March 25, 2025 - Judging Freedom - Judge Andrew Napolitano
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| Can you share how your information about war plans against the Houthis in Yemen was shared with a journalist in the Atlantic? | |
| And were those details classified? | |
| So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling Hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides hoax, or suckers and losers hoax. | |
| So this is the guy that pedals in garbage. | |
| This is what he does. | |
| I would love to comment. | |
| On the Houthi campaign, because of the skill and courage of our troops, I've monitored it very closely from the beginning. | |
| And you see, we've been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration. | |
| Our troops, our sailors were getting shot at as targets. | |
| Our ships couldn't sail through. | |
| And when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively or at shacks in Yemen. | |
| President Trump said, no more. | |
| We will reestablish deterrence. | |
| We will open freedom of navigation. | |
| And we will ultimately decimate the Houthis, which is exactly what we're doing as we speak from the beginning, overwhelmingly. | |
| According to Pepe Escobar, who came to us yesterday live from Sanaa, was to destroy residential neighborhoods and kill civilians in Yemen, probably as a favor to Prime Minister Netanyahu. | |
| You know, I'm in Asia meeting a lot of leaders. | |
| Basically, nobody can believe what's happening in the United States right now. | |
| Nobody can believe what passes for government, for process, for analysis, for description, for systemization. | |
| And All right. | |
| Professor Sachs is on an island off the coast of China and we're waiting for his internet to reconnect. | |
| He was commenting on his perception as he talks to foreign leaders. | |
| There we go. | |
| Are we back, Jeff? | |
| Yeah, sorry about that. | |
| You were telling us how foreign leaders are finding it difficult to believe what's happening in the United States today not only the public policy of the government but the procedure by which those policies are There is shock and amazement at the complete lack of order in every aspect of events. | |
| Yes, the Secretary of Defense may try to laugh things off. | |
| He may try to use whatever spin he wants on something very serious. | |
| But people outside are watching this who are very serious. | |
| And they've never seen anything like this. | |
| Do you think that the United States of America is preparing... | |
| The Trump administration is preparing for war against Iran. | |
| It very well may be. | |
| To my great dismay, they seem to have thrown everything in with Netanyahu yet again. | |
| This would not be unique to this administration. | |
| Our government is run by the Israeli government when it comes to policy in the Middle East, and it seems that nothing... | |
| Everything that this group does and says is in response to Israel's dictates and demands. | |
| So at this point, nothing would surprise me. | |
| There was a glimmer, a moment, when it seemed that Donald Trump was going to assert American foreign policy. | |
| Really has been absent, at least for the last two weeks. | |
| Israel brazenly blew off an agreed ceasefire, started mass murder again in Gaza, started mass murder in Syria. | |
| The US has started killing civilians in Yemen, clearly at Israel's behest. | |
| To throw warnings to Iran, what was an opening, a repeated opening by the Iranians for negotiations was met by brazenness by this group in the last couple of weeks, and the Iranians said, well, okay, there can't be negotiations then. | |
| It's alarming, absolutely alarming. | |
| The United States does not run its foreign policy in the Middle East. | |
| And we are now, I put it at 29 years of continuous war led by, caused by the mayhem of the Israeli leadership of Mr. Netanyahu, who's the world's worst and most dangerous politician. | |
| What we continue to have now day by day. | |
| So the answer to your question, could we be at war with Iran? | |
| Yes, absolutely. | |
| You saw how haphazard all of this process is. | |
| Maybe they'll flip a coin next time. | |
| Maybe they'll invite in a few other reporters and find out. | |
| In the meantime, they're destroying our universities also exactly on the same orders coming from Israel. | |
| Really amazing. | |
| Not allowed to say anything about this stuff. | |
| And if a student tries to say anything about any of this, well, they'll whisk them off, put them in prison, send them away, deport them, turn them away from the borders. | |
| Again, not even a semblance of the due process that has existed for hundreds of years in the British legal system, which became the basis of the American legal system. | |
| These most basic processes are being gutted before our eyes in these very days. | |
| And again, coming from orders from Israel. | |
| It's unbelievable. | |
| When you were an undergraduate at Harvard and I was an undergraduate at Princeton, We didn't fear for an instant that the government would come after us because of our free speech, no matter how critical we were of the government or critical we were of other students. | |
| Now, and ground zero is where you work, Columbia University. | |
| Now, college administrations are afraid. | |
| To allow the free exchange of ideas for fear that they will lose federal funding. | |
| Our students are in hiding right now. | |
| Students are being dragged off the campuses. | |
| Students can't go visit their families because they'll be ejected if they come home. | |
| No matter what their status is, there's no legal process involved in any of this. | |
| All we have is a government that says it's in the foreign policy interest, and that is supposed to be dispositive in the United States of America, which once upon a time viewed itself as not having a king and having a rule of law. | |
| And even when Britain had a king, the king was subject to legal constraint for, by the way, the last... | |
| 810 years since the Magna Carta. | |
| We're in much less shape than that right now. | |
| Going back to the president, he seems to be in a hurry to try to resolve the Ukraine mess. | |
| President Putin manifests his typical and well... | |
| One wonders if anything that he and Trump and Putin might agree to would be materially disrupted by events in Gaza or the United States military engaging in events in Iran. | |
| What is the Kremlin going to do? | |
| Sit back and do nothing if B-52s show up over Tehran? | |
| Well, of course, Iran and Russia have a security agreement. | |
| They signed that on January 17th, 2025, so just days before the Trump administration came into office. | |
| This is a very serious matter. | |
| Iran is part of the BRICS countries, meaning that it is also in a... | |
| Close relationship with China, with India, with Brazil, with South Africa, with countries that in total constitute about half the world's population. | |
| This is not a game, except for NetYahu. | |
| And it's very serious. | |
| I don't know whether they understand the ramifications of what they're doing, this free shooting, this... | |
| The demands coming from Israel that they salute and follow. | |
| I don't know if they understand. | |
| Over the weekend, the Gazan Health Ministry announced the burial of the 50,000th resident. | |
| Now, that is a low number because there obviously are a lot of dead bodies that haven't been discovered and may never be discovered because of the level of devastation. | |
| But that number doesn't seem to shock anymore. | |
| That number did not reverberate around the world with outrage. | |
| Well, I'm not sure I would say that. | |
| It reverberated around the world, but not inside the United States. | |
| All over the world, there is complete dismay. | |
| Israel is destroying itself, destroying its position in the world. | |
| There is absolute disgust and disdain for what Israel is doing. | |
| It's mass murder, celebrated on TikTok regularly. | |
| And it's hundreds of thousands dead because what is the 50,000 is people pulled from the rubble. | |
| As you say, there are also many, many thousands not pulled from the rubble. | |
| But in addition to that, there are people who have died in mass numbers because they don't even have anesthetics. | |
| They don't have health care because Israel systematically... | |
| They don't have food. | |
| They don't have shelter. | |
| They don't have water. | |
| They don't have sanitation. | |
| Because it was the explicit aim of Israel, not hidden, but stated repeatedly, to make Gaza unlivable for the two million people there. | |
| And the idea remains that they will either be killed... | |
| Or they will be ethnically cleansed. | |
| And this is still the implicit threat that this group in the White House is making to Egypt and to Jordan. | |
| You better take these people because, remember, they work for Netanyahu. | |
| So this is, they work for the Israel lobby. | |
| So this is absolute mass murder. | |
| It continues, but believe me, all over the world, it is known. | |
| It is seen. | |
| I've never seen the world more united in the cause of the basic rights of the Palestinian people. | |
| The United States stands alone in blocking peace. | |
| Alone, of course, I put Israel. | |
| They're the main author of this. | |
| But then the United States is basically alone. | |
| As we've talked about, yes, the U.S. can round up the vote of Micronesia and Nauru, maybe Papua New Guinea on a good day, maybe Paraguay. | |
| That's it. | |
| You have 180-plus countries in the world. | |
| You have all of the BRICS. | |
| The major countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia. | |
| You have the 57 countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. | |
| You have all of the Arab League. | |
| You have countries all over the world saying, make peace, have two states, stop the slaughter, stop the illegality. | |
| They're watching what's happening. | |
| They see that the United States, which professed once upon a time to have values, we even called them Western values. | |
| What a travesty. | |
| They see that the United States is complicit in this mass murder, and they see how flippant it's done because, believe me, what just happened in the last day, no matter what our Secretary of Defense tries to brush off. | |
| It's news everywhere in the world. | |
| It was discussed all day in East Asia, I can tell you for sure. | |
| And people see how out of control this process is right now. | |
| So none of this is hidden. | |
| None of this is hidden from view. | |
| It's just that we talk to ourselves in the United States, but the rest of the world's watching what's happening. | |
| Donald Trump has boasted that His greatest achievement will be to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. | |
| Is Donald Trump a man of peace? | |
| I don't know if he understands what is happening. | |
| I don't know if he understands who's running the show. | |
| I think he is trying to make peace in Ukraine, and I very much support that. | |
| But what is happening in the Middle East is the opposite of that. | |
| I hope that he gets a grip and understands that this is so far from America's interests, this devastation, this complicity in mass murder, this diplomatic isolation, this terrorism inside American society on behalf of the Israel lobby. | |
| I'm still hoping that somehow he'll figure this out. | |
| Professor Sachs, thank you very much. | |
| Thanks for accommodating our schedule. | |
| I know it's the middle of the night where you are. | |
| We deeply appreciate it. | |
| Even when these topics are unpleasant to discuss, you bring your insight. | |
| Great to be with you. | |
| Thank you very much. | |
| We'll see you again next week. | |
| All the best. | |
| Thanks so much. | |
| Sure. And coming up later today at 2 o'clock, Max Blumenthal on all of this at 3 o'clock. | |
| Karen Kwiatkowski on all of this. | |
| Tomorrow, Wednesday at noon, the inimitable George Galloway on all of this. |
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