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Charlie Kirk Today | Bob Harward: March 5, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | March 5, 2026
- Let's get
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- Into the senate race because this was the big one.
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- And, there's a lot going on, you know,
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- On the ag house races, we get that, but let's go.
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- Let's go to this, john cornyn looks like he eked out
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- A victory over ken paxton.
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- We endorsed ken paxton.
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- But the big story here, blake, is it's hard to overstate
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- How much of a david versus goliath story this actually is
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- Spent, approximately, what, $60 million?
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- Well, i've seen 60. i've seen 75.
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- I've seen 105. it depends.
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- Huge amounts of money. either way.
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- They massively spent, to keep cornyn in office.
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- I would say cornyn has to be one of the republicans
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- Who sparks the least enthusiasm among the base of his state
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- And around the country. well, ken paxton is a fighter.
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- He's proven
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- He can win statewide again and again and again.
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- They always throw the same attack lines at him.
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- He's absolutely capable of winning the general against.
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- So, so that is that is who won james talarico.
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- Rico.
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- Presbyterian seminarian, i think is what he was so.
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- And but but is he moderate?
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- Well, so that's the thing is that they're going
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- We have to kind of reintroduce talarico to everyone.
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- You're going to be seeing him a lot.
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- He is now the standard bearer for the democrats this midterm.
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- He is their guy.
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- He's probably going to get the most money.
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- If he were to win next november.
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- It will be touted as their biggest win.
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- We're going to see this guy everywhere, james talarico,
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- And they're going to tell you he's a moderate.
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- He's the new face of the democrat party
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- Is better than kamala. he's christian.
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- He's a good old boy. all these things.
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- James talarico is not moderate.
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- He's just white.
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- That's just all it is, is a white male.
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- Can can we repeat that
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- For the folks in the back that maybe didn't hear you?
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- James talarico is not moderate.
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- He's just white.
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- It is the exact same thing they ran with tim walz in
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- Last in 2020.
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- And in virginia
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- We go some member well not a man there but yeah
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- Tim walz the point as they try this guy out and they say he
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- Look he's a white straight guy.
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- You know he hunts.
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- He was on a football team.
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- Ergo he's moderate.
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- He's safe for all of you when we know
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- Because he tells you himself, he embraces all of the worst,
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- Most radical policies of the democratic party.
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- Like we have gavin newsom coming out
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- And sort of signaling to
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- We should maybe chill out on the transgender stuff, guys,
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- When this guy is going out and, saying stuff like this
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- For 95, god is both masculine
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- And feminine and everything in between.
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- God is non-binary.
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- Or this where he said, you know,
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- There are six biological sexes.
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- 524 i want us all to be aware of is that that modern science
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- Obviously recognizes that there are many more than two.
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- Biological sex is, in fact, there are six,
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- Here's a here's a bible verse for you.
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- Blake james 14 six
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- Jesus answered, i am the way and the truth and the life.
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- No one comes to the father except through me.
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- Now here to rico's take on this.
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- 535 we've christianity points to the truth.
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- I also think other religions of love point to the same truth.
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- I think of different religious
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- Traditions as different languages.
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- So you and i could sit here and debate
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- What to call this cup,
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- And you could call it a cup in english would call
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- Something else in spanish, german and french.
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- But we are all talking about the same reality.
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- I believe jesus christ reveals that reality to us,
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- But i also think that
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- Other traditions reveal that reality in their own ways,
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- With their own simple structures.
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- And i have learned more about my tradition
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- By learning more about buddhism and hinduism
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- And islam and judaism.
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- And so i see these beautiful
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- Faith traditions as circling the same truths
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- About the universe, about the cosmos,
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- And that truth is inherently a mystery.
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- Okay.
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- Okay.
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- I think it's worth repeating.
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- Every time you see these clips,
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- I want you to tell yourself james talarico is not moderate.
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- He's just white.
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- Okay?
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- I mean, so, i think we have
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- We can come up with
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- Various terms for, what talarico believes,
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- But it's not for christianity.
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- That is.
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- Are you a believer in the christ
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- Who said he was sent by god to redeem sins or not?
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- Answer the question.
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- Well, and this is the thing, left
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- Wing christianity is an extraordinary
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- Intellectual exercise because you can see there
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- Jamestown rico is twisting himself
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- Into ideology and intellectual knots,
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- Trying to carve a way out
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- For a progressive to relate to what he's saying
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- So that they don't think he's a bigot.
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- You know, not like all us maga bible thumpers.
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- And it's designed
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- Progressive christianity
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- To blot out all the aspects of the faith that don't align
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- With the democrat party platform.
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- Set another way,
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- They put their own ideologies, their own wants,
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- Their own appetites
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- Ahead of the commandments of god in scripture.
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- And that's why it's completely unrecognizable
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- To your average christian,
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- To your average evangelical,
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- To your average catholic, to your average orthodox.
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- And this is a verse for james talarico.
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- I'd love to get his feedback on the second timothy 432 for
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- For the time is coming
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- When people will not endure sound teaching,
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- But having itching ears,
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- They will accumulate
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- For themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
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- And we'll turn away from listening
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- To the truth and wander off into myths.
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- And that's what you're seeing with progressive christians
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- Like james talarico.
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- Well, that's false teaching and it's extremely dangerous.
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- But wait, there's more
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- Jamestown.
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- Rico's bad on the border.
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- Can you imagine being a texan
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- And being awful on the border and having a republican
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- Is bad on the border in the senate for texas, right.
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- And fair enough for 94.
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- Our southern border should be like our front porch.
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- There should be a giant welcome mat out front
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- And a lock on the door.
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- We can welcome immigrants
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- Who want to live the american dream.
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- We can build a pathway to citizenship
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- For those neighbors who have been here
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- Making making us richer and stronger.
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- And we can keep out people who mean to do us harm.
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- Giant front porch welcome all in.
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- He is not moderate.
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- He's just a white guy and they're going to endlessly
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- Do the spin.
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- And it's really sinister
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- As as christians, we have to be especially alert
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- When they put these fake christians in front of you
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- And they say, oh, you know, he's he loves jesus, too.
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- And when they're preaching something
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- That is really evil, when he is preaching
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- Literal child sacrifice in a supposed church
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- That is honestly far worse and far more sinister
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- Than if he was just a non-religious democrat.
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- Woe unto you.
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- Beware of james talarico.
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- That will be the battle line.
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- And believe
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- You me, democrats want texas blue more than anything else.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- So we have
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- Potentially on the show now one of the most accomplished
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- Military minds that, i think we've ever had.
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- And i want to talk
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- Strategy, chessboard, a chess pieces on a board
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- Kind of thing.
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- This is, admiral bob harward.
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- He grew up in iran, graduated from the tehran american school
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- And speaks farsi.
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- A former navy seal and vice admiral, he led u.s.
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- Operations in afghanistan and iraq,
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- Served as deputy commander of the u.s.
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- Central command.
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- I mean, countering terrorism, all the things.
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- This is a very accomplished gentleman.
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- Admiral bob harward, welcome to the show.
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- Honored to have you.
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- There's so much news out of iran.
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- Give us the the big picture view right now.
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- How are our troops along with israel?
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- How are they performing?
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- Are we ahead of schedule, behind
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- Schedule your assessment, sir.
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- Incredible.
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- The whole thing from cradle to grave is just incredible.
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- That's the best description i can have that we had a leader
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- Who was finally,
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- After 40 years, willing to take the political,
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- Risk to stand up to this repressive regime
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- That has been killing our people
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- And attacking our partners in the region, attacking
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- Us, and cyber and kinetic activities in iraq and yemen.
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- So that in itself is incredible.
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- Then the actions of our military are real testament
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- To long term investments, the long term commitment,
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- The professionalism of our military,
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- And the capability and capacity of our military
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- To come in here in a matter of days
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- And really obliterate their integrated air
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- Defenses, them, their ability to project power.
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- So it's just unprecedented.
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- And then, most important, as you've noted, the strategy
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- And what this means, this changes the geopolitical
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- Content of the world as we know it right now.
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- We've removed one of the axis of evil
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- That everyone's acknowledged for the last 3 or 4
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- Decades, sir.
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- Just incredible in every way.
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- So i want to play this, clip from secretary of war
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- Pete hegseth talking about kind of
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- The initial volley, in return fire that we saw from iran.
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- He talks about it
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- As a scripted play, like a football team for 82.
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- But i liken iran's predicament to a football team
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- Who scripted the first 20 plays of a game.
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- The team knew what plays to run because their first few
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- Drives were scripted.
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- But now that the
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- Game has started and the blitz is on,
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- They don't know what plays to call, let alone
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- How to get in the huddle and call those plays.
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- Iran's senior leaders are dead.
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- The so-called governing council
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- That might have selected a successor dead,
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- Missing or cowering in bunkers, too terrified
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- To even occupy the same room.
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- Senior generals, mid-level officers, enlisted ranks
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- They can't talk or communicate, let alone mount
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- A coordinated and sustained offensive.
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- The iranian air force is no more built for 1996.
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- Destroyed in 2026, the iranian
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- Navy rests at the bottom of the persian gulf.
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- Pete hegseth basically said that, you know, their air
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- Defense is about
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- We're about to command the skies over
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- Iran in a day or two, less than a week.
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- But then the question then becomes,
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- How long does this take?
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- Because, the we are seeing
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- The concerns, admiral, about missile stockpiles.
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- Does the us have enough for this to go weeks, months
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- On end?
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- Can we win that war of
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- Attrition with whatever iran's built up?
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- That's a concern i'm seeing a lot of people have.
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- And we are seeing, for example, people are betting money
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- On this sort of thing.
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- The prediction markets say there's only about a 40% chance
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- That the regime falls by july.
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- Can the us sustain this if the fight is going into april,
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- May, the summer, june, july? yeah.
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- Well, first
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- Off, i disagree with that premise completely.
- 00:11:19.341 --> 00:11:21.710
- And again, our stockpiles are less relevant
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- Once we stop their ability to project power.
- 00:11:24.913 --> 00:11:28.517
- If they can't launch missiles, they can't
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- Launch drones, they can't mine the straits of hormuz.
- 00:11:31.319 --> 00:11:34.589
- Who cares how long it takes?
- 00:11:34.589 --> 00:11:36.591
- They can't hurt us.
- 00:11:36.591 --> 00:11:37.793
- They can't hurt our allies.
- 00:11:37.793 --> 00:11:39.427
- Time is on our side, z.
- 00:11:39.427 --> 00:11:41.463
- Do we arm the kurds to remove arms
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- Into the people of the opposition?
- 00:11:44.132 --> 00:11:47.035
- Look, we've had 30 years of hunting people
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- In iraq, afghanistan and yemen everywhere.
- 00:11:50.405 --> 00:11:53.241
- We can apply that same capability here in iran
- 00:11:53.241 --> 00:11:57.412
- To the irgc and the, the,
- 00:11:57.412 --> 00:12:00.816
- The regime that's been killing its people.
- 00:12:00.816 --> 00:12:04.719
- So then time is irrelevant as long as they pose no threat.
- 00:12:04.719 --> 00:12:08.723
- And we've defined what we're doing now.
- 00:12:08.723 --> 00:12:11.493
- And as i said previously, we could well be at that
- 00:12:11.493 --> 00:12:14.429
- Tipping point now.
- 00:12:14.429 --> 00:12:15.664
- We could take all the time
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- In the world to eviscerate the leaders
- 00:12:17.332 --> 00:12:19.768
- And those people who want to continue to reject
- 00:12:19.768 --> 00:12:23.572
- This ideology of radical islam being a legitimate government
- 00:12:23.572 --> 00:12:29.177
- Form of government, to repress its people
- 00:12:29.177 --> 00:12:31.847
- And threaten others in the region and us and our allies.
- 00:12:31.847 --> 00:12:35.483
- So time becomes irrelevant at that point.
- 00:12:35.483 --> 00:12:38.486
- So we have plenty of time to sustain that
- 00:12:38.486 --> 00:12:41.323
- For whatever it takes.
- 00:12:41.323 --> 00:12:42.390
- And i think back to
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- Your timeline, june or july, once we've eviscerated that
- 00:12:43.725 --> 00:12:47.395
- And and focus capacity and capability on the irgc,
- 00:12:47.395 --> 00:12:52.601
- You're going to see a lot more people turning.
- 00:12:52.601 --> 00:12:54.870
- They're going to have to make that choice.
- 00:12:54.870 --> 00:12:56.671
- Do i want to live and be a part of the future,
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- Or am i want to sacrifice my life for losing
- 00:12:59.107 --> 00:13:02.444
- Cause that has been proven to be illogical?
- 00:13:02.444 --> 00:13:05.647
- So that's where i think this thing only accelerates.
- 00:13:05.647 --> 00:13:08.683
- So this june and sustainment, i think that's a red herring.
- 00:13:08.683 --> 00:13:12.721
- You know, i'm looking here at iran in an international.com.
- 00:13:12.721 --> 00:13:16.958
- And i there's a note here that i, i logged.
- 00:13:16.958 --> 00:13:19.928
- It says the irgc is also reportedly deeply concerned
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- That once
- 00:13:22.898 --> 00:13:23.965
- Daylight breaks on sunday, people across various
- 00:13:23.965 --> 00:13:26.034
- Parts of the country
- 00:13:26.034 --> 00:13:27.002
- May take to the streets, potentially
- 00:13:27.002 --> 00:13:28.904
- Triggering a new wave of gatherings and protests.
- 00:13:28.904 --> 00:13:31.539
- Have you heard anything on your end
- 00:13:31.539 --> 00:13:33.975
- About a potential new wave of protests, people
- 00:13:33.975 --> 00:13:37.545
- Taking to the streets?
- 00:13:37.545 --> 00:13:38.480
- Or is it too early to tell?
- 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:40.215
- One minute left?
- 00:13:40.215 --> 00:13:41.516
- No. it's inevitable.
- 00:13:41.516 --> 00:13:43.018
- They've already been done it, but they were mowed down.
- 00:13:43.018 --> 00:13:46.354
- Now the president, as he said, help is on the way
- 00:13:46.354 --> 00:13:49.557
- To help us there.
- 00:13:49.557 --> 00:13:50.825
- And it's even coming more so they're going to be in power.
- 00:13:50.825 --> 00:13:54.329
- I don't know if it happened sunday.
- 00:13:54.329 --> 00:13:55.764
- If it happens monday, it's coming.
- 00:13:55.764 --> 00:13:58.400
- So no doubt about it.
- 00:13:58.400 --> 00:13:59.868
- You'd have to be a blind man not to see it coming.
- 00:13:59.868 --> 00:14:02.404
- The day of reckoning for this regime
- 00:14:02.404 --> 00:14:05.206
- And those who stood with it willing to murder
- 00:14:05.206 --> 00:14:07.943
- The people of iran, is coming much quicker than
- 00:14:07.943 --> 00:14:11.479
- People realize.
- 00:14:11.479 --> 00:14:12.580
- So this tipping point can occur almost any day now.
- 00:14:12.580 --> 00:14:16.351
- Yeah.
- 00:14:16.584 --> 00:14:17.519
- Well, i mean, listen, we certainly hope
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- It doesn't devolve into some sort of sectarian
- 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:20.989
- Fighting or civil war.
- 00:14:20.989 --> 00:14:22.324
- And that's why we have people like you that know
- 00:14:22.324 --> 00:14:24.292
- The people better than we do and understand
- 00:14:24.292 --> 00:14:26.661
- What's going to happen next.
- 00:14:26.661 --> 00:14:27.796
- So the last ten, 15 seconds to you, sir?
- 00:14:27.796 --> 00:14:32.200
- Yeah.
- 00:14:32.434 --> 00:14:32.834
- Just again,
- 00:14:32.834 --> 00:14:33.935
- Just as we started that this is an incredible event
- 00:14:33.935 --> 00:14:37.439
- And we got to start bickering foreign stones.
- 00:14:37.439 --> 00:14:40.108
- I need let's see it through to fruition.
- 00:14:40.108 --> 00:14:42.944
- And then we can debate afterward.
- 00:14:42.944 --> 00:14:44.846
- But we're in the middle of the fight now,
- 00:14:44.846 --> 00:14:47.048
- And this thing's going at a great rate of speed.
- 00:14:47.048 --> 00:14:50.251
- Yeah, don't diminish it like i took nobody, sir.
- 00:14:50.251 --> 00:14:54.022
- Nobody is.
- 00:14:54.022 --> 00:14:55.090
- I mean, we're all impressed by our military might,
- 00:14:55.090 --> 00:14:57.559
- And it's it's incredible to watch.
- 00:14:57.559 --> 00:15:00.829
- Thank you. your perspective is invaluable.
- 00:15:00.829 --> 00:15:02.998
- And your accomplishments for this country are,
- 00:15:02.998 --> 00:15:06.034
- We respect them greatly and are grateful for
- 00:15:06.935 --> 00:15:09.104
- You and your service, sir.
- 00:15:09.104 --> 00:15:10.138
- Thank you so much.
- 00:15:10.138 --> 00:15:12.007
- Thank you guys.
- 00:15:12.007 --> 00:15:12.874
- God bless. you.
- 00:15:12.874 --> 00:15:16.010
- God bless. you.
- 00:15:16.010 --> 00:15:22.581
- Our u.s.
- 00:15:22.848 --> 00:15:23.782
- Military is second to none.
- 00:15:23.782 --> 00:15:25.384
- And we we love our military.
- 00:15:25.384 --> 00:15:26.852
- We support them.
- 00:15:26.852 --> 00:15:28.086
- And again, once this conflict
- 00:15:28.086 --> 00:15:30.589
- Began raging, we want to win.
- 00:15:30.589 --> 00:15:33.658
- All right. once you press, go,
- 00:15:33.658 --> 00:15:36.528
- Like, i think the patriotic thing to do is not take it
- 00:15:36.528 --> 00:15:38.864
- Blindly, not not ask questions or anything like that.
- 00:15:38.864 --> 00:15:41.700
- I disagree with all of those things,
- 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:43.735
- But we hope and pray for the safety of our troops,
- 00:15:43.735 --> 00:15:47.139
- For the success of our troops, and that this will
- 00:15:47.139 --> 00:15:48.974
- Ultimately prove to be a good thing for the world.
- 00:15:48.974 --> 00:15:51.309
- Now, you may have disagreed with this going on.
- 00:15:51.309 --> 00:15:54.513
- By the way, blake.
- 00:15:54.513 --> 00:15:55.680
- Blake is going to pull, emails.
- 00:15:55.680 --> 00:15:57.416
- We talked about this.
- 00:15:57.416 --> 00:15:58.250
- I don't know if you've already done.
- 00:15:58.250 --> 00:15:58.950
- Oh, yeah.
- 00:15:58.950 --> 00:15:59.651
- I been looking at where where
- 00:15:59.651 --> 00:16:01.019
- Where it's like, you know, we've got emails.
- 00:16:01.019 --> 00:16:02.854
- We've it's.
- 00:16:02.854 --> 00:16:03.855
- I feel like
- 00:16:03.855 --> 00:16:05.057
- We've done our best on the show to talk about how we think
- 00:16:05.057 --> 00:16:07.592
- Charlie would have reacted
- 00:16:07.592 --> 00:16:08.693
- To the buildup to this war and the outbreak of it.
- 00:16:08.693 --> 00:16:10.862
- And i feel a sign that we're
- 00:16:10.862 --> 00:16:13.565
- Hopefully getting it right is we have competing emails
- 00:16:13.565 --> 00:16:16.635
- That say we are betraying
- 00:16:16.635 --> 00:16:18.503
- Charlie by being too supportive of the president,
- 00:16:18.503 --> 00:16:22.441
- And we are betraying charlie by being too critical of
- 00:16:22.441 --> 00:16:26.611
- The lead up to the war, and that we are skeptical of it.
- 00:16:26.611 --> 00:16:29.548
- So and listen, we think that's about the position.
- 00:16:29.548 --> 00:16:32.250
- Yeah.
- 00:16:32.250 --> 00:16:33.185
- That was exactly charlie's experience with
- 00:16:33.185 --> 00:16:34.686
- When it came to these things.
- 00:16:34.686 --> 00:16:35.821
- But a couple cool things have happened,
- 00:16:35.821 --> 00:16:38.156
- Actually just and cool in the sense
- 00:16:38.156 --> 00:16:40.325
- That, like, listen, i love our military.
- 00:16:40.325 --> 00:16:43.261
- There's nothing that is going to make me
- 00:16:43.261 --> 00:16:45.197
- Not love the military.
- 00:16:45.197 --> 00:16:46.364
- I, my brothers, serves.
- 00:16:46.364 --> 00:16:48.066
- I have family members that serve
- 00:16:48.066 --> 00:16:49.601
- And, we're proud of them.
- 00:16:49.601 --> 00:16:51.002
- When they do cool things.
- 00:16:51.002 --> 00:16:52.170
- And, you know,
- 00:16:52.170 --> 00:16:53.338
- You could disagree with the premise of the war
- 00:16:53.338 --> 00:16:55.240
- And still think that what they're doing is cool.
- 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:56.908
- And one of them is that
- 00:16:56.908 --> 00:16:58.276
- We have some sunk, ship, we have some submarine
- 00:16:58.276 --> 00:17:02.080
- Ship in battle, an american submarine.
- 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:03.815
- Let's throw up the b-roll for 98.
- 00:17:03.815 --> 00:17:05.784
- An american submarine sunk
- 00:17:05.784 --> 00:17:08.520
- An iranian warship in the indian ocean.
- 00:17:08.520 --> 00:17:11.823
- It had apparently gone to some sort of naval review in india.
- 00:17:11.823 --> 00:17:15.694
- And then it was departing.
- 00:17:15.694 --> 00:17:16.728
- It was in international waters,
- 00:17:16.728 --> 00:17:17.996
- And it was sunk about 30 miles all the way back.
- 00:17:17.996 --> 00:17:20.365
- I want to see that carrier lanka.
- 00:17:20.365 --> 00:17:21.500
- Yeah. play it again. it's amazing.
- 00:17:21.500 --> 00:17:23.101
- I mean the you can see it there. it just goes.
- 00:17:23.101 --> 00:17:25.537
- We have a powerful torpedo blew its back off.
- 00:17:25.537 --> 00:17:27.606
- It's only the second time a nuclear powered submarine
- 00:17:27.606 --> 00:17:31.109
- Has sunk a ship with a torpedo.
- 00:17:31.109 --> 00:17:32.744
- The british famously took out
- 00:17:32.744 --> 00:17:34.479
- The general
- 00:17:34.479 --> 00:17:35.580
- Belgrano of argentina during the falklands war. yep.
- 00:17:35.580 --> 00:17:38.350
- But this is the first time
- 00:17:38.350 --> 00:17:39.351
- An american submarine has done it
- 00:17:39.351 --> 00:17:40.986
- Since they were sinking japanese ships 80 years ago.
- 00:17:40.986 --> 00:17:44.156
- And you've got to think, it's got to be very exciting.
- 00:17:44.156 --> 00:17:48.760
- Can you imagine that crew?
- 00:17:48.760 --> 00:17:50.162
- Yeah.
- 00:17:50.162 --> 00:17:51.296
- The first time for decades they've trained for this,
- 00:17:51.296 --> 00:17:52.764
- And they're finally going into action.
- 00:17:52.764 --> 00:17:55.534
- Yeah.
- 00:17:55.534 --> 00:17:56.468
- And and listen, that is a huge, huge deal
- 00:17:56.468 --> 00:17:58.837
- That they taking out the naval capabilities of the iranians
- 00:17:58.837 --> 00:18:03.241
- Frees up the strait of hormuz.
- 00:18:03.241 --> 00:18:04.643
- So just to reiterate, about 20% of the world's
- 00:18:04.643 --> 00:18:06.978
- Energy flows through the strait,
- 00:18:06.978 --> 00:18:08.613
- And 14 to 15% of all world trade flows
- 00:18:08.613 --> 00:18:12.751
- Through the chart of president trump was saying
- 00:18:12.751 --> 00:18:14.719
- What his specific objectives are with this conflict,
- 00:18:14.719 --> 00:18:17.522
- And it was removed.
- 00:18:17.522 --> 00:18:18.623
- The supreme leader
- 00:18:18.623 --> 00:18:19.724
- Removed their nuclear program and sent their navy.
- 00:18:19.724 --> 00:18:21.993
- These are explicit objectives, he has stated.
- 00:18:21.993 --> 00:18:25.630
- So it takes us closer
- 00:18:25.630 --> 00:18:27.365
- To achieving those objectives that this happened.
- 00:18:27.365 --> 00:18:30.635
- And that's what we want to see, what we want
- 00:18:30.635 --> 00:18:33.271
- Consistently from this administration.
- 00:18:33.271 --> 00:18:34.706
- We want to see signs that they know
- 00:18:34.706 --> 00:18:37.075
- What their objectives are and are working towards them.
- 00:18:37.075 --> 00:18:39.811
- And what you want to avoid are signs of a conflict
- 00:18:39.811 --> 00:18:42.781
- Becoming open ended, becoming unclear.
- 00:18:42.781 --> 00:18:45.817
- Just we will fight
- 00:18:45.817 --> 00:18:47.052
- Until victory in this without saying what that is.
- 00:18:47.052 --> 00:18:49.321
- This is a story that we need to get to here.
- 00:18:49.321 --> 00:18:51.756
- And so cnn yesterday was reporting
- 00:18:51.756 --> 00:18:54.726
- That the cia is working to arm kurdish forces.
- 00:18:54.726 --> 00:18:59.264
- This was reported.
- 00:18:59.698 --> 00:19:00.765
- The lead reporter on this was, natasha bertrand,
- 00:19:00.765 --> 00:19:04.336
- Who you will know from the 50 former
- 00:19:04.336 --> 00:19:07.939
- Intel officials, you know, believe that.
- 00:19:07.939 --> 00:19:11.910
- But hunter's laptop, that's the top.
- 00:19:11.910 --> 00:19:14.279
- But that means they have connections, information.
- 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:16.114
- This natasha is bertrand is notorious
- 00:19:16.114 --> 00:19:20.085
- For basically publishing press releases from deep state.
- 00:19:20.085 --> 00:19:22.954
- Deep state intel operatives.
- 00:19:22.954 --> 00:19:24.155
- Okay, this was a story that was leaked,
- 00:19:24.155 --> 00:19:28.059
- Meaning that in my opinion, the people that leaked it
- 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:31.162
- Are trying to harm the president.
- 00:19:31.162 --> 00:19:33.098
- So here's cnn trying to explain this for 70.
- 00:19:33.098 --> 00:19:37.502
- We spent some time this evening with a senior
- 00:19:37.502 --> 00:19:40.739
- Iranian kurdish, politician who basically told us
- 00:19:40.739 --> 00:19:45.310
- That he the expectation among iraqi
- 00:19:45.310 --> 00:19:49.014
- Kurdish, iranian opposition forces
- 00:19:49.781 --> 00:19:52.017
- Is that they will be going into western iran
- 00:19:52.017 --> 00:19:56.321
- As part of some kind of a ground operation
- 00:19:56.321 --> 00:20:00.225
- Over the course or at some point
- 00:20:00.225 --> 00:20:02.360
- During the next few days, that they will have support
- 00:20:02.360 --> 00:20:06.331
- From the u.s.
- 00:20:06.331 --> 00:20:07.332
- And from israel, though he would not be drawn
- 00:20:07.332 --> 00:20:10.402
- As to what exactly that support will look like.
- 00:20:10.402 --> 00:20:13.938
- He also told us that president trump himself
- 00:20:13.938 --> 00:20:17.509
- Had called the leader of the kdp,
- 00:20:17.509 --> 00:20:20.545
- Which is one of these iranian
- 00:20:20.545 --> 00:20:22.247
- Kurdish opposition parties today,
- 00:20:22.247 --> 00:20:25.116
- And that they had, what he categorized
- 00:20:25.116 --> 00:20:27.719
- As a are characterized, i should say, as a positive.
- 00:20:27.719 --> 00:20:30.488
- All right.
- 00:20:30.488 --> 00:20:31.356
- So what's our history arming kurdish.
- 00:20:31.356 --> 00:20:33.458
- What? we've done it for a long time.
- 00:20:33.458 --> 00:20:35.060
- Israel also has extensive connections with the kurds.
- 00:20:35.060 --> 00:20:38.630
- So the kurds are an ethnic group in the mountainous area?
- 00:20:38.630 --> 00:20:41.700
- They've never had their own state, notably.
- 00:20:41.700 --> 00:20:43.968
- And so that's the largest
- 00:20:43.968 --> 00:20:45.136
- Ethnic group in the world
- 00:20:45.136 --> 00:20:46.438
- That does not have their own state. yes.
- 00:20:46.438 --> 00:20:47.939
- So they have, so they're all across
- 00:20:47.939 --> 00:20:51.209
- Northern iraq, iraq, iran, they're in turkey.
- 00:20:51.209 --> 00:20:55.080
- I think most of them are in turkey.
- 00:20:55.080 --> 00:20:56.581
- There are some in syria.
- 00:20:56.581 --> 00:20:57.649
- They've repeatedly popped up because they tend
- 00:20:57.649 --> 00:21:00.885
- To be their fractious minority.
- 00:21:00.885 --> 00:21:04.189
- I don't know that they're more
- 00:21:04.189 --> 00:21:05.190
- I'll have more communist western friendlies.
- 00:21:05.190 --> 00:21:07.092
- They're more more western friendly.
- 00:21:07.092 --> 00:21:08.393
- That would be true.
- 00:21:08.393 --> 00:21:09.327
- And we have armed them in a lot of conflicts.
- 00:21:09.327 --> 00:21:12.330
- And, you know, sometimes it's helpful, sometimes it's not.
- 00:21:12.330 --> 00:21:15.066
- We encourage them to launch
- 00:21:15.066 --> 00:21:17.369
- An uprising against saddam hussein.
- 00:21:17.369 --> 00:21:20.238
- And they were notably,
- 00:21:20.238 --> 00:21:21.406
- They were gassed by saddam hussein before the gulf war.
- 00:21:21.406 --> 00:21:24.309
- After the gulf war, we encouraged both kurds
- 00:21:24.309 --> 00:21:28.012
- And shia muslims in iraq to rise up against saddam.
- 00:21:28.012 --> 00:21:31.683
- But we didn't support them
- 00:21:31.683 --> 00:21:32.917
- Directly, so they were suppressed.
- 00:21:32.917 --> 00:21:35.086
- And they've also been heavily involved
- 00:21:35.086 --> 00:21:37.355
- In the syrian civil war.
- 00:21:37.355 --> 00:21:38.890
- So i would find it pretty plausible
- 00:21:38.890 --> 00:21:41.526
- If we were in communication with them
- 00:21:41.526 --> 00:21:43.228
- To have some sort of on the ground presence in iran,
- 00:21:43.228 --> 00:21:46.664
- Because president trump, we know, doesn't want u.s.
- 00:21:46.664 --> 00:21:48.933
- Troops there.
- 00:21:48.933 --> 00:21:49.901
- But i would voice a note of concern here,
- 00:21:49.901 --> 00:21:53.071
- Which is
- 00:21:53.071 --> 00:21:54.239
- Once you're kind of bringing in these ethnic militias,
- 00:21:54.239 --> 00:21:57.375
- We have seen how that can end, which is you're turning into
- 00:21:57.375 --> 00:22:00.645
- You're turning a conflict into an ethnic civil war.
- 00:22:00.645 --> 00:22:03.748
- Civil war. we had that in afghanistan.
- 00:22:03.748 --> 00:22:05.216
- We had that in libya. we had that in syria.
- 00:22:05.216 --> 00:22:07.786
- All those conflicts went for a very long time. and
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- Became difficult. yep.
- 00:22:12.724 --> 00:22:14.426
- Well, exactly.
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- So these are part of the
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- Unintended consequences
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- Of regime change that we have talked about.
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- Because we don't want our mess.
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- We don't want it to be possible for the iranian regime
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- To say, president trump is trying to dismember
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- Iran as a country that will make it so.
- 00:22:30.775 --> 00:22:33.478
- The iran, you know, the iranians themselves,
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- The persians, who are the main ethnic group,
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- There would be more likely to rally around the regime
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- If it's going to say they're going to break apart
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- Our country.
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- Yeah.
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- The hope is that within iran itself, if you start
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- Seeing these street protests, take action.
- 00:22:46.357 --> 00:22:49.427
- If you start seeing command
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- And control break down within the irgc
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- And the quds force,
- 00:22:53.331 --> 00:22:54.432
- And obviously the naval apparatus has been dismantled,
- 00:22:54.432 --> 00:22:58.002
- You want to see a natural sort of takeover.
- 00:22:58.002 --> 00:23:00.805
- The question is, what is it going to take?
- 00:23:00.805 --> 00:23:02.607
- I think i think would be helpful.
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- I think it would be helpful
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- If the admin probably
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- Said overtly, we promised to not take apart
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- Iran that they're going to want to.
- 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.049
- Yeah, i don't think they do.
- 00:23:11.049 --> 00:23:12.050
- So they should they should say it. yeah.
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- They just want to apply
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- Maximum force to make them fall quickly.
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- And i understand that.
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- But unintended consequences, regime change.
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- It's always the concern
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