Rubin Report - Dave Rubin - Iran Begs Trump to Stop After His Unexpected Shock Move Corners Them
Aired: 2026-04-14
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[00:02:26]  Basically, as I said yesterday, we're suddenly back in a period where it's like multiple things happening at once.
[00:02:32]  Sometimes the focus is just on one thing.
[00:02:34]  We kind of had that with the war for a while, but now there's just a series of big political things happening.
[00:02:38]  Obviously, we're going to start with some more stuff and some of the negotiations.
[00:02:42]  Eric Swalwell, a man who once farted on MSNBC with.
[00:02:46]  Chris Matthews.
[00:02:47]  He has now stepped down from Congress, not only not running for governor of Cali anymore, but now stepped down from Congress.
[00:02:53]  Now, this Republican Gonzalez, he's out too because he banged a staffer.
[00:02:56]  We'll go with some more Democrat craziness and we'll end with a really nice message about why you've got to fight.
[00:03:02]  And we just, for whatever differences we've got, if you are ballpark sane, if you are roughly not a complete freaking lunatic, I want to bring you back into the fold and we've got to stop the crazy people come November.
[00:03:14]  But all right, let's start.
[00:03:15]  We'll get you caught up with Iran.
[00:03:17]  Here we go.
[00:03:17]  This from The New York Times.
[00:03:20]  Interesting that we're using them as a source, but we do do that every now and again because I think it shows that we're not just going to right wing sources, and they were, I think, fairly factual here.
[00:03:30]  New York Times Iran proposes suspending nuclear activity for up to five years.
[00:03:34]  Vice President JD Vance sought a 20 year suspension in weekend negotiations, which ended without an agreement a day before the U.S. military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz began.
[00:03:45]  President Trump rejected the Iranian offer.
[00:03:47]  The United States and Iran traded proposals for a suspension of Iranian nuclear activity.
[00:03:51]  Activities during weekend negotiations in Pakistan, but remain far apart on the length of any agreement, according to Iranian and U.S. officials.
[00:03:59]  Iran said Monday that it could suspend uranium enrichment for up to five years, an offer the Trump administration rejected, insisting on 20 years, according to two senior Iranian officials and one U.S. official.
[00:04:10]  Still, the discussions suggested there may be a path to a peace deal, even as the U.S. military began its blockade of Iranian ports on Monday, threatening a nearly week old ceasefire.
[00:04:21]  To get you guys fully caught up here, as you know, JD went to Pakistan, met with the Pakistani Prime Minister.
[00:04:27]  Again, it's a little unclear to me what he has to do with any of this, but I guess he's thought of, or Pakistan is thought of as a little friendlier to Iran, let's say, so that was somewhat neutral territory.
[00:04:37]  There was the 15-point plan we wanted, there was a 10-point plan they wanted, they couldn't get a lot of it to match up, but they seemingly, in terms of messaging right now, it's all being whittled down to the nuclear stuff.
[00:04:46]  Now, interestingly, on the nuclear stuff, uh, first off, we were being told for years that they weren't rushing to get a bomb, they didn't have the material, There was a fatwa that said that they weren't going to go for it.
[00:04:57]  And now they're basically just playing a delay game, like, we'll give you five years.
[00:05:01]  Trump knows he has all the cards here, right?
[00:05:04]  The Iranians have no cards.
[00:05:06]  They quite literally have nothing.
[00:05:08]  And when I say that, I mean it literally because we'll talk about the blockade in a second, but their country is in shambles.
[00:05:14]  The regime is hanging on by a thread.
[00:05:16]  They basically have no military.
[00:05:18]  And with this blockade that's incoming right now that started yesterday morning, actually, they can't even make money on their one real precious resource, which, of course, Is oil.
[00:05:29]  So it's interesting though.
[00:05:30]  So we want a 20 year moratorium, let's say, or not, let's say, that's the fact, and they want five years.
[00:05:35]  But you know, if you think about it, Trump's only got two and a half more years.
[00:05:38]  If we get a Democrat in there, you know, one of these progressive lunatics, left wing Marxist whack jobs, like why wouldn't they just basically wink to the Iranians and be like, do whatever you want?
[00:05:50]  So Trump needs, for the long term health of the world, if you do not want an apocalyptic radical Islamist regime to have nuclear weapons when they're Driving force is death to America, well, then guaranteeing more than five years might be something important because, and again, the Democrats could just rip it up in three and a half years.
[00:06:11]  That's why all these paper is only worth what it's written on.
[00:06:14]  You know what I mean?
[00:06:15]  You get it.
[00:06:17]  Here's Jesse Waters explaining a bit more about the blockade that is now in place and how Trump is now exerting.
[00:06:23]  We exerted military pressure, right?
[00:06:25]  Destroy their Navy, destroy their Air Force, rocket launchers, drones, et cetera.
[00:06:30]  Now we're going to an economic blockade.
[00:06:33]  which if they're just sitting on the oil and they can't export it, they don't get money for it, that could cause a problem.
[00:06:39]  Take a look.
[00:06:40]  Threatened bridge and power plant day.
[00:06:42]  China called Iran and told them to cry uncle.
[00:06:45]  Now the Iranian oil blockade is probably the knockout punch.
[00:06:48]  The Iranians are trying to outlast us.
[00:06:51]  The longer the war goes on, the longer their regime can hold off a revolution.
[00:06:55]  But their economy is experiencing a crippling depression.
[00:06:59]  This blockade's costing the regime almost $400 million a day.
[00:07:04]  That's $13 billion a month.
[00:07:07]  Plus, the Iranians can only store oil for about two weeks before they have to start shutting off wells.
[00:07:13]  The Iranians can't outlast us.
[00:07:15]  The world's turning to us for energy.
[00:07:17]  Over 120 empty oil tankers are on their way to the Gulf of America.
[00:07:23]  So you get what's happening here?
[00:07:24]  I mean, we covered this yesterday.
[00:07:26]  Not only because of this blockade are more countries coming to America for oil, and again, let's not forget, and these things are obviously connected, why did we take out Maduro and get access to Venezuelan oil on top?
[00:07:38]  Of the fact that we're already drilling already.
[00:07:40]  Like, there was a bigger plan.
[00:07:42]  We will find one day, whether it's five years from now, 10 years from now, or whatever, there's going to be a story on how this plan was laid out and how there was a roadmap and all of those things.
[00:07:51]  But okay, so we're selling more oil now.
[00:07:54]  Good.
[00:07:55]  Iran can't lose $13 billion a month, right?
[00:08:00]  No country can lose that kind of money.
[00:08:02]  They literally don't want to shut off their oil, right?
[00:08:06]  They don't want to shut off the machinery and they can't just sit on it forever.
[00:08:10]  It's useless.
[00:08:11]  To them, right?
[00:08:12]  They have to export it.
[00:08:13]  And who gets 80% of the oil that they export?
[00:08:17]  It's China.
[00:08:18]  So China's suddenly going, we get an awful lot of oil from them.
[00:08:21]  The Americans have blockaded us.
[00:08:23]  We don't want to be in a military confrontation with the Americans because this Trump guy, he's pretty nuts.
[00:08:27]  Look what happened over the last 35 days.
[00:08:29]  And he was talking about civilizational ruin and he dropped the F bomb on Easter.
[00:08:33]  This guy's wacky.
[00:08:34]  So Trump, I know a certain set of people don't want you to see it, but it seems to me that Trump has played this game.
[00:08:41]  Perfectly, and here he is saying that if Iran doesn't come around, well, we'll just go at it again.
[00:08:47]  But Iran wants to be a nuclear nation so they can exterminate the world.
[00:08:54]  Not going to happen.
[00:09:01]  Yeah, I don't want to comment on that, but it won't be pleasant for them.
[00:09:06]  Let me put it that way.
[00:09:08]  You can't let a country blackmail or extort.
[00:09:13]  The world, because that's what they're doing.
[00:09:15]  They're really blackmailing the world.
[00:09:16]  We're not going to let that happen.
[00:09:17]  Guys, try to imagine if we had Joe Biden as president right now.
[00:09:22]  Try to imagine if we had Kamala Harris, pick a Democrat, or actually even pick a just general run of the mill Republican, we would be doing all of the same wrong things.
[00:09:33]  We'd be issuing statements don't, please don't, I studied maps, blah, blah, blah.
[00:09:40]  And Iran would be getting closer and closer to the bomb.
[00:09:43]  So Trump, who has been ideologically ridiculously consistent on this for 40 plus years, is now saying you guys will negotiate with us or blockade stays.
[00:09:54]  You're screwed with your oil.
[00:09:55]  China, you're screwed.
[00:09:57]  More people will get oil from us.
[00:10:00]  And Suck it, basically.
[00:10:03]  That's pretty much what he's saying.
[00:10:04]  Geraldo Rivera, who is, I don't know that I've ever played a clip of Geraldo on this show, but Geraldo was huge in the 80s, and then he was on Fox for a while and whatever.
[00:10:12]  Politically, he's kind of all over the map.
[00:10:14]  He's one of these guys that goes each way.
[00:10:16]  I thought this clip was interesting, though.
[00:10:18]  He's on News Nation here, talking about how what Trump has pulled off here actually is kind of brilliant if you're willing to see it.
[00:10:25]  Take a look.
[00:10:26]  I think the president is not getting enough credit, Connell.
[00:10:29]  I think that this is an audacious, Daring, creative, ballsy move by Trump.
[00:10:36]  I would not have thought of it.
[00:10:38]  Here it is.
[00:10:39]  If you have a non Iranian port and your vessel is going from a non Iranian port anywhere else, the vessel can transit the strait or come in to load up.
[00:10:53]  If you're using an Iranian port, though, you are blockaded, he has flipped the script.
[00:10:58]  Seems to me that in the last 48 hours, momentum, And the upper hand has shifted from the Ayatollahs to the men you're looking at right now.
[00:11:08]  Okay.
[00:11:09]  Yeah, I think that is completely right.
[00:11:11]  By basically using our leverage and saying, all right, you guys don't want to come to the negotiating table or you don't want to match our deal or you've got 10 points, we've got 15, or you still want the nukes, all the stuff.
[00:11:24]  Trump was like, all right, well, what else can we do while we're not blowing stuff up?
[00:11:28]  We can take control of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:11:30]  And again, it doesn't really affect American energy, yes.
[00:11:33]  Prices are up a little bit for oil, about 40 cents a gallon.
[00:11:37]  That is true.
[00:11:38]  And, you know, also interestingly, if you remember when Trump came in and if you remember early on with Elon and Doge, what was one of the things that Elon kept saying over and over related to Doge, meaning they're going to have to cut some budgets?
[00:11:50]  He said, there's going to be a little bit of pain before we get to the better side of things.
[00:11:54]  And to me, that's what we're experiencing right now.
[00:11:56]  Like, is gas up a little bit?
[00:11:58]  It is up a little bit.
[00:11:59]  And is that fun?
[00:12:00]  So if it's up 40 cents a gallon and you have a 15 gallon tank, you can do the math.
[00:12:03]  Like, people don't want to pay those extra dollars.
[00:12:05]  I understand that.
[00:12:06]  But is it worth a little bit of pain temporarily while we actually figure out what the future of oil transport will be?
[00:12:16]  And again, now we have Venezuela and we're drilling again, and we take out an apocalyptic regime that chants death to America and wants nukes.
[00:12:24]  Is that a price worth paying?
[00:12:26]  It seems to me that it is.
[00:12:28]  Trump clearly thinks that it is.
[00:12:29]  And interestingly, this clip is really interesting.
[00:12:33]  JD Vance, who many people said was, you know, he's sort of against all of this, he's not in line with Trump on this.
[00:12:39]  I think he is.
[00:12:40]  Played this perfectly the entire time.
[00:12:42]  He has consistently said, I'm here to discuss things with the president, and ultimately he'll make the decisions, and I'm going to back him up.
[00:12:48]  I think that that's what a vice president should do.
[00:12:50]  And you know, Trump doesn't punish people for telling them what they think, right?
[00:12:55]  If JD goes in there and says, you know, I'm not completely aligned with you on this, Trump likes hearing that.
[00:12:59]  Like, that's so freaking obvious.
[00:13:01]  If you think about the meetings at the Oval Office that they had about this, and let's say you've got top generals in there, and you've got Rubio and Vance and all these guys, you think Trump is punishing anyone for saying, you know, I look at it a different way, which JD probably was doing quite a bit.
[00:13:13]  I don't think so.
[00:13:15]  So JD went to Pakistan.
[00:13:16]  It didn't work out.
[00:13:17]  JD's actually had a rough week because he went to Pakistan.
[00:13:19]  It didn't work out.
[00:13:20]  The day before Pakistan, he was in Hungary campaigning for Orban.
[00:13:24]  That didn't work out.
[00:13:24]  So he's had a bit of a rough week.
[00:13:26]  But here he is telling Brett Baer that whatever skepticism he had around this entire thing, he completely agrees with Trump right now.
[00:13:32]  And Iran's just not going to get a nuke.
[00:13:35]  It's being reported that you had real skepticism about this at the beginning and that you expressed that to the president.
[00:13:43]  Is that true?
[00:13:44]  Well, Brett, you know, I give my advice to the president of the United States, and we all do.
[00:13:48]  And I expect that when I give advice to the president of the United States, that it's going to be private because the president should rely on his senior advisors without them then running to the media.
[00:13:58]  What I will say, Brett, is that I 100% agree with the president on the fact that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon.
[00:14:03]  I've seen that just in the negotiation that we've had over the last couple of days.
[00:14:08]  That these are tough negotiators, but they're fundamentally the kinds of people where them having a nuclear weapon would impose terrible costs on the entire world.
[00:14:17]  If they're willing to engage in economic terrorism on the entire world, what would it mean?
[00:14:23]  What leverage would they have if they had a nuclear bomb in Tehran?
[00:14:26]  That's not an outcome that is acceptable to us or really should be acceptable to anybody.
[00:14:32]  Once again, Trump really good at bumper sticker stuff, and I think JD is really good at granular stuff, and that's why this works, even if the negotiations themselves in Pakistan for those 48 hours didn't.
[00:14:43]  Turn out perfectly exactly.
[00:14:45]  Now we're on to another phase of it.
[00:14:46]  But everything he said there is true.
[00:14:48]  First off, yeah, he's obviously a little skeptical of this stuff.
[00:14:51]  He made it clear that he's allowed to voice his opinion to the president.
[00:14:54]  I like that he said, and you know, I'm going to keep some of that stuff private.
[00:14:57]  And he should be allowed, the vice president and the president and the generals should be allowed to discuss things privately and air differences and everything without everything leaking to the media.
[00:15:06]  And that's been pretty solid, so that's all good.
[00:15:08]  But at the end, where are we at right now?
[00:15:11]  Well, at the end, he is saying, I'm completely in line with Trump.
[00:15:14]  These guys will not get a nuke.
[00:15:16]  And right now, they're offering the five years.
[00:15:17]  We want the 20.
[00:15:18]  And that's just simply not going to work.
[00:15:20]  So we've got this blockade.

=== Trump Leads America Again (04:45) ===

[00:15:21]  I think that is pretty good.
[00:15:23]  Now, I want to connect this for just a moment away from the war specifically to sort of the American domestic part of this, which is that there have been a whole bunch of.
[00:15:33]  Look, the left is nuts.
[00:15:34]  You all get it.
[00:15:34]  The left is nuts.
[00:15:36]  They hate freedom.
[00:15:37]  They hate capitalism.
[00:15:38]  They hate individual rights.
[00:15:39]  They don't like our founding.
[00:15:41]  And that's almost across the board.
[00:15:43]  And there's virtually nobody, yes, Fetterman and Marr, there's virtually nobody else that is defending America on the left at any time.
[00:15:49]  At any level whatsoever.
[00:15:51]  If you got them, put them in the comments section and we'll try to put them on the show.
[00:15:54]  And it can't just be your aunt.
[00:15:56]  Yes, I get it.
[00:15:56]  You have an aunt who's nice and she's a Democrat and okay, fine.
[00:16:00]  But the other part of this, of course, is that there's been this portion of people on the right, mostly led by Tucker Carlson, attacking Trump across the board, basically calling him the Antichrist and Megyn Kelly getting in on it and Candace, all of these people who have turned on Trump saying he's not in charge.
[00:16:18]  Alex Jones, he has dementia.
[00:16:19]  Like all of these awful things.
[00:16:20]  And it's like, meanwhile, Trump is reordering the world right now.
[00:16:24]  Trump is showing America can lead again.
[00:16:27]  We are literally, we went around the moon last week and people just move on.
[00:16:31]  And it's like, forget it.
[00:16:32]  We can't.
[00:16:32]  And it's like, if we could focus on doing good things, and sometimes there's some pain points to do good things, then the future could be absolutely incredible.
[00:16:41]  So now I want to show you this video of Ben Shapiro talking about how there are sort of two new parties developing in America right now one is American exceptionalism and one is grievance.
[00:16:51]  All righty, folks.
[00:16:52]  Well, America is breaking down into two parties, not the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, two new parties, the American Exceptionalists and the Bipartisan Grievance Party.
[00:17:03]  The American Exceptionalists believe in American exceptionalism, that America is awesome, that we have historically been awesome, and that we will be awesome again if we do the hard things that we must do.
[00:17:13]  The Grievance Party members believe America is not awesome, was never awesome, and will only be awesome if we fundamentally rewrite the American bargain and also retreat from the world for our great sins.
[00:17:23]  That battle between the American exceptionalists and the Grievance Party, left and right, will define our future as Americans.
[00:17:29]  And right now, that battle is being fought over Iran.
[00:17:33]  I think that's right.
[00:17:35]  It's very much in line with a version that I'm always talking about here, where there's a reason that I try to end the show always on a positive note, because we can all get lost in the swamp of politics and the fighting and the ins and outs and All of that.
[00:17:49]  We can do that all the time.
[00:17:50]  And we can also all have principled agreements on taxes and abortion and foreign policy and everything else.
[00:17:57]  But there is an increasing set of people that seem to think the entire experiment is bad.
[00:18:03]  I already illustrated that on the left, right?
[00:18:05]  They don't like anything about America.
[00:18:06]  And now, if you listen to Tucker Carlson, he's talking about how the day of American hegemony is over and we're going to have to share power with China.
[00:18:13]  And it's like, no, I don't think so.
[00:18:15]  And why is it that you can't do a show that is positive about America?
[00:18:19]  Right?
[00:18:20]  Is what you're trying to do?
[00:18:21]  Like, so what?
[00:18:22]  You're pissed about Trump over Iran.
[00:18:24]  That's just fine.
[00:18:25]  But is what your desired outcome is that Trump and the Republicans will lose the midterms and you'll usher in communism because you're upset about what now is a 35 day war that the fighting has temporarily stopped and we are working through what the next phase of this will be?
[00:18:43]  So there's a certain set of people that I think that it's most of us.
[00:18:48]  This is what it is, guys.
[00:18:49]  It's most of us.
[00:18:50]  80% of Americans are live and let live.
[00:18:53]  You don't really care what people are doing privately as long as it's not leaking into your life.
[00:18:58]  You want to keep what's more of yours.
[00:19:00]  You want law and order.
[00:19:01]  You want the basic stuff, and you think that this place is pretty good and you understand why your ancestors came here.
[00:19:06]  And then there's this other set of hysterical people who take up a tremendous amount of oxygen because they're apoplectic and over the top over everything, and they want to destroy the whole damn thing.
[00:19:15]  And in some sense, that actually is what the two parties are.
[00:19:18]  Yes, we have Republican and Democrat, but there's an ideological separation that I think is really happening here.
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=== Middle East War Analysis (12:01) ===

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[00:20:22]  All right, so let's jump back to the Middle East for a second because one of the other sticking points when the original ceasefire was announced again, there were the 15 points we wanted, the 10 points they wanted, some of it was lost in translation, literally.
[00:20:34]  But one of the things that really got Everybody hung up was whether Lebanon was included in this because Iran has a terrorist group that has killed dozens and dozens, hundreds actually, of Americans.
[00:20:46]  If you go back to the barrack bombings in I think '82, Hezbollah, which runs Lebanon.
[00:20:51]  So Lebanon has a government, the Lebanese government, but it's really run by an Iranian proxy that has been launching rockets into Israel literally for years.
[00:21:02]  There have been many wars fought over it.
[00:21:05]  And I think it's around 300,000 Israelis who live in the north have been.
[00:21:09]  Place since October 7th, because when that happened, which was down in the south, Gaza, they decided in the north they're going to light this thing on fire and people can't just live.
[00:21:18]  You know, you can't just live when there's rockets falling all over your house and everything else.
[00:21:21]  Well, anyway, and this is completely credit to Trump the Israelis and the Lebanese, not Hezbollah, who the Lebanese people do not like anymore, they have wrecked havoc on their country.
[00:21:35]  Well, the Israelis and the Lebanese are talking directly right now, and it's a result of what.
[00:21:41]  Trump did here.
[00:21:42]  Listen to this from the New York Times again.
[00:21:44]  In rare direct talks, Israeli and Lebanese officials seek a way forward.
[00:21:48]  The talks set for Tuesday in Washington were not expected to produce an immediate breakthrough in the war between Hezbollah and Israel.
[00:21:56]  With Israel's bombardment of Lebanon and widened ground invasion leaving the ceasefire with Iran on shaky ground, Israeli and Lebanese officials were expected to hold rare talks on Tuesday in Washington to try to find a way forward.
[00:22:07]  The meeting would be the first indirect in person talks in decades between Israel and Lebanon, which do not have diplomatic relations.
[00:22:14]  Israel's and Lebanon's ambassadors to Washington were expected to participate.
[00:22:18]  Secretary of State Marco Rubio will also take part, according to the State Department.
[00:22:23]  Leave the statement up there for a second, because it's interesting, even, you know, I'm trying to use the New York Times a little bit today because I think it's important if we use sources on the left and everything else.
[00:22:31]  But note the way they frame this.
[00:22:32]  With Israel's bombardment of Lebanon and widened ground invasion, leaving the ceasefire with Iran on shaky ground, Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel nonstop for almost three years.
[00:22:43]  So, yes, they are responding to that.
[00:22:46]  The day before October 7th, Israel was not.
[00:22:49]  In there one inch, right?
[00:22:51]  It's the same thing as October 7th.
[00:22:52]  There was not one pesky Jew in Gaza before them.
[00:22:54]  But anyway, the point of all this is the Lebanese now see an opportunity to get their country back.
[00:23:00]  Their country has not been taken from them by the Israelis.
[00:23:03]  Their country has been taken from them by a Shiite terrorist organization known as Hezbollah.
[00:23:08]  And how much has it been taken from them?
[00:23:10]  We checked the numbers this morning.
[00:23:12]  In 1980, Christians were about 54% of the Lebanese population.
[00:23:19]  Muslims were about 45%.
[00:23:21]  In 2023, Christians are down to 30%.
[00:23:24]  Muslims are up to 70%.
[00:23:26]  So Lebanon was a Christian country in the Middle East.
[00:23:30]  People thought that Beirut would be the Paris of the Middle East.
[00:23:33]  It's sitting there on the Mediterranean.
[00:23:35]  There's a huge opportunity to turn it into what Tel Aviv has become, but they are going to have to extricate themselves from a terrible terrorist organization that is, by the way, running out of money thanks to Donald Trump.
[00:23:48]  So, because of this war, you finally have two sovereign nations talking, and they're going to have to just figure out how do we get the terrorist group out of this situation.
[00:23:57]  That's going to be a little sticky.
[00:23:58]  We'll see what happens.
[00:23:59]  Remember Joy Reid?
[00:24:00]  She was this crazy blonde woman who was on the televised mental institution then known as MSNBC.
[00:24:06]  They fired her, I guess, because she was racist or incompetent or a general buffoon, or I don't know.
[00:24:10]  She probably did, you know, probably took a dump in the bathroom and left the door open.
[00:24:15]  Who the hell knows?
[00:24:16]  But anyway, here she is, and it's very important to her that we try Trump and Hegzeth and Rubio as well.
[00:24:22]  As war criminals.
[00:24:23]  Just listen to the language here.
[00:24:24]  These people are ridiculous.
[00:24:26]  Make Trump an adjudicated war criminal.
[00:24:28]  Make Hegzeth an adjudicated war criminal.
[00:24:30]  Make Marco Rubio an adjudicated war criminal.
[00:24:33]  I pray that some wise country, and maybe again it has to be South Africa, which has the moral authority, having done it with Israel, someone please, for the love of God, charge these people, at least start an investigation for war crimes.
[00:24:48]  It's interesting.
[00:24:49]  Her use of the word adjudicated there is interesting because adjudicated means that there's something legal about it.
[00:24:54]  Make him an adjudicated war criminal.
[00:24:57]  By who?
[00:24:58]  We're America.
[00:25:00]  And Joy, you live in America.
[00:25:01]  And guess what laws you live under?
[00:25:04]  The Constitution of the United States.
[00:25:06]  America.
[00:25:07]  Make him an adjudicated war criminal.
[00:25:09]  You see what they're trying to do?
[00:25:10]  They constantly want you to think that there is some power that governs you besides the United States.
[00:25:16]  That, in essence, is the most simplistic explanation of what globalism is.
[00:25:21]  They don't want sovereign nations.
[00:25:24]  International global organization that if they don't like what the United States did, we're going to have adjudicated war criminals.
[00:25:31]  What are you talking about, you crazy wench?
[00:25:34]  What are you saying?
[00:25:35]  Donald Trump is trying to fix everything in the Middle East right now.
[00:25:39]  He is trying to get rid of the state sponsor of terror.
[00:25:42]  Why, what, do you think the Iranian leaders, many of whom don't exist anymore, should they be considered war criminals?
[00:25:47]  They were just firing rockets into 13 different Arab Gulf states.
[00:25:51]  Do you think that's a problem, lady?
[00:25:54]  You guys are all nuts because what you have is a mental condition, a psychosis that is clinical and diagnosed.
[00:26:01]  It's called Trump derangement syndrome.
[00:26:04]  And one of the symptoms of Trump derangement syndrome is that if you have it, and once you catch it, it's almost there's no vaccine for it, there's nothing that they can rush to you.
[00:26:13]  Once you have it, you will reverse your position on anything depending on what Donald Trump says.
[00:26:18]  So if Donald Trump says and does something good, you have to take the opposite position because it has something to do with Donald Trump.
[00:26:26]  So here is the New York Times.
[00:26:28]  Tom Friedman with This is Trump Derangement Syndrome 101.
[00:26:34]  I find myself, Michael, in a situation where I really want to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people in the region.
[00:26:45]  And nothing would improve the region more than the replacement of this regime with a regime in Iran that was focused on enabling its people to realize their full potential and integrating peacefully with other countries and stop occupying Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.
[00:27:03]  So I'm all for that.
[00:27:05]  The problem is, I really don't want to see Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings.
[00:27:13]  They're both engaged in anti democratic projects.
[00:27:16]  They're both engaged in anti democratic projects.
[00:27:18]  Bibi, who's won, how many elections has Bibi won?
[00:27:20]  He's won like six elections or something.
[00:27:23]  Trump won probably three.
[00:27:25]  Uh oh, we're going to get demonetized today.
[00:27:27]  And do you get what he said?
[00:27:29]  He quite literally said nothing would improve the region more other than to get rid of this Iranian regime, right?
[00:27:36]  Why are they occupying parts of Syria and Lebanon via Hezbollah as we just laid out in all these other countries?
[00:27:42]  I really want Iran out.
[00:27:44]  So he's telling you all the things he wants.
[00:27:46]  He's telling you Donald Trump is doing all of those things.
[00:27:49]  But because he has Trump derangement syndrome with a twinge of BB derangement syndrome, he will tell you that he doesn't actually want all of the things that he just said he wants because they might get credit for it.
[00:28:02]  So what he would prefer to have is mealy mouthed, limp wristed, pathetic, globalist, buffoon, Democrat nobodies Be president who will never do anything good.
[00:28:13]  Everything will always get worse, but he can feel good about himself.
[00:28:17]  What a blankety blank blank blank because I'm not cursing on the program.
[00:28:22]  On Fox, my friend Martha McCallum, she's just she's really great.
[00:28:25]  She really is just a fine journalist and broadcaster.
[00:28:29]  She had Colorado representative, Democrat Jason Crow on, and he does a very similar move here.
[00:28:35]  It's very, very good what Trump is doing, but Trump and we had Obama, he was great.
[00:28:43]  So, the question, in terms of strategy, I think the strategy is very clear.
[00:28:46]  I mean, the strategy is no nuclear weapons program, no ballistic weapons program, and hopefully a crumbling eventually of this regime and the hope for democracy in Iran.
[00:28:57]  That's the strategy.
[00:28:59]  Yeah, and that is actually the goal for me, for you, for everybody, right?
[00:29:03]  Iran must not have nuclear weapons.
[00:29:05]  I don't disagree with that at all.
[00:29:07]  That should be the goal.
[00:29:08]  But the way you achieve that is with a diplomatic agreement that is verifiable.
[00:29:14]  As imperfect as that deal was, which was a flawed agreement, It's much better than where we are right now.
[00:29:18]  There's no indication that they didn't cheat on that deal all the way through.
[00:29:21]  There's no indication of that.
[00:29:22]  And we don't know that because we weren't allowed to do anywhere, anytime inspections.
[00:29:26]  So it appears that they progressed and progressed and progressed on that program until now we've got 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium, a lot of which was happening during that.
[00:29:36]  Great job there, Martha.
[00:29:37]  You see what she says?
[00:29:38]  He goes on.
[00:29:39]  He wants diplomatic.
[00:29:40]  Everyone, they just want diplomatic because guys, they don't lie.
[00:29:43]  Bad guys don't do things on the DL.
[00:29:45]  UN inspectors, those are the best of the best, and they'll just take care of everything.
[00:29:49]  So stupid.
[00:29:50]  So she's like, there's no indication they didn't cheat.
[00:29:52]  And then he's nodding.
[00:29:53]  He's like, yeah.
[00:29:54]  So, you know, everything I just said was complete nonsense.
[00:29:57]  What they like are just to say nice things.
[00:30:00]  We signed a piece of paper.
[00:30:01]  Iran signed a piece of paper.
[00:30:03]  Don't you see that this is a piece of paper and we signed it?
[00:30:05]  My God, look, I've signed it again and we're going to put it in the mail.
[00:30:08]  And someone, is there a notary around here and somebody mail it to the secretary of undersecretary of?
[00:30:13]  It's complete drivel.
[00:30:15]  So they're all telling you, Tom Friedman, New York Times just told you everything he wants Trump is doing doesn't want to give credit for Donald Trump.
[00:30:21]  This crow guy, Trump is doing all the things he wants done, but he doesn't like it.
[00:30:24]  He wants a piece of paper.
[00:30:26]  And here is disgraced buffoon who looks like a piece of melting clay, John Kerry, explaining that Barack Obama, who gave Iran billions of dollars, quite literally flew a plane with, I think, $128 billion and handed it to the mullahs, that that was the best.
[00:30:43]  That was the best.
[00:30:44]  It was the best.
[00:30:46]  A number of years ago, when President Obama decided that we were going to try to resolve this problem in a peaceful way, we took four years.
[00:30:54]  And we secured an agreement that is the strongest nuclear agreement on the planet, strongest since the 1950s and 60s.
[00:31:05]  We have enormous ability not to trust, but to verify.
[00:31:09]  So the tragedy of a president coming in after the United States did not fully Keep its own side of the agreement of lifting all the sanctions, you wound up with now a situation where you have killed the father, killed the wife, killed the brother.
[00:31:28]  You know, I have never believed this guy, and I know when it started.
[00:31:32]  About 10 years ago, I saw this little, it's a 10-second clip we're going to show of him, where he denied being a tree, and I just knew from then that he was a liar.
[00:31:40]  Tree is talking.
[00:31:41]  Tree?
[00:31:43]  I am no tree.
[00:31:46]  I am an entity.
[00:31:57]  I don't feel like analyzing that clip.
[00:31:58]  We're going to skip over to Hillary Clinton, another one who was Secretary of State under Obama when they airlifted that 1.7 bill over to Iran.

=== Saudi Arabia Diplomatic Failures (03:26) ===

[00:32:08]  You know, Joe, let me just say this.
[00:32:11]  When I was Secretary of State and beginning the secret, then secret negotiations with Iran to try to reach a nuclear weapons deal to prevent them from ever having a nuclear arsenal, it was a very, Slow, deliberative process.
[00:32:31]  This is hard work.
[00:32:32]  You don't just show up in Geneva or Islamabad, talk for a bunch of hours, and go away.
[00:32:38]  This is hard, disciplined effort that has to go into diplomacy to reach any.
[00:32:45]  Lady, I'll try to give some credit here.
[00:32:47]  I agree it's hard diplomacy and arguing with people who have nefarious means and who are quite literally talking to you one way and then can go back to their own parliament and chant death to America and who, as we now know, Remember, two days before the war started, when Steve Witkoff was talking to the Iranians and they were admitting enriching at 60%.
[00:33:09]  And as Rubio has pointed out and Trump has pointed out, if these guys are on their way, right, we don't know exactly where they're at.
[00:33:18]  We don't have just people wandering in.
[00:33:20]  Hello, I'm here to check out the nuclear sites.
[00:33:23]  Could you take me to the right place?
[00:33:24]  Like, it all sounds so stupid if you just think for a second.
[00:33:27]  But let's say we had some people kind of going in and looking at some things.
[00:33:32]  You know, we gave them all this cash and they promised with all that cash they were going to do good for their people, which they didn't.
[00:33:36]  We'll have more on that in a second.
[00:33:38]  They were already enriching past the point that they were supposed to enrich.
[00:33:42]  I don't think that's a debatable point.
[00:33:43]  Everyone is agreeing on that now.
[00:33:45]  And as Rubio pointed out, the whole purpose is you don't wait till the day before they have the bomb when then all hell can break loose, quite literally.
[00:33:54]  Like you could then cause thermonuclear World War III.
[00:33:57]  They were creating an umbrella, a nuclear umbrella.
[00:34:00]  It's sort of what North Korea has done.
[00:34:03]  You create enough ballistic missiles, you create enough of a drone program, you create enough.
[00:34:07]  Suicide bombers and all of the crazy things that you do, and you have your terrorist proxies all over the place.
[00:34:11]  And then the powers that be that want to stop you from getting the nuke so that you can get your 72 virgins, they're afraid to do anything because all hell is about to break loose.
[00:34:20]  Here is Saudi Prince talking about how the money that Obama funneled to them didn't do anything to stop anything or do any of the things that it was promised to do.
[00:34:31]  There are undoubtedly many destructive projects in the world.
[00:34:34]  And unfortunately, today, most of these destructive projects are in the Middle East and right next to us in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
[00:34:40]  There is an Iranian regime that we all know has a purely ideological goal.
[00:34:45]  It doesn't serve the interests of Iran or its people, but instead, Iranian ideological interests.
[00:34:51]  Evidence shows this over 30 years, the most recent being when they received $150 billion and didn't build a single street, homes, or factories in Iran.
[00:35:00]  Their goal is clear.
[00:35:01]  They only spent that money on targeting Saudi Arabia.
[00:35:04]  and supporting terrorist organizations in many parts of the world.
[00:35:08]  Furthermore, the Iranian regime's work in supporting terrorism is certainly not just limited to Hezbollah or the Houthis or various other similar organizations.
[00:35:17]  And even today, we can clearly see that many of Al Qaeda's top leadership are currently based in Iran, including the son of Osama bin Laden, who was nurtured and raised in Iran and is currently attempting to become the next supreme leader of Al Qaeda.
[00:35:29]  All right, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that you should believe everything coming out of a Saudi prince's mouth.

=== Chinese Spy Accusations Explained (15:34) ===

[00:35:35]  But the broad strokes of what he said right there, we know are true, right?
[00:35:38]  We gave them back all of this money.
[00:35:41]  And did it do anything to help the Iranian people?
[00:35:44]  Did they build streets or better water facilities or all of the things that would help a civil society?
[00:35:50]  No.
[00:35:51]  We do know that they then funded Hamas.
[00:35:53]  They funded Hezbollah.
[00:35:54]  You know, he's saying that they were attacking Saudi Arabia.
[00:35:56]  I mean, they actually weren't really attacking Saudi Arabia until this war.
[00:36:00]  But the point is, they became a terror machine, and we are not going to play along with it any longer.
[00:36:07]  So we shall see where this blockade of the Strait of Hormuz falls out and what kind of leverage we have after that and where we end up.
[00:36:14]  But it seems to me.
[00:36:16]  That the administration is completely lined up with each other.
[00:36:18]  That was the whole purpose of showing you that JD clip.
[00:36:20]  And for the doomsdayers out there and the grievance people, it's like, get on board what Trump is doing.
[00:36:26]  It doesn't mean it's all perfect, but he's trying to fix the world and everyone else is trying to burn it down.
[00:36:31]  So the choice is not that complex.
[00:36:34]  Now let's move on to a guy who banged a Chinese spy, Eric Swalwell.
[00:36:38]  That's right.
[00:36:38]  He's not going to be governor of Cali.
[00:36:40]  He's not even going to be congressman from California.
[00:36:43]  Here is his statement.
[00:36:45]  I am deeply sorry.
[00:36:54]  I will work with my staff in the coming days to ensure they are able in my absence to serve the needs of the good people Of the 14th congressional district.
[00:37:21]  So, you know, there's a whole bunch of stuff breaking here.
[00:37:23]  There's now this accused, there's at least one accuser who is full on on video accusing him of raping her.
[00:37:29]  There's the video with several people in a room and it appears to be a sex worker.
[00:37:34]  There's a whole bunch of other staffers that have come out with all sorts of other stuff.
[00:37:38]  And the crazy part of all of this.
[00:37:41]  Is that this is a guy who was running for president, again, at 0%, but who was on a debate stage once against Biden, not too long ago, and who, as of three days ago, was literally running to be governor of California.
[00:37:53]  He had all of these crazy skeletons in his closet, and he thought he was going to get away with it?
[00:37:58]  Like, that psychological disconnect is wild to me, but obviously lots of politicians have that sort of thing.
[00:38:05]  Here is Florida Representative and Republican Anna Paulina Luna confirming that Democrats have known about this with this guy.
[00:38:12]  For a long time, which does not surprise me because he banged a Chinese spy and everyone knew it.
[00:38:18]  Scratching taking place on the Hill in general because it's happening within our own party as well.
[00:38:23]  But yes, they knew about it.
[00:38:25]  They did not report on it.
[00:38:26]  And you're seeing now that, I mean, I don't know about you, Jesse, but I don't have 50 staffers, let alone 50 staffers that would come out and say that this is wrong and that you need to resign from office, right?
[00:38:36]  So it was clearly a pattern.
[00:38:37]  And as you're seeing with some of the text messages coming out, and I think, again, with this criminal investigation, there's a lot there with him.
[00:38:45]  Okay, so again, I would say, look, accusations are just accusations, and you need evidence.
[00:38:49]  And it's ironic that he's going to fall prey, in some sense, to the same thing that he promoted.
[00:38:54]  Years ago during Me Too, he was all about it.
[00:38:56]  Believe women 100%.
[00:38:57]  It's just a completely absurd statement.
[00:38:59]  A woman could say, a woman just like a man, or a man with a vagina, or a chick with a wang, or whatever, can lie.
[00:39:07]  So to say, I believe women 100% is absurd, but that was the position that he held, and now he's going to fall prey to the very trap that.
[00:39:16]  He created.
[00:39:16]  Now, interestingly, this idea that Anna's talking about there, that the Democrat machine knew about this and was hiding it, is quite interesting because, yes, for years people have been talking about how he slept with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
[00:39:30]  Here is a video in 2020, this is six years ago, Nancy Pelosi, then House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrat obviously, reacting to whether Swalwell slept with Chinese spy Fang Fang.
[00:39:46]  In terms of Mr. Swalwell, in the spring of 2015, the leadership of the House and the committee were informed that overtures from a Chinese person were being made to members of Congress.
[00:40:07]  When that was made known to the members of Congress, it was over.
[00:40:12]  That was the end of any communication with those people.
[00:40:15]  So it isn't, I think we should.
[00:40:20]  Make sure that everybody knows what they are being subjected to.
[00:40:26]  But I don't know that it means that we have to have background checks for every intern who comes into the Capitol.
[00:40:31]  No, why would we have background checks on interns who come from foreign countries like China, who's our number one geopolitical foe?
[00:40:37]  Why would we have that?
[00:40:38]  Also, it's hilarious to watch these people with masks.
[00:40:40]  Like 20 years ago, when we tried to explain this to people, why was that woman up there wearing a mask like that, like a complete maniac?
[00:40:47]  But the point is, he slept with a Chinese spy.
[00:40:50]  They knew it.
[00:40:50]  You can see her dancing around it.
[00:40:52]  But here she is.
[00:40:54]  Denying that Democrats had any idea what's going on as all these stories have broken over the last couple of days.
[00:41:00]  Some Republicans and others are saying that Democrats turned kind of a blind eye, that they knew what he was up to or what the allegations were.
[00:41:06]  That is absolutely positive.
[00:41:08]  It's true that they may say that, but it is absolutely not true.
[00:41:11]  You had no idea.
[00:41:12]  None whatsoever.
[00:41:14]  None whatsoever.
[00:41:16]  I had none whatsoever.
[00:41:17]  None whatsoever?
[00:41:18]  Well, we just played a video of you basically saying you knew there was something going on with these Chinese staff.
[00:41:24]  So, you kind of knew.
[00:41:26]  I thought this was interesting juxtaposing Pelosi's position on the cover up around Joe Biden versus the cover up around Eric Swallow.
[00:41:33]  I wanted him to assure the public that he could serve the term.
[00:41:38]  They didn't agree with that, and so he then decided to step aside.
[00:41:43]  It was his decision.
[00:41:44]  Did you tell him to resign?
[00:41:46]  Oh, I think that was his decision.
[00:41:48]  I think it's a smart decision to do that.
[00:41:50]  The right thing to do?
[00:41:51]  Yes, the right thing to do.
[00:41:52]  So, why should we believe you, lady?
[00:41:54]  You are a liar.
[00:41:56]  You lied about Joe Biden's mental acuity until the day it fully broke and the airlock broke down and everyone started knowing about it.
[00:42:04]  And we know that you and Kamala Harris and a couple other high level staffers went into that office and threatened him with the 25th Amendment and then he had to step down.
[00:42:14]  And he basically admitted that on the view that you all forced his hand.
[00:42:18]  And that's why he didn't, for whatever was left of his brain at that point, offer much support to Kamala Harris and everything else.
[00:42:25]  So you're interested in cover ups.
[00:42:27]  That's the point of showing you that.
[00:42:29]  That this is a woman who does cover things up.
[00:42:30]  Of course, the other thing, the other machine that covers things up is the machine, is the mainstream media.
[00:42:36]  We have all been talking about this Swalwell stuff for years, but here's Brian Stelter glazing the legacy media.
[00:42:42]  They finally did it.
[00:42:44]  They are finally talking about Swalwell.
[00:42:46]  They're incredible, these people.
[00:42:49]  And those whispers about Swalwell, they have been circulating at least for weeks before the reporting brought the proverbial receipts.
[00:42:58]  You know, you think about the stories published by the Chronicle and by CNN on Friday afternoon, both with extensive details.
[00:43:05]  I was astonished as a reader of the CNN story, looking at our colleagues on the investigative team, looking at how much corroboration, how much evidence was presented in the story.
[00:43:16]  And it was the kind of damning evidence that ultimately Swalwell could not avoid or dodge for very, very long.
[00:43:23]  Oh my God, he was astonished by how great these reporters are.
[00:43:26]  It's so freaking amazing that they were able to write a story about all this stuff.
[00:43:30]  These guys are so awesome.
[00:43:32]  I'm not even going to bother showing you the video, but we'll just show you the picture for one second.
[00:43:35]  That is at my house when I still lived in LA.
[00:43:37]  I think it's November of 2021.
[00:43:40]  And there is Kevin McCarthy telling me that everyone knows that Eric Swalwell slept with a Chinese spy who was also staffing his office.
[00:43:49]  So, again, I'm just some guy who sits here.
[00:43:52]  I'd rather be an NBA player, to be quite frank.
[00:43:55]  Why is it that I keep getting all of these things right years ahead of you people?
[00:43:59]  I'm not even trying that hard.
[00:44:00]  You know what I mean?
[00:44:01]  I got other things to do.
[00:44:03]  Apparently, this just broke.
[00:44:04]  I haven't even seen the video yet.
[00:44:05]  The guys are showing me that we're going to throw something in here.
[00:44:07]  This is video of two of Swalwell's accusers?
[00:44:10]  Three.
[00:44:11]  Okay, so this is video of three of Swalwell's now accusers speaking out on CBS.
[00:44:17]  This just happened this morning.
[00:44:19]  The fact that he has now dropped out of the governor's race and resigned from Congress, is that justice in your view?
[00:44:27]  No, it's just the beginning.
[00:44:29]  It's just the very beginning.
[00:44:30]  And I know personally that we're not walking away from this fight.
[00:44:34]  For me, justice won't be until he can't ever harm a woman ever again, and he has faced the consequences for the women that he has harmed.
[00:44:44]  I think, in regards to the governor's race, he never should have ran for governor to begin with, knowing the kind of history and receipts.
[00:44:53]  That are out there.
[00:44:54]  So that's a non starter.
[00:44:57]  And then in terms of Congress, I think he absolutely should have resigned.
[00:45:02]  I think we just prevented another 30 to 40 years potentially of him harming people if he were to stay in Congress.
[00:45:09]  So in that sense, I think we have served justice for his future victims that won't exist anymore.
[00:45:17]  Okay, so as I said, that just came out.
[00:45:18]  So I'm watching it for the first time with you.
[00:45:20]  I mean, these are three what appear to be former staffers of his.
[00:45:23]  It sounds like they have text messages, which most likely then is going to include video or pictures and everything else.
[00:45:28]  She does illustrate the point.
[00:45:29]  Like, how did he think he was going to get away with this?
[00:45:31]  And he could have been congressman, put aside whether he was going to win governorship of Cali.
[00:45:35]  I could have been, you know, these congresspeople stay around forever.
[00:45:37]  He could have been congressman for another 50 years, for all we know.
[00:45:39]  Like, they go into their 80s and 90s.
[00:45:42]  So, how did he think he was going to get away with this?
[00:45:45]  And again, you know, accusations are just accusations.
[00:45:48]  You guys are the ones that think accusations mean you're guilty.
[00:45:51]  You guys don't like the presumption of innocence.
[00:45:53]  We do.
[00:45:54]  So, we will wait and see.
[00:45:56]  But he obviously stepped down because he knows that there is.
[00:46:00]  Something here.
[00:46:01]  Now, ironically, haven't played a clip of the view this week.
[00:46:04]  It's only Tuesday.
[00:46:05]  Here we go.
[00:46:06]  Whoopi, it's not exactly that she's defending Eric Swallow here, but as you know, one of the symptoms of Trump derangement syndrome is that you have to, well, the main symptom of Trump derangement syndrome is if Trump says something, you have to take the opposite position.
[00:46:22]  Another symptom of Trump derangement syndrome is that if someone does something, you have to compare it to Donald Trump, whether those comparisons are meaningful or not.
[00:46:32]  Here is the whoopster.
[00:46:34]  But I just feel like, you know, as long as the head has all these issues, 55 people can come out and say they should drain this.
[00:46:45]  But if you're not draining from the top, I don't know if people are going to take it seriously.
[00:46:52]  I don't know that they will take it seriously.
[00:46:54]  But you know what?
[00:46:57]  I've always believed that the people know best for the country.
[00:47:03]  What do you mean if you're not draining from the top?
[00:47:05]  What other people do you want to come out and say things about Donald Trump?
[00:47:08]  There was the woman, that crazy woman who accused him of molesting her in a Bergdorf Goodman bathroom.
[00:47:16]  And, like, what?
[00:47:18]  What else do you want?
[00:47:21]  Who else is there?
[00:47:21]  Are we ignoring stories?
[00:47:23]  If there's other stories out there that have credible evidence, then put them out there, lady.
[00:47:27]  But you don't have them.
[00:47:29]  So, why are you making this about Trump?
[00:47:31]  It seems to me, you know what you might want to do, Whoopi?
[00:47:34]  I got an idea for you.
[00:47:35]  How about you put those three girls we just showed you on?
[00:47:37]  They went on CBS.
[00:47:38]  I'm sure they'd be happy to go on ABC and talk to you guys on The View.
[00:47:41]  How about you just do a show?
[00:47:43]  And I've got a double challenge for you.
[00:47:44]  How about you put the victims on and you don't mention Trump because he had nothing to do with this story?
[00:47:49]  Could you try that?
[00:47:50]  Maybe you want to try that.
[00:47:51]  But, by the way, there are Republicans that do stupid things.
[00:47:55]  And Tony Gonzalez from Texas, he's another one stepping down.
[00:47:58]  It's a big week for people that don't want jobs, apparently.
[00:48:01]  Listen to this on the Twitter from Tony Gonzalez, again, congressman from, well, once congressman from Texas.
[00:48:07]  There is a season for everything, and God has a plan for us all.
[00:48:10]  When Congress returns tomorrow, I will file my retirement from office.
[00:48:13]  It has been my privilege to serve the great people of Texas.
[00:48:16]  Well, what?
[00:48:18]  Why wouldn't you go back to work, Tony?
[00:48:20]  What happened?
[00:48:20]  Headline Texas Tribune Republican Tony Gonzalez, forced into runoff, admits affair with aide who died by suicide.
[00:48:28]  So he quite literally had an affair with an aide.
[00:48:34]  And then she killed herself.
[00:48:36]  That happened.
[00:48:37]  Here is her surviving husband.
[00:48:42]  Look, I'm not saying he's the one that went out there and did it himself.
[00:48:46]  And I'm not saying that.
[00:48:47]  But yeah, he played a role in it.
[00:48:49]  You know, he predatorized my wife, you know, and he pushed her to the sense of having an affair.
[00:48:56]  I mean, I made that evident in the messages that I released.
[00:49:00]  All right.
[00:49:01]  So that guy's wife is dead and had sex with Tony Gonzalez.
[00:49:05]  Now, the reason I'm showing you that is because it's equal opportunity.
[00:49:07]  So when Democrats.
[00:49:08]  Do something bad and Republicans do something bad.
[00:49:10]  We can cover both of those things, and neither one of these guys should be in Congress, obviously.
[00:49:14]  But I thought this was interesting.
[00:49:15]  This is a little compilation of Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luner, Nancy Mace, all Republicans who, when they found out what Tony Gonzalez did, rather than running cover for it for years, which is what Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats did with Swalwell, when they found out what happened, that he was having an affair with this staffer and then she killed herself, they all immediately called for him to step down and take a look.
[00:49:38]  Male harassing a female employee.
[00:49:40]  I just.
[00:49:42]  Can't stomach it, dude.
[00:49:43]  I got a wife and a daughter.
[00:49:44]  It needs to go.
[00:49:49]  Obviously, Tony has a lot of reflection to do, and it's obviously going to be something that will likely impact our margins.
[00:49:56]  But I don't make an excuse for what he did, and I would encourage him to consider resigning.
[00:50:01]  Given what I've seen so far, he should resign.
[00:50:04]  I have to say, I've really come around to like Anna Polina Luna.
[00:50:07]  I've met her a few times, but even what she said right there, he's done some disgusting things, and even though it'll affect our margins, you know, in the end of the day, these guys are politicians, and they They want power and they stay in power.
[00:50:16]  And again, some of them stay in Congress literally for decade and decade and decade and decade.
[00:50:20]  And you think of, you know, freaking McConnell in the Senate, the guy's like Crip Keeper at this point, and he's still there.
[00:50:29]  What happened with Dianne Feinstein at 90, and they would just roll her in and she couldn't even speak, and Biden and all these things.
[00:50:35]  But Anna Polina Luna actually said the truth there.
[00:50:37]  This guy's done horrible things, and I want him to step down, and it might hurt our quest for power.
[00:50:44]  But sometimes you have to do the right thing.
[00:50:45]  Sometimes you have to do the right thing.
[00:50:47]  Now, the problem with the Democrats is that, okay, you can, we can get rid of some of the really bad ones, the Swalwell crews, who are, who are doing like truly nefarious stuff.
[00:50:56]  But then there's a whole other tier of them that are just bad across the board.
[00:50:59]  And one of them that I would include on that is a guy I've sat down with several times, who I just think has just gone, he had a chance to not be a lunatic and he has decided to go the other way is Ro Khanna.

=== Securing Our Borders Now (10:56) ===

[00:51:09]  I thought this tweet from Mays Moore was quite good on Ro.
[00:51:12]  We're supposed to believe that Ro Khanna had no idea about his fellow California Democrat, Eric Swalwell.
[00:51:18]  Even though politicians and journalists have said that Swalwell's behavior was an open secret.
[00:51:22]  Sure, keep fighting for the victims, Roe.
[00:51:25]  So, Roe's one of these out there, you know, you got to believe all women, all the Democrat talking points, but he is in close colleague.
[00:51:33]  He is literally in close proximity physically in terms of their districts in Northern Cali, Eric Swalwell and Roe Connaught.
[00:51:41]  He's pretending he had nothing to do with it, but okay, I'll even grant you that.
[00:51:44]  Roe, you just had no idea.
[00:51:45]  Okay, fine, he had no idea.
[00:51:46]  One thing you probably did know about Roe is that Joe Biden and the Democrats. destroyed the border and then Donald Trump has cleaned it up.
[00:51:54]  But you'll see why we're showing you this clip.
[00:51:56]  It's a couple years old.
[00:51:57]  This is Roh Khanna during Biden's border crisis.
[00:52:01]  Just to say what President Biden has done, which is give people the opportunity to make these claims before they get to the border.
[00:52:07]  The problem for the president is that Congress is not doing anything.
[00:52:10]  I believe he has done more, certainly more than President Trump or even the previous president in getting done what he can without Congress acting.
[00:52:20]  Unbelievable.
[00:52:21]  Like utter buffoon.
[00:52:22]  I don't even know what to say beyond that.
[00:52:24]  He thinks that Joe Biden did as much as he possibly could do on the border.
[00:52:27]  Isn't that funny?
[00:52:29]  And it was Congress's fault.
[00:52:30]  That's what he said.
[00:52:31]  That's literally what he said right there.
[00:52:33]  Except somehow, magically, when Donald Trump came back into office the second time around, on day one, he closed the border.
[00:52:39]  We did not need Congress.
[00:52:41]  Remember that whole, what was it, year and a half ago, two years ago now, we were in D.C. for it, when everyone was saying, we need a bipartisan bill when Biden was still president.
[00:52:49]  We need a bipartisan bill to close the border.
[00:52:52]  And it was all, and as I kept saying, it was all complete nonsense.
[00:52:56]  You just needed a president to do one of his few duties, one of his few actual prescribed duties, which is close the border.
[00:53:03]  Adam Carolla, my friend who is still in California, that wacky, Crazy comic.
[00:53:08]  He reposted that video and he said, stupid or liar.
[00:53:11]  And that basically could be the Democrat Party tagline.
[00:53:16]  Are we stupid or are we liars?
[00:53:17]  And it's probably a little bit of both.
[00:53:19]  But if you need more evidence about that, this is from Fox.
[00:53:23]  Migrants released on the border in March of 2026, that's last month, zero.
[00:53:28]  March of 2024, 78,496.
[00:53:32]  So Joe Biden was doing everything he possibly could except for those 80,000 people who came in in March.
[00:53:38]  And then Donald Trump came in.
[00:53:39]  didn't get anything done with Congress, but actually did decide to close the border.
[00:53:43]  Interestingly, I thought this was good.
[00:53:45]  This is from Cato.
[00:53:46]  They're a libertarian think tank.
[00:53:49]  Libertarians tend to be more open border in general.
[00:53:51]  Here they are with some stats.
[00:53:53]  Legal entries at the border are now down 99.9% since Trump took over.
[00:53:59]  So, bro, you lied completely.
[00:54:02]  Congress was never needed to do this.
[00:54:04]  Joe Biden didn't do anything.
[00:54:06]  You wanted it done because you wanted to import new.
[00:54:09]  Constituents, because you guys are running out of people who will vote for you.
[00:54:13]  And I thought this was great.
[00:54:14]  Here's Roe being confronted by a woman who's quite thoughtful and bright and basically lays out why the Democrats are ridiculous.
[00:54:22]  My frustration is as a regular, everyday American citizen, I feel that I am more likely to be harmed by Democratic policies such as open borders.
[00:54:31]  Because in your state.
[00:54:32]  I'm not for secure borders.
[00:54:33]  Okay.
[00:54:33]  So, but in your state, something like 4,600 or so illegal migrants that had criminal records.
[00:54:40]  Were re released from jail.
[00:54:41]  So when we're talking about harming Americans, when we're talking about children potentially being harmed, when we're looking into child trafficking, we have to acknowledge that illegal migration is the biggest funnel for child trafficking.
[00:54:53]  So when we're worried about Epstein with a couple of people, and you guys turn a blind eye to tens of thousands of children being harmed by your policies, we have been for a secure border.
[00:55:03]  But here's what I want the.
[00:55:05]  No one in California can say that they're for a secure border.
[00:55:07]  All right, first off, who is she?
[00:55:09]  I mean, she should have a television show.
[00:55:11]  How did Joy Reid have a career?
[00:55:12]  And this woman, I mean, I'm sure she does something great or she's.
[00:55:15]  Housewife, or something.
[00:55:16]  But she gets it.
[00:55:17]  She gets it.
[00:55:17]  Everything she said there was true and honest.
[00:55:19]  And I love how he says, I'm for secure borders.
[00:55:22]  No, you're for saying you're for secure borders.
[00:55:25]  It's everything.
[00:55:26]  We've illustrated it several times this show.
[00:55:28]  Democrats, we're for saying the right thing, not do it.
[00:55:30]  We don't want Iran to get a nuclear bomb.
[00:55:33]  We put it on a piece of paper.
[00:55:34]  Then someone has to go in and do it.
[00:55:36]  We're for secure borders.
[00:55:37]  We just said it.
[00:55:38]  Someone write it down.
[00:55:39]  No, Donald Trump has to do it.
[00:55:41]  So everything you guys do is lie, and then you hate the people who actually get things done.
[00:55:46]  Here is Tom Homan, one of those such people.
[00:55:49]  Democrats don't want immigration law enforced.
[00:55:53]  And why do you think they don't want it enforced?
[00:55:56]  I have, you know, I've said for years, why did they open the border up?
[00:56:01]  Why did they let millions of people in the United States?
[00:56:03]  Why did Joe Biden overturn the Trump census rule?
[00:56:07]  I truly believe that they saw a future political benefit in letting millions of people into the United States.
[00:56:13]  They see them as maybe future Democratic voters.
[00:56:15]  But when Joe Biden overturned the Trump census rule, I said, okay, so now they're going to be counted in the next census, millions of people in sanctuary cities.
[00:56:23]  And what's that going to mean?
[00:56:24]  That means more seats in the House for the Dems.
[00:56:26]  It's obvious what they're doing.
[00:56:28]  Why would anybody open our borders up and put our national security at risk?
[00:56:33]  They must have saw a future political benefit of it.
[00:56:35]  I think they sold this country out for future political power.
[00:56:38]  Why else would you do that?
[00:56:39]  Yeah, I don't even think that that's cynical or conspiratorial thinking or anything else.
[00:56:44]  They started looking at the numbers, and the numbers were not looking good for them.
[00:56:49]  And they were like, all right, eventually we're going to have to replace these voters.
[00:56:53]  Let's get all of these other people in.
[00:56:55]  And the scary or twisted or sick part of what they did is we still have no idea.
[00:57:02]  How many terrorists, how many anti American activists, how many fentanyl dealers, blah, they let in.
[00:57:08]  And again, we think the number, the number of people in four years is probably about 20 million people.
[00:57:14]  We can do the numbers on that.
[00:57:16]  If 1% of 20 million people are bad, we've got a problem.
[00:57:19]  We've got a problem.
[00:57:20]  Now, we happen to have an administration right now that is doing something about it.
[00:57:24]  Not only did Trump close the border and he's doing the best he can on deportations, but really has to ramp that up.
[00:57:28]  And my guess on the deportation situation is because Iran is hot right now, he's picking, he has to.
[00:57:34]  There's a hierarchy of importance, right?
[00:57:36]  He has to pick how many things he can kind of do at once.
[00:57:38]  And what he needs to also do is win in November.
[00:57:40]  So my guess is he's going to ease up on deportations just because of optics for now.
[00:57:45]  But if the Republicans win in November, then it's Trump two years unhinged, deport, deport, deport, deport.
[00:57:50]  That would be my guess.
[00:57:51]  I don't know.
[00:57:52]  But here's Stephen Miller talking about what they are doing with the border wall right now.
[00:57:57]  What's it going to take to get that wall built?
[00:58:01]  So, we've got some very exciting news for you there, Brian.
[00:58:05]  Right now, DHS is at five miles a week under President Trump's leadership on the border wall.
[00:58:14]  We call it border wall phase two since President Trump did 500 miles in term one.
[00:58:20]  So, Congress fully funded it in the first reconciliation bill.
[00:58:24]  So, that money is there, it's set aside, it's dedicated for the project.
[00:58:27]  And I just learned today that CBP says they will soon be at the milestone of one.
[00:58:34]  Mile per day in new border wall.
[00:58:37]  Nice.
[00:58:37]  And that includes, by the way, a water barrier.
[00:58:41]  Okay, so we are building.
[00:58:42]  We are building the wall.
[00:58:44]  It takes time.
[00:58:44]  You know, we have a long border, a long southern border.
[00:58:47]  The country is about 3,000 miles wide, so a mile a day is good.
[00:58:51]  We'd like it to be more.
[00:58:53]  Some of it is built already, so we'd have to fully, you know, check the math on all of that where we are at.
[00:58:57]  But the point is, we have a serious administration that is actually trying to do the things that it promised to do and not just putting on it.
[00:59:03]  I'm for secure borders.
[00:59:05]  Wow, all these people come here.
[00:59:07]  Literally, it would be like, you know what it is?
[00:59:09]  What Rokan is doing is the nothing to see here meme.
[00:59:12]  That's what it is.
[00:59:13]  Get me the nothing to see here naked gun thing.
[00:59:15]  We'll end the show with it.
[00:59:16]  You know, the fireworks factory blows up and there's Frank Drubbing.
[00:59:19]  There's nothing to see here.
[00:59:20]  Please disperse.
[00:59:21]  Yeah, and it's all the illegals that are running in.
[00:59:23]  There's nothing to see here.
[00:59:24]  There's nothing to see here.
[00:59:25]  So, what is the answer to all of this, guys?
[00:59:27]  Keep fighting.
[00:59:29]  Pick a side in the war that Ben Shapiro was talking about earlier.
[00:59:32]  Do you want to be an exceptionalist right now and believe that this country is great and has an even brighter future?
[00:59:38]  Or do you want to be a doomsdayer?
[00:59:40]  That basically is it.
[00:59:41]  And you got to pick.
[00:59:42]  And Trump clearly has picked, and that's why he has not quit, despite everything they have put to his feet.
[00:59:50]  One of the most important things never, ever quit.
[00:59:54]  Never quit.
[00:59:55]  And I've seen people quitting.
[00:59:58]  And if they would have held out longer, they would have been successful.
[01:00:01]  I've seen it so much.
[01:00:02]  I've seen some of the most brilliant people in the world that never made it because they were quitters.
[01:00:07]  They were just quitters.
[01:00:08]  They would quit.
[01:00:09]  They just couldn't take it.
[01:00:11]  They couldn't, whatever.
[01:00:12]  One of the things about loving what you do is that it's not work, and therefore you don't quit automatically.
[01:00:19]  It's a lot easier not to quit.
[01:00:21]  But you can never give up.
[01:00:23]  Now, you have to also have flexibility, though.
[01:00:27]  You can't necessarily say, I'm never giving up.
[01:00:30]  I'm going to, and you got to be able to weave and bob.
[01:00:33]  You don't have to go through a concrete wall when you can go over it or around it or under it or something.
[01:00:41]  You have to have flexibility.
[01:00:43]  You have to always be able to change course a little bit, maybe always with that same goal, but don't.
[01:00:50]  How true is that?
[01:00:51]  Like, that's just the truth.
[01:00:53]  And I think that's what Donald Trump is trying to do with the country.
[01:00:55]  And it's what people, all the people that you admire in your life or that you watch on TV or whatever, that you admire.
[01:01:01]  It's because they're doing something and they're not letting something stop them.
[01:01:04]  And it doesn't matter that it's hard.
[01:01:06]  That's the point.
[01:01:07]  If everything that was worth doing was easy, everyone would do it, right?
[01:01:09]  And then it wouldn't be that worth doing.
[01:01:11]  But the people that actually, that we all end up looking at, that we're like, wow, how did that guy do that?
[01:01:16]  You know, when I was on tour with Jordan Peterson, they're writing stories about him that were the most evil free.
[01:01:21]  He's helping people get off drugs and fix their lives and men relationships and doing all these amazing things and telling people, giving people the secrets of the universe that the world has made them completely forget about, about how they can fix their life.
[01:01:33]  And the machine is trying to destroy him.
[01:01:35]  And he kept going and going and going and going.
[01:01:37]  You just keep going.
[01:01:37]  There were times in my career when it was not going well and when I literally didn't have enough money for a freaking cup of coffee and I was in all sorts of debt and I had no idea if it was ever going to happen.
[01:01:45]  And you just keep going and going and going.
[01:01:47]  And as he points out, there's going to be a wall, and you don't have to just necessarily run right through it.
[01:01:51]  You can dig under it, you can go over it.
[01:01:53]  Like, we've just got to keep going, and we've got to get all the good people on board.
[01:01:56]  That's what we've got to do.
[01:01:58]  People often ask me about the scribble, the scribbling with the pen, with the sharpie here during the show.
[01:02:03]  And there's a lot of things that happen.
[01:02:04]  I scribble a lot and I write things.

=== Keep Going Through the Wall (01:02) ===

[01:02:06]  Today is a very special one.
[01:02:07]  This is what the Democrats did to me today.
[01:02:09]  I write certain phrases there that I try to remember.
[01:02:12]  This is what I'm trying to listen to a Democrat make sense mostly.
[01:02:15]  I put check marks when we get through the certain segment.
[01:02:18]  I'm going to sign this one today.
[01:02:20]  I'm going to sign that right there.
[01:02:22]  What's today's date again?
[01:02:23]  It's April.
[01:02:24]  What's that?
[01:02:25]  It's April 14th, 2026.
[01:02:27]  We're going to give this to a commentator on one of the platforms.
[01:02:30]  Just put some comments up about if you enjoyed the program today or give me something thoughtful, and we're going to send this out to somebody.
[01:02:36]  And I don't know what you can do with this, but this is like a Democrat.
[01:02:39]  You know, I just scribbled on a piece of paper.
[01:02:41]  That's good enough.
[01:02:42]  The Iranians aren't going to get the bomb.
[01:02:44]  That's it.
[01:02:44]  Post game show, 30 seconds, Rubenreport.locals.com.
[01:02:47]  Oh, wait, we got the naked gun thing.
[01:02:48]  So this is here.
[01:02:49]  We'll do the cold close with the naked gun thing.
[01:02:51]  This is the Democrats.
[01:02:52]  All hell is breaking loose.
[01:02:54]  They've let all these people in.
[01:02:55]  There's crime, there's drugs, jihadists, genderqueer activists, banging furries, swallow.
[01:03:01]  And this is what the Democrats are doing.
[01:03:03]  Please, this purse.
[01:03:06]  Nothing to see here, please.