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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, so let's immediately start with the breaking news
that many of you woke up to, and that is
that Iran was attacked by Israel. This was a retaliatory strike,
very clearly. It was also a strike that was limited,
and it was clearly a strike design to show Iran

(00:22):
that they could penetrate the air defense systems of Iran.
This was to let them know we can come after
your targets whenever we want to, and you cannot stop us.
There was one headline this morning that said Israel gets
revenge against Iran, strikes multiple areas. I couldn't disagree more

(00:44):
with that headline. This was not getting revenge. Let me
say that again, Israel did not get revenge. Israel sent
a clear message, a very clear message. This was number one,
limited and it was to clearly show that we can
penetrate your air defense easily and next time we can

(01:07):
do whatever we want to do. I'm not the only one,
by the way, that's saying this. I'm going to play
you some audio. I haven't even heard this audio yet.
Someone sent it to me and said, hey, MSNBC is
saying that the Israeli strike on Iran was limited. It
absolutely was it was not a true show of power
or a even you could say, an equal response to

(01:30):
what Iran did last week. Listen, revetis what's your best
rate on what happened last night and what's been happening
over the last twelve to twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I think it was indeed a muted strike, a limited strike.
Clearly Israel, as we talked about earlier in the week,
Joe had a basket of options here. They could have
gone big. There were certainly voices in Israel calling for that.
They could have simply left it as cyber, non kinetic

(02:04):
kind of operation. They chose, as you and I talked
about a few days ago, kind of in the middle,
and I think what they sought to do when they accomplished,
was to show that they can penetrate Iranian air defenses.
We'll know a bit more here over the next twenty
four forty eight hours as battle damage assessments come out,

(02:24):
But I, for one, believe that we're now in a
ninety percent probability that this will settle down, go back
into the shadows, follow a path of de escalation. I
think there's still a ten percent chance that could flare
up in a bigger way, and I'll close by giving
you a couple indicators to watch over the next few days.

(02:47):
Richard Engel mentioned one of them, which are the public
statements coming out from Tehran and Jerusalem. Those are reassuring
at the moment. Number two is activity from Hesbo.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Loot to the north.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Are they going to ramp up be unleashed by Teyron.
They've got one hundred thousand plus missiles. That's the threat
I think our Israeli friends are watching for this morning.
And then third and finally, you know the Admiral is
going to say it. Watch what happens at c If
Heron really wants to retaliate and go largely back against Jerusalem,

(03:26):
they could do it at sea against Israeli shipping, or
they could close the Straight or horn Mows. Final thought,
those are small probabilities. At this point. I think we're
probably in a position to see things settle down, let's hope.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
So now I want you to understand who that was.
It was just speaking there, and this is important. That's
the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander. He has dealt with
a lot of this. He is a NBC MSNBC commentator.
He's not a very political person. As you can tell
in his assessment, I heard that for the first time
because it just happened as you were hearing it. And

(04:01):
that is exactly the same assessment that I just gave
you beforehand, which is that this is probably going to
de escalate.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Now, what this also means is.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Israel did what I'm not sure I would have been
capable of doing. They held back after their people have
been slaughtered, after an onslaught of drone and missile attacks
that numbered more than three hundred, trying to wipe out
and indiscriminately kill people. You have to understand about the
attack that Iran did on Israel. It was not targeting buildings,

(04:32):
It was not targeting targets. You look at the Israeli strike,
it was insanely limited first off, and it was targeting
certain targets specifically that were not civilian targets, unlike what
happened last week. Now, before Iran's attack on Israel last week,
and this comes into American foreign policy and something you

(04:54):
need to understand. President Joe Biden had a one word
message for Tehran. Don't guess what. They didn't listen why
because they know the United States of America right now
is weak. And then the aftermath the attack, Biden didn't
utter that one word advice publicly, but it was fairly
obvious that his administration wanted the Israelis to do exactly that.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
Don't don't respond.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Axios even reported that Biden had told the Israeli Prime
Minister in Yahoo that the United States quote would not
support any counter attack launch by the Israelis, and that,
to quote the President, you got to win.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Take the win. Now.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
The definition of the win that the President was referring to,
which is the most insane part of all, is that
you didn't die. People didn't die on mass numbers. You
shot down and the iron dome work. So you got
to win. Take a win. That's like someone shooting at you,
they miss, you know who they are, and then someone
tells you not to respond or not to retaliate because

(05:58):
you're like, well, you got to win.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
You didn't die, Are you kidding me? That's insane logic.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
And that is the President of United States of America
yet again showing extreme weakness, which worries me about attacks
that could happen in this country at the hands of
terrorists coming across our southern border, just.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like that attack in Israel.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Now that's also, as one put it, a very interesting
Biden foreign policy definition of a win.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Now it quickly became a parent as well.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
That is, the Israeli government wasn't going to take that advice,
and by the way, they shouldn't have. They should not
have taken that advice. And you look at the ABC
News reports, I go back to that. The missile launches
followed Iran's attack last Saturday, where the country sent a
valley of more than three hundred un crewede drones and

(06:51):
missiles towards targets throughout the country. Israeli military officials previously
said what we find out was there really wasn't targets.
It was into scriminate shooting into Israel. It was just
about mass chaos and mass casualties. That was their goal.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
CNN also reported that explosions have been heard at two sites.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
In the province of an area where their nuclear program
is believed to be, as well as an airport and
an army base. The sites weren't named, by the way,
by ABC News, but according to New York Post, several
explosions were heard across the country in the early hours
of Friday morning. Missiles had been used. The Times of

(07:34):
Israel also said this morning that the strikes were centered
around an area which is the home of some of
Iran's nuclear facilities. It said the attacks were carried out
with drones, not missiles. That's coming from the Times of Israel.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
The Israel launching of these missiles, making it clear they
were going after military targets, not just an attack on
Iran is one of the most limited, okay, one of
the most limited responses we've ever seen. The Times of

(08:10):
Israel reporting this morning that an official had said that
the strikes were, in their words, limited in nature and
were aimed at Iranian military targets. Officials in Tehran initially
played down the attack, first telling Ruters that explosions heard
in the region were a result of the activation of

(08:31):
Iran's air defense system. That's a lie, and Iranian officials
told Reuters on Friday, adding that no missile attacks were
carried out against Iran. That's also a lie. We've seen
the video. One other thing that is interesting about this
de escalation, now, will this go backwards?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Right?

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Will we move backwards and not forward? Is the Iranian
Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has come out, and this
is what he has said this morning moments ago in
an interview with CNN.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
In case the Israeli embarks on adventurism again and takes
action against the interests of Iran, the next response from
US will be immediate and at a maximum level.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
So they're even saying, in essence, okay, we're not going
to respond. Why because what they understand is they are
basically defenseless against a major air attack from Israel. Israel
just sent a very clear message you ever do that again,
and this is how quickly we can get through your

(09:45):
air defense, and this is how quickly we can own you.
It's actually that clear. That's it, full stop. I also
want you to understand something else, and this is coming
from the Iranian Foreign Minister as well. Not only do
they say, well, if Israel takes action again, the next

(10:06):
response from US will be immediate, the Iranian Foreign Minister
of Foreign Affairs also said this, which is a lie
about their intentions.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
How our objective was warned as to send a clear
message to be received by the government of Israel and
to let its know that we do have the means
to respond. I will repeat again, we never seek the
expansion of chaos and warfare intentions in the region.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
That's a lie. You had a attack. There was a
nine to eleven style attack, and an attack that was
a nine to eleven style attack that killed and you
still have hostages. Iran was responsible for the first attack
on the people six months ago that are still being

(10:55):
held hostage.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
They helped train.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Facilitate, organize, and fund the attack on the innocent men, women, children, infants,
and great great grandparents and grandparents. They helped train the
terrorists that came in and stabbed innocent little Jewish children

(11:21):
and babies to death, rape them, put them in ovens,
and cook them. It was genocide. That was a day
of genocide. They were there to wipe out all the Jews.
They were also sending a clear message that they were
Israel was vulnerable. That was part of their other part
of their mission. And they took hostages to have leverage.

(11:46):
And then you've seen the anti Israel, anti Semitic chanting
that's happened around literally all over this country on college campuses.
We saw it yesterday in New York City at a
maid your college campus, and this was their goal. And
now you have a president that can't come out and

(12:06):
support Israel because the polling number shows him that the
majority of young people are anti Israel. There they're anti Semites,
they're biggots, they're racists, and they hate Israel. That is
the Democratic Party, which is they're not even Democrats. They're
masquerading as Democrats, are Marxists or socialists and their communists,

(12:27):
and they hate the Jews.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
The Democratic Party.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
As a whole hates the Jews. And we have a
president that is not standing behind the Jewish people. And
so when Iran's foreign minister comes out to CNN and
says we'll never seek the expansion of cast in the region,
the follow up question is, well, you're full of you
know what. But they let them keep talking. The follow
up should have been, you were that is a lie.

(12:53):
You guys just helped aid in a bet and train. Okay,
you guys just trained the people to commit these heinous crimes.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
That's what you just did. You gave them the tools
and the drones necessary.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I also sit there and when they say that they
never want the expansion in the region. Right as they
just described, Iran is responsible for killing more American soldiers
through roadside bomb attacks and explosives than any other country
during the longest war in American history in Afghanistan and Iran,

(13:29):
or I say Iraq, there's blood on the hands and
a lot of dead bodies that were facilitated and orchestrated
by Iran. Iran also gave safe haven to the worst
terrorists in the world that we were trying to kill.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
The worst terrasts in the world.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Isis and Al Kata terrats used Iran as a safe haven.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
After they would attack.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
They would go there and train and plan their attacks,
and Iran would give them the weaponry and the explosives
and the roadside bombs needed to kill American soldiers. I
would also make it clear we don't hold them accountable
for that. And if you want to know just how
weak the President of the United States of America is,

(14:14):
and this is maybe the most important point I'm going
to make, the President of the United States of America
still has not come out and done anything from a
sanctions standpoint, not even passing new sanctions, just enforcing the
sanctions that we already have on Iranian oil, has not

(14:38):
done a single thing to stop.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Or hurt or take.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Away financial financially what Iran needs to continue these types
of attacks and wars.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
We have Iranian.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Oil in bargoes right now, we're just not enforcing them.
They are selling record number of barrels of oil per
day that are against the sanctions, but we're not enforcing
the sanctions. So what is the point of a sanction
if you never enforce the sanctions. That is Joe Biden,
and it's costing people their lives, It's costing instability in

(15:16):
the Middle East, which you never want. And we have
a president that now has opened up our southern border
to terrorists that are coming across our southern border. This
is a problem. Do I hope that this cools off?

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yes? I do. Does it look like it will at
the moment? Yes? Could it change? Of course it could.
It could change in two seconds, no doubt about it.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
But what I hope is that America will get their
heads out of the rear and at some point the
Biden administration and do everything they can to actually protect
and defend this country and our ally Israel.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
And I don't believe they're going to do that.
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