Dave Rubin opens the April 7, 2026 episode by clarifying a Copal tequila audio error before addressing the Iran war, where Donald Trump's 8 p.m. deadline for a peace plan follows closed communication channels and a decapitated Iranian regime. Bill O'Reilly joins to speculate on regime change via bombing, referencing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while the rescue of a U.S. pilot highlights administration resolve. The report also covers the Artemis 2 moon mission, critiques New York Mayor Zorhan Mandani's racial equity plan and $20,000 childcare costs as drivers of wealth exodus, and contrasts these failures with Javier Milei's economic turnaround in Argentina, ultimately framing current policies as "worst ideas" threatening global stability. [Automatically generated summary]
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All right, everybody, I'm Dave Rubin.
This is the Rubin Report.
It is April 7th, 2026, and if everything goes according to plan, something's going to happen today, one way or another.
We'll find out.
I assume you've liked, commented, and subscribed on all our channels.
I appreciate that.
And I do want to clarify and clean up one internet conspiracy theory that burst forth yesterday.
I mentioned that on this Thursday at 5 o'clock, because it's 5 o'clock somewhere, including literally right here, we will be doing our next Tequila Thursdays, and I will be drinking.
From a beautiful bottle of Copal, which, as you know, every single label, every bottle has a different artwork on the label.
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And if you want to join me, you can get it shipped out today.
It'll be tough to get to you on Thursday.
A lot of you have it already, but we'll do it again next Thursday, et cetera, et cetera.
But anyway, I did the promo yesterday, and the audio cut out, apparently.
I did not know that during the program.
And then the comments were rolling in conspiracy after conspiracy.
YouTube doesn't want him talking about tequila.
Big tequila's going after him.
Blah, It turns out that there was a button, some sort of button.
I never know exactly what Connor's doing during the show.
There was a button error.
Fair enough.
That would be the best way to say it.
So it was not a conspiracy.
Nobody came for us.
It wasn't the algorithm tricking us or anything else.
But anyway, if you want to join us on Thursday, drinkcopal.com to get your bottle.
And we'll do a little happy hour.
And I should note that, you know, we're going to obviously get into the Iran thing now.
At 8 o'clock tonight, this is Trump's deadline.
If a nuke is dropped, I guess we'll do a tequila night tonight.
I have a dinner, so I'd probably be a little bit late.
So maybe around 9 o'clock, we'll roll into something.
We'll see what happens.
So, okay, let's dive in.
Obviously, today is a very big and important day as it relates to this 30 plus day war in Iran.
So let's just get you caught up on where we're at.
On Easter Sunday, Donald Trump put up this tweet Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
That's all it said.
Okay.
Started making people think.
Well then Iran came back.
We know that we've been negotiating with them.
It's been a little unclear to us, the regular generic populace, who exactly we're negotiating with, because obviously Ayatollah's gone.
Second Ayatollah is likely in a coma.
He's out.
Whether it's third tier, fourth tier guys, we just don't know exactly.
But we are negotiating with someone representing the regime.
Trump made some demands, and then Iran came back, but it didn't really come back with anything that Trump wants to work with.
This is from the Khouisi letter on X breaking.
Iran has delivered its Highly anticipated 10 point response to the U.S. 15 point peace plan.
So we had 15 points that we wanted to hit.
They came back with 10.
So already you know Trump's not going to be happy with this.
But anyway, here is what they asked for in response to Trump.
Number one, guarantee that Iran will not be attacked again.
Two, permanent end to the war, not just a ceasefire.
Three, end to Israeli strikes in Lebanon.
Four, lifting of all U.S. sanctions on Iran.
Five, end to all regional fighting against Iranian allies.
Six, in return, Iran would open the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran would impose A Hormuz fee of $2 million per ship.
Iran would split these fees with Oman.
Iran to provide rules for safe passage through Hormuz.
10.
Iran to use Hormuz fees for reconstruction instead of reparations.
President Trump's deadline is now 25 hours away.
Obviously, that was yesterday, and now we are, you know, basically half a day away.
We'll find out tonight at 8 p.m.
Anyway, Trump got that proposal back or the response to the proposal, and here's what he said.
Connor, can we real quick grab the cover of Art of the Deal?
Because people really need to understand.
So many people seem to be being punked by Trump right now or not understand how he negotiates or anything else.
As I referenced yesterday, in Art of the Deal, one of the things that he says.
In how you negotiate is sometimes you have to act a little bit crazy, right?
You don't want the people you're sitting across the table from to be able to basically look at you and know exactly what you think and what your plans are and everything else.
There has to be a bit of an element of surprise.
This is Donald Trump's, as it says, number one international bestseller, Trump, the art of the deal, right?
So you would think that more people, even people on, you know, quote unquote, our side of this, would understand a bit more when Trump says crazy things that it's all part Of the process, right?
So, Trump, this morning on Truth Social, a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.
I don't want that to happen, but it probably will.
However, now that we have complete and total regime change where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionary, revolutionarily wonderful can happen.
Who knows?
We will find out tonight one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world.
47 years of extortion, corruption, and death will finally end.
God bless the people of Iran.
Okay, so this is quite a statement to say the least.
Now, I want to focus on one word because I've seen an awful lot of people get hung up on one word.
Can we put the image up again for just a second?
The word, of course, is civilization, right?
A whole civilization will die tonight.
And I see a lot of people, of course, look, all the Democrats and the Trump deranged people, no matter what Trump says, they're going to be deranged, baked in.
I'm seeing even some people on our side.
Well, what do you mean, civilization?
Are you just going to murder the 90 plus million people in Iran?
And obviously we are not going to do that.
Might you argue at this point, 10 years after mean tweets and everything else, that maybe the word civilization wasn't great and he should have said regime there or something else, government, something?
Maybe, but I'm just so past that point and I think you should be too if you want to see what's actually happening here clearly.
So I don't know what's going to happen at 8 p.m. tonight.
It sounds like the response to our 15 point proposal is not good enough and unless they do something over the next 10 or so hours, We're going to do something crazy.
Now, will that crazy thing be to kill as many Iranian people as possible?
Does that sound right to you?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
But I don't know exactly what's going on in Trump's mind.
I don't know what's going on in Hegsef's mind or any of the advisors or anything else.
But what I do know is Trump has a heck of a way of negotiating in rather strange ways.
Not rather strange ways.
They're kind of obvious ways in a weird way.
So here is Trump talking about how they have till 8 p.m. and if they don't.
Get on board.
He'll do what everyone else said they would do, but actually wouldn't.
That's an interesting point that he's making that Iran, if you just have to remove the last month where they're decapitated, no air force, no navy, regime destroyed, mullahs gone, blah, blah, blah.
If you remove the last month, they were more powerful.
They had more ballistic missiles, which is why they've been shooting them at 13 or so countries.
They had more drones.
They had more Chinese anti aircraft stuff and all the rest of it, and were on their way to making a nuke.
We know this.
They admitted it.
They admitted it in the negotiations that took place a week before this whole war began, right?
That's undisputed.
Nobody's arguing about that, I don't think.
Any sensible person is not arguing about that.
So what Trump is saying is, and again, it's consistent with everything.
We've shown you all the videos of Trump of the 80s.
We will deal with this, as opposed to other regimes, as opposed to other, not regimes, as opposed to other American administrations, say like the Obama administration.
Which gave the Iranian regime billions of dollars for guarantees.
Don't be mean.
Here's some cash, right?
Or what did Biden and Kamala do?
Don't, don't.
And if they do, well, what are we going to do?
They know we're going to do nothing.
Now, interestingly, you know, there's been a lot of people that have been trying to drive a wedge.
I would say Tucker's at the top of this, but a lot of people have been trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Vance.
And I just don't see that wedge really occurring.
What I always tell you is you see Trump doing the bumper sticker stuff, and then JD comes in.
And kind of does a little bit more of the nuanced policy.
So, JD actually, right now, he is in Hungary.
You know, Hungary, we were there two weeks ago, is in the midst of their own massive election, which I think takes place this week, I think, right?
Yeah, the election is this week, and we will see what happens.
And if you're a freedom loving person who's into sovereign nations, you better hope that Viktor Orban wins.
But that aside, he's there making the American case for why a strong Hungary is important.
He was asked about his position on where we are at with Iran.
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.
Okay, so I think that's just kind of a perfect example of what I used to tell you about JD, right?
Like he has just like a calm way of explaining maybe in a little more granular kind of diplomatic way the things that Trump is laying out.
You're not going to do any more economic terrorism.
You're not going to threaten your neighbors anymore.
We need these waterways open.
He didn't really say it there, but I think, as I've been saying from the beginning of this thing, a lot of this has to do with the amount of oil that Iran is exporting to China, and we're trying to turn the screws on China a little bit.
By the way, what we may find out months and months from now is that a lot of this had to do with showing China, boy, you know, look what we just did to Iran.
You may not want to make a move on Taiwan, but let's leave that there.
We're getting breaking news that I think this just happened just 10 seconds before we started the show.
This is from the Global Times.
Iran has closed all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the United States.
Okay, so if that is the case we are taping this.
We are live streaming right now at 11 12 p.m. Eastern Time.
The deadline is 8 p.m.
If all channels are closed, then Donald Trump and the cabinet and Marco and everybody, there is a plan.
There is a plan.
And we will see what Donald Trump means.
And what I would say is although I don't know exactly what he's going to do any more than you do, I think you have to have faith in what he has done here.
We are removing a cancerous tumor that has been the world's exponential.
Chief exporter of terrorism that has threatened all of their neighbors, that is threatening the international energy system.
And Trump has basically had it.
Now, it's interesting.
When I say he's basically had it, there was, he did this press conference yesterday at the White House, and there was a slight shift in tone with him.
You know, he's been so, I think he's been kind of really enjoying everything lately and everything else.
But if you watch this shift here, I think you can see he's kind of just had it with the media in that during wartime, it's one thing when he's fighting with them all the time, but we're in the midst of this war and they simply can't control themselves.
We were doing more for other countries than we were doing for ourselves.
And if that makes Donald Trump crazy, then what did he say?
You're going to need more people like me.
Yeah.
And if they took out Donald Trump via the 25th Amendment, which obviously ain't going to happen, or some kind of impeachment or whatever else, or if, you know, Rashida Talib pushes him down the stairs, uh, we will all regret not having supported him more as we are in this quite literally, I would say, civilizational war.
The West is just, The West is trying to decide if it will continue.
In Western Europe, particularly, they've given up, right?
The Islamists have taken over.
They will not fight for their country.
Their armies are useless.
NATO is useless and everything else.
Trump has decided that there are a couple countries that he likes who will fight for the West and who will fight for sovereign nations.
Among them are Israel and Hungary and now Argentina.
And there are others.
He likes Japan, obviously.
The list goes on and on.
But he's trying to reorder the world.
And of course, they're trying to, you know, handicap him the entire time.
I thought this was interesting.
Someone asked him if God supports the U.S. actions right now.
unidentified
Mr. President, thank you very much.
You've said, Glory be to God in this conflict.
Do you believe that God supports the United States' actions in this conflict?
I think that's why he's a little chippy with the media right now.
There's always a chippiness.
There's always a little edge there, obviously, and he likes playing with them and mocking them and everything else.
But I don't think he enjoys having to bludgeon a regime into joining the Western world, becoming part of civilized society.
He likes wrapping up wars.
That is what he ran on more than anything else.
Now, For all the people that are saying, oh my God, this is another forever war, well, we will see what happens at 8 p.m. tonight.
But again, this is where I just think the guy deserves a little bit of leeway.
Like he has been so right about so many things for so long.
At the last hour, are we all going to be like, my God, he sent out one thing that I didn't like?
Abandon him.
It just seems crazy to me.
Here is Pete Hegseth, who, as I said during his confirmation, man, this guy was going to be an all star because not only did he have the pedigree, But he knew how to deal with the media and communicate effectively.
You've seen them all, so we can cut that a little bit early.
But the point here is, if Iran, whoever the leadership is, if they want this to end, if they want to join the, you know, quote, League of Nations, and all of those Gulf and Arab states who are now moving towards America, as opposed to towards Russia and China, you could do that.
But it sounds like, if you've cut off all communication, they've made their choice.
Now, this I thought was really interesting.
This is from Chief Nerd on X. One of America's doomsday planes was spotted circling above a Key Nebraska Air Force Base on Monday, just hours before President Trump's deadline for Iran to accept his peace deal is set to expire.
The Boeing E 4B Nightwatch, which was designed to protect national security officials and keep the government operating in a time of nuclear war, was spotted by flight trackers above the Offutt Air Force Base, home to the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Command.
The jet had taken off from Offutt at 10 17 a.m. Eastern, circling around the area at least six times before landing back at the base.
Is Trump saying, okay, well, we'll put this thing out there and that'll get them worried too because they're going to think we're going to drop a nuke?
And I don't know.
I don't know any more than you do.
And anyone that you are watching today, and I mean this, I mean everything I say on the show, but I really, really mean this.
Anyone you are watching today that is pretending they know what Trump is about to do and what's going to happen at APM is an absolute liar and propagandist and fraud.
And I simply will not do that.
I'm playing along with this with the information we've got.
Just as you are.
And we're trying to figure it out together.
That's what's going on here.
Now, to that point, here's an image of Trump's schedule today.
It's a hell of a day.
At 9 a.m., pool call time.
At 8 a.m., wait, at 8 a.m.?
Why is the 9 a.m. before the 8 a.m.?
Well, in any event, at 8 a.m., the president participates in executive time at the White House.
That's closed to the press.
4 p.m., policy meeting at the Oval Office.
Closed press.
That seems like it'll be a big one.
7 p.m., president participates in a dinner with the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of India at the White House.
Closed press.
Now, that's going to be a hell of a.
Like, that's going to be a meeting right there.
Like, the Indian guy walks in, like, you know, where's my buttered chicken?
And Trump's going, listen, dude, I've got bigger problems at the moment.
That would be, I would love to be in that meeting.
Anyway, as per what is happening right now, you know, I've been telling you over the last couple of weeks, one of the guys that I've really enjoyed listening to is Bill O'Reilly.
And actually, I'm going to interview Bill O'Reilly today at 4 p.m., and we will get some of it at least up by 5 or 6.
So it happens before the 8 p.m. deadline, so we can talk about this a bit further.
But anyway, Bill O'Reilly was on with my friend Leland Vitter on News Nation talking about what might be happening at the moment.
So that's an interesting point, and I'll discuss that further.
Look, my gut feeling is Trump going to nuke Tehran tonight?
My gut feeling is no.
Is it out of the question that Trump could maybe drop a nuke somewhere where there's not a lot of civilians in Iran to be like, guys, I told you 8 p.m., this is it.
But What I like about O'Reilly is he's trying to do what I'm trying to do constantly, which is he's admitting we don't know, even Trump doesn't know the cause and effect of everything, right?
If we go up, go there, and we blow up all these bridges and we blow up power plants and everything else, is it possible that the people will then rise up against whatever remaining vestiges of the regime there are and take over?
His point is when we did this in World War II, that people didn't turn against the United States, right?
But again, we don't know exactly what will happen.
We shall see.
As I said, I have a dinner at 8 p.m.
I can't move it.
Somebody from out of town, it's very important.
But if all hell breaks loose, Connor, will you come back here and we'll do a little something around 9 o'clock?
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the question that Trump was asked at the press conference yesterday where people were saying he's invoking God and he's, his answer was God is good, which I thought, you know, the day after Easter has a little extra meaning.
And the fact that the, that the Easter event at the White House was in some sense, Sideswiped by all of this Iran stuff, and Trump's given a speech about Iran quite literally.
Can we grab that picture?
It's kind of funny if you haven't seen it.
He's given a speech at the White House during the Easter egg hunt, talking about Iran and 8 p.m. and a deadline and massive war and bombs, and the Easter Bunny literally is right next to him.
And then, of course, the entire internet was like, oh my God, is that Marco Rubio inside the Easter Bunny?
We'll get to that in just a second.
But before that, here is CNN with some rather less than stellar analysis on how Trump invoked God, because no other politician's ever done that.
allow Scott Jennings to fix it for you.
unidentified
The president is using God as a way to justify his war, which I think goes against what you're saying.
He's literally, I mean, look at his work.
He's asked about it.
I'm not going to comment on every single thing that Trump says, but.
I mean, I think that tweet is pretty indefensible.
Have American presidents and American military leaders not invoked God in numerous communications for 250 years in this country, beginning with George Washington all the way to right now?
I mean, it's pretty common language for competing generations of this war.
Summarizing is not.
I mean, our leaders have repeatedly prayed to God for success in battle, have repeatedly prayed to God to guide American troops in battle.
What does this lady know about what the Bible teaches?
Of course, Scott is right.
Virtually every war and every message that our military leaders give to our troops in some way, one way or another invokes God or invokes some sort of biblical story or timeless tale.
And that's all that is happening here.
And also, try to think about it.
If we just removed.
God or belief or whatever you want to call all that, if you just removed all of that, so what should we just be like, what will it be replaced with, right?
Like, this is Nietzsche, right?
Like, there's a God shaped hole, and so should we just pray during wartime to nothing?
Is that what you're saying?
Anyway, here's a bit more because Scott, he just bounces.
The guy just bounces around.
They just say, Scott, could you go in the elevator, go on the other floor, beat up this guy?
Now, can you go down to level three and smack this girl around?
Can you do that?
And here's just some Maryland.
Like, loser representative.
This guy, I never heard of this guy before.
I'll probably never hear him again.
Johnny Oldswesky, just completely lying about Trump's record.
He's already made everybody mad about taking away health care and food supports and raising taxes on hardworking, lower income families and working families and giving that money to the ultra wealthy.
I would say take a look at the totality of I mean, the guy literally just made it up.
Taking away healthcare.
Who doesn't have healthcare right now that had healthcare before Trump?
Trump is trying to reform the healthcare system, that is true.
And the Democrats, their bumper sticker to answer everything is Medicare for all, which it doesn't mean anyone's getting good coverage, it just makes them feel good that they said it.
And then, as Scott points out, who's he raised taxes on?
What middle or lower class person has had their taxes raised?
Nobody.
And the guy had no, absolutely no answer to that.
Now, interestingly, this is very interesting.
You know this guy, Harry Anton, this little dorky guy with the numbers, and he's got the TV over there on CNN.
But he does present some interesting numbers that I think most people don't realize.
And this is why, for the last few months, when there's been this infighting on the right, I'm trying to be above it and I'm trying to bring people together to the best of my ability.
I'm sure I fall short at that at times.
Because actually, the left has gone so bananas, the Democrats are so out of control that there is reason to believe the Republicans will be okay during the midterms.
And we need to keep showing that to people.
Look at these numbers.
I mean, this is not what CNN wants to be showing people.
Net favorability, party ahead at this point, midterm of years with the GOP president.
In 2018, Dems were up by 12.
In 2006, on net favorability, which party you like more, Dems were ahead by 18.
Republicans are actually ahead on net favorability at this point by five points.
So Democrats are just simply put running behind their previous benchmarks, and they need to be running well ahead of them if they want to take back the United States Senate.
So in 2006, when George W. Bush was president, the Democrats had a huge lead.
Right?
Because he's the Republican president, Democrats midterms.
Then the exact same thing is happening basically, or happened basically, when Trump was president, 45, the first time around.
Democrats had a huge lead.
But something different is happening this time.
So there's probably a confluence of a few things.
The Democrats have gone completely insane.
Most people realize that.
Most people are not sort of the online podcast to stand lunatics and are trying to fight with everybody.
Most people generally think America's good.
And that the Republicans are significantly better on the important issues than the Democrats.
So let's have a little faith right now.
Let's have a little faith, hopefully, that 8 p.m. comes and goes tonight and whatever the result of that is gets us to a conclusion to this war in a more peaceful world.
Let's see as these trade deals keep coming, America's 250, everything else.
But of course, Trump is just still, despite the numbers being in his favor, despite America exerting its influence again and everything else, the mainstream media just still.
Time and time again.
They just want to handicap him no matter what they can do.
Here's a New York Times reporter going after him.
unidentified
Question.
Deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure violate the Geneva Conventions and international law.
Yeah, I mean, look, first off, the New York Times, which has lied about everything forever and anonymous sources and hiding Biden laptop story and Russia, Russia, Russia and lying about COVID.
And we could do this all day long.
That's one version, right, that the New York Times lies.
But also then the reporter yelling, but international law, which at the end of the day doesn't mean anything.
It just doesn't mean anything.
You can say it violated international law.
We are governed by the laws of the United States of America.
And Donald Trump swore to protect the Constitution of the United States of America, right?
That's his job.
It has nothing to do with international law.
Now, interestingly, this douche from the New York Times every time Iran shoots a rocket at Israel, it is designed to kill as many people as possible.
They're shooting cluster bombs that explode before they land, so it creates as much shrapnel as possible.
They're firing, obviously, at hospitals.
And everything they aim is at civilian infrastructure, right?
The New York Times doesn't care about that.
So you're only concerned.
It's a very strange thing.
You guys all seem to want Western societies to be held to some level of standard of imaginary international law, and everyone else should be held to no standard.
And they've done this forever with Israel, and now they're applying it to the United States.
Now, should we be better than our enemies?
Absolutely.
Donald Trump right there says, I don't want to do this.
When they just say the right thing and they never have the balls to do the right thing.
So, Kamala, don't.
So, what do you really, and Joe Biden, don't.
He doesn't even know what he was saying, right?
They didn't even know, don't.
Do you want lunch?
Don't.
It doesn't matter, right?
But the point is, the media loves that sort of thing.
Well, they think, my God, they must be very strong.
They said, don't.
Donald Trump does.
That's the difference.
He's a builder.
He does things.
They're lifelong politicians who give you lip service while the world gets worse.
Donald Trump is a businessman and a builder who's trying to fix things and telling you in the most honest terms with a long track record how and why he is going to do it.
Let's put a pin in that for a moment.
And then on the other side, we're going to talk a bit more about this rescued pilot out of Iran, which is such a freaking incredible story.
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So, the story of this pilot who got shot down over Iran is just getting more and more interesting.
And we're finding out that we just fundamentally have a different administration that we've had in the past.
No troop will be left behind.
And we will almost literally move mountains to get our guys back.
He scaled, I'm told, the cliffs of this mountain range in the Zagros Mountains.
He hiked to an elevated ridge.
Despite having punched out of that plane, his legs somewhat injured, he hiked up about 7,000 feet high away from the wreckage and eventually used an encrypted radio and beacon signal to share his location.
When he was finally able to activate his emergency transponder, His first message was simple and it was powerful.
He sent a message God is good.
In that moment of isolation and danger, his faith and fighting spirit shone through.
You see, shot down on a Friday, Good Friday, hidden in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday, and rescued on Sunday, flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday.
When American airmen were down behind enemy lines, our forces and our president did not hesitate.
Supported by elite air crews and intelligence professionals, move swiftly and decisively into treacherous mountain terrain under the constant threat of Iranian forces closing in.
If this happens again, if there's some other incident, you know, there was a friendly fire incident at the beginning of the war where Kuwait anti aircraft missiles shot down two of our planes and our pilots had to be rescued over there.
Like, we are not going to leave anybody behind.
And Trump is also making it very clear, and Hegza kind of puts an exclamation point on it, that like the buck stops with somebody.
This guy's in charge.
Here's how we're going to do things.
And that's in stark contrast to what we've become accustomed to in America.
You may remember Hillary Clinton during the Benghazi hearings.
It does matter because you have to have the proper intelligence on the ground to know why people are doing things so that you maybe can prevent our embassies from being burned down and having our ambassador killed.
Etc., etc.
Here's Fox News' Jen Griffin a bit more on how complicated this mission was to get him out.
The CIA first launched a deception campaign, spreading word inside Iran that U.S. forces had already found him and were moving him on the ground for exfiltration out of the country by sea.
While the Iranians were confused and uncertain of what was happening, the agency used its unique, exquisite capabilities to search for and find the American airman.
I've spoken to many people involved in the operation.
And this was described to me as finding a needle in a haystack.
The Air Force colonel was found hiding inside a mountain crevice.
So look, at the end of the day, the question as it relates to this, and I can't wait till we have a press conference with this guy and find out more and everything else.
And as I said, the movie's coming for sure.
But look, if Biden or Kabbalah Harris was president right now, Iran would be getting stronger.
And in essence, that would mean America would be getting weaker.
We know that.
That's a fact.
But imagine if a plane, for whatever reason, got shot down in enemy territory while Biden or Kamala Harris was president.
Do you think they would have the balls, the tenacity, the fortitude to do what's right, to create the conditions so that our incredible special elite forces guys can go in there and rescue, that we would threaten the enemy regimes in a way that would make sure that we would get our guys back or anything else?
Or would they just say don't?
Or would they just say what difference does it make?
I think the answer is fairly obvious.
Let's get off this planet for just a moment because there is something also absolutely incredible going on which is that our Artemis 2 mission has now passed the far side of the moon which we have not done ever before.
This is rather extraordinary.
It's happening basically as we speak.
Here's some video.
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Kristen, in mission control all of your flight controllers and your flight director have flipped their Artemis 2 patches around.
I mean, I know you can become cynical, but like that image of the moon, how freaking cool.
We'll show you another image in a second.
But for those of you, I drew a map for those that might be confused as to what's happening here.
This is the Earth, and we went from the Earth, and you see, we went all the way around, and then we're flipping, so now we see the dark side of the moon over here, and now we are on the way back.
Here is the first photo, this was posted this morning, of the dark side of the moon.
I mean, that is like you give that guy a Pulitzer.
I don't think astronauts care for a Pulitzer, but pretty great.
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 quite like what you're doing in a manned spacecraft.
It's really special.
You've all made this day possible and you've really inspired Inspired the entire world.
So, you get how cool and quite literally civilizationally changing this is?
We have now sent humans further into space than ever before.
We've sent probes and ships into space that are on the way to Mars and beyond and everything else, and satellites and telescopes and all that.
But these are human beings that now have gone around the moon and are on the way back.
And you know that once this comes back successfully, there will be all sorts of discussions.
Well, what is next?
And Elon mentioned a few weeks ago.
That actually, now he's thinking that we should be building on the moon, that it'll be sort of like a halfway stop on our way to get other places.
So imagine if we could use the moon as a space station, in essence.
We send robots there, we send 3D printers there, we start building stuff on the moon so that we can use that to then continue our adventure into interstellar travel.
Less than spectacular things, we're going to go to New York City.
So, if you think that, like, you know, the celestial imagery and the wondrous, never ending universe and galaxy is spectacular, we'll do the reverse, which is New York City, which has become just a place of all of the worst ideas run by the worst people.
Zorhan Mandani, the communist slash Islamist who's running the place, he gave this press conference yesterday, and it was almost like this, this almost felt like AI because it is so obvious this is going to happen that.
I don't know how you ding dongs didn't believe that it was going to happen, but here he is saying that the wealthy still have to pay more because the mid level wealthy people, they're getting the hell out of there, so he's going to have to take from you guys and then you'll get out too, and well, you get how this all works out.
Amidst being in the wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we already see an exodus of working and middle class New Yorkers.
So I don't have a hesitation in asking those who make the most amount of money in the city or the most profits in the city to pay a little bit more so that everyone can actually stay in this city.
Also, something not just about justice or the ability for working class people to live here.
It is also actually about ensuring that corporations can continue to attract the top talent to this city.
Because in a city where childcare costs more than $20,000 a year, I've heard from corporate leaders about how difficult it is for them to attract individuals who would work at their companies but want to raise a family.
You are taxing these people to the nth degree, making The people who produce leave, thus leaving the tax burden on the next layer of people, and then you're complaining about that.
It's also interesting how he uses the word asking.
I'm asking those who can afford it to pay more.
But you're not really asking, you're demanding.
If taxes were just about asking, well, could you just pay a little bit more?
Well, then it would be interesting to see what people pay.
But taxes are not voluntary, they are forced upon you, right?
If you don't pay them, you will end up in jail.
So you have done this.
Also, as per $20,000 for childcare, well, The question really is, does that all fall on the state and city then to provide?
Or is it that families should plan accordingly?
And maybe you should have grandma around or Nona or whoever it is.
And perhaps you want to create the economic conditions of low taxes and low regulations so there's more fluidity in the system, so there's more competition.
That lowers the cost of everything, but I know that would be a bit much for you.
Here he is talking about his racial equity plan because, you know, racism is back, baby.
And while today's true cost of living measure confirms that the affordability crisis touches every corner of our city, we know that these effects are not applied evenly.
So often it is black and brown New Yorkers who are hit the hardest.
This preliminary racial equity plan is the first step in developing a whole of government approach to tackling that reality.
It is a plan that lays out these first steps to solve decades of neglect and discrimination.
And it places the work of 45 city agencies within a singular framework.
I'm going to tell you one more time, if you live in New York City and you are sane, leave.
It is going to keep getting worse, and it is going to get worse and worse, and it is going to get worse in ways that we almost cannot imagine.
A racial equity plan to bring up black and brown people, well, what will you have to do?
It's very hard to bring people up.
The only way you can bring people up, actually, is to make everything equal, and then people have to have some skin in the game and fight and work hard and make some things happen.
So they don't really mean bring people up.
What they mean is bring people down.
And then you will have equity, and it will suck for everybody.
And by the way, everyone will be a little more racist too, because the people who got brought down, those Asians and whites, they're going to be pretty pissed at those people who, in essence, think they moved up, but they actually just stayed while they brought these people down.
And all of the people who are producing are fleeing and, of course, moving to Florida.
And Florida will be the financial capital of the world, it will be the cultural capital of the world, it will be safe and clean and prosperous and have wonderful infrastructure and all of those things.
But it's really incredible a racial equity plan.
You know, it's funny when I had Piers Morgan in here a few months ago and I said to him, Piers, do you think your book title, Woke is Dead, is a little premature?
And he said no.
And I was like, I have to tell you, I think it's morphing, man.
Well, New York City now has a racial equity plan.
Oh, and here's New York City's chief equity officer, Athua Adamenza.
This plan was born during a defining moment in our city's history when New Yorkers were in the streets in the midst of a global pandemic, calling for justice, demanding accountability, and bearing witness to brutality unfolding on our streets and on our screens.
In that moment, our city was asked to reckon with the deep systemic inequities that have long shaped life here and to do better.
New Yorkers across all five boroughs answered that call.
Their voices, their advocacy, and their persistence are what brought us to this moment.
The release of the preliminary citywide racial equity plan is a reflection of that collective mandate.
It is not just a document, it is a commitment a commitment to confront institutional and systemic racism within our city and to begin the work of dismantling.
They got their studies and they're going to do the work.
Do you get what she's doing there?
She's telling you that BLM was good.
That remember during COVID when they had us masked up and at home and all that stuff?
If you went out on the streets and suddenly you didn't have to wear a mask because that meant that somehow the virus couldn't get in you if you were protesting the thing of the day.
But she's saying we had all of that.
That happened for years.
And now what are the fruits of that?
Well, the fruits of that are our equity programs.
I'm trying to think, do you guys have any?
You have a friend that still lives in New York City.
I really love that phrase that Malay just said there.
They're enemies of numbers.
They don't like reality.
Right?
They like saying things, but they don't like doing things.
Don't.
Oh, you did?
Whoops.
Right?
Oh, you killed our ambassador in Benghazi?
It doesn't matter.
Why'd we do it?
Who cares?
All of their policy programs.
Do you think that the racial equity program in New York City is going to make things better now?
Do you think that quote unquote asking the remaining people with some cash for more of their cash is going to fix anything?
They don't like reality.
It does become a disease of the soul.
When you think of all the Karens, These angry, hysterical people that are out there that are miserable.
They've made all of this their life.
And that is why they are hysterical.
And I have to say, you know, years ago now, it feels like another life for me, but, you know, eight, nine years ago, ten years ago, whatever it was, no, it was ten plus years ago, when I was leaving the left, one of the main things that I was always worried about was that I thought Republicans were mean and they only cared about money and war and they're just cruel and everything else.
And what I have consistently found over the years, almost without exception, Is that right leaning people, and it probably has a little something to do with faith, right leaning people are kinder, more generous of spirit and, and of time, and they understand how the world works, and they don't demand that everything bow to them at the exact same time, and that is what we are up against right now.