April 3, 2026 - American Journal - Breanna Morello
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The American Journal: rump Warns Iran: “Make A Deal Before It’s Too Late” As US Intelligence Says Iran Does NOT Want To Negotiate! - FULL SHOW - 04.03.2026
James Fishback and the hosts dissect Iran's Strait of Hormuz closure, which halted one-third of global fertilizer trade and doubled jet fuel prices, while criticizing Pete Hegseth's proposed attacks on civilian infrastructure. They analyze the Ukraine war as a consequence of 1990s U.S. "shock therapy" and NATO expansion, arguing that $200 billion in foreign military spending diverts funds from domestic needs like rural hospitals and teacher pay. Ultimately, the episode condemns the "hamster wheel" of perpetual conflict driven by neoconservative interests and religious extremism, urging a shift toward addressing internal societal crises instead of fueling global wars. [Automatically generated summary]
Fertilizer pharma shock is a compounding crisis that ties energy choke points directly to crop yields and medicine supplies in a chain reaction Washington refuses to acknowledge.
The U.S. is a net exporter of fertilizer, but we have big fertilizer problems in the United States because remember, even if you're exporting it and the price has gone up.
So if you're from Iowa, where I'm from, you're paying a lot more for fertilizer this planting season, assuming you didn't buy it ahead of time, which, by the way, most of the farmers didn't.
They've been in a little bit of a tight squeeze.
Often they buy.
Inputs, seed and fertilizer, prior to a year in advance of planting.
Well, this year they didn't.
So they're buying it basically not forward, but buying it on the spot market.
Urea prices from the Middle East have surged from under $500 per metric ton to around $700 or higher, with overall fertilizer costs up more than 50% year over year.
Spring wheat planting could hit the lowest levels since 1970.
Domestic prices, and India faces gas shortages threatening its urea output.
With 318 million people already in acute hunger, analysts warn another 45 million could slide into crisis if disruptions last beyond June.
Layer on the pharmaceutical strike, Iranian missiles hit Israel's Niyat Hovav industrial zone, home to Tiva Pharmaceutical, the world's largest generic drug maker, and Adama chemical facilities.
Teva supplies affordable generics for cancer, heart, respiratory, and neurological treatments relied on by hospitals worldwide, especially in third world nations.
Preexisting shortages were already severe.
Prices will rise, access will tighten, and chronic patients could face rationing or expensive switches in the months ahead.
Iran's closure stranded Qatar's Northfield output, 33% of global helium, that also left 200 cryogenic helium containers at risk of total boil off within weeks.
No helium means no chips for AI GPUs or data centers, while India's 70,000 MRI machines and semiconductor memory supplies face immediate pressure.
Jet fuel has at least doubled in the U.S., with airlines warning of dry inventories, cancellations, and rerouting, while diesel tightness grips Australia and South Korea, prompting wartime economic measures.
The just in time global system that was built on cheap energy, fragile choke points, and the illusion of endless efficiency has had its table flipped over.
Stock what you reasonably can, demand real domestic resilience over globalist fantasies.
And build tolerance for uncomfortable truths that are imminent.
Talking through the round out your week, and it seems like every single day that we've come in here, we get a new uh, you know, it's kind of like training wheels or a tricycle, only it's our own president, Donald Trump, helping us with the show with a breaking tweet every single time.
Well, that's the problem with America's view on just like war and combat in general because we haven't had a mainland invasion of the U.S., we haven't had a domestic war since the Civil War.
Literally, we kind of just sit over here and it's like Otto van Bismarck said we have weak neighbors to our north and south and fish to our east and west.
We sit over here kind of in like the apex of our Power and we look at all these other nations around the world that are just right next to each other.
I mean, if you look at Iran, you got the Caucasus right there, you got West Asia right there, you got Europe right there, you got Africa right there, literally everything.
It's called the Middle East because it's the middle of the world.
When the British look down at the map, they're like, oh, this is the Middle East.
This is the middle of the entire planet.
And we're sitting over here, isolated for the past 250 years, just completely divorced from the concept of having to deal with these border disputes, these wars.
And then we tell these people who fought a brutal war against Saddam Hussein and lost hundreds of thousands of people.
Oh, we're just going to crush you.
When in fact, like they even hurting us a little bit, which they have the ability to do, we're like, ow, stop.
We're deep inside Iranian territory as well doing this.
That's what we believe the video clip is of.
Again, this is all unconfirmed, but this is what's happening.
And this is the thing we had a little discussion with someone last night.
We won't get into it too much, but basically, they made apparent statements about the conflict, and now they say everything they say is not to be taken seriously.
It's all a joke, but ultimately, this is not a laughing matter.
And when someone's trying to tell you the story or sell you the narrative, oh, it's the hero against the evil villain, usually that's wrong.
And we literally point that out empirically to prove it.
But I want to go to this because it ties into what we're talking about here.
For first time ever, Army Chief of Chaplain's Fire, that's like the head priest, preacher guy, right, in the military, by Hegseth.
And this is from Baptist.
It was hard to find this reported anywhere.
There's plenty of people talking about, oh, they fired the general.
They fired the general.
And yes, that is a big deal.
The general probably didn't want ground invasion.
It's probably why they let him go.
But they're firing the spiritual guy.
Pete Hegseth made national headlines April 2nd for firing General Randy George, the Army's chief of staff.
But on the same day, Hegseth removed Army Major General William Green, who had served in the post since 2023.
Traditionally, a person serves as Army Chief of Chaplains for a four year term.
No reason was given publicly for the dismissal.
Green's unusual dismissal came among a shakeup of top.
Army brass directed by Hegseth, who, of course, is an avowed Christian nationalist, really Christian Zionist nationalist, who believes America's war in Iran is sanctioned by God.
And so the people who want to speak out against the conflicts themselves, because a lot of these generals have lived through many of these conflicts and they know what works and doesn't work.
So the moment that you get out of line, and this is speculation because we don't know, we really don't know the real conversation that happened behind closed doors.
This is, I think we've covered it before on the show.
This is from The Guardian.
U.S. troops were told war on Iran was all a part of God's divine plan.
U.S. military commanders have been invoking extremist Christian rhetoric, Zionist rhetoric about biblical end times to justify involvement in Iran war to troops.
The MRFF, which is the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says it has received more than 200 complaints from service members across all branches of the armed forces, including the Marines, the Air Force, and Space Force.
One complainant identified as an NCO and a unit that could be deployed at any moment against Iran told the organization in a complaint that the commander had urged us to tell our troops this was all a part of God's divine plan and had specifically referenced, and I got a little bit more numerous citations out of the book of Revelations referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
And this is the quote that gets my hour up.
This is the thing that makes me go crazy.
This is absolutely unacceptable.
And in the Bible, it literally says anyone who says they know when I come back, don't listen to them like they're evil.
But we're going to go and get into it right here.
He said, and this is the guy instructing this guy to give his troops religious advice, not religious advice, religious cult advice.
He said that President Trump has been anointed by Jesus.
And the reason is, and I've said this before as well Christianity, whatever religion you practice, religion is one of those things where it can be either the best thing in the world or it can be used in a negative way.
I mean, I know the Old Testament was a little violent, but that's the reason why they came out with the New Testament because they realized, hey, violence doesn't work anymore.
The fact that I'm proud of those soldiers doing those reports and pushing out because they're watching everything in real time, they have access to their phones.
Where they think they're going to drink the Kool Aid and the aliens are going to come beam them up.
Because it's built off of a worship of insanity and death at the end of the day.
This will not produce a positive result from the world.
Even if you said, all right, the U.S. Empire is going to fight a brutal one year war against Iran, which they will win and they take over the country and greater Israel, whatever.
For decades and decades and decades, the Iranian people that need to be liberated will suffer under the destroyed infrastructure, no water, no electricity, no roads, they're blowing up bridges every day.
Is life materially better for those people because he says, oh, in America, we're going to make so much money off the war?
There are people, and we've all been taken advantage of in various points of our lives.
There are people with a lot of mental health problems that feel like they need to give all this money away.
And this is one of the predatory groups of people that take money away from people that want to give their money away.
And really got to reach out.
People, if you're listening to this broadcast right now and you've given donations to a kind of like name it and claim it person, I would just advise you to keep that money for yourself and your family and just read your Bible because you don't need these people to do anything.
In my mind, because you're taking something so sacred to somebody where they're truly trusting you because they want to be closer to God.
It's something that's dear and near to them because spirituality is one of those things that's almost an essential pillar that gives people some lightness and will to survive.
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We're going to be right back with more news, current events, and a deep dive in the second hour.
Yes, we're talking about the Ukraine conflict because that's the one that doesn't get as much attention anymore because Iran has taken all the headlines.
But when I look at the Ukraine war, we always talk about current events, but I wanted to understand the context and the history because this isn't the first time.
And I want to understand why Russia has so much beef with America?
And vice versa and beyond the Cold War.
And I'm just going to give context to all of that in the deep dive.
And you're going to be shocked at some of the things that you're going to see.
And it's going to make perfect sense why 2014 happened and 2022 happened.
Well, me and you have actually had a lot of discussions on Ukraine.
And I convinced you, I think, in a little respect, to look into it a little bit more and to just make the calculation of what's going on here with NATO.
And that's going to be the real discussion that we're going to have.
I want to go ahead and go to this beauty of a Clip that we have of Trump talking about, you know, we've heard we were going to get all sorts of economic stimulus.
They're rolling out an offer of another two grand that we're never going to see again.
I don't think we would have to go the Congress route, but, you know, we'll find out.
The reason we're even talking about it is that we have so much money coming in from tariffs that we'll be able to issue at least a $2,000 dividend and also pay down debt for the country.
But we'd do a $2,000 dividend to the people of our country, it would probably set a limit of You know, income limit where it made sense.
But we will be able to make a very substantial dividend to the people of our country.
I mean, look, they said after all the savings we're going to have for you guys, after we get all the corruption and drain the swamp, we're going to give you guys some money.
They actually were like, Not paying their loans back because they thought they were going to get repaid.
And they end up getting screwed.
And so, my whole point with that is you're just getting railed on both sides, just people trying to position themselves to make you feel good before the midterms.
And I'm sure some economists, or maybe even you, Tim, maybe we can go back and forth and argue on this.
I always thought the easiest way to deal with the student loan problem is to just remove the protection the loans have to where you can just charge them on bankruptcy.
Because right now, you can't discharge a student loan on bankruptcy.
And we think about it you're someone, you're an engineer, you made the calculation, Tim.
You're like, I need to go to school.
I'm going to have to pay for it.
And I might have some debt from it later, but I'm going to be able to pay this off because of my career.
It gives me upward mobility, stuff I don't have before, not being a professional.
Now that you're a professional.
And you look at the vast majority of people that go to college, that's just not true.
You go to get drunk, get the literature, communications degree, or whatever.
And then four years after the fact, maybe they're in marginally less debt than you, maybe the 10, 20 grand less debt, and they're never going to pay it back.
And there are things that if you put the same time into, even if it's a trade or even if it's not that, even if you're just like working at Walmart or whatever, you work at Walmart for four years, you do a perfect job, bam, you're middle management, you know, and you're making good money.
You're making 60, 70, 80 grand a year, the same as somebody in that librarian position.
We see this pricing out of just the American from American society.
We see this around colleges, around education in general, around healthcare, around how we live in general.
You see people in Austin who'll be jogging down the street and they'll be wearing like $5,000 of wearable electronics and have a Rolex on their wrist and they'll run right by a homeless person that's bleeding out in the street.
Now, you can look at that as a microcosm and say, well, you know, one person's really down on their luck, one person worked really hard their whole life, has all the technology, whatever.
The wealth gap and the wealth disparity in this country just continues to get bigger.
Bigger and bigger and bigger.
And Trump comes out and he says, Oh, we're going to give you two grand.
Let's go to we want to talk about this hypocrisy, this double standard of the government always having money for war and all these things, but never having money for you.
Imagine in Iran that instead of spending their wealth, Billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you'd have a much different country.
That instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran, you'd have a much different country.
And then you've got like this little 3% here for maybe education, another 3% here for like housing and urban development to where you don't have to like drive over a pothole.
Because with the radars, you have $20 plus billion of inventory that's been destroyed if you combine that with the planes and everything else that's been wrecked.
I want to go to the Theo Vaughn Joe Rogan clip because Theo Vaughn is voicing everything you're voicing, everything I'm voicing, just the pain of the Americans having to deal with this.
And Rogan's just like, just come hang out with me and my billionaire friends.
Well, I mean, he's just voicing the everyman perspective.
That's what being a man of the people is all about.
And I think the reason why Rogan is so popular and all those people that came up really in that 2000s, 20 teens era of like original podcasting is because it felt like you were talking to somebody real, someone that was connected to society, someone that was going through the same things as you, fans of the same sports and stuff as you, just kind of like a common man's perspective.
But now we get into it, and it just seems like those people are completely divorced.
And you got Theo Vaughn, who's really that old guy, that old spirit of podcasting, who's talking about the will of the people.
And oh, like, let's just talk about sports, man.
Let's just, ooh, isn't that crazy that wildlife video?
Well, also, the thing that I was making, and we're referring to kind of this debate that we had with somebody on our show last night, big, big, big person.
And the point that I was making and Rex was making was he was making a lot of jokes about, What was happening in society.
And I said this I said, if you have such a big platform, and I'm not sitting here trying to tone police you, but if you have the ability to push the right narrative and that you can actually influence people in the right decision, why not take that conscious effort?
I think the thing for me is that I just like, I just, you say it's a joke.
I engage in dark humor.
I don't want to joke police or anything, but nobody's laughing.
No, no, the people that are dead aren't laughing.
Like when you say you want to destroy a country and you don't say that's a joke and you're going to make that position, you're going to make that claim, people around the world are crying right now.
And like, this is a very serious time to be alive.
So like the only solution I see here is all the people who have been involved in these conflicts, and I'm talking about China, Russia, you know, the Middle East, like those people need to be like switched out with new fresh meat that actually, you know, is just an average person that understands.
And I'm saying like also being qualified.
I'm not sitting to take somebody random and just put them in that position.
Again, it's just like we need a refresh of the mind to where we have a clean slate.
Everybody can be like, all right, guys, we know we've all screwed each other over here.
I think it's time to stop this and let's cooperate here.
America, we come into the table, we're like, hey, we'll stop bombing you.
We'll stop threatening you.
We'll stop destabilizing your country.
Just promise not to retaliate.
And that promise that they're afraid of the other country not giving back, I think that's why we're continuing to go in the circle.
Where Biden had no backbone and he was just taking it, right?
Like that's not the solution either because when Biden came in and they had no real plan and they thought they were doing something with the whole Ukraine and then.
We were in a Cold War for a long time, and it's getting hotter as things progress.
I mean, the number one thing that America's done geopolitically that's been damaging just for the state of the world and the survival of the world, really, is the removal of the New START Treaty.
The Russians desperately tried to get us to agree to a year long extension to it.
We said no.
Now there is no limit on our nuclear weapons program, and that's going to be the same for the other countries as well.
Satellite images reveal major expansion of Chinese nuclear facilities in Sichuan.
China has been secretly expanding its nuclear weapons infrastructure in Sichuan province in recent years, according to a CNN investigation.
Based on satellite imagery and government documents, as global arms control agreements weaken, and that means the U.S. leaving them, and geopolitical tensions rise, the development center around sites in and around Zitong County, which satellite images show extensive construction, Including the demolition of villages, that's big construction, and the building of new facilities linked to nuclear weapons production.
In one case, residents in Sichuan were evicted from their homes in 2022, with authorities citing it as a state secret.
So now it's just out in the open.
Wow.
More than three years later, satellite imagery shows the village flattened and replaced with structures supporting nuclear related activities.
One of the most significant additions is a dome shaped structure that's around 36,000 square feet.
The reinforced facility is surrounded by concrete and steel.
Equipped with radiation monitors, blast doors, and ventilation systems designed to contain radioactive materials such as uranium and plutonium.
I just don't see the point of what, I mean, nuclear weapons are deterrent, but how many do you need in order to actually deter someone from actually attacking you?
Well, a weapons increase is the next best thing because they say, in the case of MAD doctrine, mutually assured destruction doctrine, if we're not going to have nonproliferation, if we're not going to have no nuclear weapons, we got to have more of them than you because we got to win the nuclear exchange.
And you see that sickness of the mind.
And if you think, if you've been propagandized, you're like, we can win this.
You know, these revelations of that, you know, the elites at a very high level, and we actually know the basic number of them as well, are doing human trafficking, human rape, and human sacrificing of children because they're the closest to God.
And when I like read this, I mean, it's unthinkable.
Like, you don't want to believe it.
And so I mentioned it on Joe Rogan.
But I also mentioned that I was starting an AI company.
And what shocked me is after the show, more people wanted to talk about the AI thing, and more people were upset about, you know, that I was starting an AI company than they were about, you know, this nightmare of elites eating babies.
And I mean, we've seen people who have spoken about it, who have participated in it and who have left.
It's a kind of.
It's an initiation that you go through to become a confidence initiation that you go through to become part of a team.
And that's when I realized that this is not something that's unique to the elites, that human nature involves these kinds of hazing initiations, or else we wouldn't see it happening since childhood.
Andrew Breitbart, I'm quoting you, in a newspaper interview he gave last year discussing the people who run Hollywood, quote, uh oh, yes, quote, I'm telling you they're uninteresting.
They're vicious, they're vitriolic, they're really, really not good people, and I'm willing to say that on the record.
Well, I'm not saying the entirety, but the ones who have controlled Hollywood for the last 40 years, that quote could be attributed to the campus left as well.
It could be attributed to people who are in charge in Venezuela right now.
Anywhere where the left gets control, you start to see political correctness run amok.
You select it, you project it, you expect it, and then you collect it.
It's the spec method, and it actually works.
And so, people who are using it for, you know, there's good spells and bad spells, and there's spells that are promoting humanity, and then there's spells that are disintegrating humanity.
That's Mario Newfall reporting it's been confirmed by Axios that they did indeed shoot down the F 15.
Now, we've got a statement from U.S. Central Command, CENTCOM, from 17 hours ago, where they say, claim Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard says it downed an enemy fighter jet.
It says, fact, all U.S. fighter aircraft are accounted for.
This is something that is near and dear to my heart.
Again, we do the deep dives to give you guys information, give you guys context beyond the headlines.
What we're going to be talking about today is the Ukraine war.
And the things that are not so mainstream, because there's a lot of confusion on why the United States and Russia and Ukraine have gotten into this situation.
And you have to go very far back to understand how we actually got to today.
Enter Boris Yeltsin, the first president of the Russian Federation.
Yeltsin inherited a country in turmoil, shrinking the economy, rising nationalism, and widespread uncertainty.
To address these challenges, he turned to Western economists and institutions like the International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Bank, who advocated for shock therapy.
Shock therapy was rooted in the belief that transitioning to capitalism should be as rapid and sweeping as possible.
The idea was that short term pain would lead to long term gain.
His architects like Jeffrey Sachs and Anders Esland argued that gradual reforms.
Risked a return to socialism.
Instead, they pushed for a clean break, dismantling the planned economy in one fell swoop.
The first step was lifting price controls, which had kept goods affordable during the Soviet era.
Overnight, prices skyrocketed.
In January 1992 alone, basic necessities became unaffordable for many.
A loaf of bread that once cost a few kopeks suddenly cost several rubles.
Hyperinflation reached 1,354% that year, wiping out savings and plunging millions into poverty.
For ordinary Russians, this was a nightmare.
Imagine an elderly pensioner who had saved her entire life. under the Soviet system, only to find that her money was now worthless.
People began selling heirlooms, furniture, and even clothes in makeshift street markets just to survive.
This period became a symbol of desperation, with grandmothers hawking antique samovars and men bartering tools for food.
Unemployment, a concept virtually unknown in the USR, surged as industries shut down or downsized.
State-owned factories, once the backbone of Soviet life, could no longer compete in the global market.
Entire towns built around a single factory, known as monotowns, were devastated, leaving residents without jobs or Prospects.
Privatization was another cornerstone of shock therapy.
It was here that the seeds of Russia's oligarchy were sown.
State assets, from oil fields to aluminum plants, were sold off at bargain prices.
Ordinary Russians were given vouchers to buy shares in these enterprises, but most sold them for cash to survive.
The beneficiaries, a small group of well connected insiders who amassed vast fortunes almost overnight.
Take the example of Roman Abramovich, who acquired the Sibnev oil company for a fraction of its value, or Mikhail Kotarkovsky, who became one of the richest men in Russia by acquiring Yukos oil.
These oligarchs wielded immense power, not just economically, but Politically shaping Russia's future in ways that still resonate today.
Well, that is the whole reason why we do these deep dives because it uncovers history and humans have a repeatable pattern in which we've done these things before, we've lived through.
So anything you're hearing now where we talk about short term pain, For long term gain, we've seen it not play out before.
So, how do we think that it's going to play out positively today?
Dude, they had a life expectancy of 58 of like 57 years at one point.
You look at France, you look at the West there, you look at that kind of gradual uptick as healthcare gets better, as technology gets better, as lives improve and as things get easier.
And they're also involved in these decisions, right?
So I want to pull up that quote also of Berkovsky, Boris Berkovsky.
Well, Borachovsky.
Yeah, so he's just talking about, he's basically bragging here that a handful of bankers controlled about half of Russia's economy and most of its media.
Along with banker, I'm going to try to do it, and media mogul Vladimir A. Guchinsky, now 46, oil magnate and banker Mikhail B. Kordachevsky, 35, and bankers Mikhail M. Fredman, 34, and Pieter O'Avin, 43, who together head the Alpha Group of Financial Firms.
Among them, Borachowski claimed they controlled half of Russia's economy.
So then there's also, we got to look at this William Burns cable because the U.S. ambassador warned Washington that Russians felt humiliating and that they believed that the West was exploiting their weakness after the Soviet Union departed, right?
So, this shock therapy didn't just collapse the economy, it poisoned the entire relationship, Rex.
And so the Russians came out of the 1990s believing that the West was going to do something to help them, but they ended up almost destroying them almost on purpose, it seems like.
Well, I mean, the goal is like the smash and grab, the destabilization.
We see a lot of that here with people getting rich and making all these insider trading, all these deals.
What happens?
You have a response, and what's that response called, Vladimir Putin?
We're going to get into that a little bit later in the deep dive, but ultimately, What we're seeing here in America is a reflection of the Soviet Union because bad leadership is going to lead to that strong man.
That's what Fuentes always talks about you have one guy, maybe he doesn't care too much about human rights, but he's going to change things for the people.
And that starts to become a very dangerous calculation as time goes on.
And in some respects, the popular mood here mirrors the descending gloom.
Born of a mood of national regret over the loss of superpower status and an equally acute sense that the West is taking advantage of Russia's weakness, assertive policies abroad have become one of the few themes that unite Russians.
Yeltsin wished to reaffirm Russia's great power status and its interest in neighboring post Soviet republics.
So they use Ukraine as this military staging ground.
They use this Ukraine situation as something they've given pseudo security guarantees to.
And ultimately, they've desperately wanted NATO or Ukraine to join NATO because that's the completion of the security armada against Russia in their mind.
James Baker, he told Gorbachev, who was the one who was making the negotiations, he said we wouldn't move east.
And as you've pointed out.
We went another country and another country.
And then you're starting to see in 1999, we took Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic.
And now Russia's just seeing all these things play out.
And then we have something that happens in 1999 that also contributes to changing the narrative around NATO's position because NATO was created as a defensive pack, not an offensive alliance.
Okay, so let's go ahead and pull up and play number eight.
Eight here that's going to talk about the bombing of Yugoslavia and it changes the rhetoric and the tone for the rest of the world going forward from this bombing.
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Russia may have taken the expansion of NATO more lightly if it weren't for another major event in 1999 the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
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The first bombing of its kind in NATO history.
On March 24, 1999, Western nations carried out their threat against Serbia and began the biggest military conflict on Serbian soil since World War II.
This was the first time NATO used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council and thus international legal approval.
This showed that NATO would operate not only as a defensive alliance but an offensive alliance that had no problem bombing sovereign states it disapproved of.
Russia observed all of this and never forgot it.
Even the famous Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn decried the action, saying, NATO has proclaimed to the whole world, might is right.
Those who are strong are always right.
He added that it was the destruction of a beautiful country in full view of humanity, while civilized governments applaud this.
Not only Russia, but many countries across the world opposed these actions by NATO.
It was a serious departure from what NATO claimed to stand for.
Like you're talking about, of course, all these people, all these world leaders are killers, but Trump had the key line in that 60 Minutes interview I always call back to.
And the guy's talking to him.
He goes, You know, Putin's a killer, sir.
Putin's a killer.
You really want to work with Putin?
He's a murderer.
And he goes, Trump goes, You think we're so innocent?
And then 2007, Putin's like, I've had enough, man.
And so he goes in and he stands in front of the Munich Security Conference and he publicly calls out NATO of its expansion and serious provocation that's happening.
And he says, against whom is this expansion intended for?
Let's go ahead and roll up clip number nine here.
And it's going to show you Putin and what he says during this conference.
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All of this, when 9 11 happened, Russia still declared full support to the U.S. in fighting terrorism.
America didn't seem to care about this gesture of goodwill.
In 2004, NATO underwent another round of eastward expansion, this time taking in the Baltic states, Romania, and several other Eastern European countries.
In 2005, President Putin complained to American diplomats You Americans need to listen more.
You can't have everything your way anymore.
We can have effective relations, but not just on your terms.
In February 2007, he delivered a dramatic speech in Munich where he protested the continuous expansion of NATO.
It turns out that NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders and we continue to strictly fulfill the treaty obligations and do not react to these actions at all.
I think it is obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe.
On the contrary, it represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust and we have the right to ask against whom is this expansion intended.
Fishback on with us, James Fishback, gubernatorial candidate, on in the next hour.
We're continuing on with the phenomenal Ukraine Russia deep dive on NATO, about the war, about all the things that have happened to lead up to this point.
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But while the gains of the orange bidet, Chestnut Revolution or Ukraine's, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in Western branding and mass marketing that, in four countries in four years, has been used to try to salvage rigged elections and topple unsavory campaigns.
Okay, you've got political turnover, you've got Western alignment, you've got military buildup on their borders, and then for every one of those countries, it's just a warm up.
And we know where the real target is, right?
And it's Ukraine.
And this was the one demand in the one area that has been the most sensitive for Russia specifically.
Okay, Ukraine was different from all the rest because it mattered to Russia more than any other country on the map.
And in 2008, the U.S. ambassador warned that Ukrainian NATO membership was the brightest of all red lines, not just for Putin.
But for the entire Russian political class.
And American officials knew exactly what they were doing, pushing against this narrative.
Let's go ahead and pull up number 12 here with that video.
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In 2008, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, William J. Burns, wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest of all red lines for the Russian elite, not just Putin.
In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin's sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine and NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.
American officials were fully aware that Ukraine joining NATO was something that no one in the Russian leadership could tolerate, whether they be in Putin's circle or his liberal critics.
Nevertheless, in 2014, the U.S. government under Barack Obama backed the infamous Maidan revolution in Ukraine.
This revolution overthrew the Russia friendly government of Viktor Yanukovych and replaced it with a pro NATO government.
John McCain, Victoria Newland, and other American government officials were literally.
They have no idea what they're doing, and we call these people the adults in the room, and they're just meddling in people's elections, and it causes chain reactions.
And you just think, like, if something like that were to happen here, Rex, what would happen?
I mean, we already were freaking out when people thought Russia, the Russia collusion was real.
But, like, to openly have, let's say, like, Russian oligarchs sitting there filming, like, you know, let's say, like, Trump doesn't get in and, like, they put in another puppet head.
And again, there's a domino effect where you have no idea what you're going to cause down the line.
And so, these actions have been responsible for the decimation of cities, killing of people's families, murder of citizens who had nothing to do with these conflicts and they had no clue what they were doing.
They just said, This is a good idea, sir.
This is the best thing since life spread.
We just need to make sure these people follow our command and we put a guy in there that's going to be good for the American people.
And here's the thing you think about this when you were talking about the Cuban Missile Crisis and kind of pointing out the example of the hypocrisy there.
The illegal war of aggression, the evil Russians rolling in in February of 2022.
What are we doing in Iran then?
If that's an illegal war of aggression, this has Far less justification.
No, like, let's play out the rest of the video because you're going to see the reaction of what happens.
It is massive.
The implications are very real.
Let's go ahead and roll the rest of that clip, please.
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On the ground in Ukraine, cheering as it happened.
They didn't even bother to hide their involvement.
Just a week before the coup occurred, there was a leaked phone call of Victoria Nuland speaking about the Ukrainian opposition as if she controlled it.
When asked about how the EU would react to all of this, she replied, the EU.
So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and have the UN help glue it and, you know, the EU.
No, exactly.
And I think we've got to do something to make it stick together because.
You can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it.
That's how much he cared about European interests.
And people listening to this in the EU area should seriously consider that.
In response to this coup, the ethnic Russian regions of Ukraine, such as Donetsk, Luhansk, and Crimea, immediately rose up in rebellion against the new Ukrainian government.
Kiev declared them all to be terrorists and launched what it called an anti terrorist operation to destroy them.
Russia, seeing the opportunity, gladly stepped in to back these separatists and annexed Crimea.
Crimea had long been disputed between Russia and Ukraine, and this was seen by Moscow as the chance to settle the issue once and for all.
A war began between the Russian backed separatists of eastern Ukraine and the US UK backed government in Kiev.
The New York Times reported plainly in 2024.
The partnership between the CIA and Defense Intelligence of Ukraine began in late February 2014.
So, immediately upon the Ukrainian government changing, it was recently revealed in declassified documents that the CIA built 12 military bases on the front lines in Donbass.
Like, we're fighting a war against them, and then they fight back or they try to seize territory they think is significant to their conflict, to their war, to their objectives.
The United States is a mixed economy, government owns.
Percentages of very large corporations like Nvidia, government basically controls a lot of things behind the scenes.
The same is true in China, even more so, and in Russia, maybe to a greater or lesser extent.
To say that we are the free market liberal warriors who go around the world and liberate these oppressed populations from the evil, tyrannical, fascist, communist dictator, we don't live in 1940 anymore.
And so at that point, remember, we said that this earlier, like the U.S. ambassador warned in 2008 that this was the brightest of all red lines for Russia.
Well, Trump told Zelensky you're gambling with World War III, and now it looks like.
We're gambling with World War III in a full and total war.
You look at this, I know we got a little bit more in the deep dive.
I want to make sure we're done.
The old world order of like, you know, Biden is senile, waddling around.
The old deep state people, they all wanted to get into the Cold War beef because that's where they come from.
It's like we talked about on the deep dive.
It's that old animus, it's that old hunger for that battle.
The new faction of the deep state, the like Israeli Zionist faction of it, they're the new guys and they're like war in the Middle East.
It benefits you fighting China, you get to fight against the IMET corridor, you got to do this against Iran.
So, whether it's that first power block, the anti Russian power block, or the second power block, the radical Zionist Iran war power block, you don't get a peace power block.
There's not a group of people that are like, hey, let's make things better.
It's like, oh, we want this war here.
We're the Democrats.
We want this war here.
We're the Republicans.
And this is the thing people are like, I've seen people online apologize, and I've apologized for it, but in a different way.
People being like, I didn't know I voted for Trump.
I didn't know what I voted for.
People are like, yeah, I should have voted for Kamala.
So when I look at all of this, I'm just like, okay.
We have a situation where I think we need to start another program outside of, you know, the foreign exchange program where I said go trade a congressional person with a military person.
If you are in Congress, you need to go over and you need to sit down with Tim Tompkins and do these deep dives so we can teach you on causality and all of the things that happen afterwards.
I mean, we look at this whole Ukraine situation, and now we look at Iran, and we look at the rapid advancement in real 21st century modern warfare, modern combat.
You have the FPV drones.
You have the missiles and the missile defense systems.
You have all sorts of trench warfare style engagements where you can't have mass groupings of troops or tanks anymore because they just get taken out by the FPVs.
You've got to have like a real old style of combat backed with extreme air support and drone support.
I mean, they have areas in Ukraine, I think it's like a 20 mile or 200 mile, I forget which area.
I think it's 200 mile, where it's literally just FPV drones, fiber optic cable all over the ground, and no one can pass it because they're at an official stalemate.
You know, I was wrong about this last year.
I really thought.
The Ukrainians were going to have to make concessions at this point.
I think they're still going to have to make concessions.
The International Energy Agency has dropped another bombshell from its Paris headquarters, unleashing a fresh 10 point plan dubbed Sheltering from Oil Shocks.
Released amid Brent crude spiking toward $120 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz largely shut down, the document urges governments to slash global oil demand by an estimated 2.7 million barrels per day within four months.
Key COVID 2.0 S Measures include mandating work from home up to three days a week, dropping highway speed limits by at least six to ten miles per hour, imposing car free Sundays in major cities,
alternating vehicle access by license plate where odd numbered plates get access on certain days and even numbered plates get access on the other days, pushing carpooling and public transportation as we dwell in a reality where all of the machete wielding lunatics are free to injure anyone they.
Please, under Blue City Soros DAs, cutting non essential business flights by 40 percent and promoting efficient trucking and rail alternatives.
Yeah, you know, the trucking industry rife with illegal aliens.
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This illegal immigrant came into America on March of 2022.
He was given a federal work permit by the Biden Harris administration, and Gavin Newsom gave him a CDL license.
On this day, he was driving intoxicated.
When the traffic in front of him slowed down, he didn't slow down and he plowed right through eight cars, immediately.
Killing three individuals and seriously injuring four.
On the surface, it reads like pragmatic crisis management for a genuine supply crunch.
But we just went through this engineered behavioral control bureaucratic nightmare.
And in some respects, we still are.
And I guarantee the American people are not going to line up like sheep this time.
This isn't the first time the IEA has rolled out such a blueprint.
Back in 2022, amid the Russia Ukraine fallout, they issued an almost Identical 10 point plan to cut oil use that pushed remote work, slower speeds, car free days, and reduced air travel.
Measures that conveniently aligned with the post COVID new normal of emerging restricted mobility and digital surveillance.
Now, in 2026, the agency is recycling the playbook under the guise of sheltering consumers with language like immediate actions for.
Advanced economies and heavy emphasis on limiting personal freedom of movement that will quickly morph into policy mandates, fines, internment camps, and enforcement grids.
The IEA's own net zero by 2050 roadmap has long telegraphed the end game, slashing fossil fuel demand not through abundant, cheap energy, but through rationing your lifestyle.
The populace, corralled like sheep, All while the elites jet between climate summits and award ceremonies.
Expect the usual cascade towards establishment insolence, where corporate compliance, media cheerleading, and gradual normalization of surveillance apps to optimize your carbon or oil footprint ramp up.
The Agenda 2030 goal is less than four years away, and the fools are going for broke.
Well, we are being joined live by the powerful gubernatorial Florida candidate, James Bishback, who's running against the infamous, at this point, Byron Donalds.
We want to ask him about his campaign, about events going on in the world, things he's been involved in, conversations people are having.
Congratulations to your new show, and it's great to see you guys here, and thanks for the opportunity.
I want to just start off by saying, That I want to wish everyone a meaningful Good Friday.
And I would ask everyone to say a prayer if they could for the two men that were in that F 15 that was shot down by the Iranian regime just an hour ago, that search and rescue operation underway.
But it's sad that the conflict has gotten to this point and keep those two men in our prayers as we hope and pray for an end to this war with Iran.
It is yet another reminder that the leaders who wield the levers of war and peace have to be very conscious about what wars we are getting into and why and how we should maintain the peace.
And so I voted for President Trump in 2024.
I don't regret that decision, but I do think this war is misguided.
I haven't seen any intel that suggests that there was an imminent threat posed from Iran to the United States.
It looks far more likely that it was Israel trying to get us once again into one of their wars to increase their influence in that region.
And so It is sad that we're yet again seeing potentially more casualties on the American side, whilst Israel has yet to suffer a single casualty in a war that we would not be in if it were not for them.
And so that's why I went to Washington, D.C. two weeks ago.
I stood outside of the Capitol and I respectfully pushed back on the administration that I support, that it's time to either share credible intelligence that shows that Iran does, in fact, pose an imminent threat to the United States, or it's time to begin to de escalate this conflict and bring the thousands of troops who have been sent to the region back home.
Tim, not your version of the truth or my version of the truth, but the truth.
And the truth is that the reason why Joe Kent resigned from the number two at the Director of National Intelligence was because he hadn't seen the intel.
The reason why Tulsi Gabbard was asked point blank under oath in congressional testimony if Iran was an imminent threat, and she refused to answer.
And so, say what you want about George Bush, Colin Powell, 2003 in the Iraq War, at least they had the common courtesy to give us a made up pretext for the war.
They're not even extending that courtesy these days.
And so, I voted for President Trump, among other reasons, to end the forever wars.
The forever wars that were started by George Bush, perpetuated by Barack Obama.
This was a break, a post partisan break from the neocon uniparty consensus that always found a way for us to get involved in foreign conflicts.
And so I think that's the number one reason why a lot of people in my state voted for President Trump.
I went to the internment of the U.S. service member who was killed in the early days of the war in Kauai, Major Cody Cork.
And when you go to one of these funerals and you see up close what war does to people, it really does shape.
And reframe how disastrous this conflict can be.
And so there's no question that Major Cork died a hero.
He died in service to his country.
And it's time to make sure that we can limit all future casualties and do right by service members and make sure that we are honoring their commitment as well.
I just want to say this to the viewers, listeners at home, the people hearing us right now doing this interview.
War is a dead body in the grave rotting with maggots in it.
War is a little kid with no arms or legs.
That's what war is.
And when you go out there and you support a conflict without knowing much about it, just Accepting government's narrative, whatever they're going to tell you, just realize what's going on.
And we're not divorced from these conflicts.
Whatever happens overseas could eventually, potentially, God forbid, happen at home.
You're running this very intense grassroots campaign where you're literally talking to everybody in an effort to beat the big funding.
When you talk to people on the street, when you go to these funerals, when you talk to soldiers, veterans, you name it, what's the feeling about war from them?
They understand that it's a necessity, that sometimes it is absolutely necessary and you can't avoid it.
But it also means that when you do go into war, you have to have a clear exit strategy, clear defined objectives.
We had the president of the United States address the country two days ago, and he talked about bombing Iran back to the Stone Ages.
That's not a clear objective.
That's not why we're going to war with Iran, is to bomb them back to the Stone Ages.
In fact, Rex, we've heard at least five different explanations as to why we're in this war.
It was to stop the nuclear program.
I thought Operation Midnight Hammer fully denuclearized.
Iran last summer.
And then it was regime change.
Here we go again.
I thought President Trump was against regime change.
And then it was to avenge the deaths of American service members that Iran had perpetuated for years.
I can agree with that.
But you avenge those deaths when they happen.
You don't wait 30 or 40 years to do that.
And then, of course, the last one, which is the most perplexing, is that Iran was somehow an imminent threat to the United States.
And if that is actually true, I'm happy to change my mind.
And I think millions of Americans are as well.
If Iran was actually plotting to attack, say, New York City or Chicago or LA, absolutely, we should go in there and take them out.
But there's no evidence of that whatsoever.
And so I fear that this is a classic case of mission creep.
We got in almost certainly because of Israel, and now we're redefining the objectives every 48 hours, and we'll never be able to get out.
This is exactly what happened in Iraq, right?
We were supposed to go in there, identify weapons of mass destruction.
They didn't exist, and then it became a nation building counterinsurgency operation.
Same thing with Afghanistan.
Unseat the Taliban government who had given safe haven and refuge to Al Qaeda, which attacked us on September 11th.
And the next thing you know, we're there for 20 years building schools and trying to win over the hearts and minds of the people.
That is not why we go to war.
We go to war because it's necessary and to take out a threat to the United States of America, not to install democracies in countries that, quite literally, Tim, you and I both know this, these are countries that can never be democratic.
In fact, as much as it might suck to say this, let's get realistic.
Many of these countries are better off.
When they're run by theocratic monarchs, I don't know that the Middle East is better off or Iraq is better off for having lost Saddam Hussein.
It's the devil you know versus the devil you don't.
I don't know that Libya is better off for having lost Gaddafi.
It's the devil you know versus the devil you don't.
Well, I want to interject here because it's been the stated mission of the United States for years to have no secular democracy in the Middle East, no regime like Assad, for example, that would tolerate various ethnic and religious minorities in his nation.
And you can look at Assad and say, He's a murderer.
He's a killer.
And now, look, we got the Al Qaeda terrorist in charge.
So, that photo was taken shortly after October 7th, which was a tragedy.
Anytime you kill thousands of innocent lives, whether they're Israeli, whether there were Americans there as well, there were Thai, Cambodian, foreign workers who were killed in that awful attack.
A friend gave that to me, and I wore it in the month or so after this heinous attack by Hamas on innocent individuals.
And so, I'm not going to apologize for wearing a flag pin, especially after that attack.
Now, that flag pin, I think, often is worn by people who try to suggest that the U.S. Is somehow in a great allyship with Israel.
That is clearly not the case.
I've never said that.
I've never advocated for US military aid going to Israel.
The purpose of me wearing that pin while American citizens were being held hostage in Israel, or rather in Gaza by Hamas, was to call the world leaders to help bring those hostages home, something that President Trump rightly called for at the time.
And I believe that President Biden and Vice President Harris were not doing enough for.
With respect to, I think the larger conversation, which is, well, you know, where did this guy come from?
He's saying all the right things.
What's up with that?
Is this?
I will always change my mind when the facts change.
I was never some staunch supporter of Netanyahu or Israel.
I never really had many public views about this.
People will point to a debate I had with the one and only Destiny back in 2024, in which I said that Iran should not be able to fund proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas to attack Israel.
I still stand by that.
I don't think, you know, wherever you stand on Israel, pro or anti, You should not want a theocratic radical regime funding proxies that attack anyone in the region.
And so I think there's a bigger, broader conversation that a lot of people want to have, which is well, you were saying one thing and now you're saying something different.
And yeah, guilty as charged.
When the facts change, when Israel bombs the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, things change.
My mind will change.
When Netanyahu comes out and never accepts responsibility, never delivers accountability for that attack on Christians, when he goes out just last week and denies access.
To his eminence, Cardinal Pizabala, access to this holy church in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
Of course, I'll call that out.
And so, of course, my views will change on this.
But I think what matters most is that Americans unite under a universal fact that whether you are pro Israel or anti Israel, perhaps even if you're apathetic or indifferent, we should all believe the fact that no American should be sent to die in a war for Israel.
And I think there were serious questions about whether there was a stand down order from Netanyahu or a high ranking Israeli official on October 7th, because it didn't make a whole lot of sense.
And you'll remember, Rex and Tim, at the early hours of October 7th, there were videos, extremely raw graphic videos shared on X of just how heinous.
I remember there was one, and again, pardon the graphic nature of this, but there was one where a Hamas fighter went into a barbershop and there was a Filipino expat worker and with a gardening hoe.
Chopped his head off while he was alive.
And so, of course, that kind of tragedy should be condemned fully.
It's just absolutely disgraceful.
And, you know, I think at the end of the day, yeah, Americans do hunger for peace.
We don't want to be involved in these wars.
Yeah, it's cool to see rockets and fighter jets and all of that.
We want, I think, what President Trump did rather successfully in December with Venezuela is we want a war or a short term conflict rather that actually does something meaningful for Americans.
Look, Maduro.
Was a dangerous guy who didn't just kill innocent Venezuelans.
He's responsible for the death of thousands of Americans.
This is a guy, you guys have talked about it, who opened the prisons in Venezuela, the most dangerous gangbanging thugs, and then sent them to the United States under the guise of an asylum, open border nonsense from Kamala Harris, who was the border czar.
And they came over, they took over condominiums, they flooded our streets with cheap, addictive drugs like fentanyl.
And so Venezuela was responsible for that.
Maduro was responsible for that.
And what did President Trump do?
He sent the Delta force down there.
To capture this guy and to bring him to trial in New York City.
So that's the kind of military conflict that we want to see.
It's in, it's out.
There is a clearly defined objective and exit strategy.
And most importantly, it is in the strategic benefit of the average American citizen.
The average American citizen doesn't want trendy Aragua gang members taking over their local condominium complex or pushing cheap fentanyl counterfeits on teenagers in the community.
And so, my fear, though, Tim, is that.
What happened in Venezuela, such a successful operation then, ended up deluding the administration and senior advisors of the president into thinking that what was going to happen in Iran was going to be just as easy, just as seamless, an in and out.
One thing that I've always been curious, and maybe James, you can touch upon this, is why haven't we actually gone after the real problems like the cartel in Mexico?
I mean, they're actually killing Americans if you really think about it.
Like, we're not really having a 9 11 or a terrorist attack, but we have millions of people dying from fentanyl overdoses and cocaine and those types of things.
And Trump has signaled, like, I want to crack down on these things.
Where, I mean, except for like Venezuela, where he said it was coming from there, which is a complete lie.
It comes from China and Mexico.
That's the majority of fentanyl.
But like for you, like, don't you think that we should be using those resources and intelligence operations to take out people who are actually bad for the American people and the Mexicans themselves right at our doorstep?
And if this were a military conflict right now where we were using Reaper drones to drop bombs on Mexican cartels, absolutely.
That is a good use of money and a good.
Example of how we need to operate in our own hemisphere for the benefit of American citizens.
Again, we're killing 100,000 people every single year with drug overdoses.
And those precursors to fentanyl that are actually from China that are shipped to ports on the Pacific Ocean in Mexico that create counterfeit versions of whether it's Adderall, Percocet, Vicodin, they're pressed fentanyl pills that are made to look like popular drugs in the United States of America.
People take them, and because of this addictive poison, they die very, very quickly.
And so that's a very good use of kinetic force if you want to drop a bomb on cartels.
To stop them from being able to flood our streets with cheap addictive poison.
That's a compelling strategic interest.
That does not require $200 billion from the Pentagon.
In fact, that operation could be done in an entire weekend, knock out the cartels.
But again, that would not be to the benefit of the Greater Israel Project.
That would not be the benefit of Raytheon stock price.
So again, why are we doing these things?
That's an important question we have to ask ourselves.
That's a super high level geopolitical narco trafficking rundown, how we're going to stop.
At potential futures and causality there.
On the street, when you're talking to people, and they may not be as politically locked into monitoring the situation or whatever it's called, like all of us are, and honor to them.
You got a life, you got a family, you got a wife and kids.
Take care of them, obviously, and all this stuff is really depressing to think about.
What are they asking you for in relation to all these things?
Are they asking you to look at the cartels in Mexico?
Are they asking you to look at these conflicts that we're getting ourselves in?
But what are they asking for domestically in relation?
Where do they want that money to go?
Instead of the wars, what are they looking to fund?
I put out this video a couple of weeks ago where I said that just as the New York Times was reporting the Pentagon, led by Secretary Hegseth, wanted $200 billion to fund this war.
I thought this war was supposed to be over in just a matter of weeks.
You don't ask for $200 billion, which, by the way, is more than we spent in the first full year of the Iraq war, if the war is supposed to de escalate and come to an end in just a matter of weeks.
That's the first point.
But I put out this video and I'll ask you this, Rex.
Would you rather, if we're going to spend $200 billion, and I don't think we have to, But if we're going to spend $200 billion, would you rather bomb Iran for Israel or would you rather build 1,300 rural hospitals?
Would you rather spend $200 billion bombing Iran for Israel or would you rather raise the teacher pay of the best teachers in America by $65,000?
Would you rather spend $200 billion bombing Iran for Israel or would you rather offer down payment assistance?
For 20 million young couples who are looking to start a family but don't have a home, and that is delaying their family plans.
And so I'm not a big fan of spending money, period, as we're staring down a $40 trillion national debt.
The average American will end up having to pay $135,000 of that debt, borrowing from the communists in China, borrowing from everyone in the world, including our enemies, and then putting and saddling that debt on our children and grandchildren.
But if the question gunned to your head is how are we going to spend $200 billion, I'd much rather raise the pay of first responders, firefighters, TSA workers, public school teachers, police officers, build rural hospitals, and of course, offer down payment assistance.
I mean, this is the perennial struggle in politics is that when we were sending $200 billion to Israel or $300 billion to Ukraine for them to lose a war rather humiliatingly, no one ever asked where we're going to get the money from.
But if I come out and I say we're going to do down payment assistance for 30,000 Florida couples every single year, the Poindexter in Tallahassee or DC wants an immediate Excel spreadsheet for how we're going to pay for every single penny of it.
And so this is the dilemma of the double standard when the neocons want money for their forever wars to fight Russia or fight Iran, no one bats an eye at 200 billion here, 300 billion there.
But when we quite literally only want one one hundredth of that to fund programs for the exclusive benefit of American citizens, everyone could not be more apoplectic, except the voters on the ground, except hardworking Americans.
And so that's, I think, the question is people want to see money spent here.
It was interesting.
You might have seen this over the past weekend.
Secretary Rubio was criticizing the Iranian regime.
He said, You know, they're spending all of this money on bombs when they could be building schools and hospitals.
And I said, Hmm, sounds very interesting.
We should apply that same logic as well.
Look, I'm all for bombing countries if they want to hurt us.
But I'm not okay with bombing countries if they're not a threat.
It's time for the American people to be prioritized.
The citizens feel that.
We all have a hunger for it.
We need it.
We see the money being spent, and it's not being spent at home.
It's not being spent on us.
It's being spent to perpetuate.
These further conflicts so that transnational capital interests and the big banks, the big donors to political parties, political campaigns, so that they can keep and stay rich and make more money off other people's pain.
We're going to be right back with James Fishback here.
We're going to a network break.
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Thank you very much.
American Journal, almost done in the books.
We have the James Fishback, rumoratorial Floridian candidate running against Byron Donalds.
Byron Donalds, we are looking forward to asking you some more questions.
So, James, I just have a couple of questions for you because you're very popular on social media right now and videos are circulating every single day.
And I just, you know, not a lot of people get the behind the scenes for you to be able to clarify positions, those types of things.
The more recent one that I'm seeing, and it may have been a day or two ago, people are making a really big fuss over the use of the word lynch with this black guy.
And for me, I'm the African American here.
I looked at it.
I didn't take any real offense to it.
I kind of understood what you were saying.
But again, there were enough people that were like, that's a very specific choice of words to use there.
And I just, this isn't a gotcha.
It's just, I want you to be able to talk about what you really meant.
I actually regret the use of my word lynch there, not because he was black.
I would have said it for anyone else, but because lynching is extrajudicial by its nature.
You bypass court, you bypass.
Fair trial, you just quite literally go kill someone because you're upset.
So, I of course regret saying something that would bypass legitimate due process.
I do think that when someone is coming up to you with a mob of people at 10 p.m. at night in downtown Orlando and repeatedly suggesting that you are guilty of a capital crime, that's pretty messed up.
And I think that generally speaking, that is the kind of behavior that we cannot tolerate in society, trying to incite violence against someone because You don't like them politically.
Look, it's okay if you don't vote for me.
But to suggest that I've committed a capital crime when there's absolutely no evidence of that, that's, you know, I go back to that thinking, very biblical in the Old Testament, is that, you know, if you're guilty of a capital crime, you should be put to death.
And if you're falsely accusing someone of a capital crime, that you too should be put to death.
And so I regret that word choice mainly because I don't support any form of capital punishment that is extrajudicial, that bypasses legitimate due process and a fair trial.
Yeah, I mean, it is a lot of pressure, you know, when you're in the mainstream, the lights, the cameras, those types of things for, you know, for things to be said.
The other thing that I was very curious about was also there was the whole lawyer situation debacle.
I tried to understand that, but I was like, you know, I might as well just ask him to clarify.
So, my standpoint is when you bring a lawyer on, you don't just expect them to win.
You, at the very least, expect them to follow deadlines and basic procedure.
And so, my lawyer ended up missing a ton of deadlines, ended up losing the case for a lot of reasons that had nothing to do with the merits of the case, but purely poor procedure.
And so, I advised him I was going to be discontinuing his services and I wouldn't be paying him for the very simple reason that if you go to a restaurant and you ask for your steak to be medium rare and they give it well done, you shouldn't be expected to pay.
And so, it's not about whether the steak was good or whether I ate it because I didn't.
It was about whether or not this guy had followed basic protocol.
And I think if you're people out there kind of taking the side of a lawyer, taking the side of a lawyer who makes $8 million a year personally and over a $150,000 legal bill for just a couple months worth of work, he's not suing me or anything like that.
But we just made it very clear that I'm not going to continue using those legal services at those high rates if he's not going to follow basic court procedures.
So, one thing on that then, because sometimes there are.
Legal agreements and structure before you go into an agreement with a lawyer, where, you know, if he doesn't win the case, they don't win a certain amount of money.
Also, the regular way that it typically goes, if I'm not mistaken, is it's win or loss.
They typically expect you to make payments towards whatever service.
Was it the first case that I'm understanding of how you guys had it structured, or you really just felt like he was doing a very bad job that it just didn't justify the payment?
He was doing a very bad job that didn't justify the payment.
And, you know, at the end of the day, if you go out and you contract someone to go cut your lawn and they cut your lawn and they screw it up, you can give them an opportunity to recut it.
I can't give this lawyer an opportunity to go back and retry this case, which I thought was an absolute winner.
I thought we had a great argument for the case.
So, you know, it's unlike you go to a restaurant, hey, let's redo the steak.
They can redo it.
You pay for it.
You go get your lawn cut.
You come back in two months, you redo it.
But something like this, you quite literally can't do a redo.
And so I'll end up suffering a lot more than, He'll lose on $150,000.
I mean, I won't bore you with the specifics, but there's a lot of legal arguments that he did not want to use that would have been used rather successfully for the case, a lot of deadlines that were missed, so on and so forth.
I think, generally speaking, you've got lawyers in this country that are trying to rake people over the coals for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
There's frivolous lawsuits happening every single day.
And I think that when we get to a point in the profession where someone's trying to get $150,000 for a couple months worth of work, that doesn't make a lot of sense.
So I take the approach that President Trump Which is, if you screw up, you shouldn't get paid.
If you do a great job, you should absolutely get paid, and perhaps even then, some.
Like, I mean, the legal system and the lawyers, there are some predatory acts that happen in that industry, and the astronomical prices that it costs to get a retainer for certain cases.
And I've seen people lose cases to where just for the retainer, it was $30,000 just to get started.
And I'm like, you know, they're using AI now to do the paralegal job.
So I'm like, okay, what?
Is there a real calculation or an ROI to understand what you're really paying for?
Just like our medical system, I think this is something that absolutely needs to be changed where they just go, oh, we decide with the surgery costs.
There is no guideline.
There is no actual maximum.
We decide with the medication costs.
There is no guideline.
We're the ones that actually write the guideline.
I wanted to ask you about this.
Speaking of writing the guidelines, we have this massive OnlyFans industry, okay, that's profiting and doing a lot of predatory things, both people that post on the platform and the people that consume that type of media.
You've talked about a sin tax, a 50% tax on OnlyFans creators in your state.
Well, my view is that young women are capable of anything they put their minds to, and that young women should not be told that they should abandon their dreams and aspirations of being a devoted stay at home mom or a teacher or nurse to pursue an online career of selling nude images and videos to complete strangers on the internet.
You know, if you tried to pay a prostitute on the side of the road to get nude for you and do a little dance, that would be illegal.
And so it's no different to go send money to Sophie Ryan and have her do a little dance for you.
That's not just legal, it's encouraged and celebrated in large.
Parts of our country.
And so, my view is just because something is legal does not make it moral.
It is a sin tax, first and foremost, Rex, because it is a sin for both the woman to produce adult content to draw men into lust and also for men to give into that lust and to pay women to see themselves nude.
And so, I went head to head with the number one adult creator on OnlyFans, Sophie Rain.
She had a long conversation with Piers Morgan earlier this week.
And I made it very clear you can quit the online degeneracy of OnlyFans or you can pay 50% tax.
On whatever money you make through that, we'll use that money to pay for infrastructure, to create programs that empower women and men, and to pay public school teachers who are doing everything right, pay them a little bit more.
And so, this is part of a view that I think the traditional class of Republicans fails to grasp.
The traditional Republican will look at this and say, wait, I thought we're against raising taxes.
No, we're against raising taxes on seniors, on young couples, on working families.
We should never be shy, Tim, about raising taxes in a way that deters the degenerate, disgusting behavior known as OnlyFans.
So, my thing is, you know, if I look at this critically and analytically, over a certain amount of time, it would start with OnlyFans, but wouldn't this trickle down into other sectors?
Like you have strip clubs and, you know, other services that people.
Yeah, you've even got porn stars that are doing things.
Like, how does this?
Because, you know, they would make the argument you can't just tax us, you would have to tax everybody.
And then you're looking at a situation where now you might have an entire like lobby of people coming after you.
I don't want to see porn stars do well in our state.
I want to get back to a state where a young family can raise their family on a single income, can buy a home before the age of 30, can work 40 hours a week and not live in poverty.
And then when it's all said and done, Tim, retire with dignity.
Everything else, whether it's OnlyFans or strip club or liquor store, anything else is a distraction from that.
And so there's this, again, this.
Prevailing wisdom that you can't legislate morality.
Of course you can, and of course you should, because if you don't consciously, intentionally legislate morality, immorality, evil, that is going to reign instead, and we cannot allow that to happen.
It sounds like, from what we discussed today, that I need to vote for Byron Donald because I want porn stars, I want data centers, I want foreign influence in local and federal government.
I support all of these things.
You're coming out here saying we need to prioritize the American people and all that.
I don't know where that comes from.
That's some kooky conspiracy theory.
In closing, I know, Tim, you probably have one more thing you want to say.
It's more so like I appreciate you coming on, having the conversations.
The whole reason of me asking those questions is because a lot of people just say things in a vacuum, and more often than not, people don't actually know what that person means.
So for me, I want to always give every single person the benefit of the doubt before they're accused of anything.
Well, I just want to say, Tim, that I appreciate both you and Rex giving me the opportunity to come on and wishing everyone a very meaningful and blessed Good Friday.
And I'm always going to take time to think about my words, my word choice, and think about how we can make sure that this campaign is one that is positive.
I'll tell you, the grievance politics of both the left and the right, it's gotten old and fast.
We are sick of Democrats like Hillary Clinton calling Trump supporters deplorables.
But we're also sick of the woke right, the Israeli operatives now calling anyone who disagrees with this war a traitor to the country.
And so we need to have a politics of unity.
I think that when you react the way that I did earlier this week, that was not something that was unifying or civil.
I regret my word choice, but I don't regret the fact that if you're going to accuse somebody of a capital crime falsely, that you too should be sentenced to the same punishment of the person if they were in fact guilty of that crime.
I think we need to get to a point in society where no one should bear false witness or slander someone in the public square.
I really appreciate how you guys are current with not just, you know, I'm a millennial.
I don't agree.
I'm not this, you know, hippie, fun loving millennial.
I am a Christian man, and I really appreciate how you guys are always current with what I'm looking at.
It feels like I'm talking to you guys every day.
And I really, Mr. Fishback, I hope he wins.
I have really, I have aligned with him since I first heard about him, and I appreciate his stance on a lot of things and not afraid to answer questions.
Like you guys said, you know, you want to get the clearance out there for what he actually stands for because a lot of grifters are out here, you know, it's like Trump, what he's done, you know, instead one thing and did a complete other once he got in.
Just wanted to bring up how Larry Loomer is calling to go after Turkey, and that's a monster you do not want to mess with.
They're still very much like the Ottoman Empire.
They're bloodthirsty and they are going to do the same thing as Iran, but they have so much more military capabilities and technology.
And it's just, you know, I'm sick of these.
You know, I'm not anti Semitic.
I don't hate all Jews.
I don't hate anybody.
You know, you have hate in your heart for another person to commit murder, you know.
And I'm just sick of these, you know, other religions calling and trying to tell us what to do with our nation instead of realizing, you know, I just turned 35, you know, and I have two young boys that I want a future for that I don't want them to be afraid because, oh, you know, if they speak out against something and live in facts instead of theories and ideologies, you know, it's, It's ridiculous.
But, you know, the root cause, Rex, is what our eyes are being taken off of right now.
And I'm going to shift gears and just go right to it because of time.
And basically, we got Matt Gaetz and we've got Tim Bruchette, Senator Bruchette, coming out talking about the alien human hybrid program that's been going on for a while.
Senator Bruchette made a comment that he's not suicidal if anything happens to him, and that people are coming up missing that know about this right now.
It stems back to the UFO hearings that are currently going on.
And now it's Toto that got thrown a bone, and we're getting our eyes off of everything with reality.
With the wars, everything that's going on to get our eyes off this.
And the main thing is if people don't think that the Luciferians have totally taken over and are infiltrated into the White House, into our mainstream, it is a main problem.
And they're keeping our eyes on other things that are real.
I wanted to know if he had any ideas of how we can make a list of all these politicians in America that are not loyal to the United States that have either dual loyalty or dual sense.
It's evil to say these things about little children, about glassing entire countries.
About slitting the throats of all the pigs.
I mean, it's not language.
It's racism.
And ultimately, it's the stuff we do at war to dehumanize the enemy, to make them an intervention, a subhuman, so we can take everything we have and kill them.
And people are people.
We all have souls.
If you're a Christian, you're not allowed to talk like that.
Yeah, so the folks just need to understand how close we are to revelation, how close we are to fulfilling all of biblical prophecies.
So people just need to get ready and have this open discussion about what's all getting really ready to be going down here with the mark of the beast, what's going on in Israel, you name it.