The David Knight Show - The David Knight Show - 03/10/2026 Aired: 2026-03-10 Duration: 33:13 === The E6B Mercury Doomsday Plane (02:00) === [00:00:00] I'm a veteran. [00:00:01] I'm a dad of a veteran. [00:00:04] I've worked for the U.S. government and the DOD for 28 years. [00:00:07] And I don't want to get on here and be an alarmist. [00:00:11] But some of the things that I've seen lately, especially in the escalation of the war with Iran, has me really worried. [00:00:18] So currently, I'm sitting not even a mile from Tinker Air Force Base. [00:00:22] I work for Boeing currently. [00:00:25] And the E6B Mercury aircraft is headquartered here for the U.S. Navy. [00:00:31] It's a Navy aircraft, but they put them on Air Force bases. [00:00:35] I also worked E6B at Pax River Naval Air Station in Maryland. [00:00:41] And if for those of you that don't know, the E6B Mercury is called the Doomsday Plane. [00:00:46] Its entire operational capability is creating a basically a radio antenna that can send very low frequency radio signals to nuclear submarines underwater, up to a mile underwater. [00:01:05] And in the sudden case of nuclear escalation, the E6's only job is to assure that it can give launch commands to submarines. [00:01:15] And they just sent at least one, if not two, E6Bs over to the Middle East. [00:01:23] I don't believe the E6B has been out of the continental United States since 9-11. [00:01:28] And if it is in the theater of war in the Middle East, that means that nuclear escalation is on the table. [00:01:38] That's right. [00:01:39] It's on the table. [00:01:40] And Caroline Lovitt has even said that. [00:01:42] We don't take anything off the table. [00:01:44] And so when you look at this, there's also a story about the people that sell very high-end bunker storages. [00:01:52] I said we had gotten a lot of calls from people in the Middle East and they said, but unfortunately, if the Americans want to kill you, these bunkers aren't going to do it. === Nuclear Escalation and Bunker Sales (04:43) === [00:02:00] But still, a lot of people are getting it. [00:02:02] And he said there's two officials in the Trump cabinet that have him working on these things right now. [00:02:08] They have gone, their business has gone up by a factor of 25. [00:02:14] 25 times the amount of business that they had on a monthly basis a year ago. [00:02:20] So yeah, prepare. [00:02:22] Thank you for joining us. [00:02:24] What have we got here? [00:02:25] Geesebusters. [00:02:26] Oh, thank you very much, Geesebusters. [00:02:27] Appreciate it. [00:02:28] Thank you. [00:02:29] And appreciate that. [00:02:31] And thank you. [00:02:32] Don't frag me, bro. [00:02:33] That's very generous. [00:02:34] I appreciate that very much. [00:02:36] Thank you. 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[00:03:43] Please share the information and links you'll find at the DavidKnightShow.com. [00:03:48] Thank you for listening. [00:03:49] Thank you for sharing. [00:03:56] If you can't support us financially, please keep us in your prayers. [00:04:00] TheDavidKnightShow.com [00:05:29] It's the David Knight Show. [00:05:37] As the clock strikes 13, it's Tuesday, the 10th of March. [00:05:41] You have our Lord, 2026. [00:05:44] Well, today we're going to look as the world gets crazier, and we have Donald Trump posting a prophecy, quote unquote, from a guy talking about how he was God's chosen. [00:05:56] Seeing that now in the military, more than 200 complaints about commanders telling their troops that, uh folks, this is not Christian, it's not Christianity, it's not following Christ. [00:06:10] We look at what is happening across the Middle East now. [00:06:12] You got Lindsey Graham saying Trump is resetting the world. [00:06:15] You better believe he is. [00:06:17] That's his mission, the great reset. [00:06:20] He's not working for God And the two of them are very angry with their masters in Israel because they blew up these oil reserves. [00:06:29] Don't you realize we were going to get really wealthy off of this stuff? [00:06:32] That's our purpose, right? [00:06:33] Lindsey Graham is out there saying that. [00:06:36] We're going to own 38% of the world's oil through Venezuela and Iran. === Iran's Tomahawk Excuse (11:52) === [00:06:44] The love of money is the root of all evil. [00:06:49] Especially people like Lindsey Graham and Trump and the U.S. Empire. [00:06:52] We're going to take a look at that as well. [00:06:54] Stay with us. [00:06:55] be right back let's begin where this war began and that was a tomahawk strike on a school And I played the clip for you, Scott Ritter, who was very concerned about it. [00:07:11] He said he was involved in targeting in, I forget which war it was. [00:07:17] I think it was Iraq. [00:07:19] We've had so many, it's confusing, right? [00:07:22] During the Iraq War. [00:07:23] And he said they had done their due diligence, they thought. [00:07:27] They had tried to be very, very careful about selecting targets. [00:07:30] They had a reason to believe that there were officials from the Iraqi government that Saddam Hussein had this particular type of, yeah, it was the Iraq war, had this particular type of phone. [00:07:42] They had seen that coming from this building, and they thought it had been taken over, but it was a real shelter, bomb shelter for people. [00:07:51] And so they selected the target, and then they found out afterwards that it really was a civilian bombing, civilian target. [00:08:01] And he said the horrific way those people died has stayed with him the rest of his life and he choked up. [00:08:07] And he talked about that in the context of this girls' school. [00:08:12] And he said, I know how this is working. [00:08:15] He said, they just aren't doing due diligence on selecting targets. [00:08:20] He said, they've got a quota. [00:08:22] They want to hit X number of targets and they're pushing them to do it. [00:08:25] Same thing that you saw happening in Minnesota with ICE. [00:08:30] We've got a target. [00:08:31] We've got to get 3,000 people a week or whatever, a month, whatever the number is. [00:08:36] I don't know. [00:08:37] But you give them a quota system, and they just go out there and start grabbing people wherever they can. [00:08:42] And so this is a problem from the top down. [00:08:46] Now we've got footage that has been analyzed and reported by a lot of different people, not only mainstream media, a lot of different sources, but also people who are military who've looked at this and said, we can see, we've slowed this down, frozen the frame, and we can see that this was a tomahawk missile that hit that school. [00:09:09] That has huge implications. [00:09:11] Because when you look at a tomahawk missile, it is a cruise missile. [00:09:15] I remember in late 1970s, I think it was. [00:09:22] I had a friend who was at West Point. [00:09:24] And he was telling me about, we'd come home, we'd talk about weapon systems and things like that. [00:09:30] It's one of the reasons I didn't want to get involved in working for anybody doing that kind of stuff. [00:09:34] But he said, we can pick which window of the Kremlin we want to go into, basically. [00:09:40] These things are highly accurate. [00:09:43] And so this is not a mistake when a cruise missile hits something. [00:09:48] That was the argument, if you remember, in Ukraine. [00:09:51] And Sergei Rustovich, or no, Alexei Arrestovich was his name. [00:09:58] The guy that told everybody, hey, yeah, we're going to have war with Russia in 2022. [00:10:04] We're not going to have peace. [00:10:05] When they got elected, he was part of the Zelensky cabinet, and he was the guy doing the peace negotiating. [00:10:13] He said, no, we're not going to have any peace. [00:10:15] I mean, they'd been bombing their own people in Ukraine for five years at that point after the U.S. coup, CIA coup in that country. [00:10:25] And he said, there's not going to be any peace. [00:10:26] As a matter of fact, Russia is going to invade in three years. [00:10:30] How did he know all that stuff? [00:10:32] Very precisely. [00:10:33] So he was very frank and out with everybody. [00:10:35] And when they had a situation, a cruise missile hit an apartment building in Ukraine. [00:10:41] Remember the outrage about that? [00:10:43] Didn't have the kind of casualties that you got in this girls' school, nowhere close to it. [00:10:48] And yet they said that was a cruise missile. [00:10:51] So that was deliberate. [00:10:53] And Arstovich came out and he got fired because he said, no, that was hit by friendly, that was hit by our forces as it was coming in. [00:11:02] They tried to shoot it down. [00:11:03] And they damaged it, went off course, and hit the apartment complex. [00:11:08] No such thing in this, as a matter of fact. [00:11:11] And so there's been a lot of questions about Trump, questions to Trump, I should say, and to Heg Seth about this because of reports. [00:11:20] Now, again, notice how they handle this. [00:11:23] They don't try to come up with a plausible lie. [00:11:27] That's the way the Trump administration has always been. [00:11:30] Whether it is people claiming that ICE murdered people, which I believe they did, they just make up stuff about what happened. [00:11:42] And they don't even bother to look at the video. [00:11:44] It's pretty clear. [00:11:45] And Trump even says that. [00:11:46] I haven't seen it. [00:11:48] I'm letting other people look at it. [00:11:49] He doesn't care. [00:11:51] And he doesn't care enough to come up with a reasonable excuse. [00:11:54] It's just like when the implication was from these things that Mark Kelly and the added that Mark Kelly and this other senator who used to be in the CIA, the two of them put out a video saying, troops, you must not follow illegal orders. [00:12:10] Well, what illegal orders? [00:12:12] And when they were pressed on it, they said, well, I can't think of anything the Trump administration has done. [00:12:16] Nothing that the CIA and the Pentagon wouldn't do normally on a course. [00:12:20] And it's all things that we would like to do as Democrats. [00:12:23] But the fact that they put that out there bothered Pete Hegset so much that he's been on a personal vendetta to come after Mark Kelly, take away his pension, his rank, and other things like that. [00:12:34] The easiest thing in the world for them to do would have been to say, well, we didn't do any illegal orders. [00:12:40] But no, instead, they basically own that. [00:12:45] And so when people asked about the tomahawk missile, this is basically what you're getting from Trump. [00:12:52] There's a footage that shows that an American missile strike and a tomahawk missile likely destroyed that Iranian girls' school. [00:13:01] So will the Americans, will the U.S. accept any responsibility? [00:13:04] Well, I haven't seen it. [00:13:06] And I will say that the Tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is used by, you know, is sold and used by other countries, you know that. [00:13:15] Why? [00:13:15] And whether it's Iran, who also has some tomahawks, they wish they had lie. [00:13:21] But whether it's Iran or somebody else, the fact that a tomahawk, a tomahawk is very generic, it's sold to other countries. [00:13:28] That's being investigated right now. [00:13:30] Yeah. [00:13:31] Well, the reality is that the tomahawk is not sold to everybody. [00:13:36] You can't buy them on the street corner, right? [00:13:38] And they're not sold to every country. [00:13:40] As a matter of fact, Israel wanted to buy them and they said, no, we don't trust you with the proprietary and national security defense system that's there because Israel has betrayed these types of things with us in the past. [00:13:53] You just go back and look at the case of that spy that Mike Huckabee loves so much. [00:13:59] And so we wouldn't even sell it to Israel. [00:14:02] There's two or three countries that we sell these things to, and that's it. [00:14:06] It's a closely guarded secret. [00:14:09] It is not for sale to everybody. [00:14:11] And so Israel doesn't have tomahawks. [00:14:14] Iran definitely does not have tomahawks. [00:14:17] And so he could have come up with a different excuse. [00:14:19] And you've got, and we'll talk about some of the pushbacks on this from some other people because some other people came up with some plausible deniability, but not Trump. [00:14:28] He'll just look you straight in the eye and lie to you with absurd narratives. [00:14:34] Like this, everybody knows that the tomahawk is not sold to anyone who has the cash for this. [00:14:40] And then he was pressed on this. [00:14:43] And again, he came up with this was on the airplane. [00:14:47] And so they asked him about it again on the airplane. [00:14:51] Mr. President, did the United States bomb a girls' elementary school in southern Iran on the first day of the war and kill 175 people? [00:15:00] Based on what I've seen, that was done by Iran. [00:15:03] He said he hadn't seen it. [00:15:04] Is that true, Mr. Hickson? [00:15:05] It was Iran who did that? [00:15:06] We're certainly investigating. [00:15:08] Still investigating. [00:15:09] But the only side that targets civilians is Iran. [00:15:13] Lie. [00:15:14] We think it was done. [00:15:16] You've been targeting civilians all week, you lying piece of steel. [00:15:19] As you know, with their munitions, they have no accuracy whatsoever. [00:15:23] It was done by Iran. [00:15:25] Well, if they had tomahawks, it'd have accuracy. [00:15:28] Again, it was done by Iran. [00:15:30] They stole a tomahawk somehow and hit their own people with it. [00:15:34] Then there was a follow-up. [00:15:37] And this was in another press conference. [00:15:40] There's a footage that shows that an American missile strike and a tomahawk missile likely destroyed. [00:15:48] I'm sorry, that's the wrong one. [00:15:49] I just played that. [00:15:50] Will the U.S. accept any responsibility? [00:15:52] This is it. [00:15:53] You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. [00:15:59] But you're the only person in your government saying this. [00:16:01] Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that when he was asked standing over your shoulder on your plane on Saturday. [00:16:06] Why are you the only person saying this? [00:16:08] Because I just don't know enough about it. [00:16:10] I think it's something that I was told is under investigation. [00:16:14] But tomahawks are used by others, as you know. [00:16:18] No, they're not. [00:16:19] Other nations have tomahawks. [00:16:20] They buy them from us. [00:16:22] But I will certainly, whatever the report shows, I'm willing to live with that report. [00:16:28] And again, a key thing about this is not just the fact that they murdered about 180 people, civilians. [00:16:37] A key fact of this is just the way, the character of this guy and this administration. [00:16:42] They don't even bother to come up with a plausible deniability. [00:16:47] They don't even bother to come up with a plausible lie. [00:16:50] They just look at you in the eye and lie to your face. [00:16:54] And so this is some of the images that people have gotten. [00:16:59] They've gotten frozen images showing this. [00:17:02] Now, this is the excuse that some people have made for Trump on his behalf since he's too lazy and apathetic and arrogant to even try to come up with an excuse for this. [00:17:15] He doesn't care. [00:17:17] He doesn't care enough. [00:17:18] He doesn't care about the lives of children. [00:17:20] So he figures you don't care enough about it that he has to go through a lot of trouble to come up with lies. [00:17:26] And so they've put this up, and some experts have identified this. [00:17:30] As a matter of fact, the Washington Post, New York Times, many different news agencies, Wall Street Journal, I think, also reported on this. [00:17:38] And they have cited about two dozen military experts who have identified it from that picture. [00:17:44] But there are some people that you'll find on Twitter saying, well, no, this actually isn't a tomahawk missile. [00:17:51] You can look at the wing and you can see that it is not 49 degrees back, but it is 42 degrees back or something like that, right? [00:18:01] I don't think you can get that kind of granularity from that picture, number one. [00:18:05] Number two, look at the angle of attack. [00:18:09] Cruise missiles don't come in at a high angle of attack, they will say. [00:18:14] And, you know, they stay close to the ground. [00:18:16] So why is this thing coming in at a high angle of attack? [00:18:20] Well, again, Scott Ritter has an answer to that. [00:18:24] The United States on the opening day of the war fired four cruise missiles into a facility that was evacuated by the Revolutionary Guard Command long before the conflict. [00:18:33] One of these missiles struck a school. === Why AI and Autonomous Killer Robots (14:37) === [00:18:36] The fourth missile, three missiles, two missiles struck empty warehouses. [00:18:39] One struck a school. [00:18:40] The fourth missile was loitering over the site, collecting data, sending it back for battle damage assessment. [00:18:47] The two warehouses were empty, no secondary explosions. [00:18:50] But the third site that they struck, they noticed an accumulation of human beings, people running to the site. [00:18:55] And so they ordered the fourth missile to strike. [00:18:57] The fourth missile went up, came down, and hit. [00:18:59] The missile is designed to penetrate with a bunker-busting capability, but there's an additional factor to this missile. [00:19:05] You know, our brilliant weapons designers have concluded that the excess fuel in a tomahawk missile at the moment of impact can actually be weaponized into a thermobaric weapon, a fuel-air explosive. [00:19:16] So they hit the button, turned the excess fuel into a thermobaric, and the people they saw running were the children who survived the initial attack. [00:19:23] They went to the prayer hall with their teachers and they asked the parents to come in and retrieve their children. [00:19:29] Parents are on their way. [00:19:30] So the movement you saw were survivors going into the building, teachers with them, parents come to them, and we put the fourth cruise missile in there, turned it into a thermobaric bomb, and burned these children alive. [00:19:42] That's this war in a nutshell. [00:19:45] We don't know what we're doing. [00:19:47] We don't know what we're targeting. [00:19:49] And all we're doing is murdering people. [00:19:51] And you know why this happened? [00:19:52] Because Pete Hegseth canceled a Department of Defense directive that required a civilian mitigation team to go over each target to make sure that we weren't striking the wrong targets. [00:20:04] He called that woke. [00:20:05] He called that ineffective. [00:20:07] He wanted to be the most lethal fighting force in the world. [00:20:10] Kill, kill, kill. [00:20:11] Well, Pete, you killed them. [00:20:12] 170 of them. [00:20:13] Children, you're a murderer. [00:20:15] You're a war criminal. [00:20:16] And so is Donald Trump. [00:20:17] And so is every American who supports this war because this war is an illegal war of aggression. [00:20:23] We aren't obeying the laws of war and we're simply slaughtering innocent people to appease a bunch of neoconservatives who have an outdated concept of what the world should look like and who have completely subordinated the interests of the United States to the state of Israel. [00:20:37] I apologize for losing my temper, but I'm the father of two girls, and I would hunt down and kill anybody who brought harm to my children. [00:20:51] Another thing that's worth pointing out is you cannot truly fight a war with just bombs. [00:20:57] It eventually comes down to boots on the ground. [00:20:59] Well, what it does is it galvanizes the people on the ground. [00:21:02] I mean, we've seen this since World War II. [00:21:05] It does not break morale. [00:21:07] What it does is it galvanizes people against this. [00:21:10] If you're there for resources, if you're really there for oil, it's going to come down to putting your people down there on the ground where they can control the flow of these things. [00:21:19] It is going to come down to having American troops in Iran. [00:21:22] The pure evil of people like Hegseth gloating, death and destruction coming down at you from the sky. [00:21:28] We're going to get these people, right? [00:21:30] Lindsey Graham saying the same thing. [00:21:32] And then almost in the same sentence, he's rubbing his hands together like some kind of evil schemer talking about, we're going to make a lot of money out of this. [00:21:40] We're going to control the oil in Iran and in Venezuela. [00:21:44] I love this kind of stuff. [00:21:46] Well, you see what happens when you go in there to run those oil fields, those people who had their daughters blown up by you and many others who've been needlessly killed for that. [00:21:56] Yeah, that kind of greed, that kind of callousness, that's what's on display when they ask questions like this to Trump and to Hegseth. [00:22:04] Disgusting, disgusting, pure evil, these people. [00:22:09] Just amazing. [00:22:11] The Washington Post, citing eight independent munitions experts, described the clip as the latest indication of likely U.S. involvement in the strike. [00:22:19] It noted the missile hit next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard naval complex adjacent to the school. [00:22:25] CBS News reported that the U.S. is likely responsible for the attack. [00:22:29] It says it may have been caused by an error, possibly due to the use of dated intelligence, which is some of what Scott Ritter was saying. [00:22:37] But it's worse than that. [00:22:40] The U.S. is the only party involved in the conflict that possesses these weapons. [00:22:45] Nobody else has these tomahawks. [00:22:47] Like I said, it's like two or three other countries that we sell them to and not to Israel. [00:22:53] Wes Bryant, a former U.S. Air Force Special Operations targeting expert, told the Washington Post that the missile's outlines correlate with those of a tomahawk. [00:23:02] Jeffrey Lewis, a professor of global security at Middlebury College, separately confirmed the assessment as cited by NPR. [00:23:09] He added that the missile did not resemble any known weapon in Iran's arsenal. [00:23:15] So you have people who will go out there and talk about, well, it's 49% back the wing is rather than, or 43% rather than 49% or something like that. [00:23:24] Sounds like they know what they're talking about. [00:23:26] They can't get that kind of resolution out of those videos, I don't think. [00:23:30] Anyway, Trump has based, he said, based on what I've seen, I think it was done by Iran. [00:23:36] Describing Iranian munitions as very inaccurate. [00:23:40] And War Pete said the Pentagon is examining the incident, adding that the only side that targets civilians is Iran. [00:23:49] What a liar he is. [00:23:50] He targeted civilians all over the coast of Venezuela. [00:23:54] And after he targeted and hit their boat, he comes back with the military and executes them in the water in violation of every moral law, every international law, and the Pentagon's own rules. [00:24:05] That's what War Pete does. [00:24:07] All he is concerned about is lethality. [00:24:10] He doesn't care about legality. [00:24:11] He doesn't care about morality. [00:24:13] The guy is disgusting. [00:24:16] Stench. [00:24:17] He is a reproach to this country, and he's a reproach to Christ because he puts all this stuff on his tattoos on his arms, and he's always talking about his Christian nationalism. [00:24:30] What a disgusting example of somebody who has gone off the rails. [00:24:36] Why are you the only person saying this? said the reporter to Trump again. [00:24:41] So he said, Well, there's Iran. [00:24:43] They also have tomahawks, said Trump. [00:24:45] Just think about this: the short response that he had. [00:24:51] He says, I will say the tomahawk, which is one of the most powerful weapons around, is used by, you know, sold and used by other countries. [00:24:57] Lie. [00:24:58] You know that. [00:24:59] And whether it's Iran who has some tomahawks, lie. [00:25:02] They wish they had more. [00:25:04] But whether it's Iran or somebody else, the fact that a tomahawk is very generic, lie. [00:25:10] It's sold to other countries. [00:25:12] Lie. [00:25:15] How many lies can he tell in just a couple of sentences? [00:25:19] It's truly amazing. [00:25:21] This guy, Clinton, has got nothing on this guy. [00:25:24] Whether you're talking about sexual depravity or whether you're talking about lying about everything. [00:25:30] That's the way Bill and Hillary were. [00:25:32] It was absolutely infuriating. [00:25:33] I can remember in the 90s, you know, people would ask him stuff, and he did it again when he did the Epstein deposition. [00:25:40] He just casually lies. [00:25:43] He's probably better at it than Trump because he can kind of stay focused on what he's saying. [00:25:49] So he says, I just don't know enough about it, but everybody's got tomahawks, right? [00:25:55] Not true at all. [00:25:56] As a matter of fact, we're told that only the UK, Australia, Japan, and the Netherlands have tomahawks. [00:26:03] We won't sell them to anybody else, not even to Israel. [00:26:07] U.S. Tomahawk bombed the girls' school, killing 165 children. [00:26:12] Sources, Reuters, New York Times, LA Times, Middle East Eye, Horetz, and Dropsight News. [00:26:21] Trump says, no, not in my opinion. [00:26:24] Not based on what I've seen. [00:26:26] But then he also says he hasn't seen anything because he doesn't care. [00:26:29] Now, the context of all this, besides the fact that the man has no character, you can't trust anything that he says or does, the fact that the government wants to have autonomous killer robots, and this is what the fight is with Killer Pete. [00:26:48] He demands that Anthropic get rid of the two red lines, which are what? [00:26:55] Using AI for mass surveillance of Americans domestically. [00:27:00] And the other red line is to use that AI and autonomous killer robots. [00:27:05] Lethal Pete wants both of those. [00:27:08] What does that tell you? [00:27:10] And so, can these people be trusted? [00:27:14] If they're going to machine gun survivors in the water of a shipwreck, if they're going to bomb girls' schools and they don't care enough to even look into it or even make an excuse, they don't even care. [00:27:26] It's just like murdering people on the street in Minnesota. [00:27:30] This murderous, criminal, perverted regime. [00:27:34] Disgusts me beyond belief. [00:27:38] It's hard to say. [00:27:40] When you look at 2020, what could the guy do as an encore to get worse? [00:27:46] Well, we're seeing it now, and we're going to see even more of it. [00:27:49] More damage to the economy. [00:27:51] As a matter of fact, Jeffrey Tucker had an excellent op-ed piece. [00:27:54] He said, you know, we still haven't recovered from 2020 economically. [00:27:59] And he goes over one area after the other, and he's absolutely right. [00:28:03] What Trump did with that lockdown was so damaging. [00:28:07] And we're just talking about the economic effects of it. [00:28:10] And then, of course, another knock-on is the millions of people that he killed, especially globally with his vaccine that he's the father of. [00:28:17] Now he's the father of perhaps a world war, certainly a war throughout the Middle East. [00:28:25] And he is a father of a gigantic embargo, if you will. [00:28:31] And so Pete Hegseth and his fight with Anthropic designated them as a national security supply chain risk. [00:28:42] Think about this. [00:28:44] It is so important to him. [00:28:46] I mean, they're using Anthropic right now. [00:28:49] And who knows, maybe they were involved in this targeting fiasco. [00:28:53] Maybe AI was hallucinating, or most likely it was some old intel because that had been a site that had been associated with some military resources nearby. [00:29:04] Not that school, but nearby warehouses. [00:29:07] Nevertheless, when you look at the fact that they're using Anthropic right now, and he picks a fight with them and determines that he's going to put them out of business, he's not just going to cancel their military contract, but they're going to make them pay. [00:29:23] Make them pay because they refuse to do domestic surveillance with artificial intelligence and refused to let their AI be used for autonomous killer robots. [00:29:35] So Pete Hexa says, well, if you won't do that, I'll kill you as a corporation. [00:29:40] And that is the key thing here. [00:29:42] This is also unprecedented in the same way that so many things that Trump has done with corporations, not only investing in them, but then staying on as a co-owner to run this thing. [00:29:53] And look at the way that his family has grifted with corruption for crypto and many other businesses. [00:30:00] And of course, his sons in a drone war business. [00:30:04] The legal question is whether this designation is appropriate for a domestic company that has been an eager partner of the American military from the Maduro raid to the joint U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran. [00:30:16] Anthropic has vowed to challenge it in court. [00:30:19] The military wants Claude because Frontier AI can plan operations, process intelligence, and with guardrails removed, autonomously target. [00:30:29] And we're going to wind up having things like the targeted school kids. [00:30:32] Say this is what's going to happen in the future with autonomous killer robots. [00:30:35] Well, I don't know. [00:30:36] You know, we did our due diligence and we turned this over to the AI. [00:30:42] And the AI got it wrong. [00:30:43] So, well, I don't have any culpability. [00:30:45] That kind of stuff just happens, you know. [00:30:47] Fog of war and software bugs or whatever. [00:30:51] Dean Hall, co-author of the White House AI action plan, even, called this, quote, attempted corporate murder. [00:30:58] And this is a guy who came up with a White House artificial intelligence action plan. [00:31:04] And he calls it attempted corporate murder. [00:31:07] He's a genuine old school conservative. [00:31:09] His argument isn't just moral. [00:31:11] The Department of War has far less destructive options like canceling the contract, noting guidance to future contractors. [00:31:19] Instead, they reached for a weapon normally reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei against an American company whose AI they've used in combat operations the same weekend. [00:31:31] Even Sam Altman called it an extremely scary precedent. [00:31:36] So Dean Ball, the co-author of the White House AI action plan, said the people making these decisions lack strategic clarity and they lack respect for basic Republican principles. [00:31:52] We don't win by being a better command and control state. [00:31:55] We win by being a better version of America. [00:31:59] And so this op-ed piece from the Daily Caller says, let's be clear. [00:32:04] Anthropic isn't a hero. [00:32:05] They partnered with Palantir. [00:32:07] Their model supported strikes where hundreds died. [00:32:10] And their red lines, no fully autonomous lethal weapons and no mass domestic surveillance of Americans, were accepted by both the Biden and the Trump administrations when they put them in. [00:32:22] Now it's not good enough for war peat. [00:32:25] Trump was recently, as recently as July of last year, only became objectionable when Anthropic became a political enemy. [00:32:34] Their greatest contribution is the science of constitutional alignment, and that is AI with a conscience is what they're trying to work on. [00:32:44] That may be the most important thing, that you not have AI that has some kind of moral ethics built into it, right? [00:32:56] They can build in bias into these things, and we have seen that. [00:33:00] I mean, from the very beginning, first my first experience at ChatGPT, I asked it about the pandemic, I asked it about vaccines, I asked it about climate change. [00:33:09] And it's like, okay, I'm done. [00:33:12] I can't trust this thing.