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Charlie Kirk Today | Michael Knowles: June 19, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | June 19, 2026
- Let's go through the story behind the story.
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- It's very interesting.
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- Show the president signing this.
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- He was sitting next to
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- Emmanuel macron as part of his trip to the g7.
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- So this is actually him signing the mou.
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- Okay.
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- But the story behind the story is, i think, one
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- That it came off like a joke from president trump.
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- But i think there's truth to it.
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- And it's worth explaining and diving into
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- Because there's a lot of speculation.
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- Some of it's probably fake media spin, whatever.
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- But i think there's probably some truth to it.
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- So president trump
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- Is probably caught between two impulses here.
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- He off, after all, was the guy that went in
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- And i think wanted to bomb iran.
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- Actually, you know, there's everybody saying
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- Israel dog walked us into this.
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- And i think i think israel told
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- The president what he wanted to hear.
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- And he said as much multiple times, saying,
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- If anything, i got them into this.
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- And i don't think he likes being told that he got dog
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- Locked.
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- He saw intel from israel that he liked
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- Because he's been saying iran should not have
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- A nuclear weapon for a long time.
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- He wanted to deal with this.
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- He, after all, took out general soleimani.
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- Soleimani, whatever soleimani
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- That he has been on this and
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- Fixated on this problem for a long time.
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- All right.
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- But then he's got
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- Guys like jd vance that didn't want to go in.
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- He's probably looking at the polling.
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- I can tell you
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- Our young people did not like this war to begin with.
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- At turning point, our students, they don't know
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- How to defend it.
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- We try and help them explain what the reasoning is.
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- But even you know, we're a little bit unsure
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- About the results. we love the path to peace.
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- Okay,
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- But listen to this clip from president trump last night,
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- And we'll explain the story behind this story in a second.
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- 49 there's some element to this where you send the
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- Vice president
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- If it works out great, you look like a genius
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- For sending him.
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- And if it doesn't work out, it's the vice president.
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- I like that idea.
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- Sure,
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- But this way, if it works out, i'm going to take the credit.
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- If it doesn't work out, i'm blaming jd.
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- You better be careful, jd.
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- So blake and
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- I had these exact same reaction when we saw that clip.
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- It's a good joke. it's a laugh.
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- Laughable moment, but it's true too.
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- But there's some truth to it.
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- And that's why you see jd vance.
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- Yes, it's part of his book tour,
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- But it's coinciding with the iran deal.
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- That's why the title of today's
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- Stream is the big, the big sell from jd.
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- And i'm totally supportive, by the way.
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- That's not a bad thing.
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- Jd has been a voice for peace
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- And in wrapping this up, and i love that.
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- But look at this, this headline from mediaite
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- And this is, this is the story that's being spun.
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- The little webs is being spun in dc
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- In the media bubble there.
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- It says rubio's two day absence secretary's media
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- Silence is a flashing red sign that trump's iran deal stinks.
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- Okay, that's media being a bunch of jerks.
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- The deal is an absolute home run for the united states.
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- Even joel pollack, by the way, who's
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- Jewish, jewish-american, been a, very anti
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- Israel has been in favor of strikes against, iran.
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- I think i said israel, i meant iran has been very anti-iran.
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- It's been, very much in favor of the strikes there.
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- Says this deal is a good deal.
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- So media i can can stuff it.
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- But this is the story behind the story. two
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- Scenarios are probably going to play out in the future.
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- And they are high stakes.
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- They are high stakes.
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- Make no ifs, ands or buts about it.
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- If this works,
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- This could be
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- The biggest win of jd vance's career and frankly,
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- The biggest win for america
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- In a long time to get this deal done.
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- No nuclear, everything works.
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- Economic revitalization in the region,
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- Normalization, stabilization in the middle east.
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- And jd will be able to take a bow and say, look,
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- We gave peace a chance and it worked.
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- This is how this is how it should be.
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- We know that president trump
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- I mean, he'll say
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- He'll take ownership of it
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- If it works and he'll deserve to
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- Because he made the right call as president.
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- But i don't think anyone's
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- Going to forget that if this works out,
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- That the vice president chief, the sole job on it, he was
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- He was the man who said we should seek the off ramp.
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- We should try to get the peaceful outcome.
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- We shouldn't escalate.
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- And he's getting the chance to sell it.
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- This is this is excellent accountability.
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- This is a real version.
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- We'd always joke where the white house would.
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- They'd throw kamala
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- To the wolves on the border or something
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- When she didn't know what was going
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- On, had no real ownership of what was going on.
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- They complained about it endlessly.
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- We know that this is something close to what vice
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- President vance cares about, and what he advocates for,
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- And now he's selling it to the public,
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- Which he's gotten great training for ever since
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- He became the vice presidential nominee.
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- He was going into those hostile areas, making the sell
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- For the president in 2024, early 25.
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- He's doing it again here.
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- Okay, so that is the story behind
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- The story is that jd is getting his chance here,
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- Which i pray with everything i've got, that it works.
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- We do not want to send american boys into more blood, sand
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- And death in the middle east.
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- The appetite for a ground invasion is nil.
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- It's nothing.
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- Okay, so everybody pushing it, operating
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- Under this old paradigm now the neocons are dead, okay?
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- That that era is gone.
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- We don't want to go back there at all.
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- Okay?
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- So i don't know what their expectation is here.
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- You've got to offer something to a modern state.
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- Yeah. sanctions relief. yeah.
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- The opportunity for regional partners
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- To invest in your economy and your infrastructure, of course.
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- And president trump made a great point.
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- He's like, what are we going to do, hold their money forever?
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- But that wouldn't work at all as well.
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- And by the way, having
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- The dollar is the go to de facto currency of the world.
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- That would go away too.
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- All right.
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- If you're just going to rob people and keep their money.
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- So some of you out there that are probably
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- More on the warhawk side that want to see
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- The regime fall and all this stuff,
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- I get the frustration, i get the skepticism.
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- But you also have to be realistic.
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- This is a deal that could be a win win
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- And a total slam dunk for the united states
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- If it works and if it doesn't,
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- Expect to see
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- More marco rubio coming up in phase two.
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- Michael knowles joins us next.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- Michael knowles the great, the one,
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- The only, the paypal apologist michael knowles.
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- Welcome back to the show.
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- It's good to see you. good to be with you, sir.
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- By the way, to the listener
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- Who turned 70 today, it's my kid's second birthday also.
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- So he shares a birthday with my kid and every kid i have,
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- And every day that goes by with my kids,
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- I feel more and more like i am 70.
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- So there's a lot of birthday synergy.
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- Yeah, well,
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- You'll pretty soon probably have a birthday
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- For a kid on every day of the year, right?
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- Michael? it's a good catholic.
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- You got at least each month covered.
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- Yeah, yeah, you got to time it up anyway.
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- You don't want to clump them together.
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- Michael. that's.
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- I got, i got like my basically from christmas to february.
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- I'm, i'm at, i'm, i'm in a lot of trouble.
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- You got like now
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- It's too expensive which is like too expensive.
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- You fold them in with other ones.
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- My wife's my sister was a christmas eve baby and so.
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- Well, i've got a december 29th baby.
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- Okay, so i got christmas december 29th.
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- It just it never ends. that whole.
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- Yeah. anyways, it's not. it's not why you're here.
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- It's not why you're here. michael, we're moving on.
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- All right?
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- I want to get your reaction.
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- I know you've been supportive of the president and the vice
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- President moving towards peace with iran.
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- And then all the naysayers are coming out of the woodwork.
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- All these people that were like,
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- President trump is the best.
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- He is going hard after iran.
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- We love this.
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- Go watch fox on sunday
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- Night and hear all about how great it is now.
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- They're all they're all scattering to the wind.
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- There's nowhere there's no support here for this.
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- Of course. yeah.
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- What's your take this amazing.
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- So what's so amazing is when president trump,
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- Entered the war in iran,
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- You had some people on the right
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- Who said, you know, trump is getting bad advice from people.
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- It's not trump's fault, but he's getting bad advice.
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- And then yet all the real war hawks coming out
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- And they were saying,
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- It's you, you need to go out and you need to blame trump.
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- You know, how dare you suggest trump
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- Isn't making this call on his own?
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- How dare you suggest he's not his own free man
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- And he's not intelligent or whatever.
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- But now that we're getting peace,
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- All of a sudden they say, no, it's not trump's
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- Fault, it's his wicked advisors, it's jd vance.
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- His fault is it's jared kushner as well.
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- It's someone else's fault.
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- I think that we've just completely flipped here.
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- But, you know, the one person who hasn't flipped is trump.
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- And you know, what actually hasn't
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- Flipped is the american interest.
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- And so trump has been very clear.
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- He's been tough on iran.
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- He says that iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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- He is willing to stop that.
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- And in the case of this war, i think he's very,
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- Very seriously set back the nuclear weapon.
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- But that's it.
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- He doesn't want to get bogged down
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- In another decade long regime change, war.
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- The iranian regime, wicked though it is, is a pretty
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- Durable regime.
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- It lasted twice as long already
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- As the cia backed regime that we installed in 1953.
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- So i don't think that there was any appetite whatsoever
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- For a protracted conflict. american boots on the ground.
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- Trump just wasn't going to go there.
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- And so what you see is trump is his own man.
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- He achieved a lot of strategic objectives, set back
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- The nuclear program, destroyed the ballistic missiles,
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- Took out two levels of the iranian leadership.
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- But he's at this point, interests have diverged.
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- And so at this point, trump says,
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- We got really what we wanted out of this.
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- The state of israel
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- Might have some other interests here,
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- But that's that's not really our chief concern.
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- And so now we're going to win this down, reopen
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- The strait of hormuz before we totally obliterate
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- Our strategic petroleum reserve.
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- We're going to get 20% of the world's oil flowing again.
- 00:09:48.045 --> 00:09:50.714
- And we've taught iran a lesson.
- 00:09:50.714 --> 00:09:52.482
- Maybe we'll go back in if we have to.
- 00:09:52.482 --> 00:09:54.317
- This is good stuff.
- 00:09:54.317 --> 00:09:55.252
- This is exactly what we want.
- 00:09:55.252 --> 00:09:56.653
- This is the pragmatic foreign policy.
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- In fact,
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- If anyone read the national security document
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- That the white house published last year,
- 00:10:01.792 --> 00:10:03.393
- This is exactly what we're talking about. played a clip.
- 00:10:03.393 --> 00:10:05.929
- I played a clip from that on the show yesterday.
- 00:10:05.929 --> 00:10:08.365
- From his speech,
- 00:10:08.365 --> 00:10:10.100
- Which was it mirrored that strategic document
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- That you're talking about. and i completely agree.
- 00:10:13.036 --> 00:10:15.639
- People need to remember
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- What the north star here is and why trump got elected
- 00:10:17.174 --> 00:10:19.776
- In the first place, and why this pragmatic foreign
- 00:10:19.776 --> 00:10:21.945
- Policy approach completely meets that objective.
- 00:10:21.945 --> 00:10:25.682
- It mirrors that. exactly. go on. yes.
- 00:10:25.682 --> 00:10:28.151
- I mean, in the document
- 00:10:28.151 --> 00:10:29.653
- It says we want to have ideals without being idealist.
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- We want
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- We want to be realistic
- 00:10:34.591 --> 00:10:36.259
- Without being foreign policy realists.
- 00:10:36.259 --> 00:10:38.328
- In other words, we want to put america first.
- 00:10:38.328 --> 00:10:40.964
- Prudence is the paramount political virtue.
- 00:10:40.964 --> 00:10:43.100
- I think trump has done this very well.
- 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:45.168
- And so now you're starting to see some fissures.
- 00:10:45.168 --> 00:10:48.505
- A lot of the attacks now are focusing on j.d.
- 00:10:48.505 --> 00:10:51.208
- Vance,
- 00:10:51.208 --> 00:10:52.342
- Because people don't want to go after trump directly.
- 00:10:52.342 --> 00:10:54.077
- But i think a lot of those
- 00:10:54.077 --> 00:10:55.345
- Fissures that you're beginning to see are actually just,
- 00:10:55.345 --> 00:10:58.215
- A reemergence of the fissures you saw back in 2016.
- 00:10:58.215 --> 00:11:02.119
- You're seeing a lot of old
- 00:11:02.119 --> 00:11:03.520
- Trump is sort of anti-trump again.
- 00:11:03.520 --> 00:11:05.355
- Now they're just projecting that onto j.d.
- 00:11:05.355 --> 00:11:07.057
- Vance, who's the heir apparent.
- 00:11:07.057 --> 00:11:08.625
- So i think
- 00:11:08.625 --> 00:11:09.793
- You're already beginning to see 2028 play out right now.
- 00:11:09.793 --> 00:11:12.362
- A lot of divisions within the gop.
- 00:11:12.362 --> 00:11:14.264
- The funny thing is, though,
- 00:11:14.264 --> 00:11:15.632
- There doesn't seem to be a lot of division
- 00:11:15.632 --> 00:11:17.400
- Within the administration, and i'm quite relieved.
- 00:11:17.400 --> 00:11:20.036
- I think they've played this very, very well.
- 00:11:20.036 --> 00:11:21.838
- And i think,
- 00:11:21.838 --> 00:11:22.773
- We were the conclusion of this
- 00:11:22.773 --> 00:11:24.407
- Kind of a war was always going to be a deal
- 00:11:24.407 --> 00:11:26.610
- That didn't satisfy everybody or, protracted conflict.
- 00:11:26.610 --> 00:11:30.447
- And given those two options, i'm happy to take the former.
- 00:11:30.447 --> 00:11:33.583
- I thought you were gonna ask the question.
- 00:11:34.484 --> 00:11:35.819
- I think i have many thoughts.
- 00:11:35.819 --> 00:11:37.220
- I many, many thoughts on on this and but,
- 00:11:37.220 --> 00:11:40.791
- You know, looking ahead to 2028,
- 00:11:40.791 --> 00:11:42.359
- The thought i've had is we see a lot of people,
- 00:11:42.359 --> 00:11:46.163
- They've clearly want to go after j.d.
- 00:11:46.163 --> 00:11:48.298
- Vance.
- 00:11:48.298 --> 00:11:49.432
- They see him as a symbol of, direction in the gop.
- 00:11:49.432 --> 00:11:51.735
- They don't like.
- 00:11:51.735 --> 00:11:52.969
- But i've had this thought where they might try to mount
- 00:11:52.969 --> 00:11:56.072
- A primary challenge to him in 28.
- 00:11:56.072 --> 00:11:58.809
- They might try to push forward a more hawkish person.
- 00:11:58.809 --> 00:12:01.545
- And i just wonder,
- 00:12:01.545 --> 00:12:02.679
- Is there any appetite for that within the broader base?
- 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.248
- I feel like we might even have this divergence where there's
- 00:12:05.248 --> 00:12:09.419
- Very angry people in dc and the entire rest of the country
- 00:12:09.419 --> 00:12:12.622
- Thinks like, oh, jd is great. he's trump's guy.
- 00:12:12.622 --> 00:12:14.858
- He he opposes wars in the middle east. very light.
- 00:12:14.858 --> 00:12:16.827
- Seems awesome.
- 00:12:16.827 --> 00:12:17.828
- He did enjoy bihar, even likes him.
- 00:12:17.828 --> 00:12:19.663
- Now you know i know you know it's funny coming out of the
- 00:12:19.663 --> 00:12:23.767
- You see, the vice president, i think just made this point
- 00:12:23.767 --> 00:12:25.435
- At the white house
- 00:12:25.435 --> 00:12:26.369
- Where he said,
- 00:12:26.369 --> 00:12:27.470
- Look, people are saying i don't have any experience
- 00:12:27.470 --> 00:12:28.672
- Negotiating with hostile regimes.
- 00:12:28.672 --> 00:12:30.507
- I just went on the view.
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- Enjoy.
- 00:12:31.441 --> 00:12:32.609
- Bahar is my best friend now, but people are using that,
- 00:12:32.609 --> 00:12:34.077
- Trying to use that against jd as this is
- 00:12:34.077 --> 00:12:36.079
- This is evidence of, some real political talent.
- 00:12:36.079 --> 00:12:38.982
- So i think your point is totally apt, which is a
- 00:12:38.982 --> 00:12:42.385
- Look at the chattering classes all upset about this, policy
- 00:12:42.385 --> 00:12:45.722
- Wonk, bow tie types who are upset.
- 00:12:45.722 --> 00:12:47.224
- But what about the actual gop base?
- 00:12:47.224 --> 00:12:48.992
- And i just don't really see it there.
- 00:12:48.992 --> 00:12:51.194
- I mean, trump has a lock on the gop.
- 00:12:51.194 --> 00:12:53.663
- He took it over in 2016.
- 00:12:53.663 --> 00:12:55.198
- He remains dumb, and his approval ratings
- 00:12:55.198 --> 00:12:57.400
- Among the maga coalition are still sky high.
- 00:12:57.400 --> 00:13:00.303
- And so whoever he picks is is very likely to be the nominee.
- 00:13:00.303 --> 00:13:04.541
- The only person right now from within the administration
- 00:13:04.541 --> 00:13:07.510
- Who could seriously challenge vance is marco rubio.
- 00:13:07.510 --> 00:13:11.014
- Rubio, who i think, by the way, is not all that far
- 00:13:11.014 --> 00:13:13.617
- Apart from vance, despite what some of the chattering class
- 00:13:13.617 --> 00:13:16.419
- Are trying to make him out to be a bush era neocon.
- 00:13:16.419 --> 00:13:18.822
- I don't think that's even really accurate.
- 00:13:18.822 --> 00:13:20.657
- But even if it were a marco, rubio has already endorsed
- 00:13:20.657 --> 00:13:24.494
- Jd vance
- 00:13:24.494 --> 00:13:25.395
- And donald trump has endorsed
- 00:13:25.395 --> 00:13:27.063
- The two of them running as a ticket.
- 00:13:27.063 --> 00:13:28.698
- So i don't know the division within the chattering class.
- 00:13:28.698 --> 00:13:31.167
- Once again,
- 00:13:31.167 --> 00:13:32.102
- I don't think you see that in the admin,
- 00:13:32.102 --> 00:13:33.470
- And i don't think you see it with the base.
- 00:13:33.470 --> 00:13:35.405
- But it is interesting this point you're making.
- 00:13:36.406 --> 00:13:37.974
- I think back to that national review magazine.
- 00:13:37.974 --> 00:13:41.611
- You remember the never trumpers again.
- 00:13:41.611 --> 00:13:43.647
- It was like all the names on that.
- 00:13:43.647 --> 00:13:45.482
- It's like every single name on that national review
- 00:13:45.482 --> 00:13:48.985
- Cover are the ones that are saying this.
- 00:13:48.985 --> 00:13:50.921
- This deal is no good.
- 00:13:50.921 --> 00:13:52.389
- It's basically 1 to 1.
- 00:13:52.389 --> 00:13:54.824
- This is the thing is, you know, look,
- 00:13:54.824 --> 00:13:56.760
- I think some people were
- 00:13:56.760 --> 00:13:57.894
- Sincerely persuaded to support trump after
- 00:13:57.894 --> 00:14:00.830
- After they opposed him in 2016, even when they very publicly
- 00:14:00.830 --> 00:14:03.400
- Opposed him.
- 00:14:03.400 --> 00:14:04.601
- Trump just was really good and he proved a lot of them wrong.
- 00:14:04.601 --> 00:14:07.404
- So i think there was some of that.
- 00:14:07.404 --> 00:14:08.905
- But i think the basic, fissures within the gop,
- 00:14:08.905 --> 00:14:12.575
- Especially in the conservative movement, chattering
- 00:14:12.575 --> 00:14:14.311
- Class policy wonk types, i think those still exist.
- 00:14:14.311 --> 00:14:17.247
- And so it's a curious fact that all of the people
- 00:14:17.247 --> 00:14:20.083
- Who were going most apoplectic over this deal,
- 00:14:20.083 --> 00:14:22.419
- They're they're basically all the people
- 00:14:22.419 --> 00:14:24.287
- Who were in the, the, the against trump issue and
- 00:14:24.287 --> 00:14:27.424
- The big never trump movement.
- 00:14:27.424 --> 00:14:28.792
- So those divisions haven't really, gone away.
- 00:14:28.792 --> 00:14:32.662
- I think you're totally right to that.
- 00:14:32.662 --> 00:14:35.131
- I mean, i said this right when the bombs started
- 00:14:35.131 --> 00:14:36.866
- Dropping in iran, i said, this is the boldest move
- 00:14:36.866 --> 00:14:39.869
- That trump has made of his administration,
- 00:14:39.869 --> 00:14:42.005
- And it poses the biggest risk this really could tank
- 00:14:42.005 --> 00:14:44.574
- Is his legacy.
- 00:14:44.574 --> 00:14:45.809
- Now, trump is very good at giving himself an out.
- 00:14:45.809 --> 00:14:48.578
- So there is a world in which you have this mou,
- 00:14:48.578 --> 00:14:52.082
- And then you have the 60 day negotiation period.
- 00:14:52.082 --> 00:14:54.517
- Well, what's happening in about 60 or 70 days?
- 00:14:54.517 --> 00:14:56.720
- Oh, right. the midterm elections.
- 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:58.321
- There is a world in which this gets them
- 00:14:58.321 --> 00:15:00.090
- Through the midterm elections.
- 00:15:00.090 --> 00:15:01.324
- And then the war hawks went out again
- 00:15:01.324 --> 00:15:02.959
- Depending on iran's behavior.
- 00:15:02.959 --> 00:15:04.728
- Now, i hope that's not the case. i hope iran behaves.
- 00:15:04.728 --> 00:15:07.263
- I hope this peace deal, remains in place.
- 00:15:07.263 --> 00:15:09.966
- I hope the strait of hormuz remains open
- 00:15:09.966 --> 00:15:11.568
- And we can focus on other things.
- 00:15:11.568 --> 00:15:13.169
- But but yeah, yeah, with trump,
- 00:15:13.169 --> 00:15:15.872
- It's always unpredictable.
- 00:15:15.872 --> 00:15:17.340
- That's his greatest foreign
- 00:15:17.340 --> 00:15:18.508
- Policy strength when he's negotiating.
- 00:15:18.508 --> 00:15:21.011
- Michael.
- 00:15:21.011 --> 00:15:21.911
- No, stay right there. we're going to top
- 00:15:21.911 --> 00:15:22.812
- Talk, immigration, the eu and the pope.
- 00:15:22.812 --> 00:15:25.615
- Just one second.
- 00:15:25.615 --> 00:15:29.008
- Just one second.
- 00:15:29.008 --> 00:15:35.297
- The eu passes its strictest
- 00:15:35.898 --> 00:15:39.101
- Migration law in the eu's
- 00:15:39.668 --> 00:15:41.604
- History, which it's still it's not like it's pretty bad.
- 00:15:41.604 --> 00:15:44.640
- Still, it's still bad,
- 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:45.541
- But it's like it's in the right direction.
- 00:15:45.541 --> 00:15:47.443
- Okay.
- 00:15:47.443 --> 00:15:48.344
- And then the pope,
- 00:15:48.344 --> 00:15:50.846
- Because he just has to he says this.
- 00:15:50.846 --> 00:15:53.716
- He criticized the blanket red migration is a solution.
- 00:15:53.716 --> 00:15:56.986
- He says many times we don't recognize the reasons
- 00:15:56.986 --> 00:15:59.155
- Why these people had to leave their countries.
- 00:15:59.155 --> 00:16:01.590
- Many reasons violence, war, conflict.
- 00:16:01.590 --> 00:16:03.426
- So simply saying we'll send them away
- 00:16:03.426 --> 00:16:05.628
- So we can wash our hands of the problem
- 00:16:05.628 --> 00:16:07.363
- Doesn't seem like the most christian response to me.
- 00:16:07.363 --> 00:16:09.331
- We really need to take a look at the cases
- 00:16:09.331 --> 00:16:11.367
- And above all, treat people with respect as individuals.
- 00:16:11.367 --> 00:16:14.236
- Now, i just have to say,
- 00:16:14.236 --> 00:16:16.572
- The headline that we're getting with this
- 00:16:16.572 --> 00:16:18.140
- Is this is how the daily beast frames it. pope blasts
- 00:16:18.140 --> 00:16:20.676
- Trump backed immigration plan as not christian.
- 00:16:20.676 --> 00:16:23.479
- Yes, exactly. so that's how it goes.
- 00:16:23.479 --> 00:16:25.247
- But here's the eu folks chanting send them back 53.
- 00:16:25.247 --> 00:16:49.205
- So that's about as exciting
- 00:16:49.805 --> 00:16:51.107
- As any deliberative body in the eu will ever get.
- 00:16:51.107 --> 00:16:54.110
- Send them back. they're not very exciting.
- 00:16:54.110 --> 00:16:55.878
- It's not. it's not very exciting.
- 00:16:55.878 --> 00:16:57.580
- A clip is about 10s too long anyways.
- 00:16:57.580 --> 00:16:59.615
- Nose.
- 00:16:59.615 --> 00:17:00.483
- What do i make of this?
- 00:17:00.483 --> 00:17:01.317
- What do we make of this?
- 00:17:01.317 --> 00:17:03.018
- Well, i love, of course, the framing.
- 00:17:03.018 --> 00:17:04.920
- It always has to be.
- 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:06.088
- The pope is attacking trump when the pope's comments,
- 00:17:06.088 --> 00:17:08.891
- Like so many of his
- 00:17:08.891 --> 00:17:09.959
- Political comments, were kind of mild mannered.
- 00:17:09.959 --> 00:17:12.595
- You know, as well
- 00:17:12.595 --> 00:17:13.596
- We need to consider the dignity of the migrant,
- 00:17:13.596 --> 00:17:14.830
- Which, of course, we absolutely have to do now,
- 00:17:14.830 --> 00:17:16.966
- Looking back at history, i seem to recall
- 00:17:16.966 --> 00:17:19.268
- A servant of god, queen isabella of spain.
- 00:17:19.268 --> 00:17:22.404
- She was a pretty tough on the migration issue.
- 00:17:22.404 --> 00:17:24.940
- She did reign over the reconquista
- 00:17:24.940 --> 00:17:27.843
- Ending 800 years of muslim occupation of spain.
- 00:17:27.843 --> 00:17:30.579
- I think of pope saint pius the fifth,
- 00:17:30.579 --> 00:17:33.949
- During the battle of lepanto.
- 00:17:33.949 --> 00:17:35.484
- There were a lot of turkish muslims
- 00:17:35.484 --> 00:17:37.153
- Who wanted to migrate into europe.
- 00:17:37.153 --> 00:17:39.121
- And, the pope, with the help of our lady
- 00:17:39.121 --> 00:17:41.957
- And and our lord, turn them around
- 00:17:41.957 --> 00:17:44.059
- In this improbable win
- 00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:45.594
- Instituted the feast
- 00:17:45.594 --> 00:17:46.562
- Of our lady of victory, our lady of the rosary.
- 00:17:46.562 --> 00:17:48.164
- So, you know, i guess it's a mixed bag
- 00:17:48.164 --> 00:17:50.299
- On immigration policy over catholic history.
- 00:17:50.299 --> 00:17:52.935
- And and in fairness to the pope, when the pope,
- 00:17:52.935 --> 00:17:55.671
- He makes these comments and he's
- 00:17:55.671 --> 00:17:56.772
- Speaking in defense of members of his flock,
- 00:17:56.772 --> 00:17:58.874
- You know, some of the migrants, most of them are muslims,
- 00:17:58.874 --> 00:18:00.543
- I guess, but some of them are in his flock.
- 00:18:00.543 --> 00:18:02.311
- And he's speaking of human dignity more broadly.
- 00:18:02.311 --> 00:18:04.280
- But when he was really pressed on the issue last year,
- 00:18:04.280 --> 00:18:07.349
- He on open borders, he said, no, no, no.
- 00:18:07.349 --> 00:18:09.552
- Nobody thinks a country should have open borders.
- 00:18:09.552 --> 00:18:11.887
- A country has a
- 00:18:11.887 --> 00:18:12.621
- Right to determine
- 00:18:12.621 --> 00:18:13.689
- Who and how and when people come into the country.
- 00:18:13.689 --> 00:18:16.559
- So when you really press him on the political issue,
- 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:18.894
- He's been clear about that.
- 00:18:18.894 --> 00:18:20.329
- But, i agree.
- 00:18:20.329 --> 00:18:21.730
- I mean,
- 00:18:21.730 --> 00:18:22.665
- I suppose in this case it's probably good for
- 00:18:22.665 --> 00:18:24.233
- European migration policy
- 00:18:24.233 --> 00:18:25.968
- That the pope is not a member of any european parliament.
- 00:18:25.968 --> 00:18:29.071
- And, you know, the
- 00:18:29.071 --> 00:18:30.172
- The pope's brother does also seem to have a little bit
- 00:18:30.172 --> 00:18:32.374
- Of a different view on migration.
- 00:18:32.374 --> 00:18:33.842
- So, you know, look, i really i am a pope defender.
- 00:18:33.842 --> 00:18:37.646
- I'm a pope leo enjoyer.
- 00:18:37.646 --> 00:18:39.281
- I think, really his papacy has been in his
- 00:18:39.281 --> 00:18:42.885
- Pontificate has been a nice,
- 00:18:42.885 --> 00:18:44.587
- Turn of events after recent years.
- 00:18:44.587 --> 00:18:47.056
- But yeah, some of the,
- 00:18:47.056 --> 00:18:48.424
- Some of the political issues,
- 00:18:48.424 --> 00:18:49.692
- He's a little bit more to the left and happily,
- 00:18:49.692 --> 00:18:52.361
- You know, he's he's
- 00:18:52.361 --> 00:18:53.729
- Not the one actually legislating in these countries.
- 00:18:53.729 --> 00:18:56.398
- So i kind of want to get another pope thing
- 00:18:56.398 --> 00:18:58.801
- Because it links to another topic we wanted that
- 00:18:58.801 --> 00:19:01.170
- We were hitting earlier about
- 00:19:01.170 --> 00:19:03.572
- The left
- 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:04.840
- Doesn't seem to love america as much anymore.
- 00:19:04.840 --> 00:19:07.109
- And they actually asked the pope who he would cheer for
- 00:19:07.109 --> 00:19:09.945
- If peru and the united states were to play each other.
- 00:19:09.945 --> 00:19:14.149
- And he,
- 00:19:14.149 --> 00:19:15.317
- Of course, spent a long time as a as a priest in peru.
- 00:19:15.317 --> 00:19:18.487
- And it seems he said he'd probably cheer for
- 00:19:18.487 --> 00:19:21.757
- For peru and i'm not going to dive
- 00:19:21.757 --> 00:19:23.959
- Too deep into his personal feelings.
- 00:19:23.959 --> 00:19:25.728
- But, michael,
- 00:19:25.728 --> 00:19:26.895
- Why don't people want to cheer for the united states?
- 00:19:26.895 --> 00:19:28.897
- We would be the underdog against peru, i suspect not.
- 00:19:28.897 --> 00:19:31.800
- What do we we were.
- 00:19:31.800 --> 00:19:32.835
- I don't know, i'm really torn on this because i.
- 00:19:32.835 --> 00:19:36.105
- I love america, but i really hate soccer.
- 00:19:36.105 --> 00:19:39.208
- And i don't want soccer to take root here.
- 00:19:39.208 --> 00:19:41.076
- So i guess i have to root for the american team.
- 00:19:41.076 --> 00:19:43.746
- You know, when it comes to the pope
- 00:19:43.746 --> 00:19:45.014
- Saying i'd probably root for peru, i do think part.
- 00:19:45.014 --> 00:19:47.950
- Look, maybe he just really likes peru.
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- He spent a lot of time there.
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- But part of it, i think, is
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- He's very sensitive, is the first american pope.
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- I don't think he wants to be seen as being, to
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- Partizan or, i don't know, too nationalistic about america.
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- So he's not going to be in the united states on july 4th.
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- He's going to be in lampedusa.
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- I think there's a little bit of that going on.
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- The one upside, to the pope's american citizenship,
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- We we know how he voted, and we know
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- He's the first pope who is a registered republican.
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- So i'll take it.
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- You know, i'll take the wins there.
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- In terms of these democrat politicians,
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- An elected democrat, congressman
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- And and the woman that he's
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- Running against in new york's 13th,
- 00:20:23.052 --> 00:20:25.154
- They said, who you rooting for in the world cup?
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- One of them says mexico. one of them says senegal.
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- And you senegal. good.
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- What the heck, man?
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- You know,
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- Look, democrats
- 00:20:32.027 --> 00:20:32.861
- Have hated america for a long time,
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- But they used to be pretty chill about it.
- 00:20:34.296 --> 00:20:36.031
- Like when obama would come out and say,
- 00:20:36.031 --> 00:20:37.566
- Well, i want to fundamentally transform america.
- 00:20:37.566 --> 00:20:40.436
- That is a statement of contempt for america.
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- You don't want to fundamentally transform
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- Something he love, but at least he's still kind of
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- He's subtle.
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- He's saying, oh, you know, there's
- 00:20:47.876 --> 00:20:48.944
- No red america, there's no blue america.
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- United states or whatever.
- 00:20:50.612 --> 00:20:51.880
- And so now they're just totally open about it.
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- And i mean, i actually came to the conclusion last night,
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- These people should not vote.
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- And i'm not even i'm not just being provocative
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- Or hyperbolic.
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- If you certainly
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- If you're an elected representative, for goodness
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- Sakes, the congressman's title is u.s.
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- Representative.
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- You can't even vote for the u.s.
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- Team in the world cup that we're hosting.
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- But but i kind of think you look at that cnn poll,
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- Reuters ipsos, showing that that, support
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- Among democrats for pride in america has collapsed by.
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- I think we should play it for the for the audience up 38.
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- You'll get the reaction and that you'll take us home here.
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- 38 look at how we have an increasing polarization
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- On this issue will display the flag on july 4th.
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- The american flag back in july of 2001.
- 00:21:34.656 --> 00:21:37.526
- Look at this.
- 00:21:37.526 --> 00:21:38.427
- Yet 68% of republicans, 65% of democrats
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- Saying that they would in fact display the flag on july 4th.
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- You come over to this side of the screen.
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- Republicans basically are where they were
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- 25 years ago, right? 64%.
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- But look at that democratic percentage,
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- Absolutely plummeting.
- 00:21:53.275 --> 00:21:54.676
- Just 27% of democrats say they will, in fact,
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- Display the flag on july 4th and in 2026.
- 00:21:58.280 --> 00:22:01.750
- Look at this again.
- 00:22:01.750 --> 00:22:03.085
- The democratic percentage absolutely plummets
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- To just 29% of democrats say they're extremely
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- Are very proud to be an american.
- 00:22:09.625 --> 00:22:11.059
- That republican percentage
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- The exact same final minute to you michael.
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- What do you make of this.
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- These people shouldn't vote.
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- They should not be allowed to vote.
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- I'm not even not like thrown bombs. you.
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- I have lots of provocative thoughts
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- About who shouldn't vote. so i'm.
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- Yeah, well. right. that's true. we could be here all day.
- 00:22:27.176 --> 00:22:28.911
- You cannot enfranchise people
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- Who openly, actively hate the country.
- 00:22:32.581 --> 00:22:35.918
- The whole point of voting is
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- So that people who have a stake in the country,
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- Who wish for the good of the country,
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- Can actually promote it.
- 00:22:40.923 --> 00:22:42.191
- We now have elected representatives and ordinary
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- Voters who overwhelmingly and openly hate the country.
- 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:49.431
- If those are the people running the country,
- 00:22:49.431 --> 00:22:51.467
- It ain't going to go well for very long.
- 00:22:51.467 --> 00:22:53.702
- I mean, and the fact that we're hosting
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- A big soccer tournament, maybe, is evidence
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- That our national decline is already upon us.
- 00:22:57.072 --> 00:22:59.107
- It's dead serious that
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- If this is why immigration can be a hazard, you get people
- 00:23:00.309 --> 00:23:02.945
- Whose top priority is a foreign country, a foreign country.
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- Mexico agitates for its, immigrants to do this.
- 00:23:06.982 --> 00:23:10.452
- Plenty of other countries do, too.
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- Michael, it's very good to have.
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- You will certainly be having you on more.
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- I'm sure the pope will say
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- More things that will occasionally
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- Sit on the pope says something else obnoxious.
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- We're going to.
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- We know who to call.
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- Michael north, thank you for your time, my friend.
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- We'll talk to you soon. see you later.
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