The Young Turks - Trump's Phony Negotiations - March 26, 2026

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

Donald Trump warns Iranian negotiators they “better get serious soon, before it is too late,” escalating pressure even as Democrats punt on a War Powers vote—effectively ensuring Congress won’t weigh in before the conflict deepens. Outrage mounts internationally after reports that the IDF held a Gaza baby for roughly ten hours before transferring him to the Red Cross. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://go.tyt.com/shopifytyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt Check out Pocket Hose and use my code TYT for a great deal: https://www.getcopperhead.com If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — check out plaud.ai Explore opportunities in more than 60 countries and apply at http://PeaceCorps.gov/serve Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: Jordan Uhl, 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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Here's to West Jetting since 96. Travel back in time with us and actually travel with us at westjet.com slash 30 years. Turks, Jake Huger, Jordan Yule with you guys. So today's a very interesting day. Looks like ground troops are imminent in Iran, although of course Donald Trump is saying the opposite. We'll get to that. Unfortunately devastating turn of events in Lebanon and in West Bank in Gaza. As Israel continues, it's war.

And yes, torture campaign. In this case, there's one year old that they seem to have tortured, we'll tell you about that. Our great, wonderful allies of Israel, and of course the Democrats with their usual cowardice and how they might actually be selling us out to continue the war. So before we get to all that, I wanna just remind you guys, we do have Joe Kent on the show tonight at 7 o'clock Eastern, Joe Kent, former director of National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned over the Iran war is going to be on the young Turks in about an hour. So that is going to be an in-depth interview. You do not want to miss.

And then at the very end of all the proceedings, I'm going to tell you about a new candidate that I think you guys will love, someone you know that has joined the rebellion. So lots to get to today. Jordan, what do we start with? Take a look at this. They want to make a deal. The reason they want to make a deal is they have been just. Beat the . Yeah, that's not remotely true. The Iranians are not even in the negotiations.

He's shadow boxing with himself, mumbling in a crowd. They want a deal, they don't want a deal, they want a deal. There's no one else in the room. We're gonna tell you the facts about it in a minute, and then we're gonna tell you the latest that he said just before we went live on the show. And then we're gonna tell you what's actually going to happen, which is the opposite of what he said. So Jordan, take it away.

While the Pentagon prepares to put American troops on Iranian soil, President Donald Trump is claiming that Iran is desperate to negotiate with the U.S. The Iranian negotiators are very different and, quote, strange. They are begging us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated with zero chance of a comeback. And yet they publicly state that they are only looking at our proposal. Wrong. They better get serious. soon before it is too late. Because once that happens, there is no turning back and it won't be pretty. President D.J.T. And here's more from that Trump cabinet meeting. The Iranian regime is now admitting to itself that they have been decisively defeated. They're saying to people, this is a disaster. They know. That's why they're talking to us. They wouldn't talk otherwise. But they're talking to us because they're

They've got a disaster in their hands. They are begging to make a deal, not me. They're begging to make a deal. And anybody that saw what was happening over there would understand why they want to make a deal. But they say, oh, we're not talking to them. Anybody would know that. And only a total, and they're not fools.

They're very smart, actually, in a certain way. And they're great negotiators. I say they're lousy fighters, but they're great negotiators. And they are begging to, Work out a deal? I don't know if we'll be able to do that. I don't know if we're willing to do that. I'm the opposite of desperate. I don't care. I want to know. In fact, we have other targets we want to hit before we leave. Trump also admitted that he believed oil prices would spike higher and the stock market would plunge lower. He also claimed taking control of Iran's oil is an option. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump is the one who is looking for a way.

out. President Trump has told associates in recent days that he wants to avoid a protracted war in Iran and that he hopes to bring the conflict to an end in the coming weeks. White House officials planned a mid-May summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing with the expectation that the war would be concluded before the meeting begins, some of the people said. Trump's inner circle is reportedly split. Some want to get the war wrapped up, others hoping for more destruction. People close to the president cautioned that it is often difficult to predict what decisions Trump might make about the war, noting that as the conflict has unfolded, he has vacillated behind the scenes between embracing diplomacy and ramping up strikes. Some

people close to Trump are urging him to go harder saying regime change in Iran could be legacy defining. Now let's check in on Secretary of War Pete Hegeseth. Here's a clip from yesterday's Christian prayer and worship service. Almighty God who trains our hands for war and our fingers for battle. You who stirred the nations from the north against Babylon of old, making her land a desolation where none dwell. Behold now the wicked who rise against your justice and the peace of the righteous. Snap the rod of the oppressor, frustrate the wicked plans, and break the teeth of the ungodly.

By the blast of your anger, let the evil perish. Let their bulls go down to slaughter, for their day has come. Grant this task force, clear and righteous targets for violence, surround them as a shield, protect the innocent and blameless in their midst, make their arrows like those of a skilled warrior who returned not empty-handed, let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation. Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy.

And today, Hegsteth stated that the problem with the war was that it ended too quickly. Take a look. In 2007, I helped lead the surge, the public fight for the Iraq surge, stood and watched people stand in the Senate and declared the war is lost before it even started. Who was that? It was Harry Reid. That was the Democrats and the media. working hand and glove. Back then, it was three years into a war. Now we're three weeks into an operation. But see, unlike Iraq, this isn't a tie. This is not parody. This is not chaos. This is success, pure American success on plan. And as the president said, ahead of pace. According to Axios reporter Barack Ravid, Hegseth's Pentagon is preparing for four different

scenarios for a quote and quote final blow that apparently are attended to end the war. First, invading or blocking Karg Island, Iran's main oil export hub. Two, invading Iraq, an island that helps Iran solidify its control, the Strait of Hormuz. Three, seizing the strategic island of Abu Musa and two smaller islands. And four, blocking or seizing ships that are exporting Iranian oil on the eastern side. of the Hormuz Strait. And here's another bleak sign of what's to come. This is from

friend of the show, Ryan Grimm. Israeli media reporting the Netanyahu expects a ceasefire announcement from Trump this Saturday. Translation, ground invasion coming this weekend. However, Ken Clippenstein, enemy of the show, is reporting that

a ground invasion is not imminent and not even inevitable. Military sources tell me that for weeks the Pentagon has exaggerated, the readiness and potency of the Marines, setting in motion a media frenzy that is part stupidity, part disinformation to spook Tehran, and part manipulation to please Donald Trump. On March 13th, headlines blared that the three-ship USS Tripoli amphibious ready group, carrying the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, was ordered from Japan to the Middle East.

In actuality, one of the three ships, the USS San Diego, never left Japan and is still there. And the other two ships carrying just 1,500 fighters are sitting at Diego Garcia, roughly 4,200 kilometers from Iran's coastline. And that second marine expeditionary unit, contrary to some reporting that said that the USS Boxing left Hawaii on March 19th, it departed San Diego. They will have to cover approximately 22,000 kilometers to reach the region and wouldn't be able to arrive until mid April at the earliest. Now, Jank, there is a lot here. What do you make of this? Yeah, so look, something just came out right before the show began that adds to the mystery here.

I'd be surprised if Ken's sources weren't wrong or potentially lying to him on purpose. But maybe he's right. That's the only thing that gives me pause because Ken's a really great reporter. So now, what came out before the show? Donald Trump's saying that there's going to be a 10-day pause of bombing their energy plans. Okay, so that means either Ken is right or Ryan Grimm is right, right? Ken is right if there really is a pause, and that's because we're not even anywhere near ready to go and that Trump has basically been bluffing all along about how the ground troops

are almost there. Or Ryan Grimm is right if they say that they're doing a 10-day pause, that means they're bombing tomorrow. Okay, so where do I come out on that? I follow the history of what we have done in American foreign policy and Donald Trump's direct history and what he normally does. So based on that, and I don't know exactly where the troops are, I don't know if Ken's sources are right that they're just not in position to attack.

But if they're in anywhere near in position to attack, everybody's assuming it'll be on Saturday despite Donald Trump saying, oh, we're not gonna do it at all and we're waiting for a 10-day pause. And remember, every right winger, every Republican has said from day one to right now, there's not going to be any ground troops. Don't be ridiculous. Donald Trump is all for easy wars. We get easy wins, baby, we murder them, and then we take everything, and everything is easy, right?

So when, if he puts in ground troops, that is a massive, massive violation of what they said. And we'll see, I mean, that's the very, very last straw. And I'm positive that a lot of his voters who've already abandoned him will continue to abandon at a great pace, the independence of some portion of MAGA. There'll be a bigger chunk out of MAGA once he puts in the ground troops. And I'm sure that there will be a significant percentage of MAGA is like, we wanted ground troops. That's why we wanted to defeat Kabul Harris than Democrats, because we're more pro-war than Dick Cheney.

Right? So that'll happen, I got you. But my sense of it is that they're not going to attack on Saturday that Donald Trump says the 10 day pause thing because they're attacking tomorrow. Now normally they don't attack when the markets are open, like a major offensive, either invading in the first place, bombing in the first place, or the ground troops, right? But since everybody's used to that, Donald Trump might think, I'm so clever, I tell them a 10 day pause, that we're negotiating with a ghost, and then we trick the ghost, and then we go in tomorrow.

No one expected it. Well, I kind of expect it. So let's see how it turns out. So Pete Higgsith, you saw there, the warmonger, bloodthirsty, religious radical. And you remember that part of the reason for this war is, now remember, they're religious fundamentalists. And if you're a religious fundamentalist, you're cuckoo. And, you know, they can't be trusted if they have even the smallest little nuke that

could kill a couple of ants. They're going to do it. They're crazy radical. And then Hegsuth comes out and he's like, and God says, smash them in the mouth, break all their teeth, eat their children. I say a religious radical. I also see tons of religious radicals in Israel. But so I don't know which religious radical they're talking about and I know we started the war along with Israel. Okay, so finally now we get to where could they attack and the negotiations?

So of course I don't know which of the islands or the mainland they're gonna attack. But my sense of it is, first of all, the Israelis leak to Barack Ravid leak. I mean, they kind of work in tandem, right? So if he's putting those four out, number one, the target might not be one of those four. And the whole point is this information towards Iran, right? The second thing is, it's possible that it's one of those four. And if I had to guess, I would guess that we're going to be. to target anything that reopens the straight of Hormuz.

So if it's not about the straight of Hormuz, it's less likely. And they might be talking about Carg Island over and over again, because they're not going to Carg Island, they're going to try to recapture the Strait of Hormuz, which would be the logical thing to do, although Trump not known for great logical reasoning abilities. But in this case, anything related to the straight is way more likely, that's just kind of obvious. All right, and then finally, are we actually negotiating with the Iranians? So the reason that Donald Trump said, you know, they're just saying that they're looking at our proposal, wrong, because that's exactly what they're doing.

So they said, look, are we not merciful? We're not going to negotiate with you, we're not going to send anyone to negotiate with you, we're not interested in a ceasefire, but go ahead, if you have a proposal, send it over, and we'll look at it. But no, we're not sending anybody to negotiate. And Trump goes, that's wrong. They have mythical, invisible people like our invisible jets. They invisible people will show up and we negotiate.

And they're very crafty negotiates. Strange, they're very strange. They're very strange. It's very new. I'm not used to invisible negotiators. But Jared and Whitkoff told me and the Israelis told me that they are there. They are there. So I believe that they're, and they're about to surrender.

Net Yahoo told me. He said, go deeper into the war because they're about to surrender. So I'm sure it's true. So, as you can tell, Jordan, I think only disaster awaits. Yeah, I mean, we're seeing reports out of the Middle East that Iran is assembling and deploying nearly a million troops in preparation for a ground invasion. I mean, that is going to be if the U.S. were to continue a bloodbath for both sides. That's not going to end well for anybody. I think, you know, there might be something to Ken's reporting.

I think the U.S. might want to avoid that. That is a PR nightmare for a president. It's easier to wage forever war when you're conducting aerial strikes. You're going in boots on the ground and then you have, you know, sons and daughters coming back and flag-draped caskets. That's less palatable to the American populace. And this is already an unpopular war. It's already causing dissent in the MAGA base. I don't know. I think there might be something to his reporting. But then on the other side, I want to get your thoughts on some of these other things. There's a video from the White House and also maybe a Freudian slip from Trump. So take a look at this and let's get your thoughts.

They were planning to have a nuclear weapon. If we didn't hit them at that time with the new, with the B2 bombers and one of the great air raids in history, maybe the greatest. And then additionally, there was another video that the White House posted last night and then deleted of someone filming their shoes and a woman's voice saying, will it be launched soon? Is it launching soon? All of these things together, Jank, I can't tell if it's just them ruffling their feathers or trolling or trying to scare the Iranians. What do you make of this? Yeah, so you got a Freudian slip there on nuking Iran. But he was just talking about their nuclear capabilities, so it was probably just a slip up. I am worried in the long run if things go very poorly for Israel. I think that they are the country by far most likely to use nukes.

More than everyone else combined, they think their citizens are worth a billion any other human beings. So if they start running out of defensive missiles, I'd be very worried about Israel using a nuke. Us using a nuke, I mean, that would be, that's unthinkable. If Trump did that, he would go down as like Hitler, Stalin level character in history. So it were as if Netanyahu did it, that would be on brand. So, okay, but we're not there yet, guys. So I wouldn't worry about that. In terms of the launching or not launching and that kind of stuff, well, with the videos, yeah, they're jackasses. So they also put out some tweet today from the White House with Trump, what looks like the Resolute Desk, and it's pixelated so you can't see it. Like,

we're trolling you, what's the up to? Hey, guys, this isn't time for trolling. There's Americans coming home in caskets. So we're not interested in your dumbass trolling, and no one cares, No one's amused by it and no one is threatened by it. Look, guys, I watch the Iranians, they put out videos, their commanders, their political leaders, and every single video is like, please come and land your troops on the ground, please, we welcome you, we are waiting for you, okay? Constantly talking about Donald Trump, the battle is not one with tweets, it is one on the battlefield. And so the idea that the Iranians are gonna be scared by some trolling video is just dumb.

And is it the, is a target audience us? Or should we be worried about a launch? Should we be excited about a launch? I don't know what the point of that is, right? So, but bottom line is back to Ken's reporting, look, it's the only thing that's pumping the brakes right now. Because I, but I would be shocked, Jordan. So I look, I already said it a while back and I'm not moving off of it. Ground troops are going in.

The only question is when. And so, and by the way, maybe I'm wrong, right? Maybe Israel has ordered us to use ground troops and we will bravely defy our tiny little partner who owns our ass, okay? But in my experience of covering politics for 30 years in America, I can name you one time we've defied Israel and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times where we have done exactly as we are ordered. It would be shocking beyond belief if we didn't use ground troops. Yeah, we will see, we'll watch closely over the weekend. I hope not. The last thing we need

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On the last war powers resolution, there were people who obviously still not enough people to win the vote, but there were people who came around. And so why not go ahead? Because we can't win the winner when you see me put the bill on the floor, that means we're going to win the vote. I know how to count. I know how to do my job. Yeah, that Democratic representative, Greg Meeks is lying.

The Democrats are holding back the vote on the war powers resolution because they're afraid that they might be able to win the vote. Now why is that? We're gonna explain, but first Jordan's gonna give you the facts. In moments like these opposition parties need to meet the moment. They need to be fearless and steadfast in the face of power grabs, stand tall in fight. Unfortunately for us, we have the Democrats and new reporting reveals that Democratic leaders are going to sit around and wait until mid-April to do anything about Trump's war with Iran. And here's what you need to know. Punchbowl news reported on Tuesday that U.S. House lawmakers had abandoned plans to hold a vote this week on a war powers resolution introduced by Representative Greg Meeks, the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Now, Congress goes on a two-week recess next week and doesn't return until April 13th. House Minority Leader Akeem Jeffries said at a press briefing on Tuesday that there are, quote, ongoing conversations about passing a war powers resolution, quote, sooner rather than later. Said, when we present something on the floor, it is our determination to win. Except the last time the House voted on a war powers resolution related to this war for Democrats from Mekim Jeffries caucus joined Republicans to vote against it, giving Republicans just enough votes to kill it after two Republicans defected. Independent journalist Aida Chavez, who recorded on these stall tactics in February,

noted that Meeks previously tried to delay a vote by warning 40 Democrats could oppose it. In the end, just four did. Now, Meeks is saying that he may not hold the vote because one member could vote no. If Democrats are unified, this Iran war powers resolution could actually pass. That makes Democratic leadership's refusal to force a vote, ASAP, even more indefensible. And as some fear and invasion of Clark Island is imminent, urgency feels imperative. So why would they wait? Well, Ryan Grimm, co-founder of DropSight News, went further, accusing Meeks of backing off the resolution,

precisely because it now may have the votes to pass. He contended that Democrats secretly want this war to continue because it hurts Trump. Jank, your thoughts? Yeah, so why do I tell you that Meeks is lying and they actually don't want to vote on this because they're afraid they might win. So let's go over some of the facts. So number one, the four Democrats that were needed to defeat this resolution last time, I have taken tremendous blowback from their voters. And they claim that next time around, they're going to vote for the act and to hold

Trump accountable and say that he's got to go through Congress. Nancy Mace has already said she's going to vote against the war. You know Massey's going to vote against the war. So if the Democrats were being honest, then at this point, there's no question that they would win that vote. So now they could say maybe Meeks knows that there is two new sellouts who would vote the other way. My theory is there's a couple of hundred guys who would vote for this war because Israel has ordered them to. And so, but they don't want to because they're still lying to their voters. Oh my God, we are so against Donald Trump. We are so against

war. Oh, golly, gee, we are going to hold them accountable. My ask, you are, you could win the vote today. If every Democrat held, it is actually a guarantee that they would win the vote today. So what they're saying is we're definitely lying in one direction or another, either if we held the vote now, there's a bunch of liar Democrats who would actually vote in favor of the war, and so that's why we can't hold it now, or we're lying right now, we have enough votes, we just don't want to vote because we don't want to prevent the war. And you know, people are scratching their heads like, oh, guy, why are the Democrats doing this?

Are they really weak? Are they really bad at strategy? I mean, nobody could be this bad at strategy because of point number two. Even if there's something funky going on with the vote, but again, the Democrats have to be lying in one direction or another. There's no question about that. It's just math, right? So, okay. But at a minimum, you would get all the Republicans on the record as being in favor of the war.

Then the ground troops go in and it's a disaster and it would be even worse for the Republicans. So getting them on the record is critical, even if they vote for the war. And that would certainly help the Democrats. So there's absolutely no logical reason to not do this vote now. So the part that polite people in Washington can't talk about is a dur, as my 13 year old daughter would say, These guys have gotten hundreds of millions of dollars from APEC. You think APEC gave the money to the Democrats for their health, for them to vote against Israel's war?

And a lot of people in Washington, like both idiots and good natured people who just don't realize the depth of corruption and also the corrupt who are part of the propaganda to maintain the system. So it's a variety of people in that mix. Genuinely think like, yeah, but come on, Jenk, are the Democrats really like the Republicans? Are they really gonna serve their donors secretly? Oh, come on, please people, please not at this late date. Of course, of course they are, of course they are.

Why do you think they got all that money? You think Apex's like, oh, you know what, even though we gave you hundreds of millions of dollars, go ahead, vote against us. There's no chance of that. They're applying like thumb screws to the Democrats as we should. You better not vote no, okay? You're to pretend that you're against the war, but be favor of the wall. the wall and Meeks and Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are like yes, Apex sir, of course Apex

sir, how else can we help you, sir? We would love for Americans to go into this war while we pretend to be against it. They sicken me, they disgust me, and if you don't realize they're deeply corrupt, you really don't know anything about American politics. Okay, so that's a strong opinion. Jordan, what do you think? Yeah, I have questioned Meeks. There's some answer. war groups who thought he would be good on this committee. From what I have seen for years, I mean, I don't know. I don't know the reasoning. It was always confusing to me, talking to war leaders, talking to people in that space. It was mixed bag, but some thought he could be good.

We're seeing now he is not. You have the votes now. Him telling a reporter from Dropsite to go talk to Republicans, they already did. They got a new one. You got, you got Massey, and you got, There was one other name. I can't remember. And then Mace. There you go. You got an additional vote than you did last time.

You might even have more because this is so unpalatable. People can see where the wind is blowing. You're getting flips across the board. You got 30 seat flips. This is deeply unpopular. You might get another one. So what are you doing? There's no excuse to wait.

And this idea that they wanted to continue because it's bad for Trump. Things are already bad for Trump. Things are already hurting Trump. The lasting impact of a rise in oil prices will be felt into the fall as of them right now. What you're doing is hurting the American people. And what you're doing is killing people in the Middle East, which doesn't matter which part of you're in. People in American politics just don't seem to care about that because they've reduced them to a subhuman level in their mind. It is it's disgusting. It's disgusting. using human beings, no matter where they're where they're from as pawns in some disgusting

political game is downright. It's horrific. Yeah, there's no way in the world that Gottheimer and Muscovitz are going to vote against the war and have it stop. Zero percent chance. They love Israel's war. They love it, love it, love it. And they're not going to end this war. They're such giant liars. Okay, two more piece of information. Then we'll wrap up. Number one, if it's true that their stated strategy for the Democrats is, oh, we want the war to go on because it's hurting Trump. First of all, that's a terrible, terrible thing to say, because it's gonna get people killed.

It shows how duplicitous you are and how craving you are, and that's an outrageous thing to say, even if it were true. But it's not true, why? Because if you vote and all the Republicans then join Donald Trump, it will hurt all of them. So even if you were doing a craven political strategy, it still makes sense to vote now. The only way that it doesn't make sense to vote now is if you want the war to keep going, because your donors asked you to. Hold on one last one.

Did you know that they could just vote on it again? So they could vote on it now, and if it fails, they can come back and vote on it two weeks, three weeks from now. There's no excuses at all. And so look, I know there are really good people who believe in these guys and who believe in and who've been trained your whole lives to believe in these guys as if they're the good guys, okay? Gregory Meeks has taken $2.2 million from the Israeli lobby. Hakeem Jeffries is taking five and a half million, and Chuck Schumer's taking six and

a half million. You think they gave all that money for them to stop Israel's war? You think that Gregory Meeks and Hakeem Jephees and Chuck Schumer are such angels that they take all that money but don't do as they're told? And that APAC gives them that money over and over again in every election cycle, because they didn't listen to APAC? No, that's super naive. And a lot of people in this country have been trained by our media, which is a propaganda machine for the rich, the powerful, and the donor class. Oh, no, if you're a Democrat, it doesn't affect your party.

If you're a Republican, it doesn't affect your party. Don't worry. No, they bought both sides. And this is proof positive. The Democrats are betraying you, they're selling you out, and they're representing their donors instead of their voters. And by the way, how many progressives are raising a storm over this and getting out there and challenging the establishment like they were supposed to? I have it at approximately zero. Okay, oh, thank God we did justice Democrats.

God, they turned out to be such warriors. Oh, well, I tried guys. Okay, we gotta take another break. When we come back, Israel does extreme terrorism and promises even more, not just terrorism, but full blown fascism and starting to talk about not just genocide, but like language that is prelude to a Holocaust. So if you think I'm exaggerating, you're gonna get the quotes when we return. You know when you're building something from the ground up, the to-do list never

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The IDF stands accused of torturing a one year old child with nails and cigarette burns. The Israeli military is denying the allegations. We'll get into more, but first, Jenk, near two cents. Yeah, you're going to see here, guys, the depravity of the Israeli terrorists. And by that, I mean the IDF and their entire government. So you're gonna see babies being tortured and you're gonna see Israeli ministers saying how they have to murder everyone that opposes them. Full blown fascism combined with terrorism, that's the current state of Israel and the

one we are giving tens of billions of dollars to nonstop, the one we are helping to start wars and commit genocide. It is an outrage beyond belief and you're gonna see the facts related to it now. Near a refugee camp in central Gaza, a Palestinian man was spotted approaching the IDF while carrying an unidentified object. After ignoring calls to stop, the IDF opened fire on the man, ultimately wounding and detaining him. The unidentified object in question was the man's 18-month-old son. According to the IDF, the man admitted to being a member of Hamas, a partial participant in October 7th. and was attempting to use his son as a human shield.

The family disputed the claims, saying the man has known mental health issues, supported by witnesses who described him as disoriented. The father remains in custody, but most shockingly, the IDF held the toddler for over 10 hours before handing him to the Red Cross. Worse yet, the condition of the baby was when he was finally returned. to the family was nothing short of galling. According to Horat's Israeli human rights group, Moqed Center for the Defense of the Individual,

which contacted the family, said that according to the toddler's mother, around 8.30 p.m. that day, the family received a call from the Red Cross and was asked to come to the Magazi market to receive the child. When they got him back, they noticed blood stains on the baby's clothes. The Red Cross representative told the family the blood belonged to the father, but the mother and grandmother said they saw cuts and wounds on the child's legs. So to recap, the IDF is alleging that the man ignored orders from the IDF, and the child was not actually injured. But according to reporting from common dreams,

journalist Osama Alcalut interviewed the child's mother, who said the toddler suffered a cigarette burn to one leg and a nail puncture to the other. Alcalut's video shows wounds on the child's legs. Injuries reportedly confirmed by an unspecified medical authority. The family maintains that the child was likely tortured in front of his father to elicit a confession. But how could people think the IDF would do such a thing? Well, maybe it's because of statements like this from its successor, a member of Ben-Givir's far-right party. I have no sense of compassion for my enemies, he said, referring to the children, adding that Palestinians born in 2006 when Israel dismantled,

Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip are the same ones who later became Nukba fighters, referring to elite Hamas terrorists who massacred Israeli civilians on October 7th, 2023. Broisers' comments sparked outrage across the global community, including from Israel's center left party. But Jenk, we'll be reading here. We do have more, but this story is. is horrific.

What are your thoughts? So there was also witnesses. So we don't know if the father went, approached the yellow line because he's having a mental health issues and the family says that he has not been well the last couple of weeks. Or if he confessed because they tortured his baby in front of him. So the baby does clearly have marks on them that look like a burn mark that might come from a cigarette. And then they say they drove a nail through him, his body.

It's also possible that when they shot the father, that they accidentally shot the baby as well, accidentally. And that's what happens when you shoot at a father and a child. But the terrorists that are known as the IDF shoot at children all the time. Now, do they have weapons? Of course not. Were they an actual threat to anyone? Of course not.

But when the Israelis see Palestinian father and a child, they don't see two humans. They see two like, I don't know what they think they are, but they have no compassion for them. So that minister that Jordan just quoted for you, it also affects the soldiers and the chain of command. And they are very, very clear in Gaza, they reports there are 20 to, you know, they're 20 to, you. 30, and I'm now seen past 30,000 children slaughtered by Israel, slaughtered. And they had no compunctions about it.

American doctors going and coming back and going, oh my God, a stunning number of sniper shots in children under five in the chest and in the head. Because the Israelis are terrorists. They say, oh, let's go fight the terrorists. The terrorists are our so-called allies. So this is not at all a surprising story. And look at that butcher and what he said, he said, oh yeah, we should kill their children. Well, okay, well, who says that?

Fascists say that. And his logic is, well, one day they could become a Hamas fighter. So let's preemptively murder all their children. That's what Nazis say, okay? And no, I'm not at all sorry about that. That is exactly what Nazis would say. And so now he, by the way, also what terrorists say. They say, well, I mean, if we kill Israeli children, they were gonna grow up to be IDF terrorists.

Now everyone in Israel does grow up to be an IDF soldier, or almost everyone does, and the IDF soldiers are terrorists. But I don't believe in that kind of logic, because I'm a decent moral person. And you should be a decent moral person, and you shouldn't want any Israeli children or innocent civilians. civilians or Palestinian children and innocent civilians killed unless you're a murdering fascist terrorists like the idea. Getting ready for a game means being ready for anything like packing a spare stick. I like to be prepared. That's why I remember 988 Canada's suicide crisis help line. It's good to know just in case. Anyone can call or text

for free confidential support from a train responder anytime. 988 suicide crisis This helpline is funded by the government in Canada. That same Israeli lawmaker recently called for ethnic cleansing in Lebanon. Speaking to the Knesset Channel last week, the lawmaker called to expand Israel's borders to occupy southern Lebanon up to the Latani River and cleanse it of Lebanese civilians. Now, that's difficult to dismiss that unhinged rhetoric as a mere aberration when it seems to be backed up by official Israeli policy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says on Wednesday that Israel has created a real buffer zone in southern Lebanon, adding that the Israeli military is expanding

its control in the area. But we are expanding the security strip to remove the threat of anti-tank fire on our communities and creating a larger buffer zone, he said. But it's not just Netanyahu, Defense minister Israel Katz said hundreds of thousands of residents of southern Lebanon who were evacuated will not return south of the Latani River until the security of northern residents is assured, Katz said, referring to Israelis living near Israel's border with Lebanon. Now obviously, this has led to a massive displacement as well as the destruction of five bridges around the Latani River, which residents rely on for the transportation of life-saving aid. These actions appear to make this war even less palatable to an increasingly cynical citizenry. But Jank, I want to bring you back in here. What are your thoughts? Yeah, so they're gonna take southern Lebanon exactly as we told you, and here's the confirmation. They're gonna move out every man, woman, and child from south of Latani River, and they're gonna put in Israelis.

And then later they'll say, Matt, we want a war, you shouldn't have started a war. No, no, Israel started the war. Oh, you shouldn't have started self-defense. We're always the victims. My ass, you're the victims. You're an aggressive fascist empire that just announced you're gonna displace, and you did already displace a million Lebanese, just like they did to the Palestinians. Another minister also recently said, oh, how far are we gonna go?

We're gonna go all the way to the Euphrates and the Tigris. Where do the Euphrates and the Tigris meet? In Turkey. So that is the map of Greater Israel. So their plan is to take all of the Middle East for their empire all the way through to a NATO ally in Turkey, because fascists never stop until you make them stop. This has nothing to do with nationality or religion. Fascism goes around the globe.

It is a power dynamic. And in this case, we have given Israel absolute power. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and it creates fascism. We gave them Iron Dome, which I was in favor. I'm so sorry guys, that turned out to be a giant mistake. Because it enabled the fascists in Israel to go, oh, there's no consequences for war. I mean, there's consequences to the Arabs and but we don't consider them humans. The Persians, yeah, we'll slaughter them and will slaughter their children.

Those aren't humans, they're not precious Israelis. There's no consequences at all because the Israelis aren't getting hurt. So let's murder, murder, steal more land. They are 53% of Gaza. I challenge any mainstream media anchor, I challenge you, any cable news anchor, anyone in Main Street media at all. If you're a political reporter, come on, dispute that they have 53% of Gaza. They did. We told you they were doing it for a land. You all lied and pretended they were victims and pretended they were doing it for a self-defense.

Now that they're squatting on over half of Gaza, is a single reporter or anchor going to apologize and say, sorry, I was totally wrong. They're genocidal freaks and jank. And everyone who was a critic was absolutely right. It was about land theft. And they have done land theft in 1948, in 1967, they constantly attacked their neighbors. Then they have liars in American media go, oh, they're the victims. In 1967, they destroyed all the militaries of their neighbors in a surprise attack like Pearl Harbor, and then pretended, well, they might have attacked this at some point, exactly what they just did with Iran and you saw with your own eyes. Iran might have nukes. A couple of

couple of decades from now, they might attack us. And then they went in and they made us going and our guys are dying. And we're going to have to spend a couple more trillion dollars to back up these fascists. And you're going to have to work a second job to send more money to Israel. And if you complain about them stealing your money to murder these kids, they're going to say, you're an anti-Semite. We're going to destroy you. We're going to ruin your life if you don't bow to Israel.

So I hate giving money to fascists. I hate giving money to terrorists. I hate that they take it out of my check, and you should be furious that they're taking your money and having them murder and torture children and steal land in Lebanon, steel land in Gaza, steel land in Syria. This has nothing to do with self-defense. We are feeding and enabling a massive fascist empire in the Middle East. We're not fighting the terrorists, we're helping the terrorists. Israel is the terrorists. I hope that's clear, Jordan.

It is abundantly clear. I mean, it's horrific. We've seen this, to go back to the Iron Dome point, we've seen the justification in the U.S. for defensive weapons before and how that has looked as, you know, even just outside of U.S. Israeli relations with Saudi Arabia and how they, how they had a stranglehold on Yemen, which led to a massive famine. At the time, it was one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world. This was 2021, 2022. We talked about this a lot on this network. But even Democrats, because Biden was in the White House, bought into this defensive weaponry.

Well, you see what that looks like now. You see a little bit more on the left. You see a few more Democrats calling it out, how it's used as justification and an obfuscation tool. But in reality, on the ground, this is what, it's all offensive. You don't have defensive war, that's all this is. It's about land, it's about power, and it's about control. Yeah, I'm gonna say one last thing. So look, I don't want any harm to come to any civilians, no matter how guilty they are,

no matter how wrong they are, and no matter how much they've lost their mind like they have in Israel. But in terms of culpability, moral and political culpability, there's no more excuses for the Israel. citizens. So yeah, it's not unclear what's happening. They don't consider their neighbors humans. They have no compunction or empathy for their Arab neighbors and their Muslim neighbors and their Christian neighbors at all. That's not all Israelis. There's a small minority who are very good people who are trying to stop this. And it's certainly a nod about Jews because Jews across the world and in America have different points of view on this. But as far as the Israeli citizens, I have seen the polling.

They are lost. And so for all Americans here, including my Jewish brothers and sisters, it is not what you think it is. You have these fantasies in your head of like a caboots and oh my God, the dirty, angry Arabs are gonna kill us all. No, no, no, no. You have Iron Dome, you have nukes. You're one of the safest countries in the world.

Wake up, wake up. Okay, but no, no, I mean, they constantly, anybody criticizing Israel, they're not Come on, destroy them. No, no, no. You're destroying yourselves. You're bringing hatred upon everyone for no reason. Israel is lost. We have to take our money back.

We have to take our defenses back until the power dynamic is balanced. And it can get to a peace deal, which actually will be better for Israel in the long run. But if you encourage and enable this kind of fascism, it's going to blow up on everyone. It is a disastrous idea. But I know they'll never listen. They'll call me and everyone who's trying to help them in an anti-Semite and they'll you pour in more money and more money to Israel. Kill more Muslims, kill more Muslims.

They'll say as they say, I'm worried about bigotry. Oh, I'm worried about anti-Semitism and bigotry. They're not worried about bigotry at all. They're worried about, I have been slightly offended by you correctly telling me how awful and hideous Israel is. My feelings are so much more important than the children being tortured and the million people who were just ethnically cleansed in Lebanon and all the kids we killed in Iran. No, your feelings are not more important.

They are way, way, way less important. And it is self-indulgent and incredibly entitled to say, you shouldn't criticize the fascists because my feelings are hurt. my feelings are more important than that one year old or the 30,000 children we murdered in Gaza or Israel murdered in Gaza. No, your feelings are self-indulgent and unbearable. And I don't give a goddamn about your feelings. I care about the people being destroyed, killed, torture, humiliated.

Last thing, Israel, according to the experts, is doing collective torture and psychological terror and humiliation of any area they occupy and the people in that area because they want to drive them out with collective torture and terror. That's the current state of Israel. Anyone telling you otherwise is flat out lying to you so you send more of your money to Israel to kill more people and to torture more children. It's unbearable. We got to go.

Joe Kent coming up next. There was a lighter story. Sorry we didn't get to. Jordan, you're awesome. I appreciate you putting out with me as I'm animated today. Okay. All good. Thank you, brother.

All right, take a break. When we come back, former counter-national terrorism center head who resigned because of the Iran war, Joe Kent when we return.