Shamar Elkins, a former National Guard member on probation for illegal weapons possession, killed eight children and two women before dying in a police confrontation following a car hijacking. The episode then examines US-Iran relations as President Trump extends the ceasefire indefinitely, seeking a diplomatic solution to avoid costly regime change while maintaining a blockade. Ultimately, the discussion highlights the volatile intersection of domestic tragedy and international brinkmanship, questioning whether air power alone can secure stability amidst fractured governments and unresolved nuclear threats. [Automatically generated summary]
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Survivors and Unconfirmed Rumors00:12:25
On this thing, bro, is fucking crazy.
Fully capture the death of this loss.
No words that can ease the pain.
Authorities say the first 911 call came in at 5 55 in the morning from a person hiding on the roof of the house while the suspect, later identified as 31 year old Shamar Elkins, was inside.
That nigga look crazy, bro.
What the fuck?
Identified as 31 year old Shamar Elkins was inside.
About four minutes later, dispatch was advised Elkins shot everyone at the home before going to another location.
The caller stated.
That her boyfriend had shot her, taken her three children, and fled the scene.
The shooting spree resulted in the deaths of eight children, ranging in age from three.
Crazy bastard, man.
See, people like this need to get the WBN treatment, man.
Hold on.
Fucking scumbag.
11.
Seven of them were Elkins' own children.
He died during a confrontation with police after hijacking a car and leading them on a high speed chase.
We are not sure there was an exchange of gunfire.
It has not been determined yet what was the exact cause of death.
Investigators said the gunman also shot two women who were both mothers to his children.
They both survived with serious injuries.
Domestic violence is nobody's joke, it is real, and these are the residual effects of what happens.
If we're not paying attention, Elkins served in the Louisiana Army National Guard between 2013 and 2020 but did not deploy.
He was placed on probation in 2019 after pleading guilty to an illegal weapons charge.
Jason Allen, CBS News.
So let's see here.
Politics after this, chat.
You can see in his eyes, nothing behind the eyes, dead behind the eyes, no soul, NPC, non player character.
He didn't have a.
What the fuck?
Again, start making better choices when it comes to men, too.
We see the signs, we see the warnings.
Of course, we love them, but guess what?
We got to love ourselves more, too.
So when he hits you once, let it go.
I came back to this case because you made me.
The comments under the first video did not stop, they kept coming, hundreds of them, then thousands.
And the same questions kept rising to the top no matter how many times I read through them.
I was gonna get this guy's background real quick.
Tree of Port, Louisiana.
He never left.
Cedar Grove was his neighborhood, his block, his entire world.
But before we get to the man he became, we have to talk about the boy he was.
Because that part of this story has been almost completely buried under the weight of what he did.
His biological mother, Mahalia Elkins, gave birth to him as a teenager while battling a crack cocaine addiction.
Sam Obese, thank you so much for the gift of sub.
I didn't even see that.
He could not raise him.
A family friend named Betty Walker stepped in and became the woman who actually raised Shamar Elkins from childhood.
Notice, no dad, bro.
No dad.
Betty Walker was his stability, his foundation, the person who filled in the space his mother left behind.
Mahalia and Shamar only reconnected more than a decade ago.
After he was already an adult.
Yeah, for all you guys that see on YouTube, I'm only going to be on YouTube for a little bit.
You guys know I hate this goddamn platform, so we're not going to be on here long.
Just letting you guys know that I'm live and we're going to cover the new stuff here with Trump soon.
Already in the guard, already building the life that would end the way it ended.
The last time Betty Walker saw him was the weekend before the shooting.
He brought his entire family to her house for dinner.
She said he seemed completely normal.
When her phone rang Sunday morning, she said, My babies.
My babies are gone.
His mother texted him the Tuesday before the shooting, asking about the children.
He replied that everyone was doing okay.
On Thursday, she texted, I love y'all.
Give my grandson and my granddaughters a kiss from Grandma.
He never texted back.
He was already inside whatever had closed around him.
Now the questions your comments demanded answers to.
The affair.
This is now confirmed.
Shaniqua Pugh did not simply file for divorce.
She filed citing infidelity.
That detail was confirmed directly to CNN by Troy Brown, Elkins' own brother in law.
He was cheating.
She found out.
She filed.
And here is the part that makes this case reach backward in time and rewrite everything.
Before they were even married, Shaniqua had considered leaving him.
And when she did, Elkins told her directly that if she ever left, he would kill her.
Their children.
Bruh.
They got the crazy eyes, man.
And himself.
What's up with the long fingernails?
What the fuck?
She heard.
Bro, why do.
Bro, every.
Hello, monkey.
Bro, these niggas always got these long fingernails, bro.
What's up with that?
She heard that threat.
She stayed.
She married him in April 2024.
And when she finally filed for divorce two years later, that threat, which had been sitting inside their relationship since before the wedding, became the blueprint for what happened on Sunday morning.
He enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard in August 2013 at 18 years old and served seven years as a signal support system specialist and a fire support specialist.
Both roles involve weapons systems, coordinating firepower, and operating under pressure in high-stakes environments.
He was never deployed overseas.
He left in August 2020 as a private, the lowest enlisted rank, and came back to Cedar Grove with no documented transition support on public record.
Seven years of military training.
Nothing to help him integrate back into civilian life when the uniform came off.
After leaving the Guard, he went to work at UPS.
His coworker, Willie Vasher, described him to the New York Times as someone who seemed like a devoted family man.
But Vasher noticed something he could not explain away.
All right.
It looks like, okay, Pablito Excobar said, My girl went to Coachella with her friends and called me at 3 a.m. crying.
Does she love me?
Well, why'd your girl go to Coachella, nigga?
She probably called you to tell you that she loves you because she felt like a whore and did some fuck shit, man.
I don't know why you let her go, bro.
Come on, man.
You stupid.
Martin, ASU confirmed for May 1st.
What time will you be there?
I think it's confirmed.
Yo, Egyptian Menace, are we good?
Egyptian Menace and Desert Joe, are we good, guys?
Can you guys let me know if we're good?
The real Jon Snow.
Subscribe.
Welcome to the OSS for the year.
Rose in the St. Isaac.
Yep.
It is insane.
Yeah, Pablito.
I ain't going to lie, bro.
You stupid.
Damn, several of those kids were his.
Can a millionaire even afford to have that many kids?
Welfare be going crazy.
Yeah, I know, bro.
Niggas be a niggas, man.
Elkins had a bald spot on his head.
Not from genetics, from a nervous tick.
He pulled his hair out throughout the workday due to stress.
Strand by strand.
Every single shift.
His mother had noticed it too.
That bald spot was visible to everyone around him and nobody asked what it meant.
He had at least two prior criminal convictions.
The first was a DWI in 2016.
The second was in 2019 when he was arrested near Caddo Magnet High School.
After pulling a 9mm handgun from his waistband and firing five shots at a vehicle, he claimed the driver pointed a gun at him first.
Children were playing outside less than 300 feet from where those shots landed.
He pleaded guilty to illegal use of a weapon.
The school property charge was dismissed.
He received 18 months probation.
Under Louisiana law, that conviction legally barred him from possessing firearms until at least 2029.
The ATF is now actively investigating how he obtained both the small caliber handgun and the rifle style pistol he used to kill eight sleeping children.
That question has not been answered.
The second woman.
Her name is Christina Snow.
She was his girlfriend, the woman he had three children with outside of his marriage to Shaniqua.
Braylon Snow, age five.
Kadarian Snow, age six.
Soraya Snow, age eleven.
Christina lived on Harrison Street.
The attack began there.
Elkins arrived at her home first around five in the morning, shot her in the head.
And took her three children before driving to the West 79th Street house where Shane Equa and the remaining children were sleeping.
Christina survived.
She has under what the fuck gone surgery.
She is expected to live.
She gave investigators a full account of what happened at her door before sunrise.
Now, why?
Bro killed one family, then what or shot up one house and then went to the next one.
Fucking crazy, bro.
In February, two full months before the shooting, Elkins tried to take his own life.
That is confirmed by Betty Walker, the woman who raised him, who told the New York Times directly.
A suicide attempt in February.
A VA stay for mental health treatment shortly after.
Released.
Sent home.
Back into the same house, the same marriage that was dissolving, the same financial pressure, the same children across two households.
The facility released him, and the family said he came home happy.
But happy is not healed.
And 10 days after that release, he was on Facebook asking God to guard his mind and his emotions when negativity arose.
That post was public, visible to anyone reading his page.
And nobody connected it to what it actually was a man still in crisis who had already tried to end his life.
Yeah, anytime people are like praying publicly, bro, on the internet and shit like that, man, son's off with these niggas, bro.
Honestly, religion should be something that is like fairly private, you know, like, uh, yeah, niggas are off the rocker when they're doing this, especially when they're not an influencer.
Once and was looking for a reason not to try again.
On Easter Sunday, April 5th, he called his mother, Mahalia, and his stepfather, Marcus Jackson.
I will go to the final 24.
Dead.
His brother in law, Troy Brown, who lived with him, heard him in those final days repeating the same thing over and over Bro, I do not want to lose my wife.
Brown described it as unlike anything he had ever heard from Elkins in all the years they had known each other.
When Brown left for work at 9 p.m. Saturday night, Elkins was calm.
Freddie Montgomery, who lives across the street, saw Elkins sitting on his front porch that same Saturday afternoon, watching the children play in the yard.
The two men waved at each other.
Twelve hours later, those children were dead.
There was a court date scheduled for April 20th, the morning after the shooting.
The divorce papers were ready to be signed.
The marriage that he had told her he would kill everyone over if she tried to leave was about to be legally dissolved in a courtroom.
He had known that date for weeks.
He went on a one-on-one dinner.
Niggas still post on Facebook.
Yeah, I'm not going to lie to you guys.
If people are still posting on Facebook, you got to.
You got to.
People that still post on Facebook are kind of off their rockers.
Okay?
Like, nigga, what?
You still post on Facebook?
What?
Everybody I know that posts on Facebook is a fucking weirdo, bro.
Okay?
You have no business posting on Facebook unless you're a fucking influencer, bro.
Okay.
You should have that Facebook account only so niggas can get a contact with you and hit you on Instagram, bro.
That's it.
Okay.
Like, what the fuck?
You guys said, bro, this guy was 18 in 2013, bro.
This guy was, what?
He was, bro, this nigga was barely 30, bro.
He was barely 30.
He shouldn't be on Facebook.
He's Instagram age.
With laughing emojis.
He came home.
And somewhere between that dinner and five in the morning, something final locked into place.
Some children tried to escape through the back door of the West 79th Street home while it was happening.
Bullet holes were found in that back door when investigators processed the scene.
One child made it to the roof.
The rooftop survivors were Kyosha Pugh, Shaniqua's sister who lived in that house, and her 12 year old daughter.
Both jumped.
Both sustained broken bones.
Both survived.
Kyosha managed to call a family member while it was still happening, screaming that he had shot and killed the kids.
Troy Brown's own son died in that house that morning.
His daughter was the 12 year old who came off the roof with scratches.
His wife fractured bones from the fall.
Brown said through tears, So was he on drugs?
Economic Catastrophe and Family Tragedy00:04:54
The investigation has to answer publicly.
Now, the question that kept surfacing in the private corners of the comment section, several posts circulating on Facebook and TikTok, unconfirmed by any official source or named investigator, suggested that the infidelity Shaniqua cited in her divorce filing may have involved another man, that Elkins may have been living a private life that was hidden from everyone around him.
This has not been confirmed.
No family member on record has named it.
No investigator has addressed it.
Well, we know how black women be, bro.
You gay, nigga.
Everything, like, everything, bro, is.
Hello, bro.
What is confirmed is that the divorce was filed for infidelity.
The nature of that infidelity has not been publicly specified.
Whether there was a hidden dimension to his personal life that deepened the crisis around the divorce is something this investigation has not addressed openly.
All right, politics time, niggas.
All right, let's get into it.
Okay, so Trump right here crashed out on the Wall Street Journal.
He goes, The Wall Street Journal has lost its way.
An idiot on the Wall Street Journal's editorial board named Elliot Kaufman just wrote an op ed entitled, The Iranians Take Trump.
For a sucker.
Really?
For 47 years, they have killed our people and many others and taken advantage of every president except me.
And what did I give to them?
A country in tatters.
Their entire Navy is at the bottom of the sea.
Their Air Force is gone.
Their anti aircraft and radars wiped out.
Their nuclear labs and storage areas were obliterated late one dark June evening by our great B 2 bombers.
Their leaders are dead, including General Soleimani.
Their evil genius, who destroyed the lives of so many with his favorite roadside bombs, the Schroeder Humus is blockaded and totally controlled by the U.S. With no ships allowed to go back to Iranian ports.
That's not true.
Those roadside bombs were already made by Sunni insurgents.
Random Gold, thank you so much for the three months.
Their country is an economic catastrophe that is hanging out by a thread.
Barack Hussein Obama gave them $1.7 billion in green cash flown in by Boeing 757 to their leaders and hundreds of billions of dollars in order to help them on their way to a nuclear bomb.
Well, it was their money, bro.
Other presidents did nothing to stop them, a blight on the office of the presidency.
Despite all of this, I have a moron on an editorial board of the Wall Street Journal writing about me being taken for a sucker.
Iran definitely didn't think so.
Iran definitely doesn't think so.
Neither does anyone else.
I give Rupert Murdoch.
Or, sorry, I guess Rupert Murdoch told them to write it this way because the Wall Street Journal has lost its way, no longer required reading, just another failing political rag, President Donald J. Trump.
Like, bro, yeah, I love this shit.
Nigga always says his full name, bro.
He always says their full fucking name.
Barack Hussein Obama gave them $1.7 billion in green cash, loaned in Boeing 757s to their leaders, and hundreds of billions of dollars in order to help them.
On their way to a nuclear bomb.
Other president did nothing to stop them.
I'm plight on the office of the presidency.
But despite all of this, I have a moron on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal writing about me being taken for a sucker.
Like, bruh, this nigga.
Yeah, my brother's better than me.
I ain't gonna lie.
My brother's better than me at the Trump impersonation.
That nigga's better than me.
Yes, I know.
I know he does it better.
Shut the fuck up.
Okay.
Is Rout here, niggas?
Huh?
Is he here?
No, so shut the fuck up.
What do you want me to do?
I'm like a six out of 10, seven out of 10.
My brother's like a nine out of 10.
But the nigga's not here, okay?
So, what do you niggas want from me, bro?
Shut up.
Shut the fuck up.
Do I look like Riyadh?
Huh?
So, we've got a little bit.
Okay, so here we go.
Trump announces indefinite Iran ceasefire, what it means for the war.
And then also, let me see what's going on on X. Is there running spaces on X?
Okay, it looks like they are.
We'll join in the X-Base here in a little bit.
Breaking news here.
There's a new statement from President Trump just posted on his Truth Social platform.
He says this: Based on the fact that the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpected.
Team Bird, thank you so much.
Team Bird, Ness, thank you for the five gifted.
Thank you so much, my friend.
Effectively so.
And upon the request of Pakistani officials, we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.
I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade and in all other respects remain ready and able and will therefore extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded one way or the other.
Diplomatic Solutions vs Escalation00:11:33
President Donald J. Trump.
Barack Ravid, how do you read between the lines of this?
I mean, the president here clearly, we will therefore extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted.
You were talking just at the top of the show about thinking we could see this resumption in hostilities any moment.
Seems like the president is taking that off the table for now.
What say you?
Well, first, we said that Vice President Vance postponed his trip to Pakistan indefinitely.
I think President Trump here announced that there will be a ceasefire indefinitely.
He did not give any timeframe for this extension of the ceasefire.
And I think what we see here is what I think we discussed earlier in the show.
President Trump wants to end the war, he did not want to resume it.
He wants a diplomatic solution.
Yeah, he wants a solution because the thing is this, man.
Look, guys, I hate to say this, but the reality is this.
And Fox News and these other niggas are not going to admit this shit.
But Trump has no cards, bro.
Okay?
Trump has no political cards here.
He's in a quagmire of a political situation, a war that he cannot win.
Okay?
Because in order to win, you're going to have to put boots on the ground.
Putting boots on the ground is going to be very costly.
Politically, militarily, economically, loss of life will be vast and horrible.
So Trump knows that the longer this war goes, the worse it is for him.
The only way to win the war is to do a regime change.
And we simply can't do that right now.
It's that simple.
We could blow up Iran all we want.
That's not going to win the war.
Remember, guys, do not let these idiots fool you.
Wars are fought to effectuate political change.
Okay?
No, we're on YouTube.
Sorry, chat.
Book is in stores, though.
Anyway, wars are fought to effectuate political change.
If diplomacy doesn't work, Then the next step is war.
The purpose of a war is to effectuate political change by force.
If you cannot get said political change by force and get your strategic outcome that you're trying to get, you lost.
It's that simple.
You know?
The Taliban, famously, always tell everybody, the Americans, you guys have the watches, but we got all the time.
Whenever you're an invading country, Right?
With a superior military.
The burden of victory is significantly higher than the defending country.
All the defending country has to do is stay alive.
Okay?
The invading country needs to come in, kick you out, get regime change, and impose their force.
Okay?
Very hard to do.
Very, very hard to do.
So, you're never going to win a war by air power alone.
Okay?
Every single military strategist will tell you this.
You cannot win a war with air power alone.
I'm sorry.
That's just not the way it works.
So, what is Trump trying to do right now?
He's trying to get the Stradar Moose back open and allow the trade that was there before to continue.
My friend, anytime you're fighting for pre war conditions, you lost the war.
It's that simple.
This isn't fucking rocket science.
If you're fighting or trying to negotiate for pre war conditions, you lost the war.
Destroying Iran militarily means nothing when you can't actually destroy what they're using to hurt us the most, which is the closure of the Shader Humus alongside their ballistic missile program.
Remember day one?
They said, oh, they only have 130 launchers left.
Yeah, okay.
Ask the Israelis about that one.
Boom, boom, boom.
Okay?
There ain't no 130 launchers.
All right.
And then on top of that, the intelligence community, first, Trump and Hex said, We destroyed 90% of their military infrastructure and their ballistic missile program.
Then the intelligence agencies came out and said, Well, we destroyed like 50%.
Bro, I doubt we destroyed 50%.
I think, and Douglas McGregor says this, and I agree with Douglas McGregor, I think we've destroyed maybe 20 to 30% of their ballistic missile program.
Boom, Booker.
That's what I think.
Because that's their biggest weapon, and we haven't destroyed that.
And there's hundreds of them all over the place.
Okay?
So, yeah, dude.
These guys, like, oh, hold on.
There we go.
That looks a lot better, right?
These guys are just unaware, bro.
If I'm going to be honest, it's just like completely, you know, unaware.
But yeah, this war.
Trump is looking for a political off ramp, but the problem is that all the political off ramps are going to make him look weak.
That's the issue.
He thinks that all the military objectives, as far as I, again, this is what I. Crazy story of a Navy woman shooting her husband in the garage.
Okay.
I hear from people around him.
He thinks that the military objectives have mostly been achieved, and therefore the other objectives that still need to be achieved will be better achieved.
Through a diplomatic deal, especially when it comes to Iran's nuclear program, its enrichment program, and its enriched uranium stockpiles.
And I think this is the reason that President Trump just now announced that he's extending the ceasefire indefinitely.
I think this means that he wants a deal.
The problem is that if you announce such a thing, you take a lot of your leverage away.
And while the blockade will still continue, I'm not sure that the Iranians will now feel that there's a credible military threat.
Therefore, I'm not sure it will lead to concessions.
Richard Haas, always wonderful to see you.
Thank you so much for being here.
What do you make of what the president has announced here?
I have to say, the language alone in this post is remarkably sober by President Trump's standards.
I think what happened is people look at the implications, for example, of resuming conflict to start attacking.
And we don't have essentially a serious target left anymore, plus renewed warfare.
Yeah, we bombed 11,000 targets, but we're still losing.
BOOMBUKA!
Retarded, bro.
The possibility of Iranian retaliation against the countries of the region.
That would be a disaster.
So I think the president wisely extended the ceasefire.
And I think what you.
Yeah, Taco, man.
He extended the ceasefire because it doesn't benefit him to continue the conflict, bro.
Look, a Brent of, what was it?
Did it go down?
It was $99 earlier, now sitting at $98.
It was $99 earlier, almost broke $100 earlier today.
You have now, Casey, even though you don't have formal negotiations, I think this is an interesting moment for signal passing, whether it's direct or through Pakistan or whatever.
Because what you could have, for example, is the United States could signal what we would be prepared to do with standing down the blockade.
What we would require of Iran, or we could send some messages about nuclear issues or what have you, or what we would want in order to get the talks restarted.
So I actually think this is actually a positive development here.
One of the pieces of this message was him, the president, saying that they're going to wait for the Iranians to come back with a proposal of some sort.
And Barack Ravid was on earlier reporting about splits, essentially, between the military and civilian wings of the leadership.
Of Iran.
What role do you think that's playing here?
Well, it's both.
The civilian leadership has no power, bro.
The IRGC runs only answers to the supreme leader, Mustaba.
They don't answer to the parliament head.
They don't answer to Aragachi.
They don't answer even to the president, Pazeshkian.
The Iranians have a completely decentralized military infrastructure.
That's why, even when they didn't have a supreme leader, remember, guys, it took them a couple weeks to fucking get Mustaba as a supreme leader.
They were still bombing the fuck out of Israel and all of our bases.
Why?
Because they have a mosaic defense, they have a mosaic military infrastructure, which basically was created where.
Even if you decapitate the head, the missiles are coming, bro.
And that is why Trump deciding to attack the Iranians and decapitate the Supreme Leader was the stupidest thing he could have ever fucking done.
Retarded.
Did absolutely nothing.
It's ironic and it's serious.
It's ironic because the United States is in no small part responsible for it.
The United States and Israel, all the targeted killings of Iranian political, clerical, and military leaders created a leadership vacuum.
And what you now have is all sorts of people getting their footing, competing with one another.
So it doesn't come as any surprise.
And it doesn't matter because the IRGC is going to go off of what Ali Khamenei said, which Ali Khamenei already had seven layers.
For those of you that don't know, guys, Ali Khamenei literally had, before he died, the supreme leader prior to Moshaba Khamenei, his son, he had seven layers of succession ready to go.
Literally had seven layers of succession.
Also, just so you guys know, when they killed him, bro was sitting in his house.
He wasn't sitting in his bunker.
He was sitting in his house.
If he had sat in his bunker, he would have lived.
That's why the Israelis had to come back and bomb the government building several times over because they found out they didn't actually destroy everything.
Dude was sitting in his office when they bombed him and killed him, which was above ground.
The other day, when the Iranians sent their delegation to Islamabad, they could have filled.
Failed Bunker and Retaliatory Bombing00:07:27
All right, so we got an idiot in the chat.
Some dude says, Let's leto hetero.
Leto hetero says, You defending him explains a lot.
What are you?
Are you talking about me?
Leto hetero?
Is that what you're talking to me, nigga?
Oh, not me, Myron.
Okay, never mind, never mind.
You're talking about somebody else.
Sorry.
You're roasting somebody else.
Never mind.
Carry on.
Cook that nigga, bro.
Carry on.
Cook that nigga.
Build Madison Square.
I see your conversation.
Yeah, go ahead, cook him, bro.
Garden with it.
There were so many people representing so many constituencies.
So I think.
No, he's not lying.
I looked at his chat conversation.
He was cooking somebody else.
Giving them some time and putting the ball in their court, letting them propose something rather than jamming them with an American position.
Also, I saw his badge.
He'd been in here for a minute.
Anytime I see guys like been in here for a couple months, I'm like, all right, I know what it is.
Niggas aren't retarded.
I think this is much better.
It forces them to come to terms with one another, and we're not put in the position of putting on the table something that looks unrealistic or, from their point of view, insulting to their dignity or pride.
So I actually like this.
It gives everyone a little bit of time to take a breath, and it gives them some time to sort themselves out.
What do you think are the best and worst case scenarios sitting here today?
Well, the worst we already alluded to.
Which is that talks, for whatever reason, don't go forward, either because the Iranians can't come to agreement or we've ultimately put something on that we reject out of hand.
And then you have a resumption of hostilities and things escalate.
And bad situations could get worse.
And that would be the definition of that.
A lesser bad situation would simply be the strait stays closed, that you don't have active hostilities, but you have a closed strait of Hormuz, which leaves everybody, Iran as well as the world, worse off economically.
The best is obviously you get some kind of a deal on the straight that allows it to reopen and it puts a limit on Iranian control or influence.
And then, secondly, you deal with either the nuclear issue to some degree.
You don't have to necessarily solve it, but you deal with it, you park it in an acceptable place.
I don't think it's realistic to think we're going to get a deal on other issues like Iranian support for proxy groups, Iranian ballistic missiles, what have you.
My own sense is that that's too ambitious.
But the two principal issues, the strait and the nuclear issue, getting some resolution of those two on terms we could live with, I think that's the best we could hope for.
And I think it's a possibility.
I don't think anybody should rule it out.
As you sit here and lay that out for us very smartly, of course, it just occurs to me that the strait of Hormuz was not on the table as an issue, really, before we started this war.
Do you see America, if we have that best case scenario that you laid out, are we better off in the wake of this or are we not?
We'll be lucky if we're not worse off or not too much worse off.
You can't be better off with the Strait of Hormuz because there was no issue there beforehand.
So, at best, you get back to where you were, and probably more realistically, we won't get all the way there, but maybe we can get 90% of the way there.
The nuclear issue again, it wasn't an active issue.
Iran was not about to do anything new when we started this war six weeks ago.
There's no intelligence there.
The kind of deal we're going to have to negotiate is probably the sort of thing that Messrs. Witkoff and Kushner.
We're negotiating just beforehand and rejected.
So we're going to come back to some, the same set of issues, by the way, that the Obama administration negotiated and this administration wouldn't negotiate.
Inevitably, we're going to end up there.
But are we better off or worse off, even under the best case?
My sense is the only positive is Iran is for years going to be weaker, but they'll be able to regenerate their drones and ballistic missiles and the rest.
The downsides, though, are many.
Iran's learned some dangerous lessons about its ability to.
Influenced the region and the world by controlling the Straits, American munitions stockpile.
That wouldn't have never happened if we weren't retards and jumped in and, you know, got involved and started a war.
Like they didn't have, they weren't, Detroit almost was completely open on February 28th.
You know what I mean?
So let's see here.
What's the latest?
Actually, let's look here.
Let's see how Fox News spins this.
I do want to bring you some breaking news here online now from Fox.
If you take a look at your screen, this statement coming moments ago from President Trump on Truth Social saying, based on the fact that the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so, and because JD Vance was supposed to go and he didn't.
I got you guys.
Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time.
As their leaders and representatives.
Also, going back to war is only going to hurt him, bro.
It's not going to help at all.
It's only going to hurt.
Can come up with a unified proposal.
I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade and, in all other respects, remain ready and able and will therefore extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded one way or the other.
That's signed President Donald J. Trump.
This, of course, comes as that ceasefire with Iran was set to expire on Wednesday.
This is a big story that we will continue tracking for you here on Live Now from Fox.
Come back to Live Now from Fox.
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Yeah, he doesn't have a choice, bro.
He had to fucking extend this ceasefire.
Starting the war again would fucking absolutely.
And here's the thing we're getting closer to midterms, bro.
If you are just.
He's in a very bad spot right now, Donald Trump, man.
Joining us, we are politically following some breaking news.
This statement coming from the White House.
Saying, based on the fact that the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so, and upon the request of the Field Marshal and Prime Minister of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.
I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade and, in all other respects, Remain ready and able, and will therefore extend the ceasefire on.
Also, the Gulf states can't keep getting attacked.
Guys, that's the other thing you guys got to remember is like, he cannot continue to allow Israel and the Gulf states to keep getting fucking destroyed by these niggas, bro, hitting them with bombs.
Guys, keep in mind that, like, if he attacks Iran, Iran is going to retaliate by attacking the Gulf states.
And the Gulf states just invested a whole bunch of money in us.
Okay.
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And the Gulf states are pissed off.
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We're also going to go into the Twitter space with Suleiman, talk about getting some updates on the war as well.
All right.
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Come on over.
We're going to keep giving war coverage over there, give some more political analysis.
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We're going to keep doing the war coverage.
Until such time as their proposal is submitted and discussed.