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And I said, you know what, if something changes, call me, wake me up.

I had great peace last night,

feeling

great comfort that we're okay.

And I want to explain what happened last night with the U.S.

and Iran and who the real enemies here are.

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All right.

I have been watching Iran

for at least 15 years.

Full disclosure, I was for the Iraqi war, and I was for it because I believed it was an attempt to pop the head of the snake, which is Iran.

Iran is the real problem

in the Middle East.

It causes much of our problems.

It is a backward society that has destroyed the Persian culture and has destroyed the people of Iran.

And even those who were not or who were part of the revolution didn't want what they have.

Millions are marching in the streets, risking their lives.

You don't see it because our press doesn't go to Iran.

Our press doesn't care to show it.

Our press decides to go to Iran when there are millions of Americans or millions of Iranians shouting death to America.

Soleimani,

Soleimani was a brutal

hydric.

He was a brutal mastermind of terror all over the Middle East, responsible for at least 600 deaths of U.S.

soldiers.

But beyond that, he was a torturer.

He was a madman.

He was as sick as any of the Nazis were.

And And so we killed him.

Now we call it an assassination,

I guess the media does, because it was precision.

So we didn't blow up a lot of people.

Oh my gosh.

Now we're assassinating.

We were being precise.

Isn't that what the world begged us to do?

Wasn't that the last problem?

We just lob a missile over there, not even knowing who we're going to hit, and we could hit innocent children children and babies and puppy dogs.

And so we spent a ton of money to make sure that it hits the target we were looking for.

And that's not good enough now.

But it was the right thing to do.

Now

I since have come back on my position on Iraq.

Because that's not what we were trying to do.

We were trying to nation build.

And our nation building has got us into almost all of the trouble that

we're experiencing right now.

I mean,

when we were humble,

when we were a nation that was paying attention to just our problems, the world loved us.

France gave us a giant present called the Statue of Liberty.

Do you see any nation in the world giving us a present like that today?

No.

Why?

The Statue of Liberty was to show them, to show the people of Paris, not America, show the people of Paris what could be done if you get everybody into the boat.

That's the same thing with

the Washington crossing the Delaware painting.

That was a German painting, not meant for us.

We have the copy.

The original burned to the ground in World War II as the Allies bombed Berlin.

When we pay attention and we are humble and we stay out of everybody's business, we make a big impact because we lead by example.

Teddy Roosevelt changed all of that

and everything that Eisenhower told us we should look out for.

We made a choice in the 1950s after the war.

We now have to have a standing army.

We never had one before World War II.

We have to have a standing army because now the world could be vaporized overnight.

War happens too fast.

There's no chance to be prepared for it if you're not prepared all the time.

But when they made that decision, he warned us.

A military guy warned us.

There's just going to be a war machine now that wants war.

There's going to be a war machine in our Congress, in our White House, in our State Department.

And what's worse is America is now going to start funding our universities.

And so those universities will also be indoctrination camps.

So he warned in 1959:

look out,

pay attention, stay awake.

Well, we didn't.

And we have been on this foreign adventure forever.

And it's time for it to stop.

Now, how do I square this with

a long record on Iran?

Iran is filled with things, people that are called 12vers.

They were so crazy that even the Ayatollah Khomeini during the revolution said, by the way, we got to get rid of all the Twelvers because they're nuts.

That's how nuts they are.

They were too nuts for the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Now, those same Twelvers are the ones that are leading the Supreme Council.

They include people like Soleimani,

and they are true believers, hardline believers

of Wash the World in Blood.

Now,

let me talk to you about the Iranian people.

The Iranian people are no different than the people here in America.

There are those that are part of the hard line, those that believe that, those that last night were going, wait, more, more, more.

But the vast majority are the people who are saying, wait a minute, why are we on these foreign adventures?

They keep getting us into trouble.

If we would just mind our own business,

why are we spending a billion dollars a month on on the kuds force with solemani a billion dollars a month bread is 70 percent higher and more expensive than it was just a couple of months ago and you're sending all of this money for what

so let's not lose sight that people are people

that let's not lose sight for those of us who are old enough to remember when the iron curtain came down we found out that the Russian people were not our enemy, it was the government,

and the government was the enemy of the people.

Last night,

the best case scenario happened.

Iran attacked our

embassy.

We cannot allow people to attack our embassies.

Iran, especially, they have a history of it, 1979.

They took everybody hostage for over a year.

And then, coincidentally,

they were all released the day Reagan raised his hand and took command.

Last night,

Iran responded to us killing Soleimani, a guy who is clearly a very bad guy, a guy that I would compare to to Heydrich or Himmler.

We took him out because he killed at least 600 of our soldiers, and he has been torturing his way to success all over the Middle East.

I know

we were there.

We met with some of the families that his people, his Kuds force, had killed and tortured.

We met with one family whose

mom was killed in front of the two children and the dad.

And as if that wasn't enough, they took the six-year-old boy and took out drills and drilled holes in his legs.

He still can't walk.

That's who Solimani was.

I have no problem taking him out.

It was the right thing to do.

But the press and the left just wring their hands all night.

Oh my gosh, what's going to happen?

This is World War III.

There's going to be a draft.

And I told you Monday, relax.

There's not going to be a draft.

This could turn into World War III, but I don't think so.

This is our best option at this point.

What happened last night was the best case scenario.

They lobbed missiles over.

They were not cruise missiles.

Cruise missiles are accurate.

Cruise missiles get the job done.

Cruise missiles, as they used in Saudi Arabia to take out their oil fields, those cruise missiles went a lot farther in Saudi Arabia.

They went from Iran to Saudi Arabia to the oil fields, and if you look at the pictures, they hit dead center all of their targets.

What they launched last night was a missile.

What they launched last night was not a threat.

I don't even think they were fully loaded.

Several duds.

And none of them hit their target.

Now, why is that?

Are they just incompetent?

Are we so arrogant to think that they're so far behind us that they can't even hit across their own border accurately?

Of course they can.

Of course they can.

This was them trying to save face last night with their hardliners.

Now, I'll tell you more as we go.

This isn't going to work.

But that's what they did.

And they immediately went to the UN and said,

we're not wanting war.

We just wanted to retaliate for that strike on Soleimani.

We're not looking for war.

They immediately said a press release, this is it.

This is all we're going to do.

That's signaling we just need to save face, leave us alone.

We're not going to kill any of your people.

Now, luckily, we have a president who, no matter what anyone says,

left or right, is not a warmonger.

He's been against these wars his whole life.

It's one thing that he really believes.

And his doctrine, even though it's unspoken, is if you don't kill any of our guys, I'm not going to respond.

They took down our drone.

Many presidents would have responded.

He didn't.

Why would I respond?

They didn't kill any of our people.

Taking a drone out of the sky, okay, it's expensive, but I'm not going to kill people for that.

Donald Trump doesn't want war.

Donald Trump wants to be out of war.

Donald Trump is an American first.

Like that or hate that, that's who he is.

And it's exactly the right kind of guy to have in today and yesterday and last week.

I don't know if you watched Fox News last night, but it was a horror show.

If Donald Trump listens to the people on Fox News, if he listened to them last night, this thing would, we would be in World War III today.

But he didn't.

They were calling for crazy,

take out their oil fields, crazy stuff.

The minute we heard that there were no casualties,

go to bed.

Go to bed.

Here's what Trump has to do.

Trump cannot respond kinetically.

He cannot respond with military.

Cannot.

Donald Trump cannot listen to the voices of the hardliners on Fox News.

He cannot.

Trump must stick to his red line of American lives.

Keep your powder dry and your cyber weapons dry as well.

Continue to weaken the regime at home in Iraq.

Continue to vocally support the Iranian people.

The ones who are actually rising up.

And then prepare for a non-military strike on U.S.

assets.

And I'll explain that.

And

the hardliners in both Iran and the hardliners, including the press and the Democratic Party, here in America when we come back.

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Yes, condolences to Tanya.

And I was just thinking, you know, Tom Cruise, he looks the same as he did when he was in Mission Impossible when we got married.

And look at the pictures of me the day I got married to today.

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You haven't aged as well as Tom Cruise?

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I think I would have aged

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the world hadn't gone insane.

Ah, the world's fault.

Yeah,

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I do.

I think so, right?

It's everybody else's fault.

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Anyway, I want to talk to you about

Iran.

First of all, do you disagree with anything that I just said?

I would put one asterisk on it because I agree with you.

I think it was the best case scenario.

So far.

That's the big thing I think.

Well, did you notice the last one was prepare for non-military strike on U.S.

assets?

Exactly.

Going into this, we talked about it a lot.

And then, you know, do they go with proxy efforts like they have for a very long time?

Yes.

Or do they put their stamp on it?

It was somewhat surprising to see them put their stamp on something, but when you realize that they basically missed on purpose, right?

I mean,

they did not want to.

There's no way that if they wanted to hurt us in Iraq, they could have done it.

Yeah, they went to very far, like, you know, in the middle of nowhere sort of bases.

They were not highly populated.

They did not use precision weapons.

They did not use large explosives.

They did everything they could to be able to convince their people they were fighting back.

We sent 19 missiles over.

Yeah, we're tough.

We're tough.

We killed 30 people, we swear.

And then we knew that obviously none of that happened.

So if that's where it ends, absolute best case scenario.

We took out an international terrorist, one of the worst people on the planet, and in response, nothing.

It's a miracle outcome.

And one of the things that's interesting politically about this is Trump's approval rating among Americans, and you see the way he performs in polls against these other candidates, built into that is very strong approval rating on the economy and several other things, but also a very low approval rating or expectation for him to be able to handle difficult international incidents.

The American people, generally speaking, don't think he's capable of doing that.

I'm not saying he isn't.

But if

he can be convinced, if the American people see him over and over again do these things and they turn out like this, and it stays like this, his approval rating has real room to move there.

And I think this was the best case scenario and the best played hand of a president I've seen in a very, very long time.

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More on the latest in Iran coming up.

We welcome Mr.

Pat Gray, who is joining us now from the Pat Gray radio program and podcast called Pat Gray Unleashed, which you can download and listen to at any time.

Really great program.

I listen to it every morning live as he's doing it as I prepare on this program.

Is that true?

Is that really true?

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All right, Pat.

Indeed, last night,

MSNBC was rolling the Iranian state television broadcast and taking their coverage and taking their word for what had happened.

Don't you think that's close to treason?

Close.

It's not, but it's close.

It's close.

It is

despicable, I'll tell you that.

And anti-American.

It's anti-American.

First of all, they just took the 30 dead that the Iranian state television was claiming.

And reported it.

And reported it.

And let the Iranians report it on their own broadcast all across America.

I mean, that is crazy.

If you are dealing with Nazis, which you are, when you're dealing with the Iranian Supreme Council, you are dealing with people who are as bad as Nazis.

And can you imagine if we would have just taken Berlin radio and just taken what they said?

Verbatim?

No.

That's insanity.

It would never have happened.

Insanity.

They want Donald Trump to fail so much that they are willing to

put gasoline on a fire to cheer for war.

I also love the fact that they are helping Iran in the propaganda war with who Qassam Soleimani was.

I mean, all we're hearing is that, you know,

he was nothing but a humble, peace-loving humanitarian

old women across the street developed life-saving vaccines.

He worked extensively.

In fact, I think side by side with Mother Teresa in India, all during the 80s.

I mean, he was a good guy.

Just a good egg.

Okay, so

may I ask you this?

Time magazine, and I mean this sincerely, Time Magazine tweeted, if you need help talking with the children in your life about the aftermath of Iranian General Qassam Soleimani's killing,

Time has a guide to explain the topic.

Okay.

Here's my question, and this is sincere.

What kind of screwed-up parent

has freaked out children about Soleimani's death?

Seriously, because they're not getting that on the playground.

They're not like, Mommy,

why did General Soleimani have to die?

That's That's not happening anywhere.

How screwed up are the people at Time magazine that their kids

have to have some...

That's because mom and dad are like, Solomani, Donald Trump is going to get all of us killed.

And the kids are in the corner going,

that's irresponsible.

Absolutely irresponsible.

Some celebrity and celebrity wife that had their kid, who's like 13 years old, like crying crying in their bed for days and days after Trump was elected.

Remember that?

Who was that?

Yeah, I don't remember who.

I feel like it was a director or something.

I don't think in California,

they had counselors at the school ready for you.

I mean, that's crazy.

That is crazy talk.

That's just bad parenting.

Oh, my gosh.

And

absolutely

just.

You have lost touch with reality.

We didn't need counselors when Barack Obama was elected the second time.

Well, I did, but our children didn't need counseling.

We didn't need time off in school.

That was crazy.

That's crazy.

But that's how just sick and twisted they are.

Soleimani, here's what you say to your kids.

He was a really bad guy.

Americans got the bad guy so he won't hurt.

Thousands of children all over the Middle East.

Yeah,

how did people explain Osama bin Laden's death to their kids?

Right.

That's how you explain it.

This is how far off the deep end the mainstream media is.

They will do anything for Donald Trump to lose.

They will be cheering a war if it means Donald Trump looks bad.

Now,

because all of those kids on Central Park,

Central Park West, you know, the east side's okay.

But because of all those people on Central Park West and maybe Central Park South have their kids crying, and I know, I know the elites.

I've written a little song for you, and it goes a little something like this:

Oh, Solomoni,

make my kids cry.

Oh, Solomoni,

why'd you have to die?

That's beautiful.

Thank you very much.

And so you just open with that and say, I have the answer.

I have the answer.

Because he was a brutal killer, Americans got a bad guy and killed him.

Is that like a rap interlude, or is that not part of this?

Or you just started talking after the song.

Yeah, I just started talking after the song.

It was, you know, that was the.

It seems like you could have put a little bit of a bad thing.

You probably should have told us the song was over and now this is coming.

Okay, well, you know, I can't do everything for everybody.

I'm just trying to to help.

You don't have to plan the live.

The four kids that are crying on

Central Park West right now, they're all media kids.

They're all media kids.

We're all going to die.

Do you want to sing it again so people can catch it for like a ringtone or something?

No, no, no.

No, I really.

No, I actually don't.

But thank you.

We could offer it.

We could offer it.

I guess we could.

We could just take the previous one and just take it and just offer it for free at Gladmac.com.

You could do that.

Something like that.

It might be good.

People could download it, do it all.

make my kids cry.

Oh, solemnly,

why'd you have to die?

Now you just put that in your phone, and then when I call you, you'll know who it is.

I wasn't sad about it, but now I kind of am.

Yeah, you brought me along.

Yeah, it is sad.

It is sad.

That's being sung on every street corner in New York, really, right now.

Yeah.

Not on the east side, just on the west side.

Just the west side.

So, Pat,

we all think, and I know you listening to you, I know you think the same thing.

This was just

like them going,

we're going to just lob these missiles over and have them hit rocks.

There's no question.

No question.

Yeah.

However,

I think we shouldn't, because there was no way for Iran to respond militarily and win.

Right.

They started.

Or they know.

We're done.

As crazy as they seem, they know that.

They know that.

However, this was very unlike this regime.

They don't do this.

They use terrorists.

So I think we should prepare for

an American asset, hopefully not here, but it could be, you know, these are the guys.

Solomani was the guy who killed our

CIA station chief in the 90s, and we did nothing about it.

But I could see them kidnapping or killing a CIA station chief or going after one of our ambassadors.

We were supposed to have an ambassador on with us

today,

and he just had to leave town.

Now, it could have been on business, but it could also be because they're on high alert.

They should be on high alert.

I think that

they do this, they say to the world, oh, it's not us, but we should be expecting some sort of terrorist attack against the United States and one that they can say, that wasn't us.

Would you agree with that?

Yes, absolutely.

Absolutely.

You know, and it's not just, I mean, how many things have we ignored from Iran over the years?

We still, we didn't retaliate for the embassy crisis.

We did nothing about that.

We didn't do anything about the drone strike, which I think was right.

The truck bombing in Saudi Arabia,

suicide bombings in Lebanon that intelligence knows they were behind.

The IEDs in

Iraq

600 soldiers.

Those are all Solomoni.

October detaining, they detained.

Remember the Americans they detained?

Yeah, the Navy.

Yeah, they commandeered that little Navy ship and then humiliated our sailors.

We did nothing.

They've attacked American interests in Africa.

They've harassed us in the Persian Gulf.

Hezbollah plots, and Iran is behind Hezbollah, attacking the United States.

Operatives were arrested, conducting surveillance of U.S.

military and law enforcement facilities.

Remember that airports

in New York City?

We caught them in the middle of that.

Eight years ago, Soleimani was plotting, and we caught him, plotting to blow up

the Saudi prince, I think, or the Saudi ambassador, at the Watergate.

They were planning on blowing up the Watergate hotel.

So, of course, they thought they were going to act with impunity

when they attacked our embassy.

But they miscalculated, and I think they understand that now.

They're dealing with somebody else than Donald Trump.

And I think, you know what?

He got so much,

so many people called him out, you know, the Persian culture.

He said, I'm going to, you know, I'll include your cultural sites.

I don't know how he meant that.

Like, I'm just going to go bomb your museums.

But I think, which is fine for him to say it's illegal.

Okay, we can't do that.

We don't want to do that.

That's not who we are.

However, if he meant it, and I think this is the way he probably meant it, and you know what?

If you hide in one of your little mosques, I don't care how old it is, I'm taking you out.

And everybody was upset, even those on the right were upset about that.

Oh, he shouldn't say that.

Yeah, he should.

Yeah, he should.

I have no problem.

If, look,

this

Bible

is from

Iraq.

Iraq, and this was done by ISIS rebels.

And

we went into one of the churches, old, old Nivea church,

historic site.

Nineveh.

Yeah, Nineveh.

And all of the statues, all of the paintings, the altar was desecrated.

And all up around the walls were these Bibles.

And they were using them as targets for shooting practice.

So don't tell me about your sacred sites.

If you're in a sacred site, we're going to do everything we can to keep the site.

If we could use the neutron bomb to get you in a very small way, we would.

But we can't.

And so if we have to bomb your

sacred site because you're hold up there and you're plotting and killing people, our people from there, tough luck.

Sacred site, gone.

Yeah, and the restriction on that is if you're doing it intentionally to hurt the culture, right?

Like you're going, like, you know, the famous blowing up the, what was it, the Buddhist statues, right?

Even in Afghanistan.

Yeah, there's no value to that other than trying to destroy that culture.

That's what's against the law.

Right.

It's not against the law.

If Hitler decides to put his bunker inside of a historical site, you still bomb the thing.

Absolutely.

That's not against the law.

It's just a matter of making sure they don't want people to do it like

Al-Qaeda was doing it.

If ISIS were hiding in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, I would not want to bomb it.

And

I would do everything that I could.

But if we're in a war, I mean, a hot war, and that's where they're killing a lot of people, I'm sorry, Notre Dame.

You're gone.

We'll rebuild you.

And I know it won't be the same, but they cannot be allowed to have a safe base.

Human life is more important than buildings.

We We all know that.

Exactly right.

And there were a couple of structures that were destroyed in World War II.

I don't know if people remember.

What?

Yeah, there were.

Including churches.

Were they just not built by the people?

Nothing in Berlin?

Because everything in Berlin is still standing.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

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Today's a pretty important day.

Iran is

a very dangerous character, and there's more coming, but I think it's going to be non-military.

And I'm hoping that Donald Trump, who will be speaking with us in an hour and 10 minutes,

I'm hoping that he is going to say, you know, we took them out, they responded, and if everybody stays cool,

that's what there is.

But we can put sanctions on them or whatever.

But I hope he keeps his red line on

American lives.

American lives.

What do you think the taunting factor is here?

These guys, they tried to fire missiles.

They didn't hit anything.

Pretty high.

I think pretty high, right?

And I think that's an okay.

I think that's acceptable for the president here.

Like, everyone's playing their own game.

And I think that's probably okay for the Iranians.

They know that that's going to happen.

They're not going to get mad at him taunting.

No, and they taunted us last night.

Yeah, so

it was the same thing.

Their president taunted, and, you know, whatever.

That's fine.

Let that game be played.

But Trump cannot listen to the hardliners on the right

and get us into

another war.

If

Iran decides to now go and kill one of our ambassadors or kidnap or do something like that, and they do it through Quds Force or one of their terrorist organizations, well, then that's a different story.

But

last night was a really nice ending.

Let's leave it alone until they do something else.

And if they kill or do something really horrible, then we'll have to respond again.

All right, coming up in just a second, Laura Logan.

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There's going to be a draft.

I think this was the best case scenario.

We're about an hour away from

the Trump address where he's going to address the nation and tell us what he's going to do.

Hopefully,

this is over now and there's no more kinetic response to Iran, but we will see.

Also, coming up in a half hour, the guy who probably was consulted by the president last night from Congress, we'll get in touch with him and Laura Logan on what the media is doing and how they're handling this.

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I think,

in my mind, an icon

of

reporting and what a news journalist should be.

She was with 60 Minutes and CBS for years and years.

She's won all kinds of awards, including the Edward R.

Murrow Award, for her reporting and her journalistic integrity.

You might also remember that she was in the crowd as Egypt overthrew Mubarak,

and

it was brutal for her.

I wanted to talk to her a little bit about how the media is handling all of this

and her thoughts right off the top of her head about last night.

Laura, welcome to the program.

Hey, Glenn, thank you so much for having me on, and thank you for your very, very kind introduction.

Well, I mean every word of it, Laura.

Can you tell me what your thoughts are on how this has played off from the embassy riot, which was reminiscent of 1979 or probably closer to Benghazi, to killing Qassam, to the response last night?

Well, what's very interesting for me, you know, having spent many years on the ground in the Palestinian territories, in Israel, in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Jordan, FIGAS, living in Iraq.

You know, I've traveled all over Iraq.

I've been smuggled into, you know, insurgent parts of Damascus and all that kind of stuff.

And so, you know,

what I am always struck by

when I see

these events unfolding is how important the context is for the conversation.

Because Persians, if you spend any time with Persians, what you learn about the Persians and Iran, you know, Iranians identify themselves as Persians because it goes back to the, you know, the Persian, the time of the Persians, right, when the Persians ruled.

And they still see themselves through that prism.

And what I always try to do is to look at the world through their eyes.

So, you know, same for the Iraqis, same for all the people in the region who are affected by this.

And

the conversation that's playing out in the U.S.

seems very often feels like it's devoid of that kind of context, right?

Because we tend to look at things only through the prism of now.

And

I've been quite struck for a long time by the United States's lack of action towards Iran.

You know, when you're on the Iraqi battlefield year after year after year and you see Iran's role on the battlefield escalating and the U.S.

not doing anything overt to counter it, where all the U.S.

efforts to counter Iran on the Iraqi battlefield were clandestine, right?

They were more covert.

And so there's an inherent dishonesty in all of the reporting because we're still talking about the Iraq wars, if it was a war, you know, between the U.S.

and Iraqi forces.

But who in this conversation about Qasim Solomani is asking why?

Why were Iranian militias killing American soldiers on the Iraqi battlefield?

Why were they there?

What was their purpose?

What was their justification?

What was their motivation?

No one is asking that.

No one's even questioning that.

And no one is talking about the fact that the Iraqis were protesting.

There were mass protests just a few weeks ago against the Iranians that were there.

The Iraqi people

do not want them there.

All we hear about is how they don't want us there.

But

we are protecting a lot of the Iraqis as well.

That's very true.

And of course, you know, Iraq is a mix of Sunni and of Shia people, right?

And the Shia, you know, like the Iranians are Shia right across the border.

So there's their loyalty and their faith, you know, in Shiite Islam, and then there's their national identity as Iraqis.

And then, of course, there are also millions of Iraqis who are mixed Sunni and Shia, right?

You might have a, you know, a one Sunni parent and one Shiite parent.

And we act like all of these people are a monolithic entity that all agree with each other.

And what we leave out of this conversation are, for example, all the Iraqis who used to say to me, ah, this person is not Iraqi.

And I used to say, well, what do you mean?

They're not Iraqi.

They're born in Iraq.

They're Iraqi citizens.

And they say, yes, but they have Iranian blood running in their veins, which was the Iraqi way of saying their real loyalty is to Shiite Iran across the border.

And their real loyalty is not to us,

it's not to Iraq.

And that was very, very interesting.

for me because you look at someone like Qasim Soleimani, he was Iraqi.

He was born in Iraq.

Mohandis, the Iraqi commander who died with him, he's another one that they said to me has Iranian blood in his veins.

You know, and Al-Amari, the head of the Batar Corps, who's now replaced Mohandas,

who's now the most powerful Iranian ally

in Iraq,

he also, he fled Iraq decades ago, and he lived in Iran and really was trained by Iran.

And when Saddam fell, the Iranians sent him back into Iraq and he was tasked by Qasem Soleimani to hunt down every Iraqi pilot and significant commander from the Iran-Iraq war and kill them.

And in fact, I sat down in an interview with him a few years ago for 60 minutes, and I read to him

an American diplomatic cable that was signed off, offered and signed off on by the U.S.

Embassy and by the U.S.

Ambassador and sent to Washington.

And, you know, I've never forgotten what it said,

which was this, you know,

that

the U.S.

Embassy and the military believe that

Amory was responsible for personally murdering 2,500 Iraqi Sunnis and that his preferred method of killing was to personally drill holes in their heads while they were still alive.

Okay, this is the man.

This is the man that was trained by Iran, that is one of their most important lieutenants and allies inside Iraq.

Okay, these are the people that we're talking about.

So what about all the funerals of all the people who died at the hands of Qasim Soleimani and his proxy forces and his commanders and under his orders and with the blessing and authority and funding and training, right?

What about all those people?

And what about the Iraqis who were celebrating his death?

What about Syrians who are celebrating?

Yemenis who were celebrating.

An Iraqi I spoke to in Baghdad, you know, a couple of times over the last few days said to me that every Iraqi in San Diego who, you know, is now able to vote in the U.S.

is voting for Trump in the next election because they're so happy that he killed Qasem Soleimani.

And that's just a voice.

It's one part of the story that you're not hearing a whole lot about.

Well, you're not at all.

Laurie, you're also not hearing the voice of the Iranians, the millions that are risking their life to stand up, and the millions of people that are just, I think, in many ways, just like Americans.

Their inflation has gone through the roof, and they're looking at a billion dollars a month going to the Kuds Force and the IRGC, and they're saying, I don't want any part of this anymore.

This is just causing us more trouble, and they want out, they want relief from this.

And no media source that I know of is covering that.

Well, I would agree with you on that, that no media source is covering that part of the story to those people are completely left out of this conversation.

And not only that,

but some of those people, their voices are left out because they're dead.

Right?

I mean, the green movement, who remembers the green movement?

There's been, you know, really two significant protest movements that have risen up in Iran to the level where they haven't been able to hide their existence, right?

Because we, you know, I'm always very, very cautious about speaking about what, you know, Iranian people and what they want and how they feel and what the situation is because we know so little, right?

It's very hard to function and operate in Iran.

You do not get access to that country as a journalist or as an outsider unless the regime, you know, authorized, specifically authorizes you to do so.

And when they do that, they have a specific purpose.

There's a reason they let you come in.

And they control what you see.

They control who you speak to.

They control what people say because people self-censor.

They're so afraid they self-censor.

So really accurate assessments of, you know,

how the majority of people feel.

I can tell you what individuals feel because I can, you know, I can from time to time speak to individuals and often in situations where I can at least have a high degree of confidence that I'm not being lied to, right?

But

what we're not hearing, but what the Iranians could not hide, they could not hide the Green Movement, they could not hide some of these mass protests.

And what we do know is that those protest movements were brutally, brutally suppressed.

I mean, you know, hundreds of people were disappeared, tortured, imprisoned, murdered, right?

And who was responsible for making that happen?

I mean, the IRGC, the Qudspot, Qasim Suleimani, these people, yes, he was loved by many people in Iran, but he was also feared and he was also hated.

And those voices are, you know, they're completely and utterly written out of the current narrative.

Lara Logan, I'd like to continue with you.

I'm going to take a quick one-minute break, and then I'd like to come back and talk a little bit about the media coverage here on

how distorted it is and MSNBC last night running the state television from Iran and then taking their word for how many Americans had been killed, which we now know is zero,

and what the motivation is.

What does the average American take from

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I don't want to dwell on this at all, but I couldn't help but see the ABC reporter in the crowd in Iran,

you know, wearing her headscarf and everything else, and thinking she's in real danger because those crowds can change as you found in Egypt.

How much danger was she in yesterday, and what kind of deal had to be made

for her to have that kind of coverage?

And is it responsible?

Well, you know,

I think it's unfair to ask if it's responsible, just in the sense that our job as reporters is to try to tell every side of the story.

And if I was still an evening news reporter or CBS foreign news reporter,

I would have loved to have been on the ground in Iran and be in Martha Redditz's shoes and be reporting from the ground.

And I do have enormous respect for Martha, and I know her personally, and I like her a lot.

But having said that, I mean, I would say to you that you're right, in any crowd, in any emotional situation like that, there's always a risk, right?

No question about it.

But let's not forget that Iran is not the average,

it's not the average country.

It's not like the U.S.

I mean,

everything is very carefully stage managed.

Now, you always have the risk that you could be caught up in the stampede, right?

Things can boil over like that.

And there's always a risk that

they allow you to be targeted.

But things do not happen on the ground in countries like that most of the time without being orchestrated.

So when the Iranian government says, okay, yes, you're approved and you can come in, you know, you've got a minder with you all the time.

This person is monitoring every single thing you say.

We call them minders, but let's be honest, they're Mukhabarat intelligence agents, right?

They're spies, and they're reporting on everything you say and everything you do.

And every person you speak to, every Iranian you interview, knows that that person is standing right there, right?

So those, and you know, sure, it was like that in Iraq under Saddam Hussein.

I mean, it was like that in Syria under Assad.

You know, I've done that many times, so I'm not criticizing Martha for that.

What I would say is that there's very little context.

They're not giving any context in the reporting, and that's the problem that I have with this.

I applaud her for being on the ground, and I applaud her for being there, and I would love to be in her shoes.

But at the same time, where is the, you know, where is the little bit of distance?

What we have to do as reporters is we have to be right in that moment and be emotional and live it and bring it to life for the viewer, right, and bring you right there.

But then we also have another job.

Our other responsibility is to take a little step away from it and say, okay, what's the broader context?

And I used to argue with U.S.

soldiers all the time, right?

Because I, contrary to what people say, I didn't live with U.S.

soldiers in Iraq.

I lived with Iraqi people.

And when I would go to the bases with them, you know, and they would say, well, you reporters never tell our story.

you never do this, you never do that, and you're so biased.

And I would say, look, I mean, it's great that you've employed this, you know, 50 people and you've built this well and there's water in the village.

But like, you know,

what has this done to move the needle for unemployment in the country as a whole?

How many Iraqis today, how many more have access to clean drinking water than before?

Oh, yes, they all, they did before.

In fact, you know, the infrastructure has been destroyed and now fewer people have it today.

You know, I used to explain to them that there's a context in which you're operating.

And I have dual responsibilities to you, to the Iraqis, to the taxpayers back home, to the government that sent you here,

to the military that's trying to manage these operations.

All of these responsibilities compete, and they're all equal.

And I have to be, you know, try to be fair to,

you know, to everybody.

So I don't just get to tell your story and not bother about the context.

And that's what I feel is happening in some of the reporting that I've seen from the ground there.

It's all about one perspective, and there's no real distance to it.

There's no, like, you know, nobody's putting it in context and saying, hey, wait a minute, you know,

wait a minute.

Like, but I

was trapping guests to America before Qasim Suleimani was.

Right.

And

I understand Martha not having to add context while she's on the ground.

But when I say, was it responsible?

I mean

some of that in there.

As much as she can get away with, yes.

But back home, ABC should be saying,

look, she's you know we we may you know we we we are uh we made a deal she has minders she has people with her so she's bringing a certain context to the

you know to the picture here but they're just using it as straight reporting same thing with NBC last night running state television where they were reporting 30 soldiers

yeah it's just stunning it's I mean that to me is just like well how about this Glenn okay how about how do you know that the pictures they put on state TV show what they say they show right how do you know that like you know I was having conversations with various people a couple of intelligence people they were looking at they were triangulating the trajectory of the

you know of the missiles in the air with the moon and looking at where the moon was in the past you know from Iran to Iraq because Yes, there were missiles that hit that base, right?

But where were they fired from?

Were they fired from Iran?

Were they fired from from you know an Iranian proxy inside Iraq I mean were they fired that night were those pictures of the missiles being fired I mean maybe those pictures were of something else and you know there's there's a lot of questions about that because Iranian the Iranian regime frequently puts out whatever it wants to I mean they're masters of propaganda and what is very obvious here is you know when they put that out and they did that quickly and they had people cheering there you know at the launch site that was for the people right that was to satisfy, because what has happened here, this is the part that, for me, the most significant thing that I think is missing here from the news coverage, where reporters have really failed in their duty, is that the strength of the reaction to Qasim Soleimani's death is absolute verification of the significance of the strike.

Because they, you know, the media here seems to want us to have it both ways, where they want to say, this achieved nothing.

This will not impact Iran's capabilities in any way.

You know, it's not significant at all.

And then on the other hand, they want to say, this is so significant that you have, you've now put us into World War III.

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Welcome, Chris.

How are you?

I'm good, Glenn.

Boy, our year started out with a bang, didn't it?

No pun intended.

Yeah, I know.

It's crazy.

And I think that this is.

If it continues to play out this way, and there's a caveat on this or two, but this was last night the best case scenario for for a response from Iran, was it not?

Yeah, it really was.

And when you look at some of the statements from their leadership saying they thought it was proportional, they don't want to

accelerate nor to make things worse, it's pretty clear the leadership is signaling that they themselves are not going to do anything further, although I think their proxies will.

They've been doing that for 40 years, but it really was kind of a best case that we could have hoped for at this point.

So we had people on television last night that I thought were crazy saying that we should go after and bomb their oil fields.

And I thought, geez, who is advising the President?

His doctrine seems to be his red line, American lives.

And if no American lives were lost, then we're fine.

Go ahead.

I'm sorry, Glenn, that's exactly right.

And you've hit upon the key on that.

And it really has been the President's red line.

And he's been very clear.

All through the summer, when they were tanking our tankers, when they're shooting down our drones in international airspace that are operating lawfully, when he's attacking the Saudi oil fields, he always said, and by the way, I know they've been signaling very, very clearly to the Iranian leadership, if you kill Americans, everything is different.

And through the late fall, we began to see them take actions that would kill Americans as they consistently bombed facilities where about half the people there were Americans.

And the president signaled again to them, you're going to kill some Americans if you continue doing this.

And if you do, everything is different.

And they did kill kill some American, American citizen, and things did change.

But hopefully, and I'm actually quite optimistic,

that this will now settle down and reframe their thinking.

And maybe we can even get something positive coming from this.

How do you mean?

What do you think we could possibly get?

Well, you know, our grand strategy is not just to continue with a 40-year low-grade war with Iran, going back to the embassy in 79 and every incident and dozens of them and the hundreds of Americans who've been killed in the intervening time.

I mean, we can say, well, that's just the way it is, and we'll just accept it.

Or we could encourage it, like Barack Obama did, and said, here's a boatload of money, and here's prestige and credibility on the international stage.

And we now think that you're just another nation on par morally and the way you treat people like us.

Or we could say, look, you've got to change your behavior, but if you do, we will welcome you back into the international community.

We'll relieve some of the sanctions.

We'll try to help the Iranian people.

But you can't keep doing what you've been doing for 40 years.

And maybe,

I know it sounds crazy, but just maybe this is an opportunity for Iranian leadership to say, you know, this is enough.

We really could modify some of the things we've been doing.

I doubt they're going to do that.

Probably not.

Hopefully.

If they would have a proxy, so they have one, you know, one degree of separation or more.

And they had a proxy, go after an embassy or go after a CIA station chief, as they've done before,

or kidnap an official someplace in the world.

How do we respond to that?

Does that take us right back to

where we were?

Yeah, you know, I hate to say it depends, but it really does depend, and it depends on just an incredible number of variables.

Obviously,

this I can say with some certainty.

Their proxies are not a mystery to us.

When they operate through their proxies, we don't go, boy, I wonder who did that or on what authority that took place.

We can draw these, connect these dots, and it's not a whole lot of dots you have to connect.

So they can operate through proxies, but they can't do it with impunity, and they can't do it with anonymity.

We know that it's them, and they know that we know it's them.

And I guess, Glenn, coming back to my point about it does depend.

I mean, there are so many gray areas in that of who did they capture, who did they kill, under what circumstances, and where.

And I think the best response is to just say it would be proportional and it would be our response would be proportional and it would be to

reinvigorate this idea that

there's a defense against this so we're going to not incentivize them for this behavior.

So I think the president has

a few groups of people, five groups of people that he just can't listen to.

And the

Ayatollah would be well advised not to listen to them as well.

Hezbollah and the hardliners.

This is not going to satisfy the hardliners.

It's not going to satisfy Hezbollah because those are the diehards that want death to America, truly want death to America.

In the United States,

I would have to put our GOP hardliners.

A lot of them were on TV last night saying we should bomb the oil fields and everything else.

And I was thinking, that's crazy.

That's just crazy.

So don't listen to those hardliners, but also

the Democratic politicians who are so eager for failure here.

It is insane.

They were immediately saying that this is the death spiral.

This is going to be World War III.

The press

was literally, MSNBC, literally taking Iranian state television and running it on the air and letting it go unchecked.

I don't know whose hardliners and whose freaks are worse, those in Iran or those here.

Yeah, you've said much, and if I could respond to just a couple of things on that.

Number one is that I'm once again, and this is not going to shock anyone, but I'm just so disappointed with Nancy Pelosi, and this is why, and this is meaningful.

This isn't just politics as normal.

Nancy Pelosi had the opportunity last night to come and see the intelligence, which is irrefutable.

And yet, she still went out and made this highly partisan statement about, well, this is implying that this is American aggression.

After seeing this intelligence, there's no way anyone in the world could honestly come out and say this is anything than what it was, and that was the president protecting American lives.

That is very clear.

And the second thing I would respond to, Glenn, is agreeing with you in the fact of the hardliners.

The good news is, is you know who agrees with you is President Trump.

The last thing in the world he wants is to get into any meaningful war or engagement in the Middle East again.

For heaven's sakes, that's what he's campaigned on, and that's what he's done since.

And he knows that.

And the second person, or even more than him, actually, who wants, doesn't want a war with Iran, is the Iranian leadership.

They know it would be suicide.

And I can't tell you how many people have asked me over the last three or four days, I mean, really worried.

Hey, do I need to go get my kids from college?

You know, are we going to war?

Is this?

And it's like, no, no, no, we are not going to be in a major international conflict with Iran.

We don't want it, and they don't want it.

And it doesn't have to be that way.

We can respond appropriately when they kill American citizens as we have to.

But that doesn't mean,

and I'm confident that we won't be in a large-scale war with them.

I just don't believe that's in the cards at all.

Chris,

have you ever seen?

I mean, I just feel as though between the media and, quite honestly, the Democrats, I understand the Republican hardliners that just, you know, they just want to regime change and everything else.

We got to stop doing all of that stuff.

And I understand who Iran is, but this is not the way to go.

I understand that, but I honestly do not understand.

I am very concerned that the Democrats and

the media are almost cheering for Iran

over us, which is just

suicide.

Is the divide really

that stark now that even in times when American lives are at stake,

they just hate Donald Trump so much, they'll do whatever it takes?

Well, I mean, the early indications are that's exactly the case.

And I'll go back to my example, Ms.

Velosi.

The responsible thing for her to do after seeing the intelligence and having her questions answered would have to come out and say the president did the appropriate thing.

He had no choice.

She could not bring herself to do that.

And if she couldn't do it, which stunningly, we consider her one of the more responsible members of the Democratic Party now, which is unbelievable to me, but compared to many of the others, she actually is.

If she can't do that, then many of the others will not either.

And the media will not as well.

And I think it comes back to what you said, Glenn.

They're just so viscerally opposed to this president.

And anyone who supports him, his voters, anyone who has a kind word towards him is just their mortal enemy.

It's as if they feel that they would actually

have sympathetic feelings towards General Suleimani, who's responsible for

the deaths of hundreds of Americans and hundreds of thousands of lives from Syria through the Shia Crescent.

And

I hope this will pass.

I hope that

they'll come to their senses a little bit on this.

But the early indications are is that, as you said, they just oppose and hate hate this president so badly, they just can't think clearly through these things.

One last question.

As a guy who's on the intelligence committee, a guy who's been in the Air Force and

high-ranking officer,

this letter that was leaked

that said we were pulling out, that was unsigned,

that is one of the most damaging things.

to our policies that could have ever happened.

I mean,

you couldn't be working for the other side and have a better thing happen

than at that point say, oh, we're going to pull out, which forces the president to say, no, we're not,

which

enables Iran to say, look, we're winning,

forces us to stay.

Is there going to be any consequence for this person?

And do you believe that that was just released accidentally?

I'm going to answer that as honestly as I can and I just say, Glenn, I don't know, but we have to find out.

I mean, it was

a very troubling communication in the midst of a time when the communication should have been very concise and very, very clear.

And it clearly wasn't the president's policy.

It clearly wasn't the administration's view that, okay, well, we're going to cut tail and run.

And by the way, that's exactly what the Iranian regime wants us to do so that they can run blood and horror through that area.

We need to,

as I've said for several years now, I think we need to re-look every place we have American soldiers over there and ask the question, is it essential?

Is it a necessary?

What are we getting for this?

But you can't do it

at this moment, and you can't give it to the Shia militia and to the Iranian regime at this time.

So, yeah, at some point we should look at that.

What are the purposes of the U.S.

troops in Iraq and how long should they be there?

But for that communication to have been leaked deceptively like it was, and to send that kind of message, man we'd love to find out who did that and what well wouldn't that be pretty easy to find out i mean who wrote that was that a low-level private who just didn't know what they were doing or i mean that had to have some weight behind it somebody who wrote that we should be able to find and they should be fired at best or i mean sorry at least

well and and i'm going to withhold judgment on this until i know more because i don't want to i don't want to say something without the facts but we need to find out and that's and and that's just the bottom line we need to find out who did it, under what circumstances, what they're thinking.

It just wasn't what the president's policy, it did not reflect our policy.

But it could be, Glenn, that it was just misconstrued in the sense that they were going to reposition troops, and it might have been poorly stated.

But if they're saying we're going to reposition troops to better defend ourselves, that's very different than we're going to reposition troops to prepare for a withdrawal.

Well, let me know if you pursue it because I'd like to know the answer to that.

Because I think this was this

was really disturbing.

I've not seen that happen before.

Chris Stewart, thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Congressman Chris Stewart from the great state of Utah.

I mean, what was that?

I don't want to say anything without the facts.

What year do you think this is?

It's not 1965.

I mean, it's 2019.

You say things or 2020.

Jeez, you say things without facts.

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I'm just wondering if

because he's always late for these things, if he's late because he's just a late guy, or if he is

late intentionally, knowing that all of the networks have the podium and they're waiting for the president to walk through those doors to give this press conference, and

he knows that they're all going to be talking about it for five, ten minutes as he's waiting to give this very important speech.

Five seconds.

And he's just holding the anticipation because he's never on time on these.

No, not his way.

I think he likes to build up.

I think he likes drama, right?

I think he does.

I think he does.

He'll go out there and blab a little bit in front of their cameras.

Wait till it gets awkward.

So walk out.

I think he's going to be tough on Iran, but this was it.

This is going to be the end of it, I think.

I don't think he's going to take any military action on it.

He might talk about sanctions or something like that.

He'll offer a stiff warning, but

hopefully he doesn't take a victory lap, actually running down, taking a victory lap.

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There's been no response, which I think is the best case scenario.

They didn't kill anybody.

They did their little response.

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as Donald Trump is making the world wait, he's now about eight minutes late for his own press conference,

and we are anxiously waiting to hear what the president has to say after Iran

struck back

at us, or actually more at rocks in the desert last night.

MSNBC, of course, said that there were 33, I think, Americans that had died in that, but they were getting it from their source, the

state-run television of Iran.

You know, we kind of wait for the Pentagon before we announce those things, but

they were running the state-run television last night.

I've never seen anything like this.

It's almost as if people want the president to fail.

They want us to be at war.

And

there are a lot of people in the Republican Party that I saw on television last night that

please, Mr.

President, don't listen to them,

or we will be at war.

And we don't need a war with Iran.

This, I believe, is the beginning of the end of that regime.

We have crippled them.

They are clearly,

they clearly understand that they can't take on the United States in military.

They, I believe, only went after the embassy to try to change the narrative in Iraq into get America out instead of get Iran out because just before that that embassy attack planned by Suleimani,

that's what the people in Iraq were doing.

They were protesting in the streets all over Iraq saying get

Iran out of Iraq.

No more Iranian policies.

And so they changed the narrative there to get America out.

We killed Suleimani, and

then they responded last night.

But it was such a pathetic response.

This is not like they can't hit targets.

Remember, just a couple of months ago, they went after the oil fields in Saudi Arabia.

Bold, bold action, and they used cruise missiles.

And those cruise missiles came and hit their target dead center, so they are capable of doing it.

But last night, they didn't use cruise missiles.

They weren't serious.

They used ballistic missiles with low-impact explosives.

And just didn't hit anything.

Right.

You know, all the reporting is that the military believes they intentionally didn't hit anything.

Correct.

Which is an amazing thing.

So they can justify it to their

people.

Hey, we did something.

But in reality, they didn't do anything.

Best case scenario.

If this is like, if

the seconds are ticking off the clock and the game ends right now, best case scenario.

for Donald Trump, for the country, for everybody.

For the world.

For everybody.

This is a great outcome.

However, the other part of this is what does the IRGC do?

What do they do behind the scenes now?

Do they say,

well, we showed you what we would do.

We fired a few missiles to nowhere, so we're okay, right?

And then their proxies wind up going out and killing Americans or capturing people.

But I think the message was sent pretty clearly by Trump that even when it is a proxy, If you kill an American, we are going to make you pay in a big way.

And that's the message message they should receive.

Well, that's the message that the world used to know.

Yeah.

I mean, having an American passport used to mean something.

When I was growing up, you could go anywhere in the world.

No one would screw with an American.

No one.

And now, not so much.

Yeah, and when these things, like Benghazi, for example, happens,

why?

Well, I mean, there's a million different reasons, but I mean, if you look at

Barack Obama in his presidency,

it looks similar to Jimmy Carter in a lot of ways.

It does.

And you notice the second that Jimmy Carter's out of office, well,

those hostages are getting released

when Ronald Reagan steps in.

And, you know, there's some similarities here.

When the rest of the world sees strength,

they tend...

That doesn't mean everybody, Osama bin Laden, I think, saw strength and didn't care.

But countries, nation states, typically don't do that.

That's why terrorists are so dangerous, and it's why Iran uses them.

They think they can get away with this.

We know who their proxies are, though, and this is a dangerous game.

The question is, are we going to close our eyes and say, we, you know,

it's okay.

They can do that.

Since we can't legalistically prove every aspect of their involvement, we'll kind of let it roll off our shoulders because we don't want anything bad to happen.

Well, that's obviously the message Trump is saying is no.

And Pompeo, especially, who is reportedly the big proponent of this and has been for a very long time.

That is something I think is a message the world needs to know.

We're still waiting for President Trump to address the nation.

He's about 13 minutes late now,

and we're just waiting to hear what he has to say.

I will tell you, as of right now, and this could change in a heartbeat, but as of right now, this has been the best political outcome and the best

geopolitical outcome that I have seen.

This president has played this expertly so far.

Expertly.

He has made the right decisions.

He's held back

when he needed to.

I'm so impressed when he pulled back and did not go and lob any missiles when they shot down a drone strike.

I thought that sent a very clear message.

We're not interested in stuff.

We're interested in people.

And so he didn't strike back.

He has been very, very

reticent to strike at Iran.

But when he had the opportunity and they tried to take our embassy, he sent a very strong message.

No, you're not doing it.

And the next part of this, and I think to close the loop on whether he's handled this expertly, would be for him to kind of say, all right, well, we got our guy.

They fired.

They missed everybody.

We're done for now.

They better not do anything else, though, or we're going to start it up again.

I think that's the right message.

It seems to be reportedly where he's going with this.

We'll see when he actually walks out.

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You know, I don't know about anybody else, but

the president is messing with my cultural site today.

He really is.

He's just, he's

well, I planned a show.

I've executed my part.

He said he was going to be 11 o'clock.

It's 11.16.

Oh, I'm the president.

I have other things to do.

Well, I mean, if he has other things to do, he should schedule them.

He's scheduled this for now.

That's right.

Doesn't he understand that our priorities.

Doesn't he understand the media is just all waiting for him right now?

Well, that's probably why he's waiting.

Exactly.

But there's some good guys in the media that are waiting for you too, Mr.

President.

He's looking out.

He's seeing all the annoying CNN reporters.

He's like, make them wait.

I want them there.

I want them up in front of the cameras just improving for the next 45 minutes until I'm ready to walk out there.

Yeah, he's just sitting back there.

He's like microwaving a hot pocket right now.

So, may I, if you're newly married, may I give you some advice?

Today is my 20th wedding anniversary.

And I would celebrate the second, and the fifth, and the eighth, and the tenth, and the twelfth, and the fifteenth like an animal.

Now that we're hitting a 20th anniversary, I'm all out.

I was like, I've run out of

run out of like really

impressive, you know, like this is save some of those.

Save some of those things.

Who knows?

Your marriage might last.

Well, then, if you don't use them, though, I guess you can always reuse them on the next wife, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

If your next one lasts, great.

This one looks like it's going to last forever.

Who would have thought, too?

I was there, by the way.

I know you were.

I was there.

I know you were.

I was standing up there with you watching you get married, questioning the entire time.

What is she doing?

What?

I was too.

I was surprised.

What is she doing?

When she said yes, there was a moment there at the chapel that it was like,

should we trade money?

We change money hands.

Yeah, you got to go outside the church.

That's not cool.

And then when she said yes, oh, man.

And then everybody started paying each other off.

It was ugly.

It was ugly.

Surprising.

And she stuck with you all this time.

And there's even more $100 on that.

Yeah, I guess.

Well, you hedged yourself well, I thought.

You either get the marriage or you get the money.

There is one thing for sure.

Marrying the right person

is essential.

Marrying for deep, deep quality

is

the key.

I mean, Tanya and I have...

We've had our arguments and stuff, and usually in the beginning of

our life together, because we didn't really, we were still kind of adjusting and like, yeah, I'm going to be like this forever.

And,

you know, you get through those early pangs

and

I can't imagine being without her and she can't imagine being without me.

And I start to look

at people who have lived together forever and I understand why one of them dies quickly after the other one does.

Because they're just, they are, they're fused together.

They just become one and I love it.

I just love it

So is this like you're kind of this nice little soliloquy so you don't have to get her something nice?

Is that because you don't have a present?

Is that basically what this is right here?

You're like, hey, I got a delay with Donald Trump.

Might as well take care of that anniversary present.

Kind of like blab on the air.

And that's better than

it's better than material things.

And I made you this card with a crayon.

Like it's that type of thing.

Except verbally.

It's a verbal crayon card.

Is that basically what's happened?

Pretty much.

Okay.

Pretty much.

Do you have a good plan?

I mean, you obviously don't have to say it on the air.

I do have a plan.

Is it good?

I think it is.

Will she think it is?

I guess is the question.

I have no idea.

I really have no idea.

It gets so much harder as you get later in relationships to come up with presents that are good.

It's that they actually love it.

You can use other things.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I use this one and that one to look good.

And they just don't know what to expect.

But after, you know, especially 20 years they know what to expect yep and you're supposed to know

them really well and I cannot predict my wife on presence I don't know yeah she's very very

she's just very satisfied and very uh comfortable and so there's not like things that she wants and yeah you know look there's been there's that's a blessing and you're gonna

have a good position but I've been she's been that way ever since I met her when we were poor.

She was like, ah.

It's more about that with her, though, right?

Like, she's just

satisfied, but doesn't really need those things and doesn't really care.

So you have to be super thoughtful.

And that's just tiring.

That's so

20 years of being thoughtful.

Yeah.

Again, you can't keep that up.

You definitely don't have that many thoughts.

I don't.

Clearly.

I've been with you doing a show the whole time.

You've got like four thoughts.

I do.

And you just change them around.

You got four thoughts.

You apply them to whatever news story's on today.

Exactly.

That's what you do.

She's got 20 years.

So you've done the four thoughts.

You probably repeated them four or five times.

Five times now.

This will be the fifth.

This is it.

This will be the fifth.

This is it.

You should just tell her.

No more presents.

Yeah, this is it for this.

I got nothing.

This is it.

You're going to get the fourth version of my, or the fifth version of my fourth thought, and then we're done.

The problem is, is that really all that we both want is just time together.

That's all we really want.

Just time together.

And time, like, honestly, like, she, she sews quilts and things, and, and I paint.

And honestly, just time,

just by ourselves, she's sewing.

I'm painting.

We're kind of talking back and forth, doing stuff.

Hey, what do you think of this?

What do you think of this?

And that's all we really want.

But I mean, you can't say, hey, it's our 20th anniversary.

Go over there and quilt.

And I'm going to go to the next one.

No, I know.

I know that.

Like, that doesn't sound like that.

No, I know.

I know.

But it's also like, you know, at least in my position, the 20th anniversary isn't like, hey, let's rekindle some fire.

I mean, mean, look at me.

Yeah, you know what I mean?

It's like part of my job.

I have to do it.

You know, I have to also now plan how for her not to see me.

So she's like, oh, yeah.

Instead of, oh my gosh, I forgot what you look like.

I forgot what you turned into.

Holy cow.

And this is one of my pieces.

You're giving advice to young.

couples and people who are getting married.

Big advice, big advice.

Don't get old.

Just don't.

Just don't age.

Die at 30.

39.

39.

Okay.

I mean, that's maybe 40.

Okay, that's solid advice.

49.

May I give a piece of advice?

Yeah.

Here's my advice.

Do like a year in your life, maybe in your 20s, after you get into the relationship, things are going great.

Take a year and gain a lot of weight.

I mean, like 40, 50 pounds.

Now, it's going to be hard to lose, and you might not lose it all, but what I'm saying is gain weight early because then when you look back at photos,

you can say, I look better than that, though.

Right.

You are.

See, I did that.

No, I did that.

When I married her, I was 200, probably 225, 230 pounds.

Okay.

And if she's going to marry you then, first of all, you know, she's not doing it for the looks.

Right.

She wasn't doing it for the money.

I mean, she was a quality woman.

You had more debt than the U.S.

government.

It was bad.

It was bad.

And, you know, a recovering alcoholic, two kids, her parents, they don't want want me to be married to the daughter.

You know, it was,

and I'm, you know, I'm just a

mutt with no Italian in me.

They're full-blooded Italians.

I mean, there was, it was not good.

Right.

It was not a good, and I'm 225, 230 pounds.

So two years into the wedding, and this is married to an Italian, I shouldn't say that.

Five years after the wedding,

being married to her,

who I remember the first time the Latin, I remember the last time I had any kind of canned spaghetti or anything else.

Okay, I remember it clearly because she looked at it and went, I just put this in the pan and heat it up and that's it.

And I'm like, yeah.

And she tried it and she was like, we're never having that again.

So I, somehow or another, I lost weight.

So I had that.

I was like, I look better now than I did the day we got married.

Yeah, that's where you want.

But now I look back and go,

somehow or another, there's four of the guy that you got married to.

Well, yeah, I mean, it's not foolproof.

You do have to try to, that's why your argument there, you should have gained more weight for the wedding.

People are like, I want to lose weight and look good for the wedding.

That's the worst thing you want to do.

You want to be your peak fatness at your wedding.

Because then you can always look back and say, look at this.

After the relationship, I put so much time into trying to make this work.

Look at me.

I've lost three ounces from that wedding photo.

At least you can always say you're less than that.

Yeah.

Because the wedding photo, everybody's thin and looking good.

Nah.

Nah.

And that's why, also, you know, you know, she really likes you.

You know, like if you're at your, you're looking your worst, then she, you know, there's none of that going on.

You should be poor.

You should be in

the middle.

She's fat when you get married.

She thought at the time that was going to be the best it got.

See, this is why I love her because I was just, well, I mean, I love her for other reasons too, but the reason why she was like golden

because I was at the bottom of my career.

I mean, we got married 20 years ago today.

20 years ago on Friday is the day I started talk radio.

Okay, so we got married.

We didn't have a honeymoon.

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I believe your

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It was very fancy, but let's not really talk about it because that's where we were going to go tonight.

How are you?

Taco.

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Get the candles.

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Is the Glemeck program around there?

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Okay, still waiting for the president.

Now he comes out.

We're going to take a quick break.

He's not out yet, but he's going to be out soon.

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President Donald Trump.

As long as I'm President of the United States,

Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.

Good morning.

I'm pleased to inform you the American people

should be extremely grateful and happy.

No Americans were harmed in last night's attack by the Iranian regime.

We suffered no casualties.

All of our soldiers are safe.

and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases.

Our great American forces are prepared for anything.

Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world.

No American or Iraqi lives were lost

because of the precautions taken, the dispersal of forces,

and an early warning system that worked very well.

I salute the incredible skill and courage of America's men and women in uniform.

For far too long, all the way back to 1979 to be exact,

nations have tolerated Iran's destructive and destabilizing behavior in the Middle East and beyond.

Those days are over.

Iran has been the leading sponsor of terrorism and their pursuit of nuclear weapons threatens the civilized world.

We will never let that happen.

Last week, we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives.

At my direction, the United States military eliminated the world's top terrorist, Kassem Soleimani.

As the head of the Quds force, Soleimani was personally responsible for some of the absolutely worst atrocities.

He trained terrorist armies, including Hezbollah, launching terrorist strikes against civilian targets.

He fueled bloody civil wars all across the region.

He viciously wounded and murdered thousands of U.S.

troops, including the planting of roadside bombs that maim and dismember their victims.

Soleimani Soleimani directed the recent attacks on U.S.

personnel in Iraq that badly wounded four service members and killed one American, and he orchestrated the violent assault on the U.S.

Embassy in Baghdad.

In recent days, he was planning new attacks on American targets, but we stopped him.

Soleimani's hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood.

He should have been terminated long ago.

By removing Salome,

we have sent a powerful message to terrorists.

If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people.

As we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime.

These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior.

In recent months alone, Iran has seized ships in international waters, fired an unprovoked strike on Saudi Arabia and shot down two U.S.

drones.

Iran's hostilities substantially increased after the foolish Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2013.

and they were given $150 billion,

not to mention $1.8 billion

in cash.

Instead of saying thank you to the United States, they chanted death to America.

In fact, they chanted death to America the day the agreement was signed.

Then Iran went on a terror spree, funded by the money from the deal, and created hell in Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

The missiles fired last night at us and our allies were paid for with the funds made available by the last administration.

The regime also greatly tightened the reins on their own country, even recently killing 1,500 people at the many protests that are taking place all throughout Iran.

The very defective JCPOA expires shortly anyway

and gives Iran a clear and quick path to nuclear breakout.

Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions and end its support for terrorism.

The time has come for the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China to recognize this reality.

They must now break away from the remnants of the Iran deal, or JCPOA.

And we must all work together toward making a deal with Iran that makes the world a safer and more peaceful place.

We must also make a deal that allows Iran to thrive and prosper and take advantage of its enormous untapped potential.

Iran can be a great country.

Peace and stability cannot prevail.

in the Middle East as long as Iran continues to foment violence, unrest, hatred, and war.

The civilized world must send a clear and unified message to the Iranian regime.

Your campaign of terror, murder, mayhem, will not be tolerated any longer.

It will not

be allowed to go forward.

Today, I am going to ask NATO to become much more involved in the Middle East process.

Over the last three years, under my leadership, our economy is stronger than ever before, and America has achieved energy independence.

These historic accomplishments shades our strategic priorities.

These are accomplishments that nobody thought were possible.

And options in the Middle East became available.

We are now the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.

We are independent, and we do not need Middle East oil.

The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of $2.5 trillion.

U.S.

armed forces are stronger than ever before.

Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal, and fast.

Under construction are many hypersonic missiles.

The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it.

We do not want to use it.

American strength, both military and economic, is the best deterrent.

Three months ago, after destroying 100% of ISIS

and its territorial caliphate, we killed the savage leader of ISIS, Al-Baghdadi, who was responsible for so much death, including the mass beheadings of Christians, Muslims, and all who stood in his way.

He was a monster.

Al-Baghdadi was trying again to rebuild the ISIS Caliphate and failed.

Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters have been killed or captured during my administration.

ISIS is a natural enemy of Iran.

The destruction of ISIS is good for Iran, and we should work together on this and other shared priorities.

Finally, to the people and leaders of Iran,

we want you to have a future and a great future, one that you deserve, one of prosperity at home and harmony with the nations of the world.

The United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it.

I want to thank you, and God bless America.

Thank you very much.

I thought this was a great speech from the President.

He didn't deviate from it.

You know how he sometimes is surprised that something is in there?

And he repeats it.

He didn't do any of that.

It was somber.

It was strong and sent a very strong message to the entire world.

world.

Some of the things that came out of it, he's going to increase the sanctions on Iran.

He did say that

we will never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.

He said that before he even said good morning.

Yeah,

that was an interesting way.

I've not seen a president start with a statement and then say good morning.

That is the message that should come out of this.

He made it very clear that it's time for NATO to step up because we don't need the oil.

So

you want to protect the resources, you know, the oil.

We don't need it anymore.

So if you want it,

you're going to have to step to the plate.

And he said that they had to get out of the

JCPOA, which is the Iranian deal.

He made a very big point to make sure we pointed out that the deal that Obama made funded, quote, a terrorist spree

and the missiles that were used last night.

That was written.

So I don't know how that one could be proved,

but it's interesting that he said that.

He also talked about how they have tightened the noose on the Iranian people, and they are going to come and change their ways now.

But Iran appears to be standing down, and this is all it has to be.

They have a choice now.

And as of this moment...

When you look at this past few days in a results-based way, this is an absolute A-plus.

There's no way this could have come out better than it has right now.

Now, if next week they set off a dirty bomb in the middle of Chicago, it's a totally different story.

We're going to have to reassess this.

But as of right now, at least as far as their official actions go, this is an A-plus.

I mean, it could not have worked out better so far.

Anybody who says, oh, yes, but

if they dwell on the but, if they point out the butt like you just did, look, I believe that we are going to have a non-military strike by Iran on a U.S.

asset somewhere in the world.

Could be here, could be abroad, don't know.

But I don't think that their proxy war is done with us.

No, no.

However, with that being said, anyone who dwells on

that right now is just borrowing trouble because this is a home run.

This is probably the most impressive

use of our military in a limited way I've seen a president do.

Right.

And when you want to do one of these tests,

you know, taking out a person at this level, you have to go through those three tests.

One, is it morally right?

Completely morally right.

Is it legal?

Absolutely legal.

We could go through the justifications.

I know some on the left try to question that, but it's completely legal, and there's a reason why it happened in Iraq and not Iran.

Correct.

And then the third one is, do you want to deal with the crap that comes from it?

Do you want to deal with the repercussions?

Well, if we're at the point where this is the repercussions, we've had a few missiles that landed away from everybody who could possibly have been hurt, this is an absolute A-plus home run.

Well, it won't be

the only repercussion.

However, you have to look at it from sort of a wins-against replacement, though.

There's already was activity against Americans.

Yes, absolutely.

Is there more or is there less?

I think there's a good chance there's less now

because of this.

But the one thing that everybody was saying, oh,

you've got to get your kids into college because there's going to be a draft in World War III.

All of that stuff is nonsense because Iran is not in the position to fight us.

And they clearly signaled last night, we don't want a war with you.

They may continue what they've been doing with their proxy wars,

but they don't want a war with the U.S.

Excuse me.

So that is really good news.

It is, as Stu said, an A-plus.

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I think this has been a very good day for America.

That's not what you're going to hear from the mainstream press.

That's not what you're going to hear from a lot of people.

Unfortunately,

I don't know what they're saying today,

but last night I heard a lot of people that were giving advice on Fox that

was insane

to make sure that we go out.

Now is the time to flip that regime.

No,

it is not the time.

It's never the time.

Let's stop doing that.

Now is the time to support the Iranian people

and empower them to do their job and have control of their own destiny.

It's ours to make sure that we protect

American lives.

And the president has been,

you know, the one thing that I know he believes is

we shouldn't be

involved in wars all over the world.

And he wants to pull our troops back.

And there are a lot of people in the State Department, in probably the Pentagon, in Congress, maybe even in the administration, that don't want to see that happen because that reduces their power and takes the control of the world out of America's hands.

I think that's a good thing.

And the president has been using military and economic power,

I think, in a very expert way.

I mean, I thought the speech and the way he's handled this,

he's become presidential.

This is very presidential, and one of the best

presidential moves I've seen when it comes to war in at least 20 years.

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