The Young Turks - Best Frenemies Forever - August 13, 2026

Episode Date: August 14, 2026

A new Pentagon report reveals the steep civilian toll of Donald Trump’s campaign in Yemen, while the White House reportedly believes Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a peace plan may be more show than substance. Meanwhile, Bret Baier undercuts Trump’s claims about Iran as traffic through the Strait of Hormuz slows to a trickle, while Joe Scarborough praises Trump’s refusal to give in to Iranian demands. Hosts: Cenk Uygur, John Kiriakou Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Welcome to our trash revolution. I'm so. Guest hosting today, John Kirooku, fun for everybody. John, of course, famously a former CIA agent. That's fun.

And he's got his podcast now. that's John Kiroaku's briefing room. Everybody should check that out. And John, you're joining us from Greece? I'm joining you from Greece. I am in Athens in the 24-hour-a-day party neighborhood of CD. I hope you can't hear the, what sounds like a raucous, like soccer hooliganism party going on outside. No, no, no.

And it was good to see the Greeks are having a good time. Okay, I like it. Okay, all right. They're all course. Yeah, so today we do have some somber's news, of course, unfortunately. We are going to talk about the Iran war and the state of it and how badly that's going and get to the realities of the situation. We're also going to talk about Yemen in a second and some of the disasters that's unfolding there.

I want to talk to you a little bit about media and the media's reaction to the war here and a lot more to get to, including price of war. war. So let's get started. We've got our first story now. So in Yemen, unfortunately, it looks like we have killed four more civilians than we realized. And now we realize that there's 150 civilians at a minimum that we killed in strikes in Yemen. It looks like there might be a lot more. And that was right after Pete Hagsath gutted civilian protections. So, John, I'm gonna ask you more about this after I give you all the facts of this story. But let me just start by asking one quick question here. Do you think that we've loosened the rules of engagement too much

here and that's what's leading to a lot more civilian deaths? Oh, very much so. I think that's clearly what has happened here. And it's it's so much broader too, Chink. You know, we, the president has has been very clear and very public about his ongoing desire to attack civilian infrastructure, whether it's in in Iran or in Yemen. Attacking civilian infrastructure is a black and white war crime. You can't do that. And we do it anyway. And if we do it, then the Israelis are going to do it.

The Saudis are going to do it. The Emirates are going to do it. And the next thing you know, four or five, six different countries are at war in Yemen, which can barely defend itself and frankly is at war with itself. And then you get these ridiculous numbers of civilian cash. Yeah, so I want to talk more about the downsides for us as well about that and why we're doing it. But first, let me tell everybody what's happening there now. So these are reports from 2025 that are now coming in.

We had a window of time there where we were bombing the hell out of Yemen. Let me go to the Washington Post explain here. U.S. forces attack at least 1,000 targets in that time. And it was a span of about 50 days. According to Pentagon figures, in a bid to diminish the Houthi's arsenal and restore freedom of navigation to the waters off of Yemen. Now this is when the Houthis were striking ships in the Red Sea to try to protect the Palestinians and Gaza and impose costs on Israel and other governments that were not

basically not caring about the Palestinians and helping and aiding and abetting the Israelis. So they were trying to prevent a genocide from their point of view. We attack him for 50 days. We hit a thousand targets. And then U.S. forces, they acknowledged last year, killed 153 civilians and wounded nearly 250 others. And that's what we know so far. Now, one attack on April 28, 2025 alone killed 68 civilians in northwestern Yemen, according to the Pentagon's review. So now the Pentagon has reviewed three of those attacks, and that's where we're getting this information.

but they've yet to review 15 more attacks that have not been analyzed yet. They're getting around to it, they assure us. So the executive director of Air Wars has stated, how are they going to keep up with the scale and pace of the war we've seen in Iran? They chose to hit 13,000 targets in Iran in 40 days. That's 10 times more than in the Yemen campaign. And let's remember how this all started. This is what Pete Higgseth said about Iran.

I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury. America is winning, decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy. Our warfighters have maximum authorities granted personally by the president and yours truly. Our rules of engagement are bold, precise, and designed to unleash American power, not shackle it. This was never meant to be a fair fight and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be. John, is it supposed to be like that that we punch people when they're down? We make sure that nothing is fair.

We kill their civilians. Isn't that kind of an old school way of thinking where they, we're going to get them to surrender by just incinerating enough of their, citizens. But these days, if you're not willing to go to that step where you incinerate everyone, you just make them angrier and are more likely to fight you. It seems to me, but I'm an outsider to this. You did counterterrorism. What's your opinion? Oh yeah, you've hit it on the head. And it does several different things at the same time. First of all, it drives disparate factions together. Because the United States, and look at this

historically, the United States has never seen as a liberator. It's seen as an attacker and an occupier. And you've got a million different factions in Yemen, whether it's in northern Yemen or southern Yemen, used to be two different countries. And these relentless attacks do nothing more than drive opposing factions together. They unite to protect their country. Now, you can, you can attack radar installations, you can attack fuel depots, you can attack warehouses that are, you know, holding ammunition or spare parts or whatever. You don't have to attack schools and hospitals and bridges and the electrical grid and desalination plants.

That's what we're doing. And that doesn't help you win the war. That just pisses people off and unites them against you. So, Hegset basically took out a group that was meant to look at civilian casualties, took out 90% of its staff. And he seems to have the mentality of, look, if we are tougher and we kill more people, including civilians, that we are more likely to win the war. But in your experience in modern day warfare, doesn't it make us less likely to win the war?

Oh my gosh, yes. It's like we learn nothing from Fallujah or to Crete. Or my God, for that matter, from the bombing of Dresden. Have we learned nothing over the last 80 years relative to civilian casualties? They don't weaken foreign armies. Look what we did to Iran on the very first day of the joint U.S. Israeli bombing of Iran. We blew up a girl school, a girls' school. You know, well, it's no wonder that the Iranian government didn't fall like a house of cards.

As soon as we bombed a girl school and slaughtered children, it pushed all Iranians together to oppose the United States. Frankly, the bold move here would have been something that the Bush administration refused to do. In an earlier generation, the Reagan administration refused to do. do and that is to allow the diplomats to do what you're paying them to do and and call a meeting and try and get some of these issues sorted out. Listen, I get that the Houthis support the Palestinians. I think that's a wonderful thing. I really do. But that doesn't mean that if they attack an Indian

cargo ship, that you have to just carpet bomb the country to get them to stop. It doesn't make any sense. Yeah. And so look, we learned these lessons not just recently, all the way back to Vietnam, right? We bombed and bombed and we did carpet bombing, we did Agent Orange, and we couldn't break their will to resist. And by the way, when then we made a peace deal and then invaded them with Levi's and McDonald's and Nike, we won.

Oh my gosh, Chink, may I interrupt you? I just arrived in Athens yesterday from Vietnam. And I took a tour of the Kuchy tunnels, the 250 kilometers of tunnels that the Viet Cong used to move weapons and ammunition. Over the course of decades, beginning with the start of the French, the war against the French colonial occupiers. And my son and I, I'm here in Athens with my son, we had exactly the same conversation yesterday. I said to him, if you want to overthrow the Cuban government, open the first McDonald's in Havana. Because you go to what is now called Ho Chi Minh City. It used to be called Saigon.

We bombed them and murdered their people mercilessly from 1959 to 1975, and we lost. But now when you go, it looks like Times Square. And the McDonald's is packed. And there are Starbucks on every corner. In the end, we won, and we won by losing. So if there's a lesson to be learned there, it's engage in diplomacy, open economies, and don't bomb them. Yeah.

So instead we're doing the opposite, which of course leads to the question of why. Like, there's a couple possibilities. One is the Israelification of our military and our intelligence operations and our government, which means not just listening to Israel's orders, starting to copy their methods. So the Israelis wantonly slaughter innocence, we now are slaughtering innocence. We didn't always used to, and I'm again here I defer to your expertise. I think the American government for a while has killed a lot of people by accident, has

been way too aggressive, and Obama bombed a wedding, right? So it's not like this is a new concept. But we generally seem like we were trying not to. Now it looks like we just don't care at all. And so it looks like we're copying our great ally Israel in that. But even so, I don't know why we'd want to, right? So what's going on, John? Are they just cavemen, knuckle-draggers, and they're like,

and they just don't know anything any better? Or is there some other reason? No, this is one of those situations. I think that is very complicated. I think that the bottom line is our political, military, and intelligence relationship with Israel has grown so close and so strong that we're almost unable to break away from it now. When I was at the CIA, and I left the CIA 22 years ago, we had to keep the Israelis at arm's length, rather long, arm's length because they were spying on us. Well, as recently as three weeks ago, the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency

released an all hands email to all defense intelligence agency employees telling them to be especially careful right now because the Israelis have ramped up their espionage activities against DOD and specifically DIA. So the Israelis haven't changed over the years. Our politics have changed. is under such intense pressure from APAC to further strengthen the relationship between the two countries, to make it even closer than it ever has been. Well, when that starts with politics, it very easily and quickly bleeds into policy.

And that's what we're seeing here. We're getting to the point where we're almost going to be unable to extricate ourselves from a deeply entangled relationship. When we know that it's wrong, look at a lower level. Let's not even focus on the federal level. Let's look at the state and the local levels. We have Israeli IDF members and Israeli police training local police departments, like Atlanta, Georgia, for example. Why?

Why do we need the Israelis to train our local police? We're the ones who go around the world and train. other countries. So I think that the relationship is very deep. It's very complicated and it's very troubling because we're going to have a terrible time getting out of it. Look, just yesterday we covered a clip of Jonathan Greenblatt saying that they spy in on groups on the left, the right, pro peace movement. And they're basically doing it on behalf of Israel. And then they coordinate with the FBI and the local police, including L.A. police, the arrest their opponents. So what is this? This is insanity. Total insanity. Meanwhile, we turn the media.

I'm gonna show you a clip. I think this is from about 12 years ago from Joe Scarborough. He's back to these antics today as well. We'll show you that later in the show. But I want to show this as an example of what our mainstream media says instead of reality, and then come back and talk about their role as well. So this was his thesis on why we have any trouble in the Middle East. Wait till you see it. Watch. They hate us because of their religion. They hate us because of their culture and they hate us because of peer pressure.

Think about the savagery, just the sheer unrestrained savagery that we have seen across the Middle East and the Arab world over the past week because of a crude film. They know what they're doing. They know it's a crude film. They know it has nothing to do with the United States government. It is an excuse. They hate us because of waterboarding. No, they don't.

They hate us because they hate us. They hate us because of Obama's drone attacks. No, they don't. They hate us because they hate us. They hate us because somebody burned a Quran. No, they don't. They hate us because they hate us. They hate us because of this crude film.

No, they don't. They hate us. Seems really sophisticated. So that was 14 years ago. John, is it true that they hate us because their religion, their culture, and they're savages, and they hate us because they hate us. No, I'm very happy to say that I spent a very good part of my adult life living in the Middle East. And literally none of that is true.

I don't mean to laugh because it's deadly serious, but it's so ridiculous. It's so outrageous that I can't help but to chuckle at the at the absurd. and the and the idiocy of Joe Scarborough. I mean, Joe Scarborough, listen, he's a lifelong neo-con. He almost can't help himself. For a minute, he pretended to be kind of independent and maybe even somebody, you know, from the left or somebody who had moved to the left in adulthood. No, he's just a hater.

And you know, it's, you hear language like that, Chank, from people who just simply don't understand the Middle East. They don't understand the politics. They don't understand the history. They don't understand the culture. It's easy just to hate and point at them. Yeah. So it might be because we're bombing them.

I think that that's my alternate theory. And it might be because we're helping Israel occupy five and a half million Palestinians and oppress them and humiliate them and do a genocide and seven wars. I know, crazy to actually look at the facts on the ground. But I want to come back to Yemen to finish up. So in Iran, we know what the answer is, strike a deal, open up the Strait of Hormuz, and at this point, even Trump is saying, I don't even really need them to do anything on the

nuclear end. So we were lying about why we invaded, because now Trump is dropping the essential reason he claimed that we were invading. And all the other things are gone. We're no longer talking about attacking their ballistic, ending all their ballistic missiles, and their drone program, and all the ridiculous regime change, none of that's going to happen. and even Trump has given up on it. So Iran is straightforward if we can just get them to that agreement and get Trump to that agreement as well.

Yemen, we've helped Saudi Arabia devastate Yemen before. Now we're bombing them on behalf of Israel. We just keep bombing and bombing them. And they're already, you know, a poor country, not one that's, you know, got a blossoming economy or anything. This is quite devastating to Yemen. So other than leaving them alone, what's the right answer for how we should deal with Yemen? Yeah, you know, I've been to Yemen five times over the last 35 years. And every time I go, it's worse than the previous time. Yemen used to be a net food exporter.

They provided food not just to the Horn of Africa, but to Saudi Arabia. And there were two million Yemenis working in Saudi Arabia until the beginning of the Gulf War in 1990. The Yemen economy is never recovered from Saudi Arabia's decision to expel literally every Yemeni. But the thing is the Yemenis are incredibly resourceful people. They're very proud and they're very, very tough. They work hard and they band together when attacked by outsiders. And really the only thing that we can do that is going to improve.

the situation in the Red Sea and at the Bab el-Mandab, that very narrow nine-mile opening between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa is to engage them in diplomacy. We've got to sit across the table from them and ask them what we can do to make this right. Well, we know what we have to do to make it right, and neither we nor the Israelis are willing to do it. But we're not going to be able to bomb them into submission. We've tried. It doesn't work.

The Saudis have tried. The Emirates have tried. The Israelis have tried. And while all these bombings are going on, the Yemenis are fighting a civil war amongst themselves. So this just isn't going to work. And doubling down on something that doesn't work just makes your failure twice as bad. It doesn't suddenly work like magic. Yeah, and John, last thing on that is when we do this, it always feels like we're being counterproductive, right?

And for a reason that is clear, the one you state, they just, and the one we've talked about here, they get angry, they want to double down, you know. But there's a second reason that's not talked about as much, which is that when you have civil war, when you have destruction and chaos in a country, moderates are unlikely to rise to the top. Isn't it true that almost always extremists rise to the top? So whenever we do this kind of wanton destruction in a country, we're actually aiding and abetting the extremists in that country? In 100% of cases, yes, it really is that simple. If you are looking for a technocrat or an intellectual or, let's say, a diplomat or a professor that's somehow going to bubble to the top and bring these different factions together,

it's not going to happen while they're under attack. While they're under attack, they're going to be looking for military leaders, or if the attack is asymmetrical or coming from different directions, they're going to be looking for guerrilla leaders, because they'll take this fight into the mountains. They'll take this fight door to door in the cities and towns. They'll take it as they have to see and attack ships, whether they're military or commercial. They'll take missiles and fire them at Eilat in southern Israel or at Israeli military. military bases. So yeah, you're right. Attacking relentlessly is just not the answer.

Yep. All right, we're gonna take a quick break here, guys. When we come back, Israel slaps us across the face again. And there's an article in mainstream media saying that we liked it. We'll explain and get John's thoughts on it. We'll be right back. All right, let's go to our members for comments. I'm gonna read these blind. Newfy Dragon says, I like this. guy. Okay, Voto Star says, lock Trump and Hengseth up and throw away the key. Well, that'll take some doing, brother. Bloded ego says bombs or missiles may kill more people than your intended targets. Who knew? But, you know, that's the problem with Hagseth and Trump, which is that they do know, and they don't seem to mind. IDK anymore says AI can analyze targets at breakneck speed, but a handful of incidents reports to require years of investigation.

Obviously, they're pretending it requires years of investigation so they don't tell you the scale of the damage that we've done. Asimov's prophet says, jank, that's crazy. Why would anyone hate us just because we killed everyone they've ever known and loved? Yeah, it's probably because of their religion and their culture and their savages. And they're irrational. They just hate us for no reason, just out of the blue. Is that amazing that that passes for journalism on television? Jack Callahan says, we along with Israel have no respect for life in the rule.

of law. This is fascism and this disgust me as growing up, as I was growing up, I always believed the goodness of Americans. Well, Jack, as you know, we have that goodness. There's no question the American people have that goodness. Unfortunately, we oftentimes get tricked into electing the very worst of us. So our politicians and our leaders are far, far more even more than the average American, a thousand times worse. Angry Com says, title of Hexas books, How to Create Terrorists. Yeah, that's going to be his new book. Dana Albrecht says, yay, John Kyriaku on T.YT. All right, back on the Young Turks, the online news show. Jake Yugar, John Kyriaku, guest hosting with me today. Love it. So let's get to

the next story. So there's an interesting article out in Politico that says that Trump is basically letting Benjamin Netanyahu humiliate him in public, and he's okay with it. Fascinating. So we have a unique relationship with Israel that I want to ask John about in a second. But John, let me give you some of the details with this particular humiliation. We did a peace deal with Hamas. It was amazing, they agreed to disarm completely. And I was a little bit shocked by it, and it goes in stages, and, you know, Israel withdrawals, they disarm and on and on and carefully coordinated steps.

And of course, Israel instantly rejected it. But the way that they did so publicly was pretty spectacular. They normally speak in code, but in this case they were like, no, we reject this peace deal. Okay, very clear. So Politico says the administration knows about it, the Trump administration, and says it's less concerned with what Netanyahu says than what the Israeli defense forces do. Well, that sounds fair, but I wonder what they have done. We'll get to that in a second.

A U.S. official who, like others in the story, was granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, said that the administration was initially, quote, disappointed that Israel responded to the 15-point peace proposal by ramping up attacks in Gaza, but is pleased that it has since eased assault. Has it? Because last week, Israeli ministers and security chiefs discussed resuming attacks on Gaza to signal that Israel rejects the U.S. 15-point phase two roadmap, accepted by Hamas, according to the Times of the Times, of Israel. The report follows a lull in Israeli air strikes over the past several days. Those shootings by Israeli troops have continued killing and wounding Palestinians. And Israeli strike in Bait Lahia area of Gaza City.

On Wednesday, killed a 10-year-old Palestinian child and wounded several others. So back to the administration, they say now the administration is willing to give the Israeli Prime Minister some leeway to message the peace plan in the way he needs to, the official said. There is broad understanding that he's within, he's with, he's two months from a tough reelection and needs to please his own heart right allies to win. Now I'm going to come back to that in a second, but John, a couple of interesting points here.

So number one, they're saying, well, it's okay because Israel's eased up on Gaza, but they haven't. They have not allowed the humanitarian aid in and the way that they said they were going to. They continue to kill in Gaza. They've already done a whole October 7th since the ceasefire. So that's over a thousand civilians killed. And so is there any reason to believe that the Trump administration actually thinks, oh no, even though Israel's slapping us across the face publicly,

privately they're listening to us? No, of course not. And in fact, I think it's the opposite. I think what we're seeing here is an admission, an unspoken admission by Donald Trump that he has no control or authority over Benjamin Netanyahu. He can make suggestions, certainly, but Netanyahu is going to do what's good for Netanyahu, not what's good for Donald Trump or what's going to make Donald Trump look good as a diplomatic leader.

On the other hand, too, not even on the other hand, but another point is that this is all in the name of supporting Netanyahu's candidacy in the upcoming elections, the October elections. We're not supposed to take a position in foreign elections, just like the Democrats lost their minds when Netanyahu appeared to endorse Donald Trump, you know, and we jumped up and down and said, hey, they're foreign nationals. They're not supposed to take a position on American elections. That's what this is. And you know, that we're supposed to believe that Netanyahu's action did not make Donald

Trump look bad or look weak. And in fact, it was this unspoken thing between the two of them where Netanyahu wanted to accept the 15 point plan, but he couldn't because of the election coming. That's just a silly afterthought to pacify Americans. Yeah, so we're supposed to root for Netanyahu to win, but Netanyahu, I mean, put aside the politics of Democrat versus Republican or anything, but Nanjahou never listens to us. He never listened to Biden, he never listens to Trump, he's not listening to him now, so why would we root as a country for him to win when we know what we're gonna get with Nanjahou, a guy

who takes all of our money and all of our military and never listens to us. So since there's absolutely no logic in that, what's going on in reality here? You know, I hate to say it, but I'm just going to come out and say it. Donald Trump is weak. That's really what this bottom line is. Donald Trump is weak. He has no control over Benjamin Netanyahu. He has no control over Israeli politics.

This is almost a half-hearted attempt to convince Americans, that he does. And I think he's just gonna sort of wait it out to see what happens in this election. Yeah, but the question is why is he that weak in this regard? But I'll come back to that in a second, because I wanna read you a couple more things here that shows you Israeli duplicity and sometimes I'm admitting it. In fact, here's Netanyahu's quote that I found to be interesting. He says, we're in a campaign in which we're bringing the full might of the IDF as never before

to this battle in order to ensure our existence, yeah. Sure, and our future. But we're also bringing this campaign to the assistance of the United States, hilarious. My friend, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and the U.S. military. This combination of forces allows us to do what I have longed to do for 40 years to strike the terrorist regime, hip and thigh. So for 40 years, Netanyahu's been lying to us about how Iran's about to get a nuclear weapon in the next two weeks.

He's basically admitting it saying, yeah, I've been trying to dupe you guys into this war for 40 years. And every time I told you they were weeks away, obviously that was a lie because it's been 40 years. By definition, it's a lie, right? And he's basically rubbing it in our face down and going, ha ha, I got Trump to do what I wanted. By the way, what am I doing in return? He explained, no, I'm not easing up at all. You want me to ease up? I'm not going to.

I'm going to keep slaughtering in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran. And I'm never going to pull up. Now, on top of that, they give us funny intelligence, as John and I have talked about in the past. So in this particular case, Washington Post reports that the so-called assassination threat against Trump, the reason why he did that whole deco plane, well, they explained that that threat was relayed by the Israeli government to the CIA. Of course, where analysts did not view the intelligence as compelling and conveyed that skepticism to Trump administration officials, one of the officials said. Another official called the reports of threats against Trump's life, Israeli derived, not U.S. generated, and viewed as low confidence. So, John, here we are again.

The Israelis give us fake intelligence for us to, for Trump to get mad. Oh my God, Iran's trying to assassinate you. You should hate Iran, attack Iran, right? And we're not going to do the peace deal in Lebanon as part of your memorandum of understanding with Iran, we're not withdrawing one inch, we're not doing the peace deal in Gaza, we're not withdrawing one inch. So there's no question that Israel doesn't do what we want. There's no question they take our money and use our military. And there's no question that all of our presidents submit to them and do exactly as they are ordered by this tiny government.

So now let's get to the core of why do we think that all of our leaders submit to them? Obviously, bribery is a huge part of it, and I mean legalized bribery, number one donor to Joe Biden throughout his career, number one donor to Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Donald Trump, gave $5 million to Kamala Harris while she was running, gave $5 million to Marco Rubio back in 2015 when he was running against Donald Trump. So that part is obvious. And then as we talked about last time, John, should we be considering other reasons? Like Trump, worried about it. about his own personal safety, but not from the Iranians, maybe from the Israelis. And in American media, you're not allowed to say that it's outrageous and how dare you, these beautiful, beloved allies of ours, or potentially blackmail. And obviously Epstein was a blackmail operation and the drop site news stories proved that he was working on behalf of Israel in all of his foreign policy deals. So what should we be concerned about that we don't yet know publicly?

Wow. Yeah. Everything you just said is true. And everything that you just said is something that I think every American, especially every American voter, should be deeply worried about. The money that has infected our political system has gotten us to the point where we're just about at the point of no return. There's almost nothing you can do about it. Only recently because public opinion polls have so dramatically shifted and political figures have had the courage to stand up and say that they won't take APEC money. That's the only thing that that gives me hope. But yeah, I mean, the conventional wisdom is that is that the Israelis could very well have had something to do with the Kennedy assassination in 1963. that I've said from the very beginning from the very first time that the name Jeffrey Epstein appeared in the media, that this appeared to me to be a classic Israeli access agent case. Alan Dershowitz denied and denied and denied, but you're right, drop site news has gotten to the bottom of the story.

And just the fact that after a vote of 419 to 1 in the House, and 99 to nothing in the Senate. And his own signature on the bill turning it into law, Donald Trump then just arbitrarily said, I'm not gonna release the Epstein files. What are you gonna do about it? You're gonna sue me? Go ahead and sue me.

And that only makes him look guilty. Now he told Marjorie Taylor Green that he didn't wanna embarrass his friends, right? Well, maybe he didn't wanna embarrass himself. Maybe he knows that the Israelis have information on him he's just decided to protect himself. I think that that's always going to be the conventional wisdom until he actually releases the documents and it appears that he's not going to release the documents.

I want to add one of the thing check, if I could, I've said this many times in podcasts and I've actually taken some heat for it, but in my own experience at the CIA, even beginning before I got to the CIA, when Ronald Reagan was president, Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, and then it's a very United Nations. and then Israeli ambassadors to the United States went to Reagan and George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and Barack Obama and ask them, please bomb Iran, please bomb Iran, please bomb Iran. And every one of those presidents said no until this one. This one said, okay. And I want to add one other thing. In the immediate aftermath of the October 7th attack, Netanyahu said, on multiple occasions that there were Iranian terrorist squads spread out across the United States in every major city. Okay, then where have the arrests been? Why haven't we read about any such terrorist squads? Why haven't we read about the FBI breaking down doors and grabbing people

who meant us harm? Because the Israelis made it up. They always make this stuff up. One final thought. Right after the 9-11 attacks, at the CIA, we created something called the threat matrix, which wasn't as fancy as it sounds. It was just a daily report of every piece of raw intelligence about a threat to the United States that we would get overnight. We would update it every single night and brief it to the president at 7 o'clock every morning, six days a week. Well, the reason why this was a dangerous thing was because it was literally every threat.

If some crazy person walks into the U.S. embassy in London and says, I came from outer space, and the Iranians told me to blow up the American embassy in, you know, Chad, that goes on the threat matrix. Do we believe the information? Of course we don't. The officer who interviewed this woman determined she was a crazy person. She doesn't have the ability to get to Chad or to launch in a attack or whatever, but it would go on the threat matrix and it would go to the president. Well, that's what we're seeing today. Every utterance from the mouth of Benjamin Netanyahu, every memo coming from the Mossad or the IDF goes directly to the White House, it screams threat, threat, threat, even where no threat

exists. And American policy is made in response. And that's just simply wrong. Yeah, I mean, look, whether there's Israelis lie is not a matter in dispute, they just told us right before the war that, oh, don't worry, we have intelligence that they can't close us trade of Hormuz, we're going to get regime change easily. And even some Israeli first officials like Marco Rubio were like, that's not true, right? And of course, it turned out not to be true at all. The only people in this country who haven't figured it out are the reporters. They're like, Israeli lies, that sounds outrageous.

Like every single that is. It's anti-Semitic. Yeah, it's absurd. It's now it's become like a joke. But I have one last thing for you. So speaking of those same reporters, if you ever mention the idea that the Israelis might do blackmail, they like almost black out, lose consciousness,

they're so outraged. Like, that's so conspiratorial. So you're at the CIA, do intelligence agencies, do black Do they do honeypot operations? Is that a thing that's like outrageous and never heard of and spectacularly strange that, oh my God, maybe it happened once in 1978? Or is that a fairly regular occurrence for intelligence agencies throughout the world? Yeah, it's a regular occurrence.

The CIA actually stopped doing honeypot operations in the 1970s because they didn't work. coercion really doesn't engender good feelings between the officer and the agent. And so for us, they didn't work. But here we are all these years later. And we know that the Israelis still use honeypot operations. The Russians still use honeypot operations. The French use honeypot operations. So sure, of course they use them.

They use them because for their purposes, they do work. The Israelis, listen, if the Mossad is going after you, they don't care if you're going. if you love them or hate them. They don't care if once they get you to respond to their taskings, you consider yourself to be their friend. They don't care. They just want the information. And if they have to entrap you, if they have to trick you, if they have to threaten you,

they're gonna get the information from you. It's something that for us doesn't work. For them, it works just fine. Yeah. No, the so-called journalist in this country, are hilarious. They're like, yeah, intelligence operations by Mossad. Well, obviously they're going to act very morally. They're going to be upstanding citizens and they would never cross any moral threshold like blackmailing powerful people in America or in the West. Outrageous. I mean, come on. They're not willing to entertain the possibility when that is a tried and true method that we know they use.

And by the way, like John said, many countries use. So the idea of calling a conspiratorial makes me question whether the journalists are, you know, part of the operation to cover it up. Because no journalist in their right mind would find that to be an outrageous accusation or conspiratorial, especially given that Epstein had videos, cameras inside the Kleenex boxes, inside the clocks, and incredibly powerful men, including president. presidents partied with Epstein and might have been recorded. And our press says, yes, all of that is true, but if you report things that are true,

we're just gonna call you an anti-Semite. Okay, that's not journalism, that's weirdo, you know, cover up for Israel. And so it's a very strange thing that's happening in our country. And so, but here you're beginning to see the reality of it and all of America's being to see the reality of it, and it's driving them crazy. But nevertheless, still today in Politico, that article I quoted you saying like, oh no, no, no, it's true. Yeah, the Israelis, they're going to do the moral thing after Netanyahu wins again. And that's why we don't mind getting slapped across the face politically and publicly because we're so sure that they're wonderful and moral and decent people.

Should we write it down like it's true? Yeah, let's write it down like it's true. And that's what they did today. It's absurd, total fiction from mainstream media. All right, we gotta take a quick break here. When we come back, Donald Trump versus Fox News, interesting. Tell you that story when we return. On the social break here, let's go to YouTube members.

Mark Francis says it's gonna be blowback from this war for years to come both economic and physical infrastructure and people. That's indisputable. The Israeli intelligence says they're gonna throw flowers at our feet and mainstream media is reporting they're throwing flowers at our feet. Okay, I'm kidding, that was the Iraq war. Joe S. N.Y. says, Hexuth is the antithesis of real American values. I'm not sure how our law and how our laws can defend anything him or this administration is doing in Iran. We need to see real accountability or we're lawless. Yes, well, we can't have the next president of the United States pull of Barack Obama and go, we don't look backwards. We look forwards. If you don't look backwards, you literally cannot prosecute any crime. It was a nonsensical statement and, of course, met with thunderous applause by mainstream media. Oh, he's letting the war criminals go. Yay, yay!

Okay. Kevin Shea, diplomats. We have real estate guys cosplaying as diplomats. That's true, Kevin. Nice point. Tricia Briggs says, my 15-year-old just randomly recognized John, knew his name, blew my mind, L-O-L. I know John's super popular with the kids.

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We appreciate that. All right, John, let's go to the next story. So while Trump is claiming that we've got Iran dead to rights and they're almost going to give up. What's happened is Fox News has started to push back and that is surprising. So I'm going to show you some of Fox News's pushback and then I'm curious what your reaction to that is. So first Fox business anchor Liz Clayman was tasked with reporting on this true social post. Trump says the USA has total control over the street of Hormuz.

I think we will keep it. Our naval blockade is being called by everyone a wall of steel. And there's nothing Iran can do about it. They have no Navy. They have no air force. The remaining soldiers are unpaid. The IRGC is decimated and fleeing. I'll go back to normal voice.

And their leadership is uncertain at best. They have no money, the country is shot. All they have is fake news and 300% inflation. And getting worse, Iran is all talk and no action. The bully of the Middle East no longer. Praise me to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. Okay. So here is shockingly Fox business anchor Liz Klayman.

Energy markets are searching for direction. West Texas intermediate flat to just slightly lower. Still $83 a barrel there. Brent above $88 a barrel, again, slightly lower from yesterday. But it all comes after we told you yesterday that Energy Secretary Chris Wright insisted that Sunday oil exports from the Middle East rose above pre-war levels to more than 20 million barrels. Independent analysts say actual oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, though, are more like 5 million barrels per day.

Truth breaking out at Fox, what in the world's going on. But wait, it then spread to Fox News, not just Fox Business. Here's Brett Baer. How much total oil flow averages nearly 21 million barrels per day in the first half of last year, equivalent to about 20% of global petroleum liquids consumption. Usually about one-fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas trade moves through there as well. Despite President Trump claiming total control over the strait, traffic has slowed. really to a trickle. If you look at this, before the conflict, more than 100 vessels a day were crossing.

Monday, eight vessels crossed. Yesterday, 14. Now, those are constraints, and that's changing the government's energy outlook. The Energy Information Administration raised its forecast for the average price of a gallon of gasoline over the full year by 14 cents. You can see right here. It's also raised It's 2026 forecast for Brent crude from $82 a barrel to $87 a barrel. And there's another problem building as well. The International Energy Agency says global crude oil inventories fell by 2.2 million barrels a day in July. It expects a global supply deficit of 1.8 million barrels a day in the third quarter. John, let me ask your question.

I did not expect to ask anybody, who's right, Donald Trump or Fox News? Oh, it's definitely Fox News. You know, it's funny to me that just what, a week or 10 days ago, Trump said that, you know, the Strait of Hormuz was closed and that the Iranians were going to have to pay a price for closing the strait. And then within an hour, Centcom, the Central Command, you know, which, you know, we're going to you know, which is prosecuting this war, came out with a statement saying, the Strait of Hormuz is open. It's always been open. We're keeping it open. Okay, so which,

which one is it? It's clearly closed, clearly. If there are what, between four and whatever the number was, 12 ships a day getting through the street, yeah, it's closed. And you know, The strait is essentially two channels. One goes through Iranian waters. One goes through Omani waters. And the Omani waters are much more shallow. And so those big tankers can't make it through the shallow water. They have to go through the Iranian channel.

And they're not able to. And so most of the world doesn't have the oil that it has come to rely on. So what's going on with the markets? I know it's mainly a financial question. and you and I are not experts on it, but it is weird. So it looks like supply and demand has broken down, which is not a thing that happens ever. So we definitely have lower supply and we have just as high in demand. I know we're using the petroleum oil reserve that we have, the strategic oil reserve that we have.

And that's a huge part of it. But even so, the market should take into account what happens when it starts running out, by the way, now. So what in the world's going on here? Why aren't oil prices higher? Honestly, I think there's going to be a come to Jesus moment on this in the coming whatever month, six months, 12 months, whatever, because you're right. The formula doesn't make any sense.

I will say, and maybe this is just my own kind of crazy speculation, I travel a lot all around the world. And I'm seeing more and more people using electric cars, electric scooters, public transportation, all over the world. You know, on the one hand, the United States has closed the Strait of Hormuz and is not letting oil through. On the other hand, the United States is forcing most countries around the world to boycott Russian natural gas. And they've had it, you know? So now you go to, like I said, I was in Vietnam yesterday. You go to Vietnam.

You go to Ireland. You go to Spain. You go to Egypt. Everywhere you go, more and more people are using electric vehicles. And I think that maybe the international economy is beginning to reset itself. Well, that would be a hell of a turn of events. So I want to go to one more person here. This is Brett Erickson talking to drop site news because he addresses some of these economic points,

including at the end, inflation. Because remember, Trump said that Iran's inflation has gone up 300%. Let's see if we can find out the reality. A lot of it is meant to cut off those oil revenues. The issue is in the first blockade, Iran had about 120 to 140 million barrel of oil outside the blockade line. And in May, the average price of Brent was about $117 per barrel. Iranian oil was selling it just barely a discount.

So they're earning double what they had projected to earn at that time. As a result, through this month, they're ahead of schedule on their projected oil revenues. And that is definitely a huge aspect in their ability to weather this storm. And then we signed the MOU. And as a result, during those 27 days, Iran was able to export 80 million more barrels of oil, which is about 175% their normal export rate. So while eventually the blockade will bite, we're not seeing that in the Rial. The Rial has held better than it did prior to the war to the U.S. dollar.

and Iran's inflation rate has not meaningfully been impacted as a result of the blockade here. So in some ways Iran got richer during the war and inflation has not gone up much. So Donald Trump was, of course, no one's surprised by this, literally in lying about everything he said in his truth, social post. But John, what I wanted to ask you about in relationship to that is, I don't know that we've ever had a world leader like this, let alone a U.S. president, that everyone knows is lying 24-7, like that almost everything he says is a lie. And so everybody knows it. So how does something like that affect negotiations in a situation like this with the Iranians?

When, you know, they're trying to make a deal, but the head of the other country is just saying things that are gibberish, nonstop. How do you react to it? The Washington Post ran an article a couple of weeks ago saying that they actually consult a team of psychiatrists and psychologists before responding to things that Donald Trump says because they believe that he's insane and they want to be able to react without setting him off. I happen to be in Norway and Sweden just a couple of weeks ago and talk to a group of journalists and, and professors and attorneys there. And they were unanimous in their position that they just ignore Donald Trump now. They don't pay any attention to what he says because he says one thing and then he'll say

something different, not even a day later, maybe an hour later. And so we've come to the point where it doesn't matter what he says because most of the time It's not true anyway. These people just move on. And listen, they're counting down the calendar days for the 2028 election like many Americans are, too. They just want to hold their breaths and get past all this because they just simply don't trust them. I'll add one other thing, too. A week ago or so, the White House announced that it had come to a nuclear deal with the government of Saudi Arabia.

The Saudis have been seeking nuclear power technology since the 1980s. They've been asking us to provide them with this technology so they can build a nuclear power plant since the 1980s. Former CIA Deputy Director for Operations Dewey Clarege believed that the Saudis believed as recently as 10 years ago that the Saudis are already a nuclear power and may have a nuclear bomb that they may have purchased from the Pakistanis. Well, we finally came to this formal official agreement with the Saudis a week ago. And then after the agreement was announced, Donald Trump said, oh, and by the way, for this agreement to be implemented, they have to sign on to the Abraham Accords.

You can't just throw a grenade into the middle of the room after these sensitive negotiations and say, oh, no, the deal is off unless you do this other thing that we haven't even talked about. The Saudis are never, ever going to join the Abraham Accords unless there's a free and independent Palestine. They've been crystal clear about that since 1977 when President Jimmy Carter invited them to go to Camp David and negotiate alongside the Egyptians in what became known as the Camp David Accords. So it's like, why even pay attention to anything that the man says when he throws a grenade at his own policy? and nothing ever lasts more than a few hours. Yeah, I mean, it's nearly impossible to get to a peace deal when one side has a madman in charge. And even if you got to, I mean, it's a great point about Saudi Arabia and the Abraham Accords. Because even if we got to a peace deal, the next day, Trump can say, oh, now all the terms are different.

Well, then if I was in a business negotiation, I'd never deal with a guy like that, right? if he's going to change up the terms after we signed the contract, no, that's not a thing. And that's what Trump is doing all the time. And by the way, of course, as you know, John, we threw that grenade into that negotiations because Israel told us. That's exactly right. That's exactly what happened. Because, okay, so let's say that the Abraham Accords become a part of the deal.

The Saudis open an embassy in Jerusalem. the Israelis open an embassy in Riyadh. And then what? They're going to just start trading all of a sudden. So what do the Saudis get out of this relationship? They get literally nothing out of this relationship. And remember, the king of Saudi Arabia's title is not just king. It's custodian of the two holy mosques.

And so he doesn't answer just to the Saudi people. He answers to all Muslims too. And public opinion is pretty crystal clear. that the Palestinians deserve respect for their human rights and they deserve a homeland. Yeah, look, even Fox News being into wake up to reality. So Donald Trump looks like he's on an island with Israel and only Israel at this point, which is an amazing turn of events. All right, while I have you, I'm going to squeeze in one more story. Okay, so all right, now this one This one is about the media again.

So let's watch. Here we have the president in a good way, I think, being stubborn, not saying Iran, we're going to give you whatever you want. We're going to give you half a trillion dollars. We're going to have sanctions on your oil. Just do anything, anything to get us out of this war. He's tried that. The Iranians have proven they can't be bribed.

That's weird, John. Why is Joe Scarborough all of a sudden? saying that we should stay in the war. I thought he was claiming to be against the war. Yeah, sure. What in the world is going on here? Joe Scarborough is a lifelong neocon. Whether he's still a Republican or not, I think is irrelevant. He's a neocon. He's one of these guys that believes in American exceptionalism, that war is a good thing. And let me tell you where he's most obviously wrong. That is, is that we talk about sanctions, sanctions, sanctions every single day, more conversations

about new sanctions. I remember in my early days at the CIA, we imposed new sanctions on Iran. And I said to my boss very naively, how many more sanctions could there possibly be? Well, the answer is there is an infinite number of sanctions, because what is a sanction? We've already essentially banned the Iranians from doing anything meaning. economically. So new sanctions are, this new Ayatollah, he is not going to be allowed to open a checking account in an American bank. He's sanctioned. Okay, he's not going to open a checking account in an American bank anyway. So shove your sanctions. And we also have to remember

that the Chinese, the Russians, the Indians, these gigantic markets, they laugh at our sanctions on Iran. That's why the Iranians are still able to export oil. That's why the Iranians are still able to import goods. My partner happens to be Iranian American, and she's in Iran right now. And we speak every day. And every day, she shows me, you know, live FaceTime video of just life, you know, in the cities around Iran. She happens to be in Isfahan. And people are out. at restaurants and they're having dinner and there's music and they're strolling up and down the streets. The Iranians lack for nothing right now. They want for nothing. Whatever is sanctioned by the United States that they're not able to get from the United States. No problem. They buy it from

the Chinese, from the Indians, from the Russians or from any other country that thinks that the American system of sanctions is ridiculous. Yeah. So Scarborough. wouldn't let it go though. I want to show you more. While Mika Brzezinski was, you know, very skeptical about how the war is going, Scarborough seemed to insist that we should stay in. Let's watch. The International Energy Agency yesterday warned that reopening the waterway is becoming more and more urgent as oil stockpiles are depleting at a rapid pace. U.S. gas prices Meanwhile, climb to a national average of $4.3 per gallon yesterday, that marks a record high level for this point in the calendar year.

And that's the part that people are going to feel about this war of Donald Trump's choice. I don't think his party even campaigned on going into wars. It's very interesting. No, of course not. And we've talked about that. That's certainly a problem for him. We are, though, where we are right now. And, Willie, I've got to say, again, here we have the president in a good way, I think, being stubborn, not saying Iran, we're going to give you whatever you want.

We're going to give you half a trillion dollars. We're going to have sanctions on your oil. Just do anything, anything to get us out of this war. He's tried that. The Iranians have proven they can't be bribed. And I do know gas prices are high. They're over $4. It's interesting though because if you look at oil, oil prices, which a lot of people were predicting, we're going to be $150 a barrel.

It's like at $87. So Scarborough's weirdly turned around to not. This war's not that big a deal. Stovetop, I'm staying. He's not done yet. He's got one more. Remember, we're at 80. It's showing that America's energy supply.

are far more resilient. And I will tell you, America's long-term strategic health militarily and geopolitically depends on the straight becoming less and less relevant, which I think the longer this drags on, the less relevant it's going to become.

So the president, of course, saying a lot of things that are going to provoke. But also, though, it's more of a head-down approach, A so called low key approach, we're going to take our time. We're not going to be pushed into a deal that gives the worst regime in the world half a trillion dollars. I don't even know where the half a trillion came from. It was 300 billion and it's from the Gulf countries and not from us.

So this turnaround from Scarborough is weird, but I'm gonna show you one last clip here, John, that actually takes from almost all the cable stations. So not just, you know, MS now, but Fox News, CNN, Newsmax, News Nation. And they all agree, war is great. Let's watch. We are, though, where we are right now. And Willie, I've got to say, again, here we have the president in a good way, I think, being stubborn. If I were the president of the United States, tomorrow I take out Pick Axe Mountain, just as we did a year ago. with the other nuclear facility.

I'd obliterate it, okay? That'd be number one. And then number two, I would tell the Iranians living in Torah and the capital city, get out because we're going to wreck your infrastructure. Target government buildings. Target the IRGC and regular army facilities.

More on the communication centers. Hit their banks, hit their financial centers. If we want victory, and we want to get this over with, This is the only way to do it. The one thing nobody wants is boots on the ground. But I don't see how you get the straits open, rid of the IRGC, and the nuclear material secreted in a way that we can definitely say it's all out of there,

without putting eyes on. I just don't see it. But here's got to be the plan. You want to win? This is the cold hard truth. It's mass destruction. I think the ceasefire was a mistake. I think these negotiations are a mistake. I think we're on the verge of something that ultimately history, will decide was a catastrophic loss for the United States. We have we have done significant damage to the Islamic Republic of Iran and right now we're

letting them undo the damage and that that is a real tragedy not just for us but for the people in the region too. John why is every cable news station in favor of war? Yeah, this is why so many Americans are turning to outlets like this, like the young Turks and thank God my own new podcast briefing room because we're giving it to them straight. The mean the mainstream media is not trustworthy. The mainstream media is made up of neo conservative and neoliberal war lovers. It always has been.

But now after all these years, after all these generations, Americans are coming to the realization that war doesn't accomplish anything. And it bankrupts us economically. As I said earlier in the show, Chank, I travel constantly, internationally. And I want to know, why do we not have the best airports? Why are our airports second rate? Why are our roads full of potholes? Why do our bridges sometimes collapse into the rivers below them?

Why do we not have state-of-the-art hospitals? Why is it that the Israelis have free education and free healthcare? Or when you emigrate to Israel, you get a free apartment and free furniture because the American taxpayers are paying for it. So this policy of never ending war that is not partisan, it's both the Republicans and the Democrats. This policy of never ending war is a failure. And it's going to bankrupt us for once and for all.

Moody's analytics agrees with you. Every household in America is going to pay at least $1,000 for this war. A war we didn't need, has nothing to do with us, but our media uniformly tells us we must do what Israel commands. Israel commands that you pay for this war and not them. So all of you are going to have to take out $1,000 at a minimum. That's if we wrap up soon, which doesn't look likely and hand it over because Israel needs a new war. And this is their seventh war and that we have paid for. Last thing, John, I mean, we called it a global war on terror, but didn't we basically only attack Israel's neighbors and opponents?

Yeah, that's really exactly what we did. You know, sure, there was, you know, the isolated, occasional terrorist from some East Asian or Southeast Asian country that we might snatch at an airport someplace. But yeah, this was a war against Israel's neighbors, yes. And that cost us only $8 trillion. So that's where we are. But our media says, no, they don't see anything, they don't hear anything, and that we should stay in this war, coincidentally because Israel wants it.

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Hi. Hey. All right, let's dive right in. There are some in the pro-Palestin movement, I know, I'm sure you'll know this, who have criticized you for what they think is your overriding focus just on Netanyahu, on treating Netanyahu and his admittedly far-right government as the chief problem, rather than Israel itself, or at least Israel's bipartisan consensus on genocide, on apartheid, on settlement. So I just want to clarify with you, Senator, you would agree, would you not,

that even if Netanyahu is replaced in October's elections, and we all hope he loses. The Israeli opposition leaders aren't much better. They all support the war in Iran. They all support the genocide in Gaza. They all support settlements. That is a very good question by Medea Hassan. And curious about Bernie's answer. We'll find out in a second.

But most American politicians are pretending this is all about Netanyahu. And once he leaves that we're going to get Jimmy Carter in his president of Israel or prime minister of Israel. that peace is going to blossom everywhere. Yeah, I'm curious whether that is true or, and mainly what Bernie thinks in this case. So why don't you tell us about? Yeah, Bernie seems to have a very nuanced approach to this. It's not just about Benjamin Netanyahu for Bernie Sanders. So let's see what he had to say about that.

What is, in my view, one of the real great tragedies. And that is taking place in Israel, you're right. It's not just, it would be easy to say, well, you had a terrible prime minister, get rid of him. and things will be all right. What has happened, and I don't fully understand why, I think it has a lot to do with the media in Israel as well, because I think many ordinary Israelis do not understand to what degree their nation has not become a prior in the world community.

And it does disturb me that I think in too many ways. I mean, it's a chicken and egg. Netanyahu has encouraged that, brought that about, but it is a reality that right now, among the population in Israel, you have a significant movement that has moved to the right. And I would hope that there will be brave leaders in Israel who will take that on. But none of the current ones, unfortunately, seem to meet that criteria. I think we can agree.

So we are going to dig into whether or not Bernie is right about the public sentiment in Israel. But I want to show you what other politicians are saying, just so you have something to compare it to, just so you can maybe appreciate a little bit more what Bernie had to say. So let's hear what Gavin Newsom had to say when he was presented with a similar question. There's been some headlines. I just want to clear this up. Yes or no, do you consider Israel an apartheid? I said that was directional as it relates to what Freeman was arguing about the annexation of the West Bank.

So no. But in the context of ifs is pursuit and the hard and the far right, I align with that concern and that thinking that was expressed. very pointedly by Tom Freeman. And you think they're potentially on the path. I mean, my biggest concern, my red flag, is Bibi Natton Yahoo, period, full stop. It's all about Bibi Netanyahu. So that aside, let's talk about Israel, something new and exciting for us here at TYT. But as you're probably very aware, Netanyahu's coalition includes very far-right extremist

people like the national security minister, Idemar, Ben-Givir, who recently wrote this on He said, for every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn. With all due respect to the Americans, Israel must make it clear to the entire world that the blood of our sons and the security of our citizens are not forfeit. All of Lebanon must burn. Our supreme duty is to protect the citizens of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF. And this commitment takes precedence over every other consideration. I told the prime minister, even in our private meetings, for every tier of an Israeli mother,

a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. It's unbelievable the things that come out of these people's mouths and they still think that they're the most moral army in the world. It makes no sense. But speaking of Lebanon, Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich recently called for Israel to annex and occupy southern Lebanon. He also called for one million settlers to invade the West Bank. But as Mehdi Hassan and Bernie discussed, Netanyahu is up for re-election very soon, and he is facing opposition figures such as former Israeli army chief Gaddi Eisencott.

So the former generals consider the architect of the Dahlia doctrine and Israeli strategy of striking urban areas with overwhelming military support force to deter militant groups, which was put into use during the 2006 Lebanon War. There's also Neftali Bennett who recently stated the following, she said, I will not allow a Palestinian state to be established. I'm not handing over territory period. I'm not committing suicide for anyone. I do not recognize a Palestinian state. It will not happen. And speaking of a Palestinian state, the Israeli Knesset passed a resolution

stating that it would never happen. The resolution that was passed 68 to 9 altogether rejects the establishment of a Palestinian state, even as part of the negotiated settlement with Israel. They also recently passed tax cuts for West Bank settlement. So there is incentive there for settlers to go over there. But we will end on some polling on the young people in Israel. So let's see if what Bernie had to say is right. according to the poll conducted back in February, 75.

That is a percentage of first time Jewish Israeli voters who identify as right wing. Israel's left has spent years telling itself that the next generation would rescue it. The young, educated, connected cohort coming of age in a globalized country, it believed would eventually drift toward the liberal center, as young people and other democracies supposedly do. Midgum's data says the opposite is happening. The drift is going the other direction and it's accelerating. And polling conducted back in April reached a very similar conclusion. They found that a majority of first time voters in Israel's upcoming connesset elections,

young people between the ages of 18 and 22, identify as right wing. The survey finds that 56% of this age group considers itself right wing compared with 44% of Israelis age 20, 23 and older. Jank, that is very startling, although probably, I don't know, it's not startling. It's not surprising. We've seen the way that these people, especially the young people, have been speaking about Palestine and Palestinians and their right to be there and things like that. So it perhaps is not shocking that the youth is becoming more and more indoctrinated into

the right way, right wing way of thinking. What are your thoughts as to why this is happening? So first of all, you have to understand what right wing and left wing means in Israel. So if you're calling yourself right wing in Israel, that is like extraordinarily right wing because listen to what Yaz just read you. All of their candidates are in favor of the Iran war, the war in Lebanon, the genocide in Gaza. So even the left wing is voting for people that are like, yay, genocide.

So imagine what the right wing is in Israel. Well, you don't have to imagine it. They're voting for people like Ben-Gavir who said all of Lebanon must burn. And sometimes people get upset when I make comparisons to the Nazis, but the Nazis said all the Jews should burn. And now very important, relevant players inside the Israeli government that basically control the government because if Ben-Govir leaves this whole time, Netanyahu's government was going to fall apart.

So he listened to everything, Ben Gavir and Smok, which Nyao agrees with them. They're saying that all the Lebanese must burn. That is what Nazis say. So like when you think right wing, don't think like, oh, they're for slightly lower taxes. No, right wing in Israel these days is people who say burn all of our enemies and kill them all, slaughter them all. So this is, this country is in a lot of trouble. Culturally Israel is lost.

And then we have people like Gavin Newsom, but again, not to pick on him, almost every corporate Democrat. And the Republicans aren't even bothering. Republicans are busy licking Netanyahu's boots and saying how great it is that he's murdering everyone. But the corporate Democrats are pretending it's BB, as he said, full stop, period, just BB, just BB. That's why Natali Bennett's telling you that he's never going to recognize the Palestinian state.

So no, it's not just BB, it's all of Israel. And not everyone in Israel, of course, this great human rights organizations, some of their press is pretty good. And obviously there's some faction of liberals left in that country. But overall, no, they're in a very, very bad place. It happens to countries from time to time. They slip into fascism and doesn't happen to all countries, but it does to countries that have extreme unchecked power and a massive victimhood complex. So that's where the Germans were, their Wermacht and their army somehow miraculously got to a point where they looked like they were invincible between World War I and World

War II, but they were so aggrieved by World War I, they thought they were the world's biggest victims. And they'd been victimized by the Jews and by all the European powers, and they were going to strike back. And they had to, they had to protect themselves, and they have to do self-defense. And so it's true of almost any fascist government that takes over. And unfortunately, it affects the entire culture. So at this point, there's no question, Bernie's right, and I appreciate them and I'm proud

of them for saying it, but we've lost the culture of battle in Israel. And so as their media continues to say the same things that rile people up and enable their worst instincts, the situation gets worse and worse. Because if you live in Israel, based on my conversations with people who live in Israel and who are reporters in Israel, what you have is a culture that is constantly saying, we're all gonna die, the Arabs, the Palestinians, the Lebanese, all of them, they wanna murder every single one of us. If they even gain the slightest little advantage, not forget advantage, if they have the

slightest little power, we're all gonna die, and all your children are gonna be dead on the ground. They're all anti-Semites, they just, we've done absolutely nothing. wrong ever, ever, ever. Those are all monster savage and Muslims and now some Christians in Lebanon as well and in Gaza and West Bank. And they're all monsters and they're gonna kill us and we gotta come first. And it's only because we're trying to protect our kids. I mean, we're the good guys, so we have to murder them. And the population and especially young growing up in that media and in that culture, I've decided, yeah, we've got to make

sure they all burn because we're the victims. So yes, I don't see a way out of this. I mean, what are we gonna do? Change Israeli media, change Israeli culture? I think the only thing that could change it honestly is defeat. And so I don't mean like Israel gets wiped out or any of those paranoid fantasies they have. I mean, you know, they lose a war to Iran, something happens. They began to get back to sanity that they're not invincible, that they can't just murder

everyone around them and have no consequences until there are some degree of consequences. And I don't want anybody getting killed, but I don't see how this changes at all unless there's some consequences. Not my job to deliver those consequences, but except one of them, which is to cut them off from all of our aid. Why are we enabling fascists to do all these disgusting things with absolutely no hope of turnaround? Yeah, I mean, you're absolutely right.

There are no consequences. There haven't been any consequences. They continue to push and do more and more of the things that the rest of the world is asking them to stop doing, except that's all anyone has done is ask them very nicely to stop doing what you're doing over there. They've been condemned by the ICC. Benjamin Netanyahu has an arrest warrant out for him from the ICC. The rest of the world, apart from us here in the United States, are so against everything

that they're doing. And yet no one has stopped them. No one has given them any more than slap on the wrist. We continue to give them weapons. We continue to give them munitions. Even when we don't even have the munitions to spare right now, and we're going to talk about that later on in the show. But there's no consequences here.

But as far as, you know, like how we got here, this has all been very deliberate. This has been a like a decades-long campaign to turn the people, especially the young people of Israel, further and further to the right wing, further and further towards the fascism and authoritarianism that we're starting to see over there, not starting to, that we are seeing over there. The entitlement, the way that they feel that they're always right, the way that they feel that they are more special and more important than

everyone else, that one is really mother's tears is worth like a thousand Lebanese mother. Just who thinks like that? It's unbelievable. And we are going to talk a little bit more about that in a later story on the show as well. But there's so many instances where, you know, they believe biblically that they really are a special chosen people. And how you overcome that kind of thinking will take years, if not decades, right? And the fact that they are targeting younger people, the fact that they invite young people from around the world, young Jewish people to come to Israel, come, stay here, learn about the culture, see how great we are. The fact that they're doing all of that, it's all so intentional. It's so deliberate. They know what

they're doing. They know what they've been doing. And now they have a population of young people, 75% of whom identify as right wing. And it was also so good that you clarified what left and right wing even means for Israel. But when you were talking about it, you know, it's not so far off from us here in the United States. Our left wing, our left wing party is still technically the Democratic Party. And there are very, very few Democrats. who are in Congress, who have taken a stance against Israel or who have even called what is happening in Palestine a genocide. But you have to assume just from what we've seen over here that, you know, the propaganda is rampant over there if we already know how bad it is here.

Like it's only got to be so much worse over there. And you're absolutely right about the victim complex. We hear that from them. Apparently we're all anti-Semites here at TYT because we don't like seeing people be killed and being kicked out of their homes, but I'm gonna save the rest for the next story. Yeah, just last couple of things here. So in my interaction with Jews in America, and I know literally thousands of Jewish Americans, not one of them that I know believes that they're the chosen people and they're superior to others. Could a couple of stragglers here in America believe that? Sure, there's, you know, religious fundamentalist here as well. But that's a very, very rare thing in America.

But I think that they have lost touch with the people back in Israel. Because the people back in Israel, an enormous percentage of them think that they are the chosen people in a superior race. That's why they, and all of their government officials say, yeah, Judean Samaria is ours because it was given to us by God. And we are superior to the Palestinians. And we're going to drive them out and take it. Judean Samaria is the West Bank.

So that there's over 3 million Palestinians there. So, and if you ask them, how dare you say that you're gonna do ethnically cleanse, three million Palestinians, they don't really even consider them fully human. They go, no, no, God promised it to us. We are the chosen people. And if you think they don't think that, you're factually incorrect. You can call anyone you want an anti-Sem-Sem-I. You can call us anti-Semmites.

You can call all of America anti-Semmites. And at this point, that's what American media does. They just declare the whole country anti-Semitic. When we say factual things that are definitely true, so what percentage of Israelis believe that they are a superior race like the Germans did, the Ubermensch, and that they are chosen by God, the Germans had written into their buckle belts, God mit unce, it means God is with us. It's literally what the Israelis are saying, literally.

And so a thousand and one ratio, what kind of a monster does, says things? things like that. Only the most immoral army in the world would say that. So I'm ethnically Turkish. Let's take any one of our historic enemies from back in the day, Greeks, Armenians, Kurds. So is, let's take the closest one these days, the Kurds, right? Or again, any of them. Is one Turkish life worth a thousand Kurdish lives or a thousand Greek lives?

Of course not. What kind of a monster would say that? No, one Turkish life is worth one Greek life or one Armenian. in life or one Kurdish life. Anyone that's a decent human being thinks that way. People who are monsters and fascists say, if one of us is harmed, we're gonna murder a thousand innocent people on your side. A thousand mothers are going to weep and we're going to burn all of you alive.

Nazis say that. So because American media is such a loyal servant of Israel, they They don't accurately relay what is happening in Israel as we speak. In fact, any time that anyone does accurately portray to you, I mean, we read you polls, we read you their actual comments, all of their leaders, not just Nanyahu, the top leaders running against them. They're all for genocide, they're all for brutalizing the Palestinians and never letting them go.

And our media says, no, they're wonderful innocent victims. So there's gigantic propaganda that turned Israel right wing and dangerously fascistically right wing. And our media goes, oh great, let's do that here in America. But by the way, Americans are not the superior race, Israel is. We can't question them. If you question them, we're gonna eliminate you from the national conversation. We're gonna call you an anti-Semite and destroy you on behalf of Israel. What is that?

What kind of ludicrous situation are we in? And what are they going to turn our culture into if we keep listening to this mainstream media and our gross politicians that have almost all been legally bribed by the Israeli lobby? 94% of Congress. So they're trying to destroy our culture while they've already destroyed Israel's. And we shouldn't stand for it. We moved here, my family did, for American culture, freedom, equality, justice for all. We didn't move here for Israeli culture.

America's supposed to be proud. It's way past time that we stood up and insisted on our values and not some Middle Eastern country that's on some sort of fascistic, religious fundamentalist nut job mission that they think got sent by a mythical creature they call God, but I'm not sure that it's God that they're listening to, young Turks. All right, let's go to young church members on TYOT.com. T01790 makes a great point. The relationship of Israel and America is very abusive.

Yeah, they're an abusive husband or wife or whatever, and they just keep beating us and beating us. And American media and American politicians go, no, we deserved it. We deserved it. We love them so much. Take out all your money and give it to them. Get it, whatever they want, do it, do it so they don't beat us again. But we love you.

Why? Why do you love these abusive pricks? Oh, you can't say that about Israel. I just did. Hashtag suck it. Okay? This whole thing of what you can't say about Israel. There isn't anything you can't say about Israel.

They have to stop hiding behind their religion. It's disgusting the way they have. hijacked Judaism and use it as a shield so, oh, I can do anything I want. I could destroy and murder and take over, but you're not allowed to criticize me. Oh, I'm hiding behind my religion. F that, man. Enough with that garbage. Anybody who listens to that?

Anyone who calls anyone an anti-Semite for criticizing Israel is a piece of crap. It's a disgusting, immoral person who's trying to intimidate you into helping fascists. Jake Tapper, Dana Bash, definitely trying to help fascists by trying to intimidate and terrorize Americans by calling them anti-Semites. They're disgusting. They should stop supporting the fascist government of Israel, but they never will. Okay, sorry I didn't get to more of your comments. We'll be back.

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TYT.com slash switch. The way you do that is tyt.com slash switch. Okay, so let's go to our next story. Judea and Samaria is where our story in the land of Israel began. It is where it will continue. We are not going anywhere. Judean Samaria is the West Bank. That is the term that fascist Israelis use because they think they are the chosen people and

the Uber Mesh and that the Palestinians should be driven from that land, murdered, moved ethnically cleansed because they think God whispered in their ear 3,000 years go, murder the Palestinians and take their land. Are you sure you're listening to God or are you listening to someone else? else. But this story unfortunately has a lot more to it, including the reign of terror that the Israelis are doing in the West Bank. Yes, tell us about it. Yeah, so right now, the UN is saying there is an unprecedented level of violence in the occupied West Bank bank, and it's bringing everything to a breaking point. And we know that the atrocities being

committed by Israel, extent, far beyond Gaza. But now the West Bank is finally getting some attention from the international community. So the UN Security Council held its second meeting on the Middle East in two weeks. On Tuesdays, experts and ambassadors discussed the attacks, arrest, demolitions and displacements in the occupied territory. And according to the UN, there have been more than 1,430 incidents of Israeli settler violence affecting about 260 Palestinian communities this year alone. And while the world is focused elsewhere, people,

in the West Bank have been suffering without the benefit of extensive media coverage. So while the fragile ceasefire in Gaza and regional tensions consume much of the international community's attention, the West Bank is at a breaking point. And that is from UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Rames Alec Barov. And they told the council saying settler violence has reached unprecedented levels. The pattern is clear. Palestinian populations are increasingly being forcibly displaced from villages across the West Bank before settlers seize the vacated land. And the numbers are expectedly very bleak. So far this year, 75 Palestinians have been killed

in the West Bank and 3,800 Palestinians, nearly half of those children have been displaced. Additionally, Israeli forces have arrested 23 Palestinians, including children across the West Bank, And they arrested more than 60 Palestinians in the Kalandian refugee camp in just two days earlier this month. And it's the same thing we've become used to seeing from the IDF in Gaza. The IDF works alongside these settlers to destroy Palestinian homes or to evict Palestinians from their homes. And Palestinians in the West Bank who are displaced are then limited in their attempts to access any kind of essential services. So the UN independent experts said in a statement on Monday, in response to the escalation of the attacks that settler terror is not spontaneous, it operates with the protection and often the participation of the Israeli occupation forces in tandem with record settlement expansion, mass demolitions, land seizures, and the prolonged ceiling of refugee camps, all sustained and encouraged by members of the Israeli cabinet. And in addition to the homes, they are, of course, also destroying schools.

The IDF, however, is somehow publicly denouncing and condemning the attacks on Palestinian homes, calling them reprehensible. But at the same time, they're still complaining that no one talks about all the attacks from the Palestinians against them. You know, they're the ones who are occupying their land and destroying their homes. The Israelis are also trying to use their very tried and true line about Iran supplying Hamas. with weaponry to use against the Israelis, but it doesn't work as well as it used to because Hamas is not in the West Bank, they're in Gaza. And despite calls from the international community to end the atrocities and all of the illegal operations, as we were talking about in the last

segment, the Israeli government does not care. There is no accountability. There are no consequences. And the government has announced plans to approve more settlements in the region. And Alibbarov spelled it out. They said, we must be clear-eyed about what is taking place. These are interconnected steps, not isolated developments. They are reshaping the West Bank, weakening Palestinian governance, and advancing de facto annexation. Israel's UN ambassador, Danny Dannen, did not agree that the West Bank settlements were obstacles to peace, however, and he insisted that the Israelis have a biblical right to do everything they're doing, and that they are not going anywhere. Madam President, I could lecture for hours about our biblical rights, our historical rights,

our legal rights to Judea and Semaria. But if we want to be practical today, and if this council is serious about bringing security and stability to the region, it must understand a simple truth. We are not going anywhere. This reality reflects a double standard that we must address today. Jews have never been and will never be settlers in Judea and Semaria. It's a provocation. Why?

Because first he denies our connection to the land of Israel. He distracts from constant terrorist attacks against Israelis. and it collectively, collectively labors entire innocent communities for the crimes of the marginal extremist minority. Our right to live in our land is based on our historical connection to it. Judea and Samaria is where our story in the land of Israel began. It is where it will continue. We are not going anywhere. Jank, that biblical explanation is so played out, I feel.

I remember when I was like a freshman or sophomore in high school, which was like over 20 years ago, we did a mock trial about the Israeli Palestinian situation. And the Israeli side, they called up Jesus to the stand. And at that point, it was like the Palestinian side was like, how are you supposed to argue against this? It was also randomly chosen which side you were going to be on. By the way, I didn't choose to be on the Palestinian side, but I'm glad I was. Yeah, so they say that they have had to land for 3,000 years. Well, let's break that down a little bit.

So number one, that's literally not true. In 1948, when Israel was declared a state, Jews only owned 6% of the property in all of Israel and Palestine. 6%. There were almost no Jews in the West Bank at all. and now they have moved in 750,000 Israelis there. Well, when you move in people to where they weren't before, you are settlers. There's no question about that. They moved in millions of people who became Israelis since 1948.

They are settlers because they came in from somewhere else. Oh, I used to live there 3,000 years ago. Dude, you're Polish. In fact, Danny Dayan doesn't just talk like a Nazi. He literally looks like a Nazi. So because they're from Europe. They're from Europe. Don't tell me you were there 3,000.

You weren't there 3,000 years ago. Not you. You're utterly made up. Utterly made up. Okay. So they say, oh, maybe. Okay, well, and let's say that they were right. They said, oh my God, 3,000 years ago, some ancestor that they can't trace and they

won't take genetic tests because then that will prove that they're Europeans and not from the Middle East. They're like, oh, no, that's anti-Semitic to find out what we. We are. How could it be anti-Semitic to find out if you are if we don't even know who you are? How could we be against who you are if we don't know what it is? Okay, so anyways, they say, yeah, well, maybe, maybe if you trace it all the way back. And hence, since I lived there once before, well, not me, but like a billion generations

ago, I get to have that land. Well, okay, that's interesting logic, because the Turks were there only 120 years ago. It was all of ours, it was ours. The whole thing, Israel, Palestine, all of it was ours. So that's it, I want it back. My ancestors had it. So I'm gonna go murder all the Israelis there and the Palestinians and take it back. Because the Israelis tell me that that's normal, that that's of course, if an ancestor

of yours lived there some time ago, you have the right to murder everyone there and take their land. Take their literal homes that they lived in and their parents lived in and their grandparents lived in and their great-grandparents lived in. You just slit their throats like they're doing in the West Bank. 1,000 people since over, well over 1,000 people since October 7th. Israel has now murdered or done 70 October 7th in Gaza. Our press said the one October 7th that happened in Israel was the worst thing since the

Holocaust. It was just terrible, I agree. Then they say, but if you do it 70 times, as long as you're in Israeli, that's totally okay. Because the Palestinians are subhuman. Our press agrees with the Israelis. They are the superior race and they're allowed to murder the inferior race at any rate they like. So I'm outraged by October 7th, 70 October 7th, don't care. I won't call it a genocide.

How could something that 70 times worse be better? That just doesn't make any sense at all unless you really do believe the Israelis are the Uber Mesh and the Palestinians and the Palestinians and the Arabs and all the Persians and all the Muslims and all the Christians are and their lives just aren't worth that much. That's not just a disgusting Israeli government that is now fully taken on Nazi ideology, but it is also our press that says no big deal. Now that brings us back to the West Bank. They've done on the West Bank, well over a thousand people killed there.

So in October 7 there was about 860 civilians, I believe, and that ballpark killed in Israel, and then there was another 300 some odd that were soldiers. So a little over 1,100, now more than 1100 killed in the West Bank, almost all civilians. And our press goes, so what? So what? They're just stupid Palestinians. Wait, I thought you said killing over 1,100 people was the worst thing since the Holocaust. They're like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Only if it happens to Israel. If it happens to the Palestinians, well, I mean, the Israelis claim they had that land 3,000 years ago. And they're speaking to their God and what they claim is God. And so they have, what, do they own God? So Muslims and Christians also believe they speak to God and they have directions from God that are different than what Israel says. And our press goes, shut up. You don't have any rights to God. Only the Israelis have the rights to God.

And their God says that you should get murdered and that they should steal your land. So their God is correct. So when they do endless October 7th on you, irrelevant, irrelevant. Okay, so what's happening now is the West Bank is being slaughtered. Hamas didn't come from there. They didn't attack. You see that? They said, oh, no, no, we're murdering all the Palestinians because they're terrorists.

But they didn't do terrorism from the West Bank. Hamas is not from the West Bank. Well, we're murdering him anyway because we want their land because Beelzebubal. or God or Jim Jablowski promise it to me. Jim Jablowski? Who, what are you making it? Oh yeah, Dr. Zeus promised it to me. Okay, so now I get to kill you.

If you use that ideology, then we all murder each other to no end. No, the Turks don't have a right to the land because they were there 120 years ago, and the Israelis don't have a right because they're pretending they were there 3,000 years ago. They weren't there in 1947, only 6%. And that's after they moved a whole bunch of people before 1947, only 6%. Now they're beyond 100%. They're in southern Lebanon, they're in southern Syria, they took Golan Heights, and they keep taking and taking and moving settlers in, that murder, that murder, the people that live

there. And our press and our politicians go, yeah, that's okay, that's okay. As long as Israel does it, God mint oomns, God is with us. is with them, God is with them. They get to murder. And you dirty Palestinians and Lebanese and Muslim and Christians, how dare you? How dare you object to the chosen people? So that's not my language. I despise that language. That's Danny Deyen, Ben Gavir Smotrich, Netanyahu's. They're Nazi language about being chosen by God to murder the rest of us and take all of our land and property. What kind of a sick ideology is that?

No, I don't bow to that. Anyone who bows to that is bowing to a false God and is bowing to something that is deeply immoral. No one, not the Israelis, not the Palestinians, not anyone gets to murder innocent civilians and use the excuse of God made me do it. It is a disgusting excuse and a deeply immoral reason. to do what they're doing. And our media can tell you it's okay, but it's not okay.

No matter how much they do Israeli propaganda, do not believe the lying scum on television who keep telling you that it's okay and that the Israelis of the victims. You're hearing them with their own words tell you, we're never going to leave these poor Palestinians alone. We're never going to freedom. We're going to keep stealing and stealing and stealing their land. If you don't like the word that, oh, you can't say steal because it's Israel. You can say that all other countries are stealing, but you can't say it about Israel because

it's anti-Semitic. Kiss my ass. Kiss my ass. I don't care what you call anti-Semitic. No, Israel doesn't get special privileges and special protections. When they steal, we're going to call it stealing. And if you want to lie on behalf of Israel, you're the disgusting anti-Semite. Arabs are also semites.

You're like, yeah, but murdering Arabs is no big deal. That's not anti-Semitic. They're not the chosen people, right? Jake Tapper doesn't give a damn about anyone that isn't Israeli. We've got to stop these Nazis before they do even more damage. All right, let's go to the next story. All right, God damn, these people. Oh, no, you can't say that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're so, oh yeah, oh yeah, let them murder, let them murder. Does you let them murder, you're an anti-Semite? No, there are pieces of crap who are anti-Semites themselves. All right, I can't let it go, sorry. All right, let's do this story. So a piece in ProPublica says that American taxpayers funded an artillery plan, and it costs over half a billion dollars. Guess what we produced in that plan?

Zero, nothing. These defense contractors are robbing us blind, and as usual, our government and our media are willing participants in that robbery. Yes, tell us about it. Yeah, so the U.S. Army had been funding general dynamics or GD and artillery factory that's in Dallas, Texas, with taxpayer dollars, of course, ultimately putting $533 million into the factory. But according to a report from our own Department of Defense back in July, the factory was only using two out of three production lines by August 2025 because the machinery kept catching

on fire. And the one that was working had failed to produce literally anything. So GD, nor the shady Turkish subcontractor that it was working with were asked to pay back any of the investment. In fact, General Dynamics just got even more contracts. General dynamics just that you know is one of the world's largest defense companies and a lot of the money it gets come straight from our Pentagon. Of course, there's not been any kind of accountability and they don't even seemed to be looking for any. So the inspector general report described the failure, but offered few specifics as to why any of it happened. It didn't name the companies involved, much less any of the individuals responsible. The report's recommendations were tepid.

The Army should determine whether the contract was appropriately issued, how the money was spent and whether any of it could be recouped. It should also identify and implement a solution for producing more artillery. Army officials deflected blame telling the Inspector General that they didn't do anything wrong. Unbelievable. Instead, the army told ProPublica that it would recoup its investment in the form of unspecified discounts from general dynamics on production orders, whatever that even means. But for its part, General Dynamics said that it met or exceeded requirements, which makes

no sense, but that is all that they've said so far as offering any kind of explanation. So pro publica spoke with several people with knowledge of the overall fiasco. And the overall picture that emerged is that everything about the operation was a mess from the very beginning. Those involved described the project that it was rushed and ill-considered from the start. Congress paved the way, removing government contract in guardrails meant to ensure taxpayer money isn't wasted so that Ukraine-related defense projects could be funded quickly.

And the army took advantage handing general dynamics lucrative no bid awards without knowing whether the machines a plan to use could perform the work. And the army's due diligence was inadequate. Meanwhile, you have Pete Hugg said begging Congress for even more money for his Pentagon just so they can throw it away to contractors like this. But you know, there is a lack of consequences and all it does is it helps to empower these defense contractors to just take more of our money and ask for more money and whatever they do with it, they know that there's never going to be any kind of accountability there.

But this all goes back to 2022 when Russia first invaded Ukraine. The Biden administration wanted to help the Ukrainians by sending them aid, including artillery shells. But first we had to fund them and produce them. So Farat Gezen, who is a man of Turkish descent, which seems relevant, was running the general dynamics ordinance and tactical systems business. And he said he could make the shells because he had just purchased an old factory that was producing these types of shells over in Scranton, Pennsylvania. So because he had that factory, he was able to win the contract. And he said he was going to produce all these shells to send to Ukraine. So he also then said he was going to, let's use a new technique, not the one that we've been using for over a century, but let's use a new technique that was untested.

And that would require him subcontracting from a Turkish company called RepCon. And the company said that they provided turnkey production facilities in the metal forming industry. So Gesson said that with more modern technology, he could produce more of these shells more quickly, which is what Biden was looking for. But RepCon was never properly vetted, nor was it ever given a Pentagon contract because there was no time. So by November 2022, they got the money that they needed. They were supposed to get up to $600 million if they saw everything through to the end. But really, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to spend money on behalf

of Ukraine without things like typical contracting safeguards or competitive bid requirements or restrictions on undefiniteized contracting actions. So the factory finally opened in May 2024, but it was riddled with problems from the beginning. There was no first article test, meaning they didn't even know if the facility could produce the shells required when they opened. A worker found a shell that was made out of plastic. The robot arms that were running the factory, the conveyor belts and everything, those were malfunctioning constantly pushing things off the conveyor belts, causing messes, catching on fire. And the conveyor belts themselves broke down.

Also the machines were found to be made of Chinese steel, which was a possible federal violation. There was all kinds of issues there. Also, they were having issues with the people over at RepCon. RepCon was also withholding information from the people who are working in the American factories. And by the end of it, two months ago, General Dynamics said that AI was going to solve all of its problems, which it makes no sense because how are you going to use AI on this old century old technology. So that's kind of where we are. Right now, RepCon is operating in the United States under a different name. And the U.S. has given them another no big contract from the army worth $435 million to set up as TNT factory. And the United States is now nowhere near

producing still the promise 100,000 shells per month. Where is the money going? No one knows and no one seems to care. So first of all, Miaz pointed out that they're Turkish, so that is obviously anti-Turkists, and she will immediately be fired and never work in media again, because that is so terribly racist to point out which country they're from. Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I was a Zionist for a second, and I had the power to fire anyone who criticizes my background, anyone from my background. So no, of course putting kidding aside, how could have nothing, didn't do anything wrong? Well then where's the $533 million? Or the things that we were supposed to get for the $533 million.

And then the Pentagon says that they met or exceeded requirements. If we got nothing for $533 million, was that the requirement to get nothing? And the problem is that there's some truth to that. The Pentagon wastes literally billions of our, hundreds of billions of dollars of our money, and we have no visibility into it. They do this every single year. They've never passed an audit, not once. I remember when one of the audits, they said we can't find $400 billion.

Well, here's what I do if you can't find $400 billion. I don't give you another $400 billion. I know, call me crazy, wow. And so, but we keep shoveling more money. Now the defense budget is up to 1.15 trillion. And now Trump wants it to be 1.5 trillion. So this is one particular story, there'll be many others just like this. There are already many, many others just like this.

And then when you ask them, we get like this Kafkaesque answer. Oh, once we receive nothing for half a billion dollars, we have met or exceeded requirements. Okay, so and they said, don't worry, we're gonna get unspecified compensation. Yeah, I rest assured now. That gives me such peace of mind the way you haven't specified it. And then lastly, I don't want a single more no bid contracts. So the Pentagon is famous for this. They start a war, and then they go, well, golly, gee, we're in the middle of war.

Nothing we could do. So we had no competition at all. We killed the free market. We killed capitalism. We keep saying, oh my God, that lady in Wisconsin, socialist, communist, no bids are allowed. The marketplace is dead. Who's my friend? Oh, you?

You're getting half a billion dollars. Oh, you greased me a little bit? You're getting $2 billion. Oh, you're Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, who gave him $34 million on his way out. As a thank you president for the no bid contract we're about to get. you're gonna get tens of billions of dollars. What do you mean no bid contract? By the way, we also can't negotiate drug prices.

They killed capitalism and the press never told you. Because the people who killed capitalism work for corporations. And now we live under corporatist rule. So the corporatists don't want you to know there are no more free markets. And why do we have endless wars? Yes, partly because of Israel, because Israel demands endless wars, no matter what. You're never allowed to get out of them and you're gonna spend trillions of dollars fighting Israel's wars. But that's only part of the equation.

Another giant part of the equation is these defense contractors whose main line of work is robbery. So, oh, we have the greatest military in the world because we waste billions of dollars on things that don't get built. Well, that's interesting. Okay, then obviously we crushed Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is open, right? Yeah, no, we didn't consider drones. We spend trillions of dollars a year and we didn't consider drones. Ukraine, Russia, that war has been using drones for years and years. You didn't think Iran could produce drones?

We already knew they had drones. Yeah, I know, but the aircraft carriers and the nuclear submarines are super expensive. That way, we make a lot more money. They're nearly useless now. And nearly everything we built for trillions and trillions is useless because of $50 drones. But golly, gee, did we spend all your money on us? And it's now totally wasted. And in some of the cases, you literally got nothing back.

Oh, well, we have met or exceeded requirements. Yeah, they have for themselves. They have met or exceeded the mansions and the yachts they wanted. And they robbed all of us to do it. So until you get money out of politics, all of our dirtbag politicians will get bribed by these criminals for the rest of our lives and they will take our money and funnel all of it to the criminals that they work with at the Pentagon, at big pharma, at big oil, in Israel, at big sugar, and lobbies you can't even imagine.

The whole exercise of politics today is not about democracy, it's about the great America. American robbery. How much can corporations and foreign governments bribe our politicians to steal our money? How much of our money will be stolen until we regain our country and our democracy, get money out of politics, and actually serve American voters. Until that day, don't get surprised when you see stories of we spent $533 million and got absolutely nothing in return. That's not the bug, that's the feature.

A lot of these criminals got rich off of that at your expense because of the legalized bribery we have in this country. All right, yes, we appreciate you. Went a little over to say the least. But everybody check her out on Rebel HQ and everywhere else. And I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna do a story on the Revolution and I'll be just as angry as I am now. And then I'll read all your comments in the bonus episode for members. We'll be right back.

So welcome to the revolution. So there's a lot of stories we didn't get to today, of course. One of them was about how Donald Trump spends more time talking about buildings and renovations than he does about any other topic, including the Iran War. And I just checked the news during the break. And they're all obsessed with the Kennedy Center now. Is Trump's name going to be on the Kennedy Center or is it not? Listen, I can curse in the revolution, right? I think I can curse. Yeah. Who gives a shit about the Kennedy Center?

And I know some of our audience probably does because you guys are more sophisticated people than I am and more civilized than I am. But I really don't give a fuck about the Kennedy Center. Oh, will the ballet be there this season? I don't care. I don't care at all. It doesn't affect anyone other than a couple of ballet goers. Oh, but is, you know, is somebody going to get that?

the Mark Twain prize there, I don't give a fuck. Like, it's for the elites who care. And they're good people. They're good, I know, you love the Kennedy Center, you go to it. There's nothing wrong with you. You're a good person, you're educated, you're civilized, you're not a barbarian like me. But it's not relevant to the rest of us. It's not relevant to 330 million people in this country.

But they can't shut the fuck up about the Kennedy Center, right? Like, oh, what's happening? Is his name on it or not? I just put the fucking name on it, I don't care. I don't care at all. Oh, the reflecting pool. Yeah, I know, he's an idiot and he ruined the reflecting pool. But really, I mean, how much are we going to obsess about Liberace's design plans, right? Oh, the ballroom. What did he do with the ballroom? So, yeah, he's wreck at Ralph. He's like, me smash these wing. Oh, Mino had plan. Me likes fancy ballroom. Me was going to put gold all over it.

Me really not gay. Okay, whatever, dude. Okay, I don't. Oh, the reflecting pool. I need. You need you to look fabulous. Okay, all right brother, okay, well, you made it look worse. Okay, but really none of this stuff affects us at all. Yeah, when I go to DC I hope the reflecting pool looks nice, whatever, right? But for the 330 million other Americans, this shit is not relevant, okay? So, but no, we spent all of our time talking about, why? By the way, the round war is not relevant to us other than getting the fuck out of it.

So he said he was gonna do America first and instead we have a guy that's a mix of Netanyahu and Liberacee and all we talk about is his latest designs and what do the Israelis want next? Should we do everything the Israelis want or only 98% of what the Israelis want? These are the conversations in Washington and look, more and more people are really, realizing it, but I'm amazed at the fact that, you know, the entire country doesn't already know it. But to be fair, tons of a people, most people do know it, right?

Overwhelming majority know it. So I'm more amazed by the second thing. And what do they know? Of course it's the money. So this is not complicated. You give people millions of dollars, they do what you want. The journalists in this country are the only ones who haven't figured it out. They're like, really?

You're saying that if you give $5 million to Ted Cruz, he's going to do what you want? That is so strange, because we thought Ted Cruz was a paragon of virtue. Well, then you're a fucking moron. Like, are you really that stupid that you think that if you give millions of dollars to Ted Cruz, he's not going to do exactly what you ordered him to do? Don't you have eyes and ears? He looks servile. He looks like a pathetic servant.

He looks like Igor, right? And I don't mean that in terms of looks a little bit, but I mean in terms of actions and his physicality. It's a fun word. Okay, so the merchants gave him $13 million to run for president in 2016 and he did every single thing they asked for, including when they said shut up and serve Trump after he's like, he insulted my wife, I'm not going to endorse him. And he's like, oh, my benefactors want me to endorse him two days later.

He's like, please vote for Donald Trump. I love Donald Trump. My wife is ugly. The Mercer's told me she was ugly. By the way, if you run into a reporter, tell him that I don't work for the Mercer's or or Israel or anyone paying me. They're stupid. They're the only one stupid enough to believe it.

Okay. It's a nice demonstration there. Okay, so we go round and round and they all pretend. They all gaslight us. It's not the money when it's obviously the fucking money. Okay, so most of us get that. But I get frustrated because, no, I got to be fair to you guys. Over 90% of the country gets it.

When I say you guys, I mean the whole country, right? No, but the Democratic politicians and obviously the Republicans and obviously the media are like, what? Now, the Democratic politicians a lot of times talk about money in politics. And remember when the last time they did something about it? Oh, right, neither do I. And it's a lot of empty words, a lot of bullshit. None of them mean it at all. As usual these days, Rokana has a plan.

But outside of that, Asoff's constantly talking about money. He's Osso's not a bad guy. He's a good guy. I hope he will crushes in Georgia, right? But he talks a lot about money and politics. Okay, John, what do you want to do about it? No plan. There's an easy plan.

Wolfpack has a plan. We have a plan. It's called an amendment. Oh, amendments are hard. Oh, are they? I wouldn't want to bother you if you're running for president to come up with a hard plan or to execute a hard plan. To be fair, when of the Democrats ever done anything that was even easy, let alone hard, paid family leave? It's only at 84%.

I don't know how to pass it. Hey, morons in the media, say that it's impossible to pass a bill that's at 84% popularity. Oh, yes, sir, yes, sir. Oh, it's very impossible. No, there was nothing they could do. There was nothing they could do. There was nothing they could do, right? We all sing it together in D.C.

No, there is something you can do. You can pass an amendment. I can tell you how to pass it. You do it through a convention. You get around Washington. But at the minute you do it, Nancy Pelosi and the former Mitch McConnell scream into the either, no! And I say, well, that might be because they both took a billion dollars from donors.

And the mainstream media goes, how dare you? How dare you, dear sir? Are you impugning Nancy Pelosi's ethics? Yeah, I am, definitely. I think she's deeply unethical. I think she took a billion dollars in legalized bribes and betrayed her voters and did none of the policies that the Democratic voters wanted because she served the donors. And those corporate donors didn't want you to pass paid family leave because it cost them

money. And they didn't want higher minimum wage because it costs them money. They didn't want universal health care or even the public option because it costs them money. It doesn't cost you money. It costs them money. and they don't want it. So they ordered Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell to not do it.

And they've been playing patty cakes in this bullshit game for our whole lives. And everybody in media is like, I don't see it, I don't hear it, I don't speak it. I don't speak it. I'm sorry, I don't speak it. I don't speak it. So which leads us to the frustration about point number two. Okay, we all know that the problem is money in politics. Point number two is, how come no one's proposing a solution?

It, like, let's take the Democrats as an example. If you ask Democratic politicians, nearly 100% of them will tell you that money in politics is a problem and it is one of their top concerns. 99.9% of those politicians, if you ask them, okay, great, then what are you doing about one of your top concerns? They will go, be-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-d-b. I said I was concerned about it. Oh, well, thank you, I'm also concerned.

That helped me a lot. So it's all a game, guys. And so my frustration is a little bit that at this super late date when we should all already know that the entire mainstream media is lying to you and that the government officials are deeply corrupt criminals who take literally millions, collectively billions in bribes, and then give trillions of your money to the people who bribed them, we should do something about it. And here we are, look, 10 incumbents have been defeated. It lost in all the Minnesota, Wisconsin stuff was John Larson in Connecticut, 78 year old incumbent Democrat lost. And he's a pillar

of the establishment and there's no reason why he should have lost except Democratic voters, out of boy. You know, we were behind the Republicans. Republicans hated the corruption. The voters did. And then super ironically, they voted for the most corrupt people on earth. I get it, right? But at least they were super pissed about the corruption. And that's what I like. We were pissed kind of, but then we never do anything about it. They voted for Trump to drain the swamp. Now Trump's a con man, that's why it was deeply ironic, and he did the exact opposite.

But they thought they were voting to do something about it. Can I ask Democratic voters to also vote to do something about it and to demand the politicians, your politicians, your representatives do something about it? Because we let the Democrats skate every time. And you know, look, if you're in the young Turks audience, you're not among the we who let them skate. We're furious about it. But for everyone else out there, demand accountability. So, all right, 10 incumbents are gone.

Seven of them are Democrats, okay? So we have begun before, like no incumbents would lose. That's why when AOC beat Crowley, Joe Crowley in New York back in 2018, that was consistent. one of the most stunning political upsets in American history because incumbents never lost, right? So now, oh hey, 10 incumbents. Guys, it should be around 525, not 10. And again, you don't even need to vote for the other side. You could, if you're a Republican, you vote in a Republican primary, you're a Democrat, you vote in a Democratic primary. Like, when is the word going to get out? They're almost all criminals. You're voting.

for the guy robbing your house. You're saying, oh, who should I vote to guard my house? Oh, well, the press is saying that I should vote for the guy who's robbed my house 20 times over, who breaks into my house while I'm sleeping and steals all my shit. Oh, well, if the press says, yeah, I vote again for the guy who's been robbing me. Oh, my God, he robbed me again? Huh, golly gee, Willerkers. Well, what'd you think was going to happen, brother?

Stop voting for the robbers. I mean, if you vote blind, if you vote for a hobo off the street, you're better off because you don't know that he's corrupt, you do know that the incumbent is corrupt. Pick a random person out of a lottery and you'll be way better off, infinitely better off than if you voted for an average incumbent. Okay, so lastly, again, we live in Allison Wonderland surreal reality created by these people in media. Anyways, so now Fox News is saying it's a C-So war when they're questioning J.D. Vansson when it's going to end. I don't know what happened at Fox News. I'm just giving it to you as

like a little appetizer and I haven't figured it out yet. If I think I've got a couple of theories, I'll share them with you. But now Fox News is questioning the war. That's three times just today alone. Did Murdoch bet on the markets to go down or something? Or did he bet on the markets? I don't know what he did, if this is market manipulation or what other possible reason could be. But it is, it's obvious that Murdoch is now allowing a little bit of truth on air on Fox News. And beginning to question the war. So that's super strange, I'll keep an eye out on that. And there's more reports from the USS Abraham Lincoln that there's mold and mildew everywhere.

People are getting sick. A lot of people are depressed considering suicide. The food takes forever to get in. And when it does, the food is rotten and they serve it anyway. So they were supposed to have ended their deployment in May. We're now in the middle of August. So we're running our guys into the ground. But to be fair, the Israelis are not satisfied yet.

So back into the Lincoln, back into war, back into endless debt. you better go borrow another couple hundred billion dollars from China and your kids and your grandkids better pay for it for the rest of their lives because Israel needs more war. But no one in cable news figured it out. They're like, I don't know why we're in this war. But I know we should stay in the war. I don't know what it has to do with America, but I know that we have to. Otherwise, we're all anti-Semites that I'll be fired.

So I'm going to tell you the war is amazing and it's great and it's wonderful and that you need to serve Israel and every other donor. And remember guys, you can't negotiate drug prices and everything's a no bid contract. But the Democrats are the socialists, the communists. The Republicans killed a free market right in front of your eyes. And to be fair, the Democratic corporate scumbags helped them. I know who the real communists and socialists are. And it isn't any of these progressive candidates.

Well, some of them are actually technically socialist. Okay, so we're fair show. I'll tell you that, right? A limited number of them, right? But they didn't kill the free markets. Our government killed the free markets, and our press pretended not to notice. Okay, that's the happy state of affairs. That's why we need a political revolution.

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