The Young Turks - Trump's War Slop - April 2, 2026

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

Donald Trump vows to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” for weeks as a former Iranian official tied to peace talks is reportedly killed, raising fears of total diplomatic collapse. Back home, Trump faces backlash after effectively admitting the war could come at the cost of Americans’ health care, Thanks to our episode's sponsors: Refresh your winter wardrobe with Quince. Go to quince.com/damage for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: Ana Kasparian SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Excuse me, I'm going to answer the question. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Begat! TYT, I'm your host, Anna Kasparian, and President Donald Trump wasted the time of Americans yet again with a speech where he said, not much, to be honest with you. Lots of repetition about how the United States has succeeded in defeating Iran, but we have to

continue the war in Iran anyway. So we're going to get to that a little later in the show. In the second hour, Wazni Lombre will be joining me to lighten things up a little bit. So we will be having a little bit of fun. Dave Smith humiliated Adam Sosnik and what I'm not going to talk about that on this show. Of course I am. The only thing that makes the show better is that he was ambushed with a, reprimand by Patrick Bet David live on air about that debate.

Oh, I jump in it. It was so great. It was so great. Thank you to PBD for giving me that gift. I enjoyed every minute of that 18 minute segment. But with that said, we actually begin with something a little different. A man who speaks from my own heart, Theo Vaughn. What do you think is going to happen? You think we're going to be okay? I hope so, of course. I don't know. Do you think about it? I'm confused. I can't believe we went to this war. When we started bombing Iran, I was like, this can't be true. And what about Lebanon now? I know, Israel's invaded Lebanon.

Yeah. Yeah. And it's like just stop like, what do you need? Well, they're trying to supposedly, they're trying to stop the terrorists. That's crazy though. You're the terrorists. You don't what I'm saying? Like if you want to stop them, stand in front of the mirror.

And start there. Agreed. Agreed. Now, while the Israelis place themselves in the position of the, you know, strong, brave individuals who fight terrorism around the globe, the American people have caught on to what's really going on here, who the terrorists are. You know, the country that keeps invading its neighbors, the country that engages in mass slaughter campaigns and genocide, the country that somehow manages to convince what's supposed to be the most powerful country in the world to fight its wars for them. And of course I'm talking about us, the United States of America. And I love the fact that Theo Vaughan has the Cajonese to say what he said on one of the top podcasts in the country. And yeah, it doesn't escape me that they're both individuals who helped get Donald Trump elected in the first place.

But they're speaking the truth now at least, at least Theo Vaughan is as vociferously as he's been when it comes to Gaza and anything involving Israel. And I commend him for that. Looks like Joe Rogan is starting to warm up again to criticizing Israel a little bit. But I wish that he would be as vocal as he was previously, because right now is the time when these types of voices matter the most. Right now is where the United States is implicated in countless war crimes that have been carried out on behalf of a foreign country.

Right now is when we are using precious, finite resources that could be able to be able to that could be helping the American people to assist Israel in their border expansion project. And of course, in order to do that border expansion project, you need to get rid of the one and only country that has posed a challenge to that in the region, and that would happen to be Iran, right? So why does Iran fund or arm Hezbollah? Why would they support Hamas? When you look at what's happening in Lebanon right now, you'll get a good picture. a good idea of why Iran would back Hezbollah. Because what did Lebanon do?

What did Lebanon do? Why does the southern half of Lebanon need to be occupied by the Israelis? For security reasons, then why are they planning on settling it? And the same circular reasoning happens over and over again. They steal more land. They have these unhinged terrorist settlers settled there. And then the resistance comes and targets them. and targets them.

And then they cry and cry about how they're poor little victims as they live on stolen, blood-soaked land. And then the United States comes in, sacrifices its soldiers to fight on behalf of their disgusting project. That's what's going on here. That's what's going on here. So thank you to Theo Vaughn for calling out the real terrorists in this situation. Just to give you a little update on the death toll, aside from the 72,000,

confirmed dead people in Gaza, 20,000 of whom were children. We should talk about the more than 2,000 people who have been killed in Iran since February 28th, the first day of this war against Iran, on behalf of Israel, of course. The death toll from Israeli attacks in Lebanon has risen to 1,345 that we know of, 4,040 injured. 13 U.S. soldiers have died so far that we know about, but there's some news percolating right now as we speak about how Susie Wiles is trying to urge our president to be honest with the American people about how many of our soldiers are dead as a result of a war that we are fighting on Israel's behalf against Iran.

That has roiled the oil markets, you know, destroyed the global economy. And there's more pain coming. There's no question about it. And when it comes to Israel, oh, would you look at that, 24 people have been killed, 24. Even though the Iron Dome hasn't been as effective as people think. But they've got those underground bunkers. So when it comes to the Iron Dome, what is it really about? Is it about protecting real estate in Israel?

Because I'm not interested in protecting anything in Israel. That doesn't have to do with civilian lives. And when it comes to civilian lives, I would argue that the government of Israel should be more concerned with them. But they're not. They would rather have the United States fund defensive capabilities for Israel. And those days, I promise you, will be coming to an end. Because the American people are fed up with it. You want to pay for your Iron Dome system? How about you pay for it yourselves? American taxpayers have done enough for that gone awful country. And when I say God awful, I mean it, I mean it with my whole chest. Let me give you another example, just from today alone.

I mean, forget all the other atrocities we've been talking about on this show for the last two and a half years. Let's show you the latest. Because Israel just passed, the Knesset just passed, their new death penalty law that only applies to Palestinians who get tried in military courts that have a 99% conviction rate, meaning that a lot of innocent people seem to be getting convicted. That doesn't surprise me. And here is Ben Gavir, Itamar Ben Gavir, okay, one of the top terrorist in Israel showing off the gallows, showing off where these Palestinian prisoners will be executed, celebrating it. If you can remember as soon as that new law passed, Homeboy was popping bottles. You see members of the Knesset drinking champagne. Why don't we take a quick

look at that video so we can remember real quick. Oh, we don't have that video. Well, we showed it to you earlier this week. They salivate at the thought of killing people, innocent, people. But they don't see them as innocent people, right? Because anyone who doesn't share their identity is subhuman. And we're supposed to act as if they're the good guys. They're the good guys, no, they're not the good guys. And unfortunately, since we're aligned with them, we're also the bad guys. Look, I love my yard and I wanted to look good, just like the next guy. But I absolutely hate dealing with the tools, especially the hose. You know what I'm talking about. I drag it out, it immediately kinks, gets tangled in the bushes,

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Here's what they think about what Trump is supporting today. What do you think is going to happen? You think we're going to be okay? I hope so, of course. I don't know. Do you think about it? I'm confused. I can't believe we went to this war. When we started bombing Iran, I was like, this can't be true. And what about Lebanon now? I know. Israel's invaded Lebanon. Yeah. Yeah. And it's like just stop like, what do you need? Well, they're trying to supposedly they're trying to stop the terrorists. That's crazy though. You're the first terrorist. You don't know what I'm saying? Like if you want to stop,

standing in front of the mirror. And start there. This morning, the Jews community was warned by Israel that if they're hiding Palestinians, they'll be penalized for that. Who are the Nazis? Who are the modern day Nazis? So please don't come at me and talk about like, oh, there's so much Jew hatred. No, no, people hate the nation state of Israel for good reason.

Just like good, kind-hearted people hated Nazi Germany when Nazi Germany. Germany was a thing. Anyway, let's move on to our next story because there were ravings of a lunatic broadcast for the country last night. And unfortunately, we learned nothing from it. But I do want to show you some highlights. So let's get into it. Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete

all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. we're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. There you have President Donald Trump bragging about bombing Iran to smithereens. In fact, the message was repeated by our so-called Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, an alcoholic who's unqualified for the job. But nonetheless, back to the Stone Age, he writes on X immediately after the speech. So I would like all of the Iranian diaspora individuals who have been cheerleading this war,

two of the hyenas I debated on Pierce Morgan show just yesterday, to explain to me, is this the liberation you were looking for? And there's something deep within me that thinks, yes, this is what they were looking for. Because they don't see Iranians as human beings. This was never, ever about liberation. I even see some of the members of the diaspora talking about, it's okay, we'll rebuild it. We'll rebuild Iran for ourselves. Who cares about all those innocent people who are being slaughtered right now,

partly thanks to our cheerleading. Just reprehensible, depraved, disgusting human beings. If you wanted freedom for the Iranians asking the United States and Israel to bomb Iran to smithereens back to the Stone Ages, not going to do that. That's not going to happen. But please, tell me about how heartbreaking you are. heartbreaking you are, how heartbroken you are about the thousands of protesters who were

supposedly killed by the IRGC. Please tell me about that. Using human lives as pawns to advocate for more slaughter. Now shortly after Trump made his Stone Age comment, as you saw, you know, he once again threatened to commit additional war crimes. So I want to show you that portion of his speech. Let's take a look. In the meantime discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death. They're all dead.

The new group is less radical and much more reasonable. Yet if during this period of time no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of the world. their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it, and it would be gone. And there's not a thing they could do about it. Yeah, Iran was dumb to not race toward building a nuclear weapon. I apologize for saying that, but it's just the truth.

Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon today, they wouldn't be bombed to smithereens by the United States and Israel. It's a powerful deterrent. And the United States can't be trusted. It's not a rational actor. The United States can be bought. Okay, our politicians can be bought like horrors on a street corner. They'll sell out their own people.

They will expend endless blood and treasure on behalf of a foreign country. as long as that foreign country buys them or blackmails them, of course. So they're either engaged in unsavory sexual behavior, possibly criminal sexual behavior, or they're just whores that got purchased by advocates of a foreign country. He's talking about bombing the electric infrastructure of a sovereign country. What do you think that does? that further victimizes innocent civilians, but who cares about innocent civilians? Because we have let go here in the United States.

We have essentially been front and center. Our government has been front and center of dismantling the whole notion of international law. So what are war crimes when a superpower decides war crimes aren't even a thing? In fact, we are going to carry out the war crimes. We're going to do it openly. We're going to brag about it. we're gonna broadcast it. And then please come and tell me, oh, Anna, I don't like your tone.

I don't like your tone. I know all these innocent people are getting killed, but you yell too much. So again, Trump's point was co-signed by one of the most reprehensible people in Congress. And that's saying a lot because it's full to the brim with reprehensible people. But Senator Lindsey Graham really takes the cake. Take a look. Here's what President Trump said tonight. If you're in Iran, you better be listening.

I'm willing to do a deal to make sure you don't become the largest state sponsor of terrorism again. I'm willing to do a deal that will allow you to exist under certain conditions. You have to change your behavior. But if you don't do a deal, I'm going to decimate your ability to come back economically. President Trump outlined targets that would destroy the ability of this regime to survive over time. If you don't take this deal, we're going to blow up all the things you need to come back. Iran makes a deal to make sure they never do this again, or we will destroy their infrastructure to survive as a nation. I've been thinking a lot about Christianity lately, about my own

experiences with Christianity growing up, went to Sunday school every Sunday from age four, I believe it was to 19. Every single Sunday, very rarely missed a Sunday. And I never once learned even a tiny amount of the disgusting garbage that the so-called Christian Zionists spew. We'd read the Bible. And the way that they have twisted that faith to advocate for the exact opposite of what that faith actually advocates for is so gross. And it makes me wonder, where are all the actual Christians out there who have seen their faith bastardized by the likes of Lindsey Graham, Franklin Graham, all the weirdos that Trump has surrounded himself with in his little faith group, which we'll talk about later in the show? Is that how you want

Christianity represented as a bloodthirsty, nasty religion that salivated? That's salad. elevates over the mass slaughter of innocent people. This is all being done in the name of Christianity? Uh, where are my gloves? Come on, heat. Any day now? Winter is hard, but your groceries don't have to be. This winter, stay warm.

Tap the banner to order your groceries online at voila.ca. Enjoy in-store prices without leaving your home. You'll find the same regular prices online as in-store. Many promotions are available both in-store and online, though some may vary. So disgusting. Like this is so disgusting. Do you guys now understand why I fought so loudly and aggressively against the BS and propaganda that was being spewed about liberating the Iranian people leading up to this war? Look, I've got no love for the regime in Iran. I don't. Okay, I don't believe in theocracies. I don't want to live under a

theocracy and I do want people to be free. But A, Iran did. Iran did. didn't pose a threat to us at all. They did not have a nuclear weapon. And on top of that, the only way that you can have a true revolution on behalf of the people is when it happens organically from within, not from bloodthirsty war mongers and war criminals coming in and bombing your country to smithereens. And luckily, Iranian Americans, the majority, realize that that's true, that that's the the case, okay? 66% of Iranian Americans do not agree with what the United States is doing

in Iran right now. But too late, by the way, the media, the scumbag media in the United States that silenced the voices of Iranian Americans who disagreed with the United States engaging in this war, those people, we didn't hear from them, right? You would think that every single member of the Iranian diaspora here in the United States is like that Elica Labon lady. They're not. They're actually a minority among the Iranian population here in the US. But it's weird, we didn't hear much from them, did we? That weird frizzy-haired lady, like we saw her endlessly. Is she really the only representative for the Iranian people? Turns out she She represents a minority, but we would not stop hearing from her.

I wonder how she's feeling today. How do you feel about the fact that your people are being bombed to smithereens right now? That an incredibly important bridge just got bombed, that the energy infrastructure in Iran is now being threatened. How do you feel about that? How do you feel about the elementary school that got bombed? I'm sure you told yourself all sorts of cute little stories about no, it must have been a missile from Iran.

Yeah, the Iranians bombed their own elementary school because I'm a more. moron who would believe that, even though Iran doesn't have Tomahawk missiles, even though they don't have that military capability, wouldn't kill little girls as part of some sort of false flag operation. Israel typically does that actually. But we're not done with Trump's speech, unfortunately. Look, if you think you've learned or you're gonna learn anything new from Trump's speech, you're sadly mistaken, okay? Because he doesn't know what he's doing. And by the way, anything he does say, how are you even gonna take his word for it? The man is a liar and he always does the opposite of what he says. So when he says we're not there for regime change,

he probably realizes that he can't accomplish regime change. So he was giving up on that. Now, what his goals are? What are your goals? What are your goals? What are you trying to do? You're telling us that you defeated Iran. You defeated the regime. At the same time, you're whining and crying to our NATO allies about how they're not helping us with this war. And also, why are we there then? If we defeated Iran, why are we there? How are people not like enraged by this? That's the thing that really gets to me. I get the boomers who watch Fox News.

It's like a steady drip of Fox News garbage that they're consuming. And they don't get the other side of the story yet. They don't get any accurate information at all. Can't wait till those people are gone, just keeping it real. But it might be too late at that point. Totally destroyed this country. Fox News is a disgrace. Anyway, even though the Iran war is already slipping past,

the administration's initial promise of a four to six week long war. By the way, I thought we were ahead of schedule. See how you can't really believe anything that comes out of Trump's disgusting mouth? Trump pointed out that other wars, some of them disastrous, lasted for much, much longer. Oh, great. I think that's a hint that this is going to be a very long war, actually. Let's take a look. American involvement in World War I lasted one year, seven months, and five days.

World War II lasted for three years, eight months, and 25 days. The Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days. The Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, five months, and 29 days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight months, and 28 days. We are in this military operation, so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries for 32 days. And the country has been eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat. Why are we there?

Iran wasn't a threat to the United States to begin with. So why are we there? Why are we there? Why are you asking for $1.5 trillion to be sent to the Pentagon to fight these wars? Why? I'm gonna read a comment from one of our members because Savage Lou might be mistaken about my views in the lead up to the election. Savage Lou says, so you accept the fact that Kamala Harris ran on being pro war, thus allowing

Trump to posture as anti-war. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. In fact, that was one of my top criticisms of Kamala Harris, the fact that she was campaigning with freaking Liz Cheney and neocon. And you wanna know what happened when I would do that commentary, how it was like, Trump is is gonna win, he's positioning himself as anti-war and Kamala Harris is literally campaigning with Liz Cheney. He's gonna win, this needs to stop. And people attacked me. People attacked me and said, oh, you're defending Trump, you're rooting for Trump. Those people, if you're

watching, F you, okay, F you're addicted to losing. You're addicted to losing. You run the, I cover for, pathetic, loser Democrats camp. That's what you do. You love losing because you prop up the worst Democrats that can't even beat someone like Donald Trump. So as elections heat up, I want to be clear with my audience. If the Democrats are effing up, I'm gonna talk about it. And that doesn't mean I support the other side or the other candidate.

It's because you should be willing to call out what the flaws are, so you have the best chance at winning the best chance at getting the best candidate elected in the primaries. But if you're interested in doing the cover up stuff, oh, it's a Democrat, so I'm gonna provide cover for their mediocrity, their depravity, their dumb strategies, their love for war. I'm not with you, I'm not on your side. I think my values are pretty freaking clear here. So if there's any Democrat that's gonna go around campaigning with the likes of some disgusting neocon, they don't have my support. And I'm not going to be ashamed of saying that they don't have my support. Because what good is a Democrat if they're the same as a Republican war monger?

Anyway, immediately after the speech, Trump claimed that this war was an investment in the youth of America. This war, by the way, has already jeopardized U.S. standing on the planet, on the globe. I don't know what happens after this war, but we are not going to be considered the top superpower. I can promise you that. China loves every minute of this. Hey Ontario, come on down to BetMGM Casino

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When we come back, if I can stomach it, maybe I'll get into some other highlights or low lights of this pathetic speech. But there's other news that I'd rather get to, so we'll see. I'm a very stable genius. Let's get to it. David Meister says, US Army Chief asked to step down. Yes, I freaking forgot to get to that. So thank you for reminding me.

I was too furious with everything that I totally slipped my mind. But yes, the US Army chief was just asked by Pete Heggseth to step down. Likely because maybe he's putting brakes on the car in some way, shape or form. By the way, I don't put it past the US and Israel to nuke Iran. I don't, I don't put it past them. I certainly don't put it past Israel. Okay, Israel does not care about human lives other than their own at all. And by the way, even when it comes to Israelis, if you happen to be an Israeli that doesn't

want to get with their program, they don't care about you either. So I don't, we're in a really scary place guys. I'll read more of your comments when we get back. To the show everybody, I'm gonna read a few comments from our viewers starting with Constantine Kaviris who says, Anna, how do you respond to accusations that you have I have a strong bias toward the truth and moral decency. Thank you for writing that. I was like, oh boy, let's wait and see what this is gonna be.

What's the accusation? But I appreciate that. We also have Josh D. 8787 who says, I'm happy that there are people like you fighting for our country, speaking honesty and truth. I think there's a lot of bots that when you attack, no, no, the people who attack me on the left are not bots, they're actual people, their personalities. And they attack me when I criticize. Democratic candidates who don't share our values.

So like, why am I going to support candidates who don't share my values? I don't care if they're a Democrat. So like, I just, I need, this is it, this is it. There's no more playing, okay? We should have been far less tolerant of these garbage politicians earlier. But now we don't even have a choice. Like, I see some of these Democratic politicians operating as if, like, like the next election is going to play out how other previous elections played out,

where we're just going to hold our noses and just accept, oh yeah, he's terrible candidate, but I mean, it's a Democrat, so it'll be much better. No, no, we're in a lot of trouble. We don't need, you know, warmonger light. And they're not even really warmonger light when you think about it. Look at what Biden did. Look at what Biden did. Biden paved the way for this to happen.

Biden could have put a stop to this. Biden could have decided, you know what? No more weapons for you, Israel. I'm going to use the leverage we have as the United States of America to end the slaughter in Gaza. But he didn't do that, did he? He didn't do that. So I want to read one more comment because it's for whatever reason bothering me to some extent, because it's just not true.

One of our members wrote in and said something along the lines of, but Anna, you accept that Mag is a cult and they all love this war. No, I don't accept that. Now, Trump does have a pretty significant portion of his base that immediately they went from, oh, we're pro war to, oh no, Trump loves war, so we lick his boots, we love war, we love war, we're so afraid of Iran. Yes, those people exist. They're total stooges, they're pathetic, they embarrass me.

But there's a significant amount of people who voted for Trump and have totally turned on him, and maybe if we have time later, I can show you the videos. Those elements were prepared for the last segment, but my rage kind of took up most of the time, apologies for that. But we got to move on to this next story because I want to talk a little bit about, you know, oddly enough, some of the more moderates, moderate people in the Iranian regime keep getting killed. You know, the people that our government is apparently trying to negotiate with. Fascinating. I wonder why that keeps happening. Take a look. As we celebrate this progress, we think especially of the 13 American warriors who have laid down

their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran. Twice this past month, I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base, and it's been something I wanted to be with those heroes as the return to American soil, and I was with them and their families, their parents, their wives, the husbands. We salute them, and now we must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave, their lives at every single one of the people, their loved one said, please, sir, please finish the job, every one of them. And we are going to finish the job and we're gonna finish it very fast.

Well, as you just heard there, Donald Trump, our president sadly, is essentially arguing that the 13 service members who have been slaughtered as a result of a war that we got dragged into on behalf of Israel wanted it. They wanted it. They desperately wanted it. That's what he's doing to justify the unjustifiable deaths of our service members who didn't fight to protect our country. They risked and lost their lives on behalf of a disgusting genocidal country that we're

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Kent, who resigned from the Trump administration, weighed in on this. It didn't seem like he was very happy about it. He says, we do not honor our fallen by getting more of our best men and women killed in the Middle East. We honor our fallen by learning from our past and only shedding American blood in defense of our nation. The best time to get out of a war of choice is now before we lose more lives. And by the way, we know of 13 service members who have come. perished. There is some indication that we're not being told the full truth. There's some reports percolating right now indicating that White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is

urging Trump and his advisors to be honest with the American people about what's going on here, how many people have died. So brace for impact. Someday we're going to find out. Commenting on the speech overall, Saga and Jetty, one of the hosts for Breaking Point, and a conservative commentator wrote the following. Let's take a look. Trump's speech, too long, didn't read. Mission kind of sort of may be accomplished. It's just embarrassing, man.

It's so embarrassing. But right now, no one in the conservative media space appears to be more furious with Trump than Alex Jones, of all people. So we showed you a video of Alex Jones, like freaking out about Trump just yesterday. But apparently he's not done yet. And I'm kind of enjoying this. So let's take a look. This is a bloodbath politically.

And you've got the coterie of influencers just sycophantically. Oh no, sir, everything's great. And he's surrounded by literal Jonathan Pollard Israeli spies. And he's groveling to them on TV. And they're at the White House calling him Jesus. Trump has lost is mine. Absolutely, folks. We have to admit this to somehow have an intervention, getting back on course.

I know all the white, I know a bunch of White House insiders and they're privately, you know, don't you quote me, but God, no, he just starts screaming at people now and he doesn't want to hear anything negative and all he listens to is Mark Levine. He basically sits in Mark Levine's lap. Agreed? What? Yeah, I agree. I agree.

Nice name drop for Jonathan Pollard, trader to the United States that Mike Huckabee was cozying up with at the U.S. Embassy in Israel. Disgusting, disgusting. But, you know, luckily there's more of that from where it came from. Let's take a look. Trump was hitting on all cylinders the first six months of administration. And then he made an abrupt turn as soon as Elon left. And things have just gotten worse since then. and now we are seeing foreign policy of five, six contradictions a day by Trump,

lies, or he's out of his mind. Either way, it's a disaster, I don't know, total cuckoo town. But what we know is the globalist behind this are advising him, and they want a worldwide financial collapse to consolidate control that has been their main North Star mission. And what have I been saying before he got reelected? I said they're gonna try a new virus, but people are aware of that, so that probably won't be it. It will be a war. It will be Iran and or both Russia. Yeah, the conspiracies is real.

Okay, I mean, the war, the genocide was ongoing in Gaza, and there was really no indication that Trump was going to be any better than Biden, especially with, you know, Miriam Adelson, buying that little whore for 200 million. dollars. Like was there any indication that Trump was going to be better than the Biden administration as it pertains to Israel? No, of course not. So there's no like, there's no conspiracy here, okay? The conspiracy happened a long time ago. Israel has occupied our government and that's been going on for a very long time. That used to be considered conspiratorial, but it's the truth and people are finally saying it out loud. I mean, Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone was condition to believe was just like a disgusting depraved pedophile was working on behalf of the Israelis, working out deals with freaking UAE.

It's insane, it's insane. And then you get a sense of like, yeah, that's probably why there were so many cover-ups involved in the Epstein case. Anything for Israel, anything. Ugh. But you know what, I give Alex Jones credit. I can't believe I'm saying that, I almost feel like dirty saying it, but what, he said there was true. And the Trump administration should be called out for doing the exact

opposite of what Trump claimed he was going to do in his second term. Now, he's a pathological liar, so people who have been privy to his lies previously knew what to expect. But I don't think anyone expected him to be as vicious, as depraved, as greedy, as selfish, and as bloodthirsty as Trump really is. He's certainly incompetent, that's for sure. But that's the least of his problems. So there you have it. You have some people speaking out against Trump, including those who worked real hard to get him elected.

Tucker Carlson happens to be another one of them. The real question is, what comes next? Because I don't see a way out of this war. I don't see a happy ending. I certainly don't see victory for the United States. But Israel wants it to keep going. How do I know that? Well, they keep killing people who might be able to negotiate for an end to the war.

And that's actually what I want to talk about next when we come back from the break. Stick around. Comments from you all, Killjoy in our member section says, I think he's going for the uranium. He's, so that would be like that along with invading the islands, either Karg or Keshem. Dumbest, dumbest possible thing you can do, literally. Okay, have the IDF soldier. Is Israel so worried about the uranium, which they're not. Okay, this is all a cover story for what they really want, which is regime change.

But if they are really worried about the uranium, they should go get it themselves. Okay, those IDF terrorists, they should go there and get it themselves. Ugh. He's bringing in a lot of high end special ops, but not really enough to take the islands. These people are gonna get killed. Eclectic miscellaneous says, it is literally insane that the Christian fundamentalists are lining themselves up behind a guy who can't even cite one Bible verse. For many of them, it was never about God, it was always about power and money.

They're lunatics, okay? They're scourge on society, they're disgusting human beings. As a woman, I feel a lot of pressure to not be angry all the time, to be smiley and agreeable, but it's so hard to do that. How do people do that? How do people absorb everything that's happening in the world right now? And just, okay, I know what society expects of me. Let me be a pleasant, smiley woman.

It's so impossible to do. Let's go to Dav Mill, who says, I listen to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. My take, it could go either way, maybe seven to, depending on how much weight they give history. Birthright citizenship wasn't a policy until FDR, 50 years after Wong Kim Ark. I listen to the hearings too. I have the sense that they're not buying the arguments from, you know, Trump's lawyers, but we'll see, we'll see, I don't know, we live in hell, so just expect the worst. Josh writes in and says, I'm happy that there are people like you fighting for our country,

speaking honesty and truth. I think there's a lot of bots, oh, I read that already, I apologize, but let's move on. I do want to talk about this story having to do with just the ongoing sabotage of diplomacy that's being carried out by the Israelis. And it just keeps happening again and again and again. Here's the latest example. They want very much to make a deal. We'd like to make a deal too.

We're going to get together today by probably phone because it's very hard to find a country. It's very hard for them to get out, I guess. But we'll at some point very, very soon meet. If it goes well, we're going to end up with settling this. Otherwise, we'll just keep bombing our little hearts out. Who is Steve Wilcoff speaking with, Mr. President? A top person.

I don't want them to be killed. Okay? I don't want him to be killed. In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $24.50 an hour. Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields, like software development and information technology.

Learn more at about amazon.ca. A lot of times President Donald Trump says the quiet part out loud. And as you heard there, in late March, he disclosed that the U.S. was negotiating some sort of peace deal with an Iranian diplomat. But he didn't want to name who that diplomat was because he didn't want him to be killed. Now, who would kill him? Other than the Israelis, of course. And I bring up that recent history to give you the latest news. Because today we actually learned that Iran's former foreign minister,

gentlemen by the name of Kamal Karazai, was severely injured in an Israeli attack on his home on Wednesday. Now, he was severely injured. His wife was killed. But this is an individual who was seen as a more moderate member of Iranian society. He's a former, you know, member of the IRGC. And there were some claims that he was working back channels to see if there could be some talks to end the war. But Israel doesn't want to end the war. So they decided to strike his home.

The New York Times reported this morning that he was, again, moderate politician who was attempting to organize talks between the United States and Iran. Two Iranian officials say Karzai had been overseeing engagement with Pakistan for a possible meeting between Iranian officials and Vice President J.D. Vance. You can't have that. Israelis don't want peace. They're looking to expand their borders, duh. Peace means that the regime stays in place. And the regime challenges their expansionist policies.

So we got to get rid of them. Now, of course, the IDF isn't risking its lives to fight a country that actually does have a formidable military. They're not suffering the consequences the same way the innocent civilians are suffering consequences. I mean, there's, I think, so far, 24 people who have been killed in this war in Israel as a result of retaliatory strikes from Iran. But over 2,000 innocent civilians have been killed in Iran. And there's more to come. There's definitely more to come. Because that's what Israel does, with the help of the United States, of course.

Bloodthirsty warmongers, and it's never enough. It's never enough. So the real question is, you know, did Israel do it? And the U.S. just stood by and let it happen? Or is the U.S. just fully lying about seeking peace negotiations? or are both things true? Honestly, all three of those options could be possible. But last week, several media reports quoted Karzai saying that Iran had not shut down all avenues for negotiating and was open to possible indirect talks.

Now, he said that after he had said that there was no room for negotiation, no room for diplomacy. Now, after the United States sucker punched Iran yet again in the middle of negotiations, yeah, that's how I'm sure government officials, members of the regime, politicians in Iran felt. No, there's no room for diplomacy. But this guy started to warm up to the idea of engaging in talks again. And I guess once Israel caught wind of that, well, obviously we got to bomb his home. Got to kill his family members. But they didn't kill him.

He's severely wounded, severely injured, but they didn't kill him. They'll try to do it again, though. I have no doubt. You can bet money on it. Now, this is a big deal because he had previously told CNN, this is what he previously said before saying, you know, there's room for negotiations, there's room for talks. Soon after the war had launched, he told CNN, Trump had been deceiving others and not keeping with his promises, and we experienced this in two times of negotiations.

that while we were engaged in negotiation, they struck us. That's the kind of dishonesty, this administration has engaged in, which we will pay consequences for. Because if you can't be trusted, then other countries aren't going to want to make deals with you, whether they're economic deals, trade deals, or deals about alliances when it comes to issues of war and peace, deals about how to end wars, when to end wars. We are a country that can't be trusted. It's embarrassing. It puts us at a significant disadvantage.

Now, of course, recent history shows that Israel intentionally targets and kills peace negotiators. They've done it two previous times in Iran. But how can we forget about what they did last year in Qatar? This was when, you know, Qatar was mediating peace negotiations, a possible ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Now, the United States had essentially pleaded with Qatar to have Hamas or host Hamas in their country in order to allow for these negotiations and these talks to happen. And unfortunately, the Qataris paid a heavy price for that. So according to Nick Ters in The Intercept at the time, the Qatari foreign ministry said that Israel targeted a residential complex where senior Hamas politicians lived.

Qatar agreed to host an office for Hamas at the request of the United States to facilitate peace talks, Qatar officials have said in the past. An unidentified senior Hamas official told Al Jazeera that the attack occurred while a team was discussing President Donald Trump's proposal. for a ceasefire in Gaza. And by the way, I mean, why do the Israelis even bother killing, you know, the negotiators and the more moderate members of these groups? Why would they even bother? It's not like they abide by ceasefires anyway. They didn't abide by the Gaza ceasefire.

They're still killing innocent civilians as we speak. They certainly didn't abide by the ceasefire in Lebanon. They carried out thousands of strikes after agreeing to a ceasefire. They're never held accountable for anything, yet they make themselves the number one victims in the world. It's amazing. It's amazing. They're constantly held at a lower standard. They get away with literal murder. And then they cry about how they're hated. Yeah, you're hated because you kill innocent people and you steal land. That's what Israel is known for. People feel free to actually say it out loud for once. But it's the truth. This is who you guys

are. This is what you represent. It's like going around punching people in the face and then asking Why don't people like me? You guys are vicious animals. None of the intended Hamas targets were killed, but the opportunity to secure a ceasefire was jeopardized, which is what the Israelis wanted, of course. This was the attack on Qatar. Now in response to those strikes, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, put out a statement.

And this is exactly why Israel loathes the UN. Because the UN will put out statements like this, and they don't like that. Who knows, maybe they'll start bombing the UN soon. Who knows? Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them. Israel's strikes on negotiators in Doha on September 9th was a shocking breach of international law, an assault on regional peace and stability, and a blow against the integrity of mediation and negotiating processes around the world.

The attack violated the right to life under international human rights law. They don't believe that anyone has a right to life unless their Israeli and agree with the Zionist project, of course, and the principles of international humanitarian law. Okay. So far that we know of, and I think this is an underestimate, but nonetheless, officially it's been agreed that 72,000 people have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israelis, more than 2,000 people have been killed in Iran since this war began on February 28th.

The death toll from Israeli attacks in Lebanon has risen to 1,300. And I'm not even talking about the death toll prior to the so called ceasefire. I'm just talking about the latest invasion that Israel engaged in. So that's beginning March 2nd of 2026. They managed to slaughter almost 1,400 Lebanese people in a month. Who cares? Not a big deal. They're so disgusting.

And 13 of our soldiers are dead for a war that we are fighting on their behalf. So that's where we're at. So before I bring Waz in to talk about Pam Bondi's nasty ass getting fired, let's talk a little bit about this. Well, for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things, they can do it on a state basis. You can't do it on a federal. We have to take care of one thing, military protection. Oh yeah, oh yeah, you heard that correctly. Your tax dollars shouldn't go toward making your life better.

in government programs that you fund. No, no, no, no, no, don't expect that. Your tax dollars should just fully be used for military activity that oftentimes is carried out on behalf of a foreign country. That was the President of the United States telling the American people that they can F off. Are we winning yet? So Trump does want to spend this money on military in wars, which is why he has asked Congress

to allocate more than they typically allocate for defense spending for the Pentagon. Usually it's around a trillion dollars. Now he wants 1.5 trillion dollars. You guys feel good about the fact that we live in a military state, I guess, where all, like this is theft of our resources. Okay, this is the government stealing from the American people on behalf of a foreign country to fight their wars. That's what's going on here. But we should talk about how much economic pain the American people are in for, how our government has no intention of helping us as that economic pain absolutely destroys our lives, and make no mistake about it. This now world war that we're engaged in is considered a world war because the entire

globe is impacted by the fact that the United States was stupid enough to believe Israel and engage in a war against Iran on their behalf. So let's get to the details of that economic pain, shall we? it's gonna get worse, but let's talk about where we are right now. Don't expect the government to help you. So comments from US President Donald Trump in a Wednesday evening national address warned of further military aggression against Iran in the next two to three weeks, dampening hopes for an imminent de-escalation in the conflict and driving oil prices up more than 13%.

Higher oil prices means inflation everywhere, in every sector. including food by the way, I didn't even know myself that a third of the world's fertilizer comes from the Middle East and is transported through the Strait of Hormuz. So there is going to be an increase in global hunger as a result of this war. Prices at the grocery store are going to be a lot higher. Price that you pay at the pump, it's already a lot higher, it's going to get worse. definitely going to get worse. And so Trump basically said that the war will continue, which is sure to damage more oil and gas infrastructure. Let's take a look. We're going to hit them extremely

hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong. Now prices eased a tiny bit following reports that Iran is working with Oman to draft protocols for monitoring transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Look, I'm just going to keep it 100 with especially our European allies. Okay, I would personally reach out to Iran and say, okay, let's make a deal. Distancing ourselves from the United States, let's make a deal, please. We'd like our tankers to pass through without getting attacked. What is the toll? What would you like us to pay? We need to increase the energy supply. So if we can do that by just going around, the United States, which is a belligerent, bloodthirsty country, and I'm talking about our government,

not the people, just cut the US out and immediately go to Iran and see if you can work out a deal, because the US isn't going to help you. In fact, Trump said he's not going to help you. Trump literally told our NATO allies, oh, and you want the oil, go get it yourselves. Okay, great, then go get it yourselves. Obviously don't exacerbate war. Only idiots would do that. And unfortunately, our government is full to the brim with idiots. Our secretary of war is a literal wife abusing alcoholic who was a weekend anchor on a freaking cable network that's viewed by boomers in their 70s and 80s. So yeah, I would go around the United States and I would try to find a way to negotiate. I would, you know, consider diplomacy in this situation wherever you can consider it.

So price is eased a tiny bit after, you know, Iran started working with Oman over some sort of protocol situation. A translation of IRNA's report said that tanker traffic in the key shipping channel, meaning the state of, straight of Hormuz, could resume if supervised and coordinated by the two countries, according to Qasem Gharabadadi, that's Iran's deputy foreign minister of legal and international. International Affairs, U.S. West Texas intermediate crude futures for May were up 10%. So I went from 13% to 10% at $110.202.2 a barrel as of 1133 a.m. Eastern time today. Giles Alston, who happens to be a political risk analyst over at Oxford Analytica, spoke to CNBC about all of this, and here's what Giles had to say. It's becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. position on what you do to get your oil out of and through the straits of Hormuz is now something which Washington has largely washed its hands of. This is now something for those who take

oil through the strait to sort out for themselves. Yeah, so even this fancy, schmancy political risk analyst agrees with me. Yeah, you got to go around the United States and just go straight to Iran and see if you can negotiate some sort of deal. That's what our allies, or supposed allies, this is how we treat our allies are supposed to do. Nonetheless, Trump refuses to take any responsibility for any of his screw-ups. Everyone knew that Iran was going to close the Strait of Hormuz as the only real leverage they have. That's where their power lies.

And that's exactly what they did. And nonetheless, Trump is playing stupid about it. Take a look. Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home. This short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons.

They will use them and they will use them quickly. And on top of that, he's delusional to boot. One year, we've taken a dead and crippled country. I hate to say that, but we were a dead and crippled country after the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far with no inflation, record-setting investments coming into the United States over $18 trillion and the highest stock market ever with 53 all-time record highs in just one year. It all positioned us to get rid of a cancer that has long simmered.

It's known as the nuclear Iran and they didn't know what was coming. They've never imagined it. The price of oil per barrel was $73 prior to this stupid war that we got dragged into. It is now $110 a barrel. And why don't we take a look at the performance of the S&P 500? You're to date, you're to date. Wow, a lot of red there. A lot of red there.

Fascinating. Down 6.65% year to date. I guess we're winning too hard. So tired of winning. I'd like to lose. If this is what winning looks like, I'd love to lose. It'd be great if we could lose Trump. Anyway, we got to take a break.

No, no, one other thing. One other thing. Oracle just announced that they're laying off 30,000 workers. You want to know how they let their workers know that they're being laid off. An early morning email, no call. People who had worked for Oracle for 20 years got an email letting them know you're done. People are you get mad at me for, oh, supposedly doing a meme of that disgusting Larry Ellison. He is the worst of us, absolute scum.

And the fact that all of the commentary about me covering a story having to do with him wanting to surveil all of us, had to do with like, oh, oh, she did a gesture that looks like a meme that's anti-Semitic. You're gonna focus on that, but you're not gonna focus on the fact that piece of crap wants to surveil every single person with his technology. He wants us to live in effectively a surveillance police state. This is how he treats his workers. If you were far more concerned with my gesture, you're also scum. Anyway, let's take a break. We'll be right back. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?

rich and powerful men abusing, assaulting, and abandoning young women. These rich and powerful men donate to the politicians in Washington, D.C., play golf with the elites in Washington, D.C. They are foreign leaders who we don't want to offend. They interact with our intelligence agencies that we don't want to disobey. There is something rotten in Washington. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? All those congressmen you just saw there are on the record as, protecting the child rapists who were clients of Epstein. They have not prosecuted a single person outside of Epstein and Maxwell.

Yep. Not one. Is Trump engaging in this cover up because he's in the Epstein files? I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. So as the government keeps telling us, yeah, there's other people. Yeah, they rape those girls. So what? We're gonna cover up for them. Why are you guys so mad? A nation that chooses impunity for the rich and the powerful at the expense of our children is a nation that has lost its moral purpose. Are you on the side of the people? Are you on the side of America's children?

Or are you on the side of the rich and powerful who've had their thumb on the scales and shafted Americans for decades? The rest of the news media says you should not fight for positive change. If you do, you're not really a reporter or a journalist. because reporters and journalists don't care what happens. I don't agree. That's not written anywhere, that's not a law. It's just a rule that they invented so that reporters didn't actually challenge the people that are in power.

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I thank you for that. I was going to introduce myself, but it sounds like you guys might know it. You can't stand these young people. Get them out of here. Dude, I miss you so much, Waz. The other day, I'm like, I haven't done the show with Waz in forever, and he needs to come back on. So same, man. I was beginning to think we got problems.

I'm like, damn. And why the congresswoman from the Bronx? No. No. Oh my gosh, you know about that drama? Yes, yes. Several different group chats sent that one to me. Unrelated.

It's amazing. Okay, well, hopefully people are on my side for that. But anyway, Wazzy Lombie joins us, everybody. You guys are all familiar with Waz, and I'm super excited because, I've been in an angry mood today, just with everything that's been going on. And there's something about you, you're like a ray of sunshine, and you always make me laugh. So I'm putting a lot of pressure on you to lighten things up for me, okay? Well, I mean, there's always, it's not that much pressure.

There's always something to laugh at if we can avert our eyes from, you know, the many horrible things that are going on in our world. Absolutely. So, okay, let's get started with something that's maybe not so horrible, although the replacement for this person is pretty bad. And we're going to talk about Pam Bondi because she has been demoted. And typically I'd celebrate, but in this case, it's kind of hard to do it. You'll understand why in just a minute.

So let's get to the details. Pam Bondi is officially out as the Attorney General under the Trump administration after bungling numerous high-profile investigations. It appears that President Donald Trump has moved to fire Bondi from her current role as AG. And this is according to a scoop over at Fox News. Take a listen. Kaylee, I just got off the phone with President Trump. We have a big scoop. Pam Bondi will soon leave her job as the attorney general.

She is going to get a different job within the administration. It doesn't sound like there is any bad blood between her and President Trump, but it does seem like they want her to go and do something else. And in an interim role, she will be replaced by Todd Blanche, who is currently her deputy at the Justice Department. Todd Blanche is a bit of a problem. Todd Blanche is the person who met with Gilane Maxwell, if I'm not mistaken, for that secret meeting where some sort of deal was made.

And she was immediately moved to a low security facility where she gets to play with puppies, even though she is a child groomer and rapist. But before we get to the details on that, Was, what do you think about all this? I think we've moved into a new phase of Donald Trump's presidency. If you guys would remember, this is very early on in Trump 2.0, I forget the fat guy's name, but he's the one that leaked the secret signal conversations to Jeff Goldberg of the Atlantic. Yes.

And it was so obvious that this dude should be fired. And Trump was so gung-ho about not firing everybody. this time around that he just kind of demoted them and moved them into a new job. His whole thing was like, we're not going to give the Libs scalps this time. But I mean, I think that's gone out the window. Like now it's like, all right, Christy Noem, she's out of here. Pan Bondi, now she's out of here. I think that's just a signal that we've moved on to a different phase of this Trump presidency. Well, the Christy Noem thing, you might be able to argue that that was a little bit of a win for

liberals, right? Considering how horrible she, I mean, she called Americans who were gunned down by federal agents terrorists. She called the victims terrorists. Insane. And so, and then, you know, she's been in the news a lot lately for other kind of embarrassing reasons, which I don't want to get into it makes me uncomfortable, but if you want to look into it for yourselves, please do. When it comes to Pam Bondi, though, she had been taking a lot of heat from Trump's base because, you know, there was one of the things that she was supposed to do, but she bungled and that was, you know, transparency with the Epstein files. Now, she made the mistake of thinking that Trump wanted her to be transparent about the Epstein

files. And then she learned very quickly that no, Trump would like you to engage in a cover up of the Epstein files. And so I'm sure that he was a little salty about that. But I think he's even saltier about the fact that Pam Bondi hasn't been able to secure. any successful prosecutions of his political opponents. I think that's the real reason why Trump wants to get rid of her, which makes me worry about what Todd Blanche is going to be up to. What do you think about that? I mean, it's hard to be too worried about this stuff, Anna, the cases that they've tried

to bring so far I've been so cockamamie as to be laughable. Like Trump's own judges are throwing all of these cases out. like the Comey thing. It was like, what are we doing there? Tisha James, like, wait, what? She already fixed the paperwork where she said she, this was her primary property and she was helping out a family. Like, all of these cases were trash.

So I don't know what Todd Blanche is supposed to do with more trash besides eat it. I don't think he's going to be any happier by bringing Todd Blanche. I honestly think Anna, like Trump has always been this way and he was more trigger happy in the first administration, but he just sees his underlings and subordinates as people to throw under the bus. You're useful in so much as when something goes wrong and I can take heat off of myself, I'll throw you under the bus. Look at Elon Musk in the Doge situation. When he stopped being useful, Trump stopped cutting Tesla commercials, he threw him out. Do them under the bus. And I think everybody in the administration is on notice.

Rubio, Hegsef, they're disastrous atrocities that they're carrying on in Iran. Those guys, they need to start getting their resumes polished because they're next. No, they need to be in prison. Heggzeth in particular. He needs to be in prison. He's a disgusting war criminal and should be tried at the Hague. But nonetheless, apparently, you know, CNN reports that sources claim that Trump had frustrated with Bondi on multiple fronts, including her handling of the Epstein files,

and that she had not investigated or prosecuted enough of his political opponents. So, you know, I'll give you a few examples of individuals that Trump really, really wants her to go after or wants his attorney general. By the way, let me just be clear. Things that aren't normal have been normalized, namely the fact that the attorney general is not supposed to be the president's like hit man. You know what I'm saying? Or hit woman. The AG is supposed to be independent of the president.

But we live in a world now where the AG does not act independently of the president and works at the behest of the president as opposed to prosecuting cases on behalf of the American people. So when Bondi was called into a judicial committee hearing in February to address her department's handling of the investigation into Jeffrey. Epstein, she decided to redirect questions to the stock market. So I think this alone made her deserving of firing. But by the way, she isn't being fired. She's just kind of being moved around in the administration. I guess she's going to serve in some other role. We don't know what

that role is going to be yet. But I mean, she should probably retire because she made a fool out of herself and this country by doing this. He is the most transparent president in the nation's history. And none of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years, one word about Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that? You know why? Because Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow right now, is over, the Dow is over, the Dow is over

$50,000. I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader, as I hear Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000. And the NASDAQs smashing records, Americans 401ks and retirement savings are booming. That's what we should be talking about. Isn't she embarrassed? Like, and it's not just about Pam Bondi, all of the people, people who humiliated themselves publicly to kiss up to Trump. And then he just threw him away, threw him under the bus. And it just keeps happening again and again. But people line up to be humiliated anyway.

Like is it a kink? It could be a kink. I don't know. And if it's a kink and they want it, then okay, enjoy. I can rub one out later if you want, I guess. But like, it's so humiliating. Like I can't imagine raising like Tulsi Gabbard's another example. So she's been sidelined allegedly, although I never really bought into the notion that she was anti-war to begin with.

Okay, but now there are talks about her getting the boot as well. So do you feel good about yourself, Tulsi? You got humiliated badly by this man by an incompetent, like orange buffoon. I just, is power that, I guess, desirable that people are willing to risk being humiliated like this? No idea, but she does it anyway. So there are other politically motivated lawfare cases that Trump might want his new attorney general Todd Blanche to get involved in. One matter drawing Trump's attention recently was an investigation into whether

former CIA director John Brennan made false statements to Congress about a years old intelligence assessment of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Can we please just move on? Can we please move on, please? I'm begging you guys. It's been 10 years. Look, I get it. The Democrats effed up big time.

there was nothing there when it came to Russia collusion in the 2016 election. And I'm embarrassed that I ever bought any of it. Okay, that was embarrassing for me. At least I'm willing to have enough self-awareness to say I messed up by taking anything that these people had to say at face value. But putting that aside, can we move on? Can we please move on? And more importantly, here's a real question for you, Was. I do think that Democrats are going to take over at least the House after the midterms. Are you at all worried that they are going to squander their time in control of the house with endless investigations that are going to go nowhere? Man, I mean, there's no doubt they're going to squander it.

I think it's just to what degree the squandering is going to happen. I think it's a mistake. I think it would be a mistake to not bring Pete Hedgeseth up for prosecution and haul him up to Capitol Hill and explain to people. why they were shooting fishing boats in the Caribbean, claiming that guys with cocaine were terrorists. Or guys with fish, much less were terrorists and just carrying out extra judicious killing. I mean, they gotta do something about the just general criminality. Maybe you let Trump, he's all these fat eats, a lot of McDonald's. He'll be gone anyway.

Maybe you let Trump himself ride off into the sunset, but his little underlings, you know, Steve, Even Miller and these other guys, they need to be dealt with. I agree. Like, I don't see how you let some of that slide. Now, the Russia, Russia, Russia, and, you know, some of the other stupid stuff they like to do, I think it's in terms of like Trump's corruption and the bribes, I think you need to just move on from that when it comes to Trump specifically. But I think the underlink should be free game.

I totally agree. People should be scared to go along with this stuff. People should be forced to resign before they go along with just outright criminality in these jobs. And so to me, I really hope, because even when they get the house back, because that's the first thing they could do. They got subpoena power, can put people under oath. And folks should be forced to answer some Elon and all of these clowns, like all of the Doge people, all of those guys should be hauled up. Everybody who's not Trump, I think should be fair game, Anna. Oh, I totally agree with you on that.

I mean, Pete Heggseth, I would put at the top of that list. You know, I mean, bragging about slaughtering innocent people. The gloves are off. So now we get to kill school children. Oh. Make it make sense. Like, and you know, you know what's so crazy to me, Anna, like, listening to these guys talk, specifically Hegsef, because you mentioned him and how they talk about war.

this idea of might makes right. I remember, you know, as we were watching Israel prosecute their genocide in Gaza, I was like, man, all these civilian deaths, I don't see how this is any different from al-Qaeda logic. You know, you call people terrorists all day, every day. I don't see what they did on 9-11. It's a different logic from what you guys do in Gaza. It's the exact same thing. You know, like, oh, the CIA was in the Twin Towers. So we should, we should kill 3,000 people. people for it. You know, they actually targeted the Pentagon, a military, you know, operation or whatever, a target, excuse me. Like, when I listen to Peake, Seth, to me, it's rape logic. It's like, I want it, I take it. It's like the logic that people use when they old lady

purse snatch. Like, how could that be the message that we want to send to the public? Like, Well, what about what Trump had to say? What about what Trump had to say about Cuba? He was being questioned, I believe, by Caitlin Collins of CNN. And he was just like, they're very weak. I'm just gonna go in and take it. I'm gonna take it. Disgusting.

Disgusting. Disgusting. Just seems like a crazy logic to be expressing to, you know, a public. It's nuts to me. And I understand, you know, during Trump 1.0, the Dems and the lives got annoying about norms and all this kind of, you know, foofy stuff that got on everybody's nerves. I understand that. But like, we got to just call it what it is.

Like the ideas that these guys are espousing, if taken to its logical conclusion, I'm just telling you, like a rapist could say the same thing. Like literally, I want it. I took it. It's bad. All right. Look, we're going to take a break. When we come back, we're going to lighten, we are going to lighten things up.

because while I was away, Adam Sosnik got into a debate on Pierce Morgan's show with someone who actually reads and is a history buff, and that's Dave Smith. It was a cringe fest, and if you thought that was a cringe fest, oh, the follow-up to it is even better. We'll be right back. To the show, Callie Millie writes in and says, Iranian-born here. Anna, thanks for calling out slash debating the 30,000 protesters, getting slaughtered by Iran, the diaspora, especially in Los Angeles, are exiles from 79.

They don't have much family in Iran. They don't mind bombings, horrible. Yeah, I know, I know. And they are not representative of, I said it during that story, and I want to say it again, because it's important. Just because the media props up those voices, you shouldn't think that they're representative of the entire Iranian diaspora in the United States. 66% of them do not want this war with Iran.

But you wouldn't know that because they're not represented in the media at all. None of their voices were represented. So you get this impression that all the Iranian Americans love the war. They're calling for the bombings. No, that's just not true. And it sucks that most of the diaspora that loves the bombings happens to be right here in LA. Anyway, let's go to some more of these comments. Daff Mills says to avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Socrates, stand strong from one who often disagrees with you. I couldn't say nothing if my life depended on it. This is what I do for a living. I'm going to read some more comments when we come back from the break. I'll see you guys there. Obviously with this ongoing war, there are also going to be some issues with supply chains. And Lord of Hamstrings Glory wrote in to let me know about their experience ordering something recently. I ordered a coconut sugar package and it's not arriving until April 9th and I have Amazon Prime on top of it.

So that's so there's that impact already happening. Imagine the cost of international meat and flour. It's now time to impeach him into oblivion. So there's going to be more and more cases like this. A story that I saw a little too late to produce for the show today, but you should know about it and maybe you guys will cover it for tomorrow's show. The Washington Post reported that Trump is now threatening drug companies with 100% tariffs if they don't lower their drug prices. Now you might think, okay, then they're gonna lower their drug price. I mean, you'd be foolish to think that's how it's gonna play out. The way it's really gonna play out is we're just gonna pay more for drugs.

Okay, that's what's gonna happen. Or there's gonna be shortages of pharmaceutical drugs, something that we experienced during the COVID pandemic. people needing life-saving medication are going to have a hard time getting it. He's just a really bad leader. Let's just put it that way. Okay, but we're not going to talk about that in this segment. We're actually going to lighten things up and talk about this. I'm asking you, how do you think you did?

I think I did fine. My intention wasn't to play nice. Some people are messaging me on my neck. What do you think? I don't know, people are saying stuff. And I'm listening to a song called, Ain't nothing going to break a must run. Ain't nothing going to slow me down. And that's how I feel about this.

I said, sure, I'll debate Dave Smith. Listen, there's no doubt that Dave Smith is smart or wise or well read. Hey, what are you going? Be professionals. That's not all I handle debates. Was, I'm curious if you're familiar with Adam Sosnik over at the PBD podcast. I'm not familiar with his game. Obviously, the boss, the co-host.

I've been seeing clips of him for years, the Bad David character, but I'm not familiar. familiar with his robin, if you will. Okay, well, it does seem as though he's a little bit embarrassed by his Robin. Let's just put it that way. And I would be embarrassed too. I don't blame PPD because Adam Sosnik made an absolute fool out of himself during a debate against Dave Smith on Pierce Morgan's program. Now this happened last week while I was away and I hated being away because I wanted to talk about this on the show.

TYT did cover it, but for those who missed that story, I want to give you just a little taste of how that debate went down. So why don't we actually start off with what apparently riled Sosnik up about Dave Smith. And it was about something Dave Smith said in a previous debate about what the US really signals to the world through its foreign policy. Take a look. The IDF is the worst terrorist organization in the region. Let's get real. The United States of America is arguably the worst terrorist organization in the world. If you want to look over the last 25 years, how many innocent civilians we've slaughtered.

You're saying the United States is a terrorist organization. You've already lost the debate. You live in America, tough guy. You have the luxury of sitting in your little studio with your hooded sweater. The regime. Like you're 17 years old, the regime. You mean all American president? I'm 17 years old.

Who's your favorite president in the last 50 years? Adam, I'm 17 years old. What's your last 15 years old? I have a wife and children. Who depends on you, Adam? Your mom? Okay, I also have a significant other. So you want to go personal?

You have a significant other. Dave, we can go as personal as we can go. No, I'm trying not to. We can go as personally respond to one thing. I don't care, Dan. Adam, some substance. I don't care. I know because you don't know anything.

You're a radical. Move on. So stop picking a fight with me, dude. You don't know anything about anything. I'm just going to pause for comment from Waz. Your mom, I like, it's juvenile. But it's so good. It's so good.

It's so good. For me every single time. Who depends on you? Your mom? Okay. Okay. He didn't like that one. He didn't enjoy that one.

No, of course he didn't. You could see it in his face. It's so good. I've like watched that clip so many times. Okay. But look, Dave Smith, to his credit, he, look, sometimes I get really upset at myself because I can't help myself and I'll throw the first jab. Dave Smith is not that guy. He never throws out a personal attack or a jab like that. So if you watch the full exchange, Adam

Sosnick is like making fun of the way he's dressed and like stupid stuff like that. So if you're going to make it personal, and I know this, if I'm going to make it personal, I expect it to come back at me, right? Like I'm going to accept it and I'm not going to complain about it. In this case though, it's like, oh, you're making it, you're making a personal. You're making a person. You made a personal first. So yeah, you should expect that. I mean, typical Israeli, right?

But later, Dave Smith in this exchange with Sosnik, decided to explain why he considers the United States. You know, a country that carries out terror. Let's watch. What I made the point, and I've made this point a million times on your show, peers. I'm saying when people come on and say Iran is the biggest. state sponsor of terrorism. Well, just like, give me an objective definition of what terrorism means, and then let's apply that standard universally. And if you're going to sit here and say, look, America has given billions, tens of billions of dollars to the IDF in the last few years.

We've also, by the way, given a lot of weapons and money. Your first guest on this show there, the head of the Obama deep state, was using al-Qaeda bin Ladenite headchoppers on the ground in Libya and in Syria. And yes, Adam, I would also consider it when our policy, politicians lie us into wars that slaughter millions of innocent people and in many cases target those innocent people, I consider that terrorism as well. I mean, here's the thing. When you get an argument like that and you have no idea, like you are way past your depth, like you have no idea what you're even talking about.

And I'm talking about Adam in this case. How do you even respond to what Dave just said? Because Dave relies on irrefutable facts to make his arguments. He relies on history. He's a guy who seems pretty obsessed with reading about history. He's very well read. I might disagree with him. I mean, he's a libertarian.

I disagree with him on economic policy. There's no question about it. But on foreign policy, he is very good, and it's because he's well read, and he actually cares about this issue. He's very passionate about it. Adam Sostick, I don't know what he's an expert in, but it's definitely not foreign policy.

I've debated him on a few different occasions, and it's like debating with a wall that has that has props and will insult you. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I mean, it's just the guy is clearly out of his depth. And again, if we just apply, that's what I love about what Dave said. If we apply the definition of terrorism equally and without bias, then there's no way you can't add the United States in the category of states who have sponsored terrorism.

I brought it up on previous episodes, but folks should really look into the Contras in Nicaragua. Yes, yep. Like, you want to talk about, like, these guys were doing public hangings, public executions. They killed priests and nuns at orphanages. Like, we're talking about terrorists. There's no doubt about it. And we were so freaking gung-ho about armed. about arming these guys.

We sold guns to the people in Iran, to the mullahs in Iran. We were selling crack cocaine in South Central L.A. to fund the weapons we were giving the Contras. That's what we were doing. That's what we were doing. Yeah. Actual terrorists. The freaking guy who's running Syria now that the ultimate boogeyman in the history of life,

according to, you know, the State Department in Israel, Bashar al-Assad, is literally a former al-Qaeda leader. Like, I'm not making this up. This guy literally, literally is al-Qaeda. Yeah, yes, that's exactly right. He was trying to kill our soldiers in Iraq. Literally. And he was welcomed.

Trump rolled out the red carpet, El Jalani. Yeah, for him to come visit. David Petraeus was like, y'all, remember we hooped together. They play basketball together. Like, dude, like, we got to stop with this. This like whenever I keep hearing this, Iran is the biggest state sponsor. It's like by what definition? All right, you want to talk about, you want to call the Houthis and, you know,

Hezbollah terrorists. I don't call Hezbollah terrorists. I think that's exactly 100%. But I'm like, okay. And you can point out to anything that they've done. They probably committed some atrocities. I would never take that away from them. Apply that same standard to us to Israel.

to Saudi, what these guys were doing in Yemen. I mean, good God almighty, you want to talk about indiscriminate bombing campaigns. And we were sponsoring that. That was us. That's exactly right. Dave Smith is like, like, it's not even, it's incontrovertible. Like, you can't even come up with an argument against the truth here. If you can just say, well, wouldn't we do it?

Because we're the good guys. All right, you sound like an idiot. But you have to actually caveat that statement by saying, well, we're good guys. If you just apply the logic and the standard indiscriminately killing civilians for political gain or for political cause, come on guys, be serious. So even though, I mean, look, obviously it's difficult to debate a guy who knows what he's talking about when you know nothing. And so lucky for Adam Sosnik, he had a few tricks up his sleeves. Now there are two things that he loves to do. Number one, use props to distract.

He's thrown a tampon at me in the middle of a debate before. That's the kind of guy he is. Didn't distract me by the way. But he also likes to, you know, deflect, distract by pointing to other things that aren't even related to the discussion or debate at hand. And so he did that in the next. clip I'm going to show you. And then we're going to give you the update how PBD responded to all of this. Take a look. Because this is where I lost respect for you as a debater. Because I was like,

oh, this guy, Dave, he actually knows some stuff. He's doing his thing. And then you showed up on Coleman Hughes podcast. Pierce, do you know who Coleman Hughes is? I do. He's been on the show. I've been on the show with him. Perfect. Perfect. That's this guy right here, just in case. If the camera doesn't see. But what is the point you're making? A new kid beat the crap out of the bully. And here's what happened with Dave. He's out there just doing his little podcast thing, debating like you said, Ben Shapiro and 19-year-olds.

And then all of a sudden, this whole conversation about Wesley Clark, and I saw him on your podcast about a week ago, Pierce, and this memo, here you go, Dave. Remember this memo from Wesley Clark that you used to cite everything? This is adorable. Yeah, that is adorable. Okay. When do I get to response?

is based on some memo. Well, I'm sorry. Your whole foundation is based on some memo. Adam, I'm not quite sure what is the point you're making. The point is this. Dave has zero credibility at this point. Dave has zero credibility at this point. You don't really get to decide that.

And he ran into somebody that completely bullied. What audience? The four people to show up to your comedy show at the hot. The hot. The hot. He's such a dork. Oh my goodness, the ha ha ha. No, the audience that's watching right now, the audience that's watching right now, and, you know, massive audience that watches Dave's

show and people like us who are watching this debate and analyzing it and laughing at you. Those are the people who are gonna decide. I mean, to be honest, Anna, the only credible way to defend any of this is just a literal just might is right. whoever stronger should subjugate the weak and that's what we do and that's what makes it right. There's no like morals, strategic. Yeah. There's no actual defending it at this point. It doesn't exist.

Like even like Bill Maher who's like, man, it was so funny. He's complaining on his show and he's like, you know, the Democratic Party, it's like a litmus test to not be down with Israel. Good. And the next sentence out of his mouth, he said, this is where Jews are at with the Democratic Party right now. Okay. I was like, wow, man. Okay. Listen. Wow. There are, by the way, polling indicates that the majority of American Jews, not down with the war against Iran. Yeah, so please, please don't lump in all Jewish people with the Zionist people who like can't get enough. you know, war and what money for Israel, war for Israel, everything for Israel. Like Bill Maher is actually a really bad guy. He is, he's a really bad guy. Because like he doesn't care, like here's here's the argument he made when I was on his show.

Oh yeah, where in the Middle East can you wear that dress? I mean, I could have worn it in Beirut that's being bombed right now by the Israelis. There are plenty of places where I can wear a dress in the Middle East and not worry about, you know, theocratic rule coming after me. He wanted me to basically say, oh, Tel Aviv, I would feel safest in Israel. I would not feel safe in Israel. Are you kidding me? I get the most threats from Israel about killing me.

I get photos of weapons from the IDF talking about how they're going to use them on me. They're the most like bloodthirsty people I've ever had the displeasure of having to experience any interaction with. So no, I would never, I would never step foot in Israel. I wouldn't. Never, I have no interest in it whatsoever. I would rather go to freaking, I don't know, name a place that's considered unsafe. I'll go there first before I would step foot in Israel. But with all that in mind, let's go to what I would literally hang Jank for if he did it to me. So if I had a really bad debate, which doesn't happen often, you know What Jank would do, Jank would try to cheer me up. That's the kind of person Jank is.

Okay, he is a deeply decent human being. And he'd be honest with me, like, okay, you can improve a little bit here and there, but don't sweat it, you'll do better next time, okay? He's such a good person. And he builds people up. And that's what I really love about him, and that's why I'm so loyal to him and I've been here for such a long time, because I can trust him, and I know he's not gonna throw me under the bus. Now, I don't know, was going through Patrick Bet David's mind when he did this, but he did decide to ambush Adam Sosnik live on their show for a little bit of a spanking, okay? And it was amazing. So I can't show you the whole thing. It was 18 minutes long, but here is the highlight. What is your impression on

how you did on the debate with Dave Smith? Well, despite what you think, I haven't listened or watched any of the internet comment zero. Like I have, like I don't go onto Twitter. I don't, uh, check the comments. It's just not something that I do. Some people are messaging me on my neck. What do you think? I don't know. People are saying stuff. And I'm listening to a song called, Ain't nothing going to break a must run. Ain't nothing going to slow me down. And that's how I feel about this. I didn't see you making arguments on Dave Smith. And the reason why I'm doing this with you openly and I'm talking to openly with you is there's an element of also representing where you're coming from, where the expectation is, hey, what do you go and be professionals? That's not how I handle

debates. I don't handle debates that way. That's not my MO. So if you're close to me and you're handling it that way, that is not my style. I don't do, I don't do stuff like that. And Dave and I don't even agree on some of these issues. If my private feedback that I'm giving doesn't land and it feels like you have immunity to go run around and say whatever you want to keep saying, I don't give what people say. I do. Adam just took him. He just took it. I'd quit live on air. Like I don't, I would just quit. There's no way.

You got an issue with the way you have a problem with my behavior, my conduct, and how I'm representing the company, that's okay. You can talk to me about it. You don't ambush me on air with that. And he just took it, like bent over and took it. It was amazing. It was amazing. Yeah, maybe he knows that he was actually as trash as we could obviously see that it was.

And, you know, some of the bluster has to wipe off when the guy's right in front of your face. And he's your boss. And he's just like, bro, don't be a scrub. Or just don't do these debates. How about that? That's the right answer. That is the right answer. I don't know why he keeps doing these debates.

He gets his ass handed to him every single time without fail. And I'm not exaggerating. Go look up Adam Sosnik debates. And if you want to debate, like debate someone on your level, like a five-year. I would imagine, though, on these things that he's debatable. people about any. He doesn't know anything. He doesn't know anyone, excuse me, obviously he doesn't know anything. He doesn't know anyone or isn't close to anyone who is on the other side of this stuff. So when he leaves those spaces, he's not talking to any other people. Like,

you know, like I have Jewish friends who are on the, not necessarily like, oh, let's blow Gaza to smithereens, but they're like, well, you know, we kind of do need our state to be Jewish. You know, I don't agree with them. And they might be like, man, it's hard for you to understand. And my parents and grandparents and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, cool. I know people who have that opinion. Obviously, they know where I'm at.

Where do they live? But I know people in America. Oh, do they feel unsafe? No. No, they don't. Oh, okay. Hell no. Not in the goddamn valley or Beverly Hills or the upper west side.

Or anywhere in the United States of Manhattan or Boko of Rattan. I mean, God damn, it's not unsafe. Yeah, but they need the Jewish state. They need it, yeah, got it. I mean, I don't think that they would say that they themselves needed what the people over there do. Why, the people over there, you mean the people who moved there from Brooklyn and Eastern Europe? They need it. So, is Brooklyn unsafe for them?

Dude, it's crazy too, and I watch some, like, because you know, they're doing the state censored media where, You're not allowed to really see the damage that's being afflicted on Tel Aviv and, you know, others in northern or southern Jerusalem. I mean, southern Israel and all that of the stuff. Or northern Israel, excuse me. Yeah, from Hezbollah. Hezbole has been attacking. Yes. But like, man, the stuff that you do see and the sirens going on.

Seems pretty unsafe, no? Like, why would anybody want this? I wouldn't want to live there. How could this be like the best option of how to carry on over there? How do you feel safe when you're running into your shelter several times a day because your government is obsessed with war and expanding your borders? How do you feel safe? How is that safer than the United States or any other place you came from?

They don't do that in the Upper West Side. I know that for a fact. If anybody's ever been to Southern Florida, man, I'm telling you, Volker Raton is nice. It's beautiful. It's so beautiful. I'm telling y'all, man. There ain't no bomb shelters over there. True.

I swear to God. True. Beverly Hills with the Persian Jews. Foo! Remo. They're doing real well. There's no sirens. They don't look scared at all.

They don't look scared at all. Yeah. They're having a great time at Mastros. I'm telling you all. All right. You did it, was. You cheered me up. Okay.

We got to take our last break. When we come back, we're going to show you how Sean Hannity treats our veterans. It says, Anna, you say boomers with such disdain. No, there was a qualifier. I said Fox News viewing boomers. I see you. If you're a boomer, you're watching us.

You can stay, okay? You take care of yourself. All right, let's go to Metalhead C6, who says, hey Anna, I don't know if you saw, if you saw that video today on X in which little girls in Gaza are playing. a funeral reenactment with their doll. My God, what have we done to those little girls? I know I did see that video. Donnie writes in and says, hey, Anna, you get a lot of hate from the AOC cultists, but much positive feedback from the anti-imperialist left, like the ACP, who are the most radical on the issue given one of their top guys was in Yemen. No, I actually saw, And I was very, very happy, so happy to see this.

I saw plenty of people on the left who were calling AOC out. And that gives me hope. Okay, that actually gives me some hope for the future. Not because I have anything against AOC and I like, I want to go after her. No, because we should not be in the business of providing cover for mediocrity. Okay, we the people should demand more and have higher standards from our politicians. But you've seen that DS8 endorsement. She had the going record.

She did, she did. So pretty good. You're welcome, everybody. Special thanks to Titan of Olympus for gifting TYT memberships, five of them in fact. And we are going to have a member only bonus episode for our members today. You can become a member by going to t.yt.com slash join. We're going to talk about some of the trolling and memes that's been coming out from Iran. which I hate to admit it, to be honest with you.

I'm an American. I would prefer that America was killing the game when it comes to trolling and memes. But no, we're not, okay? The trolling coming out of the IRGC is pretty sophisticated and amazing. So I'm gonna show it to you and we'll talk about it. Real quick, just a few comments from our members. We've got Rose Orozco, I love your name. Amen, Anna.

I also wonder where all the real Christians are. Maister says, or Meester says, oh, I read that already, I apologize. Let's go to Mark Francis, who says the economic pain is going to hit average Americans hard. I mean, it was already hitting average Americans hard, and it's about to get even worse, thanks to the price of oil going up as a result of this war. But why don't we actually talk a little bit about the impact on our veterans and our soldiers, because as we all know, there's been a military buildup in the Middle East as a result of this war. And some of our veterans have been speaking out against it.

In fact, one of them called into Sean Hannity's show. Take a look. You're an it that I can't talk to you because you're an idiot. You're not very smart. I'm retired Air Force, Sean. I'm a retired Air Force, Sean, says the caller that Sean Hannity essentially called stupid. And Sean Hannity seemed to melt down, actually, after one of his radio callers. just had some feedback on the war against Iran.

And it was feedback, some thoughts, some analysis that apparently goes against Sean Hannity's magical thinking. And so Hannity got triggered as soon as the caller described the war as an endless war. Take a look. I would like to take a little bit of an issue regarding the endless wars. Okay. Now look, there is no endless war. What's the endless war?

Yeah, but that's what I'm trying to get at. Whether it's a short-term war or a long-term war, we're still fighting a war in the Middle East trying to nation build. We're trying to tell. We're not trying to nation, bill. That's not part of the president's goal. Okay, well, then, why do you take out so-called dictators or leaders in another nation, but they won't comply with what the U.S. want? Remember, this has been a joint military effort with the, Israelis, the Israelis are the ones that took out the tiers of leadership there. America's

goal has been very clear that they can't have nuclear weapons. That has been the number one, number two, number three, goal the president. I wish I could have been part of that conversation, but obviously I wasn't. But we might actually not have any interest in nation building per se, meaning, you know, destroying the country and then trying to like form a new government and all of that. I think we probably will stay out of that. We're just trying to destroy the country. And when it comes to endless wars, there is absolutely no question that this is going to last

longer than what Trump is trying to sell to the American people. And more importantly, you're talking about the nuclear weapons. I'm not worried about, no one's worried about Iran's nuclear weapons. No one's genuinely worried about Iran's nuclear weapons. It's all a farce. It's all a lie. Okay, Israel wants regime change or a failed state, and that's what this is really about. But we're going to keep like pretending like this is about Iran being a threat.

So there's a very real chance that Trump is going to send American service members into Iran to try to get the enriched uranium, which is like the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life. But he might literally risk their lives to do this. Now, is the United States genuinely worried about Iran attacking us? I don't think so. But Israel is. So if Israel wants the enriched uranium, send the IDF soldiers to do it. Why are we sending our soldiers to do it?

It makes no sense at all. But before I go to the rest of Hannity's meltdown over a veteran, an Air Force veteran, who I would venture to say knows more about war than Hannity does, as a helmet head talking about, looking ahead over at Fox News. I want to know what you think was. The dismissiveness kind of struck me, the way he's just like, well, we're not doing nation building. Yeah, because we don't do nation building anymore. We just destroy. We don't bother with the rebuilding part.

We just, you know, the Israelis have established a new way of warfare, which is just flat in the place, just ruin everything. Just bomb hospitals, bomb colleges and schools, bomb school girls, bomb paramedics. bomb paramedics, like break every single rule in terms of the rules of engagement and just ask questions later as if that's somehow, to me, that's even worse than what we did in Iraq. Yeah. In Afghanistan. Because say what you will about Cheney and Rumsfeld and all of these guys, they had a vision that they were going to build some capitalist utopia out in the Middle East and have these

institutions, just have none of the red tape that we deal with in terms of regulatory agencies and, you know, those little tripwires that we have here in America, their vision was to do something more capitalist utopic out in the Middle East. They were wrong. They were stupid. Millions of people died. Millions more were displaced behind it. But you could say like what they were trying to do had some, you know, level of high-mindedness to it. What these guys are And I like I don't get it. I just don't. What do you think?

It seems like destruction for destruction sake. Okay, at the risk of making this go too long. But I, I, I, you brought something up that kind of made me think about the Obama administration and what was done to Syria. So Obama decides to arm al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, these terrorist groups within Syria in order to try to topple. Bashar al-Assad. And that led to a failed state in Syria. Syria is a disaster. And it's literally being led by a so-called former al-Qaeda terrorist as we speak. I mean, you have Christians, Druze, you have all sorts of people getting slaughtered by the, you know, basically by the current government of Syria. So I guess Obama, to some extent, is even worse than what we got.

It's in the same, it's in the same vein, though. Anna, because the option of just leaving these folks alone can never be on the table. So what are your options then? It's in Iraq where you put a bunch of American troops on the ground. You occupy the place for 20 years. You spend trillions of dollars. And then the second that you leave, it was all literally for no reason. There's that.

There's the bombing campaigns like we're seeing now in Iran. Or there's the one that's close to what they did in Syria when you've seen them floating the, oh, we're going to arm the Kurds. So there's that third option where we just arm proxies and cross our fingers. I know, I know. So here's how Hannity, you know, proceeded to browbeat his own caller for questioning the war and its goals. The president ascertained with 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, which could be weapons grade in less than two weeks. coupled with what we now know is they have longer range ballistic missiles than we thought that that was an existential threat to the world and to the U.S., and he was not willing to allow that threat to grow.

Okay. That's what this is about. When that is neutralized, the president will leave, and we're on the verge of that happening, and you should be happy. That's not a forever war. Was it a forever war when he defeated the ISIS Caliphate, or did he do the right thing? Okay, Sean, I'm, first off, Sean. The answer my question, was it right for the president to beat the ISIS? Caliphate? No, it was not. Here's the point. Well, you're in it that I can't talk to you because

you're an idiot. You're not very smart. I'm retired Air Force. Sean. For our members only bonus episode today, we will continue the conversation, show you one more clip from that whole exchange and what Hannity had to say to his producer. TYT.com slash join and become a member. We'll see you all there.