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Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Good morning Dr. Paul, how are you this morning?
Doing well, doing well.
Of course there's still a few problems.
Yes.
And sometimes they're hard to figure out.
But we will try because we want to talk about what happened over the weekend.
Lots of stuff happened.
A lot of dollars went from one group to another.
There was a lot of investment changes and there was a lot of talk of war
and who knows what.
Even some noise about Lebanon came up because that war continues.
But the main thing we've been talking about is what's going on, you know,
in a much more difficult place than that's with Iran.
So there's been a lot of talk and there was an article out about
that Trump might even be hard to understand.
We all know that.
But maybe he was in a panic.
You know what I thought about when I read this is,
you know, the last thing you want in a doctor would be a doctor
that's doing delicate work who gets in a panic.
Yeah, no kidding.
And you don't know, boy, he's not conveying much confidence.
But in a way that I think is what's hurting his polling is, you know,
maybe let's say a third or more things that he has said,
we could at least endorse and not scream about it.
But there's so much other stuff that's on again, off again.
And this week was one of the worst weeks for this on again,
on again stuff.
And they, you know, they were going to, you know,
have this agreement and then they changed their mind.
And of course the markets, the markets were vacillating a bit too.
People were making money and losing money.
So it's it's been really a difficult time to work things out.
But you know, one thing I thought about on investments
under these conditions is that people who are big time in investments
and there's been that, you know, the million billionaires and trillionaires,
they watch the news, they watch foreign policy, watch what our government's doing.
But how, but they also, the people involved,
the military industrial complex is a big deal because a lot of people
make money off selling weapons.
And so they're there in the know how to deal with Congress.
They have lobbyists out.
And as you have frequently mentioned, Daniel, when we lived up there,
you knew about a few of these people floating around there,
throwing their weight around because they had to get,
get their, you know, benefits from this.
So if you get a weapon, you become much richer.
But here I got to thinking this was, this was part of that,
but it was different.
This time there was news.
Oh, yes.
We're going to give them 48 hours of it.
Don't do it.
We're going to bomb them with smithereens.
Oh, yeah.
We're going to put a pause on that.
So it's up and down and up and down.
And I got to thinking, what if, what if you had,
what if you were an insider?
What if you knew that?
And I suspect there have been a little few insiders.
And sometimes they're related to the people in charge.
So this, this is, this is just a whole mess.
But it might be more lucrative faster than trying to get a new
weapon accessory built because that takes years and takes a lot
of lobbying.
You got to be really smart to be a good lobbyist and make a,
make a couple billion dollars.
But anyway, it's on again, off again.
And I guess, I guess that there have been some statistics
and articles put out here this last five days or so where,
you know, the markets reflected this uncertainty.
And, you know, it's probably tough enough just looking at
economic factors and, and people honestly making mistakes
or maybe the Fed makes a mistake, but all that is,
I know I wouldn't say that.
Oh, it is, it's made up stuff.
But anyway, this, this is something that has gone on.
And, and I think this leads to a greater problem when we have
a leader who's leading the charge.
Sometimes I wonder, you know, what he's going to say next.
I was a little bit surprised that his four day,
no, I shouldn't have been surprised.
Four days and four days, if you don't do what I tell you,
we're going to bomb you to smithereen, except on three
and a half days.
Oh, we changed our mind.
We're not going to do that.
Maybe next month we'll bring it up.
So I would find that very difficult.
It's not only financially, not only for the people who make
money off it, but also for national security.
If you're doing a, you know, we'd like to see more money
spent on national security.
That is if we were making our country secure.
I mean, when you're spending the money overseas and getting
involved in nine wars, that that's not,
that's not making us more secure.
That's making us less secure.
So in a way we ought to turn our argument is we want to spend
more money on our security.
But right now it doesn't look like we're going in that direction.
Yeah, it's been a weird weekend, Dr.
Paul. I mean, we've been assured by President Trump
and by the US military, the Secretary of War,
that Iran is completely out of missiles, completely defeated.
And then we saw on Friday and Saturday,
Iran hit Demona, which is where the Israelis have their
secret nuclear plant and secret nuclear project.
And they hit Arad, which is where their nuclear scientists live.
And if anyone wants to go on X and look at those strikes,
they're pretty remarkable strikes.
The shockwave, a whole block of buildings flattened.
And then, so you have that on Saturday afternoon,
or on Sunday afternoon, I'm sorry,
yesterday afternoon, President Trump out of the blue put this up.
He's been, I mean, I think he's been increasingly erratic.
He says if Iran doesn't fully open without threat,
the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point
in time, the United States of America will hit
and obliterate their various power plants
starting with the biggest one first.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
President Donald J. Trump.
Of course, the biggest one is a nuclear power generating plant.
So that's a very serious threat.
Well, the Iranians, as they've been doing lately,
have responded not with the same kind of bluster,
but with a very serious specific response.
If you go to the next one, and this is the response,
they basically said, if you do this,
any U.S. strike on Iran's energy sector
will trigger attacks on regional infrastructure.
And these are the targets we will hit.
And I can go through them, but there's a power plant
in Saudi Arabia, power and water plant in Qatar, UAE,
a power plant and desalination plant,
Bahrain water desalination complex,
Kuwait water desalination complex,
Jordan power generation plant,
and thermal power plant.
The countries of the region, Dr. Paul,
unlike Iran, rely up to 90%
on desalinized water for their drinking.
So if Iran were to follow through and destroy
all of the drinking water,
100 million people would immediately be without water.
So it's a serious threat.
And they put it out with a lot of bluster.
And that was right after Trump's big blustery thing last night.
Well, Dr. Paul, first thing this morning
before the markets opened,
President Trump put this out,
leaving everyone scratching their heads.
He said, I'm pleased to report that
the United States of America and the country of Iran
have had over the last two days
very good and productive conversations
regarding a complete and total resolution
of our hostilities in the Middle East, a miracle.
I put that in.
Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth
detailed and constructive conversations,
which will continue throughout the week,
I've instructed the Department of War
to postpone any and all military strikes
against Iranian power plants
and energy infrastructure for a five-day period
subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
President Donald J. Trump,
to which the Iranians say we have no idea
what you're talking about.
We haven't had any discussions with you whatsoever.
What is this about?
You know, there's been a lot of...
a lot about what really are they after?
Is it just the oil or whatever?
So the time when Trump first went into office,
he was sort of anti-NATO.
I don't know what he is now.
But NATO, we don't need them.
They won't do this.
But now, the big issue now
in these negotiations is how we're going to get
the NATO-type people together again
and do what we tell them to do.
And it's to make sure that the Hormuz Strait
is jointly controlled.
But he never mentions,
well, are you going to consider the ownership
of that part of the world
as part of this coalition you're building?
Oh no, there are enemies.
And so they go on and on.
And so they're looking for jointly controlled,
which is in a way a modification
of the principle of NATO.
And I don't think that's going to solve
anybody's problem.
And of course, you can watch the oil prices.
But when they have these announcements,
it's not, boy, this is good news.
In the marketplace, they can't refuse to react
because they might miss it
and get into trouble with their customers.
So they go all out
and they switch their bets.
And like you say, you woke up this morning
and we got that information.
And that is about the most opposite way
of how to run an economy.
Of course, we don't want people
to have an economy that's being run
by government and bureaucrats
and connivers and money to people.
So we want the market to run itself.
And that's only the chaos
that we're having there now
in all the places that we've bombed
in the last 10 years or longer.
I mean, it's been going on for dozens of decades now.
And it's always designed for good purpose.
But to me, probably,
top of my list on being discouraged,
he is not being able to energize the people
against the members of Congress
that keep voting for this.
I can understand when there are a few people in power,
they love the power and they can't be stopped.
But I think the people,
they do wake up,
but my point is it's always late.
They should have awakened a long time ago,
even though right now on this effort,
Ukraine, I think they were a little bit more alert there
than say, you know, the Middle East,
Iraq and Afghanistan.
But they're not wide awake,
I think on is on Iran,
except there are now more and more stories now.
When you look at polling, you find out
there's some cracks in the support
that the administration has been getting.
And here's something that you mentioned
in your opening statement, Dr. Paul,
which I'm far from an expert in this.
There are people that do know about this sort of thing
and I've seen a lot of it out there.
But something very strange happened
just before President Trump made that statement,
which sent the markets reeling.
I mean, they were, you know, oil dropped like a rock.
You know, all of these things happened.
So put this next one up and now there's a chart
along with an explanation.
There are plenty of other charts out there
if people are looking.
But this is fascinating.
Five minutes before Trump's announcement,
$1.5 billion notational worth
of the S&P 500 futures were bought in a single clip.
$192 million notional oil futures were sold
more than four times or six times any other trade size
during the market close.
Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight.
So someone, Dr. Paul, made, I don't know,
millions or hundreds of millions of dollars
with inside information before Trump put that out.
At my point is, this looks like the new opportunity.
You make more money quicker than you do
when you have to develop a new weapon
and get all the congressmen to vote for it.
Yeah. And you wonder, was it a family member?
Was it Kushner? Who knows?
But it's very suspicious.
Well, here's the, and I mentioned,
I used the word erratic.
And here's Trump over the weekend.
This is why I think the pressure may be getting to him
if you go to that next one.
So on March 20th, remember, he was out there.
He had did a press gaggle and he was talking
about the Strait of Hormuz.
And he said, we don't use the Strait.
We don't need it.
Essentially, he said, we've got all the oil we want.
We don't have to go through that.
And then that one day later is when he gave that threat.
If you don't open it, we're going to blow you up.
Right after saying we don't need it.
The poster on X said this is strategic incoherence.
We're being led to the abyss by a madman.
Now go to the next one.
Now a little bit after, he said, no, no, no, we're talking.
Things look pretty good.
And the Iranian says, we have no idea what you're talking about.
Now Trump says, oh, and you mentioned this, Dr. Paul.
Oh, no, no, the strait's going to be fine.
It'll be jointly controlled, maybe by me and the Ayatollah.
And I know Bertrand, by the way, if you don't follow him,
very, very important to follow.
Excellent analyst.
He said, Trump is now speaking about sharing power
with the Ayatollah, with the smiley face.
And now go to the next one.
So where does all this talk about Trump talking to Iran?
Where does it come from?
What is the origin of this?
The Iranians are saying, no way.
Well, here we go, Dr. Paul.
In addition to White House Special Envoy Steve Wittkoff
and Jared Kushner, Vice President J. D. Vance
may attend a peace summit with Iranian officials,
including Iranian Speaker of Parliament,
being planned for later this week in Islamabad.
What's the source?
Israeli officials tell Axios.
So I suspect this whole thing, Dr. Paul,
is in Israeli Cyop, and that's what this whole
today chapter is about.
Can you imagine what the pressure must be on
these individuals who are managing money
for, you know, very wealthy clients?
Yeah.
Because either they have to be on the inside
and know exactly what the president is going
to say next hour or two or three,
or they have to guess at it,
because you can't go with honest economic figures
since they think, you know,
what's happening with employment,
what's happening with the Federal Reserve,
what the interest rates are doing.
You can't use those things at all.
It's all this political demagoguing
that will not play well.
It will not do a good job at trying to reassure
the American people that they should be
more optimistic.
Right now, they're getting more pessimistic
as the days go on.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's the case.
And as they're getting pessimistic,
that's being reflected in the polls,
which is one of the second thing
we want to talk about.
CBS News poll came out over the weekend.
If you put that next one up,
people are upset.
People are being very, very nervous.
Anyone who goes to the gas,
I filled up on Saturday, Dr. Paul,
and I was pretty shocked at the sticker price.
Iran war rising gas prices fuel economic concerns.
Most Americans say the conflict is not going well,
because I brought out a couple of charts
from Dr. Paul just to cut to the chase.
So if you go to that next one,
military conflict with Iran will make
U.S. oil and gas prices higher?
90% said in the short term, yes.
But even in the long term, 58%.
So remember the way they said, Dr. Paul,
short term pain, long term gain,
people are not buying that.
Only 4% in the short term and 27% believe
we will have better prices in the long term.
They realize that things are fundamentally changing now.
Now, military conflict with Iran
will make the U.S. economy,
if you go to the next one,
there we go, the next one, please,
will make the economy weaker in the short term, 63%.
But even in the long term, 44%.
They believe this conflict with Iran
is not going to help the economy,
even in the long term.
And only 30% think it will make us stronger.
Go to the next one.
Should Americans be willing to pay more for gas
during the conflict with Iran?
Boom, 67%.
No way we do not want to pay more for gas
during this conflict.
Next one, how is the conflict with Iran
going for the U.S.?
Well, this is not good, Dr. Paul.
Very or somewhat badly,
57%.
Almost 6 out of 10 people say
this is not going well.
Now go to that next one, one last one.
U.S. military taking action against Iran.
Approval on March 3rd was 44%.
Now it's down to 40%.
Disapproval on March 3rd was 56%.
Now it's up to 60%.
So 6 in 10 Americans disapprove
of this military action.
I think it's the most unpopular
beginning to a war,
certainly in my lifetime,
maybe since Vietnam,
maybe since...
You know, the greatest challenge
to our views is that
we're going to be called unpatriotic.
We're not willing to defend America
by not sending our kids over.
Stick nothing out the way, yeah.
Exactly.
So there's another poll.
There's quite a few polls,
but every once in a while,
Glenn sat, and that is drudge.
And he said that
Trump's approval rating is now 34%,
and that's close to what you were saying.
And only 18%,
I think the president is better...
The president is making them
better off financially.
So that's not a very good
function.
So I think that
this is going to lead to
big problems.
As a matter of fact,
is it election year again already?
And that'll tell the tale.
It's not the best way
to do what they say will.
Let's practice democracy.
But we look at the polls
and I guess voting.
But voting is getting to be more
difficult to be even used as an honest poll.
An honest poll might be a lot better than
voting because of all
the controls that they have.
With the voting and all
the cheating that they do.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I'm going to do a shout out
before I close down dr Paul Jeremy
down on YouTube.
Super chat. Thank you, Jeremy.
He kicked in $20 for today's show.
And he said, dear dr Paul,
I voted for you in Burlington, Vermont,
2008 surrounded by
Obama fans who thought I was one of them.
Thank you for your tireless
work toward peace.
That's wonderful, Jeremy. Thanks a lot
for watching the show and for helping us
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We've got a lot to
talk about. Over to you, dr Paul.
Very good. I'm going to close with a short statement
from the New York Times
and they're not our
favorite source of
libertarianism.
But they
printed something I thought was rather
thoughtful. The headline is
Israel thought it could spur rebellion
inside Iran.
And I think the administration
actually, they must believe this.
I don't believe they, this fly
bin, maybe we can get them started
and then they'll have to leave us there.
They probably believe that they're above
everything else.
And of course the New York Times concluded
that hasn't happened
and they expected
it to bring the war
to a swift and
it has not, it has so far
been dashed.
That of course
would be coming from the left.
Anybody they probably don't like
Trump. But the whole thing is is
I think right now
it should be this way. I like the
founder's suggestion, which was a little bit
overly optimistic.
Why have these political parties?
You know, the greatest people
that have gone through
our economic or our government
system, the congress and all, are
the people who really
weren't die hard
and you know
partisan people.
The partisanism that goes on
you don't
have to even listen to them.
You know what kind of fibbing they're going to do.
So anyway
things are changing quickly. By the time
we finish our program today, who knows
who knows what will have happened.
Maybe we're back to bombing
again and
we'll have to stop
and figure out what to do next.
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