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29:25The document says Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, won't seek one, won't buy one, won't have one. Jason P. Weiss said that too. There'll be negotiations to make that final. But they didn't have the threat of military force the way that we do, that Iran respects in a very way that their regime is more devastated, more devastating, excuse me, more devastated than it's ever been in its 47 years. And that's why they're at the table. So the huge difference is we did this from a position of strength. President Trump led with military might. That military might will stay as long as necessary. You know, if the blockade comes off, then you you pull back and you allow shipping to flow just like Iran needs to allow shipping to go through the straits.

30:05But we can snap that blockade back at any point and they can't do anything about it. And Iran knows that. And that's why we have the leverage in these talks. And we hope they'll go well. Rob, you know, he really is a big, dumb lung head. I mean, he's dude, I've met Pete Hegseth. I had beers with Pete Hegseth years ago and I remember having beers with him. It was after a show at Fox News after the Kennedy show. We went over to the Irish pub next door, a group of us, and we were having beers. And I remember we were all talking. I remember thinking to myself, this guy's a big, dumb lung head. And now he's the secretary of defense, and he's still a big, like, he really is just, it's just such an embarrassment for the country.

30:47This guy is who represents your war department. So this is what he's got. You can't even point to what's better. You just go, Obama begged the Iranians not to get nukes. We bombed the Iranians not to get nukes. Like, ooh, yours had explosions. Hey, retard, begging is better. Begging is better than bombing. If you can't point to a difference in the conclusion, then you don't just win by saying, our method involved killing people. Oh, oh, wonderful. Wonderful. So the families of the 200 girls who got slaughtered. Hey, Obama got here by begging. We got here by murdering your girls. Wonderful, Pete Hegseth.

31:37What a great accomplishment. Oh, we're, you know, we got them to commit to not making a nuclear weapon. You go, they literally, the preamble to the JCPOA is them committing to not getting a nuclear weapon. And I'd like to point out. Go read it. Go read the first paragraph of the JCPOA. It is what he said. But what does he say, Rob? No, but we got here from a position of strength. Shit blew up before we got them to say that. Nothing blew up before Obama got them to say that. I dismiss this premise because I believe that the deterrent of the theoretical force is better than losing with force. When you show up with force and you show up that it's not successful, that's a lot less scarier.

32:20and that's not a position of strength. And I think the proof is at the end of the JCPOA, Iran was still under sanctions, was not just able to just be on the world stage and just selling its oil. And the new paradigm is going to be that there are normalized world power and probably the biggest power in the region. And that's the result of the failed strength that you guys tried to posture with. And so the idea that this is from a place of strength and that was from a place of weakness, I think Iran's going to walk away. Seemingly, if the deal actually goes through, which still seems somewhat shaky and that Donald Trump's lying and that there aren't everything's not agreed to and that you got to restrain Israel and we're not ready to do that.

33:00There's a lot of variables on the table. But if this goes through as is, you've got theoretically, let's just say money up front. None of the terms on the nuclear stockpiles actually worked out with Iran having the ability to go ahead and sell its oil. I mean, you're telling me that that's a better deal or that this was from a position of strength. This is bullshit. Yeah. Oh, 100%. It's this is this is such a weaker position than where we were in the JCPOA. No, the only thing. No, it's just Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump and guys like this. They they equate shit blowing up with strength. Killing people is strength now, evidently.

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35:19Like, you know what I mean? Like we even have a slow, like a saying that it's like, Oh, I didn't get the memo. You know, like, that's like a joke. You could make it a bar. Oh, we're having, we're doing tequila. I didn't get the memo, you know, that you would never just be like, I haven't received the memorandum. You get kicked out of that bar talking like that. All right. Anyway. Um, so the other major thing that's in there, conceded by all sides, is that Lebanon's part of the ceasefire and Israel cannot continue attacking Lebanon. Of course, this creates once again, the entire situation we've been watching.

35:51By the way, Rob, they're bombing them right now. And Israel's, I read one report that there were explosions heard in Lebanon. I guess I haven't seen that confirmed yet. So hold off on confirming that. But Israel has said, they've made a bunch of public statements already from all types of different. I just saw Ben Kavir made one where he's like, yeah, we are not we did not sign on to this. So we're not part of this, which is true, Rob. Right. Like they're not a part of the deal. So they but cool. So Israel's breaking up with us. We don't have to break up with them. Perfect. Right. So that that, of course, leads to the same question of like, is Israel going to try to undermine this?

36:25Well, they've done that at every single other turn. So I think we'd have to just assume yes. But then the real question is, are they able to do we even get to Friday or does something kick off before then. And, you know, I don't know, but I suppose one of the other points I should make, because almost every time here, when you actually go through what is being floated out, again, we haven't seen this, so we don't know for sure. But when you go through what's being floated out, it's almost like, okay, so they're arguing over this detail. But then you look at like what the implicit admission in all of that is and what's the implicit admission in Libya being part of the ceasefire?

37:09Is that that whole, oh, you can't work with Hezbollah anymore? You can't fund your terrorist proxies? That ain't in this memorandum, Rob. So again, like on every single level regime change no people are going to take over the government no zero enriched uranium no we get all the 60 percent enriched uranium no medium and short-range missiles no funding of terror proxy groups no one thing we got opening the Strait of her moose now your assignment rob is to spin that into a when in here i mean i don't know man tell me what i'm wrong this is this is without us getting into the argument of whether or not he's given them 12 billion up front without even that so now i gotta say in in terms of the politics of this.

38:11It's an interesting moment. As we've said before, Rob, this has been a dynamic of this whole thing. You have these two groups. There are the people who just support Donald Trump, and then there's the Israel lobby. And so, of course, right now, it's almost in a way, this is, if you look at what's left in MAGA, that's essentially it. Those are the two groups. All of us have left. So, you know, the Trump coalition no longer consists of Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn, you know, like that's gone. But what's left now are the the Mike Cernovich's, the Jack Posabiak's, the Trump supporters and the Israel lobby.

38:59And so the Trump supporters are thrilled with this because, first of all, whether they want to admit it to themselves or not, they know that Donald Trump is bleeding over this war, right? They're aware. They see that they're getting ratioed every day when they try to stand up for him on social media or whatever. And then they also see what the Israel lobby is doing here and how they're – but they have no option to turn on Trump, so they have to just celebrate everything he does. So this is the greatest war ever. This is total victory. That's what they're saying. Now, again, as I've mentioned before throughout this war, this is a tough thing for me because I'm so disgusted by the way these people are behaving.

39:41And yet they're probably the most important people right now. I hate to say it. I hate to admit it. But like I watch I watch Mike Cernovich, somebody who I've liked and respected for years. I watch him posting on Twitter that this was a huge victory for Donald Trump. and I'm like, I don't want to lose respect for you like this, dude. Like, how can I just watch you just lying to your own people? Like, it's just so, my God, like, what are you like? How much did he pay you for the night? Like, I'm sorry, this is just like prostitute behavior. It's one of the greatest strategic blunders in American history.

40:15Destroyed his presidency over just nothing. It's got, just cost hundreds of billions of dollars to the global economy. Just horrible. Every level of it, just horrible. But okay. that's what you gotta, you gotta have some people saying that, man. Trump's gotta hear at least a few people saying that. But now, okay, the dynamic is, now the Israel lobby is completely turning on him and calling him out. Calling him out for what a failure this is. I mean, it's kind of unbelievable, dude, watching, I know you alluded to this earlier, Rob, but watching Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro and these types go from just, all of a sudden, they're the guys who were always for Donald Trump, and they're attacking anyone else who doesn't trust the plan, or who doesn't trust Donald Trump?

40:59And you're watching them immediately pivot back. And so now there's this weird like battle between the two groups that are just been driving me crazy the most. And I'm not exactly sure how to play it. I don't know what the right of it is. I almost just want to retweet all of them. You know, like I saw, I'm not, I didn't post on Twitter for the last couple of days, but I saw, like I saw Mike Cernovich tweet, you know, huge victory for Donald Trump. And I almost just want to retweet it. Yeah, man, totally get this deal signed because thank God let's sign it. Whatever the deal is. Yes. Let's sign it.

41:34Honestly, I don't even care. Are you giving them 12 billion or 24 billion? Whatever. Give them what you got to give them. Let's get this nightmare over with. It's the best thing we could do. And, uh, and then you see people like Mark Levin. Have you seen him? He's posting and he's like, uh, I actually saw Mark Levin actually had some tweets that were going viral. It's the first time I've ever seen it where he's going, Hey, how come we can't see the memorandum? If it's so great, why don't we get to see it? And you're like, yeah, good point. Mark Levin. Yeah. You know, like what, what can you, what can I say here?

42:04Do I even want to pick a fight with Mark Levin right now? You're like, yeah, dude, fair, absolutely fair point. We should get to see that thing. But so just watch, man. I mean, look, dude, there's, there's two things, two predictions that I made that have aged very well. One of them, Rob, was that they're going to go from saying Tucker Carlson. And the lesson here is that Tucker Carlson doesn't matter. And that's why it doesn't matter. Donald Trump's not destroying his whole coalition. And then they're going to pivot to blaming the midterms on Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens and all them. They're already doing that.

42:39Levin went on a whole rant about that the other day. And then my other prediction is an obvious one, was that all the Israel firsters will turn on Donald Trump if he doesn't get regime change here. That's all this was ever about for them. And look, as we've broken down for many, many years here, and I'm not going to go through the whole thing again, but you can find me breaking this all down on the Internet all over the place. But this was always about Israel taking Lebanon. That's the whole beef with Iran. That's why they have a beef with Iran, is because Iran is very, very close with Hezbollah, who is essentially the militia that runs southern Lebanon that kicked Israel's ass twice and drove them out of the country.

43:19They weren't able to take southern Lebanon because of Hezbollah, and because Iran is arming and backing Hezbollah. That's their problem with the Iranians. So this was always for them. This was never about nuclear. They're not concerned about the nuclear program. That's just the pre-time. That's just the thing that they know that Americans care about. Just like with Saddam Hussein, that's the thing they tell you. They can't tell you. You know, it was in that interview when they were responding to me, Rob, when Noam had David Worms on. And it's a while. He's talking about it before all the things with Iraq and all the things, blah, blah, blah, and the weapons program and all this.

43:57And then eventually he just lets it out. And he goes, and look, Yasser Arafat was making a whole bunch of noise about a two-state solution. And when you had Saddam Hussein there, it let the Arab nationalists know that Mr. Arab nationalist is over here and has your bat. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's kind of the issue, isn't it? But, Rob, that's pretty tough to sell to a soccer mom in Kansas now, isn't it? Hey, we got to go overthrow Saddam Hussein because, you know, like if Saddam Hussein's out there, then Yasser Arafat might get the feeling that maybe he should keep fighting because he might get a two-state solution one day.

44:30How do you feel about that soccer mom from Kansas? No, not that good. How about he's making nukes and he's in with Al Qaeda? Oh, you're interested now, right? That's all this is. But anyway, I say this, I make this point because if you understand that, you recognize, are they going to be okay with this deal now? Hey, look, Rob, you know, look, we got them to promise that they're not going to make nuclear weapons. Why is it that every time Iran makes a deal promising to not get nuclear weapons, every member of the Israel lobby hates that deal and tries to destroy it with everything they have? why would that be if their big concern was a nuclear Iran okay well once you understand that that's not the concern and it's all about Lebanon then you go oh so the deal is that they get not only do they get to keep being friends with Hezbollah but Hezbollah is protected by order of this deal now you're going to start to understand why the Israel lobby is going to fucking flip over this and do everything they can to destroy it.

45:37So to your point, Rob, are you saying that Donald Trump is making a deal that protects known terrorists in the United States government? No, I'm not. I would never make a claim like that, Rob, but I mean, if you've got evidence. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Prolon by El Nutra. We've all set health goals in the past. Maybe you want to lose weight or exercise more or eat healthier, but without a plan, they often fade. Well, that's where Prolon comes in. It's five-day fasting mimicking diet gives you a science-backed structured approach to stay on track.

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47:33Here's going to have to respond to terrorism across its border, as we'll see if the United States is going to suddenly become an advocate for the idea that Israel can't defend itself. Then this is a giant L for the United States and for our allies. Israel has the right to defend itself against threats, but the attack it was responding to was very small and meaningless. Nobody was hurt, injured or killed and should not disrupt this important process. I really don't think the president would see it that way if, say, Mexico had fired a bunch of drones into American soil and blown them up and no one got killed.

48:04I don't think it works that way. I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way. How is it right here? Just OK, so just already off the bat. OK, you see Ben Shapiro. This is the man who called Donald Trump the most courageous president in the history of the United States of America after he launched this war on behalf of Israel. Right. Same guy who will praise you like that. He will now turn around and go, if this, if the lesson of this is that Israel can't defend herself, then this is a huge L. That's how, think about it, like you go from being the most courageous president in American history to that same war being a huge L if you're not in service of Israel.

48:45Okay, now think about the level of dishonesty here, what Ben Shapiro does. when he goes, Donald Trump asked Israel not to retaliate. Okay. But imagine Mexico just drone bombed America. Now it didn't kill anyone, but do you think we wouldn't retaliate to that? Okay. Let me just say another scenario, right? Let's say there was a hundred year war between us and Mexico. And we had just killed so many people on both sides. It's just always at war forever. And we couldn't afford to fight the war ever by ourselves. So like our friends in Europe, they were paying for the war because we were like, we really need this help.

49:29We're in this hundred year war with Mexico. And so many people had died on both sides. I mean, we've killed probably about 20 times as many of their people as they've killed of us, but we've been going back and forth forever and ever and ever. And then Europe, the European countries who were financing us were like, look, this is really unpopular here. We don't want to do this anymore. where we've got a peace deal worked out. And then they sent over a missile and nobody got hurt or anything like that. And they went, please don't respond to this one because we're trying to get this peace deal done.

49:58See, that would be really fucking reasonable, right? But Ben Shapiro doesn't give you that scenario. So instead he goes, but what if Mexico just launched a job? As if, because I'm just saying like, and look, it's not a hundred year war exactly or whatever, but you know, whatever. I'm just saying like, maybe those scenarios aren't exactly the same. But if you object to that, then you object to scenarios that aren't exactly the same being used as examples, right? But let me tell you a scenario that definitely ain't the same. It's not the US and Mexico, two sovereign states that live next to each other that haven't fought a war in 175 years, you know what I mean?

50:33That are like just are cool with each other. And then one of them just launches an attack against the other one. That's a different scenario than being in the middle of a war that someone else foots the bill for. And then they ask you to not respond to an attack where nobody was hurt. Anyway, I don't know, Rob, what can you even say about the equivocate? You know the thing they always say about us? If you ever bring up any of Israel's crimes, they go, moral equivalency. You're making a false equivalency. But what a false equivalency between this request by Donald Trump in the middle of a war he's conducting on your behalf to Mexico just attacking us.

51:12Fucking fraud. Yeah, if Israel wants to defend itself, then leave us out of it and if Israel is under the belief that Iran is a bigger enemy and we're in the middle of putting together a ceasefire with the bigger threat and we're telling you hey guys don't mess this up then yeah you got to follow our lead if you want us to just walk away and leave you guys to yourself to defend yourselves and for us to take back our resources that you're not getting us involved in a mess go ahead and defend yourself because us and Ben Shapiro both know that Israel is unable to do so and will completely stop all these military actions because they can't do it.

51:49This is all bullshit. That's right. Rob, it's the most cliche thing in the world for like a teenager, like on a sitcom, for like a teenage girl to go to her dad and go, hey, I'm 15. I can do what I want. And what does the dad say back to her? Well, as long as you live under this roof, you're going to do, right? You're like, this is the most cliched thing ever that you would go, okay, you can just make this assertion of liberty, but that's actually just infantile if you don't also take responsibility, right? Isn't that what the dad is saying essentially there? That it's like, well, yeah, okay, you can do whatever you want.

52:30Well, I can do whatever I want with my money and my food and my shelter, right? It's like you're still dependent. And so, no, you don't have this autonomy. me. And that is exactly the same thing here. It is every bit as infantile for Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin to sit here and say, hey, the U.S. can't tell Israel what to do. Well, actually, Israel, if you want to live under this welfare, then you're going to live by the rules of this welfare. Absolutely, we can tell them that. Let's keep playing.

53:02You're basically free. We shouldn't spoil this. We shouldn't spoil this very important day just because you fired a rocket at my house and you happen to hit my front lawn and not kill anybody. He said, we are very close to a deal that will bring peace to the region, including to Lebanon. And all sides should stand down. All sides should stand down. One of these sides is acting defensively. One of them is a terrorist group responsible for the death of hundreds, if not thousands of Americans. He said, there should be no more attacks by Israel anywhere in Lebanon, but there should also be no more attacks by any other party, including Hezbollah against Israel.

53:34This could be the beginning of a long and beautiful peace. Let's not blow it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. I'm sorry, these are not kids fighting here. You have a terrorist group that has expressed its desire to wipe Israel from the map. And you have an American ally flying sorties alongside American pilots, sharing technology and military largesse both ways. And the idea is that that state is supposed to what? Just go silent when it is attacked. And then Trump went to Axios. And again, this is just the kind of signaling that is not useful. It is not good. It does not help negotiations.

54:04It looks like weakness. and the Iranians can sense weakness. They can smell us. The president went to Barack Ravid at Axios, who used to be like the Obama cutout. And then he became J.D. Vance's team's cutout over at Axios. And now the president is using Barack Ravid as his cutout. And the president went to Axios and he said that he was shocked when his advisors called him to brief about that Israeli strike in Beirut. And he fumed at Netanyahu, quote, it is so bad I couldn't believe it. An hour before we're supposed to sign the deal, Trump acknowledged that Hezbollah attacked Israel first, but stressed it didn't cause any damage and nobody had been killed.

54:39Why did Bibi have to do an effing attack? I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no effing judgment. I let him know that. And then he said the same thing to the Wall Street Journal. Bibi shouldn't have done that. I didn't like it at all. They fired a couple of small missiles and missed their mark by a lot. They have to fire back, then he'll fire back, then the whole thing never stops in the Middle East. So we are now back to what? Cycle of violence nonsense? That suddenly there's no difference between Israel defending itself and Hezbollah firing missiles and rockets? at Israelis in Israeli territory?

55:08Okay, this is the problem. If you keep sending the signal to a terror-backing regime that chants death to America, that you want to deal with them so badly that you're going to tell our allies in the region to stand down, you are giving them an enormous amount of forward momentum. And that is a huge mistake. All right, there you go. Huge mistake. Weakness. um man that's how that's all it takes well 24 hours ago donald trump would have been saying this exact same thing so i'm curious to see how the loyalists are going to stand by him and if they're willing to accept that this is no longer the narrative and that iran can just be trusted because back to what i said i think in week two of donald trump is i need more than the donald trump said so standard and people are still living by it so a week ago iran was the mortal enemy and he was saving our empire because in the future, Iran was going to have a nuclear war and they were going to destroy our country.

56:04And now you're forced to accept actually the reasonable people and they can take part in the world economy. We just had to make a deal with them. So I don't know. I don't know how people are. Honestly, this is somewhat more honest than the people than Donald Trump or the people that are just going to change gears with them. Yeah. Oh, look, I mean, first of all, on the Ben Shapiro stuff, and this really is like, it's it's a great, I mean, there's just a million examples like this, but this is one more, like just perfect one where you just recognize that there really is a problem here. And I got to say, I think it is, I know there's a point we've made a million times over, not that it's the most important point, but it really is like, this does really contribute to the rise of antisemitism or whatever you want to call it.

56:50Because it's like, dude, you just, you have a guy, a Jewish guy who's an American. You are an American. You were born here. You have citizenship here. You became famous here. You became rich here. You purport to love the country. And yet, when it comes down to it, right, I mean, look, Rob, it's not just like, this is why I like Megyn Kelly using the term Israel firster. This is why I always like John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt using the term the Israel lobby, because like Donald Trump, according to Ben Shapiro, is the most courageous president ever. But if he makes one decision that crosses Israel, weakness, failure, you know, these are the words we use to describe, it's like, it is so clearly in service of this other country.

57:40Now, it is completely fair to point out that there's also lots of Christians who are Israel firsters and atheists who are Israel firsters and whatever, But it is a real problem, man, especially when you've got two nations whose interests are so conflicting, or at least the interests of our nation with the interests of the powerful people in Israel are in conflict. And to have people that are just religiously loyal to that country over ours is just – it's insane. And, you know, again, all of these guys, they're essentially like little boys with action figures. They're all just like, no, keep blowing shit up.

58:21Take Carg Island. Do whatever you have to do. Right now, by all military estimates, this will just result in catastrophe. And very clearly, none of them have skin in the game. Like they're not going and fighting these wars. They're not. They're rich and they're fine. and you know but like anyway it's just it's it's crazy to watch them and I will say Rob um it's a very weird part of the dynamic I'm just trying to be honest here because that's all I'm really able to do I feel like that's the the bond between me and the listeners or whatever is that I just got to tell the truth but while there's this weird dynamic in a way isn't there something you respect more about Ben Shapiro than the people who are just Trump cult followers.

59:10You get what I'm saying? Like, even though he's like, it's so evil, but at least he believes in something. There's something, there's something about just believing in something versus being a total phony that like, again, like the Trump supporters, if Donald Trump had announced escalation yesterday, would have supported him. And if he announces this deal, they'll support him. If he is giving them 12 billion up front, they'll support him. And if he isn't giving them 12 billion up front, they'll support. It's just like, you don't believe in anything, man. I, I don't know. Very weird. Okay. Let's, because we are running out of time here.

59:45Let's get to a couple of the JD Vans clips here. How many JD Vans clips did I send you? Cause I think I sent a few. Let's see.

59:57Maybe just here, just play, play the, I guess I just sent two, right? Okay. So let's Either order, doesn't matter, Natalie. Let's play one of them.

1:00:07Walk through some of this. The Iranians are saying that they're going to have access to a$300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false? Well, Ed, that's the sort of thing they could have access to, funded by the Gulf Coast Coalition, so long as they honor their end of the obligation. I think that one of the things you're going to see, Ed, and people have to be skeptical of this, is that the hardliners in the Iranian system will overemphasize the benefits that Iran gets while under emphasizing all the things that they have to concede and all the things they have to provide in order to get these benefits so we absolutely are positive real quick Gulf Coast country I love Rob that JD Vance just had to go around on all the shows and defend this thing and he's got to go in there and say things like well you know listen what the Iranians are going going to try to do is overemphasize all the stuff they get and not mention any of the stuff that we get and you're like hey mr vice president you know what would really help clear that up you know what could really solve that problem would be if you told us like this is it's such a bizarre thing to say we've come to this deal it's a great deal there's a lot of misinformation about the deal and they'll be like yeah but i can't tell you and also rob you may have noticed there he didn't shoot him a no.

1:01:21He asked him that he said they're claiming they're going to have access to 300 billion dollars. And J.D. Van Swet, that's the type of thing that could be available to them. So, again, as we mentioned up top, conceding that actually, yeah, this is something we're willing to talk about, not just talk about giving around money, but more money than they ever could have dreamed of from Obama and Biden combined. Well, this is the kind of thing you see when you to negotiate from a place of strength. Yeah, it's all the strength. This is what happens when you kill people first. You get these type of negotiations.

1:01:54Here, let's keep playing. He's investing in the reconstruction of Iran, but only if Iran ends their nuclear program, ends their enriched stockpile of material, and is really open to an inspections and enforcement regime that gives the American people confidence they're never going to have a nuclear weapon. So I think the dance you're going to see, Ed, which is going to be interesting, is the Iranian media, especially the hardline media, they're going to talk a lot about what they get without talking about what they give. It's important for all of us to correct that record. Like you could do right now.

1:02:28Yes, as you could correct, but are unwilling to. Okay. So again, there's the admission, everything we were talking about up front. Yes, they could potentially have access to the 300 billion. His only objection was it's not like they just get that. They have to do some stuff. and then number two what are we talking about here an inspections regime to inspect what rob oh i guess in rich uranium nuclear their nuclear program okay i mean they're not he's not saying they have to have no nuclear program and then we have to have inspectors to make sure you don't have a nuclear program he's saying we have to have inspectors to monitor what level you're enriching up to it's given up on the zero percent enriched uranium uh let's go to the other the other clip of JD Vance here doing his best to spin this nonsense.

1:03:15Well, we already signed the deal digitally yesterday and there's been no money released and that won't change, George. Again, this is a performance based thing. If we see the Iranians making, for example, taking action to eliminate their stockpile of enriched material, then yes, sanctions relief will follow. If we see the Iranians taking action to allow the kind of verification regime that we need to see to know that they're not going to build a nuclear weapon? Yes, sanctions relief will follow. So this is really about walking down a pathway here where the Iranians will be welcomed into the world economy if they do the right thing.

1:03:51And George, we have to remember their economy is fundamentally destroyed. Their nuclear program is fundamentally destroyed. If they don't do the right things, if they don't allow the verification regime, they're never going to have the money to rebuild their nuclear program to begin with. So this is fundamentally a win-win for the American people What the president has said is he wants it to be a win for the Iranian people as well. But that requires some real trust building and some real positive conduct from the Iranian political system. We're going to see if that happens. If it does, they're absolutely going to find the president.

1:04:23United States and the entire team, a willing partner to make their country more prosperous. All right, Rob, what do you think? My initial thought is if those are all the fundamentals, then just walk away. If the fundamentals are their economy is destroyed and they fundamentally can't afford to get a nuclear warhead, so then job done, you don't need a deal and leave unless you're lying about that also. Yeah. All right. A couple of things I want to say before we got to wrap this up. Look, I guess let's just say so we're presumably going to find out if we do get to a signing of this memorandum of understanding on Friday what exactly is in the deal.

1:05:11But let's just say, for the sake of argument, that every noise being made by J.D. Vance and the Trump administration is truthful because they've got such a great track record of telling the truth through this whole thing. And the Iranians are overplaying their hand. I'm not exactly sure why. They're just trying to save face. And it's going to be revealed on Friday that they didn't get any of this stuff up front. OK, so they don't get the 12 billion up front. They don't get access to the 300 billion fund, the reconstruction funds up front. They have to like do certain things before they get any of that.

1:05:47OK. But still what you're telling me is that there's no regime change. They're still supporting the same proxy groups. They're not immediately turning over the enriched uranium. They're not, you know what I'm saying, like any of the other war goals. It's not 0 % enriched uranium. It's not whatever. the no talk of the missiles whatsoever that's not just not even in here um even in the u.s best case scenario what you're telling me here rob is that you achieved none of the war goals none of the war goals have been achieved and that essentially what we're back to is that we have a we have 60 days we have not nearly enough time but we're going to start negotiating nuclear again.

1:06:34That, Rob, is what we had for the two years before the JCPOA. That is what we had for the six years after the JCPOA. It's what we had before the 12-day war. It's what we had before this war. They're willing to negotiate their nuclear. Anyway, Anyway, so even with the regime's best case scenario, this is it is what it is. It's a humongous U.S. military defeat. And I don't think, you know, for political reasons, I don't know if that's the most helpful thing to say out loud right now. But again, as I said before, I just don't know how to operate that way. I just got to tell the truth to you guys.

1:07:15And then that's that. But I'm not sure if I should be like tweeting this out or try to get. But whatever. That's the facts. It's a huge loss, maybe the biggest loss in many ways in U.S. military history. The other thing I did want to just mention is that I think so many of this is like devils in the details of what follows in the next 60 days for one side to say Iran is following the agreement, Iran is not following the agreement. But I think the bottom line here, Rob, is that the reason why the Israel lobby is flipping out about this is that this is really the biggest bright side of all of this is that, you know, you get to those 60 days.

1:07:52I think there's a good chance we're not going back to war. I think that this is the you know, that's going to be 60 days later. Is the Trump administration really going to restart this most unpopular of wars that they know what what's going to happen if we restart it in 60 days? let's say these talks fall apart and they're like, no, we're not giving you any access to that money or they're hitting back at Israel because Israel's bombing Lebanon or whatever it is that falls apart. What are we going to do, Rob? Go back in so they close the strait again and we're right back to the same situation where we got to threaten them and we can't militarily open it.

1:08:27We got, you know, people can - Trump does love living in circles. Well, look, people can say, hey, there was the 12-day war and then we came back again for this war. But there's a big difference there, man. We just did not. We got some black eyes in this one. You know, this just is not the same thing. And there's I think it's going to be very, very hard for Trump to restart this thing after he stops it now. And I think the Israel lobby knows that they know that this was their chance. This was their best chance. And I guess perhaps still is their best chance to get that regime toppled. And so it'll be interesting.

1:09:05My I would say I think over the next few days, these guys are going to really dial up the intensity. You know, Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin and all of them are going to really, really dial up the intensity, pushing Donald Trump into this, as you alluded to, Rob. They've got a lot of rope to work with because they can hang him by all his own words. You know, they can hang him by, as you pointed out, he was just saying the same thing 24 hours ago that Mark Levin's saying. So they can use all of that. They can use, sir, you promised the Iranian people. You promised there'd be regime change. You did all this.

1:09:40You put your full nutsack out on the table and they're gonna remind him every day for the rest of this week about that. And then of course, on the military front, Israel's gonna be doing everything they can to undermine this. So it's gonna be an interesting few days and we'll see what we got. But hopefully we can get to this deal being signed. We can take this loss. It is a loss, but at least it'll be over. We'll see. All right. PorchTour.com. Come see RobbieTheFireBernstein out on the road. ComicDaveSmith.com to see us together as we travel around. Always a fun time. All right. See you guys tomorrow.

1:10:19Peace.

1:10:25Thank you.