Listen to Press Go Quiet as Rubio Reveals Real Reason for Iran Attack

24:25What was the point? What is the point of this from Israel's perspective? Well, the point is regional hegemony. Super simple. He is a liar. He is a liar and a propagandist at the highest possible level. But you have to decide what you believe. Do you believe Donald Trump when he's telling you the video? You just heard what Donald Trump's saying, why we're doing this. You just heard Marco Rubio say why we are doing this. Israel wants hegemony over the Middle East. What is he talking about? They have a tiny little country they would like not to be destroyed. That's it. I think if the mullahs for the past 40 years had not constantly said, we'd like to take out the little Satan and then the big Satan, they would be pretty quiet right now.

25:07But they have decided to export terror, right? And they've done this all over the world. Every single thing he says is a lie. But let me illustrate it perfectly. Watch this from Bricks News. This is regarding the same show that we just showed you of Tucker. Tucker Carlson says that Saudi Arabia and Qatar caught and arrested Israeli Mossad agents planning bombings in those countries. That was what Tucker said on his show. Well, moments later from open source intel, Qatar, Qatar, a country that Tucker loves. Qatar's foreign ministry denies Tucker Carlson's claims saying there is no evidence of Mossad cells operating in his country.

25:47So you must understand he went on his show yesterday and either was given information that was wrong or he just lied. Now, my position is that he just lied. He wants you to hate Israel and he can hate Israel and that's well within his rights. So he made up a story that Mossad agents were there. Now, even the Qatari government, Qatar, a place where Tucker said he's going to buy a house, they're saying that that story is not true. So I would say for anyone that watches, if you have a friend that watches Tucker's show, you might be curious to tune in, I suppose, tune into Tucker today. I don't know if he does a daily show at this point or whatever he's doing, but will he correct himself?

26:26I correct myself on this show all the time, usually for sort of minor, minor infractions. And I feel it's incumbent upon me to do that. He made up a complete lie in the midst of a war that we are leading in. We'll see what he does. Now, the other one that's been a massive disappointment, Tucker, I think has largely lost his mind. The other one that's been a massive disappointment, obviously is Megyn Kelly. This is someone who I have had a great relationship for years, who has seemingly gone off the deep end when it comes to all this. And I think in the case of Megyn, while I think Tucker actually has nefarious motives, I think Megyn just saw clicks.

27:10So when the Candace thing was happening, she wouldn't take a side and eventually sided with Candace because she saw a lot of clicks. When the Nick Fuentes thing was happening, she wouldn't take aside and eventually sided with Puentes because she saw clicks. She goes wherever clicks are, right? She comes from the mainstream media. She loves ratings. She'll do whatever she has to do for clicks. So here she is on why we are at war right now. Look, there are massive divisions over what we've done here and people are going to change their minds over the coming days and weeks one way or the other. But my own feeling is no one should have to die for a foreign country.

27:50I don't think those four service members died for the United States. I think they died for Iran or for Israel. I think I understand how this helps Iran perfectly well. I get it. I mean, I hope long term we'll see. But they seem rather jubilant. 80 percent of the country does not support the Ayatollah. He was a terrible, terrible man. No one's crying that he's dead, no normal person. But our government's job is not to look out for Iran or for Israel. It's to look out for us. And this feels very much to me like it is clearly Israel's war. Mark Levin wanted it. It's his war. Ben Shapiro, Lindsey Graham, Miriam Maddelson.

28:33That's obvious. They're the ones who've been pushing us in. Oh, yes. Mark Levin pushed us Listen to this. 75-year-old AM radio host, Mark Levin. I have nothing but respect for Mark Levin. Nothing but respect for Mark Levin. He pushed Trump into doing it. Ben Shapiro is sitting there. Trump, go to war, go to war. I'm Ben Shapiro. I talk fast. Yeah, no, that's not. Like, it's just, it's so low. And of course, she just names Jews. It's just Jews, right? Miriam Adelson. They tricked Trump. Here you have Trump laying out exactly what he was going to do, which is completely ideologically consistent with everything he ran on for the last 10 years.

29:09Remember him running on Iran's not going to get a bomb? We just played you the video yesterday. They asked Kamala and Joe Biden, what are you going to do to stop Iran? What would you do? And they say, don't. And Trump's like, I'm going to bomb the shit out of him. Trump is being completely ideologically consistent to the implication that Trump doesn't know what he's doing. Marco Rubio has no idea. And now JD, who's in on it too. They all have, and Pete Hegseth, they all have no idea what they're doing. But Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro, my God, the Daily Wire over at Nashville, they must be running a bunker with war plans over there.

29:43It's so dimwitted. But I see what you're doing, Megan. You think that the Groiper thing, you think that the Tucker thing, you think that that's a future. And you know what? Maybe you'll be right. Maybe you will be right. There will be some sort of neo-Nazi movement in the United States. Perhaps you will be right on that. but you will be ethically and morally and philosophically wrong. And to watch you go down this path, you know that that is just not true. Mark Levin, Mark Levin convinced Trump to do it. It's just incredible. Absolutely incredible. I'm Hannah. I've lost 75 pounds in 20 months with GLP-1s, plus diet and exercise.

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30:57I think that MAGA is Trump. MAGA is not the other two. Trump said, referring to Kelly and Carlson. MAGA wants to see our country thrive and be safe, and MAGA loves what I'm doing, every aspect of it. This is a detour that we have to take in order to keep our country safe and keep other countries safe, frankly. Isn't that interesting? So he is talking about that he's doing this to keep our country safe. They don't want the number one chief exporter of terrorism, who has an apocalyptic leadership, or at least had until a couple days Here's a little bit more on Trump on why he's doing this. I guess he got some sort of card handed to him from Mark Levin.

31:38Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terror and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own citizens on the street as they protested. It has always been the policy of the United States, in particular, my administration, that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. And I'll say it again, they can never have a nuclear weapon. Again, that's Trump being completely ideologically consistent for the past 40 years. You know, he also addresses that they've killed tens of thousands of their own people. Now, it's interesting because Meghan basically implied, like, I don't like that they're killing all their own people, but it's not our job to do anything.

32:18Now, that, in some sense, that is right. Like, it's not our responsibility to do anything for anyone. But as I brought up several times, it's like, okay, so if the United States decides not to be a force for good in the world, the world will go to hell quickly, quickly. So us putting our resources behind helping people doesn't mean it's always going to work. But does Donald Trump not deserve our trust right now that he's going to do things differently? Venezuela, it's going to cause World War III. Well, we got Maduro in two hours and now we have access to their oil. And by the way, the oil markets aren't spiking like crazy right now.

33:02And is that partly because we also have access to Venezuelan oil? China right now is kind of quiet. I just, we just, maybe we can pull it up, but I just saw it literally at 10.59 before we started that China has issued a statement saying they're not going to get involved militarily, just offer moral backing to Iran because suddenly China is like, holy cow, this Trump guy, he's nuts. And they've got this little Israel place in the Middle East, and they're going to clean up this whole thing. Our worldwide ambitions might be getting a little bit trickier. And also to the idea that Israel wants hegemony over the Middle East and that they just want to blow everything up.

33:39Do you think they want this? Here is a series of videos of the hits that Israel is taking while they are trying to clean up the Middle East.

34:07Oh Oh hmm

34:27No. No. So the question is, what would you do? What would you want America to do? Let's say Toronto. In Canada, Toronto threw one rocket over into Michigan, right? What would you want America to do? They've been dealing with rocket after rocket after rocket to the backdrop of 1 ,500 of their men and women and children being slaughtered on October 7th and being taken hostage. and then they've had rockets coming at them from Hezbollah and the Houthis and all of these places. And it seems to me we're getting to the end of this, but the end of it is only if Iran is taken out. And Iran, by the way, as Rubio pointed out earlier, Iran is hampered right now because of the Trump administration.

35:14Imagine if they had more access to weapons and kept building ballistic missiles and got their hands on nukes while they're saying that's the little Satan and that's the big Satan. How much more dangerous this would be. But I just think you just have, all of us should just think about it from our own lives. If you had a rocket that was hitting your town, wherever you live right now, what would you want your government to do? I think it's worth thinking about. And now the interesting part, of course, as I've pointed out several times, can we get the amount of numbers? I think it's nine countries, but it might actually be more that Iran has now attacked.

35:52They are now, well, here's Laura Ingraham on what's going on in Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Embassy, which has now been hit by Iranian drones. Breaking news, a source telling Fox's Jennifer Griffin that the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was hit by two drones. A third is apparently en route and could strike at any moment. And the embassy is now issuing a shelter in place for citizens in Saudi Arabia as the U.S. government has put all citizens in the region on high alert and urged those in 14 different countries in the region to leave immediately. All right. So again, as if this was Israel's war, it's just about Israel.

36:34Why is Iran attacking Saudi Arabia? It's nine countries. We're going to get the full list that I'll read off to you real quick. Connor, I think, just pulled up one of the point I was making about China. Yeah. This is from News Algebra on X. China, we are not providing military support to Iran. We only offer moral backing. Moral backing ain't worth much. I've got to tell you that. It isn't. Missiles help. Other weapons help. Moral backing, not much. So this has much more to do. I'm telling you over the next couple of weeks, as you're going to find out, this has way more to do with stopping Chinese encroachment, maybe giving a warning like the American military is back so China don't make a move on Taiwan.

37:14Like there's just much bigger things happening than Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin walking into the Oval Office and telling Donald Trump what to do, you Botox bitch. Nine countries, they've attacked nine countries, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Cyprus. And also you can argue that in some sense they've attacked the UK and France because they have bases in those countries that have been hit. This is one of the most extraordinary videos as you will ever see. This is absolutely wild. A video, this is video of a US F-15 airplane, which crashed in Kuwait, got shot down in Kuwait.

37:54The pilots arrived. Just watch this, it's incredible.

38:08You're fine? Really? You need something to help you? No problem, you're safe. You're safe, you're safe. Everything good? No problem. Thank you for helping us. Everything perfect? Yes, one minute, one minute. One minute, one minute. One minute, one minute.

38:39Okay, so what you're seeing, there are two pilots. First off, the first one was a female pilot. That is worth noting. and just, you're safe, you're safe. Do you need anything? No, I'm okay. I mean, it's the most extraordinary thing you could possibly imagine. They were accidentally shot down by the Kuwaitis. Okay, so there are gonna be accidents. War is messy, fog of war, all of that stuff. But how, this is what I'm talking about. There could be a new Middle East on the horizon. Do you think the Kuwaitis right now are running around thinking that the Americans and the Israelis are bad? I don't think so.

39:08I think they're going, man, Iran is shooting rockets into our territory. those are the bad guys. So there are new, this is all to the backdrop. Like if this thing gets done cleanly, the Abraham Accords that we already have are going to be much, much bigger. Now, this is a bit of a side, but sort of strange, I guess, in a cosmic sense. Listen to this from Asian News International. An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 strikes Gharash in Iran, reports Al Jazeera. More details awaited. So there's just a lot going on in the Middle East. But from an earthquake, how do I do this? From an earthquake in Iran to a woman who, when she farts, it's like an earthquake at that studio in New York City.

39:50Whoopi Goldberg over on The View. I really love this clip. So for those of you that, I used to watch The View. I mean, right now I show you these clips and we joke about them and everything else. But 20 years ago, I used to watch The View because one of the things that they were doing sort of pre-internet is they brought those women together. Barbara Walters had this great idea of we're gonna take these different women with different views and we're gonna debate these things and everything else. And there was a, she was a girl at the time. She was a young girl by the name of Elizabeth Hasselbeck.

40:19And she was on when Rosie was on about, what years was Elizabeth Hasselbeck on The View? It's a long time ago already. And she was the conservative and she was a real conservative, not like Alyssa Farah getting her cookie or everything else. And they brought her back. I don't know if it was just for a one-time thing or anything else yesterday, But she just did such a spectacular job talking about what's happening in Iran. And watch the rest of the women of The View, who I think are supposed to be for women, regardless of what country they're in, watch them start fumbling. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has said that this is now the time for the Iranian people to stand and do what they need to do.

40:55And when you look at what women looked like and were treated like, we have a before and after. Before this regime and after. This is before. and here's after. And right now, these women have hope. 47 million women have hope. People who are gay are not being thrown off buildings. Women will not be mutilated and murdered. And I think there's such hope. And it takes strength to find peace. And America should be first at that, always. Here's the thing, though. I remember, and I hope you're right. I hope for the sake of the Iranian people and for the sake of the world, for America's sake, I hope you're right.

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42:17And it was very effective what you did right there, Elizabeth. Perhaps that was from people watching online shows to show, to juxtapose those images. What were women like in 1978, Iran? And what are they dealing with now? And you guys should be cheering. You don't have to cheer. you don't have to cheer the idea of war and you don't have to cheer the idea of everything, of military adventures and all these things. But it would be the easiest thing for all of you to be relentlessly defending that women and other minorities would be free. You, whoopee, and the other one, who's obviously off of Ozempic, and the other one, it's like, ladies, you guys wouldn't wanna live like that.

42:57So how about you defend, you defend the women who are stuck in this horrible position. So good work, Hasselbeck. I hope you come back to the show. That would be wonderful. Sarah Haynes, who's the other one that's kind of saying there, and I'm glad I got her name right. My mom always tells me she's pretty good, so stop making fun of her. So this one's for you, mom. Here's Sarah Haynes reminding the most racist woman on television, Sonny Hostin, that every single other president in our lifetime has struck the Middle East without congressional approval. This is an unconstitutional war. It's an illegal war.

43:28He didn't go to Congress. He didn't go to the UN. He didn't go before the American people. And that's why at this point, 27 percent of Americans, only 27 percent of Americans approve of these actions. And I don't believe, I don't have any confidence that Donald Trump has any sort of plan. Maybe he has concepts of a plan, but he does not have any sort of plan. Just to mention, the other presidents that have gone in without congressional approval of Biden, Obama, Clinton, George H.W., Reagan. And so I would be more upset that Congress has ceded this power than mad that the president didn't check with Congress.

44:01Well, I'm mad about all of it. I think we can. OK, so good work there, Sarah. I don't want to get into the whole sort of constitutional version of this right now, but the president does have broad authority at least for 90 days to do military actions. And as she pointed out, every president has done it. Now, would I like Congress to be more functional and be able to vote on things properly? That would be nice. Also, Sonny Hassen saying, we didn't go to the UN, like the UN. Yes, let's go to the Legion of Doom and ask, give me one of the guys, give me a couple Legion of Doom bad guys. We got Berserko and give me a couple Legion of Doom guys.

44:36Who do we got? We got, give me some bad guys from the DC universe. Bizarro, let's ask Black Mantis, Gorilla Grodd, who's the guy, not Green Lantern, but the bad Green Lantern. He had a purple ring, I think. Are we gonna ask those guys if we should save the world or not? Completely, completely ridiculous. So that's what's happening over on The View. Elizabeth, I hope you make a comeback. Let's jump over to the televised institution known as MS Now, where again, this whole idea that Trump doesn't know what he's doing, that there was no threat, that Iran was just a great bunch of people doing wonderful things.

45:12Here's a guy with very low T. His name is Colorado representative Jason Crow. On with Joe Scarborough.

45:20JD Vance:It's some undefined imminent threat, which, by the way, is a lie, right? There is no imminent threat. I sit on the Intelligence Committee, the Armed Services Committee. I pay very close attention to this. And there is no imminent threat. I can tell you that. OK, so that's MSNBC. There is no imminent threat. That's nice that you can tell us that. But why don't we go to somebody who's been involved in the negotiations with the Iranians? So here is Trump's envoy who was dealing with the negotiations. literally about five days ago with the Iranians, Steve Whitcoff, telling Fox News what the Iranians told him.

45:59In that first meeting, both the Iranian negotiators said to us directly, with, you know, no shame, that they controlled 460 kilograms of 60 percent. And they're aware that that could make 11 nuclear bombs. and that was the beginning of their negotiating stance. So that's, they were proud of it. They were proud that they had evaded all sorts of oversight protocols to get to a place where they could deliver 11 nuclear bombs. Okay, so that's Whitcoff who, again, you don't have to take, you could say he's a liar, but there he is laying out what he says he was told. I'm guessing some of this was on the record and they probably have recordings of some of this stuff and everything else.

46:43So you can, all right, so is what it is, right? But I would also hearken back to what Rubio said at the top, which is they're weaker now. You know, there's this weird thing. It's like, you know, you have a country that's kind of weak, but doing bad stuff. And what do you do? Do you wait till they're stronger to then fight them? Or do you do something when they are somewhat weak? That is seemingly what we are doing now. Now, much of what's happened with Iran falls in the lap of Barack Obama. because Barack Obama, when the Iranian people were rising up about, it's a little more than 10 years ago now, he did absolutely nothing.

47:21He did nothing. Barack Obama, Mr. Peace and progressive values and everything else, he let those people die when they tried to rise up against the Mullahs over a decade ago. But not only did he do that, he shipped hundreds of millions of dollars to the Iranians that then they, we know they used for terror and a whole bunch of other bad stuff. Here's Jake Tapper from 2016.

47:49JD Vance:Welcome back to The Lead. I'm Jake Tapper in Ohio, battleground state where we're covering the presidential contest. But let's turn to our world lead today, continued outrage and controversy over that$400 million cash transfer to Iran by the Obama administration on the same day four American prisoners were released by Iran. The White House denies that the money was a ransom payment. Footage aired on Iranian television, however, purports to show the money arriving in Tehran, and that is raising renewed questions about whether this was a quid pro quo. Okay, so quid pro quo, right? That's what they wanted to literally impeach Trump on, even though we know that Joe Biden was doing a quid pro quo with Ukraine, but that's a whole other side deal.

48:36But okay, we're giving tons of cash to the Iranian institutions, to the Iranian regime. What do you think they are going to do with it? Well, here's Barack Obama after he was very excited to give them another 56 billion. It is true that if Iran lives up to its commitments, it will gain access to roughly $56 billion of its own money. But the notion that this will be a game-changer, with all this money funneled into Iran's pernicious activities, misses the reality of Iran's current situation. Iran's leaders have raised the expectations of their people that sanctions relief will improve their lives.

49:14Even a repressive regime like Iran's cannot completely ignore those expectations. And that's why our best analysts expect the bulk of this revenue to go into spending that improves the economy and benefits the lives of the Iranian people. What a nothing in a suit. How he did it, it'll be studied for years to come. How he got everybody to jump on hope and change and everything else. Our analysts think if we give them$56 billion, it'll help the economy and the people. Well, what happened? What actually happened over the last 10 years? They built a war machine. Did they do anything progressive, Barry?

49:55Did they free the women? How are the gays doing over in Iran? Did they decide to scale back the war machine? Like, just, just terrible. But thank God we have Donald Trump. I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama. That was a horrible, horrible, dangerous document. They would have had nuclear weapons three years ago and they would have used them. Yeah, and I think there's every reason to believe that. We gave them cash and said, okay, we're gonna send some inspectors in every now and again to see what you guys are up to. Meanwhile, according to Whitcoff, they have enough material for 11 bombs, basically.

50:41So what's gonna happen in the mainstream media right now? Well, we know this. I mean, we know they're going to trot out all of the people who get everything wrong, most of whom who have a version of Trump derangement syndrome, to lie about what's going on in Iran. Here is former Obama CIA director John Brennan, a man who probably should be in jail. And listen to him over on MS. It's not. Yes, there are a lot of Iranian people who despise the regime and hated Khamenei and are glad that he's dead. But also the regime and the theocracy have a lot of people who supported them. It's a country of over 92 million people.

51:25And so they have their equivalent of in the rural areas, conservative areas. There's the MAGA equivalent in Iran. Oh, the MAGA equivalent in Iran. OK, so all right. You can see what he's trying to do. Well, basically they were bad. The Mullah was bad. Ayatollah was bad. But, you know, there's a big country and people have all sorts of opinions. Well, that actually is true. Although in that country, you could get killed for having a bad, the wrong opinion. But why would they trot out John Brennan? Do we have the New York Post? Do you remember John Brennan? Yeah, he's one of the 51 spies who lie, the intelligence experts who falsely discredited Hunter Biden's laptop.

52:03And there he is. There is his face. right next to my favorite James Clapper, who when he was under oath asking if America spies on its own citizens, he said, scratching the top of his head, not wittingly, which is quite literally an episode of Seinfeld, which is that when you're lying, you touch your face and the higher up on your face that you touch, the bigger the lie is. So what do we do in the face of people that are going to lie? Whether it is John Brennan on the left or it is Tucker Carlson on the right, whether it is the army of Pakistani bots that are out there, whether it is the AI slop that's going to be thrown in our faces as we're in an information war to the backdrop of a conventional war.

52:43You just have to not participate in the lies and you have to call them out when you see them. Jordan Peterson. And many psychological commentators, Jung was a good example of that, made a very straightforward case that you can't have a totalitarian state unless every single person is willing to lie about everything all the time. And you can think about that as top down because the leaders lie too. And they also enforce punishments if you don't lie. But then you can also think about it, the totalitarian spirit is replicated at every level of the society. And so in a truly totalitarian state, husbands lie to their wives and parents lie to their children.

53:23and the totalitarian state is actually the grip of the lie. And so, and people will certainly go along with that. I mean, we're seeing that emerge here with cancel culture. It's like lie or else. Yes. And that's what we have to fight right now. The lies are going to be flying. The propagandists will be flying. You don't have to, I'm telling you what I think. Is it possible some of my predictions will be wrong or whatever else? Absolutely. But I think if you're watching this show, you know what I think. And you know that I'm bringing this to you as truthfully as I possibly can. There are a lot of people that are not doing that.

54:02And right now, we are in a precarious position in this world. And again, this is all to the backdrop of the real game in some sense, which is the midterm elections. Because if we lose the midterm elections, then we get the Democrats again. And then it will be much, much worse. So do not participate in a lie. By the way, I thought it might be a nice way to end the show by reading on the back cover here of Don't Burn This Book, a New York Times bestseller, by the way, although that whole list is made up. Allow me to read this. Dave Rubin is one of the bravest, smartest people I know, as well as a tremendous television presence.

54:37Tucker Carlson, Fox News host. Postgame show, 30 seconds, RubinReport.Locals.com. See you tomorrow.

54:48Thank you.