WEBVTT 00:00.430 --> 00:04.010 The spirit of this revolution is not going away. 00:04.170 --> 00:10.250 This is the Ron Paul Liberty Report with Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, and Chris Rossini. 00:10.670 --> 00:16.550 We are all ambassadors of the Ron Paul Doctrine, and it's up to you to just tell the truth. 00:16.750 --> 00:21.610 An idea that time has come to not be stopped by any army or any government. 00:35.960 --> 00:40.160 Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Ron Paul Liberty Report. 00:40.560 --> 00:43.280 With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host. 00:43.280 --> 00:45.300 Daniel, good to see you this morning. 00:45.640 --> 00:47.320 Happy Monday Dr. Paul. How are you today? 00:47.600 --> 00:48.660 Doing well. 00:50.800 --> 00:53.460 But we still have a problem or two. 00:53.900 --> 00:56.780 We're still in business of trying to sort things out. 00:57.060 --> 01:04.200 Seeking the truth is not all that easy when you figure how many people are seeking to hide the truth. 01:05.220 --> 01:08.580 It shouldn't be that hard. Truth should be easily known and understood. 01:08.580 --> 01:19.840 But if the majority of the people in the world still look for fuzzy answers and discrepancies and political things, 01:20.000 --> 01:24.580 it makes it a little difficult to find out exactly where the truth lies. 01:25.060 --> 01:28.600 So we're going to make an attempt at this because that's what our goal is. 01:28.640 --> 01:33.540 That's what we talk about essentially every week, or more than every week, 01:33.740 --> 01:36.640 is trying to figure out what really is going on. 01:36.640 --> 01:44.320 And we came across a couple things and one we want to start off with is an article about a coalition building. 01:44.840 --> 01:47.240 And that's not good to me. We should have a coalition. 01:47.560 --> 01:52.220 So we want to get together and work out our problems. 01:52.520 --> 01:53.940 But this has to do with the war. 01:54.280 --> 02:03.180 The war that's going on that I believe it's safe to say and not embellishing at all the war we started unnecessarily. 02:03.180 --> 02:08.120 And we've done that once or twice before. We've been very much involved in war-mongering. 02:08.400 --> 02:13.080 And we always quit after two years, after 10 years, after 20 years. 02:13.360 --> 02:20.700 We finally quit. But the American people basically over the years have been too complacent as far as I'm concerned. 02:20.860 --> 02:25.240 Too complacent, but hopefully they're starting to wake up, 02:25.240 --> 02:30.360 get non-complacent earlier on because of what's coming. 02:30.600 --> 02:35.420 And that is oil shortage, gasoline prices going up, other prices going up. 02:35.460 --> 02:38.760 And they start to realize, hey, this has cost us a lot of money. 02:39.520 --> 02:45.420 So this is an article that says White House, that's the White House. 02:45.700 --> 02:47.180 Let me tell you what they're doing. 02:47.400 --> 02:53.720 White House wants to build a coalition on Iran to address the energy crisis. 02:54.440 --> 02:57.120 Doesn't that strike you as a little bit weird? 02:57.840 --> 03:01.420 There is an energy crisis, but who in thunder created it? 03:01.980 --> 03:04.920 You know, it must have been Russia. Russia probably did all this. 03:05.820 --> 03:12.680 White House tries to build a coalition and they're being met with some resistance. 03:13.260 --> 03:17.640 It seems like when there's a coalition, up until now at least, 03:18.360 --> 03:24.340 when there's bombs to be dropped and land to be taken and Middle East problems, 03:24.640 --> 03:28.740 there's been easier to get a coalition put together. 03:29.220 --> 03:32.920 But there was one article that goes along with this that I found fascinating. 03:33.600 --> 03:37.120 And that is, under the circumstances here, Zero Heads reports, 03:37.500 --> 03:39.300 Hormuzhthah, question mark. 03:39.720 --> 03:45.980 Besant says, Iranian oil tankers can trances as vessels traffic pick up. 03:45.980 --> 03:50.440 Now, what does he have to do with that place off there? 03:50.620 --> 03:53.460 Wasn't he worried about the Gulf of Mexico or something? 03:53.740 --> 03:57.760 Or Chesapeake Bay, they could worry about that. 03:58.280 --> 04:00.780 But no, he's getting permission. 04:01.100 --> 04:04.100 But that goes to show this thing is mixed up and Daniel, 04:04.320 --> 04:08.680 I know you can straighten this out and get us to understand exactly 04:08.680 --> 04:13.240 what's going on here and what we can contribute to the solution. 04:13.240 --> 04:16.340 Well, you know, after the sneak attack last June, 04:16.920 --> 04:20.180 when the U.S. was in talks with Iran and they were attacked, 04:20.820 --> 04:24.060 and then the build up toward the end of the year now in the beginning of the new year, 04:24.560 --> 04:26.040 Iran said two things. 04:26.260 --> 04:30.300 If you attack us again, we will close the Strait of Hormuz 04:30.300 --> 04:33.000 and we will hit your military bases and the Gulf. 04:33.540 --> 04:38.080 The U.S. President Trump in particular didn't seem to care. 04:38.380 --> 04:39.480 He didn't believe them. 04:39.780 --> 04:41.080 He thought they were bluffing. 04:41.080 --> 04:45.460 He went with a feeling, quote unquote, according to Carolyn Levitt. 04:45.580 --> 04:47.400 He went with a feeling and attacked anyway. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.540 Well, it turns out that Iran wasn't bluffing. 04:50.880 --> 04:54.820 They were telling the truth and they have hit and destroyed every U.S. military base 04:54.820 --> 04:57.780 and now they're hitting places like our embassy in Baghdad. 04:58.080 --> 04:59.680 They took out one radar installation. 05:00.040 --> 05:02.520 I think it was yesterday and they're aiming for the other 05:02.520 --> 05:04.540 and they closed the Strait of Hormuz. 05:04.660 --> 05:08.800 Well, lo and behold, oil was up at 110, I think a few days ago. 05:08.800 --> 05:11.260 Now I think it opened this morning just over 100. 05:11.340 --> 05:12.760 You would know better than I. 05:13.360 --> 05:16.280 The problem is that's put the administration into crisis now 05:16.280 --> 05:18.580 because this could cause massive problems. 05:18.660 --> 05:22.060 It's not just oil, but without ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, 05:22.180 --> 05:24.920 not only oil, not only liquid natural gas, 05:25.060 --> 05:28.440 but you have urea, which is a key component in fertilizer. 05:29.020 --> 05:29.820 It's spring. 05:30.060 --> 05:30.960 It's the planning season. 05:31.600 --> 05:34.500 You're not going to have fertilizer going through, et cetera, et cetera. 05:34.580 --> 05:38.400 So now there's a crisis because the Strait isn't closed 05:38.400 --> 05:41.960 with a bunch of guns necessarily aiming at it. 05:42.260 --> 05:44.740 It's the implication that they can be shot. 05:45.180 --> 05:46.100 Boats can be shot. 05:46.760 --> 05:48.240 Cargo ships can be shot. 05:48.680 --> 05:50.080 So of course, nobody can get insurance. 05:50.600 --> 05:52.020 No insurance company is going to take that risk. 05:52.280 --> 05:52.640 It's impossible. 05:53.440 --> 05:56.900 And so it's de facto closed, but we know there is that threat 05:56.900 --> 05:57.700 that it'll be closed. 05:57.820 --> 05:59.640 So now there is a crisis. 06:00.240 --> 06:01.920 Nobody knows what to do about it. 06:02.360 --> 06:07.020 And so a few days after Trump having repeatedly declared victory 06:07.020 --> 06:11.600 and I have a clip of that, now President Trump put out a, 06:11.700 --> 06:14.040 and I have the post that he did on social media, 06:14.760 --> 06:18.020 essentially begging and demanding that other countries 06:18.020 --> 06:21.280 come to our aid in a mess that we created 06:21.280 --> 06:24.960 and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. 06:25.560 --> 06:29.340 You know, you know so well the work we did together 06:30.000 --> 06:32.700 in the first part of the century about Iraq, 06:32.840 --> 06:33.780 the Middle Eastern War. 06:33.780 --> 06:37.260 I imagine it was probably 10 years that thing went on. 06:38.140 --> 06:40.400 And we were going to give them democracy 06:40.400 --> 06:42.920 and there'd be no cost to us. 06:43.240 --> 06:46.920 A few people may die, but we'll get the oil and pay all the bills. 06:47.320 --> 06:48.620 Well none of that came about. 06:49.320 --> 06:52.780 And yet, it's been relatively quiet. 06:52.960 --> 06:55.940 You didn't have Baghdad in the news every single day. 06:56.200 --> 06:57.840 But it's back in the news again. 06:58.000 --> 06:59.100 They're getting involved. 06:59.100 --> 07:03.440 So, of course, we never really left Baghdad. 07:03.960 --> 07:05.880 You know, at times the fighting can quit 07:05.880 --> 07:07.700 and it sounds like, oh, there's peace. 07:08.080 --> 07:10.920 But not the peace they promised when we, you know, 07:11.620 --> 07:16.160 had so many people die, both the enemies and allies. 07:18.260 --> 07:21.380 They end up with a mess, then they hide it 07:21.380 --> 07:24.120 and they're tired and they're getting exhausted. 07:24.120 --> 07:29.560 But it's always there because of the overall foreign policy 07:29.560 --> 07:32.600 that is accepted in a bipartisan way. 07:33.220 --> 07:35.560 You know, everybody argues for bipartisanship. 07:36.060 --> 07:39.220 And at times, you know, coalition building is one thing 07:39.220 --> 07:39.980 and that's different. 07:40.420 --> 07:46.160 But they get together and they, together, 07:46.580 --> 07:48.600 they allow presidents to do way too much 07:48.600 --> 07:51.920 and together they provide all the money they want. 07:51.920 --> 07:55.600 And together they participate in the propaganda 07:55.600 --> 07:58.020 and the people don't get aroused. 07:58.260 --> 08:00.500 But we're hoping that we're seeing the signs 08:00.500 --> 08:02.720 that maybe all that's going to change 08:02.720 --> 08:04.200 because we're running out of money 08:04.780 --> 08:07.680 and the people are starting to resist. 08:08.040 --> 08:12.060 Not only some of our allies are starting to resist 08:12.060 --> 08:14.880 and not automatically join the coalition 08:14.880 --> 08:18.260 because Trump threatens them, you know, 08:18.260 --> 08:21.260 either with bombs or tariffs or whatever, 08:21.600 --> 08:22.920 or handouts. 08:23.520 --> 08:27.220 So these things do come to an end 08:27.220 --> 08:30.680 but sometimes they end poorly and they linger 08:31.100 --> 08:34.420 and if they don't, if the wars aren't motivated 08:34.420 --> 08:39.080 and correctly understood, they really don't quit. 08:39.340 --> 08:41.380 And certainly the Middle East has been going on 08:41.380 --> 08:44.520 for a long, long time. 08:44.520 --> 08:49.300 But now Trump is looking for allies to come to his rescue. 08:49.960 --> 08:51.780 Yeah, now here's the piece of Wall Street Journal 08:51.780 --> 08:52.740 that talks about it. 08:52.800 --> 08:54.540 The White House tries to build close. 08:54.660 --> 08:56.640 I think that's a generous way of putting tries to build 08:56.640 --> 08:57.100 a coalition. 08:57.500 --> 08:58.660 No, it's desperate to have someone 08:58.660 --> 08:59.980 take a chestnuts out of the fire. 09:00.600 --> 09:01.400 You got the next one. 09:01.920 --> 09:03.200 Trump and his top aide spent the weekend 09:03.200 --> 09:07.300 framing the Iran operation as a resounding military success 09:08.000 --> 09:10.480 while imploring other countries to join their effort 09:10.480 --> 09:12.960 to resolve a worsening energy of crisis 09:12.960 --> 09:14.540 related to the Strait of Hormuz. 09:15.220 --> 09:17.020 The Trump administration, as soon as this week, 09:17.520 --> 09:19.120 and I highlight this, plans to announce 09:19.120 --> 09:22.340 that multiple countries have agreed to form a coalition. 09:22.540 --> 09:23.580 We'll come back to that in a second. 09:24.040 --> 09:26.280 That will escort ships through the waterway, 09:26.640 --> 09:29.520 which runs along the Iranian coast, 09:29.660 --> 09:30.580 US officials said. 09:31.320 --> 09:33.720 The US and potential countries are still discussing 09:33.720 --> 09:36.260 whether those operations would begin before 09:36.260 --> 09:38.800 or after the war ends. 09:39.100 --> 09:41.520 That is a critical sentence, Dr. Paul, 09:41.520 --> 09:44.180 because everything hinges on that. 09:44.420 --> 09:46.400 Because if it's after the war ends, 09:46.520 --> 09:48.400 of course, there's no need of a coalition 09:48.400 --> 09:49.540 because the war is over. 09:50.660 --> 09:52.740 They're trying to cover the fact 09:52.740 --> 09:54.900 that nobody is coming to our aid. 09:55.280 --> 09:56.920 They say, hey, maybe we'll have a coalition 09:56.920 --> 09:58.420 after the war is over, 09:59.260 --> 10:00.460 where there's no more threat. 10:00.600 --> 10:02.340 So what's the point of having people 10:03.380 --> 10:06.300 warships escorting cargo ships to the Strait 10:06.300 --> 10:07.600 if the war is over? 10:07.700 --> 10:08.720 It makes no sense. 10:08.720 --> 10:12.000 So it's a cockamamie scheme 10:12.000 --> 10:13.900 that's meant to try to divert attention 10:13.900 --> 10:15.500 from the fact that things are not going well. 10:15.620 --> 10:18.100 For our activities in this area, 10:18.400 --> 10:19.780 in the broad area over there, 10:20.060 --> 10:21.620 the best cheerleader for, 10:22.140 --> 10:23.860 well, domestically, it's probably 10:24.640 --> 10:26.220 a South Carolina senator. 10:26.880 --> 10:27.660 Go, go, go. 10:28.200 --> 10:30.460 But internationally, it has to be Netanyahu. 10:31.020 --> 10:32.440 He's been cheering this on. 10:32.780 --> 10:35.020 So I'm wondering if he's trying to build a coalition. 10:36.000 --> 10:38.000 Netanyahu comes to visit us 10:38.000 --> 10:38.840 quite frequently. 10:39.240 --> 10:40.860 He gets to speak on the House floor. 10:41.480 --> 10:42.340 Why doesn't he, 10:42.880 --> 10:44.860 why don't they get him to participate? 10:45.320 --> 10:48.160 If they need more troops and all this stuff. 10:48.780 --> 10:51.820 I mean, he participated in the decision-making. 10:52.180 --> 10:55.000 So I think that this whole thing that 10:55.000 --> 10:57.160 we progress, you know, 10:57.940 --> 11:00.820 participate in is misleading 11:00.820 --> 11:04.440 because it's so chopped up 11:04.440 --> 11:07.040 and special interest in this and that. 11:07.040 --> 11:11.300 It has so little to do with national defense, 11:11.580 --> 11:12.640 true national defense, 11:12.940 --> 11:15.840 and it's always designed for 11:15.840 --> 11:17.300 characteristic reason. 11:17.620 --> 11:20.920 Well, we're going to be bombed soon 11:20.920 --> 11:22.540 and there's nuclear power there 11:22.540 --> 11:23.800 and we have to stop it. 11:23.980 --> 11:25.820 We already stopped it three months ago, 11:25.920 --> 11:27.800 six months ago, and we destroyed it 11:27.800 --> 11:28.940 and they didn't even have it then. 11:29.400 --> 11:31.680 But we still are after the nuclear power 11:31.680 --> 11:32.920 over and around. 11:32.920 --> 11:34.300 It keeps on and on. 11:34.820 --> 11:35.500 But right now, 11:36.760 --> 11:39.160 it's sort of a pseudo stalemate, 11:39.320 --> 11:40.820 you know, at least for a pause. 11:41.520 --> 11:42.820 So it, you know, 11:42.840 --> 11:45.480 the oil prices sort of backed off 11:45.480 --> 11:48.780 and yet I would say 11:48.780 --> 11:50.720 they have a long way to go 11:50.720 --> 11:52.660 before this gets really settled 11:52.660 --> 11:55.200 where neighbors can be neighbors again. 11:55.660 --> 11:58.300 Well, I've got a couple of video clips, Dr. Paul, 11:58.440 --> 12:00.420 to give us a sense of what's going on. 12:00.420 --> 12:02.300 I'm just going to start with a review 12:02.300 --> 12:03.760 because this is Trump 12:03.760 --> 12:05.400 about 20 times last week. 12:05.500 --> 12:07.440 You might want to get your earpiece and listen to 12:08.170 --> 12:10.400 President Trump about 20 times last week. 12:10.640 --> 12:11.900 This happens to be him 12:12.370 --> 12:14.120 in Kentucky at a rally, 12:14.280 --> 12:16.160 but you can find clips of him saying 12:16.160 --> 12:17.700 essentially the same thing 12:18.290 --> 12:19.580 over and over 12:20.290 --> 12:21.420 and over again. 12:22.100 --> 12:23.580 Let's listen to what he says. 12:24.400 --> 12:24.960 Great, Dave. 12:26.280 --> 12:27.880 Well, it's only good if you win. 12:27.880 --> 12:30.180 You know, you can only go and we've won. 12:30.600 --> 12:31.500 Let me say we've won. 12:32.260 --> 12:34.680 You know, you never like to say too early you won. 12:34.820 --> 12:35.120 We won. 12:35.780 --> 12:37.440 In the first hour it was over. 12:38.620 --> 12:40.560 But they gave me a list of names. 12:40.560 --> 12:41.240 We won the war. 12:41.700 --> 12:42.560 That's him saying it. 12:43.100 --> 12:44.080 Now go to the next one. 12:44.440 --> 12:45.920 Now this is Pete Hegseth 12:45.920 --> 12:47.880 who is really starting to look like 12:47.880 --> 12:50.200 not the sharpest knife in the drawer. 12:50.800 --> 12:52.100 He's explaining that the 12:52.560 --> 12:54.120 straight of hormones, Dr. Paul, 12:54.120 --> 12:55.500 is not closed. 12:56.200 --> 12:57.160 Let's listen to... 12:57.160 --> 12:59.600 Yeah, let's listen to Hegseth. 12:59.620 --> 13:01.320 The only thing prohibiting transit in the streets 13:01.320 --> 13:03.360 right now is Iran shooting at shipping. 13:03.720 --> 13:05.260 It is open for transit 13:05.260 --> 13:06.700 should Iran not do that. 13:06.820 --> 13:09.180 The only thing that's 13:09.180 --> 13:11.540 interfering is that Iran keeps shooting at ships. 13:11.820 --> 13:13.000 So that's the problem. 13:14.700 --> 13:15.660 And here's something that 13:15.660 --> 13:17.480 one other one that I came because this shows 13:17.920 --> 13:19.740 actually more the seriousness of the situation. 13:20.180 --> 13:21.080 This is a former 13:21.080 --> 13:22.460 administration advisor 13:22.940 --> 13:25.120 on energy. And I came across this on 13:25.120 --> 13:26.820 X Today. This is from a 13:26.820 --> 13:28.360 short clip from 60 Minutes. 13:28.360 --> 13:30.720 If we listen to this one, put that back in. 13:30.820 --> 13:31.420 This is the last one. 13:31.480 --> 13:33.880 I worked in the White House during an energy crisis. 13:34.420 --> 13:37.080 There are no policy solutions 13:37.080 --> 13:38.900 to a prolonged closure 13:38.900 --> 13:39.740 of the straight of hormones. 13:40.020 --> 13:42.460 You're saying there's not much a White House 13:42.460 --> 13:44.880 a president can do to stop this 13:44.880 --> 13:45.360 bleeding. 13:45.600 --> 13:46.440 You open up the toolkit. 13:46.440 --> 13:48.620 And the tools in there, the options 13:48.620 --> 13:50.560 range from marginal 13:50.560 --> 13:52.120 through symbolic 13:52.120 --> 13:53.940 to deeply unwise. 13:54.560 --> 13:56.400 Escorts are a sideshow. 13:56.880 --> 13:58.800 Strategic stock releases are a 13:58.800 --> 14:00.460 sideshow. Gas tax holiday? 14:01.020 --> 14:02.060 Gas tax holiday 14:02.060 --> 14:03.100 sideshow. 14:04.320 --> 14:06.700 You got to restore the flow of the straight of hormones. 14:07.160 --> 14:08.180 Even if 14:08.180 --> 14:10.460 the White House president Trump 14:10.460 --> 14:12.440 declared an end of this war 14:12.440 --> 14:13.780 today, tomorrow, 14:13.780 --> 14:16.100 is there any guarantee that Iran 14:16.100 --> 14:17.640 would open up the straight 14:17.640 --> 14:19.300 and it's back to business as usual? 14:19.820 --> 14:20.680 No guarantee. 14:21.020 --> 14:23.640 It's not like there's a big gate that swings open in front of the 14:23.640 --> 14:24.980 hormones and Iran locks the gate. 14:25.140 --> 14:26.720 So all Iran has to do 14:26.720 --> 14:29.540 is demonstrate every day, every 14:29.540 --> 14:31.300 other day, that it has the means 14:31.300 --> 14:32.940 and the ability to 14:33.940 --> 14:35.360 attack ships in the straight. 14:35.480 --> 14:36.280 And that will be enough. 14:37.080 --> 14:39.060 So if somebody knows what he's talking about saying, 14:39.620 --> 14:40.600 it can't be fixed. 14:40.600 --> 14:41.780 It can't be fixed. 14:42.040 --> 14:43.840 Why wasn't Trump talking to him 14:43.840 --> 14:45.360 before he went into this mess? 14:46.420 --> 14:46.560 They 14:48.420 --> 14:50.200 pretend they have meetings 14:50.200 --> 14:51.740 secret though. 14:53.060 --> 14:54.720 What they're really talking about 14:54.720 --> 14:56.560 is something that nobody else is allowed. 14:57.140 --> 14:57.640 Sometimes 14:58.530 --> 15:00.440 I think they don't even 15:00.440 --> 15:02.480 tell the president exactly what they're 15:02.480 --> 15:03.740 talking about in there. 15:03.980 --> 15:06.060 Sometimes the president tell them either, 15:06.400 --> 15:07.880 well certainly the American people 15:07.880 --> 15:09.740 do not hear the full story. 15:10.060 --> 15:11.660 And that's why the founders try to 15:11.660 --> 15:13.900 protect us against this type 15:13.900 --> 15:15.720 of a mess. And that's why 15:16.700 --> 15:18.080 only the people 15:18.080 --> 15:19.260 through their Congress 15:19.720 --> 15:20.800 can go to war. 15:21.540 --> 15:22.940 But we haven't done that. 15:23.140 --> 15:24.960 We haven't done that in good many years 15:24.960 --> 15:26.040 since World War II. 15:27.840 --> 15:29.580 And that's why we have this. 15:29.800 --> 15:30.960 We don't know what we're doing. 15:31.160 --> 15:33.540 When it's over, what the endpoint 15:33.540 --> 15:35.220 is, where you're going to get the money. 15:35.220 --> 15:36.600 Are there people who support it? 15:36.820 --> 15:38.240 Will other people join it? 15:38.660 --> 15:40.220 Yeah, I have none of that because 15:40.220 --> 15:42.100 it's done with a few people. 15:42.700 --> 15:44.000 So it's stand to 15:44.940 --> 15:45.820 you know 15:46.640 --> 15:49.080 it's done in secret 15:49.080 --> 15:51.120 where the American people not only 15:51.680 --> 15:52.880 don't get to participate 15:52.880 --> 15:55.100 they hardly hear about it. And if they do 15:55.100 --> 15:56.920 they can't trust it. 15:57.320 --> 15:58.940 And that's healthy 15:58.940 --> 16:00.760 because the American people should. 16:00.920 --> 16:02.960 And they are waking up that just 16:02.960 --> 16:04.540 because the government says so 16:05.900 --> 16:06.380 something 16:06.840 --> 16:08.360 that you don't have to take it 16:08.820 --> 16:10.300 hook a lot and sink her. Absolutely. 16:11.160 --> 16:12.580 Well, here's President Trump's 16:12.580 --> 16:14.560 post on his truth social 16:14.560 --> 16:16.940 on Saturday that set up this whole 16:16.940 --> 16:18.260 situation we're talking about. 16:18.580 --> 16:20.040 If you put that next one up. 16:20.360 --> 16:23.240 And I don't think I'm going to read all of it, but I'll give you the gist of it. 16:23.540 --> 16:24.680 Many countries, especially 16:24.680 --> 16:26.860 those who are affected by Iran's attempted 16:26.860 --> 16:29.120 closure of the Hormuz Strait 16:29.120 --> 16:30.860 will be sending ships 16:30.860 --> 16:32.840 warships in conjunction 16:32.840 --> 16:34.440 with the United States of America 16:34.440 --> 16:36.720 to keep the straight open and safe. 16:37.320 --> 16:39.480 We have already destroyed 100% 16:39.480 --> 16:41.080 of Iran's military 16:41.080 --> 16:41.940 capability 16:42.860 --> 16:44.120 but it's easy for them 16:44.120 --> 16:46.560 to send a drone or two, drop a mine 16:46.560 --> 16:48.820 or deliver a close range 16:48.820 --> 16:50.920 missile somewhere along or in this 16:50.920 --> 16:52.760 waterway. No matter 16:52.760 --> 16:54.500 how badly 16:54.500 --> 16:56.020 defeated they are. 16:56.680 --> 16:57.280 Hopefully 16:58.200 --> 17:00.460 China, France, Japan, South Korea, the 17:00.460 --> 17:01.100 UK and others 17:01.100 --> 17:03.440 that are affected by this artificial 17:03.440 --> 17:05.280 constraint will send 17:05.280 --> 17:07.540 ships to the area so the Hormuz 17:07.540 --> 17:09.520 Strait will no longer be a threat 17:09.520 --> 17:11.520 by a nation that has been totally 17:12.280 --> 17:12.760 decapitated. 17:13.360 --> 17:15.100 In the meantime, the U.S. will be 17:15.100 --> 17:17.360 bombing the blank out of the shoreline 17:18.300 --> 17:19.260 and continually 17:19.260 --> 17:21.300 shooting Iranian boats and ships 17:21.300 --> 17:23.360 out of the sea, out of the 17:23.360 --> 17:25.240 water one way or other we will get 17:25.240 --> 17:26.860 the straight of Hormuz 17:26.860 --> 17:28.600 open, safe and free. 17:28.980 --> 17:30.340 President Donald J. Trump. 17:30.820 --> 17:32.460 Now the person who reposted this made 17:32.460 --> 17:34.820 a very clever quip. 17:35.400 --> 17:36.740 Catherine Rampal said 17:36.740 --> 17:38.760 so we need help 17:38.760 --> 17:40.320 to open the straight 17:40.320 --> 17:42.140 that is already open 17:42.140 --> 17:44.440 to help protect it from the enemy 17:44.440 --> 17:46.740 we actually defeated 100% 17:46.740 --> 17:48.600 so that is right. 17:48.780 --> 17:51.080 They haven't defined who is the enemy. 17:51.860 --> 17:53.340 Yeah. And so here's the result 17:53.340 --> 17:55.020 if you go to the next one. He said 17:55.020 --> 17:56.660 he's demanding that they come, that they come 17:56.660 --> 17:58.700 and work with us with their warships 17:58.700 --> 18:00.880 to open the straight. So far 18:00.880 --> 18:03.100 it does not look good if we go to that next 18:03.100 --> 18:04.360 clip here. 18:06.280 --> 18:07.360 This is not 18:07.360 --> 18:09.240 a good scorecard right now Dr. Paul 18:10.520 --> 18:11.400 if we 18:11.400 --> 18:12.460 can have that up 18:13.420 --> 18:15.180 the next, yeah 18:15.180 --> 18:17.800 there we go. Doesn't look good Dr. Paul 18:17.800 --> 18:19.340 he said they're going to come 18:19.340 --> 18:21.280 to our rescue. Italy rejected 18:21.280 --> 18:23.260 Spain rejected, Japan rejected 18:23.260 --> 18:24.840 France hesitant 18:24.840 --> 18:26.840 since this came out they've actually said no 18:26.840 --> 18:29.000 Norway rejected, Canada rejected 18:29.000 --> 18:31.280 Australia rejected, Germany rejected 18:31.280 --> 18:32.820 China no response 18:32.820 --> 18:34.640 UK no commitment 18:35.280 --> 18:37.380 Netherlands no response, South Korea 18:37.380 --> 18:39.080 no confirmation the 18:39.080 --> 18:40.860 poster points out America looks 18:40.860 --> 18:43.200 increasingly isolated. You know you're so 18:43.200 --> 18:45.240 negative. That was a pretty 18:45.240 --> 18:46.960 good coalition. Oh they're not 18:46.960 --> 18:48.780 they're all against us 18:48.780 --> 18:50.880 against our foreign policy 18:50.880 --> 18:52.460 you know the one thing is 18:52.460 --> 18:53.640 he stays in there 18:55.220 --> 18:56.860 they've defeated everything 18:56.860 --> 18:58.600 you know there's nothing left 18:59.460 --> 19:01.240 they have no weapons 19:01.240 --> 19:03.100 well nobody's a lot of have guns 19:03.100 --> 19:04.860 but they've 19:04.860 --> 19:06.680 just totally destroyed all military 19:06.680 --> 19:08.160 ability to 19:08.640 --> 19:10.600 defend themselves. The one thing 19:10.600 --> 19:12.580 they don't 19:12.580 --> 19:14.640 even if they got rid of a lot of 19:14.640 --> 19:16.800 weapons and ships and 19:16.800 --> 19:18.920 things like that the one thing they can't 19:18.920 --> 19:20.420 stop and I've mentioned this before 19:20.420 --> 19:22.160 is the spirit of the homeland 19:23.640 --> 19:25.400 it does the opposite 19:25.400 --> 19:26.560 the people 19:26.560 --> 19:27.900 I mean the 19:29.000 --> 19:30.340 Iranians have been putting up 19:30.340 --> 19:32.960 with this for a long time and I make 19:33.660 --> 19:34.180 1953 19:34.600 --> 19:36.780 a really big date when the coalition 19:36.780 --> 19:38.680 was small but we've been 19:38.680 --> 19:40.480 trying to own run 19:40.480 --> 19:42.740 and control the oil out of Iran 19:42.740 --> 19:44.640 for all this period of time and 19:44.640 --> 19:46.760 it hasn't 19:46.760 --> 19:47.840 stopped but 19:48.900 --> 19:50.400 it looks like 19:50.400 --> 19:52.480 this time there may be a 19:52.480 --> 19:54.600 climactic end to this one way or 19:54.600 --> 19:55.820 the other and 19:55.820 --> 19:57.900 who knows what that's going to be but 19:57.900 --> 19:59.140 it's not going to 20:00.260 --> 20:02.240 be done by next week 20:02.240 --> 20:04.360 a very key meeting between these 20:04.360 --> 20:06.480 two factions and they come up 20:06.480 --> 20:08.340 with a solution like we're going to 20:08.340 --> 20:10.220 agree both sides to mine our own business 20:10.220 --> 20:11.780 they see you later 20:11.780 --> 20:13.340 we'll go fishing together 20:13.840 --> 20:15.280 well you make a great point 20:15.280 --> 20:17.640 which is that they keep claiming all of the 20:17.640 --> 20:19.420 things that they knocked down and broke 20:19.420 --> 20:21.360 and everything but it's irrelevant 20:21.360 --> 20:23.340 just like as with Vietnam remember 20:23.340 --> 20:25.780 I mean I was little but I do remember 20:25.780 --> 20:27.400 when people talking about it and there would be 20:27.400 --> 20:29.380 a nightly press conference 20:29.380 --> 20:31.420 where the general would stand up there and say 20:31.420 --> 20:34.000 we dropped 4000 bombs in this area 20:34.000 --> 20:35.660 we flew 800 sorties 20:35.660 --> 20:37.240 over here and there was this whole 20:37.580 --> 20:39.600 long laundry list of all the things they did 20:39.600 --> 20:41.140 but it was irrelevant 20:42.280 --> 20:43.640 the Vietnamese were 20:43.640 --> 20:45.740 underground drinking coffee yeah yeah they 20:45.740 --> 20:47.520 probably were and it's also 20:47.520 --> 20:49.840 similar with the war in Russia 20:49.840 --> 20:51.540 how understood misunderstood 20:51.540 --> 20:53.960 the Russia Ukraine war is because 20:53.960 --> 20:55.660 they'll say well Russia's not 20:55.660 --> 20:57.420 taking very much land right away 20:57.420 --> 20:59.180 well that's not what they're fighting 20:59.180 --> 21:00.500 they're fighting a war of attrition 21:00.500 --> 21:03.580 Iran is fighting a an asymmetric 21:03.580 --> 21:05.240 war they don't have an air force 21:05.240 --> 21:07.540 they don't have a navy they have 21:07.540 --> 21:09.400 missiles so they're fighting in an 21:09.400 --> 21:11.460 asymmetric way so it really is 21:11.460 --> 21:12.900 like comparing apples and oranges 21:13.360 --> 21:15.360 when you say but we've blown up a lot of their stuff 21:15.360 --> 21:17.580 why aren't they why are they still fighting 21:17.580 --> 21:19.240 don't you find it so ironic 21:19.240 --> 21:21.140 that this backward country 21:21.140 --> 21:23.060 has some defense 21:23.060 --> 21:25.120 and they're called drones 21:25.120 --> 21:27.400 and they cost a little bit less than 21:27.400 --> 21:29.420 the missiles that 21:29.420 --> 21:30.900 that we're using 21:31.300 --> 21:32.960 and that they're actually 21:33.540 --> 21:34.940 winning some of these 21:34.940 --> 21:36.900 the wars and battles 21:36.900 --> 21:38.980 by using weapons that are 21:38.980 --> 21:40.320 a little bit less costly 21:40.800 --> 21:42.900 so they've 21:42.900 --> 21:44.300 designed a position where 21:45.000 --> 21:46.440 maybe the pause is 21:46.440 --> 21:48.640 well we have to build some more 21:48.640 --> 21:49.700 weapons again 21:49.700 --> 21:52.660 we have to collect more money from the taxpayer 21:52.660 --> 21:55.120 we have to print them run to printing machines 21:55.120 --> 21:56.960 but Iran also has some of the most 21:56.960 --> 21:59.080 sophisticated missiles in the world 21:59.080 --> 22:01.180 you know they have multiple hypersonic 22:01.180 --> 22:02.960 we have zero hypersonic 22:02.960 --> 22:05.200 so they have been able to develop 22:05.200 --> 22:07.600 the technology that they're able to use 22:08.140 --> 22:08.580 so 22:10.300 --> 22:10.740 let's 22:10.740 --> 22:13.000 move on to our second story 22:13.000 --> 22:14.980 since we're getting short on time 22:14.980 --> 22:17.280 but it really is worth a mention Dr. Paul 22:17.280 --> 22:18.560 you and I both notice this 22:18.560 --> 22:21.400 and it's very alarming if you go to that New York Times 22:21.400 --> 22:22.640 we're going to skip a couple 22:23.620 --> 22:24.720 this is going to shock 22:24.720 --> 22:26.540 hopefully it will shock some of our viewers 22:27.440 --> 22:29.020 FCC chair threatens to 22:29.020 --> 22:30.740 revoke broadcasters 22:30.740 --> 22:32.600 licenses over war 22:32.600 --> 22:34.680 coverage the comment came from 22:34.680 --> 22:36.640 Brendan Carr it came 22:36.640 --> 22:38.580 on the heels of a social media message 22:38.580 --> 22:40.500 from President Trump criticizing 22:40.500 --> 22:41.900 the news media's coverage 22:42.500 --> 22:44.720 of the war with Iran if you go to the next one 22:44.720 --> 22:46.520 Brendan Carr chairman of the 22:46.520 --> 22:48.480 FCC threatened on Saturday 22:48.480 --> 22:50.640 to revoke broadcasters 22:50.640 --> 22:52.440 licenses over their 22:52.440 --> 22:54.640 coverage of the war with Iran 22:54.640 --> 22:56.720 the latest move in a campaign to stomp out 22:56.720 --> 22:58.440 what he sees as liberal 22:58.440 --> 23:00.440 bias in broadcasts 23:01.180 --> 23:02.460 as the war entered the third week 23:02.460 --> 23:04.320 Carr accused broadcasters 23:04.320 --> 23:05.920 of quote running hoaxes 23:05.920 --> 23:07.560 and news distortions 23:07.560 --> 23:10.300 in a social media post and warned them to correct 23:10.300 --> 23:12.640 course before their license renewals 23:12.640 --> 23:14.240 come up that I think 23:14.240 --> 23:15.680 is very chilling Dr. Paul 23:15.680 --> 23:17.880 I don't think the sign is up yet 23:17.880 --> 23:20.500 but the sign that I hang up here is 23:20.500 --> 23:22.320 beware danger 23:22.320 --> 23:24.360 ahead truth cannot be 23:24.360 --> 23:25.040 tolerated 23:25.040 --> 23:27.560 and that's what it is 23:27.560 --> 23:28.660 but we 23:29.380 --> 23:30.920 it's our government 23:30.920 --> 23:32.920 is doing that to us as well 23:32.920 --> 23:34.280 as you know saying that 23:34.280 --> 23:35.840 we're trying to 23:35.840 --> 23:38.840 you know be in a position where we can 23:38.840 --> 23:40.800 finally defeat all these people who the 23:40.800 --> 23:42.720 revolutionaries oh yeah 23:42.720 --> 23:44.840 but we have a little gasoline we have to use 23:44.840 --> 23:45.960 because we have to 23:46.680 --> 23:48.920 go 6,000 miles in order 23:48.920 --> 23:49.940 to find this war 23:49.940 --> 23:52.640 the whole thing makes no sense 23:52.640 --> 23:54.560 there's no practical sense to it 23:54.560 --> 23:56.580 there's no moral sense to it 23:56.580 --> 23:58.820 there's no constitutional sense to this 23:58.820 --> 24:00.600 and the sad part 24:00.600 --> 24:02.780 and this won't be well 24:02.780 --> 24:04.740 received by some and that is 24:06.420 --> 24:07.540 it's tolerated 24:07.540 --> 24:08.660 way too much 24:08.660 --> 24:10.280 by the American people but I 24:10.280 --> 24:12.140 lead that up to 24:12.140 --> 24:14.380 you know the educational 24:14.380 --> 24:16.400 system that we have that they've been 24:16.400 --> 24:18.440 indoctrinated for a long time because 24:18.440 --> 24:20.720 you want to be safe and you want to 24:20.720 --> 24:22.760 be patriotic you want to serve your 24:22.760 --> 24:25.020 country and therefore 24:25.020 --> 24:27.460 they have built it into the system 24:27.460 --> 24:29.340 that one of the proudest 24:29.340 --> 24:30.800 thing you can do when you're 18 24:30.800 --> 24:32.740 and I've seen it where parents even 24:32.740 --> 24:34.700 are saying oh my son 24:34.700 --> 24:36.640 is going on to war to save 24:36.640 --> 24:38.660 our country which is so sick 24:38.660 --> 24:40.400 and that's the condition is not 24:40.400 --> 24:42.540 not sensible and it's 24:42.540 --> 24:44.400 unnecessary and 24:44.400 --> 24:46.080 one thing that they 24:46.080 --> 24:48.280 and that's the propaganda machine 24:48.280 --> 24:49.880 so the combination of 24:49.880 --> 24:52.000 the machine out there 24:52.000 --> 24:54.100 and the willingness to 24:54.100 --> 24:56.320 because they don't believe 24:56.320 --> 24:58.100 they're committing a sin 24:58.100 --> 24:59.860 by lying they're committing 24:59.860 --> 25:02.260 they're doing God's work because this is a 25:02.260 --> 25:03.960 holy war and in many ways 25:03.960 --> 25:04.980 it's a holy war for 25:05.980 --> 25:07.480 both sides sometimes 25:07.480 --> 25:10.320 it enters into the 25:10.320 --> 25:11.500 equation definitely 25:11.500 --> 25:13.960 well Karr kind of displays this boom mentality 25:13.960 --> 25:16.260 that they can just shut down the news 25:16.260 --> 25:18.840 we're going to shut down CVS and shut down CNN 25:18.840 --> 25:20.300 if you don't report positive 25:20.300 --> 25:21.220 things about the war 25:21.220 --> 25:23.460 I'm sorry this is no longer 1975 25:23.980 --> 25:26.080 you know people are doing all 25:26.080 --> 25:27.360 sorts of their own research 25:28.080 --> 25:30.200 there are so many sources there's 25:30.200 --> 25:31.900 X there's telegram 25:31.900 --> 25:34.040 there are so many sources of news 25:34.040 --> 25:36.620 about what actually is happening in the war 25:36.620 --> 25:38.240 there's absolutely no 25:38.240 --> 25:40.100 way they can put the cork back in this 25:40.100 --> 25:42.480 they can't put the genie back in the bottle here 25:42.480 --> 25:43.660 so all of this 25:44.620 --> 25:45.400 posturing and 25:45.400 --> 25:48.060 bloviating about we're going to remove your licenses 25:48.060 --> 25:49.680 nobody's going to even notice 25:49.680 --> 25:51.300 if CVS loses their license 25:51.300 --> 25:54.080 or CNN loses their license no one watches it 25:54.080 --> 25:55.640 you know all that started 25:55.640 --> 25:57.800 when a radios became available 25:57.800 --> 25:59.560 that's when they passed the first act 25:59.560 --> 26:01.060 that the government has to be involved 26:01.420 --> 26:02.200 yeah exactly 26:02.200 --> 26:05.300 of course should have been the 26:05.300 --> 26:07.420 whole issue here I think the whole issue 26:07.420 --> 26:09.940 of the first amendment should be a property rights issue 26:09.940 --> 26:10.700 you know 26:10.700 --> 26:12.560 if you're in your home 26:12.560 --> 26:14.640 or in your church you ought to be able to say anything 26:14.640 --> 26:16.720 you want but that doesn't 26:16.720 --> 26:18.540 mean you get a license to 26:19.500 --> 26:21.320 you know go out in the public 26:21.320 --> 26:22.580 square and 26:22.580 --> 26:24.160 disturb the peace 26:24.480 --> 26:26.520 this sort of thing so I think property 26:26.520 --> 26:28.760 rights are and that's what happened 26:28.760 --> 26:30.660 back when radio 26:30.660 --> 26:32.060 first came out with the licensing 26:32.640 --> 26:34.300 is to make sure they wouldn't broadcast 26:34.300 --> 26:36.740 bad news they want we want to keep 26:36.740 --> 26:38.340 them on it so we assign 26:38.340 --> 26:40.360 that we assign that tax to 26:40.360 --> 26:42.340 our government to make sure everybody's telling 26:42.340 --> 26:44.240 you the truth and it doesn't seem 26:44.240 --> 26:46.500 to work very well yeah absolutely not 26:46.500 --> 26:48.300 well I'm going to close 26:48.300 --> 26:50.320 out then I guess and if 26:50.320 --> 26:52.440 you put that very last clip 26:52.440 --> 26:52.800 up 26:52.800 --> 26:56.260 if you're following our coverage of the Iran war 26:57.220 --> 26:58.300 you're going to want to come 26:58.300 --> 26:59.680 down here in just about 26:59.680 --> 27:02.080 five six weeks time five weeks I guess 27:02.080 --> 27:03.820 war is back on the menu 27:04.340 --> 27:06.160 it will be the Ron Paul Institute 27:06.160 --> 27:08.080 spring conference 27:08.080 --> 27:09.980 down here in Lake Jackson 27:09.980 --> 27:11.900 Texas for those of you 27:11.900 --> 27:13.580 holding out waiting for speaker announcements 27:13.580 --> 27:15.920 come on guys I never let you down 27:15.920 --> 27:17.880 trust me but I will have a couple 27:17.880 --> 27:19.200 of big announcements this week 27:19.720 --> 27:21.860 but don't wait get those tickets right away 27:21.860 --> 27:23.400 this is a smaller conference 27:23.920 --> 27:25.900 than our DC conference and the tickets are 27:25.900 --> 27:28.000 more limited so you don't want 27:28.000 --> 27:30.120 to miss out on this yeah great speakers 27:30.120 --> 27:31.840 but also great people 27:31.840 --> 27:33.740 who are thinking about and are concerned 27:33.740 --> 27:35.680 about the same things you are thinking 27:35.680 --> 27:37.860 about and concerned about maybe it's 27:37.860 --> 27:39.820 the draft maybe it's prices 27:39.820 --> 27:41.740 maybe it's just wanting to have someone 27:41.740 --> 27:43.740 who's like minded to get to know 27:43.740 --> 27:45.760 this is the real value of these conferences 27:45.760 --> 27:47.540 so get those tickets 27:47.540 --> 27:49.720 I will put a link in the description 27:49.720 --> 27:51.420 I forgot to do it this morning it's Monday 27:51.420 --> 27:53.760 but if I don't or if 27:53.760 --> 27:55.660 you want to get it right away just go to 27:55.660 --> 27:56.980 RonPaulInstitute.org 27:56.980 --> 27:59.640 on the top you will see a link to get you more 27:59.640 --> 28:01.760 info and your tickets we appreciate it look 28:01.760 --> 28:03.280 forward to seeing you. Very good 28:03.280 --> 28:05.160 I'm looking forward to the conference 28:05.160 --> 28:07.320 and one point that I try to make it 28:07.320 --> 28:09.680 all the conferences every time I speak out 28:09.680 --> 28:11.640 on these issues is that 28:11.640 --> 28:13.640 the point is that 28:13.640 --> 28:15.620 economic policy and foreign policy 28:15.620 --> 28:17.560 cannot be separated sometimes 28:17.560 --> 28:19.980 people claim that a war can end a depression 28:19.980 --> 28:21.740 and other times they say 28:21.740 --> 28:23.340 that we can have 28:23.340 --> 28:25.700 economic policy will solve all our 28:25.700 --> 28:27.600 problems if you use the force 28:27.600 --> 28:29.600 and foreign policy and we 28:29.600 --> 28:31.080 will take over their oil 28:31.080 --> 28:33.240 and all that nonsense that goes on 28:33.240 --> 28:35.840 but you can't separate the two 28:35.840 --> 28:36.920 comes together 28:36.920 --> 28:39.560 and that invites another 28:39.560 --> 28:40.480 significant 28:41.900 --> 28:43.900 fact that they cannot be 28:43.900 --> 28:45.580 ignored is how do you pay 28:45.580 --> 28:47.680 for these yes you can make people 28:47.680 --> 28:49.580 you can use guns and force them to 28:49.580 --> 28:51.580 do things for a while but eventually 28:51.580 --> 28:53.780 the bills have to be paid and that's 28:53.780 --> 28:55.580 why I think there's so much chaos right 28:55.580 --> 28:57.380 now or the bills have come 28:57.380 --> 28:58.660 due and people 28:59.380 --> 29:01.320 don't know exactly how you pay these 29:01.320 --> 29:03.000 bills and they're not exactly 29:03.000 --> 29:05.280 interested in doing it because it's very costly 29:05.280 --> 29:07.560 and it is somebody 29:07.560 --> 29:08.760 has to pay these bills 29:09.190 --> 29:10.920 so this is why I think 29:10.920 --> 29:13.120 relating whether 29:13.120 --> 29:15.320 economic policy or foreign policy 29:15.320 --> 29:17.300 to the issue of how do you 29:17.300 --> 29:19.140 pay for all these wonderful things 29:19.140 --> 29:20.920 that people are going to do for us 29:20.920 --> 29:22.520 is so important 29:23.200 --> 29:25.160 I want to thank everybody for tuning 29:25.160 --> 29:27.080 in today to the Liberty Report 29:27.740 --> 29:29.080 please come back soon