WEBVTT 00:00:25.039 --> 00:01:17.749 Heat. Heat. 00:01:17.759 --> 00:01:37.109 Hey, 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:23.830 hey, hey. 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:49.430 Heat. Heat. 00:02:49.440 --> 00:03:05.350 Hey, hey, hey. 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:24.470 Hey, 00:03:26.959 --> 00:04:05.190 hey, hey. Heat. Heat. N. 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:34.469 D. D. 00:04:34.479 --> 00:04:59.670 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:49.909 Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. 00:07:22.880 --> 00:08:19.909 Dancing. 00:08:19.919 --> 00:08:34.310 behind. 00:08:34.320 --> 00:09:02.230 Hey about 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:22.470 you. 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:39.910 Heat. Heat. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:59.350 N. 00:10:58.079 --> 00:11:07.509 Hey 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:24.790 ah a h a 00:11:24.800 --> 00:11:35.430 Ooh. 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:52.470 Hey. Hey. 00:11:52.480 --> 00:12:07.350 Hey, 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:17.990 hey, hey. 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:38.389 2. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:47.750 Hey, 00:12:47.760 --> 00:13:07.430 hey, hey. 00:13:22.959 --> 00:13:36.550 Hey, 00:13:42.320 --> 00:15:23.509 Here we go. 00:15:23.519 --> 00:16:01.590 Heat. Heat. 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:10.870 Let's do this. >> But you are live. >> Hi everybody. Welcome to today's live stream, the special early morning 00:16:10.880 --> 00:16:21.030 edition because we have a very special guest, Thomas Massie. He's a Republican, Kucky's fourth congressional district since 2012. Known for his libertarian 00:16:21.040 --> 00:16:29.990 leaning views. He's recognized for his advocacy of limited government fiscal responsibility as well as for co-leading the bipartisan push for the Epstein file 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:40.069 transparency act demanding the full release of the documents and calling for a special master to oversee the process due to the Department of Justice delays and excess redactions. Let's welcome 00:16:40.079 --> 00:16:49.110 back to to the show Thomas Massie. >> Hey Jimmy, thanks for having me on today. >> So uh I just want to can you give us an update? How is your campaign going? 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:58.550 How's the the money raising going and how close is the race? Well, we've had at least $10 million spent against me by 00:16:58.560 --> 00:17:09.909 u Israel first billionaires Miriam Adlesen, Paul Singer, John Pollson, and a few others to give to give directly to a super PAC against me. But also they've 00:17:09.919 --> 00:17:19.189 uh given money and other people have given money through Apac and Republican Jewish Coalition which are basically shills for Netanyahu's government and 00:17:19.199 --> 00:17:28.390 for more war in the Middle East. Uh more bombs and more foreign aid. I got crossways with them because I don't vote for foreign aid for any country. I've 00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:37.110 not voted for Ukraine or Egypt or Israel or Syria. I just don't vote for foreign aid and I don't also vote for wars. I'm 00:17:37.120 --> 00:17:45.190 against the next war already and um unless the US interests are front and foremost and I just don't see that here 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:55.669 in the Middle East in the wars that we've been involved in. So um they're against me. But here's the good news. We have got so many grassroots donors that 00:17:55.679 --> 00:18:06.230 in the last five days we did a money bomb and raised a million dollars online. Our average donation is under a hundred bucks. So that means we've got 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:14.310 tens of thousands of donors to who are giving to my campaign and it's making a heck of a difference. The only reason 00:18:14.320 --> 00:18:24.070 I'm still in this race with about 11 days to go is that we've had this grassroots support and I've been able to be on TV, not as much as the super PACs, 00:18:24.080 --> 00:18:33.110 but on TV making my case for why Congress doesn't need another rubber stamp. The president's called my opponent a warm body from central 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:42.549 casting. I think he's right. This guy is a warm body. He can fog a mirror, but he can't put three sentences together. And that's why he's running his campaign 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:51.110 from the basement, and he won't even come to debate me. He's turned down eight debates. So, to sum it all up, we're up small single digits in my own 00:18:51.120 --> 00:19:00.549 polling, and it's all going to come down to who turns out. >> So, it's it's shocking how powerful money can be in American politics. And 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:09.669 you know the I think the stat is somewhere around whoever raises the most money wins 95% of the races. And so it's really not a democracy in a sense 00:19:09.679 --> 00:19:19.190 because it's more of an oligarchy and you're trying to put democracy back into it with your small donors. And I guess I I should disclose that I'm I'm a donor 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:28.789 to the Massie campaign. So I think I have to get that out there. So uh I don't know if they can throw me in jail if I don't say that. But here I just want to There's something very 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:36.870 interesting. Uh, Grock, uh, this I saw this on on Twitter or X. It said, "Hey, Grock, if the US Constitution was a 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:46.710 person, which current representative would it be?" Very concise, just the name. And of course, Grock says, "Representative Thomas Massie." He 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:55.029 consistently votes against bills expanding federal power beyond enumerated constitutional limits, prioritizing individual rights and 00:19:55.039 --> 00:20:06.870 fiscal restraint over party lines. No one matches perfectly. The document isn't partisan, but his record aligns closest on core principles. Wow. That's 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:17.510 kind of uh that's that I think that's why people are so drawn to you that you're you may be the only person in Congress who's consistent. Well, um, you 00:20:17.520 --> 00:20:28.630 know, I support the obviously the first amendment, second amendment, fourth amendment, the 10th a fourth amendment is privacy, 10th amendment is states rights, but I also support the seventh 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:37.909 amendment and the eth amendment. These are amendments in the bill of rights that people have long since forgotten. What is the seventh amendment? The right to a jury trial. They're trying to get 00:20:37.919 --> 00:20:46.310 immunity for data centers, for pesticides, uh, for big tech when they steal inventions from little guys. They're trying to get all kinds of 00:20:46.320 --> 00:20:55.669 immunity and prevent jury trials. This is this is something that's not even on people's radar, but it has shown up on radar and we've been successful in we 00:20:55.679 --> 00:21:04.230 got it struck from the farm bill. They were trying to put immunity for glyphosate in there, which is an herbicide. Uh and so I stand up for the 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:14.149 seventh amendment. What's the eth amendment? Cruel and unusual punishment. Look, Ross Albrech was sentenced to two life sentences plus 40 years. And um I 00:21:14.159 --> 00:21:23.270 was one of the people along with Ross's mom and and a lot of grassroots folks, libertarians and bit Bitcoin people who convinced Trump to pardon Ross 00:21:23.280 --> 00:21:32.549 Albbrrich. So that was a violation of the eth amendment. U and these are these are things that you know I'm for the whole constitution and the entire bill 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:41.110 of rights. So So let me just finish this graa this is kind of amazing. Uh just to get back 00:21:41.120 --> 00:21:52.310 to this and what you're really up against. Uh so so they asked Grock if Thomas Massiey's is Thomas Massiey's opponent funded by donors who appear in 00:21:52.320 --> 00:22:01.990 the Epstein files and be very concise. Now we already you already showed you that Grock says that Thomas Massie is the one candidate that aligns with the 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:10.149 Constitution. And boy, I hate it when technology designed to lie to humanity and enslave them winds up telling the truth anyway. There's no holiday bonus 00:22:10.159 --> 00:22:21.190 for AI Grock this year. But uh so the question is, is your opponents now funded by donors who appear in the Epstein files? And of course, yes. Grock 00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:31.190 says yes. Thomas Massiey's main opponent is supported by the MAGA Kentucky Super PAC. It has received funding from John Paulson, who you mentioned, whose name 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:40.470 appears in the Epstein black book. Other key backers include Miriam Adlesen and Paul Singer via related packs. And uh so 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:50.630 this is really you're it's kind of a fight against the Epstein class, is it not? You're >> Oh, abs. >> Absolutely. Look, John Pollson, he's there's an email or several emails from 00:22:50.640 --> 00:23:00.870 him to Jeffrey Epstein asking him for $50,000 to honor Howard Lutnik, who claimed not to be uh somebody who went 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:10.549 to the island or visited with Jeffrey Epstein, but obviously we know that's false. Howard Lutnik, by the way, is the Secretary of Commerce who's oftentimes in the background on Air Force One 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:19.270 whispering into the president's ear. So, um, you know, if these if the donors weren't going to Epstein Island, they 00:23:19.280 --> 00:23:28.789 were definitely having dinner with the people who did go to Epstein Island. And it's all one big class of people. By the way, they're not that partisan. You 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:36.950 know, they um they don't identify with the parties because they believe they're above politics. They're above the law. They're above the judges. And so far, 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:45.350 they have been. I mean, they need to be brought to justice. I'm glad we got, you know, Rohan and I got three million files. We forced the release of them. We 00:23:45.360 --> 00:23:53.510 forced the DOJ to unredact some of those files that have been improperly redacted. We got more work to do. But we need to see in the United States what 00:23:53.520 --> 00:24:04.710 we've seen in Great Britain, Norway, and France where they are actually prosecuting, arresting, and investigating prime ministers, uh, ambassadors, princes, and ministers of 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:14.710 culture. So tell me how much more money and where is that money coming from that's going to your opponent? Where is the money coming from and how much more 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:23.430 money have they raised? >> So I think all in by the time it's over. So some of this reporting is delayed, right? But we can see it in real time 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:32.950 when we see them by TV ads. So even before it's disclosed to the FEC, we can see the TV ads being bought. I think we're at about 15 million from the other 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:41.269 side if you count it. It's all coming from Apac. Okay. They've got a a super PAC called United Democracy Project, 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:51.190 UDP, which typically is played in Democrat elections. Okay. But now, this is how desperate they are. They're using a Democrat super PAC against me. And 00:24:51.200 --> 00:25:00.710 then um and that one belongs to Apac, which is not a super PAC. Apac stands for American Israel Public Affairs Committee, not Political Action 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:08.950 Committee. Um the RJC, which is Republican Jewish Coalition Coalition, which it should be named the the uh 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:18.870 Republican >> Netanyahu Coalition. >> Yeah. No, go ahead. No kidding. >> Yeah. And Kufi, this is an interesting one. Christians United for Israel. This 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:27.190 is the attempt of the Israeli government to co-opt US evangelicals. And they've done so uh successfully. So there's a 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:35.430 hundred billboards, I think, in my district. That's what they claim to have put up. They definitely spent at least $100,000 on billboards. Christians 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:46.390 United for Israel trying to go after me as part of this coalition. And then finally, we can track the hard dollars. Even though Apac's tried to hide this uh 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:55.909 we can track hard dollars. Almost all the hard dollars going to my opponent's individual campaign are funneled through Apac because they use a rather unique 00:25:55.919 --> 00:26:04.310 payment vendor called Democracy Engine. This is uh not a payment vendor that Republicans use. Republicans use things 00:26:04.320 --> 00:26:12.870 like Winred or some nonpartisan payment vendor like Anidot, which is what I use. But he's reported $50,000 of expenses 00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:22.870 per quarter to Democracy Engine. So at 5% if they charge that to to on the billing of the credit card, that means a million dollar every quarter has gone 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:32.470 through Apac's preferred uh payment vendor to my opponent. And so how much money have you raised so far? And you're and you're in the middle of doing what they call a money bomb, 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:41.350 right? >> Yeah, we've raised um and through the reporting of last quarter, we raised over $5 million through the last report. 00:26:41.360 --> 00:26:50.870 And the average donation is $94. What does that mean? That means most of the donations are $20, $5, $10, $50. And 00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:59.190 then occasionally somebody with the means gives us the max, which is $3500. So it evens out to under $100 even with 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:07.830 those big max donors averaged in. And we've made we've raised $5 million that way. But this week alone, we put out we 00:27:07.840 --> 00:27:17.110 put up the bat signal. We said we're doing a money bomb. We start a Monday at 9:00 a.m. and we have raised a million dollars from thousands of donors all 00:27:17.120 --> 00:27:27.110 over the country. And I get criticized. They say, "Well, Congressman Massie, 95% of your donations are from outside of Kentucky." Yeah, but we have over a 00:27:27.120 --> 00:27:39.269 thousand donors in Kentucky and my opponent only has about a hundred donors in Kentucky. >> No kidding. >> Yeah. >> A hundred donors. Okay. And so I think 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:47.990 this your race is really important. probably the most important one in this current uh situation that we're in right now because we're in the middle of a war 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:57.190 for Israel that could very easily trigger a world war with bringing in Russia and China and it's already uh 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:07.430 putting a big hurt on the global economy and our economy too. Gas prices have been doubling and people are out outraged over it and so but most pe most 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:16.310 people running federally are afraid of the money. We got pro-Israel money, not only just Apac, but people like the big donors like Miriam Madson and other 00:28:16.320 --> 00:28:25.269 people. They're afraid of that. And so that's how they get them to get in line because if anybody goes against the uh Zionist agenda, uh they're immediately 00:28:25.279 --> 00:28:33.830 what they're trying to do to you. They're immediately bombed with money and they're uh they're driven out. And so if you could if I think this is very 00:28:33.840 --> 00:28:43.830 important because if you can show you could actually have integrity stand up to the Israel lobby and win it will give it will probably change the 28 election. 00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:52.950 Don't you think? >> Oh absolutely. Look and and by the way the the site that you go to is massimmoneybomb.com if you want to participate in this 00:28:52.960 --> 00:29:03.350 national referendum. And to your point, it is a referendum on whether the lobbyists for Israel can the billionaires can buy a seat in Kentucky, 00:29:03.360 --> 00:29:11.430 can buy a congressional seat. And a lot of my colleagues in Congress are watching this race and they want to know, can somebody can a Republican 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:19.990 survive? Because right now the Republican party, with the exception of me, um, and Marjorie Taylor Green, who's now left, so with the exception of me, 00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:30.789 is monolithic in its support for more wars in the Middle East and a policy that's been dominated, a foreign policy that's been dominated by Israel. And 00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:39.110 that's what the referendum is. And there will be my some of my colleagues on a few different bills, by the way, sometimes they felt empowered to speak 00:29:39.120 --> 00:29:48.630 up. There was one bill that was trying to define anti-semitism by pointing to a website that's in Germany. It's not even in the United States. I'm like, well, if 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:59.510 you got a definition of anti-semitism, put it in the bill. Don't put it in a URL and put that in the bill. That's the most ridiculous thing I ever saw. But that definition of anti-semitism 00:29:59.520 --> 00:30:09.750 outlawed passages in the New Testament. And that's when a few of my colleagues stepped out, maybe a couple dozen in the Republican side, and said, "Whoa, hold on a second. You want to try to outlaw 00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:18.230 Christianity that's speaking of certain passages in the New Testament. But you'll see more people like that stand up to some of these ridiculous some of 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:26.470 them are binding resolutions we pass in the Congress. Some of them are non-binding. They call me an obstructionist, Jimmy. But but listen, 00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:37.110 when a bill passes 420 to one and I'm the only one like how much obstructing did I do on that day? Not not a lot of obstruction there. But what I do is I 00:30:37.120 --> 00:30:45.830 impose transparency. It's like a scratch on a new car. And they want to know what how it got there. And so they go look on my social media and I explain what's in 00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:54.710 that bill. And people after they read my explanation, they wonder what the hell the other 420 were smoking that day. >> Yeah, that's that's not exactly 00:30:54.720 --> 00:31:02.789 obstruction, but that that's you know, they you know, it's like when they call people who are telling the truth about COVID, they call them a conspiracy theorist. they call you an 00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:13.190 obstructionist even though you don't really have that kind of power to obstruct. So this is just something to kind of smear you with and kind of dismiss you with. Now um let's let's 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:22.070 move on a little bit. Uh so now that the hunter virus is a big deal right now and uh so now here's Dr. Robert Malone who 00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:32.389 was uh no matter what the Atlantic magazine says he was the inventor of the mRNA platform. He was the first one to do that. And of course the he didn't 00:31:32.399 --> 00:31:40.470 invent the COVID vaccine, but he invented the platform that it was built on. And he's got patents on many vaccines and he's one of the leading uh 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:49.669 people in that field. And so here's what he tweeted out yesterday. He said, "Your odds of being struck by lightning are more than seven times greater than 00:31:49.679 --> 00:31:59.669 getting hunter virus in the USA. About 250 people get struck by lightning each year. There are about 35 cases per year of hunto virus in the he meant to say 00:31:59.679 --> 00:32:08.230 USA in the USA. 35 cases a year in the USA with about 12 deaths per year on average. Obviously hunto virus shouldn't 00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:17.029 be a big concern for the vast majority of Americans. But I turned on CNN and here's what CNN is saying >> and and and what a quarantine might 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:26.549 really mean in context of the long incubation period. And we have a question from one of our viewers. Uh they ask it's said that it can take eight weeks to become symptomatic. The 00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:36.389 passengers shouldn't be allowed into the public until they're completely cleared. You know what do do you is that a fair way to look at this? I mean how long do 00:32:36.399 --> 00:32:45.990 you think people should be quarantined who are either on that ship or in contact with someone who is there? >> Yeah. I mean this is the big challenge 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:56.470 with this virus the long incubation period and now we have people scattered really around the globe that are being properly tracked isolated quarantined and get it under control but what they 00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:05.190 did was they quarantined and isolated people for 40 days because of the long incubation period. So unfortunately this is a a key factor in us trying to figure 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:14.070 out how do we keep people safe? How do we prevent further spread? I mean what we're all tracking right now is that potential secondary spread and then how do we minimize those who are infected 00:33:14.080 --> 00:33:23.190 from infecting others. >> So there is again CNN being completely alarmist about another pandemic and wanting people to be quarantined and 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:32.230 trying to scare the hell out of everybody at the behest of certainly big pharma which pays 70% of their bills. Uh what's what's your reaction to this 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:40.470 hunto virus p uh pandemonium? Look, this is an IQ test and it may just be a memory test. Do you remember monkey pox? 00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:49.269 Do you remember bird flu? Do you remember every time they've tried to bring back the COVID lockdowns? The laptop class longs for the days when 00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:58.630 they could just sit at home and order their crap on Amazon and get their groceries delivered, never go out and see anybody and collect a paycheck um 00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:08.629 and and have it their way. And look, we don't need to go back to that. That was a complete failure. the whole response to to CO and don't let them bring it 00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:18.470 back. This is an IQ test at this point and >> um even the so the WH is in on it too. So no so one of the good things they did 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:27.750 was they pulled this Trump administration they pulled us out of the WH. I mean in my in my estimation that was a good thing. Uh and here is uh the 00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:36.230 World Health Organization is now openly saying that the Hunter virus outbreak proves why the world needs centralized global health control. Let's listen to 00:34:36.240 --> 00:34:46.310 just a few seconds of this. >> But how does that translate in a global solidarity? I will let time to tell but we really need this incident this 00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:55.990 outbreak has seen why the world needs a global entity that coordinates this the Argentina support how they came forward. So what he said was this outbreak of 00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:05.349 hunter virus which again as Dr. Robert Malone says you have a greater chance of being hit by lightning than catching this. The WH is now currently saying 00:35:05.359 --> 00:35:16.310 this is proof that we need a central health organization for the world like the WH. Do you have a response to that? >> Yeah, the WH is the first cousin of the 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:25.510 WF the World Economic Forum and um these and those are the Epstein class. Look, there are a class of billionaires who 00:35:25.520 --> 00:35:35.270 once in Bill Gates included uh the and by the way, the CEO of the World Economic Forum had to resign over the 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:43.349 Epstein files recently. But they're all first cousins. They all want more control. They will not let any crisis go 00:35:43.359 --> 00:35:52.230 to waste. And they'll manufacture a crisis if they don't have one already because fear is the biggest motivator of people and they know it. And so that's 00:35:52.240 --> 00:36:01.430 all this is. They're it's a power grab based on fear. People's fear of their own their health and well-being. And the reality is you'd be a whole lot 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:11.109 healthier if you just ignore these folks. Eat good food. U stay out of the hospital if you can and stay off the 00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:20.390 medications if you can and quit letting them poison our food with no liability. Uh, and by the way, um, I I I'm told 00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:28.550 that, uh, Ivormekin will treat this if you if you worry about it. But of course, I'm sure they're going to lie about that. Now, I just wanted to run 00:36:28.560 --> 00:36:38.710 past since we're on the subject of the World Health Organization and Hunter virus and the next uh, scare fake pandemic. Robert John, Ron Johnson, 00:36:38.720 --> 00:36:48.230 Senator Ron Johnson has figured out that this that the government is really was hiding the safety signals that were supposed to alert people to the toxicity 00:36:48.240 --> 00:36:58.310 and the and the danger of the COVID vaccine. Let's play a few seconds of him. >> My staff and and I conducted a little little calculation. We looked at okay, 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:07.349 what is the number of deaths per dose for COVID injection? was 25.5 deaths per million doses for the flu 00:37:07.359 --> 00:37:15.829 about46. So CO injections at a 55fold increase in deaths per million doses and still FDA 00:37:15.839 --> 00:37:25.190 officials hid behind that algorithm and they told the people they're actually treating for what they diagnose as injection 00:37:25.200 --> 00:37:34.710 injuries. They told them we're not seeing safety signals. So that uh he was recently just yesterday cancelled. He 00:37:34.720 --> 00:37:43.589 was supposed to be on CNN and once they found out he was going to talk about that CNN who's now in the middle of uh scaring everybody about Hunter virus uh 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:52.950 cancelled his uh appearance because of that. And what he's referring to is that the government hid those safety signals that data and that which showed how 00:37:52.960 --> 00:38:03.990 dangerous and toxic the COVID vaccine actually was. And what they they didn't use veyes. They didn't use the new system they invented. They ended up comparing the Mona vaccine to the Fiser 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:12.710 vaccine. That was how they it was the craziest algorithm. Exactly what he talks about. What what do you do you think we'll ever see uh some some kind 00:38:12.720 --> 00:38:24.390 of uh accountability for what they did in CO and the lies they did? >> Well, this is something I know a little about. Um, I did depose the two top FDA 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:33.349 officials, Marian Gruber and Philip Krauss, each with 30 years of vaccine approval experience. And then I deposed their boss, Peter Marx, who fortunately 00:38:33.359 --> 00:38:42.069 now is fired or resigned in shame. I'm not sure which happened there, but fortunately, he's gone. But the reason you should know those names, Marian 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:50.790 Guber and Philip Krauss, is they were forced out of the FDA. They were the top officials who were responsible for safety and efficacy claims. And what 00:38:50.800 --> 00:39:00.470 they determined was they needed more time to to give the lure uh agreement to the vaccine manufacturers and they also 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:10.390 had the audacity to say that not everybody was going to need a booster. So what happened they by the way the government needed the full lure not the 00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:20.230 emergency use authorization they needed the full lure in order to to pervade these mandates on everybody and and these two scientists were told that but 00:39:20.240 --> 00:39:28.310 what happened to these two scientists they were forced out of the FDA and who took over their job a freaking cardiologist who's not an immunologist 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:36.710 not a vaccinologist he took over their jobs and approved the vaccine having no experience and what Did they do did they use the outside panel to consult with 00:39:36.720 --> 00:39:46.150 them? No. They said, "We got to do this so quickly. We're going to skip steps." The other big crime that happened during COVID was complete and total ignoring of 00:39:46.160 --> 00:39:54.390 natural immunity, which is better. I mean, I'm not saying suggesting that for any given uh malady that you'd want to 00:39:54.400 --> 00:40:03.030 contract it, but if you've already contracted it, just like George Washington and the smallox inoculation, he didn't take the small pox inoculation 00:40:03.040 --> 00:40:12.630 because he had small pox as a teenager. Like we've known about this since the beginning of time. And so, um, you know, that was the other big crime was they 00:40:12.640 --> 00:40:21.589 forced it on everybody because they said that natural immunity doesn't work. And that's a lie. I have uh signed a document that says that we need to take 00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:29.990 these vaccines off the market and more public officials should do that because you by the way you also had this guy Peter Marx. He should have been 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:39.109 prosecuted for what he did. He was above Marian Gruber and Philip Krauss at the FDA. He went out and said things that would have gotten Fizer put in jail or 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:48.790 Madna put in jail. He made claims of efficacy and safety that not even the manufacturers were allowed to make. and the FDA became cheerleaders for a drug 00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:58.950 instead of regulators for a drug. >> And so now now you know there was RFK Jr. is of course a a lawyer, but he's 00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:07.270 also an expert on this and he was talking about uh how this this should be pulled off the market. now at that he's 00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:17.190 the uh at at Health and Human Services, his hands are it seems to me that he's completely being shackled uh by Donald 00:41:17.200 --> 00:41:25.750 Trump and uh his administration and he's not allowed and and and so he's actually now reversed what he used to say and now 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:34.630 he's saying that the COVID vaccine is safe and effective. And I my position is uh Robert Kennedy would be doing much 00:41:34.640 --> 00:41:44.550 better if he was outside the government and suing the government and suing big pharma and suing makers of glyphosate instead of being forced to protect those 00:41:44.560 --> 00:41:53.910 people on the and those entities on the inside of government. Uh do you have any kind of response to that? >> I'm I am still a fan of Bobby Kennedy. 00:41:53.920 --> 00:42:03.190 He was a friend of mine before he took this job. He wanted Trump to make me the secretary of agriculture. And what I told Bobby Kennedy before even the 00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:11.510 election, I said, "My concern is not that uh you won't that Trump won't win the election and you won't become Secretary of HHS. My concern is that 00:42:11.520 --> 00:42:20.470 that happens and you've underestimated how hard it is to battle the swamp." And he pointed out, rightfully so, that he had battled some big corporations in 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:28.710 courtrooms and won. And so that he was up for it. But what he tried to point out to him was these are one-sided battles in administration. There's no 00:42:28.720 --> 00:42:38.710 judge and jury. It's it's doggy dog cutthroat once you get inside of an administration. And I'm sure every day they're trying to undermine him. So I 00:42:38.720 --> 00:42:48.870 still believe in his heart he's he knows what the right thing is to do and he's trying to do the right thing and he's operating under all the constraints that 00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:59.589 would just crush anybody else. So you know for instance the prep act which gives indemnity not just to vaccines but to the mask makers to the test the the 00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:09.190 swabs that go up in your nose to rem desave everything that was used and oftent times used to the detriment of the patients is indemnified by the prep 00:43:09.200 --> 00:43:18.230 act and it would it's actually a declaration of the secretary of HHS as to whether there is a pandemic emergency 00:43:18.240 --> 00:43:27.349 and somebody asked me could he Could he repeal that by himself? He actually could. He could do that today. The problem is that Susie Wilds would 00:43:27.359 --> 00:43:37.190 probably repeal him on the same day for doing it. So, I I don't know. I think he's between a rock and a hard place. Yeah, that's it's clear that, you know, 00:43:37.200 --> 00:43:45.910 just like people like Tulsi and Joe Kent and they're they're all in between a rock and a hard plate be because Donald Trump's uh campaign turned out to be the 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:55.510 biggest con since uh Nigerian princes learned how to email. And um anyway, we we really appreciate your time. We uh we 00:43:55.520 --> 00:44:04.630 encourage people. I don't know if I'm even allowed to do that, but >> I'll do it. You don't you didn't give me permission. massivemoneybomb.com. Uh, I know it's a live show and you 00:44:04.640 --> 00:44:13.030 can't stop me, but um, if you can go to massmoneybomb.com, that would be helpful because right now, this weekend, I'm about 10 days away 00:44:13.040 --> 00:44:22.390 from the election and we're deciding how much mail and how many TV ads we can buy this weekend for the final push and it really is a referendum. Here's what the 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:30.950 race is about. whether you're gonna have some globalist billionaire elites, the kind that run the WH and the WF and are 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:41.270 go to Epstein Island, whether those people get to buy a seat in Congress and place a rubber stamp, a virtual puppet uh in Congress, or whether the people of 00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:51.510 Kentucky get to choose their person. And in order for this to be a fair fight, I need your support so I can get on TV and get get in the the living rooms and the 00:44:51.520 --> 00:45:01.270 kitchens of these people. >> Oh, okay. Fantastic. Uh, thank you so much for your time. Uh, you know, you're the perfect example. The message of this 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:10.630 show is that that, you know, even the leftight paradigm is a construct by the oligarchy to keep us divided. Because if 00:45:10.640 --> 00:45:20.790 we realize we have more in common that divides us, we'll come together and fight the WF globalist billionaires and the handful of billionaires that actually run Congress and run things. 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:29.510 And uh so I think you're the perfect example. I don't agree with you on all policy policies, but I agree with you on some very major big things. And as 00:45:29.520 --> 00:45:37.670 Frederick Douglas said, I'll join with anyone to do good and no one to do bad. And so I'm joined with you to do good. And I really appreciate your courage and 00:45:37.680 --> 00:45:46.069 sticking your chin out. And uh best of luck buddy. >> Hey man, thank you Jimmy. >> Okay, over to Steph. >> All right, that was fantastic. We're so 00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:55.510 fortunate to have Massie here today and we definitely hope for him to not get out of the ballpark and it looks like it's dependent on the support of people. 00:45:55.520 --> 00:46:06.309 So, um let me make sure you can see that. Let me I'll pin his his Let's see. Let's see. I want to pin it. 00:46:06.319 --> 00:46:16.390 Why won't it let me pin it? All right, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Everything's a scam. Everything's a lie. Everything's hypocrisy. And so maybe 00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:25.910 don't comply, right? The hunter virus. What the flip? I mean, really, seriously, do they think that we're just all going to forget what 00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:35.510 happened during CO 19? And we're like, oh my god, the Hunter virus boy. 00:46:35.520 --> 00:46:44.470 I just donated to Massie and Sant. Thank you and double uh due diligence for bringing attention to these races. Mr. 00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:54.069 CR Extra, thank you for that one, amigo. Keep on keeping on representative Massie. That's from Heya, 00:46:54.079 --> 00:47:03.829 let's go with this. Remember to get your booster shots for lightning strikes. Come on, Roshack user. We need an independent president in 2028. I'll vote 00:47:03.839 --> 00:47:15.109 for this guy if nobody else steps up at candidate 451. Thank you for that. And I got this uh this note recently. 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:24.150 And it says uh Mr. Door and the subject line is pro Palestine organizations, influencers, and journalists all fail to 00:47:24.160 --> 00:47:33.030 make a call to action. Most Americans support Palestine, but they rarely translate it into voting action because 00:47:33.040 --> 00:47:43.030 pro Palestine organizations, influencers, and independent journalists always fail to make the actual call to action before elections. In addition to 00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:52.630 reporting the news of the genocide and general messages like stop the war that most Americans support but don't act on in their voting, making the following 00:47:52.640 --> 00:48:03.270 calls to action on social media, streaming blogs, emails, notifications, t-shirts, signs, ads, and other channels before the midterm elections. Vote out 00:48:03.280 --> 00:48:12.790 your Zionist politicians. Vote out Zionist congressmen. And this one says, "Congressman Smith, a call to 00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:22.870 action, a fundamental marketing technique of using a short phrase, i.e. buy now, vote for, vote out, etc. to prompt audience to take a specific action like purchasing a product, 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:33.510 supporting a cause, or or voting a uh for a or against a politician. Zionist controlled politicians always vote for 00:48:33.520 --> 00:48:42.630 pro-Zionist laws. And the only way to change the pro-Zionist US policies is to vote out the Zionist controlled 00:48:42.640 --> 00:48:51.589 politicians. A simple call to action, vote out your Zionist politicians. If repeated systemically produces the 00:48:51.599 --> 00:49:02.950 effect of people not only sympathizing with Palestine, but also voting to produce actual change in Congress. And um Salam, peace, longtime supporter. 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:12.069 Really appreciate that. That's a critical point in your voting habits, folks. And you know, for those 00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:21.190 of you that still vote, I understand. Who you going to vote for? The flu nearly completely disappeared for those 00:49:21.200 --> 00:49:31.750 years. Inventor, investor. Yeah. What happened to the flu during CO? Right. No flu. And anybody who died was instantly 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:40.390 said they died from CO. Why? Why was that? How much money did they get for all of that? All right, let's go over here. Yes, ladies and 00:49:40.400 --> 00:49:48.950 gentlemen, we are going to do 9:30 Pacific time on Fridays. And actually, I already got I saw a couple chatters that 00:49:48.960 --> 00:49:58.390 said, "Thanks uh for doing an early show and they're in Europe." Uh I saw somebody from Scotland specifically. Hello, friends from Scotland. All right. 00:49:58.400 --> 00:50:06.470 Um let's see. Let's see here what I've got, folks. Let's see. Yes, sir. 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:15.349 >> Oh, hold on. Lots of things for my daughter. Can I? Lots of things for my daughter. Can I? How much can I say without me knowing? Do you know my math? 00:50:15.359 --> 00:50:25.349 Do you know my question? Do you know where I am? That's what I'm asking. Can you ask me my name is Pop Corn Pop? I'm not sure what this is all about, but thank you. All right, we'll be right 00:50:25.359 --> 00:50:37.510 back. 00:50:37.520 --> 00:50:47.109 Donald Trump had made the biggest blunder that any president has made, maybe ever. It would be smart of him to declare victory and pull out. I don't 00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:56.230 think he's going to do that. >> So, there's nothing but bad options here. The problem is Donald Trump is completely controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu. There's no doubt about this. 00:50:56.240 --> 00:51:05.670 He has to resist. Everybody in his cabinet said don't do the Iran war. Everybody in his cabinet said don't do it except of course for mental case headset. Everybody else said don't do 00:51:05.680 --> 00:51:15.910 it. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said don't. General Kaine said don't do it. Marco Rubio said don't do it. JD Vance said don't do it. Of course you know Tulsi. Everybody said don't do 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:25.430 this. And he did it anyway because Benjamin Netanyahu said do it. Even the head of the CIA Recipe said don't do it. They all said no. And who did he listen 00:51:25.440 --> 00:52:37.510 to? Benjamin Netanyahu. Why? Because he's owned by them. They've got something on him. 00:52:37.520 --> 00:53:03.750 Heat. Heat. 00:53:31.760 --> 00:59:06.309 Hey, heat. Hey, heat. 00:59:06.319 --> 00:59:28.150 Heat. Heat. 00:59:28.160 --> 01:00:44.390 Hey, hey, hey. 01:00:44.400 --> 01:01:09.510 Heat. Heat. 01:04:09.119 --> 01:05:08.150 bad. Hey 01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:14.470 Heat. 01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:36.230 Hey, Heat. 01:07:36.240 --> 01:07:44.950 Hey, 01:07:44.960 --> 01:09:33.349 hey, hey, hey. 01:09:33.359 --> 01:10:12.870 Heat. Heat. 01:16:23.120 --> 01:16:34.630 What? >> All right, coming live at Jimmy. >> How was that? >> You're silly. Um, my wife is uh No, you don't want me 01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:45.430 to say anything? >> No. >> My wife My wife is silly. My wife is silly, stupid, silly. Uh, anyway, uh, I'm here with uh, uh, 01:16:45.440 --> 01:16:55.189 one of our favorite guests, Scott Ritter, one-time Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements from 91 to 98. He served as 01:16:55.199 --> 01:17:04.709 the chief inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, leading the search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Didn't find any. He was later a vocal critic of the American decision to go to 01:17:04.719 --> 01:17:13.350 war in Iraq. He's also the best-selling author of nine books, his latest Highway to Hell, the Armageddon Chronicles, 2015 and 2024. Welcome back to the show, 01:17:13.360 --> 01:17:21.910 Scott Ritter. >> Thank you very much for having me. >> Thanks for being on, Scott. I always appreciate you accommodating our schedule. It's always nice to This is my 01:17:21.920 --> 01:17:32.790 uh Judge Npalitano impersonation. I hope you appreciate you're always very kind and generous. You know, we always appreciate your insights and so it's amazing. Uh Scott, so I wanted to uh get 01:17:32.800 --> 01:17:42.870 right to it. Um I saw this tweet by our friend Furkin. He says, "The Pentagon is in absolute panic mode. Al Jazera completely exposes US Central Command 01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:52.790 for dodging basic questions about massive damage to American vessels. The Trump administration recklessly fired on a tanker and sparked a retaliation. And 01:17:52.800 --> 01:18:02.870 Trump is hiding a massive failure. Let's listen. >> Well, that's right. And I should point out that uh we here at Alazer have reached out to US Central Command to try 01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:12.390 and get uh the US take on what exactly occurred in the Strait of Hormuz in the last couple of hours. Our response was 01:18:12.400 --> 01:18:21.669 that uh they had nothing to offer us. In other words, they didn't confirm it nor did they deny it. And we should point out that when it comes to Iran state 01:18:21.679 --> 01:18:32.229 broadcaster, there have been reports of damage to US vessels before. Uh the United States has always denied or minimized that. And so it's really 01:18:32.239 --> 01:18:40.950 unclear right now exactly just what has occurred. But as you reported at the start of the bulletin, uh this 01:18:40.960 --> 01:18:50.630 escalation has come on the heels of the United States firing on Iranian tanker just one day earlier. And so uh there is 01:18:50.640 --> 01:19:00.149 certainly uh an incident that potentially has prompted the Iranians to now retaliate against the United States. But again, the United States central 01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:08.310 command not confirming nor is it. >> Okay. So, Scott, do do you have any uh and this is from yesterday. Do you have 01:19:08.320 --> 01:19:17.669 any information uh that can confirm or deny this report? >> No, I don't have a hotline to central command, so I uh I wish I did, but if I 01:19:17.679 --> 01:19:27.270 did, they they probably wouldn't tell me anyways. Um you know, I I would heir on the side of 01:19:27.280 --> 01:19:35.669 um the Iranians being over um optimistic. Um, I do believe they engaged our ships. Our ships have some 01:19:35.679 --> 01:19:45.590 very sophisticated um, you know, self-defense capabilities. Uh, the important thing here isn't whether or not they um, you know, actually hit a 01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:55.990 ship and did damage, although that would be a very big story. It's that they made the ships turn around and run away. um you know that they the apparently the 01:19:56.000 --> 01:20:08.070 attacks overwhelmed the uh defenses to the point that they had to use the close-in weapon system basically the failank 20mm Gatling gun um in a 01:20:08.080 --> 01:20:17.669 desperate effort to stop the Iranian missile from hitting the ships you know and the Gatling gun only has a finite amount of ammunition it burns it can 01:20:17.679 --> 01:20:26.550 cycle through that ammunition in 30 seconds so had a second wave been launched and uh and and broken through the the missile defense barriers, the 01:20:26.560 --> 01:20:35.270 ships would have been helpless and so they had to leave. Um and this just again underscores the fact that uh Iran is in complete control of the straight 01:20:35.280 --> 01:20:45.350 of Hormuz and the United States Navy is powerless to change that uh equation. Well, uh, speaking to that point, the Washington Post reports that the US 01:20:45.360 --> 01:20:54.950 intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump's Hormuz blockade for months. And, uh, John Hudson did a a nice summary of 01:20:54.960 --> 01:21:03.830 this. Uh confidential CI analyst delivered the policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the US naval blockade for at least three to 01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:12.470 four months before facing more severe economic hardship, finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse. The US intel also indicates 01:21:12.480 --> 01:21:22.310 that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its pre-war 01:21:22.320 --> 01:21:33.030 stockpiles of missiles per a US official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities and repair damaged missiles. 01:21:33.040 --> 01:21:43.030 And and here is uh from the report. One of the US officials said they thought Iran's capacity to sustain prolonged economic hardship is far greater than 01:21:43.040 --> 01:21:51.510 even the current CIA estimate. The leadership has gotten more radical, determined, and increasingly confident that they can outlast US political will 01:21:51.520 --> 01:22:00.550 and sustained domestic repression to check any resistance inside Iran. The official said comparatively you see similar regimes lasting years under 01:22:00.560 --> 01:22:10.390 sustained embargos and air power only wars. What's your what's your response to this report? >> Well, I would say that the CIA doesn't 01:22:10.400 --> 01:22:21.270 have good u insight into Iran uh to to begin with. Um you know, we've burned through um three human intelligence 01:22:21.280 --> 01:22:30.070 networks over the years. Uh and when I say burned through, that means that they were compromised and all of our spies on the ground were captured and killed. Um, 01:22:30.080 --> 01:22:38.470 so we've been relying upon Israeli uh, intelligence. U, that's what got us in this war to begin with. Bad Israeli intelligence. So what we're looking here 01:22:38.480 --> 01:22:49.350 is a CIA assessment um, of, you know, open source information, no spectacular insights. Um, and the CIA is prejudiced 01:22:49.360 --> 01:22:58.149 against Iran. the um even though these assessments are, you know, show Iran to be in a better position than the White House has spun it, I would say that Iran 01:22:58.159 --> 01:23:07.510 is in a better position than the CIA is reporting. It's not three to four months. Iran can last indefinitely. People tend to forget that Iran has been 01:23:07.520 --> 01:23:16.950 laboring under uh you know, US sanctions and restrictions on its oil economy for for 47 years. Um this isn't their first 01:23:16.960 --> 01:23:28.390 rodeo. uh their first fluctuation in market realities. They know how to deal deal with this. It also ignores the fact that um you know a great deal of Iran's 01:23:28.400 --> 01:23:36.550 oil production is consumed domestically. Um that they they aren't necessarily held hostage to uh to to the you know 01:23:36.560 --> 01:23:45.910 the the the closure of the strait as much as people might think. They have other ways to uh to get oil to market. Um you right now uh the Pakistani 01:23:45.920 --> 01:23:56.550 Iranian border uh looks like something out of Mad Max with all the oil tankers going back and forth. Um you know and and you know the Iranians have mastered 01:23:56.560 --> 01:24:04.870 oil smuggling routes. Uh they're not panicked at all. The Iranians I have spoken to um say that there is no panic 01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:14.149 in in Iran about u there or the people that are panicked are the Gulf Arab states, Kuwait for instance, who shipped zero oil last month. They're the ones 01:24:14.159 --> 01:24:23.669 running the storage problems. Same thing with uh Saudi Arabia. Same thing. United Amits, they're the ones that face, you know, uh oil field closure and 01:24:23.679 --> 01:24:33.750 maintenance issues. Uh so the the CIA is wrong on on the missiles. Um, I would just refer to Puh for Foreign Minister Iraqi's response. He said, "We're not at 01:24:33.760 --> 01:24:43.510 75%, we're at 120%." Meaning that Iran has far more capability today than they had when the war started. That reflects 01:24:43.520 --> 01:24:51.590 the reality that the United States hasn't destroyed anywhere near what we claim to have destroyed. And that Iran took their missile production 01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:59.990 underground. They've been building missiles during the war and they're building missiles now. They have more missiles today of a more modern variety 01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:08.310 than what they started the war with. >> So, we got a a bit of uh breaking news. This is from Bricks just in. US Navy 01:25:08.320 --> 01:25:18.310 strikes Iranian commercial ship, leaving 10 injured and five missing. War monitor says large firefights between the US Navy and Iran have been taking place for 01:25:18.320 --> 01:25:27.189 an hour around the street of Hormuse. And uh here's what X says. Speaking ahead of a C-SPAN forum on ceasefires, 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:36.390 Trump described a proposed deal that bars Iran from nuclear weapons, destroys missile stock piles, and reopens the straight of for moose for shipping. The 01:25:36.400 --> 01:25:46.390 comments came during a fragile 70-day ceasefire in the US Iran war, which began on the 28th after Iran's blockade and attacks on US vessels prompted 01:25:46.400 --> 01:25:54.950 American strikes under Operation Epic Fury. Iran has not confirmed any agreement, insisting on no concessions under threat, while Trump warned of 01:25:54.960 --> 01:26:03.510 escalation strikes if uh let's just and here's Marco Rubio. Uh only stupid countries shoot back when you're shot at 01:26:03.520 --> 01:26:12.470 and we're not a stupid country. What what does that mean? Uh so what uh let's listen. >> Well, but the point is if uh if there's 01:26:12.480 --> 01:26:22.070 not much seizing in the firing because we we >> Well, you should ask that of the Iranians. Don't ask me. We didn't fire. They fired on us. My point is, if you fire at a US Navy ship, what are we 01:26:22.080 --> 01:26:30.870 supposed to do? Say, "Oh, there's a ceasefire. We're not going to shoot down your drone." That's a stupid question. That's a stupid position to take. Of course, we fired back at them. They were shooting at us. That's what I would 01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:40.310 expect to do. Only stupid countries don't shoot back when you're shot at, and we're not a stupid country. >> Do you expect that there or have you conveyed any red lines to Iran? 01:26:40.320 --> 01:26:50.629 >> Well, f first of all, we are a very stupid uh country at the moment. Um, so what do you make of that? That Iran is according to Marco Rubio and reports 01:26:50.639 --> 01:26:59.030 that they are preempt they're they're the ones engaging the US ships. So what what do you make of that, Scott? >> Well, I I just I think we need to get 01:26:59.040 --> 01:27:07.350 back to foundations here, factual foundations. It was the United States and Israel that launched a surprise attack against Iran. This was a war of 01:27:07.360 --> 01:27:16.870 our choice, not Iran's choice. Um and you know the US has admitted this that that we preemptively struck Iran. Preempting what? We don't know the 01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:26.950 nuclear program that they were negotiating. Um you know so we started this war uh there was a ceasefire but then we continued the war by in you know 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:35.590 instigating a blockade which is an active war. So, United States naval vessels in enforcing this blockade are 01:27:35.600 --> 01:27:43.910 engaged in active combat operations against Iran and the Iranians are firing on these US ships that are committing 01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:54.790 acts of aggression against Iran. Marco Rubio leaves that part out where we are literal pirates. The president bragged about it. He said, "We're sort of like pirates." Well, you are pirates. Um, and 01:27:54.800 --> 01:28:03.110 so any sovereign state that doesn't fire on pirates is a stupid sovereign state. And the Iranians aren't stupid. Uh, but 01:28:03.120 --> 01:28:12.629 Marco Rubio is stupid. He's ignorant of the facts. Um, and this is this is embarrassing. You know, this is one of 01:28:12.639 --> 01:28:21.990 the reasons why Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, has said that America is a agreement incapable. We're incapable of making and adhering to 01:28:22.000 --> 01:28:32.229 agreements because we s simply can't accept a a factbased data set. We live in a fantasy world of our own construct. 01:28:32.239 --> 01:28:41.669 And that's where Marco Rubio lives right now in a fantasy world of his own construct where we're the good guys and we're being fired on by the bad guys. He 01:28:41.679 --> 01:28:51.910 forgets that we started this war and those ships are involved in a blockade which is an act of war. And so what do you make of uh so now 01:28:51.920 --> 01:29:00.870 Trump claims Iran agreed to a nuclear ban. Do you think Iran will ever agree to not have uh enrichment capabilities 01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:09.669 for their uh for for energy and power, not a nuclear bomb? But do you think they'll ever agree to that? >> No. Donald Trump, first of all, is 01:29:09.679 --> 01:29:20.790 having conversations with himself. This is uh I I I I can say with absolute certainty um that the Iranians aren't uh 01:29:20.800 --> 01:29:29.830 this this is the Iranians aren't involved in any aspect of this uh conversation Donald Trump has. It's a conversation he's having with Israelis 01:29:29.840 --> 01:29:39.510 who are conversing with Pakistanis about wishful thinking. But the Iranians have made their position clear and they've never backed down on that position. Um 01:29:39.520 --> 01:29:50.310 so no uh and and the other thing people need to understand is we lost the war and I am sort of a student of history. 01:29:50.320 --> 01:29:59.750 Uh history shows me that the people who lose the war don't normally dictate the conditions of conflict termination. And so you have the United States who is 01:29:59.760 --> 01:30:08.790 humiliated by Iran 39 days after we started this war. We are the ones that sought a ceasefire. And now Trump is trying to spin this that we're the 01:30:08.800 --> 01:30:19.270 victors and we're imposing our will on Iran. Iran has been consistent throughout about their nuclear program. They will not give it up. End of story. 01:30:19.280 --> 01:30:28.709 And Donald Trump, again, he lives in a fantasy world of his own construct. These are conversations he's having with himself. 01:30:28.719 --> 01:30:38.550 So, um, well, do you, it doesn't seem like there's going to be an end to this anytime soon. There's there's story 01:30:38.560 --> 01:30:46.870 after story from today, right now, uh, credible sources saying that Iran has sealed an uh, seized an oil taker, that 01:30:46.880 --> 01:30:57.110 there uh, that the United States disabled two more, this is from US Scent Command, that the US had disabled two more vessels, violating the blockade. Of 01:30:57.120 --> 01:31:07.350 course, we know now that Marco Rubio was talked that the Iran has fired on US ships. We fired back. What What What is 01:31:07.360 --> 01:31:15.830 Why are Why isn't Why is nobody abiding by this ceasefire? And what do you do you see that this is going to end anytime soon? >> Well, first of all, there was never a 01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:24.470 real ceasefire because the United States immediately followed up by carrying out an act of war. Um, Iran is doing its best to adhere to this ceasefire, but 01:31:24.480 --> 01:31:34.229 you know, again, uh, they're not going to, uh, you know, yield to American demands. America says they must, you know, open the straight of Hormuz. 01:31:34.239 --> 01:31:42.470 Iran's not going to do that until they actually have a peace agreement. Um, Donald Trump is, you know, trying to, 01:31:42.480 --> 01:31:51.990 you know, it's a standard bluster. He he he he likes to say things, say things, say things. And then uh you know he he didn't earn the nickname taco for no 01:31:52.000 --> 01:32:00.310 reason. Um he will chicken out and he has no choice in this matter because the American economy is about to collapse. 01:32:00.320 --> 01:32:08.709 Um I I haven't confirmed it with my own eyes, but I got somebody sent me a a text. Uh the price of gas in South Bronx 01:32:08.719 --> 01:32:19.350 was $645 a gallon. Um uh that's precipitous. That was $4.65 65 cents when I uh when I left 01:32:19.360 --> 01:32:29.750 yesterday. So uh but this is reflective of the reality that oil is going through the roof. There is no oil. 22% of the world's energy has been denied access to 01:32:29.760 --> 01:32:38.629 the market for you know many months now. The last uh tanker carrying Middle East uh energy arrived in California last 01:32:38.639 --> 01:32:48.149 week. Um there's nothing coming behind it. There's going to be energy shortages. There's going to be an energy crisis. uh Lufansza canceled 20,000 01:32:48.159 --> 01:32:56.870 flights because there is no jet fuel. Other um European carriers are cancelling flights because they can't afford the jet fuel. We don't know what 01:32:56.880 --> 01:33:05.270 the impact will be on the American uh air carriers, but I can tell you that in this peak air travel season, uh if we if 01:33:05.280 --> 01:33:14.870 they do have fuel, Americans are going to be paying through the nose. I just bought a ticket. I had to pay onethird of the price of the ticket in a fuel search charge because of the um the fact 01:33:14.880 --> 01:33:23.430 that the price of fuel has gone through the the the roof. Um when diesel goes insane, uh truckers are going to stop driving because they're not going to 01:33:23.440 --> 01:33:33.189 make any money. They're going to be, you know, the cost of of of shipping won't offset the cost of the of the diesel. And then, you know, we're going to be looking at absolute paralysis, economic 01:33:33.199 --> 01:33:43.430 paralysis. That's what's going to drive Donald Trump to accept the deal. He's just going to try and spin it in a way that makes it look like it's a victory for him and not a defeat. But, you know, 01:33:43.440 --> 01:33:52.550 Bill Clinton, you know, his campaign in 1992 gave us the perhaps the the best insight into the, you know, the the political truth of the American people. 01:33:52.560 --> 01:34:00.629 It's the economy, stupid. >> And that's ultimately what's going to move the needle here, the economy. And our economy is going in the absolute 01:34:00.639 --> 01:34:10.070 wrong direction because of the consequences of this war. >> Yeah. people are Donald Trump has already lost the majority of the country 01:34:10.080 --> 01:34:20.470 on inflation and it's because of people go to the gas pump and they see what's happening and it's uh as Donald Trump would say not good. Um let me ask you 01:34:20.480 --> 01:34:30.950 this. Uh so let me so according to Mario Nefal he says Saudi Arabia refused US access to its bases and air space for 01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:39.270 project freedom forcing Trump's suspension of the operation per NBC news citing two US officials Trump surprised 01:34:39.280 --> 01:34:47.590 Gulf allies by announcing Project Freedom on social media on last Sunday afternoon without coordinating it with 01:34:47.600 --> 01:34:56.950 them first. Saudi Arabia was furious. The kingdom informed the US it would not allow the US military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan air base southeast of 01:34:56.960 --> 01:35:05.110 Riyad or fly through Saudi airspace in support of the operation. A direct call between Trump and Crown Pis Prince 01:35:05.120 --> 01:35:14.070 Muhammad bin Salman did not uh resolve the issue. Uh any uh any response to that? 01:35:14.080 --> 01:35:23.910 Yeah, first of all, that's a uh what I believe to be a gross exaggeration of reality. Um the United States has uh you 01:35:23.920 --> 01:35:32.470 know basing agreements with Saudi Arabia and those come with status of forces agreement. But the bottom line is when American aircraft operate out of Saudi 01:35:32.480 --> 01:35:42.470 uh air bases, there has to be a a measure of coordination that takes place. What happened here is that uh Donald Trump announced an operation uh 01:35:42.480 --> 01:35:51.030 that hadn't been coordinated with the Saudis. And so the Saudis basically said, "You're you need to file the appropriate paperwork. You need to, you 01:35:51.040 --> 01:36:00.390 know, perform in accordance with the agreement before we let these planes take off." Once the United States corrected that error, uh the bases are 01:36:00.400 --> 01:36:09.750 the bases are open today. American aircraft are flying today. Um, you know, this this is a story that's been being spun the wrong way. Uh, there was a 01:36:09.760 --> 01:36:19.270 temporary hiccup through a lack of coordination that's since been overcome. >> Okay. Any truth to the idea that the the 01:36:19.280 --> 01:36:30.070 the Navy officers are not following Trump orders or they've threatened to not follow Trump's orders. >> I would be very surprised at this. Um, I 01:36:30.080 --> 01:36:39.750 I it's first of all It's that's just not how it works. The president doesn't pick up the phone and uh and order um you know Navy captains 01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:48.070 to move ships. The president um will you know indicate what he wants done. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff 01:36:48.080 --> 01:36:56.229 will work with the president to come up with a plan. Uh Pete Hegsth will uh sit in on this. Um and then an operations 01:36:56.239 --> 01:37:04.390 plan will be developed and um the the the military will be told to execute this operation. Um you know so the idea 01:37:04.400 --> 01:37:13.030 that uh you know Trump has said you know called up a a Navy destroyer captain and said sail to the straight and he said no sir I won't do that. That's absurd. The 01:37:13.040 --> 01:37:24.310 Navy will obey the orders they're given if they're lawful orders. And uh but what the Navy will do is push push back on bad on bad concepts. For instance, um 01:37:24.320 --> 01:37:32.550 you know, they'll the president says, "I want you to escort shipping through the straight or moose." The Navy will say, "Sir, if we do this, um there's a good 01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:42.390 chance we're going to get fired upon and and sunk. Uh we would not recommend doing this at this time." And you know, and and then the president will alter his orders. But what we've seen here is 01:37:42.400 --> 01:37:51.270 that the Navy is obeying the orders on on two days in a row now. The Navy is closing in on the straight or moving pressure on the Iranians. The Iranians 01:37:51.280 --> 01:38:00.709 are firing back. Apparently, there's an ongoing firefight as we speak. That's not indicative of the Navy saying no. That's an indicative of the Navy officers obeying their orders and 01:38:00.719 --> 01:38:10.709 carrying out their mission to the best of their abilities. >> Okay, let's just briefly be before we say goodbye, let's any update on what's 01:38:10.719 --> 01:38:19.030 happening inside of uh the Ukraine Russia conflict. >> Well, I'll tell you what, Jimmy. I mean, last night I'm here in Washington DC. 01:38:19.040 --> 01:38:29.189 That's why you see um this different background. Um the hotel um but I last night I attended the victory day celebration. Um I've attended four in a 01:38:29.199 --> 01:38:37.750 row now, four years in a row. And victory day is a huge uh a huge day for the for the Russians. Uh it's the day they defeated Nazi Germany, the day 01:38:37.760 --> 01:38:50.629 Berlin fell. Uh they got the unconditional surrender. Last night was the most militant victory day I've ever attended. Um the the mood was grim. Um 01:38:50.639 --> 01:38:59.910 the speech by the ambassador was um aggressive. Um talking about unconditional surrender uh for the 01:38:59.920 --> 01:39:11.750 Ukrainians, uh talking about the inevitability of armed conflict with Germany, which he reclassified as the reemergence of the of Nazi ideology. Um, 01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:22.149 you know, and the the mood just seems to be the Russians are not going to be continuing the special military 01:39:22.159 --> 01:39:31.910 operation um, you know, hands tied behind their back approach. I think the Russians have made the decision now that it's time to bring this war to an end 01:39:31.920 --> 01:39:42.470 and they're going to move into a different gear. Um, and you see Midv's uh posting. Um, very aggressive. Very aggressive. Sergey Lavrov's uh words. 01:39:42.480 --> 01:39:51.590 Very aggressive. Um, I think we're about to see a a very dramatic departure from the norm. Uh, with Russia now applying 01:39:51.600 --> 01:40:01.430 um the totality of its strategic capabilities to Ukraine. This means that Ukrainian cities will be struck and destroyed. Um, Kiev will not look like 01:40:01.440 --> 01:40:10.629 it looks today. Um, if the Ukrainians are foolish enough to launch drones against Moscow tomorrow, I think you're going to see the greatest destruction of 01:40:10.639 --> 01:40:19.990 urban um, territory in Europe since the Second World War. Um, it will be devastating. It'll be tragic, but um, I 01:40:20.000 --> 01:40:29.590 can't say it's unavoidable given the what the Ukrainians are doing and what the Europeans are doing. I mean I know that uh you know Russia called for a ceasefire so they could 01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:40.149 have the celebration and it see apparently Ukraine abided by it didn't strike Moscow so they must and because the Moscow you know threatened to go 01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:48.310 ahead and um I wouldn't say obliterate but do heavy damage to Kiev if they did attack at that time. Um, so it seems 01:40:48.320 --> 01:40:56.790 like they they they must understand that Russia has the ability to to, you know, go in and and wipe out do serious damage 01:40:56.800 --> 01:41:05.030 to Kiev at whenever they feel like it. Um, and you're you're saying that that that that's coming. Is that what you're saying? 01:41:05.040 --> 01:41:15.669 >> Yeah. The the the parade is tomorrow. Um, the the embassy held their celebration last night, but the parade is tomorrow. Um, Ukraine, uh, the 01:41:15.679 --> 01:41:24.629 Russians offered a ceasefire starting today through tomorrow. Ukraine has committed over 400 violations of that ceasefire so far to include drone 01:41:24.639 --> 01:41:33.910 strikes against Russian cities inside Russia. So there's no indication that they're going to abide by the ceasefire tomorrow. Um, but the other thing is 01:41:33.920 --> 01:41:42.870 even if they don't launch on Moscow, I think Russia has made the decision that the Ukrainian leadership must be terminated uh because of these long 01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:53.590 range drone strikes that are striking Russian oil production facilities. These are being facilitated by uh NATO, by European nations that are 01:41:53.600 --> 01:42:03.510 building the drones, intelligence that guides the drones. And uh they're starting when I when I was in Russia in November, I interviewed a um a man who 01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:12.390 is in the government who um is involved in the security of Russia's energy infrastructure from drones. And at that 01:42:12.400 --> 01:42:20.709 time he indicated that it was more of a nuisance that the drone strikes uh looked bad on on on on the imagery but 01:42:20.719 --> 01:42:29.109 the reality is very little was destroyed and they were and the repairs were rapidly being made and bringing things back into play. Apparently that's not 01:42:29.119 --> 01:42:38.229 the case now. Apparently some real harm is being done. Some real damage is being done. Um, so this has made this an existential issue for Russia, which 01:42:38.239 --> 01:42:48.629 means that they have no choice but to change the calculation. They can't ride this out. They can't, you know, say, "Well, we'll we'll just be patient here." So even if Russia doesn't take 01:42:48.639 --> 01:42:58.709 Kiev off the map Saturday, I think the future of Kiev is grim. Um, I think that the Russians will strike Kiev decisively. Um, and other Ukrainian 01:42:58.719 --> 01:43:07.109 cities too. think this summer they are going to destroy Ukraine, destroy the Ukrainian leadership. If I were Zalinski, I would leave Ukraine and 01:43:07.119 --> 01:43:17.109 never go back because I think he is literally dead man walking. Boy, talk about a guy who's in a between a rock and a hard place, right? If he 01:43:17.119 --> 01:43:27.109 can continues the war, they'll kill him. If he doesn't, his own people will kill. You know, the the a >> Well, if he does another line of cocaine, maybe it'll make life a little bit easier for him. 01:43:27.119 --> 01:43:36.629 All right, Scott Ritter, I really appreciate you making We appreciate your time. Thank you very much. You're always accommodating our schedule. Uh the great insight, the great Scott Ritter. We 01:43:36.639 --> 01:43:44.870 appreciate you. Thank you very much, pal. >> Thanks a lot for having me. >> Okay, over to Steph. >> All right. Uh Jimmy, are you ready to go to Rumble? 01:43:44.880 --> 01:43:55.750 >> Yeah, I'm ready to >> All right, ladies and gentlemen, I will put that in the chat for you folks. Hold on, I will pin it. Pinning. 01:43:55.760 --> 01:44:01.239 All right, ladies and gentlemen, we will see you over at Rumple.