The Young Turks - Trump's MOU Divide - June 18, 2026

Episode Date: June 19, 2026

Donald Trump signing a memorandum of understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles has triggered major backlash from Israel, with Benjamin Netanyahu doubling down on attacks against Lebanon as critics question whether the agreement will hold. Also, Alec Baldwin and Mark Mori join to discuss their new film, "Baristas vs Billionaires". "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

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different at the top of the show here. Joining us now on the Young Turks are Alec Baldwin and Mark Mori. Mark is the director of baristas versus billionaires. And Alec is one of the producers of that movie. And we want to find out all about it. So welcome, guys. Thank you. Thanks for everyone here. Yeah, no problem. So Mark, let's start with you. Tell us what the movie's about. Well, it's baristas versus billionaires. It's about the Starbucks Union Drive that started at a single store in Buffalo, New York, and 2021, and has now spread to 700 Starbucks stores around the country. But this is part of a bigger movement of young people taking matters into their own hands and standing up against the billionaires. Yeah, so Alex, speaking of that, look, you've been a lifelong liberal, everybody knows that, you've been on the left fighting for these type of causes. So, and if we're being honest, you know, I'm on the same place as you are, and we've been losing for a long time for decades, right?

And I think the main reason we've been losing is money in politics. But what's your sense of, you know, whether Democrats have done enough in the past to help out in the in situations like this, how bad the situation is with money in politics, and whether you see a spark of hope here now? Well, that's a good question. I think that, you know, the Democrats seem to have, and necessarily their mind are a lot more significant issues than unionizing a coffee chain. You know, they have a lot of, I don't need to go into too much detail about that, about

what this time in our lives has meant, what it's cost, what, what, what, what, what, what how it's framed the political landscape. But at the same time, I'm more interested in smaller on-the-ground issues now. You know, my biggest issue I worked on for years for tech case was campaign finance reform. And that seems to be in a coma now since Citizens United. And Mark, who I've known for years, he asked me to join him in helping to produce this film and market this film. And I love the story. I mean, many people would use a cliche to say it's like David and Goliath, but it is sort of.

The employees of Starbucks, especially in the beginning where we depict them in Buffalo, they're working and living under unnecessarily punitive conditions. And I wanted to do what I could to help them even in my smallest way. You know, Alec, I want to hear your thoughts on what those punitive conditions are in just a moment. But you know, to kind of bolster the argument you're making here, just last September, Fast Company had reported that Starbucks had closed, just completely closed, 59 of their unionized stores. And, you know, they're selling it as, oh, this is all about restructuring. We have declining sales. And so that's the reason why we shut these stores down.

It had nothing to do with unionization. But I do think that the stores they selected did have something to do with unionization. And rather than respect the fact that these employees had voted in favor of unionizing and actually engage in negotiations, the executives over at Starbucks decided to shut these stores down entirely. And so what I'm curious about is, what do you see as a path forward for workers who want to fight back? I mean, Starbucks workers also went on strike last November.

And unfortunately, they're still not being recognized as part of their efforts to unionize. do you think workers on the ground can do to kind of get past or fight back effectively against the powers that be? Because, you know, state by state, you have all these laws at will laws that allow employers to fire you without giving you a real reason why they're firing you in the first place. It seems like everything is stacked against the workers. So do you see a light at the end of the tunnel? And if so, how do we get there? Well, unionizing, whether it was 100 years ago or now is not without its costs. Many of the people who are involved in this will have to prepare themselves for the fact that they may lose their job.

But the people in the film very thoroughly and very eloquently talk about the conditions that they work under and the problems they're having. And, you know, I don't want to use the word abused, but they were certainly mistreated. they were mistreated spectacularly in terms of schedule and just how it wasn't really very fair what they had to work a very modestly paying job and so your point about what's what can be different or how can we maybe have a better impact on this now there are states in the country right now where they're going to fight and they may lose and because as you said They're allowed. Management is allowed to treat them any way they want to. And I think if we frame this, or if they frame, I should say, this message the right way,

people will understand that, you know, Starbucks is not a gas station. Right. You know, you don't go to a gas station and put your credit card in a machine and the gas comes out. That's what happens. But you don't do that in a coffee shop. There are people there. They're human beings who work there and who are mistreated. And I think that that has to change.

I used to be a coffee bean and tea leaf barista and it is incredibly difficult work. Not only are you dealing with people who are grouchy and they want their coffee immediately, you're on your feet for eight plus hours and you have a billion orders to deal with. So it is very difficult labor and I believe people should be compensated appropriately for the work they do. But one other thing that I wanted to ask Mark about is, you know, Mark, the land, the land The landscape for workers is rapidly changing with the development of artificial intelligence. Does the film at all touch on that issue?

Because what the wealthiest business owners in this country want to do more than anything is just replace workers with robots. Is that something that you touch on in the film at all? Well, no, we don't directly touch on people losing jobs to AI. That's an important issue. And there's a lot more than just people losing jobs to that issue. issue. But so we don't go into that, but you do make an appearance in the film, Anna, and we're thrilled about that. Ooh, I didn't know, that's awesome.

Yeah. Yeah, it's when you're talking about Victoria Conklin being fired. That clip is in the film. Yeah, that's great. So look, also a friend of the show, Susan Surrendon, is narrating the movie. So there's a lot of reasons to see Burris's versus Billy news. Mark, let me stay with you. So look, you've got Susan and Alec and a lot of other folks who are prominent people now saying, come on, let's fight for the average American, the average American worker, and that's beautiful. You're an Emmy nominated director and this, you know, so you've got all that momentum, right? So but which side are our so-called leaders on?

I mean, it's baristas versus billionaires. And you see Howard Schultz testifying in front of Congress in the movie. Have our politicians helped at all? Or have they hurt or have they been neutral? Well, there was a hearing in both the House and the Senate in an attempt to shed more light on this and bring it to the American public. And Bernie Sanders called the hearing in the Senate which you're referring to. And he basically, he had to threaten Howard Schultz with a subpoena in order to even get him to testify. So, and Bernie has gone to pick it with the workers in New York City along with

Mayor Mamdani and so there's some politicians are doing what they can to bring light to this issue. Yeah, shocking that it's Bernie Sanders and Zora Mamdani. Of course, of course, right? So, Alec, one more thing for me, you've taken a lot of flack in your life for being on the left, for being a do-gooder. It was such a funny thing to get criticized for. I can't believe you're trying to do good in the world. So what's your sense of the zeitgeist now, right?

Before the media is kind of, you know, labels you the do-gooder, some of the politicians are against you, et cetera. But these days, you know, you see these young people who are baristas fighting back and being so brave. You see Mum Donnie winning in New York against all odds. And, you know, you see, I don't know, guys like Rokana rising. I don't know, you would. And it feels like the.

young people in this country just don't want to hear the crap of mainstream media and the politicians anymore. So what's your sense of it? Do you have a hope here about an uprising that's that that these, this unionizing effort is a part of? Well, I find that American politics, particularly on a national level, I mean, on a state level, it's different. And certain organizations that I worked with, and I am working with now are trying to address things on a state level because that might be more effective. But in American federal public, things swing like a pendulum. You've got Clinton in there for two terms, and then you've got Bush in there for two terms. And then you've got Obama in there for two terms.

You know, it just goes back and forth. And people in America are very reactive. You know, they're very, very strong, you know, swinging in another way. Now when Trump is gone, and believe it or not, that's not going to be forever, he will be gone in a couple of years. The question becomes, what was the damage it was done to democracy itself by the Trump administration? I never dreamed, by the way, that so many people would come to his aid. I never dreamed there were that many bad people who were on a list to participate in guns. government service, I never believed how many of them would show up to work with him.

However, it's going to end. Things are going to change. And we need to start to say, what are the things that were destroyed or put in a coma that were affected by Trump's administration? Because it seems like it's a bottomless list. You know, it's a very long list. I do have hope that when Trump has gone, we'll see, you know, just normalcy and sanity. And go ahead. Yeah, do you, I'm curious what you think about this, because Trump has served as a reliable distraction and excuse by what I believe is the mainstream Democratic Party, the establishment, if you will.

And I think that they have skirted taking responsibility for their own failures in representing the best interests of American workers, the American people. So I mean, do you think that the Democratic Party has been adequately held accountable for its own failures? I think that on a wholesale level, no. I think when the comment was made by Hillary the other day that she felt that Biden's campaign was a mistake or the way it was run was a mistake, you could almost tell in the beginning or you had a suspicion that Biden wasn't really ready. he wasn't he wasn't able and but he went on to become the nominee and and run again and the or he ran he wasn't the nominee but the the the point is is that in this country people are they're filled with fear and Americans aren't used to being filled with fear Americans have

always believed the country was the strongest country the smartest country the best country So when things happen like 9-11 or now we're in a war with Iran, with Iran, Americans aren't used to losing. And when they do, not necessarily lose, but when they do have a tough time, they're not ready for that in a way. And what we need is Americans to realize that to get back to something healthy and right and strong for our country is going to take some sacrifice from the American people. Now, it's interesting that you mentioned about me being attacked by people about liberal politics. I have never once, never once worked on a campaign for an issue that lined my own pockets. Never, not one time. Now, when the head of an oil company gets up and says, I want to drill in the Arctic wildlife refuge,

no one questions that. He's doing his job. It's business. But at the same time, he's going to shove a lot of money in his pocket. That's not the case with me. campaign finance reform, reproductive rights for women, gun control, anything I've been at Gorp, federal money for the arts, not one put a penny in my pocket. And I'm very proud of that. Yeah, you know, I wrote about that in my book, not in regards to you, Alec, but overall,

like that concept of like if you try to do good in the world that doesn't help you, everybody attacks you, tries to find some sort of hypocrisy, did you take the wrong kind of plane, blah, blah, blah. But if you do bad in the world, you're a defense contractor, you're an oil company executive, no one ever says, hey, how come you never help anyone else? Right? Like that's, so it's this weird system in the media that helps the bad guys and attacks the good guys. It's so bizarre. That's why I appreciate that you guys made this movie, because it's important to use the media to also do good in the way. I think, I think Americans now, what they both want and need is very common senseical, very good. They want common sense.

They want to know that if, you know, Trump is canceling renewable energy projects all over the place. Why? Why? Renewable energy is a gift. I remember on the south shore of Long Island, there was a nimbie response to wind turbines being put off the south shore of Long Island near where I grew up. And I thought to myself, I see wind turbines within farm fields or offshore, wherever they are. And they're like the Statue of Liberty to me. They're a sign of our energy freedom. And the smartest thing we could possibly be doing is covering as much of this country. That makes sense.

I mean, I'm not an engineer, so I don't know. But covering this country with more solar, renewables, what have you. And I think that getting people to understand, let's leadership. Leadership, real leadership, is about guiding people towards something that's to their benefit. And there's a and there are some degree of sacrifices we must take along that way. Yeah. All right. Well, I'll end on a fun fact.

And so the movies, Baristas versus Billionaires, we'll put the link in the description box so everybody can check out the website associated with it. Alec, I'm sure you don't remember this. About 20 years ago when we first started the Young Turks, I was playing football with one of the other guys who worked here in the valley. I see you running around the park somewhere around Studio City. And I'm like, that's Alec Baldwin. He's like, no, he's- Ben-I-Shirman-Oaks Park. Yeah, exactly.

Van Nuyshire, I used to play football with my friends there every weekend. Yeah. Until all of us collectively, our wives told us, we have a baby now. You're not going anywhere for the weekend. Totally. Get back here. Exactly what happened. No more football for you to me.

Totally. But one weekend, we ran into Alec and he says, hey, you mind if we throw the ball around? And we said, yeah, sure, that'd be amazing. Yeah, you're Alex Baldwin. My God, do you have an arm? Do people know that about you? No, no, no, no, not anymore. I'm 68 years old and I have a three-year-old baby.

Wow. I have seven kids. Wow. My life every day is, wow. I wake up every morning and go, wow. You have kids? No. No.

Enjoy that, Anna. I do. Enjoy that, Anna. I do. Enjoy that while you can. Every day. All right, well, now you know something else about Alec. All right, Alec Baldwin, Mark Moore, you guys are amazing.

Thank you for doing the movie. Everybody checking out. We appreciate you guys. Thank you. Thank you both. Thank you. All right, guys, we're going to take a quick break. Like I said, a little bit later in the program, Joe Kent.

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The ramifications is how Israel first is striking back. And in a minute, Joe Kent's going to join us in that conversation to help us sort it out. Anna, tell us all about it. That's right, Jenks. So President Donald Trump did in fact sign the Memorandum of Understanding in Versailles. And the president of Iran, Masoud Peshushkin, has also signed the MOU, which is good news. And as you heard from that clip, J.D. Vance, along with President Donald Trump, appear to have had enough with those who are trashing this avenue to a potential peace deal. In fact, Trump has just posted today that the United States is committed to peace.

And we encourage everyone in the Middle East region to maintain their commitment to allowing our negotiations to beautifully unfold. The markets are loving what is happening with oil prices way down and stocks way up. We expect a complete ceasefire on all fronts, including Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israel. Thank you for your attention to this matter. And there are plenty of politicians in Congress right now who are furious with the MOU. They're speaking out against it. I'll give you a few examples. Bill Cassidy is one of those individuals saying that Reagan is rolling over in his grave.

Iran's nuclear ambitions were not curbed, and they have learned that third. threatening the Strait of Hormuz works and will undoubtedly leverage. They will undoubtedly leverage in the future. Now Iran gets to build brand new infrastructure under this deal. Before the war, the strait was open. Iran was being crushed by sanctions and 13 service members were still alive. Now 13 Americans are dead. Families have paid billions at the pump.

Sanctions will be lifted and the bombing has stopped. This is the worst foreign policy blunder in decades. Senator Cassidy isn't the only one, there are others, but here to discuss this with us, along with some of the details of the Memorandum of Understanding, is the former director of National Counterterrorism Center, of the National Counterterrorism Center. Joe Kent, Joe, thank you so much for joining us. Of course. Yeah, no problem.

Joe, let me start with an interesting question. Is Trump back? It really looks like he is. I mean, I think it's very significant that he himself went. signed the treaty last night. I don't think any of us were expecting that. It was supposed to be on Friday in Geneva. They were going to send the vice president initially. And then President Trump flipped the script and he showed up and he in person and he signed the MOU himself, which means this has his full support. So between that and the statements that he's made over the last

24 or 48 hours telling Israel that they need to knock it off, especially with regards to Lebanon, talking about basically Iran having a pragmatic need to defend itself and just recognizing the fact where we are in this conflict and the most important thing is reopening the streets of Hormuz I feel like President Trump is back and then the great press conference that JD Vance our vice president had this afternoon really kind of trying to put the Israeli leaders in their place and let them know that we're serious about this as well I'm more optimistic than I've been since since I resigned yeah so now

We're on the left and I certainly am. And so I didn't want Trump in the first place. So it didn't much believe in him. But you did, right? And you worked as this National Counterterrorism Center Director. And so that's why I phrased it is, is having him back from your perspective. And so from that perspective, are you, given how much you went through, given the fact that you resigned, given the massive pushback against you from mainstream media, other Republicans, etc.

Are you now surprised at Trump and Vance beginning to represent America first again, given all that you've been through? Just relieved. I mean, look, there was a while there where I thought, did I get this entire thing wrong? Did I misread President Trump? And I always said, like, I can't figure this out. I don't think I misread him. I think he believed in these principles. but what took place with the way that the war was forced upon us by the Israelis and pretty much every action that we've taken since then before, you know, the last 48 hours or so, I was really

second-guessing, you know, myself and my own judgment. However, the way that he is behaved, I think that he's snapped out of it. I don't know exactly, you know, what drove him to get us into this war beyond the Israeli influence I've talked about before. There was always something there that I couldn't put my finger on. And I don't know what snapped in President Trump over the last 2448. hours, but he does seem like he's had enough. He seems like right now he's listening to what I have always believed his gut instincts to be, where he's not listening to the donors. He's not listening to all this, you know, probably very, very flattering talk that was coming from the Israelis. He's looking at results. And this was what I was hoping that he was going to do, where he sat back and he looked at

the results of the war. He looked at the markets. He looked at what this meant to America's standing in the world. And he said, okay, now I need to make a business decision. and I need to cut us a better deal and get us out of this losing deal. So I'm mostly just relieved, cautiously optimistic, I guess, too. Cautiously optimistic is the best way to describe the way I'm feeling right now. There have been too many moments where you think, should I be optimistic? And then, of course, the disappointment comes immediately after. But it does appear as though Trump and, you know, based on the messaging we're hearing from

Vice President Vance, seems like they're really going to stick to this effort at ending the war and moving toward a permanent peace deal. But I do want to push back a little bit on what changed with Trump, what flipped. Honestly, I don't think the president had a choice unless he was willing to watch the global economy meltdown. There was no military option, as you have eloquently mentioned in multiple interviews. There was no military option in getting control of the Strait of Hormuz. There was no way we were going to topple the IRC.

and we have lost soldiers. And so I just think it got to a point where Trump looks at the math and realizes, either we keep going in the direction we're going and the entire global economy just melts down, or we end this now. What do you think? Oh, I agree with that 100%. One of I think the things that appealed to me and a lot of us about President Trump is that he wouldn't get stuck in some pie in the sky principle of like, we have to stay here to liberate everyone or to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here.

He was always a much more pragmatic guy. Again, that's why this entire thing kind of threw me for a loop. So to see him kind of wake up and be like, oh, man, there actually is no military way out of this, regardless of what all the neocons are saying about how we should just be, you know, back to kicking butt and dropping bombs. He's like, well, that doesn't work. And then he looked at the markets and he looked at the effect on the economy here and what that's going to mean for American. consumers and American taxpayers, American voters, especially going in the midterm, and then he got back on the realism and said, we actually need to take action here.

And I think something that's been really significant is the way that they've approached Israel. Because we've heard President Trump before say he wants to get a deal of the Iranians, but they would never address the Israelis or, you know, try to move in a meaningful way to restrain the Israelis. And we're seeing a real effort right now to at least call out the Israelis. And there's even some rumors and reporting of us potentially. withholding some armed supplies and shipments to Israel. And I just think that's absolutely key because the Israelis, I fear, are going to continue in Lebanon. And we've already seen the Iranians put out some warning that, hey, we mean business about what's taking place in Lebanon.

So I do think our metal is going to be tested here. But based on the rhetoric so far, I remain, you know, cautiously optimistic. Yeah, following up on that. So Vance had a lot of harsh shorts for Israel. So Mark Levin's super upset. And all of Israel first is going after Vance. And they're saying, oh, now we're going to take note of who's going to run in 2028 and we're going to cut off your money. Okay, you're kind of telling on yourself.

But anyway, they do it every day. It's amazing, right? They deny it and then they tell on themselves. Yeah. So, okay, but Vance also said something similar to what you just said that. He said, hey, listen, what's the alternative? He's like, look, you're a country of 9 million people. You're telling us what to do.

But to your point, we don't really, I mean, he didn't say. this part out loud about we don't really have much military options left running out of interceptor missiles. These drones are way more effective than we realize it's really neutralized our advantage in a lot of ways. We can't reopen the Strait of Hormuz and the global economy is gonna melt down unless we open up the Strait of Hormuz. So we're out of options. And so that leads to my question to you, which is what were the, what would the Israelis say in response to that? Would they say, yeah, we know the global economy is gonna melt down. We don't care.

We don't care if the whole world burns as long as you follow our orders. But then even so, how does that help Israel in the long run? I don't know if they are thinking about the long run at all. But did they ever give a viable alternative where it wouldn't massively hurt America? Or did they just say, walk the plank, we don't care how much it hurts you? The Israelis, to their credit, they put their country first. And they never said, well, let's think about what this is. is going to do to America.

And they really seem to just believe that we would always blindly support them. So the Israelis, whenever I would deal with them behind closed doors, they were always very upfront. It wasn't about, you know, preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. They believe that this was the time to take down the regime, to do the decapitation strike, to take down the Ayatollah, when we would push back and say, hey, don't you think this is going going to result in like either a rally around the flag effect or even if you get what you want and the regime crumbles, then doesn't Iran basically become a chaotic, you know, Syrian civil war, Libya failed state?

And the Israelis were just like, yeah, but then they're too busy bogged down fighting themselves and they are fighting us. So the ramifications for the region, for the world economy, and especially for us, Israel never thought about that. And this is why I always go back to, we've just never been honest with ourselves about, like, we have very strategic, different strategic goals than the Israel. Israelis and the Israelis are comfortable with chaos. They, to a certain degree, thrive in chaos. And they just, they go about fighting and prosecuting wars in a much different, much more barbaric way than we do. They do things that we can't get away with that we wouldn't let our soldiers do. Yet we pay for all of it. And so therefore, we bear the ramifications for that behavior. It's never made sense from our perspective. And again, just hear the vice president come out

and say things to this effect. I heard him in another interview, talk about. how when he was questioning the Israelis, he would say to them, do you want Iran to become like Libya? Like, how does that benefit you guys at all? And really, the Israelis right now just seem to be hell-bent on going to war with as many of their neighbors as they possibly can, gobbling them up as much terrain as they possibly can. And this Lakud-led government doesn't even seem to be thinking about what this means in the future for Israel. I've heard some Israeli commentators say that, like, This is a big mistake, and we are really ruining the one ally that we had in the world. And then the VP said the same thing today in the press conference.

So, you know, it's all the breath of fresh air. And I think more people are waking up. And I think the president finally was feeling the fact that most people are starting to move this way and they see it as well. So I think the power of social media podcast shows like this where you have like a broad consensus left and right and all the independent people that are saying basically the same thing. I think it's really powerful. I think the president hears it. In fact, I want to go to, I believe, the moment that you're referring to with Vice President Vance, this is video B6. I'd like our audience to see what he had to say. Even in the early 2000s, the Israelis were much more worried about Iran than the United States was, right?

We were much more worried about al-Qaeda, like a different branch of Islamic terrorism. So even when we've been very aligned, we're just different countries that have different objectives. I think that in this particular operation, again, where interests were aligned is we wanted Iranian conventional military power to be much weaker to be decimated. You know, the Israelis shared that objective. Do I think that there are maybe, I don't know if Bibi thinks this, but do I think there are people within Israeli society who would like to turn Iran into Libya, basically a failed state with 90 million people? Probably, but I don't know that Bibi wants that. I've actually never had that conversation with it. would be an interesting conversation to have.

I'll tell you right now, is Iran turning into a Persian Libya, good for the United States of America? Absolutely not. I mean, it wouldn't be good for the global community. Iran is a country of 92 million people. And for all the complaints we hear about these mass migration events, these refugee crises that take place, this would be one hell of a refugee crisis if, you know, Israel, and I do also believe Netanyahu, we're, were to get their way in turning Iran into a failed state.

But Joe, I want to ask you about something that I'm increasingly concerned and worried about because you have pretty prominent voices on the pro-Israel side who are just saying it out loud, and Mark Levin happens to be one of them. Just yesterday, he made reference to Israel's nuclear weapons. And I'm worried that it's gonna get to a point where they're genuinely gonna consider dropping a nuke on Iran. I'm curious what you think about that. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick.

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I'm very concerned about it as well. This has always been the big concern with trying to find a military objective in Iran. Because, you know, taking any kind of like morality off the table, if you want total capitulation from a country that is the size of Iran that has, you know, the demographics, it has the geography, that has the terrain, especially that Iran has, even if we, even if everyone in America was okay with us sending our whole military over there to fight and we had a coalition, we still. couldn't actually go in there and force our way in and occupy the entire country in an effective way. It'd be a bloodbath of an insurgency. So whenever you play out the military equation, the only way to get that military solution or that total surrender, that total capitulation, it literally is what we did in Japan. I mean, and obviously morally America doesn't want to do that. But again, this goes back to Israel and us have drastically different views on how to fight.

So I think there is a scenario that exists. I don't know how likely it is, but there is a potential where Israel does say this is existential to us. We feel that Iran is going to get some kind of advantage. They're going to survive. Now they're in a more powerful state, which they actually are because of the war. Now, then where does that leave Israel? And so that does concern me that there are hardliners there that would consider it. And I don't know if they'd made that decision to go forward with it.

I don't know if we would be able to act in time to actually stop them. And this is why I think right now that the president, and I think he's leaning this way, we do need to meaningfully restrain Israel. So they start having those hard conversations back inside of Israel. Like, hey, do we want to lose American aid forever right now at this very moment when we've picked fights with pretty much everybody? Or do we want to be able to rejockey our position? Because I know they're having those discussions right now in Israel.

So I think we need to make sure that they know they, can't cross that red line for sure. But then also we are going to continue to take away support from them because we want to ensure that they are restrained because that's never happened to them before. So I think if we're not strong in a moment like this, something catastrophic like that could happen. Yeah. So I want to ask two more questions about the future because it leads to what you just said about how they've never been restrained, which is kind of an amazing fact, right, that this country with a population of Papua New Guinea has never been restrained. by America, right?

We've always said yes to them, no matter how absurd to ask, no matter how big to ask, et cetera. And today, Times of Israel had an article where they explain, quote, Prime Minister Benjamin Naniao plans to use pro-Israel senators and right-wing media personalities to influence the terms of a final agreement between the US and Iran. And so, and here I'll show the track A-PAC for some of these senators right now, like Bill Cassidy's taking at least 500. These are always at least guys because they get a lot more into their super packs.

But $536,000 from A-PAC. He's the guy who said Reagan would be rolling around in his grave, which makes no sense. Because Reagan's the guy who withdrew from Lebanon after Hezbole, killed a couple hundred Marines. So Reagan would have done the same exact thing as Trump, at least. Ted Cruz has gotten $1.4 million. Tom Tillis has gotten $405,000. And these guys are all Roger Wicker, $33,000.

And these guys are all currently attacking Trump. You know, the rule was you never attack Trump. Look at this. Joe Kent left the administration and he's a hairtick and he should be destroyed. But yet when Netanyahu snaps his fingers and says, hey, pro-Israel senators that are pretending to be Americans attack, they attack Trump and there's no consequences. So given all of that, I'm a little worried that Ben Shapiro and Mark Levine has talked about, you know what, maybe we come to this, come back to this issue and this war after the primary.

Because they know that they have Congress in their back pockets. So how much do they, do you think they have Congress in their back pockets? And how much does that make you worry about what happens after the primaries? Yeah, I mean, this is pretty concerning because what the Israelis did after midnight hammer, they realized, everybody remembers the famous clip where Trump walked out on the, on the white house. Lawn, he said the Israelis and Iranians don't know what they have to do. And he kind of got Bibi to stop then. And so they did back off momentarily. They were happy. I think that we did the operation Midnight Hammer that gave Trump some confidence that we can conduct those operations.

But they did come off the trigger just a little bit. And they were more subtle throughout the summer, fall, and winter. I think they realized that I'm sure that there's some argument being made inside Israel right now. Let's back off. Let's let Trump breathe throughout the midterms. and then let's come back with a vengeance leading with our senators, our congressmen, et cetera. Let's make sure that all them, because all them right now that are up for election in November, they need those campaign donations. So they could in a very meaningful way, I think, be more subtle. What kind of works in, I guess, our advantage here is that I do think B.B. Smotrich and Bengivir and these guys,

I don't feel like they're thinking that tactically. I mean, at least B.B. maybe a little bit. But Smotrich Benjavir and like some of the more hardliners in Lacud, they seem to want to try to force this. And the more they force it right now, the mood that Trump appears to be in, the more they try to force it, the more I think he is going to push back. I just hope that we can hopefully get through to President Trump or President Trump realizes that, you know, the strong words aren't going to do it, that we've got to actually take away a good deal of the aid from Israel and then look at them and be like, this can get much worse. Like, we can take away even more from you guys. Do you really want to keep pushing? And then I think the more just light that we can shine on the influence that APEC and all these other groups have on getting congressmen and senators elected and make that issue just radioactive with younger voters who are voting in larger and larger numbers, the more power the American people are going to have to actually have ourselves represented and not just be bought out from under us by all these moneyed interests.

Final question for me because I'm very curious what you think. Now, Iran has made clear that their red line is, Israel continuing its occupation of southern Lebanon, continuing to batter, not just southern Lebanon. I mean, they keep going further north with their bombing campaign. In the case where Iran retaliates, they make good on their promise, they retaliate against Israel as it's battering Lebanon, do you believe that President Trump will intervene in an effort to intercept missiles or protect Israel as, you know, this confrontation occurs? I think in that last exchange when the Iranian shot at Lebanon, we, we withheld. We at least didn't get involved. I mean, that's debatable because we still gave them a lot of the equipment they used to

shoot them and intercept as well. But we didn't get proactive and intercept those missiles. So I think right now, especially with Israel continuing to do operations in Lebanon, if I were the Israelis, I wouldn't count on it. And then then the Israelis have to ask themselves, okay, if the Americans aren't going to come and bail us out because we've pissed off Trump so much, how many barrages can we withstand from the Iranians before it starts to make a huge difference here and they start taking casualties? If I were the Israelis, I wouldn't want to have to figure that out in real time while the missiles are raining down. And honestly, like right now, considering how President Trump is speaking and speaking towards the Israelis, I wouldn't want to test

it if I were them either. But again, like I'm not sure how much rationality there is there with that Lakud faction. But I think the more clear that we can be to the Israelis right now and start taking things away from them, the better chance we have of preventing all that and at least make them go into like a pause mode where they're not doing all these offensive operations in Lebanon. And again, that gets us closer to the deal.

And I think the more time that the ceasefire holds and the more talks that there are, and I'm really hoping at some point there's direct talks between at least the vice president and Iranian officials, if not the president and the Iranian president. The more of that that happens, the harder it's going to be for us to get sucked back into this war. But we're in a really sensitive time period right here. Yeah. So my last question is a good follow up from that because you're right.

There's a debate within Israel. We saw Jonathan Cornicus the other day telling Mario Nafal. Oh, no, without America, we can't do these wars. Just militarily, strategically, we just don't have the capacity to do them. I mean, Mark Levin and the others here always puff up their chance. Israel's the greatest country in the world, we could do anything, right? But like real strategies are like, are you kidding me? We're a tiny country that's like nearly irrelevant. Without the might of America, we got nothing, right?

So, okay, so that's one camp. The other camp is Ben Gavira and Smotrich going, oh, no, no, Southern Lebanon is now part of Israel. We're never giving it up. It's part of greater Israel. We're never, ever going to leave. And if Iran says, no, you must leave, that sets up the scenario where Iran and Israel go to a full-scale a war without us.

So is that possible? Because of course if Israel starts taking more and more casualties, because they start running out of interceptor missiles, they're gonna howl and they're gonna say, oh, it's a new Holocaust, oh my God, just because we were trying to murder them and take southern Lebanon and destroy everyone in their government, I can't believe we lost a single person. America owes us, right? And so, and all the wickers and the cruises are gonna come out and go, America, Israel, America, who's Israel, we can't let a single Israeli die, et cetera.

So there'll be enormous pressure. And what I can't figure out is that last step. If Iran and Israel are in full-scale conflict, can, is it possible that we would sit it out? Or does that mean, nope, by definition, we're going to get dragged back yet? I mean, I think obviously we'd be under immense pressure. The president would be under immense pressure from, you know, a ton of Republicans senators, Democrat senators too. And the same thing with the House and then also the donors. And I think they would launch a, you know, a pretty effective public relations campaign to try and get

the president involved. And it would be very challenging for him. And it would be, I think, a big media fight. But again, I think this is why we need to take away things from Israel right now and be very, very frank with them. And I don't think the Israelis should be in the business. I know some of them are probably considering it. Like I think Smodrich and Ben-Givir, I think their rationale is, let's keep pushing until the war expands. And then America will have to get involved. But again, I just don't think that that's necessarily going to hold up because I think that they have just crossed the line so many times that the president right now would be inclined to just let them try to fight it out on their own. If their theory of the case, what they have all their talking

heads saying is that, you know, Israel can stand on its own and it really doesn't need the American aid. I mean, there is a scenario, I think, that exists that President Trump could say, okay, fine, will you guys prove it? But I just, we've got to be clear with them right now that this deal has to hold. They've got to cut it out in Lebanon. Or this is going to forever change our relationship with Israel and they will go it on on their own if they continue to attempt to disrupt the deal. Yeah, I'm really glad we did this segment together because based on your last couple answers, I'm now sure. They, Netanyahu himself. is insatiable. I mean, he did a video today saying we're never leaving southern Lebanon.

So that means they're definitely gonna try to drag us back in militarily. Like they're gonna, they're almost gonna set up a situation where they know they're gonna get hit, quote unquote, bad enough that they get to cry to America and say, you now must defend us. Since we got ourselves into a mess we can't get out of, we need daddy's help. And then what happens at that point, as we all three of us just talked about. We don't know. We know what should happen, which is C you wouldn't want to be you.

If there's a problem with the war you ordered, maybe you shouldn't have ordered it. But as as Trump is under that tremendous pressure, I think it's important to give him credit where credit is due, even though I am furious that we entered the war to begin with. Right now, he's dealing with that pressure. And one thing I know about Trump is he loves admiration and validation. So if people are giving him credit for pulling out, I'm just, I'm just. I think that that will help him kind of hold the line, if you will. Yeah. So we'll see how that.

I mean, just the tone from Trump and the tone from the vice president, I mean, they are praising him right now. And I think most Americans after this war for the last, you know, 60, 70 days, they're really, really excited to see someone actually holding the Israelis accountable. So if I were the Israelis, I wouldn't count on that bet. It's a huge gamble for them to make. Yeah, I mean look, when Vance gave the speech saying these Israelis better know their role, right, basically, there was like an explosion of joy in the country. Like I saw it in social media, right, left, didn't matter. I mean, we got left-wingers like us going, out of boy, J.D. Vance, which I didn't think I'd ever say in my life. So, I mean, it's great to see a single American politician stand up to Papua New Guinea.

I mean, Israel. All right, Joe Camp, thanks for joining us, brother. We appreciate it. Thank you. This guy's great to see you. Thank you. All right, we're gonna take a quick break. We've got a lot more updates on this coming up, including the reactions of the crazed Israelis in America. We'll be right back.

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and we kept referencing all of these moments featuring the Vice President or members of the Trump administration who have been pushing back against the critics of the MOU. I'd like to show you some of those videos, okay? So let me set that up. Vice President Vance has been aggressively promoting the memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran, which is really good to see. Now he is of course getting hounded by the MOU's critics, and he responds to some of

them in this next clip. You've seen people in their system been giving and Smotrich who've attacked the deal. And I guess my response to them would be, what is your exact proposal? And you're a country of nine million people. You can't just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have. Look at what we've accomplished. First of all, Americans have protected a lot of Israeli lives through our missile systems and through our missile programs over the last few months. We have destroyed their nuclear program. We have got the Iranians in a point where they're offering things, again, whether they'll actually act on them, we'll see.

But they're offering things that would have been the stuff of dreams even six months ago. So let us play this negotiation out. Let us see if the Iranian actions actually meet the Iranian words and give a little bit of credit to the United States of America, which I think has been an incredible partner for the Israeli government for a long time. I have so much I want to say about that clip. But you know, Batia Ungar Sargon, who of course is a huge Israel supporter, has been responding to some of these moments featuring the vice president. And she calls it the Tucker Carlification of our foreign policy and of the Trump administration. Then Tucker Carlson should be enormously proud.

Yeah. Yeah. I hope the Democrats do a jank eugurification of their Israel policy and withdraw all funding, not another dollar. Okay, let's get back to JD Vance, because those are some incredible words we have not heard from almost any American politician in our lifetimes about Israel. You can't kill your way out of this mess, implying that they're trying to kill their way out of the messes that they have created. And that is obviously true, but I didn't know our politicians were allowed to say true

things about Israel. Neither did I, and I'd love to see it. And in fact, Jank, I don't know if you get this sense, but you can, I kind of tell that Vance, like it's pouring out of him. Oh yeah, yeah, right? It feels like it's almost cathartic and he couldn't wait to say this. And he's like, oh, Trump, is it go time? Is it go time?

It's go time, let's go, okay? Let me tell you about these Israelis and they're nine million tiny little country telling us what to do, okay? So look, I want the Democrats to be much, much tougher. I want them to be much more populist. I want them to have an edge. To be fighters. To be fighters, kind of like Graham Platner. And the entire establishment of the Democratic Party goes, no, no, be more like Adam Schiff,

you know, have a tie and don't say anything interesting and please all the donors. Well, look, if the Democrats had a guy that came out like J.D. Vance and said, who the hell are these guys to push us around, okay? Right. For number one, that should be us. That's our, we're the supposed to be the pro peace party, et cetera. It would have gotten the same reaction that Vance is getting today, which is extreme popularity.

Because Americans have been waiting the whole time, just like Anna said about Vance, like, will someone finally stand up for America and not constantly kneel and grovel to this tiny country? And so seeing it today, it was refreshing for all of us. But, Jake, to your point, I mean, look, I don't, think, look, not all fighters wear a Jank Yuger skin suit, meaning that not all fighters necessarily have to fight the way you do, although it is very cathartic for me and I always appreciate it. We just had a lengthy interview with Joe Kent. Joe Kent is a fighter, but he fights,

like the aesthetics of his fight, I guess, a little different. So if you want to carry yourself as someone who wears a suit and tie and you're all polished or whatever, you can still be a fighter. The problem is, both parties in this. country have been captured by Israeli interests. And so whatever excuse they've come up with for why they refuse to represent what's in the best interest of the United States, as opposed to what's in the best interests of Israel, I don't really care. I want you to represent the American people. I don't care if you're a Democratic lawmaker or Republican, Republican lawmaker. It is very obvious through their votes and through their actions that Americans are on the back burner,

as they're again looking out for the best interest of a foreign country with the population, the size of, go ahead, Jake. Papua New Guinea. People love that point that you bring up, and it is a really great point. Now with that in mind, I want to go to the next video because here, we're going to hear from Vance again, and he's warning Israel about the way they're perceived on the international stage. So maybe don't take stab, don't take a stab at your friends. You have seen people within BB's cabinet who have come out and attack the deal and in some ways very personally attacked the president of the United States.

And I guess my message to them would be twofold. Number one, Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world's superpower. If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have anywhere left in the entire world. And the second message I would give to some of those cabinet members, B.B., to his credit, has not gone down this path. But to some of these cabinet members in Israel who are attacking the President of the United States, the other thing that I would say is that over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by America. American hands and paid for by American tax dollars.

The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump. And anybody in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to wake up and smell the reality of the situation that country is in. Thank you all. The reference to their weapons and where they come from, appreciated. And look, this is the kind of stuff we've been saying on the show and we say it even more aggressively, sometimes with foul language, so you might be thinking what's the big deal. But think about it, this is the United States government, which has been dog walked by the

Israelis decade after decade after decade. It feels good to hear the vice president say what he's saying during that presser. Yeah, I'm gonna go further in a second. When he said wake up there, I saw several headlines in national media be saying that that was outrageous. Of course, yeah. Why would it be outrageous to tell a tiny country that's completely out of allies, hey, maybe you might not want to piss off the only ally you have left that's giving you all the money in military. That's actually the most obvious statement you could make. There's nothing outrageous about it, not 1%.

But yet all over television today, this is an outrage, how dare they? Oh, here's a senator here for a Democrat, a Republican, an expert, and they all say, more war, more war! This is an outrage what J.D. Vance and Donald Trump are doing. They have to follow Israel. Why, why? Caitlin Collins, with outrage in her voice, when a Republican senator said, you know, Iran also has a right to defend themselves.

She's like, you're saying Iran has a right to defend themselves? Okay, but let me be fair. I had that interpretation of that moment as well, but you also have to think about the 180 that just took place because the conversation had to do with Iran's ballistic missiles, which at the behest of the Israeli government, our government was also fearmongering about, including that very Republican lawmaker. So it was like a complete 180 out of nowhere and she was shocked by it. Yeah, but yeah, okay, that's fair and maybe that's why, but it's not about Caitlin Collins.

It's about all the cable news anchors who seem horrified at the thought of peace, right? Yeah, I agree with you on that. But the reason why I bring that up is because the reaction online has been of course the exact opposite, which leads me to this point. Guys, look, I don't agree with a single thing J.D. Vance has done in his entire. entire life up until this moment, right? And I'm not sure I'm gonna agree with anything he does after this, okay? And in fact, I'm worried about something that might happen after this.

But no, that was cathartic and that energized to everybody. And now Trump is saying similar things like, hey, what do you want us to turn Iran into Libya? We're not gonna do that for you, that's not an American interest. And that might work, that might get Trump's popularity back up single-hand. because we're so starved for a strong American politician to tell Israel to take a walk, take a hike, right, go pound sand, that that alone could skyrocket the Republicans. They might be shocked at what happens next.

Now, do I think that's merited? I mean, no, they've done one good thing here if they stay with it, and it's kind of obvious and they've done everything else wrong. But will it have that effect? It probably will because I think Washington is grossly underestimating how much this country hates Israel. I totally agree with you about how much this country hates Israel. But when we come back from the break, I actually want to get into what I believe the

Israel first crowd is plotting because they are plotting. And I'm going to give you two examples, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levine. We'll be right back. What contributions to the progressive cause are you most proud of? I mean, I don't have super high aspirations for a singular role that I can play in the movement or anything. I just, I try to present myself as what I think that I am, which is a progressive man who is driven by a, I think, well interrogated and well organized system of values that I try to stay consistent on. And I demonstrate that that's the sort of life that a person can lead. and be successful and be happy and all of that.

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they're plotting. And in this case, we have both Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro openly expressing what they intend to do. Let's start with Mark Levine. This is Graphic 17. Time for a change in strategy, he writes on X. We should consider slow walking the enemy, building up our munitions, our oil reserves, get the price of gasoline down, get get through the midterms, then knock them out. Instead of rushing to a deal, building up their oil industry, transferring billions to them, etc. Now, if this was just a one off from Mark Levin,

it probably wouldn't get my attention. But then you have Ben Shapiro vocalizing a very similar strategy. Take a look. After the midterms, once those elections are over, and again, the president is deeply concerned about the economic health of the country, right before the election. He believes that if the economy is doing better,

oil prices are lower. And that means that maybe Republicans hold the House. It means that Republicans hold the Senate. Well, what does that mean for after the midterms? Well, I do trust that President Trump will start to enforce red lines after the midterms. The president was threatening just that yesterday. If they don't honor the agreement, some things aren't even mentioned in the agreement. It's a memorandum of understanding, but we have an understanding of certain things without writing it. And if they don't honor that, we'll probably. go back to bombing them until they honor it, you know? It's amazing what bombs can do.

All right, so here's what I worry about, Jank. If we rely on Israel's wonderful intel, I mean, they have a motivation here to give us bad intel, much like they have in the past, much like they did in the lead up to the war beginning February 28th, what if that just gets Trump to engage again? No, I'm not worried about the intel. I think that if those nearer time stories are even halfway right, he feels burned by Nanjahu Mossad coming into the situation room and telling him a bunch of lies about, oh, the Iranians can't hit your bases in the Gulf, they can't close the strait of Hormuz,

et cetera. So that's less likely to be effective. Look, he's defying them so either they don't have the blackmail or he's not as worried about the black male. If that's true, then that's awesome because if you have Trump unleashed without reservations and they go to them too much, watch out. And that's why the Israelis were opposed to Trump in the first place. Remember most of the Israel first guys were never Trumpers because he's a wild card because

of exactly things like this. If they can't control him, they're gonna be in a world of trouble. And so they're in a bit of a panic about that. Now the smart thing to do would be to, and I hate to say this, but it's true, do what Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin are kind of nudging Israel to do. And I'm sure they have an open line of communication, so they're probably telling them directly as well, right as they get their talking points on how they should manipulate Americans, and et cetera.

But wait till after the election and have everybody get excited, oh my God, Trump and Vance are standing up for us, they're America First, we knew it. Oh my, finally a politician that stands for us, they surge, the Republicans at least hold off to Democrats, they hold on the power, and then after the election, they go, ha ha, just kidding, back to screwing you over, back to helping Israel, back to the war. That would be the smart strategy. Now at that point, though, the fury that that would unleash would be, I think, uncontrollable, but they don't think that way.

They think, no, complete hubris that we, there is no amount of distance between us and the sun that's too close. Okay, we're gonna fly right up to it, right? Always more war. But that's also why Anna, ultimately, I think, they're not going to have the self-control to wait till November. That's very far from now. Israel also has elections coming up. That's true. That's true.

I don't think it's going to be as subtle as intelligence. I don't think they're gonna have the patience for the elections. I think they're just going to go to a giant war in Lebanon, as big as they can possibly make it. They don't even need a fig leaf that Hezbollah started it because they'll just have American media lie and say Hasbullah started it, right? That's true. I'm worried, look, one of the things that I think Israel is pretty good at is false flags. And I'm worried about them carrying out some sort of attack, blaming it on their enemies. and then again driving us back into re-engaging in war, which would be a disaster. And look, you know, you make a point about the political pressures that Netanyahu is facing in Israel.

And those political pressures are very much real with these upcoming elections. So I'm going to read you an excerpt from CNN. We don't have any graphics for this or anything, but I thought this was really interesting, especially since it's reported by CNN. They write that Netanyahu's reticence reflects how central Trump is to his, electoral strategy. Months ago, his political team had envisioned a clear arc for the election. A swift victory over Iran, a triumphant visit to the White House in September, a return visit

by Trump to Israel in the final stretch, and a flood of presidential imagery sweeping Netanyahu all the way to the polls in October. So this man is pure evil because he doesn't care about how many innocent lives get lost. By the way, not just Muslim lives, not just Arab lives, but including the lives of American soldiers. For him, this is also a political calculation. It didn't work out the way he was hoping for. But that political strategy really stood out to me. Yeah, so number one, he assumed that America would be his servant.

Exactly, yeah. But number two is really important, guys. So Nanjahu, to be fair to him, has been brilliant strategically. in manipulating us. There's that old video of him about 25, 30 years ago saying to family or whoever he was in and like a living room in Israel. And he says, oh, don't worry about America. America is super easy to control and manipulate, right?

He did say that. By the way, if a non-Jewish person said that, it would be a massive trope and they'd be canceled forever. But then I was like, don't worry about it. Easy to manipulate them. And he has. And he's gotten us into endless wars, seven wars, that he requested, $8 trillion, you know it all, right?

But now it's possible that he's high on his own supply, because if he thought that's what was going to happen, that they were going to beat Iran easily, he apparently is out of touch and his hubris has gotten to him. So what that tells me is, okay, that means he probably thinks that he can still keep going in Lebanon and that it won't be that bad, that he'll be able to drag him to him to be able to to drag America back into the war, and even if he doesn't, that he could take on Iran single-handedly. And I don't think that's the case, I think he's gonna have a super rude awakening,

at least on the Iran part. Well, what America does, we're not at all sure about, because everyone in Washington, the minute there's any kind of casualties inside Israel, I mean, you'll see them all weeping and weeping on television. We must help Israel, Israel. And then they'll say, what do you mean? Israel controls American media. And if that doesn't work, I really do think they're considering using their nukes.

I really do. Oh, absolutely. And that's terrifying me. I don't find that to be a controversial take at all. Well, they say it. Like there are people in Israel, and also people here in the United States like Mark Levin, who not only suggest it, they flat out say it. No, I have North Korea at second most likely to use a nuke.

I have Israel as landslide, runaway winner for most likely to use a nuke. North Korea would use it in a second if it was attacked, full scale attack by us, South Korea or whatever. Israel, if it lost like 11 guys, it'd be like nuke, nuke, nuke, nuke, of course I'm exaggerating there and they lost plenty of people on October 7th, but they use that as an excuse to conquer Gaza, which now they call it, they're saying we conquered Gaza. So they forgot that they were using self-defense as an excuse. So the minute that they feel slight danger in Israel, they're gonna, they wouldn't hesitate

to use a nuke. They have no boundaries. And remember, they don't consider Muslims human. They don't consider pretty much anyone human other than themselves. And if you're outraged by that and you're a Jewish American, brother, you've got to get this through your head, we're not talking about you. Jewish Americans are totally different. Jews across the world are different.

But when you get to hardcore religious fundamentalists like Ben Gavir and Smortrich, and yes, Netanyahu, I don't know if he's a religious fundamentalist or just a nationalist fundamentalist, but he's definitely a fundamentalist. They don't view the rest of humanity as worth a single thing. They don't, they don't value any other life. He's not gonna have one piece of hesitation, moral hesitation in in newking another country. I totally agree with you. Well, we should discuss in further detail the Israeli plans to sabotage the MOU and

Lebanon plays a huge role in that. So when we come back, we'll give you the latest statements from the Israelis in regard to their ongoing offensive against Lebanon. We'll be right back. Let's go to Twitch real quick. M losing two says it's still hard to believe in any of this. No, no, no, I asked myself if it's real like eight times today, you're totally right. Eliminate political bribes says looks like Vance is trying to reposition himself a billion percent.

Yes, that's totally true. And he's doing it for 2028, but I don't care why he's doing it, I care about results. We'll tackle that problem in a different day. Birdland Dragon says he seems like he might be worried about pushback. Of course. Since 98% of media and literally 94% of our politicians work for Israel, of course he's going to get massive pushback and he knows that. And every headline is, how dare he?

He should kneel, right? And they're furious at him. Doug Parris says regarding Vance take the win, a stop clock is right twice a day. Yep. But hey, if this is one of the two times and it's on Israel and anti-war, yes, we got super lucky on that. You know, but it's been clear that Vance has been against this war from the beginning, and I was unwilling to give him any credit because he wasn't speaking out against it. It could be the case that he was actually a little more brilliant in his strategy, working on this behind the scenes.

I don't know, maybe I'm giving him too much credit. Yeah, you're high today on the, on, I'm just so excited. Yeah, it's a good day to America. Yeah, no, yeah, I don't think he was originally against it. But anyways, look, what matters is what he's doing now. Yeah. Scoopster says truth and as the salt queen, progress for all says you can't kill your way through international problems.

Has someone told Hegs at this? Okay, great point. Bloated ego says words are great, but they only count for about 10%. Action is the other 90%. Yes, of course, no question, we'll be back. All right, back on TYT, Jankana with you guys. And P.N. Elson, thanks for joining through the join button below the video on YouTube. We appreciate you guys so much.

And then since our members are so funny, I'm gonna read one from tyt.com. Paul Pala Jazzel said Greenland is now asking Trump to invade, hoping to secure a deal similar to the one Iran got. Okay, look, that's funny, but let's get the deal, let's get the peace, right? But you're absolutely right. All right, so now let's go to the next story. So be careful about celebrating too early because Benjamin Netanyahu does have a plan to sabotage this peace deal. So let's tell you about it, and let's see if we can get past it.

Anna, what's the plan? Well, look, there have been some pretty interesting statements coming from the Prime Minister of Israel. Before we get to it, I want to just refresh everyone's memory in regard to how Lebanon plays a role in securing a real lasting peace deal with Iran. Because Lebanon is a red line for the Iranians, and they have been repeating that again and again. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current

war by signing this MOU, this is the exact wording of the MOU, by the way, declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other and to refrain from the threat of use of force against each other and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph. So I read you the exact wording of the 14 point MOU. So you're not fooled by anyone who is, you know, pro-Israel telling you that Lebanon really has

nothing to do with this. Lebanon has a lot to do with securing a final and permanent peace deal. Netanyahu knows that, which is why he insists on the IDF's offensive against Lebanon. Israel doesn't care, they want the war to keep going. So Netanyahu's statements, let's begin with the IDF's offensive. the first thought. Here's what he had to say. Just what we have to say. And we're going to bring with us.

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More challenges still lie ahead. These require us to keep our composure, stand firm on our security interests, And at the same time, maintain the important relationship with our American friends who have stood by us shoulder to shoulder. And we deeply appreciate that. We will continue to exercise judgment and discretion. We will safeguard the government's achievements. We will safeguard the achievements of the war.

These are achievements of the entire people of Israel. Later, Netanyahu also says, let's go to Graphic 5 here. Just as we restored security and trend, I can't believe he has the audacity to say that. Restore the security and tranquility to the Gaza Strip, which by the way is in ruins right now. So too will we restore security and tranquility to the northern communities, meaning northern Israel. That is how we will live. Maintaining our security zone in southern Lebanon requires that we do not leave as long as Israel's security arrangements are not in place. What he's effectively saying there in a seemingly diplomatic way, but don't be fooled, is that Israel intends to continue continue the war against Lebanon and also intends to continue the occupation in southern Lebanon.

Further, he says, and this separation distances Hezbollah, he's pretending like this is about Hezbollah, from our citizens and communities, and more broadly, we will continue to hold fast to the supreme goal that has guided us and guided me for most of my adult life, that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and to those who still have doubts about Israel's resolve, it will not happen. Iran has never had a nuclear weapon. Iran has never indicated that they intend to build nuclear weapons. It's just the fake cover story that keeps getting repeated, even though it is abundantly clear what Israel is actually up to.

But, Jenk, this is gonna be the final face off, if you ask me. Yeah, it is. This is gonna determine everything, what happens in Lebanon. So number one, he's super clear, we're not leaving. And he's said that now half a dozen times. All the cabinet ministers have said it. So that's not in doubt at all. The only people who are pretending that Israel's still doing self-defense in Lebanon is American media.

So like by the way, if you don't live in America, you know that they invaded Lebanon and they're trying to take that as part of their territory. If you live in America, you don't know that because you heard that they're responding to Hezbollah's attacks against them. No, they've said, and the people who know what the best are actually live in Israel, because there's really, Press reports all the time, their quotes of their politicians saying, yeah, we intend to take southern Lebanon. So when he says, we're going to give northern Israel the tranquility we gave Gaza, that's saying we're going to obliterate southern Lebanon and take it so that northern Israel has tranquil because we've now swallowed up southern Lebanon. And anyway, it's not like he was unclear, he then said, we're not leaving, literally, quote, right? And, and, uh, and, uh,

And so when he talked about achievements though in Hebrew, I thought that was really interesting. Because he didn't refer to all the land they've taken as a temporary buffer zone that was necessary for security reasons and self-defense. No, he framed it as achievements. We have taken Gaza. We have taken southern Lebanon. Those are our achievements. We have won them in war. See, at home in Israel, they're not, they're barely pretending it has anything to do.

with self-defense. They're bragging about, we killed them and we took their land because we're stronger than them, which by the way, isn't true. America is stronger than them, and they've basically robbed and raped America in order to take our military, take trillions of dollars off of us in the wars that we've committed to them. And they brag about, ha, ha, America's in our back pocket. And that's implicitly, between the lines in those statements, that's what Nanyahu is doing again,

saying yeah, Trump says that we have to leave Lebanon. And I'm not going to leave Lebanon. That means I'm stronger than Trump. Israel is stronger than America, and we're going to bend America to our will. And so when we stay in Lebanon, he knows, now this is my analysis, that it'll get worse. And when it gets worse, that's when they already have their crying game strategy ready. Right? And they're gonna come to America and they're gonna cry all over television and all their politicians are gonna cry And they're gonna say America owes us and all of American media is gonna say in unison that we owe them

And and our politicians are gonna say that then is that going to work? Are they gonna be able to drag us back into the war? Now if they do Then you know MAGA gets the end of crying game and Surprise still working for Israel and here's what you gotta do next okay? So if it doesn't work, well, then that's a whole new world where Israel is in a war without us against a pretty powerful country in Iran. Could Israel be in a little bit of trouble? They're in a lot of trouble, Jank.

I mean, look, at the end of the day, you have to acknowledge that President Trump had no other choice. Even if he wanted to stay in the war against Iran, we were running out of intercept. much like Israel is running out of interceptors. But Netanyahu and the current Israeli government is unhinged, irrational. And it is terrifying that an irrational actor on the international stage is in possession of nukes. But that is the case. So I just, that's why I keep going back to the nuclear option.

Because they know they're, it's not like they don't know they're running out of interceptors, It's not like they don't know the math in this entire scenario. Even the United States doesn't have enough missile interceptors to keep this war going and protect Israel as it keeps going. But Israel wants it to move forward. They want to move forward with the war. What happens when you guys weren't out of missile interceptors? Is that when you're gonna rely on the nukes?

That's why I'm concerned here, Jank. Yeah. So there's two disaster scenarios. I'm not sure there is a good scenario. So I'm gonna get to that in a second. But on t.t.com, we have a poll that I'm curious about your taking on it. Will Netanyahu be able to get the US politicians and media to side with him over Trump? So initially, of course he will.

That's not a question, right? But if Trump draws the line and says, no, we're not continuing the war, will the media and politicians all go to Israel's side and Netanyahu's side and demand that Trump return to war, including Democrats? That's going to be interesting because Democrats were pretending to be. against the war, but when the rubber hits the road now and Apex, it grabs them by the ear and says, now get back in there and give me more war, my guess is that a huge percentage of the Democratic Party will try to help them.

I mean, what is Josh Godheimer up to today? Oh my God, he must be weeping. Comparing him to Nick Fuentes, like, you know, that's what he's spending his time doing. It's ridiculous. I mean, that's a Democratic lawmaker who I think has shown us what his real priorities are. But in regard to the operations that Israel is continuing to carry out in Lebanon, I want to just show you what Courtney Bonneau, who's a journalist on the ground in Lebanon, shared with us all today. She shared a video and captioned it with the Israeli army today dropped white phosphorus bombs on Nabatia. Of course they did, because they're terrorists.

That's, you know, like Anna, you say to me sometimes, and a lot of folks in social media say it too, like, Chang, stop bothering to say that national media is working on behalf of Israel. We all know that, that's like super obvious, right? Every time Israel needs something, all of national media is like, help Israel, you stupid Americans, right? So, and this is another one of those things. No, the Israeli government is a bunch of terrorists. They don't care about the lives of anyone. They stole all of our technology and built up weapons of mass destruction.

They use white phosphorus regularly. They do double taps, they're terrorists. They're a giant terrorist state. So that's a huge problem for the country, which leads me to my two disaster scenarios. So look, today's a great day because it looks like both in terms of signing the peace deal or the memorandum of understanding, the beginning of peace, and in the rhetoric that Trump and Vance are using against Israel, it looks like America's headed back towards sovereignty, which would be the most amazing thing, right?

But as we're all excited about that, remember two things. So I guarantee it, you could write it down in stone. Israel is going to hit Lebanon so hard that it's going to get a response from Iran, because it's designed to get a response from Iran, to try to drag America back into the war. So one scenario is they succeed, and oh my God, we're back into the stupid war, and more more people are dying and it's the disaster all over. Or the war keeps going and Israel starts to run out of interceptor missiles and we can't produce them fast enough, even if we wanted to, which we certainly do, right?

We would give them endless, we would give them our entire inventory, right? But we're running out, they're running out. So if they start to lose this war, the Israelis have no conscience, certainly their government. Populations barely different at this point. But so yeah, I think that there's a, unfortunately, a very high chance they might use a nuke. In fact, Netanyahu is facing a lot of pressure from the Israeli population in regard to going harder against Lebanon. So to your point, this unfortunately has, it, it, it, it, the issue spans beyond the Israeli government at this point. The Israeli government is facing pressure from their people to go harder.

Okay, whether I like it or not, I wanna be clear. Like, I, if Israel uses a nuke and our son of a bitch politicians support them, they might, we might have January 6th on a different level. I agree. Like, the American people are sick of this disgusting immorality. So it's one thing to get us to pay for a genocide, which is a moral stain on us that we can't get off. If you want us to pay for a Holocaust, no, no, no, no.

We storm the capitals. Yeah, I mean, that's not gonna stand. No, we do that. It's beyond immoral and it's disgusting. So we'll see how it plays out. Obviously, we're gonna keep track of all the developments, but let's just celebrate the fact that at least for today, good things are happening. Why don't we move on to our next story?

Because I've been curious about how Sean Hannity has been responding or reacting to all of this. Hannity, of course, is a big time Zionist. Let's take a look. Now, I had a conversation with the president. I've talked to Steve Whitkoff. I've talked to others in the administration. There is so much more under the surface that has already been discussed in deep detail surrounding Iran and this working agreement. I see many people reacting to the memorandum itself that are completely ignoring those words of Donald Trump, that he has no problem at all. He said it to me directly, going back and bombing any time he wants. And the guy, by the way, that wrote the art of the deal, well, he's been pretty clear where the red lines are.

There's no ambiguity here. To me, his words are far more impactful than any memorandum if you want to know what is in the president's head and what he's thinking. But anyway, he's a trust but verify guy anyway. So at the end of the day, if Iran doesn't comply, they have been told three times in two days, what is to come? And it's not reconstruction. It's not one American taxpayer dollar. It's not sanctions relief that will, you know, that their country desperately needs. And hell will rain down from the sky.

Who do you want to believe? Yeah, you saw joy in his eyes as he talked about hell raining down from the sky. These guys love death and destruction and massacres, of course. But there's two possibilities based on what Hannity is saying there. One is that Hannity's full of crap, and I know you're thinking option A, option A. And he's saying, oh, Trump has a secret plan. He had no secret plan. But option B is really possible, which is that Hannity knows something about Trump's intentions that we don't know, which is to get us back into the war later.

That's such a devastating point. Yeah, so, okay, let's give you more details about what Hannity knows and doesn't know. and then we'll discuss that. Hold on, I gotta get over the devastation for a second. Okay, I think that was an incredible point that I wish I thought of myself. I think you're right, but anyway, so Hannity in my view, before Jenk made that devastating point was he's gotta choose between his love of Israel or his daddy Trump, right?

Like you have to side with one or the other in this scenario where Trump wants to move toward peace, wants to end the war against Iran. And I thought he's just, he's siding with Trump. He likes Papa Trump more. He wants to still be in Trump's good graces. But I also want to just quickly say, make no mistake about it, whether you're talking about the Democratic establishment or the Republican establishment, they want the war to keep going.

I give you Senator Adam Schiff, who says, wow, Iran gets sanctions relief, the release of frozen funds, by the way, that's their money, the ability to export oil, which by the way helps the global economy and lowers gas prices, and a $300 billion reconstruction fund. The US gets a reiteration of the vague promise Iran won't develop a nuke. It's not vague, it's not vague, it wasn't vague when it was under a deal that Obama negotiated, the JCPOA, it's not vague. They are open to people coming into their country to check and make sure they're not building a nuclear weapon, okay, but that was Adam Schiff, a Democrat.

Then you move forward to Republicans like Ted Cruz. He says, what has been released so far suggests that unfortunately the president is getting, I think, very poor advice when it comes to this deal. Under the terms of what's been released somewhere between $10 billion and $30 billion will flow to the Ayatollah immediately before they make even a single nuclear concession. Now Hannity doesn't give a damn what Democrats have to say, but he is seeing the backlash Trump is facing from Republican lawmakers. And that is what he's responding to in the segment that he did.

So with that in mind, even though Hannity himself is a big Zionist, you know, it seems like he's citing with Trump here. He claims after speaking with Steve Whitkoff, he realized that the deal is far more nuance than the general public know about. Take a look. That it is so much deeper than that term sheet, it is, it is so. so different. And then there's other pressure.

J.D. Vance was on some show saying that, you know, that there was a lot of pressure just to get something on paper so that all these discussions, they didn't want to have it out in public because there still are factions that are, you know, competing for power within the Iranian regime.

You're so right, Jank. I'm worried now. Yeah. So let's go back down to shift for a second. So he says, this is an outrageous, terrible deal, it's surrender, blah, blah, blah. Well, first of all, don't you want peace? So, okay, so you don't want peace. And that's why you're saying that it's a capitulation. If you wanted peace, you wouldn't say, oh, the peace deals a capitulation. That's obvious.

So we told you Adam Schiff was a liar. We told you most of the Democrats pretending to be in favor of peace were liars and actually wanted a war for Israel. So thank you for proving us right. Second of all, other than the $300 billion that we're not paying, the Gulf countries are, this is nearly identical to Obama's deal. It sure is. And remember, Adam Schiff was pretending to be in favor of Obama's deal.

But remember, a lot of the Democrats were never in favor of Obama's deal. There was actually a big, you guys might not remember this, but we've been on the air forever. There was a huge internal fight within Democrats when Obama made that deal. Yes. Because a lot of the Democrats work for Israel, and they didn't want peace. They wanted an excuse to attack Iran. Important context, Jank is 100% right. In fact, after the deal was secured by the Obama administration, Benjamin Netanyahu was furious,

and he shows up to the United States to address Congress and like basically excoriate Obama for this deal. And a bunch of Democratic lawmakers showed up to the speech. Yeah. I mean like, you should boycott that speech, but they're like, no, we respect Benjamin Netanyahu. He's got important things to say, we're gonna show up as he's trashing our president. No, huge numbers of Democrats have shown up to speech after speech of Netanyahu in Congress, including when he was slapping the Democratic president around and standing ovation. Yes.

Bravo to our real leader, where's our check, where's our check? Real leader, we love Israel way more than America, right? So here they are again, by the way, Chris Murphy's on here. He's supposed to be one of the best senators on the left, and he's like, oh, this is a terrible deal, terrible deal, right? Okay, oh, I didn't see you get this animated about the war, now all of a sudden there's a potential for peace and all the Democrats are all over television fighting against peace.

So all right, now in terms of Whitkoff, so if Trump and Vance had not said those really harsh words against Israel, which we talked about earlier in the show, about who are you to stand up to us, you're a tiny little country, no, we're not going to turn Iran into Libya and all those things that they said, I would have been way more worried because if they were still like kneely mouthed about it and they're like, oh, we have signed a memorandum of understanding. And then Hannity goes on air, he's like, I talked to Whitkoff, it's cool, it's cool, don't worry. Yeah, because Hannity works for Murdoch and Murdoch works for Israel.

100%. Period. Yeah. Okay, the only thing that Hannity would rather lick than Trump's boots is Netanyahu's boots. So that's his big, he's got two daddies, but then Yahoo's the biggest one of those. So then I would have been super worried. But since Trump and Vance are also saying super harsh things against Israel, and it's real enough that all the Israel first guys are livid at Vance and as a proxy to being livid at Trump,

and they can barely contain themselves against Trump, right? That's what's leading me to believe that the peace deal is. real. So maybe it is option one of Hannity just covering Trump's ass. Plus, maybe believing because he wants to believe, oh, no, no, well, I'm sure we'll get back into the war. Maybe, you know, maybe he's justifying everything to himself and telling himself pretty little story so he doesn't flip out. But- Please know peace. Please know peace is how he goes to sleep. Yeah, but seriously. I mean, maybe not those exact words, but that's effectively what he's pushing for. Now, Hannity's explanation as to what brought Iran to the negotiating table was

interesting. So let's take a look at what he had to say. Obviously, Midnight Hammer, Epic Fury were historic in so many different ways. And obviously that has had a massive impact on Iran. The blockade is the single most other effective thing that the president put in place. their entire economy, 90% of it, is an energy oil-based economy. But final video for you, what Hannity's reasoning is here in regard to what actually motivated the deal is, in my opinion, laughable, but I'm curious what you think, Jane. Take a look. After the president resumed those two big bombings last week, it got the Iranians attention.

And when he said the next night is going to be harder than the previous two nights, and he's probably taking Karg Island, then all behind the scenes, I am told that all hell broke loose and that all the Iranians. And JD confirmed this to me. I have no reason to doubt them that for the first time in 47 years, there is direct communication with the Iranian leadership, and that had apparently never happened before. And they were begging to sign a sheet and get their signature on a piece of paper. And that was, that's, that quote was the memorandum of understanding. I am so curious how people are responding to that segment with Sean Hannity.

Because it seems like he's trying to support the MOU and calm everyone down, which will lead to fury and rage. Yeah, and curious to see what he says the next night. Because, look, I don't know why Rupert Murdoch is the world. biggest Zionist, but he is. And my entire life, Murdoch has paid all the Fox News anchors, unbelievable amounts of money to do Israeli propaganda, New York Post that he owns, nonstop Israeli propaganda, whenever there's a chance for war, New York Post, is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Wall Street Journal editorial section, the British Papers he owns,

always for war, always for Israel, always against peace, always against America. No, you must follow Israel like a dog. So if they have some like 80-year-old blackmail on him or whatever it is. I don't know what it is, but Murdoch will definitely always be for Israel. That is an immovable object. So if Hannity B gets the sense that Whitkoff was, you know, BSing him, then he might come back on the air a day or two later and go, oh, I'm so sorry, Master Netanyahu, Master Murdoch. Of course, this is terrible. I can't believe Trump has been diluted by some of his advisors into going in the wrong direction, blah, blah, blah, right? So, but the last comments he made there are hilarious that the Iranians were begging for peace.

No, no other sources reporting that at all, not even close. In fact, the hardliners in Iran are super mad that they're going towards peace. They've got their own neocons and they're like, what are you doing? We have them on the ropes. We got the straight clothes. They can't open it. The world markets are going to crash. We're going to be the most powerful nation on earth when that happens.

Who cares if they, like, can they take Carg Island? They probably can. It's not who cares, of course, there's a lot of money on the line there. But they've already built that into their assumptions, right? And so they're like, and they're running out of interceptor missiles. Let's keep hitting him. Let's keep going. And in fact, Jeremy Scahill is reporting at Dropsite News that the Iranians hired a psychologist

because they think that Trump might be mentally ill. And so they're like, how do you negotiate with someone who has mental health problems and they've been analyzing it? So the idea that they're like, oh, Trump is too tough. He is so smart and savvy. We cannot keep up. Let's surrender. Surrender and get $300 billion? No, come on.

My mind wanders back to that NBC news interview featuring foreign minister Arakshi where he's asked, you know, are you worried about U.S. troops on? the ground and he smirks and says no we are waiting for them there was no military option I think that's abundantly clear all right we got to take our final break we'll be right back all right let's go to super chat rose Orozco we really appreciate you so much everyone's so much she gives like three dollars or gifts a membership and stuff I love you for that whatever folks can do is is so appreciated it's like the price of a coffee and you're giving to us so we can stay in business again deeply appreciated. James Kelly says, I agree they would use a nuke.

My fears that I wouldn't, that it would, I wouldn't use that on us. Also did you guys hear about the Peter Thiel Club? My governor is a part of it. Uh oh no, I have not heard about the Peter Teal Club, so I'm gonna check that out and I'm already bracing for impact. No, no, the Israel wouldn't use a nuke on us. Nobody's that mental. On Iran, yeah, they are that mental.

throbbing at 37 Pakistani American. The treaty is like a subscription service. He gets 60 days of six fire. If you like it, you can renew. If you don't, well, Trump said, if Iran doesn't behave, he'll probably go back to, you know, starting continuing the order of the expulsionist. That's not diplomacy. That's a return policy with chances of World War III and are looking good.

Purplefessional. Okay, that's a new fun, made out word. And then YouTube members, Silver says, Israelis laugh at words, you have to use force and or take away their wealth. They will always call your bluff and take things further than civilized people would. Truth. Abby Normal says these congressmen are why we can't break from Israel. And I'm out of time.

We'll be back. Back on TYT, Jan Kanata with you guys. And Asimov Prophet is one of our members on tyt.com. He says, Anna's a movie star. Come on, come on, guys. No, no, no, no. He's referring to the Alec Baldwin interview where they said, in the movie, baristas and billion versus billionaires?

I didn't want to brag, but it turns out I am in fact a movie star. There you go. All right, become one of our members at t.com slash join. Anna, what's next? All right, we're gonna switch it up. This is an entirely different topic, but I'm happy about it. So I want to share it with you. Actually, Jake, why don't you start?

Yeah. So the Supreme Court did something that might get Anna and I to debate. They've decided that they're gonna let you smoke weed while you have guns. Is that a good idea? I don't know, let's find out Anna. Well, actually, let me ask you, Jank, as someone, a bit of a connoisseur yourself. I don't know, I'd go to connoisseur. Would you ever be concerned that your use of the devil's lettuce would make you an irresponsible gun owner?

No, no, look, there's some chance that the Supreme Court actually might have landed in the right spot. They sure did. Okay, so I understand what you're saying. And I certainly don't think that, hey, have you had a joint or you did an edible or two, that you should have some of your rights taken away, including your gun rights. Now, I don't really believe in gun rights to begin with. So I'm kind of in a weird spot. Whereas I do.

Yeah, whereas Anna does. So let's tell you where the Supreme Court landed and then we'll decide if it's the right place or not. Okay, perfect. Now, if you guys can remember, Hunter Biden was attacked by the Republican Party by political opponents, because he had lied on a form as he was attempting to obtain a weapon, a gun. And there were laws that prevented people who use drugs from being able to legally purchase firearms. Well, that whole issue came before the Supreme Court, not in regard to Hunter Biden, but in regard to another individual. So as is reported by the Washington Post, this case involved a Texas

man by the name of Ali Hamani, whose lawyers argued that their client's Second Amendment rights were violated because it turns out that he is also a connoisseur of marijuana. He admitted to using cannabis or pot every other day, but he also was in possession of firearms. So back in 2022, authorities found him in possession of both marijuana and a Glock, and a Glock, you know, nine millimeter to be exact. And so this case was rejected by the lower courts, but it made its way to the Supreme Court. And in a unanimous decision, the justices found that the law's habitual user provision was inconsistent with the Constitution's right to bear arms. And here's what they say. We appreciate that drugs and guns can sometimes make for a dangerous

mix, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority's opinion. But Gorsuch wrote that the law could not be squared with the court's strict standard that firearm restrictions must be rooted in the nation's tradition. Gorsuch also elaborated on the decision further by saying, by their own terms laws like these did not seek to protect the public from violence so much as to protect habitual drunkards from themselves and their families from financial devastation. Gorsuch also acknowledges the obvious pitfalls of the decision saying that, quote, we appreciate that drugs and guns can sometimes make for a dangerous mix. So here's what I am actually a little bit worried about.

It depends on the drug, right? So if you're talking about marijuana, marijuana doesn't make you violent, okay? Marijuana doesn't lead you to act impulsively. There are drugs that do though. And so does this ruling extend to all drugs? or is it narrow and only applies to marijuana? Yeah, so that's a good question. It seems like they're talking about marijuana,

and it'll be interesting to see how the lower courts interpret it when it comes to other drugs. And then how do they make a decision? Is cocaine okay, but fentanyl isn't, right? Right. So okay, now to me, they have two super important carve-outs here. One is if you're basically an addict, a habitual user. So then we're more worried about what you will do with a gun in your house and under those

circumstances. Number two is you obviously can't use the gun while you're intoxicated, whether it's alcohol or marijuana. So you need those obviously. Otherwise, oh, I'm on fentanyl, but it's okay if I walk around with an AK. No, no, it's not. Even if it's not fentanyl, I'm on a tremendous amount of drugs in marijuana. And by the way, enough levels, you could be hallucinate a little bit, right?

That's true, yeah. Right, and so we can't have that. Now, look, I don't really believe the Second Amendment says you have almost an unconditional right to guns. I think it says you have to be part of a militia. I don't think that that's in the text. It's obvious, but people say it's not obvious. No, that we're all somehow in a militia or that it's not important even though it's in the language. But okay, I've lost that battle.

So citizens have a right to defend themselves, Jake. Well, yeah, so I hear you and so certainly I'm not I'm not going to win that battle over the Second Amendment probably in my lifetime. We can have reasonable gun control and certainly if you're high, it's reasonable gun control to say you can't use a gun now. But if you say hey, someone's smoked a joint so they should never be able to own a gun. In the context of having gun rights, that'd be crazy. I agree. Right? Like if you said, hey, we shouldn't have the kind of extreme gun rights we have now, we should

have better gun control so less of us die. Man, I would agree with you, totally, right? But that's not the situation we're in. That's right. And in this situation, if you say to Hunter Biden, or by the way, 15% of the country that smokes marijuana at least once a month, or 5% of the country that turns out does some sort of marijuana every day. Five percent of the country, every day. I can't believe it's that low, to be honest with you. So let me go to Graphics 7. In a 2024 government survey, more than 15

percent of Americans ages 12, that's way too young. Twelve or older reported having used marijuana in the past month. More than 17 million people reported using the drug on a nearly daily basis. And that, again, was a study published in 2024. And one other thing that I wanted to bring up is Ali Hamani, who was the person, you know, challenging these rules or these laws, was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union. So the ACLU defending Americans' rights to own a weapon, even if they use marijuana. And I will allow it. Yeah, so that's not surprising that the ACLU would do that. And they sometimes take very extreme positions in what they view as freedom, including defending money in politics, which is absurd.

I disagree, yeah, I disagree with them on that. But in this case, it makes sense that they're on that side. Ultimately, it turns out I do agree with Anna. So let Hunter Biden go. Yes. Okay, it was an absurd thing. Oh, you know, earlier in your life you smoked, well, not just marijuana in his case to be fair, like super heavy drugs, but you lied about it for like on the form and hence we're going to take your gun away.

take away, well, at least 15% of the country's guns. And I know that the right wing doesn't want that. Okay, and apparently some of the left don't either. Okay, now, for the network continues. So when we come back, the guy running against the worst Democrat in the country. That's how it's being labeled. And then a little bit after that, Jim Acosta joins us. How does he view CNN and current events today, given that he's outside of CNN now?

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