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I'm your host, Jeff Lewis said Asset Growth Associates along
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One of the obstacles we rent into doing a weekly
show is that sometimes events happen quicker than our production
schedule allows for. So right after we did last week's show,
this happened. Falk Is alert.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We can confirm Israel is launching a series of preemptive
air strikes against Iran right now.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Explosions reported in the capital of Tran.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Now normally the Israel least we consult our show first
before conducting this sort of attack. You know, that give
us some lead time for what's obviously going to be
our top line story. But Netanyau who signed preoccupied and
President Trump stoped return of my text. So here we
are what we'll do this week is instead of attempting
to rehash the last week of war coverage, I want
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us to take a look at what our options are
as a country, because we might very well be getting
into this ourselves as of this recording. That hasn't happened yet,
but there's a very real possibility by the time you
hear this over the weekend, we could all be ready
to be conducting our own military strikes a question to
ask whether or not we should. So that's a discussion
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we'll start with first. Later on in the program we'll
talk about the financial implications this could have on you.
After all, this is a business show, but the political
ramifications are simply too big to ignore, so let's start there.
First off, I want us to be able to agree
on one thing that there's a very there's very good
points to be made both in favor of a US
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intervention and against our involvement. There's a tendency to vilify
one position or the other, and I think we need
to avoid that right now at all costs. So let's
break down to arguments. First. What is America's primary objective here?
That should be obvious. Iran can't get a nuke. President
Trump has made our position crystal clear.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
They can't have a new clear weapon, very simple, they
can't have a new clear web.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
We're not going to allow that.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Okay, that pretty much speaks for itself. Trump is going
to look out for American first, but Iran becoming a
nuclear power is decidedly against that. I don't think anyone
really disputes that point, and about eighty percent of Americans
agree with keeping Amararan's hands off a nuke. I've already
posted some of the pulling information on our show's Facebook page,
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and that's across the board. There's no real variance between
the political parties on that point, and it's not that
we're overly worried about Iran using a new k on
the United States. That neo conservative argument is pretty much dead.
Even if they got a bomb. The Iranians don't have
an intercontinentalt weapons platform, nor do they have any aircraft
capable of hitting US, or any probably any aircraft left period.
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Their beef isn't directly with America anyway. Even though we're
called the Great Satan, they hate us because we're Israel's
biggest ally, and that's who they would more likely hit
it'd be easier to hit Israel than to smuggle a
bomb halfway across the world to inside our borders, despite
what you might read in a Ton Clancy novel, but
Iran would definitely use a new to go after Israel,
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and that opens up all kinds of scenarios, all of
them bad. That doesn't take any brains to figure out.
But that brings us to another question. Is it really
reasonable to suspect Iran is getting close to constructing a weapon?
And I think this is where the hesitation lies with
a lot of people, Because we've been lied to before.
We're not just willing to accept intelligence estimates as a
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case for war anymore. We've been down that road. There's
plenty of people out there that think net and Yahoo
might be making up the whole case to save his
own neck. Domestically, I personally have good friends that believe this.
And even if you don't buy that argument, is quite
possible just to be flat out wrong without any bal
intents at all, and shooting war is a hell of
a thing to get involved with by mistake. So yes,
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I fully understand the argument being made by the likesa
tuber Carlson, who like myself is a former neocon that's
been converted by well common sense and is skeptical of
the claims that uraniums themselves are just waiting around to
be liberated by the United States and Israel.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Sorry, I heard that one twenty years ago too, But yeah,
it's plausible that our Israel might have been right about
this all along. And that's based on the science behind
Iran's uranium enrichment program. Just to simplify as best I can,
uranium is almost entirely found within the two thirty eight isotope,
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but in order to make a nuclear reaction sustainable, it's
got to be converted to uranium two thirty five, and
that's what these centergieses are used for to process the
uranium nominally for their nuclear power plants, but commercial power
plants only need low enriched uranium, which is typically an
enrichment of three to five percent. From there, the next
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level of processing is to get the twenty percent enrichment,
which has limited industrial use. But the longest and toughest
phase is refining it into highly enriched uranium, which is
taking it above twenty percent to sixty percent, which can
take months or even years at sixty percent in enrichment,
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it becomes pretty apparent what a nation is updue because
that means you're either building nuclear reactors for a naval
fleet like submarines or aircraft carriers, and the Iranians have
exactly zero nuclear subs or carriers, or it is the
final benchmark before you reach weapons grade material at ninety
percent enrichment. And the deal is it's a quicker jump
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to get from sixty to ninety literally just a matter
of a few weeks, and that means Iran is demonstrated
they're just a few weeks away from being able to
manufacture nuclear weapons because the highly enriched uranium or AGU
phase is the biggest hurdle. Everything else is a matter
of assembly and a laboratory, which is potentially what you
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might have under the mountain at for Dal. Assuming the
uranium requirements are met, you could conceivably, with the right team,
constructive weapon in a matter of a few days of March.
They had enough sixty percent HU to make between five
to eight warheads should they decide to weaponize it. So
that may be what President Trump is talking about here
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when he discounted a CNN reporter citing Tulci Gabbard as
testifying in March that Iran at least then wasn't pursuing
a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But how close do.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You personally think that they were to getting one?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Because Tulca Gabbard, Tulsea gaberts has to quite in March.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
That the intelligence community said Iran wasn't filming And be
clear with better player what you said.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I think they were very close to happen.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Trump and Gabbard aren't actually contradicting each other at all
because the reporter Caitlyn Collins was selectively reporting Gabbert's comments.
Gabbard also went on to say the following quote. In
the past year, we have seen an erosion of decades
long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public,
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likely in bolding nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision making
apparatus US. Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest
levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons unquote.
And remember this this was back in March. So flash
forward to three months to now, when the IAEA has
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determined that the Iranians were three weeks away from having
enough physical material for up to even ten warheads now
for most of the world, Iran when it had the
delivery systems needed to launch one in their direction. But
that's not true for Israel, which is obviously in range
of many of Iran's medium range ballistic missiles. I mean,
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that's where you've been watching Israeli air defensive shoot down
all week with only about a ninety percent kill rate,
And that means if Iran had fired ten nukes at
Tel Aviv, one probably would have gotten through, particularly in
a mass launch sequence like we've been seeing the first
few days of the conflict. So is it at least
reasonable that Israel took action based on the threat level
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it was seeing. I believe so. So. For his part, Trump
urged diplomacy up to the last minute. And I believe
him when he says he doesn't want a war good
because neither do I. But you know, like that song
he played after his twenty sixteen victory speech, you can't
always get what you want.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
This is what we.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Elected him for to make these kinds of decisions. And
as Vice President Jade Vance posted this week, I believe
the President has earned some trust on this issue. When
we come back, we'll look at our options and potential
endgame scenarios. Plus what can we expect in terms of
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In the last block, we talked about the opposing viewpoints
of view regarding American involvement in Iran. There's a whole
other argument under way as well, not whether we should
get involved, but as who has the authority to do so.
Some Democratic members of Congress, as well as certain Republicans
like Representative Tom Massey of Kentucky, maintained that President Trump
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can't get involved without express Congressional approval under Article one
of the Constitution, citing also the War Powers Act of
nineteen seventy three. That's always worth a lively debate, and
Mark Levin had this little rant to say about it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
One other thing, these little weasels in Congress like Tom Massey,
the War Powers Act, And I'm a constitutionalist teachers, and
I know the President's not. He can't do this on
his own. Hey, Tommy, let me educate you about the Constitution.
Is the Warpowers Act in the Constitution? It was passed
in nineteen seventy three. Was the Constitution adopted in nineteen
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seventy three, Tommy, I don't think so. So you're joining
up with Talib who supports the enemy, Omar who supports
the enemy. Folks, this is black and white. You're either
on the side of the red, white, and blue or
on the other side. It's that simple.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Oh, what is the War Powers Act?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It is an unconstitutional law that tries to steal power
from the commander in chief if Congress wants to step
in and they don't believe that the president of the
United States should help Israel help us take out a
nuclear sight. So these primitives don't have a missile that
can hit Detroit and Los Angeles, in Philadelphia wherever they
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want to if that's their belief, they have what's called
the spending Clause of the Constitution.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Okay, lots to unpack here. Levin is partly right. At least,
the War Powers Act isn't unconstitutional per se. It's just
never really been challenged. That's Supreme Court well enough to
flesh out what it does or doesn't mean. The Constitution
gets a little ambiguous on how military action gets separated
out between the two branches, particularly since it was written
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at a time when war meant a month long ship
ride across the Atlantic Ocean. Now war can mean total
annihilation of three hundred and fifty million people in less
than half an hour. Decorations of war were even becoming
obsolete in seventeen eighty nine. Today it's almost a sick joke.
The last time we actually bothered was World War Two,
and then it took not even Hitler but Pearl Harbor
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to pass anything formally. That's why, even though the Constitution
expressly puts declaring war in the hands of the legislature,
the War Powers Act essentially lets the President put troops
in harm's way for sixty days unless Congress passes countermanding legislation.
For those two months, he can pretty much do anything
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he wants to. So let's assume that Trump can legally
order any strike he wants against Iran and that Congress
will simply go along with it. For all practical purposes,
He's already started moving to pieces around the world, including
talking with bordering nations like Pakistan, who's actually a nominal
ally of Iran and a nuclear power in its own right,
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about the possibility of using their bases as staging areas
for our military assets. Generally these countries will play along too,
so I bet on that happening now. Thus far, this
is all just prep work, and Trump could still play
this one of two ways. First option is he might
still just let Israel handle this himselves and keep the
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US limited to logistical and defensive support only. This keeps
US out of the war and is probably better for
domestic politics. The drawback to this is a much longer campaign.
The Israelis don't have the ordinance necessary to penetrate the
subterraneous fortifications where the more sensitive Iranian operations are located,
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and we can't just give them the munitions because they
don't have aircraft capable of dropping it in the first place.
So we're looking about possibly a multi month bonding campaign,
and that's bad for everybody, especially the civilian population of Iran.
We're talking over ten million people dislocated, probably way more
than that, and there's actually a humanitarian argument for interfiction here,
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though that's not my chief concern. The bigger problem is
that involves a much higher risk of mission failure, and
that can take any number of forms. For all we
know there's a Chinese ICBM under that mountain. I doubt it,
but the intelligence community is making educated guesses about how
far along the Iranians really are in their weapons development.
Mal've always said that military intelligence is Naxi moron, emphasis
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on the moron, So then you'd be looking at special
operations or even Israeli ground force is getting involved somehow,
and that probably runs more risk for escalating matters than
even though it's dropping a few bombs. So there really
are some serious risk trade offs here. There's not really
a simple solution, and that's why I think President Trump
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is actually leaning towards just letting our self bombers handle
things be done with it. It really is a lot
cleaner of a solution, but it comes with more political
risk to US and Poland shows Americans to be about
evenly split in terms of air strikes. The good news
is that the Israelis have already done the heavy lifting.
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The Iranian Air Force died quickly into no purpose, and
their air defense network is pretty much destroyed. In pure
military terms, Israel has actually done spectacular work. The risk
to our people is likely extremely low, and it's just
a matter of handling the diplomatic blowback, which is already
looking to be less than I would have anticipated. In
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the possiblity of Iranian tara cells, maybe hitting is with
reprisal attacks. In reality, America's biggest concern revolves around the economic.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Impact of all this.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Obviously, the first thing you think about is oil prices,
which have crept up slightly in the past week. One
threat here would be potentially Iranian attacks against oil transportation
into Persian Gulf, particularly around the Strait of Hermus. That's
pretty low, though we have a carrier grouped nearby, and
like we said earlier, Iran doesn't really have an navy anyway,
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much less anything that would actually compete with us. The
more likely issue would be a temporary disruption in oil supplies,
because Iran chiefly sells to China, and that means that
Chinese would have to pull their supply away from other
sources in the world market. China's state energy company CNPC
began evacuating their personnel from Iran on Wednesday. Here Stuart
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Barney of Fox News talks to the former Energy Secretary
Dan Brewlay about making up the extra supply.
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Can we just say, right, we need an extra million
battles a day. We're already producing thirteen point three million
a day right now. Can we just snap our things
and say, right, we need an extra million? Can we
get it immediately?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I think we can get it very fast. I don't
know if we can snap our fingers and make it
happen tomorrow Stewart, But look, this industry is incredibly innovative
and they know how to do this. So if the
task were put to them raised production, I have every
confidence in the world they can do it.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Right now, the US only purchases three percent of the
supply from Brazil, so our desire to marginalize the bridge
relationship could encourage America to work more closely with Brazil
in the future and leverage our influence against that of
Asia in South America. So let's remember that the real
enemy isn't ourselves, it's Iran. Back after this, we're Josh trying.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen you're listening to. That's the
bottom line. Your weekly broadcast on k LVII that tells
it like it is. This is Jane Vallerani reporting. Yatola
Kahmane of Iran, tucked away in his bunker, saw Israel
closing in on him this past week and the remnants
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of his regime continue being destroyed as quickly as new
ones were being appointed. That's what I want to talk
to you about this morning. One little general. I'm talking
about the Kamane's generals there, one little general, two little generals,
three little generals and so on being taken out by
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Israeli jets as quickly as new ones were being appointed
to Hyatola Kahmane warned this past week that Israel will
yet be destroyed, but it appears it's the end of
the road for the Ayatolla is ruling Iran, and President Trump,
in full support of Israel, has asked for an Iranian
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unconditional surrender. I'm old enough to remember when Iran was
a secular country and women wore Western clothes, but then
in the nineteen seventies, the Muslim hardliners in that country
overthrew the western style government of Iran, stormed the US
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embassy there and held the Americans prisoners. Former US President
Jimmy Carter sent a US military force of helicopters to
attempt to rescue of Americans being held captive, but the
rescue attempt failed in a sandstorm, and as I recall,
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the captive Americans vehicles ended up the planes crashed, they
were just left in the desert, and the Americans ended
up being rescued by people within the Canadian embassy there
in Iran. For the last fifty two years, Iran has
been ruled by the Muslim mallahs, and apostates were usually
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stoned to death, as were women who often refused to
wear clothes that covered their bodies from head to toe,
or maybe even showing some of the head on some
of the hair on their head, and the malas claimed
their prophet would soon return, being born from a man,
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not a woman, and that Jesus himself would return and
become a servant of Allah. I don't know where they
get these things, but that's what they believe. Iran was
transformed into a theocracy where women were burned to death
for as little as an infraction of showing the hair
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on their heads. In any event, the Iatolas taught everyone
that their profit would not return until Israel was destroyed
as well as the big Satan. You know, they called
Israel the little Satan. They called the United States the
big Satan, right, But their profit, they believed, would not
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return until both Israel and the United States were destroyed
and those left would be required to become Muslims. For
decades around supported clandestine operations in the Middle East and,
as I said, made their people subservient to them. They
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supplied weapons to other countries that were their allies and
eventually began building atomic weapons and those underground bunkers planned
to be used against Israel and of course the United States.
Americans have witnessed the anti Semitism carried out here in
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the United States by Muslims, you know, on those college
campuses and elsewhere. An unbelievable injustice that we Americans incur
by Democrat judges who attempt to block as much as
President Trump's initiative to support law and order, but to
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little novail as too many modern Democrat politicians have strayed
into socialism and communism that have become the so useful
idiots that would turn our beloved nation, the United States
of America, into a country we wouldn't recognize. In the
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not too distant future. The United States could use bunker bombs,
of course, to help destroy those Iranian atomic missiles being
built deep in underground buckers. Now, we are fortunate that
Israel is taking on the Iatolus and supporting their effort
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as much as possible. In other words, Israel is doing
the heavy lifting, ladies and gentlemen. So we live in
interesting times, and we all might learn more if we
studied the Bible more. Listen to me, It's only a
matter of time before the Second Coming of Jesus occurs
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and the world will at last be at peace. But
in the meantime, unfortunately, we live in the modern world
with nations rising up against each other, and all we
can do is sit by, and most of the time
we just have to sit here quietly waiting for Jesus
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to return to bring peace into this world. Now, how
much time before that happens, no one knows, But sooner
or later, we'll finally be at peace with one another.
And you know, ladies and gentlemen, that's really the bottom line,
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and why we have this report every week, and why
we support what the Israelis are doing, and why we
know that the United States is their best ally. So
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we don't know what's going to happen in the end,
but the Iran Is now they've lost full control of
their skies, and the Aye Tola there came out and
said that they're going to use some secret weapon, whatever
that is. But the the fact of the matter is,
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ladies and gentlemen, that they're finally being crushed, and they
being crushed by Israel. And whether or not the United
States ends up taking a more active role in that
or not, I guess, remains to be seen. But President Trump,
in his wisdom, seems to be holding off on that,
or at least he was when I put this report together.
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And we just have to wait and be patient. We
firmly believe that Israel will prevail in this war and
that eventually there will be peace in the world. But
I think that that is yet to happen. What about you?
Do you think that too well? I do so. In
the meantime, we have to be diligent, faithful, and forthright.
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One of the obstacles we rent into doing a weekly
show is that sometimes events happen quicker than our production
schedule allows for. So right after we did last week's show,
this happened. Falk Is alert.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
We can confirm Israel is launching a series of preemptive
air strikes against Iran right now.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
Explosions reported in the capital of Tran.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Now normally the Israel least we consult our show first
before conducting this sort of attack. You know, that give
us some lead time for what's obviously going to be
our top line story. But Netanyau who signed preoccupied and
President Trump stoped return of my text. So here we
are what we'll do this week is instead of attempting
to rehash the last week of war coverage, I want
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us to take a look at what our options are
as a country, because we might very well be getting
into this ourselves as of this recording. That hasn't happened yet,
but there's a very real possibility by the time you
hear this over the weekend, we could all be ready
to be conducting our own military strikes a question to
ask whether or not we should. So that's a discussion
(02:03):
we'll start with first. Later on in the program we'll
talk about the financial implications this could have on you.
After all, this is a business show, but the political
ramifications are simply too big to ignore, so let's start there.
First off, I want us to be able to agree
on one thing that there's a very there's very good
points to be made both in favor of a US
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intervention and against our involvement. There's a tendency to vilify
one position or the other, and I think we need
to avoid that right now at all costs. So let's
break down to arguments. First. What is America's primary objective here?
That should be obvious. Iran can't get a nuke. President
Trump has made our position crystal clear.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
They can't have a new clear weapon, very simple, they
can't have a new clear web.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
We're not going to allow that.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Okay, that pretty much speaks for itself. Trump is going
to look out for American first, but Iran becoming a
nuclear power is decidedly against that. I don't think anyone
really disputes that point, and about eighty percent of Americans
agree with keeping Amararan's hands off a nuke. I've already
posted some of the pulling information on our show's Facebook page,
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and that's across the board. There's no real variance between
the political parties on that point, and it's not that
we're overly worried about Iran using a new k on
the United States. That neo conservative argument is pretty much dead.
Even if they got a bomb. The Iranians don't have
an intercontinentalt weapons platform, nor do they have any aircraft
capable of hitting US, or any probably any aircraft left period.
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Their beef isn't directly with America anyway. Even though we're
called the Great Satan, they hate us because we're Israel's
biggest ally, and that's who they would more likely hit
it'd be easier to hit Israel than to smuggle a
bomb halfway across the world to inside our borders, despite
what you might read in a Ton Clancy novel, but
Iran would definitely use a new to go after Israel,
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and that opens up all kinds of scenarios, all of
them bad. That doesn't take any brains to figure out.
But that brings us to another question. Is it really
reasonable to suspect Iran is getting close to constructing a weapon?
And I think this is where the hesitation lies with
a lot of people, Because we've been lied to before.
We're not just willing to accept intelligence estimates as a
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case for war anymore. We've been down that road. There's
plenty of people out there that think net and Yahoo
might be making up the whole case to save his
own neck. Domestically, I personally have good friends that believe this.
And even if you don't buy that argument, is quite
possible just to be flat out wrong without any bal
intents at all, and shooting war is a hell of
a thing to get involved with by mistake. So yes,
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I fully understand the argument being made by the likesa
tuber Carlson, who like myself is a former neocon that's
been converted by well common sense and is skeptical of
the claims that uraniums themselves are just waiting around to
be liberated by the United States and Israel.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Sorry, I heard that one twenty years ago too, But yeah,
it's plausible that our Israel might have been right about
this all along. And that's based on the science behind
Iran's uranium enrichment program. Just to simplify as best I can,
uranium is almost entirely found within the two thirty eight isotope,
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but in order to make a nuclear reaction sustainable, it's
got to be converted to uranium two thirty five, and
that's what these centergieses are used for to process the
uranium nominally for their nuclear power plants, but commercial power
plants only need low enriched uranium, which is typically an
enrichment of three to five percent. From there, the next
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level of processing is to get the twenty percent enrichment,
which has limited industrial use. But the longest and toughest
phase is refining it into highly enriched uranium, which is
taking it above twenty percent to sixty percent, which can
take months or even years at sixty percent in enrichment,
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it becomes pretty apparent what a nation is updue because
that means you're either building nuclear reactors for a naval
fleet like submarines or aircraft carriers, and the Iranians have
exactly zero nuclear subs or carriers, or it is the
final benchmark before you reach weapons grade material at ninety
percent enrichment. And the deal is it's a quicker jump
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to get from sixty to ninety literally just a matter
of a few weeks, and that means Iran is demonstrated
they're just a few weeks away from being able to
manufacture nuclear weapons because the highly enriched uranium or AGU
phase is the biggest hurdle. Everything else is a matter
of assembly and a laboratory, which is potentially what you
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might have under the mountain at for Dal. Assuming the
uranium requirements are met, you could conceivably, with the right team,
constructive weapon in a matter of a few days of March.
They had enough sixty percent HU to make between five
to eight warheads should they decide to weaponize it. So
that may be what President Trump is talking about here
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when he discounted a CNN reporter citing Tulci Gabbard as
testifying in March that Iran at least then wasn't pursuing
a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
But how close do.
Speaker 8 (07:22):
You personally think that they were to getting one?
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Because Tulca Gabbard, Tulsea gaberts has to quite in March.
Speaker 9 (07:27):
That the intelligence community said Iran wasn't filming And be
clear with better player what you said.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
I think they were very close to happen.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Trump and Gabbard aren't actually contradicting each other at all
because the reporter Caitlyn Collins was selectively reporting Gabbert's comments.
Gabbard also went on to say the following quote. In
the past year, we have seen an erosion of decades
long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public,
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likely in bolding nuclear weapons advocates within Iran's decision making
apparatus US. Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest
levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons unquote.
And remember this this was back in March. So flash
forward to three months to now, when the IAEA has
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determined that the Iranians were three weeks away from having
enough physical material for up to even ten warheads now
for most of the world, Iran when it had the
delivery systems needed to launch one in their direction. But
that's not true for Israel, which is obviously in range
of many of Iran's medium range ballistic missiles. I mean,
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that's where you've been watching Israeli air defensive shoot down
all week with only about a ninety percent kill rate,
And that means if Iran had fired ten nukes at
Tel Aviv, one probably would have gotten through, particularly in
a mass launch sequence like we've been seeing the first
few days of the conflict. So is it at least
reasonable that Israel took action based on the threat level
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it was seeing. I believe so. So. For his part, Trump
urged diplomacy up to the last minute. And I believe
him when he says he doesn't want a war good
because neither do I. But you know, like that song
he played after his twenty sixteen victory speech, you can't
always get what you want.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
This is what we.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
Elected him for to make these kinds of decisions. And
as Vice President Jade Vance posted this week, I believe
the President has earned some trust on this issue. When
we come back, we'll look at our options and potential
endgame scenarios. Plus what can we expect in terms of
an economic impact.
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In the last block, we talked about the opposing viewpoints
of view regarding American involvement in Iran. There's a whole
other argument under way as well, not whether we should
get involved, but as who has the authority to do so.
Some Democratic members of Congress, as well as certain Republicans
like Representative Tom Massey of Kentucky, maintained that President Trump
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can't get involved without express Congressional approval under Article one
of the Constitution, citing also the War Powers Act of
nineteen seventy three. That's always worth a lively debate, and
Mark Levin had this little rant to say about it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
One other thing, these little weasels in Congress like Tom Massey,
the War Powers Act, And I'm a constitutionalist teachers, and
I know the President's not. He can't do this on
his own. Hey, Tommy, let me educate you about the Constitution.
Is the Warpowers Act in the Constitution? It was passed
in nineteen seventy three. Was the Constitution adopted in nineteen
(14:20):
seventy three, Tommy, I don't think so. So you're joining
up with Talib who supports the enemy, Omar who supports
the enemy. Folks, this is black and white. You're either
on the side of the red, white, and blue or
on the other side. It's that simple.
Speaker 7 (14:34):
Oh, what is the War Powers Act?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
It is an unconstitutional law that tries to steal power
from the commander in chief if Congress wants to step
in and they don't believe that the president of the
United States should help Israel help us take out a
nuclear sight. So these primitives don't have a missile that
can hit Detroit and Los Angeles, in Philadelphia wherever they
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want to if that's their belief, they have what's called
the spending Clause of the Constitution.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Okay, lots to unpack here. Levin is partly right. At least,
the War Powers Act isn't unconstitutional per se. It's just
never really been challenged. That's Supreme Court well enough to
flesh out what it does or doesn't mean. The Constitution
gets a little ambiguous on how military action gets separated
out between the two branches, particularly since it was written
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at a time when war meant a month long ship
ride across the Atlantic Ocean. Now war can mean total
annihilation of three hundred and fifty million people in less
than half an hour. Decorations of war were even becoming
obsolete in seventeen eighty nine. Today it's almost a sick joke.
The last time we actually bothered was World War Two,
and then it took not even Hitler but Pearl Harbor
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to pass anything formally. That's why, even though the Constitution
expressly puts declaring war in the hands of the legislature,
the War Powers Act essentially lets the President put troops
in harm's way for sixty days unless Congress passes countermanding legislation.
For those two months, he can pretty much do anything
(16:08):
he wants to. So let's assume that Trump can legally
order any strike he wants against Iran and that Congress
will simply go along with it. For all practical purposes,
He's already started moving to pieces around the world, including
talking with bordering nations like Pakistan, who's actually a nominal
ally of Iran and a nuclear power in its own right,
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about the possibility of using their bases as staging areas
for our military assets. Generally these countries will play along too,
so I bet on that happening now. Thus far, this
is all just prep work, and Trump could still play
this one of two ways. First option is he might
still just let Israel handle this himselves and keep the
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US limited to logistical and defensive support only. This keeps
US out of the war and is probably better for
domestic politics. The drawback to this is a much longer campaign.
The Israelis don't have the ordinance necessary to penetrate the
subterraneous fortifications where the more sensitive Iranian operations are located,
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and we can't just give them the munitions because they
don't have aircraft capable of dropping it in the first place.
So we're looking about possibly a multi month bonding campaign,
and that's bad for everybody, especially the civilian population of Iran.
We're talking over ten million people dislocated, probably way more
than that, and there's actually a humanitarian argument for interfiction here,
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though that's not my chief concern. The bigger problem is
that involves a much higher risk of mission failure, and
that can take any number of forms. For all we
know there's a Chinese ICBM under that mountain. I doubt it,
but the intelligence community is making educated guesses about how
far along the Iranians really are in their weapons development.
Mal've always said that military intelligence is Naxi moron, emphasis
(17:55):
on the moron, So then you'd be looking at special
operations or even Israeli ground force is getting involved somehow,
and that probably runs more risk for escalating matters than
even though it's dropping a few bombs. So there really
are some serious risk trade offs here. There's not really
a simple solution, and that's why I think President Trump
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is actually leaning towards just letting our self bombers handle
things be done with it. It really is a lot
cleaner of a solution, but it comes with more political
risk to US and Poland shows Americans to be about
evenly split in terms of air strikes. The good news
is that the Israelis have already done the heavy lifting.
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The Iranian Air Force died quickly into no purpose, and
their air defense network is pretty much destroyed. In pure
military terms, Israel has actually done spectacular work. The risk
to our people is likely extremely low, and it's just
a matter of handling the diplomatic blowback, which is already
looking to be less than I would have anticipated. In
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the possiblity of Iranian tara cells, maybe hitting is with
reprisal attacks. In reality, America's biggest concern revolves around the economic.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Impact of all this.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Obviously, the first thing you think about is oil prices,
which have crept up slightly in the past week. One
threat here would be potentially Iranian attacks against oil transportation
into Persian Gulf, particularly around the Strait of Hermus. That's
pretty low, though we have a carrier grouped nearby, and
like we said earlier, Iran doesn't really have an navy anyway,
(19:33):
much less anything that would actually compete with us. The
more likely issue would be a temporary disruption in oil supplies,
because Iran chiefly sells to China, and that means that
Chinese would have to pull their supply away from other
sources in the world market. China's state energy company CNPC
began evacuating their personnel from Iran on Wednesday. Here Stuart
(19:58):
Barney of Fox News talks to the former Energy Secretary
Dan Brewlay about making up the extra supply.
Speaker 10 (20:05):
Can we just say, right, we need an extra million
battles a day. We're already producing thirteen point three million
a day right now. Can we just snap our things
and say, right, we need an extra million? Can we
get it immediately?
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I think we can get it very fast. I don't
know if we can snap our fingers and make it
happen tomorrow Stewart, But look, this industry is incredibly innovative
and they know how to do this. So if the
task were put to them raised production, I have every
confidence in the world they can do it.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Right now, the US only purchases three percent of the
supply from Brazil, so our desire to marginalize the bridge
relationship could encourage America to work more closely with Brazil
in the future and leverage our influence against that of
Asia in South America. So let's remember that the real
enemy isn't ourselves, it's Iran. Back after this, we're Josh trying.
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen you're listening to. That's the
bottom line. Your weekly broadcast on k LVII that tells
it like it is. This is Jane Vallerani reporting. Yatola
Kahmane of Iran, tucked away in his bunker, saw Israel
closing in on him this past week and the remnants
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of his regime continue being destroyed as quickly as new
ones were being appointed. That's what I want to talk
to you about this morning. One little general. I'm talking
about the Kamane's generals there, one little general, two little generals,
three little generals and so on being taken out by
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Israeli jets as quickly as new ones were being appointed
to Hyatola Kahmane warned this past week that Israel will
yet be destroyed, but it appears it's the end of
the road for the Ayatolla is ruling Iran, and President Trump,
in full support of Israel, has asked for an Iranian
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unconditional surrender. I'm old enough to remember when Iran was
a secular country and women wore Western clothes, but then
in the nineteen seventies, the Muslim hardliners in that country
overthrew the western style government of Iran, stormed the US
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embassy there and held the Americans prisoners. Former US President
Jimmy Carter sent a US military force of helicopters to
attempt to rescue of Americans being held captive, but the
rescue attempt failed in a sandstorm, and as I recall,
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the captive Americans vehicles ended up the planes crashed, they
were just left in the desert, and the Americans ended
up being rescued by people within the Canadian embassy there
in Iran. For the last fifty two years, Iran has
been ruled by the Muslim mallahs, and apostates were usually
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stoned to death, as were women who often refused to
wear clothes that covered their bodies from head to toe,
or maybe even showing some of the head on some
of the hair on their head, and the malas claimed
their prophet would soon return, being born from a man,
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not a woman, and that Jesus himself would return and
become a servant of Allah. I don't know where they
get these things, but that's what they believe. Iran was
transformed into a theocracy where women were burned to death
for as little as an infraction of showing the hair
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on their heads. In any event, the Iatolas taught everyone
that their profit would not return until Israel was destroyed
as well as the big Satan. You know, they called
Israel the little Satan. They called the United States the
big Satan, right, But their profit, they believed, would not
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return until both Israel and the United States were destroyed
and those left would be required to become Muslims. For
decades around supported clandestine operations in the Middle East and,
as I said, made their people subservient to them. They
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supplied weapons to other countries that were their allies and
eventually began building atomic weapons and those underground bunkers planned
to be used against Israel and of course the United States.
Americans have witnessed the anti Semitism carried out here in
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the United States by Muslims, you know, on those college
campuses and elsewhere. An unbelievable injustice that we Americans incur
by Democrat judges who attempt to block as much as
President Trump's initiative to support law and order, but to
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little novail as too many modern Democrat politicians have strayed
into socialism and communism that have become the so useful
idiots that would turn our beloved nation, the United States
of America, into a country we wouldn't recognize. In the
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not too distant future. The United States could use bunker bombs,
of course, to help destroy those Iranian atomic missiles being
built deep in underground buckers. Now, we are fortunate that
Israel is taking on the Iatolus and supporting their effort
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as much as possible. In other words, Israel is doing
the heavy lifting, ladies and gentlemen. So we live in
interesting times, and we all might learn more if we
studied the Bible more. Listen to me, It's only a
matter of time before the Second Coming of Jesus occurs
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and the world will at last be at peace. But
in the meantime, unfortunately, we live in the modern world
with nations rising up against each other, and all we
can do is sit by, and most of the time
we just have to sit here quietly waiting for Jesus
(28:57):
to return to bring peace into this world. Now, how
much time before that happens, no one knows, But sooner
or later, we'll finally be at peace with one another.
And you know, ladies and gentlemen, that's really the bottom line,
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and why we have this report every week, and why
we support what the Israelis are doing, and why we
know that the United States is their best ally. So
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we don't know what's going to happen in the end,
but the Iran Is now they've lost full control of
their skies, and the Aye Tola there came out and
said that they're going to use some secret weapon, whatever
that is. But the the fact of the matter is,
(30:01):
ladies and gentlemen, that they're finally being crushed, and they
being crushed by Israel. And whether or not the United
States ends up taking a more active role in that
or not, I guess, remains to be seen. But President Trump,
in his wisdom, seems to be holding off on that,
or at least he was when I put this report together.
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And we just have to wait and be patient. We
firmly believe that Israel will prevail in this war and
that eventually there will be peace in the world. But
I think that that is yet to happen. What about you?
Do you think that too well? I do so. In
the meantime, we have to be diligent, faithful, and forthright.
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We'll be back with more right after this.
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That tells it like it is. And each week at
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You can also take it advantage of fixed interest if
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At Asset Growth Associates, we ask our clients to first
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people that don't want to take risks because the plans
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with all the turmoil and places of the world that
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about safer strategies than directly investing in the market. If
you're close to retirement, loss of avoidance is critical to
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and if you're like me ideologically you're probably also conservative.
That means we're on the same team, not fighting against
each other. And that's a rap. On the week, I'm
Jeff Lewis for Gene Valerani and everyone here at Asset
Growth Associates. Remember that you are greatly blessed and highly
favored because as always, that's the bottom line.
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