WEBVTT 00:00.460 --> 00:06.020 For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy 00:06.020 --> 00:12.060 that relies primarily on coveted means for expanding its sphere of influence, 00:12.520 --> 00:18.620 on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, 00:19.500 --> 00:26.280 on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. 00:26.280 --> 00:32.500 Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. 00:33.320 --> 00:35.860 Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. 00:36.740 --> 00:41.400 Believe it or not, that speech from JFK was given to the American people 65 years ago. 00:41.980 --> 00:48.260 And as prescient as it is, it's unfortunate that it was not actually in regards to what we truly face. 00:48.260 --> 00:57.620 It was really demanding censorship amongst the American news media so that we could prevail in the Cold War. 00:58.240 --> 01:03.100 Nonetheless, his words have tremendous gravity, particularly today. 01:03.520 --> 01:10.040 Joe Kent, our head or director of counter-terrorism as of about 24 hours ago, he resigned. 01:10.480 --> 01:16.320 And with it, we got a brief glimpse into that secretive cabal that rules over us through covert means. 01:16.320 --> 01:20.080 In fact, we are waging yet another war on their behalf. 01:20.200 --> 01:28.120 There was no imminent threat to the United States of America by the Iranians. 01:28.260 --> 01:29.900 There was a threat to Israel. 01:32.820 --> 01:39.000 Quite a threat to Israel is the equivalent of an imminent threat to the United States. 01:40.340 --> 01:42.960 Then we are in uncharted territory. 01:42.960 --> 01:52.140 That is Senator Mark Warner once again acknowledging what Marco Rubio told us that this was a war in defense, not of America, but of Israel. 01:52.400 --> 01:57.720 As I've shown you on prior episodes just a week ago, we've got Marco Rubio, Senator Warner. 01:58.020 --> 02:00.300 There was another Democratic senator that said the same thing. 02:00.420 --> 02:02.240 He said, look, it's for Israel. 02:02.460 --> 02:03.380 Pete Hegs said it. 02:03.520 --> 02:04.200 Donald Trump said it. 02:04.500 --> 02:07.760 I mean, it's like, it's not even a secret at this point. 02:07.760 --> 02:16.280 So it's pretty shocking when the director of counterterrorism comes out and he says, I'm resigning. 02:16.840 --> 02:26.200 One, because I lost my wife in the stupid CIA dirty war in Syria when she was unfortunately and tragically killed in 2019. 02:26.520 --> 02:33.860 But also because I'm witnessing us making the same mistakes by starting yet another war in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. 02:33.860 --> 02:38.520 So everybody who supports the war, they can say it. 02:38.780 --> 02:41.260 It's actually okay to say it because it's the truth. 02:41.820 --> 02:46.480 They may they may try and mask it or walk back from those comments, but they're certainly not going to be forced to resign. 02:46.660 --> 02:47.500 They won't be smeared. 02:47.920 --> 02:49.700 They won't try to destroy Marco Rubio. 02:49.840 --> 02:53.740 They won't try to destroy Pete Hegseth or Donald Trump because they all support the war. 02:54.120 --> 02:58.800 The people who do say it's for Israel and don't support the war like Joe Kent. 02:59.180 --> 03:01.180 Well, they get demolished. 03:01.180 --> 03:06.120 Does it matter that Joe Kent has like four or five bronze stars? 03:06.320 --> 03:13.460 Does it matter that Joe Kent spent well over a decade, maybe even two fighting in the Middle East against Israel's enemies? 03:13.980 --> 03:17.140 Does it matter that he served 11 tours of duty? 03:17.460 --> 03:24.140 Does it matter that his wife, the mother of his children, died in one of those wars? 03:24.460 --> 03:29.320 Well, it mattered right up until he said, I don't want to fight for Israel anymore. 03:29.860 --> 03:32.360 And then the knives came out. 03:32.500 --> 03:35.020 The letter is deeply, deeply conspiratorial. 03:35.240 --> 03:39.040 It states openly that quote, Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation. 03:39.320 --> 03:43.540 And it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. 03:44.880 --> 03:46.900 Now that is conspiracy trash. 03:47.560 --> 03:51.000 It's also kind of strange since President Trump has said that it's conspiracy trash. 03:51.180 --> 03:58.120 So apparently Trump is so deeply, deeply enthralled to those strange, powerful American lobbies. 03:58.120 --> 03:59.040 We're not going to say it. We're not going to say it. 03:59.660 --> 04:05.080 That he apparently has been so bamboozled by them that he's still under the impression that he's his own man. 04:05.380 --> 04:08.540 But here's the thing, President Trump is his own man. He makes his own decisions. 04:09.140 --> 04:15.400 And as for our usual arrangement, Trump's critics are cowards who are simply unwilling to acknowledge that Trump is the one making the call. 04:15.980 --> 04:16.320 That's right. 04:17.080 --> 04:19.660 Ben Shapiro just called Joe Kent a coward. 04:20.620 --> 04:21.140 Joe Kent. 04:21.800 --> 04:24.360 Joe fucking Kent is a coward. 04:24.360 --> 04:29.020 But Ben Shapiro is that heroic soldier, I guess. 04:29.920 --> 04:33.260 And look, I'm not saying that Trump isn't making these calls. 04:33.820 --> 04:35.200 Trump is standing by these calls. 04:35.360 --> 04:37.060 He's saying that this is what he wanted to do. 04:37.560 --> 04:41.200 I hold him just as responsible as anybody else. 04:41.620 --> 04:52.140 But it doesn't change the fact that ultimately the motives for this totally ridiculous, absurd, dangerous war is fought to the benefit of a country that is not our own. 04:52.140 --> 04:56.760 It doesn't matter that Donald Trump stands by the decision. 04:57.120 --> 04:58.940 That doesn't mean that the decision is correct. 04:59.240 --> 05:01.680 In fact, it's deeply, deeply wrong. 05:01.920 --> 05:06.300 Your director of national counterterrorism, Joe Kent, he just resigned today. 05:06.560 --> 05:09.260 He said he can't support your conflict with Iran. 05:09.640 --> 05:10.780 What's your reaction to that? 05:10.960 --> 05:17.520 Well, I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. 05:18.900 --> 05:22.820 I didn't know him well, but I thought he seemed like a pretty nice guy. 05:24.480 --> 05:31.820 But when I read his statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat. 05:32.580 --> 05:37.580 So as Ben Shapiro argued, you know, because it was Trump's decision, it must be good and proper, right? 05:37.580 --> 05:49.720 Oh, but there's Donald Trump saying that his director of counterterrorism, effective two hours before he gave that press conference, was always, always weak on security. 05:50.320 --> 06:00.980 The guy who Donald Trump appointed to be the head or the director of counterterrorism was weak on security, always weak on security, according to President Donald Trump. 06:00.980 --> 06:08.080 Okay, so I guess Donald Trump can make mistakes, right? Because he just totally sandbagged Joe Kent. 06:08.240 --> 06:14.820 Look what happened. In the last two weeks, they weren't supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East. 06:15.220 --> 06:29.160 Those missiles were set to go after them. So they hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shocked. 06:29.160 --> 06:36.480 And there's Trump, our genius supreme leader, acknowledging that we were shocked that Iran fought back. 06:37.300 --> 06:39.600 Yeah, wow. I can't believe it. 06:40.080 --> 06:46.440 A sovereign nation decided that if you take out their top 50 leadership and bomb the hell out of them, they might fight back. 06:47.060 --> 06:52.960 Shocking. Shocking that they would bomb Qatar and all these other nations near them, 06:53.080 --> 06:57.820 given that America has bases in those countries and America was actively bombing them. 06:57.820 --> 07:04.600 It's totally shocking that Iran would fight back. That's the guy that I have to just kowtow to. 07:04.920 --> 07:11.840 I mean, it's so ridiculous. Here's what Tulsi Gabbard had to say, because Donald Trump was also shocked about the Strait of Hormuz getting shut down. 07:12.000 --> 07:17.240 I don't know if you heard about that. So this is what Tulsi Gabbard had to say, testifying in front of Congress just a few hours ago. 07:17.380 --> 07:25.980 The president continues to say as well that he had no idea, was shocked that the Iranians had moved to take over the Strait of Hormuz. 07:26.600 --> 07:33.560 Did you provide any intelligence that would say that it was not likely that the Iranians would try to move on the Strait? 07:34.180 --> 07:45.620 I'm not aware of those remarks. And I think those of us here at the table can point to the fact that historically the Iranians have always threatened to leverage their control over the Strait of Hormuz. 07:45.620 --> 07:46.700 Why would the president say he was amazed? 07:46.960 --> 07:48.100 I'm not aware of those remarks. 07:48.100 --> 07:56.100 Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's DNI, saying that, yeah, of course we knew that Iran would shut down the Strait of Hormuz if we had a major war with them. 07:56.340 --> 08:04.340 They had threatened that historically forever, because that's really their only lynchpin by which they can really damage us. 08:04.880 --> 08:09.000 Like really? But did Tulsi Gabbard stand by her appointee and friend, Joe Kent? 08:09.000 --> 08:19.040 Not really. He posted some meandering speech on X yesterday where she essentially says, I'm standing by Trump. 08:19.320 --> 08:29.180 It's basically the summation of it. It's very lengthy. And it's like, it's as fine a dancing on the edge of a knife you'll ever find where she's just saying, ultimately, 08:29.800 --> 08:35.340 Donald Trump made this decision. She's giving a pass to Israel's influence in this decision-making process. 08:35.340 --> 08:41.120 So he's not standing by Joe Kent, despite the fact that this is Tulsi Gabbard in 2019. 08:41.320 --> 08:46.680 President Trump promised us during his campaign to get the United States out of stupid wars. 08:46.980 --> 08:51.200 Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big fat mistake. 08:51.540 --> 08:55.460 We should have never been in Iraq. We have destabilized the Middle East. 08:55.560 --> 09:00.940 We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about. 09:00.940 --> 09:05.120 But he's on the brink of launching a very stupid and costly war with Iran. 09:05.500 --> 09:08.520 We have to stop President Trump from starting a war with Iran. 09:08.800 --> 09:17.200 The president is listening to his national security advisor, John Bolton, and other war hawks in his administration who have championed the war with Iraq in the past 09:17.200 --> 09:20.000 and who have been pushing for war with Iran for years. 09:20.140 --> 09:27.980 So did that courageous anti-war or anti-regime change, Maven Tulsi Gabbard stand up and back up Joe Kent when he resigned yesterday? 09:27.980 --> 09:33.220 Nope. Nope. She didn't. Did she testify in front of Congress saying, 09:33.460 --> 09:41.840 look, we warned President Trump about the retaliatory response that would come from Iran if they were to proceed with this and he proceeded anyways? 09:42.640 --> 09:44.280 Nope. She just says, I'm not aware of his comments. 09:44.980 --> 09:48.540 Sure. You're not aware of his comments when he said he was shocked that they fought back. 09:48.960 --> 09:53.120 Okay. I don't believe you and I can't believe you about anything moving forward. 09:53.120 --> 10:01.180 And the reason I was such a fan of Joe Kent was because this is what Joe Kent had to say before he got put in as the director of counterterrorism. 10:01.880 --> 10:07.220 We left our troops in these vulnerable locations, like on the Jordanian-Syrian and Iraqi border. 10:07.700 --> 10:14.800 Our troops have been attacked, we think at least 150 times since the October 7th incident began. 10:15.160 --> 10:17.740 And so we've seen this coming. This was an inevitable conclusion. 10:17.740 --> 10:28.900 So by leaving our troops in these locations, undefended essentially, we left them there as bait because so many people in Washington DC want to go to war with Iran. 10:29.080 --> 10:41.960 There's no other logical conclusion other than the fact that we have left them there as bait to be killed by Iranians at the time and place of their choosing so that we can continue to escalate towards a conflict with Iran 10:41.960 --> 10:51.360 and us baiting a trap for ourselves to get our troops killed to encourage and then really to justify a further war against Iran. 10:51.560 --> 11:01.160 That's Joe Kent, January of 2024. Telling you the truth, not because he spent too much time on X as Argonne Sargonne, whatever her name is, had to say yesterday. 11:01.560 --> 11:09.680 On the anti-Semitism question, look, the guy blamed Israel for his wife's tragic death by ISIS in 2019. 11:10.800 --> 11:17.880 How do you even get there? I don't throw around the anti-Semitism thing just because I think people are sick of hearing this accusation. 11:18.000 --> 11:24.120 I wouldn't even bring it to bear here. Let's stuff gets you a lot of attention online because the Internet is available globally. 11:24.560 --> 11:30.640 If the Internet was only available in America, they would not be getting these numbers because Americans cannot stand anti-Semitism. 11:30.640 --> 11:35.940 So what happens is, as you see this again and again and again, you saw this with Marjorie Taylor Greene, for example, 11:36.380 --> 11:42.560 when somebody starts spending more time on Twitter than they're spending in the dive bar and talking to their neighbors, 11:42.560 --> 11:49.720 they become convinced that there is an American appetite for this anti-Israel, anti-Trump crap. 11:50.120 --> 11:54.680 You may have seen this. 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That's CovePure.com slash Liberty. 13:06.660 --> 13:13.560 So you see Joe Kent became an anti-Semite because he spent too much time on X or listening to podcasts 13:13.560 --> 13:18.180 because those podcasts are available globally or because X is available globally. 13:18.180 --> 13:21.240 It couldn't be that those wars are deeply unpopular. 13:21.460 --> 13:26.020 It couldn't be that Donald Trump actually got elected on promising to stop these endless wars in the Middle East. 13:26.180 --> 13:32.000 Could it? It couldn't be that because, I mean, then it would be impossible for Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens 13:32.000 --> 13:37.480 to be the two most popular right wing podcasts. That would be impossible in America, right? 13:38.060 --> 13:42.440 It has to be impossible. It couldn't be that peace is popular. 13:42.440 --> 13:48.700 War has to be popular, particularly wars in the Middle East for Israel have to be popular. 13:49.220 --> 13:53.600 They have to be. You'd have to be a bigoted anti-Semite to believe otherwise. 13:53.840 --> 13:57.980 It's impossible that it's just really unpopular. 13:58.300 --> 14:02.180 I cannot in good conscious support the ongoing war in Iran. 14:02.620 --> 14:08.520 Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation and it is clear that we started this war 14:08.520 --> 14:13.240 due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. 14:14.880 --> 14:19.580 I know this is so damaging. 14:20.040 --> 14:25.560 But this is so irresponsible. You might as well just say that, you know, 14:25.980 --> 14:29.840 I read the protocols of the Elders of Zion and, you know, the Jews control the world. 14:30.000 --> 14:32.240 He basically said that. He basically said that. 14:32.240 --> 14:34.820 He basically said that Jews control the United States of America. 14:34.820 --> 14:38.180 Come on. This is so irresponsible. 14:38.660 --> 14:40.220 There's no evidence of this. 14:40.880 --> 14:43.860 So he has just taken and this was my problem. 14:43.880 --> 14:47.500 And I said this yesterday. I've said this every day since the war started. 14:47.920 --> 14:50.240 I don't need more opinions. I need more facts. 14:50.940 --> 14:54.160 I'm tired of opinions. I want facts. 14:54.960 --> 14:58.140 If this is true, back it up with facts. 14:58.820 --> 15:01.360 Show me how this happened. 15:01.360 --> 15:04.760 I don't want to get involved in anybody else's. 15:05.440 --> 15:11.400 When you're dividing us this hard on something this dark, 15:12.360 --> 15:15.900 produce the damn evidence, Joe. 15:16.580 --> 15:24.460 So there's Glenn Beck, a man who cries often when he talks about his love and loyalty to Israel. 15:24.460 --> 15:30.000 But yeah, it's just people trying to be provocative. 15:30.320 --> 15:31.240 We're just trying to get clicks. 15:31.700 --> 15:35.120 It couldn't be that we're just trying to save this country. 15:35.320 --> 15:38.200 We're trying to stop the death and destruction. 15:38.840 --> 15:40.640 It has to be click-driven. 15:41.580 --> 15:48.860 Or it could be that we actually have won this argument in the public open debate of ideas. 15:49.200 --> 15:53.980 That we have handedly won this argument and you can't defeat us on the merit. 15:53.980 --> 15:57.740 And therefore, you have to degrade our motives. 15:58.260 --> 16:05.440 You have to pretend as if we are just being provocative for the sake of financial interest or something. 16:05.860 --> 16:12.920 Joe can't actually mean what he has to say when he believes that his wife was killed on behalf of Israel. 16:13.380 --> 16:17.840 He can't mean that because that would deflate your entire worldview. 16:18.380 --> 16:20.220 It would destroy your entire worldview. 16:20.540 --> 16:21.900 And you got to think about this too. 16:21.900 --> 16:28.120 It's very interesting. Jim Jordan, a congressman who used to be seemingly cool, not anymore, 16:28.900 --> 16:30.760 was he just posted out randomly yesterday. 16:31.320 --> 16:33.780 Stand with the troops, love America or whatever. 16:34.460 --> 16:42.720 It's like, did he stand up when Joe Kent said that, hey, I'm resigning because President Trump is being let around by his ear by Israel? 16:43.000 --> 16:46.780 No, he didn't have any words of defense for Joe Kent. 16:46.780 --> 16:56.460 So they'll stand with the troops as long as you're willing to fight and die in these completely unnecessary wars that aren't to the benefit of America or Americans. 16:56.720 --> 16:59.800 They will completely pretend as if they love you. 17:00.140 --> 17:01.460 You can fight for decades. 17:01.920 --> 17:07.720 You can give up your friends or your wife or your own life and they will pretend as if they love you. 17:07.940 --> 17:12.380 They might even show up when they bring your casket home wrapped in that American flag. 17:12.880 --> 17:26.640 But as soon, literally the second, you could spend decades doing that, but literally the second you say, hey, I have a lot of information because I was over there in the desert for two decades. 17:26.940 --> 17:30.420 Because I came back and I was the head, the director of counterterrorism. 17:31.100 --> 17:31.740 So I had access. 17:31.920 --> 17:32.840 I had top secret clearance. 17:32.960 --> 17:33.700 I could see everything. 17:33.700 --> 17:41.580 And I've come to the conclusion that the wars that we fought for 20 plus years in the Middle East have not been to our benefit. 17:41.800 --> 17:47.580 And there's no one that Donald Trump just started is a catastrophe already and in the making. 17:48.320 --> 17:52.640 And I cannot in good conscience proceed in this role. 17:53.360 --> 18:01.480 And then they will immediately, immediately pretend as if you're a traitor to your country because you finally told the truth. 18:01.480 --> 18:06.580 Because you finally had the courage to say, I'm not interested in holding on to power anymore. 18:07.100 --> 18:09.180 I'm just going to get out while the getting's good. 18:09.680 --> 18:20.060 And then people like Glenn Beck, who will just give you these lengthy soliloquies in defense of our troops and patriotism and the Constitution. 18:20.740 --> 18:26.100 And he'll give you lengthy, beautiful sermons about peace and prosperity too from time to time. 18:26.100 --> 18:35.520 But as soon as you say, I won't fight your wars anymore and I'm not fighting for Israel for another fucking day. 18:35.860 --> 18:38.040 They will pretend as if they never knew you. 18:38.340 --> 18:42.340 They will wish ill upon you and your family and your progeny. 18:42.660 --> 18:44.580 They will try and destroy you. 18:44.660 --> 18:49.660 And then they'll look around at enlistment numbers and they'll say, why don't we have enough troops? 18:50.560 --> 18:52.340 Why won't these young kids sign up? 18:53.140 --> 18:54.880 It must be a testosterone crisis. 18:54.880 --> 18:57.120 It must be a social media crisis. 18:57.500 --> 19:00.540 They're being propagandized by the CCP, right? 19:00.900 --> 19:04.580 Or it could just be that the truth has a way of getting out. 19:05.100 --> 19:07.600 That the kids aren't asleep anymore. 19:08.120 --> 19:16.580 That they've realized that what we're saying, what Joe Kent is saying, a man with accolades and a record that you could never fucking approach. 19:16.980 --> 19:17.640 Not even close. 19:18.460 --> 19:20.860 Just told them exactly what they already knew. 19:21.140 --> 19:25.120 That they are not going to go fight and die for Israel anymore. 19:26.040 --> 19:28.880 And you'll try and destroy them, but you can't stop the signal. 19:29.300 --> 19:31.740 The kids know and I'm glad they're listening. 19:31.960 --> 19:39.800 The U.S. economy is fundamentally sound and that if it were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the U.S. economy very much at all. 19:40.180 --> 19:46.060 It would hurt consumers and we'd have to think about if that continued what we would have to do about that. 19:46.060 --> 19:48.620 But that's really the last of our concerns right now. 19:48.660 --> 19:55.280 That's Kevin Hassett, one of Trump's top economic advisors saying that the war in Iran is going to hurt consumers. 19:55.440 --> 19:57.240 But really, that's our last concern right now. 19:57.580 --> 19:59.620 Oh, okay. America first. 20:01.080 --> 20:05.240 Consumer concerns over the war are the last of your concerns right now. 20:05.420 --> 20:07.160 I love it when they tell the truth. 20:07.840 --> 20:08.920 I love it. 20:09.560 --> 20:10.560 They never do it on purpose. 20:11.360 --> 20:25.300 But as they've grown increasingly detached from us, their constituents, they just continuously, they get more and more detached and more and more confident in just letting the truth out accidentally as it may be. 20:25.920 --> 20:28.520 But yeah, they're not fighting this war for you. 20:28.780 --> 20:30.240 You're fighting this war for them. 20:30.380 --> 20:32.300 And by them, I don't mean America. 20:32.560 --> 20:36.600 And here's what Speaker Mike Johnson had to say about Joe Ken's resignation letter. 20:36.600 --> 20:40.500 The Commander-in-Chief and his administration had a very difficult decision to make. 20:41.240 --> 20:56.460 I don't know where Joe Kent is getting his information, but he wasn't in those briefings clearly because the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and everyone, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Kain, they had exquisite intelligence that we understood that this was a serious moment for us. 20:56.580 --> 21:01.500 Had the President waited, I am personally convinced that we would have mass casualties of Americans. 21:01.500 --> 21:05.240 So there's Speaker Johnson doubling down on the fact that Iran was an imminent threat. 21:05.380 --> 21:08.420 Were they an imminent threat if Israel didn't attack them? 21:09.240 --> 21:09.400 No. 21:10.040 --> 21:13.420 They were not going to just randomly, preemptively attack us. 21:13.640 --> 21:16.320 Just a complete obvious reality. 21:16.560 --> 21:17.780 Like they were not going to do that. 21:17.900 --> 21:22.600 So that means that we are definitionally subservient. 21:22.920 --> 21:25.280 That means that we don't wear the pants. 21:25.280 --> 21:30.440 You know, there are pit bull in the Middle East in that we ultimately dictate the terms of all of these wars. 21:30.620 --> 21:33.460 But when it came down to this one, it's never been more clear. 21:33.620 --> 21:36.860 There's other examples in the past where it's been quite obvious. 21:37.200 --> 21:45.260 I mean, obviously Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and Syria and all these, all these examples are very clear as to why we fought in those locations. 21:45.260 --> 21:54.200 But this one's, you know, particularly unique in that we have our own politicians coming out and saying, look, Iran was a threat to Israel. 21:54.200 --> 21:56.600 Israel was going to attack Iran. 21:57.260 --> 22:02.940 In response, they allege that Iran was going to attack American troops abroad, not domestically. 22:03.420 --> 22:06.880 And therefore we had to essentially preempt the counter strike. 22:07.400 --> 22:09.600 But the counter strike was to Israel's actions. 22:10.220 --> 22:12.900 So who dictated the terms of this war? 22:12.980 --> 22:14.840 Who was the impetus for it? 22:15.340 --> 22:16.180 It's irrefutable. 22:16.940 --> 22:22.340 Our own politicians are telling you the truth for once that Israel started this war. 22:22.340 --> 22:24.500 We are their pit bull. 22:25.140 --> 22:27.740 We're their aircraft carrier in the Pacific. 22:27.980 --> 22:40.580 What's really interesting is there's no evidence that anybody inside the administration was pushing for this war, except maybe Kushner and Witkoff, 22:40.980 --> 22:43.820 which of course would support our argument, right? 22:44.400 --> 22:51.340 But there's no evidence that Vance was pushing for it, that even Rubio was pushing for it. 22:51.340 --> 22:54.860 He was too busy worrying about colonizing Latin America. 22:55.200 --> 23:00.600 In fact, General Cain warned him that there was no military option. 23:01.220 --> 23:05.220 The National Intelligence Council said in effect this is not going to work. 23:05.720 --> 23:12.220 So there was real resistance coming from inside the administration and no real proponents that I can see. 23:12.780 --> 23:15.800 But who were the proponents inside the United States? 23:16.020 --> 23:19.840 All you had to do is read the Wall Street Journal, which was a cheerleader for the war. 23:19.840 --> 23:23.320 Brett Stevens, who was a cheerleader for the war. 23:24.180 --> 23:30.800 Lindsey Graham, who was not only a cheerleader for the war, but was working carefully with Netanyahu, right? 23:31.200 --> 23:38.280 And then Netanyahu himself, this man has been deeply committed to getting us involved in a war against Iran for decades. 23:39.040 --> 23:41.620 The evidence here is just overwhelming. 23:43.060 --> 23:51.520 That's John Mearsheimer with Max Blumenthal talking about who were the motivating orbiters around Trump that actually catalyzed this. 23:51.760 --> 24:00.620 And it seems quite clear to me that in fact, most of his closest cabinet members in terms of prestige were not the ones that were beating these war drums. 24:00.980 --> 24:02.760 As surprising as that would be to some. 24:02.760 --> 24:06.980 I mean, Marco Rubio is a longtime neocon. I'm not fond of him at all. 24:07.060 --> 24:13.040 But I think it's true that Marco Rubio even was very upset that this happened. 24:13.400 --> 24:25.140 Not necessarily because he opposes it, but rather he recognizes as a shrewd, calculating political creature that this is very detrimental for his presidential chances in 2028. 24:25.660 --> 24:26.920 JD Vance is the same way. 24:27.060 --> 24:31.480 So all of the young presidential hopefuls in Trump's cabinet opposed this. 24:31.480 --> 24:47.840 All of the old neocon dead-enders were the ones that really were dragging Trump forward on this, along with Netanyahu, who spent seven fucking trips in a year period to see the president of the United States to make this happen. 24:48.060 --> 24:53.060 And there's another really interesting angle to Joe Kent's resignation that has kind of gone under the radar. 24:53.060 --> 25:09.320 In October of 2025, so about six months ago, Joe Kent got into a spat with Cash Patel, the head of the FBI, because Joe Kent was trying to look into foreign governmental involvement in Charlie Kirk's assassination. 25:10.260 --> 25:10.940 And guess what? 25:11.480 --> 25:13.840 Cash Patel shut him down. 25:14.720 --> 25:16.120 He shut down Joe Kent. 25:16.120 --> 25:25.320 He didn't want him looking into foreign government involvement in the assassination of allegedly Cash Patel's good friend, Charlie Kirk. 25:25.520 --> 25:27.980 And you have to ask yourself, why that is? 25:28.840 --> 25:32.920 Why would Cash Patel not want the director of counterterrorism? 25:33.540 --> 25:42.400 I mean, given that this very easily could be argued that what happened to Charlie Kirk was in fact terrorism, using political violence to get political change, right? 25:42.860 --> 25:44.380 I mean, that's kind of definitional terrorism. 25:44.380 --> 25:51.900 Whether or not it was perpetrated by foreigners or domestic entities, it still would fall under counterterrorism purview. 25:52.500 --> 25:57.720 So you would think that it would be an all hands on deck moment, that you would want to get to the bottom of who did it. 25:58.000 --> 26:03.320 That is, unless you already knew who did it, unless you were actually already working for them. 26:03.320 --> 26:14.400 In which case, you'd probably want someone who's honorable and sincerely interested in justice and the truth to be shut the fuck down, which is exactly what happened. 26:14.840 --> 26:20.480 So I think the clock began ticking on Joe Kent's career in the Trump administration about six months ago. 26:20.960 --> 26:28.260 And fortunately, he was courageous enough to do the right thing once he realized that, look, why should I participate in this? 26:28.260 --> 26:36.840 Why should I give this the veneer of any sort of legitimacy by sitting side by side with Tulsi Gabbard and a bunch of other anti-war figures? 26:37.400 --> 26:43.580 As Donald Trump betrays his base, betrays the American people and betrays the entirety of his campaign promises. 26:43.920 --> 26:46.800 And I think he came to the right conclusion that I'm not going to. 26:47.280 --> 26:48.480 And God bless him for that. 26:48.640 --> 26:57.080 What I found most galling about that little spiel from Mike Johnson is that he goes, I don't know what intel Joe Kent was looking at that 26:57.560 --> 26:59.980 drew him to the conclusion that we were fighting this war for Israel. 27:00.520 --> 27:04.140 It's like Joe Kent had, he was the director of counterterrorism. 27:04.540 --> 27:08.140 He had access to the highest level intel you could possibly have. 27:08.240 --> 27:13.000 How could he, you can't have your director of counterterrorism being shielded from any intel, right? 27:13.220 --> 27:16.040 He has to be privy of all of it, otherwise he can't do his fucking job. 27:16.580 --> 27:23.080 So for the speaker of the house to say, I don't know where he was getting his intel, it's like, you know exactly where he was getting his intel. 27:23.760 --> 27:25.020 He had the same intel as you. 27:25.500 --> 27:29.220 He just wasn't willing to lie about it because he's honorable. 27:29.900 --> 27:34.340 Unlike you and everybody else in DC, he actually told the truth. 27:35.020 --> 27:37.120 So you're going to sandbag him and try and destroy him. 27:37.580 --> 27:38.040 How predictable. 27:38.440 --> 27:47.360 And if you're wondering where they get their marching orders on how to and why and when to destroy someone who tells the truth, let's listen to Jonathan Greenblatt, head of the ADL. 27:47.360 --> 28:02.800 In the days after the US and Israel launched the military operations against Iran, the blame, as it so often does, was placed at the feet of who else? 28:04.460 --> 28:04.900 The Jews. 28:05.220 --> 28:14.000 For some they pointed fingers at the Israelis who they claimed whispered a few too many times in President Trump's ear. 28:15.800 --> 28:24.600 For the senior senator from Maryland blamed APAC, which he slandered as un-American. 28:24.880 --> 28:35.340 Then there's the US congressman who stated that he stands against the quote neoconservatives who led the US into the current war. 28:35.660 --> 28:36.540 So there you have it. 28:36.540 --> 28:43.940 According to Greenblatt, if you even try to utter the word neocon, you're already a bigot. 28:44.520 --> 28:58.080 If you say, if you just notice that there are about a dozen different Jewish advisors to Donald Trump in his orbit that might be whispering a little too loudly in his ear, you're a bigot. 28:58.080 --> 29:11.520 If you talk about APAC's influence on the GOP or the political system more broadly or Donald Trump, if you mentioned Miriam Adelson and her hundreds of millions that she gave to Donald Trump to get him into power, you're a bigot. 29:11.980 --> 29:19.920 If you mentioned the fact that Netanyahu has spent 30 plus years trying to get us into a war with Iran, undoubtedly you're bigoted. 29:19.920 --> 29:33.720 How could you possibly listen to him for three decades and come to the conclusion that when we finally break down and decide to fight this war in Iran, which he's tried for 30 fucking years, more than 30 years to get us to fight for him. 29:33.900 --> 29:36.820 That when we do it, maybe we did it because of him. 29:37.440 --> 29:38.240 You're a bigot. 29:38.480 --> 29:45.000 In fact, if you oppose war in the Middle East at all, it's because you're an anti-Stemite. 29:45.000 --> 29:55.380 I guess the only choice you have is to just support Endless Wars and the bankrupting of your country and death and destruction worldwide. 29:55.900 --> 30:03.960 You have no alternative because the alternative is to be called a name that isn't even really applicable to you. 30:04.640 --> 30:07.860 I know it's quite a barrier to entry. 30:08.240 --> 30:12.660 You actually have to have just 1% of courage. 30:12.660 --> 30:16.140 You just have to have 1% of morality. 30:16.800 --> 30:27.720 And suddenly, that entire power structure comes crumbling down because you've recognized that in order to be moral, you're going to be called a bunch of things that don't actually apply to you. 30:28.040 --> 30:32.320 Because at my core, there is nothing hateful about what I'm doing right now. 30:32.560 --> 30:36.640 To the contrary, this is a love-based enterprise. 30:37.460 --> 30:38.420 I love humanity. 30:38.920 --> 30:39.620 I love peace. 30:39.740 --> 30:40.380 I love prosperity. 30:40.540 --> 30:41.160 I love this country. 30:41.160 --> 30:42.100 I love my countrymen. 30:42.260 --> 30:44.920 And I want these fucking wars to end. 30:45.240 --> 30:51.940 And anybody getting in my way to that goal can call me whatever they want because they already are my enemy. 30:52.520 --> 30:53.260 And that's the truth. 30:53.460 --> 30:53.860 Subscribe. 30:54.300 --> 30:55.140 Hit the like button. 30:55.260 --> 30:57.060 Leave a comment down below if I got anything wrong. 30:57.460 --> 30:59.600 And don't be afraid to be like this lady. 30:59.840 --> 31:03.880 If you could say something to President Trump and he was going to hear you right now, what would it be? 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