The Young Turks - Kushner's New Playground - June 2, 2026

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

Cenk has officially been “Legofied." as Jared Kushner's latest project sparks major protests in Albania. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warns Iran will enter a “direct confrontation” with Israel if attacks on Lebanon continue, raising fears of a dramatic escalation in the region. Meanwhile, Joe Kent clashes with Mike Huckabee over whether Israel could operate without U.S. support Thanks to today's sponsors: "Thanks to today's sponsors: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Get 40% OFF the Ground News Vantage Plan when you sign up at ground.news/tyt Stay informed without the media spin at ground.news/tyt Visit www.sleep.me/tyt to get up to $255 off your Chilipad 2.0 with code TYT Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble " Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com 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. Good. Let's see how Earth responds to that. The guy! Jake U Granite is sparing with you guys. So we have fun and exciting news for you guys.

Do we? I've been Lego-fied. You crazy? Okay, that is fun. But that's it. That's as fun as it gets today. Okay, well, all right. No.

And then at the end we have Operation Joy. So fun. Okay, you know what that is? That's a disaster sandwich in fun loaf. Okay? Okay, so the loaf is like a brooch. A brioche, exactly. Briose is God tier bread.

Yes. Okay, that is, I don't want to say the one and only thing the French did correct, but maybe the top thing that the French did correct. Okay, well, God bless. So, all right, we'll do that, but of course in the middle, We're gonna give the news of the world, which continues to be disastrous. But there's a lot of interesting stuff in there, randomly, not randomly, for good reasons you're gonna see.

The Albanians have gotten into the fight and they're super pissed about the Trump family. There's lots of stories about, news about Lebanon and Iran, of course. So let's get to it. So let's start off with a little bit of fun because Jank Ugar has been Legofied. So this was something that was sent to the production team this morning by Jank Yugar. I'm not sure if explosive media is behind it. I looked into it and I couldn't figure it out. But nonetheless, it's a great video that kind of references what happened to Jank Yugar

at the whole South by Southwest event. Basically he was denied entry into the UK. His visa was revoked, so was Hassan Pikers. We've talked about that on the show. So they put this out, take a look. Okay, let's just, the studio was a It was lit, okay, the studio was lit, got to give them props for that. The chest tear was a nice touch.

Yeah, so I've got a lot of thoughts on this. So I, again, I don't know who did it, but I don't really know who does any of the Lego but you will allow it. Oh, are you kidding me? I'm honored. Okay, let's keep it real. So like in the old days if Saturday and Live did a skit about you, that's like, okay, you made it.

Now you get Lego fight, that's a whole nother level, right? So, no, first my two cents are too much chest hair, too much, too many wrinkles in the face, the hair is too curly, and I love it, okay? And I never had any of those signs and I never burned an Israeli flag. But nevertheless, super fun of it, and I didn't get handcuffed. But still, it doesn't have to be accurate. It just has to be fun. I love how they perfectly captured your rage.

Are you kidding me, that hair? I would be so honored and proud. Because like that's a full head of hair. Homeboy, you got a full head of hair, okay? And you're in your 50s, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that's, you should be proud. No, no, I'll take it.

And you know, the whole coat in the shirt is amazing, right? The rate is pretty close to Drew. That was like the most anger part. There is one issue. I did have one issue with this video. So let's go to Graphic 2. It's a still from the video. And in the background, you'll see some randos sitting with, like, who are those random people?

Oh. On set with you. Are those- Huh, that's interesting. It might be the creator of a video. In the, on the right-heads. That is definitely not Nando. Why you throwing him under the bus like that? No offense to that guy, but that's not Nando.

Is that Francis Maxwell on the left? I thought so at first, but no, I don't think so. I don't know. It might be the creators of the video, but the point- It's an Easter egg. Yeah, the point is it's not me. Oh, that's a problem. That's a little bit, but just a small, I'm nitpicking here, I'm nitpicking. Anyway, super fun, I love that they made that, made me laugh this morning.

And a lot of other Lego-fied stuff is like propaganda slash halfway true. We sometimes get news from it. Massively true a lot of times actually. So I don't mean we use it as source material, I just mean that that's the Iranian point of view oftentimes and stuff that we don't see here in America. This video didn't have any of that, so it wasn't like propaganda or anything like that. It was just kind of badass. Yeah.

And so, you know, am I happy they did it? Sure, am I proud that I stand up against the genocide? Yeah, of course. And so proud that the UK banned me because apparently my ideas are too dangerous. And or as Anna's parents would say dangerous. My dad, yeah, my dad loves to say dangerous. Okay, so okay, apparently these ideas, we, everybody be careful you watch the young Turks. Because I'm spewing these dangerous ideas 24-7.

I mean, the public order could be disturbed at any moment. You know, you play this out in the public in a cafe somewhere or something, riots could break out. So now you've been warned, okay? Not just by me, by the good people who make Lego videos. Well, there have been some protests breaking out, not over you or the Lego videos, but we do have a story about now the second day in a row that protests have broken out in Albania. want to tell you why. It's gotten a little something to do with the Trump family, the Kushners,

if you will. Let's get into it. I've also gotten back to my real estate routes, which has been a lot of fun. And I'm working on an incredible project with my husband in the Mediterranean. It's massive in scale. I think that's an understatement. Can you explain? There's no power on this island. You're building, you're building everything from scratch. Correct. It's an unbelievable, beautiful, 1,400 hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. Quick question. When was the last time you went to bed before midnight without your phone lighting up your face? It turns out if you've got the news cycle on a loop in your head, it's harder to fall asleep.

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You might as well wake up ready for that. The Epstein class sure does love their private islands. But before I give you the details on this island project, the luxury resorts, and the mass protests that have broken out against it, Shanker two cents. Yeah, number one, I love the different parts of the world breaking out in protests for different reasons like the dock workers in different parts of Europe, Italy, etc. The Irish being so strong against the genocide, the Spanish causing few. And then, you're up boy, love that, okay?

And now the Albanians against Trump and their corruption. So that's it, nothing violent or physical, but let's all rise up, rise up and give us more of those protests. Yummy for our tummy. And then the second thing is, I mean, this family is going around the world trying to enrich themselves through the American government. It's the most disgusting acts of corruption I've ever seen. Well, they're not just trying, they're succeeding. And there is some concern among the Albanians that Donald Trump's position as the president of the United States led to a fast track of this project getting approved by authorities in Albania.

So let's get to the details here. Because the Albanian land that the Kushners purchased for this massive luxury resort town is known as the Shazan Island, which sits across the heel of Italy. which is not allowed. I'm not okay with that. Leave Italy alone. Don't even come anywhere close to Italy, please. But nonetheless, it turns out that the island hosts 3,600 Soviet era tunnels and hardened bunkers, which were built to withstand a nuclear attack. Now, couple that with the fact that Donald Trump's White House ballroom is really about building a massive underground bunker. One might ask, what exactly are the rich preparing for? Now with that in mind, the land purchase was approved a year ago, a year and a half ago, to be exact. It was in 2024.

In December of 2024, after months of consternation, Albania gave preliminary approval to a plan proposed by Kushner to build on the uninhabited island of Shazan, once a secretive military base for submarines. The planned developments on the Zvernik Peninsula would include 6,000 hotel rooms, and villas if plans come to fruition. And right now it does appear that these plans will come to fruition. This will be a private island destination for the tremendously wealthy. It sounds a lot like Epstein Island, not saying that there's going to be, you know, the same type of activity taking place there per se. But nonetheless, the protests have broken out because there's been a lack of transparency involved in the approval of this land sale.

So for years, the plans, a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on an island off the coast, and another development on a peninsula that is home to sensitive wetlands have generated concerns about conservation and transparency. And in fact, there has been no environmental report done in, you know, ahead of this project. And construction, it appears, has already begun. It's underway. So that is what is sparking the protests. And aside from the environmental concerns, there is discontent among Albanians about the land purchase and how it was approved in the first place. According to Realtor.com, approval came just two months after Ivanka's father claimed victory over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and days before he was

inaugurated for the second time. The project is one of several involving members of the president's family and foreign government entities that Trump will be actively working with in the White House. And so let's take a look at some footage of the protests that have broken out. Again, it's the second day in a row that these protests have taken place. They are planning to take more protests or do more protests tomorrow for the third day in a row. There are allegations that the prime minister, Eddie Rama, gave the Kushner's preferential treatment in order to curry favor with Trump. The protesters see this project as an emblem of what what they fear could be democratic backsliding in Albania, which did emerge from decades

of communist rule in 1991. And you know, Talat Bino, who is the head of the Albanian ornithological society, says that, you know, this is about democracy. The protests are, of course, centered around protected areas, but it's more about democracy in general. Now, Krishna's investment firm, affinity partners, which is mostly backed by funding. from Saudi Arabia is behind this project. The developer is known as Shazan Real Estate Development LLC.

And then one final point that I think is really relevant here, although there isn't any specificity. As for the crumbling military buildings and 3,600 derelict bunkers that were abandoned on the island, the couple is reportedly planning to incorporate at least a few of them into their hotel plans. Also, a little interesting that let's just go back to the earlier graphic. I'm gonna reread that last line because it says it involves members of the president's family and foreign government entities. Uh-oh. Which foreign government entities?

And why is there no specificity on that? That's what's going on here because I'm like, wait a minute. So look, first off, people can disagree about development in places. There are people like my sister who are like, no, we've got to preserve things as they are, and architectural history and heritage are super important. And they're real estate people I know go, what are you crazy? Build a huge thing, improve your economy, a lot more tourists, etc. So I think the two issues other than the environmental one that's obviously concerning people

is the number one, what was the actual transaction, right? So is it that did they get a better price on this? I mean, Anna, I don't know if you know any of these details? Or did the leaders of the Albanian government get something in return from the US government? And then that becomes part of the deal, but that's the part of the deal that you don't see, right? That's the fear here. We don't know if there was a quid pro quo type situation. There's speculation that the land sale was approved to curry favor with Trump.

Yeah, and so could the Albanian people have gotten a better deal? So if they gave it to a different real estate group that maybe did something similar, could they have gotten on much higher price? Is it for on behalf of the Albanian people or the Albanian leaders currently? Those are the questions that people would ask. From our perspective as Americans, I don't want the president's son, whether it's Hunter Biden or Jared Kushner and Ivanka here, his kids, and going around the world, trying to figure out how they're gonna make money off of representing the American government.

Oh, I'm in the middle of the Middle East negotiations and I represent America in foreign policy and in negotiations. And then when they come and they, let's say low ball you on a price or whatever it might be and go, now do you really want to mess with the American government? I don't want people getting bullied by a bunch of thugs that are pretending to represent us. And I'm not representing American interests on behalf of American citizens, but representing their own interest. So I don't want it when Hunter Biden pretends to be a Ukrainian gas expert.

And I don't want it when Jared Kushner pretends to be a private equity expert. Do you know that before you got that $2 billion from Saudi Arabia after the Trump's last term, that he had never done investments like that? He'd only done real estate, he'd never done finance at all. So for a guy who had no finance experience, to get a $2 billion fund is unprecedented. You know, there are a lot of characteristics that a lot of developments involving Jared Kushner. They remind me a bit of Epstein, to be honest with you. And it's not just the fact that they're buying this like private island for the wealthy,

complete with bunkers and all sorts of things like that. It's all of the wheeling and dealing that he's doing behind the scenes. We might learn about some of that wheeling and dealing after the fact. I don't think we know the full extent of it though. Yeah, well, so look, I don't know, but what I do know is that Epstein was not just a pedophile. Exactly, that's what I'm alluding to. I'm not just, I'm not calling Kushner a pedophile. I'm specifically referring to Epstein's connections to power and how he was, you know,

behind the scenes working out all sorts of deals on behalf of foreign governments. So look, and it's just, Is it our government that he's doing the deals for? Because who is that unnamed government that is going to be involved in this project? Exactly. Now, if you don't know Albania is mainly a Muslim country, there's, maybe there's a couple reasons why you wouldn't name the country involved, but there's one giant reason why you wouldn't name it if it was Israel, you wouldn't want to say that it's Israel because

the Albanian people would then be much more angry about it, you'd want to sneak that in. And to your point, if you guys don't know, Dropside News had all these great, you know, you emails they gone from Ahud Barak, from Prime Minister of Israel and many others. And it showed that Epstein in the emails did deals, international deals nonstop. And by the way, a lot of them were illicit deals. And that was part of the point of Epstein. Hey, he could move diamonds, he could move women, he could move weapons, he could use the port in UAE to do that, he could use American contacts like he did with Iran-Contra to do that.

So the Israeli, every deal he did was in behalf of Israel, okay? So that's amazing that American media still hasn't told people that. That is, and that's mask off, that's American media going, we will never ever tell you the truth about Israel, right? So after Epstein's gone, does Israel need a new central handler? Presumably someone to replace Epstein. Do they have to do the pedophilia? No, not necessarily, because that was for blackmail reasons, it appears, right?

And maybe they don't need to blackmail as much anymore, or they think that part of the operation is too risky, et cetera. But here we have a guy who is the son-in-law of the American president who's involved in the most important foreign policy issues that we have, including peace and war, right? And he's going and making deals not on behalf of the American people, but on behalf of himself and an unnamed other nation. That is super weird. So I don't care how much people pretend that's normal.

That's not at all normal. If Hunter Biden said, oh, I made a $1.4 billion deal, oh, but my last name being Biden had nothing to do with it. My dad being the president had nothing to do with it. And by the way, there's an unnamed country that's gonna benefit from it, but I'm not gonna tell you, ha ha. And it's not like Hunter, which is who's now out of office and out of power and was watched like a hawk.

Jared Kushner gets to do all these things and totally skates, and he's got two and a half years to do more crooked deals. So it's just outrageous that they're using the leverage of the American people on their behalf and on the behalf of potentially other countries. Well apparently there are some anti-corruption investigations being launched to look into this. This appears to be a story that isn't going to go away anytime soon. So as it develops, we'll update you all on anything we learn. But I don't know, I'm fascinated by this. I'm very curious to see how this develops. Why don't we take our first break? When we come back, I I want to give you some pretty big updates on the Middle East, Lebanon in particular.

Don't miss it. All right, so let's go to, oh, first fun fact, I mean, I'll show to you a couple times about the show, but we've got the band in the UK shirts up on shop tyt.com. So if we could throw that up on the screen so people can see what it looks like, that's fun. So ZMK 3592 says Anna Lego AI segment next. Well, that would be fun and we're looking forward to it. Wedge says Anna, you've already been immortalized via your clip on religion is still my fave.

Jenk is now catching up. Collecting Miscellaneous says they were also going to make a Lego of Ben Shapiro, but they ran out of ink for the eyebrows. That's really funny. By the way, Ben Shapiro like attacked you and Haas and I couldn't get through the video. I was bored to tears. No, no, no, there's a part of that we should. I don't know, I don't know when we're gonna play it, but we should play it because he said-

He lied about Jank and whatever. No, no, at the end, I mean, you didn't get through it, but at the end, he said that Hassan and I are in favor of killing millions of Jews. Yeah, he literally said that. I mean, by the way, he will be canceled nowhere, he will be banned nowhere, there will be no consequences for that kind of outrageous lie. Because if you're a support of Israel, like lying is by definition, and our media loves it. They're like, a way to lie, Ben, way to smear them. Yes, yes. Would you like to come

on CNN? Would you like to do a million other appearances? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Mo Larry Cheez says, wouldn't it be funny if Trump named, say, Bill Pult, head of DNI. Oops. Yeah, that's amazing. Boomer Drank Cat, did Iran just name you Supreme Leader of the Rebellion Jen? No, no, no. I don't want it. Okay, we'll be back. All right back on TYT. Let me thank the good folks in America. Henry Watson, Chakala 3, Nostika, C.B. Salzer. Thank you guys for joining through t.yt.com slash join.

I love that. And when you join through t.y.t.com slash join, you get, are your comments that I read and interact with during a commercial break? So it's a good place to do it. You can also join through YouTube, which Arpa Gregorian and Philip 147 did. You guys are awesome, love to have you with us. So we appreciate all of you guys here. Let's show this, do we have the shirt?

Can we show it? Band in the UK on shopty.com. I keep asking for it. I'm not sure it's ever gonna come up. Okay, so maybe I should double check before I ask for it. Anyways, okay, I don't know why we don't have it, but it's up on shoptwit.com. All right, Anna, what's next? All right, let's get to our next story.

Because the words were so brutal, Israel is now very badly internationally. I see like it, facing various boycotts, formal and informal. Natiao himself is wanted for war crimes at the hay and can't go to various countries in Europe. Things are pretty bad for Israel on the world stage. And they may get worse if Trump is rendered a lame duck by the midterm elections, or if a Democrat returns to the White House in 2024. I wouldn't say that it nets out to a strategic victory, although, sure, they've taken over some land. That was geopolitical strategist Dan Perry. And while he's absolutely correct that the global community absolutely loathes Israel following

the genocide in Gaza and its continued atrocities against the Lebanese people, he also said, he said that the Israelis have no interest in occupying Gaza or Lebanon. Janker, two cents on that? Yeah, they have a direct interest in it. How do I know? Because they've said it on tape many times. I know it's amazing. Yeah, and so oh my God, don't get it.

If we have a Democrat, they might stop the war and economic catastrophe. Oh, okay, don't threaten us with a good time. Well, I wanted to get into what the latest updates are on Lebanon, because Lebanon happens to be the real sticking point when it comes to the peace negotiations between Iran and the United States. In fact, just yesterday, Iran made abundantly clear that they're suspending any diplomatic talks, unless Iran, you know, unless Israel stop attacking Lebanon. However, now it looks like Iran is kicking things up a notch.

In fact, Iran's parliament speaker, Mohamed Ghalibov, has threatened to carry out direct confrontation against the enemy, as he calls it, if Israel refuses to stop its attacks against southern Lebanon. Let me read you his comments, which he posted on X. In my conversation with my brother, I affirmed, and he's referring to the president, or Nabi Barry is the Speaker of Lebanon's parliament and leader of the Amal movement. He says, I affirmed that if the Israeli aggression against Lebanon continues, we will not only halt the path of negotiations, but we will also be in direct confrontation with the enemy.

Long live the resistance, long live the defense of the land, and long live the brotherhood between the Lebanese and Iranian peoples. And he is referring to Hezbollah, of course, when he talks about the resistance, which is supported by Iran, but appears to be acting on their own without Iran giving them orders. So they are defending southern Lebanon against Israeli aggression. The whole reason why Hezbole even exists is because after Israel, Israel invaded southern Lebanon in 1982, Hezbollah was formed as resistance to Israeli aggression and actually succeeded in getting Israel to leave after they had been occupying southern

parts of southern Lebanon for about 18 years. So, Jank, yeah. That's pretty, that's a pretty confident statement. If you don't stop attacking Lebanon, then we're gonna confront you directly. That's what he's saying. Yeah, so they got tired. of Israel bringing the ceasefire endlessly. So they're supposed to be a ceasefire. It's supposed to include Lebanon. So and Israel's like, yeah, but we're liars. We never listen to a ceasefire.

So if you sign a deal with us, you're an idiot. You'll have to abide by it, we won't. And then what will be the ramifications of Israel not abiding by it? Because they've been bombing the hell out of Lebanon. They're in massive violation of the ceasefire. Well, there will be no consequences because American media will lie to you. And so what happened in the this case is really outrageous. So, and by the way, I was all over British media today and they're doing it too. So right before I went on a British show, they were talking about how Hezbollah broke the ceasefire.

That's a giant lie. That's insane. So let me get this straight. Hezbollah and Israel agreed to a ceasefire. Israel violated the ceasefire literally thousands of times. And Hezbollah didn't respond. And then after the war in Iran started. Hezbole is like, you know what, you guys keep violating the ceasefire, so now we're gonna engage.

And they did, they engaged. So here's exactly, I just wanna clarify a couple of things in there, because the timeline is so important. In 2024, they reach a ceasefire during the whole Gaza situation. Hezbollah and Israel does, right? And this was after the Patriot attack. So that's the one where Israel violated that ceasefire over a thousand times. Hezbollah never once violated it.

Now, we know that because we're tracking the news from all over the world and we show you tapes. So here's Israel bombing Lebanon, so there's no dispute. And Hezbollah didn't violate it once, even though they had every right to violate it. Now, did you see that anywhere in Western media? They never covered that on cable news. And to be fair, I saw it in some form of Western media, usually buried in an article somewhere in mainstream media, the 17th or 27th paragraph.

They admit, right, Israel did bomb Lebanon a thousand times. And Hezbollah never attacked them. But then back at the headlines, whenever Hezbollah finally does counter attack, they go, Hezbollah breaks ceasefire. Well, that's a lie, you're lying to us. That's not, hey, I framed it in a different way. No, that's a flat out lie. Yeah, it is.

Okay, so now you fast forward to the Iran war. Israel attacks Iran, along with America attacking Iran. And Hezbollah and Iran are allies, so Hezbollah and Iran are allies. So Hezbollah says, okay, this is a war on us. So we're counterattacks. Now this is after a thousand times that Israel violated the ceasefire. And the minute they do that, again, American media and Western media says, Hezbollah broke the ceasefire.

Well, now again, that is just blatantly untrue. And so now every single report is like, oh, Hezbollah is attacking Israel. Hasbrook, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait. Is Hezbollah inside Israel taking territory or Israel is inside Lebanon taking territory? There is a real answer to that in the real world on the ground. And the answer is Israel has attacked Lebanon and is in southern Lebanon as we speak, trying to take territory and have said that they are trying to take all of southern Lebanon for Israel all the way up to the Latani River.

And American media under penalty of law will not report it. No, they will. Even though they're on tape saying it. And if they do report it, they report it as a buffer zone for security purposes. And Leibn's around, they need a little breathing space, and then they're gonna need a little bit more breathing space in Poland, I mean Syria, right? And on and on it goes. And every time Israel attacks and takes land so it's indisputable, our media says, it's the dirty

Muslims, you should hate them, they're savages, they're terrorists, right? And then you go, but wait a minute, they have, Israel is a worse civilian kill ratio, and they've killed 100 times more civilians. And they go, it doesn't count anti-Semite. So now, look, you gotta turn to independent media, I'm not just just. talking about us because you're literally getting lied to if you watch television. So you've got to actually find the legacy media. They all do the same thing.

Okay, they're all owned by people who are like they just support Israel. It's that simple. So the reporting is biased for that reason. So if you're gonna leave out the fact that Israel violated the ceasefire over a thousand times, then you're just misleading your readers or your audience. Okay, so sorry, one last thing about this, Anna, no, no, in regards to today. So Iran is saying we think we're strong enough to reengage here. We let you violate this because right now we have a ceasefire with Iran.

And guess who's violating it? Israel, right? They bombed Lebanon over and over again, they're doing it again. So Iran is saying, no, no, no, no, we're not pushovers and we're not CNN or New York Times. You're attacking my ally, do it again, and I'm going to attack you, okay? So that is a show of strength and that is a show of principle. Right.

So that's just the reality of what's happening here. So let's talk about what has happened since Trump allegedly had a very stern phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday where he called him effing crazy allegedly. I just personally don't buy any of that reporting, that's just me. You do with that what you will. However, in response to that call, Netanyahu had put out a statement making abundantly clear, that he intended to continue the war against southern Lebanon, saying, quote, I spoke with President Trump and told him that if Hezbollah does not cease attacking our cities and citizens, you know,

obviously framing it in a misleading way, Israel will attack terror targets in Beirut. This stance of ours remains unchanged. In parallel, the IDF will continue to operate as planned in southern Lebanon. So that was Netanyahu's way of giving Trump the middle finger publicly because Trump specifically said, you know, you need to calm down. I don't want you attacking Beirut. To be fair, the bombardments of southern Beirut or the suburbs of Beirut hasn't happened yet. I wouldn't put it past the Israelis to start bombing anyway at some point soon.

But they haven't done that yet. So the media right now is reporting it as, oh, look at the Israelis, they pulled back, they pulled back. But have they pulled back? Maybe they're not bombing Beirut at the moment. But they did intensify their bombardments of southern Lebanon. So I want to talk about that. So in Axios again, they reported that Trump had lashed out at Netanyahu during the call.

But according to Israeli media reports, the US and Israel have previously put out leaks about the two leaders being at odds to keep Iran off guard. An Israeli official told why Net, an Israeli paper, early on Monday, that Israel had coordinated with the US on the threat to attack. Iraq, I believe that reporting, to be honest with you. Now, either way, the mere appearance of Netanyahu capitulating to Trump's demands has led to backlash toward the Prime Minister. Take a look at this.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing widespread criticism in Israel for holding off on striking Beirut's southern suburbs from both within his cabinet and his opponents. On social media, opposition leader Naftali Bennett said the government had lost control over Israeli sovereignty and that there is chaos in every corner. Far right national security minister, Itima Ben-Givir, posted saying, this is the time to tell our friend President Trump, no. He also said now is the time to do what's required and necessary to strike Hezbollah, to unleash the hands of our fighters, and to restore security to the north.

Israel needs to change its strategy. For every rocket Hezbollah fires Akir Shimona, Tehran should get hit. Soldiers are falling, wounded and killed, and Israel's Prime Minister is sitting around waiting for Trump's green light to strike the southern suburbs. Israel is not a banana republic. Flattened Ahir to the ground right now, and don't stop until the last building there is rubble. Naftali Bennett arguing that Israel's sovereignty is at jeopardy because Donald Trump allegedly told Netanyahu to back off Lebanon or Beirut specifically

is hilarious to me. Are you kidding me right now? Okay, first of all, you guys want to fight your war however you want to fight your war. That's fine. I mean, you are a sovereign country. How about you stop taking American money? Because here's the thing that's happening right now, Jake. They demand our money, they demand our bombs. They demand the United States go into additional debt on their behalf. And then if the president of the United States asks the prime minister of Israel to rein it in a little bit, they all have meltdown simultaneously. Total meltdowns. Doesn't matter. By the way, Naftali Bennett is the opposition to Netanyahu? He sounds exactly like Netanyahu. What's the opposition? What do you guys really disagree about?

Yeah, 100%. So look, I can't let go with the media angle because I'm just stunned by the alternate reality that they're presenting for you guys. So now Axios is an interesting one. I think that one's a little bit complicated. And Anna, the reason why you're super- Are you high? No, I had this conversation with Dave Smith earlier today on his show, okay? Why is it complicated?

So here's why. So he's more in your camp, like we- And for understandable reasons, and we talked about it. So Axios has put out dozens of articles, both under Biden and Trump, saying, oh my God, Biden wagged his finger at him. Trump yelled at him, were strongly worded letters and phone calls. And they've all been fake and the Israelis who've gotten 100% of what they wanted. This one though, Mark Levin is upset to add Axios and saying, and then not just Mark

Levin, but all of Israel first, they're like, how dare Axios report this? They should know that they- It's an op. Yeah, so anyways. I don't buy it. If Israel first is upset about it, there's like at least a little bit more chance of reality. But that's just so you guys have context on what might or might not be happening behind

the scenes. Okay, now what we, what's more important is what's happening in front of the scenes. Because no matter what people say and Axios can leak real or fake things a hundred times over, at the end of the day, are we going to re-engage the war or are we not? That is the only question. Everything else is totally academic. If we don't, by the way, Israel doesn't realize this because they're just out of control. And they're in a cult and the cult wants more war and more blood and you just saw it with

your own eyes. So but if they realized that they'd actually get us out of the war, pull out of the war, and they'd be able to begin to like, you know, stop the bleeding, political bleeding over here for Israel and be like, oh no, we did two wars together, we're best allies, and don't worry about it, keep sending me hundreds of billions of dollars, and we're going to integrate into your military as we discussed yesterday, et cetera. But they can't help themselves. So they're trying to drive more into the war.

Now that is totally set. If you remember for a couple of weeks, I was unsure if Israel wanted to continue. Because they were getting hit so much before the ceasefire and they were running so low on defensive missiles that I was like, if they're irrational actors, they should want to stop now because this could get bad for them, right? But now that jury's coming in and guys, this is super important. Israel is definitely wants more war. You saw it right there.

But we have overwhelming evidence we've shared with you on other shows. Can I give you just one more piece of evidence? Yeah, because while Netanyahu is facing backlash from his supporters and opponents in Israel, because he, in their mind, has held back. Here in the United States, Donald Trump and those who want Israel to rein in their atrocities are carrying out their backlash against Donald Trump. So let me give you one example. Here's Randy Fine, who's happy to see the slaughter in Lebanon.

He says Muslim terrorists shot 32 rockets into Israel yesterday. Every single one aimed at civilians. The idea that there is a ceasefire is fiction. I support Israel doing whatever necessary to eradicate these demons. In reality, though, in reality, let's take a look at this. Every single day for the past three months, beginning on March 2nd, an average of 38 Lebanese have been murdered and 150 wounded by the Israeli occupation forces, an unending slaughter of natives butchered by foreign usurpers, fully backed by the West. And by the way, 35 people in Lebanon

were killed and 182 wounded in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Monday alone. So you have Randy Fine crying about rockets. I mean, you look at the- That have hit no one, but- I've hit no one, okay? That's Hezbollah's way of responding to the Israeli offensive against southern Lebanon. What about all the innocent people that are getting killed in Lebanon? What about all of the paramedics who have been killed in double strikes? What about the fact that millions of people in Lebanon have now been displaced? Now entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, villages have been leveled, much like the entirety

of the Gaza Strip has been leveled. It's amazing to me. Oh my God, they shot rockets. At Israel, in response to Israel's aggression, we are such victims. How about you stop the aggression? How about that? How about you actually abide by a ceasefire once in your lives? Yeah.

So look, Randy Fine might think, yeah, we murder 38 people a day and they kill zero people a day, but in his mind, his diseased genocidal mind, he doesn't think that Lebanese are humans. Look, there have been some IDF soldiers who have been killed. IDF soldiers. In Lebanon. In Lebanon, yes. Oh, some of the invading army has been killed. That's what happens. And they still call them, by the way, they still call Hesbila terrorists, even though they're attacking an invading army. If you can't defend against an invading army on your land and you still get called a terrorist, okay, then the word terrorist doesn't

mean anything. That's just American propaganda on behalf of Israel to smear all Muslims. And the demon called Randy Fine doesn't even hide it because he says, yeah, these are, he He says needlessly, Muslim terrorists, right? Wait, you're a terrorist if you defend your land against this fascist government of Israel. So okay, guys, now we get to the most important part. The Naftali Bennett statement basically locks everything in except Trump's decision, okay? Because once Neftali Bennett puts pressure on Netanyahu to go further instead of pulling

back in a campaign, which is there in the middle of a heated election campaign, right? Now, Netanyahu is going to have pressure to go further into Lebanon and bomb Lebanon more and go further into this war. So he's got Ben-Gavir and Smoltrich pressuring him from the inside. Back then, they had the most power because if they pulled out of the government, the government would collapse and Netanyahu would lose power, and back then would have definitely lost the elections. Now Ben-Gavir and Smortrich have less power because we're almost at election time, so pulling

out of the government now wouldn't really do anything. So, but they do are still pressure him from the inside. And then from the outside, Neftali Bennett is saying, you better kill more Lebanese, you better kill more Persians, you better kill more Palestinians. So meanwhile, American media is framing Naftali Bennett as this lovely alternative and soon Netanyahu might lose. He wasn't in war with Turkey. No.

No, no, no, no. No, no. If we're being super honest, the Israeli population wants more war and genocide. And they show it in every poll and the two leading candidates are arguing about who wants more war and more genocide. So I have a pretty scary, I don't want to say prediction. Prediction is too strong a word, but something that I've been kind of thinking about and speculating about lately. Because you raise a really important point, Jank. is at a significant disadvantage given their lack of defensive military capability, right?

The interceptors, they're low on interceptors. Toward the end of the kinetic action between Israel and Iran, Iran was able to get several of their missiles through. And so why would Netanyahu, why would the Israelis want to continue the war? I don't get it. Could it be that if Iran does enough damage to Israel, Netanyahu or the Knesset could make the argument that, I mean, we're backed into a corner, too many innocent people are dying, and that might, in their minds, justify the use of nuclear weapons? No, I'm super worried about it. I don't think that, I don't have no idea. I don't think they're planning on it. Why do I say, I don't think so? Because that would involve a lot of, I was going to say Israeli citizens dying. On the other hand, Israeli soldiers told us, There was a stand on order on October 7, so they might not mind a lot of Israeli civilians

dying. So I mean, these are the really sick, disgusting fascist leaders of that government, right? So they sacrificed so many civilians and we assume that they don't mind killing Muslims and Christians and that they would mind killing Israelis. On the other hand, October 7th happened and the idea of this amazing military with the best intelligence in the world couldn't get there for six, seven hours in a country you could travel in 45 minutes? And are we really going to pretend like the IDF isn't order to kill their own with the Hannibal directive? So, okay, look, put that aside. Put that aside. I hear you. I hope it doesn't go to that.

I'm a little worried about it. But mainly, I think what's happening, Anna, my theory on it is, Look, they're thinking if we stop now, this turned into an epic disaster, right? Because now Iran controls a straight of Hormuz and, you know, whether it's a toll or a fee or whatever it is, oh no, they just got stronger. And in order to get the war to stop, we're gonna have to relieve sanctions and we're going to have to give them their frozen assets back. And those are tens of billions of dollars, not our money, their money that we stole, okay? So but then Israel's thinking, okay, now we couldn't end the regime, they just won a glorious war.

they're gonna get their money back and they might have more money in power in the future because of the Strait of Hormuz leverage that the war accidentally created. So for Israel, they think that's just existential risk for us. If any other country in our region has power, that means that we're not the only regional super hour. And they cannot stand that. It's not just that, jank. I mean, look, I don't trust members of Israel's government at all. I think they say things that are just complete lies.

But that doesn't mean that the population of Israel hasn't bought those lies, right? So I do believe that Israeli citizens were under the impression that Iran posed a real threat to their existence and their ability to survive. However, if they thought that with the prior Ayatollah who had a fatwa against building nuclear weapons, well, we don't know if Mostaba, the sun is going to be as gentle when it comes to nuclear weapons. Yeah, so look, they can't have it. For them, the idea that anyone else would have anything near them, they view, whether you believe the leaders actually believe this or not, but certainly the citizens do, as an existential risk. Like if anyone, because they've all been brainwashed into thinking everyone hates Jews,

they're all gonna, if the minute they have a chance, and they say this all the time in social media, nonstop, if the Muslims had one second chance, they would murder every Jew on the planet. So that is a deeply sick and psychotic thing to teach your children. It's not remotely true, but they're in a cult. So they think the idea that Iran comes out stronger from this war, they find completely and utterly unacceptable, they're willing to risk any war, anything, even maybe their relationship with America to keep driving and driving and driving.

They have made their decision, there's no longer any question at all. So as usual, we come to the last part of it, which is Trump. Trump has to make the decision. So now if you were doing it in American interest, as we've explained many times, this super easy deal, get the uranium, enrich uranium out, open up the Strait of Hormuz, you've got a deal, we come home, and we have no other interests, et cetera. So, but furthermore, if we keep going, because the thing that Exxon Mobil said yesterday, guys, is devastating, that even if the war stopped today, that oil would go up to $150 to

$160, that is already economic calamity, okay? If the war continues, it'll be a catastrophe like you've never seen. I know it's hard to believe that before it hits, right? But every expert in the world is saying that exact thing. So Trump cannot continue the war, it'll totally annihilate his reputation. his, this presidential term, his whatever agenda he has, and most importantly, his ego, right? He cannot continue. On the other hand, Israel has something on him that makes him think that he cannot defy Israel.

So it is an immovable object meeting an irresistible force. And so that's why I keep saying, I'm not sure what Trump is going to do. And right now I've got it at 80-20 that he listens to the Israelis. Because if there, whatever they have on him was powerful enough to get Trump to punch himself in the face about 40 times already, probably it's powerful enough to get the next thing done. Right. Because Trump thinks what Israel has on him is so devastating that even absolutely destroying his reputation is not as bad.

So I've got it at 80, 20. I don't know if Anna has it at 100, 0. But I want super last thing is once, if it's, we're right. And Trump goes, okay, we're going back in and we're gonna bomb Iran. Okay, then it's over. Then you won't, we won't need to convince you anymore. Because what'll happen within, I mean, immediately, but certainly within a month, is that the economic catastrophe will begin.

And when it begins, there will be a rage in this country like we haven't seen in a long time. And no amount of propaganda from Jake Tapper or anyone else in CNN or New York Times is going to stem that tide. The dam is going to break. The American people know Israel did this to us. And I don't know what happens with that fury, but that fury road is on its way. When we come back from the break, we'll get into Joe Kent's fight with U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, don't miss it. All right, let's go to Superchat.

Ed Ladawi says, while on the topic of Israel, how about that new bill proposed to intertwine our military? Unbelievable. Yeah, Ed, we covered it on the yesterday show. You can check it out on YouTube or on t.com. Yeah, it's, it can't pass. It cannot pass. It's, other than the war, I don't know that I've seen a more disastrous bill. Now, if you intertwine Israel with our military, we'll never get them out.

And they'll steal. But actually, they won't need to steal anything. We'll just be handing it to them. All the money we spent, trillions of dollars on the military, Israel's going to get for free. It's just unbearable. Oh, the injustice of it is unbearable. And then they'll be able to control our military from the inside. Insanity.

They're doing to us what they did to the UAE, turning us into sock puppets. We're totally utterly occupied. There's a fury coming. I don't want it, but it's going to happen whether I want it or not. Ronald Fan writes in on YouTube member section, Happy Taco Tuesday, TYT family, and to you, Jenkin, Anna. Thanks for telling, letting me do the right thing and letting me sing and defend the free speech. Oh, sign the defend the free speech petition.

And you, Anna, look so hot like Mariah Carey. Oh, okay. Okay, all right, God bless. So that petition is tyot.com slash UK ban. Soyy.com, so just to un-ban us. Jessica Smith says, I love this for Jenk, referring to the Lego thing. Screeke Gill says, Jenk had made it. Bawks says, ah, snap, Lego, Jank.

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Former Trump administration official Joe Kent, who resigned following the start of the war against Iran, got into a little tiff with the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, and kind of took him to school on a topic in regard to our ally, Israel. Now before I give you the details, Jank, what do you think? Well, this one's a layup, so Joe Kent's going to annihilate Mike Huckabee, but I also want to really dive into the details of how Mike Huckabee is lying to you. He's supposed to be our ambassador, but in reality he's representing Israel instead. One of my favorite arguments that Mike Huckabee has made in favor of Israel is like,

if we don't support Israel, where are we going to get our seedless melons? I hadn't heard that one. Okay. I'm gonna be all right, okay? You can keep your seedless melons. Anyway, let's get to this exchange. So it actually began with Mario Knopfal posting this on X. Joe Ken says Israel has no natural resources and only exists as a regional power because of

US funding. A slight problem, Israel has massive offshore gas fields, is home to one of the world's top tech ecosystems and exports over $165 billion in goods and services annually. The US support argument has real structural merit, the economic facts around you. it don't have to be wrong for the point to land. By the way, Mario Nafal really goes out of his way to give Israel the benefit of the doubt over and over and over again. But like the Apo researchers on behalf of Israel here in the United States are doing

opera research and creating dossiers on him anyway. So like, get to know the people you're talking about Mario. Get to know the people you're talking about. Look, I don't want to get too into it. I don't know the brother situation. I've been on a show a bunch of times. I like him as a person and stuff. You know, if you're based in Dubai, which is in the United Arab Emirates, they are allies

of Israel. But what Mario is finding out in real life, and it's not just about him, everybody's finding out is it doesn't matter, even 2% criticism of Israel will get you attacked viciously. There is no, you can't, there is no amount of ass kissing that's enough for the Israelis. And I'm not saying that Mario's doing that. I'm just saying the minute you try to be honest, a tiny bit, they're going to come for you. I mean, it just asked Megan Kelly. That's exactly right.

Yeah. And the reporting that I'm alluding to about the dossiers, that was a story that I covered on the show last Wednesday. And it was based on a leak that was given to former White House correspondent, you know, Gabriel Kuchia, so just wanted to make sure I gave you the details on that. Yeah, sorry, I've got to say two things about the actual treat itself. Okay, it's over. Like the point of the story is like forgotten.

Okay, go ahead. Just, okay, two points about what Mario is saying. There's actually a giant gas field off the coast of Lebanon. And that's part of the reason why Israel's attacking Lebanon, which actually proves that Joe Kent is right. They don't have enough natural resources. And so they're trying to get more by taking that gas field. off the, you know, Lebanese waters as part of their invasion of southern Lebanon. But his statement that the U.S. support has real structural merit.

That's not true. There's no structural merit. Israel does not help us 1%. But again, we'll show that to you in the receipts here. So before Joe Kent responded, you have Ambassador Mike Huckabee saying that Joe Kent is either not very smart or just dishonest. I mean, you think that you have to support a genocidal country for the second coming of Christ. So you want to talk about who's smart and who's not? Anyway, but let me continue with his statement. Israel receives $3.8 billion but spends far more than that buying U.S. military goods.

Okay, pause for a second. I don't care. I don't care. I don't particularly like the fact that our resources, our money is being redistributed from ordinary American taxpayers to defense contractors. with Israel serving as the middlemen. I don't care, that doesn't make me feel good. That argument is so stupid, but they make it over and over again.

He says US also receives Intel, tech innovations, so that return on investment is many times more. Filarious. New MOU memorandum of understanding with Israel ends aid and will be based on trade, total BS, by the way. That's a lie. Kent responds to that by saying, Ambassador, your job is to represent American interests in Israel. With that in mind, please explain what we receive in return for our investment in Israel. How have Israel's actions in Iran, Gaza or Lebanon, to name a few, made America safer and more prosperous? The arms sales argument is flawed logic.

We give Israel money so they can buy American weapons. Why not just spend our money on weapons for our own inventories, which by the way are running super low as we speak? And then he says, the intelligence we get from the Israelis can be useful, but our increasing over-reliance on it has caused our own capabilities to atrophy. Also, they give us false intelligence all the time because they want to drag us into wars. He continues, we are a sovereign nation. We cannot outsource components of our national security to nations that do not share our interests. Of course, they will put their own interests first. No other nation prioritizes the needs of a different country before its own, because that

would be foolish. Israel can still be a decent partner so long as we are clear-eyed about the differences between our two countries and act accordingly. We have to put America's needs first. So just to give you one piece of information that debunks Hucklebee's lies, U.S. taxpayers funded $17.8 billion in armed sales to Israel under Joe Biden. And then 11.9 billion government brokered and 5.9 billion commercial, 81% of the $22 billion in sales from 2021 to 2024.

That's nearly $18 billion in subsidies disguised as sales. And take a look at this fun graph. Shows that Americans do in fact pay for most of the US arms sales to Israel. Israel, while Israel funded arms to the tune of $4.2 billion, we spent $17.8 billion on Israel's weapons. Yeah, okay, so now let me do my part in breaking down the propaganda. And we've been talking about this decent amount lately, which is that their propaganda actually sucks, it's really weak.

And part of the reason that it's so weak is because it's never been challenged for the last 50 years. They would just say it and they would brainwash everybody with it. And if anyone dared disagree with even a little part of it, they'd call them an anti-Semite and ruin their lives. And you'd never see them on television or their byline in a newspaper again. So that's just, that's again, that's what's happened in America and they could pretend that it didn't, but it most certainly did.

So that's why when they say things like, oh, the 3.8 billion that we give to Israel actually helps us because they buy American weapons with it. Joe Kent makes a terrific point. we could buy a $3.8 billion worth of weapons for us. That would also help our economy. Why do we have to buy it for you? And if it helps us so much to give you $3.8 billion, now I'll add on top, does that mean that if we gave every country on earth $3.8 billion in weapons,

that we would be even more helped? Remember, this is all free money we're giving to them. So that's what they're trying to give us a smokescreen around so you don't realize that that's a robbery. They're not, we're not trying to cure cancer with them. We're giving them weapons to kill people for free. Then my favorite one is, no, the $3.8 billion helps you so much because it helps your economy. Well, terrific news for you guys, including Mike Huckabee, who's obviously at this point in Israeli. Hey, Mike, why don't, why doesn't your beloved Israel give us the $3.8 billion back?

That way that'll help Israel. That's your logic, right? That's your moronic, obviously, pathetically stupid logic, right? So if you give $4 billion to someone, you get the help, great. You know what? We'll do one better. Israel can pay us back the entire $320 billion we gave them. That'll help them so much.

Their economy will boom, right? That's your logic. All right, well, I'm not done. The new memorandum of understanding he lied about. It's 10 more years of funding Israel. Now this is what shows you that the American media is in on it. Because we read the articles, we saw the tape of Netanyahu, and so today, their reporters saw it.

And everyone is reporting like, Israel doesn't want any more money. That's not true at all. They said, we don't want any more money after 10 more years. No, that's, and 10 years later, they're gonna say, well, you know, the situation has changed, we're surrounded by terrorists, just another 280 years, and then we'll be done, right? No, that's not ending Israel's funding. It's continuing for 10 years. It is an outrageous lie, aided and abetted by every person posing as a reporter on television.

They're not reporters, they're propagandists for Israel. And I'm proving it to you guys every single day. We do it nonstop. Now they say tech initiatives. Oh my God, oh, they have such great innovations in Israel. First of all, as we showed you on an earlier show when we talked to an Israeli who has left Israel because it's gotten so bad there. Actually, tons of their innovators and their tech industry are leaving. They're like, oh, this war is a pain in the ass, and it's really inconvenient, and I don't want my family to.

No, don't get me wrong. I'm going to, half of them are saying, I'm still going to finance Israel killing all these people, and maybe once it settles that, I'll come back. They're leaving and going where? They're going to Europe, and they're going to America, okay? So they're going home? Well, in a sense. Where do the Palestinians get to go?

They don't have a second passport. No, they don't. But here's what I want to say about the tech innovations. Okay, that's great. Do they give it to us for free? No, they sell it to us. Do they not sell it to anyone else? No, they sell it to everyone.

So what do we get out of it? Absolutely nothing. You see all the lies? And why would somebody tell you that lie? It's like saying, oh, Apple did a great tech innovation. You're welcome Israel. But do people have to buy iPhones in Israel? It's not like they're getting it for free.

Same thing in reverse. And last one. The intelligence, that drives me crazy. So we know they give us fake intelligence, and I'm super worried about what Joe Kent said, because he said we rely on them so much that we're, our intelligence gathering is atrophying. Are you nuts? They're giving you intelligence on their behalf, not our behalf. You shouldn't rely on their intelligence at all, let alone relying on it in a, for most of our

intelligence in the Middle East. That's why all the intelligence is wrong. Because it's Jerry rigged to be in favor of Israel and against us. We have 18 intelligence agencies. And we're utterly useless. And we just put like Donald Trump's limo driver in charge of DNI. They put this poultry guy, they pulled team and him out of their ass. He's the guy who was working in housing.

And he had no experience in housing either. Oh, he had experience as a developer. Yeah, and he was saying, trying to help people get affordable housing, you're right. So now they put him in charge of DNI. The only thing he's known for is being Trump's hatchet man. So they're just letting Israel give us nonstop fake intelligence that says, oh, you have to attack Israel's enemies. That is your great intelligence from Israel.

And that's literal guys, they did it in Iraq and they did in Iran. So Israel doesn't not only not give us anything, and then on top of that, do they take all of our money. On top of that, they make us spend more money on wars, and then they say it's not enough. It's not enough. You owe us more. It's insanity. No one in their right mind would think that we owe Israel anything, not a dollar, not a cent. They owe us literally trillions of dollars. But if you watch American media, you wouldn't know any of that. You'd think it was the reverse. Well, Matt Walsh is really going through it because he's not a fan of the war, but he still works with Ben Shapiro. So when we come back from the break, we'll talk about that contradiction, those difficulties that Walsh is dealing with.

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We do have Operation Joy coming up at the top of the hour. We're trying to spread some joy in the world. Part of our brioche sandwich here. All right, Anna, what's next? All right. Let's get into the goings-on over at the Daily Wire. So Matt Walsh, one of the remaining hosts over at the Daily Wire, is not a fan of the war in Iran.

In fact, just recently he posted something that speaks to my own heart about the liars who have cheer led this war when the US has only lost, we haven't won anything from this. He says pretty much all of the prominent voices who supported the Iran war assured us it would be over by now. None of them will admit that they were wrong. Even less will they admit that their initial assurances were based on. on nothing but their own wish casting. This whole crap show has been an enormous waste of time and resources and our country has

not benefited from it at all. Its advocates have moved the goal posts repeatedly and have even to this day refused to clearly articulate what constitutes a victory and how we'll know that it's been achieved. Now in response to that post, Congressman Thomas Massey said, I hope you don't lose your job over this. That's literally what I was about to say. And of course, he's alluding to the fact that Ben Shapiro is a huge cheerleader of the war against Iran, always has been. So we'll show, in fact, let's just go to us, D1 just to give you a little taste of the kinds of arguments Shapiro makes.

I've said it a lot of times before, I'll say it again. President Trump was right and brave to go after Iran. He's right to go after the Iranian missile facilities. his rights to go after their nuclear facilities, his right to blow up their navy, his rights to take down their air force, in Operation Epic Fury. Operation Economic Fury, which is the blockade on Iranian oil, has been similarly good and brave. Now, I didn't agree with the original ceasefire in April. I think we should have continued to strike them and strike their oil facilities. But here's the thing. You never know the outcome of a war until it's over. You don't know the outcome. So there are a lot of people out there today claiming that America has lost that somehow this is an endless war, which is, again, a very strange,

for a war that lasted a few weeks and then since basically April has been in a state of stasis. By the way, the US and Iran have been exchanging strikes. Just now, I checked to see if there were any updates. Iran is targeting U.S. military bases in Kuwait. And there are alarms going off in Bahrain. So Shapiro seems to be getting his way. But the reason why I showed that video is because obviously there's a huge disagreement here between Shapiro and Walsh. And I don't know if Walsh was shadow boxing Ben Shapiro in that post, but it kind of feels like it. Yeah, all right, well, interesting. I guess Matt Walsh's days are numbered because Ben Shapiro, we're gonna find out, does Ben Shapiro completely run daily way or does he not? Because if he does, he's not gonna tolerate anyone being anti-war.

He loves war, especially war for Israel. No, to be fair, only war for Israel, because if we waste our resources doing war against anyone else, no, no, we should reserve those for help. To be fair, Ben Shapiro is a huge supporter of, you know, us defending Ukraine against Russia. Because Russia is opposed to Israel, and Russia was defending Syria. There's always a connection. And Russia was defending Iran. Oh, look at that. After Russia was busy in Ukraine, what did Israel do? They attacked Syria and Iran. Huh, funny. It did help with the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, which is something Israel really wanted.

Oh, that's so weird how they seem to have liked that war for two. On the other hand, if you were going to actually build a nuke like North Korea, Israelis were like, no, no, no, no, no, no, who cares? The South Koreans and the Japanese, if they die from those nukes, they're not Israelis. Their lives don't count. Don't waste any effort there on the people actually building a nuclear weapon. Let's go after the ones that are not building nuclear weapons, but that are our neighbors and we want to murder and defang.

Okay, anyway, so Matt, I'm surprised that you're not for more murder and mayhem, but that'll cost you. Okay, so let's see how that plays out. But now, Shapiro, I like it's almost at a point where I'm tuning him out. I know what he's gonna say, you know it before every clip. Mar-war, I got to do what Israel wants. They became a little bit of Shapiro, a little bit of Mark Levin there. But so this is unsustainable guys.

And I think what Matt Walsh is doing here, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, which I really don't want to do, but that he actually does mean it. to some degree. No, no, he means it. I mean, he has put out other statements previously, cautioning against the war or criticizing the war. So I do think he actually believes this. I do, but I think that there's a second component because he believed this for a long

time, but hasn't said it until now. I think he gets the sense, this is a sinking ship. So he's looking for the exit. And an easy way to get an exit is, hey, maybe if I start saying something against Israel, They'll have to pay me off to have me leave, right? And then I take that money and I start my own thing and I get as big as Candace, whatever it is, right? He's not gonna make it.

So is he, that's fine. And I don't, I certainly don't think so, but it's okay. But you see the machinations being played. And so the timing of this is what makes me curious about why he said it now. You know, what's also interesting is we learned through a recent free press piece that Shapiro has influence regularly texting with prominent Republican lawmakers and senior Trump administration cabinet members. Oh cool.

And as Trump's recent decision to green light his second Iran war shows, the president's thinking on foreign policy aligns more closely with Shapiro than with many of Shapiro's new enemies on the right. Okay, let me ask this question. Shapiro is now one of the smallest shows in the right wing media ecosystem. Why is the White House taking his call and not Sean Ryan's call when Sean has a show that's what, 10, 20, 40 times larger? It's, I don't know what the exact numbers are, but Sean Ryan's top 10, Carlson's top 20,

Megan Kelly, on and on. Those people actually talk to his voters, to his base, to the right wing. Shapiro's got like three guys left that he talks to and it's Mark Levin, Laura Lumer, and Randy Fine. So it's not about the relative size of their audience. And Shapiro is connected to Israel, so he will get his call answered at the White House every single time. Sean Ryan at this point is one of the largest podcasters in the world, but is not connected

to Israel. In fact, he's now opposing Israel, so he's not gonna get his call answered. I think that's a good theory, and I agree with it. So I wanna reset and talk about something fun, because, you know, Matt Walsh is irritated with all of the pro-Iran war cheerleaders. sees the war as a complete disaster for the United States. I'm inclined to agree with him on that and our reporting and coverage of the war makes that pretty clear.

But I could help but think about one person in particular when Walsh was calling out all of the people who were wrong in their predictions in the lead up to the war against Iran. And one of them happens to be Dave Rubin. This video, Chef's Kiss, take a look. Allow me to make a prediction here. my prediction stuff. I'm not polymarket. I'm not Kalshi, but I'm pretty good at predictions. And my prediction here is that everything that the media is now going to say about Iran's going to close the Strait of Hormuz and energy prices are going to go crazy. And all these, none of this

is going to come to pass. Gas prices are coming down and will continue to come down. If the United States wants to keep the Strait of Hormuz open, which it does. And Donald Trump said, we'll escort ships through if we have to. It's going to stay open. This is the leader of the Iranian in opposition. He has been in exile. His name is Reza Pahlavi. We have shown you videos him before. He's the eldest son of the former Shah of Iran and he likely is the next leader of Iran. This is the guy that by all accounts, when this war ends, will go in and he will be the leader. And again, it will be different. Just remember, it sounds like the Kurds are starting to enter the country with arms to help the people take out the last vestiges of the IRC. There's a lot of good

things happening. There's a lot of good things happening. That guy, his whole job is to do political analysis. That's what he does. I mean, look, predictions should have consequences. We do predictions all the time. You could take our record and match it up with Dave's record and see how it turns out. We said gas prices were definitely going to go up. And I'll tell you right Now, gas prices are going to continue to go up. And if we re-engage in the war, we've said it many, many times. Gas prices will go through the roof in a way that will shock you. It will lead to massive inflation and an economic catastrophe.

Global depression. Yeah. Now the reason Dave is lying to you is not just because he's an idiot and doesn't know anything. You think that there's a war in the Middle East, gas prices will go down. No, Dave, I don't think gas prices go down. Although he is an idiot. Yeah, but continue. But that's not the sole reason why.

The main reason is he's like, no, the war will be easy. The war to help Israel destroy its neighbors so that they can take southern Lebanon will be really easy. The water's warm, come on in. So like Shapiro I don't think is dumb. And Shapiro says the same things. Mark Levins says the same things. Oh look at that. Everyone who supports Israel says, just like they did with Iraq war, it's gonna be easy.

So easy, it's barely gonna cost anything. And Shapiro said in the earlier clip, oh, this war has a lot of it. lasted long at all and who says it's going to be an endless war. Why would anybody think that? I don't know because of Iraq and Afghanistan and how all the wars became endless. Now, I don't think Afghanistan was Israel. I think Iraq was Israel. But once we get into these wars in the Middle East, we can't seem to get out. And that's what they want. That's what they want. So that Iran is distracted and Iran is destroyed so that they cannot defend Lebanon or Gaza or the West Bank or Syria as Israel takes more land. Okay, one more Dave Rubin,

clip. This is Iranians and you can hear they are chanting BB June, BB Netanyahu. In Iran, they are chanting praise for Benjamin Netanyahu. And when you take out Khomeini and you take out his number two and his number three and his number four and his number 37 and his number 42, then suddenly the next guy's going, it's a little hot in here. And then people start behaving a little bit differently. They've plotted this war, this extraordinary war that will be studied for decades, right? For decades, they will study how this incredible war took place that we are hitting critical infrastructure. We are damaging the regime, so hopefully the people will be able to take over their countries. Now,

the question is, if you're going to hit power plants and you're going to hit civilian infrastructure and things of that nature, how do you make sure it's not going to harm the people, but just the regime? And when we have a department of war that is not looking for war, but will perform war, then we are going to do it at the maximum level of competency. I think the way you can look at this, this, I haven't heard anyone else say this, but this seems to me to be the war to end all war. Oh my God. Okay, so for the audio listeners, the BB June thing is a deep fake. It wasn't real. Iranians weren't chanting BB June. That didn't happen.

I mean, their propaganda sucks. Jank, but all it needed was someone to do this and for the house of carts to fall down. Really, people in Iran are chanting for BB? Beeb, not just Netanyahu, but they're like, oh, I wish the Israelis would come in here and murder us. Oh, drop a bomb on our building, BB, BB, who would be that stupid to believe that? I mean, look. And honestly, the answer is every cable news anchor. Yeah, I just look, Dave, the dial of ideas is too hot.

It's just too hot, you're going scorched earth, like you gotta stop. Like the guy needs to read something for once in his life, right? Because here's the thing, you're right, I mean, overall the propaganda for the war is really, really bad and easy to dismantle. But like, I don't know, take a few classes with that fast talking huckster Shabos, okay? Like he just speaks really, really fast and says a lot of things that might sound correct. And some people might get tricked by it. You know what I mean? Like you got to find tricks in order to convince people that what you're saying is correct.

No, Anna, that's so interesting because what I'm noticing now is that the Israeli supporters are getting tired. Like I'll be in a debate with them and they're just like exhausted from the doing the same lies. And they're like, you're an anti-Semite, God damn it, I've said that 200 times, I don't think it's working. Have they considered maybe telling the truth? No, they have not considered it. Living in reality? Again, it might sound like I'm just doing an insult, but I really believe that Dave doesn't study at all because he thinks, what's the point? I'm going to do my lie anyway.

So what's true or not true is totally irrelevant. I know, but like, you have to make the lie convincing in order for it to work. And he's never been able to do that. He sounds so dumb. He sounds like he's lying when he's telling the truth. Yeah, so look, I say this based on about a half a dozen people. The one that's really stuck out from where he was Kevin O'Leary on Diary of a CEO, he just kind of laid down on the Israel issue.

He just didn't want to like, well, I would say things that normally, they'd be like, oh, that's outrageous, that's anti-Semitic. They're our special ally, we get so much from their help, blah, blah. And he's just like, I don't know, let's, can we go back to talking about making money? Right? I know, I know. Right? Because they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they're I respect when people recognize, it's not a good look to defend this, so I'd rather switch

topics or find like a way to weasel out of this instead of having to defend it. You can't defend the indefensible. But anyway, going back to wrong predictions as obviously Dave Rubin made there in regard to the war against Iran, it's okay when you make incorrect predictions. But there is never any recognition by Dave Rubin that his predictions are wrong, never any apology. Now in the case of anything Israel wants, he's gonna lie on purpose. I totally understand that. But like, how about hold yourself to a higher standard where you recognize that your predictions are wrong? You bring it up, you say, hey, I got that wrong, I'll do better next time,

and move on. But he never does that. Israel supporters never do that. They lie, they drag us into wars, things go disastrously wrong, and they just continue spouting the same lies again and again and again. It's amazing. Anna, you're doing projection there because you're morals and honest. So you think that aren't you ever going to be moral and honest? And the answer to Dave Rubin is clear. No, no, he's never going to be moral or honest. I mean, look guys, think about it. The Netanyahu chant that he made up, does it look like the Iranian people are chanting

for Netanyahu now? I mean, they literally went to, Netanyahu said, I'm gonna bomb these bridges and Trump said the same thing and power facilities. And the Iranian citizens went on the bridges and around the facilities and said, if you're going to bomb, you're going to have to kill us too. Okay, so I don't think they were chanting BB June at that point. But would Dave Rubin ever come out and say, oh, I'm so sorry, it turns out, no, the Iranian people rallied around the flag, they were brave and fighting back.

You know, I don't like him, I hate him, I want him to lose, but they're not losing. And no, they don't like Israel. No, they don't want to be run by Reza Polavi, and all these facts have absolutely shown it. And it turns out they could get the straight of hormones closed, et cetera, and the war wasn't easy. There's a 0% chance that Dabroon or any Israel first person would ever admit that, ever. Because they're not doing the same thing we are of trying to find what's true. They're just trying to find what helps Israel, period. Well, we've got some positive news to get to when we come back from the break.

We'll talk about Trump's slush fund and how Republicans of all people seem to have destroyed it. We'll be right back. My brain is still in recovery mode from taking in so many high level important ideas. All right, let's go to Twitch. Chai Town's finest says, where can I go, where can I get a Lego chank? I don't think Lego is making them yet, but that would be hilarious. Octo Squitty says, I like to live dangerously.

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I am Jadares, writes in, how are the public going to trust mainstream media after this? It has clearly shown the mogul networks that appeared honest are actually trashed now. Yeah, after the war turns into the epic disaster that I'm predicting, I think that when media comes out and goes, oh, yeah, if they do one more time, no one could have seen this coming. When Jay Tapper writes a sequel to no one could have seen Biden being too old coming, no one could have known that Israel was in charge, right? No, nobody's going to buy it. And I don't know what happens to CNN, but MS now could totally go out of business. Fox News can't go out of business.

They're still very, very profitable and they have online presence. But CNN probably see you. Look, I don't know if they're going to be totally gone, but they're going to be destroyed on TV. As it is. All right, back on Tyay, Jen canana with you guys. This is Election Day, by the way, here in California in a couple of other states. But California is a huge one. If you live in California, Tom Steyer has an actual anti-corruption plan that I really love.

Please elect someone that's anti-corruption and doesn't take corporate PAC money, foreign government money, et cetera. So if you're in California governor, Tom Steyer, then if you're in San Francisco, shortcut Chakrabartee, A-PAC is attacking him in 18 different ways. We need him in badly. He's one of the leaders of the populist progressive movement, Choycott in California 11. Audrey Denny is a great candidate in California one that's in Northern California. She's part of the rebellion.

And if you want to know the rebellion candidates, rebellion pack.org, Rebellion pack.org. And then the last two are Amar Kampa Najjar in Southern California. Again, A-Pak in the Israeli lobby has spent over $2 million trying to defeat him. half Palestinians, so they have to try to eliminate him. So that's in California 48. And finally, Rokana, of course, in Silicon Valley. And he should coast the victory, but make sure you go out and vote for one of the very, very few Americans left in Congress. Rokana is also up in a primary today. All right. Ann. All right, we've got a big update on Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. And I gotta say, this update shocked me. I did not expect this. Let's get into it.

disagree with the idea that the American taxpayer is indignant about the fact that a victim of weaponization, okay, a victim who suffered, whether it was legal fees, lost a job, had their life turned upside down in a way that was not appropriate. If it was appropriate, there should be no compensation. And that's why we have five commissioners who will take a look at it. But I do not think the American people have issues with that. To the contrary, I think they do want their tax dollars spent on things like that. After President Donald Trump decided to sue the government he represents because of the fact that his tax returns had been leaked, he made a deal with the government he represents, the DOJ in particular. And the deal would

be that he would be able to create a $1.8 billion slush fund that would lack any at all transparency and allow for individuals who were so-called victims of lawfare to benefit from the taxpayer funds that would make up the $1.8 billion slush fund. So January 6th rioters would be able to apply for it, how they would get approved by it, wouldn't be transparent at all. And it raised a lot of concerns, including among Republicans, which is why it appears that congressional Republicans have now defeated the plan to create this $1.8 billion slush fund.

So, Jake, before I give you the details, what do you think? about this? I think that this is the best sign there is that Trump is losing his power. So if the Republicans thought Trump was going to help them in these upcoming midterms, they would have authorized this deeply corrupt, disgusting slush fund. But since they're not authorizing it, that means, uh-oh, for the Republicans in the midterms, which is great news for everyone else. So there was backlash from Democrats, which is to be expected.

Even some backlash from Republican voters, I noticed. However, it turns out that there's bipartisan backlash. A lot of Republican lawmakers started speaking out against this, including Mike Johnson, the House Speaker, who raised concerns over the fund and even scheduled a meeting to discuss it with President Trump. The pushback came to a head during a Senate Republican conference meeting last month, in which senators voiced their concerns with the fund to Todd Blan. who's the acting, you know, attorney general.

Senator said the closed door meeting grew intense. Members expressed frustration, according to CBS is reporting on this, about the fund and its timing, which ultimately led GOP leaders to scrap plans to vote on funding for the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration Enforcement agencies. And according to CBS, Democrats threatened to force a vote on this fund, putting Republicans in in a pretty difficult situation and position as they tried to move forward on funding for DHS. With some of their members likely to join Democrats in opposing the program, Senate Republicans had considered putting guardrails on the fund into the DHS bill itself

or otherwise finding avenues to dictate how the fund would operate and who might receive payments from it. Some also wanted to prevent those who assaulted law enforcement on January of course from being compensated. And to be honest, that was one of my biggest concerns. Rewarding individuals who carried out assaults against sworn officers on January 6th or otherwise. But the actual idea of dropping the fund came after two federal judges weighed in on the matter. So U.S. District Judge Lonnie Brinkema temporarily blocked the Justice Department for moving forward with work on the new 1.7 plus billion dollar anti-weaponization fund, including making any payments. And the judge's order prevents the DOJ from taking any further action pursuant to the creation

or operation of the program to ensure that no funds are irreversibly distributed from it. It covers the transfer of money to the fund, consideration of any claim submitted, and disbursement of any payments. So you've got Republican lawmakers weighing in on it, you know, rejecting the idea. And now you also have a U.S. District Judge weighing in on it and halting it entirely. In addition to the judge's ruling, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, who was the judge in charge of the original lawsuit that Trump brought against the IRS over his leaked tax returns, also announced that she would be launching an inquiry into this matter.

Yes. Yes, so look, it's a rare win for us and it goes to how deeply unpopular Donald Trump is. Otherwise, he would have the power and the leverage to push this through and get himself paid. But it's a beautiful win, and it also portends Republican losses in the midterm, so it's doubly good news. Now we've got to go to breaking news. Breaking news, the war is back on. Iran has just bombed Kuwait, and that is in retaliation for some of the strikes that we have done. So bombing now has started back and forth in the Persian Gulf and in and in the Strait of Hormuz.

So let me give you updates from Dropsite news. They're reporting this right now. The IRGC launches missile strikes on U.S. bases in Kuwait. Explosions also reported in Bahrain and Iraq. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has claimed responsibility for missile strikes on U.S. military bases in Kuwait, saying the attacks were in retaliation for an American. strike on Keshem Island, a strategically located island in the Strait of Hormuz. Let me pause there before I give you more updates to say, guys, we've been hitting them from time to time all around the Strait of Hormuz. We're trying to find a way to find their soft spots so we don't have to do a deal,

and that we could just militarily attack and regain the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran said, and you'll see it at the end in their statement, enough, you keep hitting Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire, you keep hitting us in violation of the ceasefire. Just because American media doesn't report something, doesn't mean it didn't happen. We know we're getting bombed because the bombs land on us. So it's not going to be one-sided anymore. You violated a ceasefire too many times. We're now counter-striking.

So let me give you more updates. Kuwait's defense ministry confirmed. It is under attack from drones and missiles. Iran state broadcaster, IRIB said strikes hit both camp, Arifjan and Ali al-Salem air base in at least two waves. If you're wondering why they attack the Gulf countries, that's because our bases are there, and they are our allies and Israel's allies. So they're like, you're hitting my ally in Hezbollah and Lebanon. I'm going to hit your allies in Kuwait and in other places in the Gulf.

Eight explosions reported in Bahrain, which is also under attack according to various monitoring counts. It was all from drop site news. Explosions were reported near the village of Masan on the southern coast of Keshem Island, according to Fars news. That's Iranian. Iran also appears to be heavily striking Iranian Kurdish opposition groups near Erbil in northern Iraq. Those were the guys who were supposed to be the, you know, the shock troops on the ground to help Israel and America overthrow the regime. And we armed them and they were part of what happened during the protests and in attacking the Iranians, causing an Iranian counterattack.

It's not like the Iranians haven't oppressed their own people before or put down street protests. There is a lot more violence partly because we armed some of the protesters and some of those were the Kurds. Now Iran is striking back in northern Iran against those Kurds. They continue earlier. Sentcom said US forces fired a hellfire missile into an engine room of a Botswana, flight commercial tanker. Great, Botswana's in the war. Anyway, the M.T. Lexi, after its crew ignored warnings while attempting to reach Iran's

Karg Island. So we blockaded cargo island, the United States has. So the Botswana ship was trying to get there. So we bombed them, a hellfire missile. Again, we say every time we do something, it doesn't count. Our missiles against Keshem Island, against the Botswana fleet, against Lebanon. None of that counts, only when Iran counterattacks does it count? Well, Iran's had enough of that.

We're getting to their important statement in a second. But last one from Sentcom. Sankom says it's now disabled six commercial vessels and redirected 122 since imposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports on April 13th. So that number is through those that stretch of time about a month and a half. So not just what happened today. And now this is the statement from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, quote, the time of strike and run has passed.

Any further aggression will quote be met with seismic, decisive and crushing response. So now look, both sides love to talk like that and Trump says I'm going to destroy them and obliterate them. They're not going to exist anymore. Now the Iranians are saying this kind of harsh language. So do I believe the Iranians? I'm worried that they're not bluffing. Now why do I say that?

And then I'm curious what Anna thinks. I think that Iran has been hinting for a long time now during the ceasefire. You better not come out of the ceasefire if you do, we got something. up our sleeve that you are not going to like at all. Okay, maybe they're bluffing, but based on my read of all their statements over the last two months, I'm worried they're not bluffing. And so I've always thought that our craft carriers and our ships in that area were in danger, that we had put them there as sitting ducks.

I'm worried about the reaction after they get hit. But I don't know if that's what they have up their sleeve or if they have nothing up their But if you're not worried about our troops, that's not the right attitude. We have to be a lot more careful. We have to be worried about the service members we have there in the region, and they are now in danger because the war has restarted. Anna. A few days ago, CNN had reported on Iran's continued military stockpile that our bombing campaign

didn't destroy, much to President Trump's chagrin. And you have to think about the fact that as now multiple experts, both military experts, and even Joe Kent on this show just last week said, there is no military option to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The only way to end this is if the United States engages in good faith in diplomatic talks with Iran, but Trump doesn't want to do that. Trump wants the win and he doesn't want to accept the fact that this war has been a disaster and the United States and Israel have lost.

Now, when you do a comparison of Iran's military stockpile, right, weapons stockpile compared to what the U.S. is dealing with here, where we have depleted our stockpiles, we have depleted our interceptors. Even Israel is low on interceptors. I just don't understand what the U.S. is doing with, by the way, Israel demanding it in continuing to carry out strikes against Iran. Like, what are we doing? So you want to talk about the lives of our soldiers, that is a good thing to bring up in this context.

You wanna know who doesn't seem to give a damn about the lives of our soldiers, of our service members? President Trump stop striking Iran and for once represent the United States as opposed to Israel and make a deal with the Iranians. And if Israel, I mean look, Israel is only able to carry out what it's carrying out in Lebanon and Gaza and the entirety of the Middle East because of us. We're the ones who armed them. Without us, they can't do this. So if Trump has the leverage, use the leverage, but he's not using the leverage, which

makes one wonder why. Yeah, so I wanna come back to that because this is your important point, but more breaking news, if you thought, well, I mean, the Iranians say that we hit Ketcham Island, but is that just Iranian propaganda? U.S. Central Command has confirmed that we hit Keshim Island. So stupid, so stupid. What are we doing? Why do we restart this war?

What are we nuts? And we are nuts. We're totally beholden to the Israelis. There no one on planet Earth wants this war other than the Israelis. So look, Anna's point is indisputable. Everybody always pretends that they have, that we have no leverage on the Israelis. Here's leverage, we're gonna leave, and then you're gonna have to fight Iran on your own. Here's leverage number two, we're gonna stop giving you $4 billion a year.

We're gonna stop giving you free military aid for no reason. We're not going to integrate our military into your military as you want. We have a million pieces of leverage. No one has more leverage than us over Israel because we give them an infinite amount of money and an infinite amount of military support. So if we threaten even a quarter of that, that would be deeply problematic for Israel, let alone all of it. But yet magically, no US president ever uses our overwhelming leverage against Israel. Why? Why wouldn't we use our leverage? Why wouldn't we use our leverage against any country, full or ally?

If let's say the United Kingdom is not doing something we want, do we use leverage? Yes, in fact, Trump does it like that. He goes, that's it, I'm increasing their tariffs. Or the slightest little thing. Oh, you looked at me kind of funny, I'm using my overwhelming leverage on tariffs, trade, this, that, and I'm attacking you economically. Israel's like, shut up, we're gonna restart the war and we're gonna bomb Lebanon. That's what they did yesterday.

After Trump told him, don't bomb Lebanon. Netanyahu said, what the hell do you think you are? I'm gonna keep on bombing Lebanon. And Trump's like, oh, leverage? I don't know what leverage is. I don't know what tariffs are, I don't know what funding is. Come on, and as usual, every cable news anchor pretends we have no leverage. They've never talked about it on cable.

To my knowledge, ever, ever, the fact that we have leverage over Israel. That to them is an anti-Semitic thought. So just to be very specific on what I was referencing earlier in regard to CNN's reporting, three days ago they reported that Iran has now officially unblocked 50 out of the 69 tunnel entrance. that the United States struck leading to the missile facilities that Iran has. So in other words, Iran has regained access to the majority, the vast majority of their so-called missile facilities, which the U.S. had bombed in an effort to block the entrance to those facilities. Even our bunker buster bombs aren't destroying those underground, you know, facilities

that Iran has built. Yeah, so I wanna pull up the video of Kuwait getting hit if we can. No, we don't have yet, okay. So listen, to Anna's point, Iran feels confident. Maybe they're overconfident, maybe they've calculated wrong, that's certainly possible. I don't know what their capabilities are, but if I'm playing poker against Iran, what Iran is representing is American Airlines, okay, if you don't know poker, that means two aces, okay? They're saying, I have a really strong hand.

Could be a bluff, but they were itching to get back in because they're like, you don't understand what we're gonna do to you, okay? And now they restocked, they've got more drones. So yeah, we restocked too, and Israel restocked too. But apparently they've had enough of us hitting them with no retaliation, and they feel that they are ready militarily. Treader Parsi has consistently said that the Iranians actually. have an incentive to keep the war going as well.

Because they do feel confident and they feel that they have the ability to end this once and for all. Because if Trump walked away today, there's no guarantee that six months from now, the US isn't going to attack Iran again. So Iran wants this war to end. And they're thinking is, well, if we put enough of a spanking on the United States and Israel, maybe we'll finally get an end to this as opposed to this ongoing, on again, off again, war situation we find ourselves in.

In fact, let me quote Trita Parcy, he just posted online saying breaking Iran just struck US targets in Kuwait after the US struck Keshim today. Also alarms just went off in Bahrain, seems Iran is trading there too. Okay, so that one we dropside has as well. But he says, Iranian source tells me Iran has stopped playing tit for tat game. Instead, it's now striking back, quote, at least one and a half times as hard for every attack the US does against Iran. So now it's almost all over it.

Now there's only a tiny bit of drama left. And that drama is whether Trump is going to react to this and double down or he's, we're going to back out, right? And we're going to get to a negotiated settlement. Right now that earlier in the show, literally today, this is happening live as we do the show. You know, the show is 6 to 8 p.m. every day. And so I said about 80% chance. Now I've moved it to 95 because we've restarted, right?

But cooler heads can prevail, but if they don't prevail over the next couple of days, then we're off to the races and the dominoes will fall. As I've told you many times, what I think are the dominoes is an economic catastrophe, unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes. So we're now inches away from that. And we'll see again, if I'm right or wrong. And earlier in the show, we showed you Dave Rubin predicting that everything is going to be great and gas is going to go down. We'll see whose prediction is right.

I don't want to be right. And I hope that they back away both Iran, America and Israel's impossible. They're never going to back away. We have to just ignore them and stop enabling their fascism. They're the ones who are studying all these wars and all on behalf of them, not us. We don't live in the Middle East. What do we care about their proxies? No, no, you owe, you owe, you oh, nonsense.

Let me show you the video now. This is Kuwait getting hit. So as you can see here, you've got some things that hit the ground, some bombs that are incoming. And of course, Kuwait has some defenses. you see them taking out some of those bombs in the sky. You'll see that over Israel a lot. Obviously Israel's got a lot better defenses in Iron Dome, but some have already landed because no one else has Iron Dome.

So whatever interceptor missiles they have are limited. So that is part of why Iran strikes the Gulf too, because it's easier to get hits in in the Gulf. It's very hard to get hits in in in Israel because of Iron Dome. Plus, America has most of its defenses surrounding their beloved, beloved Israel. So all of our missiles also go to protecting Israel. And remember, striking Gulf countries that carry or have U.S. bases is also a way of Iran,

essentially pressuring these countries to stop hosting U.S. military bases. Yes, and that's where our bases are. So that's, and they didn't need to be targets until Israel started this war. Okay, we're going to take a quick break here, guys. We're going to continue. Well, we'll tell you in a minute what we're gonna do in regards to this breaking news, so come right back. Guys, we're gonna keep the show going. So, well, I'll tell you more about it in a minute, but let me read some of your comments for now.

Jack C-380 says, Tire is a world, a UNESCO site, a civilization 5,000 years before the Roman Empire, and it's being destroyed by the Israelis. Yeah, that's exactly right. Of course, they're destroyers. I'm sorry, victims. No, they're destroyers. I'm kidding, of course they're not victims. I mean, how many world heritage sites have they destroyed in this war?

In this war? In Iran, in Lebanon, I mean, they- How many churches, how many mosques, how many hospitals, how many schools? And I just, I can't stop, I'm so sorry guys, but every time I think about everyone in mainstream media saying that they're the victims, come on, are there no bounds of decency and reality. How can you be so painfully diluted that you think, oh, well, they had to, you know, the terrorists had to destroy the schools and the hospitals and double taps. Don't Bork says, I will continue to scream that they fully want the whole of Lebanon and Gaza.

They will force Syria into taking in all the people they don't get to kill. There's a lot of truth in that. Greater Israel includes all of Gaza, all the West Bank, all of Lebanon, all the way up to Turkey. And they are a lunatic fascist at this point. And everyone knows that. All right, back on TYT, Jenkins, Anna. Guys, we're going to continue the show past five o'clock. You know how much I love Operation Joy, but we're going to have to cancel today because the war has restarted.

So we're going to look for breaking news as we do this show, but we're going to give you more stories as things develop. So here's when we were planning about Ben Shapiro. If, you know, guys, if you can do the split screen with me and Anna in the boxes, if you can't, it's not that important. But actually, forget it. Let's just start it for now. So here's Ben Shapiro talking about me and Hassan being banned from the UK. Tiger and Shankwiger, very online personalities, left-wing streamers who are beloved by a lot of the mainstream media in the United States, both supporters of various terrorist groups and foreign governments. It was a big story over the course of the last few days that the UK had denied entry to them.

The UK Times, the Sunday Times, Times of London, rather, reported that it did have to do with their anti-Semitic views. Quote the decision to block. So guys, I'm going to stop everyone so on all to break down some of the lies. They said that we support terrorist groups. We don't support any. I certainly don't support any terrorist groups. I also don't support Israel, which is the largest terrorist group of all. And so he's flat out lying to his audience.

It's not that surprising. But the most hilarious, he's going to say something way worse in a minute. But the funny part of the video is I'm beloved by mainstream media. It's hilarious. Oh my God, I've never heard a bigger lie. Show me one person in mainstream media who doesn't despise me. Okay, I haven't seen one yet. Every single article is super negative with the most disgusting lie after lie, including

the times in London that I didn't even know it was a Murdoch operation. so no wonder they smeared the hell out of me with nonsense character assassinations. So, so already you have two massive lies there, but he's about to get much worse. Had denied entry to them. The UK Times, the Sunday Times, Times of London, rather, reported that it did have to do with their anti-Semitic views. Quote, the decision to block U.Gar from traveling to the UK is understood to have been based on several grounds, including fears that his presence would risk exacerbating anti-Semitism due to his rhetoric since the October 7th attacks in 2023.

This is included repeating classic anti-Semitic tropes, such as the claim that Israel controls America. So again, this reporting is the basis for why Chank and Piker are claiming that they are being banned for their feelings on Israel. Piker himself is suggesting that he is not anti-Semitic. He is just anti-Zionist. As I've mentioned before, this is a distinction without any practical difference. If you are calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, which exists in the here and now,

you're not having a prospective conversation in 1920 about whether there ought to be a Jewish state in the Middle East or not. It exists. It's been existing for 80 years. You're not calling for the destruction of Pakistan, a Muslim-only state. You're not calling for the destruction of any of the dozens of other states around the world. You're only calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, which would entail the murder of millions of Jews. So he just said there that we're advocating for the murder of millions of Jews. I can't imagine a bigger lie.

And will there be any consequences? Will he be canceled? Will he be banned in any country? No, he's going to be welcomed with open arms. And by who? Mainstream Media, who nonstop writes glowing articles about Ben Shapiro. You know, to this day, the morons in mainstream media write as if Mark Levine and Ben Shapiro are the actual right wing and Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and Sean

Ryan others are fringe characters on the right who are no longer relevant. Now the reality is the exact opposite. Ben Shapiro has almost no audience left and those guys have massive audiences. But mainstream media, they love him, they love his lies. So he will never be canceled by anyone for saying that outrageous lie. If I said, hey, Ben Shapiro wants to murder millions of Muslims, people would say, how dare you want a lie you should do? He has no credibility, never allow him on air, never have him near a politician. And Ben Shapiro does this disgusting lie, and he'll there be nothing that comes out of it.

Well, what's his other option, Jen? His other option would be to engage in the substance of what you actually have to say and debate on those grounds. And he can't do that. Yeah, he can't do that. It's that simple because Ben is placed in a position. He has placed himself in a position of having to defend the indefensible. So since he can't do that, he's just gonna make up that Chink is calling for what the death of Jewish people. No, that is not what he's ever called for.

It's just ridiculous, man. I don't know what else to say. Their only argument, and they say it in different ways, but it's essentially always the same argument. is you hate Jewish people, even when there's absolutely no evidence of that, because he can't engage the substance of Jenks' arguments. Yeah, so I'm just going to break it down a little bit further. So he says, well, there's no difference between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. But wait a minute, there are a lot of Jews who are not Zionists.

In fact, there's now a lot of Jews who are anti-Zionists. Well, Ben doesn't consider them Jews. So, well, okay, then you could just call them anything you want. No, they are Jewish. But who mean you the Jewish Pope? So why are you more Jewish than my Jewish friends? Well, because I love the death and the genocide that Israel is causing more. No, that doesn't make you more Jewish.

I would argue that it makes you less Jewish. The real Judaism is compassionate, has stuck up for other people during the civil rights movement, doing so many others, taking care of the disadvantage. And Ben Shapiro says, no, the real face of Judaism is death, destruction, war, and genocide that Israel is doing. I can't imagine anything more anti-Semitic than him claiming that that represents all Jews. So it's not remotely true, it's not factual.

And are there Zionists who aren't Jewish? Yes, there might be more Christian Zionists than there are Jewish Zionists. So no, no, nope, nope, why does he do that purposely wrong and false conflation between Israel and all Jews in the world? Which by the way is deeply dangerous to Jews across the world, because government is, do terrible things, not just the Israeli government. If you attach a religion to any government, that is dangerous. Luckily, the world doesn't really think that the Saudi Arabia is a Muslim state that represents

all Muslims, but if they did, I'd be screaming from the rooftops, they don't represent us. They're just the government trying to protect themselves, having nothing to do with the rest of the Muslim world. That's also true of the politicians in charge of the Israeli government, but Ben Shapiro doesn't want to admit that because if he does, then he can't hide behind Jewish civilians. So he wants to be able to say, you're not allowed to criticize Israel because if you do, then you're an anti-Semite and you should be canceled and no one should get to hear your facts,

because I have no answer for your facts. So I'm just trying to shut them down. One last thing as part of that, he said, now if you're an anti-Zionist, that means you want Israel destroyed. No, it doesn't mean that at all. All it means is you want democracy. Israel claims to be a democracy, but there are dictatorship in the occupied territories, and five and a half million Palestinians have lived under their brutal tyranny for the last 58 years. So when American media tells you that they're a democracy, they're actively purposely lying

to you. Because what that does is it invalidates the existence of Palestinians. It makes them less than humans, saying, oh, there's a democracy. in Israel proper, so the fact that they're occupying all these people is irrelevant because the Palestinians aren't real humans. So no, we're not trying to destroy Israel. I've said a million times, I don't want civilians getting hurt on either side at all ever, and I want a free and independent Israel and Palestine, and I want them to be perfectly safe.

But it doesn't matter what we say, guys. You could hear us say the same thing 200 times. And as Zionists like Ben Shapiro is going to come out and lie about us anyway. And no one's going to correct him in media. No one's going to care. And there's going to be no consequences because our entire media infrastructure is built around supporting Israel. It's insane. I'm genuinely shocked by it.

And then look at the last thing he mentioned in the middle there. He said earlier, you know, they say that they got banned for criticizing Israel. But that's not true at all. It's because of their anti-Semitic statements. And then he looks and looks and looks. Well, it's because they said that Israel controls America. And we think saying anything about Israel is anti-Semitic by definition. So it was about Israel.

It was about our criticism of Israel. And does Israel give to 94% of Congress? Yes. Are they the number one lobby in the last election cycle that gave them most to Congress? Yes. So we are right and he is wrong. That's why he has to say, anti-Semitism. And oh my God, they want to murder.

And guys, you know, last thing, the people they terrorize the most is actually not us and not the average American. And by scene like that, no, they terrorize Jewish people more than anyone else. Because if you believe what Ben Shapiro is saying, you're going to quake under the blankets the whole time. They're going to kill us all. They're going to kill us. They're about to kill us.

The whole world hates us. We have to attack them first. What is that? That's a psychotic attitude. I get the trauma of Jewish people in history. Holocaust happened, the pogroms happen. I understand where it comes from. But today, Israel is not a little victim.

Israel has Iron Dome, nuclear weapons, and the biggest military, and has attacked seven of their neighbors and committed a genocide. They're not victims, and claiming that they are, and getting every Jewish person, it doesn't work on all Jewish people, but trying to get every Jewish people, a person to be worried about their lives. We're gonna die, we're gonna die. Everyone hates us, we're all gonna die. That's the kind of propaganda that Ben Shapiro does to protect Israel, which poisons the minds of anyone who listens to it. God forbid do you think it's true? Because if you think it's true, it's much worse for you than for us,

because we know it's lies. My God, I mean, what would you do if you thought that someone was going to kill millions of people? You might wanna attack them, right? And that's exactly what Ben Shapiro wants. Okay, so we have more news and we're looking for more breaking news about the war. And by the way, the elections are also happening. But I say- Let's take a brief break, please. Let's take a brief break and then when we come back, we'll give you a little bit more news.

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