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June 26, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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US To Lebanon: 'We Will Defend Israel If War Breaks Out'

A new article in Politico reports that senior Biden Administration officials have warned Lebanon that if Hezbollah retaliates to any Israeli attack in Lebanon, the US will become involved. Thus the Biden Administration commits the US to a possible major war in the Middle East while Congress blissfully sleeps. Also today: House GOP moves to negate legitimacy of Jan. 6 Committee and thus spare Steve Bannon from jail.

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Stella's Great Moment 00:02:38
Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.
With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you today.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well, doing well.
I want to follow up with a quick update about one of our friends finally seeing fresh air.
And that, of course, is Assange, and I understand he's back at home again after so many harrowing experience he has.
So we want to mention that, but do we have something to show dealing with Assange today?
Yeah, I found a video clip of him as he landed in Australia, a free man.
He signed the plea deal yesterday.
Interesting, by the way, what the judge said.
We can talk about that some other time.
But I just want to show this.
This is longer than we usually show.
It's about a minute and 27 seconds.
But I kid you not, Dr. Paul, I'm not going to lie, I got a little bit misty-eyed, so there's a warning for you when you see Assange meeting his wife.
You might want to put the earpiece in.
Just watch this for about a minute and a half.
Sorry, Jeremy, I need to introduce you.
We now have the live features.
Julian stepping out of the plane in Canberra.
Oh, please, that's it.
Well done.
He's walking on the tarmac.
I don't know.
He's waving to the crowd.
It's such a joyous moment.
I'm not sure you can see this, but believe me, such an emotional moment.
He is looking so great.
I saw pictures of me.
It looks a lot better than last time I saw that.
Well, if you think that I have maybe backtracked a few years, I can tell you that he is looking a lot better than inside Denmark.
It's such a great moment.
He's penciling his fists and waving to the crowd.
What a great moment in history to witness and be a part of it, Jeremy.
And thank you.
I mean, we should all be.
I'm just getting it on my phone now.
Wow.
He is meeting Stella now.
Oh, my God.
He's kissing Stella.
You know, this is my God.
And John Shipton is there, his father, you know, reuniting with the family.
What a great moment, Jeremy, to be watching this.
This is something we've been fighting for.
Very touching, wasn't it, Dr. Paul, seeing him hugging his dad and Stella?
Israel-Hezbollah Conflict 00:13:02
In a way, it's a shame we have to wait so long to get this good news because we created, we, the governments and our own government, create these problems.
And it's almost a shame that just relieving the pressure of the mistakes is joyous, but it is.
It has to be.
At least there was a movement in the right direction.
The one thing I give Assange credit for is, you know, he had confidence.
For a person to go through this and survive, you have to have confidence in what you're doing.
It doesn't mean you know everything, but seeking the truth, you don't have to know everything as you recognize the truth is out there and you have to search it.
And he certainly has done there.
In a way, he has served a purpose, in a way, of galvanizing people who, wow, is this happening?
And, you know, the saddest part was, don't send me to the United States.
There was a time I was taught as a kid that if you were in a foreign country and you did a little bit of traveling and people, and I remember going to neighbor countries and saying, don't get into trouble.
The courts are different.
you want to get home.
But his main goal all these years, and it wasn't like he hated Americans or anything like that, it was just don't send me to a United States court system.
That to me is so sad.
And he had to stand up to the people who were total liars, the denialists of the world.
And he's out there.
He must have felt awfully lonely.
But people have said that when certain groups got together and rallied the crowd, because I had been to a few crowds and conferences and all, that his name was quite often mentioned.
And we, of course, tried to help as much as we could.
But there's a lot of people that became awakened to this and join in, which I see is all very positive.
And I think one of the most important things he did that has been sorely missed these past few years, he brought together the so-called left and so-called right and showed them that the warfare state is opposed to all of us.
All these artificial divisions that we have are fake.
They're all made by the media in the servants of the war machine.
So that was terrific.
And I hope once he gets the rest that he deserves now and that sunshine, hopefully he gets to the beach with his boys, that he will get back at work.
And they say that he will.
And of course, we'd love to have him back on our show again, too, when he's ready.
Maybe somebody should send him to the Middle East to be an arbitrator for some of the problems.
What we can do.
No, that is good.
But we want to start off with another problem that's a danger problem.
And how it's going to work out, we don't know yet.
And that has to do with Hezbollah.
And Hezbollah hasn't been the friendliest country in the world.
And yet, this is something that has gone on for a long time.
But U.S. sent out a warning, U.S. to Hezbollah, don't count on us to stop an Israeli attack.
What?
You know, why is the Israeli going to attack?
Oh, we have to punish Hezbollah.
That gets a little conflict.
And the charges are exactly opposite if you're trying to clarify things.
You know, it's sort of like, who started a war in Ukraine?
Well, the Russians invaded Ukraine, and that's it.
Don't ever ask another question.
Yeah.
Well, this goes back to what we talked about, I think, last week with this Amos Hoxteen fellow who has a very suspicious background.
To a lot of people, looks like a Mossad guy.
But anyway, he went down, he went back there again.
He's Biden's special envoy or whatever.
Put on that first clip.
This is the politico article that came out yesterday.
U.S. to Hezbollah, don't count on us to stop an Israeli attack.
Now, right after October 7th, the Hamas attack on Israel, Israel and Hezbollah started exchanging fire.
It has come increasingly intense over the past few weeks.
And reportedly, the Israeli war cabinet, or the successor of the Israeli War Cabinet, has voted that they can go into Lebanon to hit the militia, the Hezbollah militia, which is aligned with Iran and which may well provoke a broader and wider war, which would include Iran and then probably the rest of the Gulf states.
So here's the U.S. saying, hey, don't, yeah, thanks.
There we go.
That's perfect.
So here's the U.S. saying, hey, we're powerless.
We can't do anything.
So here's from the article.
U.S. officials trying to prevent a Middle East war are issuing an unusual warning to Hezbollah.
Don't assume Washington can stop Israel from attacking you.
And Dr. Paul, I find this the craziest message of all because this sort of argument that we are totally helpless, we're just the U.S., we're not part of this.
Well, you give them all the money and all the bombs.
Of course, you can stop them from attacking you.
Some days I have this temptation, you know, to finish the sentence.
And when I was reading that, I finished the sentence.
Don't assume that Washington can stop Israel from attacking you or want to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, and that's the reflection of our foreign policy.
I just wonder, you know, where the Hawks, the Hawks must have a heyday on this, but they have to figure out some things too, because sometimes the speeches coming out of the administration doesn't always satisfy the wild people in our Congress, you know, and they don't make any sense at all on what they want to do.
And, you know, when they had, this is just an example of how the votes are separated.
When they had the vote on the militaristic thing of automatic registration for the draft, I mean, where were they on that?
You know, boy, the Republicans are loyal to that idea.
It's such a contradiction to their verbiage.
They talk about the Constitution and all this.
Yet three of them said, you know, involuntary servitude, just for the mend, of course, you know, is something that we endorse that.
You know, we have to, it's disgusting.
This is.
They do that for national security.
They're going to take care of us.
Well, this is incredible because after this admission, we can't do anything to stop it.
This, again, would be a wider war.
I can't imagine anything more horribly destructive to Biden's presidential re-election campaign than having a broad war break out in the Middle East.
I mean, Trump is going to take advantage.
He's going to be bombastic, but he will take advantage of this.
This is a disaster for the Biden administration, maybe a death knell for his campaign.
Yet he pretends that he's absolutely powerless to stop this.
And of course, it's even worse than that.
If you go to the next clip, which would be that third clip, this is incredible.
And I sent this to you yesterday because I couldn't believe this wording, Dr. Paul.
Two U.S. officials told Politico that the militia, that is Hezbollah, needs to understand that Washington will help Israel defend itself if Hezbollah retaliates.
They stress that the group should not count on America to act as a break on Israeli decision making.
So essentially they're saying, if Israel attacks you and you fire back, we're going to help Israel.
We're going to be in the war.
They don't even ask, who's causing the blare off?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a green light to Israel.
Hey, wink, wink, we got your back.
Go ahead, go in.
You describe very well the dilemma the administration is in, and also the contest currently throughout the whole area there between the Hawks and the ones that are the progressives and would like to see a lot less war.
But eventually, you know, reality sets in in the war.
And I think what we're witnessing, and as you describe it, it sounds like reality is setting in.
But the question is raised, we know that that sometimes the reality might be, boy, we're under the gun, you know, and when they make these empty, ridiculous threats, you know, it might be required that we might have to join in here.
And it's sort of like some of the things that we do in economics and the marketplace is you can spend and have debt out and people complain and all about it.
And the governments do nothing other than cry about it and make the problems worse.
And I think that's what happens on foreign policy.
They cry about it.
And then we stay engaged.
And if the war doesn't go well and the evidence is clear, like in Ukraine, that war is probably pretty much knowing how it's going to end.
But they do this, and they just won't live up to it.
But eventually, though, you know, it is settled that both sides just throw in the towel.
And I've always think it's so stupid.
Why don't they go to people who will like to prevent war rather than the experts who know us how to get out of war and have peace treaties?
And maybe we could get the UN to get in there and put some troops in there and get NATO to be a little stronger and get the real hawks in there to know how to win wars.
We're sick and tired of not winning these wars.
And they have that attitude.
Some of them are still sick and tired.
We're not still fighting in Vietnam.
We've got to show we can win down there.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, here's that mentality that you're describing absolutely perfectly is in this next quote that I pulled from the article if you put it up.
Now, this is a Defense Department official who spoke anonymously.
He said, Israel's got to do what they got to do.
So essentially, that's the point.
But again, it's worse than that if you go to the next clip.
This is the part that people should pay close attention to.
And I would say, Dr. Paul, Congress, where are they?
Why aren't they paying attention to this?
It says, two U.S. officials said the Biden administration will help Israel defend itself in any scenario with Hezbollah, including everything from replenishing Israel's iron dome missile system, defense system, to providing intel.
And this is the part I underlined and underscored.
If Israel comes under severe duress, with Hezbollah raining rockets and missiles on its major cities, for instance, the U.S. may move toward more direct military support, the officials said.
Now, that goes back to what you just said, Dr. Paul, when you talked about this draft registration.
Here's where your kids are going to go, guys.
If you don't say something to your congressmen, this is what's going to happen.
This is going to be a bigger war because Iran may very well get involved.
And what's not often reported is that when Iran retaliated against Israel for Israelis' bombing of a diplomatic building that Iran had in Syria, they did a very unique technique.
I'm not a military expert.
From everything I've read, they sent a swarm of drones in, which depleted the iron dome system, after which they sent in several ballistic missiles that hit their targets.
So they know how to defeat the iron dome system.
The only way Israel escaped far worse destruction is that the U.S. apparently shot down 80% of the missiles.
So you have a situation that will escalate quickly and get the U.S. involved in a major, major war.
And the Biden administration, through this Hawkstein fellow, saying, nothing we can do about it.
Go ahead, guys.
Well, the excuse for our diplomats to be there is to prevent the war expanding.
And then they go and do this nonsense.
And that remains still the big danger because this is not going to go away easily.
And then everybody knows Iran is already engaged in it.
Just like we deny that we have troops on the ground all over the world.
And everybody knows that we do.
But if the conditions get to such, there is no problem with all of a sudden seeing an escalation of what Iran would do.
They very much are capable.
And they probably could send a couple troops over there too if they decided to.
So it just doesn't make any sense to me, but we'll keep plugging away.
And we have how many thousands, maybe thousands of troops in the neighborhood in Iraq and in Syria occupying it.
Iran can very easily retaliate.
They don't have to send a missile to New York.
They can easily take care of retaliation against the U.S. in the area.
So this is a Tinderbox, and the Biden administration is holding a match over it.
Did you see where they moved an aircraft carrier out of harm's way?
Liberty's Select Committee 00:10:19
And when I see those things, I keep thinking, they're still fighting the Second World War.
And like you say, if they wanted to hit New York tomorrow, they're capable of doing it.
It's a mess.
And real diplomacy would require two people talking seriously about what could be done.
And if you study the preliminary up to World War II, there was somebody on the American side and somebody on the Japanese side begged and pleaded for a lightening up of the tension.
But the two, well, no, it was our United States leader that refused to meet with him.
He was ready to go, ready to go.
Well, let's move on to something that's been annoying us since January 7th, 2021.
And we've talked about it a lot.
Let's put on this next clip.
Because Steve Bannon, he's a strategist for Trump's campaign, the first campaign.
Now he does, I think he has a talk show.
Well, he got into trouble because the January 6th committee said, hey, we need you to come in and testify.
And he said, no, no, thanks.
Not going to do it.
So he said, okay, we're going to send you to jail.
And so now he's facing jail for refusing the subpoena.
And this is from Politico.
Again, GOP leaders back Steve Bannon's fight against conviction for denying the January 6th panel.
And here's what it's all about.
If you go to the next one, Speaker Mike Johnson and other House GOP leaders voted Tuesday, i.e. yesterday, to reject the previous Congress's handling of the January 6th Select Committee, a last-minute effort to boost Bannon's appeal from his 22 conviction for defying a subpoena.
So what they're doing, Dr. Paul, this current Congress is moving to negate the January 6th Committee as not being a legitimate committee.
You know, this is good news that there's somebody up there doing this because my argument is that we've lost our Republic and that there's essentially been a coup in the Justice Department and then even the Congress participates in there and have this select committee, but they included the Republicans in the committee.
It's such a farce and they do this and they think they can get away with it.
But this is coming to light.
So we've had our complaints and disappointments with Johnson.
But let's hope he holds and sticks to this.
But he's going to hear a lot of noise from some people who disagrees with him.
So right now, I worry about he has good instincts, but does he have a determination that is required to stick to his guns?
Yeah, I hope Johnson does.
Well, skip that next clip and go to the next one because here's what it's all about.
And here's where Republicans are honing in on to try to make their case against the Sixth Committee.
Let's go to the one before that, if you can.
go next i mean i messed up the uh there we go Sorry, I messed up the order again.
That's just the way this morning is going.
But so here's what it's all about, Dr. Paul.
Republicans have focused their criticisms of the January 6th Committee on two purported defects.
And you actually alluded to this a second ago.
It's lack of a GOP appointed ranking minority member.
And then Speaker Metz Pelosi's decision not to fill several vacancies on the panel after then GOP leader Kevin McCarthy boycotted the panel because Pelosi refused to seat two of his initial picks.
Now our viewers will remember back that McCarthy, as is, I believe, the rule, if not tradition, the ranking member, the party not in power, has the ability to name whoever it wants from among its ranks to be in the minority on a panel.
And when McCarthy said, okay, here's who I want, Pelosi said, no way, Jose, we're not going to do it.
We're going to put that dopey Liz Cheney and that ridiculous Kinzerin instead.
Two people who hate Trump more than anything on earth.
And so that's, I think, what they're going on to try to prove that this committee was not, was not.
A few people could suffer from this once the truth gets fully out.
And one would be the reputation of the former Speaker of the House.
And that's one I won't cry for.
I'll tell you what.
The reputation and the arrogance and the wielding of power.
And how many times do you think she has fibbed, told white lies, or outright committed crimes of slander and everything else?
But she put it together.
But this is uncontrolled government.
But really, really, so often, whether we talk about foreign policy, monetary policy, or how they even run it, they have certain rules they're supposed to follow.
And no wonder the people get so sick and tired of this.
That's also, from my viewpoint, a good thing.
The people are sick and tired of it.
But we better just get much more bold, like we're encouraging Johnson to continue to do what he's been saying and try to restore with confidence this whole thing that you have to kowtow how you can maintain the current foreign policy, which is bipartisan, without changing the policy.
This thing won't work.
And that's why we go to the fundamentals.
You need fundamental changes of a non-interventionist foreign policy.
You know, stay out of the welfare state business and eventually not going around.
When can the Republicans get the draft going again?
But they were disappointed that they couldn't draft the women.
Yeah, well, maybe next time.
But Johnson, we get him a little bit of praise, but I don't think on his own he would have done this.
Maybe it's not, it's not true, but let's go to the next one because this is from the same article.
Johnson has been under growing pressure, and I underline this, under growing pressure from his own right flank who want to use their slim majority to undercut the work of the January 6th Committee.
Now you can see the political spin on this, of course.
But Representative Matt Gates, who we like on many issues, had publicly floated and privately lobbied for holding a vote within the bipartisan legal group.
And that would be to negate the January 6th Committee.
So Steve Bennon, we don't agree with him on everything, but he's a very smart guy.
We admire the fact that he had the courage to say, no, I'm not going to participate.
This is a farce.
I don't care if I go to jail.
I'm not going to be part of this.
So we obviously hope that he doesn't end up in jail.
This is sounding better.
A couple months ago or a year ago, I was pretty despondent about this will be buried.
What we have to do is reveal as much as we can, try to get people to set the record, let it be known, so at least have the items and the explanation of the truth of the matter.
And this is what's happening now.
The truth is leaking out now.
And, you know, the election, I always complain, nothing ever changes.
Some things could change, even if we don't see the change with the Fed and our foreign policy, something like this could be really beneficial on how you put the group together to solve the problems instead of just lying through their teeth and marching off.
Good at that.
Well, I'm going to close out, Dr. Paul, if you're ready.
And I'm going to close out with a big announcement of a speaker for our August 31st Ron Paul Institute Conference.
I told you guys this is going to be a different kind of conference.
You wanted something a little different than we've done in the past.
And that's what we're doing.
That's why we're calling it the Liberty Platform.
We're looking at Liberty across the board.
And that's why I am personally so thrilled.
And I cannot wait to go to the conference to see the speaker we're announcing today.
Skip over that tweet and go to the big picture.
Our second announced speaker for the RPI conference is none other than Joel Salatin.
Brilliant.
He describes himself as a Christian, libertarian, environmentalist capitalist.
We like all of those things.
He is a terrific person.
I'm proud to say that I was a customer.
You can leave it up, please.
I was a customer of his Polyface farm when I lived in Virginia.
Dr. Paul worked for you on the Hill.
He is the author of, I think, 13 or so books, a brilliant speaker.
He shows that you can save the environment, make money, and make people healthy.
He's going to talk about the food freedom movement.
Now, here's his most recent book.
If you go to the next clip, this looks fascinating.
I have not read this.
I've read most of his books.
It's called Homestead Tsunami: Good for the Country, Critters, and Kids.
And it's from the book.
It says, From his 66-year-old farm and food and family experience, Joel Salatin explains why thousands of Americans are selling their urban homes, cashing out retirement funds, and heading to the country.
The Exodus is a goodbye to one life and embrace of another.
He talks all about what that does and how it's a big movement.
Now, my favorite title for a Joel Salatin book, I love this title so much and I love the book.
But go to the next, and I'm sure our viewers will love the title and the book.
Everything I want to do is illegal.
So this is another of Joel's books.
So we are absolutely honored and thrilled to have Joel Salatin, a real hero, speak at our conference.
Everyone's going to want to hear what he has to say.
We'll have some more announcements later this week, but get your tickets.
I will put a link in there.
I forgot to do it before the show.
I'll put a link in there how you can get your tickets to the Ron Paul Institute conference, get those early bird tickets and save some money.
Joel Salatin, Judge Napolitano, Ron Paul, how can you go?
How can you think of a better way to spend your Labor Day weekend?
So over to you, Dr. Paul.
Well, it's wonderful.
You know, this is a pretty neat outline of what he wants to do.
But, you know, we have to admit that he came to Washington and he came in a way he might qualify as a lobbyist.
Joel Salatin's Liberty Lecture 00:01:58
He came to talk to people and he wanted something, but he always wanted less government regulating and hurting us.
He wanted his freedom back.
So that type of, and even we should give it a bitter word.
You know, lobbying sounds like a dirty word, but somebody should come and petition the government.
I like the word petitioner.
You can tell why.
So now I think it's all the things he has done and emphasized.
Don't you think if you took those things that he is trying to bring to light and concentrate on it, don't you think a lot of those things were on the minds of the people who risked going across the Atlantic Ocean, you know, in ships that weren't very stable and come here.
All they wanted was to be left alone and they were capable too.
They knew how to, you know, take care of themselves.
And lo and behold, it was our country has been very blessed because the emphasis was in the right place on a free market and freedom and judicial system that worked.
Now, today, it's very difficult with the over-regulation, the destruction of the economy, with the financial system, and it's not doing well.
But the awakening here, and more and more people joining the freedom movement, the better.
That's why our conferences, you know, really always give us a boost.
And someday it might be said that we've had a little bit of interest in and been able to present the case for liberty.
Because to me, that's important, is getting people out there.
So, if you're coming, I'm delighted if you're coming to our conference and bring a friend or whatever.
But one thing for sure, please help us spread the message of liberty.
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