Kristi Noem Out At DHS + Iran War Laser Weapons | PBD #754

Patrick Bet-David, Tom Ellsworth, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana break down Kristi Noem's firing as DHS Secretary, the Pentagon’s deployment of advanced U. S. laser weapons systems, Trump’s escalating trade dispute with Spain and NATO allies, and the latest battlefield and geopolitical developments in the Iran war. ------ ♟️ SALES LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2026: https://bit.ly/45Evtj4 Ⓜ️ CONNECT ON MINNECT: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4kSVkso ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4kSVkso Ⓜ️ PBD PODCAST CIRCLES: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4mAWQAP 👔 BET-DAVID CONSULTING: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4lzQph2 🥃 BOARDROOM CIGAR LOUNGE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4pzLEXj 📉 KALSHI IRAN MARKET: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/4u0TMlE⁠⁠ https://bit.ly/4u0TMlE 💬 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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• 0:14Patrick Bet-David?

  My handshake is better than anything I ever signs, right here.

• 0:18Tom Ellsworth?

  You are a one of one?

• 0:19Patrick Bet-David?

  My sundry. I don't think I've ever said this before.

• 0:31Patrick Bet-David?

  For the millionth time, Adam told you, 20 times, turn on, can you just grab the phone from him? Tom, no, no, I'm gonna ask you one time, put your phone over there, please. Can somebody grab Tom's phone and put it over there, please? Every podcast I have to ask you, and Adam just ask you right now, we're live. Please give the phone to Mikael and put it over there. Thank you, Mikael. Okay, all right, let's get right into it.

• 0:54Tom Ellsworth?

  Tom, we still love you, though.

• 0:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Every time podcast.

• 0:57Tom Ellsworth?

  I told him two seconds before the podcast, turn your phone on silent, he goes, I gotcha.

• 1:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Death toll in Iran, 1,200 to 1,300, six confirmed in US.

• 1:08Patrick Bet-David?

  It's not getting any, nothing is slowing down, there was a lot of big interviews done yesterday on claims, they were saying, what are you gonna do if US attacks? You know, we are looking forward to it, we're gonna play some of these clips of what happens there, and then the Kurds getting involved, the rumors of it's US giving them weapons? No, Israel may, we are not, or there's a clip and there's a history of, you know, Kurds and the IRGC, they're not fans of him, they're probably more pro-American than anything else, and them getting involved is probably not a good look for Iran right now, and then you got the Lebanon stuff that's going on at the same time. And gas prices, Rob, can you do me a favor and run a poll? To see how much have gas prices in the last week gone up in your area?

• 1:54Patrick Bet-David?

  First one put 25 to 50 cents, put none, same, put 25 to 50 cents, 50 cents to 75 cents, 75 cents to a dollar, let's see what comes up, or 75 cents plus. Run the poll, I'm curious how it's doing to you, I know Rob. You experienced something this morning. Let's see what the market is going to be saying about this. And then aside from that. We have a few other things that's going on with what the possibilities of Iran could do with Strait of Hormuz. It looks like there's still no movement going on there till today. We'll talk about what the gas. Oil prices are right now, Tom. I'm sure you have the numbers. And we'll get the latest there and then. Stories coming out with Anthropic, talking about the fact that the AI.

• 2:36Patrick Bet-David?

  The guy didn't want to address the fact that it may be sentient, thirty percent AI is sentient like it's a. Living mechanism, like it has a certain. Things for itself and that's concerning and the government's getting involved and then Kristi Noem. Who was just on a podcast, what was it a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, I don't know what it was, something like that and. Next thing you know, stories came out, there was the hearing. And then right after the hearing. You know, she no longer has the job that she had. It may be a different job that they announced. I think they even announced what that job could be an envoy. And aside from that, we have a bunch of other things that we need to get to who the replacement is going to be. Who is Mark Wayne Mullen? I see a lot of headlines saying.

• 3:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Hot headed Mark Wayne Mullen is replacing Kristi Noem. Do you want this person? Who wanted to pick a fight with Sean O'Brien, the former Teamster, the current Teamster president whom. We've had on a podcast, a lot of those stories are circulating. Um, but. And aside from that, Michelle Obama said. It claims no way Trump's administration behavior could be acceptable from the first. Black family in the White House and Vinny's got some thoughts on that.

• 3:51Tom Ellsworth?

  Wait, she's playing victim?

• 3:53Patrick Bet-David?

  She, that sounds like. It's not common, but she every once in a while.

• 3:57Tom Ellsworth?

  Weird.

• 3:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Besson says they're raising the tariff, global tariff raised to fifteen percent. This week, Spain categorically denies White House claim it will cooperate on Iran war. Trump was telling me that we're talking about, what was it, Tom? A plane was a...

• 4:14Tom Ellsworth?

  You're not flying over our airspace with armed weapons?

• 4:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Nothing. They're not supporting it.

• 4:19Tom Ellsworth?

  We're not gonna be part of this? You're not using our airspace?

• 4:21Patrick Bet-David?

  No to war. Spain PM hits back at Trump. Threat to cut, you know, trade over airbase dispute. And remember when they were talking about what's gonna happen with the tariffs? Are they gonna give the money back or not? How soon? And it's gonna be in lawsuits for two, three, four, five years? Well, here's a Wall Street Journal story for you. Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130 billion in tariffs. And that's that. Laser weapons deployed in Operation Epic Fury as Space Force stops Iran's missiles in their tracks. What's this, laser weapons? Why are people talking about this? Trump's got thoughts. 74 retired US generals, admirals back Iran strikes. Warn Iran seeks to spill American blood.

• 5:06Patrick Bet-David?

  And then, aside from that, we got a few other things that we'll get into if we have time. Newsom, you know, was on the, what is that? Jimmy Kimmel Show, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. And on the Jimmy Kimmel Show, you know, he asked them questions about why does it take so long to get permits to build a house? Nancy Mace called out everybody. And in a part of the call out, this is kinda weird. And a lot of people are talking about this. It's worth talking about. House kills effort to release all congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports. It's pretty wild, Vinny, when you hear a story like this.

• 5:44Tom Ellsworth?

  Including settlements paid with taxpayer dollars.

• 5:47Patrick Bet-David?

  That's intense. Of course, we're gonna, we're gonna talk about that. And I know Adam's got a lot of, you know, to say about that and defending, so we'll see. And then Azerbaijan furious with Iran as war spills over its border. Having said that, gang, you guys heard? I think there's a massive leadership taking place at the Trump Doral. Trump even yesterday said, hey, go to Trump Doral, go to Trump Doral. And guess what? We're holding our annual Sales Leadership Summit that we do once a year at the Trump Doral, March 25th through the 27th. If you're somebody that runs a business a million dollars or higher and you got five salespeople, this may be the right event for you when you wanna watch this video. Go ahead, Rob. There are three different types of sales leaders I've worked with the last 20 years.

• 6:32Patrick Bet-David?

  One of them are those that are boss, that are telling you what to do. One of them is the one that wants to be your friend. He wants to say, "Hey Johnny, let me help you get to this next level." And then the other one is the leader. The leader that's sitting down with you, accountable, challenge, pushing you. You can do more expectation, business planning. Each one of them has pros and blank spots. Once a year, I host an event called the Sales Leadership Summit. This year, we're doing it at the beautiful Trump Trail, March 25th through the 27th, where we talk about topics like this. 200-plus pages in a manual with people from around the world. You have to do a minimum of a million dollars a year and five salespeople to qualify to attend this. So if you're someone that's watching and saying, "I think I'm like a boss. I think I'm like a friend. I think I'm a leader. I want to find my blind spots." Click on the link below, fill out the information. One of our consultants will get ahold of you. Beautiful.

• 7:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Click on the link below or go to that QR code. We talk about a lot of different things. 200-page manual on how we took a business from 0 to 60,000 agents and eventually sold it for 250 million. If you're somebody that's running a business, sales team, and you want to find strategies to accelerate your growth going into 2027, do not miss Sales Leadership Summit. With that being said, let's get right into it. Okay, so Iran. With everything that's taking place right now with Iran, Rob, I believe if I'm not mistaken,

• 7:51Patrick Bet-David?

  it is an interview that's taken... Oh, by the way, this is a gas poll that you ran. Okay, let's talk about the poll first. How much have gas prices in the area increased? Can you go back to it, please? None, 20%. So that's a fifth. 25 to 50 cents, 49%. 50 cents to 75 cents, 18%. 75 cents plus 13%, which is 1 out of 6. So that... Rob, how much was gas prices for you when you filled it up this morning?

• 8:17Speaker 02

  It's around 350 in my area, but that's up from last weekend. Last Friday, it was about 270.

• 8:24Patrick Bet-David?

  From 270 to 350 with gas prices? What is crude oil price right now, Tom? What is it looking like right now?

• 8:31Tom Ellsworth?

  I think West Texas Intermediate opened this morning at 72. Will you do that, just WTI price? Oh. Eighty-seven? Up six bucks today. And Tom, what's the ideal price for a barrel of oil?

• 8:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Did you just hear Tom's reaction?

• 8:46Tom Ellsworth?

  Six bucks?

• 8:47Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, did you? Tom meant to say eighty-two, not seventy-two. Okay?

• 8:51Tom Ellsworth?

  Yes.

• 8:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Right, Tom, can I?

• 8:52Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 8:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that okay, fair to say? So, Tom meant to say eighty-two, and it's eighty-seven.

• 8:57Tom Ellsworth?

  Hmm.

• 8:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay? It's eighty-seven.

• 8:58Tom Ellsworth?

  Going up.

• 8:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Going up.

• 8:59Tom Ellsworth?

  Six bucks today.

• 9:00Patrick Bet-David?

  So, Tom, if, if this is six bucks today, and you're seeing, let's talk purely brass tacks, how the individual's gonna be impacted by this, whether you're like Adam, you don't drive and you take Ubers, or if you're somebody that drives and you pay for gas, if it's going to eighty-seven, how quickly is the speed of the market feeling the pain of gas prices?

• 9:21Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, the Straits of Hormuz are there, so every time there's a shortage, and a shortage creates prices to go up. Also, when demand goes up, and right now, there's more demand for the US oil because we're pumping and it's available. We've increased the output for Venezuela over the past four weeks to X from when we took out Maduro.

• 9:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 9:39Tom Ellsworth?

  So, two X of oil is coming out of Venezuela. Remember, they would like sneak the oil out, it was like embargo oil? Now, it's open oil, the pipes are open from the valley, and it's two X. So, we're pumping and we have it available, but there's demand for it because the Straits of Hormuz have closed. Take a look at that. That chart is the Iraq War. Take a look at Pat, see the first jump there? Is, is, yeah, is the Iran War. So, click on, if you would, uh...

• 10:04Speaker 03

  Can we go five years?

• 10:05Tom Ellsworth?

  Five days, just five days, all you need to do it. Okay, there you go. The war starts.

• 10:10Patrick Bet-David?

  It's seventy bucks.

• 10:11Tom Ellsworth?

  And Pat, take a look at that, it gently goes up.

• 10:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 10:13Tom Ellsworth?

  And now, look what happens on March 5th. The war escalates, see there? March 5th, the war escalates.

• 10:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah.

• 10:20Tom Ellsworth?

  So, it was, it was, it was hanging tough until the war started escalating, and now, the Straits of Hormuz have been closed for a couple of days, and that's putting pressure, you know, on China. So, this is demand-related. The US is fine, we have plenty, we're not gonna have shortages at the pump, but the demand for what we're pumping is up, so guess what? The price goes up.

• 10:40Speaker 03

  And Rob, do you mind going to five years, or even go to max? Rob, uh, Tom, correct me if I'm wrong, they wanna keep the oil, barrel of oil around seventy bucks?

• 10:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Sixty-five, plus, above sixty-five.

• 10:51Tom Ellsworth?

  Yes, that's correct. Sixty-five in the US, you make a profit, and you can afford to extract shale.

• 10:56Speaker 03

  Okay, so, if you look at this, and Pat, you're the numbers guy, it... Basically fell below market average in 2020. Nobody was moving, right? It went down to almost 20 bucks a barrel. They couldn't even get it away. But historically, if you're looking, if you want to go back 10 years when Trump took office, uh, oil was around 40 bucks. Is that right?

• 11:17Tom Ellsworth?

  Yep. And remember that, that, and that was also the Saudi market manipulation, trying to keep the price low to hurt Alberta oil sands and North Dakota shale, because those are alternative drills that were working.

• 11:31Speaker 03

  And then Tom, walk me through this. 2022, it spikes under Biden because we weren't pumping as much oil? How does this affect American?

• 11:38Tom Ellsworth?

  What, what happened in the middle of 2022? We slowly opened after COVID, but what had Biden done trying to keep the price down? He emptied the SPR, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And so suddenly the demand shoots way up. So that's Biden's, by the way, that's also Biden inflation. And just poor executive management from the Department of Energy. That didn't have to happen after COVID.

• 12:00Speaker 03

  So Tom, walk me through this. Even though there's been a major spike in the last five days with the Iran war, it pales in comparison to what happened a few years ago, right?

• 12:10Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, the spike is that little tiny thing at the end. You can put the, you see? Since Trump was elected, what's been happening? A gentle slide back to, so he gets, go to November, November 24. There you go. Keep going. See? Yeah.

• 12:25Speaker 03

  The guy we should be asking is Vinny, who's got a massive truck.

• 12:28Speaker 04

  Oh, let me explain something to you. People that are like, hey, come to Miami. I'm not coming to Miami. I'm not hanging out with you at all.

• 12:33Speaker 03

  By the way, just so you know, here's what you need to know.

• 12:36Patrick Bet-David?

  This is well managed. Not last Friday, but uh, when did war start? It's been what now? Today's six days. Last Friday, it was around 67, $70 to now being at where it's at. So you're talking, you know, 20, 17 to 20 bucks up, which is direct impact. People are feeling it. And how much of that's going to translate here? Trump's going to have to control this. But if straight of Hormuz, if nothing's leaving there and China's sitting around knowing 80% their oil, they're relying there. Tom, how much longer can China sit around without coming out and saying, hey, we kind of need to protect ourselves with Iran because the oil we're relying on? How long can they go?

• 13:15Tom Ellsworth?

  China's going to need oil in, in 21 days. I was reading that 21 days, they will start to feel it. It won't be catastrophic, but within 21 days, they're really going to start to feel it. So I'd like to know this.

• 13:27Speaker 03

  Iran is closing the Strait of Hormuz. If we control the skies, which we do.

• 13:32Speaker 04

  I was just gonna say.

• 13:33Speaker 03

  And we have basically impacted a tremendous amount of their navy. What exactly is keeping the Strait of Hormuz? Because that's where China's gonna get their oil. Or are we on the backside, willing to say, okay, I'm sorry, the strait's closed? And because that's gonna put pressure on China.

• 13:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, if you look at this chart that Rob just pulled up, Iran and Venezuela's export most of their crude oil to China. Okay, share of Iran and Venezuela's crude oil export that go to China, look at that. Eighty-seven percent of Iran. And fifty-five percent of Venezuela.

• 14:06Speaker 03

  Bingo.

• 14:07Patrick Bet-David?

  And if you control both of them now, and China no longer has control of Panama Canal because of what happened with Panama.

• 14:15Speaker 03

  CK Hutchinson.

• 14:16Speaker 04

  Oh yeah, Panama's Supreme Court.

• 14:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Panama Supreme Court comes out and says, no, we're not doing it, listen, you don't have any more authority over this. These two ports are ours. If you think, these guys, when they say they're playing, you know, chess and they're grandmasters, if you think that. You lock in Panama Canal first, so China can't play that as a weapon. You lock in Venezuela next, then you go after Iran. Now China's sitting around saying, well, what, what, how can we create pain for US? How can we create pain for US to do anything? Strategically, it's actually very interesting when you think about the sequencing of what's been done.

• 14:51Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, we're coming into summer, maybe they could embargo the knockoff Callaway drivers.

• 14:57Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 14:58Patrick Bet-David?

  Well. That'd be catastrophic for guys like you.

• 15:00Speaker 04

  Catastrophic, get it?

• 15:02Speaker 03

  Tom? Can I speculate on something?

• 15:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, go for it.

• 15:04Speaker 03

  So, oil. Trump's been saying he's gonna do two things. You know, we talked about the twenty-point plan that he was gonna do.

• 15:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 15:13Speaker 03

  At the top of the list, he was gonna shut down the oil, the border, and he's gonna drill, baby, drill. Did he not say those two things?

• 15:19Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 15:20Speaker 03

  What if, this were all a part of Trump's plan? Shut down the border, drill, baby, drill. Let's go through here. We just learned that China, which is our number one.

• 15:31Speaker 04

  Enemy.

• 15:32Speaker 03

  Combatant, you wanna say that?

• 15:33Speaker 04

  They're our enemy.

• 15:34Speaker 03

  They get what percentage of their oil from Venezuela and Iran? The vast majority of it. Drill, baby, drill. Taking down China, now let's pan out a little bit.

• 15:46Speaker 03

  A year ago, when Syria was about to fall, Syria Bashar al-Assad calls his boys, Vladimir, what's up, man? And yeah, they can't help you. A buddy of mine did a great breakdown of this. Can't help him because he's embroiled in a war in Ukraine. Bingo. Hey, he calls up Iran. Iran can't do anything because they're fighting with Israel. So no, everything leads back to China. So Russia's embroiled in a war with Ukraine. We're funding that. Iran is tied up with Israel. Israel's knocking out all their proxies. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing. Syria falls. Venezuela, when they fall, they say, hey, guys, who's going to come help us out here? Nobody. So now who's helping Iran? Is China showing up? No. Is Russia showing up? No.

• 16:31Speaker 03

  So could it be that Trump, when he said, drill, baby, drill, this was all part of his plan to take out all these countries? And basically say, China, what's up with the tariffs now, buddy? All your oil, all your power, all your energy. You have a billion people that you need to keep the lights on, and you're going to be major struggling when I take out all your allies. So could it be that Trump had this planned all along? Could be.

• 16:57Patrick Bet-David?

  If, if it is.

• 16:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 16:59Patrick Bet-David?

  If, if this is exactly how they thought about this, what a master plan.

• 17:03Speaker 03

  That's a gangster move.

• 17:04Patrick Bet-David?

  What a master plan.

• 17:05Speaker 03

  It's almost like he read your next five moves.

• 17:06Patrick Bet-David?

  What did he call it? He said Marco Rubio will end up being the greatest.

• 17:10Speaker 03

  Secretary of State.

• 17:11Patrick Bet-David?

  Of all time.

• 17:12Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 17:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Is what he said. So Tom, what are we looking at here with the China imports?

• 17:15Speaker 03

  Well, thank you, Rob. China imported 5 million barrels a day through the Strait of Hormuz last year.

• 17:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Damn.

• 17:25Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 17:25Patrick Bet-David?

  And it tells you from where? 1.2 from Iraq, 395 Kuwait, 106 Qatar, 666 UAE. They should have done 667. 703 Oman, 1.5 million Saudi and 1.4 million Iran.

• 17:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, and so never mind the numbers. Iran is only 1.4 of that, but the highway's closed.

• 17:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Exactly. Exactly. So, but, but do you not think, Tom? It's just a mess. So it's one of two things. Either if you're US... You know, you hear the stories of, Rob, do you have the clip of the Shahed drone? There's this one video that I saw, I'll send it to you. Which, do you have, do you have, okay, play this clip about these Shahed drones, right? If you watch something like this, go ahead, Rob.

• 18:08Speaker 05

  Do you know why the Shahed 136 drone is so deadly? It's just 11 feet long with an 8-foot wingspan, but it carries a 40-kilogram warhead and can fly over 1,800 kilometers to strike with deadly precision. The engine, loud and rough, it's not stealthy, you hear it coming. But can you stop it? It costs just $20,000, but taking it down can cost anywhere from $400,000 to $4 million. That's like trying to stop a bicycle with a Lamborghini.

• 18:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, pause right there. So, at the beginning, like, right now, you know, you're looking at Russia and Ukraine, we were having this conversation somewhat last night, Tom, at dinner, is, if they're using $20,000 drones, and to take them down, they have to use $400,000 to a few million dollars to take them down, okay? And if these guys continue to make these, and they're accelerating, do you think Trump's team is realizing, like, whatever they do, this has to be like a Mike Tyson first-round knockout type of a fight? Not something that can be dragged out to 8th, 9th round like a Buster Douglas? Not saying that they're gonna win the war, but to them, winning the war is, if the IRGC is still in business 6 months from now, that, to me, is winning the war, no?

• 19:19Patrick Bet-David?

  If IRGC is still around, would you not say that they won?

• 19:22Speaker 04

  They won, yeah, of course.

• 19:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you understand what I'm saying to you?

• 19:24Speaker 04

  100%.

• 19:24Patrick Bet-David?

  If they're still around, and they're still running the show, that's not a good look. So for them, if, when you see this back and forth with the drones that they have, do you think US has to do this very quickly? Because if they don't do it really quickly, China's gonna get involved and do something. You don't have a long time. I think this is like a, you have to make sure you get this done very quickly.

• 19:45Speaker 04

  The window is very, very small, and in fact, Tom, you made a great point. I remember the video that we played on Monday of the Navy going, "Everybody, this is the, everybody get out, it's closed." First of all, we're dominating, we've sunk the majority of their naval fleet. Whoever that guy is, he's probably dead.

• 20:02Speaker 03

  Well, how long do you think Thomas?

• 20:03Tom Ellsworth?

  Turned off radar in any aircraft.

• 20:04Speaker 03

  Turned off radar and everything and.

• 20:06Tom Ellsworth?

  So what's closing the Strait of Hormuz?

• 20:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, who's running the show?

• 20:08Tom Ellsworth?

  Drones?

• 20:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, if we're bombing and we're doing it, I think, Pat, that's a great point. Get it over with, destroy them all, because if we're gonna win, we need to win fast. And then who's gonna control the Strait of Hormuz?

• 20:19Tom Ellsworth?

  Got it. Two points here. So I was reading last night, they said, who really closed the Strait of Hormuz? Lloyds of London, because Lloyds panicked and said, none of your insurance is good. So did Lloyds of London effectively close the Strait of Hormuz? Because a lot of these boats aren't moving because they don't have insurance. They're not insured.

• 20:36Speaker 03

  You can hear what Trump did.

• 20:37Tom Ellsworth?

  And but then Trump said.

• 20:38Speaker 03

  Trump came in and basically said, I'm gonna insure everybody. Nothing, Lloyds of London has been the greatest insurance marketplace for, you know, commercial insurance and all types of insurance.

• 20:48Tom Ellsworth?

  For specialty underwriting.

• 20:49Speaker 03

  In the world. And they, did they not move out? And basically reposition themselves out of this situation? And Trump shows up and goes, no, no, I'll insure you. It's kind of like how we talk about in California, nobody, there's, all the insurance companies are leaving, all the insurance companies are leaving. And if Trump showed up and he's like, yeah, if you want to buy a house, I got you, I'll do the insurance. So essentially telling all the countries, keep doing business, business will not stop. Is this his tweet? Effective immediately, I've ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation to provide a very reasonable price, political risk, insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy traveling through the Gulf. The Persian Gulf.

• 21:34Speaker 03

  This will be available to all shipping lines. If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Bingo. He said, the free flow of energy to the world. The United States economic and military might is the greatest on earth.

• 21:49Tom Ellsworth?

  It takes a minute to get that paper done, right? So you gotta wait till you get the paper done. But to Pat's point, the other thing I read, I don't know if you have Jane's, Jane's military? There's a Jane's analyst that says, in modern warfare. The big power on a concentrated attack, you're dead and you're dead fast. But when wars get wider and longer, the big power has trouble with it. That's what happened to Russia and Ukraine. They suddenly were fighting on four or five different locations. Number one. Number two, if this goes wider, then it becomes more difficult. And the drones, this is why I think they're making announcements about laser weapons and everything because they can't depend on Patriots.

• 22:34Tom Ellsworth?

  You know what the Patriot missile was? When we first heard about the Patriot missiles, when we heard about Iraqi with the Scuds. They had Scud missiles that were marginally accurate. But if they landed on you, they were big and they made tremendous damage. But they were conventional. And so Patriot missiles would shoot them down over some area before it reached a target. So the interceptors, this is exactly right. You have to shoot down a bicycle with a Lamborghini. That's why the advanced weaponry is important to go knock them down out of the sky first. But the wider and longer it gets, Pat, that favors the one you've attacked. And that's exactly what happened in Ukraine.

• 23:14Patrick Bet-David?

  I want to show this interview of the Foreign Minister of Iran. Okay, and I want you to judge him by his confidence and his poise or the lack of. This was a great interview. I watched the whole thing. It's very well done by whoever the interviewer is from NBC. He did a great job. He's asking, what do you think about the potential of a ground invasion? And here's how he reacts. Go ahead.

• 23:36Tom Ellsworth?

  ... ruled out boots on the ground in Iran. Are you afraid of a US invasion in your country? No, we are waiting for them. You are waiting for the US military to invade, the ground troops? Yes, because we are confident that we can confront them. And that's...

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• 26:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay. So you're saying that Iran is ready and willing to take on the US military if there were to be ground troops?

• 26:32Speaker 07

  Well, we were ready for this war even more than the previous war. So you can see, you know, the quality of our missiles, how much they are upgraded after the last war, because we learned lots of lessons. And we are prepared for any other eventuality, even, you know, a ground invasion. So our soldiers are prepared for any scenario. When I said that we are waiting for them, it didn't mean that we are waiting for continuation of the war, no. But we have prepared ourselves to confront with any scenario, with any eventuality, any possibility, and we know that we can handle that.

• 27:10Patrick Bet-David?

  President Trump has not ruled out... Is that just acting tough? What do you think about when you hear that?

• 27:16Tom Ellsworth?

  He looks somewhat confident. His blink rate doesn't go up. He doesn't appear that he's in a, like, a stressed physical posture. He either believes what he's saying and he's wrong, or he believes what he's saying and there's something there.

• 27:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Adam.

• 27:31Speaker 03

  Uh, that is the most delusional leader I've ever seen. So it's kind of like, point at the scoreboard, you're winning 100 to 4, and the team with the 4 is like, "We got them right where we want them, I'm telling you right now." Dude, they just decapitated your supreme leader and all your military generals. Everyone showed up to this meeting on Shabbat, when Israel doesn't, and America doesn't wage war, and they sat in a room like idiots, and they all got destroyed. The whole world is looking at Iran now crumbling, the regime is falling, and they have the notion to be like, "We got them right where we want them." You know what this reminds me of? You ever see these girls on, like, the Whatever Podcast? Have you ever seen it?

• 28:15Speaker 03

  The girl's a disgusting, sloppy girl, and you go rate yourself 1 through 10. She's like, "I'm a 10," when she's clearly a 1. And it's so completely delusional and everybody is going like, "Yeah, yeah, you're a 10. You got this, honey." When Iran is crumbling, their leader got killed. Meanwhile, the, who is this guy?

• 28:36Patrick Bet-David?

  Foreign minister.

• 28:37Speaker 03

  Spokesperson, foreign minister.

• 28:39Patrick Bet-David?

  He's been around.

• 28:40Speaker 03

  This is all part of our plan. We wanted our leader to get killed. This is all part of our plan. It's either lying, or it's delusion, or it's a little bit of both.

• 28:48Speaker 04

  Is he on the list? Is this guy somebody that we would be wanting to target? Because if we want him, he's gone. So the fact that we've been letting him speak, and he's still talking his nonsense, I think he has to do that. Because guess what? Number one, he's not gonna go fight. But number two, has anybody here ever heard of how amazing the Iranian ground troop army? No, I haven't heard none of that. He has to do that. Imagine that guy panicking? Then what does the army do? Because the army is looking up to him, right? Because who else? All the generals are dead. So I think he has to do it, but mind you, how petrified do you think that guy is? With United States, with Israel's backing over there. Wherever he is, they know where he is. Any bunker, any, wherever he's at, they know. So if they want him gone, so that to me, they're keeping him alive for a reason.

• 29:33Speaker 03

  What's your opinion on a guy like this?

• 29:35Tom Ellsworth?

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

• 29:36Speaker 03

  Either lying or delusion.

• 29:37Tom Ellsworth?

  He's got a mistress in Egypt.

• 29:38Patrick Bet-David?

  To be in a position and have a job like this, you have to be delusional. Half your job is, you know, Trump is sometimes delusional. When he's at the State of the Union giving a message, and you're watching him saying, "He just lost Supreme Court to terrorists. They're about to attack Iran." And he's talking to saying, "It's the greatest economy. This is the greatest country ever." A little bit of, "You need that to make a position like this because you can handle the pressure." So that means he's got it. But by the way, what's craziest, any minute we can report that he got killed.

• 30:10Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 30:11Patrick Bet-David?

  You realize that? Any minute we can say he got killed, then who's the next guy? Who's the next guy that's gonna come up and talk about this?

• 30:16Speaker 03

  It's also the equivalent of Caroline Levitt getting up there at the, as the press secretary, and "Trump was just murdered. Our entire cabinet is gone. We're losing the war." And she goes, "America's greater than ever." So it's not even Trump saying this. I understand what you're saying exactly. The State of the Union, the State of the Union is, you're gonna say the State of the Union is strong. This is the press secretary just lying to everybody, and everybody knows it. So it's a little bit different. I totally understand what you're saying.

• 30:47Patrick Bet-David?

  If you read Art of War, what is the most basic rule of Art of War? Act small when you're big, act big when you're small, you know, you, you have to kind of act like when you have nothing you have going on, you have to make them believe that you have a lot of stuff going on, so they're probably reading the, uh, uh, third grade version of Art of War and maybe they're kind of using that to be like, hey, baby, yeah, empezar es son tu. And you pass it, arte, arte of war.

• 31:15Tom Ellsworth?

  The enemy's making a mistake, get out of their way. If this were a poker game, and he's bluffing, what hand does United States and Israel and our allies have?

• 31:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me put it to you this way. And what does Iran have right now? Let me read you stats from Wall Street Journal. Iran missile launches are down eighty-six percent.

• 31:30Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, so there's data.

• 31:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, there's, there's something called data, right? It's down eighty, who is this? Is this?

• 31:36Speaker 02

  This is Admiral, I believe his name is.

• 31:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Cooper?

• 31:39Speaker 02

  Uh, yeah, Admiral Cooper. Brad Cooper.

• 31:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Brad Cooper?

• 31:42Tom Ellsworth?

  Bradley Cooper, respect to you, great role.

• 31:44Speaker 02

  This is where he gives an update on the amount of Iranian missiles that are being shot right now.

• 31:49Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, go for it.

• 31:50Speaker 02

  Then if I just look back over the last twenty-four hours of the operation compared, uh, to the, where we were at start, ballistic missile attacks have decreased by ninety percent since day one. Drone attacks have decreased by eighty-three percent since day one. Having said this, we remain vigilant. Our strikes against the Iranian navy have intensified. Ninety, eighty-seven percent. President say, uh, just a little while ago that, uh, we, we have, uh, sunk or destroyed twenty-four ships. That was true at the moment. We're now up over thirty ships.

• 32:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Ships?

• 32:20Speaker 02

  And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship. Roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier. And as we speak, it's on fire.

• 32:32Tom Ellsworth?

  So you know what that is? Have you seen the pictures of those? It could almost be a comedy skit.

• 32:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, yeah, Tom, go ahead.

• 32:40Tom Ellsworth?

  No, what, what he's talking about here is these ships that they make to hold the drones, they look like beehives. And so we figured out where they were launching the drones from and we hit the ship. So all the drones and stuff that were on the ship, and when they hit those, they burn and then they suddenly go up. Because the munitions that are on there goes up. So it's basically, we hit one of the beehives that's launching the drones, which is why the drones are down eighty-three percent.

• 33:04Speaker 04

  This is a periscope footage of US Navy submarine torpedoing, which we haven't used in a while, an Iranian frigate dinner off the coast of Sri Lanka. This is, Rob, look at that, that's, that's an Iranian ship. And we're, our sub is using a torpedo. We're going old school, watch the right side, bye.

• 33:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh my god.

• 33:21Speaker 04

  Bye. That's how we roll, homie.

• 33:24Patrick Bet-David?

  Wow, and by the way, so on Fox yesterday, they were talking about, Rob, is this the clip about laser?

• 33:30Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 33:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, go for it, watch this, folks.

• 33:33Tom Ellsworth?

  No, but you always want to keep that option open. And so far, that's not where this is going. As Trump would say, we've never seen anything like this. This is two times the firepower that we saw over Iraq and shock and awe. These are B-52s dropping 80,000 pound ordnance. We have artificial intelligence identifying targets. Space Force is seeing where these Iranian missiles launch from and then can take out the launch pad like that. We're shooting down Iranian drones with laser weapons. Also, kamikaze drones, we're using them for the first time ever in combat. So this is just an astonishing display of American military support priority.

• 34:15Tom Ellsworth?

  Probably officially marks the beginning of 21st century warfare. We have completely eradicated the two top layers of the Iranian leadership. The Navy's at the bottom of the sea and their missiles were going from 80 a day to now 20 a day. The case is clear. Number one sponsor of terror in the world. They were ramping up their ballistic missile capabilities. They were digging deeper tunnels to enrich again. And their Navy threatens the flow of oil.

• 34:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Where's the lasers?

• 34:45Tom Ellsworth?

  We don't care who rules the country, they just have to play by our rules.

• 34:49Patrick Bet-David?

  You want to go to this, so let me just read this. Laser weapon deployed in Operation Epic Fury, Space Force stops Iran's missiles in their tracks. This is a New York Post story, okay? Iran's weapon debris blown to pieces or mechanically crippled keeps dropping from the Middle East sky. For that, we can thank heat-seeking satellites, military-grade malware and radar-jamming software, all made in America. New technology laser weaponry has been used.

• 35:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Against Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, the US Navy destroyer off the coast of Middle East nation is fitted with the new weapon which appears to be high-energy laser with integrated optical dazzler and surveillance halo systems. The laser is a state-of-the-art device with steerable head, able to concentrate on intense tightly-focused beam of energy and takes out drones. The Space Force, Tom, what can you tell us about this?

• 35:48Tom Ellsworth?

  So I'm wondering who leaked this story? And why are we talking about some of the most advanced stuff? Remember after, um, uh, when we went to get Maduro? And they said, "Oh, I was getting migraines," and we were falling down. And remember what it was? Remember what it was? No comment, no comment, no comment. And it's like, were we using energy? Were energy weapons or alternative weapons? We have no comment about that.

• 36:10Patrick Bet-David?

  I think Caroline Leavitt tweeted something about that. And it sounded a little bit like, do you remember that? We were like, wait a minute, this sounds too perfect.

• 36:18Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Correct. So now we're coming out with a lot of detail about how it works, what it works, and what it does. So the answer is, we have advanced, there are advanced weaponry that the average person, you know, has not become aware of and now is rolling into the lexicon of news coverage on international war. And these weapons are important because, remember, the analysis of the interceptors, how many interceptor missiles you have, is the assumption that you have to use a Patriot missile and an interceptor to get all of the incoming rockets. And Mark pointed it out on Business Wednesday very well with a chart.

• 36:58Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, that chart is true only if there's not alternative weapons that will also take these things down. And so what you're seeing here, I'm wondering if we aren't kind of talking to Russia and China here? Is pointing out is like, you know what? If you want to send that crap over here and you want to help Iran through the back door, you know, we're going to take this stuff down. So you'd be, think about this. And I, because I'll tell you, inside the Department of Defense, we would love China to expose new missile systems.

• 37:32Tom Ellsworth?

  By giving them to Iran right now, so that we can test against it. It may sound terrible because it puts life at risk, but there's a little part of the Department of Defense that always wants a live test against the enemy's best. Or against enemy armaments. And so, I think we might be talking to China and other people here and letting the world know what this is. And maybe letting the world know, you're gonna wait this thing out? I don't have to use Patriot missile intercepts. I've got other things I can use. I'm not gonna run out, I may run out of intercept missiles before you run out of missiles. I will not run out of intercept capability.

• 38:12Speaker 03

  Adam. I mean, let me just break this down very simply. It's not even a fair fight, okay? I mean, look at the cover of what's going on in the Wall Street Journal right now. They basically outline what Iran is doing. They're basically saying Tehran is fighting with jets that date back to the Vietnam War. Hell, together with the scrouched parts of ingenuity, Iran's aging jets are failing in dogfights. And then it says, talking about, uh, the Israeli pilot flying one of the most, world's most advanced warplanes made in the US, took aim and downed an Iranian jet. Easily sending it streaking to the ground in a ball of fire. Target is down, completed. Iran is sending a creaking air force.

• 38:56Speaker 03

  Many of the planes are museum pieces. Kept flying with scrouched parts and pluck that stand little chance against modern warplanes. So, what are we talking about here?

• 39:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Hey, Ali, we have to remove that plane from the museum. Does it still work?

• 39:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Bring it in.

• 39:13Speaker 03

  No, no, we'll get some parts.

• 39:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Break that wall.

• 39:15Speaker 03

  Exactly. So, they have this 1970's technology.

• 39:19Tom Ellsworth?

  Mesri.

• 39:20Speaker 03

  With a 7th century ideology. Uh, bringing back the Vietnam War, where the United States and Israel and our allies have the most technologically up-to-date, incredible weaponry we've ever seen. Not to mention a updated belief system, not tied to an apocalyptic, uh, theocratic regime that's still citing 7th century beliefs. It's not even close. It'd be like, hey, in today's, uh, high school debate, we have the...

• 39:49Speaker 04

  High school debate champion that is a full ride to Yale versus the high school dropout that just failed their GED. Let's see who wins this fight. It's not even close. The American military is the greatest thing this world has ever seen. I have a question I want to ask you guys. Well, I thought initially the reason that we went in there was because of the people, because of the revolution that the people were doing the quote unquote 40,000 people that were killed in the streets and all that stuff. But then it's more sounding like this is more about taking out their weapons and their systems and their missile launching. I really hope, are they, we don't know, we can only guess. The goal was for the people to be liberated from this regime, which I agree with 100%. The world's going to be a

• 40:33Speaker 04

  better place when that, the evil regime is gone. But I hope that people are getting together and trying to find out because once the smoke clears from the lasers and the missiles and the bombs, they need to have a running government. They need to have, and I think Trump had said something about somebody coming in because with all this craziness, with all the war, I hope they're not losing focus. It's the people. This, I thought was because the people were dying and fighting in the streets. It's kind of seeming more like, yeah, I understand they're taking out the weapons and all their leadership, but I hope people are paying attention and focusing on the leadership because once it's done, somebody has to set up. Adam, there has to be one guy, election, something has to happen. You know what I'm saying?

• 41:16Tom Ellsworth?

  It's regime collapse. It's not regime change anymore. It's regime collapse and eliminating, listen to what Rubio said, to eliminate their rockets and their ability to rebuild them.

• 41:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, listen, I don't want to, some of you guys are worried, a lot of people are worried because this is actual footage of Iran's fighter just taking off to intercept Israel's F-355s. And it's, a lot of people are worried about this. If you want to play this clip, go ahead. ... impact here. This is, they're coming down the street hard.

• 41:48Patrick Bet-David?

  This is Iranian. Look in the sky right there. It's about to take off as the new jets.

• 41:58Speaker 04

  Bro, they lost. It's over. Alakma! It's over.

• 42:01Tom Ellsworth?

  Unbelievable.

• 42:02Speaker 04

  It's over.

• 42:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Listen, I mean, look, we're being funny when I saw that somebody sent me.

• 42:07Tom Ellsworth?

  Remember, they have no economy. You break it, you buy it.

• 42:09Patrick Bet-David?

  That's kind of what it's like. Yeah, yeah. But it is funny.

• 42:12Tom Ellsworth?

  I have to pay for this now.

• 42:13Patrick Bet-David?

  It is funny.

• 42:14Tom Ellsworth?

  They're horrible at defeating American.

• 42:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me ask a weird question, Tom. Does this give Ukraine an opportunity right now to say, hey? Or is Ukraine kind of on a pause with Russia? They're like waiting for Trump to see what he's gonna be doing? Because you know Russia would buy the Shahids back in 23, 24. They no longer do. They licensed them and now they make their own drone identical to it. They call it the Giran or something like that. But they still need small little particles, small little pieces that they use from the Iranian drone. However, so it's $20,000 Shahid drones being sent to Ukraine. They had the $2,000, $3,000 interceptors that Ukraine produces. Is this opportunity for Ukraine? Or Zelensky kind of sitting there saying, listen, let's just wait for this to get done?

• 43:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Because I want to make sure me and Russia get things done as well and we're, you know, we have some peace. How do you think Ukraine is reacting right now to this?

• 43:09Tom Ellsworth?

  First of all, Zelensky's begging for some of the stuff that he sees in use. And he's not gonna get it because this president's not gonna give it to him. And I think Ukraine's been oddly silent and not, I think, in a devious way. I just think they and Russia are in this stalemate. And Trump has been, come on, let's get a ceasefire already. And I think a week ago, didn't Zelensky say a week ago, if this, I'll do a ceasefire? But now you can't believe Zelensky because two drinks later, he changes his mind and it's still war. So there has been an opportunity for Ukraine to get a ceasefire and to stop this thing for six months.

• 43:51Tom Ellsworth?

  And it's been increasingly frustrating to DC because they've thought they've had it done a couple of times, Pat. So is there an opportunity for Ukraine? Maybe, but I think there's an opportunity for Ukraine to get the ceasefire and knock it off. If you ask me.

• 44:09Speaker 03

  The first person to stand down gets a ceasefire. But Putin and Zelensky don't want to be the first person to stand down.

• 44:15Patrick Bet-David?

  I, I, I think if this thing continues the way it is. If all of a sudden, it continues, drags out. Putin and China have to get involved. Don't they? If it drags out. No, no, if, if what's going on with Iran, okay, in the war, if it drags out.

• 44:35Speaker 03

  Yeah, we don't want that.

• 44:36Patrick Bet-David?

  I know we don't want that. But how long before you think you're gonna see something of, you know, report coming out that, uh, you know, China's doing this, or Russia's getting involved with this? How long do you think they can tolerate this taking place?

• 44:50Speaker 03

  What do you mean by get involved?

• 44:51Speaker 04

  Like, meaning, like, say, hey, we're, we're joining the war. We're gonna help them, we're sending weapons, we're doing this, we're doing that. Well, I can agree. They probably already are.

• 44:58Speaker 03

  I'll give you my hypothesis. Russia has been exposed. They're still fighting the same small piece of the Donbass territory, how many years later now? Four years later? They can't beat Ukraine, obviously, with our weaponry and technology and aid. And they have no interest, there's no appetite, in my opinion, in Russia, to go fight a war on another front. In Iran? No. China, China and Iran, they're transactional, they're not real allies. China has come out and said that they think, uh, Islam is a mental sickness of some capacity, and they have over a million Uighurs locked up in camps.

• 45:40Speaker 03

  So they're not natural allies, they rely, they're, they're business associates. And they're there for the energy, and they're there for the energy alone. So China, they want, uh, global domination and global hegemony. If they're gonna wage a war, you know where China's gonna send their troops? It's one place. It's Taiwan. That's the only thing they're concerned about. The only reason they would get involved is for a lack of energy. That's why the Strait of Hormuz affects China way more than it affects America. We don't even get oil from there. So China i- i- is looking at this like, you're messing with our money, you're messing with our energy. We have some moves to make, there's obviously some.

• 46:18Speaker 03

  tariffs conversation there. I personally, I could be dead wrong. I don't see Russia and China sending troops. At all, maybe military aid, but zero troops.

• 46:30Speaker 04

  No, because the moment.

• 46:30Tom Ellsworth?

  Let's look at a piece of history. I'm sorry.

• 46:32Speaker 04

  No, because the moment, Tom, and please say your point. The moment they send troops, that means you want to go to war. And then it's it's over, Adam. What if if Russia sends troops to Iran to fight America, it's over. Then it's World War III. No, bro. And then China gets involved and then it's it's no, that that right there, it's over. They're doing, they're doing a subtly.

• 46:52Speaker 03

  For another war when you're basically at a stalemate.

• 46:55Tom Ellsworth?

  It's been a while, but we need to look at history here. Let's look at history. The US is going to win the Korean War. We are with South Korea, Seoul, pushing north. We're going to win the Korean War when this happened. China dropped 2.5 million troops into Korea. Most people don't know this. The reason the Korean War was a stalemate. Because from 1950 to 53, China dropped 2.5 million troops into North Korea to help. And it caused it to be a stalemate across what is now the DMZ and the famous 38th parallel. It's been a while, but China has done it. This was the first time that we had been in active engagement with China. We were, that war was going to be over. And look what, look what happened.

• 47:37Speaker 03

  Rob, pull up a world map. And Tom, you're absolutely right.

• 47:42Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm just saying, it's happened before.

• 47:43Speaker 03

  We're talking about North Korea, which is literally their next door neighbor. So it affects your house if you don't get involved. Go to North Korea and China. That's where it was going down. Now pan out, look where Iran is. All the way across Asia. They're not sending troops halfway around the world when they could have sent them across the street. So proximity matters in this case. You're absolutely right. We've, we've had issues. Uh, in the Korean War with China, no doubt. But don't you, wouldn't you agree that the landmass wouldn't produce this type of results?

• 48:15Tom Ellsworth?

  I'm looking at arms, I'm looking at air, I'm looking at, do they get involved that way?

• 48:21Patrick Bet-David?

  And Trump talked about, Rob, you know, no plans of, you know, feet on the ground, but troops on the ground. But he did say this is a, do you have that clip? Do troops on the ground? I think he just said this yesterday. Uh, uh, which clip was that? That, uh, that it was just yesterday, him talking about that's not the plans of what they're going to be doing. But to me with China. If it drags out, your number one priority is your state, your country. You're getting ninety, eighty percent of your oil from Iran, from the Strait of Hormuz. And then you're getting fifty something percent of it from Venezuela. And you don't have a way to retaliate.

• 49:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Either during this time, I'm trying to wonder like, do you think, you know, when you're doing a negotiation and there's stuff that's going on and you're doing this one deal? And then you use this to negotiate this complete other deal with them? Like, do you think, what, what do you think is the likelihood?

• 49:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Trump's team is right now talking to China about negotiating whatever they want?

• 49:24Tom Ellsworth?

  I think so.

• 49:25Patrick Bet-David?

  What do you think is the high likelihood?

• 49:26Tom Ellsworth?

  High likelihood.

• 49:27Patrick Bet-David?

  I think so as well. It's like, hey, listen, so what do you think? Can you imagine that call?

• 49:33Tom Ellsworth?

  China is not happy with any of the...

• 49:35Patrick Bet-David?

  I know, I know.

• 49:36Tom Ellsworth?

  Rubio and Whitaker don't miss that.

• 49:37Patrick Bet-David?

  We don't want to hurt you. We understand you need the oil and we understand you can't get it from Venezuela.

• 49:42Tom Ellsworth?

  We're gonna sell you the oil now.

• 49:44Patrick Bet-David?

  We can sell it to you if you want, but here's what we need in return from you. You better not get involved with Iran. We will gladly sell you the oil, but if you get involved with Iran, it's gonna be a massive problem. Stay the F out of this. Do you think, if you were to say the likelihood of a call like this, zero to a hundred, what do you put?

• 50:01Tom Ellsworth?

  Ninety-nine?

• 50:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom, what do you put it? Is it ninety-nine? What do you put it?

• 50:05Tom Ellsworth?

  I, I think, I think there's a ninety-five percent chance.

• 50:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, so you're, you're there?

• 50:09Tom Ellsworth?

  No, no, no. No, no, no. Are you not, are you not even near that high?

• 50:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, I would see this, if I'm in this position, I'm making that call. I'm making a call and I'm saying, look, guys, very basic rule. What do you want? Stay out of it. Hey, Russia, Ukraine, very... If this crisis is so loud that you use this two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, however long it's gonna last, get all the massive negotiations done. So in an ideal situation, let's paint a picture, if this could possibly happen.

• 50:44Patrick Bet-David?

  Regime change, regime collapse, okay? You go to regime change, that's what Carter did, okay, with Iran. Horrible. The regime collapsed. Collapsed. Carter was a democratic president. Going from Reza Shah Pahlavi to Khomeini is not a regime change. That's a regime collapse. Yes. Iran was free, next day, IRGC, gone, right? In 53, Mossadegh, when that happened, the mid 50s, that's a regime change. Mossadegh out, bring Reza Pahlavi in. Iran had a phenomenal relationship with Israel for 26 years, just so you know that. There was no issues with Israel for 26 years, Middle East was at peace. What they're working on right now is the collapse, but if you're in it, and you're about to collapse, and you call Zelensky,

• 51:29Patrick Bet-David?

  "Hey, you guys want to get this thing squared away, or what? Hey, Putin, we hate the fact that this is going on. What do you want? What do you guys need?" If all of a sudden, imagine we wake up in six weeks, and within six weeks, eight weeks, deals have been done with China. Deals have been done with Russia and Ukraine. And Iran has collapsed. And they're not controlling that oil as well, they're going in. I mean, you have to, and by the way, the Gulf states have sided with US. Of course. Iran has attacked all of these Gulf states, and they're asking a question and saying, "Did you see in the Foreign Minister interview, Rob, if you can find this? What's the word they use? Casualties in war, there's a phrase they use,

• 52:12Patrick Bet-David?

  that Israel also used with Palestine. They said, so, he said, "Why are you attacking some of your allies? Why are you attacking some of these Gulf states? Why'd you attack Turkey? No, no, we never attacked Turkey. But why'd you hit some hotels? Why'd you hit some properties? You killed some innocent people. Well, listen, if Israel did that with Palestine, why can't we? You know, we're going through it as well." So if all of a sudden you flipped, I'll find a clip and send it to you. It's from the same interview as yesterday, Rob. It's not that one. Whatever interview he did yesterday, he said that in that interview. First one to the NBC, that's a 600,000 views, not that one. Go back. That one right there, if you can find it. He says it in the, you look for it, and find it, we'll go through it. Is this collateral, collateral damage? Well, but I'm just saying to you, if in this type of pressure, you're negotiating these other deals...

• 52:58Patrick Bet-David?

  I would put my teams on to work and say, guys, double time, go, let's do the deals.

• 53:02Speaker 03

  I think you summed it up perfectly regarding China. Let me address Iran for a second. You want to hear a crazy stat? You ready? Iran has struck more Arab countries in one week than Israel has done in its entire existence of fighting wars in the Middle East. Iran has sent out more missiles, weapons, planes, drones, and attacked more Arab countries in one week than in the history of Israel fighting wars in the Middle East. Can I give you the list of countries that they've been allegedly attacked? So obviously, United States bases, Israel, the UAE has received 800 projectiles since Iran, Qatar.

• 53:42Speaker 03

  They've, uh, whose middle of the road is now basically siding with the US, have a base there, Kuwait. Bahrain, they attacked residential buildings in Bahrain's capital. Oman. Saudi, US bases in Saudi. Israeli officials believe Saudi may also take military action response against Iran. Jordan, Lebanon, they're fighting Hezbollah over there. Iraq, Kurdish areas of the region. Cyprus, they attacked, uh, that's a European country. Now there's rumors of Azerbaijan and possibly Turkey received a, uh, a missile that was sent to, I don't know where, not to mention the UK, France and Germany.

• 54:27Speaker 03

  Iran is in its last legs and they're just attacking everybody, everybody. And meanwhile, everyone's looking back at me like this is who these people are. No one's coming to Iran's defense, nobody.

• 54:39Tom Ellsworth?

  So Iran has now bombed more Arab countries than Israel. So Israel was in first place, now they're second place? Israel's gonna be pissed. Israel's gonna be mad.

• 54:48Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, did you find it?

• 54:49Speaker 02

  I believe so. This is where he's asked about attacking allies in the Middle East.

• 54:53Patrick Bet-David?

  And that, okay, go for it.

• 54:55Speaker 07

  In Israel. And so many targets belongs to the to the Americans, their assets, their, you know, bases, their installations in the region. And, you know, they have not been able to prevent those attacks. Our missiles are still working.

• 55:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Has the question been asked yet, or no?

• 55:14Speaker 07

  Our missiles are still in place and, you know, hitting their targets.

• 55:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Because he asked the question. Let the guy ask the question.

• 55:20Tom Ellsworth?

  Minister, can Iran win this war? If I can ask you, can Iran win this war? And what does winning look like for Iran?

• 55:29Patrick Bet-David?

  No, this is not a drop. There's a part in it where he's asking casualties. He uses the phrase casualties. I don't know if you're able to search the words. You know how you typically do it on the right and you find it?

• 55:40Speaker 02

  There's no transcript for this one, so it's not populated.

• 55:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, I got it. It's tougher to find it.

• 55:44Tom Ellsworth?

  This guy is funny. All your bases are belong to us.

• 55:47Patrick Bet-David?

  No, I actually want you to hear it. I actually, I don't want to summarize it. I want you to hear it from him because they've done a horrible job making friends. They've done a horrible job making friends because they're attacking their allies. They're attacking some of the guys that they're neutral with.

• 56:03Speaker 02

  Well, not even

• 56:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, there it is, right there.

• 56:04Speaker 02

  More neutral than allies, right?

• 56:06Patrick Bet-David?

  That's it. Let him ask the question, though, Rob.

• 56:07Speaker 07

  Mistake.

• 56:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay, he's gonna ask, why are you attacking your neighbors?

• 56:11Speaker 07

  We have not attacked our neighbors. We have not attacked Muslim countries.

• 56:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Go back, let him ask the question, Rob.

• 56:15Speaker 07

  They can go, they can be a winner at the end of the day.

• 56:20Tom Ellsworth?

  Minister, explain to us and to the world, really, Iran has chosen to attack at least 10 other countries, many of them your Arab neighbors. None of them were involved in this war. Why are you attacking your Muslim neighbors during the holy month of Ramadan?

• 56:35Speaker 07

  Please, please don't mistake. We have not attacked our neighbors. We have not attacked Muslim countries. We have attacked Americans' targets and American bases, American installations, which are unfortunately located in the soils of our neighbors. So we have made it clear for them. I have been in touch with their foreign ministers and I have explained that we are not targeting you. We have no, you know, problem with you. We have, we are only targeting the American installations and American bases. And the reason is obvious.

• 57:11Tom Ellsworth?

  But Minister, but Minister Iran? Iran is hitting civilian targets, striking hotels, high-rise apartments,

• 57:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Listen to his answer.

• 57:19Tom Ellsworth?

  airports in many of these countries. Those are not military targets.

• 57:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me tell you why this answer is such a bad answer.

• 57:23Speaker 07

  We have targeted wherever the Americans are. Maybe there have been some collateral damages,

• 57:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Listen, listen.

• 57:29Speaker 07

  as it is in every war.

• 57:31Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 57:32Speaker 07

  You know, look, more than 70,000 people were killed in Gaza by Israelis. An Israeli army called all of them collateral damage. So, yes, there is the possibility of, you know, collateral damages in this situation as well.

• 57:47Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 57:47Speaker 07

  This is what we have worked, everybody in the region.

• 57:50Patrick Bet-David?

  Guys, so counter the argument of Israel uses the phrase collateral damage of what happened in Palestine and Gaza, right? Let's, let's put that and argue that. Yeah, that's right. Israel gets away with it. Why can't they get away with it? Fine. Let's, let's isolate that, that argument over here. Go back to the, to the Gulf states. Ask yourself how they take that answer. Does that answer tell you that they're, they're doing such, you know, accurate, surgical, precise attacks to areas that innocent people in these 10 countries that are Gulf states won't be affected by it? Or do you think those leaders of those countries listen to that and say, wait, you're that reckless? Mm-hmm.

• 58:35Patrick Bet-David?

  And we've been with you? Don't, don't get it twisted. We're not waking up here every morning saying Israel's the greatest country in the world. The Gulf states are not sitting there saying, hey, you know, it's awesome. You guys, you're, you don't have no skeletons in your closet. God knows they do. A lot of them, Israel. But this isn't about Israel. This is about Iran and their relationship. So you, it, it's like, imagine, Vinny, me, you and Adam have an issue. And I, you do something and he said, well, what about when Adam did this? And I said, I don't care what Adam did to Tom. It's about me. I care about what you did to me and the way you handled that. You insulted me. Mm-hmm. I'm not okay with that. What was that all about? Yeah. I don't trust you now. So to me, I think this was a bad look for him. What's the chances those 10, you know, countries?

• 59:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Paid attention to every word of this interview.

• 59:24Tom Ellsworth?

  Absolutely. Every single one of them.

• 59:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Every single one of them. And how do you think they handled this answer here?

• 59:28Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh, okay. You want to play that game, buddy?

• 59:30Patrick Bet-David?

  No problem. You know what he just did? You know why this is so dumb? This is why they suck in diplomacy. Say what you say about, you know, what do you call it?

• 59:40Tom Ellsworth?

  Israel, Gaza.

• 59:41Patrick Bet-David?

  These guys understand diplomacy. They understand, hey, listen, yes, we have to negotiate everything in Israel's favor, but we kind of need US, we kind of need this, we kind of... They are very, uh, uh, what's the part?

• 59:54Tom Ellsworth?

  Strategic?

• 59:55Patrick Bet-David?

  Man, you can call it whatever you want to call it strategic, you can call it schmoozing, you can call it biz dev, you can call it, you can even call it a little bit like, uh, uh, on the gray area of, uh, um, you know, uh, uh, not necessarily a positive word. You can call it a negative word that's only selfish interest for them. He lacks the basic understanding of diplomacy. Like, you have to realize, when you're talking to NBC, the world is watching, and you kind of say, "Well, listen, that's collateral damage. I'm sorry you lost your cousin."

• 1:00:28Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:29Patrick Bet-David?

  "I'm sorry, Co- I'm sorry, you know, you, I'm sorry, Dubai, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Hey, what do you want me to do?" You understand what I'm saying to them, Tom? You look like you want to say something.

• 1:00:37Tom Ellsworth?

  No, when you're done with that point?

• 1:00:39Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, go ahead.

• 1:00:39Tom Ellsworth?

  Collateral damage works when you have a hot conflict in Kiev. That's the point of conflict. And residences on the outside are tragically impacted. That's collateral damage. Collateral damage is adjacent to the point of hot conflict. Collateral damage is not when you're trying to make a point and, and destroy an interest. And what Iran was trying to do, Pat, is lob missiles over at US bases to make a point for America. That's not the point of conflict. Collateral damage would be Iran coming across the border and impacting, you know, rural civilians in those things. That's collateral damage.

• 1:01:22Tom Ellsworth?

  Collateral damage is not, "Oh, I wanted to make a point. I sent a missile to hit America. My missile's guidance system was so terrible, and..." And I hit the frickin hotel. Or the energy weapons misguided the drone, the drone hit a hotel. It's like, dude, that's not collateral damage. You're a fool. You're exactly right, Pat. He is, this is horrible.

• 1:01:45Patrick Bet-David?

  I think so. I think this is horrible.

• 1:01:47Speaker 03

  I think it's a, I'm so glad that you.

• 1:01:49Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, the only way, I'm sorry, Adam, the only way I see this that you can speak like that

• 1:01:55Patrick Bet-David?

  is you know something the rest of the world doesn't know, like meaning China's about to send something to you to protect you. Someone made a call to say they have your back. And the likelihood of that happening to me, it's less than 5%. It's honestly, it's maybe even less than 1%, but let's just say it's less than 5%. You talk like that when you need those guys. You have to use this interview in a way to reassure those guys that you are not the enemy. You know, he, he said in, in, in the continuation of the conversation, he says, we made those calls before attacking and we told them, here's what we're going to be doing. We're hitting US military bases or we're hitting US military properties. But at the same time, they effectively hit other places. So he's saying, I called them. In one of the countries, he was very afraid it was Turkey.

• 1:02:37Patrick Bet-David?

  You could tell the way he gave the respect to Turkey was different than the other countries.

• 1:02:41Tom Ellsworth?

  We didn't launch anything there.

• 1:02:41Patrick Bet-David?

  He did. He did say that. Adam.

• 1:02:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, I'll just simplify this. There's a war going on. There's the good guys and the bad guys. US, Israel and our allies are the good guys. Iran is the sole bad guy. There's nobody coming to their defense with the exception of their proxies like Hezbollah and the Houthis and we know where Hamas is these days. Number two is Trump's in charge. If we've ever even thought about having a debate who the number one leader of the world is, it's Trump. And there's not even a close second. I'm sorry. But the silver lining here is now with Iran being essentially decimated, and they will be in a matter of weeks, maybe months.

• 1:03:24Speaker 03

  There will be a new era in the Middle East where countries will sign these accords and get along. And the thorn in everybody's side for the last 47 years will be removed. That's my opinion of what will happen in the Middle East. Notice this last point. How many Middle Eastern countries at this point? Heads of state are criticizing Israel? None. Nobody's saying anything. The war in Gaza is done. All eyes are on Iran. Now, you know, they said, "All eyes on Rafa." Nobody cared about that. All eyes are on Iran right now. And Iran is being exposed. The last thing Iran regime needs right now is their name in the news. Remember when they said they were gonna kill people? And then they said, "The way to save these people's lives is talk about Iran."

• 1:04:09Speaker 03

  They wanna do this in the darkness. They wanna turn off the internet. They wanna murder and maim their own people when nobody's looking. Well, now, everybody's looking at Iran right now, and they have no choice. So, they're gonna lie, they're gonna be deceitful, but everyone knows what they're doing at this point.

• 1:04:25Patrick Bet-David?

  This is showing who they've attacked?

• 1:04:27Speaker 03

  Yes, sir.

• 1:04:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Qatar, Cyprus, Israel, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, US assets, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Syria, Bahrain, Oman, Azerbaijan, just making friends left and right.

• 1:04:36Speaker 03

  And so, you know what this means? They're all on the same team against Iran.

• 1:04:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you imagine how double dumb that is?

• 1:04:44Speaker 03

  Triple dumb.

• 1:04:45Patrick Bet-David?

  You're in a fight, and you can't make any allies, any allies, and they're siding. I asked this question. I said, "What was the chances that you would've thought two weeks ago, a month ago, three months ago, something's gonna happen with Iran, Israel's gonna attack, and all the, you know, you know, states, what do you call it? The states, Gulf states are gonna side with US and Israel? What do you think is the chance of that happening? Oh, zero, oh, no way." Well, they just did. Why? Why? Why are they doing that? Why are they doing that? Why did MBS call Khamenei Hitler? Why? You don't think he knows him? You think he knows, you know him better than they do? Why did they do that?

• 1:05:30Patrick Bet-David?

  And, you know, there's a...

• 1:05:31Speaker 03

  Do you have that clip?

• 1:05:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Of course.

• 1:05:33Speaker 03

  MBS, have you played that yet?

• 1:05:34Patrick Bet-David?

  You've never seen this clip?

• 1:05:35Speaker 03

  MBS?

• 1:05:36Patrick Bet-David?

  MBS calls Khamenei Hitler. Have you ever seen this?

• 1:05:38Speaker 03

  No.

• 1:05:39Patrick Bet-David?

  You've never seen this?

• 1:05:40Speaker 03

  He said that he called, maybe, this is not recently, is it?

• 1:05:43Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, this is not recently, but MBS is, Rob, I sent this interview to you right there.

• 1:05:48Speaker 03

  Yep, right there.

• 1:05:48Patrick Bet-David?

  We never, we didn't play this clip? We played it on Wednesday. Oh, okay, go ahead and play this clip. Watch this. Go ahead, go back, watch this. Seen that you called the Ayatollah Khamenei the new Hitler of the Middle East? Absolutely. Why?

• 1:06:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Because he wants to expand. He wants to create his own project in the Middle East, very much like Hitler, who wanted...

• 1:06:08Speaker 03

  to expand at the time. Many countries around the world and in Europe did not realize how dangerous Hitler was until what happened happened. I don't want to see the same events happening in the Middle East. Does Saudi Arabia need nuclear weapons to counter Iran?

• 1:06:22Speaker 03

  Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb. But without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.

• 1:06:30Patrick Bet-David?

  You've never seen that?

• 1:06:31Speaker 03

  Maybe the most important conversation regarding the Middle East.

• 1:06:34Patrick Bet-David?

  Of course, of course. That shuts down so many of the conversations.

• 1:06:40Speaker 03

  Calls the Ayatollah the new Hitler.

• 1:06:42Tom Ellsworth?

  Once upon a time, these guys.

• 1:06:44Speaker 03

  Says we do not need a nuclear weapon as long as Iran doesn't have one.

• 1:06:46Tom Ellsworth?

  Right.

• 1:06:48Speaker 03

  There you go, guys. I mean.

• 1:06:50Tom Ellsworth?

  Remember, once upon a time, the Arab embargo crippled the United States and created gas lines and all these things under Carter. Now, all these years later, we're a net energy exporter. Drill, baby, drill. And they'll say, we'll cut off your supply of oil. What are you talking about? I supply 60% of the natural gas to Europe. I'm an exporter now. I'm a net exporter. And so what are you talking about? Does these guys need the West economically? And Saudi and friends do not want to be drawn into this. They want this over. They want to go back to selling to China and doing all the things they do and.

• 1:07:25Patrick Bet-David?

  Can you do me a favor, Rob? A lot of people are saying that was AI. Can you go to chat GPT and verify if that was AI? Ask the question, has MBS ever called Khamenei the supreme leader of Iran Hitler? Because people are saying that's AI. Maybe it is AI. If it is, we'll correct it. I apologize right now, immediately, myself.

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• 1:10:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, it's not AI.

• 1:10:15Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh.

• 1:10:15Patrick Bet-David?

  Oh, oh, oh, okay.

• 1:10:17Tom Ellsworth?

  Weird. 2017.

• 1:10:18Patrick Bet-David?

  2017, nine years ago, in a New York Times interview.

• 1:10:23Tom Ellsworth?

  AI.

• 1:10:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Iran's supreme leader is a new Hitler of the Middle East.

• 1:10:26Tom Ellsworth?

  And he repeated in the video that you just showed.

• 1:10:30Patrick Bet-David?

  Eight years, eight years ago, he said the same thing. So to the people that are like, there is no way he would say this about Khamenei. He just did. Do you, do you know him better than, better than MBS does?

• 1:10:41Tom Ellsworth?

  Wow.

• 1:10:41Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me tell you, this is the part, I called with a guy yesterday, I don't want to mention the names at all on the call I had with a guy. Actually, it was a good conversation. I said, listen, I lived with these people. They don't think like you think. They don't like what you stand for. They hate what you stand for. My, my, every day, if I'm, if I'm thinking about this thing, the only thing I ask is for this thing to be done quickly. Quickly. I don't want it to drag out. If you're praying this week, if you're praying today, if you're going to church, if you're doing whatever you're doing, the main thing is for this thing to be done quickly. And it looks like that's what they're solving for. You ever seen what Marco Rubio said in 2015? And he says, I want this thing to be recorded.

• 1:11:20Tom Ellsworth?

  Yes.

• 1:11:20Patrick Bet-David?

  Because I wanted to be on the record that I said this 11 years ago. Play this clip, Rob. This is Marco Rubio. So it's not like Marco Rubio just all of a sudden became like this last week because somebody made him think this way. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:11:33Speaker 03

  Be recorded for history's purposes before I know what was going to happen in regards to this if it goes through. Iran will immediately use the money that it's receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities. It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States, and it will raise the price of us operating in the region. They're going to build anti-access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships. Continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets. And it'll make it harder and harder for US troops to be in the region. They'll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target American servicemen and women. And they may or may not deny that they're involved, but they will target us and raise the price of our.

• 1:12:18Speaker 03

  ...in the Middle East until they hope to completely pull us out of that region. They'll also continue to build long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States. Those are not affected by this deal, and they'll continue to build them as they've been doing. And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon. And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high. Iran is led by a supreme leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history, or because of ambitions. He has a religious apocalyptic

• 1:13:02Speaker 03

  vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger. And he's going to possess nuclear weapons? This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit, and perhaps we ourselves will have to share in it. And so I want to be recorded for history's purposes, if nothing else, to say that those of us who oppose this deal understood where it would lead, and we are making a terrible mistake. But here's the good news: Iran may have a supreme leader, but America does not. In this nation, we have a republic, and soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch. And I pray that on their first day in office, they will reverse this deal and reimpose the sanctions, and back them up with a credible

• 1:13:47Speaker 03

  threat of military force, or history will condemn us for not doing what needed to be done at this critical moment in the world's history.

• 1:13:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Wow. You are looking at the 2028 Republican presidential candidate, to me, in my opinion. This is the guy. He has come up so much, it's not even funny.

• 1:14:07Speaker 04

  2015, by the way. That's 11 years ago. He was saying that. He's not reading anything. He's just been faxed. Pat, do you mind, just really quick? He's talking about the Khomeini from, what, 2015? Was the same guy that's in right now? I know you mentioned this about the, because there was the first one?

• 1:14:22Patrick Bet-David?

  The old one is Khomeini.

• 1:14:23Speaker 04

  The old one.

• 1:14:24Patrick Bet-David?

  The new one is Khomeini.

• 1:14:24Speaker 04

  Okay, so the Khomeini.

• 1:14:26Patrick Bet-David?

  Ho, cha.

• 1:14:26Speaker 04

  So the old one's ho.

• 1:14:28Patrick Bet-David?

  Old O.

• 1:14:29Speaker 04

  Old.

• 1:14:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Old O.

• 1:14:30Speaker 04

  Nu A. So Chomani, I sent this to Rob. He wrote a manual of Islamic law. It's, I believe, what, 661 pages, Pat? It's called the Tahrir al Wasila. On page 229, Rob has the whole thing, volume 3. He says, look at that, look at on problem 12. Problem number 11. Intercourse with a woman is not allowed unless she attains the age of nine years, regardless whether the marriage is permanent or temporary. There is, however, no objection in other sexual enjoyments like touching. Tom, say the word.

• 1:15:01Tom Ellsworth?

  Lusciously.

• 1:15:03Speaker 04

  Good job, Tom.

• 1:15:04Tom Ellsworth?

  Lude and lascivious conduct.

• 1:15:05Speaker 04

  Hugging and rubbing the thighs even with a suckling infant. Do you understand what that means? Like, you could only marry them when they're nine, but if they're a suckling infant, you could touch them, hug them, rub the thighs, and even like, even at that age. So just, for all the people out there, yeah, that are like, oh, these guys were, he was cool. He's taking the freaking direction of Muhammad, the prophet.

• 1:15:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Why don't you read the next sentence? If a person has had intercourse with a girl before she has attained the age of nine years, but it has not resulted in, I don't know what that word is, ifta? He shall not be subjected to any punishment except that he shall be considered to have committed a sin. This is their ideology.

• 1:15:49Speaker 04

  Ideology, but besides to kill everybody, this is how, like, by the way, he wrote this by himself, 661 pages? You have no idea what other stuff is in there about people like us, especially Christians.

• 1:15:59Tom Ellsworth?

  The next sentence is horrifying, right? It's medical, medical. Except, if his intercourse resulted in something so that the urinal, menstrual, or the menstrual and fecal passages, that's the rectum, have become one. In other words, she's been torn open.

• 1:16:17Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:16:19Tom Ellsworth?

  It shall be so in the latter case.

• 1:16:22Patrick Bet-David?

  She shall be rendered perpetually prohibited to him, though according to more cautious opinion. It shall be so in the latter case. In any case, according to the stronger opinion, she shall not cease to be his wife.

• 1:16:37Speaker 04

  By the way, this is in Chad, this is, I took this right, Rob, can you show the PDF so people could see it? Just really quick, if you guys want to see the PDF, that's it. That's what he wrote, starts going down, Rob, that's. This is the original. That's the, that's him, that's him, and it was translated. Chomani. Yep. Just letting you know who you're dealing with. Can you show the picture of him, Rob?

• 1:16:57Speaker 03

  The original one?

• 1:16:58Speaker 04

  The OG, the one that they did in, um, uh...

• 1:17:01Speaker 03

  Well, what movie was that?

• 1:17:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, they announced that they, his son may become one and Trump called him weak. He said he's too weak.

• 1:17:08Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:17:08Patrick Bet-David?

  And we have the clip of, uh, Trump-

• 1:17:10Speaker 03

  Chomene's son.

• 1:17:11Tom Ellsworth?

  So who wrote this?

• 1:17:11Speaker 03

  Ayatollah rule, by the way?

• 1:17:12Patrick Bet-David?

  What?

• 1:17:13Speaker 03

  So, can I read, uh, an announcement? So, the new Ayatollah-

• 1:17:17Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 1:17:17Speaker 03

  Chomene-

• 1:17:18Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 1:17:18Speaker 03

  Not Chomene.

• 1:17:19Patrick Bet-David?

  Yep.

• 1:17:20Speaker 03

  Uh... The new supreme leader, after Chomene, his son, was treated for impotency in the UK. You know, the lineage, trying to have kids? So, he said he went to the, uh, private United Kingdom hospitals. He went to the US Embassy in 2008, went to London's Wellington and Cromwell hospitals for impotency issues. Had three extended visits to the UK, but needed a fourth visit for medical treatment. After a stay of two months, his wife finally became pregnant. Back in Iran, a healthy boy was born, uh, named Ali for his paternal grandfather. So, let me get this straight. Impotency aside,

• 1:18:04Speaker 03

  correct me if I'm wrong. The original Chomene sought refuge in where? France?

• 1:18:11Speaker 04

  Correct.

• 1:18:12Speaker 03

  So, the French protected the original supreme leader, and now, the new supreme leader, the son of the fallen supreme leader, sought medical treatment in the UK-

• 1:18:26Speaker 04

  Yup.

• 1:18:26Speaker 03

  Of all places.

• 1:18:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Are you surprised?

• 1:18:28Speaker 03

  So, France and the UK are basically helping the enemy succeed and give life? Walk me through this, Europe. We talk about the invasion that's going on in Europe. You're literally enabling these people to terrorize the world.

• 1:18:46Patrick Bet-David?

  Which, by the way, to say where this came from, this came from WikiLeaks. This story came from WikiLeaks in 2008. US diplomatic cables from 2008 later released by WikiLeaks. That's where this story is coming from. So, but anyways, I mean, that's, listen, that's-

• 1:19:03Speaker 03

  Why are these Middle Eastern autocrats, theocrats, going to Europe for safe passage? And for medical treatment? Walk me through that.

• 1:19:12Patrick Bet-David?

  Well, I mean, that goes to Spain, taking a position, saying the Spain Prime Minister hits back at Trump, uh, uh, uh, threat to cut trade over airbase dispute. And Spain categorically denies White House claim it will cooperate on an Iran war. They're just not playing ball with US at all. Rob, which of the clips do you have?

• 1:19:31Speaker 03

  They're just complete Marxists.

• 1:19:32Speaker 02

  So I have the Prime Minister of Spain, and I also have President Trump.

• 1:19:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Go for it.

• 1:19:36Speaker 02

  I have Caroline Levitt, uh, and her reports that Spain was working with the US. And then I also have a Spain, a, a Spanish diplomat saying that that's not true.

• 1:19:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead. 23 years ago, another US administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East. A war that, in theory, was said at the time to be waged to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, bring democracy, and ensure global security. But in reality, looking back in hindsight-

• 1:20:08Patrick Bet-David?

  What happened, Rob?

• 1:20:09Speaker 02

  Oh, that's the end of the clip. And then here's President Trump talking about Spain.

• 1:20:13Speaker 03

  But some of the European, like, Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain, first of all-

• 1:20:24Patrick Bet-David?

  He said he's gonna cut off everything with them. So this kind of goes to not necessarily, what's Caroline saying, Rob?

• 1:20:30Speaker 02

  Uh, this is Caroline Levitt where she says that Spain has agreed to cooperate with the US military.

• 1:20:36Patrick Bet-David?

  And they're fully denying it. With respect to Spain, I think they heard the President's message yesterday, uh, loud and clear. And it's my understanding, over the past several hours, of they've agreed to cooperate-

• 1:20:47Speaker 03

  cooperate with the US military and so I know that the US military is coordinating with their counterparts in Spain but the president expects all of our European allies of course to cooperate in this long sought after mission not just for the United States but also for Europe.

• 1:21:03Speaker 04

  But why, Adam, to go to your point, are you surprised that UK is accepting any Muslim, they're not, they refuse to go after the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs, his name, by the way, the son is Mualjaba Khomeini, son of Iran's supreme leader, he's reportedly to own luxury homes in Britain's worth $100 million and he's said to hold 11 properties on the Bishop's Avenue in Hampstead, North London, it's called Billionaires Row. Of course they're gonna do that, of course they are, and how can you be, how can we be cool with people that do that? That's the son, the apple doesn't fall that far from the tree, he's supposedly supposed to be next in line?

• 1:21:41Speaker 03

  So the Ayatollah's son, who's the new Ayatollah, you're telling me he has a $100 million compound in what city?

• 1:21:48Speaker 04

  Yes, luxury homes, combined $100 million, Hampstead, North London.

• 1:21:52Speaker 03

  In the UK?

• 1:21:53Speaker 04

  Yup.

• 1:21:54Speaker 03

  So we wanna, we wanna go to ground zero of why this is happening in London in the UK in Manchester, this is what's happening?

• 1:22:03Speaker 04

  Yup.

• 1:22:03Speaker 03

  You're just letting the Ayatollah just spend their money and buy property in your country?

• 1:22:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Rob, who is that, is that him saying that the story's not true?

• 1:22:12Speaker 02

  Yes, this is Spain's foreign minister that denies Caroline Leavitt's comment.

• 1:22:18Speaker 03

  A spokesperson from the White House has officially announced today that the government of Spain has agreed to extensive cooperation with the United States military. Is this true? I categorically deny it. On my way here, I received those statements and I had time to see and listen to them a bit. I categorically deny it. The position of the government of Spain regarding the war in the Middle East and the bombings in Iran regarding the use of our bases has not changed one bit. Therefore, I categorically deny it and honestly, I have no idea what this could be referring to or where it could be coming from. In any case, I want to make one thing clear to all Spaniards, both men and women. The position of the government of Spain regarding the use of the bases. The war in the Middle East and the bombings in Iran has not changed at all.

• 1:23:02Speaker 03

  Minister, but it's the White House spokesperson and she has been very explicit. Listen, please.

• 1:23:06Speaker 06

  With respect to Spain, I think they heard the president's message yesterday. With respect to Spain, I believe they heard the president-

• 1:23:12Patrick Bet-David?

  You can pause it right there. So, Tom, how do you process this?

• 1:23:15Tom Ellsworth?

  Well, one of two things. Spain is trying to keep somebody happy and they're letting us do it, but they're out there denying it, trying to keep somebody else happy.

• 1:23:22Patrick Bet-David?

  Who?

• 1:23:22Tom Ellsworth?

  I don't know.

• 1:23:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Who? Actually, think about it. Who would Spain want to keep happy?

• 1:23:27Tom Ellsworth?

  I don't know if they're trying to keep happy- Was it Spain that allowed just recently the influx of a ton of immigrants that came over there?

• 1:23:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Yup, they did.

• 1:23:35Tom Ellsworth?

  By the way, there is precedent here. You know, Operation El Dorado Canyon, which was, remember when Muammar Gaddafi stood up, took credit for the bombing of Pan Am flight in Lockerbie, Scotland? And also was implicated in the discotheque bombing that killed the American serviceman. Operation El Dorado Canyon was called by Reagan. He flew F-111 Aardvarks, which is an amazing Air Force aircraft at the time. Incredibly fast on the deck, down below 10,000 feet. And when it drops its payload, it can avoid fighters. So these are very sophisticated, great aircraft.

• 1:24:14Tom Ellsworth?

  He sent 20 of them or so from the UK all the way down. But France said, "You won't fly over our airspace." And the rumor has it that that is why a stray armament hit the French Embassy in Tripoli way over there, when we were there to put some holes in the airstrip so that Gaddafi couldn't launch against us. And then we bombed his compound. That's what happened. So, there's the long-ben conspiracy thing that the US sent a message to France. You know, the old caller ID. "Hey Vinnie, I got a caller ID from Langley. Said, 'Tonight's a good night to see a movie.'" And so, the embassy supposedly got tipped

• 1:24:58Tom Ellsworth?

  and had limited to no people present, but it got hit by an American bomb. Because the French wouldn't let us use their airspace. I'll take a stab at this and I'll be quick. Why is Spain-

• 1:25:08Speaker 03

  Spain defending Iran is because they're communist in Spain, straight up. And Iran is Islamist, and this isn't anything new. You know, there was an article that came out a few years ago, they said strange bedfellows, the progressive left and the Islamic right. It's because you would know this PBD, when the revolution happened, there was something called the Red Green Alliance. The communists get into bed with the Islamists, which is the horseshoe theory, the far left and the far right are closer than the the center, the moderates. So the useful idiots will help the Islamists basically take over the world. And then what did the Islamists do when they helped the the communists helped them take over Iran? What did they do?

• 1:25:52Speaker 03

  They killed all the college kids, all the progressives. So all the college kids, you know, if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it. All the college kids are doing the encampments. It's the same thing that's already happened. It starts on the college campuses, like useful idiots, they're wearing the kafias, they're advocating for Sharia law. And then when Sharia law happens, who are the first people that die? The gays for Gaza crew. It's already happened. So Spain is communist. Iran is Islamist, and they have a weird alliance. And what is their center foundation? They want to bring down America and the West. By the way, there's a clip of what's going on in the UK, if you want to show that.

• 1:26:33Speaker 03

  Talking about the Ayatollah hiding out and seeking refuge and getting medical treatment there. Rob, I thumbed up in the chat. The.

• 1:26:42Patrick Bet-David?

  The one I sent you two days ago.

• 1:26:44Speaker 03

  Unbelievable. Do you have that, Rob?

• 1:26:47Speaker 02

  Looking for it right now.

• 1:26:48Patrick Bet-David?

  It's in the text.

• 1:26:49Speaker 03

  Rob, I already sent it. Just look in the.

• 1:26:52Patrick Bet-David?

  I do have a couple of other things I want to get to. I mean, she just lights up.

• 1:26:55Speaker 03

  Text chat, Rob, the PBD podcast?

• 1:26:57Speaker 02

  I'm in it right now.

• 1:26:58Speaker 03

  Where at? That's you're on Patrick's thing, not PBD.

• 1:27:01Speaker 02

  Okay, thank you.

• 1:27:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Right there.

• 1:27:05Speaker 02

  You were saying?

• 1:27:06Speaker 03

  This one.

• 1:27:07Speaker 02

  You're saying you have a couple?

• 1:27:08Speaker 06

  Me to read that. And Jake is right, our amazing armed forces deserve all the credibility. They deserve good resources. They deserve to have our full support. They deserve to be protected for crying out loud. We were exposed out there. We knew that there was going to be war in that region, and we have left them underbended.

• 1:27:27Speaker 04

  France and Greece are having to run to our rescue. Do you know what? I've got a message, not just for this Prime Minister, but all of you. All of you, for the past 20 years, you have been self-indulgent, you have been naive, your policy principles have had totally the wrong priorities. It's been about keeping your seats, gaining your seats, pandering to communities who will never vote for you, who do not have our interests at heart. You didn't stop those pro-Palestine marches, you didn't prescribe the Muslim Brotherhood, you didn't prescribe the IRGC, you were weak in support of Israel, you have sabotaged our self-sufficiency when it comes to energy production, concreting those oil wells, banning exploratory drilling in the North Sea. What on earth do you think you're doing?

• 1:28:13Speaker 04

  You're domestic terrorists, you're sabotaging this nation, you're compromising food security by attacking the farmers. Well, guess what? When international maritime shipping routes close down, food can no longer reach our island. Everything that this government, and quite frankly, previous governments have been doing for far too long now, has been pathetic, it's been weak-willed, it has had its eye off the ball, it has been narcissistic, it's been about looking good in public, and at the same time, you have put Britain in a desperately precarious situation. You flooded this land with foreign enemies, you have not secured our borders because of pandering to out-of-date, not-fit-for-purpose international law and treaties that belong

• 1:28:57Speaker 04

  in the dustbin of history that defend our enemies and straightjacket our abilities. Can we find out if she's in jail because she said anything about Muslims? She's probably gonna be in jail.

• 1:29:06Patrick Bet-David?

  By the way, you wanna know what's crazy about her? I found out she's single. It's not even her show. She was a sit-in.

• 1:29:11Speaker 04

  Oh, gangster.

• 1:29:12Patrick Bet-David?

  She was a sit-in.

• 1:29:13Speaker 04

  You think they're gonna bring her back?

• 1:29:14Patrick Bet-David?

  This is like Wally Pip was sick, Lou Gehry takes over, hey, hire her. She stays for 2,100 days straight.

• 1:29:21Speaker 04

  She's incredible.

• 1:29:22Patrick Bet-David?

  She was incredible.

• 1:29:23Speaker 04

  But was she wrong?

• 1:29:24Patrick Bet-David?

  No, no, she's not wrong. She's set the right thing. Let me go to a couple of stories with Iran. So, the question then becomes replacement, okay? The question then becomes replacement. Spain plans to give half a million undocumented migrant legal status.

• 1:29:39Speaker 04

  Bingo.

• 1:29:40Patrick Bet-David?

  This is just a month ago.

• 1:29:41Speaker 04

  This is, can you go to the picture of Spain? So they're wearing the kafias in Spain, I mean...

• 1:29:49Speaker 03

  I think we should just take that woman's clip and just show it for every country in Europe. Every single country that is allowing this mass migration from the third world.

• 1:29:58Tom Ellsworth?

  That's New Spain.

• 1:29:59Speaker 03

  That does not share their ideology.

• 1:30:01Tom Ellsworth?

  And I don't want to cooperate, and I don't want to help.

• 1:30:02Speaker 03

  It's the strange death of Europe.

• 1:30:03Patrick Bet-David?

  So now you know who they are, so let them do what they're doing. You know the conversation I was having with this fellow yesterday?

• 1:30:08Tom Ellsworth?

  Gonna bomb your tacos.

• 1:30:08Patrick Bet-David?

  I said, "Look, why is it that the safest, lowest unemployment, best place in Europe to be Poland? Why? They don't allow a single person in. Stats are the stats, they have the lowest crime rate, lowest unemployment, they love living there, it's a Christian state. They don't take a single immigrant that's coming in, everybody else is taking them. It's a tough argument to debate, but let me go to this one here. Uh, go, go to what happened yesterday. Apparently Reza Pahlavi's team didn't filter this podcast.

• 1:30:36Tom Ellsworth?

  Oh man.

• 1:30:36Patrick Bet-David?

  That had him on. I'm only showing this for one reason. So he is, is, is played a very important role in Iran with, you know, helping out. And he gets on this podcast and his team is getting him on this interview to be done. He doesn't know these are two pranksters from Russia. And the guy introduces himself as Adolf. Rob, I don't know if you have the whole interview.

• 1:30:58Tom Ellsworth?

  I do.

• 1:30:59Patrick Bet-David?

  Do you have this?

• 1:31:00Tom Ellsworth?

  Yep.

• 1:31:00Speaker 03

  Unbelievable.

• 1:31:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, play from the beginning so we can just kind of see this and then go to it. Go ahead.

• 1:31:05Speaker 03

  That's great, and um, um, Reza Pahlavi is coming as well. I was just, I'm making sure the line was open.

• 1:31:11Patrick Bet-David?

  They're in Germany, I believe, while this is happening.

• 1:31:13Speaker 03

  He's just finishing another meeting.

• 1:31:15Tom Ellsworth?

  He's, this guy sounds British, right?

• 1:31:18Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 1:31:21Patrick Bet-David?

  So, how does your team not filter this out?

• 1:31:23Speaker 02

  Hello. Hello, good afternoon.

• 1:31:26Speaker 07

  Uh, good afternoon, dear Prince Pahlavi. Uh, so we're waiting for Adolf?

• 1:31:32Speaker 02

  No problem, we'll wait.

• 1:31:34Speaker 07

  Okay, okay.

• 1:31:37Speaker 07

  How do you like Munich?

• 1:31:39Speaker 02

  It's cold and rainy, so I can't say it's the best of times.

• 1:31:42Speaker 07

  Oh, yes.

• 1:31:44Speaker 02

  Yes. Now, this is my, uh, I think, fourth time in Munich in the last, uh, year. Oh, Adolf is here.

• 1:31:52Tom Ellsworth?

  Adolf is here.

• 1:31:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Nice to meet you, nice to see you.

• 1:31:58Speaker 02

  Good afternoon.

• 1:31:59Patrick Bet-David?

  These are comedians.

• 1:32:00Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah. This is a prank.

• 1:32:01Patrick Bet-David?

  I need to tell you that, uh, my father knew your father.

• 1:32:06Speaker 02

  I come.

• 1:32:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Really? Yes.

• 1:32:09Speaker 03

  What was that? Was it a?

• 1:32:11Speaker 07

  Grandfather, adult grandfather.

• 1:32:13Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes. My grandfather, your father.

• 1:32:17Speaker 03

  How interesting. Was he stationed in Iran in some capacity?

• 1:32:21Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes, he was. Did you hear what he just said? He served in the Iran Army. You understand what he said? Agent in Tehran. Anyways, this continues. He's trolling him.

• 1:32:31Speaker 03

  That's very interesting.

• 1:32:32Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me tell you, it continues. And then by the seventh minute mark or whatever, they figure out. How long is the interview, right? Right now, it's six minutes, forty-six seconds long. And then they realize, and they said, he's got to go. And they start celebrating like, we got him. I can't believe he fell for it. Pat, who do you put this on? Him or his team? I put ninety percent on his team. I put ten percent on him. And I'll tell you why. Ninety percent on his team because the team has to filter out anybody that wants to have you on the show. Remember, Trump got fooled one time with Sacha Baron Cohen. With Borat, yeah. And he says, I'm thinking about creating this business where the ice cream doesn't melt. Yeah.

• 1:33:07Speaker 04

  Well, it was Ali G.

• 1:33:08Patrick Bet-David?

  Ali G, yeah. He says. Boula kasha. Boula kasha. What'd you think about that? Within two minutes, Trump is like, no, I'm out of here. I gotta go. So by the way, it happens to everybody. Just so you know, it's not like. Who Hillary was on, between two plants? No, but that was Zach Galifianakis. She knew what she was doing with that. She thought that was a good idea. But if you look at this one here, fast forward at the end when Trump is realizing this is a game, and he goes to it, and look how it finishes. Go to the last ten seconds right there, Rob.

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• 1:36:05Tom Ellsworth?

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• 1:36:14Speaker 03

  How funny was that? I mean, that was 20 years ago.

• 1:36:16Patrick Bet-David?

  So he got it and he kind of walked out. But to me, I put 90% on the team, 10% on him. And by the way, the moment that he says, "My name is Adolf," you got that mustache and you got...

• 1:36:28Speaker 03

  In a German accent.

• 1:36:30Speaker 04

  Six more on six minutes because they're all watching. How do you not? And I get what you're saying.

• 1:36:35Speaker 03

  Alarm bells should go off immediately. Maybe 20 seconds?

• 1:36:39Speaker 04

  I don't know if there's any Adolf.

• 1:36:40Speaker 03

  Hello, and welcome to the Adolf Show with a little mustache within 10 seconds.

• 1:36:45Patrick Bet-David?

  When he says, "My grandfather, my father knew your father." At that point, you have to know where this is going. But I'm gonna tell you, this is gonna be no news. It's gonna go by within 24 hours. If it hasn't already moved on, then people are gonna move on.

• 1:36:56Speaker 03

  Because it was via Zoom.

• 1:36:58Patrick Bet-David?

  No, it doesn't matter what it is.

• 1:36:59Speaker 03

  If this were in real life and you don't see that, because you could say, "Oh, the lighting, this and that." He has at least an excuse, a little bit more.

• 1:37:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Team, 90% team. Filter better, filter better, filter better. I think he's about to go on All In Podcast here soon. And he's gonna be doing a lot more of these. His team needs to filter these things out better. Generally, don't do an interview with a guy named Adolf from Germany. It's a bad idea. I would just say like if in the future, a host name is Adolf from Germany, I wouldn't do that podcast.

• 1:37:27Speaker 03

  It's one of your top seven rules for filtering.

• 1:37:29Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, like we do a podcast course and I teach people the top 20 rules. I think it's like rule number two or three, right? Never do a podcast with a guy named Adolf from Germany.

• 1:37:37Speaker 03

  And despite popular opinion, Hitler wasn't a cool guy. I don't know if you heard that.

• 1:37:42Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. Yeah, we've kind of heard that all over the place. All right, okay, so let's go to the next story. Kristi Noem. Vinnie, what happened there? Okay, Trump fires, this is AP. Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership. Rob, is this a clip or is this?

• 1:38:02Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:38:03Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead, Rob. Yeah, just speaking with some folks who have a lot of knowledge of this situation. I'm told the president spoke with Kristi Noem just before that Truth Social post went out. Which means that when she was on camera giving her remarks and didn't actually touch on what had just happened, she was...

• 1:38:18Speaker 02

  Aware of what was happening. I'm further told that Corey Lewandowski is expected to leave with her. Of course, the rumors of an affair between the two were one of the factors that I'm told compelled the president to remove her as DHS secretary. Both of them are married and she had faced questions about her alleged affair during testimony on the Hill this week. Under oath, she did not deny it. She called the reports garbage, but she never denied sexual relations with Corey Lewandowski. And I'm told that he's expected to leave his post as a special government employee and advisor to her when she departs the Department of Homeland Security.

• 1:38:57Patrick Bet-David?

  Pause it right there. And the replacement's gonna be who? It's gonna be a...

• 1:39:00Speaker 02

  Mark Wayne Mullen.

• 1:39:01Patrick Bet-David?

  Which, he's a tough guy, right? I mean, there's a lot of clips. You wanna play a couple of clips? Maybe play one of the clips that he just... Well, we played the clip that he had with Bernie Sanders last week. This is him and who? Sean O'Brien?

• 1:39:13Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:39:14Patrick Bet-David?

  Go ahead.

• 1:39:15Tom Ellsworth?

  Mr. O'Brien himself and his behavior, as everybody knows, and it's here in the last time, him and I kinda had a back and forth. Appreciate your demeanor today, it's quite different. But after you left here, you got pretty excited about the keyboard. In fact, you tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times. And let me read what the last one said. It said, "Greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made." Sorry, I wish he was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself and my wife was running the office, because I sure remember working pretty hard and long hours. Pretends like he's self-made. What a clown. Fraud.

• 1:39:57Tom Ellsworth?

  Always has been, always will be. Quit the tough guy act in these senate hearings. You know where to find me. Any place, any time, cowboy. Sir, this is a time, this is a place. If you wanna run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here. Okay, that's fine. Perfect. You wanna do it now? I'd love to do it right now. Well, stand your butt up then. You stand your butt up. Oh, hold on. Oh, stop it.

• 1:40:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Is that your solution, every public? No, no, sit down. That's right, Eric. Sit down. Okay. You know, you're a United States. You're a Republican. So he got the position over Christie. And she got a, a different job, Rob. I don't know what the job is. Envoy, what's the job for, uh? I am pleased to announce that highly respected United States Senator, greater call Oklahoma, Mark Wayne Mullin will become US Secretary of Homeland Security effective March 31st, 2026. The current Secretary Kristi Noem, who served us well, and has that numerous and spectacular results, especially on the border, will be moving to the special envoy uh, uh, for the Shield of the Americas, our new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere. We are announcing on Saturday in Doral, Florida. I thank Christie for her service at Homeland. Okay. Uh, Vinnie, thoughts?

• 1:41:06Speaker 04

  I mean, not a, I mean, what is, is this the second firing of somebody high, uh, higher up? I know Mark Wayne Mullin, but I, I believe he's the guy that was talking about, and basically saying it was okay that Michael Burge shot and killed Ashley Babbitt on January 6th, as if she deserved it. That's the same guy. I'm, I mean, he is tough and yeah, he's a tough guy. I'm not a fan when he, when he said something like that, but in regard to her, Pat, there was a, a New York Times story that said, uh, Homeland Security Kristi Noem told Congress that Donald Trump personally approved $220 million DHS advertising campaign that prominently featured her uh, in the border security and immigration ads, which, um, you know, that's, with all the stuff that's happening, with all the people that are struggling, with all the affordability and all that,

• 1:41:51Speaker 04

  you're spending that much stuff to promote what? To promote you and then?

• 1:41:54Patrick Bet-David?

  Not all the money was spent on her.

• 1:41:56Speaker 04

  Not all the money was spent.

• 1:41:57Patrick Bet-David?

  You know, portion's gonna be spent on, she is the face.

• 1:41:59Speaker 04

  She is the face.

• 1:42:00Patrick Bet-David?

  So they're probably gonna use that.

• 1:42:01Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 1:42:02Patrick Bet-David?

  In the clips, but I don't know if all that money was spent on her.

• 1:42:04Speaker 04

  Probably not, yeah, not at her, at the hearing. Uh, Trump denied authorizing the campaign and remove no, and that's, that's one of the reasons, but the fact that the Corey Lewandowski thing, everybody, like those rumors, everybody talks about them, everybody knows about it. She's married and he's married. And this is just, and I know we're gonna get into the story later about what Washington is and what these people are all about. I think it's disgusting. And the fact that they let it go on this long and you put her in front of her performance, if that's what you wanna call it, was abysmal. Tom, did you see?

• 1:42:33Tom Ellsworth?

  I want you to add something. I'm not gonna add, I'll let you add it. So they ask her that question about having an affair, about all that. And then what do they do a day and a half later? What do they vote not to release?

• 1:42:45Speaker 04

  They vote 357 members of the House voted against Nancy Mace's bill that would have released all the sexual harassment and sexual misconduct reports of members of Congress.

• 1:42:57Tom Ellsworth?

  And the settlements that were paid with taxpayer dollars.

• 1:42:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, taxpayer dollars.

• 1:43:00Tom Ellsworth?

  Here's 10 grand, sign a nondisclosure, leave and all this.

• 1:43:04Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:43:04Tom Ellsworth?

  You know what? If we have to remove people for drinking and affairs, we don't have a working government.

• 1:43:10Speaker 04

  Yup. You're right, absolutely right. Tom, and that's why?

• 1:43:13Tom Ellsworth?

  So it's just hypocrisy. It's the game of gotcha and it's just hypocrisy. And by the way, it's a rumor. They're alleging this against Secretary Noem now leading America Shield and Corey Lewandowski, who's apparently gonna be leaving according to certain reports. You know what? You know what? Those are allegations. Nobody knows. What's the real thing? The real thing is how did she do her job? What's happened to the border and where's she going now?

• 1:43:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:43:37Tom Ellsworth?

  Right? And if you're gonna put this standard up, like I said, we don't have a working government.

• 1:43:41Speaker 04

  Yeah, because don't get me wrong, Pat, the border closed. She's not the borders czar, but she's in charge of, compare her to Alejandro Mayorkas, night and day.

• 1:43:50Patrick Bet-David?

  How did she do though? If you think about her job, guys, she shut down the border.

• 1:43:53Speaker 04

  No, I love it. I'm saying, oh, I'm giving her a point. As the job, I absolutely love. I love the job. Check. I'm not gonna lie though, there's a clip that I sent Rob, about I don't like this shift now because of all the backlash, which was all orchestrated to make them look like they were Gestapo and stuff. Trump came out, Rob, I slacked you the clip. This is Trump now saying, Pat, that the illegals, it's like, it's okay if they work hard and they were here. And mind you, let me say this. I think that there needs to be a process put in that if you have been here for five or 10 years and you haven't broken the law, there's a process that you talked about this, Pat, about paying a tax and all that stuff. But the shift is now, you know, they removed 700 agents out of Minnesota. So to me, that's backing, giving them the victory. Okay?

• 1:44:37Speaker 04

  And then this is Trump talking about the recap about what he wants to do with illegals now. Go ahead, Rob.

• 1:44:44Speaker 02

  Many countries opened up their prisons and dropped them into the United States. Those are the people we're getting out. And we have a lot of heart, and I said, you gotta lighten up on this.

• 1:44:54Speaker 04

  Gotta lighten up.

• 1:44:54Speaker 02

  We have a lot of heart for people. They came in illegally, but they're good people and they're working now in farms and they're working in luncheonettes and hotels and all. And we're not looking, we're looking to get the criminals out right now, the criminals.

• 1:45:10Speaker 04

  But that's the shift of, of the, the. Thing was, anybody, I mean, pause it, anybody that was here illegally needs to go. That was the initial message and everybody was on board. Seventy-eight percent of Americans were like, let's go. And ninety percent of Republicans, like, that's what we want. So it's like weird.

• 1:45:26Patrick Bet-David?

  That clip is from last year, though.

• 1:45:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, last year. But what I'm saying is, it's still like, it's still happening to where you're, you know, she's getting fired because of the image, but the job, the job that she's doing is amazing. There's been how many crossings, Rob? Zero, zero illegal crossings.

• 1:45:41Patrick Bet-David?

  I have a completely different perspective on this.

• 1:45:43Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 1:45:44Patrick Bet-David?

  If you're married and you get offered a job like this and you're, you know, like, imagine what your schedule's like right now, working with, uh, Trump. What do you think your schedule's like?

• 1:45:54Speaker 04

  Bananas.

• 1:45:55Patrick Bet-David?

  What, what, what, what do you think, what do you think you're doing? What do you think you're at? What do you think you're traveling to? What do you think you're doing? Late nights.

• 1:46:01Tom Ellsworth?

  No, it's twenty-four seven.

• 1:46:02Patrick Bet-David?

  It's twenty-four.

• 1:46:04Speaker 04

  Your phone's on.

• 1:46:04Patrick Bet-David?

  Seven, non-stop.

• 1:46:06Tom Ellsworth?

  You sleep on airplanes.

• 1:46:08Patrick Bet-David?

  You are, you literally have no life. Uh, it's not a job for everybody. And there's an impact on your personal life. A lot of these guys, when they get in, I mean, we're gonna see the news twelve months later, eighteen months later, what's gonna happen with a husband and wife? If there's anything there. But there's a difference between being a governor of a state and you come home to your family every night and you're a one-hour flight away, two-hour flight away from coming home because you're running what? South Dakota? I, I think, is that where, where she was? And Rob, am I saying it correctly? South Dakota, if I'm, uh, I believe I'm saying it correctly? Yeah, there's a difference between that and versus having a job like this where you're on the road. That is a very, very hard job. When I was in the army, I wanted to go eighteen Delta because I spoke five languages.

• 1:46:51Patrick Bet-David?

  And they said before you do 18 Delta to, you know, go become special forces, go interview with them to see if you want a life or not. I went and did the interview and they said, how you want to live? He says, look, he says, hey, Jackson, how many marriages? I'm on my fourth. Yourself, three. You, three. You, second, but we're about to get a divorce. You. That's what he did. He says, but let me tell you, the stories and the things we've done is absolutely amazing. We saved the, you gotta love this job more than anything else you do. This is a very, very, very heavy job that is not for the average person. Not saying she's average, but there's a lot of consequences of getting a job like this. Adam.

• 1:47:31Speaker 03

  Well, I'll give you my take. Uh, it's about time Trump fired somebody. Whoever it was, we need a shake up. You can't, uh, rest on your laurels. And if you look at the cabinet that he's put together, uh, in my opinion, she was one of the first to be on the chopping block. Her or maybe Pam Blondie. But you got Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War crushing it right now. Rubio, maybe the best ever. Uh, Scott Besson, doing great. Lutnik with the tariffs, we'll see where that goes. Uh, obviously you have Bobby Kennedy doing his thing. So in my opinion, she had a tough job and she's a pretty face and you have to put lipstick on a pig sometimes. He thought you'd put a pretty girl in there and make everything look nice. This is an ugly job. Tom Homan, getting people to shut down the border, getting people out of the country. This is not

• 1:48:14Speaker 03

  an easy job. And in my opinion, he's, he looked at her and he goes, all right, pretty girl, tough job. Maybe we can put lipstick on a pig. Make this thing look a little prettier than it, that it will be. And nobody cared. So now he brings in this tough guy, Mark Wayne Mullin. And he's gonna get stuff done. So it's time to get serious with ICE, you know? You could put N in front of the word ICE and call it nice. But it's not nice. People, I, I agree with Vinnie. There should be a pathway for citizenship for the vast majority of these people. But the criminals gotta go. The illegal aliens that are not supposed to be, gotta go. This is what we voted for. That's my opinion. By the way, this guy Mark Wayne Mullin? Do you know where he went viral?

• 1:48:54Speaker 03

  Do you remember when Pete Hegseth was being accused of not being prepared to be the Secretary of Defense of War?

• 1:49:02Patrick Bet-David?

  Yes.

• 1:49:03Speaker 03

  Rob, I sent you this, and he starts, he's like, "Really?" Talking about sexual misconduct, this is the perfect callback, when he goes, "How many people in here don't drink on the job? How many people in here, we're doing votes, go out and do a little happy hour and come back? Give me a break! Give me a joke!" Is what he yelled out. Do you have that? This is what put him on the map.

• 1:49:24Speaker 04

  Afghanistan, where 13 soldiers died, and we left thousands of Americans behind, underneath Secretary Austin's lead. Did one person, did one person get held accountable during that time? I don't know if anybody got held accountable for Afghanistan withdrawal, but let's talk about, let's talk about that. And let's talk about the turmoil to which, or my colleagues on the other side of the dais wants to talk about. Let's talk about that turmoil. Underneath Secretary Austin, who is a general, by the way.

• 1:49:56Speaker 03

  You might need to go forward when he talks about.

• 1:49:57Speaker 04

  I remember this, because he's talking about the drinking.

• 1:49:59Patrick Bet-David?

  We can't watch the whole thing, but I remember it, yeah.

• 1:50:01Speaker 03

  But, but, but, but, hold on. This has to do with the sexual misconduct thing.

• 1:50:04Speaker 04

  But let's be honest, I think she's done a good job. When your personal life and the traveling and stuff, and you can't stay faithful, and that's the image, that's, that's when you gotta go. She did, by the way, she was doing a fantastic job. I feel safer with her doing, behind the reins, with her being the, Alejandro Mayorkas, the border is secure. When you, you knew he was lying. The border was wide open. But now, when you're cheating, when you're cheating on your husband, allegedly, he's cheating on his wife, and, and, and he's been in the, and, you know, rumors about him hooking up with chicks all the time, that's a, that's a bad look on the administration. The job is good, bro. The job is fine, because Trump's giving the orders. Close the border, easy money. Get rid of the, the criminals, easy. That's it. I think she's doing a good job.

• 1:50:47Speaker 03

  Well, here's the question. Kristi Noem went viral about a week ago.

• 1:50:51Patrick Bet-David?

  On this show. I don't know if that had anything to do with it. What's your take on what happened with that interview? Or the firing being because she was on the show? I don't know. I didn't, I mean, this, she went viral. What she went viral for is talking about how they were spying on her. Yeah. She talked about the story of them being spied on and in her office and Elon Musk helped find out who was spying on her. And that clip was all over the place, but I don't think if that has to do with this. I think a part of this has to do with the, you're talking about this clip here that she had. This was everywhere. Yeah, this was everywhere. But no, this is, this is based on the hearing. This is based on the hearing. And the way the hearing was done, you have to realize Trump likes, people would not have loose lips.

• 1:51:35Patrick Bet-David?

  You can keep secrets. Trump likes guys that are good on media, they can handle themselves well. He likes guys that know how to fight back, right? Fight back and defend and you kind of know how to, what's the thing he says? Maneuver, yeah. And maneuver. It's called the weave, Andy. Yeah, he, he likes for you to be able to have that and. Stay on message, don't get in front of him. If you watch the press conference, you know, between her and Bondi. Bondi was extremely aggressive, attacking back, what about you when you did this? What about this? What about this and what about that? That's Trump's style. And Christie kind of went in a different style. And like almost over explaining herself and he says, yeah, I don't know about this. We have to kind of move on, my opinion. Yeah. On what happened and then look, you know, it is what it is.

• 1:52:20Patrick Bet-David?

  You got to move on and get to the next thing again. When we met her a few weeks ago in DC. It was when the tensions were already high. Nobody really knew what was going to happen next and it led to this. So let me get to the next story here. Next story I want to get to is Nancy Grace. Rob, you want to play that clip? I mean Nancy, this kind of leads to that. House kills. Nancy Mace. I'm sorry, Nancy Mace. House kills effort to release all congressional sexual misconduct and harassment reports. Which is kind of weird, right? The House on Wednesday voted to scuttle an effort by Republican Nancy Mace to shed more light on sexual misconduct allegations against members of Congress and here's what happened.

• 1:53:04Patrick Bet-David?

  In the vote, by the way, just so you know how close it was. 357 to 65. Wow, that was really close. The House voted to refer the Mace resolution to committee and move that effectively killed it. Go ahead, Rob.

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• 1:55:46Speaker 02

  All right, I support Representative Mace. Mace's subpoena here as well as the amendment to it. And I just think it's really disgusting how this institution protects itself because y'all just half of them voted to send this stuff to House Ethics where you know it's going to die. We know that members of Congress are using taxpayer dollars to pay off sexual harassment. We just had a member of Congress literally sexually harass a woman that then lit herself on fire, and you guys all protected him. You guys all protected him. My own side, your side. And so if you guys want to talk about victims, if you want to go out and virtue signal, and then you guys are going to kill her stuff on the floor and then try to pass it. Yeah, of course, we should subpoena all of this stuff. But just, I'm not going to sit here and play games. I think it's a complete fraud. I think that's why the American people hate us. I think the midterms are coming up, and everyone should go on

• 1:56:29Speaker 02

  record for this. And I hope that members are exposed for this. I hope it goes back, I think, to the 70s. Because it's wrong that it's happening. It's wrong that we cover up for it. It's wrong that we can't center our own side, because people are busy making deals because you guys don't want to center your side. It's a deal that's been cut. People hate us for it. So yeah, I support it.

• 1:56:45Patrick Bet-David?

  Tom.

• 1:56:46Tom Ellsworth?

  Yeah, alcoholics vote against bill forcing bars to close early. You know, it's like, that's exactly what we have here. This is an embarrassment. This is an embarrassment. And what they're saying, ladies and gentlemen, and this really is so disappointing. This is why the Epstein files aren't out. This is why you have controversies and things don't get out. Because if you have one moment of transparency here. By the way, this is also why we don't have the line item veto. The line item veto, remember, they talk about this, Pat? The line item veto would say that you could look inside of a bill and say, wait a minute, this is an Inflation Reduction Act. Why do we have a billion dollars going to Ukraine? How is that going to reduce inflation? That line item comes out of here. So it would

• 1:57:31Tom Ellsworth?

  force us to be voting on Very specific things, but what you have here is you have a corrupt system and the corrupt system doesn't want to be have light shone into the dark corners because if you show light on this, guess what? Half these people don't get elected, Pat. We're going into election. How many people do you think not get elected if this comes out?

• 1:57:51Speaker 04

  All of them, what do you mean? 357 of them.

• 1:57:54Tom Ellsworth?

  Now you're not, not, it's, it's no longer allegations of impropriety. It's like Senator O'Shaughnessy was $40,000 paid to Bubbles Jenkins that worked on your staff and, and suppose they had a harassment thing?

• 1:58:10Speaker 04

  Bubbles Jenkins, I like that one.

• 1:58:11Tom Ellsworth?

  Right. It's like, you know, uh, yeah, that, that's a, that's a private matter. No, the American taxpayer paid 40,000 to Bubbles and we have a non-disclosure agreement.

• 1:58:20Speaker 04

  Is this true, Manny?

• 1:58:21Tom Ellsworth?

  But, but Pat, that's what, Pat, that's what would happen. And what we're hearing about is these are 10, 20, even $50,000 settlements that we're hearing about, Pat. And if all of these go out, half these people wouldn't get reelected in the fall because it's no longer an allegation. It would be truth.

• 1:58:38Speaker 04

  How, how this got like, if you, think about this, guys. 182 Democrats and 175 Republicans said, you know what? We're not going to release it. It's almost bipartisan. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. And by the way, on that list, just to make a point, AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Ilhan Omar, Jamie Raskin, all these, I don't want to hear any of them, any of them say one thing ever again about transparency with Epstein. Ever again, they're voting to protect their own people. And I'm going to quote the late great George Carlin that he said, "It's a big club and you ain't in it." There, it's all, Pat, they all take care of each other. They all look out for each other. You know who she was talking about?

• 1:59:17Tom Ellsworth?

  You know Omar's protecting somebody because can you picture her sexually harassing someone? Impossible.

• 1:59:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly. So a former stat, you know who she was talking about? Paulina Luna, Pat? Republican Representative Tony Gonzalez named Regina Santos Avila. She died in September 2025. She set herself on fire in front of her own home in Uvalde, Texas. They ruled it a suicide. Later reporting revealed that she had an affair with Gonzalez while working in his office, which violates the house rules. Okay. Text messages show that the congressman asking her for explicit photos. This is all disgusting and you named it Tom. Look at the timing. Look at everything that's happening with Epstein. Okay. About what they knew and what they didn't know. And this is why, this is why the trust in government, the Gallup poll.

• 2:00:00Speaker 04

  16% of Americans, only 16%, trust the government. They cover up everything. You have the DOJ lying about this. You have them lying. It's, it's bad. I've never been this disgusted and disappointed ever in my entire, once I realized what politics was, than this right here. That's a spit in the face. That's us saying, hey, you know, my other friends on the aisle, we're going to protect you. You protect us and let's keep going. So only 65, how many of them said?

• 2:00:26Tom Ellsworth?

  And this is protecting the guilty? Imagine what happens when now you have protecting the guilty like this, and then you're going to have condemnation of the innocent because there's going to be AI comes out.

• 2:00:36Speaker 04

  Of course.

• 2:00:36Tom Ellsworth?

  In the middle of um, um, elections. And it's like, wait, I never did that. I wasn't with that. Oh no, you're on this website. You're over here. You're doing this. Just wait. We're not going to be able to tell the difference between truth and fiction.

• 2:00:46Speaker 04

  Of course.

• 2:00:47Tom Ellsworth?

  In the mudslinging that is our electoral, election system.

• 2:00:49Speaker 04

  Thomas Massey, I want to say last year came out and he, he was held a piece of paper in Congress.

• 2:00:54Tom Ellsworth?

  He came out?

• 2:00:54Speaker 04

  And he said 17, so look at this. That was perfect. Well, Robbie, thank you. 17.2 million was paid out for various workplace disputes from 1997 to 2017. Guys, in 20 years.

• 2:01:05Tom Ellsworth?

  That's almost a million a year.

• 2:01:06Speaker 04

  Almost a million dollars a year, Adam, just to tell people to shut up. And by the way, that's tax dollars. That's our money. To keep girls from not saying anything because of the perverts that are in Congress. Okay? This is unbelievable, but it's, it's so, it's infuriating. They're all perverts. It's like Epstein Island in Washington. No, Adam.

• 2:01:26Tom Ellsworth?

  264, that's like half the number of, that's a little under half the number of electoral votes. What? Call them perverts. But by the way, I, it, I'm still shocked. You're surprised by all this stuff.

• 2:01:35Speaker 04

  No, I'm not, no.

• 2:01:36Tom Ellsworth?

  We expected it.

• 2:01:36Speaker 04

  I'm not, I'm disappointed and I'm disgusted. I'm not shocked.

• 2:01:40Tom Ellsworth?

  Expectations are here.

• 2:01:41Speaker 04

  No, no.

• 2:01:42Tom Ellsworth?

  Then reality hits here.

• 2:01:43Speaker 04

  But Adam, these are expectations here.

• 2:01:45Tom Ellsworth?

  What I'm shocked is the vote, the size of the gap of the vote. Guys, they're going to protect themselves. That's like saying, hey, guys, we want to.

• 2:01:52Speaker 03

  Uh, do term limits. We're gonna take a vote. No, there's no vote. Hey, guys, we wanna increase our pay. Yeah, we all vote for it.

• 2:01:58Tom Ellsworth?

  Balance budget amendment, line item veto. No, no, can't have that.

• 2:02:01Speaker 04

  But Adam, but I don't wanna hear, but here's my point is, I never want to hear, Adam, these are the people making the rules and the laws for me and you to just live our lives. They're disgusting human beings, Adam. You want, you wanna cover up the fact that sexual harassment, Adam? We don't know the level of what they're talking about.

• 2:02:17Speaker 03

  Let me try to explain, maybe.

• 2:02:18Speaker 04

  What, explain what?

• 2:02:20Speaker 03

  Let me, let me, let me explain maybe how politics and power works. Remember the song back in the day from the Lox and Lil Kim? She goes, first you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the respect. So you get money, power, respect, and then you got sex, drugs, and rock and roll. So what's the famous quote about when someone has money just like power?

• 2:02:40Speaker 03

  Money doesn't change someone, it just reveals or amplifies who they already are. So these people take power. If you're a disciplined person that gets stuff done and you're gonna be faithful to your wife and not be a total creep, you will be that person when you get money and power. But if you're an impulsive person who's reckless, once you get the money and the power, you're gonna do weird things, and that's what these people are doing. That's my opinion on this.

• 2:03:04Speaker 04

  But Adam, you know what they should be doing? You know what, you know what just happened a couple of days before, the day before? No, no. Yeah, on top of that, Pat, you saw what Tim Tebow came in front of Congress, sat there and was talking about the renewed hope act.

• 2:03:15Tom Ellsworth?

  Pleading for the protection of kids.

• 2:03:17Speaker 04

  And Rob, you could, Rob, I sent you the photo of this map. Pat, do you mind if I, I talk about this really quick? So, Representative Lauren Lee, this bill would add more than 200 specialized DHS agents focused on identifying child victims, prosecuting predators, and working through the massive backlog of cases reported by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Guys, in 2024 alone, the organization received more than 20.5 million tips and 29.2 million incidents of child sexual abuse. Now, during his testimony, and for you guys that haven't seen this, look at this map. He showed this map in front of Congress in the United States, more than 300, Adam, and 38,000 red dots. Each dot represents a unique IP address that has been caught trading or

• 2:04:02Speaker 04

  Distributing child sex abuse material. This is just six months, Pat, okay? Six months, and the majority of this material is child rape material. I hate that I had to say that, world. They're watching this daily, and mind you, this is six months, and these aren't, mind you, these, the average offender, Pat, of these people have 13-plus victims in their entire lifetime.

• 2:04:23Patrick Bet-David?

  Stop it.

• 2:04:24Speaker 04

  13-plus victims, meaning physical victims. Average in their lifetime. Tim Tebow did this in front of Congress. Now, the majority of these cases, guys, that you're watching on this map, were children younger than 12. It's the fastest group of child trafficking victims is 12-years-old. And what's not even more, do you see the blue map? The blue dots, Rob? Go to blue dots. Those are actual investigations, Patrick. Look at the blue dots. Those are the only investigations happening from all these disgusting demons that we're surrounded by. So, Adam, to the point, they're worried about protecting perverts in Washington? This is the problem.

• 2:05:00Speaker 03

  Okay, so let me ask you.

• 2:05:01Speaker 04

  This is what you need to be doing.

• 2:05:02Speaker 03

  Let me ask you one thing.

• 2:05:02Speaker 04

  What?

• 2:05:03Speaker 03

  And I'm being dead-ass serious.

• 2:05:04Speaker 04

  Okay, go.

• 2:05:05Speaker 03

  If you could only stop one of the two following things, if you could only, Epstein Island or all this? What would you want to see stopped?

• 2:05:17Speaker 04

  I think it coincides, Adam. I think it's both. I think it's, I, I, that's a, that's a, I'm not saying it's like a gotcha question, but, Adam, these are the same people, and mind you, these are, hold on one second.

• 2:05:26Speaker 03

  Let me help you out.

• 2:05:27Speaker 04

  Go ahead.

• 2:05:28Speaker 03

  This is what the problem is.

• 2:05:29Speaker 04

  No, Adam, it's, no, no, I, I believe they're both connected.

• 2:05:32Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 2:05:32Speaker 04

  Let me, you asked me, let me finish, can I finish?

• 2:05:34Speaker 03

  It's sex trafficking.

• 2:05:36Speaker 04

  Let me.

• 2:05:36Speaker 03

  This is, this is the worst.

• 2:05:38Speaker 04

  Adam, they're watching children getting raped. These people are watching children get raped and they're getting off on it.

• 2:05:43Speaker 03

  This has nothing to do with Epstein, is my point.

• 2:05:45Speaker 04

  Yes, it does.

• 2:05:46Speaker 03

  There's a, there's a, there's a problem in society. Everyone's so focused on Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, we're losing sight that this is the problem.

• 2:05:53Speaker 04

  Can I say one thing?

• 2:05:54Speaker 03

  That there's millions of Epsteins.

• 2:05:56Speaker 04

  Are you ready?

• 2:05:56Speaker 03

  And stories you never hear about.

• 2:05:58Speaker 04

  Okay, are you ready for this?

• 2:05:59Speaker 03

  And everyone's so focused on Epstein.

• 2:06:00Patrick Bet-David?

  Let him make his point, Adam.

• 2:06:02Speaker 04

  Adam, you asked a question, bro. And you just go, how do you ask a question and then go on?

• 2:06:06Speaker 03

  Because I asked you to pick one and you can't do it.

• 2:06:08Speaker 04

  No, because it's, because, Adam.

• 2:06:09Patrick Bet-David?

  Let him explain, go ahead, Vinny.

• 2:06:10Speaker 04

  These are six months of people using i- IP addresses in the United States looking at child rape.

• 2:06:15Speaker 03

  I, I get it.

• 2:06:16Speaker 04

  Let me finish. Have any, do you think any of these people in six months are involved with Epstein? Or have been to the island or no new Epstein on these dots and just six months? This is all connected.

• 2:06:26Speaker 03

  Separate.

• 2:06:27Speaker 04

  No, no, Adam.

• 2:06:28Speaker 03

  You're saying all these people were on Epstein Island?

• 2:06:30Speaker 04

  Do you think everybody that's been involved with Epstein? Everybody from the Clintons to everybody to that they're not sitting in the United States right now. Watching child porn. You think because they left? Hold on. You think because they left raping or molesting or murdering cannibalizing these freaking girls that were trafficked? Now, when they come here, everything's fine and dandy?

• 2:06:49Speaker 03

  Do you know what the iceberg effect is?

• 2:06:51Speaker 04

  No, I, I left Titanic. I know that it sinks the ship.

• 2:06:54Speaker 03

  This will help you. Go show an image of the iceberg effect. And in my opinion, this is what's going on with Epstein. That you only see the top little part of the, of the iceberg. There you go. Any, any one of those. And it's probably, that's probably not the best one. Okay? Everyone's so focused on Epstein when the problems go so freaking deep. And yes, Epstein is a convenient villain. He's also not here to defend himself. He's the devil. The problem is society has a freaking problem. All those little dots, hundreds of thousands of them. They weren't all on Epstein Island.

• 2:07:29Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 2:07:29Speaker 03

  It's weirdo creeps in weird, in all different types of rooms and cities with their computer. The iceberg effect. Here it is. Thank you, Rob. You only see 10% of above. This is what you normally see. You say, this is what's going on here. When the real story is 90% below. So in my opinion, Epstein, if you want to put it this way, is the noise. The signal is the 90% that there's creeps in society that we need to focus on and the real true villain is your boy. Alejandro Mayorkas that let hundreds of thousands, if not millions of kids be exposed to what's going on here. So I don't have, uh, I, I feel bad for the Epstein victims. I get them, but there's dozens of them, hundreds of them.

• 2:08:14Speaker 03

  There's hundreds of thousands or millions of kids that are dealing with those red dots. Put those red dots up again? If you can, Rob, that's the real problem here. And everyone's so focused on Epstein, and I get it. It's a great story to talk about, but this is the real problem.

• 2:08:29Speaker 04

  Adam, but you know why people are focused on Epstein? And to me, it's a trickle-down effect. The problem with the Epstein thing is, it was going on forever, and everybody knew, Adam, that those dot-type people were not only making decisions, were not only involved with pandemic stuff and shadow 9/11 commissions. And I get what you're saying, Adam. We are surrounded by these disgusting demons. We are surrounded by them.

• 2:08:53Speaker 03

  Yeah, I agree with that.

• 2:08:53Speaker 04

  And this map is only hitting the ones that are stupid enough to go online. What about the sophisticated pedophiles, Adam? What about those people? So the argument, I think your argument doesn't match that I'm not even focused on Epstein. What I'm saying is, Adam, they're everywhere.

• 2:09:07Patrick Bet-David?

  Okay.

• 2:09:07Speaker 03

  They're everywhere.

• 2:09:08Patrick Bet-David?

  They're saying the same thing, and I'm saying focused on the everywhere. To me, the difference is, one is the guys that have power and they get away with using their power. The other one is the regular day-to-day person that nobody knows that's getting caught up out there, and that's these guys. So both are necessary. There is so many more of them, but the other guys get away because they have the power. And so they're using it for leverage. And effectively, you know, the whole concept with Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein, how Mossad, that's a very, very different conversation to have. But I get it. I get the argument both of you guys are making. Gavin Newsom blasted, after agreeing with Kimmel, California is over-regulated. It seemed like an admission of failure. Rob, do you have that clip?

• 2:09:52Speaker 03

  I do.

• 2:09:52Patrick Bet-David?

  Gavin Newsom and Jimmy Kimmel. By the way, Rob made a good point. Rob said he thinks this question that Jimmy Kimmel asked is because of Adam Corolla. Adam Corolla was asking this question, so Jimmy kind of duplicated the question. Go ahead, Rob. Why does it take so long to get things built here? I feel like, is California over-regulated? Because it feels like there are a lot of well-meaning laws, rules, et cetera, that get in the way of building your house, of opening a restaurant. You know, I've experienced this myself. What do we do about that? No, I mean, we need a liberalism that builds, and we have to own that. And I'm very much part of this sort of new nomenclature. We call this abundance agenda, and we've got to reconcile that.

• 2:10:35Patrick Bet-David?

  We've got to be more focused on time to delivery, not just rhetoric.

• 2:10:40Tom Ellsworth?

  Just what we're for, we gotta actually deliver and manifest it. That's why this year, we did the most significant housing reforms in our state's history. We did something that hadn't been done in decades. We've tried to address land use reforms, what we call secret reforms. We weren't able to get it done. We finally were able to get it done this year in a meaningful way. But this is a meaningful topic for Democrats to recognize. We have to deliver on big and bold things. Trump breaks things.

• 2:11:07Speaker 04

  Oh, God, here we go.

• 2:11:08Tom Ellsworth?

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• 2:13:40Speaker 04

  That's called a nothing burger. For anybody that knows what a nothing burger is, he asked him, "Why is it so hard?" And he went on this diatribe of what we need to do, and it ended with Trump.

• 2:13:50Tom Ellsworth?

  We need to reconcile. We need more focus. We need to get things done. Okay, put a date on it. Show people that you've got it accomplished.

• 2:13:58Speaker 04

  Then why haven't you done it?

• 2:13:59Tom Ellsworth?

  By the way, the land use reform, be careful.

• 2:14:02Speaker 04

  Land use.

• 2:14:02Tom Ellsworth?

  Be careful because you've got the coast and you've got Palisades. They want to put high-density, low-budget housing in there. They want to take that land back. You know, a person that works for us here, I won't say his name out loud. The family had a home burned down in Altadena. They came back and they got a lot of reports about the materials that are in the soil because when it burns down, it's burning plastics, burning things. Tremendous contamination goes into the soil and it gets saturated in there because the fire department comes to take it out and then rains and everything. So now the soil is deeply contaminated from the ash and the things that were in, that were burning the plastics and everything in your home. So then they're like, "Hey, you know, we got to do things with the soil here. We got to do things."

• 2:14:47Tom Ellsworth?

  And they're stalled. People are stalled, they can't get it done. They eventually got a, a, a house for, um, an older family member across town. They had to find another place. And there, it's kind of a fixture upper. And that's a perfect example. That's not an isolated example. This is normal. And so he's sitting here talking about this. Meanwhile, meanwhile, they're intentionally running legislation and running things in, in, in all these names to take the land and reuse it for their own purposes. That's what's happening in Palisades. You can talk to anybody that's out there that gives you chapter and verse.

• 2:15:22Patrick Bet-David?

  This is the next one here. When Rob, which clip is this with Newsom?

• 2:15:25Tom Ellsworth?

  Uh, this is where he talks about Trump in the midterms.

• 2:15:27Patrick Bet-David?

  Go for it.

• 2:15:27Tom Ellsworth?

  Prediction. Trump is an historic president, historically unpopular. He's gonna get crushed, shellacked in the midterms. He is, he's toast. And the crowd goes wild. And, and he knows it. Why else did he call Greg Abbott, saying he's quote unquote entitled to five seats in a mid-decade redistricting? They, of course, obliged in Texas. What Trump thought would follow was maybe a conversation about writing an op-ed in California to try to win the argument as they're consolidating power. Instead, we decided to redraw the lines in over a 90-day period, raised $120 million, and we kicked his ass in November and re-drew the lines.

• 2:16:07Tom Ellsworth?

  And Jimmy, this is an, I, you know, I know we're all prone to a little hyperbole. This is not hyperbolic. You saw what happened on January 6th. Tried to wreck the country like democracy on fire. Dialed up for 11, 12,000 votes in Volker County.

• 2:16:21Patrick Bet-David?

  It doesn't work anymore.

• 2:16:22Tom Ellsworth?

  That's exactly what he's doing all across the United.

• 2:16:24Patrick Bet-David?

  You can pause it right there, Rob. This is not gonna work with independents. It's not gonna, go, go to Calci, Rob, to see where it's at. I don't, I don't know. I'm, I'm always curious on a day-to-day basis where it's at. If you go Calci right now, Democratic 2028, that, that language with the American people, it's unattractive. You're still bringing up J6. He's at what? He's at 27?

• 2:16:44Tom Ellsworth?

  By the way, he was 29 a couple of weeks ago. Now he's 27. He is, take a look at the trend line. It's gently rolling down. You see that?

• 2:16:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah. AOC is 9-2, Shapiro's 3, which Shapiro is the most reasonable one amongst the 3. Go, and let me see the list on who's next. That's $57 million. Jon Ossoff is 7. Shapiro 7, Kamala Harris 6, Pritzker 5, Talarico, who, who, who, you know, he just won recently, if I'm not mistaken. Kelly 4.

• 2:17:14Speaker 03

  For senate in Texas.

• 2:17:15Patrick Bet-David?

  It's not over yet, but it's still going on. So yeah, that language is not going to work. I don't think it's going to work with the independent voters.

• 2:17:21Speaker 03

  I agree.

• 2:17:22Patrick Bet-David?

  And I think the Democrats have to kind of sit there thinking about who the hell is going to get the independents to say this guy's reasonable.

• 2:17:28Speaker 03

  What do you think of Shapiro here with this kind of numbers without being on TV every week and without traveling to foreign countries the way that Gavin does? Shapiro.

• 2:17:38Patrick Bet-David?

  Let me ask you a question. You think America is ready for a Jewish, white, democratic president?

• 2:17:43Speaker 04

  No, so, nope.

• 2:17:44Patrick Bet-David?

  You think America is ready for it?

• 2:17:46Speaker 04

  No.

• 2:17:46Patrick Bet-David?

  That's the part you gotta be thinking about.

• 2:17:48Speaker 03

  No, and I, as a Jew, I'm telling you that we're not there yet, not, and that. But. Also, a straight, white man is probably not going to be the guy in the Democratic Party.

• 2:17:56Patrick Bet-David?

  What if he says once in high school, he liked a boy?

• 2:17:59Speaker 03

  Then that'll garner some. Can I tell you what I think?

• 2:18:03Speaker 04

  That he might be.

• 2:18:04Speaker 03

  Adam, Adam, it's because America's never forgiven the Jews for the Titanic. That's true. Thank you for that. Goldberg, Silverberg, you're all the same.

• 2:18:13Speaker 04

  But you know what it is, Pat? When I see Gavin Newsom.

• 2:18:15Speaker 03

  It was like a racist, anti-Semitic dad joke, all in one.

• 2:18:18Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 2:18:19Speaker 03

  Thanks, bro. It's an ancient car joke.

• 2:18:21Speaker 04

  But you know who Gavin is?

• 2:18:22Speaker 03

  You know, who's your favorite position on the football team? The quarterback, you know, hey, bingo.

• 2:18:27Speaker 04

  But, but in regard to Gavin Newsom, and I hope, I mean, because I'm hoping with the Democratic Party, which is crazy. He, he wants to be the president, but look at the resume. He, he's almost like a pet shop owner. This is Gavin Newsom. He's a pet shop owner that let every animal in his pet shop die, but now he's asking for the keys to the zoo. He wants to run the zoo. And it's like, bro, you suck at just taking care of goldfish. You want the entire zoo?

• 2:18:51Speaker 03

  Goldberg also.

• 2:18:51Speaker 04

  Goldberg, huh? But I just think, I just hope, and I have to hope, that the, the voters that are on that side that are just anti-us, anti-the other side, realize what he is. He's a snake in the grass. He is probably going to go down as the worst governor in the history of the country. That's not, Tom, that's not just a small. Who else would you put up there?

• 2:19:11Speaker 03

  But he's a gifted.

• 2:19:12Speaker 04

  Politician, you gotta respect that.

• 2:19:14Speaker 03

  Tim Walz, I'd put Tim Walz up there.

• 2:19:15Speaker 04

  Tim Walz is up there, but that says a lot.

• 2:19:17Speaker 03

  I'll give you my take on Gavin. So, this comes down to winning and losing, just like politics is. So, you remember in the movie, White Men Can't Jump, one of the greatest movies of all time? You have Wesley Snipes and you have Woody Harrelson.

• 2:19:31Patrick Bet-David?

  One of the greatest, one of the greatest movies that we like.

• 2:19:33Speaker 04

  That we like.

• 2:19:33Speaker 03

  One of the greatest movies of all time, I don't care what you say.

• 2:19:35Patrick Bet-David?

  Greatest movies of all time, Rosie.

• 2:19:37Speaker 03

  So, you got Woody Harrelson, and you got Wesley Snipes. And you got Billy Hough, and you got Sidney Dean. And Rosie, you're so stupid, Billy. And he says this, Woody Harrelson, he goes, would you rather win or look good? Because in my opinion, this is what Woody Harrelson says to Sidney Dean. He says, I'd rather look bad and win? You'd rather look good and lose? The Democratic Party is all about looking good, and they got the hair, and do your little leg thing. And they'd rather look good, and they have horrible policies, and everybody's losing when they come into power. Versus Trump, it's ugly, it's messy, but like DJ Khalid, all he does is win. So, that's what it comes down to. So, do you want to win?

• 2:20:23Speaker 03

  Even if you look ugly? Or do you want to lose and try to put lipstick on a pig and look pretty? In my opinion, Trump talks about winning so big, you're gonna get sick of winning. Right now, America is winning, and if Gavin Newsom shows up, get ready to hold that L.

• 2:20:37Patrick Bet-David?

  I, I, I can, I can set myself aside from his personality, the way he is, and political differences, and say, okay, let's set that aside. I, I respect strategy. Even an enemy of mine, if I'm going up against him, and I see the strategy, I'm like, good for you. What a great. I, I don't understand the strategy. You're bringing up J6, you're bringing up, I don't understand what is the, you have to recreate yourself. You know, last night, I'm talking to one of my sons. It's late at night, it's rarely it's just he and I talking, because, you know, typically, it's both of them when we're going to sleep. But one of them is, uh, uh, out of town.

• 2:21:22Patrick Bet-David?

  In Idaho, out of all places. But anyways, so I'm uh, I'm uh, speaking to him. And he says, Dad, sometimes you call people low identity or high identity. What's the difference? What's the difference between low identity and high identity? So you kind of put the onus on me. I said, low identity, it's always someone else's fault. It's bitter. It's, you can't improve yourself, you know, you're somehow, some way, you don't have the right instincts. You always find yourself in bad situations because you can't read people while you can't read situations. Well, high identity is in the mode of constantly recreating themselves. We had a client yesterday, massive company that we eventually became um, owners of this company. They have 400 employees, 300 employees, grew the company from negative $300,000 in EBITDA

• 2:22:07Patrick Bet-David?

  to 14.9 million dollars in EBITDA. I'm sitting there yesterday for them. I'm doing a two hour engagement with this company. Very successful company. And uh, they had a team of nine people, eight people in the room. And we start measuring podcasts, YouTube channels over the years and how when we got first started and, you know, we had, took us a thousand subscribers. Two years later, we barely had a thousand subscribers and we sized everybody up. We had charts, looking at all the numbers, seeing what these guys are doing, those guys are doing. I said, I shut down the channel three times. And one time I shut it down for three months. Tom, you remember this?

• 2:22:37Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 2:22:38Patrick Bet-David?

  And I said, the only reason I shut down the channel three times is because we had to find a way to recreate ourselves. We had to find a way to recreate ourselves. You don't see that with this. You have an opportunity to go away. Go watch Count of Monte Cristo. Come back a different candidate. You sound the same as three years ago, four years ago, five years ago. You think independents are gonna want to root for you? I don't think so. Do you think this is just an enemy of Republicans? You already have the Democrats. You don't need the Democrats. You need the independents to win. He doesn't have it. I don't know why he's doing what he's doing, but it is what it is. Uh, if he ends up becoming their leading candidate and America's doing

• 2:23:21Patrick Bet-David?

  half decent and there's a lot of victories, Marco Rubio is probably gonna be your president.

• 2:23:25Speaker 04

  Hope so.

• 2:23:25Patrick Bet-David?

  2028, if it continues this way. Rob, where is that story with Anthropic? About the sentient, do you have that story of Anthropic here in the, in the notes? Guys, this is a crazy story if we have it to go to it. Uh, is it on any of these pages? I'm trying to find this. I think this, this would be a good last story to finish off on.

• 2:23:45Tom Ellsworth?

  I don't have, I have Anthropic being designated a supply chain risk by the Pentagon. That is in here, but I don't have that.

• 2:23:51Patrick Bet-David?

  Yeah, it's a different story.

• 2:23:53Speaker 03

  You looking for the Anthropic response from, um, the CEO yesterday after?

• 2:23:59Patrick Bet-David?

  No, the story I'm looking at, we'll find it, we'll cover it next week. Having said that, we can wrap it up, guys. Uh, today's what, Rob? Today is, uh, today's Friday. Terrence Howard's interview went out yesterday. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. Uh, with that being said, we will do it again, I believe, next Monday. Rob, we're back on Monday.

• 2:24:16Speaker 03

  Yes, sir.

• 2:24:16Patrick Bet-David?

  Have a great weekend, everybody. God bless, enjoy yourself, stay safe. We'll do it again on Monday. Take care. Bye bye, bye bye.

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