The Ben Shapiro Show - Yes, We’re STILL Winning: Trump’s Iran Plan, And What Comes Next
Aired: 2026-04-10
Duration: 01:07:57


=== America's Great Again Misunderstood (03:23) ===

[00:00:00]  So I was off for Passover for a couple of days and apparently the world is now ending.
[00:00:05]  President Trump declared a ceasefire.
[00:00:07]  The Iranians won.
[00:00:08]  We're all going to be speaking Persian.
[00:00:10]  The IRGC is going to be presiding over the entire Middle East.
[00:00:13]  They won.
[00:00:14]  Or, or alternatively, President Trump is doing something smart and people are deliberately misunderstanding that thing.
[00:00:21]  Because here is the thing.
[00:00:23]  President Trump's ceasefire is a win-win.
[00:00:26]  Either it's going to work or it's not going to work.
[00:00:29]  And either way, America will end up Winning because President Trump is going to solidify his legacy as the greatest foreign policy president in modern American history.
[00:00:38]  Nothing less will suffice.
[00:00:39]  It's the reason he's doing it.
[00:00:41]  It's the reason he's doing it.
[00:00:43]  President Trump also knows the increasingly unhinged members of podcasts to stand.
[00:00:48]  Did you see how hard he smacked them on Truth Social?
[00:00:50]  We'll get to that in a bit.
[00:00:51]  Tucker Carlson and his advocacy for a weak America and a strong Russia and China and Iran.
[00:00:57]  And Candace Owens and her bizarre Nazi Nouveau rhetoric.
[00:01:00]  And Alex Jones and his constant conspiracy laden low IQ crap.
[00:01:04]  And Megyn Kelly and her click chasing abandonment of all principle.
[00:01:08]  They aren't just wrong, they're undermining what it would mean for America to actually be great again.
[00:01:13]  This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
[00:01:22]  America has to be strong.
[00:01:23]  That's been President Trump's message the entire time he's been running for office.
[00:01:26]  And it will be strong.
[00:01:27]  It was Trump's message in 2016.
[00:01:29]  It was his message in 2020.
[00:01:31]  It was his message in 2024.
[00:01:33]  It is his message today.
[00:01:35]  And that's what his legacy will have to be if he's to have any legacy at all.
[00:01:39]  A stronger America, period.
[00:01:41]  That's what Americans want.
[00:01:44]  A revitalized vision of America as the global leader, the strongest power on earth, which means two things.
[00:01:50]  One, America as the free leader of the world.
[00:01:54]  Robust free speech, a strong social fabric, a booming economy filled with innovation.
[00:01:59]  And second, the leader of the free world, a dominant military power capable of deterring threats and ensuring freedom of trade and American security and the security of our allies across the planet.
[00:02:10]  That's the vision.
[00:02:11]  That's what America ought to look like.
[00:02:13]  This is what conservatives have always thought.
[00:02:16]  That's what we think today.
[00:02:18]  That's what President Trump's enemies on the right now oppose.
[00:02:22]  They want a weaker America.
[00:02:24]  They're posing as America first.
[00:02:26]  What they actually are is America toast.
[00:02:29]  And they say it openly.
[00:02:30]  They say all the time things like they want America to retreat from the world.
[00:02:34]  We're already too weak.
[00:02:35]  We're bloated and we're falling apart.
[00:02:36]  And that the best American future actually looks like France declining, pathetic, amoral, addicted to welfare programs, importing mass labor from third world countries thanks to a ridiculously flabby welfare state, a social fabric that is no longer workable.
[00:02:53]  These are the people who seem to think that the best global future looks like a future where China and Russia run two thirds of the planet.
[00:03:00]  I mean, that's the only reason you end up running propaganda for all the worst regimes on the planet while proclaiming the Baghdad Bob, like Baghdad Bob, that America is losing, or playing a fresh version of Jane Fonda standing with the Viet Cong.
[00:03:14]  Again, this isn't about people asking honest questions about what President Trump is doing.
[00:03:18]  There are all sorts of questions that can be asked about what President Trump is doing, and all those questions deserve answers.

=== Iranian Weakness and Leverage (03:23) ===

[00:03:23]  It is about people who are actively rooting for America to lose and openly say so, and openly, openly say so.
[00:03:29]  Okay, so let's start with this.
[00:03:31]  Iran has been deeply wounded.
[00:03:34]  Over the course of the last several weeks, Iran has been brought low.
[00:03:38]  This notion that Iran is bestriding the Middle East like a colossus because they have the capacity to fire some drones at shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is asinine.
[00:03:46]  It's asinine.
[00:03:47]  Doesn't mean it's not a problem.
[00:03:48]  It is a problem.
[00:03:50]  But this bizarre notion that Iran somehow is the big victor here is crazy towns.
[00:03:56]  It's crazy towns and it's propagandistic nonsense.
[00:03:59]  Let's start with how much damage we've actually done to Iran at this point.
[00:04:02]  Here is the CENTCOM commander.
[00:04:04]  Brad Cooper giving an update yesterday.
[00:04:07]  Hi, I'm Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command.
[00:04:10]  Less than six weeks ago, more than 50,000 of America's sons and daughters in uniform launched Operation Epic Fury and embarked on a mission of profound consequence.
[00:04:21]  We set out to dismantle the Iranian regime's ability to project power beyond its own borders, and we clearly accomplished this task.
[00:04:30]  Iran has suffered a generational military defeat.
[00:04:33]  The United States and Israel systematically destroyed Iran's ability to conduct Large scale military operations for years to come.
[00:04:43]  And that, of course, is right.
[00:04:44]  General Dan Razen Kane described the extent of the Iranian defeat yesterday.
[00:04:50]  Since the beginning of major combat operations, the United States Joint Force has struck more than 13,000 targets, including in that 13,000, more than 4,000 dynamic targets that popped up on the battlefield and were immediately addressed, thanks to the exceptional command and control system and intelligence acumen and agility of our Joint Force.
[00:05:12]  CENTCOM forces destroyed approximately 80% of Iran's air defense systems.
[00:05:17]  Striking more than 1,500 air defense targets, more than 450 ballistic missile storage facilities, 800 one way attack drones for storage facilities.
[00:05:28]  All of these systems are gone.
[00:05:29]  We've devastated Iran's command and control and logistical networks, destroying more than 2,000 command and control nodes and degrading their ability to target U.S. and friendly forces.
[00:05:44]  So you may recall that I've been saying for weeks that no matter how the war ended, Iran had been significantly crippled.
[00:05:50]  Like truly crippled, truly hurt.
[00:05:53]  Okay, that's been my going theory for a while here because it happens to be the truth.
[00:05:58]  And all this talk about how Iran barely surviving, which is what is going on right now, basically, them having to exert pressure on the Strait of Hormuz, that is not, by the way, a sign of Iranian strength.
[00:06:08]  That's a sign of Iranian weakness.
[00:06:10]  They could have done this crap any time over the past 20 years.
[00:06:13]  The reason they didn't do it is because they understood it was basically the last gasp of a dying regime.
[00:06:18]  The reason that you try to seize global trading and alienate all the Gulf allies, and by the way, also China, which receives oil, From the Strait of Hormuz is because you are weak, not because you are strong.
[00:06:29]  It is a last gasp attempt to grab some sort of leverage.
[00:06:33]  That is what that is.
[00:06:34]  Okay, so this raises the question of President Trump's ceasefire.
[00:06:38]  So, as you recall, it was right before Passover for me, the last couple of days of Passover, and literally right before Passover it came in, the president announced a ceasefire.

=== The Last Gasp of a Regime (03:28) ===

[00:06:46]  So he put out a statement on Truth Social where he said, based on conversations with Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asin Munir of Pakistan, And we're in.
[00:06:55]  They requested that I hold off the destruction force being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:07:04]  I agreed to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
[00:07:08]  This will be a double sided ceasefire.
[00:07:10]  The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded our military objectives and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long form peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East.
[00:07:19]  We received a 10 point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.
[00:07:23]  Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran.
[00:07:27]  But a two week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.
[00:07:31]  On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the countries of the Middle East, it is an honor to have this long form problem close to resolution.
[00:07:38]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.
[00:07:40]  Okay, so.
[00:07:42]  Let's say that that were all true and that what the president had been assured by his negotiator, who it appears was the vice president, JD Vance, on this particular matter.
[00:07:50]  So you'll have to take it up with him if the president got the wrong story.
[00:07:54]  If what the president says is true, Iran had agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and outstanding issues, which of course include nuclear development, were basically being negotiated.
[00:08:04]  In just a moment, we'll get to Iran's response to the declared ceasefire first.
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[00:09:26]  So the Iranians put out their own statement.
[00:09:28]  This was the Foreign Minister Abbas Araki.
[00:09:32]  He said, On behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I express gratitude and appreciation for my dear brothers in Pakistan.
[00:09:39]  In response to the brotherly request of Prime Minister Sharif in his tweet, and considering the request by the United States for negotiation based on its 15 point proposal, as well as announcements by the president about acceptance.
[00:09:52]  Of the general framework of Iran's 10 point proposal as a basis for negotiation, I hereby declare on behalf of Iran's Supreme National Security Council if attacks against Iran are halted, our powerful armed forces will cease their defensive operations.
[00:10:06]  And the propaganda from these people, my goodness.
[00:10:08]  For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's armed forces and with the consideration of technical limitations.

=== Iran Backs Out of Deal (10:20) ===

[00:10:15]  Okay, so what you read from him is basically confirmation of what Trump said.
[00:10:20]  Okay, right, that the Strait of Hormuz is going to open and also.
[00:10:24]  That they were considering the 15 point proposal the United States had put forward.
[00:10:28]  Now, you have to understand, the original 10 point proposal put forward by Iran is total trash.
[00:10:33]  It was never going anywhere.
[00:10:34]  It included America abandoning all bases in the Middle East.
[00:10:37]  It included the United States paying reparations for the damage in the war.
[00:10:41]  It included full scale nuclear development by Iran and full scale ballistic missile development by Iran.
[00:10:46]  So it wasn't a basis for negotiation.
[00:10:48]  It was a dream list, it was a secret diary list from the Iranians.
[00:10:52]  Trump was never going to say okay to that.
[00:10:54]  So, the reaction of the markets is precisely what you think that it would be.
[00:10:58]  The price of a barrel of Brent crude had spiked into the 115 range prior to the president's announcement of the ceasefire, and then it dived below 100 again immediately upon the announcement of the ceasefire.
[00:11:12]  That's WTI crude oil, actually.
[00:11:14]  Brent crude plunged as well.
[00:11:17]  None of this being a gigantic shock.
[00:11:20]  Wednesday morning, the president put forward another statement on Truth Social where he said, the United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive regime change.
[00:11:29]  Again, it is totally unclear who he's talking to at this point.
[00:11:31]  I mean, it is regime change in the sense that the same people aren't talking to you, but if they are the same people's deputies who are saying the same things, it's not full regime change.
[00:11:40]  So he says, there will be no enrichment of uranium.
[00:11:42]  Again, that's the red line.
[00:11:43]  The United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried nuclear dust.
[00:11:48]  It is now and has been under very exacting satellite surveillance.
[00:11:51]  Nothing has been touched from the date of attack.
[00:11:53]  We are and will be talking tariff and sanctions relief with Iran.
[00:11:56]  Many of the 15 points have already been agreed to.
[00:11:58]  Thank you for your attention to this matter.
[00:11:59]  Okay, so if, again, the president received from Iran an actual deal in which the nuclear program goes bye bye and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, that is the end of the conflict.
[00:12:13]  That's been the president's case for a long time here.
[00:12:16]  Okay, because we have degraded their ballistic missile facilities, we have killed all the heads of the IRGC, we killed the Ayatollah.
[00:12:22]  His son, Mashtaba Khamenei, is missing a leg and is in a coma.
[00:12:27]  Because their Air Force is gone, their Navy is gone, their military has been heavily bombarded.
[00:12:32]  Okay, so that's why you end up with the ceasefire.
[00:12:36]  So, when I say that this is a win win, here is what I mean.
[00:12:40]  There are a few good reasons why you do the ceasefire.
[00:12:42]  First of all, you show goodwill that if the Strait were to reopen and Iran were to negotiate an end to its nuclear program, that would be the end of the war, which is what Trump has said literally from the beginning.
[00:12:54]  This is why it's hilarious.
[00:12:55]  All these people saying, well, his goal is regime change.
[00:12:57]  He never said it was regime change.
[00:12:59]  In fact, he overtly kept saying it wasn't regime change.
[00:13:02]  It was regime change behavior, that the behavior should change.
[00:13:07]  So either they're going to prove it or they're not going to prove it.
[00:13:10]  And that's why it's a two week ceasefire and not just an end to the war, because you still have to negotiate whether that is true or not.
[00:13:17]  Also, this is a signal to China.
[00:13:19]  Okay, that's the second reason to do a ceasefire like this.
[00:13:22]  Let's be clear about this negotiation.
[00:13:23]  Pakistan is a cutout for China.
[00:13:25]  Pakistan is basically a Chinese proxy at this point, period.
[00:13:30]  China was begging the United States to stop here because China has been deprived of some 37% of the oil that is coming through the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:13:39]  They are the largest single recipient of all oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:13:43]  33% of all of their oil imports come directly from the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:13:47]  Iran is choking that off.
[00:13:50]  China's not getting its oil right now, which harms China significantly more than it harms the United States.
[00:13:54]  So the United States, as a goodwill gesture to China, is offering Iran a path out.
[00:14:01]  Now, if Iran doesn't show the goodwill to take it, what is China going to do?
[00:14:04]  Is China going to be super happy with the Iranians for continuing to choke off the Strait of Hormuz as their only methodology for attaining power?
[00:14:12]  Because again, they don't have a fully functional nuclear program.
[00:14:15]  It seems as though the Iranian government is trying to turn itself into a hermit state like North Korea.
[00:14:20]  Basically, they're saying, okay, we have no economy.
[00:14:23]  Okay, our country's trashed, but we will hang on to power by exerting leverage.
[00:14:27]  They don't have a nuclear weapon the way that North Korea does.
[00:14:30]  That's the thing we've been trying to stop.
[00:14:32]  Because if they got a nuclear weapon, not only would they hand it off to their terror proxies, they would also threaten everybody with it.
[00:14:38]  Right now, they're using the Strait of Hormuz to threaten everybody.
[00:14:41]  The reason they won't give up control of the Strait is because they have no leverage if they give up control of the Strait.
[00:14:47]  Again, this could all be over tomorrow if they give up their nukes and control of the Strait.
[00:14:50]  The question is whether they're going to do that.
[00:14:52]  Trump is offering them an off ramp to do that.
[00:14:54]  Maybe they'll take it.
[00:14:55]  All likelihood they won't.
[00:14:57]  Also, by the way, this does allow for military replenishment.
[00:15:00]  We've been flying continuous sorties for a month, so it's not a terrible time to do maintenance.
[00:15:04]  And repair and some planning for whatever the next step is going to be, if in fact the negotiations go sideways.
[00:15:10]  So, the people who are all over Trump here, who believe that he's just going to give up the ghost, that he's going to leave without achieving some status change in Iran's nuclear approach, or that the control of the Straits is going to be left completely to the behest of the Iranians, it beggars imagination.
[00:15:27]  It doesn't make any sense because it cuts directly against the purpose of President Trump doing this, which is a stronger America.
[00:15:35]  There would be knock on effects if.
[00:15:37]  If Iran were able to just maintain complete control over the strait and no deal took place and the U.S. just walked away, yes, they would be greatly weakened, but it would send some pretty bad messages.
[00:15:46]  Like, for example, that any country could talk the United States into abandoning core national interests over shutting down serious trade routes.
[00:15:55]  China might take notice of that, for example, because the Taiwan Strait, which, you know, like it's called the Taiwan Strait because it passes right by Taiwan, it carries 20% of all global maritime trade.
[00:16:07]  It carries something like 90% of the world's largest ships by tonnage.
[00:16:10]  So, if China takes away the lesson that shutting off a trade corridor is leverage against the United States sufficient to deter us from our core national interests, that's a problem.
[00:16:19]  It would also mean, because China's way stronger than Iran, that any country with a few drones and ballistic missiles and some geographic proximity to a choke point could wave off the most powerful force on planet Earth.
[00:16:32]  And it would be very bad for President Trump's legacy, because again, two years from now, three years from now, Iran could theoretically rebuild and then claim real victory over President Trump.
[00:16:41]  Unless, again, unless the reality here is that either way this goes, no matter what happens here, the Iranian government has already been hit so hard that they are going to fall apart anyway, which, by the way, is certainly possible.
[00:16:56]  They are a wounded animal that's had one leg removed, not unlike the new Ayatollah Khomeini.
[00:17:01]  They are crawling away into the woods.
[00:17:03]  They may survive.
[00:17:04]  The question is, for how long?
[00:17:06]  Because they are still bleeding, because their infrastructure no longer exists in the same way, because all of their ballistic missile facilities have been destroyed, because their steel mills have been destroyed, because Their gas fields in South Pars were hit because their chemical factories were hit because everything was hit.
[00:17:24]  So that's where things currently stand.
[00:17:26]  This is why people who are saying, oh, catastrophe, end of the world.
[00:17:29]  No, not exactly.
[00:17:31]  Hey, now, is the ceasefire actually going to last?
[00:17:33]  The reason that Iran is in serious trouble here is because either way this goes, they got a problem.
[00:17:39]  The reason Iran is hesitant to give up control over the Strait of Hormuz now is because this is now their only leverage point.
[00:17:45]  What they realized in this war, they thought they had three possible leverage points here.
[00:17:49]  One, their terrorist proxies.
[00:17:51]  They could activate their terrorist proxies and it would drive everybody off the ball.
[00:17:54]  Two, that they could directly fire at energy facilities in Saudi and UAE and Bahrain, and all of those countries would pressure the United States into stopping.
[00:18:04]  And three, the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:18:05]  Those were their three real capacities to harm.
[00:18:10]  The globe and their enemies.
[00:18:12]  Two of those have been completely wiped off the map.
[00:18:14]  Their terrorist proxies are not going to deter anybody, and their strikes on Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi have driven the Gulf states, our Gulf allies, into alliance with Israel, not into weakness vis a vis Iran.
[00:18:28]  So that left them with one choke point and one choke point only, and that's the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:18:31]  If they give that up, then basically they become a hermit state without even a nuclear weapon.
[00:18:36]  And then they are unbelievably vulnerable internally.
[00:18:39]  And don't pay attention to all the reporting suggesting that there is nothing roiling under the surface in Iran.
[00:18:44]  Again, there were millions of people in the streets before this war.
[00:18:47]  What do you think is going to happen when all of this is over?
[00:18:49]  You think everybody's just going to go back to sleep?
[00:18:52]  When the IRGC is in the weakest position it has likely ever been?
[00:18:56]  When the Iranian army, the Artesh, and the IRGC are not exactly on the same page?
[00:19:02]  The IRGC, by the way, again, they're doing things that a last gasp regime does right now.
[00:19:07]  They're declaring dead people their leaders.
[00:19:10]  Moshtaba Khomeini is not the actual leader of Iran.
[00:19:14]  Moshtaba Khomeini is in a coma.
[00:19:16]  And they declared him the leader, and they are tweeting under his name right now.
[00:19:19]  Again, none of this is the mark of a powerful regime.
[00:19:23]  All of this is a mark of a regime that is on its last leg.
[00:19:25]  Not last legs, last leg.
[00:19:28]  In just a moment, we're about to get to Iran trying to back out of a deal that it kind of made.
[00:19:32]  Did it make?
[00:19:33]  We'll get into all of it first.
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=== False Narratives on Israel (15:09) ===

[00:20:35]  Okay, so Iran immediately started backtracking on the ceasefire deal.
[00:20:41]  So, what they're trying to do now is manipulate public opinion.
[00:20:44]  Again, this has been sort of the reason why President Trump is pissed off at Podcastistan is because they're buying into every piece of regime propaganda from the Iranians they possibly can, and they have been for weeks.
[00:20:56]  They've been buying into Russian propaganda and Iranian propaganda, and they've been mirroring all of it.
[00:21:00]  And this is why they say dumb things like the president was leveraged into this by the Israelis.
[00:21:04]  The Israelis are yanking the chain.
[00:21:06]  If the Israelis were yanking the chains, do you think the ceasefire would have happened in the first place?
[00:21:10]  The Israelis are not particularly happy with the ceasefire.
[00:21:14]  The president declared that because he wanted to declare it.
[00:21:17]  In the same way, the president declared the war in Gaza over because he wanted to declare the war in Gaza over.
[00:21:22]  The president is the one holding the end of every chain.
[00:21:25]  That is the way it works in geopolitics when you run the world's most powerful military.
[00:21:30]  So, Iran decided to basically run an op as to why they were not going to reopen the strait.
[00:21:35]  Again, the problem for Iran is if they reopen the strait, then they're going to have to concede.
[00:21:39]  If they concede, then they are very weak.
[00:21:41]  And if they're very weak, they might fall.
[00:21:43]  So, they continue to grip that strait.
[00:21:46]  The same way that Bill Clinton grips an intern's butt.
[00:21:50]  I mean, like that, that is, they must control the strait.
[00:21:53]  It is the only way.
[00:21:54]  So they're looking for an excuse and a way to blame Israel for continuing to maintain control of the strait.
[00:21:59]  So what they did is they decided they were going to blame Israel, of course, for maintaining control of the strait.
[00:22:05]  So let's start with this Hezbollah is an Iranian proxy.
[00:22:09]  Hezbollah has launched 6,400 rockets against Israel over the course of the last month.
[00:22:14]  Hezbollah has been greatly damaged since 2024.
[00:22:18]  That is when the Israelis did the famous Beeper operation, Operation Grim Beeper, where they took out a bunch of Hezbollah people and then they did an invasion of southern Lebanon and they cleared a lot of that territory.
[00:22:29]  Well, since then, Hezbollah has been attempting to reconstitute.
[00:22:32]  And so Hezbollah started firing in solidarity with Iran because they are an Iranian proxy terror group.
[00:22:38]  They started firing rockets over the border into northern Israel by the thousands.
[00:22:42]  By the thousands.
[00:22:43]  And so Israel decided they'd had enough and they walked over the border and they bombed the living hell out of southern Lebanon and they moved all the population.
[00:22:51]  That is not Christian, by the way, up past the Latani River, which is about 100 kilometers into the country.
[00:22:57]  And then, because Hezbollah had increased its launches, Israel decided that it was going to just end Hezbollah entirely.
[00:23:07]  They decided that they were going to just bomb the living hell out of them over the course of Wednesday and Thursday.
[00:23:12]  There are also rumors that Hezbollah was going to attempt some sort of action against the very weak Lebanese government to try and create another pressure point for Iran on behalf of Iran.
[00:23:22]  So Israel goes in, they hit the Iranian terrorist group Hezbollah extremely hard.
[00:23:27]  So Iran immediately claims that the ceasefire was violated, which is weird because nothing in the ceasefire had to do with Israel and Lebanon, which is quite far away.
[00:23:34]  It turns out that Lebanon is a separate country from Iran.
[00:23:37]  And if the idea is that any ceasefire, With Iran means that Israel can no longer defend itself against terrorist groups.
[00:23:44]  That is not a ceasefire that Israel would have ever agreed to or that the United States ever should agree to because that's stupid.
[00:23:50]  It would mean that by grabbing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran could create the basis for terror attacks all across the region.
[00:23:57]  By the way, not just on Israel.
[00:23:59]  Over the course of the ceasefire, Saudi's pipeline, they had a major pipeline that was actually hit.
[00:24:06]  That Saudi pipeline.
[00:24:09]  Now, originally, they thought that it was hit by the Iranians.
[00:24:12]  It turns out it was hit by an Iranian proxy group in Iraq.
[00:24:14]  Okay, same difference.
[00:24:15]  So, what Iran is doing is they're now attempting to reflex that terrorist muscle, right?
[00:24:19]  Remember, I said three points of leverage terrorist groups, direct attacks on America's allies and energy resources in the region, and Strait of Hormuz.
[00:24:28]  So, they already lost two, right?
[00:24:29]  It didn't actually drive the Gulf allies into weakness with the Iranians.
[00:24:33]  And the terror groups, their proxy terror groups, are very weak.
[00:24:36]  They're trying to reconstitute that now.
[00:24:38]  They're trying to rebuild something.
[00:24:39]  Okay, so Iran immediately claimed that there's a violation of the ceasefire in some way.
[00:24:46]  They put out A message on Wednesday afternoon suggesting that there was a noncompliance with the first clause of the 10 point proposal regarding the ceasefire in Lebanon.
[00:24:56]  Okay, and the United States immediately came out and they were like, no, actually, that is not how any of this works.
[00:25:05]  We never agreed, the United States never agreed that Iran got to basically activate terror groups across the region without any consequence because there's a ceasefire over the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:25:14]  Here's Caroline Levitt at the White House denying this.
[00:25:18]  The Iranians originally put forward a 10 point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded.
[00:25:25]  It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team.
[00:25:31]  Many outlets in this room have falsely reported on that plan as being acceptable to the United States, and that is false.
[00:25:38]  With the President's deadline fast approaching and the United States military completely decimating Iran with each passing hour, the regime acknowledged reality to the negotiating team.
[00:25:48]  They put forward a more reasonable and entirely different plan.
[00:25:51]  And condensed plan to the president and his team.
[00:25:54]  President Trump and the team determined the new modified plan was a workable basis on which to negotiate and to align it with our own 15 point proposal.
[00:26:04]  The president's red lines, namely the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran, have not changed.
[00:26:11]  And the idea that President Trump would ever accept an Iranian wish list as a deal is completely absurd.
[00:26:20]  Now, again, this is the op that Iran is running.
[00:26:22]  They're trying to say that there was an agreement and the Israelis violated the agreement.
[00:26:25]  And Trump's team is saying that was never part of the agreement.
[00:26:28]  You're just lying now, which, by the way, is the Iranian way in negotiation under the revolutionary regime.
[00:26:33]  This is what they do.
[00:26:34]  They lie in negotiations.
[00:26:35]  It's why the JCPOA was an idiotic idea.
[00:26:38]  There is no agreement they make that is worth the paper upon which it is printed.
[00:26:42]  The president put out his own statement on Truth Social saying this.
[00:26:44]  Numerous agreements, lists, and letters are being sent out by people that have absolutely nothing to do with the USA Iran negotiation.
[00:26:50]  In many cases, they are total fraudsters, charlatans, and worse.
[00:26:53]  They will be rapidly exposed after our federal investigation is completed.
[00:26:56]  There's only one group of meaningful points that are acceptable to the United States, and we will be discussing them behind closed doors during these negotiations.
[00:27:03]  These are the points that are the basis on which we agreed to a ceasefire.
[00:27:06]  It is something that is reasonable and can be easily dispensed with.
[00:27:09]  It's very much like fake news CNN last night headlining a source that had no power or authority to write a letter claiming great authority, President Trump.
[00:27:15]  Okay, so he is saying that the Iranians are putting out a 10 point plan that is not the 10 point plan that was the basis for negotiations.
[00:27:22]  Now, JD Vance.
[00:27:24]  Who, again, we will find out about his negotiating acumen, I suppose, throughout this process.
[00:27:28]  He's been put in the loop with regards to this negotiation.
[00:27:31]  He was apparently on the cutting edge of negotiating this ceasefire.
[00:27:35]  And he says that the people on the fringes of the Iranian system are trying to create propaganda here about this supposed 10 point plan that would basically have the United States surrendering.
[00:27:45]  What's happening on the ground in Iran is that you have clearly the position of the government, which is to negotiate with the United States of America.
[00:27:52]  You have the position of the President of the United States, which is to send the negotiators to Pakistan.
[00:27:56]  And engage in this good faith negotiation.
[00:27:59]  And then, yes, you have some crazy people at the fringes of the Iranian system who are leaking anonymously, either for propaganda purposes or because they're embarrassed or because they don't like what happened.
[00:28:12]  Okay, so again, he is saying the same thing that Trump is saying, same thing that Caroline Levitt is saying, same thing the Israelis are saying, which is that this never included Lebanon.
[00:28:19]  It didn't suggest that they get to keep their nukes or their ballistic missiles or anything like that.
[00:28:24]  Vance continued, again, this is on Wednesday.
[00:28:27]  Saying the United States has the leverage here, which of course is true.
[00:28:29]  It turns out you have the leverage when you have the world's most powerful military.
[00:28:34]  The President of the United States has made very clear that the United States has a lot of leverage here.
[00:28:39]  We have economic leverage, we've got military leverage.
[00:28:41]  What he's trying to do is make sure the American people are safe and strike a deal that's good for the American people.
[00:28:49]  And Ban said that the ceasefire never included Lebanon.
[00:28:53]  I think this comes from a legitimate misunderstanding.
[00:28:56]  I think the Iranians thought that the ceasefire included Lebanon, and it just didn't.
[00:29:01]  We never made that promise.
[00:29:03]  We never indicated that was going to be the case.
[00:29:05]  What we said is that the ceasefire would be focused on Iran, and the ceasefire would be focused on America's allies, both Israel and the Gulf Arab states.
[00:29:14]  Okay, so first of all, I should point out there's no such thing as a legitimate misunderstanding here.
[00:29:20]  Every ceasefire to include regional domination, and the United States does not, it'll be interesting to see whether that gap is bridged in any way.
[00:29:28]  It's not a legitimate misunderstanding.
[00:29:29]  That is the entire gap in negotiations.
[00:29:31]  Does Iran, are they willing to give up control of the Strait of Hormuz?
[00:29:35]  And are they willing to get rid of their nuclear program?
[00:29:37]  That's the whole thing.
[00:29:38]  If the answer is no, then this thing is not over yet.
[00:29:40]  And if the answer is yes, it's over for now, but it may also be over for the Iranian regime, and they know it.
[00:29:46]  By the way, we should note the Iranians had said that while Israel is still going after Lebanon, there would be no negotiations.
[00:29:52]  As of this morning, the negotiations are still happening.
[00:29:55]  So it turns out that they, in fact, do not have all the leverage.
[00:29:58]  We'll get to Caroline Levitt spelling out what's going on in just one moment first.
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[00:30:47]  Meanwhile, at the White House, Caroline Lovett says that our red lines have not moved.
[00:30:51]  No uranium enrichment.
[00:30:53]  That is the red line.
[00:30:55]  Has Iran given the administration any indication that it would simply turn over the enriched uranium, or is this an expectation the president has that he would have to send in ground troops in order to do that?
[00:31:08]  This is on the top of the priority list for the president and his negotiating team as they head into this next round of discussions.
[00:31:14]  And as I said in my opener, that is a red line that the president is not going to back away from, and he's committed to ensuring that takes place.
[00:31:22]  We hope it will be through diplomacy.
[00:31:24]  Have they given any indication that they would turn it over?
[00:31:26]  They have.
[00:31:27]  They are on.
[00:31:28]  Yes.
[00:31:30]  Okay.
[00:31:30]  President Trump put out a statement on Wednesday night, again reiterating this.
[00:31:33]  I don't know how many times he has to say, quote, all U.S. ships, aircraft, and military personnel with additional ammunition, weaponry, and anything else that is appropriate and necessary for the lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded enemy will remain in place and around Iran until such time as the real agreement reached is fully complied with.
[00:31:51]  If for any reason it is not, which is highly unlikely, then the shooting starts bigger and better and stronger than anyone has ever seen before.
[00:31:57]  It was agreed a long time ago, and despite all the fake rhetoric to the contrary, No nuclear weapons, and the Strait of Hormuz will be open and safe.
[00:32:03]  Again, same conditions over and over and over.
[00:32:05]  This notion that Trump has just abandoned his conditions here, based on what?
[00:32:11]  Based on what?
[00:32:12]  Again, the purpose here is to negotiate some sort of end state.
[00:32:15]  Maybe Iran is, it's possible they're lying publicly.
[00:32:18]  It's possible that they're lying to Trump.
[00:32:20]  It is possible that nothing gets done, or it's possible that eventually they give up the ghost here because they don't have a lot of choices.
[00:32:27]  Iran, for its part, keeps insisting that Lebanon is part of the ceasefire.
[00:32:30]  Clearly it is not, since they are still negotiating.
[00:32:32]  Mohammed Khalibaf.
[00:32:34]  Who apparently is on the do not kill list for the United States and Israel because I guess this is the guy they're negotiating with?
[00:32:39]  He said Lebanon and the entire resistance access as Iran's allies form an inseparable part of the ceasefire.
[00:32:44]  So apparently, Khalibab is claiming that in exchange for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Iran should have complete regional domination via its axis of terror.
[00:32:54]  That is a non starter.
[00:32:55]  It is a non starter.
[00:32:58]  Okay, the Ayatollah Mashtabet Khamenei, who is tweeting from the grave, I mean, he's literally not conscious, but his Twitter account is very live, much more alive than he is, put out the following statements.
[00:33:10]  We will definitely take the management of the Strait of Hormuz to a new phase.
[00:33:13]  I mean, he needs to take his IV to a new phase, it sounds like.
[00:33:17]  All must know that by Almighty God's will, we definitely won't allow the criminal aggressors who attacked our country to go on punishment.
[00:33:22]  They just keep threatening and threatening and threatening.
[00:33:24]  And you know, that's it.
[00:33:25]  It's a bold move, God, and we'll see how it works out for them.
[00:33:29]  Meanwhile, the Pakistani defense minister, A person who was the negotiation mediator here, Khawaja Asif.
[00:33:36]  This is why Pakistan is not a good faith negotiator.
[00:33:39]  They are a Chinese cutout.
[00:33:40]  Just understand what they are.
[00:33:41]  They are a weak horse, Chinese cutout with nuclear weapons.
[00:33:44]  That is what they are.
[00:33:46]  He put out a statement Israel is evil and a curse for humanity.
[00:33:48]  While peace talks are underway in Islamabad, genocide is being committed in Lebanon.
[00:33:52]  It's amazing how literally everything is a genocide now.
[00:33:54]  Everything is a genocide.
[00:33:55]  Targeted strikes on specific buildings in Lebanon is a genocide now.
[00:33:59]  Killing 32,000 people in the streets because they oppose the regime, not a genocide.
[00:34:04]  A full scale invasion of your neighbor and wiping civilians off the planet deliberately, not as collateral damage on October 7th, not an attempted genocide.
[00:34:13]  Genocide is anytime anything bad happens to a radical Muslim somewhere.
[00:34:16]  That's it.
[00:34:16]  That's a genocide.
[00:34:17]  Innocent citizens are being killed by Israel, first Gaza, then Iran, now Lebanon.
[00:34:21]  Bloodletting continues unabated.
[00:34:22]  This is supposed to be the honest broker here in the Middle East.
[00:34:25]  Okay.
[00:34:26]  Later, this person deleted this statement.
[00:34:27]  I hope and pray people who created this cancerous state on Palestinian land to get rid of European Jews burn in hell.
[00:34:34]  Sounds like a great negotiator, this dude.
[00:34:36]  Again, I will say I am skeptical that these negotiations end with Iran giving up the ghost.
[00:34:41]  But maybe, listen, it could all be posturing.
[00:34:43]  It really could.
[00:34:44]  It could be them posturing publicly in order to make some sort of excuse for the fact that they got their asses absolutely handed to them.
[00:34:51]  And by them, I mean Iran and its proxies and its stand ins.
[00:34:55]  Meanwhile, in Lebanon, the prime minister of Israel announced negotiations.
[00:34:59]  He said, In light of Lebanon's repeated request to open direct negotiations with Israel, I instructed at the government meeting yesterday to open direct negotiations with Lebanon.
[00:35:06]  As soon as possible, the negotiation will focus on the disarmament of Hezbollah and the establishment of peaceful relations between Israel and Lebanon.
[00:35:13]  Remember, there's a thing called the Lebanese government.
[00:35:15]  The Lebanese government is not, in fact, Hezbollah, and the Lebanese government does not want Iran running it.
[00:35:21]  In fact, according to Al Monitor, which again is an Arabian outlet, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salaam said on Thursday that his government alone is responsible for negotiating an end to Israeli hostilities.
[00:35:32]  Negotiations must be conducted solely by the Lebanese state, so it's not up to Hezbollah.
[00:35:37]  Okay, meanwhile, the president on Thursday night made clear that there will be no tolling in the Strait, no fees.
[00:35:42]  There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers through the Hormuz Strait.

=== Hezbollah vs Lebanese Government (16:02) ===

[00:35:45]  They better not be, and if they are, they better stop now.
[00:35:48]  Same night.
[00:35:49]  Quote He tweets out The Wall Street Journal, one of the worst and most inaccurate editorial boards in the world, stated, I declared a premature victory in Iran.
[00:35:58]  Actually, it is a victory, and there's nothing premature about it.
[00:36:01]  Because of me, Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and very quickly, you'll see oil start flowing with or without the help of Iran.
[00:36:06]  And to me, it makes no difference either way.
[00:36:08]  The Wall Street Journal will, as usual, live to eat their words.
[00:36:11]  He says, we're going to disarm Iran and you'll see the oil flowing, essentially.
[00:36:15]  And then he says, listen, our agreement is not shutting the strait.
[00:36:18]  The strait has remained closed, by the way.
[00:36:20]  So the ceasefire was supposed to reopen the strait.
[00:36:22]  The strait is still closed.
[00:36:23]  The strait of Hormuz is allowing five, six ships a day through.
[00:36:27]  President Trump said, Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable, some would say, of allowing oil to go through the strait of Hormuz.
[00:36:32]  That is not the agreement we have.
[00:36:33]  Does this sound like a person who is about to just walk away if he does not get what he wants?
[00:36:38]  Is that what it sounds like to you?
[00:36:39]  Because if so, let me recommend that you get your head checked.
[00:36:42]  Meanwhile, the Europeans being what the Europeans are, absolute ridiculous pansies.
[00:36:48]  It is hard to overstate the extent to which the Europeans are pathetic.
[00:36:51]  Truly, truly, truly pathetic.
[00:36:54]  Not all in equal measure, some countries more than others.
[00:36:57]  The UK and France being at the top of the list.
[00:37:00]  So the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, the EC, the European Council, and Japan put out a statement on Wednesday, April 8th.
[00:37:08]  We welcome the two week ceasefire concluded between the United States and Iran today, and we thank Pakistan.
[00:37:13]  And they say we strongly encourage quick progress toward a substantive negotiated settlement.
[00:37:19]  We call upon all sides to implement the ceasefire, including in Lebanon.
[00:37:22]  So basically, they just want Iran to get its way.
[00:37:24]  I have a question.
[00:37:25]  Of what use are they?
[00:37:26]  Truly, of what use are they?
[00:37:28]  The United States may still have an interest in deterring Russia from taking over parts of Europe because we don't like the Russians having more power, because the Russians are worse than the Europeans.
[00:37:36]  But the Europeans are truly pathetic.
[00:37:40]  Truly pathetic.
[00:37:41]  They import Russian oil while they're in the middle of a war with Russia.
[00:37:44]  They refuse to stand up for the trade routes that affect them the most.
[00:37:47]  They cater wall when the United States or Israel goes after their enemies.
[00:37:53]  Truly sad people.
[00:37:54]  The president put out a statement NATO wasn't there when we needed them.
[00:37:57]  They won't be there if we need them again.
[00:37:58]  Remember Greenland, that big poorly run piece of ice.
[00:38:02]  He ain't wrong.
[00:38:03]  The disappointment with NATO is quite real.
[00:38:06]  There's been talk, by the way, about punishing NATO countries by moving our bases away from NATO member countries deemed unhelpful to our current war efforts.
[00:38:16]  This is according to the Wall Street Journal.
[00:38:18]  And instead, stationing them in countries.
[00:38:19]  That are more supportive.
[00:38:21]  Makes sense to me.
[00:38:23]  The idea that the United States has to keep footing the bill for the French is insane.
[00:38:29]  Let them decay into whatever it is they're going to become.
[00:38:33]  You can see Mark Rudy, the head of NATO, is pretty disappointed with all of the NATO nations.
[00:38:38]  And he says Trump is right to be disappointed.
[00:38:41]  You just came from a meeting at the White House with President Trump.
[00:38:44]  He's not been hiding his frustrations with NATO countries.
[00:38:48]  How was the meeting?
[00:38:48]  Did he say he's withdrawing?
[00:38:50]  Well, let me be absolutely clear.
[00:38:52]  He is clearly disappointed with many NATO allies, and I can see his point.
[00:38:59]  But at the same time, I was also able to point to the fact that the large majority of European nations has been helpful with basing, with logistics, with overflights, with making sure that they lift up to the commitments.
[00:39:16]  And there is also widespread support for the fact that degrading the nuclear.
[00:39:23]  And the ballistic missile capacity from Iran was really crucial.
[00:39:27]  And that only the US was able at this point to do that.
[00:39:33]  Okay, so he is right that some nations have been better than others.
[00:39:36]  Apparently, Poland and the Baltic states, particularly, are ticked off.
[00:39:38]  I wonder why.
[00:39:39]  I wonder why.
[00:39:40]  I mean, if you look at a map of NATO, which nations have been friendly to the United States using their military bases, our military bases on their land?
[00:39:47]  Which ones?
[00:39:48]  It turns out all the ones that border Russia, Poland, all the Baltic states, which ones have been unfriendly?
[00:39:54]  France, Spain, Italy, initially the UK, the ones that are further away from Russia, those pathetic dullards, truly, truly pathetic people.
[00:40:02]  Probably, Make America Great Again could also become.
[00:40:06]  Don't be France.
[00:40:07]  Don't be France is a good slogan, also.
[00:40:10]  Because don't be France, don't be the UK.
[00:40:13]  Declining fairly quickly into uselessness.
[00:40:17]  And the president is right about this.
[00:40:18]  The president put out a Truth Social and he said, listen, I'm going to pressure them.
[00:40:21]  I'm going to continue to pressure them.
[00:40:23]  He said, none of these people, including our own very disappointing NATO, understood anything unless they have pressure placed upon them.
[00:40:28]  I wish he were wrong.
[00:40:29]  He is not wrong.
[00:40:30]  The president is not wrong about any of this.
[00:40:32]  And now, the left immediately seized upon this ceasefire to try to dunk on the president.
[00:40:39]  Again, the true hatred for a strong America that is implicit in this sort of talk is an amazing thing.
[00:40:46]  Jimmy Kimmel hates the president.
[00:40:48]  We get it.
[00:40:48]  Okay, we get it.
[00:40:49]  But the way that he speaks of the United States government in contrast with a fundamentalist, fascist theocracy that shoots dissidents in the streets by the tens of thousands should boggle the mind a little bit.
[00:41:04]  Here is Jimmy Kimmel over the course of the last couple of days How is this negotiation even going to work?
[00:41:10]  This is a government of religious fanatics who don't believe in democracy and they use domestic security forces to terrorize their own citizens.
[00:41:18]  And now we expect Iran to negotiate with them?
[00:41:24]  Never mind.
[00:41:26]  Really, the only way this conflict ends is if Iran gives Trump some kind of award, like the Hormuz Peace Prize, you know?
[00:41:32]  You put it next to the one he got from Hormel Chili.
[00:41:37]  Okay, now, what's amazing about that first line is the crowd doesn't even laugh.
[00:41:40]  He says, How is Iran supposed to negotiate with religious fanatics?
[00:41:43]  Even the crowd is like, What the hell is wrong with you?
[00:41:46]  Because it turns out that glazing one of the worst regimes on planet Earth just because you hate Trump is a bad move.
[00:41:54]  Meanwhile, Stephanie Rule over on MSNBC, MSNow, as it's called now, commended Iran for having a deep belief in something.
[00:42:02]  We're now at this point.
[00:42:04]  There's a famous tweet online.
[00:42:05]  At no point do you actually have to hand it to Hitler.
[00:42:09]  This is where they are.
[00:42:09]  It's like, we have to hand it to the Iranians.
[00:42:11]  And you know, they're a completely evil regime.
[00:42:13]  They have something they're willing to die for.
[00:42:15]  Yeah, the thing they're willing to die for is complete evil.
[00:42:18]  The thing they're willing to die for is an Islamist theocracy with global ambitions.
[00:42:22]  And you're praising them?
[00:42:24]  Hell's wrong with you people.
[00:42:26]  You could disagree with Iran and what their point of view is, but it's the fact that they have a deep belief in something that's unthoughtful.
[00:42:34]  That they will die for.
[00:42:35]  That they will die for.
[00:42:36]  That they'll destroy their country for.
[00:42:38]  Yes.
[00:42:38]  I mean, he has no ideological belief or patriotism about America, and he doesn't think anybody else does.
[00:42:44]  So when he sees Iranians lining up around power, grids.
[00:42:49]  He can't understand that.
[00:42:50]  He thinks they're being paid to do it.
[00:42:54]  What the?
[00:42:55]  They're literally on MSNL praising people standing outside of nuclear power plants who are probably being forced to do so at point of gun or who work for the regime.
[00:43:05]  This is what they've been reduced to at this point.
[00:43:07]  Meanwhile, Michigan Democrats may be about to nominate a Senate candidate named El Sayed, who is full scale in sympathy with radical Islamists because his fans in Dearborn are.
[00:43:22]  He actually stood alongside Hassan Piker, who, again, the fact that Hassan Piker is considered a well respected member of the left. Is truly crazy, truly, truly insane.
[00:43:32]  And this person has never found an Islamist dictator or terrorist group that he can't find some sympathy for.
[00:43:40]  The guy traveled to China to talk about how wonderful China is and Cuba to talk about how wonderful Cuba is.
[00:43:44]  And there he is campaigning with Abdul El Sayed, this Michigan Senate candidate.
[00:43:49]  And this Michigan Senate candidate was asked about the Temple Israel attack, which of course sprang from Dearborn, a terrorist attack from a Hezbollah activist, a Hezbollah aligned person.
[00:44:01]  And he said, Hurt people, hurt people.
[00:44:05]  What is wrong with you people?
[00:44:07]  I'm sorry, that's America hatred.
[00:44:09]  It's West hatred.
[00:44:10]  Hurt people, hurt people.
[00:44:11]  The guy who went and tried to attack literal Jewish toddlers at a temple, that guy was a Hezbollah terrorist whose brothers had been killed in Lebanon because they were members of Hezbollah.
[00:44:24]  And you have a man running for high office in Michigan who says that that person was just a hurt person who hurt people.
[00:44:31]  What the?
[00:44:32]  What?
[00:44:33]  Here we go.
[00:44:35]  You know, when it comes to Temple Israel, I was profoundly shaken.
[00:44:39]  Many of my friends growing up worshiped the Temple Israel.
[00:44:42]  Nothing justifies the heinous attack that we saw on Temple Israel.
[00:44:46]  And, you know, I stand in solidarity with my Jewish sisters and brothers for an America where that kind of thing never happens again.
[00:44:54]  I also think it's just critical for us to understand that hurt people do hurt people.
[00:44:58]  And the circumstances happening 6,000 miles away can affect the lives that we live here.
[00:45:04]  And if we stand against violence, we got to stand against violence, all violence.
[00:45:10]  You can't stand next to Hassan Piker and say that kind of stuff.
[00:45:13]  You just can't.
[00:45:14]  Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, he says that Donald Trump has failed America and NATO.
[00:45:19]  We've somehow failed NATO.
[00:45:20]  So NATO's been useless.
[00:45:21]  We failed them.
[00:45:22]  He says we failed the free world.
[00:45:24]  Trump has failed the free world.
[00:45:28]  Which part of the free world has been failed by an attack on Iran to destroy their capacities?
[00:45:34]  Here's Hakeem Jeffries again.
[00:45:36]  Trump is standing for a stronger America.
[00:45:39]  Hakeem Jeffries is standing for a weaker America, period.
[00:45:43]  Donald Trump has failed America, failed the NATO alliance, and failed the free world.
[00:45:51]  And he seems to confuse friend with foe.
[00:45:55]  And the fact that Vice President Vance is over in Eastern Europe right now supporting an authoritarian dictator is extraordinary.
[00:46:05]  The fact that Donald Trump and Republicans Continue to play footsie with Vladimir Putin and Russia, sworn enemies of the United States of America, is extraordinary.
[00:46:16]  And the fact that Donald Trump continues to attack our allies, whether it's Canada, Mexico, or NATO, is extraordinary.
[00:46:26]  Something is really wrong with this guy.
[00:46:31]  I mean, there's something wrong with that guy.
[00:46:33]  I'm sorry.
[00:46:34]  Okay.
[00:46:35]  Meanwhile, the grievance right, which of course agrees with the left, that again, they believe America toast.
[00:46:39]  Not America first, America toast.
[00:46:41]  America is done.
[00:46:42]  It's cooked.
[00:46:43]  They're totally black pilled on the United States.
[00:46:45]  The United States must recede within her own boundaries and turn into a fat, bloated country addicted to welfare.
[00:46:51]  That's the only way forward.
[00:46:53]  That's the only way forward for the United States, according to these people, which is why they openly, again, it's not me saying that attributing to them views they don't speak for themselves.
[00:47:01]  They openly say the world will be a better place.
[00:47:03]  With China and Russia in charge of large swaths of it.
[00:47:07]  I'm just going to remember, because we're going to get to President Trump's big tweet last night in which he went after, in order, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, and Alex Jones.
[00:47:17]  The reason he is going after these people is because these people have revealed themselves for who they are people who do not actually want to make America great again.
[00:47:24]  They believe America is weak and ought to remain weak.
[00:47:27]  Remember, it was just a few days ago that Tucker Carlson, in all of his newfound insanity, was calling President Trump a war criminal.
[00:47:35]  Yesterday at the White House, they all show up in the middle of Christian Holy Week, four days before Easter.
[00:47:43]  And not just the fringe Christian Zionist, John Higgy, or these strange people, but the big guys.
[00:47:51]  Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, shows up at the White House yesterday to pray over the president so he will have wisdom and restraint.
[00:47:59]  No, to endorse the murder of civilians.
[00:48:06]  Which is a war crime, but more important, it's a moral crime.
[00:48:12]  You can't kill people who have committed no crime, who did nothing wrong.
[00:48:17]  You can't murder the innocent.
[00:48:18]  You can't kill kids and women.
[00:48:22]  And yet, Franklin Graham is up there standing at the podium praying for that.
[00:48:29]  Now, how do you do that?
[00:48:30]  Well, by quoting something called the Book of Esther.
[00:48:32]  Tucker Carlson is.
[00:48:33]  This is who Tucker Carlson is.
[00:48:35]  It's Tucker.
[00:48:38]  Again, I think the best case scenario is that he's lost his mind and that he's been taking too much Alp.
[00:48:42]  30 Alp pouches a day will apparently do that to you.
[00:48:45]  Alp made in India.
[00:48:46]  But whether it is mental illness or mental break or whether it is a just deeply horrific view of America and the world, it doesn't really matter.
[00:48:54]  Bottom line is that Tucker is a demoralization agent.
[00:48:57]  He believes that America is trashed.
[00:48:59]  He says it over and over and over.
[00:49:01]  He does not actually believe America can ever be great again.
[00:49:04]  He believes that America should basically just turn into a European socialist style welfare state that is isolationist in intent.
[00:49:12]  That is what he wants.
[00:49:13]  And he is willing to traffic in any sort of conspiracy theory of any ilk in order to get there.
[00:49:17]  Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene, again, the strange new respect being afforded to these people is truly incredible.
[00:49:23]  Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot.
[00:49:25]  She's been an idiot for years.
[00:49:28]  Everyone knows that Marjorie Taylor Greene is an idiot.
[00:49:31]  From the time she was tweeting about the Jewish space lasers through her inability to distinguish the Gestapo from Gaspacho, Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of the dumbest people in American politics.
[00:49:41]  And she has been, again, for years.
[00:49:43]  The great tragedy is that President Trump didn't defenestrate her earlier and that he was hanging around with her.
[00:49:49]  Marjorie Taylor Greene, unsurprisingly, since she has left Congress because she was not going to win her seat again, she now says that Christians must speak out against Trump because Trump is busy, you know, taking out an Islamist dictatorship.
[00:50:05]  And I really have to call out the speaker, Mike Johnson, who calls himself a Christian.
[00:50:10]  I don't know how he can stand by those words.
[00:50:13]  That's what was so offensive to me.
[00:50:14]  Any, any Christian serving in Congress or serving in the Senate and serving in the administration really needs to take pause and ask themselves, as a Christian, do you really support the president calling for the annihilation, calling to wipe out an entire civilization of people?
[00:50:33]  And I don't think you should because that's not what Jesus said and that's not what Christianity is all about.
[00:50:39]  And so I think that, yeah, I'm probably one of the few.
[00:50:43]  It was me, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and a few others that are willing to call it out and speak out against this because we're willing to be honest.
[00:50:54]  CNN is so excited for Marjorie Taylor Greene being there.
[00:50:58]  And, you know, again, I will let Christians speak to her take on Christianity.
[00:51:02]  I will say that from all the Christians that I know, and I know an awful lot of Christians, that is a deeply flawed take.
[00:51:07]  I also do have questions about Marjorie Taylor Greene as a Christian icon.
[00:51:11]  Daily Mail, February 11th, 2021.
[00:51:13]  Controversial conspiracy Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene cheated on her husband with a polyamorous tantric sex guru, DailyMail.com has learned.
[00:51:20]  Then, after ending her affair with him, the mom of three moved on to a gym manager behind her husband's back.
[00:51:27]  Well, she didn't just say that.
[00:51:28]  She also said that the Republican Party should be ended.
[00:51:31]  Again, if you think that these people are standing up for the greatness of America by saying the Republican Party ought to be, they want to hand it to the Democrats.
[00:51:38]  Does that sound like America First to you?
[00:51:42]  We have to be realistic about the Republican Party.
[00:51:45]  The Republican Party needs burned to the ground.

=== Epstein Propaganda in War (09:01) ===

[00:51:47]  It's completely controlled.
[00:51:49]  As a matter of fact, much of Congress is controlled by AIPAC and by Zionists.
[00:51:54]  And that is a serious problem.
[00:51:56]  That means you, the American people, don't control your own government and those you elect.
[00:52:01]  They're controlled by donors that have one specific interest, and that is Israel.
[00:52:09]  Again, she is a ridiculous human being.
[00:52:11]  AIPAC is not even like.
[00:52:13]  A top 50 donor.
[00:52:15]  This notion that AIPAC is running the American government is total trash.
[00:52:18]  But again, she's speaking to Alex Jones, one of the great conspiracy theorists of our time.
[00:52:22]  One of the problems with the Republican Party over the last 10 years or so, and probably earlier, is that it let in a bunch of grifters who don't know anything and then brought them in to spew conspiracy theories because they were part of the quote unquote anti left coalition.
[00:52:36]  And then it turns out that when you allow the big tent to be really, really, really big, you end up with a lot of clowns in there.
[00:52:44]  And Alex Jones sitting along for all of this.
[00:52:46]  Alex Jones is the guy who had to pay out a bajillion dollar settlement because he was lying about dead kids at Sandy Hook.
[00:52:54]  That guy was welcomed.
[00:52:55]  That guy was treated as Tucker Carlson literally called that guy a prophet.
[00:52:59]  He literally called him a prophet, Alex Jones, who, by the way, says he no longer supports Trump.
[00:53:04]  He put out that tweet yesterday saying that he no longer supports President Trump.
[00:53:09]  I made it very clear I no longer support Trump.
[00:53:11]  And I'm very thankful to him for making it clear that I have nothing to do with him.
[00:53:14]  The new Trump is a rotting husk of the old Trump.
[00:53:16]  Speaking of a rotting husk, do you take a look in the mirror, my dude?
[00:53:22]  Testosterone replacement therapy can only do so much.
[00:53:25]  Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly, who is always programming into the clicks, always and forever, will never stop, never stop, never stopping.
[00:53:31]  Megyn Kelly, always programming to the clicks.
[00:53:34]  Still, I'm just going to say it again.
[00:53:36]  We are now, let's see, what is it?
[00:53:37]  April, it's April 10th today.
[00:53:40]  So I'm just going to point out that it's April 10th.
[00:53:43]  Charlie Kirk was shot September 10th of last year.
[00:53:47]  Okay, it is now April 10th.
[00:53:50]  So how many months is that?
[00:53:54]  That is.
[00:53:56]  What?
[00:53:56]  Let's see.
[00:53:57]  September to October, October to November, November to December, December to January, January to February, February to March, March to April.
[00:54:02]  We are seven months after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
[00:54:06]  And this delightful human being still will not say that Candace Owens and her conspiracy laden crap about Erica Kirk is morally wrong.
[00:54:16]  She still won't do it.
[00:54:17]  That's all I ever said Megan should do.
[00:54:19]  Ever.
[00:54:20]  She still won't do it.
[00:54:21]  And we are seven months in.
[00:54:22]  But don't worry.
[00:54:24]  You need her moral imprimatur to go to war against the Ayatollahs.
[00:54:28]  You need it.
[00:54:29]  And you know what?
[00:54:29]  She's passionate about things, Megan.
[00:54:32]  You can tell she's passionate because she curses a lot more than she used to.
[00:54:34]  That's how you know she really believes the things she's saying, because she drops four letter words a lot and also makes insulting comments about the genitalia of her political opponents.
[00:54:45]  I'm old enough to remember when she was asking President Trump about doing that in 2015.
[00:54:49]  That's how old I am.
[00:54:50]  But don't worry, Megan Kelly, she's even older than I am.
[00:54:53]  Here we go.
[00:54:55]  I mean, I don't know about you, but I am sick of this.
[00:54:58]  I'm just, I'm sick of it.
[00:55:01]  Can he just behave like a normal human?
[00:55:05]  I mean, honestly, like the president, I 3D chess, shut up, shut up about that.
[00:55:13]  You don't threaten to wipe out an entire civilization.
[00:55:17]  We're talking about civilians just casually in a social media post.
[00:55:23]  This is wrong, it's wrong.
[00:55:26]  He should not be doing it.
[00:55:28]  I don't care that it's a negotiation tactic.
[00:55:31]  She's like the worst third-rate band you know.
[00:55:33]  Seriously, that's what she'd become.
[00:55:35]  Men, women, and children.
[00:55:36]  Stop it.
[00:55:36]  I mean, she's okay, Megan, we get it.
[00:55:38]  You're doing your best Tim Dillon impression.
[00:55:40]  You've now been relegated to doing a Tim Dillon impersonation because you're cursing.
[00:55:44]  You're so sick.
[00:55:45]  You literally played that clip like five minutes ago, and now you're just imitating it.
[00:55:48]  And then you're imitating it.
[00:55:49]  It's just wrong.
[00:55:50]  Killing civilians.
[00:55:51]  Again, none of these people, Tucker doesn't think it, Candace doesn't think it, Megan doesn't think it.
[00:55:56]  None of these people think that Trump was going to nuke Iran.
[00:56:00]  The sudden pearl clutching from all the people who know for a fact that Trump is not going to nuke Iran and wipe out the entire civilian population is truly an astonishing thing.
[00:56:08]  Truly an astonishing thing.
[00:56:09]  But you know, she's passionate because she's cursing now.
[00:56:11]  So that's the important thing.
[00:56:13]  Meanwhile, Nick Fuentes is just saying the quiet part out loud, which I appreciate about Fuentes.
[00:56:17]  At least Fuentes is honest in his evil.
[00:56:20]  Quote, I don't trust anybody who just started criticizing Trump this year, but continues to shill for GOP and JD Vans.
[00:56:25]  Time to be unreasonable.
[00:56:26]  Burn it all down.
[00:56:27]  I want retribution for this betrayal.
[00:56:29]  Democrats for Congress in 2026.
[00:56:31]  And America's first presidential candidate in 2028.
[00:56:33]  And there he's ruling out even JD Vance.
[00:56:36]  So we'll point that out.
[00:56:37]  So President Trump finally had enough of all of this.
[00:56:39]  And he put out a statement last night.
[00:56:41]  And listen, folks, if you had listened to my show for a few years, you would have been early on this one.
[00:56:47]  He put out a statement I know why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones have all been fighting me for years, especially by the fact they think it is wonderful for Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, to have a nuclear weapon.
[00:56:58]  Because they have one thing in common low IQs.
[00:57:00]  They're stupid people.
[00:57:01]  They know it.
[00:57:02]  Their families know it.
[00:57:03]  And everyone else knows it.
[00:57:05]  Look at their past.
[00:57:05]  Look at their record.
[00:57:06]  They don't have what it takes and they never did.
[00:57:08]  They've all been thrown off TV, lost their shows, and aren't even invited on TV because nobody cares about them.
[00:57:12]  They're nut jobs, troublemakers, and will say anything necessary for some free and cheap publicity.
[00:57:16]  That last part is definitely true.
[00:57:18]  Now they think they get some clicks because they have third rate podcasts, but nobody's talking about them.
[00:57:22]  Their views are the opposite of MAGA, or I wouldn't have won the presidential election in a landslide.
[00:57:27]  MAGA agrees with me, says the president, and just gave CNN a 100% approval rating of Trump, not hand flailing fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn't even finish college.
[00:57:35]  He was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he's never been the same.
[00:57:38]  Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist.
[00:57:40]  Or Megyn Kelly, who nastily asked me the now famous only Rosie O'Donnell question, or crazy Candace Owens, who accuses the highly respected First Lady of France of being a man when she is not and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit.
[00:57:52]  Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace.
[00:57:56]  In fact, it's not even close.
[00:57:58]  Or bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax.
[00:58:07]  These so called pundits are losers, and they will always be.
[00:58:09]  Now, fake news CNN, the failing New York Times, and all the other radical left news organizations are hailing them and giving them positive press for the first time in their lives.
[00:58:17]  They're not MAGA, they're losers, just trying to latch on to MAGA.
[00:58:20]  As president, I could get them on my side anytime I want to.
[00:58:23]  But when they call, I don't return their calls because I'm too busy on world and country affairs.
[00:58:27]  And after a few times, they go nasty, just like Marjorie Trader Brown.
[00:58:30]  But I no longer care about that stuff.
[00:58:32]  I only care about doing right for our country.
[00:58:34]  MAGA is about winning and strength in not allowing Iran to have nuclear weapons.
[00:58:37]  MAGA is about making America great again.
[00:58:40]  And these people have no idea how to do that.
[00:58:42]  But I do because the United States is now the hottest country anywhere in the world, President Donald J. Trump.
[00:58:47]  So, again, is the president wrong about that?
[00:58:51]  I don't see why he would be.
[00:58:53]  I do not see why he would be.
[00:58:55]  Because the reality is, once again, the president of the United States is facing down people who fairly openly are rooting for American weakness and are willing to buy into any trash conspiracy theory in order to bolster their own ratings and in order to get the clicks.
[00:59:10]  And by the way, they'll pretty much admit it.
[00:59:11]  They'll just brag about their clicks as a defense mechanism.
[00:59:14]  You point out what they're doing is wrong and immoral, and they point out that what you're doing gets lower ratings, which last I checked is not a defense to wrong and immoral and untrue.
[00:59:24]  All right, meanwhile, the other big news of the day is that Melania apparently gave a speech denouncing Jeffrey Epstein and talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:59:31]  And people are going crazy over this Melania speech on Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:59:35]  Honestly, I'm not sure what prompted her to do this, but she denied ties to him.
[00:59:40]  She called on Congress, told the hearing for survivors.
[00:59:42]  Here's what she had to say To be clear, I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell.
[00:59:53]  Numerous fake images.
[00:59:56]  And statements about Epstein and me have been calculating on social media for years now.
[01:00:07]  Be cautious about what you believe.
[01:00:11]  These images and stories are completely false.
[01:00:16]  Now, again, the way that the stupid internet works is that her denying a thing makes the thing true.
[01:00:22]  That's how it works, is that if she says that she was not associated with Epstein, it's probably because she was associated with Epstein.
[01:00:27]  That's where we're supposed to be right now.
[01:00:29]  Well, it's incredibly stupid.
[01:00:31]  It's incredibly dumb.
[01:00:33]  But, you know, the reality is that the reason that she's doing that, I would assume, is because the propaganda has ramped into high gear on Epstein, specifically because there are a lot of bot farms out there that push this kind of stuff on X and on TikTok in the middle of a war with Iran.
[01:00:47]  That is not a coincidence.

=== Denying Truth Makes It True (05:45) ===

[01:00:48]  That, I would assume, is the reason why she felt the necessity to go out and make that statement.
[01:00:52]  I think it's ill advised, but it doesn't matter what I think.
[01:00:54]  It's already done.
[01:00:55]  And meanwhile, in other dumb cultural news, I just have to comment on this one thing from Nikki Glazer.
[01:01:01]  So, Nikki Glazer.
[01:01:02]  Is a comedian who is occasionally funny.
[01:01:06]  She was on Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper, which, oh my gosh, I can't, speaking of things that should not have ratings in a sane world.
[01:01:14]  In any case, she described how she thinks it's hot when her husband sleeps with other women, which, you know, I, okay, I mean, seems weird, seems like you got some problems in your life, but I mean, you could have told that by the fact that she's a comedian.
[01:01:33]  I will say that the comedians are not famous for having.
[01:01:36]  Stable mental lives.
[01:01:38]  Here she was.
[01:01:40]  In a relationship, I don't really care if my boyfriend were to hook up.
[01:01:44]  Okay, I read about that.
[01:01:45]  Yeah, I like that.
[01:01:46]  We need to talk about that.
[01:01:47]  But that is not a two way street.
[01:01:48]  Like, I'm not someone who likes to hook up when I'm in a relationship.
[01:01:52]  I'm not really like, I don't really care about that.
[01:01:54]  I, you know, but I don't care if someone else were to.
[01:01:57]  Hold on.
[01:01:58]  In fact, I like kind of like it.
[01:01:59]  It's kind of a problem, I think.
[01:02:01]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[01:02:02]  No, we need to talk about this.
[01:02:06]  No.
[01:02:07]  There are people who listen to this.
[01:02:10]  It says more about America that people listen to this than it does about Nikki Glazer that she says it.
[01:02:14]  She then continued and explained, unfortunately for all of us.
[01:02:17]  If I had to listen to it, so do you.
[01:02:20]  You call this the hot husband fetish.
[01:02:22]  Yes.
[01:02:23]  Which is essentially when you want your partner to have sexual experiences with other people outside of the relationship.
[01:02:27]  Yeah.
[01:02:27]  So when did this start for you, Nikki?
[01:02:29]  Let's go back.
[01:02:30]  It started with my boyfriend when I was 29, because I really hadn't had a boyfriend before then.
[01:02:34]  He would tell me about, like, I would always ask him about, like, past hookups and girlfriends and how they got together.
[01:02:41]  Like, I was like the beginning.
[01:02:42]  Like, how did you guys?
[01:02:43]  First, I know you liked each other.
[01:02:44]  Like, I love that, like, our legs were touching under a table and neither of us moved our leg or something, like, stuff like that.
[01:02:48]  I'd be like, oh, so, like, I don't know, it would make me, like, horny to, like, think about him doing that with other girls.
[01:02:53]  And then I would, so I'd ask about all of his, like, girlfriends or anyone he had hooked up with, like, all the details about it.
[01:02:59]  And I would really be, like, a foreplay for me.
[01:03:01]  Like, I would get, like, revved up talking about it.
[01:03:03]  And then it reached a point where he was out of stories.
[01:03:05]  Like, he had gone through all of them.
[01:03:07]  And I was like, and then it's almost like he was telling the same ones.
[01:03:10]  And I was like, I know this one.
[01:03:11]  So it wasn't as exciting anymore because I was getting the same stuff.
[01:03:14]  So I was like, I know this is, I like, I had never heard of anything like this.
[01:03:17]  I felt so weird, but I was like, I think I need you to like get some more stories.
[01:03:25]  Wow.
[01:03:27]  Great.
[01:03:28]  Well, at least millions of people won't watch that and then imitate that in their own lives and ruin them.
[01:03:35]  How could it go wrong?
[01:03:36]  All right.
[01:03:36]  Well, in better news, you guys all know Reagan Conrad.
[01:03:39]  She's been on the show before.
[01:03:40]  She's a host here at The Daily Wire.
[01:03:42]  She has a brand new series called This Is Reagan Conrad.
[01:03:45]  You can find it over right now on YouTube, where she hosts deep dives, interviews, and mini documentaries about the issues she cares most about.
[01:03:51]  And her first episode is apparently on something called Kratom, which is, I've heard about this, but it's kind of a shocking thing.
[01:03:57]  Reagan, thanks so much for taking the time.
[01:03:58]  Appreciate it.
[01:03:59]  Of course, yeah, I'm glad to transition out of that garbage.
[01:04:05]  So let's talk about something actually more serious, which is your first episode, which is on this substance called Kratom.
[01:04:13]  What is that?
[01:04:13]  Why should people care about it?
[01:04:14]  Yeah, so Kratom, it's originally a leaf in Southeast Asia, and it came over to the States.
[01:04:19]  And recently, over the past couple of years, it's become this phenomenon of sorts because chemists got involved with this derivative that's actually in the leaf called 70H.
[01:04:27]  It's becoming super popular, kids are getting addicted to it.
[01:04:30]  Adults are getting addicted, people are getting involved, and they didn't even know it's a drug, and now it essentially acts like an opiate.
[01:04:35]  And so it's causing a lot of concern for people across the country.
[01:04:40]  And it's just kind of operated in like a gray area for a long time.
[01:04:43]  And so people haven't understood what this thing is.
[01:04:45]  And so we wanted to deep dive and understand what is this?
[01:04:49]  Why are people going to rehab for a drug that they didn't even know was a drug?
[01:04:51]  And that's what our first deep dive was on.
[01:04:55]  And this is an actual serious issue.
[01:04:57]  I mean, I have a friend who at one point was addicted to fentanyl, and this person has.
[01:05:03]  Had a relapse because of kratom, because it actually acts, as you say, like an opioid.
[01:05:09]  Now, where can people get it?
[01:05:11]  I believe it's just kind of sold over the counter, like normal stores, correct?
[01:05:14]  Yeah, you can get it at like a gas station.
[01:05:16]  People are finding it at gas stations, they're going to smoke shops.
[01:05:18]  And again, what I think is so nefarious about it is it is targeting people who are former addicts, which makes it so much more evil.
[01:05:25]  You know, people that have had sobriety issues in the past, they're getting re addicted, thinking they're in the clear, and then they're going back to rehab.
[01:05:32]  So I've heard so many stories since we released it of people reaching out saying, hey, thanks for talking about this.
[01:05:37]  My brother's addicted, we don't know what to do, and this is just, I mean, it's a huge thing that no one's talking about, which I think at the very least, people need to be aware of it before we discuss what to do about it.
[01:05:46]  Well, the retailer of Kratom actually sent a cease and desist after Reagan's very first episode based on this.
[01:05:54]  They just, what, wanted you to take down the episode?
[01:05:57]  What was the ask?
[01:05:57]  Yeah, people aren't happy to be talking about it.
[01:06:00]  And I think that's only kind of reinvigorates the idea of, like, then there is an issue here.
[01:06:04]  There is a gray area that, again, people have been operating in.
[01:06:07]  And now they don't want it brought to light.
[01:06:09]  And that's kind of the whole point of the show we want to be bringing these issues to light.
[01:06:13]  And whether they're going to be, people are going to be angry about it or not, that's kind of the whole point, you know, is to keep exposing it.
[01:06:19]  So that's what we're going to do.
[01:06:22]  So, Reagan, what other topics can we look forward to covering on This is Reagan Conrad available at YouTube?
[01:06:27]  Yeah, so we're on YouTube now, and like you said, we have a couple different types of formats.
[01:06:31]  It was one of the first things you asked me when I joined in this position.

=== Launching Big Saturday Episodes (01:23) ===

[01:06:34]  You're like, what are you interested in?
[01:06:35]  I was like, deep dives.
[01:06:36]  That's what I love to do.
[01:06:37]  So, that's what we're doing.
[01:06:38]  We've been doing it for months, kind of building these up.
[01:06:40]  But our first one that's going to be coming out, well, we had the Kratom one.
[01:06:43]  On Saturday, we have our big episodes that launch.
[01:06:45]  And the one that's coming up this weekend is about the education system, the failures that are happening, why we are such a great country, and yet we have a failing education system.
[01:06:53]  And I interview a filmmaker who did a deep dive for about a decade to understand what is going so wrong.
[01:06:59]  He found himself at the NEA, corruption on so many levels, teachers praising the Satanic Temple.
[01:07:05]  I mean, it was the most insane deep dive that he did.
[01:07:07]  So we talked to him about it and show a lot of those clips.
[01:07:10]  And he has a documentary that's going to be coming out about that or that is out now in Angel Studios called The Death of Recess.
[01:07:15]  Crazy, crazy story.
[01:07:16]  So that's what's coming up this Saturday.
[01:07:18]  And we're going to be doing a bunch of different things, whether it's regarding faith or culture or health.
[01:07:22]  It's kind of like a deep dive into everything that I think is important, especially for young women.
[01:07:27]  For new moms.
[01:07:28]  It's going to be kind of for everybody.
[01:07:29]  But it's, yeah, it's things that I'm passionate about.
[01:07:32]  Now I'm just, I get to laser focus on and deep dive, which is very exciting.
[01:07:37]  Well, Reagan, congrats on the show.
[01:07:38]  And folks, you can go check that out over at YouTube.
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