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Just, you know, just like the NATO alliances are an ally and we have shared interests. Not all the interests are the same, but we broadly have, you know, we are both, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. It shares our values, and it's important that we stand together.
So I'm just, as usual, we watched the vice president come out of the meeting and said, good news. We made progress. Weapons inspectors, the IEEA, are going back into inspect and evaluate their nuclear program. We tried to call the inspectors at 2 o'clock in the morning. We weren't able to get anybody, so we're going to work on that today.
And then a representative from Iran says, we never agreed to that. Yeah. Part of me doesn't want to nitpick everything that happens, and I'm sort of holding back and like watching to see how this process plays out. But the problem we have is that we've lifted sanctions on Iranian oil, right?
So Iran is selling oil right now. We've lifted the blockade, we've lifted the sanctions, and so they are getting hundreds of millions, possibly billions of dollars in revenue that's going to pour into the regime that is helping them lift them up off the mat when they haven't given us anything. They haven't done anything yet to deserve it. I mean, you know, they've opened the straight. First of all, they shouldn't have the say whether the strait is open or not.
It shouldn't be a weapon that they can wield to close or open at their will. And second of all, they haven't made any concessions. You know, I mean, they do say in the memorandum of understanding that they will not have or build or procure a nuclear weapon, but they've been denied. That they want a nuclear weapon to begin with. I mean, you know, one of the things that we should do once we have a deal is they should have to admit that they were pursuing a nuclear weapon and give us all the details, all the bomb plans, and everything else as part of a deal.
So, you know, I don't, I just, I look, President Trump has done more than any president in 47 years to set back the Iranian nuclear program and to fight, frankly, set back the Iranian regime. This is a country that's been waging war on us for 47 years. Terrorist attacks from the taking of the hostages to the marine barracks bombing, all the way through the Kobar Towers, the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. You go through it to the assassination attempt in Washington, D.C., where they're going to blow up Cafe Milano. They've been killing Americans, launching attacks on Americans, and America didn't fight back until Donald Trump became president.
So he deserves enormous credit for that. Here's General Jack Keene on what the president should think about cutting on. The nuclear enterprise has got to go. We don't need to get into the details of the specifics. And to do that, I believe he's got to have United States.
Military and civilian nuclear experts on the ground, executing his goals and objectives here, and the IAEA supporting that. They should be there because they have so much experience there. But we have to make certain that the President's goals are being achieved here, not somebody that's not related to the United States' objectives and goals here, and that's going to try to work between Iran and the United States. No. It's got to be exactly what we're talking about here.
And it has to be anywhere. And any time.
So that's true. These are all conditions. But now we have Iran denying that we're even allowing inspectors in. Yes. I mean, Jack Keene is right as always.
You're always safe to say Jack Keene is right. That sentence is almost always correct. And look, if the what we've accomplished In Operation Between Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury, we have absolutely decimated the Iranian nuclear program. Their nuclear dust is so deeply buried that the Iranians have actually told their negotiators they can't reach it. We would have to come in and excavate it to get it, right?
Their centrifuges have been destroyed. Their conversion facilities have been destroyed. The nuclear scientists are dead. All the rest of it.
So the goal now, having done all that, is to lock in those gains and make sure that they're irreversible. There are two ways to do that. You can do that at the negotiating table, or you could do that through military action. The president obviously wants to do it through negotiations. The problem is, as weakened as the Iranian regime is, they're not chastened.
Just look at their behavior. This is not the behavior of a government that feels like it's been defeated and that it's weak. And so they are defiant still. They're doing the minimum they need to do in order to get the ceasefire. But I don't see them behaving in a way that they are good.
This is not the Japanese on the deck of the USS Missouri signing their surrender document. And so we're going to have a hard time getting these concessions from them. Right. Talks reportedly now talking about the region, Lebanon ceasefire arrangements, communication channels to prevent escalation, maritime security in the Strait of Hermuz, and deconfliction mechanisms among the parties operating in the region. Among the people who think that's a good thing I like to play your Jack Keen bites, is General Jack Keene.
He thinks that this is. Uh a good move to have in deep confliction. Why don't you just have Jack on instead of me?
Well, it's a very good idea. I was thinking about it to let you know that if I could not get his number, there you go. Here's cut 11. It's likely a step in the right direction. A couple of things we have to recognize, though.
Iran doesn't have a claim here, Larry. This is Lebanese citizens under the guise of a terrorist organization, Hezbollah, that Iran resources. and the country of Lebanon.
So it's it's the Israel who is being attacked. right on their border. Hezbollah, who's doing the attacking, and Lebanon, the country from which it's coming from. And that they have to be the principles involved here. Yep.
So here's the problem with what we've done.
So apparently, Israel is not part of this deconvliction group, right? And what's fundamentally problematic about that is that the way they're negotiating this It's like Hamas is Iran's proxy, and Israel is an American proxy. And we're the two states that negotiate and we control our proxies. Israel is not our proxy. Israel is a sovereign democratic state that is trying to defend itself.
The only proxy here is Hezbollah, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Iranian regime that is attacking Israel and using it, and quite frankly, illegally occupying parts of Lebanon. Lebanon wants them out. Right? Israel wants them out.
So Whose sovereignty is being violated here? Hezbollah has no business being in Lebanon, period, full stop. And they should be, if Iran wants to have a peace deal and wants to make Lebanon part of the process, their role is to pull Hezbollah out and disarm Hezbollah.
So the president loves that oil is going down, and who wouldn't? To 70-something in the 70s, okay? And 65 is the threshold where the oil and gas companies say can't go any further or else it doesn't pay for us to drill and sell.
So, okay, we're getting close to that threshold. But do you believe the sixty once we get to sixty days, it starts working more and more towards Iran because of the midterms?
So I think they know that the problem is, I think Iran certainly feels that way. The president says he doesn't care about the midterms. And truth be told, if the midterms were driving his thinking, then he would have never started Operation Epic Fury to begin with. I think it's one of the most courageous decisions any American president has made in my lifetime. It didn't help him politically in any way.
He just did it because he believes Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon. But as you get closer and closer to the midterms, it becomes less and less likely they were going to be taking military action. And Iran knows that, so they're trying to extend the negotiations as long as they can. But then that ends. There are going to be midterm elections, and after that, the president has a completely free hand.
So I think they may be misplaying their hand because they think they have more runway than they do. I talked to Senator Tim Sheehy on Fox and Friends yesterday. Such a great interview. Thank you. He said there's two things I don't like about the, and there's a lot, but two main things.
He goes, I don't like the Pakistani involved. I don't like Qatar's involved. Because I see Qatar, I see a country that plays both sides. Financing terror. And when I see Pakistan, I think of a country that housed bin Laden that allowed terrorists to stage in Pakistan and go and kill people in Afghanistan.
Do you think it's wrong to think that way? No, I agree with him 1,000%. I mean, Pakistan, you know, AQ Khan was like selling weapons, nuclear technology all around the world. You know, if we're going to bring in all the bad players, why don't we bring North Korea into the negotiations, too? You know, so yes, and I believe that.
Because Trump loves this guy, because Trump has said great things about the. Field marshal. He loves a field marshal. Look, Trump is somebody who likes to deal with, he likes to deal with the bad actors and befriend them and to influence them. And so he's not afraid to talk to anybody.
So I think that it doesn't surprise me that he wants to work with them. And if he thinks that they're useful to the process, then he's going to engage them.
So, you know, he's looking for a neutral arbiter.
Well, we come back. I want to talk socialism. I want to find out where you stand. I don't know. Like, you might be for it.
Don't give it away. This is a tease. Mark Teason. Is he for socialism? Will he be voting in the Democratic primary today in New York City?
That's not even a good teacher. You're not from New York. In fact, I am. Honey, what are you listening to? Mom!
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Abolishing ice is on the ballot. And we have a world to win because when we fight That is Claire Valdez, and she wants to win because she wants to abolish ICE. And she also wants to defund Israel, does not want any support for Israel. This is some of the people that are on the ballot. It is Mondami against Hakeem Jeffries Martees, and it's significant because these are established Democrats.
You're not going against. I don't, I'm not bringing up Republicans. Yeah. They got three. Jeffries got three.
Mondami's got three. They do not fear this would be maybe this next speaker. Yeah. So in Brooklyn.
So, my favorite mayor growing up in New York City was Ed Koch. And Ed Koch famously said when he lost the mayoral primary, they said, Mr. Mayor, will you ever run again? And he said, No, the people have spoken and they must be punished. Right.
And that's how I feel about New York today. Go for it. You want to just elect a socialist slate? You know, have at it. It's terrible for New York.
I feel badly for all my friends who still live here, but great for the Republican Party because you're going to drive more and more people out of New York. They're going to take their money, they're going to take their capital, they're going to go to red states, and you know what they're going to do? They're going to take their congressional seats and their electoral votes with them. After the 2030 census, there's going to be a hemorrhaging of electoral college votes and congressional seats from New York and California and Illinois to Florida and Texas and other red states.
So, you know, she may get elected to Congress, but then they're going to have to have redistricting, and she might lose her seat because so many people have left New York.
So, yeah, because it's just not going to have as many seats.
So, what about Brad Lander, this guy who ran for mayor and says, okay, I don't have to run for mayor. I'll just step over if you'll support me running against Dan Goldman. By the way, Goldman, pretty much as left as it gets, a brutal Trump critic. Just doesn't hate Jews. He just doesn't hate Jews because he is one.
One of the reasons probably doesn't like that in Yahoo. But listen to what Brad Lander believes in Brooklyn, Cut 26. And our solidarity, it doesn't end at the Hudson or at the Potomac. Our solidarity stretches out to Cuba and Venezuela, and it stretches to Gaza, where we're. Shot to show solidarity with Palestinian kids who can't go to school because our taxpayer dollars paid for the bombs that destroy them all.
That's why everyone on this slate is committed to signing on to the Block the Bombs Act. And not to send one more dime for Netanyahu's wars. Alex solidarity. All right.
So he's a clown. But can you believe he's reaching out to Venezuela?
Well, so this is so this is how you know he's a moron: is that the line in the Democratic Socialists is that we're democratic socialists. We're not like Cuba. We're not like Venezuela. We're not like the communists. Like we're different than them.
And so, you know, he's just, he just said the quiet part out loud, which is that they're just, all these people are just communists. You know, from each according to his ability to each according to his needs, that's Mondami's economic philosophy. That's straight out of Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto. These people are communists.
So Jeffries is supporting Dan Goldman, and Mondami's back candidate, that guy, that clown Brad Lander, has got almost a double-digit lead.
So he's got to unseat this guy because he likes Israel. And then he was denied coffee by a barista that doesn't like juice. And says that he's genocide supporting.
So I mean, this is unbelievable that I mean, I'm not going to bat for Dan Goldman. I think he's I think he's a senator that's just a partisan senator, but wait nobody thought he wasn't liberal enough.
So, this is Jeffries losing. He told him not to do this, and he did it anyway.
So, this is, again, this is what I would call the Momdani fallacy, which is taking over the Democratic Party, which is look at the energy Momdani and the Democratic Socialists are bringing to the party. We need to replicate that energy all across America. Like, yeah, that works in New York, which is possibly the bluest city in America. It certainly works in Los Angeles, where you've got like, you know, the left fighting far left for the mayor's race over there. But it doesn't work in, it doesn't work in Minnesota.
It doesn't work in Wisconsin. It doesn't work in Georgia. It doesn't work in North Carolina. It doesn't work in Nevada. You're not going to win swing states by going outlefting.
I want you to bring it to Maine because Susan Collins finally did an interview yesterday and talked about Plattner. He's one of the most despicable candidates I've seen in my lifetime, CUP 32. The number of scandals keep going on each day. To me, one of the most appalling is his making fun of a Purple Heart recipient who had been wounded by the Taliban, is lying on the war field, and he ridicules this individual. Another example is his treatment of women in general, and also his opposition to law enforcement.
On all those. Just this way in. I mean, what kind of opponent is this for Susan Collins?
So first of all, it's the greatest opponent she could possibly pull. She must be very happy that Grant Plattner is her opponent. But also, think of it. In Texas, they were just telling us we have to vote against Paxton because he's an adulterer. And now they're saying we have to vote for the adulterer because Susan Collins is such a threat to democracy that we have to do what we have to do to get rid of her.
She doesn't even barely votes with Donald Trump. Thanks a lot, Martise. You seem very nice. Thank you.
