Rudy Giuliani details President Trump's mediated agreement with Iran via Pakistan, securing a two-week attack suspension for the Strait of Hormuz's opening after rejecting initial reparations demands. He contrasts this diplomatic win with previous threats to destroy Iranian civilization and defends U.S./Israeli strikes on Saudi and UAE energy facilities as legitimate military actions against non-compliant regimes. While praising the Artemis II crew's historic 250,000-mile lunar record, Giuliani asserts that waning Russian and Chinese support for Iran, coupled with European weakness, ensures the President's leadership will ultimately succeed in resolving the crisis. [Automatically generated summary]
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Closing The Straits Of Hormuz00:15:08
Good evening, everyone.
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor.
No, it isn't.
It's the Rudy Giuliani Show, and America's Mayor Live will be at 8, which was supposed to be the fateful time for the decision, but the decision was made somewhat earlier.
The president has just within the last 15, 20 minutes, I think, Ted, put out on tweet that he's reached agreement with Iran through Pakistan.
And basically, the agreement, which I'll have Ted read to you, I can't see it as clearly as he can.
Basically, we're going to give them an extension of two weeks in return for their being willing to open the Strait of Hormuz to all traffic.
And that is being described as they're doing that out of their own volition.
In other words, they're not.
Their objection had been that they're not going to do it under pressure.
Okay.
I mean, obviously, they're doing it under pressure, or they would have done it without all of this.
I think maybe the exaggerations that their very staunch supporters and defenders of the biggest terrorist supporter in the world, Iran, the Democrats, were panicking for them, weren't they?
My goodness, you'd think if the Democrats lost Iran, They may not have a party anymore.
I mean, of course, they have invested billions in Iran.
Now, that is not sarcastic.
That is not, the first part was sarcastic, of course.
But the second part isn't sarcastic at all.
Between Obama's cash and wires, billions, and Biden, Biden got them back to $10 billion or something.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, one of the really biggest hits immediately before any of the new sanctions are put into place is stop giving them money.
Nobody wants to tell you this.
Here's a fact the biggest supporter of the Iranian Muslim regime of terror is the United States of America, although it is dedicated to the destruction of the United States of America.
You go figure that out.
Here's what the president said.
Based on conversations with Prime Minister.
Prime Minister, yeah, well, it should be.
Shabazz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the, these are in caps, complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks.
This will be a double sided ceasefire.
The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long term peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East.
We received a 10 point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.
Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran.
But a two week period would allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.
On behalf of the United States of America and President, and also representing the countries of the Middle East, it is an honor to have this long term problem close to solution.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
A couple of questions about this, just so that I will tell you what I can interpret of it and that which leaves you somewhat confused as to what.
This actually means.
To open the Strait of Hormuz may, in fact, be rather simple if they haven't mined it, correct?
Just move the ships out of the way and don't shoot.
There was a rumor of fairly substantial nature that they had mined it.
I don't remember that being confirmed, I don't remember that being solid.
Do you, Ted?
No.
So I think that whether they can complete that, for example, ships should be moving through tomorrow.
This is not a canal, remember.
They don't have to open locks that were closed down or grease the skids or they just have to get out of the way.
It's an open waterway of the smallest area.
The smallest area is about 20 or 24 miles.
Get out of the way, let the ships come through.
And the ships have to be ships of all nations.
I mean, I hope and I pray that we have there several American and several Israeli ships ready to go because we want to test them immediately.
That one I think I understand.
And the part that I find confusing we received a 10 point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate.
I don't think there's a single thing on it that we have ever agreed to.
They want reparations.
We're going to pay them reparations.
That's a workable basis for an agreement.
Well, we'll get those 10 points out and look at them.
And maybe I have a.
I mean, so many have gone back.
Originally last night, I thought there were 15 points because they always do 15 points.
So maybe I am recalling it incorrectly.
But I remember looking at those 10 points, realizing they were 10 rather than 15, which I originally thought.
And saying to myself, my goodness, this is like saying no.
And of course, the president rejected those.
But I guess the key one was closing the Straits of Hormuz.
So this has been a very, very rocky period.
The president started on Sunday with very, very, very, very charged language about an attack that would send them back basically to the Middle Ages and destroy their civilization if they didn't open the Straits of Hormuz by eight.
P.M. tonight.
He now has an agreement to open it, but doesn't have a time on it.
It means to the complete, immediate, and safe opening.
So, immediate is a word that needs some definition, right?
Immediate can be now in an hour, immediate can be in a day.
But remember, nothing very complicated to do here.
This is a question of whether you let them sail through or not.
You don't have to do something with locks.
You don't have to do something with switches.
You don't have to do something with tracks.
Just water.
Got to get out of the way.
And you better not have put mines down there.
They have a proposal.
He called it a significant proposal when he got it on Sunday, I do believe, or Monday.
And he talked about it on Monday, but it is not enough.
He did describe them as an active, willing participant on the other side.
They would like to be able to make a deal, to have a deal that's acceptable to me.
And part of that deal is going to be we want free traffic of oil and everything else.
The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night.
Still, the president remained hopeful and optimistic.
This was yesterday.
He's also considering a proposal for a 45 day ceasefire with Iran.
And also with the opening of the Strait of Hormuz as part of that.
He described that as one of many ideas.
Our demands, in addition to the absence of a ceasefire and war cycle, must be met.
So, not mentioned here is what happens to the nuclear program.
How substantially is it cut down, cut out?
The Islamic National Revolutionary Guard on Sunday posted that the Strait of Hormuz will never return to its former state, particularly for America and Israel.
So that's going to have to be overcome internally, right?
And presumably, If this agreement is one in good faith, it has.
The president, of course, was facing claims that he violated Section 51 of the War Crimes Act of the Geneva Convention.
That, of course, allows you to, it says you cannot destroy civilian facilities.
Most particularly churches and schools.
But you can destroy mixed use facilities.
The ones that are usually used as an illustration are precisely the ones that he wanted to destroy.
All of the yelling and screaming and the hysterical Democrats today that he's committing a war crime by hitting these facilities fail to mention that Iran has been doing it since February 28th.
They've been hitting power plants.
They've been hitting recycling pants.
They've been hitting water plants.
Of course, water is critical to them being able to reprocess the water.
They've taken them out.
And they've done that in non-combatant countries.
They haven't done it in Israel.
They've done a little of it in Israel.
But mostly they've gone at the electrical supply, the water supply, the energy supply in general, the oil deposits.
Of Saudi Arabia, just yesterday, Saudi Arabia.
Emirates has been hit harder than Israel, all of it on facilities that are purely civilian in nature.
Neither one of those countries are at war, so there can't be a mixed use of those facilities.
Now, how is it that Iran can do that for two months and not a single peep out of the Democrats doing it to countries that are not firing on them?
Nobody wants to charge them with war crimes.
But if Trump were to do it with facilities that aid the ability of Iran to do all of that that we're talking about, but also to be the biggest supporter of terrorism in the world, I would say I think what you're looking at right there is an attack on an energy facility, probably oil, in Saudi Arabia from yesterday.
I'm pretty sure.
So.
How do you take these seriously when they have spent, and this is a generous observation, I think, 50% of their attacks on purely 100% civilian targets of noncombatant countries?
And the United States and Israel have hit, in fact, if war crimes were committed, they did it already.
They've taken out all the energy facilities on Charge Island today and yesterday.
Israel, with the help of the United States, took out 12 bridges in Iran that were critical for the transportation of military arms.
Bridges are taken out almost as a matter of course in any kind of war when you're preparing for an invasion or bringing troops in.
I mean, we really did kind of have a very small invasion, didn't we, to recover our airmen?
We created actually a little post outside of Isfahan to make sure in the future that we have to do that it's much safer for us to have taken out all the bridges.
Of course, the planes don't fly and all of the sophisticated equipment doesn't work.
Even the drones need fuel.
And the interpretation of the Geneva Convention is if it has a partial use.
To help the wartime effort, it is a legitimate target.
And if at all, if you're responding in kind to their doing that uniformly, what side are the Democrats on?
They obviously don't believe in the principle that you shouldn't hit energy plants, since you can hit energy plants in Saudi Arabia, but not at war with anybody.
You can hit energy plants in the Emirates, you can hit energy plants in Kuwait.
You can hit energy plants in Israel.
But you can't do it in Iran.
Now, three of those four countries are not even at war.
Not a single objection by any Democrat or anyone in the group of European cowards, communists, and perverts.
Why We Hit Energy Plants00:15:16
So, a lot of speculating went to waste.
Here, someone said, US officials said Trump has privately been less hopeful that Iran will make a deal, expecting to issue final orders for strikes tonight.
Pakistan is the main one involved in this, and this gives Pakistan a great deal of.
Standing to the consternation of India, our ally, and Pakistan is China's ally, and also a Muslim country which operates under the Koran, the handbook to destroy Christians and Jews, and also is not exactly a peaceful country.
But we did it to help Pakistan.
We don't know, it's hard to know where the Arab countries were on this.
They will be able to get the oil flow back, but they have to, whatever happens now with the end of this war, they have to always remember that they were attacked for pure, I guess you would call it, conniving purposes.
The whole purpose of attacking them was so that they would complain to the United States to try to end the United States doing this.
That's not a reason to start a war with somebody, to convince them to advocate for you.
In that case, when we were in the Independence War, War of Independence, we would have attacked a lot of European countries.
I mean, it's absurd.
But the most absurd thing of all that I can't get over, and I haven't heard this on television all day, even from our vaunted commentators, they're talking about war crimes all day.
You got to go look at chapter 51 of the Geneva.
God forbid they should read it, right?
And then you got to say to yourself, oh my goodness, the first thing you say when you read it, and I'll read it to you later, I have it here.
First thing you say when you read it, if you have an active, functioning mind, is, gosh almighty, that's what Iran has been doing for two months.
And wait a second, wait a second, wait, let me think about this.
They're doing it with a country not involved in the war.
So, how can that not be a war crime?
I mean, I guess you could say that because there were American bases at some of these places and they were allowing the use of the American bases, some small amount of energy is necessary for that.
And therefore, we can take out all the energy to the country that will keep the people.
And taking out the desalinization plants.
What does that have to do with the war effort?
What it does is they die of thirst.
That's what happens, and their air conditioners stop, and they die of heat prostration, and a lot of their factories close.
It's a direct attack on the civilian population.
And then, of course, they had direct attacks on the civilian population.
Direct, boom, boom, boom.
You would say 40% in Israel for a while, they weren't even attacking the military facility.
But not a single peep, peep, peep, peep, out of these phony, completely anti American Democrat people.
Not a single Democrat raised it in defense of his country or her country against people like that jerk from California with the big fat nose and the dumb looking face.
going to pay them to hit energy facilities because the people won't have energy.
Hey, come on.
There's a human being on the other side of that microphone.
You don't, but hasn't Iran from the beginning hit exact, name me a type of target that we're going to hit that Iran hasn't hit in countries that are not at war with Iran.
Okay.
There were concerns yesterday that Saudi Arabia would retaliate because they had the hit, the hit was a pretty substantial one.
So we'll have to see.
Sounds like Vance was right.
And it also sounds like his presence in this has probably aided the delay efforts, I would say.
Some would interpret it as appeasement efforts, others would say this is wise and smart.
And I don't think we'll know the answer to that until the end.
If this regime is gone, And they get a chance at freedom and peace, then this all works.
If it doesn't, they're just going to be a threat to our children.
And even worse than that, we will have broken faith with Iran since we really held out to them the strong promise that we would help them gain freedom.
And for fear that the price of oil might go up too much, people would say we didn't do that.
Do we have JD Vance saying don't interpret anything as any decision that there'll be a strike?
We have a clip from JD.
Let's see.
It happened this morning.
My understanding, having talked to Pete and General Kane about this, is that we were going to strike some military targets on Sharj Island.
I believe we have done so.
This does not mean that we have decided to make a total strike.
But we feel confident that we can get a response, whether it's positive or negative.
We're going to get a response from the Iranians by 8 o'clock tonight.
I hope they make the right response because what we really want is we want a world where oil and gas is flowing freely, where people can afford to heat their homes and cool their homes, where people can afford to transport themselves to work.
That's not going to happen if the Iranians are engaged in acts of economic terrorism.
So they've got to know.
We've got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven't decided to use.
The President of the United States.
Can decide to use them, and he will decide to use them if the Iranians don't change their course of conduct.
And the other one?
That part came right after what you wanted.
And here, the next clip, 1.45.
This is Vance answering a question posed to him about Card Island.
I don't know if we have that ready.
Yeah, that's that story.
I believe this is the one.
So this is Vance.
Of course, he's in Budapest, Hungary.
Oh, we'll talk about that in a little while.
You should know all of that.
It's quite significant, actually.
That election will be very significant for.
Can we play it?
The US, China, Russia, and the EU.
It's about as significant a European election as you could possibly have.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
This is Humayra Pumuk from Reuters.
I have a couple of questions.
I do think you have to read that text because we have reporting that the United States is striking some targets in Karg Island.
You did say that the military objectives of this war have been achieved.
So could you help us understand why the president is still threatening to attack every bridge and every power plant?
Iran.
You also said that this will wrap up soon, but yesterday in his press conference when he was asked about a timeline, he did not give a specific timeline and he had said four to six weeks and we're now in week six.
Do you have a specific timeline?
Excuse me, these are spontaneous questions.
The long questions.
Okay, I'll stop.
I mean, the Hungary question is this.
If Prime Minister Orban loses, do you commit, does the United States commit to working with the new leader?
Will you have a golden age relationship with the new leader?
Thank you so much.
Well, of course, we're going to work with whoever wins the Hungarian election because we love the people of Hungary and it's an important relationship.
But Viktor Orban is going to win the next election in Hungary, so I feel very confident about that and about our continued positive relationship.
Viktor, is that right?
That's the plan.
Okay, all right.
So you asked about Carg Island.
My understanding, having talked to Pete and General Kane about this, is that we were going to strike some military targets on Carg Island.
I believe we have done so.
The president's deadline.
Has been followed by us and everybody else.
And he said very clearly, we're not going to strike energy and infrastructure targets until the Iranians.
Well, it looks like that it worked.
It looks like the strategy that got every liberal to have either diarrhea or some other form of excretion worked on the bullies.
And who knows?
I mean, we're dealing with people who are.
Even if this is a new group and it's somewhat more.
No, the only way you could describe people who were part of that regime in any respect, somewhat less irrational.
I think that would be a better description of the group that they're dealing with now.
And don't hold your breath that they're actually going to open the straight.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Now, Thinking that it might be a little halt, they have done tremendous damage in the last two days.
Last week, we told you that Israel, in particular, but the U.S., to the extent that it felt it had achieved its military objectives, they're going to switch to facilities that took down the economy of Iran.
Now, I don't know how you can take the economy down much more than it's down, but they're doing that.
So they were a good deal of.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Going into today, I mean, right up until the end, they were hitting energy facilities of all different types, not all of them.
I assume what we had in mind should President Exercise have taken them all out.
They were using ones that they believe are particularly used for defense purposes.
They didn't take out all the bridges in Iran, as the hysterical said, hysteric said.
They took out 12.
I assume they were 12.
That are strategic bridges.
They destroyed a lot of financial facilities in Iran.
And Israel did the laboring ore on that.
And up until about four hours ago, we're highly active doing it.
So wherever it was three days ago, Iran is further degraded now.
And then, of course, we took out the energy, we took out the milk, every.
One of the military possibilities or facilities on Charge Island and around it.
Now, you may have noticed when we were showing you the maps last week, we kept showing you that a disproportionate number of the attacks were along the shore of the Persian Gulf, particularly north of Charge Island.
And that's where guns would have been located to shoot at ships, commercial ships, or Ships of war, if we were going to take that island.
There's no doubt that we had a plan to take it today because there wouldn't have been much of a reason to go back and devastate all of the military facilities on Charge Island because it was quite a complete attack.
We did that two weeks ago.
Maybe just a few sorties would have been necessary.
But I think we wanted to be 100% certain, if you ever can be.
That when our Marines and possibly paratroopers went in to make certain that the bombing of the energy facilities was complete, there wouldn't be any booby traps.
So that attack was very, I'm sure that attack, to the extent they have, serious military people would have said, these guys are serious.
They wouldn't waste their time with so many other things to do, or even their bombs and missiles.
They could take these things out a second time if they weren't thinking about their troops being in there.
So that's where we are so far on the war.
We'll bring you further up to date at eight and also do some really in depth analysis of where this goes and how it affects China, Russia, how it affects, of course, the United States, how it affects the EU, what the heck's going on with NATO, and where it.
And where's Japan and our allies over in Asia who are disproportionately affected by the oil in the Gulf of Hormuz?
Until this was called off overnight, the U.S. struck, they attacked Charge Island all night.
We also warned citizens not to use trains anywhere in Iran.
Protect Your Liver Health Today00:05:18
But particularly in that near that area.
Yeah, they hit the military targets on Charge Island again.
I mean, that's really very, very strange.
They hit railway lines and roads and transportation routes.
And of course, during the day to day, they took out the bridges.
They also, clearly by accident, severely damaged a synagogue in central Tehran.
Wow.
I would imagine that synagogue is not a very, very comfortable or safe place to be, nor do I think it has many members.
Must be really fascinating to be a member of a synagogue, and then every Friday afternoon when they say their prayers, they yell out death to Israel.
Right.
Well, let's go to the Artemis 2 situation.
The crew that celebrated so joyously last night and lifted the spirits of an entire country, if not world, are emerging from the backside of the moon.
Fascinating.
So we'll take a short break, and when we come back, we'll check in on, we'll sort of review where they are.
And they're headed back on a four day trip.
Back to landing in the beautiful Pacific Ocean.
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Very special guest who wanted to be the first person to greet you after your return from the far side of the moon.
Reed, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy, it's my honor to introduce the President of the United States of America, President Donald J. Trump.
Over to you, sir.
Well, thank you very much, Jared, and you are doing a fantastic job, and hello, very special hello to Artemis II.
Today you've made history and made all America really proud, incredibly proud.
We have a lot of things to be proud of lately, but this is.
There's nothing like what you're doing, circling around the moon for the first time in more than a half a century and breaking the all-time record for the farthest distance from planet Earth.
Humans have really never seen anything like quite like what you're doing in a manned spacecraft.
It's really special.
I want to personally salute and congratulate commander Reed Weissman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Cock and Jeremy Hanson, And I also want to thank the entire amazing team at NASA, headed by Jared, who's a very special guy, by the way.
You all made this day possible, and you've really inspired the entire world, really.
Everybody's watching.
They find it incredible.
I just watched you go to the back of the moon, and people haven't been there in a long time, we can say, but it's going to be more and more prevalent because we're going to be doing a lot of traveling, and then you're going to ultimately do the whole big trip to Mars, and that's going to be very exciting.
So you look at, we had no astronaut has been to the moon since the days of Apollo program.
The Apollo program was also very special, but that was 50 years ago, and at long last, America is back, and America is back in many ways stronger than ever before with the hottest country anywhere in the world.
The Artemis crew flew in the most powerful rocket NASA has ever made, ever launched, traveled over a quarter of a million miles, broke the distance record set by the legendary Apollo 13, and America is a.
Well, in the middle of planning a war and deciding on the intricate details of it, He called the crew of Artemis II, all those heroes and great people, and expressed his heartfelt gratitude for their having completed a dream of his.
Remember, this boy, this will get him annoyed.
This would not have happened without Donald Trump.
It's Donald Trump who revived Obama, who was clearly against NASA, thinking of folding it up, getting rid of it.
He would clearly have been in favor of the communists or Muslims getting to the moon first, or at least if you look at his contributions, massive ones to the biggest purveyor of Islamic terrorism or the closest thing to a carven copy of Muhammad in a long time, the Iranian regime.
Muhammad's enthusiastic support for them would indicate that he would prefer that either the communists or the Muslims get control of the moon.
Get rid of us, pesky Christians.
And of course, you Jews.
But President Trump, who has no such prejudices, has a love for our civilization, our religions, our background, our people, understands quite clearly the contributions that we've made and the necessity that we be world leaders because if we're not, China will be.
Who knows?
Iran was thinking about it, right?
So Artemis II gets to the backside of the moon.
This is 50 years since the last time we were there.
50 years.
Now, we saw the backside of the moon then partially, but we never made a trip specifically to see it.
So, by and large, when the Apollo astronauts were going around the moon, first of all, they were much closer to the moon.
So, they never got the complete view of the backside of the moon.
They were too close.
Number two, they basically did it at night so they could come around and land in daylight when they came to the moon on the front side.
So they only got a very sketchy view of what the back side of the moon looks like.
So you might have wondered why this spacecraft was so far away from the moon at 4,000 to 6,000 feet.
Away.
I think I have that right.
I think the closest they came was 4,000, if I'm not mistaken.
I think 4,000 was the closest.
So, what that allowed them to do, think about it for a second, right?
It got to allow them to see the entire semicircle, right?
Whereas if you're very close, you're just going to see pieces of it.
You don't have a wide angle lens that can do that kind of magic.
So, Out here, they picked the place where they could get the best.
Plus, since they weren't landing on the front side of the moon, most of the time they were there, the sun was shining on the moon.
So they could see clearly what's there.
Now they could see it, but most importantly, for the benefit of the hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists who review this, this is now available for them to examine in great detail.
Yesterday, they broke a record and set a record.
When they reached around 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a distance of 250,757 miles from Earth.
Well, that's the record they set, actually, at 7 07 p.m. last night, right as they were going around the backside of the moon.
And I think it's during that period of time when they were blocked out.
That's when they were the furthest away from the Earth, and concomitantly, they were the closest to the moon.
They actually broke the record earlier than that, about 1 o'clock in the afternoon, 1 56 to be precise, when they got to 248,655 miles, which is beyond Apollo 13.
And then they proceeded.
In order to get not just to the back, but deliberately further away than Apollo so they could get longitudinal, you know, wide angle, complete wide angle views of the back of the moon with daylight rather than at nighttime like most of the Apollo missions were.
And that sent them out from 248,000 miles to 250, approximately 253,000 miles.
And that's when they set the record that no one's reached.
That they say is going to be broken with the next mission.
Up until now, much of the backside of the moon was in darkness and not able to be analyzed.
And they described hues of greens and browns showing up from the lunar soil, as well as patches of white craters they said were brighter than snow on Earth.
And those patches of white were compared to shining pinpricks in lampshade.
By astronaut, I think Christine Koch, while the crater battered terrain was described as impossibly rugged and alien.
That's where the aliens come from, I guess.
And they described it in their estimate, and it's interesting that it's as broad a range as this.
Three to four times larger than Earth.
So there'll be four days coming back with many, many studies to do on the way back.
And of course, the success of this mission and the success of lots of details that we don't pay attention to or probably don't even particularly understand will determine if the next one goes off on time next year, which will.
Allow for further exploration of the backside of the moon and also prepare the way for the remaining trip, which is quite long, to Mars.
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Well, you know that a lot of countries are battling with the United States over Iran, which is kind of interesting because Iran is a danger and problem for the entire world, not just the United States.
But it's interesting to see the positions of our, I guess, what you would regard as our three major adversaries when you take Iran out, right?
So you've got Russia, China, and North Korea.
And they are slightly different.
Oh, no, no.
When you get from the furthest support to the least support, there's quite a bit of difference.
The most support is by Putin and Russia.
He has shared intelligence with them, he has assisted them, he is possibly guilty of sending them equipment.
He sent them intelligence that would aid in the killing of American and Israeli soldiers.
I have to believe that this leaves behind.
A real anger for him.
And maybe this favored nation's relationship that he has with the president will come to an end because he is a lifetime pathological dedicated murderer.
Who all you need to see is how he wastes the lives of his men in Ukraine.
You know, we've been fighting this war now for two months and we've lost 13 people.
We do everything we can to keep our people safe.
We do everything we can to keep their people safe.
Russia does just the opposite, which is why it's been so unsuccessful in Ukraine.
It's not been an efficient use of its troops because Putin doesn't give a damn for his troops or his people or anybody else but him.
He's a stone cold murderer.
So, when we come out of this, well, we've got some scores to settle with that guy.
And I think our military is not going to let the president forget that.
He put our military's lives in jeopardy by giving them information about the location of our military that he has that is much more precise than anything Iran would hope to get.
China was a verbal supporter of Iran.
I'm not aware of their doing any kind of military support.
And their verbal support was ratcheted down to some middle level.
They weren't like going overboard in condemning the U.S.
Now, that could have to do with the With the May summit between Trump and Xi Jinping, which is more important to Xi Jinping than Trump because of the economy of China.
During the period of time of this war, Xi Jinping removed three members of his Politburo after having removed almost his entire general staff.
And I guess one benefit both he and Russia got out of this war was that the focus is off them.
So, for example, China appears to be building up a much bigger exercise to test its ability to take Taiwan.
Those are short term gains that they got by our casting our attention somewhere else for a while.
But should Iran get defeated, and by that I mean the change of regime to a regime that's hostile to China and to Russia, this will be devastating to both.
China, because it depends on Iran for oil, and it depends on Iran for having sort of an entry into the Middle East where they're not terribly welcomed anymore, because the gangster side of China has showed up in South America and in Africa, and the Arab countries, I think, were always aware of that.
It also will be devastating for Russia.
Because I'd be surprised if they haven't affected to some extent their relationship with Trump.
But number two, they had no relationship with Europe.
It was just Europe is frightened that they're going to come in and try to take them and is floundering around, not knowing what to do about it.
Not a good idea if you're floundering around, not knowing what to do about it, to piss off Trump.
But I didn't say they were smart.
And I mean, they wouldn't follow the ideologies and do what they do to their countries.
If they were smart, you know, whatever they say, we should consult with them.
I never understood this going back, even to Ronald Reagan.
What the hell should we consult with failed countries for?
You really want to consult with whoever ran France in the last 50 years or Italy?
I mean, Maloney is the first, Maloney has been the longest reigning prime minister of Italy.
I would travel to Italy and in two days there'd be three governments.
I mean, not exactly the government you want to go to for deep thought on the best way to.
Let's look at the best examples of how to run governments and take advice from them.
Well, you sure don't look at Europe, right?
And now England is a disaster.
England, the Islamic Empire of England, pretty soon.
They'll revive their empire status by being a Muslim empire this time.
Now, I contrast China.
And Russia.
Russia all out, China midway to North Korea, that except for two statements has done nothing about Iran, given them no help, been enormously quiet.
And during the course of this, during a conference in February, the leader said that there's no reason for countries not to get along well and that he would like to meet with the president.
So his old friend, the guy who used to follow him around like a puppy dog, is looking for a little affection, I think.
And the reality is, he, China and Russia, when push comes to shove, and I read today a Chinese communist newspaper in the New York Times.
They have precisely the same viewpoint.
Well, you've known they were communists for a long time, right?
So you can't pay attention to them.
You cannot pay attention.
They're going to get you brainwashed.
The simple fact is that Russia and China are undergoing massive economic difficulties.
I think it has to be that Russia is worse than China.
And China is going through a political upheaval of large dimension.
That we're not really sure we know the reason for.
You don't get rid of three members of the Politburo who you were close to, the guy who was closest to you also a few months ago, and the generals who you put there and were closest to you, and the ones who for the last 10 years have been developing your strategy on Taiwan.
You obviously want a different strategy on Taiwan.
You weren't happy with what you had.
I would imagine once you saw what happened to Russia in Ukraine, and once you saw the real power.
Of the greatest military force in the history of the world.
You're not that.
And I doubt you'll ever be.
And you're not going to revive the economy this way, Z. You don't revive an economy by commanding it to revive.
But, you know, many of our Ivy League students believe that because, like you, they're Marxists.
Well, we're going to go over to X now, and we will continue on a shocking decision on the attorney client privilege.
The situation in Hungary that we talked about, the ugly appearance again of illegal alien rapists, perverts, and murderers.
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And of course, we'll go into a greater deal of detail on the strategies that are now available and where we're going from here as best we can tell.
And we have some good information on that.
So you come over to X and we'll have a chance to talk things out.
Ted is now putting his jacket on, I should tell you.
God bless the United States of America and God bless the President of the United States.