The Young Turks - Beating War Drums - June 17, 2025

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

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Jane Cougar, Jordan Yule, with you guys. So big, big show ahead. So we're talking about the potential for World War III, so already that's kind of huge. And then we're gonna get into different factions within the right wing, the libertarians, the progressives, etc. Who's for war, who's a guess war, people are choosing sides? And if you've been following the show lately, a lot of that won't surprise you. If you haven't, I realize today that a lot of folks that are in the outside world and have not interacted with any of these people have no idea how much they hate war. And so that's why people are always confused and confounded when I tell them that.

But you're about to see it with your own eyes in this show. And then I'm going to ask you guys, I'm asking it right now on the website, should we form a coalition with the right against the war with Iran? Yes or no? And well, I'm curious how you guys vote on it, but nevertheless I'm going to go forward. Depends on whether you think libertarians are right wing or not. But Dave Smith is going to join us at the top of the at the top of the 8 o'clock hour, 8 o'clock Eastern. He's arguably the leading libertarian in the country. And he is not only turned on the war, he was never, in favor of the war, but he has now turned on Trump and saying it was a mistake to vote for

him. And he's going as far as saying he should be impeached. But I'm going to give you guys something actionable. That's what we always try to do here at TYT. We get caught trying, okay? So we're going to try to actually stop the war. And so I will explain that plan with Dave Smith at 8 o'clock Eastern. So now that's a lot for a show, let alone all the news of the day. So Jordan, let's get started. Take a look at this. Are you open to negotiating with the Iranians right now? Or do you want to wait? I've been negotiating. I told him to do the deal. They should have done the deal. The cities have been blown to pieces and lost a lot of people. They should have done the deal. I told them do the deal. So I don't know, I'm not too much in a

to negotiate now. As Israel's strikes on Iran continue and with Iran retaliating in self-defense, Americans are growing increasingly worried that Donald Trump might drag us into the conflict next. And new updates today indicate that is on the table. But before we get to the latest, Jank, how are you feeling about this right now? Yeah, so I think the jury's come in. Donald Trump has decided that he is going to drag us into this war. I think the details of this story are really, really important because it shows you how he got there and how basically Netanyahu tricked the living crap out of him and how he's such a knucklehead.

And so he got tricked so easily into this war. And now it looks like America's going to go in not just knee deep, but neck deep into this war. So let's explain. Let's get into the latest. After four nights of launching missiles at Israel in heavy barrages, Iran significantly scaled back its attacks overnight into Tuesday, marking the lowest volume since it began retaliating for Israel's airstrikes. Experts say the change could reflect both Iran's diminished ability to strike back, and also a deliberate shift toward lower intensity attacks sustained over a longer period. Now G7 leaders, including Trump, signed a

joint statement on Monday that, quote, affirms Israel has a right to defend itself and, quote, reiterates their support for the security of Israel. In the same statement, they called for de-escalation in the Middle East. But despite signing on to that statement, Trump seems to be taking a different tone. Axios reported today that U.S. officials said Trump is seriously considering joining the war and launching a U.S. strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, especially, its underground uranium enrichment facility in Fordow. Trump has also spent the last few days conducting foreign policy by truth with this coming earlier today. We now have complete and total control over the skies over Iran. Iran has good sky

trackers and other defensive equipment and plenty of it. But it doesn't compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured, quote, stuff. Nobody does it better than the good old U.S. followed by this. We know exactly where the so-called supreme leader is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there. We are not going to take him out, parentheses, kill, at least for now. But we don't want missiles shot at civilians or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter. But a post yesterday has critics both angry and alarmed. Iran should have signed the quote deal I told them to sign.

What a shame and waste of human life. Simply stated, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I said it over and over again. Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran. It's worth noting that Trump ripped up President Obama's Iran nuclear deal that did place limits on Iran's uranium enrichment. But more urgently, telling residents of Tehran to evacuate is extremely troubling. Tehran's population in the city alone is nearly 10 million people, and because of the panic that Trump induced, leaving presents a major logistical issue. If you expand that area to the

metropolitan area, which includes surrounding suburbs and towns, its population stands at approximately 14 to 15 million. Heavy traffic congestion is already common in Tehran, especially during rush hour or public holidays. But many of the roads on Tuesday were at a standstill with traffic jams throughout the city as residents attempted to evacuate. Tehran is also surrounded by mountainous terrain and exit routes are limited to fewer than a dozen arteries that lead out of the city. Al Jazeera's Dorsasjabari spoke to some residents who had been attempting to leave Tehran, noting that a trip that usually takes seven to eight hours to reach an area by the Caspian Sea can now take between 18 to 24 hours to complete due to traffic.

Now one troubling factor that could lead to direct U.S. involvement is capacity. One of Iran's main nuclear facilities, Fordo is located so deep inside a mountain that it could be effectively bombed only by the United States, which alone has the 30,000 pound bunker buster bomb that could damage the site and the B-2 stealth bomber needed to deliver it. Now with the U.S. possibly on the brink of a new war with Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron is urging everyone not to make the same mistake they did with Iraq. Does anyone think that what was done in Iraq in 2003 was a good idea, he told reporters in Canada, where he was attending a group of Seven Summit. Does anyone think that was what that what was done in Libya the previous

decade was a good idea? No, I think the biggest mistake today is to use military means to bring about regime change in Iran because that would mean chaos. Jank, there's a couple things here I think that are worth pointing out. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Trump, who was purportedly the no new wars candidate, seems to be pushing us into a new war, but also this idea that through military force, we are going to lead to regime change and the population there is going to welcome and celebrating it, welcome and celebrate it leading to a stable future seems to clash with history. What do you make of this? Yeah, so Trump's a sucker and a willing sucker at that and he got hoodwicked into this. And I'm going to explain the details so you know

that it wasn't just that he'd always wanted to do it. No, the dumb, dumb got tricked into it. So, and is it his responsibility? Of course, he's the commander-in-chief president of the United States. It's 100% of his responsibility. So I'm going to come back to then a second. But first, on the things that Jordan shared with you guys, first of all, the G7 leaders, look, they're like inching towards criticizing Israel. And a couple hundred years from now, they might gather up the courage to do that after Israel has wiped out the entire Middle East, right? But I mean, this statement where they quote affirm Israel has a right to defend itself. Is that a joke? Are we supposed to laugh at that? Israel started the war. Is that a thing

that's allowed? Can we just go and just attack the living crap out of Canada? And then if Canada fights back, go, hey, we've got a right to defend ourselves here. Let's obliterate Canada more. That's literally what Israel does. And so enabling them is not helping. European government, look, American government's nearly hopeless, except for the fight back that we're going to tell you about throughout the show from the actual grassroots, the population rising up now. Because they've lost everyone, everyone. No one in America wants this war, and I'll prove that to you with the numbers in a second. But the European leaders, what are you guys doing? Why are you serving Israel loyally? What is wrong with you guys? So gather up some courage.

to oppose Israel constantly attacking their neighbors and starting wars. All right, so now, are we involved? Well, Trump says we have control over their skies, he said we, right? Then he talked about American weapons doing all the damage, bragging about it, American intelligence involved, American weapons involved, not just on defense, but on offense, that is critical, absolutely critical. Then third way that we're involved, he says, oh yeah, by the way, we can murder your leader at any time. And we might later.

You know, if we decide that we're going to kill you, we reserve the right to kill you. By the way, of course, if they killed our leaders, whether it's U.S. or Israel, we would say, terrorists, the worst terrorists in the world. But Israel's above the law. So Israel can kill any foreign leader they like. They can also kill any U.S. citizen they like. And you're not allowed to complain about it at all. Otherwise, anti-Semite.

So now, there are three options involved. than how the next phase of the attack happens. So option number one is Israel does it on their own. It turns out, guys, this is so sad. But it's a report from the New York Times, okay, with a lot of internal sources. So Trump all the way through was hesitant about attacking. He did stop an attack in April from Israel. Netanyahu's jonesing to attack around.

Now, why now? We're going to show you how he's been trying to get us to attack around for 33 straight years now. He's been lying for 33 straight years, conclusive proof of that in a minute. So why now? Because they wiped out the Syrian forces that would, why did Assad fall as Israel did that? This whole idea of like some rando al-Qaeda dude just came out of nowhere and did it? No, Israel wiped out their air force and took a portion of Western Syria and cleared out the airspace. They cleared out Hezbollah, they cleared out Hamas, so they're not worried about Iranian proxies anymore.

This is when Iran is most defenseless and has the least ability to strike Israel. So Nanyahu told the U.S. intelligence and Trump, some time in the last two months, listen, I don't really care about you. You're going to keep sending me money because you're a sucker and I own you. Okay, so you don't have any right to do anything about what I'm doing, okay? But I'm going to go attack Iran, whether you like it or not. you understand me? And Trump was like, okay, okay. So then they started changing the game planning, the war planning inside the White House to, okay, Israel's definitely going to attack. Now there, if

Trump was a man, what he would have done is, what'd you say? Did you just boss me around and tell me that you're going to do that attack, even though I told you not to, which he very clearly said in April not to. Trump told Netanyahu that. Netanyahu comes back in a couple of weeks goes, yeah, I'm going to do. What are you going to do about it, huh? And Trump goes, nothing, nothing, I'm so sorry. So not a man, okay, not a leader, and certainly not anti-war. So then they start planning around, okay, what do we do? And that's when they presented the three options I mentioned earlier. So option number one is Israel does it on their own, but now it looks like we are past that option. And all the things that Jordan read you means that

we are going to do either option two or option three. Because option one was, hey, good luck. I mean, we'll obviously help in defense, although I don't think that should be obvious at all, but we'll knock down all their missiles, we'll get as involved as you want us to be, but we're not going on the offense, okay? So we're past that it looks like, by all indications, New York Times reporting and everything that Donald Trump has said publicly, we are going to go on the offense, we are going to start a war with Iran as the United States of America, and it's Israel's war. It has nothing to do with us, nothing, nothing, they don't have nukes.

It's all a lie as absolutely nothing to do with America. But we're going to be forced to pay for this war. We're already paying a ton of money like the press never reports that all those missiles cost money. You're going on the office is going to cost a lot more money. And God help us if we got to go on the ground. Okay, so but the third option is, hey, America, you do it on your own, okay? We started it, we're not going to fight it. We're not going to risk precious Israeli lives.

Why don't you use your worthless American soldiers to go die for us, okay? And if you think, oh, that's not a strategy, Benjamin Nanyahu, one of the leading neo-cons who pushed for the Iraq war, some of the fake intelligence about the WMD was from Israel. So, and at the time, Israeli leaders said Iraq was their number one enemy. Now they say Iran is their number one enemy, so we have to do that work for them. But not only that, Trump already lived this with a Qasem Soleimani killing in his first term, the top military leader for Iran when they bombed him, Israel said that they were going to do it together with us. And at the last second, Netanyahu pulled out and made America do it by itself.

So it would have the full responsibility. And if a war started, America would be forced to fight it, not Israel. That's who Netanyahu is. So there is some chance that we're going to go in together. And at some point, Israel is going to go, not my war. Now you go fight it for me. Look at these but corrupt politicians in America. So easy to buy. You just get APEC to give them a couple hundred million dollars. And then we get a couple hundred billion dollars back. The Iraq war costs trillions, a bunch of suckers in America for Israel to abuse.

If you think, hey, wait, Jen, come on. Now, that sounds like it's hyperbole. I mean, has that in Yahoo and Israel been really been lying to us this whole time? I mean, I hear on mainstream media that they are the beloved special ally. And then we should trust them more than anyone else, then the rest of the Middle East combined, then the rest of the world combined, they are the special ally. They cannot be questioned. And if you do, anti-Semite.

Okay, so prepare for the entire country to become apparently anti-Semites by mainstream media and Washington's definition, because you're all about to find out how much of a liar, Benjamin Nanyahu, and the government of Israel is. This episode is brought to you by Square. You're not just running a restaurant, you're building something big, and Square's there for all of it. Giving your customers more ways to order, whether that's in-person with Square kiosk or online. Instant access to your sales, plus the funding you need to go even bigger. And real-time insights, so you know what's working, what's not, and what's next.

Because when you're doing big things, your tools should to. Visit square.ca to get started. So this is a clip, by the way, put together. Anybody could have done this. As usual, embarrassing that ABC News, CNN, et cetera, not only doesn't do this, but kind of hides it from you, it took the daily show to put together this clip. Now let's watch. If not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It could be a year. It could be within a few months. They have the wherewithal, the stored up preserved knowledge to make a bomb very quickly if they wanted to do it. Iran is so dangerous, weeks away from having the fissile material for an entire arsenal of nuclear bombs. They're very close. They're six months away from being about 90% of having the rich uranium for an atom,

bomb. Iran is gearing up to have to produce 25 bombs, atomic bombs a year, 250 bombs in a decade. Ladies and gentlemen, time is running out. Iran will be capable of producing alone without importing anything nuclear bombs within three to five years. That was Benjamin Netanyahu for those of you on the audio podcast throughout all the years dating back to 1995. For 33 straight years, Benjamin Nettino, Benjamin Nettio, and the government of Israel has been lying to America to get us to go into a war with Iran on behalf of Israel and what they have told us, oh, there are weeks away, there is so close.

Oh my, they're on the verge, he said in that 1996 clip. They were on the verge in 1996. Our intelligence, and this is now absolutely public, because Solzio Gabbard said it in congressional hearings say that Iran does not even have a uranium weapons program, it hasn't had one since 2003, the Grand Ayatollah has forbidden it, and even done a religious edict saying that it is immoral to develop a nuclear weapon, and our intelligence has confirmed that they do not have a bomb, they're nowhere near having a bomb. All of this has always been lies. And wait, let's lie about Iraq that got us to go in. Not that they did 9-11.

because they actually didn't do 9-11, Saddam Hussein, as terrible as he was, was against al-Qaeda. Kada was trying to topple his government as well. So not 9-11, that was a convenient excuse. Oh, it was WMD, weapons of mass destruction. Oh, wait, what's a nuclear weapon? Oh, right, a weapon of mass destruction. Huh, another giant lie about WMD, and now we're getting dragged into another war. So finally come back all the way around to Trump.

So Israel goes, hey, listen, you're not the boss of us, we're the boss of you. We're going to go start this war in Iran, and then you're going to go have to use one of your three options where you come in and we do this. Okay, so they start doing it. And then Trump, the reason they put out the statement with Marco Rubio on the first night, say, hey, this is Israel doing it, not us, is because Trump wanted to see how it went. And then on Fox News, this is why Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon and others are now in a war with Fox News. Fox News, because they know Trump is watching, puts out video reports of Israel with a genius strike inside Iran. How strong, how wonderful of Israel. They have done a brilliant job here.

So then Trump watches that and it's like, wait, wait, wait, no, no, I want the credit to go to me. So he rushes out and goes, I knew it. I knew they were going to do it. We're involved. Oh, Jesus Christ, you're so easy and predictable and dumb. So he's, yeah, yeah, we're involved. So now the next and last layer is, now Israel is telling Trump, again, this is New York Times reporting and the reporting in mainstream media from sources inside the White

House. They're telling him, oh, this is going to be easy. Do you know that they said, the neo-con said that the Iraq war would only cost 1.9 billion? Instead, it literally cost at least 1,000 times that. It costs over $2 trillion. And now they're telling Trump the same exact lie. Oh, Donnie, this is gonna be so easy. No, no, we just bombed their nuclear.

I mean, we don't do it, we can't do it, we don't have the capability to do it. So then why'd you start the war? Oh, we knew that if we start the war, even though we can't accomplish our mission of knocking out their non-existent nukes, America will do it for us. And so now the moron Donald Trump thinks. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be strong like Israel. Yeah, I'll fight this war for them. I'll knock out their nukes.

So they're planning, and again, they don't have that. They have nuclear facilities for energy, and it's been confirmed by the world that it is for energy. Now, are they trying to enrich the uranium past that because they started to worry that Israel is going to attack them unless they have nukes? I don't know. I know that they're enriching uranium a little bit more now, but they don't even have a weapon to put it on and it would take it over a year for them to produce that weapon. Not according to me, according to Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend, he said that. There's still, even by Netanyahu standards, well over a year away from having that be a weapon. So there is no weapon to bomb there.

Okay, there are facilities. So we're going to go and do that apparently. That's apparently imminent. By the way, when we do that, our troops are sitting ducks all across the Middle East. They don't have Iron Dome. They're just waiting there to get killed on behalf of Israel. so that Donald Trump and the New York cons can come out, go, that's it. Iran attacked America.

War, war, war, war, war. And Jordan, the last part of it is, boom, they move the goalposts. And you'll see this all over the media now. We tell you ahead of time now, you're going to notice it if you make the mistake of turning on cable news or engaging in mainstream media in other ways. Now it's no longer knocking out their non-existent nukes. It's regime change. Well, how are you going to do regime change?

Well, we're going to kill the Ayatollah, but that's not going to do it. They'll just replace him with another mullah and then another one and another one. Oh, you've got to go on the ground. Okay, and this is how America gets suckered into another war for Israel. Jordan. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. I want to point out the intelligence that the U.S. had and was shared and reporters learned of, earlier this year showed they were around three years away from us from enriching uranium

to weapons grade which would allow them to have a nuclear weapon but that isn't the the intelligence also found that isn't even actively what they're doing they're just using uranium and enriching uranium for medical devices for necessities for infrastructure i want to remind people that they have been subject to crippling sanctions which worsened their health care system, especially during the pandemic. So that's why, in part, why they were enriching uranium. On top of all of the other totally diplomatic reasons that every other country would, like energy. So this idea that we have to take out their program and that in doing so, we will topple their government.

And everyone in Iran will cheer and be happy is ludicrous. You can see from history time and time again, U.S. intervention and regime change has created a vacuum in those countries or in those regions. that allow even worse actors to come in, establish shop, and make life a living hell. And then the U.S. uses that as justification for permanent occupation. At what cost? How many people need to lose their lives? How many people need to be harmed? How many billions and billions or trillions of dollars do we need to waste on these types of

just wasteful efforts, these kind of Don Quixote escapades? Meanwhile, people here are suffering. You ask anybody in middle America who can't afford to make ends meet, who's struggling to afford groceries, who's struggling to pay for their medical bills, or can't afford their car payment, or even struggling to keep a roof over their head, do you think they care right now about Iran? Do you think they care about who's in charge? Do you think they care about Iran's nuclear capabilities? And if you had to ask them, what would you rather your tax dollars go to paying for essential services for you, like SNAP and Medicaid, which are currently on the chopping blog, because of a purported debt and spending crisis, according to Republicans, or do you want it to go to Israel, or do you want it to go to our military so they can bomb a mountain in Iran? I'd say, Jank, probably 90%, if not more, would say, no, I'd rather my issues get taken care of. So not only is this ridiculous, not only is this harmful and dangerous for people living in Iran, you're neglecting the people that got you into office.

And I know we've got more later in the hour of his base turning on him. But that is an important point to drive home. Nobody wants this. Polling shows this is deeply, deeply unpopular, regardless of political persuasion. Across the country, people do not want this. Only the hawks, only the military industrial complex, and potentially now Trump. Yeah. So last couple of things here.

Yesterday we covered Tim Dillon talking about what Jordan was mentioning there. He's like, if you knocked on a like a trailer camp door in Arizona or something, and you ask that brother, hey, what's your top three concerns? Do you think Iran would be on that list? It's a joke, right? I mean, and I said if you put top 20 Iran wouldn't be on that list. No, this only are people in Washington, the elites, the powerful want this. In fact, I have a poll that absolutely positively proves that.

The poll came out today. Only 16% of Americans want America to get involved in the war with Iran. 16%. 16% is such a small number that's like super radicals. The rest of the country looks at them like you're crazy, you're nuts. Overwhelming majority of the country does not want the U.S. involved in this war, but almost everyone in Washington does. And they're basically giving a giant middle finger to the rest of us and going,

Oh, you're on the left, you've always been anti-war. We never listened to you guys anyway, right? Oh, you're on the right, and you actually became anti-war, and you voted for Trump because you thought he was anti-war. Suckers, we did the same thing with the Democrats. Like, oh, yeah, Biden's anti-war. Did he vote for the Iraq War? Of course he did.

Hillary's anti-war. Did she vote for the Iraq War? John Kerry, did he vote for the Iraq? They all voted for the Iraq War, you suckers. And who started that? The Republicans did. So you go to Republicans? No, we're gonna start the wars.

Democrats, we're gonna bow our heads and go along with the wars. And who's back? Trump, oh, he's different. He's not a unit party, he's not establishment. And he's like, eh, eh, baby, how can I help you? How can I start a war? So no, the same old unit party, the same old establishment, and the elites are laughing at us.

They're gonna look at this. 84% of the country doesn't want it, but we're gonna make them do it anyway. And those other 16% watch cable news, we brainwatch the living crap out of them. And they think this helps America. Hilarious. Okay, what's not going to be funny is when we fight back.

So we're gonna start that tonight. You know the show's live 68 p.m. Easter, we'll give you the news. And then at eight, oftentimes we do interviews. So tonight we'll be doing an interview with Dave Smith, one of the leading libertarians in the country. And I'm gonna propose to you guys a way that you could fight back and you could throw all these bombs out.

And I think it's realistic. I think it can be done. Is it, will it be done enough time to stop this initial bombing? No way. No chance of that. But later in the show, we're going to show you that there are a couple of heroes inside Congress that are trying to stop this war. And there is a way you can help them and we could actually try at the very, very minimum, try really hard to stop this war. And if we can't stop it, well, there should be deep political consequences. So I'm calling that Operation Consequences. You'll see that tonight at 8 o'clock Eastern.

All right, we're out of time in this first segment. When we come back, Maga Coalition split, well, I was going to say right in half, but not really, the overwhelming majority are opposed to Trump here. If you don't believe it, stick around. We'll show you the numbers and we'll show you the actual clips. We'll be back. All right, back on T.R.D. Jordan C Mustang Augustus, which is a super badass name. Gold Hill Dragon, also awesome, and Cetrolok X.

All the cool names decide to join now. They all hit the join button below the video on YouTube, became American heroes and young tourist members. We appreciate you guys. We're all trying to stop this war together, and you got at least one show you can count on. And you could also join through our website, which is really helpful. TYT.com slash join. And I do read those comments a little bit more often.

And you get access to all of our shows. Lastly for now, I just want to read one quick one from a YouTube member on TYT. I lost my shoe, is this handle. They say, Trump are here. I'm really disappointed. And I think that's what a lot of America First guys are feeling today. So we're going to talk about that as we go forward. Jordan, tell us what's next.

Take a look at this. This vote isn't about supporting or opposing President Trump. I voted for President Trump. I plan to vote for President Trump again. This vote is about exercising our constitutional authority. But more importantly, our moral obligation to decide. when and where our troops are going to be asked to give their lives. And we certainly don't need another war. And if we do go to war, it needs to be with the blessing and the support of the

people and a mission that our soldiers can accomplish. And we do that by following the vision of our founding fathers. We debate it here on the floor of the House. That's what this resolution is about. Five years ago, GOP Congressman Thomas Massey was one of three Republican representatives that supported a resolution to stop Trump from taking military action against Iran without congressional approval. Now that our special ally, Israel has waged war with Iran, Massey is urging opposition to war again. Massey is one of the most outspoken Republicans in urging the president and Congress against further U.S. military action abroad. And he is consistent about this, to his credit. He posted this to X yesterday.

This is not our war. But if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution. I'm introducing a bipartisan war powers resolution tomorrow to prohibit our involvement. I invite all members of Congress to co-sponsor this resolution. Now, Jank, before we get into the details and the reactions, what are your thoughts on this? Oh, thank God. So we should all be helping them. In fact, you know what?

I'm going to go to it later in this story. I'm going to tell you how you can help them. So we'll talk more about it with Dave Smith at 8 o'clock Eastern tonight too. But I want to get you started on helping this movement that has organically started in Congress. Bernie's a big part of it. And the co-sponsor for Tom Massey is Rokana. You see that? That's actual bipartisanship.

a Republican with principles and a Democrat with principles who are both against war, saying not on our watch. Now, of course, the great majority of Congress is bought by A-PAC, but we have a plan for that. I'll tell you about that in a minute. Yes, Rokana also very consistent on this, not just with Iran or Gaza, but also with Yemen. And he posted this, no war in Iran. It's time for every member to go on record. Are you with the neocons who led us into Iraq, or do you stand with the American people?

I'm proud to co-lead this bipartisan war powers resolution with Representative Massey that is privileged and must receive a vote. The text of the resolution states, Congress hereby directs the president to terminate the use of armed or United States armed forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran or any part of its government or military, unless explicitly authorized by. a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force against Iran. It clarifies, though, that the resolution should not be used to disrupt intelligence gathering or the sharing of intelligence between the United States and any coalition partner, if the president determines such sharing is appropriate and in the national security interests of the United States. Key Democratic representatives have already signaled their support to back the resolution,

including AOC and Rashida Thalib. AOC said, signing on. You can see that here, Rashida Talib. I look forward to supporting this war powers resolution. The American people aren't falling for it. Again, we were lied to about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that killed millions and forever changed lives. It's unconstitutional for Trump to go to war without a vote in Congress.

Representative Don Beyer has also stated he would sign on. As of right now, though, no other Republicans have co-sponsored the resolution. We will see if there is meaningful bipartisan support as it develops. But over in the Senate, Senators Bernie Sanders and Tim Cain have already introduced two different but similar resolutions. Yesterday, Bernie released a statement introducing his legislation prohibiting the use of federal funds for any use of military force in or against Iran with the exception of self-defense. He posted here, tonight I introduced legislation to stop Trump from leading us into an illegal war with Iran. Another war in the Middle East could cost countless lives, waste trillions more

dollars, and lead to even more deaths, more conflict, and more displacement. The following senators are joining Bernie on the legislation. Peter Welsh, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, Chris Van Hollen, Ed Markey, Tammy Baldwin, and Tina Smith. Senator Tim Cain, as we mentioned earlier, filed a separate resolution, but with the same premise of enacting a war powers resolution. Cain led the charge with an almost identical resolution back in 2020, which passed in both the House and the Senate, but was vetoed by Trump and failed a veto vote in the Senate. In a statement regarding his most recent resolution, Senator Kane stated, it is not in our national security interest to get into war with Iran,

unless that war is absolutely necessary to defend the United States. I'm deeply concerned that the recent escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran could quickly pull the United States into another endless conflict. The American people have no interest in setting service members to fight another forever war in the Middle East. This resolution will ensure that if we decide to place our nation's men and women in uniform into harm's way, we will have a debate and vote on it in Congress. Cain stated earlier today that he didn't have any co-sponsors ready to announce, but quote,

I definitely have interest. According to a new economist and you gov poll released earlier today, like Jank mentioned in the last block, only 16% of Americans back U.S. involvement. 60% say the U.S. should not be involved. 24% were unsure. And the numbers are pretty similar when you get into party affiliation. Just 15% of Democrats believe the U.S. should get involved. And 23% of Republicans agree more than 60% of Democrats, however, and more than 50% of Republicans believe the U.S. should not be involved. Among Trump voters specifically, 19% believe the U.S. should get involved in the growing conflict, while 53% believe we should stay out of it. Another 28% said they were unsure. But does Trump care? No. I have not reached

out to Iran for peace talks in any way, shape, or form. This is just more highly fabricated fake news. If they want to talk, they know how to reach me. They should have taken the deal that was on the table. Would have saved a lot of lives. Jank, you know it would have saved a lot of lives? Not ripping up the deal that was already in place simply because Obama did it. I'm going crazy here. So that's definitely true. And that deal was perfectly fine. We'd stop their uranium enrichment program entirely. Everybody was happy with that deal except Israel.

And Israel didn't like the deal because it was a good deal. And it's prevented war and they've been wanting war since 1995. We already showed you the clip of Benjamin Netanyahu since 95 to now saying, oh, it's imminent. Iran's gotta get a nuke any day now, any week now, right? So they've been lying about this from day one. That's why they were furious with Obama that he made a really good peace deal with Iran that prevented them from having nukes. And he's like, what are you doing?

You're gonna take away my excuse to drag you guys into this war to knock out one of my regional rivals So I can dominate the Middle East and take more Palestinian land. And if you think that's conspiratorial, well, it's a conspiracy that's out in the open now because the Israeli cabinet voted to take Gaza for Israel. Oh, but there's nobody to fight back. There's no Hamas has gone, Hezbollah's gone, et cetera. You can say those are terrible organizations, but Israel wanted all of them wiped off the face of the earth. And now once Iran wiped off the face of the earth, they wanted Iraq wiped off the face of the earth.

Why? So they could completely dominate and no one can complain when they take Gaza, West Bank, Western Syria, southern Lebanon and set up greater Israel. And they have maps of greater Israel in their cabinet. So it's not like they're hiding it. They talk about Judea, Samaria, et cetera, and how it's theirs. So this is an aggressive imperial empire. But they don't want to pay their own bills. They want to make us pay their bills. We've already given them $311 billion and adjusted inflation, inflation adjusted numbers. So are they, are we going to get the 311 billion back? No, they're just going to keep it, right? Special ally only takes. They dragged us into the Iraq war with fake intelligence about WMD. What are they claiming about Iran, fake

intelligence about WMD? And so how much of that costs us in the global war on terror that we didn't need at all? All of these are all the people that have attacked us, et cetera, from the Muslim world, they're all Israel's enemies. Israel just dragged them over here to America and said, congratulations. They're now your enemies. You deal with it. Global War on Terrorists cost America $8 trillion. Are we gonna get that money back from Israel? No. And if you ask for money back, they'll say anti-Semite, shut up and give me your money, okay? It's almost like a goddamn robbery. Now, to be fair to Israel, I guess if any government can just bribe our politicians, they could all do this. And by the way, others have begun

to figure it out. So Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, now funneling money to Trump, to our politicians, to our think tanks, because they're like, oh, Israel just figured it out first. There, it's an open auction. They allow unlimited money in politics. These idiots will let anyone bribe their politicians. The Supreme Court did that. We need an amendment to go above their heads, check out Wolfpack. Okay, back to how are we going to stop the war today? So originally I had a plan where I was going to go on with the right winger and ask for him to pick their champion, and I was going to pick our champion. Not because I'm the guy who has the credibility to pick it, et cetera, forget about me. I'm totally irrelevant. But everybody agrees to who our champion is. It's Bernie Sanders,

right? But, and I'm positive that whoever it was on the right would have picked Tom Massey. And it turns out they're already champions. They don't need us to nominate them. They already did it without anybody asking them, introducing bills to stop this war. in the House and in the Senate. Okay, so step one's already done. Look, by the way, getting anyone, anyone to be opposed to war in Congress is a very hard ask. Like when Bernie used to do it like decades ago, he was like sometimes the only person in Congress. Barbara Leah on Afghanistan was literally the only vote, right?

So all right, so step two is, well, now we all take a pledge. Because this, oh, this is very important before I get to step two. they have to get you do a vote on this. War powers resolution cannot be blocked by the president because it checks the president's power. The Congress has the power to declare a war according to the Constitution. So the president cannot object, okay? And since this is what is called a privileged bill, it must get a vote,

and it will get a vote within about 15 days. So they have to wait for 15 days in committee and then vote on it. That's right around 4th of July. That is very powerful symbolism and they're all going to have to go on the record. Okay, so step two is we all take a pledge to never ever vote for anyone who votes for this war. Okay, if they vote no on the war, then you know, use your own judgment, hey, you like their policies on Medicare and taxes and all the other immigration, et cetera, all the other factors. But if they vote yes on this war, that's it. That's the last vote they ever take.

Okay. Now, are we going to be able to muster up enough people to do that? I don't know, but I'm going to go around the country and try to find out. Okay? So who appointed me? No one other than you guys, young Turks members, you always send me on these missions, right? And so that mission starts tonight at 8 o'clock with Dave Smith. Well, I would argue the head of the libertarians in this country at this point. And I'm going to ask him if he's willing to go along with this special pledges right now on United Againstwar.com. Okay, so check that out. United Againstwar.com and it's super simple. I pledge to vote against any legislator that supports U.S.

involvement in the war with Iran, period. They all have to vote on it. They don't have a choice and we're all gonna see it. And step three is we're gonna track it. And look, I don't know how many of us will see with the pledge. How many of us are gonna vote based on that? But if it gets to a million, I bet they get uncomfortable. If it gets to two million, five million, they start to get

super uncomfortable because those votes, Republican or Democrat, are going to be locked in, set in stone. You vote to get America into war. That's the last goddamn vote you're going to take. That's our pledge as American citizens. Remember, only 16% want this war. The rest of us don't want it. So if the rest of us rise up, if these establishment figures, the unit party, neo-cons, whatever you want to call them, if they have awoken asleep, giant, we're gonna find out. Now look, if Young Turks does this by themselves, sometimes we've moved, you know, progressives in Congress, other times we've created, helped to create the Justice Democrats, and that made difference, et cetera. But we cannot do it on our own.

So we've got to bring in the libertarians, for sure, they're definitely anti-war, and we've got to bring in true America first, that actually believed in America first, more than they believed in Trump. If you say, no, Trump's my daddy, and if he's He says war, then I love war, and if he says Israel first, America second, then I'm for America second, then you're not going to sign it and you're not going to be interested and you're not anti-war, you're not part of our group, that's okay, go off into the corner. Some in the radical left will say, oh, I'm never gonna work with the Republicans, never. It would taint my morality and my purity.

All right, go, go away, go sit in your couch, do whatever you're gonna do, okay? But for the rest of us, for the 84%, for God's sake, let's do something. So we're gonna track those guys. And if they vote yes for the war, let's all pledge to make sure that they never win. And one thing that's important guys, this is not partisan. You defeat them in their primaries. So you don't have to worry, oh my God, is this a trick to get me to vote for Republicans? Is this a trick to get me to vote for Democrats?

No, you eliminate them in the primary, okay? So that way you're gonna have a Republican if you're a Republican, you're gonna have a Democrat if you're a Democrat. But you're just not going to have that incumbent who is not for this country, who's for a different country, okay? We're going to get American representatives back into Congress. That's the plan. If it doesn't work, I'm fine with it. Okay, if it turns out there's, aha, look at that jank and young Turks and young Turks and all this. Good earnest people wanted to stop war who were honest.

Ha ha, they tried, but they failed. Okay, I can live with it as long as we try. Jordan. Yeah, it's worth trying. You know, I really appreciate Thomas Massey for remaining consistent and just being consistent on war powers resolutions, U.S. involvement abroad, intervention, and regime change. It seldom you see people who are consistent on that. I think he really is like the most consistent out of everyone on the broader right.

And we'll throw libertarians in there to some extent. But yeah, on Gaza, on this, on Iran, both as we showed you in 2020 and now, really appreciate that from him. So credit words do. Good on him. And he was out early on this. It's not someone waiting until it's convenient to do something. So I really, really appreciate that. Good to see others jumping on. Love to see more Democrats sign on. Of course, we welcome Republicans in Congress signing on. I don't know how many will. get. But yeah, I think hanging this around their necks is good, not just for preventing, hopefully preventing more now, but also down the line when some of these inevitably seek potentially the presidency or if they're in the House, a Senate race. Hang this around their necks in those campaigns

as well. Make them wear this for the rest of their political career. You saw how that hurt Hillary in 2016. People didn't want to support her in large part because of her. Because of her, support for the war in Iraq. So the more we can do this and the more we can brand these career politicians who are in there to represent the military industrial complex and almost nothing else, maybe some corporate interests to diversify, but make that their political brand for the rest of their careers. I would support any and all efforts to try to do that. Yes, and look guys, the most important part of the plan is you have to vote against them. If they get away with this, they're basically saying, you don't, it's not a democracy anymore.

It's not your country. Whichever government comes in here and whichever corporation comes in here and bribes us. And we're told all of us are open for bribes. They all take, they literally take billions of dollars in bribes, which mainstream media calls campaign contributions because it largely goes to them when they spend ads in mainstream media, right? When they buy those ads, they're the media is the beneficiary of all that corruption. So that's why mainstream media never tells you about it, right? But any corporation and any government can buy these guys. So if these guys go, no, I don't serve America.

I serve my donors and my donors at AIPAC, which APAC is given to almost everyone in the house, but 30 members. So they control. And if you're in mainstream media and you say, no, no, giving a couple of million dollars to a congressman doesn't mean you control them. You're funny, you're hilarious. but you don't even realize that you're a joke that the rest of the country now is not listening to you anymore.

We think that your guys are disgusting propagandists telling us, no, politicians are so honorable. They'd never be affected by millions of dollars. What kind of a fool says that, let alone a so-called reporter? So we're not listening to any of that garbage anymore. So if they vote yes for this, there has to be accountability. You're the accountability. That's why I'm calling this operation consequences. You take that war vote to drag America into yet another census war in the Middle East,

and there's going to be political consequences. All right, we've got to take a break here, guys. When we come back, it's not just Tom Massey. Half of the MAGA hosts have risen up in ranging anywhere from objections to rage about this war that they did not want. We'll be back. Wilson gifted 20 young tourist memberships on YouTube. Drew, you're awesome. I appreciate you. Jordan, real quick, I'm going to read two comments because I found them to be really powerful,

both on super chat. Citywit wrote in as a Jewish person, in my opinion, you're now an anti-Semite. If you blindly support Israel, that's not my Jewish state. Oh, I love that. See, look, guys, some of the best fighters for peace are Jewish Americans, okay? Bernie Sanders, Dave Smith, Glenn Greenwald, I could go on and on. They're so good that sex tapes come out about them. Okay, so this is not about that. And the people who conflate it are not only hurting Jewish Americans in this country, Jews across the world, they don't speak for them, right?

And they're doing an anti-Semitic trope of dual loyalty. So I think Citywood is exactly right. Last one. And Guzzwee Trust wrote in, Libertarian here. Your channel is chill AF and fun to listen to. You guys have come a long way and I respect you for reaching across the aisle. I pledge to not vote for anyone who votes for this war. We're on the board.

Okay, so there we go. United Againstwar.com. Jordan, what's next? Take a look at this. Trump feels like he's a little bit at war with himself. Because he's said all the time, I mean, he wants to be known as the peacemaker, the deal maker, the guy who ends wars. And yet here he finds himself defending. defending another war. Well, I don't know, I don't think Trump's defending the war. Trump's

defending Israel's actions. And within a week or two, he's going to try to find an off ramp to bring it to peace. And as for Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, they are, they do not define what the MAG or the conservative base is. There's two idiot conspiracy there is. The base, the MAGA base, the conservative base, believe me, they're all behind Trump. And that's it. He's the one that calls the shots on what kind of defines the, you know, that MAGA base. The neocons and the Republican Party are out in full force, desperately trying to define themselves as true MAGA as they push for war with Iran. There you had former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu dismissing Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon as idiots for being the loudest opponents of Trump's decision to lead us head first into war. But before we move on here for more warhockery from neocons,

Jake, what do you think of Sununu's claims? Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon don't represent MAGA. Instead, neocon warhawks represent MAGA and they're all behind Trump in invading Iran. What's amazing about that guys is that no one else on that panel realizes that that's not even remotely true. That's not within miles of true. Right? But they're all, oh yeah, because all they do is bring on establishment people and establish people. Oh, yeah, MAGA sucks, right? I mean, I would like, I mean, MAGA's pro war, right? Right, but MAGA's pro war. Yeah, yeah, totally agreed. And even Scott Jennings is like, oh, yeah, Maga's great.

And Sununu, who fought Trump the entire time, now pretending to be on Trump. So when Trump said it, that's MAGA, you're the real, Sununu, and who was, if I remember right, was a never Trumper. You're the real MAGA, but Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon are the fake mega? Look, I got a thousand problems with Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson. But they're definitely real MAGA. Wait, a thousand times more real than Sununu or anyone on television, pretending to be like know what populace thing. Although they are going to get a rude away,

potentially could get a rude awakening tonight. because for the first time a populace is going to be on that panel, Anna Casparian, on that exact show tonight at 10 o'clock Eastern. Anything can happen, okay, but these guys are a joke. So let's tell you about all the Republicans who are trying to start the war, and later in the show we'll show you the Republicans or the MAGA guys who are against the war. So we'll get into more. Mark Levin joined in once again on the Tucker bashing, writing a blistering op-ed in the New York

Post, telling Maca Republicans to ignore the isolationists. In it, he claims isolationism is just appeasement that promotes war. Even worse, these knuckleheads can't coherently explain what they mean. Have you watched them on TV? They're too self-righteous and their ignorance to realize how absurd they sound. They don't agree among themselves. What the hell they're talking about. He also insists that the current foreign policy is nothing like the recent failed policies we've seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are together demonstrating how to deal with a genocidal terrorist regime, how to use diplomacy and military power, how to use intel and special forces, how to use

the media and public statements and more to defeat the biggest terror supporting regime on the planet. It is and has been brilliant. And if all goes well, it will result in a transformed Middle East, an expansion of the Abraham Accords and a world free of a nuclear terror regime. The if all goes well is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Yet the isolationists such as Chatsworth Cotarlson, referring to Tucker Carlson, are turning on our president. As they've spent months demeaning Netanyahu, they prefer the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is apparently more MAGA than Trump. These reprobates have never been MAGA. The isolationists tell us that to oppose a regime change war in Iran is to be a war monger and anti-Maga.

Just close your eyes and cover your ears. They also don't seem to care that they attract Marxists, Islamists, and anti-Semites. Unfortunately, every indication so far is that Trump is siding with these people and not his MAGA base. Last night he posted a truly insane text he received from Mike Huckabee, his ambassador to Israel. It read, Mr. President, God spared you in Butler,

Pennsylvania to be the most consequential president in a century, maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders, I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you, sir, but there is only one voice that matters, his voice. I am your anointed servant in this land and am available for you, but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. No president in my lifetime has been in a position like yours, not since Truman in 1945. I don't reach out to persuade you, only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven, and that voice is far more important than mine or anyone else's. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears, and voice, and to make

sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave. I will not abandon this post. Our flag will not come down. You did not seek this moment. You did not seek this moment. This moment, this moment sought you. It is my honor to serve you. Jank, do you think heaven is telling Trump to bomb Iran? I wonder if it's telling Huckabee to swallow or spit. So he's been doing hard work praying on his knees in Israel to serve his true master. Anyways, so the trick that Huckabee is doing is, oh yeah.

Oh, yeah, God wants you to start a war. How do I know? Oh, I talked to him. Did you? I mean, you want to talk about blasphemous? How could be, did you talk to God? Who talked to God? And they asked them specifically, should we help Israel attack Iran?

Should we help kill civilians there? Should we bring American troops to die there? Should we spend trillions? You ask God that? I can't imagine anything more blasphemous than this guy pretending to speak for God. And he does the obvious trick that, but to Trump, it won't be obvious at all. He's like, oh, God has picked you. You're so special and wonderful, but only if you attack Iran.

If you attack Iran, then God selected you for this. And you're pretty much a prophet. You know Trump's going to eat that up, right? Oh, yes, yes. God has selected me to murder people in Iran on behalf of Israel and to spend America's children and fortune on it. Has he, or is Mike Huckabee, a low grade con man? Okay, why don't you go go sell some freaking Tupperware in Arkansas, okay?

And by the way, that would be far more noble than what he's doing, a thousand times more noble than what Huckabee's doing now. But the scary part of what Huckabee said was about 1945. Why did that get into this conversation? You know what happened. I mean, you know what happened in the 45. Truman dropped the bomb. Jordan, I don't know. That's scared the hell out of me because I'm like, is, is there talk of like a nuclear bunker buster that they're going to use on those Iranian facilities? Because why is he mentioning 1945? That is, that's not a World War II reference. That's a Hiroshima Nagasaki reference. Truman had the courage to use nuclear weapons.

And by the way, if Israel wants to nuke Iran, you think they're going to use their own nukes and be held culpable for that? No, they're going to get a moron like Donald Trump to do their dirty work for them so that when the world explodes in rage, it's not against Israel. They say, well, well, I had nothing new with it. I'm not America, right? And that rage is going to be directed to all of us. And then mainstream media is going to come and tell you they hate us because they hate us. Just randomly, for no reason at all, they hate us because they hate us. Look, are they going to do that? I don't know.

I hope not. That is, like, it's just one reference. Don't over panic about it. But it was a weird, weird thing. Guys, I got to show you the Charlie Kirkpole. So later in the show, in fact, the next story we'll do after the break is about MAGA that's turned on Trump. And that's why you're seeing this battle in this war between neocons. Everybody we just read from is a neocon or a Christian Zionist, all either working for Israel

or have some deranged genocidal fantasies of their own, like Huckabee does. Okay, so Charlie Kirk asked his own audience. I remember Charlie Kirk's like, I love Israel. I love Israel, the greatest, right? But I'm a little concerned. Why is he a little concerned? Because his own audience is like, are you kidding me, Charlie? Are you kidding me?

We all said anti-war. So he does a poll and let's find out, is MAGA really anti-war or not? Maybe it's 50-50, maybe it's 90-10. Well, I'll tell you what it was, 90-10 against the war. Charlie Kirk's audience, deeply right-wing, 90 to 10, not interested in this war, not interested in hockey beast BS, not interested in all these neocons. And a lot of what MAGA is saying all over the internet, I know if you haven't seen it, you think, oh, really? That can't be. I mean, four years ago, they all agreed with Trump no matter what.

Well, it's a different MAGA. And this time around, they mean a lot of what they say. And so what they're saying is, listen, brother, we didn't pick you to be America second. We said anti-war. We meant anti-war. And if you're pro-war and you're just going to serve Israel, we're not interested. So that's why there's this huge rift. And that is why they're trying to keep Trump in like a little bit of a cocoon where they're like, don't do, don't, don't just watch TV. Turn on Fox News for him, turn on Fox News.

That's why Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson are attacking Fox News, which is what we're going to show you next. So they're like, don't talk to Tucker. Tucker's cookie. Tucker's not even on TV. That's why Trump said, Tucker's not even on TV because somebody whispered that in his here. Don't do and don't watch anything that isn't on TV because then you might find out that your base has left the building, okay? So he doesn't realize it. But when those new poll numbers

come out and he's in the goddamn 20s, yes, I said 20s. People can say, oh, you're nuts. He was at 45 in the last poll. You think he's going to drop to like 29 or something? Yes, I do. Yes, I do because no one wants this war. Only the Warhawk establishment unit party elites in Washington do, and they're in for a rude awakening. The American people are going to despise this. All right, we're out of time. When we come back from the break, finally we show you the Maga revolt. It has increased against Donald Trump. More and more voices now coming out going, nope, Nope, nope, nope, we did not vote for this. And then 8 o'clock, Dave Smith joins the rebellion.

We'll be back.