of that is deeply concerning to me.
To the point about the yahu's that are in charge,
it does feel like Donald Trump isn't really listening to anybody else than Bibi Netanyahu.
And I sound like a bit of a broken record about it, but he has essentially supplanted everybody else.
His intelligence is the intelligence that the United States trusts.
Donald Trump, I think, doesn't understand how good Bibi is at doing his job.
This is how he's managed to stay in power for this long. This is a man that is staying
in power so that he can stay out of jail. And he has Trump wrapped around his finger.
He can get him to trust the Israelis over the United States with the drop of a hat.
And that's what we're seeing here. You noticed DNI Tulsi Gabbard out of the frame when Trump came out to make
his address after the strike was carried out,
said total and complete success.
Tulsi was not standing behind him.
It was just Heg Seth Rubio and JD Vance.
So clearly that's the imagery that he wants to project forward,
that Tulsi has nothing to do with this.
But the New York Times, who has done some incredible reporting on what's been going on behind the scenes,
shows a very insular group that's informing him and the fact that we are hand in glove with the
Israelis every step of the way. They're our strongest ally in the region. Both of you and
I are strong supporters. And I was very appreciative that Congressman Himes also
stipulated that the situation in Gaza is very different than
what we are talking about here. But you essentially have a
president that is all but going it alone. And he has a bit of a
toddler sensibility about how things should happen. Like I
want it and I want it now. And that
makes sense looking back at the way that he's conducted his business deals over, you know,
the course of the last 50, 60 years. But it's very different when you're playing in the
big leagues like this. And he seems to be completely myopically focused on how do I
get that Nobel Peace Prize? How do I get that Nobel Peace Prize?
And ending the Iranian nuclear program is certainly a good way to head in that direction.
I wanted to bring this up because you talked about politics a bit during the interview
and I saw so many Democrats just reflexively opposing this, not even willing to consider
that there might be merit to it or even going so far as to praise
what the Air Force was able to pull off, which was absolutely incredible. And I feel like there's
this strong argument that Democrats can be making, or frankly, people who are just observing what's
going on, about how Joe Biden governed and the foreign policy moves that he made that set Trump up for success in this moment.
And I really wish that we could have
a broader contextualized conversation
about foreign policy.
We didn't just like wake up on January 21st of 2025.
And that was the beginning of all of this.
And there's so much that went on
over the course of the last four years
from weakening Russia, what Israel did using
our weapons, the Ukrainians did using our weapons, President Biden allowing this to
happen, that has provided for hopefully what is a good result.
And I'm very focused on that.
And I think that there is to some degree a victory lap that the Democrats should be able
to take on this.
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Welcome back.
It's going to be, I mean, first off, and maybe we can play the clip. You know what?
We have, we basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so
hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Do you understand that?
so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Do you understand that?
For the president to come out and say, these guys have been at war so long that they don't
know what the fuck they're doing, as someone who's fond of expletives, the president should
not be making them.
The president of the United States, that just diminishes his authority and respect.
And also, what I believe happened here,
and I think this was a good idea,
but that doesn't mean the strategy and the incentives here
don't reflect poorly on the current leadership.
I believe the only reason Trump did this
was because he looked at Netanyahu's dick and thought,
wait, I want some big dick energy of my own.
I think this was seen globally
as such an extraordinarily
competent, aggressive, and courageous move
what the IDF was able to pull off in Iran,
that he wanted to jump on the medal podium and say,
look at me, which is the wrong reason to do this,
even if it was the right tactical maneuver.
And what seems clear to me is Bibi Netanyahu
thinks he's on top. He can do whatever
he wants and that the president will go along with it.
He's right.
So essentially, you know, Middle East policy right now is being run by the superpower there
and the superpower there is Israel. And then the really dangerous thing about all of this
is that Israeli leadership wants to be on a war footing, whether it's the right thing
or not, he's on a war footing trying to stay out of jail. And that is his only chance of staying
out of jail is to get people to rally around the flag because they are at war. And I believe that
that is why we continue to pulverize Gaza beyond what is needed and what is humane.
And that he is very excited to go into Iran because he realizes the only thing standing
between him and jail is the rallying around the flag that happens when you're at war.
And that is a frightening place to be when you have a place as unstable as the Middle East, and you have a nation with nukes.
So this is a very, as is everything in the Middle East,
this is a very complex, upsetting situation
and where we will see, I think, unintended consequences.
And right so far we haven't,
it looks as if Khomeini's response has been performative.
Yeah.
The missile barrages into American bases in Qatar
and I believe in Iraq have so far been totally ineffective.
I think he even gave the heads up to-
He did.
And then you had Qatar helping with brokering
the ceasefire of last night.
So Qatar working with us essentially to make sure that things can
simmer down. Right. So it looks as if that it was basically performative such
that Khomeini can say to his people, I'm tough, I respond, but not risk escalation.
And if it stops there then great. Then everyone can take, Israel and American
can take a victory lap. But I think the president's inability to appreciate that strength and greatness
is in the agency of others, not having our traditional allies
around us supporting us with intelligence
and with perceptual support, if you will,
ensuring that the world knows this was an action of the West,
just not from a guy who demonstrates incompetence,
an intelligence apparatus that seems totally sclerotic and
bipolar, don't know who to listen to, don't know what they're meaning.
And then the thing that, you know, as supporters of Israel, I think is really concerning right
now is when he comes out and says, they don't know what the fuck they're doing and I'm
angry at Israel, that's language and a statement he says to Bibi privately
on a secure phone.
He doesn't say it on the West Lawn
because all that does is embolden Israel's enemies.
Khomeini has a lot of different options
being presented to him.
And when Trump says that Israel doesn't know
what the fuck it's doing and leaks, discreetly or overtly,
a real dissatisfaction and frustration with Israel.
He is emboldening Israel's enemies to take more aggressive and bold action than they
might otherwise.
So fighting with your allies is bad.
Fighting without them is worse.
When you have allies, you put on a unified front, even when it sucks.
Danielle Pletka Yeah, but I agree with you. I want the President of the United States of America
to behave like he's the President of the United States of America. But this is Donald Trump,
and the American public pick this consciously. And they probably like that they have somebody
where they can see what's actually going on behind the scenes
or what he perceives to be going on behind the scenes, that this is the most transparent
administration in American history, as I'm told regularly.
I spoke to two Democrats last night who are running for president who haven't officially
announced, but take my calls and call me because it's obviously running for president.
And I said the opportunity here is to come out and say, I agree with the action.
I don't support the president's policies.
I don't support how he's gone about this.
He's injected more risk into this than he needed to.
But I support the actions.
And it's important that we rally around our military and the flag and the president in
a time like this.
Because again, I think the Democrats have fucked up here.
Totally. Well, it's the reflexive no.
And I mean, maybe we'll hear from those two later in the day.
But so far, I haven't really seen that.
Well, the only one who's done it is Federman.
Well, I assume he was not the one who called you last night.
Federman has basically come out and said,
look at the action, not the politics,
and a lot of people on the far, I go to the same place.
Whenever the far left and the far right agree on anything,
that means we're at negative 40.
Negative 40 is where Celsius and Fahrenheit meet.
It's inhospitable.
Whenever the far left and the far right agree on anything,
it's a really bad idea.
Whether it's anti-vaccination or isolationism,
whatever it is, you know it's a really bad idea.
And when you have Marjorie Taylor Greene and AOC agreeing
on something, it means you should probably
agree with the other way.
And they're both agreeing.
You know, they're both spouting off, in my opinion,
this isolationist, you know, in my opinion,
very dangerous bullshit.
And again, I come back to the same place,
and I apologize, I'm being redundant here. Why on earth are we spending the GDP of Argentina
on our military if we're not gonna exert this kind of power?
We're always going to exert it.
We're just gonna complain about it.
Or some people are going to feign outrage and say,
we're not these people.
And the truth is, is that we are fundamentally these
people. But I just want to say on the Federman front, and while I agree with some of his
positions, he's just completely lockstep with Israel. He doesn't even acknowledge what's going
on in Gaza as a humanitarian disaster. So John Federman is out on an island on his own when it
comes to these kinds of actions. So we'll see what the mainstream of the party does,
but I think it's totally an opportunity again,
to sound like a normal human being, to meet people where they are,
and to rally around the flag.
So by the way, I almost forgot our little girl.
I could not be more proud of you
than if you were up reading the Torah.
Oh my God, Donald Trump, personal attack
on our very own, literally a badge of honor.
Donald Trump came out and mentioned you by name,
saying that on true social, why does Fox News allow failed TV personality,
Jessica Tarlov, to soil The Five?
Oh my God, you're ruining The Five.
Even Fox viewers who are about 105 and fucking crazy,
love you, love you, literally love you. Her voice, her manner, and above all else,
what she says are a disgrace.
You're a disgrace, Jess.
So I hear.
To television broadcasting while claiming the network
is alienating MAGA supporters by giving her airtime rego.
I could not be more proud of you.
This is a big, I know you thought when I called you
and said I wanted to do a show with you,
you thought this was my big moment,
but this is your big moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, Jessica Tarlov.
Soiling the five.
There you go.
What did you think when you saw that?
It took my breath away.
Took your breath away?
Yeah.
Well, he's posted about me before,
but not quite as meanly.
And I was just thinking, why aren't you busier?
And then, this was Friday, early evening,
I'm thinking we started sending,
the B-2 bombers left a few hours later.
Like you really should have been busy.
And he's focused on you.
Yeah, I mean, he was watching the show
and the Times has reported that TV coverage,
specifically on Fox has informed his view
on getting involved and that he wanted to be
part of the action, had a bit of FOMO
when it came to what the Israelis
were able to pull off.
But it's something to have that happen.
It's a very uncomfortable feeling.
Oh, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Let me just break it down for you.
Yeah.
This is the biggest, I think this is arguably,
other than of course, meaning Scott Calloway,
I think this is the biggest thing to happen to you. Because in the midst of course, meeting Scott Calloway, I think this is the biggest thing to happen to you
because in the midst of a,
probably the biggest geopolitical event of his career,
he takes time to shitpost you,
which absolutely means every Senator in Congress
would kill to have the president call them out by name
because when he disagrees with you,
it basically means you're doing something right
and you are now more in his head
than anyone who's running for president.
He doesn't give a shit what Senator Schumer thinks or says.
He's not worried about Governor Newsom running for president.
He's worried about you.
I think this is, I'm very excited.
I'm very excited.
This made my day when I saw this.
I was surprised not to hear from you though.
I was like- You know me, I don't like-
No, tax term Scott, I got some good texts.
I don't like to talk to people.
No, you don't, it's awful.
Yeah, yeah, I don't like to talk to people.
I feel desperate sometimes with the amount of times
that I've texted to no response.
Sometimes I get a thumbs up,
but I'm just gonna keep doing it.
I'm the Hermes of fake intellects
in that it's all about scarcity.
It's all about managing fake scarcity.
I'm an elite university that rejects people
more than I could to give the impression
of some sort of value or scarcity.
It's all an act.
I'm gonna defund you over that.
It's not cool.
It's all an act.
And again, I wish I figured this out
when I was in my mating years.
Okay, I think we figured this out when I was in my mating years, okay,
I think we should end it there.
I think we're gonna watch Jessica Tarlov
take a victory lap.
I think we're gonna see her on the medal podium,
living rent-free in President Trump's head
because she is so articulate, so unafraid, so bold,
so numero cinco in the five,
the most watched program in the world
as one person who the president is listening to.
It's not the Senate minority leader,
it's not leader Jeffries, it's not Tom Friedman.
Literally, the most important person in the world
with President Trump right now is Bibi Netanyahu.
Number two, ladies and gentlemen, running through the tape, collecting the gold, bronze,
and silver of people shaping geopolitical conversations around the world.
That's right, the co-host of Raging Moderates.
If we are not number one this week, literally I am going to weep crocodile tears while listening to Megyn Kelly.
I'll be so upset.
This is a big moment for you, Jess.
We're going to leave it there.
All right.
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It's been reported that one in four people experience sensory sensitivities,
making everyday experiences like a trip to the dentist especially difficult.
In fact, 26% of sensory-sensitive individuals avoid dental visits entirely.
In Sensory Overload, a new documentary produced as part of Sensodyne's Sensory Inclusion
Initiative, we follow individuals navigating a world not built for them, where bright lights, loud sounds, and unexpected touches can turn
routine moments into overwhelming challenges.
Burnett-Grant, for example, has spent their life masking discomfort in workplaces that
don't accommodate neurodivergence.
I've only had two full-time jobs where I felt safe, they share.
This is why they're advocating for change.
Through deeply personal stories like
Burnett's, Sensory Overload highlights the urgent need for spaces, dental offices, and beyond
that embrace sensory inclusion. Because true inclusion requires action with environments
where everyone feels safe. Watch Sensory Overload now, streaming on Hulu.
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