A new New York Times piece gives us some insight into how Israel roped a dope like Trump to fight a devastating war against Iran on Israel's behalf, of course. Please take that disgusting war criminal off the screen. He makes me want to puke. I can't look at his face. Now, the [00:00:17] New York Times has revealed what transpired during a situation room meeting that involved Benjamin Netanyahu, a foreign leader in our White House's situation room. That is not a normal thing. That is actually supposed to be considered very unusual. But when it comes [00:00:34] to Israel, well, they're infiltrated in every single nook and cranny of our government. Which is why our government serves a foreign country, not the American people. Before I get to the details into this, which are incredibly embarrassing for our commander in chief, Cenk, your two cents. Yeah, so first of all, they should make sure they clean up the situation [00:00:55] room because there's no way the Israelis didn't plant bugs there. The minute you allow them into any room and former CIA agents have said this, they plant bugs. Because they're not our allies, they've stolen all of our secrets. They've taken 300 billion from us, and they drove us into this war as you're going to see in this exact story. But as you're going through [00:01:13] the story, I want you to think about two things, okay? Number one is, who leaked this to the New York Times? And what was their purpose? Because you're going to learn some things here, but then I want to explain to you, why this story came out now, and what the politics [00:01:31] behind it is, because that's really important. All right. That is a great tease and I agree with you. That is where the conversation should lie. We'll get to that in a minute. But let me give you the details. So the bulk of this piece focuses on a situation room meeting that took place on February 11th. Remember, Trump started the war on February 28th. So [00:01:51] this is days before the war begins. The meeting in the situation room again, uh included White House. White House Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director Ratcliffe, uh General Dan Cain uh of the Chairman of the [00:02:09] Joint Chiefs of Staff. And then you have the head of Mossad, David Barnea, who appeared on a screen from a remote location. And of course, Benjamin Netanyahu was there as well. Now JD Vance apparently couldn't attend because he was in Azerbaijan and couldn't make it back [00:02:24] in time for this situation room meeting. We'll get back to him in just a minute. Now Netanyahu apparently gave some sort of presentation to convince Trump to go to war with Iran and bring an end to the Islamic regime. And here's how useful Israeli intelligence really is. You [00:02:41] know how Israel always talks about, no, no, we are an incredibly important ally. We provide Intel to the United States. What kind of Intel do they provide to the United States? Is it the kind of Intel that got us to invade Iraq in 2003? That kind of Intel? Anyway, let's get to the details here. Netanyahu and his team outlined conditions they portrayed as pointing [00:03:01] to near certain victory. Iran's ballistic missile program could be destroyed in a few weeks. The regime could be so weakened that it could not choke off the Strait of Hormuz. And the likelihood that Iran would land below's against US interests in neighboring countries was [00:03:20] assessed as minimal. Now you tell me, Should it have been assessed as minimal? Let me continue. When others in the room asked the Prime Minister about possible risks in the operation, Netanyahu [00:03:37] said in his view, the risks of inaction were greater than the risks of action. He argued that the price of action would only grow if they delayed striking and allowed Iran more [00:03:53] time to accelerate its missile production and create a shield of immunity around its nuclear program. So Netanyahu's there in the situation room, filling our moronic president's head full of lies. Okay, buttering him up, propping him up as some sort of hero. If you do this, [00:04:11] you're going to be celebrated, you're such a hero. You know how Trump is, right? An egomaniac, so easy to stroke that. pathetic ego of his and that's exactly what Netanyahu did. Easy, easy, if the Democrats were smart, they would have used the same tactics. But they're not [00:04:27] smart, they're dullards, pathetic opposition to a fascist president. But nonetheless, later intelligence officials broke down Netanyahu's claims and objectives. The officials assessed uh that decapitation or slaughtering Iran's leaders was doable. And as we saw, it absolutely [00:04:45] was doable. But they assessed- parts of Netanyahu's pitch, which included the possibility of the Kurds mounting a ground invasion of Iran, were detached from reality. When Trump joined the meeting, Ratcliffe briefed him on the assessment. The CIA director used one word to describe [00:05:06] the Israeli Prime Minister's regime change scenarios, farcical. At that point, Rubio cut in. In other words, it's BS, he said. So apparently Ratcliffe and Rubio were hesitant. They were [00:05:23] skeptical of the claims being made by Netanyahu and the Israelis. I mean, they didn't fight or push back hard enough to ensure that we didn't get dragged into a stupid war like this, a disastrous war like this. But they shared their skepticism. Ratcliffe then said that [00:05:39] regime change could not be uh considered an achievable objective. General Dan Cain agreed, telling Trump, This is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well developed. They know they need us, and [00:05:56] that's why they're hard selling. It's not just that they need us, right? They know that they have this half-baked plot that's unlikely to work. So why not send in the Americans? Have them pay for it, have their soldiers get slaughtered. By the way, that whole mission of saving that [00:06:13] pilot, the one that Trump is celebrating today, I think it's all lies, okay? I think that our military was actually there to try to get the enriched uranium. I think that special operation went south. It was a complete and utter disaster and our government doesn't want to take any [00:06:30] ownership of it. I think that's what actually happened. Now that's my speculation, but I have reason to believe it considering the aircraft that was involved in that whole situation. But I digress, Cenk, before I move on, I want to hear from you. So the Israelis said that it would be easy, would be low level risk. They would not attack our Gulf allies. They wouldn't [00:06:48] be able to close off the Strait of Hormuz. And that they would surrender to Trump relatively quickly and easily. Okay, so every time we ask, hey, what did we get in return for the $320 billion at a great minimum that we have given Israel, let alone the 8 trillion we spent [00:07:07] on the global war on Israel's neighbors? What do we get in return? Every time they answer is intelligence, amazing intelligence. No, their intelligence, it doesn't suck guys. They have very good intelligence when they want it. They did the Hezbollah pager attack. They knew [00:07:25] where the Hamas leaders were, the Hezbollah leaders, etc. Just coincidentally when they need to have very bad intelligence on October 7th. Anyways, and And when they're driving us into the Iraq war, when they're driving us into the Iran war, golly gee, our intelligence [00:07:42] was all wrong. That's what we gave America to make them die for us? So you fight the war and not us? Why is he in our situation room? If he wants this war so bad, why doesn't he fight it? It has nothing to do with us. He should be arrested. He should be at the Hague. That's [00:08:00] where he belongs. He's in the United States situation room. with the most powerful people in our country. calling the shots. Sorry, Jane, go ahead. Since we know that their intelligence is not actually bad when they need it, right? It is indisputable that they lie to us almost [00:08:19] every time. They lie to us in Iraq, they lie to us about Iran, and yet there are great special ally. No, they view us as suckers. Because we are. Suckers that they can just take me. literally hundreds of billions of dollars from. They could drive us in a war, have us die instead of them. [00:08:39] Have us spend $8 trillion. In fact, we had to borrow the $8 trillion from China and you, your children, your grandchildren all have to pay interest on that debt because we had to fight all of Israel's neighbors. That's right. No, the way that they have captured our government [00:08:56] and our media is disgusting. And so they can call me any names they like, they're not going to be able to stop us, both the right wing and the left wing. Go ahead, call all of America's anti-Semites, do whatever stupid propaganda you want, but it's not going to stop us from [00:09:14] telling the truth. And the truth is, Israel is a danger to the world, a giant danger to America. They are not remotely our ally. They have used and abused us, and it is time to cast them out. Cast them out completely. Sanctions, sanctions. a minimum. Yeah, at Not another [00:09:35] dollar. One more politician gives one more dollar to Israel. If you vote for a politician that going forward gives more money to Israel, you ought have your head examined. You're a traitor if you do that. And all these 94 % of Congress gets money from Israel. our ridiculous pathological [00:09:55] liars in mainstream media say no, those billions of dollars AIPAC in the Israeli lobby have given to politicians didn't affect the politicians at all. What an outrageous lie. So no, we have to take out the Israelis completely from our government and apparently from our media. Yeah, [00:10:14] we need to do a real purge of our government, that's for sure. Now, Trump gets this assessment from Ratcliffe. Even Marco Rubio jumps in and says this is BS. So how does Trump react to that? The notion that regime change is not possible through military action. Trump quickly [00:10:31] weighed the assessment. Regime change, he said, would be their problem. I thought we were going to go in there to liberate the Iranians, interesting. But let me continue. It was unclear whether he was referring to the Israelis or the Iranian people, meaning regime change [00:10:49] being their problem, right? uh The bottom line was that his decision on whether to go to war against Iran would not hinge on whether regime change was achievable. For Trump, decapitating the regime was good enough for him. That's what he wanted to do, right? But over the following [00:11:06] days, General Cain shared more in-depth military assessment of a major military campaign against Iran. What would that look like? Are we prepared for it? Do we have the weaponry ready to go? He stated that the United States has depleted its stockpiles of weaponry, including of course, [00:11:27] missile interceptors. Cain saw no way to quickly replenish stockpiles to ensure that the United States is prepared for such a war. And he also brought up the difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz. Turns out that Raisin Cain was right, but Trump didn't listen to him. But [00:11:46] the President appeared to think it would be a very quick war because he's a moron. An impression that had been reinforced by the tepid response to the US bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities in June. So let's pause right there because this is what happens when the idiots [00:12:03] in our country, including the members of the media, engage in these ridiculous celebrations of something like the 12 day war, right? Because it emboldens unhinged people like Trump. He was high off his own supply after he carried out the illegal action of literally kidnapping [00:12:21] a foreign sovereign country's leader and his wife. Of course, I'm talking about Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro and his wife. When you cheerlead the war crimes that our government carries out on behalf of Israel or on behalf of our own needs for resources or whatever, that [00:12:40] emboldens our government to go further and that's where we are today. Now, I want to get to another part of this because the piece is a lot more nuanced in regard to Kane's advice to Trump. And then I want to get to JD Vance. The JD Vance part is really important. Let's [00:12:56] first focus on Kane though. So persistent was the chairman in not taking a stand, repeating that it was not his role to tell the president what to do, but rather to present options along with potential risks and. possible second and third order consequences that he could [00:13:17] appear to some of those listening to be arguing all sides of an issue simultaneously. Trump would often seem to hear only what he wanted to hear. So uh in comparison, uh General Mark Milley, who was from Trump's first term, would push back pretty aggressively, especially when [00:13:37] it came to potential war with Iran. And obviously that pushback yielded good results because Trump didn't go to war with Iran in his first term. So I really wish that Cain, knowing what he knew, was a little more forceful, a little more clear in helping our president [00:13:55] understand that engaging in this war would be a complete and utter disaster. Same goes for Marco Rubio, same goes for anyone else in the administration who's mentioned in this piece as sharing their assessment, disagreeing with engaging in this war, but they don't push [00:14:11] back. It's not their place. Well, then you're useless. You're absolutely useless. And that goes for JD Vance as well. Before we get to the Vice President, Cenk, your thoughts. Yeah, so everybody on that list that was in that room is either a coward or a traitor or both. So General Dan Cain is definitely a coward. He didn't tell the President uh all the devastating [00:14:32] consequences that he apparently thought would happen. Why did he not tell the President? Because he was worried about losing his job. The last guy who did that, Mark Milley, became an enemy of the President and the President drove him out. So Dan Cain obviously cared [00:14:47] a lot more about his career than he did about America. So he has greatly betrayed us, okay, through his deep cowardice. Now, when you get to Suzy Wilde, same thing, says nothing. And everybody on that list, the tenor of the article was that no one really dared object [00:15:08] to Donald Trump. uh were all scared to say anything that would upset him. Well, I mean, why don't you advertise that you're all cowards? Now the reality is they are advertising this because they're the ones who leaked it. Yes, okay. I agree. But it's amazing that since [00:15:28] the second option is worse that they're traitors, they're leaning in on we're cowards. We were total cowards and we didn't say anything, okay? Now I don't believe them at all. I believe some of them are cowards like Dan Cain, but I believe most of them are traitors. So Marco [00:15:44] Rubio, we know through drop site news is reporting and that's why people like Jake Tapper get really upset when you find out the truth. That there are emails from Larry Ellison saying that he gave Marco Rubio $5 million into his super PAC after he pre approved him for Israel. [00:16:01] And he told the Israeli ambassador that Larry Ellison pretends to be an American. He's the founder of Oracle and the guy buying up half our media. to serve Israel. And he also bought up a lot of our politicians. So that email was so telling. So Hegseth was the biggest [00:16:18] warmonger among them. He's also the guy who lauded the IDF in his book and said the IDF soldiers should be in American streets. most of that room actually works for Israel. They literally get paid by Israel to betray our country. And so- And by the way, let me comment on [00:16:36] that real quick because right now, there are these reports of Israelis flying back to Brooklyn, flying back to safety ah as this war happens, right? As the possibility of nukes getting dropped on Iran comes up. um No, if we had any real leadership in this country, they'd [00:16:57] be denied entry. Go back, go back to Israel. Go back to Israel. You start a war. Revelling it, reveling it. And your US citizenship should be revoked. You're either an Israeli or you're an American, make your decision. But you don't get to suck the life out of our country on [00:17:13] behalf of the country you actually love living in and care about. And then come back to safety when it's convenient for you, go back to Israel. All right, now let's get to JD Vance, okay? Because I'm getting very tired of this. laundering of this guy's reputation as if he's not a warmonger, [00:17:34] okay? Because he is a warmonger. So let's get to the details. So this piece spends a lot of time attempting to paint JD Vance as an opponent of war. So I'll give you one excerpt to give you an example. Nobody in Trump's inner circle was more worried about the prospect [00:17:51] of war with Iran or did more to try to stop it than the vice president. Really? What did he do to try to stop it? Nothing. The peace doesn't give us a single example of JD Vance trying to stop the war, not one. So why is the New York Times just regurgitating that? [00:18:08] Clearly this was leaked to the New York Times by members of the Trump administration. Clearly by JD Vance who's going to run in 2028 and doesn't want the stink of this war following him. It's going to follow you homeboy, I'll make sure of it. You're a warmonger just like the rest of them. So uh they even knew where each participant was sitting. They went through [00:18:29] a lot of detail to explain they're sitting in this seat and next to them is the other person, etc. So there's no question that the leaker is inside the situation. By the way, when Chelsea Manning or uh Edward Snowden or Julian Assange does a leak, they have to be chased [00:18:45] to the ends of the earth and they're wanted criminals and Mike Pompeo talks about murdering them. When the vice president does a leak, totally fine. From inside the situation room, talking about the most sensitive intelligence and information we have. So why did Vance and my guess is the [00:19:02] other guy who did the leak was Rubio. Why did they do this leak? Because they want to paint it as we were not totally in favor of this. When we run later, we uh were the good guys. So Rubio is quoted as saying that the Israeli intelligence was BS. My ass he said that. He [00:19:21] works for the Israelis. so I'm positive that he pushed Trump into this war. Everything he has said both visibly publicly and things that are reported behind the scenes is Rubio totally backs Israel. So now JD Vance, I was very curious what the New York Times is going [00:19:39] to do with this because it was their own reporting that showed earlier when the war first started that JD Vance was the guy who was critical in convincing Trump to quote go. big and fast. not do limited strikes. So how did the New York Times handle it in this case? because [00:19:56] now they're pretending that he was against the war. uh In one sentence. I have it. You have it? Yes. So they write this, get a load of this. This is amazing. Okay. The vice president thought a regime change war with Iran could be a disaster. His preference was for no strikes [00:20:14] at all. Later, when it seems certain that the president was set on a large scale campaign. Vance argued that he should do so with overwhelming force in the hope of achieving his objectives [00:20:29] quickly. So in other words, be as vicious as possible so we can wrap this up quickly. Okay, and let me just remind you of what JD Vance had to say after Trump put out a truth [00:20:44] social post this morning. threatening to end Iran's civilization, thus slaughtering 92 million people. Let's take a look at what he did. Did he condemn it publicly? No, he gave a speech where he basically repeated what Trump had to say. that we can get a response, whether it's [00:21:03] positive or negative, we're gonna get a response from the Iranians by eight o'clock tonight. I hope they make the right response because what we really want is we want a world where oil and gas is flowing freely, where people can afford to heat their homes and pull their homes, where people can afford to transport themselves to work. That's not gonna happen [00:21:21] if the Iranians are engaged in acts of economic terrorism. So they've gotta know, we've got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven't decided to use. The President of United States can decide to use them and he will decide to use them if Iranians don't change their force of conduct. What tools are you referring to Vice President Pence? What kind of tools are [00:21:43] you referring to? That's the dove? That's the peacemaker? That's the anti war guy who's threatening what nukes? Is that what you're threatening here? You're doubling down on the president's message? Don't be fooled into thinking that scumbag is a peace loving individual. Okay, [00:22:01] and let's say we give them the benefit of the doubt. We actually read this, we take it at face value and fool ourselves into thinking that he's a dove. He's in the Trump administration right now. He's not pushing back. He's going along with it. That makes you a war criminal, [00:22:18] just like Trump. Yeah, he's saying that unconventional weapons that are in our toolkit, it seems almost a clear reference to nukes. I'm pretty sure doves don't talk about nuking 90 million people. uh So he had an opportunity to argue for limited strikes. We know from the earlier New [00:22:35] York Times reporting, partly corroborated by the statement Ana just read to you guys, that he did not argue for limited strikes. He argued for go big and fast. Okay, so full scale invasion. So this is a CYA uh operation, this leak by Vance, to cover his ass and to pretend [00:22:54] he was against the war when he was totally in favor of the war. And by the way, you don't say after Trump made the decision, then he told him to go big and fast. Really, did you say no? Did you stand up and say no, Mr. President, I don't think this is a good idea. Even in [00:23:09] your own stupid leak, you didn't have the temerity to say that because you never said it. And everybody in the room knows you never said it. You were not against this war. And just like everyone else in this administration, you serve Israel and the donors. You were created by the donors. This guy was a hobo. He was a no one until Peter Thiel gave him $10 million. [00:23:31] Peter Thiel, who by the way, owns among the people who own Palantir and the surveillance state and that's what's coming next. If you object to the war, it's wartime president. We're going to have to soon start rounding up opponents of the war. One last thing guys, [00:23:48] why did this story come out now? The reason it came out now is because Vance and Rubio know that the crap is about to hit the fan. Before it hits the fan and things go really, really south, they wanted it on the record. oh No, we leaked to our friend Maggie Haberman [00:24:06] that we were the good guys against this war. Why are you saying you're against the war if the war is going so great? If you think and know that the war is about to be won and they're about to surrender to Donald Trump, why are you leaking to the New York Times that you're always against it? because they are absolutely positive. We're about to get into the biggest [00:24:26] disaster you've ever seen. That's why this story exists now. uh