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You know, I don't know about anybody else, but I'm kind of glad that Israel's on our side.

You know, I would hate to be an enemy of Israel.

They really kind of have it down.

I don't know if you've noticed.

Israeli intelligence operatives apparently

placed dozens of anonymous phone calls to top Iranian generals earlier,

it was last week, warning them, now is the time to get out.

You got to get out right now.

Quote, I can advise you now, you have 12 hours to escape with your wife and child.

Otherwise, you're on our list.

And we'll hit you, we'll hit your family, we'll hit your children.

Everybody will knock you into the dirt.

So they made 20 of these phone calls, and then they said,

you know,

If you don't get out within 12 hours, you don't have anybody to blame but yourself.

We are closer to you than your own neck vein.

Put this in your head and may God protect you.

Well, wait a minute, wait a minute.

What do I do?

Well, do you want to be one of them?

Do you want to be the next one on the list?

Do you want to destroy your wife and child?

No, right?

So

what should you do?

I love this.

What should you do?

You should make a video.

denouncing the Iranian regime and send it via telegram, an encrypted messaging and social media app within 12 hours.

No word on whether they made that app.

Can you imagine?

You're not making that app.

You're not making that video.

You making that video, Stu?

No, probably not.

Well, no.

Because you're dead either way.

You're dead either way.

You know what I mean?

He's going to run and hide.

And I guess.

I don't know.

I mean, I suppose if you're standing, if you feel you're standing up for your country, you're not going to do those things.

But

you should be real.

After seeing what Israel has been able to achieve militarily over the past year, year and a half, you'd have to believe it.

It wouldn't just feel like an empty threat.

Last year and a half, how about the last week and a half?

I mean, they took out all,

they knew right where these guys were and convinced them to all gather together.

Some of them, you know, you guys should get together and have a little party.

You guys should get, you know, what?

And they did it.

They pulled it off.

I mean, it is amazing what they have done.

Yeah.

And it's so hard to kind of decipher what is going on from minute to minute, honestly, at this point.

I spent hours and hours watching this as the news was breaking of the of the ceasefire and then all of the immediate reporting

of officials seemingly in both countries saying actually no, we don't have an agreement yet and then bombs continuing to drop and then Donald Trump getting angry at both of them and it's just so hard to know what is actually going on.

Do you have a theory as to what the

yeah,

I maybe I've misread the ceasefire, but what I read is there's a 12-hour period that Iran has, and then and then Israel has a 12-hour period.

But at the end of the 24 hours, that's it.

And so it was kind of like, you know, do your worst, Iran.

You got 12 hours, and then

this is the plot of the purge, I believe.

I know, I know, but wasn't that your understanding of it?

Yeah, it was weird.

There's a 20, the two 12-hour periods, and then at the 24-hour period, which ended at 7 a.m.

Israel time,

you know, those bombs they dropped were at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah, it's weird because usually

there is a time period to stop it.

And I guess the theory being, hey, you need to be able to get word to all of your,

you know, all the people at the missile stands who are like ready to

fire in 30 seconds.

So you try to give a little bit of a window so that you can say those,

whatever weapons get fired in that period are not violations of the ceasefire.

I've never seen one before that I can remember where

one party in the ceasefire had a longer period or a different period to fire than the other country did.

Like, hey, you guys get 14 hours and you guys get 11.

Like, I've never seen that before.

Or I've never seen a period where you guys aren't allowed to fire for their 12 hours and then you get to fire for your 12 hours and they can't respond.

Or whatever that was, was very complicated and strange.

And I, you know, I saw this.

It was the purge.

It was the purge.

Yeah, it's weird.

I think, like, we should

target, let's say, for future

agreements where we have ceasefires of no period where you just get to keep firing.

I feel like, you know, I can understand back in like the 1700s where you needed to get to your generals on the field and let them know, hey, don't go to war anymore.

I feel like Truth Social, most people know what he posts there.

My guess is most of the people who are important enough to get the information, they're not supposed to fire missiles, get it pretty quickly these days.

Let's just stop.

Like, I feel like let's just give it a whirl.

Maybe we have a generalized understanding that if something flies up in the next 40 minutes, you know, let's try to ignore that one.

It seems to be a very strange way of doing things.

And it allows.

Donald Trump doesn't, he clearly didn't read it this way because he was

very upset.

He's very upset at Iran and Israel for both violating it.

But I don't know.

I mean,

is the ceasefire actually off?

Because I don't think it is.

They've not violated it.

He's very upset.

7 a.m.

is when it was supposed to happen.

That was what?

I don't know.

Off the top of my my head i don't remember

1 a.m i think our time

so he was obviously very angry about weapons being fired outside of the windows that he approved um or at least was of the understanding and that's what i what was another thing i struggled with yesterday of what actually happened right like because I think there's an argument to be made and a believable one, right?

That there was an agreement fully agreed to by both parties and Donald Trump and I guess Qatar overseeing it and then Iran flaked on the deal and fired anyway like totally believable to me absolutely could have been the case that's what they I mean you know the ceasefire without an unconditional surrender

you know that is a

that's an interesting thing because I mean that's what Hamas does that's what's Hezbollah that's what Iran does all the time yeah we're not gonna we're not gonna do that definitely that we're not gonna do that and then they do it

right so wait a minute you just said no but that was special.

That was

part of Ramadan.

Right.

Maybe.

You know, you're like, wait.

It's part of Pride Month, as you mentioned earlier.

That's right.

So, like, option A, totally believable.

Everyone comes up with an agreement and Iran flakes.

Okay.

Option B, everyone comes up with an agreement and Israel flakes.

Less believable to me, but especially.

Possible.

But possible.

Possible.

It's less believable largely considering how

important the relationship is between Israel and Donald Trump from Israel's perspective.

Like they have gone out of their way over and over and over again to make sure that

they're not infuriating Donald Trump on multitude of issues, even like things like tariffs.

Like they're just like, okay, we're lowering ours to zero and it's fine that you're keeping yours higher.

Like that was their point on tariffs before even

Liberation Day happened.

Aaron Ross Powell, this is an existential threat to Israel.

We don't understand it the way they do.

And I think

the,

you know, Iran broke the treaty first.

They've they launched missiles

and then Israel responded.

And I think, honestly, that I could see Donald Trump saying, you're coming to the table.

You're coming to the table.

And they're like, we are so close.

We are this close to completely decapitating them.

You know, we're not going to stop right now.

You're going to stop right now.

And they made, okay, fine, knowing that Iran is going to violate, and then they'll just go and finish the job.

I think personally, that's most likely what happened because Donald Trump, I don't think, even though he said it last week, I don't think he wants regime change because it's risky.

It's really, really risky.

And so he sees this way to go to a kind of a stalemate, and he's happier with that now that he's pushed the nuclear weapon possibility back a few years.

Okay.

So I think that's possible.

By the way, on regime change, I feel like it's something I'm rooting for but don't want to do.

And this is

what I say the same thing about, you know, me getting into shape.

Like, I'm rooting for it, but I'm not going to do it.

It's that type of thing where I don't necessarily want to be involved in the process of getting into shape, but I root for it to happen.

Maybe

if some miracle happens.

If somebody will do it for me,

I'm all in.

I'm all in on that.

So that's option option two i have to think i have to admit that i had an option three in my head as well which was

i think i know what it is

you tell me same as mine

the beta it's the same so my option three was israel and iran they had some talks they were pretty close maybe kind of near an agreement maybe some things have been floated it looked it looked good trump was a little worried that it might fall through so he just went public with it and said it was done.

And was like, I'm going on Truth Social right now.

It is done.

Both have agreed, period.

Knowing that it would put both of them in a very difficult position because if they kept firing, they'd look like they were the ones violating an agreement that had been announced.

And I have to say that part of me thought maybe there wasn't a real agreement and he was just wishing it into existence and at the same time putting all sorts of leverage on both parties.

So I think, you know, it did cross my mind because that's exactly what I thought too.

Crossed my mind because of Norman Vincent Peale.

Yes.

Okay.

He went to Norman Vincent Peale's church as a kid.

I mean, he grew up listening to the power of positive thinking.

That's why he's always speaking things.

This is going to be the greatest thing ever.

Nobody's ever seen it.

He speaks everything into existence.

And he actually believes it.

He believes in the power.

So do I, but he believes in the power of positive thinking.

He believes in the power of just speaking things into existence.

And so there is a possibility.

They were very, very close.

And he's like,

we got a deal.

We got a deal.

They're like, wait, wait.

Wait, what?

Because that's the way everybody reacted to it when he did it.

Everyone was like, oh, my gosh.

And they were celebrating it.

And then you started seeing reports out of like, from like the mouths of Iranian officials being like, we have absolutely, we haven't even been sent an agreement yet.

Right.

Like they were saying that on the record.

And it's like, I don't, now Iran could just be lying about it completely.

Like they could be saying they could have already signed it or that guy didn't know.

There's other possibilities there.

But I think a large one is just that Trump was like, we're doing this.

Right.

Let me give you probably a closer,

a closer guess than what

we've been.

I got them on the phone.

I at least talked to each of them.

We didn't come up.

We're doing doing a peace deal.

Okay, that's kind of where we are.

I think what probably could have happened is we did all of the work.

We had all of the phone calls, but nobody had signed.

And Trump is like, I'm going to lock them into this before they have a chance to change their mind.

I'm just announcing it.

I think that's a possibility.

Highly possible, I think.

Yeah.

And, you know, I go back and forth on this because, you know, Donald Trump's real job

is to come up with the best outcome in God only knows how many situations he's dealing with at any given time, right?

And so the best outcome for America, America first,

would be this war to end, right?

And, you know, no flaring up of violence.

And that's what he's pursuing, and he wants that to happen.

And so he is oftentimes negotiating publicly to the ends that he wants to achieve.

And of course, his job is actually to achieve those ends.

That being said,

it does put us as American citizens in a situation where it is wise

to take what he says publicly as

not necessarily completely factual and literal.

And it's weird to be in a situation where you have to recognize, hey, he might be, instead of trying to tell me the truth, as a citizen, what he's trying to do is influence a situation and negotiating to what might be a great end.

But it puts us in a weird position where we're chasing around trying to figure out what's actually occurring.

And we can't necessarily, and I mean this, I'm trying to like set this up in a way because I don't want it to sound like the insult that it might sound like.

But like

we are in a position as American citizens where we really just can't trust what he says as the truth.

And

I think that is for

that.

I think that is, just to finish,

leading towards good ends.

I don't think it means not because he's lying to us because he wants to lie to to us.

It's because he's trying to influence these situations in a positive direction.

But it's weird to be in that situation where he says it is a there is a ceasefire signed, and we can't just say there is a ceasefire signed because we don't know that that's true yet.

We have to kind of go through other layers of wait, what is actually happening here before we can land in that position?

So I would say it this way:

we cannot trust

that what is happening in front of us

is finished.

What we have to ask ourselves, are we still in the final stages of negotiation?

Because everything about Donald Trump is a negotiation.

Everything is.

Yeah.

Everything.

And

he is, you know, it's like, I'm going to, you know, little boy, fat man and little boy over there in North Korea.

I'm going to bomb the snot out of him.

And then next, he's his best friend.

That was all negotiation.

We shouldn't have taken a word he said seriously.

That was negotiation to get North Korea to behave.

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How are you?

Hey, Glenn.

Thanks for having me.

You bet.

This is like,

Stu and I were just saying, this is like fast and furious.

I can't keep up with all of the action that's going on.

The looks like the ceasefire has fallen apart.

Donald Trump is not happy about it.

In case you missed what he said, headed to the helicopter this morning.

Can we play that, Sarah?

Do we have it?

The edited version, please.

They violated it, but Israel violated it too.

Are you questioning if Israel is committed to?

Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I've never seen before.

The biggest load that we've seen.

I'm not happy with Israel.

You know, when I say, okay, now you have 12 hours, you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on them.

So I'm not happy with them.

I'm not happy with Iran either.

But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.

I'm not happy about that.

You know what?

We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f they're doing.

Do you understand that?

Yes, Mr.

President,

I think we understand where you're coming from.

What are your thoughts, Steve?

Well, Glenn, you know the president as well as anybody, and you can tell he's put a lot of his

spirit into this, a lot of his focus, and he is worked up.

I mean, I have never seen, quite frankly, this may on any topic.

He's really worked up.

And I think he, you know,

really went over time, went with the, you know, worked with the Qataris, I think also UAE, MBZ, and worked at this ceasefire.

He wants everybody to put down their guns.

And of course, they're both slugging it out.

And I think that what Mark Caputo over at Axios is reporting even more than that display going to Marine One to head to NATO.

I think he had a phone call with Netanyahu and really got on him about this.

So this thing is very tenuous, but the President has gone the extra yard to make sure everybody you know, puts down their guns and have both sides try to figure this out.

You know, I saw a tweet from him this morning

that said, Israel, do not,

you know, follow through on these bombs.

And

I've never seen him do this before.

Do not do it.

Donald J.

Trump, President of the United States.

I, you know, for anybody who ever says that, you know, oh, Donald Trump's being led by those Jews and Israel's telling it, no, no, Donald Trump is clearly the one in charge here.

Would you agree with that?

Well, I think let's discuss that, but I think on this right here, people should take that as a papal bull.

You know, I've never seen him actually ever do that, even in the Ukraine situation, things we got with the CCP.

the Russians, even some of the tougher situations with Soleimani and others before in the first term.

This is

some of those true social posts were pretty blunt.

And like I say, when President Trump is worked up like this, particularly when he has put so much time and he's working for peace, you know, it's already put the guns down,

people should take this as a papal bull.

I mean, it's that serious.

I want to come back to what we were, you know, you said, you know, let's discuss that.

And I do want to discuss that.

But before we do, let me just follow up here.

You keep saying that, you know, he's spent so much time on.

I think he has risked more

in this last week with his own base than

I've seen him put.

I mean, he put all of the chips on the table.

I mean, this could have been an absolute disaster.

Who knows?

Maybe it is in the end.

Maybe it's not.

Maybe it's a Nobel Prize that he should, another one that he should win.

But

the base is so divided on this.

and uh i think that's part of the frustration too is he put all of the chips on the table can we just get people to do what they say they're going to do would you agree with that

i would agree and i think it's even beyond the politics of the base i mean glenn you know better than anybody how torrent particularly the non-interventures are on this topic um but it's actually

you know as commander-in-chief and the resources and the assets and the men and women in harm's way, and particularly, as I've argued, we're already at the beginning of the kinetic part of the Third World War.

Hell, we got two million.

If you look at 1939 to 1914, June of 41, when the Wehrmacht went to Russia, from Poland to Russia, there's, you know, we've got 2 million people dead or wounded in Ukraine, a million on each side.

I mean, look at the Houthis in the Red Sea.

I mean, this is much...

We're already in the kinetic part of the Third World War.

And now this arc of instability.

We've got Kashmir and Pakistan.

I mean, President Trump is going out of his way to try to be a peacemaker here and to bring this thing to a conclusion so people can start to negotiate.

You saw the beginnings of that, or what he did in the Middle East trip.

So, yes, it's definitely politics and internal politics and the MAGA movement.

You're as familiar with that as anybody.

But

I think it's far deeper than that.

And he put it all on the table.

And we got to...

I think we have to question why the hell we're even here right now.

Why on the

24th of June in the year of our Lord 2025, we're in the situation with 10 million illegal alien invaders on Biden's watch that we got to deport from the country, these neo-Confederates running California, these sanctuary cities, the big beautiful bill, which has got so many huge issues we have to address.

We haven't spent a second talking about this in weeks.

So many things are going on, and this is just, it's sucked up all this time as an active shooting war at will.

So, you know, because I've been listening to you, and I think we agree on a lot of stuff here.

Neither one of us wanted him to drop the bombs.

You're stronger on that than I am.

But,

you know, now that it's been dropped, now we just have to deal with whatever we're going to deal with.

But I think we both stand in the same place on...

My support, when I read in the scriptures, you know, those who will bless Israel, I will bless those who curse Israel.

That doesn't mean I go down every path that Israel wants.

I don't have to agree with them.

I don't have to do anything.

The way I believe I'm to bless them is to say they have a right to exist.

Let's not do another Holocaust and allow them to use their own power for self-defense.

They've demonstrated they can do that.

We don't have to get involved in everything that they're doing.

Would you agree that that is a reasonable stance or where's the nuance?

I'd even take it a little further.

I mean, I'm a, not just personally, but the war room.

We're adamant supporters of Israel and the state of Israel.

And particularly given, I mean, you think from October 7th,

you know, if you look at the Israel in Gaza, which is messy, we've been a big supporter of their, what they're doing against Samas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Our only message has been, you know, when you got to go through hell, go through as quickly as possible.

Let's get it done.

Correct.

In the day of Samaria, what they've done with Hezbollah is monumental because Hezbollah, as you know, Glenn, was considered, I guess, one of the best light infantry in the world.

What they've done in southern Syria, the Israelis have done militarily, I think, and geopolitically, extraordinary work since the surprise attack.

But there's just so many questions about this and so many questions about why we're so tangled up in this thing right now that, and I think they just have to be answered.

I think they've got to be answered for, because because to continues to support israel and and look the support to date really we don't have a formal alliance we have a special relationship they're essentially a protectorate of the united states and if that's the case and we should not be in the protectorate business we should europe right going to nature right now because they finally guarantee to pay five percent i mean think of this huge as you remember glenn they would they laughed at us for paying two percent which they agreed to in president trump's first term and one of the points was we can't have western Europe and the elites in Western Europe as a protecting the United States.

We just can't afford it anymore.

He's making huge moves there.

And that's why I think in this situation, we really have to go through and see exactly how this came about.

And I think it'll be

will illuminate how we go forward to sort this mess out.

So do you think we would have

dropped the bomb if Israel could have dropped that bomb?

I mean, that bomb was made for that particular run.

And we have been rehearsing that run for 15 plus years

specifically.

And nobody else has a weapon that was built

for that particular drop.

If Israel could have had it, do you think Donald Trump would have gotten involved?

Because I don't think he would have.

Let me take a slightly different direction.

79, my destroyer, I was in the Pacific Fleet, and we were going for our second Westpac to the, you know, turnover to the 7th Fleet, and we got the call on November 4th.

We were in Dejron 23, the Little Beavers, the famous Arlie Burke Destroyer Squadron.

We got the call that the hostages had been taken, and it took us a couple of months to get there, but we were one of the first, we went with one of the first battle groups ever to get to the North Arabian Sea, and we were there.

I think we rotated out a month before the assault, but we practiced the assault every day.

And Glenn, you could tell at the time, this is like you're not in Kansas anymore.

I mean,

the scale of the place is so big.

It's so forbidding.

You know, the ocean, and you never see the sun.

And

it's so complicated.

As you know, that one was a complete abject failure.

And I think every junior officer and non-commissioned officer on any of the ships in the battle group could have told you 90 days before the launch that it was going to be a disaster, just given the logistics of it.

The tale to me in this was the Tomahawk missiles that went to the third site and destroyed it above ground.

I mean essentially Israel had done nothing to take out any of the nuclear facilities.

And let's go back to what I think we have to get to, the heart of it, is

why did this come out of nowhere?

The intelligence, and we're told that the intelligence is different, and this has been said now by Mark Orubi and other people, that the intelligence is different than the intelligence that the IC community had.

And today they're going to have

classified hearings with Tulsi Gabbard and Ratcliffe.

and my understanding is ratcliffe and the cia presented additional uh intelligence that that said this was absolutely emergency it had to happen and that's why the strike had to happen last thursday although it shouldn't be lost to anybody that the strike itself didn't look like it was so much to take out the nuclear facilities it was essentially a decapitation strike to the senior military maybe not to the to the religious uh that run the state

And I thought that was just very suspicious, including the fact that President Trump had a negotiating meeting set for Sunday.

Now, it wasn't going well.

He felt like he was getting tapped along.

But the first thing we heard is that Radcliffe, I mean, Witkoff couldn't have a meeting because all the negotiators had been killed.

Now, it turned out later, one of the senior guys was not.

But I think we got to find out that.

Like, what was the emergency?

Why did this actually have to happen?

What was the intel that said?

that they were going to get a bomb shortly because B D went on Brett Baer on Sunday night and said he was again said they're 12 to 13 months away, which is what he's traditionally said.

If that was the case, that's a very different scale.

We had not gone up to escalatory scale and coercive diplomacy.

We certainly hadn't gone to economic warfare, particularly, Glenn, as you know, cutting off, not allowing to ship oil to the Chinese Communist Party, which I think is 60% of their cash flow.

There's so many things up the escalatory ladder.

And if you want regime change, I always think the best way to do it is through economic warfare, where President Trump got so tough with him when he dropped out of the JCPOA.

And that's why in 22, you had the first time, I think they had a major revolt in the streets.

Now, it only lasted for a couple of weeks, but that was the big part of that.

That was because of the sanctions President Trump put in.

Then we get into this situation after the bombing run.

And what's concerning me about the bombing run is

why are Los Angeles class submarines hitting them with 30 tomahawks on a facility that's above ground?

And I would like to see the bomb damage report.

Now, President Trump, I believe, we obliterated it, but I haven't seen any ballistic missile capability that could get to the United States tomorrow or San Francisco tomorrow.

I think this whole thing was from the beginning.

And I think if you look at Fox News, which I really fault here, this was clearly about regime change.

I think the Netanyahu government saw an opportunity to do regime change.

And until I see otherwise and see information otherwise, there was an absolute emergency and had to happen.

That's the reason I was really against any type of military engagement.

Now, it turns out magnificent logistics, and people don't realize how complicated that was and how incredible.

But President Trump, I think

it's one and done.

And now he's got to cease fire.

And he's very specific.

I think he came out today.

I think Bloomberg put out that he said there's no regime change.

So, but my point is the opportunity cost of this.

This is going to suck us into, if not, you know, open combat, this is going to suck us in.

Just the mindshare of President Trump to have to engage here when we have so many other pressing, massive problems.

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So I saw something the other day, and I just want to take two and a half minutes and just play something.

This is

an older guy, World War II veteran.

This was from a couple of weeks ago on V-Day,

V-E-Day.

And

he was talking about how it felt, VE Day, felt now 80 years later.

Listen to this.

Hello.

Today is May 8th, the anniversary of the victory in Europe.

When I found out the war was over, I was already out of the service.

I got out on April 13th, the day after President Roosevelt died.

I was 22 when I went home after seven years of service.

Of course, I joined with my cousin Chick when we were 15 in 1938.

Time just goes by.

And the next thing I knew, the world was celebrating victory in Europe.

Here I am at home.

with my mother and my dad and they announced the war was over in Europe.

Hitler was dead.

His troops have given up, turning all their arms.

All their ships were being confiscated.

What an elation.

No way I'm going back.

I'm discharged already.

But the release anyway, after all those years I was in the service.

and especially three years overseas.

And it's over now?

It's crazy.

It's hard to think you're free.

It's a different life.

Yes,

there were a few beers drunk that day and a lot of other liquor, of course, but some settled with handshakes and glad it's over.

That's what I did.

I stood by my mother and gave her a hug.

Says I'm not going back.

I gotta remind you guys, I'm here because a whole bunch of my friends gave their life so that I can make it here.

It's hard to realize that I came through to the end of the war without a scratch.

How can you land on Omaha Beach on D-Day and get through that minefield without a scratch?

If you could take the time today,

or tomorrow, or

every day,

for just an instant, have a little visit with those guys that gave their life.

So we're winners.

That's the reason we're free today is because these guys gave their life.

I think he is fantastic.

He has an Instagram page called Storytime with Papa Jake.

And I saw that the other day.

It just makes me all soupy.

The innocence and the sweetness of a guy who's lived his life.

I'm sure he's lived a hard life.

I mean, landing on Omaha Beach.

I don't know.

There's just a.

There's something about people who lived back then

that is

just different.

And I wonder if we can ever get back there.

Or if we want to.

I don't know.

I do.

I don't want, I don't want the troubles that they had back then.

I don't want the

bigotry and everything else that they had back then.

But I

do think we'll ever get back to a place to where

a few beers were drunk that day, I'll tell you.

And some handshakes.

Congratulations, it's over.

I mean,

who speaks like that anymore?

I talked to Steve Bannon earlier today.

Both of us are very concerned.

We don't agree on everything.

And we've been at odds at times in our careers.

But we both love our country.

And we're both concerned about people

hammering each other.

There's something happening with the right right now.

And look, we can disagree.

It's healthy.

I think actually what we've gone through is really, really healthy in some ways.

Having the conversations about the control of deep state, the control of foreign countries.

I mean,

you know, if we could just sit and say to people, you know,

Israel's...

You know, Israel's just controlling us.

No, no, no, they're not.

Well, they're lying to us.

Well, of course they are.

Of course they are.

You don't think we've ever lied to other countries?

You know, it's that country's job, that president or prime minister's job, to do what's right for his country.

Just like, you know, we're discovering now or rediscovering, that's exactly the job of the president to do what's right for our country.

And,

you know,

when our interests align 100%, there's no reason to shade things.

But if you are somebody who needs the other side, yeah, you're going to say, you know, this is really good for you, too.

And if they buy it, they buy it.

You got to do what's right for your country.

And it's, you know, you shouldn't be mad.

If our presidents are ever duped by another country, why are you mad at the other country for trying to dupe us?

We should be mad at our own politicians who have been duped.

So one thing I like about President Trump is I don't think he's duping or being duped.

You know, I think he is,

well, America first.

Make America great again.

That should be the slogan for every country, not build back better.

Why the hell is that even?

God, it's the dumbest, dumbest phrase I've ever heard.

Wouldn't you love it if England was going to make England great again?

I was going to say, wouldn't you love it if Germany?

No, no,

I didn't have to think about it.

You couldn't even get it out of my head.

I was thinking it.

Wouldn't it be great the next one?

Wouldn't it be great if Germany was?

No, it really no, uh-uh.

Because I'm not sure.

I'm not sure they define it the same way.

Wouldn't it be great if Sweden and Holland

were great again?

France, Italy.

I mean, Italy's still pretty great, but

it'd be great if we took pride in things again.

Not some garish pride, not some hateful pride,

but just, yeah, I'm proud of my country.

I'm proud of us.

I'm proud of what we do.

I'm going to share something with you tomorrow.

A little bit more information on things I've been telling you as I'm working on.

And you'll understand in time

why I'm

dribs and drabs of things.

But

I'm going to share some more information with you tomorrow.

And I did a lot of thinking about this audience.

I've done a lot of thinking about you

and how grateful I am for you.

But tomorrow I'm going to share some things, some stats about you

that

you don't know.

I didn't know.

Some things that are just remarkable.

And it's not a boastful pride to say, I'm proud

of the people that listen to me.

I'm proud of the being part of this group.

You're amazing.

What's wrong with saying that about your country?

Listen to this.

Play cut 9.

This is

the UK

MP

who's talking.

This is during a Reform UK rally last February in Essex.

His name is Rupert Lowe.

Listen to what he says.

Watching Trump and the Americans, it has made me even more determined than ever to restore our unique country through a great repeal Act act when Labour falls at the next election.

I don't particularly care if we're liked by the rest of the world.

I care if we're respected.

Because right now, Britain is a joke and it has been for some time.

I want the British government to put the British people at the top of the agenda.

We should make no apologies for that.

Learn from Trump.

Let's be unapologetically patriotic, slash tax across the board, enforce the border, deport those with no right to be here, accept biological reality, fight back against wokery, bulldoze nonsensical foreign aid, eradicate DEI, deliver sensible infrastructure, carpet-bomb public sector waste, brutally crack down on crime, and plenty more.

Let's make Great Britain great again.

Thank you.

I love that.

Now, that's that's not going to go necessarily with all of our interests, you know.

But I love that.

Make Britain great again.

And I really don't understand, with the exception of a couple of things, I don't understand how you could disagree with a lot of what he just said.

I mean,

you might say, oh, I don't agree with the woke-ism thing.

What did he call it, wokery?

I love that.

I swear, if you're English, you you just sound smarter.

If I said, you know, none of this wokery stuff, it'd sound like a hick.

But I don't know, when you say it in abolish wokery, it just sounds smart, doesn't it?

Well, it's not.

They're no smarter than us.

Anyway,

I hope this is trend.

I would love to be.

I'd love to to be the old man that I played for you here just a few minutes ago.

I'd love to be his age.

Papa Jake,

sitting in a chair, 100 years old.

Still have that bright attitude.

Still have, you know, love of country and love of one another.

and for as much trouble as the country is in,

he wasn't, he didn't give that off.

He just gave this, I don't know how to do this, but he just gave off this

love

of country and countrymen

without being brash or

angry.

I'd urge you today to

try to be a little bit more, maybe,

like Papa Jake.

Or strive that maybe someday you can be like him.

And maybe, maybe on that day, oh, there might be a few beers shared between us,

but there'll be a hearty handshake to say, congratulations, it's over.