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U.S. Military Strike on Iran:
- The episode centers around a recent U.S. military strike that reportedly devastated Iran’s nuclear capabilities, setting the program back by years.
- The hosts argue that this action was necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and praise President Trump’s leadership in authorizing the strike.
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Criticism of the Left and Media:
- The conversation includes strong criticism of Democrats, liberal ideology, and mainstream media outlets (e.g., CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times), accusing them of downplaying the success of the strike and sympathizing with Iran.
- The hosts argue that liberal logic is inconsistent, especially when it comes to foreign policy and national security.
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Iran’s Role in Global Terrorism:
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- The episode discusses Iran’s alleged attempts to assassinate Donald Trump and its broader hostility toward the U.S. and Israel.
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UN and International Response:
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Internal GOP Debate:
- Cruz and Ferguson highlight a divide within the Republican Party, between those advocating for a strong global stance and those favoring isolationism.
- They criticize figures like Tucker Carlson for opposing the strike and accuse them of spreading misinformation.
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Peace Through Strength Doctrine:
- The hosts emphasize the idea that military strength leads to peace, contrasting Trump’s decisive action with what they describe as the appeasement strategies of Obama and Biden.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Weekend Review, Ben
Ferguson with you, and here are the big stories that
we talked about this week that you may have missed.
First up, talk about liberal logic since the attack on Iran.
Liberals are afraid of Iran's response to what Donald Trump
is doing, say, you can be starting World War three,
yet they're not afraid of Iran actually getting a nuclear weapon.
(00:23):
We'll break that down for you. Also, the DoD Secretary
Pete Headseth briefing doing it directly to the media, calling
them out to their faces on their lies about the
damage assessment. And finally, the big question moving forward is
what's next and what can happen if we screw up
the endgame. It's the weekend Review and it starts right now.
(00:47):
Let's talk a little bit about the liberal logic that
has been coming out of so many Democrats since this
attack took place. And the people who seem to be
obsessing over Iran's response, implying that their response is Donald
Trump's fault that they're going to respond are the same
idiots that we're not afraid of Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
(01:08):
Can you explain that liberal logic.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Please. Sadly, Today's Democrat party sides with every enemy of America.
They side on the other side.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Look.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
JK Rowling tweeted this weekend about this person, India Willoughby.
Now I'll confess I have no idea who India Willoughby is.
But JK Rowling tweeted, India a fan of women, hating
gay hating, authoritating authoritarian regime. Color me astonished. So I
went and googled who is this India Willoughby person? And
it turns out, according to Wikipedia quote, she is Britain's
(01:43):
first transgender national television newsreader. Now pause for a second.
Ben Iran murders transgender people. They throw them off buildings.
If you are gay, they murder you. And think about
the mindset of a leftist who this transgender news reader
(02:07):
in I guess the UK is like, even though the
Iyahtola wants to murder me, I stand with the Ayatola
rather than America. That is how messed up leftists are
right now, They're like, oh, homicidal theocratic women are pressing gay, murdering, torturing,
(02:28):
genocidal lunatics. Those are my people.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It doesn't make any sense to me and then you
go back to also the quotes that people have been posting,
and I think it's really important that history reflect. You
go back to Bill Clinton, Senator, and he said that
Iran couldn't get a nuclear weapon. Hillary Clinton when she
was a senator, Secretary of State and running for president,
said Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Barack Obama said
(02:56):
that he cannot get a nuclear weapon. You had Joe
Biden that said they couldn't get anclear weapon, and then
they're at sixty plus percent and Donald Trump stops him,
and then all of the lefts like, you can't do that.
You're gonna start World War three. This is somehow your fault.
You're the aggressor.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And understand the reason we are here is because of
Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Barack Obama negotiated the disastrous
Iran nuclear deal that flooded billions and billions of dollars
into Iran. Listen, remember Obama literally flew one point seven
billion dollars of cash unmarked bills on a palette to
deliver to the Iyahtola. That agreement set the stage for
(03:36):
Iran to get nuclear weapons. Donald Trump, when he came
in as.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
President for a second, and just now, in hindsight, what
really was that deal? Was that dal a, Hey, I
don't want to have to deal with you guys, so
let's just you kind of play nice for me and
then I'll kick the can down the road to another administration. Like,
in hindsight, what was that? Why did we do that deal?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was rat ideology. You know, when Barack Obama first
became president, he went and gave a speech at the
University of Cairo in Egypt, and in that speech he
said Iran has a right and he used the word right,
a right to nuclear technology. Now that is nutty. That is,
I'm familiar with the right to the pursuit of happiness.
(04:20):
I'm not familiar with a right to possess thermonuclear weapons.
And at the end of the day, I think Barack
Obama and his entire team came in with an ideological
view that America's role in the world is fundamentally illegitimate,
that we are colonial oppressors. Look, as you know, my
last book was Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.
(04:42):
These are the cultural Marxists. They view America as illegitimate
and therefore they viewed that we have no business, we
have no right stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Listen,
the Obama Ran nuclear deal would inevitably lead to I
Ran with nuclear weapon. And these guys are not idiots.
They knew that. They're fine with that outcome because they
(05:06):
believe America has no right to prevent it. My view is,
yes we do. If you've got a lunatic who's sang
death to America and we have the power to stop
him from getting nuclear weapons, we will use that power
because the commander in chief is not going to fail
to protect America. And I got to say, by the way,
the useful idiots across the globe a you've got the
Democrats today who are all chirping about how dare you
(05:28):
act to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We
also had the Secretary of the United Nations, Antonio Guterras,
who put out a statement I'm going to read it
to you quote. I am gravely alarmed by the use
of force by the United States against Iran today. This
is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the
edge and a direct threat to international peace and security.
(05:52):
There is a growing risk that this conflict could rapidly
get out of control, with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region,
and the world. I call on member states to de
escalate and to uphold their obligations under the UN Charter
and other rules of international law. At this perilous hour,
it is critical to avoid a spiral of chaos. There
(06:14):
is no military solution. The only path forward is diplomacy.
The only hope is peace. What a blithering idiot. I'll
tell you what I tweeted today. I tweeted, of course,
the UN sides with Iran clown face emoji clown face,
emoji clown face emergent. The only thing they couldn't decide
(06:37):
is which chant they agree with more strongly, quote death
to Israel or quote death to America. And then I
asked a simple question, Remind me again why we're paying
their bills.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's a fair question. And you've got to wonder what's
the even point of being involved that if this is
how insane they actually are, so what's move?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But by the way, Ben I also so observed, I
think Tehran would make a lovely UN headquarters, just located
right there. Maybe on the smoldering ashes of FDA, we
can put put the UN there, and they can all
get together with their anti Israel hate and their anti
American hate, and they can sit there and glow radioactive
while they talk about developing developing nuclear weapons to bomb America.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
At least it would be intellectually honest, like where's the UN.
It's in Tehran. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Look, that's who they This should not be complicated Iran, Like,
let me ask you, Ben, seriously, put yourself in the
head of the UN Secretary General. How do you look
at this and say where do I stand? I know
with Iran, Like what thought pressis goes through your brain?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, what's the upside of doing that? And why? And
especially if you know what Iran just did and how
many terrorist organizations they've supported that are just beyond I
mean factually accurate hamas HESBLA, and the UN's like we
got you, We're going to cover for you. Don't worry,
we got your back. It is and that's the reason
why I think it delegitimizes the United Nations to the
(08:11):
point where I just roll my eyes at them. Now
I don't pay attention to what they say. Final question,
and this is what is next. It's very clear. There's
a warning from this present don't screw with us moving forward.
If Iran is dumb enough to retaliate against Americans in
the Middle East, maybe even shutting down the Strait of
Horn Moves, what is the presence obligation moving forward on that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, one of the consequences of the bombing run is
the parliament in Iran did vote to shut down the
Straits of her Moves. Now, the Parliament's not the decision
maker at the end of the day, the Iatola is
the decision maker. So it's not clear if Iran is
going to do so or not. If it did so,
it would impact America, but it would impact China even more.
Roughly half of the oil that China uses travels through
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the Straits of hor Moos. A very small percentage of
American oil travels through there. But that being said, if
the Straits of our Moves were shut down, it would
impact Americas because it would drive up global oil prices,
it would drive up gasoline prices at home, and that
would impact Americans. I hope that doesn't happen. I think
if they try to shut down those major trade routes
(09:20):
and commerce fruits, I think we will see, we will
see force to open them up because Iran does not
have the right to shut down the ability of America
and the rest of the world to engage in trade
and commerce. That is a possible escalation. I think the
most likely escalation is going to be continued a tax
on civilians in Israel, because at the end of the day,
(09:41):
I think the Iotola and the Mullahs they hate the
Jewish people, and murdering innocent civilians is something that they
believe in. I worry, as I said, about the risk
of terrorist attacks as well. I think those are, sadly
the two most likely the people of Israel. I know
the government of Israel that the Iron Dome, they're working
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hard to protect their civilians. America is assisting in that,
and here at home, law enforcement and Homeland Security in
the Department of Justice are all working hard to intercept
and stop any terrorist attack before it occurs. But understand,
these are dangerous times. But they're dangerous times because we
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have enemies that wish to do harm to America. And
that's why the responsibility that the President has is so
grave and serious. And I will say, listening to President
Trump speaks Saturday night, I think there are times where
the weight of the job really falls on his shoulders
and he feels it, and I think Saturday night was
one of them, because it was an incredibly consequential moment
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in our nation's history, and a very positive moment of
the President standing up and saying, my first responsibility is
to defend America, and I will not shirk for that responsibility.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senator,
I want to play for everybody Pete Headseth at the
Pentagon briefing about how effective this attack actually was and
saying it directly to the media's phase. Take a listen be.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Some of the assessments that have been provided, because whether
it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC or The New York Times,
there's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I've had a chance to read it.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from
DA I'm looking at it right now again. It was
preliminary a day and a half after the actual strike,
when it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks
to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment's preliminary.
It points out that it's not been coordinated with the
(12:01):
intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in this particular reports,
it says in the report.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
There are gaps in the information. It says in the report.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Multiple lynchpin assumptions are what this assessment a lynchpin assumption?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You know what that is.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It means your entire premis is predicated on a lynch pin.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
If you're wrong, everything else is wrong.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
And yet still this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Again, this is preliminary, but.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Leaked because someone had an agenda to try to muddy
the waters and make it look like this historic strike
I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get to the chairman in
a moment, because he's going to lay out the particulars
for you based on his professional military experience. But here's
what other folks are saying. THEDIA that put that report
out says that this is a preliminary, low confidence report
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and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available.
How about the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, The devastating US
strikes on four doh destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and
rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. Have any of these quotes
made their way into the New York Times or The
Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, any of these quotes? How about
(13:14):
this one? This is a new one from the UN.
The United Nations no friend of the United States or
certainly Israel often. Here's the head of the UN Atomic
Energy Agency this morning, Raphael Grossi. US and Israeli strikes
caused enormous damage to Iran's nuclear sites.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Don't take my word for it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
How about the IDF's chief of staff. I can say
here that the assessment is that we significantly damaged the
nuclear program, setting it back by years.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I repeat years.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
The Iranian foreign minister the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have
been badly damaged, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm sure that's an understatement.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, putting out a
statement just last night, CIA confirmed that a body of
credible intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely damaged
by recent targeted stripes.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
This includes new intelligence from.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
A historically reliable very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
He's saying historically.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Reliable and accurate source and method that several key Iranian
nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt
over the course of years.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
You listen to all of that data, and I love
how he laid it out. He's not just saying this
is from our administration, this is from people that hate us,
this from the UN, this is from ran Like, how
the hell did you guys go with this report when
it's so aw from reality.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Look, I think the evidence is indisputable and it's worth noting,
he said. The Secretary of Defense said in that press
conference that the Iranian nuclear weapons program has set been
set back years. I can tell you I spent an
hour and a half in a classified briefing. I can't
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tell you what was in that briefing, but we heard
nothing that was inconsistent with what the Secretary of Defense
said in that press conference, which is that this military
attack set Iran's nuclear program back years. It was incredibly effective,
and so that is caused for celebration, which is why
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the Democrats don't want people to know about it. The
media don't want people to know about it. But I
have to say I mentioned at the outside of this program,
we we're going to discuss what happened, but every bit
is importantly We're going to discuss what's going to happen next.
And listen, it's one thing to talk about where the
puck is today, but you've got to look at where
the puck is going to be tomorrow and where the
(15:49):
puck is going to be tomorrow. There was a CNN
report that came out this week that said, quote, the
Trump admin is considering offering I ran a series of
may your benefits to bring it back to the negotiating table.
According to the report, Washington is considering helping Iran establish
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a nuclear program for the purpose of producing civilian energy
at a cost of about thirty billion dollars, easing sanctions
and unfreezing billions of frozen Iranian dollars. And I will
tell you within the Trump administration right now, there is
a battle. There were voices within the Trump administration. These
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are the voices that opposed the strike on Iran, that
wanted to have weakness and appeasement towards Iran, who are
now saying, well, after the strike, after victory, we should
flow billions of dollars to Iran. We should let them
sell oil, let them sell oil to China. We should
let them make billions. And I got to tell you
(16:53):
this is the same failed approach of Barack Obama and
Joe Biden. We should, under no circumstances allow the Ayahtola,
who chanced death to America, who has been actively trying
to murder President Trump. We should not let him win
a windfall and get billions of dollars to use to
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wage war against America.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
How did we even get to this point where this
was a real possibility. Where is this coming from? Because
it is shocking. Like you said, you don't want to
do the same thing. There was a failure with the
last administrations where they're like, hey, here's billions of dollars,
we'll put it on a plane, and here's a bunch
of American money. You have a great day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Listen their voices in the Republican Party who have decided
to embrace isolationism, who has decided to say we should
withdraw from the world. You and I talked previously on
this podcast about the interview I did with Tucker Carlson.
I knew what that was going to be I knew
when I accepted that interview that Tucker was coming after me,
that he was going to do everything he can to
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blast me, And he and I spent two hours. It
was a it was a bloodbath. We were pounding the
hell out of each other. But every single thing Tucker
said about Iran and Israel proved wrong. Tucker said publicly,
if America strikes Iran, we would be dragged into World
War three. Thousands of Americans would be killed, and in
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World War three we would lose. Now, Ben, that wasn't
slightly wrong, It wasn't a little bit wrong. It was
totally catastrophically utterly false. Tucker also argued with me at
great length, it's not true that Iran is trying to
murder Donald J. Trump. Well, you know, it's one thing
if you're a talk show host and you can just
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kind of yell into the microphone and ignore facts. But
facts matter, The truth matters. It is an objective fact
that Iran has been trying to murder Donald J. Trump
has been trying to murder him for several years. And
I pointed this out in the interview. I put it
out afterwards. I put out the yield indictment from the
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Department of Justice indicting Iranian hitmen who were here in
the United States trying to murder Donald J. Trump. I
put out video of President Trump talking about the Iranians
trying to murder him. I put out video of senior
Iranian leaders talking about their intention to murder Donald Trump.
I put out a video that the IRGC put out
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an animated video of an Iranian drone murdering Donald Trump
on the golf course at mar A Lago. And it
is an objective fact. And this is where again the
sort of isolationist rhetoric is weird, because when I said
that Iran was trying to murder President Trump, and Tucker said,
I've never heard that, and then he did his kind
(19:44):
of weird, high pitched cackle. He then came back with
this bizarre statement, Well, if that were true, that Iran
were trying to murder Donald J. Trump, well then we
should attack them immediately, we should nuke them. And I
got say, I kind of wondered if if like Tucker
Carlson's old neo Kon. To be clear, Tucker carl said
(20:05):
was someone who during the Iraq War, was a cheerleader
for the Iraq War. He basically put on a short
skirt and pom poms. I think the Iraq War was
a mistake. I've been vocal about that for years. Tucker
cheered it on. It is loopy, It is fruit loops
to say you should nuk Iran because they're doing that. No,
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the right thing to do is what President Trump did,
which is take out their nuclear weapons capability. And I
got to say Tucker's voice and their allies of Tucker
in the administration who were desperately trying to convince the president,
do not attack Iran, do not take out their nuclear
weapons capability, do not support it Israel, abandon Israel. They
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were wrong, and they lost this battle. But the second iteration,
and this is coming is there. They're now saying, Okay,
that you've won, give the Iatola billions of dollars because
it works out really well. When you give billions of
dollars to a theocratic lunatic who says they want to
murder you and is still actively trying to murder you,
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that is incredibly foolish. And so I'm merging the president,
don't listen to those voices. They were wrong before and
they're wrong now. Do not send billions of dollars to
the Iatola as before.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
on this topic, you can go back and now the
podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week. You may have missed where things
are going now and how we could screw up the
in game here with a ran with some in this
country saying well, maybe we should appeased them a little bit,
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doesn't make a lot of sense. Yet that's where we are.
Consider you had this to say on Haydi's show about
as well.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Say something else, Sean. There are voices in the administration
now that the president has scored an historic victory, who
are urging, let's cut a deal. Let's let Iran sell oils,
let's lift all the sanction, Let's make this a victory
for the Iyatola. Understand this Iatola still hates America, a
chance death to America, and he's been trying to murder
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Donald Trump, and so it would be a catastrophic mistake
to flood billions of dollars into Iran.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I agree with you. What if they use a proxy
to attack Israel. Does that end the ceasefire? Because I
would imagine that's plant that's the next plan real quick.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I will tell you one of the best indications of
how successful this attack was. Within hours, Iran was rushing
to have a ceasefire. That's because they are utterly decimated
and weakened, and that's why they wanted to cease fire.
But don't think for a minute they suddenly love America
or love Israel. They still hate us. They are still
our enemy, but we use taking away their ability to
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murder Americans.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
If they use a proxy to attack Israel, are they
to blame?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Of course they are the proxies. Hesbel and Hamas work
for Iran. They pay for them, and they control them.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
All right, Senator Ted Cruz, we always appreciate your time, Sentator.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Thanks strong clothes their centator. And that's it's the truth.
This is what people are trying to do now.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It absolutely is. And I'll tell you one point that
I made on Hannity that I think is powerful. We
started this show by talking about how the Democrats in
the media are trying to claim the attack was not effective.
If that were true, why did Iran immediately want a
cease fire. Look, Iran has been at war with Israel
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for years. They had been lobbing missiles. They had been
funding Hamas and Hesbela. Understand Hamas more than ninety percent
of Hamas's budget comes from Iran. Hesbela more than ninety
percent of Hesbela's budget comes from Iran. Iran, when the
Iatola chance death to America and death to Israel, he
means it. They have spent millions of millionions of dollars.
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They have killed thousands of American servicemen and women. They
have been the leading state sponsor of terrorism for decades.
And after this, look, Iran has had a really rough year.
October seventh. They funded October seventh and since October seventh,
Hamas has been utterly decimated. Hesbela has been utterly decimated.
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But shar Asad, who was their puppet leader in Syria,
he has fallen. The Huthis who they were funding, who
were attacking American ships and shipping through the Suez Canal,
they are badly degraded. And now Iran, when they were
on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. Look, if you're
the Ayatola and you're weak and you're collapsing. Getting a
nuclear weapon is you're hail Mary. It's the one chance
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to say, Okay, we're relevant, we're strong. And then Israel
devastatingly takes out their military capability, their air defenses. The
entire course of this war, the Twelve Day War, Iran
had no control over their air defenses. Israel had totally superiority.
And then the United States when we went in and
did our bombing run, Iran could not defend themselves. And
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then America comes in. I think Iran believed they could talk, talk,
talk and avoid any real consequences. I think they felt
that Forida was deep enough under a mountain there was
nothing they could do about it, and that America would
never use bunker buster bombs against him. And by the way,
Joe Biden never would have. The Democrats never would have.
But Donald J. Trump, he's not an isolationist, he's not weak,
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he's not interested in a prolonged war. Note, we did
not invade Iran, we did not send boots on the ground.
We're not going there trying to turn them into a
democratic utopia. We're not trying to turn them into Switzerland.
The objective of the mission was very, very focused. It
was to stop Iran from having nuclear weapons capability. And
by the way, Ben, the reason I went on Tucker
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Carlson just a week ago was to make clear that
President Trump is right and Tucker Carlson was wrong. And
I think I was unhappy with Tucker because he's been
attacking President Trump. He said that President Trump was complicit
in the attack on Iran. He claimed amazingly enough, that
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Donald Trump was not America first, that if you attack Iran,
you're not America first. And President Trump quite rightly came
back and said, look, I invented the damn term, and
what I say is what America first is. And he
said to Tucker, he said, look, if you want i
Ran to have a nuclear weapon, that ain't America first,
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because these lunatics want to kill us. President Trump is
exactly right, and this has been I'll tell you. I
texted him this week and I told him, mister President,
this past week has been the single finest leadership you
have had the entire time, and I'm incredibly proud of
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the job you're doing, his commander in chief.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know, one of the comparing contrasts that you talk
about with these this administration in the past was brought
up at the White House Press briefing room. Carolyn Levitt,
I think did a great job of explaining the difference,
very much like you just described it. And here's what
she said to the press about the real story here.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Gani and regime was weeks away from being able to
produce a nuclear weapon that would threaten the entire world
before President Trump took this decisive action on Saturday night
to obliterate their nuclear capabilities. The contrast and leadership could
not be more clear. Barack Obama and Joe Biden sent
palettes of cash American taxpayer dollars in a failed attempt
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to buy the Iranian regime's compliance with a weak and
ineffective deal. President Trump sent a fleet of American warplanes
to destroy Ouran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon. The
United States and the entire world are safer because of
this President's decisiveness. Despite agenda driven leaks by the fake
news media aimed at undermining this incredible accomplishment achieved by
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President Trump and our brave fighter pilots, there is broad
consensus emerging already that Iran's nuclear capabilities were indeed destroyed.
The United States, Israel, the United Nations, and even Iran
all agree they can no longer build a nuclear weapon.
So what did the president? Why did the president immediately
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turn to obliterating after the Iranian nuclear threat? Securing peace?
Within forty eight hours of the devastating strike, President Trump
and his team broke her to historic ceasefire between Israel
and Iran and officially ended the twelve day war. The
Middle East is now shifting away from chaos and bloodshed
and moving toward the beginning stages of a new era
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of peace and stability that President Trump has long called
on them to achieve. This was unthinkable at this time
last week. And this is what peace through strength looks like.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I mean, it's just laying it out right to their faces, right.
This is what the President said, this is what he believed,
this is what he was gonna do. We're not back down.
And she also said something else that also the dard
said several different ways, how dare you not just give
some accolades the men and women that risk their lives
to pull this off and did it flawlessly?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Look?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Peace through strength is exactly what this is. And the
Left that they have a bizarre view that weakness and
appeasement somehow avoids war. Listen, if you look through history,
the opposite is true. Weakness and appeasement encourages our enemies.
They engage in more hostilities, you get more war. I
have joked, but there is a reason nobody goes and
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studies at the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs. Appeasement
doesn't work. Donald J. Trump is a strong commander in
chief just like Ronald Reagan was. And I'll tell you
your family and my family, all of our families are
safer because President Trump act decisively to take out Iran's
nuclear weapons capability.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
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Welcome. It is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Weekend Review, Ben
Ferguson with you, and here are the big stories that
we talked about this week that you may have missed.
First up, talk about liberal logic since the attack on Iran.
Liberals are afraid of Iran's response to what Donald Trump
is doing, say, you can be starting World War three,
yet they're not afraid of Iran actually getting a nuclear weapon.
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We'll break that down for you. Also, the DoD Secretary
Pete Headseth briefing doing it directly to the media, calling
them out to their faces on their lies about the
damage assessment. And finally, the big question moving forward is
what's next and what can happen if we screw up
the endgame. It's the weekend Review and it starts right now.
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Let's talk a little bit about the liberal logic that
has been coming out of so many Democrats since this
attack took place. And the people who seem to be
obsessing over Iran's response, implying that their response is Donald
Trump's fault that they're going to respond are the same
idiots that we're not afraid of Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
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Can you explain that liberal logic.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Please. Sadly, Today's Democrat party sides with every enemy of America.
They side on the other side.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Look.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
JK Rowling tweeted this weekend about this person, India Willoughby.
Now I'll confess I have no idea who India Willoughby is.
But JK Rowling tweeted, India a fan of women, hating
gay hating, authoritating authoritarian regime. Color me astonished. So I
went and googled who is this India Willoughby person? And
it turns out, according to Wikipedia quote, she is Britain's
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first transgender national television newsreader. Now pause for a second.
Ben Iran murders transgender people. They throw them off buildings.
If you are gay, they murder you. And think about
the mindset of a leftist who this transgender news reader
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in I guess the UK is like, even though the
Iyahtola wants to murder me, I stand with the Ayatola
rather than America. That is how messed up leftists are
right now, They're like, oh, homicidal theocratic women are pressing gay, murdering, torturing,
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genocidal lunatics. Those are my people.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
It doesn't make any sense to me and then you
go back to also the quotes that people have been posting,
and I think it's really important that history reflect. You
go back to Bill Clinton, Senator, and he said that
Iran couldn't get a nuclear weapon. Hillary Clinton when she
was a senator, Secretary of State and running for president,
said Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. Barack Obama said
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that he cannot get a nuclear weapon. You had Joe
Biden that said they couldn't get anclear weapon, and then
they're at sixty plus percent and Donald Trump stops him,
and then all of the lefts like, you can't do that.
You're gonna start World War three. This is somehow your fault.
You're the aggressor.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And understand the reason we are here is because of
Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Barack Obama negotiated the disastrous
Iran nuclear deal that flooded billions and billions of dollars
into Iran. Listen, remember Obama literally flew one point seven
billion dollars of cash unmarked bills on a palette to
deliver to the Iyahtola. That agreement set the stage for
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Iran to get nuclear weapons. Donald Trump, when he came
in as.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
President for a second, and just now, in hindsight, what
really was that deal? Was that dal a, Hey, I
don't want to have to deal with you guys, so
let's just you kind of play nice for me and
then I'll kick the can down the road to another administration. Like,
in hindsight, what was that? Why did we do that deal?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
It was rat ideology. You know, when Barack Obama first
became president, he went and gave a speech at the
University of Cairo in Egypt, and in that speech he
said Iran has a right and he used the word right,
a right to nuclear technology. Now that is nutty. That is,
I'm familiar with the right to the pursuit of happiness.
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I'm not familiar with a right to possess thermonuclear weapons.
And at the end of the day, I think Barack
Obama and his entire team came in with an ideological
view that America's role in the world is fundamentally illegitimate,
that we are colonial oppressors. Look, as you know, my
last book was Unwoke, How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America.
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These are the cultural Marxists. They view America as illegitimate
and therefore they viewed that we have no business, we
have no right stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons. Listen,
the Obama Ran nuclear deal would inevitably lead to I
Ran with nuclear weapon. And these guys are not idiots.
They knew that. They're fine with that outcome because they
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believe America has no right to prevent it. My view is,
yes we do. If you've got a lunatic who's sang
death to America and we have the power to stop
him from getting nuclear weapons, we will use that power
because the commander in chief is not going to fail
to protect America. And I got to say, by the way,
the useful idiots across the globe a you've got the
Democrats today who are all chirping about how dare you
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act to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. We
also had the Secretary of the United Nations, Antonio Guterras,
who put out a statement I'm going to read it
to you quote. I am gravely alarmed by the use
of force by the United States against Iran today. This
is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the
edge and a direct threat to international peace and security.
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There is a growing risk that this conflict could rapidly
get out of control, with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region,
and the world. I call on member states to de
escalate and to uphold their obligations under the UN Charter
and other rules of international law. At this perilous hour,
it is critical to avoid a spiral of chaos. There
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is no military solution. The only path forward is diplomacy.
The only hope is peace. What a blithering idiot. I'll
tell you what I tweeted today. I tweeted, of course,
the UN sides with Iran clown face emoji clown face,
emoji clown face emergent. The only thing they couldn't decide
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is which chant they agree with more strongly, quote death
to Israel or quote death to America. And then I
asked a simple question, Remind me again why we're paying
their bills.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
It's a fair question. And you've got to wonder what's
the even point of being involved that if this is
how insane they actually are, so what's move?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
But by the way, Ben I also so observed, I
think Tehran would make a lovely UN headquarters, just located
right there. Maybe on the smoldering ashes of FDA, we
can put put the UN there, and they can all
get together with their anti Israel hate and their anti
American hate, and they can sit there and glow radioactive
while they talk about developing developing nuclear weapons to bomb America.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
At least it would be intellectually honest, like where's the UN.
It's in Tehran. Okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Look, that's who they This should not be complicated Iran, Like,
let me ask you, Ben, seriously, put yourself in the
head of the UN Secretary General. How do you look
at this and say where do I stand? I know
with Iran, Like what thought pressis goes through your brain?
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, what's the upside of doing that? And why? And
especially if you know what Iran just did and how
many terrorist organizations they've supported that are just beyond I
mean factually accurate hamas HESBLA, and the UN's like we
got you, We're going to cover for you. Don't worry,
we got your back. It is and that's the reason
why I think it delegitimizes the United Nations to the
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point where I just roll my eyes at them. Now
I don't pay attention to what they say. Final question,
and this is what is next. It's very clear. There's
a warning from this present don't screw with us moving forward.
If Iran is dumb enough to retaliate against Americans in
the Middle East, maybe even shutting down the Strait of
Horn Moves, what is the presence obligation moving forward on that.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Well, one of the consequences of the bombing run is
the parliament in Iran did vote to shut down the
Straits of her Moves. Now, the Parliament's not the decision
maker at the end of the day, the Iatola is
the decision maker. So it's not clear if Iran is
going to do so or not. If it did so,
it would impact America, but it would impact China even more.
Roughly half of the oil that China uses travels through
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the Straits of hor Moos. A very small percentage of
American oil travels through there. But that being said, if
the Straits of our Moves were shut down, it would
impact Americas because it would drive up global oil prices,
it would drive up gasoline prices at home, and that
would impact Americans. I hope that doesn't happen. I think
if they try to shut down those major trade routes
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and commerce fruits, I think we will see, we will
see force to open them up because Iran does not
have the right to shut down the ability of America
and the rest of the world to engage in trade
and commerce. That is a possible escalation. I think the
most likely escalation is going to be continued a tax
on civilians in Israel, because at the end of the day,
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I think the Iotola and the Mullahs they hate the
Jewish people, and murdering innocent civilians is something that they
believe in. I worry, as I said, about the risk
of terrorist attacks as well. I think those are, sadly
the two most likely the people of Israel. I know
the government of Israel that the Iron Dome, they're working
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hard to protect their civilians. America is assisting in that,
and here at home, law enforcement and Homeland Security in
the Department of Justice are all working hard to intercept
and stop any terrorist attack before it occurs. But understand,
these are dangerous times. But they're dangerous times because we
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have enemies that wish to do harm to America. And
that's why the responsibility that the President has is so
grave and serious. And I will say, listening to President
Trump speaks Saturday night, I think there are times where
the weight of the job really falls on his shoulders
and he feels it, and I think Saturday night was
one of them, because it was an incredibly consequential moment
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in our nation's history, and a very positive moment of
the President standing up and saying, my first responsibility is
to defend America, and I will not shirk for that responsibility.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
you can go back and listen to the full podcast
from earlier this week. Now onto story number two, Senator,
I want to play for everybody Pete Headseth at the
Pentagon briefing about how effective this attack actually was and
saying it directly to the media's phase. Take a listen be.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Some of the assessments that have been provided, because whether
it's fake news, CNN, MSNBC or The New York Times,
there's been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I've had a chance to read it.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Every outlet has breathlessly reported on a preliminary assessment from
DA I'm looking at it right now again. It was
preliminary a day and a half after the actual strike,
when it admits itself in writing that it requires weeks
to accumulate the necessary data to make such an assessment's preliminary.
It points out that it's not been coordinated with the
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intelligence community at all. There's low confidence in this particular reports,
it says in the report.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
There are gaps in the information. It says in the report.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Multiple lynchpin assumptions are what this assessment a lynchpin assumption?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
You know what that is.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
It means your entire premis is predicated on a lynch pin.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
If you're wrong, everything else is wrong.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
And yet still this report acknowledges it's likely severe damage.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Again, this is preliminary, but.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Leaked because someone had an agenda to try to muddy
the waters and make it look like this historic strike
I wasn't successful. I'm gonna get to the chairman in
a moment, because he's going to lay out the particulars
for you based on his professional military experience. But here's
what other folks are saying. THEDIA that put that report
out says that this is a preliminary, low confidence report
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and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available.
How about the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission, The devastating US
strikes on four doh destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and
rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. Have any of these quotes
made their way into the New York Times or The
Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, any of these quotes? How about
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this one? This is a new one from the UN.
The United Nations no friend of the United States or
certainly Israel often. Here's the head of the UN Atomic
Energy Agency this morning, Raphael Grossi. US and Israeli strikes
caused enormous damage to Iran's nuclear sites.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Don't take my word for it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
How about the IDF's chief of staff. I can say
here that the assessment is that we significantly damaged the
nuclear program, setting it back by years.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
I repeat years.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
The Iranian foreign minister the spokesman, our nuclear instrations have
been badly damaged, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm sure that's an understatement.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
John Radcliffe, the director of the CIA, putting out a
statement just last night, CIA confirmed that a body of
credible intelligence indicates Iran's nuclear program has been severely damaged
by recent targeted stripes.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
This includes new intelligence from.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
A historically reliable very different than preliminary assessment with low confidence.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
He's saying historically.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Reliable and accurate source and method that several key Iranian
nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt
over the course of years.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
You listen to all of that data, and I love
how he laid it out. He's not just saying this
is from our administration, this is from people that hate us,
this from the UN, this is from ran Like, how
the hell did you guys go with this report when
it's so aw from reality.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Look, I think the evidence is indisputable and it's worth noting,
he said. The Secretary of Defense said in that press
conference that the Iranian nuclear weapons program has set been
set back years. I can tell you I spent an
hour and a half in a classified briefing. I can't
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tell you what was in that briefing, but we heard
nothing that was inconsistent with what the Secretary of Defense
said in that press conference, which is that this military
attack set Iran's nuclear program back years. It was incredibly effective,
and so that is caused for celebration, which is why
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the Democrats don't want people to know about it. The
media don't want people to know about it. But I
have to say I mentioned at the outside of this program,
we we're going to discuss what happened, but every bit
is importantly We're going to discuss what's going to happen next.
And listen, it's one thing to talk about where the
puck is today, but you've got to look at where
the puck is going to be tomorrow and where the
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puck is going to be tomorrow. There was a CNN
report that came out this week that said, quote, the
Trump admin is considering offering I ran a series of
may your benefits to bring it back to the negotiating table.
According to the report, Washington is considering helping Iran establish
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a nuclear program for the purpose of producing civilian energy
at a cost of about thirty billion dollars, easing sanctions
and unfreezing billions of frozen Iranian dollars. And I will
tell you within the Trump administration right now, there is
a battle. There were voices within the Trump administration. These
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are the voices that opposed the strike on Iran, that
wanted to have weakness and appeasement towards Iran, who are
now saying, well, after the strike, after victory, we should
flow billions of dollars to Iran. We should let them
sell oil, let them sell oil to China. We should
let them make billions. And I got to tell you
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this is the same failed approach of Barack Obama and
Joe Biden. We should, under no circumstances allow the Ayahtola,
who chanced death to America, who has been actively trying
to murder President Trump. We should not let him win
a windfall and get billions of dollars to use to
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wage war against America.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
How did we even get to this point where this
was a real possibility. Where is this coming from? Because
it is shocking. Like you said, you don't want to
do the same thing. There was a failure with the
last administrations where they're like, hey, here's billions of dollars,
we'll put it on a plane, and here's a bunch
of American money. You have a great day.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Listen their voices in the Republican Party who have decided
to embrace isolationism, who has decided to say we should
withdraw from the world. You and I talked previously on
this podcast about the interview I did with Tucker Carlson.
I knew what that was going to be I knew
when I accepted that interview that Tucker was coming after me,
that he was going to do everything he can to
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blast me, And he and I spent two hours. It
was a it was a bloodbath. We were pounding the
hell out of each other. But every single thing Tucker
said about Iran and Israel proved wrong. Tucker said publicly,
if America strikes Iran, we would be dragged into World
War three. Thousands of Americans would be killed, and in
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World War three we would lose. Now, Ben, that wasn't
slightly wrong, It wasn't a little bit wrong. It was
totally catastrophically utterly false. Tucker also argued with me at
great length, it's not true that Iran is trying to
murder Donald J. Trump. Well, you know, it's one thing
if you're a talk show host and you can just
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kind of yell into the microphone and ignore facts. But
facts matter, The truth matters. It is an objective fact
that Iran has been trying to murder Donald J. Trump
has been trying to murder him for several years. And
I pointed this out in the interview. I put it
out afterwards. I put out the yield indictment from the
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Department of Justice indicting Iranian hitmen who were here in
the United States trying to murder Donald J. Trump. I
put out video of President Trump talking about the Iranians
trying to murder him. I put out video of senior
Iranian leaders talking about their intention to murder Donald Trump.
I put out a video that the IRGC put out
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an animated video of an Iranian drone murdering Donald Trump
on the golf course at mar A Lago. And it
is an objective fact. And this is where again the
sort of isolationist rhetoric is weird, because when I said
that Iran was trying to murder President Trump, and Tucker said,
I've never heard that, and then he did his kind
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of weird, high pitched cackle. He then came back with
this bizarre statement, Well, if that were true, that Iran
were trying to murder Donald J. Trump, well then we
should attack them immediately, we should nuke them. And I
got say, I kind of wondered if if like Tucker
Carlson's old neo Kon. To be clear, Tucker carl said
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was someone who during the Iraq War, was a cheerleader
for the Iraq War. He basically put on a short
skirt and pom poms. I think the Iraq War was
a mistake. I've been vocal about that for years. Tucker
cheered it on. It is loopy, It is fruit loops
to say you should nuk Iran because they're doing that. No,
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the right thing to do is what President Trump did,
which is take out their nuclear weapons capability. And I
got to say Tucker's voice and their allies of Tucker
in the administration who were desperately trying to convince the president,
do not attack Iran, do not take out their nuclear
weapons capability, do not support it Israel, abandon Israel. They
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were wrong, and they lost this battle. But the second iteration,
and this is coming is there. They're now saying, Okay,
that you've won, give the Iatola billions of dollars because
it works out really well. When you give billions of
dollars to a theocratic lunatic who says they want to
murder you and is still actively trying to murder you,
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that is incredibly foolish. And so I'm merging the president,
don't listen to those voices. They were wrong before and
they're wrong now. Do not send billions of dollars to
the Iatola as before.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
on this topic, you can go back and now the
podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
I want to get back to the big story number
three of the week. You may have missed where things
are going now and how we could screw up the
in game here with a ran with some in this
country saying well, maybe we should appeased them a little bit,
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doesn't make a lot of sense. Yet that's where we are.
Consider you had this to say on Haydi's show about
as well.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Say something else, Sean. There are voices in the administration
now that the president has scored an historic victory, who
are urging, let's cut a deal. Let's let Iran sell oils,
let's lift all the sanction, Let's make this a victory
for the Iyatola. Understand this Iatola still hates America, a
chance death to America, and he's been trying to murder
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Donald Trump, and so it would be a catastrophic mistake
to flood billions of dollars into Iran.
Speaker 5 (22:23):
I agree with you. What if they use a proxy
to attack Israel. Does that end the ceasefire? Because I
would imagine that's plant that's the next plan real quick.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I will tell you one of the best indications of
how successful this attack was. Within hours, Iran was rushing
to have a ceasefire. That's because they are utterly decimated
and weakened, and that's why they wanted to cease fire.
But don't think for a minute they suddenly love America
or love Israel. They still hate us. They are still
our enemy, but we use taking away their ability to
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murder Americans.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
If they use a proxy to attack Israel, are they
to blame?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Of course they are the proxies. Hesbel and Hamas work
for Iran. They pay for them, and they control them.
Speaker 5 (23:07):
All right, Senator Ted Cruz, we always appreciate your time, Sentator.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Thanks strong clothes their centator. And that's it's the truth.
This is what people are trying to do now.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
It absolutely is. And I'll tell you one point that
I made on Hannity that I think is powerful. We
started this show by talking about how the Democrats in
the media are trying to claim the attack was not effective.
If that were true, why did Iran immediately want a
cease fire. Look, Iran has been at war with Israel
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for years. They had been lobbing missiles. They had been
funding Hamas and Hesbela. Understand Hamas more than ninety percent
of Hamas's budget comes from Iran. Hesbela more than ninety
percent of Hesbela's budget comes from Iran. Iran, when the
Iatola chance death to America and death to Israel, he
means it. They have spent millions of millionions of dollars.
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They have killed thousands of American servicemen and women. They
have been the leading state sponsor of terrorism for decades.
And after this, look, Iran has had a really rough year.
October seventh. They funded October seventh and since October seventh,
Hamas has been utterly decimated. Hesbela has been utterly decimated.
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But shar Asad, who was their puppet leader in Syria,
he has fallen. The Huthis who they were funding, who
were attacking American ships and shipping through the Suez Canal,
they are badly degraded. And now Iran, when they were
on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. Look, if you're
the Ayatola and you're weak and you're collapsing. Getting a
nuclear weapon is you're hail Mary. It's the one chance
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to say, Okay, we're relevant, we're strong. And then Israel
devastatingly takes out their military capability, their air defenses. The
entire course of this war, the Twelve Day War, Iran
had no control over their air defenses. Israel had totally superiority.
And then the United States when we went in and
did our bombing run, Iran could not defend themselves. And
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then America comes in. I think Iran believed they could talk, talk,
talk and avoid any real consequences. I think they felt
that Forida was deep enough under a mountain there was
nothing they could do about it, and that America would
never use bunker buster bombs against him. And by the way,
Joe Biden never would have. The Democrats never would have.
But Donald J. Trump, he's not an isolationist, he's not weak,
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he's not interested in a prolonged war. Note, we did
not invade Iran, we did not send boots on the ground.
We're not going there trying to turn them into a
democratic utopia. We're not trying to turn them into Switzerland.
The objective of the mission was very, very focused. It
was to stop Iran from having nuclear weapons capability. And
by the way, Ben, the reason I went on Tucker
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Carlson just a week ago was to make clear that
President Trump is right and Tucker Carlson was wrong. And
I think I was unhappy with Tucker because he's been
attacking President Trump. He said that President Trump was complicit
in the attack on Iran. He claimed amazingly enough, that
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Donald Trump was not America first, that if you attack Iran,
you're not America first. And President Trump quite rightly came
back and said, look, I invented the damn term, and
what I say is what America first is. And he
said to Tucker, he said, look, if you want i
Ran to have a nuclear weapon, that ain't America first,
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because these lunatics want to kill us. President Trump is
exactly right, and this has been I'll tell you. I
texted him this week and I told him, mister President,
this past week has been the single finest leadership you
have had the entire time, and I'm incredibly proud of
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the job you're doing, his commander in chief.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
You know, one of the comparing contrasts that you talk
about with these this administration in the past was brought
up at the White House Press briefing room. Carolyn Levitt,
I think did a great job of explaining the difference,
very much like you just described it. And here's what
she said to the press about the real story here.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Gani and regime was weeks away from being able to
produce a nuclear weapon that would threaten the entire world
before President Trump took this decisive action on Saturday night
to obliterate their nuclear capabilities. The contrast and leadership could
not be more clear. Barack Obama and Joe Biden sent
palettes of cash American taxpayer dollars in a failed attempt
(27:38):
to buy the Iranian regime's compliance with a weak and
ineffective deal. President Trump sent a fleet of American warplanes
to destroy Ouran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon. The
United States and the entire world are safer because of
this President's decisiveness. Despite agenda driven leaks by the fake
news media aimed at undermining this incredible accomplishment achieved by
(28:02):
President Trump and our brave fighter pilots, there is broad
consensus emerging already that Iran's nuclear capabilities were indeed destroyed.
The United States, Israel, the United Nations, and even Iran
all agree they can no longer build a nuclear weapon.
So what did the president? Why did the president immediately
(28:22):
turn to obliterating after the Iranian nuclear threat? Securing peace?
Within forty eight hours of the devastating strike, President Trump
and his team broke her to historic ceasefire between Israel
and Iran and officially ended the twelve day war. The
Middle East is now shifting away from chaos and bloodshed
and moving toward the beginning stages of a new era
(28:44):
of peace and stability that President Trump has long called
on them to achieve. This was unthinkable at this time
last week. And this is what peace through strength looks like.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
I mean, it's just laying it out right to their faces, right.
This is what the President said, this is what he believed,
this is what he was gonna do. We're not back down.
And she also said something else that also the dard
said several different ways, how dare you not just give
some accolades the men and women that risk their lives
to pull this off and did it flawlessly?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Look?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Peace through strength is exactly what this is. And the
Left that they have a bizarre view that weakness and
appeasement somehow avoids war. Listen, if you look through history,
the opposite is true. Weakness and appeasement encourages our enemies.
They engage in more hostilities, you get more war. I
have joked, but there is a reason nobody goes and
(29:42):
studies at the Neville Chamberlain School of Foreign Affairs. Appeasement
doesn't work. Donald J. Trump is a strong commander in
chief just like Ronald Reagan was. And I'll tell you
your family and my family, all of our families are
safer because President Trump act decisively to take out Iran's
nuclear weapons capability.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
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