DavidKnight_03-02-2026.timecode

[00:27.000 --> 00:35.800]  In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
[00:35.800 --> 00:43.640]  It's the David Knight Show.
[00:43.640 --> 00:49.240]  As the clock strikes 13, it's March the 2nd, year of our Lord, 2026.
[00:49.240 --> 00:56.840]  Well, March comes in like a lion, and we've got a leader who is lion left and right, treachery
[00:57.000 --> 01:04.760]  foreign and domestic, lawlessness, mass murder, coming from the executive, I'm sorry, the emergency
[01:04.760 --> 01:11.800]  branch of government. This man is a one-man, fourth turning, kicking off global depression
[01:11.800 --> 01:18.920]  and world war, folks. And who knew? Well, I think we could tell from 2020 what he was made of,
[01:19.480 --> 01:23.240]  what his agenda was, and now he's got the power to do it and he's doing it.
[01:23.240 --> 01:31.400]  We're going to take a look at Trump's criminal, illegal, immoral, mass murder. We'll be right back.
[01:53.240 --> 02:15.480]  Well, I put up a sub stack comment about this because I didn't see anybody else talking about
[02:15.480 --> 02:22.440]  this. I said, where's my false flag? Don't I even get the, don't they even try anymore?
[02:23.080 --> 02:27.240]  Don't they even care if we have consent? Don't they even try to make a case? Well,
[02:27.240 --> 02:31.960]  no, they don't, quite frankly. The timing of this war really wasn't a surprise,
[02:31.960 --> 02:36.840]  except for the false flag being missing. As I wrote, the timing of this war was no surprise.
[02:36.840 --> 02:44.120]  The Jerusalem Post had asked all four AI large language models on Wednesday when war would begin.
[02:45.080 --> 02:48.520]  It took a little bit of coaxing, if you remember, to get them to finally come up with a date.
[02:48.520 --> 02:54.040]  However, Grok immediately came up with February the 28th, the day that Trump actually pulled the
[02:54.040 --> 03:00.840]  trigger. The others came up with dates that were between the 28th and this coming Saturday.
[03:01.720 --> 03:06.440]  One of them said sometime between Wednesday and Friday, and I said, that's not going to happen.
[03:07.000 --> 03:10.680]  He's going to do it when the markets are closed, just like Gerald Slinty said. We all know that.
[03:10.680 --> 03:16.440]  We've seen the patterns before. We know these patterns, but part of the pattern is they always
[03:16.440 --> 03:22.760]  do a false flag. Where's my 9-11? Where's my Gulf of Tonkin event? Don't you even want to try to
[03:22.760 --> 03:27.640]  give me something to believe in? This is where we are, folks. They do whatever they wish.
[03:28.440 --> 03:32.200]  They don't care what the Constitution says. Open defiance of the Constitution,
[03:32.200 --> 03:37.160]  open defiance of the Geneva Convention, open defiance of the laws of God Almighty.
[03:37.880 --> 03:41.080]  That's what this Trump administration is. Pure evil.
[03:41.240 --> 03:45.720]  No surprise, he'd be eager to start this sooner, right, with all the pressures about the Epstein
[03:45.720 --> 03:53.240]  stuff and everything else. But he doesn't want to damage that precious Dow at 50,000. You might
[03:53.240 --> 04:01.080]  have to investigate Epstein then at that point in time with Pam Bondi. So for all the talk of timing
[04:01.960 --> 04:07.080]  and how the weapons systems of each side stack up against each other, my skepticism was that it
[04:07.240 --> 04:11.240]  wouldn't happen on the 28th because they need to have a false flag event. Where's our false flag?
[04:11.240 --> 04:15.880]  We've got to start that as a sequence of events. Well, the question is, however,
[04:17.320 --> 04:23.960]  as I said in this article, where's my 9-11? You should have guessed this from the testimony of
[04:23.960 --> 04:31.240]  women that Trump is not into foreplay, is he? Yeah, just like he told Billy Bush to paraphrase it,
[04:31.320 --> 04:36.120]  he just like he told Billy Bush to paraphrase it, hey, if you're a Zionist, they just let you,
[04:36.120 --> 04:42.360]  right? Just get to do whatever you want. Question is, however, will the Pentagon and Palantir
[04:42.360 --> 04:47.800]  respect us in the morning? No, they will not, of course. And that's another aspect of this
[04:47.800 --> 04:56.760]  we must not lose sight of. This back and forth between Warpete, Trump, and Anthropic, which has
[04:56.760 --> 05:04.360]  the large language model Claude, folks, this is really significant in a number of ways. First of
[05:04.360 --> 05:13.320]  all, the fact that the sticking point were the red lines in their ethics statements about not doing
[05:13.320 --> 05:20.600]  mass surveillance, not setting up Chinese style credit scores for people, and not using AI for
[05:20.600 --> 05:28.600]  autonomous killer weapons. These are important things to the Pentagon. That's enough for them
[05:28.600 --> 05:33.640]  to try to destroy Anthropic. And of course, that's another issue. A lot of people in business are
[05:33.640 --> 05:38.360]  saying, you know, we're looking at very unusual things being done by the Trump administration.
[05:38.360 --> 05:46.280]  We've had unconstitutional bailouts of industries and companies in the past. And yet now, what
[05:46.280 --> 05:53.480]  they're doing is they're taking active control of companies to actually be participatory in the
[05:53.480 --> 05:59.000]  management of the company and to decide what's going to be sold and what's not going to be sold.
[05:59.000 --> 06:05.080]  And of course, now the vengeance, they said, well, we've really interwoven Anthropic into
[06:05.080 --> 06:09.480]  our systems. So if we have to get rid of them, it's going to be very painful. And we're going
[06:09.480 --> 06:15.800]  to make them pay a price. We're going to tell them they have to do whatever we want. If we
[06:15.800 --> 06:23.880]  give them lawless orders, remember all that about murdering people on ship, on boats on the coast
[06:23.880 --> 06:30.120]  of Venezuela? Yeah, don't you dare tell the troops that they can't follow lawless orders.
[06:31.480 --> 06:36.600]  You know, it's the simplest thing in the world for Warpete and the Pentagon to say,
[06:36.600 --> 06:40.360]  we didn't give them lawless orders. And of course, when push comes to shove,
[06:41.000 --> 06:45.880]  Mark Kelly and his co-sponsor backed off of that. I can't think of anything lawless that they did.
[06:45.880 --> 06:50.600]  Really? You're not thinking too hard, are you? Except that you want those same powers
[06:51.400 --> 06:56.920]  when your party gets in power. When you become president, he's got presidential aspirations.
[06:56.920 --> 07:01.080]  He would love to do exactly the same stuff. Don't fool yourself. Mark Kelly is no better.
[07:02.920 --> 07:08.280]  If you can't find lawless actions and what was happening in Venezuela, you're just not
[07:08.280 --> 07:15.880]  paying attention or you're lying through your teeth. And so they don't care about lawless
[07:15.880 --> 07:22.040]  actions. As a matter of fact, they want Anthropic to do lawless actions. Good for them for not
[07:22.040 --> 07:28.280]  doing it. And of course, Sam Altman, who will do anything to ingratiate himself, anything for money
[07:28.280 --> 07:36.840]  and power, he's their go-to guy. This despicable character, first time I saw him was when he had
[07:36.840 --> 07:46.120]  that orb thing that he invented a cryptocurrency, which had absolutely no value. And if you would
[07:46.120 --> 07:55.320]  voluntarily give him your biometrics by looking into this orb, what a metaphor. If you'd give up
[07:55.320 --> 07:59.480]  your biometric information and look into that orb, he would give you a little bit of his worthless
[07:59.480 --> 08:09.160]  cryptocurrency as he builds a global database of people. What an evil person Sam Altman is.
[08:09.720 --> 08:16.280]  He's going to make Bill Gates look great. Good. I tell you, you just wait and see.
[08:16.920 --> 08:26.840]  We haven't seen the last of Sam Altman. And so what is going on with Pentagon and Palantir
[08:26.840 --> 08:31.320]  and these large language models is very instructive. It tells you what the goal
[08:31.320 --> 08:36.200]  of the police surveillance state is. It tells you what the goal of the Trump administration is.
[08:37.080 --> 08:43.560]  It tells you why they are so adamant that there'll be no regulations of AI. They're coming back and
[08:43.560 --> 08:47.080]  say, well, it's not about that at all. It's just that we wanted the principle that they would do
[08:47.080 --> 08:52.520]  whatever we had to say, regardless of whether it's legal, regardless of whether it's ethical.
[08:53.240 --> 08:57.960]  You do whatever we're going to say. You make that agreement now. I'm not saying I'm going to ask you
[08:57.960 --> 09:06.600]  to do anything lawless or unethical. Who would ever think that that is something that they would
[09:06.600 --> 09:12.680]  ever ask us to do? But I just want to establish the principle that you have no legal restraints.
[09:12.680 --> 09:17.080]  I have no legal restraints. And you're not going to be restrained in what I tell you to do.
[09:17.800 --> 09:21.560]  You're not going to come back and question whether it's legal or moral, right?
[09:22.280 --> 09:27.080]  That's what so-called Christian, air-quote Christian, Pete Hegseth wants.
[09:29.640 --> 09:36.840]  Disgusting. Such a disgusting. He's a traitor to Christ the same as Mike Huckabee is.
[09:37.960 --> 09:45.400]  A traitor to Christ and to this country and to the principles, both of them. And so the question is,
[09:47.160 --> 09:50.920]  will they respect us in the morning? Of course, they will not. They've already made it clear
[09:50.920 --> 09:56.360]  when they divorced anthropic that the weapons of war abroad will become instruments of tyranny at
[09:56.360 --> 10:02.040]  home. The Pentagon has publicly decided that mass surveillance of the American public is viewed by
[10:02.040 --> 10:09.720]  them as a core mission. That lawless, illegal orders, immoral orders are a core mission of
[10:09.720 --> 10:15.320]  our Pentagon. Let's start calling it the pentagram. You want to embrace satanic values?
[10:19.080 --> 10:24.920]  The Pentagon has publicly declared this to be their core mission. The very reason they
[10:24.920 --> 10:30.600]  gave for rejecting anthropic was that anthropic has in its mission statement, a rejection of
[10:30.600 --> 10:36.040]  domestic surveillance and autonomous killing machines, which are arguably more dangerous
[10:36.040 --> 10:41.960]  than nuclear weapons. And we have no known way of controlling them. I've been talking about this
[10:41.960 --> 10:46.600]  for over a decade. It's like 12 years. I think it was like going back to some of the interviews
[10:46.600 --> 10:53.720]  that I had with Noel Sharkey, who put this together. And I've talked to, what is that guy's name?
[10:54.360 --> 11:00.600]  Brad Charret, I think Charret is his last name. He wrote the book for battlegrounds and it was
[11:00.600 --> 11:04.680]  about the war gaming that's going on the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. I guess we
[11:04.680 --> 11:12.200]  should call it the Machiavellian industrial complex. They were talking about the race of
[11:12.200 --> 11:18.040]  artificial intelligence with China. And what do we do with that? And of course, he openly admits
[11:19.160 --> 11:25.880]  that having autonomous killer weapons is a very dodgy proposition. How do we stop it?
[11:26.920 --> 11:31.400]  Once we set these things up, and both sides, the Chinese have got theirs, we've got ours.
[11:32.040 --> 11:36.360]  If you don't give firepower to your autonomous weapons, you're going to lose. If you've got
[11:36.360 --> 11:41.240]  humans in the loop, they're slow. And so your side is going to lose. So you have to turn all
[11:41.240 --> 11:48.120]  this over to them. Once you turn it over, how do you stop it? What stops it? Well, we don't know
[11:48.120 --> 11:55.640]  yet, but we're going to do it anyway. Right? So we know where the Pentagon and lethal Pete are
[11:55.640 --> 12:01.320]  going with all this stuff. If Anthropic won't aid the exploding police surveillance dystopian
[12:01.320 --> 12:07.880]  state that Trump and the Pentagon demand, then Anthropic must be put out of business. Think about
[12:07.880 --> 12:17.400]  that. You are the enemy of the Pentagon, you and I, not just the Ayatollah. And by the way, the
[12:17.400 --> 12:27.640]  Ayatollah was just an adverse effect of an injection, an injection of a king into Iranian
[12:27.640 --> 12:37.960]  politics and government. That was a coup that was done in 1953. 73 years ago, we injected the
[12:37.960 --> 12:44.920]  Ayatollah, we injected the king and the Ayatollah was the adverse effect. The CIA overthrew a
[12:44.920 --> 12:52.360]  democratically elected president, installed a king in Iran in 1953, along with a CIA,
[12:52.360 --> 13:01.800]  Mossad-trained secret police and intelligence agency. The brutal and evil Savak, a creature
[13:02.360 --> 13:09.800]  of the CIA and the Mossad, created in their image. That, folks, is the history of Iran.
[13:09.880 --> 13:15.640]  And yet here is Donald Trump's history. 47 years, the Iranian regime has chanted
[13:15.640 --> 13:21.880]  death to America and waged an ending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder,
[13:22.600 --> 13:27.720]  targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many, many countries.
[13:28.760 --> 13:35.080]  Among the regime's very first acts was to back a violent takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran,
[13:35.800 --> 13:44.680]  holding dozens of American hostages for 444 days. In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the
[13:45.400 --> 13:50.920]  Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.
[13:51.560 --> 13:55.480]  And Ronald Reagan had the good sense to get out. He said, these people are crazy.
[13:55.480 --> 14:01.000]  Let's stop playing this game. Let's go back to, okay, 73 years ago, we overthrew their
[14:01.000 --> 14:09.000]  government. We put in the Shah. You know what the Shah really means? It means king. It's Persian
[14:09.000 --> 14:17.240]  for king. We overthrew a democratically elected government. Talk about consent of the government,
[14:17.240 --> 14:21.560]  of the government, rather, on this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
[14:21.560 --> 14:26.920]  We overthrew a democratically elected government, whether you like it or not,
[14:27.560 --> 14:32.680]  and we installed a king. And the people who were doing it were the CIA along with the
[14:32.680 --> 14:39.560]  Mossad. They didn't start chanting death to America, death to Israel, and the little Satan,
[14:39.560 --> 14:48.920]  big Satan stuff until about 25, 30 years later. What took them so long? That's what I don't
[14:48.920 --> 14:53.880]  understand. So think about all this on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
[14:53.880 --> 14:59.240]  Think about what your country has become. How has it been subverted by evil men and evil
[14:59.240 --> 15:08.280]  institutions? As we pat ourselves on the back for our freedoms and our rights and our consent
[15:08.280 --> 15:17.480]  of the governed, ask yourself if today the CIA and Mossad are better than they were 73 years ago.
[15:17.480 --> 15:24.440]  And we look at Epstein and all the rest of them, we just understand what they're doing is they're
[15:24.440 --> 15:33.080]  perfecting their evil. They are far worse than they were 73 years ago. The Ayatollah was a bad
[15:33.080 --> 15:39.160]  reaction to an awful king. What bad reaction is America likely to have from this awful king,
[15:39.160 --> 15:44.520]  Trump? And the world, I should say. He aspires to be king of the world. I mean, that's what his
[15:45.240 --> 15:48.680]  board of peace is really about. And I see a comment here from
[15:48.680 --> 15:53.400]  HiBoost. I guess the board of peace isn't going so well. Yeah. It's really more like this.
[15:55.240 --> 16:02.120]  Court Jester Lindsey Graham, Trump with his crown, and he's board of peace. B-O-R-E-D.
[16:02.840 --> 16:09.880]  He's tired of it. Absolutely tired of it. Well, the Trump and his Zionist masters
[16:10.440 --> 16:16.440]  went straight for the jugular in a decapitation strike. And our fellow Americans are disturbingly
[16:16.440 --> 16:23.640]  quiet about what has now become standard operating procedure, attacking countries that have not
[16:23.640 --> 16:33.080]  attacked us. Let me just say this, preemptive strikes are always immoral. Always immoral.
[16:34.280 --> 16:37.240]  And usually illegal by international law, if that mattered.
[16:38.200 --> 16:42.600]  We called that infamy at Pearl Harbor, and yes, it was, regardless of what had preceded it.
[16:43.640 --> 16:50.600]  I mean, the Japanese had a lot more justification for what they did at Pearl Harbor,
[16:50.600 --> 16:58.520]  as bad as it was. They had more justification than Trump has for this. They were 100% dependent on
[16:58.520 --> 17:04.200]  foreign oil. We had stopped 80% of their oil, as Gerald Slenty frequently points out, when you do
[17:04.200 --> 17:09.560]  economic sanctions of that nature. Let's understand what sanctions are. Sanctions are
[17:09.560 --> 17:15.400]  an act of war. And I said this when Trump locked this country down in 2020. I said,
[17:15.400 --> 17:23.160]  what we're seeing here is an economic sanction against Main Street, against mom and pop businesses,
[17:23.160 --> 17:29.960]  against the big box Wall Street retailers on his side. And he was going to war for them
[17:30.520 --> 17:36.120]  against the mom and pops and the Main Street businesses and everyday Americans who had voted
[17:36.120 --> 17:44.680]  for him. It was economic war. It was sanctions. It was a siege. You know, when you surround a
[17:44.680 --> 17:51.320]  castle and you cut off their supplies to starve them out, that is an act of war.
[17:52.760 --> 17:57.160]  And it shouldn't be a surprise if when you're threatening the existence of people,
[17:57.320 --> 18:01.320]  if you've got them backed into a corner, it shouldn't be a surprise when they attack
[18:02.760 --> 18:12.280]  and respond to that existential threat. So the fact that he's doing this now is actually nothing
[18:12.280 --> 18:23.960]  new. And what is sad is that just as it all happened in 2020, and most Americans were silent,
[18:23.960 --> 18:32.600]  the media cheered it. The media got all caught up in the vaccines and the narrative about viruses
[18:32.600 --> 18:36.920]  and all the rest of stuff. The media is caught up right now. And whose missile system is it?
[18:36.920 --> 18:41.560]  And who's prevailing with this? And what's the latest that we hear? And of course, it's all
[18:41.560 --> 18:49.000]  controlled. There's news breaking today that some F-15s have been shot down, that being flown by
[18:49.000 --> 18:58.360]  Kuwait and support. Now the story comes out that they were shot down by friendly fire, mistaking them.
[18:59.800 --> 19:05.800]  I don't know about that. We can't tell. Truth is the first casualty of war.
[19:07.000 --> 19:13.080]  Nevertheless, there are going to be some casualties. And Trump was very casual about it,
[19:13.080 --> 19:21.320]  wasn't he? He says he wasn't, but his actions say otherwise. So we are told that Iran is a
[19:21.320 --> 19:29.320]  terrorist state. It uses threats, violence, and threats of violence to achieve political,
[19:29.320 --> 19:33.960]  religious, and social goals. And that is the textbook definition of terrorism, isn't it?
[19:35.320 --> 19:40.760]  Iran does fit the bill. But doesn't that also describe the American regime?
[19:41.560 --> 19:47.160]  Never has our terrorism been more shameless than under Trump.
[19:48.840 --> 19:54.760]  Both foreign and domestic, the Trump regime strives for conflict because it makes them feared.
[19:55.720 --> 20:03.560]  And isn't that the purpose of terrorism? And the purpose of organized crime? Trump is a mafia don,
[20:03.560 --> 20:09.240]  folks. That's the way he sees the world. Whether he's dealing with people domestically,
[20:09.480 --> 20:17.400]  the other political party, the press, foreign countries, you must fear him. You must kiss the
[20:17.400 --> 20:25.400]  ring. Well, it won't end there. We can always dream of a better day, a better America. We can't
[20:25.400 --> 20:33.160]  dream, rather we can dream, of making America American again. We can strive for the ideals of
[20:33.320 --> 20:40.040]  America, the rule of law, freedom, dignity, peaceful commerce, and no foreign entanglements
[20:40.040 --> 20:48.680]  would be a good start. I'm not a pacifist. A just or justified war is a noble cause.
[20:49.640 --> 20:58.120]  Because what is it? It's not aggression. It's not attacks. It's defending innocent life from
[20:58.120 --> 21:05.400]  aggression, from attacks, from bad actors. It is people putting their lives at risk to stop
[21:05.400 --> 21:11.560]  unprovoked, unjustified attacks by bad actors in the same way that a fireman rushes into a burning
[21:11.560 --> 21:16.840]  building that may have been set on fire by an arsonist or a police officer runs into a school
[21:16.840 --> 21:23.480]  to stop a shooter rather than running away from the school and hiding. That is what a just war is.
[21:24.440 --> 21:29.960]  It's putting on a uniform to identify yourself as a combatant in order to spare non-combatants
[21:29.960 --> 21:37.320]  from being attacked. By the way, do you remember when we didn't target civilians in war? It was
[21:37.320 --> 21:45.720]  before most of us were born, quite frankly. A just war is fighting to stop the violence that you did
[21:45.800 --> 21:58.600]  not start. It is fighting to preserve life. It is fighting to end war. That is the just purpose
[21:58.600 --> 22:06.840]  of war. That is the just purpose of the Department of Defense. It used to be called the Department
[22:06.840 --> 22:12.680]  of War. They cynically renamed it to the Department of Defense when their purpose was
[22:13.480 --> 22:18.760]  to preemptively start wars, to attack civilian populations.
[22:21.400 --> 22:24.040]  So the first few generations of American leaders understood
[22:24.680 --> 22:33.160]  that we don't go abroad seeking monsters to destroy. Why is that? Because we become monsters
[22:33.160 --> 22:41.000]  when we do that. That is the nature of human nature. The lesson has been unlearned.
[22:41.160 --> 22:46.360]  Nothing the U.S. government is doing is justified at this point. It is simply terrorism.
[22:47.160 --> 22:51.160]  In this last year, we have seen kidnapping and murder for regime change,
[22:51.640 --> 22:56.280]  shooting survivors of a boat that we blew up without justification in the first place.
[22:56.920 --> 23:01.320]  We've seen threats to invade or economically destroy friendly nations,
[23:02.040 --> 23:09.400]  just so that Trump can show how strong his regime is. It is ego politics, not geopolitics.
[23:10.280 --> 23:17.720]  That's just a few of these things. As I wrote, Trump is satanic, even apart from his Epstein
[23:17.720 --> 23:26.840]  debauchery. And Stephen Miller, Pee-wee German, is the little Satan. We have to reject this
[23:26.840 --> 23:33.640]  criminal regime of terror, pillage, and intimidation. We need to remember that God is not mocked
[23:34.200 --> 23:43.640]  either. That one way or the other, we will reap what they sow, even if we are not involved in it.
[23:44.680 --> 23:52.120]  They are our leaders, and it disturbs me to see how many Americans are cheering this. USA, USA.
[23:53.800 --> 24:01.240]  Right now, we are sowing in order to reap a whirlwind. The Bible is misquoted by a lot
[24:01.240 --> 24:06.040]  of politicians who say that God will bless those who bless Israel, curse those who curse Israel.
[24:06.040 --> 24:14.600]  No. He was talking to Abram. Personally, look at the pronouns. We had pronouns in Hebrew,
[24:14.600 --> 24:21.720]  just as we had pronouns in Old English. U means a collection of people. V means the person,
[24:21.720 --> 24:26.920]  one person that you are talking to. Abraham, I will bless those who bless you, Abraham.
[24:26.920 --> 24:33.800]  I will curse those who curse you, Abraham. But through your seed, singular, all nations will
[24:33.800 --> 24:39.320]  be blessed. What is that singular seed? The Lord Jesus Christ is that singular seed.
[24:39.960 --> 24:46.360]  Not Netanyahu, not some political entity in the Middle East, not the Israeli government.
[24:47.640 --> 24:54.120]  It's the Lord Jesus Christ, and don't you dare substitute the Lord Jesus Christ Israel for the
[24:54.120 --> 25:00.440]  Lord Jesus Christ. What blasphemy I see from these Zionist shills. I am disgusted with what
[25:00.440 --> 25:08.360]  I see with them. Jesus says that peacemakers are blessed. Jesus says peacemakers will be called
[25:08.360 --> 25:13.960]  the children of God. As a matter of fact, shortly before that, John the Baptist said to the Jews,
[25:13.960 --> 25:20.360]  he said, don't brag about the fact that Abraham is your father. God can raise up these stones
[25:20.360 --> 25:26.200]  to be his children, and God will raise up the peacemakers to be his children.
[25:27.320 --> 25:30.360]  You will know his children by their actions.
[25:33.320 --> 25:41.000]  Peacemaker or warmonger. Nominal Christians need to stop cheering this warmongering by Israel.
[25:41.720 --> 25:47.560]  They need to learn to be peacemakers and ambassadors for Christ. As well as
[25:48.520 --> 25:54.520]  Mike Huckabee, for example. He has betrayed his office as ambassador for Christ as well as
[25:54.520 --> 26:03.480]  ambassador for America. Folks, it begins with us. Well, I have a lot that I want to say about this
[26:03.480 --> 26:09.320]  besides what is going on, and we'll catch up with what is happening this morning, but I'm going to
[26:09.320 --> 26:17.000]  take a breather right now and calm down a little bit. I've been pretty upset this entire weekend
[26:17.000 --> 26:22.440]  looking at this disgusting situation. I don't even know this country anymore.
[27:47.160 --> 28:00.760]  You're listening to The David Knight Show.
[28:02.120 --> 28:10.040]  Hey, PS. Welcome back. I want to talk a little bit about what's happening this morning. Of course,
[28:10.040 --> 28:13.960]  we have the Strait of Hormuz was closed. We've had a couple of oil tankers that have been hit.
[28:14.600 --> 28:21.080]  We've had a Saudi Arabian oil refinery, one of the biggest, if not the biggest in their country,
[28:21.080 --> 28:28.440]  has been hit with drones. Shutting the oil supply down, just closing, forget about the oil refineries
[28:28.440 --> 28:33.480]  and this other types of attacks on infrastructure that are happening there. Just shutting down the
[28:33.480 --> 28:40.760]  Strait of Hormuz is going to be more disruptive, folks, in terms of the percentage of the world's
[28:40.760 --> 28:48.520]  oil supply than the OPEC embargo of 1973. Do you remember that? If you're old enough,
[28:48.520 --> 28:54.600]  you can't forget that. It's one of these things like one of these lifetime events that you can't
[28:54.600 --> 29:02.360]  forget or can't forget the consequences of it either, how it affected our society. We were not
[29:03.160 --> 29:09.960]  really that dependent on foreign oil at the time. It was only a small percentage of the foreign oil
[29:09.960 --> 29:14.520]  that we got as well. And yet, look at the disruption that it caused in our country.
[29:14.520 --> 29:17.800]  And it caused a lot of disruption in other countries as well, because even though they
[29:17.800 --> 29:22.840]  didn't put an embargo on, let's say, Europe, for example, it was targeted to the U.S. because U.S.
[29:22.840 --> 29:31.560]  had supported Israel in the Yom Kippur War. And so, it was targeted towards the United States,
[29:31.560 --> 29:38.040]  but because of the impact, because we went on the market competing against other people to
[29:38.040 --> 29:43.000]  try to get the other oil that was on the international markets, it was felt worldwide.
[29:43.000 --> 29:49.480]  Now, this is a situation where 20% of the world's oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
[29:50.440 --> 29:59.000]  Iran said, we just closed it. Let's see that orange pig open it, if he can. Orange pig,
[29:59.000 --> 30:05.960]  good description. But this is going to be very disruptive, and it is bigger than just the amount
[30:05.960 --> 30:11.640]  of oil going through the Strait of Hormuz. It's much bigger. What do you think is going to happen
[30:11.640 --> 30:19.640]  economically? When you look at the OPEC oil embargo, that kicked off stagflation, rapid inflation,
[30:20.280 --> 30:26.440]  stagnant economy. We already were looking at stagnation, recession, and possibly depression.
[30:27.400 --> 30:38.440]  Donald Trump is a one-man, fourth-turning global depression, global war. Everything that he's done
[30:38.440 --> 30:46.120]  in the first year of this second term has been to foment conflict needlessly. Foment conflict,
[30:46.120 --> 30:51.880]  even with Canada, all this nonsense about Greenland, and on and on. He's not the peace
[30:52.280 --> 30:56.200]  president. He is the conflict president, and he does the same thing domestically.
[30:57.080 --> 31:01.400]  Something needed to be done about the open border. Something needed to be done about the
[31:02.040 --> 31:06.760]  welfare state and the corruption and the fraud involving people who came here illegally, even
[31:06.760 --> 31:12.040]  people who came here legally. Something needed to be done about that. Everything that he did
[31:12.680 --> 31:19.160]  was designed to throw gasoline on the dumpster fire that he inherited, and that's what he's
[31:19.160 --> 31:26.520]  doing now. When we look at what is happening, gold is up, bitcoin is up, the markets are shaky and
[31:26.520 --> 31:34.520]  down. This could be a real turning point. It is absolutely reckless what he's doing, just from
[31:34.520 --> 31:38.200]  that standpoint. Of course, money seems to be about the only thing that he cares about,
[31:38.760 --> 31:42.280]  but he's got a plan to make money out of this. You can be sure about that.
[31:43.080 --> 31:47.720]  Let's take a look at the betrayal, but actually, I've got a couple of comments here. Audi,
[31:48.600 --> 31:53.080]  MRR, he says, our heroes in the military bombed a middle school in Iran over the weekend,
[31:53.720 --> 32:00.600]  killing over 100 schoolgirls. USA, USA, USA. Actually, it's 153, and I've got some comments
[32:01.240 --> 32:06.920]  from Scott Ritter about that, and something that he went through that was very similar,
[32:06.920 --> 32:11.000]  unfortunately. DJ, thank you for the tip. He said, David, they needed Charlie Kirk out of the way.
[32:11.640 --> 32:16.520]  He was opposed to any war in Iran, and he was leaving the Israel first agenda. Yep, that's
[32:16.520 --> 32:21.640]  right. That was in April, and I've got the clip of something he talked about. He questioned
[32:21.640 --> 32:28.280]  October the 7th, and he was told by top Jewish donors, no Tucker, no Candace, or they would defund
[32:28.840 --> 32:35.000]  TP USA, and he was fine with that. David, we're getting too close to the Clintons, the Trump
[32:35.000 --> 32:41.480]  family, Lutnik, Bibi, Ehud, Barack, Bannon, Teal, Bill Gates, and the Epstein files,
[32:41.480 --> 32:48.440]  so it's time to wag the dog and deflect the attention. Absolutely, I agree with all of that
[32:48.440 --> 32:57.960]  that you're saying. So the U.S. strikes in Iran, the New American called it what it was,
[32:58.920 --> 33:07.400]  unconstitutional, and breaking of a major campaign promise by Trump of no more foreign wars.
[33:08.600 --> 33:15.720]  Trump broke a key campaign vow, and I would say it's not just the campaign vows. He takes
[33:15.720 --> 33:19.800]  an oath to the Constitution, and I said this about Donnie the first time through. I said,
[33:20.440 --> 33:25.000]  what made anybody think this guy was going to keep his oath to the Constitution?
[33:25.080 --> 33:31.880]  He took an oath to love, honor, and obey, and stick to his wives. He broke that over and over
[33:31.880 --> 33:39.080]  again. The Constitution, it's easier to break that, that is to break the relationship that
[33:39.080 --> 33:43.800]  you've got with someone that you're very close to, isn't it? Trump said in a short speech that he
[33:43.800 --> 33:50.360]  wanted to protect American national security. No, this is not about the peace and safety of UNI,
[33:50.520 --> 33:55.560]  and that's what national security has become. National security has become antithetical
[33:56.120 --> 34:03.000]  to the peace and safety of Americans. National security is just another name for continuity of
[34:03.000 --> 34:09.320]  government, folks. Iran retaliated, striking headquarters, U.S. Navy 5th Fleet in Bahrain,
[34:09.320 --> 34:14.840]  and poured missiles into Israel. Iran also hit targets across the Middle East. Top Republicans
[34:14.840 --> 34:20.280]  rightly called the U.S. air raid unconstitutional, and the U.S. Navy was the first to do so.
[34:20.760 --> 34:31.240]  The warplanes and the ships that are in the Middle East are part of the largest U.S. military
[34:31.240 --> 34:37.880]  buildup since the Iraq war in 2003. Two aircraft carriers, a number of naval destroyers, and more
[34:37.880 --> 34:50.120]  than 50 fighter planes. Yeah, well, how did that Iraq war turn out? There's another quixotic quest
[34:50.920 --> 34:55.960]  about weapons of mass destruction. You know, Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, just like Iraq
[34:55.960 --> 35:01.400]  didn't have weapons of mass destruction either, and it was all based on lies, based on lies from
[35:01.400 --> 35:07.960]  the CIA. We get lied into one war after the other, just like we were lied into a pandemic,
[35:10.680 --> 35:16.760]  and they use that to attack us chemically. Those missiles are scattered in launch sites
[35:16.760 --> 35:24.280]  across Iran, where the first targets, U.S. military officials said, Trump gave an eight-minute
[35:24.280 --> 35:33.160]  speech. That's it. Is that in the Constitution? Before we go to war, the President gives an
[35:33.160 --> 35:43.640]  eight-minute speech or something. No debate, no discussion, no vote, just attack, and that
[35:43.640 --> 35:50.440]  means that there is no justification. This is unconstitutional. It is illegal, and it is also
[35:51.000 --> 35:55.480]  immoral. Should we dare say that? You know, that's the thing that is missing in everybody's
[35:55.480 --> 36:00.360]  discussion. Yes, we can talk about the practicality of this. Are we going to win this, whatever
[36:00.360 --> 36:05.880]  winning means? You know, that's part of the issue. One of the reasons why you would have
[36:05.880 --> 36:12.680]  a discussion and a debate with Congress before you go to war. What does victory look like?
[36:13.640 --> 36:20.200]  What's the goal here? Are we going to try to stop a war that has started? Has somebody invaded
[36:20.200 --> 36:24.200]  somebody else, somewhere else, and we've got to tamp that down so we can get back to a state of
[36:24.200 --> 36:28.840]  peace? No, no, we're the ones who are starting all this stuff, so that's not on the table.
[36:30.040 --> 36:37.800]  What does victory look like? So Trump says, they're a vicious group of very hard, terrible people
[36:38.440 --> 36:44.360]  whose activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas,
[36:44.360 --> 36:50.600]  and our allies throughout the world. Well, I think the same thing could be said of the Trump
[36:50.600 --> 36:57.240]  regime that is said of the Iranian regime. As I said, the Trump regime is also a terrorist regime.
[36:57.240 --> 37:04.040]  Think about it. The Trump regime is a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. We've seen
[37:04.040 --> 37:10.520]  it in Venezuela. We've seen it in Minneapolis. We're seeing it now in Iran. Activities directly
[37:10.520 --> 37:17.400]  endangering the United States, our troops, and our bases overseas, and our allies as well. Yeah,
[37:17.400 --> 37:23.320]  all that could be said of the Trump administration as well. Trump said the regime has chanted death
[37:23.320 --> 37:32.680]  to America for almost 50 years. Well, we overthrew their government 73 years ago. What took them 23
[37:32.680 --> 37:39.880]  years to figure out that we're the great Satan? Hope you realize it. Anyway, his history lesson
[37:40.920 --> 37:51.160]  begins with the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and the taking of the American
[37:51.160 --> 37:57.720]  hostages who were held for 44 days. Well, let's talk about that. The hostages who were held for
[37:57.800 --> 38:02.840]  444 days. Why were they held for 444 days? Well, one of the founders of the CIA,
[38:03.480 --> 38:09.000]  Bill Casey, Wild Bill Casey of the OSS that was created during World War II. Then it became the
[38:09.000 --> 38:15.400]  CIA. Wild Bill Casey was a campaign manager for Ronald Reagan. He was the one who put together
[38:15.400 --> 38:22.680]  the Iran-Contra deal. Tell you what, you keep those hostages and don't release them.
[38:23.640 --> 38:28.920]  Even after the election, you keep them hostage. Don't release them until the day that Ronald
[38:28.920 --> 38:35.800]  Reagan is sworn in. If you do that, said Wild Bill Casey to the Iranian Ayatollah,
[38:37.400 --> 38:43.560]  he said, we will give you spare parts for all those jets that we gave to the Shah.
[38:44.920 --> 38:51.640]  And they did. That was the Iran-Contra affair. And what did they do with that money that they got
[38:51.640 --> 38:59.640]  from the Iranians? Well, they started an illegal secret war in Central America as well. That was
[38:59.640 --> 39:06.840]  our government 40 some odd years ago. So yeah, let's put a little bit of context there because
[39:06.840 --> 39:16.120]  that context matters. It matters how the Ayatollah got into power and why. It was blowback from what
[39:16.120 --> 39:23.880]  we had done. We had put in a horrific king who had a secret police and police surveillance state,
[39:24.760 --> 39:34.680]  and we were involved in what is the beginning of Iran in the American mind, and that is the
[39:34.680 --> 39:41.960]  takeover of the embassy. We were involved in extending that. Ronald Reagan and the CIA.
[39:42.680 --> 39:48.200]  From Lebanon to Yemen, from Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained, and funded terrorist
[39:48.200 --> 39:56.840]  militias, said Trump about Iran. Well, I would say that we've done the same thing with a much
[39:56.840 --> 40:03.720]  wider sweep. I mean, we've given money to al-Qaeda. We have trained the Mujahideen,
[40:03.720 --> 40:10.120]  which became al-Qaeda. We've given money and arms to ISIS and so forth. Folks, we have done a lot
[40:10.120 --> 40:17.880]  more to train and fund al-Qaeda and ISIS than Iran has. It's just like the war on drugs.
[40:18.440 --> 40:22.760]  We look at these drug cartels. Do you realize the CIA's role in all of this stuff?
[40:24.440 --> 40:27.960]  It's much more significant in terms of the war on drugs.
[40:30.360 --> 40:36.440]  So yeah, Iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism, said Trump. No, I disagree.
[40:37.400 --> 40:45.560]  I say you are. You, the American government, you, the president, are the number one sponsor of this
[40:45.560 --> 40:51.640]  stuff. Trump said the regime has rejected every opportunity to end their nuclear ambitions, and
[40:51.640 --> 40:59.640]  we can't take it anymore. This lying piece of filth said that he destroyed the nuclear weapons,
[40:59.640 --> 41:05.320]  and now here he is a couple of months later saying, now we've got to destroy them. So when
[41:05.560 --> 41:14.200]  were you lying? Was it then? Is it now? Is it both times? So when we look at this mafia
[41:15.080 --> 41:24.120]  action that is here, I always think of the back and forth that Jeff Sessions had with
[41:25.240 --> 41:29.000]  then the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and with the Secretary of Defense at the time,
[41:29.720 --> 41:38.200]  lying Leon Panetta and the arrogance of these guys and what their focus is.
[41:38.200 --> 41:42.840]  And I wanted you to hear just a little bit of it. It's very long, but I think you really need to
[41:42.840 --> 41:51.480]  hear this. And I had high expectations for Jeff Sessions because of this session. Now he was
[41:51.480 --> 41:57.080]  a little bit milquetoast, I think, in his response to them, but he was as outraged as Jeff Sessions
[41:57.080 --> 42:05.560]  can get. And in terms of the comments being made by Panetta and the others, in terms of what it
[42:05.560 --> 42:11.960]  takes to start a war. And yet Jeff Sessions, when he became attorney general, was really not
[42:11.960 --> 42:17.320]  about the rule of law. He had his own little war that he wanted to fight, the war on drugs,
[42:18.040 --> 42:23.640]  which also was a UN war. And he argues with Panetta, well, you know how this all works.
[42:23.720 --> 42:27.400]  You were a congressman. Why did you know that you don't get your authority from the UN to do a war?
[42:28.280 --> 42:35.160]  Well, Senator, we do, and we'll tell you what we're going to do afterwards. But Jeff Sessions
[42:35.880 --> 42:44.920]  was pushing a UN agenda, a UN war of drugs. Yes, it was enacted by Richard Nixon, but all the
[42:44.920 --> 42:51.160]  schedule and everything else like that came from the United Nations. And he was willing to violate
[42:51.160 --> 42:59.480]  the constitution in order to do that. And it's very clear, all of America, when the 18th amendment
[42:59.480 --> 43:05.880]  was passed in the early 20th century, when they did alcohol and prohibition, all of America agreed
[43:06.840 --> 43:11.000]  that a constitutional amendment was necessary. The people who wanted prohibition, the people
[43:11.000 --> 43:15.640]  who opposed prohibition, they all agreed that a constitutional amendment was necessary.
[43:15.640 --> 43:23.080]  Sorry. Where do you have the authority to do a war on drugs? Sorry. Everybody throws the rule of
[43:23.080 --> 43:27.800]  law out the window for their particular cause, don't they? But here's this back and forth.
[43:28.600 --> 43:36.360]  And just pay attention to the attitude of Leon Panetta and all this, the smug attitude about all
[43:36.360 --> 43:42.360]  this. We'll do whatever we want, Senator. He's not so dense that he doesn't know what Jeff Sessions
[43:42.360 --> 43:50.600]  is getting at. It's just that he's arrogant. And it's the same kind of arrogance that has
[43:50.600 --> 43:59.800]  permeated our government and the Pentagon to this day. General Dempsey, in one of your criteria for
[43:59.800 --> 44:07.720]  determining what we might do militarily, you say you have to ask the question of whether the action
[44:07.720 --> 44:14.600]  is worth the cost and is consistent with law. What law does the United States military look to?
[44:15.720 --> 44:21.240]  Yeah, if I could, since I'd like to address both because they are related. So cost, resources,
[44:23.000 --> 44:29.480]  risk incurred elsewhere by the use of force one other place. So, you know, it's a zero-sum game.
[44:29.480 --> 44:35.160]  We take them from someplace else, we use them for how long, and that's the kind of issue of cost.
[44:36.040 --> 44:41.800]  And, of course, in blood and treasure. The issue of legal. Oh yeah, let me talk about people losing
[44:41.800 --> 44:47.480]  their lives here. Again, we act with the authorized use of military force either at the consent of a
[44:47.480 --> 44:57.720]  government, so we're invited in, or out of national self-defense, and there's a very clear criteria
[44:57.720 --> 45:03.480]  for that. And then the last one is with some kind of international legal basis, an UNSCR.
[45:03.480 --> 45:11.480]  Wait a minute. Let's talk about an international legal basis. You answer under the Constitution to
[45:11.480 --> 45:17.720]  the United States government, do you not? And you don't need any international support before you
[45:17.720 --> 45:23.720]  would carry out a military operation authorized by the commander in chief. No, of course not.
[45:23.720 --> 45:28.280]  That's the second one. I just want to know that because there's a lot of references in here
[45:29.240 --> 45:35.880]  to international matters before we make a decision. And I want to be sure that the United States
[45:35.880 --> 45:45.240]  military understands, and I know you do, that we're not dependent on a NATO resolution or a UN
[45:45.240 --> 45:51.480]  resolution to execute policies consistent with the national security of the United States.
[45:51.480 --> 46:00.600]  Senator, when it comes to our national defense, we act based on protecting the security of this
[46:00.600 --> 46:06.200]  country, and we don't look for permission from anybody else when it comes to our national defense.
[46:06.200 --> 46:12.840]  When it comes to the kind of military action where we want to build a coalition and work with our
[46:12.840 --> 46:17.960]  international partners, then obviously we would like to have some kind of legal basis on which
[46:18.040 --> 46:21.000]  to do it as we did in Libya. And that doesn't include Congress.
[46:21.800 --> 46:26.840]  Some sort of legal basis. We worried about international legal basis, but nobody worried
[46:26.840 --> 46:35.720]  about the fundamental constitutional legal basis that this Congress has over war. We were not asked
[46:35.720 --> 46:41.480]  stunningly in direct violation of the War Powers Act, whether or not you believe its Constitution.
[46:41.480 --> 46:47.080]  It certainly didn't comply with it. We spent our time worrying about the UN, the Arab League, NATO,
[46:47.160 --> 46:52.440]  and too little time, in my opinion, worrying about the elected representatives of the United States.
[46:53.160 --> 46:59.160]  As you go forward, will you consult with the United States Congress, and can we be assured
[46:59.160 --> 47:06.520]  that you will have more consultation and more participation and legal authority from the
[47:06.520 --> 47:08.840]  duly elected representatives of the United States?
[47:08.840 --> 47:14.120]  Believe me, we will. We don't have a corner on the market with regards to
[47:14.920 --> 47:19.960]  you know issues involving our defense. We want to consult with the Congress. We want to get
[47:19.960 --> 47:24.760]  your best advice and your guidance. And when we take action, we want to do it together.
[47:24.760 --> 47:31.000]  And do you think that you can act without Congress to initiate a no-fly zone in Syria
[47:31.880 --> 47:33.320]  without congressional approval?
[47:34.680 --> 47:42.040]  You know, again, our goal would be to seek international permission. And we would come
[47:42.040 --> 47:49.560]  to the Congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this, whether or not we would
[47:49.560 --> 47:54.920]  want to get permission from the Congress. I think those are issues we would have to discuss as we
[47:54.920 --> 48:02.600]  decide what to do here. Well, I'm almost breathless about that, because what I heard you say is,
[48:02.600 --> 48:08.040]  we're going to seek international approval, and they will come and tell the Congress what we might
[48:08.040 --> 48:13.160]  do. And we might seek congressional approval. I want to just say to you that's a big-
[48:13.160 --> 48:14.840]  You took an oath to the Constitution.
[48:14.840 --> 48:21.320]  You served in the Congress. Wouldn't you agree that that would be pretty breathtaking to the
[48:21.320 --> 48:23.960]  average American? So would you like to clarify that?
[48:25.960 --> 48:31.160]  I've also served with Republican presidents and Democratic presidents
[48:31.160 --> 48:35.320]  who have always reserved the right to defend this country if necessary.
[48:36.120 --> 48:37.400]  What entity?
[48:38.680 --> 48:46.760]  Well, obviously, if NATO made the decision to go in, that would be one. If we developed an
[48:46.760 --> 48:52.040]  international coalition beyond NATO, then obviously some kind of UN security resolution.
[48:54.840 --> 49:01.320]  And this goes on and on. And you see what's happening. He clearly knows what Jeff Sessions
[49:01.320 --> 49:08.520]  is getting at. And he clearly is going to repudiate anything that's in the Constitution
[49:08.520 --> 49:13.720]  that he swore an oath to uphold as part of his taking office as a congressman, part of his
[49:13.720 --> 49:20.360]  taking office as Secretary of Defense. And I think he was at the CIA as well. This is under Obama.
[49:21.080 --> 49:26.440]  And what was the immediate issue in this was putting a no-fly zone over Syria,
[49:27.400 --> 49:31.560]  which is an act of war. And we had these discussions again when they wanted to put
[49:31.560 --> 49:35.320]  troops on the ground. Well, they did put troops on the ground. And Trump left the troops on the
[49:35.320 --> 49:40.520]  ground in Syria. And we had Americans killed on the ground in Syria. Nobody ever asked,
[49:41.400 --> 49:49.240]  why are they there? By what authority are they there? They just did it anyway. You see, Trump,
[49:49.240 --> 49:55.880]  Obama, Panetta, they don't care about the Constitution. They've made it abundantly clear.
[49:56.440 --> 50:02.680]  It has absolutely nothing to do with what they decided to do. Trump made that clear in his
[50:02.680 --> 50:08.360]  reaction to the Supreme Court. He said, I can do whatever I want to do. And if I want to use
[50:08.360 --> 50:13.400]  these against the country, I can do it. I can destroy that country if I wish. That's right,
[50:13.400 --> 50:19.960]  because the power to tax is the power to destroy. Just understand those taxes are not being paid
[50:19.960 --> 50:25.000]  by that country. They're being paid by you. Trump is destroying you with taxes.
[50:25.880 --> 50:34.120]  Well, we've seen this happening over and over again. And Trump was very vocal in terms of wanting
[50:34.120 --> 50:43.640]  to criticize Obama over wanting to start a war with Iran from 2011, 12, 13, over and over again.
[50:43.640 --> 50:48.920]  This is what Trump wrote. In order to get elected, Obama will start a war with Iran.
[50:50.040 --> 50:53.880]  Obama will attack Iran in order to get elected. That's another one that he put up.
[50:54.360 --> 51:00.840]  Then that's 2011, 2012, and 2013. He says, I predict Obama will at some point attack
[51:00.840 --> 51:05.960]  Iran in order to save face. Then 2011, a couple months later, he says, remember
[51:06.520 --> 51:11.560]  that I predicted a long time ago that Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to
[51:11.560 --> 51:20.440]  negotiate properly. He's not skilled. Well, interestingly enough, Obama did not attack Iran.
[51:21.160 --> 51:27.080]  But by the way, in terms of this no-fly zone and troops on the ground and leaving troops
[51:27.080 --> 51:32.360]  on the ground, all the rest of the stuff in Syria, the way the Syrian situation went,
[51:33.400 --> 51:40.360]  we were flying air support in defense of ISIS. You can see it with the A-10 warthogs that were
[51:40.360 --> 51:50.120]  there, the closing of that war as Assad was taken out of power. Who was that in support of?
[51:50.920 --> 51:59.320]  It's in support of a group where the commander had been an alumni of Mujahideen, of Al-Qaeda,
[51:59.320 --> 52:03.080]  of ISIS, of al-Nusra. He's calling himself something different now. I don't know.
[52:03.080 --> 52:09.320]  They change their name every few months, but it's the same people with the same purpose.
[52:10.120 --> 52:17.560]  We were flying air support for them to overthrow Assad. Trump has shown when he talks about
[52:18.440 --> 52:21.640]  Obama is going to go to war with Iran because he can't negotiate properly.
[52:22.840 --> 52:28.840]  Well, Trump had already decided he was going to go to war, and he was pretending to have negotiations.
[52:30.760 --> 52:38.520]  It was treachery, just like he did last summer when they did the bombing. You get the other side
[52:38.520 --> 52:43.240]  to think that you were negotiating with them in good faith, and then you do a sneak attack.
[52:43.720 --> 52:49.800]  Like I said before, this is beyond even the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the kind of treachery.
[52:49.800 --> 52:55.480]  And this is going to blow back. If Trump ever wants to really do any negotiations, who can trust him
[52:56.200 --> 53:02.280]  when he's doing this kind of stuff? And of course, who can trust him anyway when he talks about how
[53:02.280 --> 53:05.480]  we're going to starve the warmongers?
[53:05.480 --> 53:11.400]  Just as importantly, bringing back impoundment will give us a crucial tool with which to
[53:11.400 --> 53:18.040]  obliterate the deep state, drain the swamp, and starve the warmongers, these people that want wars
[53:18.040 --> 53:19.560]  all over the place, killing.
[53:19.560 --> 53:21.240]  They're gorging themselves with Mar-a-Lago.
[53:21.240 --> 53:26.120]  Of killing, and the globalists out of our government. We're going to get the warmongers
[53:26.120 --> 53:28.440]  and the globalists out of our government.
[53:29.320 --> 53:33.160]  What a lying traitor Trump is.
[53:33.960 --> 53:37.000]  Jeffrey Sachs had this to say about what was going to happen with this.
[53:37.960 --> 53:44.920]  This has never been about nuclear weapons. This has been about Israel's regional hegemony
[53:44.920 --> 53:51.320]  in the Middle East. Israel wants to topple the Iranian regime, period. It has said so.
[53:51.320 --> 53:59.880]  This is not a mystery. This is not my claim. This is Israeli policy repeated year in, year out.
[53:59.880 --> 54:06.440]  The whole idea that Trump is negotiating to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon
[54:07.160 --> 54:11.400]  duh. That was negotiated. Trump ripped it up.
[54:11.400 --> 54:17.720]  The Iranians have come back every year to say, we don't want a nuclear weapon. We want negotiations.
[54:17.720 --> 54:25.400]  The United States does not accept yes for an answer because it works for the government of Israel.
[54:26.280 --> 54:30.200]  This is the point. Why does it work for the government of Israel?
[54:30.200 --> 54:33.800]  It's a little hard to understand. Maybe because it's of
[54:34.440 --> 54:40.040]  Mike Huckleby's parishioners because of the people who read the Bible and say,
[54:40.040 --> 54:42.520]  okay, that's our foreign policy. That's possible.
[54:43.320 --> 54:47.080]  It may be because of what's in the Epstein files that haven't been released.
[54:47.880 --> 54:51.960]  It may be blackmail. It may be corruption. It may be many other things,
[54:51.960 --> 54:58.840]  but it is not about America's interests. We have no interest whatsoever in going to a war
[54:58.920 --> 55:06.200]  with Iran right now. If there is such a war, it's a war because Israel has told the United States
[55:06.200 --> 55:12.280]  what to do. That raises a question. Why has the United States done what Israel has told
[55:12.280 --> 55:19.800]  the United States to do for 30 years? I don't just mean about Iran. I mean across the Middle East.
[55:21.320 --> 55:26.760]  Yeah, that's right. Trump officials previously mocked opponents for wanting war in the Middle
[55:26.760 --> 55:33.160]  East. Well, if you vote for Biden or Lala Harris or the Democrats, you're going to get war.
[55:34.520 --> 55:37.480]  You know, it's kind of interesting. That's one of the things that Julian Assange said about
[55:37.480 --> 55:42.520]  Hillary Clinton. He said, we know that Hillary Clinton is a warmonger and a crook. He said,
[55:42.520 --> 55:45.400]  we don't know about Donald Trump yet. Well, it didn't take too long to find out.
[55:45.400 --> 55:51.320]  Donald Trump is a warmonger. Donald Trump is a crook like we have never seen before.
[55:51.960 --> 55:59.160]  And of course, he tried to kill Julian Assange and his fellow crooks and CIA followers to anyone
[55:59.160 --> 56:06.760]  who is still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes. Trump said, warmongering neocon
[56:06.760 --> 56:12.360]  love sending your kids to die for wars. They would never fight themselves. Who said that?
[56:13.320 --> 56:16.440]  Stephen Miller before the election.
[56:17.800 --> 56:25.000]  Peewee German. He said, Liz Cheney is Kamala's top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole
[56:25.000 --> 56:32.520]  Middle East. Kamala equals World War III, said Stephen Miller. Trump equals peace.
[56:33.080 --> 56:42.920]  Yeah, that guy is piece of work. And so it's kind of interesting. This is an article that was
[56:42.920 --> 56:54.440]  actually put up, featured on WND. WND is a website that loves Trump and loves Israel. They didn't
[56:54.440 --> 56:59.160]  write this article. It was written by a Daily Caller, but they featured it. What's going to be
[57:00.120 --> 57:06.440]  the political fallout for Trump and the Republicans on this? It remains to be seen.
[57:07.160 --> 57:13.720]  Left-wing commentator, Jug Legum, posted a screenshot of a January 31, 2023 op-ed piece
[57:13.720 --> 57:19.800]  by J.D. Vance in which he touted the fact that Trump had started no wars during his first
[57:19.880 --> 57:29.320]  term in office. A 2020 post to Twitter by now Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
[57:30.040 --> 57:37.560]  featured a t-shirt with No War with Iran on it. She was at the time a Democrat member of Congress
[57:37.560 --> 57:44.440]  running for the presidential nomination, but in support of Trump, she had this to say as well.
[57:45.400 --> 57:52.840]  Join me as I say these words. We hold these truths to be self-evident.
[57:54.200 --> 57:59.400]  That all men are created equal. And that's why we don't have unjustified
[58:00.360 --> 58:08.760]  certain unalienable rights. And that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[58:15.160 --> 58:21.640]  Now this choice that we have before us is very personal to me. I'm a Lieutenant Colonel in
[58:21.720 --> 58:24.600]  the Army Reserve. I've served now for over 21 years.
[58:30.680 --> 58:38.040]  I've deployed to different war zones three times over that period and I've seen the cost of war.
[58:40.040 --> 58:46.680]  For my brothers and sisters who paid the ultimate price, I carry their memories
[58:47.640 --> 58:53.800]  and their sacrifice in my heart every day. Here is the choice that we have.
[58:56.360 --> 59:01.400]  A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney and it's a vote for war,
[59:01.400 --> 59:08.200]  more war, likely World War III and nuclear war. But now they're for it.
[59:09.480 --> 59:15.560]  A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars, not start them.
[59:16.680 --> 59:24.280]  History will look back on us at this moment for the choice that we make.
[59:25.400 --> 59:34.440]  More importantly, God will. History is not an entity. History is people in the future
[59:35.880 --> 59:42.520]  will look back on you. God is looking at you right now, Tulsi. Not a Hindu God either.
[59:43.480 --> 59:49.880]  So yeah, that is the, you know, a vote for Lala Harris is a vote for World War III and war with
[59:49.880 --> 59:55.640]  Iran, but not if you vote for Trump. He is the peace candidate. I'm reminded of the fact
[59:56.520 --> 01:00:05.640]  that you had FDR campaigned on keeping us out of war, didn't he? Did just the opposite.
[01:00:07.160 --> 01:00:10.680]  To anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes,
[01:00:11.400 --> 01:00:16.840]  that's Stephen Miller. Or how about the scummy hoaxes of the Trump regime?
[01:00:18.280 --> 01:00:24.600]  That's the reality of all this stuff. Well, yeah, he wants Trump doesn't want to have any
[01:00:24.600 --> 01:00:28.920]  more regime change wars, he said. Our current strategy of nation building
[01:00:28.920 --> 01:00:40.120]  and regime change is a proven absolute failure. We must abandon the failed policy
[01:00:40.120 --> 01:00:47.240]  of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq,
[01:00:47.240 --> 01:00:54.280]  in Libya, in Egypt, and in Syria. Regime change takes chaos. You've seen how that works
[01:00:54.280 --> 01:01:03.080]  over the last 20 years. That hasn't been too good. We're getting out of the nation building business.
[01:01:03.240 --> 01:01:11.320]  Except when we aren't. Again, you want to fall for scummy hoaxes like that from scummy people like
[01:01:11.320 --> 01:01:18.920]  Trump. Marjorie Taylor Greene said, this is not freeing the Iranian people. That's the way Trump
[01:01:18.920 --> 01:01:24.760]  is trying to present this right now. She said, this is murdering their children. That's right.
[01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:29.720]  When we look at the decapitation strike that they did, I think it's very telling that
[01:01:30.680 --> 01:01:37.000]  the top three candidates that the Trump regime would like to see take the place of
[01:01:37.560 --> 01:01:42.200]  Khomeini that they killed. The top three candidates were killed along with him.
[01:01:44.760 --> 01:01:52.760]  These people are clowns, folks. They're dangerous, lying, murdering clowns. They had some people
[01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:55.480]  they thought they were going to be adults in the room, and they killed them as well.
[01:01:55.480 --> 01:02:04.920]  You've got to get the Ayatollah Khomeini. My generation has been let down, abused,
[01:02:04.920 --> 01:02:10.040]  and used by our government and our entire adult lives, and our children's generation is literally
[01:02:10.040 --> 01:02:15.080]  being abandoned, said Marjorie Taylor Greene. Thousands and thousands of Americans from my
[01:02:15.080 --> 01:02:22.280]  generation have been killed and injured in never-ending, pointless foreign wars, and we
[01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:29.480]  said no more, but now we're going to free the Iranian people. She said, please, please give me
[01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:37.240]  a break. Iran is on the verge of having nuclear weapons. Yeah, sure, she said. We have been spoon
[01:02:37.240 --> 01:02:45.800]  fed that line for decades. It was always a lie, and it is always America last and Israel first.
[01:02:46.680 --> 01:02:48.840]  That's really, at the end, Israel first.
[01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:55.640]  But Thomas Massey also came out and said, I'm opposed to this war. This is not America first.
[01:02:56.360 --> 01:03:02.840]  The Constitution requires a vote, and your representative needs to be on record as opposing
[01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:11.800]  or supporting this war. He said this attack is an act of war that is unauthorized by Congress.
[01:03:12.520 --> 01:03:19.800]  Rand Paul reminded Trump that only Congress has the authority to declare war. He quoted President
[01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:27.320]  John Quincy Adams' famous words about not going abroad seeking monsters to destroy. James Madison's
[01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:35.480]  words to Thomas Jefferson saying, the executive branch is the branch that is most prone to war.
[01:03:36.360 --> 01:03:43.560]  Therefore, the Constitution, with studied care, delegated the war powers to the legislature.
[01:03:44.600 --> 01:03:48.760]  Once the war is declared, it'll be managed by the commander in chief, but the decision
[01:03:49.640 --> 01:03:55.320]  as to whether or not to go to war should never be the decision of the executive.
[01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:00.280]  Now we don't have the executive branch anymore. We have the emergency branch,
[01:04:00.280 --> 01:04:04.440]  since Trump became president. Whenever he wants to do something, he declares emergency,
[01:04:05.080 --> 01:04:09.080]  and then says, now I can do it through executive orders, and the Constitution is suspended
[01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:17.000]  on issue after issue after issue after issue, and now on war as well. Well,
[01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:21.560]  Freethought Project got it right. They said the US-Israeli war on Iran,
[01:04:23.000 --> 01:04:30.840]  it's not about nuclear weapons. It's about imperialism. Our history with Iran began in 1953,
[01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:38.600]  and it has been about imperialism and regime change the entire time. It did not start
[01:04:39.240 --> 01:04:45.240]  with the takeover of the US embassy and the Iranian revolution. That was a response to
[01:04:45.240 --> 01:04:50.920]  what we had done. And so, Freethought Project says, waging a war of aggression against Iran
[01:04:51.480 --> 01:04:58.360]  and their non-existent nuclear weapons is an absurd fig leaf, just like the Iraqi weapons
[01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:04.120]  of mass destruction. That's right. And so, we hear this all the time as well,
[01:05:05.160 --> 01:05:12.280]  that they can never have nuclear weapons. They can never have a nuclear weapon.
[01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:16.840]  It's not about that. That is why in Operation Midnight Hammer last June,
[01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:20.920]  we obliterated the regime's nuclear program. Liar.
[01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:28.920]  If you obliterated it, then why do we have to worry about it and go back to war again?
[01:05:29.560 --> 01:05:40.040]  He's lying both times, actually. So, we all understand what this is. The absurd narrative
[01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:45.240]  that Washington and Tel Aviv are promoting is that they had to carry out preemptive strikes.
[01:05:46.200 --> 01:05:52.360]  Preemptive strikes are illegal under national law. They're always immoral because they're not
[01:05:52.360 --> 01:05:57.160]  something that's done defensively. You're assuming that somebody's going to do something.
[01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:01.160]  That's like saying, well, that person looked at me with malice, so I had to shoot him.
[01:06:02.680 --> 01:06:09.400]  This is nonsense, writes Freethought Project. Iran signed the nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive
[01:06:09.400 --> 01:06:15.480]  Plan of Action, in 2015, in which it agreed not to pursue nuclear weapons in return for
[01:06:15.480 --> 01:06:19.880]  U.S. and European countries lifting their illegal unilaterally applied sanctions.
[01:06:20.600 --> 01:06:28.040]  The International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, admitted that Iran was abiding by that nuclear
[01:06:28.040 --> 01:06:36.600]  deal. Nevertheless, Trump unilaterally tore it up in 2018 in his first term, the flagrant violation
[01:06:36.600 --> 01:06:42.760]  of international law that he did then. Iran's current president is ironically a reformist who
[01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:47.160]  sought to negotiate another deal with the same U.S. aggressors who sabotaged the previous one
[01:06:47.720 --> 01:06:55.000]  just a few years before. When Trump entered office for a second term in 2025, he oversaw several
[01:06:55.000 --> 01:07:01.880]  rounds of bad faith negotiations, quote unquote, negotiations with Iran. Then during one of those
[01:07:01.880 --> 01:07:08.200]  talks, the U.S. and Israel suddenly bombed Iran in June of 2025. The Wall Street Journal admitted,
[01:07:08.200 --> 01:07:17.880]  in a twist, U.S. diplomacy served as cover for an Israeli surprise attack. Folks, we not only are
[01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:25.880]  going to war for Israel, we're going to war like Israel. Lies and sneak attacks, treachery.
[01:07:26.120 --> 01:07:32.280]  On February the 27th, Amman's foreign minister, who moderated the talks, said they'd made
[01:07:32.280 --> 01:07:39.000]  substantial progress and a peace deal was within our reach. Just a few hours later, Trump and Netanyahu
[01:07:39.000 --> 01:07:46.760]  launched the bombing campaign in Iran. This is the way these guys operate. The goal of this war of
[01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:53.000]  aggression is clear. Washington wants to topple independent government, and that's what they've
[01:07:53.960 --> 01:08:00.680]  been doing since 1953 in Iran. The U.S. empire, more specifically the large U.S. corporations that
[01:08:00.680 --> 01:08:07.480]  it represents, want to control the plentiful resources, not only in Iran, but also in the
[01:08:07.480 --> 01:08:14.680]  entire region and also in Venezuela, right? Which is home to the world's top producers of oil and
[01:08:14.680 --> 01:08:20.120]  natural gas, as well as critical minerals and other important commodities. Washington also hopes
[01:08:20.120 --> 01:08:26.840]  to cut off China's access to its top energy providers. We don't really care what happens
[01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:33.560]  if we plunge the world into global depression and global war, but we got to get those Chinese, right?
[01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:40.280]  This is insanity. What the American government has become is this cartoon character who's got
[01:08:40.280 --> 01:08:45.560]  a shotgun and he's trying to kill a fly in his house by shooting the place up with a shotgun.
[01:08:46.520 --> 01:08:50.520]  Having blasted open a vacuum, there is no guarantee that the U.S. and Israel will likely
[01:08:51.080 --> 01:08:59.080]  like what is going to come next. That's the headline from CNN. And as I point out, the top
[01:08:59.080 --> 01:09:04.920]  three replacements that the Trump regime wanted to take the place of the Ayatollah were killed
[01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:14.440]  alongside of him in that opening strike. They're clowns, idiots, evil. Khamenei's rule was marked
[01:09:14.840 --> 01:09:20.680]  by mismanagement, ultimately ended with one of the most brutal episodes of his trademark repression,
[01:09:21.480 --> 01:09:27.640]  violence that his regime meted out in order to keep power. His removal has sparked celebrations
[01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:34.760]  in Tehran as well as 40 days of official mourning and huge pro-regime crowds, but also a struggle
[01:09:35.320 --> 01:09:43.080]  for what remains of the regime to work out what comes next. For 47 years, the theocracy has turned
[01:09:43.080 --> 01:09:49.880]  into, was turned into an autocracy and a kleptocracy. Well, I would say it was for 73
[01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:57.800]  years. What the Shah was running was also an autocracy and also a kleptocracy. The bottom
[01:09:57.800 --> 01:10:03.160]  line is that there's a lesson to be learned in this. You can jump out of the frying pan and into
[01:10:03.160 --> 01:10:12.760]  the fire. And the situation was that people were sick of the Shah's repression, kleptocracy and
[01:10:12.760 --> 01:10:18.440]  autocracy. How many people did he kill? Well, it wasn't reported because, you know, the CIA and
[01:10:18.440 --> 01:10:24.040]  Mossad had set up the SAVAK and they were making sure that that information was repressed. I would
[01:10:24.040 --> 01:10:29.480]  argue that the Shah was every bit as repressive as the Ayatollah, perhaps better at it because the
[01:10:29.480 --> 01:10:35.400]  training of the CIA and Mossad. And so it was a reaction to that. And when they picked this other
[01:10:35.400 --> 01:10:40.920]  guy, he basically did the same thing to them. History lacks good examples of air campaigns
[01:10:40.920 --> 01:10:45.320]  that have easily toppled regimes and led to replacements that the attackers preferred. In
[01:10:45.320 --> 01:10:53.160]  other words, it hasn't happened. We keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
[01:10:53.160 --> 01:10:59.400]  different results. That is the insanity of our policy that's there. We've got a couple of
[01:10:59.400 --> 01:11:03.640]  comments here. DGA, thank you for the tip. He said, David, do you realize the national debt
[01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:12.360]  was $5.9 trillion in 2000? Almost $33 trillion more people, $33 trillion more and people fighting
[01:11:12.360 --> 01:11:17.080]  over four of the worst presidents in U.S. history. And it's insane. Yeah, you're right.
[01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:25.320]  And of course, when you look at it, not only was the U.S. debt tiny compared to what it is right
[01:11:25.320 --> 01:11:34.920]  now, we're about to hit $40 trillion from about $6 trillion in 25 years or so. And part of it is
[01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:41.240]  when you look at the amount of money that was spent in the 2000 election, Al Gore accused George
[01:11:41.240 --> 01:11:46.840]  W. Bush of buying the election because he spent, he and the Republican Party spent $100 million.
[01:11:47.640 --> 01:11:53.240]  We've got Senate races that spend more than that now. And we're probably getting there with some
[01:11:53.240 --> 01:11:58.280]  of the congressional races that people have had. And when you put that kind of money there, folks,
[01:11:58.280 --> 01:12:06.680]  that is a benchmark, a metric, if you will, of the kind of corruption that is in Washington.
[01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:11.000]  People aren't going to pour that kind of money in if they don't expect to get a return on their
[01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:16.840]  investment. And the return they get on the investment in a politician is astronomical.
[01:12:17.640 --> 01:12:21.880]  Usually they get $1,000 back for every dollar that they put in. It's kind of a rule of thumb.
[01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:29.080]  I've noticed over and over again. They give a million dollars to this political candidate,
[01:12:29.080 --> 01:12:34.680]  while they wind up with a billion-dollar contract with the government. And so
[01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:41.320]  that's one of the reasons why it has exploded. It's the corruption that is there.
[01:12:42.120 --> 01:12:45.960]  Washington is bought and sold. It's not just bought and sold by the Israelis.
[01:12:46.520 --> 01:12:51.960]  It's everybody is being bought and sold there. But the Israelis just happen to have the
[01:12:53.320 --> 01:12:59.880]  most obviously evil agenda. They want to shut down our free speech. They want to get us involved
[01:12:59.880 --> 01:13:04.760]  in wars and things like that, whereas these other people are just looting us seven ways to Sunday.
[01:13:06.600 --> 01:13:10.360]  Trumpberger says, I'm fully expecting a major false flag event to get the sheep
[01:13:10.360 --> 01:13:14.520]  all fully on board with this. Yeah, maybe they will come up with it. I guess they're going to
[01:13:15.160 --> 01:13:20.200]  this is kind of what Trump does. He does whatever he feels like, and he talks about how he can do
[01:13:20.200 --> 01:13:26.920]  whatever he feels like. And then if he has too much pushback, then he will address it. Then he'll go
[01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:32.600]  to court. Then we'll deal with the after effects of this afterwards. So maybe that's why they skipped
[01:13:32.600 --> 01:13:38.920]  what is usually the prerequisite, a false flag event. The false flag may be still coming. They
[01:13:38.920 --> 01:13:45.080]  still see our false flag event in order to try to build support for something that he doesn't have
[01:13:45.080 --> 01:13:49.400]  support for and should not have support for. We're going to take a quick break, folks. We'll be right
[01:13:49.400 --> 01:13:52.200]  back.
[01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:32.040]  Liberty, it's your move. And now the David Knight show.
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[01:16:02.840 --> 01:16:07.560]  it's partly my fault because I don't like to talk about it. I don't like to push this and
[01:16:09.160 --> 01:16:12.760]  the money aspect. We don't put it behind a paywall, and I don't like to harangue people
[01:16:12.760 --> 01:16:17.000]  about supporting the program. And so I didn't really talk about it until we got late into the
[01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:21.080]  month. But when I did start talking about it, people responded. And I want to thank you for
[01:16:21.080 --> 01:16:27.000]  getting us so high so quickly. And let me thank specifically some of the people who helped to
[01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:35.160]  produce this show, by the way. These are the contributors on Zelle. Alex C., Daniel C., Sally
[01:16:35.160 --> 01:16:47.960]  D., Lois I., Matthew M., this is Michael M., I'm sorry, Mitchell M., Lisa K., Susan L., Bianca S.,
[01:16:47.960 --> 01:17:01.160]  Kimberly M., Amy B., Joseph R., Carl H., Alexander W., Gregory C., Adam D., Michael P., William W.,
[01:17:01.960 --> 01:17:16.440]  Susan L. again, Gregory I., Terry M., Craig M., Scott W., Janice W., Ryan F., thank you very much,
[01:17:16.440 --> 01:17:21.800]  and who is big support of this program. He has supported us with the coins that we have, and we
[01:17:22.600 --> 01:17:26.280]  have not put together a new commercial for those yet, but that'll be coming out real soon.
[01:17:27.880 --> 01:17:37.640]  Michael L., Kevin M., Ronald H., Maurice W., Craig M., and William W. Thank you so much for
[01:17:37.640 --> 01:17:43.160]  your support. I really do appreciate that, all of us do here. And I want to talk a little bit about
[01:17:43.160 --> 01:17:49.800]  the horrific consequences that we have already seen as this war has just started. We're talking
[01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:55.480]  earlier about the women who were killed, the girls were killed in elementary school. Why would we be
[01:17:55.480 --> 01:18:02.440]  surprised when we look at what Jeffrey Epstein, Mossad, and the CIA did to girls before? This is
[01:18:02.440 --> 01:18:07.480]  par for the course, evidently. The Iranian state media says more than 100 students have been killed,
[01:18:08.120 --> 01:18:15.240]  actually 153 girls killed in a strike on a school. At least 153, almost all of them,
[01:18:15.240 --> 01:18:19.960]  young girls have been killed in an airstrike in a primary school, according to the city's governor.
[01:18:21.000 --> 01:18:26.760]  Happened on Saturday morning, right off the bat. The victims were between seven and 12 years old,
[01:18:27.720 --> 01:18:37.880]  just like the victims of Epstein, the CIA, Mossad. And when you look at this, there was an excellent
[01:18:38.360 --> 01:18:46.040]  interview that Judge Napolitano had with Scott Ritter, and the guard covered it in a special
[01:18:46.040 --> 01:18:56.360]  that he did about the war on Saturday. But Scott Ritter said that he is haunted by something that
[01:18:56.600 --> 01:19:03.880]  happened while he was in the military. He's now a weapons inspector, and he has spoken out against
[01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:09.560]  war. This may be part of the reason. Listen to what he had to say about innocent civilian lives
[01:19:10.200 --> 01:19:16.120]  that he had a part in taking accidentally. This man is talking about striking targets to
[01:19:16.120 --> 01:19:27.400]  defend Americans and all that. I'd been in the war. In the Gulf War, I was involved in targeting.
[01:19:29.240 --> 01:19:36.040]  One of the things that we did is we targeted a place called the Amaria bomb shelter. We knew
[01:19:36.040 --> 01:19:42.360]  it was a bomb shelter, but we had good intelligence that said it had been converted to be used as a
[01:19:42.360 --> 01:19:46.280]  national-level command and control facility. To be exemplified so that people understand what I'm
[01:19:46.280 --> 01:19:52.600]  talking about, we were hunting Scud missiles unsuccessfully. Israel was ready to get involved
[01:19:52.600 --> 01:19:55.960]  in this war, and we had to prevent Israel from doing that. In order to do that, we had to show
[01:19:55.960 --> 01:20:01.400]  that we were seriously hunting down Scud missiles. We believed that the command and control for the
[01:20:01.400 --> 01:20:08.040]  Scud missiles were being carried out by Saddam Hussein. And Saddam Hussein used a system called
[01:20:08.040 --> 01:20:16.120]  the Mark 14 radio telephone. It was made by Siemens. It was an encrypted radio telephone system
[01:20:16.680 --> 01:20:24.120]  with a unique signature, unique frequency ranges, etc. And we had detected the Mark 14 signal coming
[01:20:24.120 --> 01:20:31.160]  from antennas associated with this bomb shelter. And we had reason to believe that the Iraqis had
[01:20:31.160 --> 01:20:36.600]  located senior command and control in this place. And so we reviewed it, we reviewed it,
[01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:41.640]  we reviewed it. There was no indication that it was being used as a bomb shelter. I helped pick
[01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:46.920]  the impact points, and my job was, when the mission strike came back, to look at the photographs to
[01:20:46.920 --> 01:20:53.960]  determine whether or not we did it. And I know that we had to put two GBU-28s through the same hole
[01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:58.360]  to achieve the result. And we did it. We destroyed it. And I signed it off as destroyed, and I was
[01:20:58.360 --> 01:21:03.240]  feeling pretty good. A little while later, CNN came on, and we found out that we had hit a bomb
[01:21:03.240 --> 01:21:08.360]  shelter, and 408 women and children were dead. Killed. The most horrible kind of death. When the
[01:21:08.360 --> 01:21:12.920]  first bomb went in, it created fire that trapped them. Neighbors could hear the women and children
[01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:17.960]  screaming, trying to get out. The second bomb came in, ignited, and it boiled. The firefighters
[01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:23.160]  were putting the water in, and all of these bodies got turned into fat. That's what happened there.
[01:21:23.160 --> 01:21:24.360]  And there's not a single day,
[01:21:28.600 --> 01:21:33.880]  you know, that that doesn't haunt you. It haunts you for the rest of your life.
[01:21:34.520 --> 01:21:40.920]  We have hit two children's schools. We have bombed two children's schools.
[01:21:41.560 --> 01:21:47.640]  63 dead children. Girls, little girls, dead. Their mothers waiting for their daughters to come home.
[01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:51.640]  They sent their daughters to school on the belief that there wouldn't be a war
[01:21:51.640 --> 01:21:56.120]  because there was diplomacy going on. That there wouldn't be a war because Marco Rubio said he was
[01:21:56.120 --> 01:22:00.920]  traveling to the region on Monday. So they sent their girls to a school. The girls were in school,
[01:22:00.920 --> 01:22:06.200]  and we bombed it. And we bombed another one. There's a hundred girls buried under their rubble,
[01:22:06.200 --> 01:22:13.240]  being dug out now. Girls that will not survive. This is the horror of war. But what I'm trying
[01:22:13.240 --> 01:22:20.120]  to say is at least when I was involved in the bombing of the Armoria shelter, we did our
[01:22:20.120 --> 01:22:25.000]  damnedest to make sure that it was a military target. We were wrong, and it haunts you forever.
[01:22:27.880 --> 01:22:31.400]  And yet he went on to say that what is happening now, they've been given
[01:22:32.280 --> 01:22:37.160]  a window that they're going to conduct these bombing raids. And I just need a lot of targets.
[01:22:37.160 --> 01:22:40.840]  You know, we're going to be doing these bombs. So find some targets. This is what Trump did
[01:22:41.480 --> 01:22:49.320]  with ICE in Minneapolis and Minnesota. I want X number of arrests. Just go find somebody, right?
[01:22:49.320 --> 01:22:54.440]  And when you do that, you wind up with these types of consequences. That's what Scott Ritter was
[01:22:54.440 --> 01:22:59.400]  talking about. You give people quotas, right? Just like here in Tennessee, we had that state highway
[01:22:59.400 --> 01:23:05.000]  patrol started arresting sober drivers. I'm laughing about it, but I could be one of them
[01:23:06.120 --> 01:23:11.240]  arresting sober drivers and charging them with DWI because they had a quota.
[01:23:12.680 --> 01:23:18.840]  So you put a quota on that. You put a quota on ICE actions. You put a quota on bombing targets.
[01:23:19.720 --> 01:23:26.680]  And what you get is a lot of bad results with this kind of stuff. A staff member at this one
[01:23:26.680 --> 01:23:30.920]  school, and remember, this is just one of the two schools. This is the one that everybody was saying
[01:23:30.920 --> 01:23:37.080]  was about 100 students. It turns out to be 153. There's another school that's involved.
[01:23:37.880 --> 01:23:44.840]  The Middle East Eye says she remains in shock at the intensity of the attack. Through tears,
[01:23:44.840 --> 01:23:47.880]  she said she used to watch the young girls playing at school every day.
[01:23:48.600 --> 01:23:54.280]  After today's strikes, however, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different
[01:23:54.280 --> 01:23:58.520]  corners of the school. She said she had just stepped out of school when she suddenly heard
[01:23:58.520 --> 01:24:04.760]  a horrifying sound. And within seconds, a missile hit the school building. After hearing the blast,
[01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:08.920]  she ran back toward the school and was faced with a scene that she said she could never forget.
[01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:15.240]  I feel like I had gone mute. I couldn't speak. You could hear the sound of children crying
[01:24:15.240 --> 01:24:20.200]  and screaming. The airstrike on the school left many inside the building, trapped.
[01:24:26.200 --> 01:24:29.160]  There were 170 female students at the school at the time of the attack.
[01:24:30.280 --> 01:24:36.360]  153 out of 170. Did a great job, didn't you guys? Good job. USA, USA.
[01:24:36.360 --> 01:24:46.200]  Lethality. Lethality is what Pete Hegseth is about. Not legality. Not morality. Lethality.
[01:24:46.200 --> 01:24:52.920]  153 out of 170 students. We got them. Good job, Pete. That's exactly what you're about.
[01:24:54.680 --> 01:25:01.320]  Just amazing to me. Dozens of innocent children have been murdered at this site alone.
[01:25:02.040 --> 01:25:09.160]  And this is just the start. As of Saturday, 201 people had been killed in Iran, 747 wounded,
[01:25:10.360 --> 01:25:17.480]  said the medical sources there. And then we've had three Americans. Does Donnie care about them?
[01:25:18.280 --> 01:25:25.160]  I don't think so. Three American service members killed in action during Operation Epic Fury,
[01:25:25.640 --> 01:25:34.280]  as Gard Goldsmith called it, Epic Folly. That's right. Likely many more, and they won't be telling
[01:25:34.280 --> 01:25:41.320]  you as all of them are killed. The situation is fluid, said the Pentagon. US Central Command
[01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:46.760]  reported on Sunday morning that three US service members in Kuwait had been killed in action
[01:25:47.240 --> 01:25:52.440]  during Operation Epic Fury. It was reported further that additional service members have been,
[01:25:52.760 --> 01:26:00.760]  five of them have been wounded. Seriously. Several others sustained minor scrapnel injuries and
[01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:09.160]  concussions, and it goes on and on. Meanwhile, you have these articles about Baron Trump
[01:26:10.680 --> 01:26:17.800]  making eyebrows with his fashion choices as he attended the State of the Union. Can you imagine?
[01:26:17.800 --> 01:26:25.320]  It goes to the State of the Union in a blue tie instead of a red tie, and this is what they are
[01:26:25.320 --> 01:26:31.880]  talking about on the mirror, and the fact that he doesn't know how to tie a tie properly,
[01:26:31.880 --> 01:26:40.280]  according to them. This is the concern of the elite. The Baron wore a blue tie instead of red.
[01:26:40.600 --> 01:26:43.960]  Baron wore a blue tie instead of red. Doesn't he want to be the Red Baron?
[01:26:45.640 --> 01:26:52.680]  Curse you, Red Baron. This is Roman Emperor style decadence, folks. It truly is.
[01:26:53.320 --> 01:27:00.120]  My administration has taken every possible step to minimize the risk to US personnel in the region.
[01:27:00.760 --> 01:27:07.640]  Even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill
[01:27:07.640 --> 01:27:11.480]  the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost.
[01:27:37.640 --> 01:28:01.400]  Yeah, silver spoon in hand. The more things change, the more they don't change, right?
[01:28:02.200 --> 01:28:11.000]  I just want to interject real quickly. That video, the Napolitano video you played reminded me of
[01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:18.360]  this interview with a World War II veteran discussing the bombing of Dresden. And all
[01:28:18.360 --> 01:28:24.840]  these years later, he's describing it, and he's breaking down talking about how you'd see some
[01:28:24.840 --> 01:28:31.240]  skeletons left over from the adults, but there was nothing left of the children. It just vaporized
[01:28:31.880 --> 01:28:36.200]  them, melted them all down. Yeah, the bombing of Dresden, that fire bombing of Dresden,
[01:28:36.840 --> 01:28:41.800]  was actually as bad. Some people said it was worse than the nuclear bombs that were dropped on
[01:28:42.360 --> 01:28:49.400]  Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So this is a continuation of, you know. That's why I said, you know,
[01:28:50.280 --> 01:28:58.280]  do any of us remember a situation when we had a just war where civilians were not targeted?
[01:28:59.000 --> 01:29:03.240]  Well, you'd have to be somebody who was around and cognizant of what was going on
[01:29:04.040 --> 01:29:10.440]  before World War II in order to remember that kind of a world. But we have become the monsters that
[01:29:10.440 --> 01:29:15.800]  we fought. We have become the Nazis. The Nazis decided they were going to do civilian bombing
[01:29:15.800 --> 01:29:21.240]  campaigns, and it was outrageous. Then we started doing it. And now our government, our Pentagon,
[01:29:21.880 --> 01:29:30.040]  is doing what the Nazi U-boat commanders were infamous for, and that is hitting ships and then
[01:29:30.040 --> 01:29:34.280]  targeting the shipwrecked survivors to kill them in the water. And that's what we do now.
[01:29:35.080 --> 01:29:39.480]  That's what we have become. Marjorie Taylor Greene tears into the Trump administration,
[01:29:40.040 --> 01:29:47.000]  calling them sick effing liars. Has she got that right? It's also worth stating that
[01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:52.440]  even in a just war, you're going to have unintended consequences and casualties.
[01:29:52.440 --> 01:29:57.000]  But if you go in with a just war mentality, you can do what you can to minimize them.
[01:29:57.000 --> 01:30:03.880]  That's right. That's why we are very careful about starting war, and it should only be done
[01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:11.560]  in defense after somebody else has preemptively attacked. The preemptive attacker is the bad guy.
[01:30:12.440 --> 01:30:18.200]  That's us. Over and over again. Sorry, Travis, I didn't mean to-
[01:30:18.200 --> 01:30:23.160]  Oh, you're fine. No, just if you go in without any concern for these things,
[01:30:23.160 --> 01:30:25.960]  you will maximize civilian casualties. That's right.
[01:30:27.240 --> 01:30:31.560]  Two schools, but we're just going to fire these missiles away because we've got a surplus,
[01:30:31.560 --> 01:30:35.720]  and we're pretty sure our intel is good, right? We're pretty sure. What's the worst that could
[01:30:35.720 --> 01:30:40.840]  happen? 170 dead children, apparently, is what's the worst that could happen.
[01:30:41.320 --> 01:30:45.320]  No, it's going to get much worse than that, I think. As a matter of fact,
[01:30:45.320 --> 01:30:51.960]  I mentioned about Charlie Kirk earlier, and Charlie Kirk put up a post. He said,
[01:30:53.160 --> 01:30:57.880]  this is going unnoticed because so much other news is happening. This was back in April,
[01:30:57.880 --> 01:31:02.520]  April 3rd. He was killed in, what was it, September? Is that when he was killed?
[01:31:04.040 --> 01:31:09.720]  He said, but the war drums are beating again in D.C. The warmongers, the war sellers,
[01:31:10.840 --> 01:31:15.880]  worry that this is their last chance to get the white whale they've been chasing for 30 years.
[01:31:16.520 --> 01:31:22.360]  An all-out regime change war against Iran. A new Middle East war would be a catastrophic mistake.
[01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:27.240]  Our military stockpiles are depleted after three years of backing Ukraine.
[01:31:27.240 --> 01:31:32.760]  Our effort to reshore manufacturing has only just begun, and will take years to bear fruit. War
[01:31:32.760 --> 01:31:38.760]  would worsen our already immense deficit and national debt. Iran is larger than Iraq,
[01:31:38.760 --> 01:31:45.240]  Syria, and Afghanistan combined. A war would not be easy and could easily become a calamity.
[01:31:46.120 --> 01:31:50.840]  Thanks to Trump's restraint during his first term, America has a golden opportunity to pull away
[01:31:50.840 --> 01:31:56.280]  from Middle East quagmires for good, he wrote. Well, I didn't see that. Charlie Kirk may have
[01:31:56.280 --> 01:32:02.360]  thought that he saw that. I didn't see restraint. He had assassinated people. We shouldn't throw
[01:32:02.360 --> 01:32:09.720]  that opportunity away so that some D.C. has-beens can feel tough by sending young Americans to die
[01:32:09.720 --> 01:32:16.840]  yet again. As a matter of fact, I don't know if I got that clip to you or not,
[01:32:17.480 --> 01:32:22.680]  but a clip where he was talking, and it was kind of interesting when Charlie Kirk was talking,
[01:32:23.480 --> 01:32:28.920]  he was comparing and contrasting two different streams of thought within the Republican Party.
[01:32:29.480 --> 01:32:33.880]  He said, well, the one is the neocons, and then he talked about some of the same things he said
[01:32:33.880 --> 01:32:39.560]  there. And he said, they've thoroughly discredited themselves, mentioning Lindsey Graham particularly.
[01:32:40.440 --> 01:32:45.720]  And then he said, and then the other strand is the isolationists like Ron Paul and so forth.
[01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:49.640]  And I liked that, and I thought, you know, it's really not. He says, I understand it's kind of a
[01:32:50.680 --> 01:32:56.840]  pejorative term to call people isolationists, and it is. Ron Paul is not an isolationist.
[01:32:57.560 --> 01:33:05.640]  Ron Paul is a non-interventionist in the mold of the first several generations of American leaders
[01:33:05.640 --> 01:33:10.920]  and founders who understood that we don't want to have foreign entanglements, who understood
[01:33:10.920 --> 01:33:17.160]  that Europe is in a constant state of war, who understood that if we go abroad to fight monsters,
[01:33:17.160 --> 01:33:23.800]  we become monsters ourselves. And so he said, well, we really ought to go back and take a look at
[01:33:23.800 --> 01:33:29.960]  this isolationism, because he said neocon is something that has completely discredited itself.
[01:33:29.960 --> 01:33:37.880]  And think about that, right? Neocons are not conservatives. They are neo or new conservatives,
[01:33:37.880 --> 01:33:46.360]  a new kind of conservatism. Conservatism, it wasn't just Ron Paul. It was a lot of people in
[01:33:46.360 --> 01:33:52.440]  the Republican Party going back, opposing our involvement in World War I and World War II.
[01:33:53.480 --> 01:34:00.840]  And so they were the non-interventionists. And it is the people who have now become the leaders
[01:34:00.840 --> 01:34:07.960]  of the GOP that are the new version of conservatives, who want to reject the American
[01:34:07.960 --> 01:34:14.200]  values. But what I thought was interesting was nowhere in his discussion of all this stuff did
[01:34:14.200 --> 01:34:19.880]  morality play a point. Now, what is the morality of what we're doing here? You would think that
[01:34:19.880 --> 01:34:25.960]  Charlie would reflect on that. And I think we better reflect on that, because this country is
[01:34:25.960 --> 01:34:32.680]  circling the drain. And this is, you know, Pete Hegseth wants to make sure they don't have any
[01:34:33.400 --> 01:34:40.200]  drag queen storytime hours and stuff in Pentagon schools. I'm all for that. But
[01:34:40.520 --> 01:34:48.760]  this is just as troubling and just as corrupting. When you look at this, you want to be pro-life,
[01:34:49.320 --> 01:34:54.440]  save babies from being ripped apart by a surgeon's scalpel. Well, how about being pro-life and save
[01:34:54.440 --> 01:35:01.960]  them from being ripped apart by firebombs as well? So Marjorie Taylor Greene also mocked a post from
[01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:08.760]  the GOP that propped up Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance as the, quote, pro-peace ticket.
[01:35:09.000 --> 01:35:15.720]  Pick it. I said over and over again, they just keep on spelling peace. It's P-I-E-C-E, right?
[01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:19.400]  They want a piece of that country and a piece of that country and a piece of this other one.
[01:35:19.400 --> 01:35:25.240]  They want the oil fields in Syria. They want the oil fields in Venezuela. They want the oil fields
[01:35:25.240 --> 01:35:33.320]  in Iran. The Trump administration, she said, actually asked in a poll how many casualties
[01:35:33.320 --> 01:35:37.640]  voters were willing to accept in a war with Iran. Think about how cynical that is.
[01:35:38.680 --> 01:35:42.680]  And consider the fact that they will move heaven and earth to keep you from finding
[01:35:42.680 --> 01:35:49.400]  out what the real casualties are. So she said, how about zero, you bunch of sick effing liars?
[01:35:49.400 --> 01:35:59.080]  We voted for America first and we voted for zero wars. Well, John Bolton laughs about that. He was
[01:35:59.080 --> 01:36:09.000]  asked on CNN about the Trump supporters who voted for no new wars. He knew better, right?
[01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:14.760]  His only regret, he said, was that he wasn't able to goad Trump into war with Iran when he was there.
[01:36:15.560 --> 01:36:20.760]  So on Saturday, he was asked on CNN, John Bolton was, if he had a message for MAGA
[01:36:20.760 --> 01:36:26.280]  voters who backed Trump's foreign policy message and past campaigns of avoiding wars and regime
[01:36:26.280 --> 01:36:34.920]  change in the Middle East, he chuckled and told voters that they made the mistake of thinking that
[01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:44.680]  Trump has any sort of foundational philosophy at all. Yeah, he doesn't have any moral compass
[01:36:45.400 --> 01:36:51.000]  and he'll never tell you the truth. By the way, did he really deceive you? I mean,
[01:36:51.160 --> 01:36:57.000]  he had already assassinated like the number two guy, the top military leader in his first term.
[01:36:57.960 --> 01:37:06.680]  Why would you be surprised after what he did in his first term abroad, as well as what he did here
[01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:14.360]  domestically with the so-called pandemic? Why would any of this stuff that he's doing surprise you?
[01:37:15.320 --> 01:37:21.240]  It's all an extension, a continuation and enlargement of what he did the first term.
[01:37:21.960 --> 01:37:24.040]  Why would you ever support somebody like this?
[01:37:26.760 --> 01:37:30.760]  You know, at least people say, I voted for this. It's like, you sure did, unfortunately.
[01:37:31.720 --> 01:37:35.880]  Anyway, Bolton went on to say, well, I think they made the mistake of believing that Trump
[01:37:35.880 --> 01:37:42.600]  had a consistent philosophy, a national security strategy, and a policy which he doesn't have any
[01:37:42.600 --> 01:37:52.120]  of that. And that's why I say he's not playing 3D chess. He doesn't have any geopolitical strategy.
[01:37:53.000 --> 01:38:01.960]  His strategy is ego political. Politics are about his ego. He has to make people fear him.
[01:38:02.680 --> 01:38:09.640]  And to do that, he threatens, he terrorizes, and he creates conflict everywhere. He is a terrorist.
[01:38:10.520 --> 01:38:17.960]  Well, the regime was scalped, they said. First 30 seconds, and they took out the top guys,
[01:38:18.840 --> 01:38:23.080]  including the people that the Trump administration wanted to replace the
[01:38:23.080 --> 01:38:27.640]  Ayatollah. They took them out as well. And of course, how was this done? Well, the CIA
[01:38:27.640 --> 01:38:34.680]  tracked him. And you know, this also included Palantir. And it would also include Anthropic,
[01:38:35.320 --> 01:38:39.880]  which is the other thing that I want to talk about before we run out of time today. I want to talk
[01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:44.200]  about what is going on with the large language models and how the Pentagon and the Trump
[01:38:44.200 --> 01:38:47.800]  administration wants to tie artificial intelligence and all this stuff. Folks,
[01:38:47.800 --> 01:38:53.320]  this is your dystopian nightmare that they're putting together here. They want to go to war
[01:38:53.320 --> 01:39:00.360]  with the American people. They want to create mass surveillance, a credit system as the Chinese have,
[01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:06.360]  a system of censorship. Look at how much Trump hates free speech. And of course, that was another
[01:39:06.360 --> 01:39:13.880]  one of the lies that Tulsi Gabbard said when she was campaigning for him. Now, Trump was
[01:39:15.640 --> 01:39:19.880]  all in favor of free speech. Have you noticed how he sues and tries to put out a business
[01:39:20.600 --> 01:39:26.360]  major networks if there's a story that he doesn't like? How he sues Wall Street Journal for $10
[01:39:26.360 --> 01:39:34.360]  billion and the BBC for $10 billion because he said they defamed him or they didn't edit this
[01:39:34.360 --> 01:39:40.600]  properly or they showed the Jeffrey Epstein birthday card that he said was a hoax and it wasn't.
[01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:46.280]  A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for censorship and a complete erosion of our fundamental and
[01:39:46.280 --> 01:39:53.880]  constitutional rights and freedoms. A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for someone who will defend
[01:39:53.880 --> 01:39:58.360]  freedom and every one of our God given rights that are enshrined in the constitution and bill
[01:39:58.360 --> 01:40:07.960]  of rights. Yeah. Well, we're going to take a quick break and we're going to come back and we're going
[01:40:07.960 --> 01:40:17.160]  to talk about the large language models and beyond that, the involvement Chinese style of the Trump
[01:40:17.160 --> 01:40:23.240]  regime and all these different corporations, we're going to take a management position in Intel.
[01:40:23.240 --> 01:40:26.920]  We're not just going to give them some money, but we're also going to have a say in what they do
[01:40:27.640 --> 01:40:32.360]  and we've seen this over and over again. They've done it with Nvidia and now they're going to try
[01:40:32.360 --> 01:40:41.160]  to put Anthropic out of business because they refuse to erase these red lines saying there's
[01:40:41.160 --> 01:40:46.600]  certain things that we will not allow our large language model to be used for. Things like mass
[01:40:46.600 --> 01:40:51.800]  surveillance at home and autonomous killing weapons. The Trump administration doesn't like that,
[01:40:51.800 --> 01:40:56.760]  which speaks volumes about the Trump administration. We'll be right back.
[01:42:52.760 --> 01:42:58.360]  Using free speech to free minds. It's the David Knight show.
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[01:43:11.240 --> 01:43:16.360]  Well, looking at the price of gold this morning, as the show was starting, it was up to $53.62.
[01:43:16.920 --> 01:43:21.000]  Of course, a few days ago they were saying, well, we think it might get up to $52 or something.
[01:43:21.000 --> 01:43:29.560]  It's blown through that. It's now falling back down to $53.07. But still, if you want to have
[01:43:29.560 --> 01:43:34.600]  something to help you weather the coming storm, I would suggest that you start trying to get some
[01:43:34.600 --> 01:43:39.320]  of your money into gold at least. And you can do that going to David Knight. Gold, I'll take you
[01:43:39.320 --> 01:43:45.720]  to Tony Arderman. Tony must be having yet another one of these days. I hope the guy weathers this
[01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:49.720]  without a nervous breakdown. I mean, when you look at the environment that he's got to operate in,
[01:43:49.720 --> 01:43:54.120]  the massive price swings that are going up in it, even if it's mostly going up,
[01:43:54.840 --> 01:44:00.520]  it's still a very difficult thing for him. So anyway, but he's able to handle it. The
[01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:06.520]  large reason that he's able to handle it is because of the people who are gradually accumulating,
[01:44:06.520 --> 01:44:14.840]  wisely accumulating gold and silver at Wise Wolf, doing it through the Wolf Pack. And if we can
[01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:20.840]  buy a little bit on a monthly basis each month. And so that has helped him as well as many people
[01:44:20.840 --> 01:44:26.520]  to accumulate and get some money out of the fiat dollars that are being eviscerated by the
[01:44:26.520 --> 01:44:32.440]  warfare welfare state that we have. Well, the CIA helped to pinpoint a gathering of Iranian leaders.
[01:44:33.160 --> 01:44:38.920]  Then Israel struck. And of course, the CIA is using Palantir, which is using Anthropic and so
[01:44:38.920 --> 01:44:44.680]  forth. The CIA had been tracking Khomeini for months, gaining more confidence about his
[01:44:44.680 --> 01:44:49.960]  locations and his patterns. That's called geospatial intelligence, folks. And so to point it out,
[01:44:49.960 --> 01:44:54.760]  that's what they've been working on the fastest growing part of the intelligence agencies going
[01:44:54.760 --> 01:44:59.640]  back to the late 1990s. That's where James Clapper made his mark and rose through the
[01:44:59.640 --> 01:45:05.080]  intelligence agencies was with geospatial intelligence. And this is what they do
[01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:12.280]  in terms of tracking our politics and our opinions as well. The agency learned that a meeting of top
[01:45:12.280 --> 01:45:17.160]  Iranian officials would take place on Saturday morning at a leadership compound in the heart of
[01:45:17.160 --> 01:45:24.600]  Tehran. The CIA learned that the supreme leader would be at the site as well. Well, the US military
[01:45:24.600 --> 01:45:31.400]  used Anthropic and Iran strike despite a ban order by Trump, says the Wall Street Journal.
[01:45:32.040 --> 01:45:39.960]  Think about this. And all the lead up to this, War Pete went on the war path with Anthropic
[01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:44.520]  because they said, you know, we've got some standards and we don't want our system to be
[01:45:44.520 --> 01:45:48.200]  used for this. And I said, you'll use it for whatever we want to do, right? If I've got
[01:45:48.200 --> 01:45:52.440]  something that's illegal and moral, unethical, you'll still work with us, right? I said, no,
[01:45:52.440 --> 01:45:57.800]  we won't. And so it's like, okay, you got to get out of here and we're going to punish these people,
[01:45:57.800 --> 01:46:03.960]  said people in the Pentagon. Said, it's going to be a real problem to extract them out of all
[01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:07.320]  these different things and we're going to make them pay a price. We're going to try to put them
[01:46:07.320 --> 01:46:13.320]  out of business. We're going to declare that they are a security risk and anybody who does
[01:46:13.320 --> 01:46:19.480]  any business with the American government can't use them in any way possible. Well,
[01:46:19.480 --> 01:46:26.360]  they were doing this. And again, it's like I said, it's not geopolitics. It's not some grand scheme
[01:46:26.440 --> 01:46:32.920]  of what they want to do. Instead, even as they are setting up their sneak attack, right? And they
[01:46:32.920 --> 01:46:42.120]  know they're going to do this. They anathematize anthropic and try to shut them down on the eve
[01:46:42.120 --> 01:46:48.600]  of going to war. This is like changing horses in the middle of a stream, right? What does
[01:46:48.600 --> 01:46:52.840]  the matter with these people? They're the gang that can't shoot straight, quite frankly, they're
[01:46:52.840 --> 01:46:59.160]  idiots. It's a ship of fools. The US military reportedly used Anthropic during a major airstrike
[01:46:59.160 --> 01:47:04.680]  on Iran only hours after Trump ordered federal agencies to halt use of the computer systems.
[01:47:05.560 --> 01:47:11.240]  CENTCOM used Anthropic's Claude AI model for operational support, according to people familiar
[01:47:11.240 --> 01:47:15.960]  with the matter, cited by the Wall Street Journal. It has reportedly assisted with intelligence
[01:47:15.960 --> 01:47:22.360]  analysis identifying potential targets, like Khomeini, and running battlefield simulations.
[01:47:22.360 --> 01:47:28.920]  The incident shows how deeply advanced AI systems have become embedded in defense operations. Even
[01:47:28.920 --> 01:47:34.040]  as the administration moved to sever ties with the company, Claude remained integrated into
[01:47:34.040 --> 01:47:39.880]  military workflows. So even as they have this completely embedded there and they want to go to
[01:47:39.880 --> 01:47:45.080]  war, it's Trump's ego that is really the thing that we have to be concerned about, right?
[01:47:45.080 --> 01:47:48.680]  On Friday, the Trump administration instructed agencies to stop working with the company,
[01:47:49.160 --> 01:47:56.040]  directed the Department of Defense to treat it as a potential security risk. Anthropic refusing to
[01:47:56.040 --> 01:48:03.400]  grant unrestricted military use of its AI for any lawful scenario, they say. And yet we look at this
[01:48:03.400 --> 01:48:09.720]  and it's like lawful? What does that really mean to the Orpete administration in the Pentagon or
[01:48:09.720 --> 01:48:17.560]  to the Trump regime, right? It doesn't have any meaning left whatsoever. And so Anthropic has
[01:48:17.560 --> 01:48:23.080]  previously secured a multi-year Pentagon contract worth up to $200 million, along with several major
[01:48:23.080 --> 01:48:30.200]  AI labs, partnerships involving Palantir and Amazon. Claude became approved for classified
[01:48:30.200 --> 01:48:35.080]  intelligence and operational workflows. The system was reportedly also involved in earlier
[01:48:35.080 --> 01:48:41.160]  operations, including a January mission to Venezuela that resulted in the kidnapping of Maduro.
[01:48:42.120 --> 01:48:46.920]  Hexeth demanded that the company permit unrestricted military use of its models.
[01:48:47.720 --> 01:48:54.840]  The Anthropic CEO rejected the request describing certain applications as ethical boundaries that
[01:48:54.840 --> 01:49:04.360]  the company would not cross. Nothing bothers Orpete more than when somebody says, don't follow
[01:49:04.680 --> 01:49:14.600]  illegal orders. Or when somebody says, don't use my product for mass surveillance of Americans.
[01:49:14.600 --> 01:49:19.800]  Don't use my product to power autonomous killing machines. That's the kind of stuff that bothers
[01:49:19.800 --> 01:49:29.000]  him. Does it bother you what this guy's mentality is? I tell you, I've seen a lot of secretaries
[01:49:29.000 --> 01:49:35.400]  come and go with the Department of Defense. Pete Hexeth is absolutely the most criminal
[01:49:35.400 --> 01:49:42.040]  of any of them. He's worse than Lion Leon Panetta. He really is. He's of the same cloth,
[01:49:42.040 --> 01:49:48.120]  quite frankly. There's no ethical boundaries that he isn't demanding that people cross. And so he
[01:49:48.120 --> 01:49:56.840]  goes to the most unethical of the Silicon Valley technocrats, Sam Altman, and they set up a deal
[01:49:56.840 --> 01:50:05.640]  with OpenAI. And so in an interview on Saturday, the Anthropic CEO said he opposes the use of its
[01:50:05.640 --> 01:50:10.680]  AI models for mass domestic surveillance and for fully autonomous weapons. So therefore,
[01:50:11.560 --> 01:50:19.080]  the Pentagon, not just ICE, but the Pentagon is part of the domestic police state.
[01:50:20.040 --> 01:50:27.400]  Right? Remember when Obama was suspected of this? And now while Trump is doing it,
[01:50:28.520 --> 01:50:33.000]  Alex Jones did four documentaries about police state USA and the Obama deception,
[01:50:33.000 --> 01:50:37.880]  all the rest of stuff. But now that Trump is actually putting this into place, wants to use
[01:50:37.880 --> 01:50:42.680]  the Pentagon and use artificial intelligence, this is what they're so focused on AI about.
[01:50:42.680 --> 01:50:48.440]  Remember, I said this from the very beginning. I said the most dangerous part of AI is mass
[01:50:48.440 --> 01:50:55.320]  surveillance and the intelligence that they can glean by looking at you, the way they can analyze
[01:50:55.320 --> 01:51:01.480]  this and figure out what you're doing. But there's another aspect of this, and that is the fact that
[01:51:02.760 --> 01:51:06.200]  Anthropic has been banned from federal government contracts. This is reason
[01:51:06.920 --> 01:51:13.400]  looking at the business side of this, the unprecedented nature of the US government
[01:51:13.960 --> 01:51:20.520]  and a fit of ego of the Trump administration. Again, ego politics, deciding that in the same
[01:51:20.520 --> 01:51:29.640]  way, if he doesn't like what a Canadian mayor does, he wants to put massive tariffs on Canada.
[01:51:29.640 --> 01:51:35.800]  This is his kind of reaction. You don't bow the knee to me. I will destroy you. Kiss my ring.
[01:51:35.800 --> 01:51:43.160]  Kiss my foot. Get down on the ground. This guy is a tyrant, a dictator, unlike any that we've
[01:51:43.160 --> 01:51:51.480]  ever seen in the office. We've had other people like him, but they try to hide it. Trump doesn't.
[01:51:51.480 --> 01:51:59.480]  He revels in it. So he's banned all federal agencies from working with him. Again, the $200
[01:51:59.480 --> 01:52:04.200]  million contract is chicken feed, as I pointed out. It's only about one and a half percent
[01:52:04.200 --> 01:52:10.440]  of their gross revenue. But once he puts this out and bans everybody else, if they have any
[01:52:10.440 --> 01:52:13.800]  interaction with the federal government, in other words, you're going to choose to work with the
[01:52:13.800 --> 01:52:18.760]  federal government or you're going to work with Anthropic. You can't do both, according to Trump.
[01:52:19.640 --> 01:52:24.440]  That's going to hurt them significantly. The direct contract that they have is only
[01:52:24.440 --> 01:52:28.840]  one and a half percent of their revenue, but the rest of this stuff is going to really have a knock
[01:52:28.840 --> 01:52:35.240]  on effect. Peg Seth demanded that Anthropic equipped the Pentagon and AI models free from
[01:52:35.240 --> 01:52:44.120]  usage policy constraints that may limit lawful military applications. Well, if we look at how
[01:52:44.120 --> 01:52:49.720]  they're willing to disrupt all this stuff, it's going to be really difficult, as they said,
[01:52:49.720 --> 01:52:54.360]  to extract all this stuff. So they want to punish Anthropic because of that. But think about it.
[01:52:54.360 --> 01:53:00.920]  Why would they go through the process of extracting all this stuff if Peg Seth didn't want to use it
[01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:06.920]  for mass domestic surveillance and for autonomous killing weapons? At the same time,
[01:53:06.920 --> 01:53:12.760]  he says, well, I'm not going to use it for anything unlawful. He is willing to go through
[01:53:12.760 --> 01:53:21.800]  all of this hassle, all of this problem in order to have the ability to do these kind of unlawful,
[01:53:21.800 --> 01:53:27.160]  unethical things. You do see how the guy is lying out of both sides of his mouth, right?
[01:53:28.120 --> 01:53:33.880]  So the CEO of Anthropic published a public letter Thursday night explaining his constitutional,
[01:53:33.880 --> 01:53:40.040]  ethical, and technical concerns about unleashing AI that is capable of surveilling American citizens
[01:53:40.040 --> 01:53:46.440]  at home and executing people abroad according to its own judgment instead of human beings.
[01:53:47.480 --> 01:53:53.720]  So again, what does this tell you about the Pentagon and about Pete? The Pentagon is guilty
[01:53:53.800 --> 01:53:58.920]  of a glaring contradiction, says Reason. I'm sorry, no, this is the guy who is
[01:53:59.960 --> 01:54:05.480]  at the R Street Institute, Mark Dalton. He says they are guilty of a glaring contradiction on
[01:54:05.480 --> 01:54:10.920]  the first side. They consider Anthropic's technology so vital to national defense
[01:54:11.640 --> 01:54:17.240]  that they thought that invoking the Defense Production Act was justified to retain access
[01:54:17.320 --> 01:54:23.080]  earlier this week, then suddenly designating the company as a supply chain risk.
[01:54:24.600 --> 01:54:32.040]  The ego politics of putting them as a supply chain risk is what would keep other companies
[01:54:32.040 --> 01:54:36.840]  from being able to do business with them. The President is permitting a six-month window
[01:54:36.840 --> 01:54:40.520]  during which the federal agencies, including the Pentagon, will continue to use Claude.
[01:54:40.520 --> 01:54:46.680]  That's how integrated it is already. That's how vital it is already. And so when you think about
[01:54:46.760 --> 01:54:51.400]  all of that trouble, why would they go to all that trouble if they didn't really want to use
[01:54:51.400 --> 01:54:58.680]  it for mass surveillance? Pete Hegseth is lying to you about this. Dean Ball, the senior fellow
[01:54:58.680 --> 01:55:05.640]  of the Foundation for American Innovation, said this designation as a supply chain risk is the
[01:55:05.640 --> 01:55:11.720]  most damaging policy move I have ever seen the US government try to make. Because again, this is
[01:55:11.720 --> 01:55:19.880]  Mafia Don. Respect me or die, right? The company's usage policy has explicitly prohibited the use of
[01:55:19.880 --> 01:55:26.040]  its AI models for domestic surveillance purposes and to produce, modify, design, market, or distribute
[01:55:26.040 --> 01:55:31.800]  weapons, explosives, dangerous materials, or other systems designed to create harm to or loss of life
[01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:38.680]  since June of 2024 when it began supporting American warfighters. These provisions are
[01:55:38.680 --> 01:55:46.360]  maintained in Anthropic's current usage policy. The company then received a $200 million Pentagon
[01:55:46.360 --> 01:55:54.680]  contract over a year later in July of 2025. So it was Pete Hegseth who gave them the $200 million
[01:55:54.680 --> 01:56:02.040]  contract. He knew what their policy was. Neither the president nor the secretary of defense were
[01:56:02.040 --> 01:56:10.040]  ignorant of these usage conditions. But now they have started paying attention because they're not
[01:56:10.040 --> 01:56:18.360]  only evil, but they're incompetent. Neither Trump nor Hegseth have claimed that the CEO of Anthropic
[01:56:18.360 --> 01:56:28.280]  changed Anthropic's terms of service. Open AI CEO Sam Altman claimed that the Department of Defense
[01:56:28.280 --> 01:56:33.480]  agrees with Open AI's most important safety principles, prohibitions on domestic mass
[01:56:33.480 --> 01:56:40.200]  surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force. If that's the case, then why the fight?
[01:56:42.440 --> 01:56:47.720]  Again, this is the same type of stuff we're hearing about Iran's nuclear program. Well,
[01:56:47.720 --> 01:56:52.760]  we obliterated it. It's all gone. There's not anything left. Well, now we have to bomb them
[01:56:52.760 --> 01:57:00.520]  again to get it right to stop their programs. The Trump administration doesn't even think twice
[01:57:00.520 --> 01:57:05.400]  when they lie to the American public. I mean, we have video footage from a gazillion different
[01:57:05.400 --> 01:57:14.760]  angles of ICE agents murdering Alex Pretti and the woman Renee Good. And yet they come out with
[01:57:14.760 --> 01:57:20.440]  absurd lies. The Renee Good thing had Christine Ohm come out and said, yeah, they were stuck in
[01:57:20.440 --> 01:57:24.920]  the snow. And then they got attacked by this woman and all the rest of stuff. And it's like,
[01:57:25.560 --> 01:57:29.880]  no, everybody's seen the video. We know you're lying. Trump did that as well.
[01:57:31.000 --> 01:57:37.160]  And so they're doing that again with this. We all know why they are having this fight with Anthropic.
[01:57:38.440 --> 01:57:46.200]  So the Anthropic blowout with the military involved the theoretical use of quad for an
[01:57:46.200 --> 01:57:52.680]  incoming nuclear strike is what they're saying. They said that hypothetical nuclear strike
[01:57:52.680 --> 01:57:56.680]  scenario, according to the Washington Post, a defense official told the Washington Post,
[01:57:56.680 --> 01:58:02.680]  the Pentagon's technology chief pose an extremely hypothetical would Anthropic let the military use
[01:58:02.680 --> 01:58:09.960]  Claude to help shoot down a nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile. The CEO supposedly
[01:58:09.960 --> 01:58:14.200]  apparently irritated the Pentagon leaders and said, well, you could call us and we'd work it out.
[01:58:15.160 --> 01:58:22.120]  And so that's what the Washington Post is saying. However, the CEO said that is patently false.
[01:58:23.320 --> 01:58:29.880]  I'm inclined to believe him since I don't know him, but I know that everybody in the Trump
[01:58:29.880 --> 01:58:37.320]  administration is an absurd liar. And we've seen it happen over and over again. He said the company
[01:58:37.320 --> 01:58:42.520]  had agreed to allow Claude to be used for missile defense. The Trump administration figures both
[01:58:42.520 --> 01:58:50.600]  inside and outside the DOD have piled pressure on Anthropic that has an avowed focus on safety.
[01:58:51.240 --> 01:58:56.920]  The CEO has criticized the administration's attempt to curb AI regulation, which included,
[01:58:56.920 --> 01:59:04.200]  listen to this, see he's been a critic. So he has the CEO of Anthropic has been a critic
[01:59:04.760 --> 01:59:10.840]  of what the Trump administration has done saying you're not going to have any restrictions on AI
[01:59:10.840 --> 01:59:16.200]  state or local for 10 years. Right. And I said, the reason they're doing that is because they've
[01:59:16.200 --> 01:59:24.040]  got some real nefarious uses for AI involved. And of course, the CEO of Anthropic has said that,
[01:59:24.040 --> 01:59:28.520]  and he's been critical of the Trump administration. I think that is what this is really about.
[01:59:29.800 --> 01:59:38.040]  He says included a proposed ban on state level regulation. So this is, I think, the essence
[01:59:38.040 --> 01:59:42.840]  of what is happening. And it is something that really should concern us. And it's something we
[01:59:42.840 --> 01:59:50.120]  don't have time to talk about more today, but we will revisit this. I'm afraid that the Pentagon
[01:59:50.120 --> 01:59:56.120]  and War Pete and Trump will revisit this as well. Have a good day. Thank you for joining us.
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[02:00:13.160 --> 02:00:19.400]  They created common core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us.
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[02:00:27.240 --> 02:00:30.920]  They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary,
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