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Could this outline be linked, be inked in Switzerland this weekend with the vice president of the United States? Let's debate that because we have to see what's happening. We know for two straight days the president hit Iran and it was strategic to take out their radar, their command and control center there. They did leave a lot of their missile structure into place. There were so many other targets to hit.
Remember, they need about two more weeks of 400 hits a day to finish. Show up their target list and then see where we stand. But the Arab nations, the Gulf states, evidently rallied to the President and they said, Listen, we could get Iran. We've been talking to them all along. Oh, isn't that nice?
And we can get a deal. We just need you to stop the war.
So the President's giving them some time. Mark Thiessen joins us now, as you know, Washington Post columnist, boxing contributor, and he's got a great podcast. Mark, your thoughts about where we're at.
Well, first of all, I want to make sure that you're able to get your butterfly refresher over there on the left coast. Uh 'cause I I wouldn't want you to not be refreshed. D okay, now I have to take a step back. The Butterfly Refresher is a new drink introduced by the Starbucks Corporation. It's a it's you can uh it's one of these things that gives you an option of lemonade or no lemonade.
Um and you by the time you're done, you do feel refreshed. I mean, they gave this to Calvestites, to children, and they noticed that children feel refreshed.
So now they're trying it on adults.
Now to try it on radio and TV talk shows. Good. Excellent.
Well, I'm glad you volunteered for it.
So I am full, I'm not, I didn't get a butterfly today, but I would not hesitate in getting another one. Go ahead.
Well, I'm glad you're enjoying it. I think they need some butterfly refreshers in the negotiating room because we're just getting exhausting. I know, it's the same story, but do you think this is different?
So I mean, Trump just put out a post on Truth Social just a few minutes ago saying that the reports in the media of what's in the what the Iranians are saying and that their deal contains is wrong.
So good, because that deal would be disastrous.
So I'm glad that's not the deal. But I don't know what it is. Here's the big problem that Trump is facing right now. He looks like he wants a deal more than the Iranians do. And he's defining victory as getting a deal, which means that the Iranians have leverage because they can either give him a deal or not give him a deal.
Right? And so if he defines for the American people success as being a deal, then they are in control. He doesn't need a deal in order to win this. In fact, I think he would be better off not having a deal. In this, we were we we stopped at the the ceasefire happened when we were on the five yard line.
We had taken out, we took out more like the 20-yard line. We took out 82% of their defense industrial base. We sunk their entire Navy. We've grounded their entire Air Force, Midnight Hammer, buried their nuclear dust so deeply that the Iranians have actually told us in the negotiations that they couldn't get it if they wanted to. We would have to come in and excavate it if we wanted to take it out of the country, right?
So we've done enormous damage, but eighty two percent is not one hundred percent. And they can rebuild it. And they're determined to rebuild it.
So we have to finish the job. We're at the 20-yard line. We need to get into the end zone. We have a specific list. Finn I don't know.
I honestly, I don't know because he's a deal junkie. He loves to make deals. He thinks that he d in his mind, success is a deal. And he wants to bend the Iranians to his will, and they're not bending. And so I think and the other problem is, let's say he got the perfect deal.
Brian, let's say they said, okay, we'll never have a nuclear weapon. You come in, you take everything, you dismantle our just like what we did in 2004 with Libya, right? We take it all, we put it on a U.S. military aircraft, fly to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Arab states say, this is wonderful.
We're going to join the Abraham Accords. We have peace in our time. What is the price of that? The price of that is giving them back their frozen assets. They're talking about a $300 billion fund for the reconstruction of Iran.
It's a lifeline to the regime. And when the regime, they are on the mat right now, and a deal would help them up off the mat and recover. And then they will, as soon as Donald Trump is gone, They'll just completely renege on it. And you think they're going to abide by any deal Trump cuts with President Gavin Newsom or President AOC or insert your nightmare Democrat into that? Do you think they're going to care?
No.
So you see, you don't want a deal. You want to crush them. Yeah. All right, I hear you. Here's what the President said on your true social post 28 minutes ago.
Is it? Wait, did you put it on Truth Social? Because this looks like it's old. The fake news media refuses to report how effective the U.S. blockade is?
Okay, maybe I need to be refreshed. I can hope you do. You have like a special Wi-Fi? Do you I mean do you do I mean are there people that you know? in SpaceX or something.
I just got it off the interweb.
Okay. All right, so we'll see. Because this this would did you see the story of how all the Gulf states rallied to the President, almost panicked and said, please could we stop this? I could deal with Iran, we'll get them to the table. Yeah, I just look, we started the combat operations again, but they weren't, and by the way, we kept Israel out of it.
We didn't allow them to participate. We were not doing leadership stripes. These were all combat, these were all military strikes designed to bring them back to the table. It's all about the deal. The deal is not necessary.
You do not need a deal to win. And this is the biggest problem we have going. Everybody's panicking about the effect of Iran on the midterm elections. You know what the effect of Iran is going to be on the midterm elections if we don't have a victory? That's what's going to hurt us in the midterm election.
Americans will if if Americans have been paying high gas prices now for several months, right, for what? They get nothing out of it. If we well, we get something. I mean, we've done some damage, but it's hard to understand it. If you if you unless we have a clear, decisive end to the conflict, then they're going to say I've been paying gas prices for what?
For a for the JCPOA redux? You know, that it doesn't make any sense. Politically, it doesn't make any sense. Militarily, it doesn't make any sense. And one of the things I've admired so much about Donald Trump until this moment is that he actually was, this was not helping him politically in any way, shape, or form, but he was doing it because he knows it's important, because he knows he's the only president who has the nerve to do what's necessary to stop the Iranian regime from getting a nuclear weapon.
And so he's like, politics be damned, I'm going to do the right thing for the country and for the world. But now it's like all of a sudden we're hesitating because we're getting close to the midterms. It's like, finish them, finish the job. Right. You know, they're still far away, but he's worried about his birthday, the UFC, July 4th, November 4th.
November 5th, if they try anything like this, that'll be a totally different story.
So I want to fast forward if I can to Ukraine. They want $20 billion and they say they could finish off Russia. They just need patriots. They're not even asking for drones. They're not asking for cash.
They want patriots and fad missile systems to be able to stop the rockets. Word is that in Russia, for the first time, they're not able to replenish their defeated forces and their dead forces, but they are planning for a winter hailstorm of missiles and rockets. Do you think Putin lasts that long if things continue like this?
Well, you know, it's funny. While we've all been focused on Iran, the Ukrainians have completely turned around the war in Ukraine. They're now on the offense. Last month, for the first time in a couple of years, the Russians had a net loss of territory on the ground. Ukraine has been firing deep into Russia.
They're producing their... One of the things that untold stories of this war is that Ukraine now has the most robust defense industrial base possibly in the world and certainly in Europe.
So there's a real easy solution. We've used a lot of patriots in the Persian Gulf. And we've given them a lot of patriots. We need to rebuild, restock. One of the things we do with Japan is we give the Japanese a license to produce their own Patriot Interceptors.
right?
So why don't we do the same thing for the Ukrainians? Give them a license, let them build the Patriot Interceptors, and as a price for that, they give us twenty five percent of whatever they produce.
So not only is Ukraine producing its own patriots, but they're refilling our stockpiles as well. And Americans are making money off the process. There's lots of creative ways to solve these problems. And that's certainly one of them. And we could be doing that with all sorts of weapons system.
Let's go into business with them. We're going into business with them in the minerals sector. Why don't we go into business with them in the defense industrial sector as well? Nearly home. Isn't home where we all want to be?
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Yeah, how do you feel about us pulling back a third of our Air Force from NATO bases? It's not a good idea. Look, I'm completely in favor of punishing the countries like Spain and Britain who are not helping us. But there are lots of NATO. Everyone thinks about NATO as a whole.
It's not a whole. It's a bunch of individual countries. And there were some countries who are reliable and some that are not. Romania has been fantastic. Poland has been fantastic.
Greece has been fantastic. There have been a number of countries that have really stepped up and helped us. Let's reward those countries. And besides, we don't need troops in Germany the way we did during the Cold War because we're not trying to stop a Soviet invasion across the Foldagap anymore. Those troops are there as a legacy of the Cold War and World War II.
Let's move them east, move them to Poland. Let's build Fort Trump. that we should we shouldn't be with I'm I'm completely in favor of having the Europeans take the lead on their own security, but we need to be there as well, and we need to move our forces east as a deterrent to Russia. Yeah, we'll see what happens because the president is going to the NATO conference. I was surprised at that.
So he's going to be over there in a week, so we'll see what he's going to say to our allies. I mean, they could have opened up the strait. That would certainly have helped instead. They said they might do something after the war is over.
So now the president stopped asking, but they certainly had the equipment to be able to do it. And we see that the UK has just had their defense minister resign because they would not spend on defense, and he could not be a part of it.
So this really is a tipping point for our allies and our enemies. They're going to view whether NATO gets stronger through this. Or gets weaker through this. And ultimately, he'll decide how to act. Although Russia, when they're done with Ukraine, will not be prepared to act many places.
So we'll see what happens. Here's what General Jack Keene told me this morning. Basically this, Qato. Even if they sign on a dotted line and we get everything we want on paper, what are they going to do in terms of implementation? They're going to stall it.
And that's what they're doing now. I got to ask you about the worst candidate in my lifetime, Graham Plattner. Shocker. He was on Tinder. He could have knocked me over with a feather.
I had no idea that he would leave kick for Tinder. Or he'd do both at the same time. How does he, no wonder his oyster production was so low. He spent all his time online. I mean, he made five, he's the worst oyster farmer ever.
He made $5,000 in oyster sales. I mean, he's got to get his pitch better. Oh, wait a second. You know who he sold it to? His parents' restaurant.
This guy's a total phony. And a danger. Yeah, look.
So a woman just came forward and said, yeah, he knows exactly what the Nazi tattoo is and all this thing.
So does this matter, though?
So I think we're all being very too hard. I think we're being too hard on Graham Plattner. Who among us in our lowest moment hasn't gotten a tattoo with the symbol that Heinrich Himmler had on his uniform on our chest? People make mistakes. I think we need to lighten up a little bit.
It's like there, but for the grace of God, go you, Brian. Yeah. Well, I know you're being sarcastic.
So does why does he get more money after this? And do you think that and do you think that Susan Collins is going to have her hands full with this candidate?
Well, yes, because first of all, this is the best candidate Susan Collins could have drawn if she created one in a laboratory to run against. But we also saw what happened with Jay Jones in Virginia, where he had a guy who's running for chief law enforcement officer of the state of Virginia and literally wanted to see his opponents' children killed, right? And that wasn't disqualifying, and he won with the votes of suburban women.
So, nothing is disqualifying anymore in politics, as far as I can tell. But, you know, yeah, this is this is Maine is always hard. Susan Collins almost never wins a poll and never loses an election.
So, so, you know, I think she's got a very good shot, but it's always competitive. And this guy could be in a United States Senator.
So, this is this is a, you know, a guy who is on an app that the National Center for Sexual Exploitation on Sexual Exploitation called A Predator's Paradise. There's no reason to be on this app that is benign.
So, you know, what was he doing there? We need to know. Mark Thiessen, that's a cliffhanger. What was he doing there? What is he doing anywhere?
I have no idea. Mark Thiessen, thanks so much. Starting a business can seem like a daunting task, unless you have a partner like Shopify. They have the tools you need to start and grow your business. From designing a website to marketing to selling and beyond, Shopify can help with everything you need.
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