Trump Addresses Nation After US Strikes 3 Iranian Nuclear Sites | EMERGENCY PBD PODCAST | Ep. 606

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Vincent Oshana, Brandon Aceto and Adam Sosnick break down President Trump’s national address following the U. S. airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear sites. The crew analyzes what this means for the future of the Middle East, how Iran might retaliate, and the global reaction to America’s bold move. ----- 🇺🇸 VT USA COLLECTION: https://bit.ly/3GeQ6bQ 🎫 THE VAULT 2025 | SEPT 8TH - 11TH | THE GAYLORD PALMS | ORLANDO, FL: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4dJlmfL⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4dJlmfL 🍋 ZEST IT FORWARD: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4jYg3Lh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4jYg3Lh 📕 PBD'S BOOK "THE ACADEMY": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/41rtEV4⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/41rtEV4 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON SPOTIFY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g57zR2⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4g57zR2 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ITUNES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4g1bXAh 🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST ON ALL PLATFORMS: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4eXQl6A 📱 CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4ikyEkC 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/3ZjWhB7 📰 VTNEWS. AI: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3OExClZ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/3OExClZ 🎓 VALUETAINMENT UNIVERSITY: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/3BfA5Qw 📺 JOIN THE CHANNEL: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4g5C6Or 💬 TEXT US: Text “PODCAST” to 310-340-1132 to get the latest updates in real-time! ABOUT US: Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller “Your Next Five Moves” (Simon & Schuster) and a father of 2 boys and 2 girls. He currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

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• 1:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, we're officially live, due to an announcement that was made less than two hours ago, from President Trump, causing us to do an emergency podcast. We were getting a bunch of text messages. And this was the tweet that literally sent shockwaves around the world. Rob, if you want to put it up. We have completed our very successful attack on three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fardow, Natanz, and Esfahan. Esfahan being the one place that I went on vacation, the only vacation I went on with my mom and dad when I was a young kid in Iran. Esfahan's got a lot of rich history. All planes are now outside of Iran airspace. A full payload of bombs was dropped on the primary site.

• 2:06Patrick Bet-David?

  Fardow, all planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations. Congratulations to our great American warriors. There is not another military in the world that could have done this. Now is the time for peace. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So while this was done and the announcement was made, um, right afterwards, the president announced that around 10 o'clock tonight, he'll be going live. The moment he does, we will be showing it with you and we'll be reacting to it together. I will be giving an address to the nation at 10 P M. at the White House regarding a very successful military operation in Iran. This is a, this is an historic moment for the United States of America, Israel and the world. Iran must now agree to end this war. Thank you. While this is going on, we have some clips, disturbing clips that you must see on what

• 2:51Patrick Bet-David?

  this looked like, that some locals in Esfahan were reacting to it. Rob, if you can pull up some of these clips here, there are some, I mean, right now, X must have the type of traffic, maybe it's the most traffic day on X. Definitely the last two hours because of this announcement being dropped. Rob, if you've got any of the clips to show so the audience can kind of see what's going on there, um, go ahead and, go ahead and turn them on if you're ready, Rob.

• 3:17Speaker 03

  I do, Pat. I think we should go. I believe the president is speaking to the nation now, so I'm.

• 3:21Patrick Bet-David?

  If he is, let's just go to it first. Let's go to it first.

• 3:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, if you've switched it, we can't see it.

• 3:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, here we go.

• 3:46Speaker 04

  ... spectacular general and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack. With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill.

• 4:23Speaker 04

  Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at 8:00 a.m. at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody and in particular, God. I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you.

• 5:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Very interesting. Wow, the under one. That has got to be the shortest press conference he's ever done. That has got to be the shortest announcement he's ever done. When they took out al-Baghdadi, that was roughly a 45-minute speech that he gave. This was less than four minutes, less than two minutes. Came out, gave the speech. Rob, if we have something about it, if you notice who was there. You had Hegseth, you had Rubio, and you have James Vance. J.D. right there standing next to him after the speech was given. Rob, if you have some of the clips, let's show some of the clips of what happened, what these explosions look like and how the... I have a lot of thoughts on this, and I know you guys do as well. This is Iran. Rob, which one is this?

• 5:55Speaker 05

  It's a mushroom cloud from Iran right now.

• 5:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Where is this, Rob?

• 6:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, do you know where that is?

• 6:03Speaker 05

  That's at Fordo. That's one of the...

• 6:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Fordo. Okay, got it. Oh, no. Rob, do you have the one with Esfahan, where the lady is in the back reacting to it?

• 6:12Speaker 03

  I can grab that. Hang on one second.

• 6:14Patrick Bet-David?

  I texted it to you. I think it's in the group text that we have. Tom, what are your thoughts with this? Again, I have a lot of thoughts I want to share, but what is your thoughts on this? What's going on? Well, my initial thoughts are, last week, you know, countries and companies have been selling weapons to each other for 200...

• 6:32Speaker 06

  Since the invention of the cannon and some other companies, countries said, hey, how much for your cannon? And I don't mind it if Israel buys our weapons and conducts an action that they think is important. Uh, I also believe that Iran can't have nuclear weapons. And I didn't want boots in the ground. I didn't even want a pilot in the air. I really wanted us to be supporting the mission for Iran not to have nuclear weapons and not be able there. And now we've done it. And I was hoping this was a surgical strike, single strike, in, out, get it done. But even in the president's short words just now, he said, there are other targets, many other targets. And that sounds like a lot more engagement than I, than I really hope to see. Uh, I hope that this is over, that that

• 7:17Speaker 06

  incredible video we just saw, I hope that is a precision strike and authentic video. Because that certainly looks like something just disintegrated. I hope what disintegrated was Iran's nuclear capabilities. But I'm a little, um, processing what I just heard, Pat. It's like, there are many other targets. It's like, I, I really, I don't want to be in, but I'm glad to help and sell whatever I have to in terms of weapons, provide, advise and all that.

• 7:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. So here, here's a couple of things, Tom, when, when you're talking about that because you, you know, one of the angles is they said two weeks. So you say two weeks.

• 7:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Allowing Iran to think they have two weeks to react and then boom, you hit them. Catch them off guard. The entire world is like, what? If you want to talk about a surprise attack, this was a surprise attack. Look, Rob, can we run a poll? And see what people say? Support what the president just did? Don't support what the president just did. Okay? Just put it right there. Very simple on the attacks. I'm curious. Because we can say whatever we want. I mean, you, you guys, you know, the Republican Party right now, when you're looking at, you know, different people to talk to. And by the way, X is not really America. X is just a so, so often we look at X where like the entire America's on X. It's not. X is a, the most actively involved.

• 8:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Interested Americans on these topics are on X, but if you watch it, a lot of people are not happy about this. There was a very, uh, uh, in deep conversation that happened with Ted Cruz versus Tucker Carlson. One representing the fact that let's take him out. The other one saying, we don't want to get into another war. So if you give credit to anything with Trump's administration, there's a lot of questions. These are the questions I'd like to address today, guys, in the next forty five minutes. I don't want to go longer than that. Uh, the questions I got is the following. One is, is this the next Afghanistan? And how different is this from Afghanistan? Because that's the biggest worry a lot of people have. Is, uh, is this going to be another one of those three trillion dollars? We can talk about that.

• 9:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Two, if this, if does, this does happen, will Iran be retaliating? To what just happened right now with the attacks that took place? Three, Netanyahu just came out and gave a talk, you know, uh, uh, with the message that he gave. What is his reaction? He knew he didn't have the weapons to be able to get these things done. As much as we hear about Israel's air force and as much power as people give to Israel, Israel, Israel. Guess what? Israel needed America to get the job done. If we want to talk about that. For the longest time, we've been told Israel has the best air force. If you did, why couldn't you get this job done? You needed Americans to get this job done. So it still validates that America has the greatest military in the world. Four is now, let's just say Iran does happen. A part of this is to American people.

• 10:08Patrick Bet-David?

  The other part is to the Iranian people. To the American people, what's about to happen to Iran? To the Iranian people, what are you going to do with the smaller, the fine, finite opportunity? It, it time, timeline that you have to create the revolution that you want in Iran? I'm specifically talking to the Iranians that live in Iran. Who, what are you going to do? Who's your replacement? Is it Reza Pahlavi? We have a clip about how Reza Pahlavi, when he was asked just yesterday, his answer is still vanilla. It's still a vanilla answer that he's given. He cannot give a, give a backbone answer already. Yes, no. The Iranian people that want to see something happen in here, he still is giving a vanilla answer. I don't understand this guy. Get out the way or say you're going to do it. Stop playing with people in Iran that are wanting some kind of a decision to be made.

• 10:52Patrick Bet-David?

  So those are the things I want to talk about. But let me go to the people that are, what's the split on the poll right now, Rob? I'm just curious. I'm, I, I don't know what it's going to be. I want to know how many people voted and I want to know what they're saying, Rob. What do you, what are you noticing with the poll of who's for it and who's against it? Sounds about right. So 9,000 of you have voted, 60% of you guys support what he did. 39, 40% of you guys don't support it. It actually makes sense to me. It seems like the 40% right now is louder than the 60%. So let me explain to what I mean by that. The 40% is much more louder. So a lot of people are thinking it's 80% that don't want it, but quite frankly, 60% are saying yes, with all the stuff that is taking place. One credit to Trump's camp.

• 11:36Patrick Bet-David?

  One credit to Trump's camp I want to give. I can't give a lot, but I'll just give you one credit here. This is not easy. To go through watching the political party, people who got you elected, now saying impeach him. This is not what I voted for. This is not what I wanted. And you still having the thick skin to say, we're gonna get the job done. And on top of that, nobody leaked anything the last four or five days, which means he has taken the circle of everybody having access. And whether it's he or Susie Wild, one by one by one, they're saying, nope, you're not in this circle. You're in this circle, you're in this circle, but you're not in this circle. He's out. They're out. This person's out.

• 12:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Tulsi Gabbard is wrong based on what he said just yesterday or two days ago. I'm willing to bet they got rid of all the people that they did not want to know this decision was being made or a threat was made, a business type of threat. I swear to God, if I find that anything was leaked and it was because of you, you're the first person I'm firing publicly. Very simple. They stayed united and then they shocked the world. They shocked Iran. They shocked everybody. Nobody know except for the people that were involved. That part you gotta give credit to them. It's very hard to do. It's not an easy thing to do, to get the right people that are unified on an issue like this. But I'm gonna pause because I got, I called yesterday, I had a, I've been on the phones all day. We're not in Florida, obviously, but I've been on the phones all day.

• 13:05Patrick Bet-David?

  Whether it's with Iranians, those who are in the higher ups in the Iranian community, whether it's the top journalist who has tens of millions of people that watch him every day in Iran. The guy in Iran that everybody watches to see what the conditions are there. Or it's people that are involved geopolitically. I've been speaking to a lot of different people last twenty four forty eight hours. To see what's gonna be happening with a lot of questions that maybe many of you guys may be asking. But I'll pause, Brandon, I'll go to you. What are you thinking with all these things? Since you've had certain positions. And you've been able to say as a guy that you you got your bachelor's degree in national security. You got your masters in national security. This is all you study. This is all you look at. You read every book, everything on it. What's your thoughts on this?

• 13:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, so we literally couldn't be any more involved in the thing than we are right now, you know. For anybody who was saying like, oh, will the US get involved? Will we not get involved? We're a hundred percent involved right now and to do what they wanted to do. We needed US involvement because I mean, I don't know how much you guys know about these B fifty two bombers. These planes specifically, but they're insane. So these things cost like two billion dollars to build them. They're the most expensive plane in the world and they're the only ones that could carry these bunker bus. These bunker buster bombs. So these things weigh like thirty thousand pounds. And these are the only planes in the world that could carry them. So. There's only thirty of these bombs that exist in the world and then there's only twenty of these planes that exist in the world. So today it started leaking out that these planes were moving from Missouri, from an air force base in Missouri to Guam. And then in that span of time, they went from Guam to Iran.

• 14:36Speaker 05

  Three, three to six of those planes dropped about two bombs on each. Each of these nuclear bases in Iran. So you needed two of them because these bombs only penetrated sixty meters down into the ground. And the average nuclear site was like eighty to ninety meters in the ground. So it was unclear if they're gonna be able to do it, but it seems like they hit it.

• 14:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Brandon, well, this is the question. This is the question because we talked about this, me and you. Did they fully penetrate all the way down ninety meters that they needed to do? Or did they just penetrate sixty meters? Do we have that report yet? Have that been released to us that we know about this?

• 15:09Speaker 05

  No, that I don't see that being confirmed anywhere. Trump said successful mission. But I don't see it being reported anywhere that it's definitely a success that they definitely took it out. But it's believed that they hit each of them twice. And that's why there are three to six planes in it because each plane could carry up to two of these bombs. And then so if there were three to six planes, three sites hit, then, you know, two bombs could have hit each site. So two bombs would be enough. One bomb probably not. But I think it's like, you know, Trump's, a lot of people say that Trump modeled the art of the deal after the art of war and the quote from our, the art of war says, let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. So that's one thing that I do like about Trump when he does warfare. He like his plans are smooth and fast and you don't see

• 15:52Speaker 05

  them coming. So if we're gonna be in war, then I like it to happen that way rather than a long drawn out Iraq, Iraq type of way.

• 16:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, I mean, as you're looking at this here, there is one Rob with the lady. This was not the one. It's another one. That's from Esfahan that I sent you earlier. I don't know if you have it or not. If you don't have it, it's in our notes. I know this was last minute. So I don't expect you to have it right off the bat. You know, the team was so instrumental of getting some of this stuff to be done. And by the way, there's riots right now going on in New York. Uh, did you see that right there, Rob? I don't know if you've seen that one. You know, and if you can do me a favor and show this, uh, people are taking advantage of this situation. Please verify this before you show it. But to me, if you notice what Trump said in his speech, something you don't hear often for him to say.

• 16:46Patrick Bet-David?

  You could tell. As a leader, you know what I felt?

• 16:54Patrick Bet-David?

  You could tell he's grappling with this decision.

• 16:59Patrick Bet-David?

  You could tell because if you go watch the two minute speech he just gave that we reacted to, watch the last 30 seconds. Rob, if you could go back, I don't know if that's out there for us to just watch the last 30 seconds. Look how he finishes the last 30 seconds and what he says. It's not the typical way Trump finishes talks. Look who he thanked. Why did he say that? Go to the last 30 seconds, go back a little bit more, go back. Okay, play from right there if you could. Watch this.

• 17:27Speaker 04

  ...out in a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight.

• 17:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Watch his body language.

• 17:33Speaker 04

  Not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.

• 17:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Look what he says.

• 17:39Speaker 04

  Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense.

• 17:43Patrick Bet-David?

  You guys at 8 a.m.

• 17:43Speaker 04

  Pete Hexeth will have a press conference at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody and in particular, God.

• 17:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Listen to his voice.

• 17:53Speaker 04

  I want to just say, we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them.

• 17:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Go back five seconds, Rob. I've never heard his voice crack like that. Listen, everybody, listen. Don't move and just listen. Go ahead, Rob.

• 18:04Speaker 04

  We'll have a press conference at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody and in particular, God. I want to just say, we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America. Thank you very much.

• 18:26Patrick Bet-David?

  That's exactly how our leader needs to react when you make a decision like this. You know why? Let me tell you why, uh, uh, when you make a decision like that, you're grappling with it. You know you don't have 100% support. You know this could potentially break the party that you want. You know this is going to be complicated. You don't know for a fact that this is going to work out or not. Nobody does. This could be a big risk. Vinny, I'm going to come to you in a second. This could be a big risk. However, his voice is cracking. How often does the president ask for God's help at the end? Not often. Why? Because the moment you go to God is because the only thing you have left is what? Faith at this point.

• 19:09Patrick Bet-David?

  You're sitting there saying, I think we make the right decision, God. I think we did the right thing. We need you from here on. We've never heard the president talk like this, and that's exactly, whether you're happy with him or not, whether you're part of a camp that wants him to be impeached and on X and all this stuff, whether you're part of a camp that's like, I'm never a Trumper because I didn't vote for war. Whoever you are, I don't care whether you can't stand this guy. Your name is Keith Olbermann. I don't care who you are. That's exactly how a president needs to react when they're going through a decision like this.

• 19:42Patrick Bet-David?

  And, and, and you know, he's having the talks. He knows the criticism is coming. There's a reason why he only want two or three minutes. He doesn't want to take any questions. Can you imagine how many, how much sleep they've been getting? I'm willing to bet the last four nights, these guys haven't slept. None of those guys have slept the last four nights. It's been non-stop. Hey, what are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? Keeping it low. So Benny, your thoughts on this? What are you thinking with this?

• 20:05Speaker 06

  Um, well, I mean, yeah, that, that was a very, very interesting. I've never, I've never heard, like, once in a while, I've heard Trump bring up God. But that moment, that pause, you know, God bless the Middle East, God bless Israel, and then God bless America. Um, when he tweeted the, his tweet, he said, "We have completed our successful attack." The moment I saw "we," Pat, I was like, hmm, "we, America," let me look it up. According to the international law, specifically the UN Charter, using military force against another sovereign state, especially preemptively constitutes an act of aggression, which is a legal basis for war. That "we," everybody means we are at war, okay?

• 20:46Speaker 06

  And I, me and Pat, Pat, we spoke about this before and you were like, you know, what's, what's on your mind? What are you thinking of? I'm, I'm not one of those people, guys. I, I voted for Trump. I've been, I've been with Trump since 2016, when it wasn't cool, when it wasn't the dancing, when it was just, I knew he loved America, I knew the mission, I knew what he wanted to do with all the Hillary Clinton, with everything. Then he got, then he was in, we had Russia collusion, no new wars, Biden then came in, by the way, gave Iran an unfroze $6 billion. So if anybody wants to know why we're in the situation that we're in, besides Israel, besides everything, the last administration not only opened the border, which I'm going to get into right now, they, they unleashed $6 billion to freaking Iran, a country that says "death to America."

• 21:31Speaker 06

  Okay? And the one thing, the only thing I fear right now, Pat, the one thing that really hit me and I got, like, a real, like, nauseous feeling, is those 20 million people that are in here, that are in this country right now, which one of them is going to do something and, and blow something up? What Tom Homan said, uh, Pat, about doing something horrible that's going to be worse than 9/11? It happens, and when it happens, who is going to be behind it? Because I guarantee you, what made me say, "Let's go and bomb the shit out of Iraq," even though it was a lie, was 9/11. That made us go, "You know what? Let's go and kill everybody, okay? So now that 60/40 split, Pat, mind you, I still support Trump no matter what.

• 22:14Speaker 06

  I'm not happy. You know, everybody's always like, "Oh, you guys, oh, you're jumping ship." No, no, I can be disappointed in a decision because as a veteran, I don't want war. But this situation, this situation, if something does freaking happen, who is it gonna be, who is gonna be behind it? And who are they gonna blame? Because the only way to get that 40% to join that 60% is something bad happens here, and they point Iran. Iran, Iran, Iran, then that 40% is gonna join the 60%, and then it's all over. Another Iraq, another Afghanistan.

• 22:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, so look, a very valid concern of what you have here in regards to what could happen with this in the States. Because to me, if you guys remember, two or three weeks ago, when we were talking about when Israel attacks Iran, Iran didn't attack Israel first in this case. They used proxies, so this was Israel's way of saying, "Hey, you're using proxies? You know, allegedly, we're gonna come after you." Great, they made the attack. And then Iran acted very big. It's not like Khamenei helped. He's like, "We're gonna give you the kind of attack that they will remember forever to come." If you're gonna talk like that and you don't attack, you're showing how weak you are. If you're so strong, why don't you make your attack?

• 23:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Now, if they, right now, you hear rumors about how worried they are. You know, there was a message the other day that Ahmadinejad, the former president, was shot and killed. He wasn't, his team reached out to us and told us that that did not happen. So we knew about the fact that that didn't happen. Khamenei now, President Trump says in a tweet, I don't know if you guys saw this one, "We know exactly where you are. You're an easy target." We talked about this with Nasheem Ayesha on a previous podcast. Now...

• 23:58Patrick Bet-David?

  The gamble why President Trump's voice cracked for half a second. His voice never cracks. The only time I've ever seen President Trump be nervous is the first time he had to debate with Hillary Clinton. For the first 10 minutes, he was breathing hard. Just go watch that debate, first one. After that, he's been locked in. And the second term that he's been in, I've never seen him be this resolved about the decisions he's making. The way he's handling the media is the best, maybe the best we've ever seen in the history of presidents handling it. Matter of fact, I would say it's probably the best. You would put Reagan up there because Reagan kind of used humor and a way to kind of bring them down. But as active as Trump is, so what makes me, what makes me kind of process this one here is

• 24:40Patrick Bet-David?

  the fact that as we're going through this next phase, the gamble is, is Iran now going to retaliate? Will they? What happens if they do? Do you think this is President Trump's way of saying, if you do retaliate?

• 24:58Speaker 00

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• 25:59Patrick Bet-David?

  If you retaliate, you don't want to know what we do to you. I'm willing to bet that message has been sent. And by the way, tweet came out from the president, I don't know if you guys saw this or not, not from the president. It was from a news site, if you guys haven't seen this, that said, um, that said, Rob, you can find this here. That our administration has told Iran that the only thing we don't want you to have is a nuclear weapon. We're not wanting a regime change. That was just released 45 minutes ago, okay? Robbie can pull this up, that breaking news that, you know, US's team is telling Iran, we don't want a regime change. We only want what?

• 26:44Patrick Bet-David?

  For you to not have nuclear weapons. Now, if I'm Iran, if I'm Iran, do I believe the president? I don't, I don't believe, I'm, you know, I don't believe him. So now, here's the next problem. Who is the candidate? Who is gonna come? Who is gonna replace? And we'll get to that here in a minute. But I want to kind of talk to one thing that a lot of people are worried about. Saying the fact that this may be Afghanistan, 2.0, 3 trillion dollars, 20 years, hundreds of thousands of people, whatever the number is. One body is too many because it's someone's son, husband, father, brother, sister, whatever it is. We don't want any of that stuff, especially a guy who was at the 100th Airborne Division, aerosol, that was there when Kosovo, Bosnia, a lot of stuff was going on. We did not want to have those stories.

• 27:29Patrick Bet-David?

  The calls were the worst calls, when I had to watch a couple of the guys that are going and telling stories to the parents. No one wants that, trust me, it was very disturbing. When I had a friend whose job was to go do a lot of this stuff. You don't want that kind of a job, and it happens, it's reality. But what is the biggest difference between this and Afghanistan? What is the biggest difference between this and 9/11? The correlation where a lot of people say that gives them credibility is weapons of mass destruction. Okay? Iran has nuclear weapons, they're months away, if not weeks away. There's a lot of correlation there. Same threat, same fear point, right? If they have access to it, it's gonna be this, it's gonna be that, okay, I'll give that.

• 28:14Patrick Bet-David?

  But does that mean we're gonna go there and send troops? Does that mean we're gonna send trillions of dollars of going there? Does that mean, is that what's gonna be happening next? Is this the same thing that happened with Afghanistan? Adam, what are your thoughts on that? I know you just joined us, but I know you've been listening to this.

• 28:31Speaker 06

  Yeah, I just landed from DC. And I'll tell you what I saw. When, while I was in DC, I saw protests very much pro-Iran in the middle of DC, which I can talk about. But I want to start with what we can say about Trump. And I want to give Trump immense credit for this. Trump is willing to do what no one else is willing to do. And we've seen it time and time again. Whether that's calling out what's going on in the southern border, even the northern border, whether that's the tariffs taking on the world, whether that's taking on China, whether that's taking on Fentanyl. And now, first and foremost, taking on Iran. Trump and the IDF are doing the world's dirty work. And you'll notice one thing.

• 29:15Speaker 06

  It's easy to see what the Ayatollah has to say. But where are the allies of Iran at this point? Who's speaking out in the Ayatollah's favor? Is Saudi? Is Syria? Is Lebanon? Is anybody in the Middle East basically saying, hey, no, no, no, no, don't do this? Because here's what I know. Trump just did a full-on Middle East peace tour. Went to Saudi, went to the Emirates, went to Qatar, and he had these exact conversations. What will the world look like without a nuclear Iran? And he got feedback. And he conveniently did not visit Israel. Let's put one thing to rest. To anyone who thinks that the United States and Israel are not completely on the same page, you're living in a fantasy land.

• 29:59Speaker 06

  So for all the people that said that Trump and Bibi had beef, well, maybe he was just playing you, and so was Netanyahu. It's pretty clear the United States and Israel are on completely the same page. It's pretty clear that Trump, when he said a million different times on the campaign trail, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. So it turns out Iran, all your threats, death to America, death to Israel. Death to England, death to the infidel. Turns out, all these threats, you know what's worse than threats, Ayatollah? Action. And what Trump did was take action, and I'm sure it was not easy to do. And he was commiserating, thinking, you thank God, whatever it was. One thing I know for sure, they called this operation Rising Lion.

• 30:41Speaker 06

  One thing I completely will validate, Iran is nothing but a paper tiger at this point. All their proxies have been dethroned, declawed, decapitated. And now Iran, with zero defense in the sky, is looking like a sitting duck and a paper tiger at the hands of the greatest military that the humans, the human has ever seen in the United States of America. So for all the people that thought that America was not gonna get the call, I guess we know where Trump stands.

• 31:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Pat, can I say one thing really fast, though? Adam, Bibi and Trump haven't been on the same page the entire time. Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, was fired because he was in cabinet meetings, texting with Israel on a Signal chat, and got caught. That's why Trump was pissed off at him, and Trump didn't wanna talk to him when he was on that tour.

• 31:31Speaker 06

  You wanna talk about Mike Waltz? I barely even know who that is. But what I can tell you at this point, it's pretty clear they're on the same page now, are they not?

• 31:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Can I finish what I was saying?

• 31:40Speaker 06

  Pretty clear they're on the same page now, though.

• 31:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, something changed. Trump went from, "I want peace, I don't want no war," to "Let me take care of it, let me talk to everybody," to his national security advisor secretly talking with Israel and Bibi in a meeting. So you can't say that they're on the same page all the time. Something has shifted, and something has changed, Adam. You have to at least be able to play and think, "Look back, I get it, you're emotionally involved, you're Jewish, I understand," but don't say that this whole time...

• 32:11Speaker 06

  That has nothing to do with anything. You're stimulating it.

• 32:14Patrick Bet-David?

  It does, because you can't...

• 32:15Speaker 06

  Okay, so I'm gonna ask you a question that I get asked all the time.

• 32:18Patrick Bet-David?

  What's your point?

• 32:19Speaker 06

  Am I lying?

• 32:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Hold on, what part of that didn't you get? You act like they've been on the same page the whole time. They haven't. You said people were saying that they weren't talking with each other. They weren't, because he was undermining him. He was under... undermining him.

• 32:34Speaker 06

  Oh, it turns out maybe you interpreted incorrectly because it seems as if now they're completely on the same page.

• 32:40Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes, or what happened? Adam, that makes me think, what happened? What would make somebody say?

• 32:46Speaker 06

  Oh, I see what you're getting at. I see what you're getting at. AIPAC came in and beating that down here in the Israeli lobby. Who controlled the United States convinced Trump what to do.

• 32:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, Adam, I don't believe, I don't believe in that conspiracy. I don't believe every congressman has an AIPAC handler. I don't believe that. I didn't say that.

• 33:03Speaker 06

  What are you saying?

• 33:03Patrick Bet-David?

  I didn't say that. No, no, I was just correcting you. That's all I said because you said they. So, so let me, let me do this, Vinnie, Adam, let me do this. Vinnie, let me ask you a question with Walt. So, none of us know what it is to be a US president. Is that fair? Hundred percent. None of us have access to the information that they have, right? Yes. Is it fair to say that even with the team that he puts together? He doesn't know who's who, meaning some of the jobs you gave to a person could have been a favor. It couldn't be like, hey, if I get this, you get this. That's kind of how this works, right? There's conversations that happens in politics. And then very quickly you learn, no, that guy's not on our team and you fire him.

• 33:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, whether it's Walt or when you say to Tulsi, which is what he said. Look, it's his job. He won this. He's the guy that put his life on the line. He gets to make these calls and a lot of people are saying the fact that he doesn't have the right to call the war and you know, all that other stuff. And there is a response to it through Grok, ChatGPT, a lot of different stuff. Does the president have the right to do what he did? The president has authority as commander in chief to launch targeted strikes without congressional approval, particularly for urgent threats under Article Two. Section two historical examples include Clinton's 1999 Serbia strikes, Obama's 2011 Libya campaign and Trump's 2020 Soleimani strike. However, Article One, Section Eight gives Congress war declaration power,

• 34:26Patrick Bet-David?

  implying oversight for major action, which is what Nancy May said two days ago when we were talking, saying they have to go through us. But no president in the past has ever used it. They don't even look at it. They just kind of go past it, right? The war power resolution requires congressional notification within 48 hours and limits engagement. 60 days without approval, significant strikes like a hypothetical Iranian nuclear side attack like risk escalation, legal scrutiny prolonged, the issue remains contentious, balancing executive flexibility with congressional checks. You think Trump's gonna go tell Congress, hey, we're about to attack, you know, Iran's nuclear side? Hell, no, he's not gonna do that. You wouldn't do that. If you were president, you wouldn't do that. Now, here's the thing. Watch this.

• 35:07Patrick Bet-David?

  So, to me, the, the one thing that, Adam, I don't know if I'm with you on the fact that they're 100% on the same age.

• 35:14Speaker 06

  I didn't say 100%. I said they're all on the same page.

• 35:17Patrick Bet-David?

  And I'm saying, I don't think they're 100% on the same page. But here's Bibi just came out and said the following. If you want to play the clip by Bibi, Rob, for them to see it, because I want, I want to transition to the last story here and I want to wrap it up. Rob, if you can pull up the clip, uh, Bibi, this is the message he just gave 45 minutes ago, 50 minutes ago. Go for it.

• 35:37Speaker 04

  Congratulations, President Trump. Your bold decision to target Iran's nuclear facilities with the awesome and righteous might of the United States will change history. In Operation Rising Line, Israel has done truly amazing things. But in tonight's action against Iran's nuclear facilities, America has been truly unsurpassed. It has done what no other country on earth could do. History will record that President Trump acted to deny the world's most dangerous regime the world's most dangerous weapons. His leadership today has created a pivot of history that can help lead the Middle East

• 36:22Speaker 04

  and beyond to a future of prosperity and peace. President Trump and I often say, peace through strength. First comes strength. Then comes peace. And tonight, President Trump and the United States acted with a lot of strength. President Trump.

• 36:42Patrick Bet-David?

  So you can pause it right there. I, I, I get the point of the message. Let me tell you guys. If I'm opposition to Trump. You, you know what I say in a situation like this? Say I'm not a Trump guy. It's such an easy opening to say Netanyahu played the president. And got him to do the job. That US was never gonna have boots on the ground, et cetera, et cetera. Netanyahu tricked America to finish the job that he started, but knew he couldn't finish. And then in this setting, he's saying to the world, oh my God, let me edify the president. The president did this. I didn't do this. He did this. US showed all this strength and all that other stuff. By the way.

• 37:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Those guys who say that, they can make that argument. And then the audience can go decipher and, you know, process and say, I don't agree. I agree. All of a sudden, they can do whatever they want to do. That's totally fine. Um, the other part could also be the fact that. You know, US, if this thing ends up being good. If to the people that believe Iran is the main reason for the chaos in the Middle East, because only two nations have ever said. Death upon America, North Korea, 1954, and Iran. When they said death upon America, do you really want? Iran to continue having the power? Now let's talk about Iran. What happens to Iran next? What is the next move for Iran? What happens from here on? Because.

• 38:10Patrick Bet-David?

  Everybody was like, whoa, you know, this, this is a great opportunity for Rizal Pahlavi. I've had him on the podcast twice. I'm actually a fan of his. I think he's a very nice guy. I think he wants to make his mother proud. I think he wants to make his father. Who was in exile 45, 46 years ago. I think. He feels he wants to make him proud. He just passed the age of his father that he passed. I asked him the question, does it make you feel weird that you are officially older than your dad was when he died? He says, I'm not gonna lie to you. When this happened a couple of years ago, I was. But he had an opportunity to give a definite answer. If this were to happen, I want the entire audience watching this. Tell me how definite this answer is. When he was asked yesterday.

• 38:55Patrick Bet-David?

  If this were to happen, are you ready to go back? Rob, if you got this clip, I send it to you. Please play this clip. Because I have a message for Raza Palavi and his people. And, and, and, trust me, they're not going to be happy with what I have to say. And I'm going to get a lot of weird messages from people. But the only way I know how to go is, we don't take money from anyone. We don't have Qatar money. We don't have Israel money. We don't have private equity money. The only thing I sold is my insurance company. Everything we do by Tim and Badi Diva Consulting and any of that stuff, I have not taken a single penny off the table since the day we started by Tim and in 2013. I don't take money off the table. Everything has been reinvested back into it. 100% of it. The reason why we can talk like this, because nobody tells us what to say.

• 39:40Patrick Bet-David?

  We talk. And by the way, you know what I love about what happened? I'm on two threads last week on X. One thread is saying, I can't believe Pat turned his back against Israel. On another thread, they said, Pat is bought and owned by, what do you call it? What do they call it? Is it, what's the word when they say, Zionists, AIPAC, all this other stuff, right? And then we have a show called Her Take. And Anna Kasparian, who is not pro-Israel at the highest level, can come and represent one of our shows for the seventh time now, go up against Adam, and we are comfortable with that conversation. We are comfortable with that conversation.

• 40:24Patrick Bet-David?

  If you don't respect that, it's not my problem. We're comfortable with that conversation. Rob, I don't know what you're putting up here right now because I'm not going here. So I don't know what you just put up, Rob. Can you tell me what this was put up for?

• 40:36Speaker 03

  My apologies, sir. I'm loading something up.

• 40:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, so we are very comfortable with us entertaining these types of conversations. I'm very comfortable with Adam and Benny going back and forth and having these types of discussions. But watch this clip here. Here's Raza Palavi, who is, I believe it's CNN or Fox, I don't know which one it is, Rob. He's being asked, if this were to happen, it's Fox, are you ready to go back to Iran? And listen to his answer. Go for it. You have said that you don't seek power, but you are ready.

• 41:06Speaker 07

  Ready to fulfill a duty if called upon. If the people supported or asked you to return as Shah for a for a period of time during transition, would you be open to that option?

• 41:24Speaker 04

  I don't think I need a title to perform as a transitional leader.

• 41:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Go back again, Rob.

• 41:28Speaker 04

  People are looking for me to play that role.

• 41:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Go back 10 seconds, please. All he has to say is yes or no. Go. Go ahead.

• 41:34Speaker 07

  Open to that option?

• 41:37Speaker 04

  I don't think I need a title to perform as a transitional leader. I think the reason people are looking for me to play that role is because of their confidence in me, their trust in me. And I think to a great extent, the track record that I've demonstrated in the past 44 years since I've begun. And that trust in me allows me to play that national leader role, if you will, and be able to be the element that reassembles people together on a common agenda.

• 42:03Patrick Bet-David?

  What does that mean?

• 42:04Speaker 04

  Knowing that we might differ in opinion, but you're committed to the

• 42:08Patrick Bet-David?

  What does that mean? That's all I want to know. What does that mean from Tom? If you just heard that, I've got a bunch of things to cover here as well. If you just heard that, how do you process what he just said? Brandon, the two of you. What do you think he just said?

• 42:21Speaker 05

  Scared deflecting. I don't know why. It's like against every impulse I I would think somebody would have is to avenge their father to, you know, save their country that's being held captive. So I don't get it.

• 42:30Speaker 06

  Because I know Tom, I know Tom

• 42:31Speaker 04

  I would have led with my heart, Pat. I would have, if I was, if I was JFK Junior still alive and you asked me that question, I'm going to be leading with my heart. You undermined my dad. You did this. I would have called out the enemies and saying, we have been waiting for this moment. The people have been waiting over it. Yes, I'm coming back. I would have led with my heart and my passion and the and the legacy that's in my blood. I couldn't not do

• 42:57Speaker 06

  Do it that way.

• 42:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Mm hmm. Vinny.

• 43:00Speaker 06

  Pat, um, there's a quote, and I want to read this, Pat, real quick. A great man doesn't seek to lead. He is called to it and he answers. Okay, he's been called for how many forty some years? And he's not answering. I'm sorry to be that guy. He said, I've been doing this for forty some years. I haven't seen nothing and nothing has happened. But these people, these people are begging. They are literally dying for a freaking leader. And you can't sit on the sideline in this game. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Sometimes it's bigger than you. Okay, when your freaking country needs you with the history that you have with your father,

• 43:45Speaker 06

  your name, and these people are freaking suffering. And now there's a freaking war. Okay, because you guys let the leadership become what it is. They need change. They need a fucking revolution. And I'm sorry, Pat, if I never even met the guy. And I look, the guy's amazing. We've met him, we've hung out with him, you've done a podcast. Sweet guy, awesome guy. That's not the guy. I'm sorry. Elon needs somebody to stand the hell up, Pat. Rally the freaking people, rally the troops, get the freaking regime change and make a difference. That guy, that guy's not it. He's saying he's gonna play the political rounding up. What are you gonna do? Sit there and say, okay, you lead this, you lead this.

• 44:27Speaker 03

  I don't know. It's like being a noble ambassador. The situation doesn't need a noble ambassador. It needs definitive leadership.

• 44:34Speaker 06

  Damn right, Tom.

• 44:35Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, the, the challenge here, Adam, you want to say something? Go for it.

• 44:39Speaker 06

  Yeah, I actually agree with Vinny for once, wholeheartedly. Uh, he is not the guy. You know how you say sometimes you see in the NBA when a guy hits a big shot? And they yell, I'm him, I'm him, I'm that dude. He ain't that dude. He's just not. He's not born for this, he's not ready for this. This leads me to, I think, maybe what Rob was trying to show. In DC, there was a massive, massive, on the Capitol lawn, basically, silent protest on behalf of Iran. And the common theme was "Free Iran." And all they had was almost makeshift graves of all the people that have died at the hands of not only the Ayatollah, but apparently the Shah.

• 45:23Speaker 06

  The guy said it was 90% people that died at the hands of the Ayatollah. Wow. What I asked him was, this is, this is in the middle of Washington DC. I was gonna send you this, I saw this today, PBD. Uh, there's actually another, there's more videos, Rob, but what I did was I speak to the gentleman who was running the whole thing. He was part of the Mujahideen movement in Iran. I guess they're the, the number one sort of dissenters against, that's the same video, Rob. They're the number one dissenters against the Ayatollah. And I asked him point blank, I said, "What are you looking for?" He goes, "We want the free Iran." I said, "Would you be happy with the United States or Israel facilitating a regime change?" He said, "I want to do it ourselves." "We want to do it ourselves."

• 46:08Speaker 06

  I said, "With all due respect, it's sort of too late for that." Because the foreign, foreign people have already gotten in. And I asked him, "What percentage of Iranians do you think, in your opinion," this is a pretty connected guy, "uh, do you think, uh, want the Ayatollah in power?" What was the number? He told me 2% to 3%. I said, "Let me ask you a few more questions. What percentage of the Iranian people do you think want the Shah to return?" He said, "Less than 10%, call it 7%." I said, "So what percentage of the people just want pure democracy, just the ability to be free and vote?" He said, "90%." So add that math up. Much respect to Reza Palavi. He ain't the dude. The people don't want him.

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• 47:47Speaker 05

  That's so messy. That's like, that's what kept us in Iraq for 20 years. I was like trying to like play, you know, the guardian and put the regime in place for them. And the Mujahideen was like, what turned into Al Qaeda? So that could be like a serious situation if you just get some random group to be the next.

• 48:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Those were the former terrorists though. So we have to, we have to know what, where it got started. But let me, let me say this, guys, with a couple of things as we're going through. So questions right now, when you talk to a lot of Iranians and you say, who were the candidates? Well, Reza Pahlavi, if they want to go back to monarchy, okay, great. Is he the guy? I don't know if he's the guy. He can't give an answer. It's unfair to talk to Iranian people like this. Let me, let me explain to you. If I'm in Iran right now and I'm in the thick of things. So imagine you're in Iran. You live in Esfahan. You got hit. Imagine you're in Fardoe. You got hit. Imagine you have cousins that are working there. Imagine you have sisters, daughters, family that's living there. Imagine all these people that are living there. And all of a sudden, you're like, oh, it's going to be Reza Pahlavi.

• 48:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's not really me because I'm just going to be a leader. Answer it, let's go. Yes, no, maybe, get out the way. There was a lady that won the Nobel Prize. Her name is Nargis. She won the Nobel Prize. That's a name that some people are putting up, the Nargis Mohammedi. That's the name that some people are talking about. There's another one that was Hussein Mosavi. Hussein Mosavi ran as a reformist back in 2008 against Ahmadinejad. There's another one that they have, Taj Zadeh, who has the highest chance. Some people think he's got the highest chance of this becoming a reality. But here's the craziest thing. If you ask the average Iranian right now, what are the most important things they want?

• 49:26Patrick Bet-David?

  What are the most important things they want Iranians, what do they want? Okay, what are the most important things Iranians want? Number one above everything is not to have a spiritual leader like Rualah Khamenei or running Iran and they're making the decisions because they need a spiritual leader. No, that's not what they're looking for. The number one thing, they don't care if the person that replaces whoever they have right now is Jewish. They don't care if it's Christian, they don't care if it's Muslim, Sunni. They don't care, they don't want religion to be the reason why a person is getting elected. They want somebody that can come in and simply address the economy. Open up the damn economy, I'm gonna give you guys a stat here.

• 50:08Patrick Bet-David?

  That you're going to be blown away by, matter of fact, I'm gonna ask Brandon and Adam, because I think I've already had this conversation with Tom and Vinnie. Rob, can you put the video, a picture of Brandon and Adam on, because I wanna ask them to see what they're gonna say about this year. Brandon, question for you, Adam, please don't give a two-minute answer, Adam, just give a five-second answer. If I was to ask you right now, what is the top-line revenue of Iran? So US's GDP is roughly 28 to 30 trillion dollars, okay? Folks, if you're watching this year, this number should shock you. Iranians, if you're watching this, and I know many of you are, we've already had, if I go on the back end and see how many people have been live with us the last 48 minutes,

• 50:51Patrick Bet-David?

  the number as of right now is, how many people have been live with us? 488,500 have been live with us the last 48 minutes. This is probably the largest livestream worldwide right now as we're speaking, okay? Period, the number one livestream worldwide as people are watching this. Nearly half a million people have watched it in the first 48 minutes, 49 minutes that's about to be. Here's a question for you, hope you didn't Google it, Brandon.

• 51:14Speaker 05

  I did not, I did not.

• 51:16Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you think if US's GDP, top-line revenue is between 28 to 30 trillion dollars, what do you think is the top-line revenue of Iran?

• 51:26Speaker 05

  400 billion.

• 51:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam, what would you say?

• 51:31Speaker 06

  Somewhere between...

• 51:34Speaker 06

  300 and 600 billion, somewhere in that range.

• 51:38Patrick Bet-David?

  It's 400 billion dollars.

• 51:39Speaker 06

  Oh wow, I swear to God, I didn't look it up. Okay Brandon.

• 51:44Speaker 06

  Okay buddy, nerd.

• 51:46Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, check this out. You ready for this?

• 51:49Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 51:49Patrick Bet-David?

  You ready for this? Rob, can you do me a favor, Rob? Can you pull up, what is Walmart's top line revenue? Can you pull up what is Walmart's top line revenue? Pull up what is Walmart's top line revenue?

• 52:03Speaker 06

  Don't tell me.

• 52:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Just type in, what is Walmart's top line revenue? Look what it tells you. Watch this folks. Iran, 92 billion people. What is their top line revenue? Not the stock price.

• 52:16Speaker 06

  Market cap.

• 52:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Is 681 billion dollars.

• 52:21Speaker 06

  Oh my god.

• 52:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Walmart is bigger than Iran. How the hell is that possible?

• 52:25Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 52:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Walmart has 2.5 million employees. Iran has 92 million people. Smart people, Iranians know math, they're engineers, they're brilliant. They've built some of the most incredible things. That we use today, their empire, you go to the museum in Esfahan. They say this place has been here for 2000 years. They don't say 100 years, 200 years, 300 years. 2000 years, 2500 years. They've been some of the most incredible human beings worldwide. With the stuff they've built. They're naturally, organically given. Go to an Iranian's house. Look how they treat you. Look how they serve you. Let me bake the sandwich for you. Let me serve you with this. The Iranian people, not Khamenei, not those people.

• 53:08Patrick Bet-David?

  So these people are sitting there saying, what are we doing?

• 53:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Are we doing this or no? Suit it up, looking all good. Speaking proper English, being very smart. I get it, but make your move already. These people are waiting. Everybody else is waiting to see what's gonna be happening. So now, watch this. Number one priority for Iran is their economy. You realize if Iran was to be open right now with their economy, you can fit eighty to Israels in Iran. You can fit seven, seven UKs in Iran. That's how big Iran is. Look at Iran's location, how perfect it is. Europe this side, China this side, Russia this side. What a perfect location to be in for business. Everyone has to flow through you. Do you remember many, many years ago,

• 53:59Patrick Bet-David?

  when Churchill, FDR, and Stalin all had to have a business meeting? Do you know where Churchill, Stalin, and FDR met? Rob, can you type in FDR, Churchill, Stalin, meeting Iran? Can you just type that, please, in Google and pull this picture up? They had all these other places in the world to meet. They could have gone to Spain. They could have gone to Brazil. They could have gone to Acapulco. They could have gone to Argentina, Buenos Aires. They could have gone to London. They could have gone anywhere. Where did they have the meeting? In Iran!

• 54:36Patrick Bet-David?

  They had their meeting in Iran. Iran was one of the most important countries in the world to have safe in the Middle East.

• 54:44Patrick Bet-David?

  And all they're looking for is a leader. They don't care what this person's background is. Come, bring us economy. Number two, women want to be left alone. Allow me to live my life. If I want to keep it, keep it. I see a lot of the videos right now that some markets in Iran, you can get away with that, and it's true, some markets you can't. But they're still walking on eggshells. They're still worried about what's going to be happening. They want their liberties. They want to be able to go to nightclubs. They want to be able to hang out and have fun. They want some of those Western ideas to come to Iran. They do. They want to be free. Let me make good decisions or bad decisions. Let me decide for myself, not you being the person that tells me, "What the hell to do? I got four kids." We're walking this morning, me, Vinnie, and Jim, we're having our walk. This is what happens when you get in your mid-forties, early fifties.

• 55:29Patrick Bet-David?

  You start kind of having walks in the morning, right? And we're talking, saying to Jen, "I'm reading my business plan, which is somewhere around here. I don't know where I put it. Anyways, I probably took it upstairs." And one of the things on my business plan says, "Enjoy every minute with your oldest son. You only have five more years before he leaves you." Like this, five more years before he leaves you. I love hanging out with that guy. I love talking to him. There is nothing like it, to be able to have those conversations with your kids, with your family. These Iranian people, that's what they want. They want to be free. My kids are gonna make some decisions I don't support. Who are you for you to think what is right for me to make as a decision? The market's gonna react already if you do something dumb.

• 56:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Let them live their lives. Let people be able to do what they want to do. That's what Iranians are asking for. They're not asking for much. So all these other people that we're talking about that they're saying they're gonna be doing something here. Four hundred billion dollars is Iran. Most people think it's just oil. Do you know what kind of resources they have? If all these sanctions were lifted, if somebody went to Iran that could have relations and it's tough and strong that understands business to be able to deal with the US, to be able to deal with Russia, to be able to deal with Iran, to be able to deal with China, there are many in Iran. This could be a wake-up call for you guys to go to them and say, hey, XYZ, how about you? How about you? How about you? How about you? This is on the people to go knock on the door.

• 56:57Patrick Bet-David?

  When I was living in LA, I flew back once to LA, me, Tikran and Mario went to a person's house. I went to their office. Mario and Tikran will remember this. Tikran, I know you're watching this because you're texting me on this Saturday and I'm trying to respond back, but I can't. You know what the meeting was with this man? I went there. He says to me, hey, good to see you. This is a very important person in my life. I said, do you know why I'm here? He says, yeah, he just wanted to come say hi. I said, no, that's not why I'm here. Why are you here? You need to run for governor. And you should have seen the look on his face. White.

• 57:32Patrick Bet-David?

  He's white. Skin is white. Looking at me. I cannot believe you just said that. No, you need to run for you need to run for a governor. What are you talking about? You need to run for governor. Why do you think me? Why not you? You have influence, you have values, you have principles. Your state is relying on you. Do you not love the state? Yes, do something about it.

• 57:55Patrick Bet-David?

  And then we go to, I take him to Cancun on a trip two months later. I'm having dinner, his wife is sitting right across from me, she said, "How you doing?" Says, "You know, since the meeting you had with my husband, you've messed him up, he can't sleep at night because all he's talking about is the fact that Patrick said I should run for governor. Go talk to some people, challenge them, ask them, it's time, do something." Because right now, if we know President Trump is saying, "We're not trying to do anything for regime change", we all know that could be happening next two to four weeks. So then who is it? Is it another person that's a puppet? That's not strong enough that can handle their own? Is that what we're gonna be getting? Is that what's gonna happen there? You think that's gonna change? It's gotta be somebody strong, somebody that can stand up tall and have those types of conversations.

• 58:38Patrick Bet-David?

  All I, all I did is when I brought Reza Pahlavi the first time was to give him a platform to say, "Go announce." And he said he doesn't want the job. Second time around, didn't get a definite answer. Third time around, we see him on TV every day. So by the way, if it isn't him and he's gonna play a role similar to what is in UK where there's the monarchy and you're gonna play that role as an influencer to help out, someone needs to be a face. You need a face to start this next movement. And by the way, Adam, going back to you when you're talking about, I don't think you can do it on your own. I think US has done plenty. I think Trump's done plenty. I think Israel has done plenty. I think it's on the Iranian people right now.

• 59:21Patrick Bet-David?

  They gotta go and do what a lot of people are not willing to do, it's gonna get nasty, it's not gonna get pretty. And by the way, I am not one to sit here and tell you, do it no matter what it all costs. I'm a father of four. I would be concerned just like anybody else as they're going through this. But the reality of it is, to us, you know, to the people that are living in America, you have completely different things you're thinking about. To the people that are living in Iran right now, they're not following the, "Well, I should have regretted, I should have never voted for Trump." That's not what they're thinking about. Iranians are thinking about, "When can we have a concert in Iran of Drake? When can we have a player that wants to come and play with us? When can we have a sporting event here?"

• 1:00:07Patrick Bet-David?

  When can we celebrate our New Years with festivities? When can we open up Facebook, YouTube, Google, X in Iran? When can we start having iPhones, Gucci, Ferragamo, Balenciaga? When can we have some of this stuff in Iran? When can we open up these businesses that are coming and building their headquarters here in Iran? To create jobs for us? When? This is time for us to bring peace back to the Middle East, but it's gonna take the right leader to want to do it. And God willing, the Iranian people, very smart people. Some of the smartest people you'll ever meet. Hopefully, they'll be able to find somebody that's got the backbone to be able to do this job. Rob, can you pull up the one thing that Brandon just said with the natural resources that Iran has? Can you put that up there?

• 1:00:52Patrick Bet-David?

  When you think about natural resources, you think about Russia, number one. We've talked about this before. Seventy-five trillion. Look who's number five on that list. Number two is US, forty-five trillion. Three is Saudi, thirty-four trillion. Four is Canada, thirty-three trillion. Look who's Iran. Twenty-seven ahead of China, ahead of Brazil, ahead of Australia, Iraq, Venezuela. Do you know with the right leader what Iran can turn into? Oh my God, what Iran could turn into with the right leader. By the way, you know, I don't want us to stay here any longer. I just wanted to do an emergency podcast here before we wrap up. One of the things I want you to be thinking about right now is the following. It is so hard. It is so hard when the person you voted for,

• 1:01:37Patrick Bet-David?

  you know, some people voted and they were like one foot in, one foot out. To those people, listen, you can bash the presidency, whatever you want. I totally get it. To the people who feel there was an element of destiny with this man being in the White House, where this was a job that he needed to do. I know there were some people that this was a great opportunity to get up there and bash him, trash him, and throw him under the bus nonstop. And you have the right to do so. It's America, freedom of speech. In some countries, you can't do that. I even heard in Israel, they announced that you couldn't say certain things. Even in Florida, they came up with something saying you can't say stuff about anti... You can't talk about this kind of stuff. In America, we can talk. In America, we can have the debates, the conversations. That's how it works. People call me out all the time.

• 1:02:21Patrick Bet-David?

  We call you out all the time. That's the great thing about America, as long as we do it respectfully. If anybody calls me out respectfully, I listen. This is the great thing about what we have here right now. But for those that really voted for this man, and they want this thing to happen, and they feel there was an element of destiny, that this took place for those people. Where you were there 2016, 2020, you saw what happened to him. And you know, they just released investigation, they want to look into the 2020 election to see what happened there. And this guy almost gets killed. And we were in the Hamptons last year when he almost got killed. And Joe Biden was the one, right after the debate, it was the worst debate performance I've seen in my life.

• 1:03:04Patrick Bet-David?

  And then, next thing you know, they announce it's Kamala. And then, we were about to have Kamala, $2.1 billion, give or take, all these celebrities that supported, endorsed her. And then we are here now. This is my suggestion to you. If by now, you don't know who Trump is, you have an instinct issue. You have an intuition issue. If you don't know who Trump is by now, your alternative was Kamala. Your alternative was Joe Biden. And your alternative was a third party. The third-party candidate joined Trump, his name was RFK Jr. The third-party candidate was Tulsi Gabbard, joined Trump. Couldn't get it done, as third-party.

• 1:03:49Patrick Bet-David?

  They knew he was the right guy. If you voted for him, this is a time for us to unite behind it, and see what happens. Stay paranoid, stay skeptical. None of us have access to all the information, as he does. No one's got more burden right now than he does with the job. Trust me, I don't want any of our troops to go out there for us to lose anyone. I've been there when the stories are delivered, they're not nice, they're not exciting. But, I'm convinced the future looks bright. And when I'm doing this podcast, it's funny, I'm watching this, you know what's the first thing I noticed, Rob? Can you go back to the podcast? Yeah, I'm in New York right now, we're gonna go do some stuff here in New York, we've got some stuff that we're gonna be doing.

• 1:04:30Patrick Bet-David?

  I'm watching this podcast, and I see that USA hat, fires me up.

• 1:04:37Patrick Bet-David?

  I know this is a phase of fear porn scared, I don't know what to do, all this other stuff. This is when leaders rise up. This is when leaders rise up and believe the future looks bright. It's okay for us to believe, be a little bit paranoid. It's okay for us to be a little bit concerned. We ought to be. It's okay for us to be worried about our kids, our safety, our family, all of that stuff. That's what leaders do, it's our job, the burden comes with it. But no matter how much burden you got, you just saw that man right there, what he did. This is why we love the Future Looks Bright brand. Rob, can you go to vtmerch.com, show those hats right there, USA? I love when I see these Future Looks Bright USA hats. Go to vtmerch.com, folks. This is the time to represent this.

• 1:05:20Patrick Bet-David?

  We want to have a million people wearing this because we want more people to be optimistic about the future of America. We want more people to support this when they're out there. To say, "I'm proud, I am proud to be American, I am proud, I am proud to be able to represent that." If that's you, go to vtmerch.com. For those that are gonna be spewing out a lot of fear porn, remember, everybody's selling their propaganda. Question all of it. But you're gonna be sold on one of them. Do not fall for the trap of fear porn propaganda. This is a perfect time to do so.

• 1:05:56Patrick Bet-David?

  Fear sharpens listening, and a lot of people are afraid right now, which means people will listen, hence, look how many people we got on the live today. We got how many people right now that we have today? 121,000 people joined us here today? People are afraid, but make sure you don't fall for the wrong propaganda that gets a hold of you. Because if you do, it can destroy your life. Enjoy it for yourself, process all of it, question all of it, and then make a decision for yourself. Take the time to do research. Don't jump to conclusion with any of the stories that you're hearing about. Anyways, we were not in a position to do this live. On every possible, you know, measurable thing you want to talk about, we were not supposed to do this live tonight.

• 1:06:38Patrick Bet-David?

  But kudos to Rob, for leading it wherever you are, Rob, if you can show your festival, we can give you some love. Kudos to Rob for doing what he does.

• 1:06:47Speaker 06

  No, no, take that piece away.

• 1:06:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Kudos to our team, to Benny, to Adam, God off the fly, Tom, Brandon, all of you guys, and to all the people that joined in with us here today. We love you guys, we appreciate you, the future looks bright. God bless everybody, take care, bye bye, bye bye.

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