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With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Happy Monday Dr. Paul. How are you today?
Doing well.
But we still have a problem or two.
We're still in business of trying to sort things out.
Seeking the truth is not all that easy when you figure how many people are seeking to hide the truth.
It shouldn't be that hard. Truth should be easily known and understood.
But if the majority of the people in the world still look for fuzzy answers and discrepancies and political things,
it makes it a little difficult to find out exactly where the truth lies.
So we're going to make an attempt at this because that's what our goal is.
That's what we talk about essentially every week, or more than every week,
is trying to figure out what really is going on.
And we came across a couple things and one we want to start off with is an article about a coalition building.
And that's not good to me. We should have a coalition.
So we want to get together and work out our problems.
But this has to do with the war.
The war that's going on that I believe it's safe to say and not embellishing at all the war we started unnecessarily.
And we've done that once or twice before. We've been very much involved in war-mongering.
And we always quit after two years, after 10 years, after 20 years.
We finally quit. But the American people basically over the years have been too complacent as far as I'm concerned.
Too complacent, but hopefully they're starting to wake up,
get non-complacent earlier on because of what's coming.
And that is oil shortage, gasoline prices going up, other prices going up.
And they start to realize, hey, this has cost us a lot of money.
So this is an article that says White House, that's the White House.
Let me tell you what they're doing.
White House wants to build a coalition on Iran to address the energy crisis.
Doesn't that strike you as a little bit weird?
There is an energy crisis, but who in thunder created it?
You know, it must have been Russia. Russia probably did all this.
White House tries to build a coalition and they're being met with some resistance.
It seems like when there's a coalition, up until now at least,
when there's bombs to be dropped and land to be taken and Middle East problems,
there's been easier to get a coalition put together.
But there was one article that goes along with this that I found fascinating.
And that is, under the circumstances here, Zero Heads reports,
Hormuzhthah, question mark.
Besant says, Iranian oil tankers can trances as vessels traffic pick up.
Now, what does he have to do with that place off there?
Wasn't he worried about the Gulf of Mexico or something?
Or Chesapeake Bay, they could worry about that.
But no, he's getting permission.
But that goes to show this thing is mixed up and Daniel,
I know you can straighten this out and get us to understand exactly
what's going on here and what we can contribute to the solution.
Well, you know, after the sneak attack last June,
when the U.S. was in talks with Iran and they were attacked,
and then the build up toward the end of the year now in the beginning of the new year,
Iran said two things.
If you attack us again, we will close the Strait of Hormuz
and we will hit your military bases and the Gulf.
The U.S. President Trump in particular didn't seem to care.
He didn't believe them.
He thought they were bluffing.
He went with a feeling, quote unquote, according to Carolyn Levitt.
He went with a feeling and attacked anyway.
Well, it turns out that Iran wasn't bluffing.
They were telling the truth and they have hit and destroyed every U.S. military base
and now they're hitting places like our embassy in Baghdad.
They took out one radar installation.
I think it was yesterday and they're aiming for the other
and they closed the Strait of Hormuz.
Well, lo and behold, oil was up at 110, I think a few days ago.
Now I think it opened this morning just over 100.
You would know better than I.
The problem is that's put the administration into crisis now
because this could cause massive problems.
It's not just oil, but without ships going through the Strait of Hormuz,
not only oil, not only liquid natural gas,
but you have urea, which is a key component in fertilizer.
It's spring.
It's the planning season.
You're not going to have fertilizer going through, et cetera, et cetera.
So now there's a crisis because the Strait isn't closed
with a bunch of guns necessarily aiming at it.
It's the implication that they can be shot.
Boats can be shot.
Cargo ships can be shot.
So of course, nobody can get insurance.
No insurance company is going to take that risk.
It's impossible.
And so it's de facto closed, but we know there is that threat
that it'll be closed.
So now there is a crisis.
Nobody knows what to do about it.
And so a few days after Trump having repeatedly declared victory
and I have a clip of that, now President Trump put out a,
and I have the post that he did on social media,
essentially begging and demanding that other countries
come to our aid in a mess that we created
and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
You know, you know so well the work we did together
in the first part of the century about Iraq,
the Middle Eastern War.
I imagine it was probably 10 years that thing went on.
And we were going to give them democracy
and there'd be no cost to us.
A few people may die, but we'll get the oil and pay all the bills.
Well none of that came about.
And yet, it's been relatively quiet.
You didn't have Baghdad in the news every single day.
But it's back in the news again.
They're getting involved.
So, of course, we never really left Baghdad.
You know, at times the fighting can quit
and it sounds like, oh, there's peace.
But not the peace they promised when we, you know,
had so many people die, both the enemies and allies.
They end up with a mess, then they hide it
and they're tired and they're getting exhausted.
But it's always there because of the overall foreign policy
that is accepted in a bipartisan way.
You know, everybody argues for bipartisanship.
And at times, you know, coalition building is one thing
and that's different.
But they get together and they, together,
they allow presidents to do way too much
and together they provide all the money they want.
And together they participate in the propaganda
and the people don't get aroused.
But we're hoping that we're seeing the signs
that maybe all that's going to change
because we're running out of money
and the people are starting to resist.
Not only some of our allies are starting to resist
and not automatically join the coalition
because Trump threatens them, you know,
either with bombs or tariffs or whatever,
or handouts.
So these things do come to an end
but sometimes they end poorly and they linger
and if they don't, if the wars aren't motivated
and correctly understood, they really don't quit.
And certainly the Middle East has been going on
for a long, long time.
But now Trump is looking for allies to come to his rescue.
Yeah, now here's the piece of Wall Street Journal
that talks about it.
The White House tries to build close.
I think that's a generous way of putting tries to build
a coalition.
No, it's desperate to have someone
take a chestnuts out of the fire.
You got the next one.
Trump and his top aide spent the weekend
framing the Iran operation as a resounding military success
while imploring other countries to join their effort
to resolve a worsening energy of crisis
related to the Strait of Hormuz.
The Trump administration, as soon as this week,
and I highlight this, plans to announce
that multiple countries have agreed to form a coalition.
We'll come back to that in a second.
That will escort ships through the waterway,
which runs along the Iranian coast,
US officials said.
The US and potential countries are still discussing
whether those operations would begin before
or after the war ends.
That is a critical sentence, Dr. Paul,
because everything hinges on that.
Because if it's after the war ends,
of course, there's no need of a coalition
because the war is over.
They're trying to cover the fact
that nobody is coming to our aid.
They say, hey, maybe we'll have a coalition
after the war is over,
where there's no more threat.
So what's the point of having people
warships escorting cargo ships to the Strait
if the war is over?
It makes no sense.
So it's a cockamamie scheme
that's meant to try to divert attention
from the fact that things are not going well.
For our activities in this area,
in the broad area over there,
the best cheerleader for,
well, domestically, it's probably
a South Carolina senator.
Go, go, go.
But internationally, it has to be Netanyahu.
He's been cheering this on.
So I'm wondering if he's trying to build a coalition.
Netanyahu comes to visit us
quite frequently.
He gets to speak on the House floor.
Why doesn't he,
why don't they get him to participate?
If they need more troops and all this stuff.
I mean, he participated in the decision-making.
So I think that this whole thing that
we progress, you know,
participate in is misleading
because it's so chopped up
and special interest in this and that.
It has so little to do with national defense,
true national defense,
and it's always designed for
characteristic reason.
Well, we're going to be bombed soon
and there's nuclear power there
and we have to stop it.
We already stopped it three months ago,
six months ago, and we destroyed it
and they didn't even have it then.
But we still are after the nuclear power
over and around.
It keeps on and on.
But right now,
it's sort of a pseudo stalemate,
you know, at least for a pause.
So it, you know,
the oil prices sort of backed off
and yet I would say
they have a long way to go
before this gets really settled
where neighbors can be neighbors again.
Well, I've got a couple of video clips, Dr. Paul,
to give us a sense of what's going on.
I'm just going to start with a review
because this is Trump
about 20 times last week.
You might want to get your earpiece and listen to
President Trump about 20 times last week.
This happens to be him
in Kentucky at a rally,
but you can find clips of him saying
essentially the same thing
over and over
and over again.
Let's listen to what he says.
Great, Dave.
Well, it's only good if you win.
You know, you can only go and we've won.
Let me say we've won.
You know, you never like to say too early you won.
We won.
In the first hour it was over.
But they gave me a list of names.
We won the war.
That's him saying it.
Now go to the next one.
Now this is Pete Hegseth
who is really starting to look like
not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
He's explaining that the
straight of hormones, Dr. Paul,
is not closed.
Let's listen to...
Yeah, let's listen to Hegseth.
The only thing prohibiting transit in the streets
right now is Iran shooting at shipping.
It is open for transit
should Iran not do that.
The only thing that's
interfering is that Iran keeps shooting at ships.
So that's the problem.
And here's something that
one other one that I came because this shows
actually more the seriousness of the situation.
This is a former
administration advisor
on energy. And I came across this on
X Today. This is from a
short clip from 60 Minutes.
If we listen to this one, put that back in.
This is the last one.
I worked in the White House during an energy crisis.
There are no policy solutions
to a prolonged closure
of the straight of hormones.
You're saying there's not much a White House
a president can do to stop this
bleeding.
You open up the toolkit.
And the tools in there, the options
range from marginal
through symbolic
to deeply unwise.
Escorts are a sideshow.
Strategic stock releases are a
sideshow. Gas tax holiday?
Gas tax holiday
sideshow.
You got to restore the flow of the straight of hormones.
Even if
the White House president Trump
declared an end of this war
today, tomorrow,
is there any guarantee that Iran
would open up the straight
and it's back to business as usual?
No guarantee.
It's not like there's a big gate that swings open in front of the
hormones and Iran locks the gate.
So all Iran has to do
is demonstrate every day, every
other day, that it has the means
and the ability to
attack ships in the straight.
And that will be enough.
So if somebody knows what he's talking about saying,
it can't be fixed.
It can't be fixed.
Why wasn't Trump talking to him
before he went into this mess?
They
pretend they have meetings
secret though.
What they're really talking about
is something that nobody else is allowed.
Sometimes
I think they don't even
tell the president exactly what they're
talking about in there.
Sometimes the president tell them either,
well certainly the American people
do not hear the full story.
And that's why the founders try to
protect us against this type
of a mess. And that's why
only the people
through their Congress
can go to war.
But we haven't done that.
We haven't done that in good many years
since World War II.
And that's why we have this.
We don't know what we're doing.
When it's over, what the endpoint
is, where you're going to get the money.
Are there people who support it?
Will other people join it?
Yeah, I have none of that because
it's done with a few people.
So it's stand to
you know
it's done in secret
where the American people not only
don't get to participate
they hardly hear about it. And if they do
they can't trust it.
And that's healthy
because the American people should.
And they are waking up that just
because the government says so
something
that you don't have to take it
hook a lot and sink her. Absolutely.
Well, here's President Trump's
post on his truth social
on Saturday that set up this whole
situation we're talking about.
If you put that next one up.
And I don't think I'm going to read all of it, but I'll give you the gist of it.
Many countries, especially
those who are affected by Iran's attempted
closure of the Hormuz Strait
will be sending ships
warships in conjunction
with the United States of America
to keep the straight open and safe.
We have already destroyed 100%
of Iran's military
capability
but it's easy for them
to send a drone or two, drop a mine
or deliver a close range
missile somewhere along or in this
waterway. No matter
how badly
defeated they are.
Hopefully
China, France, Japan, South Korea, the
UK and others
that are affected by this artificial
constraint will send
ships to the area so the Hormuz
Strait will no longer be a threat
by a nation that has been totally
decapitated.
In the meantime, the U.S. will be
bombing the blank out of the shoreline
and continually
shooting Iranian boats and ships
out of the sea, out of the
water one way or other we will get
the straight of Hormuz
open, safe and free.
President Donald J. Trump.
Now the person who reposted this made
a very clever quip.
Catherine Rampal said
so we need help
to open the straight
that is already open
to help protect it from the enemy
we actually defeated 100%
so that is right.
They haven't defined who is the enemy.
Yeah. And so here's the result
if you go to the next one. He said
he's demanding that they come, that they come
and work with us with their warships
to open the straight. So far
it does not look good if we go to that next
clip here.
This is not
a good scorecard right now Dr. Paul
if we
can have that up
the next, yeah
there we go. Doesn't look good Dr. Paul
he said they're going to come
to our rescue. Italy rejected
Spain rejected, Japan rejected
France hesitant
since this came out they've actually said no
Norway rejected, Canada rejected
Australia rejected, Germany rejected
China no response
UK no commitment
Netherlands no response, South Korea
no confirmation the
poster points out America looks
increasingly isolated. You know you're so
negative. That was a pretty
good coalition. Oh they're not
they're all against us
against our foreign policy
you know the one thing is
he stays in there
they've defeated everything
you know there's nothing left
they have no weapons
well nobody's a lot of have guns
but they've
just totally destroyed all military
ability to
defend themselves. The one thing
they don't
even if they got rid of a lot of
weapons and ships and
things like that the one thing they can't
stop and I've mentioned this before
is the spirit of the homeland
it does the opposite
the people
I mean the
Iranians have been putting up
with this for a long time and I make
1953
a really big date when the coalition
was small but we've been
trying to own run
and control the oil out of Iran
for all this period of time and
it hasn't
stopped but
it looks like
this time there may be a
climactic end to this one way or
the other and
who knows what that's going to be but
it's not going to
be done by next week
a very key meeting between these
two factions and they come up
with a solution like we're going to
agree both sides to mine our own business
they see you later
we'll go fishing together
well you make a great point
which is that they keep claiming all of the
things that they knocked down and broke
and everything but it's irrelevant
just like as with Vietnam remember
I mean I was little but I do remember
when people talking about it and there would be
a nightly press conference
where the general would stand up there and say
we dropped 4000 bombs in this area
we flew 800 sorties
over here and there was this whole
long laundry list of all the things they did
but it was irrelevant
the Vietnamese were
underground drinking coffee yeah yeah they
probably were and it's also
similar with the war in Russia
how understood misunderstood
the Russia Ukraine war is because
they'll say well Russia's not
taking very much land right away
well that's not what they're fighting
they're fighting a war of attrition
Iran is fighting a an asymmetric
war they don't have an air force
they don't have a navy they have
missiles so they're fighting in an
asymmetric way so it really is
like comparing apples and oranges
when you say but we've blown up a lot of their stuff
why aren't they why are they still fighting
don't you find it so ironic
that this backward country
has some defense
and they're called drones
and they cost a little bit less than
the missiles that
that we're using
and that they're actually
winning some of these
the wars and battles
by using weapons that are
a little bit less costly
so they've
designed a position where
maybe the pause is
well we have to build some more
weapons again
we have to collect more money from the taxpayer
we have to print them run to printing machines
but Iran also has some of the most
sophisticated missiles in the world
you know they have multiple hypersonic
we have zero hypersonic
so they have been able to develop
the technology that they're able to use
so
let's
move on to our second story
since we're getting short on time
but it really is worth a mention Dr. Paul
you and I both notice this
and it's very alarming if you go to that New York Times
we're going to skip a couple
this is going to shock
hopefully it will shock some of our viewers
FCC chair threatens to
revoke broadcasters
licenses over war
coverage the comment came from
Brendan Carr it came
on the heels of a social media message
from President Trump criticizing
the news media's coverage
of the war with Iran if you go to the next one
Brendan Carr chairman of the
FCC threatened on Saturday
to revoke broadcasters
licenses over their
coverage of the war with Iran
the latest move in a campaign to stomp out
what he sees as liberal
bias in broadcasts
as the war entered the third week
Carr accused broadcasters
of quote running hoaxes
and news distortions
in a social media post and warned them to correct
course before their license renewals
come up that I think
is very chilling Dr. Paul
I don't think the sign is up yet
but the sign that I hang up here is
beware danger
ahead truth cannot be
tolerated
and that's what it is
but we
it's our government
is doing that to us as well
as you know saying that
we're trying to
you know be in a position where we can
finally defeat all these people who the
revolutionaries oh yeah
but we have a little gasoline we have to use
because we have to
go 6,000 miles in order
to find this war
the whole thing makes no sense
there's no practical sense to it
there's no moral sense to it
there's no constitutional sense to this
and the sad part
and this won't be well
received by some and that is
it's tolerated
way too much
by the American people but I
lead that up to
you know the educational
system that we have that they've been
indoctrinated for a long time because
you want to be safe and you want to
be patriotic you want to serve your
country and therefore
they have built it into the system
that one of the proudest
thing you can do when you're 18
and I've seen it where parents even
are saying oh my son
is going on to war to save
our country which is so sick
and that's the condition is not
not sensible and it's
unnecessary and
one thing that they
and that's the propaganda machine
so the combination of
the machine out there
and the willingness to
because they don't believe
they're committing a sin
by lying they're committing
they're doing God's work because this is a
holy war and in many ways
it's a holy war for
both sides sometimes
it enters into the
equation definitely
well Karr kind of displays this boom mentality
that they can just shut down the news
we're going to shut down CVS and shut down CNN
if you don't report positive
things about the war
I'm sorry this is no longer 1975
you know people are doing all
sorts of their own research
there are so many sources there's
X there's telegram
there are so many sources of news
about what actually is happening in the war
there's absolutely no
way they can put the cork back in this
they can't put the genie back in the bottle here
so all of this
posturing and
bloviating about we're going to remove your licenses
nobody's going to even notice
if CVS loses their license
or CNN loses their license no one watches it
you know all that started
when a radios became available
that's when they passed the first act
that the government has to be involved
yeah exactly
of course should have been the
whole issue here I think the whole issue
of the first amendment should be a property rights issue
you know
if you're in your home
or in your church you ought to be able to say anything
you want but that doesn't
mean you get a license to
you know go out in the public
square and
disturb the peace
this sort of thing so I think property
rights are and that's what happened
back when radio
first came out with the licensing
is to make sure they wouldn't broadcast
bad news they want we want to keep
them on it so we assign
that we assign that tax to
our government to make sure everybody's telling
you the truth and it doesn't seem
to work very well yeah absolutely not
well I'm going to close
out then I guess and if
you put that very last clip
up
if you're following our coverage of the Iran war
you're going to want to come
down here in just about
five six weeks time five weeks I guess
war is back on the menu
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I'm looking forward to the conference
and one point that I try to make it
all the conferences every time I speak out
on these issues is that
the point is that
economic policy and foreign policy
cannot be separated sometimes
people claim that a war can end a depression
and other times they say
that we can have
economic policy will solve all our
problems if you use the force
and foreign policy and we
will take over their oil
and all that nonsense that goes on
but you can't separate the two
comes together
and that invites another
significant
fact that they cannot be
ignored is how do you pay
for these yes you can make people
you can use guns and force them to
do things for a while but eventually
the bills have to be paid and that's
why I think there's so much chaos right
now or the bills have come
due and people
don't know exactly how you pay these
bills and they're not exactly
interested in doing it because it's very costly
and it is somebody
has to pay these bills
so this is why I think
relating whether
economic policy or foreign policy
to the issue of how do you
pay for all these wonderful things
that people are going to do for us
is so important
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