So how concerned are you about Israel spying on the United States and freelancing in Lebanon? Well, look, think obviously the Israelis and I, or excuse me, the Israelis in the United States, we have a lot of shared interests, but we also have some situations where our [00:00:18] interests diverge. I would like to know what our shared interests are because I'm having trouble listing any of them. So far, we have been punished due to our endless unwavering alliance with Israel. We've been dragged into wars. We have been- spending trillions of [00:00:37] dollars fighting Israel's wars in the Middle East. We have given Israel directly over $330 billion in military aid and financial aid over the years. What are we getting out of that again? And what are our shared interests? But putting that aside, I would venture to [00:00:55] say that JD Vance seems pretty chill over the fact that our special ally Israel was caught spying on the uh Pentagon and multiple high level US officials. In fact, that's according to two separate intelligence reports which I detailed on yesterday's show. But I do wanna [00:01:13] give you a quick refresher before we get to more of the vice president's statements here. Because I think his calm demeanor, the fact that he's kind of downplaying the severity of the situation, tells you everything you need to know about how our government seems less interested about our best interests versus what Israel wants to do. So uh according to [00:01:35] recent intelligence reports viewed by the New York Times, the Pentagon has increased the counterintelligence threat assessment of Israel to the highest level, to the highest level. Okay, so the reports include concerns that Israel has stepped up its efforts to eavesdrop [00:01:54] on senior American officials including Steve Witkoff, President Trump's top negotiator, unfortunately. Elbridge Kobe, the Pentagon's top policy official and one of the main deputies, Michael Domeno. Now, as I shared with you on the show yesterday, uh Colby is in charge of [00:02:12] the Pentagon's policy in the Middle East. And he happens to be one of the most prominent uh proponents inside the US government of a restrained foreign policy, which the Israelis are not fans of. So it is unsurprising to me that they would spy on him and he is named [00:02:29] in the report. as one of Israel's targets for this spying. Now, senior American officials said that Israel is looking for insights into Trump's strategy and shifting stances on the peace talks. Because as we all know and have all witnessed for ourselves, Israel has no [00:02:44] interest in peace with Iran. Israel would like the war against Iran to continue at their behest, fought by American soldiers, paid for by American taxpayers in the US government. Trump seems to be angling for an exit. And every single time he says that he's getting close to a peace [00:03:04] deal, Israel will do something that sabotages the possibility of a peace deal, including carpet bombing Lebanon. um Now, this has been going on for a while. So last year, officers from Shin Bet, that's Israel's domestic intelligence agency, were discovered to have tried to plant [00:03:22] a listening device in a secret service vehicle. And so- I'll just sum it up with this because I think this is the most important takeaway from these two separate intelligence reports. Let's go to graphic six. The New York Times notes that Israel's counterintelligence threat [00:03:39] level is now higher than any other ally and higher than some adversarial countries. So with all that context in mind, now that you're fully informed and fully refreshed on this story. You can hear what our vice president has to say about it and judge for yourselves [00:03:57] whether or not you think he's too nonchalant. Take a look. Obviously, Israelis and the United States, we have a lot of shared interests, but we also have some situations where our interests diverge. And I think where the president has been very clear here is that while Israel [00:04:13] obviously has some objectives that it has, the United States' main objective in Iran is to ensure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon. And we've actually, thanks to what's happened over the last few months, but really over the last year and a half, we've created the space necessary where the President believes, and I think that he's right, that we can get [00:04:31] the long term settlement to Iran's nuclear deal. Now, Israel may like that, they may not like that, but fundamentally, we think this is in the best interest of the United States of America. So we're gonna keep on pursuing it because that's what the President of United States was elected to do. That's what we have to do in order to properly serve the American people. [00:04:51] What was that? Do you guys remember when there were balloons flying over US territory and there were Chinese weather balloons and there was a complete panic, especially among Republicans, [00:05:07] by the way, and I mean Republican politicians. There's a complete panic about Chinese spying. Now the argument would be that China is an adversary to the United States. So the thought of them spying on us is so dangerous and so terrible and of course there should be a panic. I know [00:05:24] that we've all been conditioned to believe that Israel is an ally even as they carry out military actions that go against our best interests. Our soldiers have been killed in Iran so far, not a single Israeli soldier has been killed in this fight against Iran so far. Hezbollah [00:05:42] is doing a number on the IDF, certainly in southern Lebanon, we might be able to talk about that later. But nonetheless, what was that reaction? Any other country, by the way, any other ally of ours who got caught spying at the level that the Israelis are spying on [00:06:01] our US officials would be demonized to no end by JD Vance. JD Vance would be doing a press tour condemning, let's say France did it. Can you imagine if France did it? France is spying on the United States. You think JD Vance is going to have this muted response to it on [00:06:16] Jesse Waters' show? And I see what Fox News is doing here, right? They're covering the story, so you should at least give them credit for that. But what they're really doing is covering the story in an effort to downplay the severity of Israel spying on our government. [00:06:34] And it is true, most foreign governments are looking to spy on the United States. But what made these intelligence reports stand out is the amount and level of spying that Israel does on US officials, given the fact We're talking about a foreign country that's gotten [00:06:52] everything they've wanted, starting with the Biden administration, certainly. And I'm only talking about the latest wars that have been going on in the Middle East. And then Trump gets elected and uh he's basically Biden on steroids when it comes to giving the Israelis [00:07:08] what they want. He's the only US president who was stupid enough to start a war against Iran and the Israelis are still heavily spying. They intensified their spying. officials under Trump. And that was the reaction from JD Vance? Well, we might have different objectives [00:07:27] here. And so as a result, whether the Israelis like it or not, big boy, big boy JD, real tough. Whether the Israelis like it or not, Israel is not an ally. An ally would not do [00:07:43] to us what Israel has historically done to us. Whether you're talking about the USS Liberty, whether you're talking about Jonathan Pollard, US born traitor to the United States, stealing our secrets and selling them over to the Israelis. Jonathan Pollard now threatening to use nuclear [00:08:03] weapons against the United States if Israel doesn't get everything and anything it wants, by the way. uh Whether we're talking about, I don't know, there's so many examples. uh The fact that our nuclear secrets were stolen by Robert Maxwell, later in the 1960s, our [00:08:21] nuclear material was stolen, interestingly enough, by uh people related to uh Benjamin, not Benjamin, to Ben Shapiro, right? 1969, I believe it was, when all of this enriched [00:08:37] uranium was missing. And then you have Israel with their clandestine nuclear program. just, what are we doing? Why are our leaders allowed to sell us out? That's what I want to know. [00:08:54] Why aren't more Americans furious about this? And to be honest with you, and I think this should be the motto of the show moving forward, you deserve what you tolerate. And when it comes to the Israelis, we tolerate a lot of abuse. And when I say we, I mean our government. [00:09:14] Because I think if the American people were fully aware of how detrimental our alliance with Israel really is, they wouldn't stand for this. But anyone who speaks out against it in the media, anyone who reports about it, becomes a target, finds themselves in the [00:09:31] crosshairs of the Israeli lobby. Or be Ellison's if your legacy media might get bought out. It's just it's pathetic that that response was pathetic. So again, I think Jesse Waters covered the story and had the vice president on to downplay this, it shouldn't be downplayed. This is serious. [00:09:50] An ally who has received far more aid from the United States than any other foreign country shouldn't be spying on the United States. But they do it anyway. And uh we can always expect US politicians to downplay it on national television. It's disgusting. uh