LIVE: Trump PREPARES WORLD WAR as POWER ENDS… 10/29/2026

Welcome to Ben on breaking news. I'm Ben. Mecelis and this is your breaking news. The latest regarding the likely. escalation of this catastrophic war in. Iran. Uh Wall Street Journal uh. reporting that uh top Admiral Brad. Cooper uh has been briefing Donald Trump. and the Trump regime on uh attack. options on Iran. Uh there was a meeting. taking place today with Admiral Cooper.

uh talking about options for an. immediate escalation as soon as the. midterms are over. Um you have Carla. Babab, a military reporter also writing, "Current and former officials say the. administration plans to strike Iran. following the US elections next week. Aircraft are moving into positions. the. mother of all bombs, the MOAB use is. expected. Um, one of the things that we.

are uh also learning is that the Trump. regime is sending more Patriot. interceptors to Israel right now from. Texas. Israel is already heavily uh. fortified and protected by the Iron Dome. and other American military weapons, but. more uh of these uh interceptors are. heading over there. Uh this as a report. just came out earlier today that the. United States Army is starting to. practice digging mass battlefield.

graves. US Army soldiers are training to. bury fellow troops in temporary graves. and mass for the first time in decades. rehearsing how the United States. military would respond if it sustained a. high number of casualties while fighting. a still blazing war. soldiers with the. third core sustainment command in the. 20th Engineer Brigade based in Fort. Bragg, North Carolina, as well as. religious support personnel like.

military chaplain use diggers and. excavators to see how effectively. they could be used to help preserve. bodies intact until they could be. identified and repatriated to the United. States. The US has not needed to do this. type of exercise since the Korean War. The US Army said in a statement. Now, this also comes at a time where one of. the top US Army uh officers who was.

serving as what's called a J5, his name. is Brett Sylvia, who used to lead the. 101st Airborne Division. Then he was. appointed to this J5 position, a joint. staff position, giving advice to the. chairman of the joint chiefs. He was. fired uh Brett Sylvia by Pete Hegsith. last night. Uh last night we learned. that this three-star uh lieutenant. general uh who was serving as basically.

the right hand to the chairman of the. joint chiefs, Brett Sylvia, you can see. his background right here. uh he was. responsible for a lot of the military. planning and it's my view that he was. likely giving advice about the lack of. US munitions about the lack of US uh. military bases and logistical. capabilities uh in the region. Um the. Trump regime fired him uh claimed that. he was leaking information to the press.

They referred him for prosecution to the. DOJ. And you take a look at this guy's. background. Lieutenant General Brett. Sylvia, a West Point class of 1994. graduate as an engineer officer. He was. a combat command uh commanded the 307th. Engineer Battalion in Afghanistan. um in Iraq. He was the uh he led the. 101st Airborne's. second uh brigade combat team during.

Operation Inherit Resolve. Then he took. over the 101st Airborne Division. Command. He was appointed to the J5. position. That's the joint staff five. position um which is responsible for. strategy, plans and policy with um the. chairman of the joint chiefs. He took. that position when the previous J5 was. pushed out and forced out by Hexup and.

and now you had Lieutenant General Brett. Sylvia fired late last night. And then. the Trump regime officials started. leaking to O and other media sources. that Sylvia was leaking to the press and. that he had failed polygraphs. And they. really went after this guy's life. I. mean, they really defamed the crap out. of him and made sure that, you know, his. life would be ruined. I mean, they went. after him. You know, notably, a. statement was released by the joint. staff and the chairman of the joint.

chief's team. That's Dan Kaine. And they. actually put out a very kind of warm, respectful statement about Brett Sylvia. They said, "We wish him the best. He's. provided, you know, 30 plus years of. incredible service to the United States. military and he is um, you know, someone. who we have a great deal of respect for. While the Defense Department put out. these horrific statements about him. leaking, being a criminal, he's leaking. about Ukraine. Anyway, he's gone. There.

have been about 26 top military, maybe. even more top military generals and. admirals who have been either pushed out. or fired uh by the Trump regime since. January of 2025. Whether it's Admiral. Linda Fagan, a fourstar, the former. chairman of the joint chiefs, General. Charles CQ Brown, or CQ Brown, fourstar, fired because he's black. Admiral Lisa. Franchetti fired because she's a woman, chief of naval operations. You go down.

through this list. I mean, in April of. 2026, the Army Chief of Staff, the top. position in the Army, General Randy. George, beloved military leader, he was. fired. You have General David Hodney. also beloved army transformation and. training command focusing on. modernization. He was removed or fired. Um you have General Christopher Donnu. the last man standing in Afghanistan who. led US Army Europe and Africa. He was uh.

pushed out and forced into early. retirement. you know, literally the top. top people um all have been forced out. and you see just the sheer amount of. people who were forced out um since the. catastrophic war uh with Iran uh began. Let let me just show you Donald Trump's. knowledge of Lieutenant General Brett. Sylvia when Trump was asked about this. on the tarmac when he was heading to. South Carolina where he just gave an. incredibly deranged speech. Donald Trump. said that um you know because he heard.

the name Sylvia and he didn't know who. Brett Sylvia was, he thought it was a a. female. And I I'll show you I'll show. you what he says here. Play this clip. >> Said Lieutenant General Sylvia leaked. classified information at the Pentagon. >> She's got problems. She's going to have. big problems. She did. We're very much. looking for leakers and uh she's going. to have big problems. Long-term. problems. Yeah. He said that she is going to have. big problems, long-term problems. It's a.

he, Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, who. has been fired by the Trump regime. during this uh critical time as the Wall. Street Journal's reporting and other. people are reporting. A meeting was just. held to really finalize the catastrophic. escalation uh in Iran that the Trump and. Netanyahu regime are about to launch, seemingly as soon as the midterms are. over. But knowing Trump, I wouldn't be.

surprised if he does it like right. before the midterms and tries to create. a national security incident right. before um we're going to be following. what's going on there. And uh it was. Senator Chris Murphy uh who gave an. interview at the Middle East Institute. earlier as well and he was talking about. you know he said I can't go over what. we've learned in our classified meetings. he said but he said you know the plan.

what I can say is that it's crazy it's. dangerous and it would lead to uh. horrific horrific outcomes. Let me show. you what Senator Murphy had to say. Let's play it. >> In one of these briefings, we did get. the chance to have a fairly detailed. conversation about what the war plan. would be if we restarted military. operations. You you've heard a preview. that it would be a short duration. >> Yeah. >> um plan. >> I will just say this,

>> their plan is insane. Um, it won't it it it won't it it it it. will. >> lead to devastating escalation and the. likely. destruction of our commitment to the. rule of law. >> Can you say more? >> I mean, there's been open reporting as. to, you know, what we may be planning. and the civilian infrastructure that we. may be targeting. Um.

I I I think the plan the plan that they. have they certain they've been asked by. the president to develop a plan. Whether. they believe it it will work or not I do. not know. Um but the plan that they have. developed will lead in my view to a. prolongment and an escalation of this. war that will be devastating for our. security interest. Well, look, he points to what is being. reported publicly. Now, I believe there are a lot of.

generals and admirals who may be they. may actually be, you know, leaking to. the press. I'm not sure if Lieutenant. General Brett Sylvia did, but are. letting it be known what this plan is. because it would be absolutely. catastrophic and it would be. devastating. And it is based on the. false premise that if you bomb Iran more. that they're going to to use the term of. Treasury Secretary Bessant that they're.

going to cry uncle that they're going to. cry uncle. I'm trying to understand, didn't they say that the economic I. mean, first they said that they've. obliterated all of the nuclear. facilities, right? So, first they said. all of the Iranian nuclear facilities. have been obliterated last year, but. then they said we are engaging in this. catastrophic war because of Iran's. nuclear facilities, which apparently. were obliterated. Um, then they said the. war would last four to six weeks. Four. to six weeks. Then they would say two.

days. We're about to do a deal. We're. about to do a You're about to do a deal. Then Treasury Secretary Besson said that. the blockade is working so effectively. in April, so effectively, things are. going so great that um it would just be. two or three days that the pipes of the. way Iran this way they described it that. the pipes would get congested and the. pipes would just blow up and uh and that. and Iran would be destroyed because the. pipes would get congest. Remember they. told you that ridiculous thing and then.

what has Bessant been saying? They're. two weeks away from crying uncle. They're about to give up. They launched. Operation Economic Outcast. The blockade. is so successful. It's so incredible. Iran's begging for a deal. They're not. Iran's not begging for a deal. The. blockade is a little bit successful in. the sense that it's blocking a lot of. Iranian ships out of the straight of. Hormuz. But there are other routes. Iran. can use trains and the trains that go.

from Iran can end up in China. China. trains can end up in Iran. We're seeing. a lot of that happen right now. Iran can. use the Caspian Sea. There's a whole. smuggling highway route that could be. used by Iran and Iran can do certain. shipto- ship transfers and get stuff out. of the straight of Hormuz as well. And. so Iran is certainly like I don't want. to act like Iran is like thriving. That. would be hyperbolic. I mean the blockade.

certainly hurts them. But Iran has. plans. They're prepared for this. If you. look at Iranian leadership from the. foreign minister level to the main. adviser to the Ayatollah. Moshin Razi is the main adviser to. Ayatollah. Mojaba Kane. If you look at. um at the civilian side, MB Galab, PhD, I mean, you're talking about people who. have backgrounds in engineering degrees. You're talking about people who are.

doctors. Even Iran's president possesses. a cardiovascular surgeon. But you're. looking at people who are doctors who. have been around for a long time, who. have been able to, you know, who have. been there for the Iran Iraq war, who. have been there for uh prior uh wars and. conflicts between the United States and. Iran. I mean, you're talking about. people who understand the terrain very. well. And for the Trump regime to. basically discount all of that and be.

like, you know what? What we didn't do. enough is we didn't bomb more. infrastructure. That's what's going to. do it. No. The moment. the moment the US strikes begin, Iran has already prepared all of the. IRGC. uh bases, most of which are hidden. underneath mountains, deep underneath. mountains where MOABs can't even reach. They will immediately, they already have. their targets ready to go. the data.

centers in the region, the prochemical. facilities in the region, the LNG. facilities in the region, the LPG. facilities in the region, um the. refineries in the region, the data. centers in the region, um the US. aircraft carriers, you know, Iran has. the capability with its anti-ship. uh uh capabilities to strike the US. aircraft carriers. Um Iran has not done. that because they recognize that that.

level of escalation. um would likely. if you hit a US aircraft carrier, you. could turn potentially public sentiment. in the US depending on how that goes. down in favor of the war if there are. casualties aboard a US aircraft carrier. So Iran's not going to play that card. until they are attacked first in in. another in another wave of invasion by.

the Trump and the Netanyahu regime. And. so Iran Iran is ready to go. And what. Senator Murphy is describing right there. is that this plan is insane. You're. going to drop a MOAB basically on. Pickaxe Mountain and and what are you. going what are you going to achieve by. that? the Moab likely won't even get to. where the nuclear facility is, which is. way deeper than even a Moab reaches. And. then all bets are off. Then all bets are. off. I mean, if you think about the.

regional war taking place right now as. you also have the Houthis on Sarala. advancing east into. um Yemen and striking Saudi Arabia. And. you see the strikes that Ansurala and. the Houthis. have been able to achieve within Riad. and nearby and Yanbu and all the areas. in Saudi Arabia, it's going to be. nothing compared to what Iran is going. to do. And it's I mean it it is it is so. freaking obvious.

how cataclysmic and catastrophic. that would be. And we ha, this is one of the problems. of having a malignant narcissistic. lunatic. in Donald Trump who's not qualified to. lead right now, who doesn't have the. mental capacity even before the. cognitive and physical decline, doesn't. have the mental capacity. to understand these things at all.

and. his plan or whatever it is of it's going. to be shortterm. You you hear what he's. saying? I dictate the terms. I decide. when it starts. I decide when it ends. No, there's another player in this war. as well. And so as you see right now the. escalation of the war uh in Ukraine, right, which by the way you have my view.

Melania and the Trump regime using this. very small ceasefire in Oleski, a uh. Ukrainian territory occupied by Russia. as they're using this as kind of like a. look over here kind of propaganda ploy. You have massive escalation in the war. over there. You have. the Houthis on Sarala at war with the. Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia proxies. the PLC in Yemen.

that will expand and you know the. ingredients are there for a world war. and it's again not for me to be. hyperbolic I mean the ingredients are. there for a world war if Donald Trump. strikes Iran like that the strikes that. Iran is going to hit in the region will. trigger allout war the likes of which we. haven't seen um in you know since World. War II and it's already heading in that. direction and we move closer and closer. into this escalation trap every day. And.

as I said at the outset, the US Army. confirmed that it is practicing digging. the mass battlefield graves. This comes. from the US Army. They're preparing this. country for a draft and for mass. casualties to take place. The only way, as you all know, I am very. much against this catastrophic and. unlawful war in Iran. Very much against. it. I think that we should never have. been involved in in the first place. I.

think Trump is a war criminal. I think. Trump is horrible and you know and and. and uh and he are the done the most. horrible and horrific things imaginable. Um, if you were to do a war game of what. an actual regime change war would look. like though, if you were to war game it. out, what it would require, it would. require hundreds of thousands, if not. millions of American troops and.

international troops working with the. United States to affirmatively go boots. on the ground. in Iran. Iran is the size of Texas, Florida, California, Michigan. Throw in one other state. combined. Huge. 90 million people. You're not. going to get Iran to submit by a short. round of air strikes on civilian.

infrastructure. You're just going to. trigger a massive response. So, if you. were going to do, and by the way, Netanyahu is out there saying regime. change, regime change. that we're only. the only acceptable outcome is regime. change is what Netanyahu is saying while. the Trump regime is giving Netanyahu. um interceptors. um in addition to the Iron Dome. The. remaining Interceptor stock is going to. Netanyahu right now. And in order for you to do a regime.

change, if you did a war game and you. played out the simulations, you would be. looking at probably more deaths of. American soldiers per month than Russian. deaths in Ukraine. So you would be. talking about 35 to 50,000 American. service members killed every single. month in this catastrophic war. That's. where it would be. In no time, we would. have half a,600,000 dead. we wouldn't be. able to even ever achieve regime change. and even if you did it would last for a. short period of time because Ayatollah.

Mutaba Kmeni and the IRGC are so deeply. entrenched in all of the communities in. Iran. You wouldn't even be able to. achieve the outcome that you're saying. that you wanted. Um but it would require that's the level. that it would require and one of the. most treasonous and traitorous aspects. of this all in my view is. this is the type of solemn and serious.

conversation where we need to have a. grown-up conversation. Whatever your. view of it is. My view is that this is. catastrophic that Trump and Eggs are war. criminals. Regardless, there needs to be. a understanding of the American people. and you have to say, "Oh, we're doing a. deal. It ends when I want it to end.". No, that's not the way I don't care what. political party you're from. We should. all be against what the hell is. happening right now. It's by the way why. the book is called WTF America. Donald.

Trump's out there on the tarmac saying. he thinks he's doing a great job that. Heg said's doing amazing. Here's what. Donald Trump said when he was on the. tarmac. Let's play it. play it just as. well. But they're talking about Pete. Hexa. He's doing a great job. He's a. great warrior. I think he's the best at. his job in many, many years. And a lot. of people agree with that. >> Nobody agrees with that. He's literally. the worst. You couldn't be worse at your. job than Hegsith is at as the defense.

secretary. It is as bad. It is as bad as. you get. But if you look at all of what. Trump is doing, what Hegath is doing, firing the top generals, our military. bases are destroyed, the Trump Putin. deals that are happening right now, which are not moving the diesel market. at all, but serve as propaganda winds. for Putin, what you're seeing with. Starlink and Star Shield. cutting off um Starlink and Star Shield.

cutting off access to the Ukrainian. drones. when you see or throttling it, when you. see all of what's happening in Alaska, how the uh polar LNG facility uh in. Alaska seems to actually be controlled. by Russian money. Um, when you see all. of that taking place, you know, with. Russia having a foothold in Alaska right. now, when you see everything that's. taking place right now, um, you know,

you would either say. Trump is the most reckless, negligent, careless, biggest loser imaginable. or this is an intentional. op to destroy the country. Because if. you were to design the way you would do. it, you would fire all of your top. military generals and admirals who knew. what the hell they were doing. You would. gut the government. Um you would gut our.

you know critical uh infrastructure. I. mean what there was there was more hacks. that took place right in the past that. we're learning about right now that. because we don't have real cyber. security anymore. All the top people. were fired and I think Trump brought in. like an intern, you know, to lead the, you know, counterterrorism at the FBI. and and and at the defense department, you know, what was the guy? Thomas. Fugate III, like a 21-year-old guy who. was like uh like literally like.

interned. He's like the cyber security. guy. So, we've we're learning about. these hacks taking place of the food. storage facilities. that um. that are in various military bases. So, the food is being destroyed, you know, with with all of these hacks that are. taking place right now. You know, I if. you were to look across the board, you. would say this is kind of an intentional. and malicious effort to try to destroy. the country. Or you would say it's both.

It's intentional and malicious and it's. also reckless and negligent all at once. And here we are. We are days away from. the midterm elections. And Donald Trump. and the regime want to do everything. they can to try to derail these. elections. Whether it is the calling for. criminal prosecutions in Alaska, whether. it's the attack in California, whether. it is, you know, already saying that the.

elections are being rigged and the. elections are stolen. You know, this is. one one of the things we talk about in. WTF America, the way out of this hell. and back to democracy, is that there is. a globalist authoritarian movement. And. one of the uh staples of this globalist. authoritarian movement is they. um they attack elections. They attack. the very nature of what an election is. It's rigged. It's unfair. It's you know,

and think about what Netanyahu was. saying during the election. It's rigged. They're rigging it against me. And then. once there's an outcome, what's. Netanyahu saying right now? Oh, the Arab. nations, there was election. interference. Qatar did election. interference. And and that's why the. Arab block um got 19 seats or 18 seats. because election interference. It's like. election interference there. What are. you talking about? You got you got Trump. literally interfering with the in the. Israeli election. I mean, you've got.

Trump and Netanyahu quite literally. working together. Um and. and and you have you have all of that. taking place and then you're saying that. it's the Arab nations that they did it. Look at Brazil. Flavio Bolsinaro posting. a message that looks like it was. actually written from the State. Department and then like Google. translated into Portuguese because the. words in Portuguese made very little how. native Portuguese speakers actually.

talk. And you've got the Trump regime. sheltering Flavio Bolsinaro who says, "I'm the real president-elect. I'm the. real person who won this election. I'm. gonna be running a caretaker government. from Miami basically at Mara Lago to. overthrow the dulyeleed government of. Brazil. So you have this international. authoritarian network, this Epstein. class, these wararm mongers right now. who are out there um and they want World. War II. Look at the Epstein files. When.

you look at the Epstein files, Epstein. was gloating about when he would speak. with all of these Epstein class leaders. of the different countries about war, about wars everywhere and how you would. short certain currencies and long other. currencies and how the manipulation of. the of the election, the manipulation uh. of the markets relating to just anarchy. and chaos.

is part of the plan. And you have this. authoritarian network that is. inextricably intertwined and part of the. Epstein class. And they want World War. II. They're pushing for World War II. because they don't like the outcome of. World War II. They they don't like the. postworld war II architecture where you. had America working with its allies. And. was it perfect? far from it. Are there a.

lot of criticisms? I don't want to. create this. uh view that everything was amazing and. everything was grim. Like there's. there's real historical issues that we. need to look at that we need to confront. and we need to deal with of course. Um, but you have Putin, you have she, you. have other actors seeing a key. opportunity right now as Donald Trump. has worked his way into this trap in. these straight horm as Trump recklessly.

climbs an uh escalatory ladder that will. lead to a future world war. And that's. what you have Senator Murphy um you know. that's what you have him warning about. That's why the elections right here are. so critical, are so important right now. because we are at this existential. moment. Again, regardless of what. political party, there needs to be. checks and balances. There needs to be. war powers resolutions passed. There.

needs to be a restraint on the military. funding. There needs to be hearings. every damn day of Hegsith and Lutnik and. Bessant and Melania and Kushner and Don. Jr. and all of these people. And that's. what's at stake. We'll talk more about. that than we can when we come back from. our first break. But I want to thank. everybody who purchased WTF America. Thank you for making this uh it was.

number two on the New York Times. bestseller list. number two. But we did. beat Nuke Gingrich's book and we did. beat uh Brian Kilme's book. And Nuke. Gingrich, he got a little dagger next to. his name because he was doing both buys. also. And we still beat him based on the. power of the mightest mighty. So, thanks. everybody who got their copy of WTF. America. We appreciate you. We know that. times are difficult here in the economy. here and abroad. But thanks for getting. this book and I hope that um I hope that.

you learned a lot from it and I hope. that it guides a way of thinking in. terms of systems to understand how we. got here because we're seeing right now. this international authoritarian network. at play. And if we just think about the. election in terms of who's up, who's. down, who's winning or losing, you lose. sight of that broader uh picture which. is taking place. When we come back, you. know what I want to show Jeremy? Show. the show the photo of that unmanned. submersive, please, though. Let I I want. to see the photo of the the video of the.

unmanned submersive that off the coast. of Bulgaria, a Liberian flag ship, which. was actually an Israeli ship, um but it. was Liberian flagged. It was in the. economic zone of Bulgaria. It was. heading to Romania. It was hit by a. Russian unmanned submersive. Iran's got. a lot of these unmanned submersives as. well. Ukraine's been using a lot of. these unmanned submers. I just want to. show the audience what this looks like. so people can understand what modern. warfare actually visually is. Here, play.

this clip. the. >> So, three of those ended up hitting that. tanker, destroying the tanker. All of.

the people aboard managed to survive, but we've seen a number of strikes like. that. Um, you have the drones, the Garen. 4s and those Garen 5 jet powered drones. that go about 450 kilometers an hour and. Iran has all of that technology as well. Um the US has of course you know its. version of that. Although a lot of our. taxpayer dollars have been wasted going. to buying big. um you know they're spending the money.

on these Trump these nuclearpowered. or these nuclear Trump uh battleships. that are like 14 billion or 25 billion. dollars each. Um and then Donald Trump. wants to rearrange the massive aircraft. carriers. So you removed, you know, part. of the electromagnetic propulsion. systems because Trump doesn't like the. propulsion systems. He thinks they look. ugly. And when you have modern warfare. looking like what I'm showing you over.

there, and you've got these big clunky. aircraft carriers, um, Iran knows how to. fight a modern war. It is doing it. alongside Russia now in this. catastrophic war in Ukraine. and Iran. has been working with its so-called. access of resistance um throughout the. Middle East. And we see the ability of a. group like the Houthies on Sarala to. utilize a combination of precisiong.

guided ballistics and cruise missiles. and drones to hit all of these targets. in Saudi Arabia and how they've been. able to shut down Saudi Arabia. um you. know where literally you have Air France. and you have all these major airlines. saying we're not going to land in Riad. anymore. You have global travel halted. You have learning from home in Saudi. Arabia right now with schools largely. being uh uh shuttered you know at this. point. And you know this if if this.

escalation happens, if this escalation. truly happens, which it seems that we're. heading towards, which would be the most. disastrous thing, I think we all know what the outcome is. And you know, with corporate news, I. mean, did you guys know there were three. tankers in the in the last 24 hours that. were hitting the straight of moose? Did. you know that? Did you know that another. MQ1 drone was destroyed? um bringing the. total to 14 MQ9 drones. Um about 54 MQ9.

Reapers in this catastrophic war have. been destroyed. Do we have the footage. of Iran locking in on the radar of the. MQ1 Jeremy that was destroyed? I just. want to show people what that looked. like. Let me show everybody what that. looked like. Let's play it. you know, and so if Trump wants to say.

they don't have radar and they don't. have any uh, you know, anti-aircraft. or anti- drone technology, I mean, it's. there. I don't know what you're talking. about. We still have a lot to discuss. when we come back. WTF America is the. book. Go get your copy now. The Way Out. of This Hell and Back to Democracy. Let. me know what you thought about it. Appreciate everybody who was able to. purchase it and make it the number two. New York Times bestseller. Thank you for. that. All right, let's take our first. break of the show. Appreciate you.

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he was ranting and raving like the. lunatic that he is about all Democrats. do is talking about impeaching everyone, impeaching this person, impeaching. Hegsith, impeaching this person. It's. unfair. It's unfair. Here, I'll show you. what went down here. Play this clip. Are. you worried about Democratic rhetoric. about trying to impeach Pete Hegstead if. they win? >> I think it's terrible. They all they do. is they talk about impeaching everybody. Uh I mean honestly if we wanted to play. that game we could play it just as well. But they're talking about Pete Hex.

What game are you referring to? I mean, your regime slaughtered little children. in Manab, 168 children in La Mer at a volleyball. practice. Uh, you had children. slaughtered over there. And you have. Hegsith lying about everything. The cost. of the war, the death count in the war, the casualty count in the war. Um, you. have Hegs firing all of our top military.

generals and admirals. You know, we. showed you that list. I mean, just take. a snapshot of that list and you'll see. all of the top military leaders since. January 2025. I mean, these are our top. four star and three star and twostar. generals. And not only that, but they. have prevented. the top talent from even becoming. one-star generals. Basically, if you're. a minority, if you're black, if you're a.

woman, if you're Latino, you get passed. over for a promotion right away. He just. wants to promote white men and talk. about injecting testosterone and all of. the testosterone that he takes, you. know, and and and just a bunch of and a. bunch of uh, you know, insane things. not taking a not taking care of. veterans, stranding. our military, our active duty military. and their families and our contractors. in the Middle East when the catastrophic.

war began. I mean, you know, Aaron. Parnas and Ken Harbaugh at the Midas. Touch Network did a report that when the. war in Iran began in late February, end. of February, it started, the military in. the region didn't know it was going to. even start. They found out about. Operation Epic Fury. on the news. So they learned that there. was that they were now in war and they. were on bases that were very vulnerable. to Iranian strikes and Iran struck those.

bases was so obvious, so predictable. Um, and don't forget that back in 2025, this is the reckless Trump regime and. the malicious Trump regime that was on. the signal chat where they invited the. reporter accidentally from the Atlantic. where they were talking about classified. war plans in a war back in 2025 that we. lost to the Houthis. The Trump regime. surrendered to the Houthis in 2025. Do. you remember that period? March, April,

May of 2025 when there would be like all. of these planes and helicopters that. would be mysteriously falling off the. aircraft carriers in the region. Remember that? And it was like ah. another ship, another uh helicopter just. mysteriously fell into the ocean and an. airplane just fell into the ocean and. that's and it was like now and I don't. think people even then despite how. horrible the Trump regime was even then. could fathom okay Sentcom is going to. lie the way in such brazen ways and the.

military would just go out there and. tell Trump level lies but they were. doing it they were doing it then as as. well. So Hegath gets impeached. It's for. all of the crimes that he has committed. to date. And he's a war criminal. All of. the war crimes that he's committed. Also. on the tarmac, Donald Trump was asked, "So who in your mind is the legitimate. winner of the Brazilian election?" Watch. what he says here. Play this clip.

>> Who in your mind is the legitimate. winner of the Brazilian election? I. don't want to comment it right now, but. I thought the election was a very great. embarrassment to the people of Brazil. I. watched the election. I didn't take. sides. I let it be. I was asked not to. take sides by the president, the current. president. I didn't take sides, but when. I watched what went down in Brazil, it. was a disgra Well, the market says it.

>> What went down? What was the disgrace? Lula won by millions and millions of. votes and then Flavio Bolsinaro fled the. country with the help of the Trump. regime and the Trump regime state. department. Hid in Argentina, then went to Miami. and then issued a statement declaring. that he was the true presidentelect even. though his own political party conceded. defeat. And he said he's going to spend. his time in Florida. Now, this is an.

actual illegal immigrant. criminal being harbored under a. uh protected status that the Trump. regime has ripped away from people who. are actually on a path to legitimate. asylum. And the real election interference that. took place in Brazil was the Trump. regime and the Trump oligarchs. interfering in the Brazilian election, manipulating the algorithms, meta, not.

allowing Lula ads to be seen or be. placed, amplifying the Bolsinaro ads, uh, favoring Bolsinaro with the. algorithms. You had Trump's guy in the region. This. guy Fernando Saramido, he's now uh in a Bolivian prison, although the Trump regime is working to. get him out, but he's the MAGA guy in. Latin America who tried to kill his.

partner, tried to kill um uh partner who. was pregnant with their child together, femicide. and. we now believe that she's being targeted. by the Bolivian president to go after. her. And then they're going to try to. free Fernando Saramido. But you have. Trump having a guy in Latin America. This guy was an Argentinian consultant.

and now fortunately he's been. imprisoned. So he wasn't able to do the. dirty work that he's been able to do in. some of the other elections right there. but he was Trump's guy in the region. And Trump and MAGA and this. authoritarian network, they're out there. every damn day trying to interfere with. the elections in Brazil and uh and. elsewhere. And the fact that Trump. didn't call Lula the president of. Brazil, congratulate him and instead we. harbor the basically the fugitive. We we.

harbor Bolsinaro here in the United. States. It just goes to show you that. the United States is this rogue, dangerous, unserious criminal regime. where criminals are harbored like. Bolsinaro, you know, and this is what. the Trump regime does every day. It's. it's sad and sickening that this is what. the United States has become. You got. Donald Trump claiming that he would have. won in California if there was an honest.

vote. He says he would have actually won. in California, which is just, you know, more pathetic lies. But again, this is. look at what Netanyahu's been saying in. Israel. Look at what Bolsinaro was. saying in Brazil. Look at what these. authoritarians do globally when it comes. to elections. It's this exact stuff. It's a global network of this. Here, play this clip. >> My opinion, millions. It's a corrupt. state and very, very corrupt elections. >> If that if California were honest, if.

they had honest vote count, I would have. won it by a lot. just says things like that. If it had an. honest vote count, I'd win a lot. No, you you lost massively in California. And look, we're going to see the Trump. regime on a statebystate basis do. everything they can to. uh destroy, to. interfere with, to try to block. elections certifications. We know it's.

coming. It's happening right now and it. is important that we all get out the. word that everybody's out there making. sure um that they voted that they will. vote um that their vote is being counted. and it it is important that the rebuke. of Trump be so massive and be so major. that it sends a message that this.

catastrophic IC war is illegitimate, that the Epstein files need to be. released, that this we have to send a. message to the world, that this regime. does not represent what America is. To. me, that's not even a political message. It is an unserious rogue criminal regime. that needs to be held accountable and. checked. show you what went down this. morning on State Regime Media Fox where. you had. uh somebody who was showing up at this.

Trump event and Fox asked, "Why are you. here this morning?" And the Trump rally. attendees answer was just perfect. Here, let me show you what he said. Let's play. this clip. >> Tom, why are you here this morning? >> Well, in the late 70s, I was a little. too young to get involved and u go to. South America for the Jonestown. Massacre, but this is as close as I'll. ever get. So that's why I'm here. >> Wait, the Jonestown massacre. >> That's right. >> There's nothing like seeing a cult right. up front, man. >> All right. So maybe maybe this is not a.

Trump right now. >> It's okay. We'll find over. I appreciate. that. See, >> we've also been seeing a number of. people protest Trump at these small. events. He's in very tiny rooms and even. in these tiny rooms, we have seen. protesters saying, "Release the Epstein. files." Virginia Du Fray, Pedto. Protector, and really call out Trump. Really call out JD Vance. Um, I'll show. you over here this Texas Trump voter who.

said, uh, I can't stand Ken Paxton. I. don't like anything he stands for. Do we. have that one? Let's play that one. >> With uh, Tyler Rico and Paxton, it's. more it's more a vote against Paxton. because I I cannot stand Kim Paxton. I I. don't like anything he stands for. >> Okay. And let me share with you the. latest polling that came out from CNN. today. As this catastrophic war. escalates and escalates and escalates,

as gas prices, diesel prices continue to. surge, as the American people, every. day, this is what I said, right? Every. day it's going to get worse and worse. and worse for the American people. because Donald Trump is just lying about. everything. We don't have $22 trillion. We don't control the straight of Hormuz. The tariffs against the world are not. working. In fact, they're causing a. massive amount of harm and they're. causing inflation to skyrocket.

Everything is getting worse. And he can. go around and claim we're in a golden. age and we control the straight and we. don't. We don't. He's lying. So every. day the fraud I mean that's you you you. can lie if you like he does you know I. mean and get you know. wing it for a month or two months or. three months or four months eventually I. mean it catches up with you which you. shouldn't be doing that at all but it's. every day is worse than the prior day. because all it is is one massive Ponzi.

scheme and whereas before you know. whereas in past economic catastrophes. and crisis es. even when we had leadership that I. thought was pretty freaking bad like. George W. Bush, you would still bring together, you. would still say, "We're in a housing. crisis," right? Like they would still. acknowledge like, "We're in a housing. crisis. What's going on with Lehman Brothers and.

the packaging of these mortgage back. securities is bad. What's happening is. awful. you know, this this is a you. know, you acknowledge the reality and. then you put smart people in the room. and you know, and it's not great to. acknowledge reality when it's really. bad, but that's what serious adults do, right? You know, you you don't go to a. doctor to tell you you're healthy when. you're sick, but you bring adults in the. room and then they solve the problem. Do. you know how many Lehman Brothers. probably exist right now? And because we.

don't have a securities exchange. commission, we don't have a commodities. future trade commission, we don't have a. labor board functioning anymore, that the Enrons, the Lehman Brothers, you know, all of these entities, they. just continue to dig deeper and deeper. in the rabbit hole. They start making. deals with each other to as part of this. circular Ponzi scheme while trying to.

take on massive amounts of debt to keep. this thing rolling and rolling and. rolling and rolling with zero oversight. over what's happening right there. And. things just get worse every day because. all they're doing is ripping us off and. stealing, defrauding us, and lying to. us. And so at this point, we know the price of oil and diesel is. going to continue to rise because it. costs a million5 or $2 million a day to. get out a very large crude carrier out.

of the straight of Hormuz. We know that. there is an issue with refining capacity. right now. You know, we know the prices. of our electricity keep going up and all. Trump's got is talking about men's asses. or whatever the hell he's talking about. Take a look at this CNN new polling from. today. Let's play it. >> The breaking news seeing blue. Brand new. CNN polls in races that could decide who. controls the Senate with results. Democrats will like across the board. In.

Texas, Democrat James Tarico leaves. Republican Ken Paxton by six points. This would be a major flip. No Democrat. has won a statewide race in Texas in. three decades. In Michigan, Democrat. Abdul Alaied leads Republican Mike. Rogers by seven points. This is a. significant shift. Back around Labor. Day, there was no clear leader here. For. Democrats, holding on to Michigan is. essential in their Senate math. In deep. red Kansas, Democrat Adam Hamilton is at.

49% to 45% for Republican incumbent. Roger Marshall. This is within the. margin of error, but still a blaring. warning sign for Republicans in a state. that should be safe territory and not. where they want to be spending time, effort, and money. And in Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson is at 49%. The. incumbent Republican Susan Collins is at. 45%. This too is within the margin of. error. Collins has been able to hang on. in the past when there have been years. favorable to Democrats. Can she do it.

one more time, but again across the. boards in these numbers that we've seen. from these four states, Democrats will. see a path to the majority. Moments ago, New York Times reporting. the Trump regime has opened a criminal. investigation in its intensifying. campaign to prove thousands of. non-citizens are on California's voter. roles, issuing federal grand jury. subpoenas to local election officials, according to people with knowledge of.

the matter and copies of subpoenas. obtained by the New York Times. He going. to do that in every state. As we head. from now into the midterms, we're going. to see a level of desperation that is. unmatched. And we're going to be here with you. We're going to be here with each other. every step of the way. WTF America is. our book, The Way Out of This Hell and. Back to Democracy. We've got a lot to. discuss when we come back. Um, a. reminder, hit subscribe. Let me know if. you got a copy of the hard coverver or.

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probe in order to interfere with the. California elections. The New York Times. reporting that subpoenas, criminal. subpoenas, have been flying and that. there's a criminal investigation opened. up as part of the Trump regime's trying. to attack the uh voting in California. ahead of the election. Uh in California, we're seeing uh the Trump regime working. with the governor of Alaska and working. with the AG of Alaska who are both ultra.

MAGA to basically try to shut you know. to say that no matter what happens in. Alaska right now, the results are should. be thrown out and that you know by the. way even though the Alaska Supreme Court. has already you know the Alaska Supreme. Court is made up of Republicans and. independents. just like no Democrat on. it. And the Alaska Supreme Court said, "Look, you put the Dan Sullivan, put. incumbent, that erases any issue of. confusion with the other Dan Sullivan, you know, it's really not a, you know,

it's really not a big deal. The people. of Alaska will know who the Dan Sullivan. is. What are we talking about? There's. 737,000 people in Alaska. They can read. the word incumbent. This is not, you. know, something that is ultra confusing. to people. Pelola previously got 49% of. the vote where you had um Dan Sullivan. got 41 or 42% of the vote. Even if you. added both Sullivans together, it still. would be significantly less than Mary.

Pela's uh vote count as well. But. anyway, you have the Trump regime. already saying no matter what happens, we believe that this is criminal and you. know the the elections board, the. superior court and the Supreme Court of. Alaska have all said already. It's. there's there there is no good faith. standard or bad faith standard. Even if. all of the allegations that you claim. against Pelola are actually true, even. if you say that she that, you know, that. that that her and the campaign, you.

know, work to recruit a Dan Sullivan, even if you accepted that there's not in. the state of Alaska, the voters are able. to decide and can see, okay, who's the. incumbent and who's not, and that. they're able to address it and and deal. with it. And it's like, you know, I I. understand that there are a lot of. people throwing a huge outrage over. that. Oh my god. Oh my god. It's like, do you see what's happening in every. state with Trump and Elon Musk and. what's going on across the country right. now? And to me, it just plays into this. double standard, you know, that really. exists where this is being view compared.

to all of the stuff that's been. happening with basically elections being. bought and paid for by Trump and Musk. and these MAGA oligarchs and billions. This is the thing that you're, you know, focused on. But, you know, I'll let I'll. let you all um I'll let you all decide. Moments ago, Donald Trump was also on. the um uh tarmac as he was leaving that. disastrous South Carolina speech and a. reporter was asking him, you know, look, you just cancelled your uh trip to.

Kansas. He was supposed to speak in. Kansas as part of one of the closing uh. speeches and now he's no longer speaking. um there and he's pretty much going to. spend the rest of the time really before. the midterms I think in Florida. And so. a reporter asked him, "So, you know, is. this because you're sick of traveling? Are you getting tired? Is anything to do. with your health?" I'll show it to you. in a moment. We're we're loading this. clip right now because it just happened. moments ago, but Donald Trump yells at. the reporter and he tells the reporter,

"You're a sick guy. Look at this guy. You're way out of shape. You're. disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You. look like hell. You're a disgusting. person." Um, yeah. Let's play that clip. Not going to Kansas have nothing to do. with you being sick of traveling. >> Oh, you're sick to ask that question. You are sick. Who you with? >> I'm with Reuters, sir. >> You are a sick guy. Reuters is terrible, by the way. Make sure you're doing well. >> Look at this guy. He's way out of shape. Look at how badly. He comes to me. Sir,

you're not going to go to Kansas. I'm. not going to Kansas cuz he's doing very. well. I'm going to do a teller rally. tomorrow. I'm doing Florida. He said, "What's the reason?" After doing what? 28. He says, "What's the reason for. this, sir? That you're not going to. Kansas? You know what the reason is? I. don't feel I have to go to Kansas. I'm. going to Florida tomorrow and I'll do if. something else comes up." But he said, "You're not going to Kansas, sir. Are. you feeling well? You've been following.

me for two weeks. I feel perfect. You. are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell." Thank you. >> I mean, just look at that behavior right. there. That's the person who has the. nuclear codes. That's the person who just consulted. with I mean to watch him crack like that. as the pressure is mounting. The. question was a fair question. It wasn't. The question was from a Reuters. reporter, right, which pretty much.

shoots down, you know, the middle. I. miss Reuters reporter who said, "What's. the reason you're not going, sir? very. tired. You are a you are disgusting. Look at you. Get yourself in sh Look at. Look at you. You are I mean, look, Trump. is. I'm just making an observation. I mean, he's he happens to be morbidly obese. Donald Trump is um he can't complete. sentences. He brags about cognitive. exams. His hands are turning purple or.

different colors. And sometimes his face. has all of these patches. and you got to. put all this makeup on to to to cover. that up. He's talking about men's asses. as his concluding message to the. American people. This person's ass. This. person's handsome. This person's. attractive. This person's that. This. person's that. And that's his attack on. the reporter. He doesn't have the. mental, emotional.

intelligence or capability to lead. Again, I don't care what political party. you're from, you should look at that and. go, "What the f? What the hell is this?". Here was Donald Trump. He was asked to. what one of the arguments that the Trump. regime, this is a real argument that. they're making to a federal judge about. why Donald Trump should seize control of. the East PTOAC golf course. This is what. he's obsessed with doing. He's already. destroyed the maples and the. uh mature oaks and the cherry blossoms.

against a court order. Now he just wants. to fully seize the golf course to turn. it into a Trump course basically. And one of the things he's claiming is. it's dangerous. He goes, "Everybody," he. posted this in a message, "Everybody. keeps getting hit with balls." And then. he claims that people from his staff. keep getting hit with balls at the. driving range and thus it is a national. security issue because there are so many. balls hitting people at the East PTOAC.

golf course golf course as the American. people are literally suffering right now. psychologically tortured by what this. Trump regime is doing. This is what he's. this is what he's saying. So the. reporter said, "Who was hit at the golf. course? Who from your team? What? What? What is this story you're telling? Listen to what he says here. Playing. this clip. >> He's doing He's doing very well, actually. >> And who was hit at the golf course? >> Who was what? >> Who was hit at the golf course? >> Oh, many people. You mean uh are you. talking about the one over here?

>> Yeah. Many people. It's very dangerous. because the holes are too close. It's a. very obsolete course. And we're doing. very well. We're going to have something. great for the country. >> We'll have top tournaments here. top tournaments here. It's going to be. great for the country. Many people were. hit. Who were the people? Give the. facts. It's a just and even if you gave the. facts, this is what you're talking about. right now. I just I don't know. Granted,

he's speaking in front of very small. crowds. I mean, the crowd he spoke in. front of today in Rock Hill, South. Carolina, I don't know, was it 1300. people, maybe. spoke at a really small crowd uh in. Ohio. Did you see that? It was like a. high school gym, whereas Obama and Osaf. were speaking at like stadiums. Um, James Tarico is still in rooms of. thousands and thousands of people love.

and elsewhere. But the fact that you still even have. people around Trump, I mean, you're. nodding your head like you right now, you're happy that he's ripping down. trees at a golf course and talking about. golden ballrooms. Like, this is what. excites you. This is what interests you. right now. This is what is this is. what's on your mind. Seriously. Seriously. Let me show you the. difference, though. Think this is it's a. great super cut that Brett made, my. younger brother Brett, showing Obama's. speech in Georgia with Assaf contrasted.

to Trump's speech in Ohio with Senator. Houston. Here, let's play this clip. >> Hello, ATLANTA. We named a lovely lake named like Lake. Ontario. >> Jeffrey, >> the president wasn't even mad about the.

Saddam Hussein comparison. THAT PART DIDN'T BOTHER HIM. But he was very upset. about the Cheesecake Factory comments. He took great umbrage. He said, "I. didn't understand the work of the. artisans in the White House." It's all. crazy, but this was the really crazy. part. They mobilized a whole of. government response to that joke. NOT TO. INFLATION, BUT TO that joke. But will. you two guys stand up, please? Everyone.

thinks they're my best friends. I don't. know. Black Central. There's only two tonight. What's going on? >> These are not serious people. They don't. have solutions to actual problems. So, they'd rather have the media and you. talking about the Cheesecake Factory. That's the game they've been playing for. the last two years. Just keep throwing. distractions out there. Attacks, fabrications,

phony outrage, and hope that you won't. notice that your bills are higher and. your life is tougher. We I passed three. cognitive tests. >> What about Darlene Graham? The MAGA. Republican senator, South Carolina. Made her name Graham again, even though. that's not what she was calling herself. for most of her adult life because of.

the fact that she's Lindsey Graham's. sister. Let's take a look at what her. closing message was to voters in South. Carolina. So, while Dr. Annie Andrews is. talking about health care, affordability, gas prices, making sure the Epstein files get. released being a check against Trump's. catastrophic war. What's the message. from Darling Graham right now? Here, play this clip. >> We going to let her do that?

I don't know about you, but I will not. allow the liberals and socialists to. turn South Carolina blue. >> You know what? They can just kiss my. ass. >> Kiss my ass. What's up with the ass? Why. is everything ass? Trump and Houston's. ass. Houston, I'm going to work out so. my ass looks good for Donald Trump. They. could kiss my ass. Kiss my ass. just. why why is this why is this why does our.

politics look like some dystopian. reality show meets WWE because of Trump. and it goes to what Obama was saying is. that because politics has been viewed. through this gamified lens. the way it's been covered is who can. ever suck the most attention is viewed. as authoritative. versus what it should be is. calling out who's qualified, who's not.

qualified, calling out the facts, calling out. what's happening. And so you even see. someone like Darlene Graham now argued, "Kiss my ass. Kiss my ass." And that's. how all these Trump and MAGA people. speak. Take a look at what Tim Scott has. to say. Let's play this clip. candidates to make sure that the last. two years of President's Trump's agenda. is a legacy. >> We'll never forget. The first two years.

have been amazing. >> The last two years can be even better. >> Four more. He says over here 28 to 32. I. hear what you're saying over there. They've been amazing. For those who are joining now, I want to. show this clip I showed at the outset, which is Democratic Senator Chris. Murphy. He explains that he is aware of.

what the Trump escalation. invasion plan of Iran looks like right. after the midterms and how disastrous it. would be. I want you to listen to these. sober and solemn words of Chris Murphy. because this is what's at stake right. now. Let's play this clip of Senator. Chris Murphy. >> In one of these briefings, we did get. the chance to have a fairly detailed. conversation about what the war plan. would be if we restarted military. operations. You you've heard a preview. that it would be a short duration.

>> Yeah. >> um plan. I will just say this, >> their plan is insane. Um, it won't it it it won't it it it it. will. >> lead to devastating escalation and the. likely. destruction of our commitment to the. rule of law. >> Can you say more? >> I mean, there's been open reporting as. to, you know, what we may be planning.

and the civilian infrastructure that we. may be targeting. Um. I I I think the plan the plan that they. have they have certain they've been. asked by the president to develop a. plan. Whether they believe it it will. work or not I do not know. Um but the. plan that they have developed will lead. in my view to a prolongment and an. escalation of this war that will be. devastating for our security interest. So, while we have a United States.

Senator, Chris Murphy, describing that, you had Donald Trump speaking in South. Carolina attacking. the country that should be the United. States top ally in Canada. Let me show. you what Trump said moments ago. Let's. play it. Are going to leave unless you. have a stupid president. If you have a. stupid president, and we had a lot of. them to be honest because we got killed. on trade. Canada's learning their. lesson. They took advantage of us for. many, many years. We lost $90 billion.

last year with Canada. 90 billion in the. good old times. And we're not going to. we don't mind helping them out, but. we're not going to subsidize Canada to. do $90 billion. And now we put tariffs. on them. And they're treating us. extremely nicely lately. Mexico also, I mean, they're not happy. that I changed the name of the Gulf of. Mexico to the Gulf of America. Do we have the clip, Jeremy, of JD. Vance? What he was saying on the.

campaign trail today where he was. saying, "Well, if anybody divides us by. the color of our skin, we need to call. these people out who are dividing us. according to race and skin color." Here, play this clip. And perhaps most importantly, we ended. the practice of DEI in the United States. of America.

Because anybody, whether it's an. employer or a judge or a university. administrator, anybody who would divide. us and against us, our our fellow. citizens by the color of their skin, anybody who would say that you're more. or less American because you're black or. white, that person is a scumbag. And we. tore it out of American law. There's just no shame. Just zero shame, right? They'll just say.

anything. And the projection is so. crazy. I mean, while he was saying that, Donald Trump was in South Carolina. saying, "If you're black or if you're. Jewish, you're crazy. You're crazy. anyway. But you're definitely crazy if. you vote for Dr. Abdul Elsad, but you're. crazy anyway if you're a black person or. a Jewish person." Here, play this clip. >> If you're black or if you're Jewish and. if you vote for Abdul, you're crazy.

Okay, you're crazy. You're crazy anyway. But if you're. black, by the way, I'm reminded of when. Dr. Abdul Elsa was doing the impression. of Donald Trump and he was like Abdul. Abdul. and I look I I think this is I I I know. people are joining at all different. times um this live stream. So I I do. think this is a deeply serious story.

that deserves a lot more attention as. well. Um, again that the US Army is. starting to practice digging mass. battlefield graves right now that our. soldiers, it's the first time this has. happened since the Korean War, are. training to bury fellow troops in. temporary graves in mass and those. preparations are underway right now. At. the same time, we know that Admiral Brad. Cooper,

commander of Sencom, who's out there. posting that we control the straight of. Hermuz and everything is great and we're. winning the war. He's a MAGA bootlicker. that he and Hegsith have their plan. ready to go. You heard Senator Murphy. reference what it was. We know that it's, you know, we know. basically what it was because a lot of. it's leaked publicly where they think. that in a short period of time they're. going to drop all of these mother of all. bombs, these MOABs on civilian.

infrastructure in Iran that that's going. to make Iran submit. basically it'll be a they're not going. to use nuclear weapons on Iran, but. they're going to use all of these MOABs. on Iran to basically. create the type of devastation and. destru destruction of a Hiroshima or a. Nagasaki using MOABs but not going. nuclear. Um launching it all over Iran. and then trying to force the country.

into submission based on that type of. strike using all of the MOABs which Iran. is then prepared to unleash hell in the. region. while you have Donald Trump bragging. about cognitive exams. While while you have Trump doing this. here, play this clip. >> Let him take cognitive tests. I'm the only I took three of them. Aced. every single one of them, by the way.

Aced them. But but I think they should. have got we can't have another four. years like this. Was. >> So that's the person making the. decisions right now. This is serious. This ain't a game. This isn't funny. You know, yeah, I get that he talks. about men's asses all of the time and we. could sometimes, you know, oh, he's talking about men's. asses and he's talking about cognitive.

exams and, you know, he's got Natalie. Harp who runs around with him and, you. know, and, you know, he's wearing some. sort of exoskeleton thing on his body. and, you know, and look look at, you. know, look at all of the, you know, insane things that he's doing and the. behavior. Folks, this is this is war and. peace. This is life and death. And if. they escalate the way they're saying. they're going to escalate, you know, you're going to have a type of.

catastrophic outcome that we frankly. have never seen before and in at least. modern history. And it's so freaking predictable. It's. so predictable. I mean, you know, thinking about what's going on behind. the scenes, you know, apparently you had. JD Vance send a letter to Moshin Razi, who is the top adviser to Ayatollah. Mojab. And JD Vance was basically asking, "Sure, can we do a deal? Can we do a. deal?" And it fundamentally.

misunderstands that. Iran has no interest in going back to a. memorandum of understanding or they they. have zero trust for the United States. The last two times a deal was reached by. independent mediators. You know, we're. talking about the foreign minister of. Oman, um, for example, that's when Trump and Netanyahu struck. So Iran's position has been a pretty.

consistent one where it says if you. fulfill seven conditions that we've laid. out which by the way you agree to in the. memorandum of understanding we'll open. up the straight of Hormuz. otherwise we're not going to open up the. straight we'll keep shooting tankers. we'll keep knocking out tankers one by. one we and Iran's position is also we're. not talking about the nuclear file we're. not talking about that anymore. You've. already claimed you obliterated our. nuclear weapons. So, it shouldn't even.

be a conversation anyway. And we're not. going to engage in any conversations. about nuclear topics unless and until. you do all seven of those things. Then. you can build trust and then we're open. to a conversation within a multilateral. framework. But we but we have no. interest in tying nuclear capability. into this at all. In fact, if we've. been, you know, this why, you know, this. reporting is important. If we've been.

following what's taken place, Iran's. president was just in Moscow two days. ago, meeting with Putin. at it was the uh it was the gas energy, it was the gas exporting country um. conference that was taking place and it. was in Moscow where Iran played a major. role uh as a gas exporting country.

And there was a meeting on the sidelines. there between Iran's president, foreign. minister, Russia's president Putin, foreign minister Lavrov, where they also. agreed to expand their cooperation on. nuclear plants in Iran, more facilities. at the Busher nuclear plant, which is. already a JV for nuclear energy between. Russia and Iran, and then build out more. nuclear plants as well. And they. announced that in a joint statement. They announced more joint economic, strategic, regional cooperation as well.

The reporting we discussed earlier today. as well that Iran has opened up these. export routes using train and freight. and getting it out to China and getting. its products out to uh Russia. Um the. first container train carrying exports. uh from Iran's uh comb area departed for. China. Simultaneously, 460 tons of. sodium hypocchlorite from Iran's SEN. were transported to Turkey by train,

further expanding Iran's railway export. routes. Uh, as well with increased. maritime restrictions. Rail freight. transport from China to Iran has. increased tenfold in recent weeks. It's. increased tenfold. And so, like, we have. to understand what's actually going on. here. Iran is definitely getting hurt by. the US blockade, but they're not going. to submit anytime soon. They've. increased their ballistic missile. arsenal. They've increased their cruise. missile arsenal. Their technology has.

gotten better. They've increased their. drone arsenal. They've been working with. Russia in terms of the upgraded drones. Just in the past since the catastrophic. war in Iran began, drone technology has. increased massively because we went from. Shahid style drones to Garin 4 Garin 5. 450. 500 kilometer per hour drones that even. Ukraine's anti- drone interceptors can't.

stop. And so the US is very low on our. military interceptors. our Patriot, our THAADS, and those are. supposed to stop the ballistic missiles. and the cruise missiles from Iran. But. now you're going to have to contend. with, which is what Ukraine has to deal. with, which is these Garin 4, Garin 5. upgraded drones, which are. increasingly difficult to intercept.

Ukraine's drone interception rate went. from 91 92% to 51%. And I even think. it's lower than that when it comes to. the guaran 5 drones right now. And so. Iran's ready to go. And if Trump. actually thinks in his delusional mind. that their military has been destroyed. and they don't have these weapons and. you're going to do a short bombing spree. and then Iran's going to give up, I I I. it's hard for me to fathom the. devastation that will befall the region.

And by the way, that's why you had. earlier this week as well, you had Saudi. Arabia, you had um Turkey, you had. Pakistan's leadership. They're part of. something called the Mecca Pact. They. were there in Iran meeting with Iran's. leadership. And they're doing, you know, everything. they can, I think, at this point, to try. to figure out what the hell they're all. going to do if and when Donald Trump. escalates. and Iran's message is look.

you are housing the US on military basis. and as long as that's happening anything. US related we're going to target we're. going to cut the cables the internet. cables that are underneath the straight. of Hormuz. we're going to cut you know these. there's like seven major cables that. connect all of the internet in the. Middle East it's right there in the. straight of Hormuz Iran can cut it. they'd actually probably put a seam mine. and then blow it up. But they're capable.

of doing that. There are data centers. there that can easily be destroyed and. hit. And by the way, could we just pull. back for us? What are we trying to. accomplish? Like, could we ask that. question? Other than Trump covering up. the Epstein files, what's the. what's the end goal? What's the objective? What What are we. trying to do? Netanyahu has said regime. change. She's made it very clear, regime. change, regime change, regime change. As. I said in the first segment, if you.

really wanted to do regime change, again, I think this whole war is. catastrophic. We should not be involved. in at all. If you really want regime change, and. that's the goal, which you won't. achieve, you need hundreds of thousands. of soldiers on the ground. You'll have. 30 to 50,000 deaths a month. If you. actually wanted to try to initiate. controlling the different cities and. towns and provinces within Iran,

50,000 60,000 deaths a month. That's. what that means. You're not going to. bomb them and they're going to go, "Okay, now we're going to surrender.". And they'll fight to the death. They. made that very clear. They will fight to. the death. They are prepared to fight to. the death in Iran. And the American. people deserve to hear what that means. and understand what that means and the. devastation and catastrophe that would. take place in the entire region and the.

world. And we're we legitimately are. slow walking or fast walking now into. World War II in front of our eyes. They. are not going to surrender. by dropping bombs on them. Even Moabs, they will not surrender. They will escalate to way if if they if. they can escalate from a level of one to. 10. Right now they've escalated just. thus far to about a two of what they're. capable of doing.

They're capable of what we've seen at a. scale significantly larger. And that's. why listen to what Senator Murphy said. read what's happening behind the scenes. as the three star lieutenant general. responsible for military planning gets. fired around midnight and then gets. defamed by the Trump regime. This guy. led the 101st Airborne Division, the. Screaming Eagles.

Okay. You don't think this guy was. saying this would be catastrophic and. then Hegsith and Trump tried to, you. know, had to purge this guy? This guy, this guy, you don't get much. more prestigious than being the. commander of the 101st. To all the. people to all the army vets out there, you know what I'm Look at that guy's. resume. That's the guy they just purged. There was a comment um Ben.

only 10% of Iranian people support the. IRGC. Grow a set Ben heart emojis. Let's. assume your fact as true. What does grow. a set mean? Grow a set means you want to invade. You. want Americans to die. What? with your heart emojis. Tell me what you want to see happen. You. want the US. 10% of 90 million. You want to do the.

math of what that number is. What's 10%. of 90 million? And so then tell me where. that is dispersed throughout Iran, what. your game plan is. Tell me what the game plan is. You think. you're going to do regime change in. Iran? Are you going to send your family. me? You send your family member over. there. How about that? How about heart. emoji? Heart emoji. I'll give you heart. emojis. Send your family members to that. war.

Send your son, your daughter, your. cousin, if if you believe grow a set. If that's your if that's your. perspective that that that's how we. handle things, you tell me. That's what we got today. I got the show. with the brothers um that I got to. prepare for. Get WTF America: The Way. Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. Check it out right now.

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