We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. They're crazy. can't let them have a nuclear weapon. They would use it. There'd be no Israel. There'd be no Middle East. There'd be no Europe. And they come at us too, because you know why? They're crazy. All right, so Trump in a little bit. [00:00:18] We're going to show you also said that we are totally doing this war for Israel, and a couple of the Gulf countries. You're going to see it with your own eyes, which is amazing. But Roe, we start there with him. saying that, you know what? uh This war, uh if we don't [00:00:37] do it, we're gonna lose France. We're gonna lose the Netherlands, right? They're gone. Iran is going to destroy them with a nuclear weapon they don't have. So what do you make of this kind of exaggeration? First of all, they don't have an intercontinental ballistic [00:00:52] missile. they reach, even if they had a nuclear weapon, uh is not far beyond the Middle East. Secondly, they uh don't have a weapon. I mean, they have enriched uranium, but they don't have a weapon and the ability to put it on a weapon. Third, we have done nothing to get [00:01:12] rid of their enriched uranium. So the enriched uranium is still there. And if anything, we've now given them more of a incentive to develop it because what do they have to lose? They've already gotten attacked, we've already. uh decimated a lot of their Navy, we've decimated a lot [00:01:27] of their Air Force. So if you're a Ron, you're saying, well, why don't this is what I can do to develop it. And you've killed a lot of uh the leaders' parents and killed their relatives. We've actually made the situation more dangerous than less dangerous. Yeah, so uh look, it [00:01:48] feels like Trump is using some Israeli talking points here. And we've heard the Israelis and Netanyahu and specific say for the last 30 years that Iran is two weeks away from a nuclear weapon and that we're gonna lose Paris and Sacramento and just about every imaginable place San Antonio, [00:02:10] you can go on and on. It's totally and utterly absurd. But I think he might have taken the Israeli talking points a little too far when he accidentally admitted this. If you took Saudi Arabia, Russia, put them together, we're doing twice as much oil and gas as they are. Think of that, it's amazing. That was-. to? Called drill, baby drill, right? I mean, when [00:02:34] you really think about it, if they have a problem with Iran, and they need the strait more than we need it open. We don't need it at all. We don't need it at all. Fair enough. So-. I mean, you could make the case, why are we even? We're doing it to help Israel and to help Saudi [00:02:51] Arabia and to help Qatar and UAE and Kuwait and other countries. Wow, so Representative Khanna, there's the president saying, yeah, we're doing this for Israel and a bunch of the Gulf countries. Do they, what is that? Do we control our own foreign policy? Are we [00:03:10] supposed to start wars for other governments? The level of candor, that should be all over. I hadn't actually seen that clip because I hadn't seen the whole interview, but it is really shocking. mean, he's basically saying we have enough oil in this country. If anything, [00:03:26] it's raised gas prices, raised food prices. So why are we doing this? Well, Israel and Saudi Arabia need us to do this. And with all of the reporting, it's not just Netanyahu, it's MBS and uh the Gulf allies pushing him to do this. We're basically fighting a regional war where there's no benefit and only downside to the American people. We haven't made us [00:03:47] any safer, they still have enriched uranium and food prices up, gas prices are up. The Fed can't cut rates for all of the president wanting them to cut rates because he wants mortgage rates to come down, credit card rates to come down, Fed can't do that. So he's betraying the American worker and he's saying why, I mean, it's he's remarkably candid. Yeah, that is [00:04:07] it's a shocking admission. And you're right, that should be all over the news when the president says we did this war for Israel. That is a massive new story. We'll come back to Saudi Arabia and them. But I also want to ask you, he said, we don't need the Strait of Hormuz open at all. Is that anywhere near true? Well, it's not. I mean, look, if we banned exports, [00:04:30] which I think we should, because the export only allows our oil companies to make record profits and uh if they are hurting the American consumer, then maybe we'd be less dependent on it though. We'd still be dependent on it for fertilizer and other products. think 20 % of the world's trade goes through there, but we'd be less dependent on it for oil. But the [00:04:49] reality is we have a real export. And so we are on a global market. And that means that if the Strait of Hormuz isn't open, someone in Youngstown, Ohio is paying more at the pump. And even the president knows that he's just trying to obfuscate and not level with the [00:05:07] American people. Office is a good word, I use horse crap, but I hear you. Okay, so although that can't get through the straight either, the fertilizer stuck. But apparently somehow Trump got his portion anyway. But okay, now the last part of that remarkable stretch of [00:05:26] answer there from statements there from Trump. He says, well, it's not just Israel, we're also doing it for Saudi Arabia and UAE and Bahrain and Qatar and all these folks. Look, in my experience, and I speak for myself here, when I both cover the politicians and the media [00:05:46] on the right wing side, but also some establishment Democrats, and also certainly some establishment pundits. And when I'm in debates on the issue of Israel, it is crystal clear when Israel has a new talking point, because almost all of their folks will say, and when I say their [00:06:02] folks, mean- overwhelming majority of Congress, the overwhelming majority of media. They will all use the same talking point at the same time. And I was in a debate just yesterday and I get this weird talking point before Trump said that about, this war's, I cornered the guy [00:06:18] into it basically admitting that America has no interest in this war at all. And he said, yeah, but the Saudis and the UAE and all these countries, we're not just doing it for Israel, we're also doing it for them. And maybe in their mind they think that everyone thinks in a tribalistic [00:06:34] way. 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Of course inconvenient for them and in the middle of that debate and it was on Mario and a false show. uh He read a breaking news saying the Saudis then responded by going, no, no, no, no, no, no, we don't want the war to continue. That is not true, right? So, [00:08:31] putting that aside. Ro, are you more persuaded to continue the war if both the Israelis and the Saudis want it? Absolutely not. And the reality is why are we getting in the middle [00:08:47] of a uh Shiite Sunni fight and something that has been going on for generations? How does that serve the American interest? The second thing is even the Saudis and UAE and Qatar and the Gulf States are all unified in their absolute horror for what happened in Gaza. [00:09:09] They all believe it was a genocide. They all believe it needs to be a Palestinian state. So uh it's not like they are on uh Netanyahu's side. They may be conveniently uh cheering on the bombing in certain places in Iran because they've had rivalries with them. But the population [00:09:30] on the street, not the rulers, the population on the street is horrified that they're killing Iranian schoolgirls and killing uh human beings. And so I fundamentally believe that we shouldn't be in this war, and we shouldn't be using the talking points of these Gulf leaders to justify [00:09:49] it further separating us from the people in the Middle East. Yeah, we shouldn't use anybody's talking points that isn't from our government. And whether the Gulf countries, Israel, we shouldn't do a war for any other government, unless it's like a NATO alliance, but we don't [00:10:05] have any of that here. And that's for defense, this is for offense. Israel wanted to go attack Iran and we're like, okay, even though we have no American interests, we're going to do it anyway. Totally, utterly outrageous, but I appreciate Trump confessing it.